Anon: Prompt: "This is totally awkward considering before this the only interactions we've ever had have been casual nods to each other in the hallway but there's a huge fucking spider in my bath tub and you seem like the friendly neighbour type please help me" AU :) x

Oliver had just gotten in from his morning run, he stepped into his apartment heading straight for the shower. He froze instantly when he heard a blood curdling scream. He turned the shower off, listening in silence when he heard an insistent tapping on his apartment door. He frowned grabbing a towel and wrapping it around his waist.

He jerked the door open without even looking. He was met by the frame of his neighbour a petit blonde, her hair looking a little dishevelled her cheeks flushed, her eyes still sleepy with her glasses askew on her face. She was wearing a purple tank top and chequered trousers, and she looked so different to all the times he'd seen her before.

"This is totally awkward considering before this the only interactions we've ever had have been casual nods to each other in the hallway... but there's a huge fucking spider in my bath tub and you seem like the friendly neighbour type. Please help me." Oliver blinked at her, then her eyes glanced down taking in his very damp, very muscular torso. He saw her cheeks flush, and her eyes darken slightly before she looked back up at him.

"I am so sorry! I totally disrupted your morning. I should probably..." She pointed to the door next to his and stepped back. Oliver said nothing as he watched her go. He frowned slightly as he rushed to his bedroom pulling on his sweats and a white t-shirt.

Felicity sighed as she closed her apartment door, resting her forehead on it.

"Way to go Felicity." She sighed. She had always known her neighbour was gorgeous, having seen him in various clothes, suits to workout gear to casual jeans and her particular favourite his leather jackets but to actually see him shirtless. Well that was something else entirely, and she had gone into a full blown babble, with bed head and in her pyjamas. She sighed again hitting her head against the wood. She yelp when a knock came from the other side. She looked through her peep hole to find her neighbour, now fully clothed waiting.

"Oh god." She grumbled pulling it open.

"Hi."

"Hey." He ran a hand at the back of his neck.

"So... A spider?" He asked.

"Oh no it's okay I don't want to bug you, or your girlfriend, or boyfriend... Not that I think you're gay, just totally cool if you are or maybe you don't have either or maybe you like both... Or none all, totally cool and I swear I'm going to stop in 3...2...1." She didn't look at him as he stared down at her in wonder and amusement.

"No girlfriend to bug. Also not gay, but..." He shrugged his shoulders. "Totally don't mind for being mistook as a gay, or bi, or whatever else you said." She looked up to see him smiling down at her.

"Well... I guess you best come in then." She opened the door wide and he stepped in. "I'm not normally this bad with insects but spiders. You know hairy, 8 legs longer than their bodies." She shuddered as she entered the bathroom and Oliver couldn't help but smile. "It was in the tub." She said pointing towards it. Oliver nodded as he glanced inside, to see the spider no bigger than a cherry running around the bottom of the tub. Oliver bent down gently scooping it up in his hands.

"You know they're more afraid of us than we are of them."

"It's a spider I doubt it has feelings... I mean thats some anthropomorphism stuff right there." He frowned as he walked over to the open window.

"Anthro... What?"

"It's when we give human characteristics to something that isn't human."

"So feelings are human?" He gently dropped the spider out the open window, closing it shut.

"Well yes our feelings are, we don't really know if animals experience feelings or if they do that it is even remotely similar to what we-" She stopped when she noticed he hadn't moved, his head was tilting as he was listening to her. "I'm sorry you don't need to know any of that. I should probably let you get back to your day." He smiled warmly at her as she took a step back.

Suddenly her foot slipped on the discarded clothes from this morning. She flew backwards her arms flying around as she desperately tried to clutch on to anything. She grabbed the sink faucet and it snapped off, she screamed as water was sprayed everywhere, she landed ass first into the bath tub her elbow catching the shower controls as water ran down on her.

Oliver stood there in complete and utter shock, unsure what to actually do first. He glanced at Felicity, who was sat there looking like a drowned kitten. He walked over to her flicking the shower water off, but the water from the faucet seemed to gush out even more spraying the entire room. Oliver rushed out the bathroom heading for the kitchen, he bent down under the sink turning the water valve off. The sound of running water stopped as he rushed back into the bathroom. His clothes were wet his white t-shirt now completely see through.

"Well it would appear I have had another shower." Oliver joked walking over to where Felicity still sat her legs hanging out the bathtub and faucet still in hand.

"I... I'm so sorry! I bet this isn't what you imagined your morning would be like." She said trying to lift herself up but slipping against the wet sides. He held a hand out for her and pulled her up, she collided with his chest his arms wrapping around her to make sure she didn't fall back. He could see her eyes closed behind her droplet covered glasses, her cheeks flushing as she ever so slowly opened her eyes and looked up.

"Hi." He smiled.

"Hey." She said back as his hands loosened.

"I'm Oliver Queen."

"Felicity... Smoak." She stuttered out.

"Do you have a mop?"

"What?" She asked stepping backwards out his arms.

"For the floor, to get some of the water."

"Oh right, yes... Yep, I'll get right on that... Thank you Oliver for helping me." He tilted his head in amusement.

"I'll do that. Whilst you call the plumber, and get that." He pointed to the faucet still in her hand. "Fixed." She instantly placed it by the sink taking it all in.

"I can't possibly ask-"

"You aren't asking I'm offering."

"But don't you have work or anything?"

"Luckily today is my day off." He grinned.

"Mine too." She grunted taking her glasses off and he could see the sadness in her eyes.

"Hey go call I'll deal with rest."

20 minutes later the bathroom was moped, Felicity had hung up from the plumber and stepped into the bathroom.

"How can I make this up to you?" She asked Oliver leaning against the doorway.

"How about breakfast?" He asked with an easy smile.

"I don't actually have much in with long work hours-"

"I meant we have breakfast together... Not you make it me."

"Oh." Her cheeks flushed. "You mean like a..."

"Date." He finished nodding, suddenly feeling slightly embarrassed.

"Errmmm okay." His face lit up and Felicity couldn't help but smile in return.

"Plumber isn't coming for a few hour anyway."

"Well how about you have a shower at mine and then we can have breakfast." she raised an eyebrow. "I mean you shower, alone. I mean we just met..." Her eyes looked at him playfully.

"Why do I feel like thats never stopped you before?" His eyes widened and he looked at her. "Well as long as you don't mind me naked in there..." Olivers heart beat a little quicker at the thought of her in his shower lathering herself up. He swallowed thickly as he looked at her soaked clothes stuck to her body, he could see her nipples harden. He stifled a groan coughing a little.

"Well I'll just go back to mine and when you have everything you need just knock." She smirked at him clearly knowing what he was thinking and as he walked away. Felicity couldn't help put stair at his pert ass thanking any god available for the spider in her bathroom, leading to meet the man of her dreams.