Sleepy Heads and Shared Beds
"Felicity," Oliver said gently with a small smile walking over to her sleeping form, collapsed in front of the computers, "Felicity wake up." He said lightly shaking her shoulder,
"Mmm." She moaned looking up bleary eyed, her glasses skewed, "I'm sorry." She said, her cheeks blushing as realisation dawned on her face, "I didn't mean to it's just as you know Mr CEO Work is very busy and-"
"Go home." He said gently offering her his hand, smiling at how she wouldn't let his new position go, she was proud of him for getting his company back, she was proud of him for making the time and effort to actually run the company this time, she was proud of him. Period. "I'll meet you there later."
"No, I'm fine honestly." She said stifling another yawn,
"It's just a patrol, I'll be back in an hour." He said as he pulled on her coat, picked up her coat for her,
"Yeah but I want to make sure that you're safe." She yawned again,
"I'll be fine, besides Digg and Roy are still here." He said squeezing her arm lightly as she yawned again, "Come on." He said with a small laugh as he helped her with her coat,
"I'll walk you out. Make sure you get a taxi." Digg said with a laugh at her stubbornness, Oliver shot him a grateful look, considering he was still in his Arrow suit it wouldn't have been the best idea for him to go hail her a cab,
"Thank you." She said sleepily, "Are you sure you don't mind?" She asked again looking at Oliver,
"Go home Felicity." He replied with a smile as he kissed her cheek lightly, "See you there soon."
"Okay." She finally gave in as another wave of exhaustion swept over her body.
Normally she would've been fine except for the last week she had stayed late at both work and the Foundry to install a new software system before having to fly across the country twice for several science conferences, ultimately the combination of jet lag and sleep deprivation been taking their toll on her and everyone could see it except her of course.
"So you two are going well huh?" Diggle asked her as they walked up the steps to the exit,
"I believe we are." Felicity said smiling and playing with the necklace he had given her for a late birthday present a few weeks ago, it was a simple silver chain with a small arrow connecting the chain, it had made them both laugh.
"How long has it been now then?" He asked, glad that they had finally sorted it out because they were both happy, happy like he'd never seen either of them and it made work better, it made them better, and he was glad that they had found each other. He was even gladder though that they kept their PDA to a minimum.
"3 months and 10 days." Felicity said immediately, "Not that I'm counting or anything." She added hastily causing him to laugh a little, "But I'm happy and when I'm happy I count things."
"I'm aware of that." Diggle said with a smile as he opened the door for her into the cold night air,
"You know you don't actually need to wait with me." Felicity said as they walked towards the road, "Loads of cabs come up and down here picking up people from the club, I'll be fine."
"I know you will but if I don't wait with you and Oliver finds out then I won't be." Diggle said causing her to laugh, "You're laughing but you know I'm right."
"Fair enough." Felicity said as they stopped at the road and she hailed a cab with ease, "Thanks for walking me out."
"No problem, have a good night." He said turning away,
"Digg," She called put causing him to stop,
"Don't worry I'll keep an eye on him." He said with a warm smile, "Get home safe."
"Thank you." She said before slipping into the cab.
When she got home she immediately went upstairs and got changed out of her dress into one of Oliver's old t-shirts and her Pyjama bottoms before removing her glasses and taking her make up off. She took down her hair. She was exhausted, she had finally admitted she was exhausted but as she looked at her empty bed she suddenly didn't want to get in it. She knew she was being ridiculous because he was going to be home in an hour or so and she had a life before they ever became a thing but now being in her bed by herself felt peculiar.
In the 3 months and 10 days that they had been together, whenever she had gotten home he was already here or literally right behind her but not tonight and she suddenly felt empty herself. She grabbed her woollen cardigan and wrapped it around herself before heading back downstairs and making herself a cup of tea. She fought of the exhaustion and slowly made her way over to her sofa before flicking on the TV and watching old reruns of Scrubs in the low light. She felt her eyes getting heavier by the second and she knew deep down she was being ridiculous. She knew that she should just go to bed but she didn't want to because she wanted to makes sure that he was safe. She wanted to make sure that he was okay when he came in through her front door because she loved him and she didn't think she'd be able to live with herself if something happened to him and she was asleep.
Just when she thought that she couldn't physically stay awake anymore, just when she thought that her eyes really were in fact made of lead she heard his keys in the lock and the door opened letting in a rush of cold air,
"Hey," he said gently, confusion evident in his voice as he closed the door and pocketed his keys, "What are you still doing up?"
"Waiting for you of course." She replied with a sleepy smile as he came over and kissed her lightly,
"I thought we sent you home because you were exhausted?" He asked raising an eyebrow at her,
"Yeah but I wanted to wait up for you." She yawned as he took her hand and lightly tugged her up as he flicked off the TV.
"I don't deserve you." He murmured into her hair as he kissed her head,
"Nobody deserves me." She mumbled into his chest making him laugh, as she wrapped an arm around his back, her fingers bunching in the material,
"And here I was trying to be all romantic and sweet." He said lightly as she looked up at him,
"You tried." She said kissing his jaw quickly, "But now that you're home please can we go to bed because I'm exhausted." She asked tugging him upstairs,
"Oh so you're finally admitting it now?" He asked with a smile as she led them into her room,
"I'm too exhausted to keep up the charade anymore." She said as she collapsed onto the bed, not even bothering to get under the covers as she shimmied out of her cardigan,
"You're adorable." He said with a laugh as he stripped down to his boxers and t-shirt before flipping off their light, "Come on sleepy head." He said with a laugh as he tried to pull the covers back with her still on top, "We need team work for this one."
"Nu-uh." She mumbled into her pillow, "You can do push ups with me sitting on your back, work it out yourself."
He laughed again as he tried again, "Please?" he begged as she groaned and sat up before pulling the covers back and allowing him to get under them with her in pursuit, "Thank you." He said as she rolled onto her side and he moved closer to her, casually wrapping one arm around her waist as she sleepily played with his larger hand, running had fingertips lightly over his knuckles.
"Thanks for coming back alive." She whispered sleepily into the dark,
"Thanks for waiting up for me." He replied kissing her shoulder as he wrapped his arm around her slightly tighter as he buried his face into her neck.
And Felicity realised as she was falling asleep why she didn't like sleeping in this bed without Oliver. She realised that Oliver was her home. She realised that she felt like a part of her had been missing since her dad left, she felt incomplete and slightly unlovable but then Oliver had come into her life and of course their relationship had been hard at the very start but nothing worth having ever comes easy and he had fixed her. He had made her feel whole again and she felt like she was complete when she was with him as cliché as that sounded to others. But sometimes you need cliché in your life, sometimes cliché is what you're looking for.
"Love you." She whispered into the darkness,
"Love you too." He said with a smile, and those three little words still felt magical to hear because she finally felt complete.