"We can't," he whispers between them.
"Why not?" her voice masks none of the hurt that she feels at this statement. Had she read everything wrong?
Oliver gives her a puzzled look, as though she was the one who had spoken nonsense. "Because you're engaged"
"No, I'm not," she responded. Her arms remained on Oliver as his hands remained on her face. Neither of them wanting to part.
Oliver begrudgingly moved away from Felicity at her answer. "Yes, you are," he wondered how she could forsake her fiancé this way.
Maybe he didn't know her at all. Because he didn't think she could do this.
"No I'm not. I think I'd remember getting engaged. At the least I'd remember having a boyfriend," the look in her eyes could only translate into 'you're a moron'.
"The other day in the break room...I saw him propose to you," two sets of blue eyes both turned down in confusion.
"What are you...? Oh. Oh, wait a second. Dean?" She shouted his name as though he would hear her. "You think?" Suddenly Felicity holds one finger up in Oliver's direction as she gestures for him to stand.
Quickly she settles in his place. Pulling Skype up on his computer, she wastes no time calling Dean.
"Dean's computer" came a gruff voice from the other line. Oliver is very confused as he closes his office door before coming to stand behind Felicity. Through the screen he can see a man with blue eyes and disheveled brown hair. He was wearing a KISS t-shirt while sitting on a messy bed.
"Hey, Cas, where's Dean?" Felicity asks the blue eyed man on the other side of the screen.
"He is..." they can hear a door open in the distance, "just getting out of the shower"
"Can you put him on, please?"
"Yeah, hold on. Dean! Lis is on the phone," they hear Cas say. Then they hear another voice say, "tell her I can't talk I'm naked!"
"Dean!" She shoots through the computer as Oliver looks on in dismay to see the man he recognizes from the break room waking into, what appears to be, a bedroom, wearing only a low slung towel.
"I'm coming, I'm coming. What, Lis? Hurry and ask your question. I didn't realize when I walked in here," his voice grows louder as the first man, Cas, walks away from the computer, "it was a video chat!"
"Dean, how do we know each other?" Her question was worded with all the ambiguity that she could muster. There is no way that Oliver could dispute her method of questioning.
"Uhm, what is this about?" He asked concerned. Brown eyes furrow as a droplet of water makes a slow descent from his hairline to jaw line.
"Dean, just answer it, please" her eyes connected with Oliver's for a moment.
"Fine. As if you didn't know, we're cousins" Oliver's eyes widened slightly.
"And why did you come to see me at work the other day?" She continued.
In a whispered voice they heard, "I can't discuss this right now," Dean's eyes motioned toward his left where Cas was loitering in the room listening.
"Because what you showed me was for your boyfriend who is currently in the same room with you?"
Cas' head turns at her statement. "Lis, what is this about?" Her asks coming to sit next to Dean on the end of the bed.
"Oliver needed confirmation. And now he has it. There is absolutely nothing going on between the two of us because it would be disgusting and wrong,"
"Wait a moment," Cas said, "technically you're not related by blood so there would be nothing illegal about the two of you being together. That being said, Dean is my boyfriend and I would do unspeakable things to his car if he ever cheated on me"
Instead of being disturbed, Oliver can see a wide grin spread across Dean's face. "Back at you, man. I'd smash your bee hive,"
"Alright, your love is disgusting. I'll see you later" before Felicity can end the call Dean speaks out.
"Hold on there tiger. You're still coming to dinner tonight, right?" His look can only be described as earnest to the point of nervous sickness.
Felicity's smile is soft when she confirms their plans. "Also, Tami said that she wore Sam down so guess who his plus one is,"
Cas smiles, "It's about time Sam finally asked her out. He's been mooning after her for a year,"
Shock and awe spread throughout the expressions of the cousins. "Excuse me?" Dean gawked.
"Last Christmas when I went to look for you at 3 in the morning, you know before I found you and Felicity asleep in the barn loft with straw in your pants," he looks sympathetically at Oliver who is completely lost in the conversation, "you don't want to know," his eyes turn again to Felicity, "I found Sam in the basement slurring love professions into his phone. He left a voice mail for Tami telling her all about his love for her and...medieval fairs, for some reason. I assumed she never got it because neither of them said anything,"
"That's when he started dating Ruby!" Felicity shrieked. "That ass!"
"I have to go because I'm about to call Sam to guilt him hard into buying her nice things"
"It was nice meeting you," Cas said to Oliver. Once the sentiment was returned they each hung up.
"I didn't understand anything that just happened," Oliver said truthfully. The only thing he took away from that conversation was the fact that Felicity was not engaged.
"All you need to know," she said rising from her borrowed chair. Oliver was only two short steps away.
"...is the fact that," she was slowly closing the distance between the two. He could feel her warmth permeating his body. The soft fabric of her blue sundress rubbing against his arm.
Her lips hover over his, "...I accept your apology". With the same breath mingling together, Oliver leans into her lips. His hands gingerly hold her neck while her arms encircle him to bring them closer.
"Want to come to dinner with me tonight?" Felicity whispers in a ragged breath.
"And every night after," he whispers back kissing her again. As he would for the rest of his life.
NOTES: Thank you everyone who read, left kudos, and/or comments. I can't describe how much it means to me.
It says this is the last chapter, BUT if you send me a comment asking for more I'll likely give it to you. It may take me a little time, but I always try to do my best.