When Felicity offered to help Barry on a case in Central City, she didn't know how much she would have to reveal about her past or how much this case would change her future. "Seriously, Oliver, did you really think I'd learned to hack that well in school? I wasn't always an I.T. girl." Setting: Pre-"Flash" and pre"Secret History of Felicity Smoak"

Oliver Queen had had enough. There were only two options he realized; either she'd be angry beyond measure and not speak to him for a month, or she'd sigh and relent, she'd hear the words he was too much of a coward to say, she'd understand the feelings he was too afraid to admit, and she'd let it go. Either way, it was a risk he was willing to take. Will eventually be rated M.

Former 'Tropes#6: the baby trope'. Post season 1. When Tommy Merlyn's child shows up at the doorstep of Verdant abandoned by her mother, Oliver and Felicity agree to pose as her parents. In the process of raising Tommy's daughter, they grow closer to each other.