Previously on Soulmates:
"Felicity?" he whispers in the voice meant specifically for her.
"Oliver" she says in a relieved sigh.
Not wanting to get his hopes up, Oliver cautiously asks, "Is it really you? Do you know who I am?"
Giving a short laugh, she simply says, "Of course I know who you are, you're my-"
"Oliver you know this woman?" his father interrupts.
Remembering that they're not alone, they both compose themselves.
"Um, yeah, this is Felicity. She's my… friend" he stutters, even though he so desperately wants to say wife.
"Friend?" Robert asks giving a disbelieving look.
"Yes, friend. We met in Vegas one night."
"Vegas huh?"
"What Oliver means is that we met one night and talked."
"Yeah, the whole night." He says happy that Felicity is getting him out of this.
"The whole night" she whispers.
"Ok, well it is nice to meet you Ms. Smoak, and welcome to Queen Consolidated."
"Thank you, Mr. Queen, and I must say it is an honor to finally meet you. And when I say finally I mean I've heard so much about you. Not in a stalkerish way, just that your deals with QC are… I'm gonna
stop talking in 3..2…1." Zipping her lips, she looks down avoiding eye contact.
Oliver doesn't seem fazed at all by her babble, because he is her husband and he has seen millions of those, but he is surprised to see the same smile he has on his father's face.
"Well Ms. Smoak thank you and I think you are the perfect addition to our company."
Blushing she looks down.
"Well Robert I know you are a very busy man, and we will let you be." As Walter begins to usher Felicity out, he suddenly stops and turns back around. "Oh, and Oliver congratulations on the shadowing."
"Thank you" he says uncomfortably.
And with a simple look into each other's eyes, and small smiles of relief, Felicity and Walter leave.
It had been an hour since he had seen her, and an hour since he realized Felicity was here too. His father was negotiating something with the board, but he didn't know what it was, nor did he care because he was counting down the minutes until he could leave and check on his girl.
"Oliver, what do you think?"
"What?" he asks looking away from the clock for the first time since he sat down.
"About the addition to the applied science division?"
"Oh, um, yeah it sounds great."
Knowing that that is all he is going to get out of his son, Robert sighs and goes back to the meeting.
When 10:45 came, so did the shuffling of papers, and chairs.
"Alright everyone, we will meet back up same time next week."
As soon as the words were out of his father's mouth, Oliver gets up and heads straight to the door.
"Oliver, where are you going?"
"To the bathroom" he says already half way to the elevators.
"The bathroom is…" Robert gives up when Oliver turns the corner and just sighs in disappointment.
When the elevator stops at the 15th floor, Oliver wastes no time going straight to Felicity's old office. Coming to a halt in front of her cubicle, he takes a deep breath and composes himself.
"Hi"
Looking up from a paper, Felicity has the same red pen between her lips as the one from the day he first met her.
Seeing Oliver standing in front of her desk, she immediately drops the pen and whispers "hi"
Not waiting any longer, he walks around her desk and pulls her up for a hug, which she gladly returns.
Pulling back, he kisses her passionately. After a minute Felicity breaks the kiss.
Looking around the empty room, she says "You know we probably shouldn't be doing that, what if someone catches us? I mean it's not like we're together in this time."
Ignoring her, he looks her over.
"Are you ok?"
"Yeah, are you?"
"Yeah."
"How are we here?"
"I don't know, I was hoping you knew."
Giving a breathless laugh, she looks around.
"No, I mean one minute we were talking and then the next thing I know, I'm waking up in my old apartment."
Sitting down next to each other, they don't lose contact.
"Well what do we know?"
"That it's March 15, 2007, and it's my first day. You?"
"March 15th? That's two weeks before the Gambit."
"Oh"
"But the thing is, I don't remember coming to shadow today."
"Yeah well, in your defense, do you remember much of what happened pre-Gambit?"
Hesitating, he says "N-oo. But I think I would have remembered if I- wait a second I did come, but not to shadow."
"That doesn't make any sense. How do you come to shadow, but not shadow?"
"Because the time I was here, which was like two hours max, I was screwing his secretary." He says disgusted.
"You know a part of me wants to be surprised, but the other part me is not, because that sounds like something you totally would have done."
Wiping his hands over his face, he just groans.
"Man, I was a horrible person back then."
Putting her hand on his back and rubbing comforting circles, she says "No, you were just misguided and stubborn."
Looking her in the eye, he says "I'm so glad you're here, I don't know what I would have done without you."
"Ditto"
"So what's next?"
"Well there is good and bad news."
"I could really go for some good news."
"Well we have friends that travel through time, hell I'm sure this would be a typical Monday morning for them."
"Yeah, Sara can get us out of this."
"Which leads me to the bad news, because it's 2007 and the Gambit hasn't gone down yet, you have not become the hood yet, resulting in me not having the technology to access them."
"Ugh, right. Well it's technology, whatever you need I can get that. I mean can't you just use your computer?"
"My compu- no. This thing has the processing power of an ant."
"Is it that bad?"
"Yes. It's very bad, I mean it's slow and small, there is no way that I can get the connection I need to contact the Waverider."
"Ok, well I have money again, so just name what you need, and I got you."
"Ok, I will figure it out."
"Good."
"But in the meantime, you should probably go back to your dad."
"Felicity-"
"I'll be fine, I mean there is literally nothing that can happen to me in my cubicle."
He gives her a look of disbelief but shoos him away.
"Oliver, I'll be fine"
"Ok, but I'll be back later" he says before kissing her."
"I wouldn't have it any other way."