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Chapter 4 – Revelation
"I take it one of you is finally going to get round to telling me what is going on here?" Diggle sat down in front of them, the look on his face determined to get the truth from the couple.
Felicity sighed, leaning even further back into Oliver's embrace. "You're going to have to keep an open mind, Digg, there's a part of this story that even Oliver is not aware of. I've only just worked out that titbit of information myself."
"Let's start with the most obvious thing then," Diggle replied, waving his hand at them. "Like the fact the two of you are behaving as if you are a couple when back in Starling City there were no signs of it. Add to that, Felicity appears to have been here on the island and no-one knew of it, not even Oliver before today – and that has to be one of the strangest things that I have said today aside from all the strange things you two have been saying without even realising it."
"Impressive ramble there, Digg, been spending much time with Felicity," Oliver murmured as Felicity laughed slightly. He rested his chin on her shoulder. "Princess..."
Felicity sighed deeply, wishing for a moment that her sister was her to help her with the slightly more wilder parts of the story she was about to give but began. "Five years ago in known time, six in actual time – which would still make it Oliver's second year on the island, I was kidnapped from my home island and brought here to Lian Yu. It has always my belief that I was brought here because the person who arranged it believed that there were properties on this island that could even kill a member of my people."
Diggle looked at her, confusion rife across his for once expressive face. "What the... known time, actual time, your people? Felicity, you're just making things worse."
Closing her eyes for a moment, Felicity sighed then looked at her friend. "It's not that easy, Digg, I wish I could give you a list of straight facts but it's complicated because everything stems from one single thing – who I really am."
"Then who are you?" He asked simply.
"I... am Felicity, sister of Diana Prince, second daughter of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons."
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A crack of thunder finally broke the silence that fell through the fuselage, followed closely by heavier rain.
"Seriously, Diana as in Agent Diana Prince," Diggle said in astonishment, "The Inter-Agency Defence Command's top agent, that Diana!"
Oliver and Felicity looked at each other then back at him. "Felicity tells you she's an Amazonian princess and all you hear is Diana Prince. Digg, you're remarkable!"
"As Felicity is so fond of saying, thank you for remarking on it," He grinned at them, moving to avoid the foot Felicity shot at him in retaliation. "But seriously, Diana Prince is your sister?"
"Yes, she is and no, I don't know where she is at the moment." Felicity sighed as she leaned back against Oliver again. He wrapped his arm around her, running his other hand up and down her arm. "Until our arrival here today, I knew that I had been kidnapped but didn't remember the details. All I knew was that my mother seemed to lose the plot afterwards and when I insisted on returning to the outside world to use my M.I.T education, she convinced our father to bind all the things that make my sister who she is, well except for the healing, endurance and stamina bits as that would have affected my health far too much."
"I take it the rambling is pure you then in any format." Diggle murmured before grinning as this time her kick made contact. "But there is still the fact that for this last year, neither you nor Oliver showed any signs of knowing each other."
"I disagree." Oliver said surprising them both. "We may not have known consciously but something drew us together time after time. After everything that I had been through here on the island, even you queried it Digg, why did I trust Felicity so easily if there wasn't something in my sub-conscious reminding me that I could."
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Another rumble of thunder broke thorough, followed by a strong gust of wind winding through the gaps in the fuselage. Even Oliver shivered at the sudden drop in temperature it brought with it. Reaching behind him, he grabbed his hooded top and a couple of blankets, throwing one to Diggle and wrapping the other around himself and Felicity.
Diggle immediately threw one of the logs on the fire that Felicity had built, then moved to sit on Felicity's other side, effectively joined Oliver in building a wall of protection for the slender girl between them from the rage of the storm surrounding them.
"So..." He started, turning slightly to look at the pair only to suppress a grin at the way Felicity was basically curled up on Oliver's lap, his arms wrapped closely around her and once again resting his chin on her shoulder. "Why now?"
"Because Oliver saving me again from the land mine the way he did the first time I was here on the island broke through the effects that the potion of Mnemosyne held on our memories completely – even though it's clear they would have broken through eventually, well if my dreams were anything to go by and we don't need to go there...3...2...1..." Felicity ducked her head for a moment.
"Potion of Mnemosyne?" Both Oliver and Diggle repeated, bringing her back out with a slight smile.
"Named for the mother of the muses and goddess of memory because it does exactly that, changes your memory," She replied simply. "Oliver and I must have been given it when I was rescued by mother and that... that..."
A wave of pain hit as she tried to access those particular memories leading to an anxious cry of "Felicity!" from both men as she fell back against Oliver slightly.
"It may take a while..." She eventually responded as Oliver rubbed her temple. "I think I've been double-dosed, which is actually a crime back home as only mother has access to that particular potion and if she finds out that someone has stolen access to this..."
"Princess..." Oliver said softly, much like the way he said her name to calm her when she was on her rambles. She took a deep breath to settle herself and leant back him again.
"And the time thing, you said known time and actual time, let's get all the weird things completely out of the way, the rest is just details."
She took a deep breath and dove straight in. "I think to emphasis the effects of the potion, mother must have managed to persuaded father to have Chronos turn time back for a year so that everyone had to relieve it, somehow managing to forget that because Oliver and I are who we are, when the potion's effects were broken the way it has been, we would remember both time-lines."
"You were supposed to be clearing the mysteries up, Felicity, not confusing me even further." Diggle replied at that, earning himself a fist to the ribs before continuing. "Because Oliver and you are who you are?"
Her reply just stunned him. "We're soul-mates; time has no meaning for us."
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I think that's enough Island time for everyone, I've cleared a few things up, made things more mysterious - it's time to get back to Starling City.
And remember, there were two Tarzan swings in the first episode of the S2 - so here's smashed glass!
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