They were quiet through the English hall, checking through the classroom windows as they went.
When they reached the Science hall, Oliver finally said something.
"So why did Laurel drag you off to the bathroom?" he asked. "I was going to come check on you, but then I, uh, got cornered."
"She wanted to know why I was here with you and not working my night job."
"Your night job?" he asked puzzled.
"Yeah, with the Arrow."
He stopped. "She knows you work for the Arrow."
"Yeah. Apparently Detective Lance told her so she can get in touch with you."
"What did you tell her?" he asked.
"I said it was possible that I might be multitasking. She wanted to know what you had to do with it. I told her nothing, you were just my boyfriend. And then I walked out."
"Okay, well we will need to keep that in mind from now on."
"Oliver," Digg said in their ears. "I think I'm getting something."
"My tablet!" Felicity said. "I need my tablet."
They made their way to the next hall to the locker where they had stashed their stuff. Felicity quickly extracted her tablet and remoted in to her computers at the foundry so they could see what was going on. Oliver slipped behind the nearest classroom door to change.
"Talk to me Felicity," he said from behind the door.
"It pinged a hacker here at the school," she said.
"According to the heat graph, it looks like he's in the hallway we just came from. Last doorway on the right," Digg said.
Felicity nodded in agreement.
"Alright, he said, slipping back into the hallway."
"Where's your suit?" she asked.
"Underneath," he said.
"You can get into those pants with clothes on?"
"Felicity, focus," he said, trying not laugh.
"Uh, sorry," she said, looking down at her tablet again.
"What stage is he at?" he asked.
"He's still trying to hack the system right now," Felicity said.
"Let's go," he said, leading her back down the hall they had just come from.
When they got outside the room, he leaned down to whisper in her ear.
"Wait here for me to deal with him first. I'll let you know when it's safe to come in and wipe the computer."
"Okay," she said.
As he prepared to confront him, Felicity grabbed his jacket at the last moment, making him turn towards her, eyebrows up in question.
"Please be careful," she said. "Don't talk. Just fight."
He nodded his head silently, before walking into the room.
Felicity heard quite a few tings of his knives hitting the wall as well as the sound of fighting. It took everything in her not to peek around the corner and into the classroom to check on Oliver. When the Woosh of his arrows was evident, she relaxed a little, telling herself she didn't really want to see that.
"Felicity," Oliver said, poking his head out the room and lightly grabbing her arm. "Come on."
Felicity walked in the room to find Pulin laying on the ground, tranqued, with his hands zip tied behind his back.
He kept his hand on her arm, leading her to a random student computer on the opposite side of the room.
She sat down, took a breath, and then went to town, fingers flying across the keyboard.
Oliver watched over her shoulder as screen after screen of black coding popped up. Within a few minutes, she had retracted any progress he had managed to make. She plugged her tablet into the computer and downloaded the software so she could look through it back at the base. After wiping the computer clean, she was working on crashing it for good measure, when they heard a voice behind them.
"You're the hacker that broke into Merlyn Global. I'd recognize that code anyday."
Oliver stepped in front of Felicity, blocking her from view, before managing to get another tranq in him.
"Did he see me?" she asked, a little scared.
"I think he just saw the screen," he said. "Maybe the back of your head. but he's going to jail so it doesn't matter."
"The software disappeared," Diggle said. "Does that mean mission accomplished?"
"Almost," Oliver said. He hoisted Pulin over his shoulder before reaching for Felicity's hand. "Dig, call Roy and ask him to meet me behind the school."
"On it," he said.
They walked out back and didn't wait long before Roy appeared. Oliver and Roy shifted the body over and Felicity pushed something into Roy's jacket pocket.
"What's that?" he asked.
"A recording of him admitting his plan."
"I'm sure Captain Lance will appreciate that," Roy said.
"Unfortunately, we have to get back to the reunion before anyone realizes we're gone," Oliver said.
"You guys have fun," Roy said, taking off into the night.
Putting his hand on the small of her back, Oliver led Felicity back into the school. They found the locker with their stuff and Oliver picked up the bag, putting his bow and arrow in it along with Felicity's tablet. He jogged out to the car and when he returned was back in his suit.
"You're bleeding again," Felicity said, noticing the red oozing from his neck, just under his chin. "Come on." She grabbed his hand and pulled him towards the faculty bathroom across the hall from them.
"Felicity, it's just a cut," he said.
"I know, but you can't very well go back in your reunion with blood dripping from your face."
"Any other injuries?" Diggle asked.
"No," Oliver said. "I wouldn't even count this as an injury."
Felicity shot him a look. "I'm still cleaning it up," she said.
He sighed, allowing her to have her way. When they got to the bathroom, she realized she'd have a hard time reaching him with the height difference, so she wiped the counter dry before hopping up on it. She pulled his arm to get him in between her legs, close like she wanted, completely preoccupied and not noticing the awkwardness of the position she had them in now.
Oliver noticed. He was close enough to see the determination, care and concern in her eyes. He noticed again how beautiful she was.
She wet a paper towel from the bin beside her and used her hand to tilt his head the way she wanted. She wiped at the blood until she was positive it wasn't going to bleed anymore.
"Incoming," Diggle said over the comm.
Just as she was getting ready to get down, someone opened the door to the bathroom, calling out Felicity's name.
"Felicity? You in here? Dad just called…"
Felicity looked at Oliver with big eyes, before he pulled her close again, pressing his lips to hers. Somehow, her arms had wrapped around his neck and she felt his on her hips, pulling her hips to the edge of the counter she was still sitting on. The kiss this time was definitely anything but chaste. His kiss felt so real, and not fake like she thought it would. She whispered his name as he left her lips to make his way down her neck to her pulse point.
When Laurel walked in to her ex boyfriend worshiping this IT girl, she tried to sneak out, but Felicity's eyes met her.
"Baby," Felicity said, the word still strange on her tongue.
"Mhmm," Oliver hummed, the vibration against her throat making her stomach turn.
"We have company," she said.
Laurel had paused at the entryway, eyes wide in shock still.
"Tell them to go away," he said, finding her lips again.
"Oliver," she said, putting her hands on his chest.
He kissed her one more time, before pulling back and smiling at her. He turned around to face Laurel, a look of annoyance on his face.
"Laurel," he said. "This is getting really annoying."
"I'm sorry," she said, her face a bright red. "I...uh….just needed to talk to Felicity for a minute. You know, girl stuff."
He looked back at Felicity and when she nodded her head, he slipped out of the room with the promise to wait right outside.
When Oliver stepped away, Felicity shut her legs, crossing them under the counter.
"Laurel?" Felicity asked, trying to get her attention.
"Oh…I, uh," Laurel stuttered. "Sorry about that."
"It's fine. What do you need?"
"Oh, right. um, Dad called. Said he got a drop off from the Arrow. Aaron Pulin. He's a guy I graduated with. He can't figure out why."
"Right pocket," Diggle said in her ear.
"Check his right pocket," Felicity said. "There should be a recording device there that should clear that up." She hopped down. "But you didn't hear that from me."
"I don't get it," Laurel said. "If you've been in here with Oliver, how did this mission go down without him knowing?"
"Laurel, stop analyzing me. You need to forget you even know about my, uh, 'night job.'"
"I'm just.."
"No. Stop," Felicity said.
"I just don't want Oliver to get caught in the crossfire," Laurel said.
"He won't," she said. "He's the most important person in my life. There is no way I would ever let anything happen to him."
"I just…"
"Enjoy your reunion, Laurel." With that, she walked past her and into the hallway where Oliver was leaning against the lockers next to the bathroom.
"Nice talk?" he asked, grabbing her hand and leading her back towards the gym.
"Annoying," she said.
"Want me to give her a talk?" he asked.
"As the Arrow to stay away from your IT girl or as Oliver to stay away from your girlfriend?"
"You know, I could go either way," he said. "But I meant as Arrow."
"As sweet as that sounds, it's fine. I can handle her."
They reached the gym and found the reunion still in full swing. Oliver and Felicity both checked each other to make sure everything was in place correctly and said goodbye to Diggle, shutting off their comms, before pushing through the doors.
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