Lena knew where Oliver had been going with this conversation, but to hear him put it so plainly still stunned her just the tiniest bit. She looked from the hood now held out to her, back to the eyes of the other billionaire. "Why me?"
He chuckled, pushing the hood into her hand as he began to back away from her personal space and pace once again. "You and I are similar, and I can see the way that you get when everyone else is allowed to go off and fight and you are stuck back at the DEO, or in your office." He gives her a meaningful look. "I can see you worrying about Kara."
She bit her lip. He wasn't wrong about any of this, but what could she say? This was a ridiculous notion. He seemed to guess her thoughts as he held up his hands and smiled easily. "Like I said, this is your choice. I'm giving you the option, but you don't have to take it if you don't want." He gestured to the hood, "But, call it an educated guess that you will."
Lena felt herself nodding, her mind working a million miles an hour trying to think of what to do. Oliver seemed to know when to leave someone to their thoughts so he made his way for the door. He pulled it open and paused. "One last thing." Lena glanced up from her staring contest with the green hood and raised an eyebrow. "If you decide this is something you want, tell Kara. I heard what went down with Winn and James when they kept Guardian from her."
Lena's chest filled with some semblance of panic. Oh God, Kara. Would she hate Lena if she chose to become the Green Arrow? Would she stop being her friend? Would she even understand why Lena wanted this?
Oliver smiled. "Just remember its not Kara's choice on what you do. It's yours. If you feel the call, well, I'm sure she'll come around. Just don't keep it from her."
"She would hate me if I did."
Oliver tilted his head, a fond smile coming onto his face. "I doubt that. She looks at you as if you hung the sun, which for her is a pretty big deal." Lena chuckled a bit. "I'm not saying you should tell her for her sake, though that is another major reason. You should tell her because I made the mistake of not telling those that I loved about me for the longest time. It got lonely and it hurt to lie to everyone, especially to someone as close as your and Kara are. You don't need that guilt on top of everything, especially given how much you care for Kara."
Lena nodded, swallowing the lump in her throat. "I'll think about it."
Oliver nodded. "Good." Then his eyes darted to the elevator outside her office. He smiled. "Hello Kara."
Lena's eyes widened and she quickly moved to stuff the hood into her desk. She had just closed the drawer when Kara moved into view, smiling at Oliver. "I didn't expect you up here. They're waiting for you downstairs to go home."
She watched Oliver give a kind, genuine smile to Kara, that girl could get them out of anyone, and then he bid them both goodbye with one last look over Kara's head at Lena.
"What were you and Oliver talking about?" Kara looked confused and tilted her head sideways, reminding Lena how much she could act like a golden retriever.
Lena gave a small smile, though knowing how Lena tended to act around the blonde it was probably one of those big smiles that she just couldn't help. Just play it cool Lena.
"Nothing!" Damn. Lena cleared her throat trying to tone it down a bit. "We were just trading CEO tips. Plus, we are both billionaire heirs and have family legacies that we aren't exactly proud of." She gulped as she said the last part, thinking of the green hood now inside her desk and the boxes of tech that Oliver had mentioned in a warehouse. "We seem to be alike in a lot of ways." Well, Lena wasn't lying, technically. She needed to think about Oliver's offer a lot more before she decided to worry Kara over it.
She knew Kara toned down her super hearing and X-ray vision around her friends because she didn't want to invade their privacy, so Lena hoped that her little stumble wouldn't be seen as something that Kara would need to change that policy for. If she did, Lena was screwed. She breathed a sigh of relief when Kara didn't even move her hand up to push her glasses down and do an X-ray scan of the room.
Kara gave her a weird look, seeming to weight the merits of Lena talking business with Oliver Queen. "Well, maybe business is done differently on his earth…"
Lena bit her lip to keep from smiling too wide. "Oh? And here I was thinking about going multi dimensional with a branch of L-Corp there."
She watched the blonde giggle happily and Lena knew she was smiling too widely now. Damn this lovable alien. After Kara had settled down she moved over and took Lena's hand beginning to pull her downstairs. "Come on, you don't want to miss the wormhole, I know you like science stuff, and you and Winn can geek out together again. I love watching it, you both are so adorable."
That was a lot to process for Lena as she was forcibly dragged from her office. Kara thought she was adorable? Kara was holding her hand. Lena's brain short-circuited a bit and she didn't really come back to herself until she was already in the elevator. She looked down and realized that KARA WAS STILL HOLDING HER HAND. And as Kara pressed the button for the floor of the party, chattering away about how she'd finally gotten Mick to hug her goodbye. Lena couldn't really pay attention to it. She was only thinking one thing: She really hoped her hand wasn't sweaty.