Dinner had gone amazingly well. Even though he had only taken her out for burgers at a local place that was recommended called Big Belly Burger, which coincidentally was Felicity's favorite place to eat. They chatted and shared a side of fries, planning their next date. He was so happy to be doing things like this with her again. They had left triple B, as Felicity liked to call it, and were walking towards the ice cream shop that had her favorite mint chocolate chip ice cream when a car pulled up beside them.

They hadn't noticed the car at first because they were lost in conversation, until it had pulled in front of them. Oliver grabbed Felicity's arm and pulled her behind him. He was ready for a fight. He was not ready for who came out of the car.

A small brunette woman, maybe mid 30's with short wavy hair stepped out and closed the door. The car pulled away and drove off. Oliver was still trying to shield Felicity.

"Lyla?"

"Hi Ms. Smoak. I am sorry to have to do this to you, but I need you to come with me to headquarters" Lyla didn't care that Oliver was standing there, she assumed Felicity had told him everything, and seeing how it was his family's company he deserved to know what was going on.

"Oh, Oliver, this is Lyla Diggle. I told you about her organization last night. She was the one who was able to arrest my fath…. Um the employee that hacked me" she felt awkward calling him her father. It felt wrong. He had been gone so long he didn't deserve to be called that.

"Yes, I remember" reaching his hand out "It is nice to meet you Ms. Diggle"

"Its Mrs. Diggle actually. But it is nice to meet you too" she said in a friendly manner. "so Felicity, I need to bring you to the office to see if you can get anything out of Mr. Cutler. I understand if you don't want to do that, I would just like to try. He hasn't said one word to us the entire time"

"I understand Lyla; I honestly don't think I will be able to help. You know me and my rambling, I will probably start talking and going off about how he left us all those years ago, and I really don't want to think about that right now. But if there is anything I can do without being there I will. Just let me know"

"I will, and thank you for thinking about it Felicity. I will be in touch shortly" Lyla walked off toward the opposite side of the street where the car had pulled over to let her in.

As much as Felicity wanted to continue this date, she needed to dig more into her… into Noah, to find out who had put him up to this or if it was his doing. She was sure he had been paid to do a job because why would he want to take out an entire city? She really didn't want to think of the answer. Any 'real' hacker would never want to wipe out the only thing that would allow them to connect with their groups or targets.

Turning to Oliver she let out a sigh "I think it is safe to say this date is over. I know that really sucks and I am so sorry, I just need to get to my office and try to back track and trace everything he had done before the attack. I really hope you understand"

"Of course I understand; we will have the rest of our lives to have nights like tonight. So how about I take you to your office and I stay with you as long as you want me to?"

"That would be great! I must warn you, I can become quite the bitch when I'm hacking so I apologize now for any mean or hurtful things that comes out of my mouth" they both chuckled.

He had seen her hack before, he thought it was cute how she would get so worked up and lose her shit. She had snapped at him many times before, and after the first couple times he had realized when she snapped like that, all he needed to do was bring her hot cup of coffee and she would be ok.

So he took her to Queen Consolidated and sat with her in the office while she searched and tracked whatever it was she was searching for. He brought her coffee when she snapped, and one time he asked a question about what she was doing she had yelled at him to stop being such a pig headed llama's ass. He had no idea what that even meant, but he laughed and got her another cup of coffee. He liked doing that because when he would put it down she would kiss his arm and then take a sip and go right back to what she was doing.

They had been at QC for 3 hours, it was only 11:30 on that Saturday night, so he knew that Tommy would be awake. So he pulled out his phone and sent him a text.

Hey buddy you awake? – O

Ya man, what's up? – T

Wait how did your date go? -T

Well it was going great. We had just left dinner when Lyla showed up – O

Dude that's not good, what did she say? – T

That Noah wasn't talking and she asked Felicity to come help. She said no of course and then Lyla left. – O

You know her and Lyla are friends right? If it were any other person she would have made them get in the car and do it. What are you doing now? Is Felicity sitting at her desk being the hacking wizard? -T

She is. She is pretty remarkable. – O

That she is, you should tell her that, I'm sure she would love it – T

Oliver was just about to text back when he heard her yelp. He quickly looked up to see that she was standing, with her hand over her mouth.

"Hey what's wrong? What did you find?" he asked with concern

"Um, I traced some emails I found on his private account and it went back to Palmer Tech. He has been emailing and setting this whole hack up with someone at the company for months now. It has details about our meetings with Lyla, and A.R.G.U.S and even information that was told to Laurel"

"Ok what do you want me to do, what do we need to do?"

"Well I need you to start calling your mom and Walter, and ill call Tommy and Wayne. They need to get down here as soon as possible. And Wayne is in Central City right now for some benefit so he shouldn't take too long"

"ok ill get on the phone with them and tell them to get over here. This may be a stupid question, but why are we not calling Ray?" he asked nervously

"I think Ray is behind this. He asked about a merger a few days before you got back, and Thea had told me she thinks that why he asked me to marry him, so he could get a hold of QC and eventually control all of Starling city"

"Ok, um were you going to do that?"

"Oliver! Call your mother, we will talk about this another time. And to answer you in the simplest way, no I was not"

"Ok I'm calling her now"

"Thank you" sounding more frustrated than she anticipated

Oliver had called his mother and Walter; they were on there way. Tommy and Laurel and been told and were dropping Olivia off at Sara and Nyssa's. Felicity had called Wayne and he was already half out the door of the hall where the benefit was being held, mainly because he knew she would only call him if it had something to do with the project, or something terrible had happened.

An hour later everyone walked into Felicity's office and were told of what was happening. There were arguments and yelling between the partners and trying to put the blame on each other, instead of Ray. Bruce had said that everyone of them, including himself was to be blamed, they had listened to Ray instead of deciding on their own, and if anything happened they could only blame themselves.

They had all agreed with Bruce and started to calm down so that they could all speak to each other without freaking out.

"Ms. Smoak, how do you think we should handle this?" Bruce asked "You were engaged to him for 2 years before you broke it off, so was there any inkling or concern you had towards the project before he made you, and all of us agree to it?"

"I did have some concerns, but he showed me the data that evening and it all looked good. We all had specific roles to play in this, and my code would be the one to either finish it or bring it down"

Oliver couldn't help but feel so helpless, he had no idea what each company was doing for the project, he was never there for the agreement to take this on, he sure as hell would have talked them out of doing this if he knew that this would be happening right now. All he wanted to do was take Felicity into his arms and tell her it was alright. But she was in CEO mode and he just had to sit at the back of the room and listen. He had no part in joining the conversation or giving his own opinion.

"so what you are telling us, is that without your code, he can't do anything. He can't finish it, or deploy it?" Moira asked with hope

"Yes, that is what I am saying. I have sent the emails to Lyla and instructed her on how to deal with Ray, and that I will be getting rid of any trace of code I have and that we are done with this project. We do not need someone else trying to steal it, or anyone using it. Not even A.R.G.U.S. Lyla understood. She told me, and all of us to do what needed to be done" Felicity said confidently

"Ok we know what we need to do then" Tommy said "Laurel I need to get rid of any documents that we have on this project, I know Lyla will keep her copies but we are going to shred ours. Wayne, call Lucius and tell him to scrap everything you have made and all paperwork as well. I will go to my office and personally see to it that everything is destroyed. Felicity, you know what you need to do" Pointing to her computer.

As Felicity started typing and deleting code, a text popped up on her phone, the room fell silent.

We got him. He was in his apartment with a home made device. He was actually trying to hack his way into your system as we got there. So have all the proof we need. – Lyla

"Well what did it say?" Oliver asked nervously while walking towards her desk.

Felicity read the text aloud so everyone could hear. Cheers erupted in the room. But Felicity sank back into her chair. Oliver took notice.

"Hey. What's wrong? You got him"

"I know I… we did. I just can't believe that I went along with his plan, and I was going to marry someone who was capable of doing such a thing. I was so stupid. I thought he really loved me. But he was just using me for the company and my talents. I was so dumb" she let out a tear

Oliver quickly grabbed her, placed a kiss on her temple and hugged her. He gestured to his mother, and he rounded everyone up to leave. Once the door to her office was shut she pulled away from him.

"Thank you. Thank you for all your support and help, and just being there for me. I know you haven't been home long but I want you know I appreciate everything you have done for me" she managed to get out with a shaky voice

"Hey, you never, never have to thank me" he said with a small smile. He leaned in and kissed her, a small peck on lips. "I think its time we go home. How about when we get there I will get you a huge glass of wine and run a bath for you ok?"

"Oh that sounds amazing. But, only if you join me" as she winked at him