Author's Note: IT'S OFFICIALLY 2019 IN AV HIGH WORLD!
(though I guess, in real time, by the time I'm posting this it's probably like 2020 XD Whoa. 2020?! DUDE!)
"I feel like we were just having this conversation like two days ago," Sara sighed, as she laid on her bed FaceTiming Thea.
"A lot has changed since then, Sara," Thea said gravely. "Boy do Roy and I have a story to tell... you and Leonard will hear it in full tonight."
"I'm worried," Sara said dryly.
Thea rolled her eyes. "Now, what're you wearing? I don't want to clash in case we take any photos."
Sara shrugged. "I dunno, jeans? My boots, obviously."
Thea sighed. "Okay, Miss Unhelpful," she grumped. "Now walk over to that closet of yours and let me take a look."
Humoring her, Sara got up and opened up her closet.
"Let's see..." Thea hummed, squinting at the screen. "Okay, jeans, -the dark ones, with the ripped knee- your boots, and that dark red long sleeve top. Yeah, that one. Then do that short black leather jacket."
"Hm," Sara grunted. "That's actually not a half bad outfit."
"I love other people's closets," Thea sighed happily. "So many possibilities."
"I'm gonna change," Sara told her, placing her phone on her bed so that the camera was pointed at the ceiling instead of her.
Thea began to peruse her own closet thoughtfully. "I'm thinking maybe my skinny black pants?" she called over. "And then this black and white patterned tank top."
"Mm, let me see?" Sara said, poking her head into the frame. "Thea, you're going to be absolutely freezing."
"Okay, then, I'll wear this," Thea rooted around in her closet and pulled out a rusty reddish-pink cardigan. "My minds made up; this is perfect."
"If you say so," Sara snickered. Thea saw her shrugging on her leather jacket before she held up her phone, flipped the camera, and walked over to the full length mirror behind her door. The two of them looked at her outfit.
"I like it," Thea approved.
Sara nodded and plugged in the curling iron wand that was lying on her dresser. "We have to get going soon," she said, glancing at the time on her phone.
"Yeah," Thea agreed. Her picture briefly disappeared as she x-ed out of FaceTime. "I'm going to text the boys and make sure we're still good for today."
By the time both of them replied, Sara was halfway done waving the ends of her long blond hair, Thea had picked out a pair of shoes and touched up her eyeliner, and both of them were running a little late.
"Alright, I'm hanging up," Sara told her, reaching for her phone as she quickly unplugged her curling iron. "See you in a few."
Thea said her goodbyes and Sara ended the call, grabbing her purse and running for the door.
Laurel was sitting in the kitchen, eating a bagel. She raised her eyebrow as Sara started to tug on her knee-high white boots. "Black shoes would go better," she told her.
"Yeah?" Sara glanced down and sighed. "I suppose so." She began to pull them back off again and reached for her black high-top sneakers.
"So... double date, huh?"
Sara nodded. "Yup-dee-doodles," she replied, before blinking. "What just came out of my mouth?"
"I honestly don't know," Laurel said dryly, before tossing her the keys. "Have fun."
Sara caught the keys, finished tying her shoes, and grabbed her coat. "Bye!" she called, and ran out the door.
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Felicity loved the holidays. It was true that celebrating Hanukkah set her apart from her mostly-Christmas-obsessed classmates, and that having to explain that she didn't celebrate Christmas over and over again when asked what "Santa brought her" was tiresome, Felicity still loved the holidays.
Oliver was being surprisingly sweet about it all. He called her on New Years three minutes after midnight, when Felicity was yawning and bleary eyed and bored out of her mind. "Hey, Happy New Years," he started.
"Happy New Years, Oliver," Felicity replied, smiling. "How's it going?"
"Pretty good. Thea's out with Roy and Diggle is probably sleeping so I'm alone."
"Yeah, me too," Felicity agreed. "My mom went to bed like 3 hours ago. I considered following suit but I figured it's too much of a tradition not to stay up."
Oliver laughed. "Hey, so, I was wondering. School starts up day after tomorrow but if you're free tomorrow afternoon would you want to come over? I know you don't celebrate Christmas... does that include not being able to decorate Christmas cookies?'
It was Felicity's turn to laugh. "Of course I can decorate cookies," she assured him. "I think that would be a lot of fun. I'm going to have to check my homework level and ask my mom who is, again, asleep. But I'll get back to you tomorrow morning."
Tomorrow morning had come, as had the allowance from her mom to head to Oliver's and decorate cookies. So there she was in a snowflake sweater and an elf hat, standing out front of the Queen's small mansion with a container of sprinkles in one hand and a bag of various chocolate chips in the other.
She rang the doorbell with her elbow and waited.
It was actually Thea who opened the door. "Heeeey, Felicity," she greeted with a grin, before calling over her shoulder: "Ollie! Your girlfriend's here!"
"Yes, thank you Thea, I told you I'd get the door," Oliver grit out, tugging his sister's hood so she stumbled back from the door. "Hi, Felicity."
"Hi," Felicity replied, smiling shyly. Then she took another look at Thea and frowned a little. "Uh... is that Roy's sweatshirt?"
Thea flipped up the hood, grinning. "Yeah. It smells like him. I'll give it back eventually when it doesn't anymore."
"Yeah, sure he loves that idea," Oliver grunted, rolling his eyes. "C'mon Felicity. Rasia made cookies and she said they're cool enough to start decorating."
Thea tagged along behind them as they walked into the kitchen and Felicity put down her stuff.
"Felicity Smoak!" Rasia greeted with a large smile, taking her shoulders and kissing both her cheeks. "It is so nice to see you here with Oliver. I made cookies for you two to decorate."
"Thank you," Felicity said, smiling back at her. Oliver pulled out a chair at the kitchen table and gestured with dramatic gentlemanliness to it and Felicity giggled, sitting down.
Thea hoisted herself up on the kitchen counter and stole a cookie, biting into it. "Mm, these are good Rasia, thanks."
"Well, if you ever invite that Roy Harper boy over again, I will make some for you two," Rasia told her. "But for now these are for Mr. Queen and Ms. Smoak."
Thea stuck her tongue out playfully and stole another cookie. Rasia flapped at her with a dish cloth and Thea giggled, running for the door. Felicity glanced over at Oliver, watching him watch his sister and maid/surrogate mother with a fond smile.
"See ya!" Thea called, second cookie already halfway gone. "I gotta go get ready for my double date."
Rasia soon followed after her. "If you two need anything," she told Oliver and Felicity. "I'll be in the library cleaning up some books."
Felicity leaned over to Oliver. "You have a library?" she asked, incredulous. "How 19th century Clue game is that?"
Oliver shrugged. "It's an old house," he offered.
They settled down, and Oliver grabbed the plate of cooling cookies and two extra plates for decorating. Felicity scooped frosting into bowls and Oliver directed her toward the knives.
About three cookies each had been decorated and light conversation about homework and the New Year had been had when Moria Queen herself walked into the room.
"Felicity," she said, in a way that made Felicity think that she hadn't been told that her son was having his girlfriend over
"Mom!" Oliver said, standing up and almost knocking his chair over. "Um... hi. You remember my girlfriend Felicity, right?"
"Of course..." Moria said, shaking Felicity's hand stiffly. "She came over for Thea's sleepover a couple of weeks ago."
Felicity nodded. "It's nice to meet you," she exclaimed, before realizing what had just popped out of her mouth and quickly backtracking. "I mean, it's nice to meet you again. Not that I'm really meeting you right now- so I guess it's just nice to see you again? Though did I see you at Thea's sleepover? I can't remember. I feel like I've seen you before, though. We have met before, right? I'm Felicity Smoak-"
Oliver coughed and Felicity shut up, face turning a dark shade of crimson. Moria arched one perfectly plucked eyebrow. "I... see," she said finally. "Well, you two enjoy your... cookie decorating."
Felicity sat back down and thunked her head down on the table. "Hey!" Oliver cried, shooting a hand out to make sure she didn't do it again. "You're going to hurt yourself."
"I am the stupidest person in the entire world," Felicity groaned, face still burning. "Your mom is gonna hate me- probably already does hate me- you probably hate me- I don't see why you give me the time of day, much less be my boyfriend-"
"Hey, Felicity, stop it," Oliver told her firmly. He lifted up her face so that she was looking at him and brushed her hair out of her eyes with his free hand. "You are remarkable. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise- including yourself."
"Thank you for remarking that," Felicity murmured, sitting up a little.
"Now!" Oliver cried, cracking his knuckles and sending her a wink. "These cookies aren't gonna decorate themselves."
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Leonard and Roy were already at the diner when Sara pulled up. "Thea's still not here?" she asked, frowning as she got out of the car. "I was just talking to her before I left and she said she was heading out soon."
Roy shrugged. "It's Thea," he said. "She's probably fixing her hair."
It was about then that Sara noticed what Roy was wearing. "Uh... what's with the cast?" she asked, furrowing her eyebrows. "Did you slip on ice or something?"
Roy smirked. "Or something," he said mysteriously.
Sara made a face at him and Leonard snorted. "He promised to tell us when Thea gets here," he told her. "If she ever gets here."
"I'm hungry," Roy sighed grumpily. "Let's go get a table and then Thea can join us-"
"I'm here, I'm here, sorry!" Thea called, skidding to a stop in front of them and panting for a couple moments. "I got lost," she said apologetically. "My GPS is really weird."
"I'm hungry," Roy complained again. "Let's go inside and get food."
"Someone's grumpy," Thea commented, looping her arm through her boyfriend's as they walked inside. "Especially for the person who wanted to do this in the first place."
"Second place," Roy corrected. "This was your idea in the first place."
She sighed and glanced over her shoulder, rolling her eyes in Sara's direction.
It was long before they were seated in booths (Leonard and Sara on one side and Thea and Roy facing them) with menus in front of them. "Okay," Sara said immediately. "I'm dying. Tell me how you got your cast, Roy."
"Well," Thea started, placing her hand on Roy's good arm. "Roy saved my life, actually."
Leonard's eyebrows went up. "As... interesting as I'm sure this story is, why don't we look at the menus and pick out what we're going to eat first?" he suggested. "Then we can here the tale of how Roy Harper became a night in shining armor."
Roy sent him a glare so dark that Sara was slightly concerned for the safety of her boyfriend. "I'm getting pancakes," she declared quickly, scanning over the menu.
"Well that was fast," Leonard said dryly, turning a page.
He ended up picking a breakfast burrito, while Thea got the eggs benedict and Roy got a BLTC without the T. Then they settled back with their ice waters and listened to Roy and Thea's rendition of what happened on New Years Eve.
When they got to the part about Thea distracting Roy from the needle by kissing him, Sara squealed so loudly that half the room looked over. "Sorry," she stage-whispered, chagrined. "I'm actually a total fangirl too I just hide it."
Leonard snorted and shook his head. "So you two finally kissed," he said, nodding his approval.
"Uh huh!" Thea cried. "Now all that's left is for you and Sara to kiss and the Three Stars of Orion will all have their kisses with their one true boyfriends."
There was a long silence. "I'm confused on about three of the different things you just said," Roy said.
Thea sighed theatrically. "The Three Stars of Orion is Iris, Sara and I's group chat name because we upgraded it from 'School Girls' because it was lame," she explained patiently. "Iris has kissed Barry, I've kissed you, and now Leonard and Sara need to kiss. One true love felt too dramatic so I went with boyfriend. Clear?"
"Clear," he agreed, taking a long sip of water. "As clear as things could ever be with you."
She elbowed him playfully, smiling. Their interaction, at least, took care of the sudden awkwardness both Sara and Leonard were feeling, but it only lasted for a moment. Silence fell.
"Um, I'm going to go use the bathroom," Sara said, standing up quickly and giving Thea a significant eyebrow raise. "Buddy system?"
The phrase 'Buddy System' was Thea, Sara, and Iris' code for when they wanted to talk in private, without attracting attention.
Thea took another sip of her water. "Sure thing," she agreed, pecking Roy on the cheek before sliding out of her own booth to join Sara. Roy blushed, than quickly looked down to hide it, and the two girls walked toward the bathroom.
"What's up?" Thea asked when they were a safe distance away.
"Look, I get that you're just playing matchmaker and you were trying to be funny and all of that," Sara said, slowing down outside of the bathroom and glancing over her shoulder to make sure neither of the boys were eavesdropping. "But, like, Leonard and I haven't really talked about the whole kissing thing yet."
"But Sara," Thea groaned. "You two have literally been dating since Thanksgiving."
"Yeah, I know," Sara mumbled, shifting uncomfortably. "Like, I want to kiss him, obviously, he's just... well, he's not very good with touching, you know? It took him awhile to be comfortable with a hug or holding my hand and... what we have is good. I don't want to ruin it."
"Kissing doesn't ruin it, Sara," Thea told her, putting a hand on her shoulder. "Seriously, I don't mean to act all wise or anything now that Roy and I have finally kissed but like... there's something about it that's just so-"
"I know, Thea!" Sara cried. "I've kissed someone before, remember? Nyssa? I mean, I've never kissed a guy before but I can't imagine that it's terribly different. Point being, I know what it's like and I know how it feels. I just don't want to scare him away, okay? That's it. I don't want to scare Leonard away by moving to fast or doing things when we aren't ready."
Thea blinked, taken aback. "Oh," she said. "Oh, okay. I... Sorry, Sara, I didn't mean to upset you or anything."
"Whatever," Sara sighed. "Look, I don't want this to ruin our afternoon, okay? But just, like... drop the kissing thing."
"Yeah, of course," Thea agreed immediately.
"Now, I actually have to use the bathroom so see ya." Sara turned and walked into the ladies room, and Thea went back to the table.
"What were you and Sara doing?" Roy asked, frowning in confusion. "I thought you were going to use the bathroom but you were just talking in the hallway."
"Just needed to fangirl about your adorableness for a moment," Thea replied smoothly, smiling as Roy stuttered something unintelligible and hurriedly drank more water.
Leonard gave her a suspicious look, but he didn't push it. Sara soon came back from the bathroom, gushing to Thea about how they had salts in the bathroom that she needed to try, and Wow, she was hungry, was anyone else hungry? 'Cause she was really hungry, and things fell back to normal.
Thea didn't bring up the whole kissing thing again, and neither did Sara.
But that didn't mean that they didn't think about it.
Author's Note: Heeeey, does anyone know where those lines in the Olicity scene are from? I got 'em straight from the show :D
