Chapter 3
It was later that afternoon when they returned to Queen Consolidated. Oliver was quickly taken by the lawyers to the board room to witness the signing of all official paperwork returning the company to him. Felicity moved to their old offices. At her side were two interns that Human Resources sent at her request. She immediately entered his old office. The papers had just piled on his desk. She had the interns open the window shades the light displayed the dust that had been allowed to settle after only 2 weeks. She sighed and turned to the papers in front of her. She quickly sorted them and sent a stack to her desk and tossed more. She then powered on his computer, she could tell immediately it was not working correctly. She had things running smoothly when they had left QC so she sighed adding fixing his computer to her list of things to do. She told the intern taking notes to add that to her list and the 2nd was to contact the heads of ALL departments that Mr. Queen would want an update as to current status and any damage suffered.
She then marched to her desk. Turned on her computer and turned to the papers left on her desk and cleared them quickly. Her computer was slower than Oliver's so she was concerned about what Isabelle had tried to find in her pass coded files and beyond her firewall but that was one step on her list of things to do in order to get the company up and running again. She set the interns to working on her requests in her office as she returned to his. She marked the papers on his desk for the pages needing his focus as well as determining what he still needed for clearer pictures of the company now that he was back. She quickly signed into his system and found flaws due to attempts to hack into her system protecting his and her computers here in the office.
Several hours later, Oliver entered the executive suite to find the interns working at her desk. He was curious until he noticed her behind his desk. Her eyes focused on the screen in front of her as her nails clicked quickly across the keys. The sun behind her lit the colors of her dress and he enjoyed this image for a moment. He saw the orderliness of his desk and knew that was her work. The notes and flags to the documents were all her. She knew his need for aids to focus and simplify the important stuff in each report. She had a tip of a pen in her mouth at the moment trying to work with the computer in front of her. Diggle cleared his throat breaking her focus and the image Oliver was drinking in. She stood and smiled at them both as Oliver and Diggle entered.
"Well, Ms. Smoak, how are things here?" Oliver asked.
"Almost back in order, Mr. Queen." She said to him. "Your computer has evidence of ineffective hacking. I had finished restoring the damage and was double checking the security on the pass coded files and the firewall."
"Sounds good. Thank you." He said as he picked up the papers from his desk and sat across from her.
Later when she had sent the interns back to Human Resources and had her desk in order she took a moment and smiled. As a team one of their goals had been reached. A Queen was again in charge of Queen Consolidated. Their others goals could only continue to grow thanks to this first success. In the quiet of this time he exited her office. She had turned to look over the sunset over the city. "We did this, Felicity." He said whispering in her ear.
"I know. We won this back. And we will help rebuild this city as a team." She said as he placed a hand on her shoulder.