A/N: Enjoy!

Chapter 3

The school day proceeded with Adam being in a never ending bad mood only talking Isabella and even then he did not say much his attitude was off putting for everyone as when Adam was mad he was scary, though Felicity admitted to herself the red eyes were sort of hot.

When the school day ended Adam's bad mood had still not ended.

Isabella had to talk to someone about it and since she couldn't really talk to Adam and everyone else were in their own homes, she went to Felicity. "Can I talk to you about something?"

"Sure, what do you want to talk about?" Felicity asked looking concerned and she really was because honestly Isabella had grown on her.

"I'm really worried about Adam." Isabella said looking down. "I know he's depressed about Katie, I am too but I hate seeing him like this."

"I can understand why you're worried, but what can I do?"

"I was wondering if you knew anything that might help." Isabella said though it seemed doubtful.

"Well, maybe he needs someone too talk to. Do you want me to try? He did save my life it's the least I could do." She said.

"Yes please but when did he save your life?" Isabella asked simply out of curiousity having not been told about that.

"Oh! Last night, I fell over the edge of the balcony and he caught me." She said smiling in a dreamy sort of fashion.

"Well, it's good that you're alright but you're right, maybe you should go try and talk to him." Isabella agreed with a nod.

"Well I'll try."

"It might be hard to get him to talk to you in the first place but hopefully you can help him." Isabella said rudding her arm. "Just don't try to flirt with him, he's technically single now but that's the last thing he needs at the moment."

"Got it talk no flirting." Felicity said walking to Adams room.

She found Adam sitting on his bed eyes closed and cross legged. Felicity walked up to him. "Adam." She said cautiously.

"What do you want?" He asked not opening his eyes

"I want to help. I'm really worried about you and so is everyone else, especially Isabella. Of course I know that losing a loved ones hard but you have what I would have given anything to have and that's great friends and family to help you in the recovery process, you just need to accept it." Felicity said in almost a begging tone.

"Accept it? Lately every time I get relaxed and let my guard down my life takes a downward spiral, how do I just except that?" Adam asked

Felicity shook her head, "That's not what I meant, Adam. Just let us help you, I don't want to see you go through it alone like I had to when my parents died.

"What am I supposed to do? I can't just act like nothing happened anymore." Adam said.

"And we don't expect you to, no one could ever do that but even though I didn't know Katie for very long at all I know she wouldn't want to see you like this."

"So, what do I do?" He asked finally opening his eyes

"You try and still have fun and socailize but still remember and mourn her but don't let the loss ruin your whole life."

"I'm just don't know what to do anymore."

"That's why we're here to help." Felicity reminded. "I didn't it on my own so you know I know how at least."

"I just I...failed." Adam said finally beginning to cry.

Felicity sat down next to him and put her arm around his shoulder not in a girlfriend way but the way you always do for a crying friend. "You didn't fail, you didn't know, none of us did."

Adam leaned into her shoulder and kept crying. "I should have been there for her though." Adam said.

"I was there for her as much as you could have been." Felicity reminded. "Sometimes things just happen that you really couldn't have prevented from happening but you think you could have and hate yourself for it."

"So what do I do? I don't know any more." Adam said.

"Just keep reminding you of the first part. That you really couldn't have prevented it. That whatever happened in that room was out of your control."

"I guess. I really need some sleep." Adam said whiping the tears from his eyes.

"That would probably help." Felicity said laying him down. "I could stay here with you if you want. Might help keep the nightmares at bay."

Adam seemed to think about it for a few minutes. "I would really appreciate it, if that's not too much trouble."

"Not at all." Felicity said laying down as well since it is a king size.

"Thanks Felicity, I really needed someone to talk sense to me." Adam said as he began to fall asleep.

Once she was sure he was asleep, Felicity game an evil smile. Things were going even better then planned.

Adam rolled over and unknowingly placed his hand on her hip as he slept on.

Felicity looked down at that with a real smile before falling asleep herself.

Hours later Adam woke up feeling well rested and no nightmares. He went to sit up he felt weight against him. Opening his eyes he was surprised to find Felicity sleeping against his chest.

"When did that happen?" He thought as he remembered falling asleep and she had been on the other end of the bed.

The movement had woken Felicity up and once she opened her eyes she immediately scotched away from him turning slightly red. "S-sorry. I didn't mean to..."

"No, no that's okay we were both sleep and humans are drawn to heat while they sleep." Adam said blushing himself.

"Really? I did not know that." Felicity said then shugged. "Then again, there's a lot of stuff I don't know. Just look at my report cards."

"Yeah it's a very little known fact it's part of the reason you wake up in the same position every morning."

"Wow, that's actually very interesting." Felicity said with a smile.

"Well, it's just an odd fact I picked up." Adam said standing up and stretching.

"On the bright side, you seem to be feeling a lot better and since you stayed asleep I'm assuming you didn't even have any nightmares." Felicity observed.

"No, not one and I do feel a better mostly. What about you any nightmares?"

Felicity shook her head. "Nope, I guess that really does help."

"Yeah, maybe you just need someone there..." Adam said trailing off.

"Then it's a good thing we have eachother." Felicity said simply before correcting. "As friends I mean."

"Yeah, right as friends.." Adam said awkwardly.

"You might wanna go talk to Isabella though." Felicity reminded standing up and immediately slipping into her heals. "So that she know's you're feeling better."

"Right, I'll go do that." Adam said turning and walking out of his room.

He and Felicity found Isabella by a wall of advanced looking sleek black laptops. "Hey, Isa." Adam said standing beside her.

Isabella looked up at him with a huge smile. "Adam!" She said hugging him.

"Hey." He said hugging her.

"You feeling better?" Isabella asked worriedly.

"Much better actually, still sad, but better." Adam said

"That's great." Isabella said still hugging him. "You had me so worried."

"I'm sorry, Isa. I didn't want to worry you I just shut down for a bit."

"And it's understandable that you were." Isabella said simply. "I just don't like seeing you like that."

"I will try not to let that happen again." Adam said.

"Hopefully it won't, I'm glad Felicity was able to help you though." Isabella said letting go of the hug.

"I am too, no telling how long I would have been like that otherwise."

"Well, it was the least I could do after you saved my life on the balcony." Felicity reminded with a small smile.

"Thank you though." Adam said.

"You are very welcome." Felicity said turning slightly pink.

"Well, I'm going to go take a swim and leave you two to talk." Isabella said

"Okay," Felicity said kind of awkwardly as she left before turning back to Adam. "Maybe that would be a good idea for you, too."

"Maybe, but are you coming?" Adam asked.

Felicity nodded, "Of course, I'd never pass down an opportunity to go swimming."

"Great." Adam said and then to her suprise he hugged her. "Thank you, Felicity."

Though she was taken by surprise, Felicity returned the hug. "You're welcome, Adam."

After a moment he stepped back. "I had better go change." He said slightly red in the face.

"Me too." Felicity said red as well before she headed to her room and Adam headed to the clothing floor.

When she was alone Felicity jumped for joy. "He hugged me!" She thought happily.

She got changed into her swimsuit and headed over to the pool. She found both siblings and Vivian all in the hot tube. "Hey can I come in?" she asked.

"Of course, Felicity." Adam said making room.

She slid in next to him and could feel the tension in the air. "So, you two said you had something to say?" Vivian asked.

"Mom, there's something Adam and I have been hiding from you for quite sometime now." Isabella said nervously. They'll get in SO much trouble from their bosses for this.

"What is it? You two can tell me anything."

"Well, this is gonna be hard for you two to believe but, we're actually agents in two top secret government agencies." Adam said cautiously.

"Adam, this is no time to be joking around." Vivian said

"Mom, he's serious." Isabella said before explaining how this happened.

"So, you two are government agents and the person who killed Katie is looking for revenge on Adam?" Vivian asked.

Adam nodded. "Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. She also bombed our house which is why it blew up, not a gas explosion."

"Why didn't you both tell me sooner." Vivian asked

"Becuase it's suppose to be top secret." Isabella said simply. "I don't even wanna think about what our bosses will do if they find out we told you guys."

"You both deserve to know though because I dragged you into this." Adam said.

"Well, I technically can't speak for your mother but I'd be willing to help protect you." Felicity said.

"You would, but you just met us and there's a murderer after us." Adam said.

"Which is exactly why I should help." Felicity said simply.

"You would be in danger." Adam said.

"I'm willing to risk it for you." Felicity said seriously before looking down. "It's not like I have much to live for."

"Hey, that's not true." Adam said scooting closer to her.

Vivian and Isabella were too caught up in their own conversation to pay much attention

"Yes it is, I'm never in the same place long enough to make any good friends outside of Danville much less a boyfriend, my parents are long dead, I have my adoptive father but he's never really even there. If something happens to you guys then I'm back to being alone in this world." Felicity said sadly.

Adam brought her in closer so that she was basically sitting on his lap. "Hey, you have us now and if you really want to help then okay, but I just wanted you to understand the risk." He said whipping a tear off her cheek.

"I still want to help." Felicity said nodding. "That way I can hopefully keep having you guys instead of you all ending up like Katie."

"Alright, then you can help." Adam said hugging her close to him.

"This explains why you always seemed like you were hiding something from me, though." Felicity said leaning her head against his chest.

"Yeah, sorry about that." Adam said as he pulled her just a little closer.

"It's ok, that's an excusable thing to lie about." Felicity said.

"Still, I'll try not to keep things that big from you from now on."

"And I won't either." Felicity lied flawlessly with a smile.

"Do you want me to let you go now?" Adam asked and she noticed she was sitting in his lap, snuggled into his chest, and they were still in the hot tube.

Felicity looked down then up at him turning red. "Not really actually."

"Well, that's alright you can sit here as long as you want." Adm said going a bit red

"The thing is though, this probably sounds awkward after what just happened to Katie but I really like you Adam." Felicity admited not moving from where she is.

"Really you like me?" Adam asked suprised.

"Is that a problem?" She got off his lap awkwardly. "Because if it is I could just back off."

"No, it's not I just can't imagine why you would like me is all." Adam said pulling her back towards him.

"Why wouldn't I? You're really cute first of all not to mention: nice, brave, accepting, funny, smart; need I go on?" Felicity asked.

"No, that's okay...it's just what happens now?" Adam asked.

"Hey you two we're going to go lay down it's been a long day." Isabella yawned as she followed Vivian out. Adam and Felicity were alone now.

"Well, I guess just one question remains: do you like me?" Felicity asked simply.

"Yes, I do like you." Adam said looking her right in the eyes.

"Then I was mistaken, there is one more question: Adam, will you go out with me?" Felicity asked seriously.

Adam thought about that for a few minutes. He really thought carefully. "Yes, I will go out with you if you want to give me a chance."

"Well, then there's just one thing to do." She said before kissing him right on the lips.

Adam kissed her right back his arms wrapping around her waist and pulling her closer to him.

From the entry to the pool Isabella watched carefully and...smiled sure it was fast, but Felicity had done what none of them had she had brought Adam back to being well...Adam. In Isabella's eyes that was a great thing Adam needed someone who could snap him back to reality if he needed it.

"Plus she's been great to all of us. Katie would approve of her." Isabella thought. If only she knew the half of it.

A/N: Bum bum BAAAH! Leave a review see you next chapter!