Nanda Parbat, three years ago
Oliver and Nyssa pulled apart. Nyssa was still on top of him and was now blushing. Oliver had never seen her blush, but he definitely loved the look of her when she was blushing. It made her so much more like a normal human and not a killer assassin.
"Hi," Oliver said, breaking the silence. He loved the silence there was between them, but he also wanted to talk to her about what this would mean.
"Hi," Nyssa replied back and then leaned down to kiss Oliver again. Oliver returned the kiss and by that Nyssa hummed in happiness.
"Don't get me wrong, but is this allowed?" Oliver asked when they had pulled apart and Nyssa was still lying on top of him. She couldn't help but let out a little laugh.
"As long as my father approves it, and I hope he will," Nyssa told him. She was smiling a smile that showed her affection for the man underneath her. Oliver nodded nervously, knowing if Ra's didn't approve Oliver would most likely be killed.
"It's really not to ruin the moment, but I know what I want to do if we keep staying like this," Oliver told her, referring to their position. Nyssa was straddling his hips while lying her upper body down onto Oliver's upper body.
"How about we then get some more training in and then we can move onto some stretching?" Nyssa asked. Oliver was surprised by her question. He didn't think he was going to have a say in his training, but maybe Nyssa would be softening more on him.
"Sounds like a plan," Oliver said and tapped Nyssa's ass to inquire her to get off so they could start training again. Oliver had no idea for how long they had been kissing on the floor, but he knew it had been some time since the sun was beginning to set. He didn't really have any sense of time yet, except for when he was getting tired it was most likely because it was night. Nyssa listened to his inquiry of her to get off and sat back up and proceeded to stand up. She offered her hand to Oliver to help him, which he accepted, and they were now both ready for some more of Oliver's training.
Nyssa showed him how to work on his footwork while he was fighting. He hadn't really any experience with using his feet other than when his opponents were lying on the floor. He felt very clumsy when he was using his feet, which was why he didn't use them, but he also knew that would just be in the beginning. Nyssa thought he was a quick learner since he now didn't look as clumsy as at the beginning of his training. At the start, she had to hold back a laugh from seeing Oliver working on different ways of kicks.
A couple of hours quickly went by. Now Oliver and Nyssa had been working on kicks and Oliver's stretching when Nyssa decided it was time to call it a day. They put on their shoes and started heading towards their chambers.
"Am I allowed to use that room, when you aren't there, too?" Oliver asked, keeping his voice low. He knew the other assassins were looking at him in a weird way already because he was new. He didn't want them to look at him any weirder because he was talking with Nyssa like she was an ordinary person. He knew she should use a more formal voice when he was talking with her, but he didn't want to when they were alone, and Nyssa seemed to like he didn't treat her as better than him.
"You are, but if some of the others see you enter the room without me, they will ask why you are going in there," Nyssa explained. Oliver understood that. It was her room, and nobody was allowed to use her room without her permission, and everyone didn't know he now had permission to use as he wanted. They stopped in front of the door to Oliver's room.
"Thank you for your training today, Your Highness," Oliver said and bowed, knowing other League members would be watching them right now.
"Your training for today isn't over yet. Come with me," Nyssa said and started moving towards her door. She walked inside her room and Oliver followed, closing the door behind him. He was curious to know what Nyssa had in mind since he really had thought it was over for today.
"Your muscles are tense, which is probably one of the main reasons for your bad flexibility," Nyssa said, still not saying anything about what she had in mind, and she didn't look like one who would say anything unless he asked, so he did.
"What is it you are so mysterious about right now?" Oliver asked nervously. He had his thoughts about what she might could have wanted after what happened today, but he didn't want to disappoint her when he said he didn't want to do that already. Nyssa must have noticed the nervous look Oliver suddenly was showing because she decided to stop the mysterious act and tell him what she had planned.
"I am going to give you a massage, hoping it will help on how tense you seem to be," Nyssa said and had to hold back a laugh when she saw the look on Oliver's face. He let out a huge breath he had been holding, because of his nervousness.
"Thank god…" He said very low hoping Nyssa wouldn't hear him, but of course, she did.
"What were you thinking was about to happen?" Nyssa asked with an eyebrow raised at Oliver. Oliver stiffened when she asked, and he started weighing his options; should he just tell her, or should he lie? He knew she was good at knowing when people were lying to her, which was why he decided to tell her the truth.
"Please don't get mad… I thought you wanted to proceed with what happened between us earlier…" Oliver said, looked at the ground in shame, that he had thought Nyssa wanted to have sex with him already.
"Oliver, I'm not some girl you found on a night out. I know you are not used to being here in the League, which is why I won't get mad… I'm actually happy that you feel ashamed about thinking that about me," Nyssa said. She was happy that Oliver had reacted the way he did, it told her that he had changed and wasn't the guy she had read so much bad about.
"I'm sorry…" Oliver said, still looking down at the ground.
"Just, come here and lie down," Nyssa said and patted her bed. Oliver complied and laid down on her bed on his back and waited for Nyssa to tell him something else since he didn't want to do anything that would be too early for them.
"You need to get some clothes off before I can do anything," Nyssa said and smiled at him. She could see that he was very careful with what he did, and she found it kind of sweet. Oliver did get some clothes off but kept his boxers on. He lied back down, now on his stomach so she could massage his back. Nyssa got the oil for the massage and straddled his hips, while he was facing downwards. She started applying the oil on his upper body, and when she started giving the massage, she could hear him groan sometimes from the pain of being this tense.
"Relax and try to enjoy it. It might be one of the only times I will do this for you," Nyssa said and leaned down and gave Oliver a kiss on the cheek. Oliver nodded and listened to her, and she could immediately feel how he was trying to relax and not tense up in the muscles she was working on.
Nyssa had been working on his back for ten minutes when she realized Oliver had fallen asleep. She hadn't expected this to happen. What was she supposed to do now? She wasn't exactly capable of carrying him into his room without the other members noticing he was only wearing his boxers. She had decided that she should just let him be and go to bed herself, even though it was something she had never done before. She carefully got off of him and started undressing herself. Usually, she slept naked, but she couldn't do that with Oliver already. Yes, they had started something between them today, but it was too soon for both of their likings, so Nyssa picked up Oliver's shirt and put it on her almost naked body. For the first time in a long time she would be wearing panties and a shirt to bed, which was very odd for her, but so was it that a man was sleeping in her bed. She got onto the bed again and put her body in front of Oliver's. When she had put the covers over her and Oliver, she closed her eyes, but opened them again, when she felt shifting in the bed and soon an arm wrapped around her and she felt Oliver's muscular upper body press up against her back. She was a little uncomfortable, to begin with, but that soon changed, and not long after she felt herself fall asleep in Oliver's arms once again.
Present
Aaila woke up the next morning feeling, surprisingly fresh and ready to today. She didn't have anything planned though; she was just ready to be active a lot today. Yesterday had been unusual for her, with all the kidnapping, so today she wanted to do something more normal than being kidnapped and shot in the arm. She lifted her arm to check where the bullet had hit her. Still nothing. It was incredible how that water could cure pretty much anything you wanted, by just letting it touch your skin.
She got out of bed and headed for her shower. She wanted to see if it was still just cold water coming out of it. She turned on the water and let it run for a couple of minutes to let it adjust the temperature. She put her hand under the water, but the water was still too cold for her to take a shower in. Aaila grabbed her towel and wrapped it around her body and then headed downstairs too, where she presumed her parents would be. And like she had predicted; they were in the living room watching some movie on the TV. They had been there for a while because Aaila could recognize the scene in the movie and knew it was close to the end of it.
"Good morning, Mom, Dad," Aaila said as she walked towards the couch where Oliver and Nyssa were sitting.
"Good morning," They answered simultaneously and turned their heads to look at Aaila.
"Are you heading for a shower?" Nyssa teased. The fact that Aaila was wrapped in her towel told Nyssa that she was, but she also knew what Aaila was doing in her shower time, which was why she was teasing her with her showers.
"Yeah, there is still no hot water in my shower, so I just wanted to let you guys know I would be using yours," Aaila replied, trying to act like she hadn't noticed the teasing tone Nyssa had asked her question in.
"Okay, I will have a friend to come and look at it tomorrow, if he comes to town," Oliver said ignoring Nyssa's tease and the fact that he also knew what Aaila was doing in her shower time.
"What do you mean, 'if he comes to town'?" Aaila asked not having any clue on who would be coming.
"It's the guy I want to join Felicity and me in the new project. He is a really good handyman and got some great tools to do it with. I just have to make him come to town and help Felicity and me," Oliver explained.
"Well, I hope you get him on board then. I will go get my shower," Aaila said and walked back up the stairs. She stepped inside the bathroom and let the towel fall to the ground revealing her naked body for herself. She still had no scars and with how Oliver and Nyssa were treating her, she didn't think she would ever get any. They would probably just use the Lazarus water and remove her wound before it had time to become a scar. Aaila turned on the water and let it run for some time before moving under the spray of the water herself. Not long after she started her 'routine' in her showers; wash hair and body, shave if needed and then have some fun with herself. She was a big fan of habits and routines, which was why she liked doing the same thing every time she was showering.
Forty minutes later she turned off the water and picked up her towel, which was still lying on the floor where she had let it fall from her body. She toweled her body and wrapped her body into the towel again before walking out of the bathroom. She started walking down towards her bedroom but noticed that there was coming to no sounds from downstairs, which usually meant they had left or was meditating. She opened the door to her room and was surprised to see Nyssa sitting on the edge of her bed, who looked up when she heard Aaila come inside the room.
"Not to be rude, but what are you doing here, Mom?" Aaila asked slightly confused.
"Oliver had gone out to his meeting with Felicity and possibly that other guy he won't tell us about. And I wanted to show you something," Nyssa said and smiled at Aaila. This just caused Aaila to become more confused. It unusual she got gifts from Oliver and Nyssa, well, she didn't technically know it was a gift yet, but she had a strong feeling that it was a gift of some kind.
"I will just get dressed and then I will be ready," Aaila said and walked towards her closet. She walked inside and looked around for something to wear. She picked out a pink sports bra and a pair of black sports shorts that stopped right under her butt cheeks. She walked out of her closet and hung her towel inside her bathroom, in one of the towel hoops.
"Okay, I'm ready," Aaila told Nyssa when she had come back out from the bathroom. Nyssa looked at Aaila and what she was wearing. She didn't want to say anything to her since she sometimes wore something similar, it was just unusual for her to see Aaila dress in so little clothes.
"Let's go then. We're taking the car," Nyssa said and surprised Aaila. Nyssa hadn't said anything about going out. She had just thought they were going to stay at the apartment, but that, apparently, wasn't the case. Nyssa and Aaila then walked out of the apartment, towards the car.
Aaila and Nyssa stopped at the club and Nyssa started walking towards the lair, with Aaila just behind her. Aaila was confused about why they were at the foundry. She was really hoping that Nyssa didn't plan on having some nightmare of training now since she just really wanted to rest today.
"I thought, now that you officially are Oliver and I's child, you should have something that represented each one of us, so everyone could see that when you are in the field," Nyssa said while looking for something inside one of the drawers. "So, Oliver and I have been talking about what we wanted you to have that would represent us, and it has finally arrived,"
Nyssa was holding out something that was wrapped around in some kind of cloth. She could see it was from the League since the cloth had the design of Ra's robe. It was two things different things and Aaila didn't know which one to open first.
"This one if for me," Nyssa said and pointed at the one in Aaila's left hand. Aaila put Oliver's 'thing' on the table beside her and started unpacking whatever Nyssa had gotten for her. She had unpacked it and could see that it was a new suit. She held it up in front of herself and inspected the suit. It was designed just like Nyssa's, but at the places where Nyssa had red on her suit, Aaila had gold on her suit. She loved the design of this new suit and was honored that Nyssa wanted her to have the same design of suit as her.
"Thank you," Aaila said and wrapped her arms around Nyssa and pulled her into a tight hug.
"Your welcome, Sweetheart," Nyssa said and returned the hug and kissed Aaila's forehead. Nyssa wasn't a tall person at all, but Aaila was very short too, which made it easier for Nyssa to reach her forehead rather than her cheek when they were so close to each other. They pulled apart and Aaila picked up the gift from Oliver.
"Aren't I supposed to wait so he can see me open this?" Aaila asked innocently.
"Oliver told me that it would be fine if you opened it now. He wouldn't come home before we had to head out tonight," Nyssa said with a somewhat sad tone because Oliver wouldn't be able to see Aaila open her gift. Aaila nodded in understanding. It would be new to her and Nyssa that Oliver wouldn't be around at all times, but they knew if they needed him, he would be there in a matter of minutes anyway.
Aaila opened the cloth and picked out another piece of cloth and that was wrapped with a gold ribbon. She picked up what was still wrapped inside the first piece of cloth and saw it was a note which said: I thought it was too big to get wrapped in. It's in the drawer where you put your suit. Aaila then opened that drawer and saw a new bow. It was a compound bow, all black with some gold lining here and there that made it match perfectly with her suit.
"This is perfect," Aaila said in appreciation. She was looking it up and down, feeling its weight when she was aiming, everything seemed perfect with this bow, but that was what Oliver probably had asked for, and when you are Ra's Al Ghul, you get what you ask for.
"The little one there, from both of us. Open it," Nyssa told Aaila. She put down her new bow and picked up the little cloth with a ribbon holding it closed. When she looked down into it, she could something shining. She picked it up and looked at a golden necklace with two silver rings attached to it.
"That's your engagement rings," Aaila stated and looked surprised at Nyssa, who simply nodded at Aaila.
"We wanted you to have these, just in case, since you have basically been our daughter from day one, and none of us really realized that until Thea mentioned you were close to being young enough to be our daughter. But we wanted you to have these, because without your knowledge we had your name written on the inside of the ring, like a promise to each other we would always take care of you," Nyssa told Aaila. Aaila's eyes had to start to tear up. She thought it was so beautiful what Nyssa and Oliver had done for her, without her actually knowing and the last time she was this happy was on their wedding day, where she was told she was adopted by them. Aaila pulled Nyssa into a bigger and tighter hug than before. Since Aaila had started tearing up, Nyssa had started too when she saw the young girl being this happy and returned the hug with equal force.
"I don't think I've ever been this happy in my life before. Thank you, for everything you've ever done for me," Aaila said and let some tears fall from her eyes. Nyssa could feel the tears hit her breasts and them running further down her cleavage. Not even a second later she too wasn't able to hold her tears back and let them fall down onto Aaila's hair.
"Send him up, please," Oliver said. Felicity looked over at Oliver with a brow furrowed.
"Who's coming?" Felicity asked, not having heard anything about someone should come.
"Our third partner. I wanted you to have more help than just me, since I have other things going on too, which I have to prioritize over this sometimes and I don't want you to work on this alone," Oliver explained. Felicity looked surprised at Oliver.
"I didn't know you had other things to attend to. What things, if I may ask?" Felicity asked curiously.
"I have the club and then I am the leader of another organization, which I have to take care of whenever that's needed," Oliver explained without mentioning the League and what they were doing in his organization.
"Then who is this other guy coming to help us?" Felicity asked. As if on cue, they heard the elevator bell ring and a man in a suit stepped out of it. Oliver stood and went to greet the man.
"Thank you for wanting to help us with this," Oliver greeted the man, while shaking his hand.
"Thank you for wanting me. I know you have a really busy schedule, and this is an exciting project you have here," The man greeted back. Then his eyes went to the blond sitting in front of the computer screen. He walked to stand beside her and held out his hand to shake her hand.
"You must be Felicity. I'm pleased to meet you. I'm Ray Palmer," Ray said and shook her hand. Felicity looked at him dumbfounded. She har heard about Ray Palmer, but she had never seen a picture or anything about him.
"The Ray Palmer?" Felicity asked a bit stars-trucked.
"Yes, that is me," he replied with a little laugh.
"I'm thankful that you wanted to come and help with this, Ray. I think I will start working on the speech for the press conference tomorrow. In the meanwhile, you two can catch up and get to know each other. See guys tomorrow," Oliver said and walked out the glass door to the office room they had gotten for this project.
"See you," Ray and Felicity said simultaneously as Oliver walked out of the door, with Diggle right behind him.
