Oliver took longer than he should have in the shower but he had a feeling that it would be quite some time before he would get another one. He spent some time looking at himself, to see what had changed. There were new scars added to his body, his face looked much older than when he last looked. The wrinkles were more prominent. Instead of having his five o'clock shadow, he was spotting more of a barely there moustache and goatee. He decided to keep this look, in case he runs into the children again, they are used to him looking this way. When he came out of the bathroom, he saw that Felicity had laid out a pair of dark blue jeans, a black V-neck sweater, a grey under shirt along with a plain white Calvin Klein briefs.

As Oliver dressed, he let himself take in his surroundings. Aside from the exit points he had alerted himself to earlier, he noted that the room is large, not as big as his old room but large enough for two people to occupy it comfortably. He noticed that the wall is more off white than beige and not all the furniture is the same colour. The window ledge across from the bed and the antique dressing table seated just in front the door are white but the chair used is light brown and looked more modern. It looked like a computer chair used in offices. The tablet he noticed earlier is gone and replaced with a gun metal Rolex watch. The windows are draped with heavy dark brown curtains that, in his experience are excellent at keeping daylight out. The curtains are drawn now. Oliver walked over to the windows and opened them. The bedroom windows are facing a very well kept yard. The first thing he noticed is the large willow tree that sways. The second is that surrounding edges of the entire yard are planted with different coloured flours that are in early stages of bloom. The yard has a swing. The type of swing that could sit four people at once, two facing each other. There is also a pink bicycle, with a decorated basket upfront, leaning against the swing and an inflated portable kid's size swimming pool that is filled with the remnants of water from its previous usage. It looked like a typical suburban yard. This yard is very unlike the yard he grew up in. That yard had to always be neat and tidy. There were designated areas for Thea and him to play. Once finished, the servants would immediately remove the toys used. This made continuing play after a break impossible, since the toys had to be taken out of the storage area again. The storage area is usually a good 100 feet away for the play area.

The next thing Oliver explored was the closet which was situated next to the bathroom. It was a brightly lit, about 11 feet, walk in closet. The right side houses his well pressed tailored suits that are colour coded and arranged in two sections. Half of the above section hangs his sport coats and double breasted blazers. Directly below that is his slacks to match. Next to the coats and blazers are his shirts and ties. Below those are green tapered glass drawers that keeps his neatly folded sweaters, jeans, cargo pants, socks and undergarments. His shoes are arranged on shoe racks at the end of the aisle. To the left of the closet is Felicity's section. It is less organized than his. The dresses, blouses and skirts hangs with what seems to be in no specific order, there are high heels that are laying on the ground some feet away from their designated shoe rack and although her side of the drawers are closed, it can be seen that the garments inside are not folded but rather stuffed into the drawers. As Oliver gave a once over to Felicity's side, he could not help but smile and feel comforted by how much more relaxed and layback she is compared to him. He had seen Laurel's closet before, hers were exactly the same as his, nothing out of place. At the time, he taught it was great that they were so alike, but now, he appreciates the difference in personality and how it complements each other more. In fact, it had happened when Felicity had joined the team. The first time it happened, it was about taking lives. Diggle was more accepting of the casualties as he too was a soldier. With Felicity however, she pushed for him to reduce the body count even on her first official case with them, she didn't understand the need and she was right.

At the end of passageway where the two sides connected, are lock boxes sitting on a large safe. The locked boxes retains jewellery, cufflinks and watches. In the safe, Oliver could only guess that it keeps money and important documents. Something felt weird to Oliver when he reached the end of the closet because he remembered the bathroom being much longer than this closet, the length of the closet did not match the space given. At least 10 feet of space was missing. Oliver started tapping on the wall with the safe. He pressed his head against the wall to listen for hollow spots.

"Looking for something?" Felicity asked with crossed arms and a raised eyebrow as she stepped into the closet.

Oliver whipped his head back startled, he was so focused on finding the hidden door that he did not notice Felicity's presence.

"The wall is too short." Oliver replied simply

"Mmm Hmm" Felicity nodded as she walk towards him and bent down and placed four fingers behind the safe gripping it. Then there was a subtle click and hiss sound. "Voila" she presented as the secret door slid open to reveal the Arrow's full wardrobe encased in a neon lighted glass frame. Surrounding the outfit was several custom made bows that were neatly placed on their respective handles. The arrows were organized in quivers, and has labels for trick arrows. The whole room was bullet and sound proof, it was the same design used to make panic rooms except more personalised. There were high end computer systems with surveillances of not just this house but the other properties they owned. The chair placed by the computer was the same one Oliver had got for Felicity at Verdant. Oliver stared wide eyed, like a boy in candy store, is how Felicity would describe it.

"Yup, same expression when I showed it to you the first time." Felicity smiled a satisfied smile. She continued to explain. "This is more of an emergency room, pretty low key considering. The computers are on hibernation unless needed, runs on stored solar energy only using electricity when needed. Save electricity, save money."

"Is that a boxing glove arrow?" Oliver asked bewildered pointing to one of the arrows that was on displayed.

"Yeeaah, I forgot that was there. It was a running joke among us for a while, then Diggle and I decided to make one for your birthday, we laughed about it for like a week" Felicity answered laughing to herself. "Huh, it's still funny." Shaking her head "Anyway, I made breakfast downstairs, I can fill you in then. You ready?"

"Yes" responded Oliver. Felicity closed up and they stepped out of the closet. Oliver walked over to the dressing table to put on the Rolex that Felicity had laid out for him. When he turned around he stopped to notice the other person in the room. Felicity was wearing a loose black blouse with small little bows prints with dark blue figure hugging pants, long gold rectangular earrings and a tear shaped pendant running down her neck line. Her hair was pulled up into a ponytail while spotting her familiar rectangular shaped two toned glasses. She looked older too, Oliver taught to himself, but not the old that is determined by wrinkles, she looked more put together, more refined, he saw a confidence that was not there before, it was beautiful.

End of Chapter 3.

The Next Chapter will explore what the future Oliver and Diggle and maybe even Thea has been up to.

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