So here's the next chapter in the story. Got to admit nearing the end, I think I may have rushed it slightly but anyways I still wanted to update since my brain is beginning to roll along with this story so yeah. Anyways as a lot of you have requested there is a little action between Olicity here but I got to tell you guys, I'm really not comfortable with describing what they're doing to each other so well let your minds take you on an adventure so anyways I still hope you enjoy reading this and the next chapter has something interesting in store. I'm not spoiling anything though, in case any of you try and get me to. As always please review and tell me what you think and if there's anything you might want to see in future chapters let me know.
Booting it up the stairs and out of the house above her lair, Felicity left for one of her favourite jogging trails.
"Felicity!" she heard a voice came from behind her and she instantly recognised it to be Digg. "Wait up!"
Slowing her pace down, giving him the time to catch her up but something she hadn't expected was to hear the sound of more than one pair of feet jogging to catch her up.
Sara and Roy had followed her as well as Digg.
"We decided to leave Oliver and Laurel to their own devices and keep you company instead"
"Thanks guys, I appreciate the consideration"
"No probs" course, leave Roy to liven up the mood.
"So are we going jogging or not?" Sara bounced on her toes.
It was then she finally noticed they were all in their gym kits; smiling Felicity led them along her favourite trail. One of the advantages of going jogging with these three was the fact that they all had quite good stamina so it meant they could keep up with her, even though she reduced her pace just for them- not that they noticed that.
The jogging trail suddenly turned slightly bumpy and soon added in an option of parkour from wall to walls.
When they finally got back they all, apart from Felicity of course, were all out of breath and breathing heavily.
"Let me get this right, you willingly do that every morning when you can find the time or need something to release frustration?"
"Yep pretty much that"
"I think I need a lay down, I don't know about you guys"
"I'm with you there kid, how about you Sara?"
"I third that"
On their way in, the house was quiet but Felicity could hear the noise of the TV playing.
"Looks like they've stopped fighting" Sara stated as the four of them wandered into the house.
"Liz have I told you how much I hate you lately…especially for leaving me to listen to those two arguing on and on and on?" Aiden's not-in-any-way-in-hell chipper voice met them.
"Every noun and then" she responded with a smirk.
"I'm heading up to take a shower"
"I'll use the one downstairs"
"I think I might have one too, I stink"
As Roy, Digg and Sara departed their separate ways, Felicity headed into the kitchen to grab a bottle of water she always liked to keep cool in the fridge.
Walking into the living room, that's when she saw them. Because her living room was connected to her kitchen with no doors to separate the two, just a bar, she had full view to pear into the kitchen.
Both Oliver and Laurel were lip locked over by the kitchen. Her arms were perched upon his chest while his were on her waist.
Normally this sort of thing, the painful memory of Russia coming to mind, would've been like a knife to the chest, but there was nothing out of her spiralling thoughts with a shake of her head, Felicity moved to the fridge and plucked a bottle of water from the shelves on the inside of the door before closing it with a click.
The sudden noise must've spooked them because the next thing she knew Oliver was moving away from Laurel with a look of surprise, fear and…confusion?
"What are you doing in here?" that almost got her gears turning.
"Laurel this is my house, I can go wherever I please and if you don't like that then go" she didn't seem to be pleased with her answer. Aw, too bad.
"Felicity this isn't what it looks like, I swear!" Oliver took careful steps towards her.
"Oliver I honestly don't care what is it…it's your life, not mine" turning to leave, Laurel suddenly chimed in.
"Are you jealous?"
"Laurel shut up before I bitch slap you across the face…I….don't…care" Oliver didn't stop following her until they were both in her, or their, bedroom.
"Felicity, please believe me…there's nothing going on between me and Laurel"
"Oliver…honestly I don't care who you're in a relationship with…as long as you're happy, you could be sleeping with my mother and I wouldn't care" he seemed to be searching her face, looking for something.
Sheesh, he was having a hard time accepting that from her.
"What do you want me to do? Act like I just had my heart broken? Well I'm not because I don't…I told you I didn't want a relationship so, Oliver do what you want…as long as you don't end up regretting anything you'll be fine"
Turning to the wardrobe, she stripped her tank top over her head and replaced it with a clean shirt.
When she tried to leave the room, Oliver beat her to the door and locked it, clasping his hand in a tight fist around the key.
"Oliver…"
"No! I don't believe that…Felicity I told you that I want to be with you"
"And I told you that I can't...look take this as a friend giving another friend advice, what just happened with Laurel you should just go with it, you have a chance at a normal relationship with the woman you loved right from the beginning" she gestured to the door, hoping that Oliver wouldn't take it the wrong way.
He moved closer to her and cradled her face.
"The woman I've loved from the beginning is you, nobody else…I want you and only you…you are it for me Felicity"
"You know that can't happen…what happens if the same thing that happened to the other man that was injected happens to me and I just suddenly disappear and am never able to come back? I can't be in a relationship with you when I stand a risk of not even surviving through the week, I can't hurt you like that"
"Felicity please don't do this to me…I know you feel the same way that I do, so prove it. The only way you can possibly hurt me is not being with me at all" by now she had moved out of his reach and was trying to avoid his gaze but was failing.
Looking into his eyes, she saw that raw fear behind his features that he had spent so long keeping it under lock and key, deep inside of him. "Felicity" the way he said her name, using that soft tone he saved for only her, began to break down her walls one by one. But she couldn't relent; she couldn't hurt him like that.
"I'm sorry Oliver, but I can't" she again moved further out of his reach, bringing up the walls around her again.
"Felicity there is no way in hell that I'm letting you go without a fight. For those two years you were gone, I've had to live in darkness because without having you there wherever I went, whether it was on the comms or just sitting behind that desk in the Foundry, it was like living torture. Something I realised was that you were the only person that kept me going, made me hold onto my sanity and not turn into that monster I had once been. Everything that we had built, you, me and Digg was haunting me every single day. There were days where I couldn't take it anymore and went out looking for fights and time after time when I came back, you weren't there to patch me up, to be completely pissed at me for my actions, you weren't there to comfort me, to guide me back to that place only you can bring me to. It was like living my deepest, darkest nightmare but I couldn't escape it no matter how hard I tried"
"Hey I will always be here, I just can't be in the way that you want me to…that is something that I just can't do to neither you nor me, it would just hurt too much"
"Bullshit"
"Oliver"
"No, do you know what it's like to be going through a dark tunnel and after spending ages in the dark to finally see that light you've been searching so long for and for it to be there within your reach but then suddenly get blocked off? Well that is exactly what you're doing to me right now"
"That's not fair"
"Isn't it?"
"What about all the times that you've blocked me off in the past to protect me? All the times where I've laid out my heart for you, only to have it crushed…I know from experience that if I agree to this and for me to be stolen away at any time, that it'll crush you and it'll be like you placed back into those two years again…Oliver don't get me wrong I love you but I can't be that for you…I'm your partner and that's all I can be" she could see tears brimming in the corners of his eyes, threatening to fall.
"Then we'll just have to make the most of the possible time we have" sighing, she knew he wasn't going to let this one go. When he saw something worth fighting for, he focused everything on that.
"And what if I don't even last through the night, what then?" Felicity could feel her walls cracking. A part of her knew her feelings for him like the back of her hand
"Then we better not waste a single second arguing when we can be together in peace"
"As long as we live in this world, we'll never be in peace"
"When you are with me, I don't care if all we have is each other because you're all I need to get me through all those tough times up ahead" he came right up to her and cradled her face, Felicity couldn't help but allow herself to slightly lean into his touch. "I love you Felicity" Oliver whispered, bringing his forehead to rest against hers.
The key had gone from Oliver's hand to somewhere on the floor but he didn't seem to notice because his attention was focused mainly on her.
Was this it? Was this the thing that she had been dreaming for? She knew he was right thought, if they did only have a short time together then why waste a single second wondering what could've happened between them? Sometimes in life, there has to be somebody to finally take that leap of faith and see where it goes from there.
Pulling her head away from his for a second to look into his eyes, Felicity placed her hand at the back of his head and pulled him in close to her, claiming his lips in a passionate kiss. It didn't take Oliver long to respond, hauling her as close as he could to him. Wrapping her arms around his neck, Felicity pushed her chest up against his and bit down, Oliver responded in a growl radiating from his throat. Banding one hand round her waist, his other hand dove into her mass of blonde hair, locking his lips to hers.
If she actually thought that it would only stay strictly PG, god someone should just shoot her now.
Running his hands down the back of her body, he pulled her up to his chest and she instinctively wrapped her legs around his waist.
Backing the pair into the wall, Oliver took both her hands in his and raised them above her head as he pushed further into her. He was devouring her mouth, not leaving any part unexplored. Smiling against his mouth, she tightened her grip around his waist, bringing her more against his arousal.
"You are so mine" he snarled playfully before moving them both over to the bed.
Crawling up to the pillows with Felicity still clung onto his chest; Oliver positioned himself over Felicity before beginning the task of disposing themselves of their clothes.
They had finally taken the last step.
Meanwhile downstairs Digg, Sara and Roy were sitting on the couch watching TV when they heard the soft heard of knocking coming from upstairs, to be exact, from Felicity's bedroom that she now shared with Oliver.
"Well mum and dad are finally at it…is this what it's going to be like for the next god knows how long?" Roy whined.
"Get used to it kid" Digg smirked.
Felicity and Oliver laid there; they had certainly worked up a sweat. She might have this serum pumping inside of her but she had never experienced something so magical than the fact of her and Oliver being one with each other. The way they had been in perfect sync with each other's movements and the way he hadn't treated her like some kind of fragile glass, instead treating her like someone in need of punishment and he did, several times in fact.
The fact that she had made him work harder than he usually did to get any sign of a reaction out of her. So of course with him being Oliver, he had taken up that as a challenge and you know how he gets about challenges. He loves beating them, proving himself.
From how many times she made him come, it's not like she had lost count or anything, it had been easier on her part than it was on his, not that he actually seemed to care though.
Naturally, he had kept her there for longer than necessary. Apparently he loved cuddling up to her stripped body.
He was content with the world as he shifted closer, the remarkable woman he held in his arms, to him not ready at all to let her go and could you blame him for what they had just done?
All he felt was warmth, from both Felicity and also his own body. Only she could get him to show such warmth with any situation. It was now the middle of the day, just after mid-day and honestly, he didn't really feel like getting up.
"Um…I'm not interrupting anything am I?" Aiden broke him out of his sweet paradise lying beside Felicity, who was half sprawled out across his chest.
"Mm…nope, we were just getting up" she emphasised, sending him a message but he only smirked before pulling her back down, straight to his lips and rolled back up onto her and diving into another wild kiss.
"You do realise I wasn't being polite…I want you both downstairs in the lair, pronto"
"Sir Yes Sir!" Felicity mimicked while rolling so she was atop him but moved to unravel herself from Oliver's limbs, which he didn't like one bit.
"Don't think we're done here" he growled when he saw her exquisite stark-naked form moving over to collect her clothes that were now scattered all across the room.
"Not by a long shot, I still want to beat my record of making you come" she teased before hopping out of the room but not before shooting him a devilish look, almost bursting out loud when she saw his shocked face suddenly turn determined. Oh she was in for it now.
"So what do you want?" Felicity said, announcing both her and Oliver's arrival downstairs in the basement. Digg, Roy, Sara and Laurel were already waiting for them.
"Take a look at who I've found" turning her attention to the giant screen, Aiden pulled up images of a man she remembered had been taking turns around the cells, glancing over all of the women. "Take a wild guess at who has an office with very important information on his computers"
"Well looks like somebody's going to be receiving a visit quite soon" turning on her heel, Felicity headed over to the glass case, located in the nearby wall, to put on her catsuit. Meanwhile Oliver, Sara and Roy did the same thing while Digg headed over to the weapons cabinet to pick out his favourite guns, Laurel just standing there before going over to grab a gun also.
"Hold up…Laurel what are you doing?" Oliver had popped his mask over his head when he saw Laurel heading over to the weapon cabinet.
"Getting a weapon, oh come on you didn't think I would just stay here and listen over the comms did you? You've taught me how to defend myself and I'm capable enough of holding my own in a fight, if it comes to that"
"No"
"I'm coming anyways, I'm not letting you lot leave me behind"
Just then Felicity came out fully equipped in her costume with her weapon twirling around in her hands and everyone was silent.
"Why's everyone gone quiet? Hey I'm not fighting anything, it's her life"
"See she understands" Laurel gestures to her with her hands.
"So if she wants to get her ass kicked by whoever, it's her decision" Felicity threw out before making her way out the door, completely aware of the snickers coming from Roy and the glare from Laurel.
"Fine but don't engage anyone do you hear me?" Oliver growled out, not anywhere near playful this time.
"Wasn't planning on it"
Following Felicity out of the lair and onto the small group of motorbikes she kept in the garage, all ready for use. Swinging her leg over the saddle, she straddled the bike that made Oliver's mouth go dry. Mounting the bike beside hers, he didn't notice her leaning over to him until he saw her hand come into his line of sight.
"Forgetting something?" she mused, pulling the mask down over his eyes and shifting it into place. He felt a spark of electricity shoot through him at how right that motion felt.
Laurel slid into place behind her sister, securing herself to Sara's back before they all shot off towards the location.
Getting to their destination, they all decided to stay low key for the mission since they didn't know how many men were inside that building.
"Laurel stay at the back and stay with someone at all time, do I make myself clear?" Oliver turned to face Laurel, who was standing beside her sister but he could tell she was nervous from the way her shoulders were kind of slouched and her body was tensed up but she nodded anyways.
"We can use the back door" Felicity supplied, talking over the comms with Aiden.
Sneaking in the slipped past the guards at the back of the building before they split up, deciding to look in separate directions. Roy and Digg went one way, Sara and Laurel went another while Oliver accompanied Felicity in the last direction. Conveniently there were three different directions they could choose from, so they chose them all.
It was going fine before Laurel had been separated from Sara and couldn't hear anything apart from the sound of her heart pounding in her chest. What now?
"Lookie lookie what we have here…are you lost?" a voice came from behind her. Preparing herself for a fight, Laurel lunged for the man with an attack but when she landed it, she almost broke her hand in the process.
"Nice try sweetheart but you can't hurt me; I've got mirakuru running through me" he stalked towards her like a predator playing with its prey. Sheathing a sword, it showed him to be a ninja just from his actions with the sword and the black clothes he wore.
"Hey dick" someone called out from behind him and when he spun around to the voice, he saw a fist landing a blow to his chest and his body shot through the air. Laurel looked behind her to see Felicity's hand clenched into a fist.
"I hate ninjas"
"Come on, we need to get out of here…Digg and Roy have found the information" grabbing Laurel's wrist, Felicity tugged her behind her.
Running through the corridors, Laurel saw a majority of the guards lying face-down on the floor, motionless.
"Don't worry they're not dead, just unconscious" Felicity threw over her shoulder.
"Felicity! Laurel! Where the hell have you two been?" Oliver shouted when they made it outside of the back of the building.
"Mirakuru...ninja" Laurel gasped out she was still out of breath from all the running.
"What!" well that certainly got everyone's attention.
"Don't worry Felicity took care of him, sent him flying through the air actually" they all looked at Felicity in shock, then remembered her new skills and abilities. Yeah it was definitely going to take them some getting used to.
"Whoa, remind me not to get on your bad side" Roy mused as they all prepared to head back to the lair.
"Forgetting someone? How comes I wasn't invited to the party?" another voice joined them.
They all spun around to face a man wearing black armour. Images flashed through Felicity's mind and as the man saw her, he froze. Instantly Oliver had placed himself beside Laurel and Felicity in case of any sudden actions.
"You? You're supposed to be dead, huh give me a minute I'll make a change to that" the man smirked, clicking the bones in his fingers and wandering closer to them.
At that point Felicity's instincts flew into overdrive because she knew exactly what was happening.
That man was like her.
"My thoughts exactly, now this is going to be fun" Felicity's eyes darkened immensely and the group witnessed a hulk change as the two locked combat.
Things just got interesting.
