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Chapter 3.
Ally groaned and rolled over ending up on the floor, she pressed her forehead to on he cold wooden plates on the floor and she sighed heavily, her head pouding. What the hell happened? She hissed at herself. She wanted to know how she got home, she looked to the clock. 12:30 PM "Shit" She cursed, getting up and then stopped herself realising it was saturday.
She sank onto the couch with another heavy sigh and her eyes drooped slightly but she refused to let herself go to sleep. Something was gnawing at her, telling her she'd said or done something and it wasn't really a good feeling. She got up of the couch before dragging herself upstairs and into the shower and she let the hot water run over her and she shivered.
When Ally got out her headache seemed to dim slightly and she got dressed, and headed back down the stairs to get something to eat and as she stepped on the last stair her door was chapped. She frowned and rubbed her hands on her jeans slowly going to the door and slowly pulling it open, revealing Oliver. She raised her eyebrows slightly.
"Hello Ally" Oliver said flashing a smile.
"Uh...hi Oliver" She said confused.
"How are you feeling?" He asked.
"I'm trying to get rid of a headache, and I'm hungry...but apart from that I'm fine" She said.
"That's good" he nodded with a grin.
"What?" she asked furrowing her brows.
"You agreed to lunch" He said his blue eyes twinkling.
Ally's face paled and her mouth dropped, her eyed wide with confusion only causing Oliver to smile wider, this had been the reaction he'd been hoping and waiting for.
"W-wait...lunch?" she asked.
"You agreed to lunch" he nodded again.
"When?" She demanded becoming herself again.
"Last night"
"I was drunk" She huffed "very...very drunk" She folded her arms.
"Ally" He said giving her a pout, which looked strange across his beautiful features...wait? Beautiful features? What the hell are you on girl? "Come on"
"I don't even have any make up on" She said with a sigh.
"You don't need it, you look beautiful the way you are" He said.
Ally's cheeks flushed furiously and a smile squirmed it's way onto her lips, "Charming" She mumbled slightly trying to hide the fact that she was blushing.
He smiled back at her " Shall we?" He asked.
"Sure" She sighed "Give me a minute"
She moved away from the door to get her flat black shoes and she slipped them on her feet, quickly sorting her drying hair.
"How did you get me to agree to go for lunch with you?" She asked as she went to grab her purse.
"You won't be needing that" he said ignoring her question and Ally gawked at him.
"Why?" She asked.
"I'm buying"
"No..." She said "No..no no no" She shook her head.
"Don't argue" He said shaking his head.
"But-"
"No but's" He said shaking his head again at her.
"But Oliver-"
"Come on" he grabbed ahold of her hand and dragged her out the house.
After she'd been dragged down to the car and put in it, Ally seemed to be in a daze, why was Oliver Queen trying so hard to be nice to her? He'd never done it before so why bother with her now?
"Where are we even going?" She asked looking over at him.
"Big Belly burgers" Oliver smiled.
"Very casual" She said smirking.
"You want to go somewhere fancy? I'll-"
"No" She said shaking her head in disbelief "No..Belly burgers is just fine"
After they'd spoken and had their lunch they decided to go for a walk.
"So tell me Oliver" Ally began "Why are you doing this?"
"What?" He asked looking straight ahead.
"Trying to be my friend...when you never tried before" She said shrugging.
He looked at her with a crooked smile "Because, I've realised my mistakes, and I'm going to right them"
"Oh?"
"You were one of those mistakes"
She scrunched up her face and raised an eyebrow at him "You realize how awful that sounded?"
Oliver laughed "That's not what I meant"
"Walking on a think line buddy" She said with a smile but she kept her face forward.
He laughed again "I meant the way I treated you" he said "I wasn't a very good person"
"So you've changed?" She asked finally glancing at him.
"In ways"
"Are you still Mr. Oliver playboy Queen"
He laughed, his slaugh was like bells and Ally almost melted right there OH MY GOD...WHAT?
"No" he said shaking his head "I still have a thing for the ladies though"
"Not a surprise there" Ally said.
"What about you, how has your life been?" He asked.
"I'm a journalist...not that it's any good"
"Why aren't you working?"
"It's saturday" She said looking at him.
"Here's a question" he said "Who's the one person you'd die to interview?"
Ally thought about it for a minute and then smirked "The Vigilante"
"Why?" he asked cocking his eyebrow.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you"
"I might"
"He saved me the other night" She said glancing at him.
"He did? how?"
"These guy's came outta nowhere" she said shrugging "Tried to go a little too far..so me being the idiot I am..I ran away from them...they chased me...if he hadn't been there when he was I would probably be in a ditch somewhere"
"Wow, never thought I'd hear about you having to get your life saved"
"Shut up Queen" She said shaking her head.
He laughed again as the two continued walking "So he saved your life...why does that mean you want to interview him?"
She shrugged "He seems interesting"
"How? he's just a guy in a hood"
"Who obviously likes saving people"
"What would you ask him?" he asked.
"I'd ask...why he saved me...out of everyone in the city needing to be saved...why did he save me?" She said with a small smile.
Ally hadn't noticed that Oliver had stopped walking and when she did she turned to look at him, he was staring at her as if she was crazy "What?" She asked.
"What do you mean, you'd ask him why he saved you? To me that sounds like ungratefulness"
"What? no...no no...I'd thank him" She said "But...there are people in this city being murdered and he chose to...save me"
"So?" Oliver asked as he started walking again.
"You seem fairly inerested in what I have to say about the Vigilante"
"I'm just curious...everybody seems to think he's the bad guy"
"I like bad guy's" She smirked looking at him.
Oliver rolled his eyes "How do they know he's bad? Is he really that bad?"
"I wouldn't say so"
He grabbed her arm and turned her to look at him, she stared up at him and he smiled.
"What?"
"You're drooling"
She ripped his arm from her grip and scowled at him "Shut up"
The two began walking again and this time it was silence that filled the air.
"You think i'd ever get an interview with him?" She asked cocking an eyebrow.
Oliver smirked slightly "Who know's"
She rolled her eyes as the continued to walk "Can I ask something...and you don't need to answer if you don't want to" Ally said.
"Sure"
"What happened to you on that island?" She asked.
He looked straight ahead of him, not answering for a few minutes his face turned somber.
"Remember you don't need to answer"
"I know" he nodded.
Neither said anything for a good five minutes as they walked.
"As much as I hate to say it..." Ally began and Oliver looked down at her "I've had a good time"
"So do I deserve my second chance?" He asked with a small grin.
She shrugged "Sure...why not" She said "But let's get one thing clear..."
"What would that be"
"I'm not a toy" She said.
He looked almost appualed "What?"
She scoffed "I'm not gonna melt into your arms like everyone else...no chance"
"What if I can change your mind"
"You can't"
"How do you know if you won't give me that chance?"
She hesitated "Because I know" She said and walked a little in front of him.
"Oh come on Ally" He said "One chance"
"I've given you once chance..." She said with a scowl.
"That's not what I mean"
"Then what do you mean?" She asked stopping in front of him, her arms folded.
"A chance to to change your mind about me completley"
"Why?"
"Because"
"That's not much of an answer"
"because I can prove that...I'm a little different"
She huffed and turned her back on him, continuing to walk.
"So is that a yes"
Ally rolled her eyes and ignored him, not realising that he was right behind her.
"One chance"
"why?"
"Because someone has to know the real me"
She stared at him for a moment and she rubbed her head, clearly thinking about it. "I don't know"
"Why are you so scared to get to know me Ally?"
"Because, the last time someone was close to you...they died" Ally said folding her arms.
Oliver frowned and Ally realised what she'd said.
"Oh my god"She said "I'm sorry...I didn't mean that"
"Sure.." He said and he about turned and walked off.
"Oliver" She shouted but he kept walking and she ran after him stopping him from going anywhere, putting her hands on his chest, but he flinched at the touch so she pulled them back. "I didn't mean it...I really didn't mean that...I talk before I think"
"It's fine, it's how everybody feels" He nodded "I get it, it's my fault Sarah died"
He pushed past her and she stare dafter him, but didn't follow him this time. She sighed and rubbed her forehead, she hadn't meant it, not really.
Ally had her casual clothes on, if Oliver Queen wanted one chance, then he'd get one. But just one. She'd take him for dinner...since he'd bought her lunch. This had obviously something more to do with what she'd said earlier on in the day to him and she felt bad, and never in a million years had she ever thought she'd feel bad about hurting Oliver's feeling but there it was...the guilt.
She knocked on the door and Thea answered it "Hey, Ally" Thea said.
"Hey Thea" She said "Is Oliver here?"
"Sure...he's in upstairs"
"You mind?"
"No of course not" Thea smiled and let her in.
She walked up to his room, knowing it was his because she could hear him moving around. She chapped and then heard a muffled "Come in" ad she opened the door, seeing Oliver button up his shirt, but she'd already noticed some of the scars on his back as he'd lifted his shirt slightly to fix it.
He turned and froze in surprise, and she gave him a quick smile.
"What are you doing here?" he asked.
"I wanted to apologize" She said and she shut the door "I was rude, earlier and I didn't mean it, like I really didn't mean it"
"That all?" he asked rudley. She frowned slightly.
"No" She said shaking her head "I wanted to take you out for dinner"
He gaped at her "I don't need your charity" he said after a few seconds of of composing himself.
"I'm not-" She began but he stopped her.
"I don't know why I tried in all honesty to be nice to you, because you flung it back in my face" he said. "Just like everyone else"
"I didn't mean-" She tried but he stopped her again.
"Just..go" he nodded.
"Oliver-"
"I said go" he said sternly "I'm busy, I don't need you in my face"
She could feel her face heating up but she didn't reply to him, she just backed up a little bit opened up his door and walked out of the room and went the stairs. Nobody was there, thankfully because Ally felt like a complete idiot. She'd tried to aplolgize for being a complete bitch to him earlier on in the day and she understood why he might not want to accept that apology, but she still had to try.
She had tried, so that was it. She wasn't going to try anymore, she got in her car and sat for a minute, frowning. Idiot. She hissed at herself. She pulled the car up outside her house and slammed the door, storming up the pathway into her house and she slammed the front door too before going into the living room.
She sat down on the couch and stared at the wall in front of her in a complete daze, why was it bothering her that she'd said something nasty and bitchy to Oliver Queen? No more than three day's ago she disliked him and now she felt bad. Idiot. She cussed at herself again and she stood taking off her jacket and threw it over the arm of the couch and headed into the kitchen...
About an hour later, the door was chapped and Ally sighed getting up and answered it, seeing Oliver. She folded her arms and leaned against the doorway.
"Hey" he nodded.
"Hi" She said uncomfertably.
"Listen about earlier..."
"It's okay" She said nodding "I deserved it"
"No, no you didn't...I'd had an argument with my mom, it esculated and I was angry...I shouldn't have taken it out on you...you tried to apologize and I threw it back at you"
She stared at him "You...want to come in?" She asked.
"I can't" he said "I actually am busy but..I'll take that dinner offer, say monday night?"
She smirked "Really? Why?"
"To apologize"
"You're not paying for dinner" She said shaking her head.
"It's only fair" he nodded "Anyway I better go..business"
"See ya" Ally nodded.
She went to shut the door as he walked down the path but he called her name and she pulled the door open more to see him properly.
"Thanks" he said and he turned on his heel and got into the car that was sitting at the bottom of the garden.
She watched as the car pulled out of the small street and she shut the door. Oh god I'm a sap She thought to herself wrly as she she went back into the living room and she sat back down on the couch, and put the t.v. on, what the hell was going on in her jacked up brain?