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Chapter 2 – Island Reunion
With a cry, Felicity Smoak sat up in bed, holding her head as a shot of pain wended its way around her temples. She quickly looked around the room to check that she was still in her hotel room and not in the strange tropical green that had been in her dreams.
It was almost as if the information that Oliver was hiding out on the island that had changed his life since the events of the Undertaking had unlocked something in her sub-conscious because this dream, this dream had been even more vivid than normal.
Carefully shaking her head, she got out of her bed and started to get ready for the trip she was so not looking forward to and without even realising it, began to ramble out loud.
"Darn you, Oliver Jonas Queen, why did you have to go and hide in a place that needs a plane to get to – you know that planes mean flying which means being in the air – and you must have know we would find you and would come and get you, this cruel and unusual punishment, Oliver and you are so going to have to be made to play in some way, I promise you."
John Diggle arrived at her open doorway just in time to hear the end of her ramble and grinned as the sudden image of little Felicity grabbing hold of Oliver by the ear to berate him for his poor behaviour entered his head.
"Felicity..." He suppressed a laugh as she jumped at being caught off-guard. "Are you ready, we need to get going?"
She muttered something under her breath in response that had him glad that he did not have Oliver's superior hearing as he was sure that it was as unequally uncomplimentary to him as she had been about their absent friend and boss recently.
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"Felicity, if you're so scared of flying, why exactly are you sitting up front?" Diggle queried with a repressed note of concern in his voice. He had not missed that the closer they had got to Lian Yu, the blonde IT genius had become paler and paler, fingers brushing at her temples as if trying to push back something and he was becoming concerned for her.
"It was the only seat that had a seat belt." She almost stuttered, opening her eyes for a brief moment before closing them again.
"It wouldn't help if we crashed into the sea at full speed the way we are going." He muttered before the pilot started speaking, pointing the land mass that had just risen out of the cloud and fog. "I think that means we're here. Come on Felicity."
He moved back into the inner part of the plane and started to put on the parachute, followed by a clearly panicking Felicity. She took one look at what he was doing and then the next thing she really remembered was throwing up on the beach.
"Thanks for waiting until we touched down." Diggle said with a repressed laugh as he folded up his parachute before picking up their bag and starting away from the beach.
"My pleasure," Felicity replied ironically as she quickly wiped her mouth and started to follow him. "Just don't forget that I know how to wipe you from existence, John Diggle."
"Yes, thank you for that." He adjusted the bag slightly, "Let's move."
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Even as he raced across the island at full speed, Oliver could hear the plane approaching the island and somehow took up his speed another notch, literally snatching his bow and quiver as he passed where he had stored them. He moved towards the beach where it was likely that whoever was coming would likely pass if they were going to come in from the air.
He was also hit with the vague suspicion he knew who was coming – he had felt this strange, almost electrical sensation running down his back over the last couple hours and the last time he had felt it was when he had been... He stopped that thought almost before it began.
With swift, almost silent agility, he moved up into the canopy of the forest so that he could have the advantage of whoever was approaching – it was also the safest way to travel through this part of the forest with all the landmines that were spread out in the area.
'And if this is who I think it is, you can almost guarantee that...' He thought to himself as he caught the sound of a familiar voice.
A clear click followed by Felicity's panicked "Digg!" had Oliver almost literally jumping from one tree to another to look down on what was happening.
Diggle was holding up his hand, pen-knife in his other as he moved slowly towards Felicity. "Don't move." He bent down and cleared some of the dirt away from the object she was standing on. "It's a landmine, I'm going to try and disarm it."
"You can't" Oliver shouted down immediately, preparing his bow and arrow. "Diggle back away, Felicity... DON'T move."
With that, he fired across the glade into a tree opposite him, grabbed the line with his gloved hand and went down the tramline, catching Felicity in his open arm (noting almost absent-mindedly, that she had her own arm up in the air ready to catch him around his shoulders without being told) and swung her off the landmine to safety as it exploded from the sudden loss of weight.
What happened next was to change everything they all knew about Team Arrow.
Felicity looked up into Oliver's eyes, her expression strange as she ran her hand into his short hair. "That's the third landmine you've saved me from on this island, archer-boy!"
"I live to serve, princess." He replied almost without thinking and leaning down, kissed her.
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And it begins - one simple act and the world as Arrow fans know it changes forever into my AU world.
I'm going to ask you all to look at my AN at the bottom of CH 1 and make the same request please. Reviews are also welcome as I would like to know how people feel about this alternate universe I am putting together.
I also want to say now that while this is a season 2 alternate season, not everything that happened there will happen here - lets just say I have something different for a certain Russian import in mind! - but quite a lot will remain within the boundaries set up.
I will also say now that plaguing me for updates will not get you very far - that's all I'm going to say there!
So get to it people - there's an Arrow and Amazon waiting to hear from you :op