Drabble Seven

She had been thrilled, happy and almost teary eyed when she saw the grin in the cheeks of the teenager. It wasn't as if they were that close, but Thea always brought the best in Felicity and she was a big sucker for happy endings.

So when she saw the brunette walking hand in hand with Oliver, she had pulled her in to a big mama hug. And then she had hugged Oliver too, a bit more than the reasonable time. But hey, who is timing it?

It's been months, since the whole 'Slade's-evil-wipeout-plan' and Thea had come back to home, to her brother and somehow Felicity couldn't help but hope that maybe things would be fine in her life too.

"So, missed me?" Thea asked, her brows raised up in a light tease and Felicity had to roll her eyes at that. She didn't expect the young girl to turn up at her office, especially when her brother no longer owned the company

"Yeah right" She groaned but then a small smile edged her lips and so she gave in with a smile.

"So, how are things?" There was a definite stress in the end of Thea's question and Felicity prayed to dear gods that her boss wouldn't turn up. But then fate was never her best friend and it kinda ditched her the moment she spotted Oliver in her doorstep with the bullet holed laptop.

Ray Palmer came in with few papers in his palm, never knocking or never looking up as usual. He didn't stop his sentence about how the nano-chip that Felicity handed over was the best thing in his life. A few words in synonyms with 'life saver' were thrown and Felicity blushed, squirmed and wanted to hide away from the huge accusing glare from Thea.

"So, are you free tonight?" Ray asked his favourite IT girl, finally looking up from the papers with colourful piecharts.

Honestly, Felicity had no idea as to why Thea seemed red and angry.

"Um, she has plans with me" Thea jumped in, before the concerned person in the question could bail out on her own.

"Oh and you are..Thea Queen. Welcome to my company" Ray said, his perfect smile charmed its own way and his palm was extended for a firm handshake.

Felicity spotted the glint in Thea's eyes and everything from there was a major-not-even-arrow-and-flash-together-can-help-you-down the hill catastrophe.

"Yes, I am. And as I said, she will be unavailable today, BUT, she will be absolutely free for tomorrow evening." Thea mentioned and Felicity could only nod.

"Good" He said and hurried out of the glassed room to leave the ladies to their talk.

"Now, this is what I call the 'jealous-specimen'" Thea announced, grabbing Felicity's hand for an immediate emergency shopping fiasco.

"The what?"

"Now he can make Oliver immensely jealous and trust me, my brother would be wooing you before you would even know" The young brunette said, her smile was almost crazy and it almost made Felicity to switch on the panic button that Digg insisted on having installed in her phone.

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"Thea, why did you call me in the middle of the day to this..crowded place?" Oliver questioned, his arms akimbo and his jaws flexing each time someone took a photo of them in the shopping mall.

"Oh can't a younger sister get an opinion from her brother?" Thea pouted, her new hair style made her eyes even bigger and Oliver could swear that his heart immediately melted a bit.

"Fine.. what opinion?" He sighed.

"So the red one or the blue one?" She asked, pointing to two halter neck silk dresses that were draped over the nearby cushion.

He tilted his face a bit, his eyes searching for anything that would make his sister satisfied, so that they can all go and live their life merrily. What he didn't expect was Felicity to be fidgeting nearby with a very forced smile on her maroon painted lips.

"And what's the occasion?" He asked, his eyes guarded and calculative.

"Um.." Felicity started and was duly interrupted by Thea.

"Its for her date. Tomorrow evening with Ray Palmer"

"NO..NO, I mean no, it's definitely not a date, no no no, not at all, it's just a casual outing of two people who work together, going out for dinner, to discuss on work things, which is pretty much normal and doesn't involve anything related to date or lovey dovey things, maybe a little of computer talks, you know, the general update on what's new in the cyborg world or maybe a discussion on who would probably be the next victim in the game of thrones. But, no, NOT a date. And for the record, I like the colour green." Felicity added in haste and blushed when she realised what the colour green would pretty much be interpreted as.

"What about the lovely green sweater over here?" Oliver asked, his brow kept twitching, his knuckles were almost white and he pointed out to the ugly unfortunate existence of a sweater stacked in the nearby shelf in the granny's section which pretty much would cover every inch of her skin.

Thea rolled her eyes, Digg chuckled from behind and Felicity was cursing her good for nothing fate, finally understanding on how invisibility would be a better super power than anything else.

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