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The immediate loss of warmth was a shock as she quickly backed away from him. The torrent of words, if that's what they could be called, was another.

"What I mean to say - I mean, I didn't mean - not that I was actually - here's the thing -"

He fought back a smile, knowing if he acknowledged her verbal gaffe in any way it would just make her feel worse about the whole thing. He mentally stored her words away, though, filing the fact that she had been thinking about him in that way under the category of very interesting.

Oliver took a moment to pick himself up and take a mental inventory of his own bruises. He had a slight pain in his elbow and what was sure to be a bump on the back of his head, but it wasn't anything to be concerned over. He was much more worried that the girl had hurt herself in the fall, though he was fairly certain he had taken the brunt of it.

She finally trailed off with an awkward apology and was now staring at him from her position across from him. He scooted closer, approaching her as one might approach a skittish animal, and scrutinized her from head to toe, taking in the way she was rubbing her knee.

Choosing not to comment on anything she had just said, he asked her again, this time with more force, "Miss, are you hurt?"

"Felicity, that's my name I mean, and no, I think I'm okay. My knee hurts a little but mostly I just landed on top of you and even though you're pretty hard- you know what, I'm just going to stop there." She looked up at him sheepishly and he couldn't hold back the small grin this time. He was relieved she was okay, but more than that, he hadn't been this amused by someone since… well, since a very long time.

Oliver was next to her now, so he brushed the hand on her knee aside and swept his thumb over the red spot on the side. Pointedly ignoring her surprised gasp, he determined she would have a bit of a bruise but wouldn't have any trouble moving it. He couldn't resist brushing his hand over her smooth skin one more time, but then forced himself to back off and looked up to see her staring at him with wide eyes.

"I'm glad to hear it, Felicity. My name's Oliver. It's nice to meet you, despite the circumstances." He held out his hand to her and when she tentatively grabbed it to shake, he instead used the grip to pull her off the floor as he stood. She squeaked in surprise but managed to steady herself before needing the help of his other hand, which hovered near her elbow.

"Okay?"

She nodded so he let go and turned away to survey the situation fully for the first time. Making sure they were both relatively unharmed had been a good distraction from the fact that they were effectively stuck in a box and Oliver could feel the stirrings of panic starting at the base of his spine, threatening to crawl higher. He ruthlessly pushed the feeling down again and focused on Felicity's voice as he began to inspect the doors.

"Oh, I know who you are Mr. Queen. I mean, I do work for your company. I guess that makes you… my boss, in a way. Which makes this situation even more awkward..." She said the last part under her breath, but Oliver heard it and shot her an understanding smile over his shoulder to put her at ease before turning back to his task.

He felt her shift closer behind him but didn't turn, concentrating on prying the doors apart to get a look at what they were working with. With any luck, they would have stopped near a floor and would be out of there in moments.

Apparently Felicity disagreed because he could hear the panic in her voice when she asked, "Are you sure you should be doing that? Shouldn't we just wait for someone to get us out? I mean, isn't that what you're supposed to do in these situations? I know that's what they always do on TV and wow, you're really strong."

He let out a frustrated grunt and eased the doors shut again, dusting his hands on his pants and facing her again. All he had seen was gray concrete, which meant they were stuck between floors.

He could tell she was really worried and felt a moment of remorse for making her that way, but he had to get out of there. It's not something he wanted to stop to explain to her, though something in him made him do it anyways. "I'm not sure how they do it on TV but I know I'm not waiting around for who knows how long till someone realizes we're stuck in here."

"Well if it's just a matter of letting someone know, we could just ca- oh my god! I just realized I don't have my phone! I left it on my desk because I was just running down three floors to fix a cable and it was charging. And I don't have my tablet either because I didn't want to deal with it if I was only going to be crawling around on the floor."

He cocked his head and made a mental note to ask her what exactly she did for his family's company, but not until she had calmed down. She was pacing now, hands on top of her head in a gesture of anxiety and, as Oliver could see in her eyes, the first stirrings of fear.

He reached out and grabbed her elbows gently, stopping her in her tracks and lowering her arms to hang at her sides. He tried to use his most gentle voice, the one he mostly reserved for Thea, to reassure her. There was just no use in both of them panicking. "Hey, hey, we're going to be fine. I'm sure they already know the elevator malfunctioned. I didn't mean to worry you. I'm just used to doing things on my own." He slid his eyes to the floor, away from the understanding glance she sent his way, but then forced himself to meet her gaze again. "Calling out isn't a bad idea, though. We'll just use my phone."

He dropped his hands from where they had been resting on her upper arms and reached in his sport coat pocket to get his brand new phone out. He hadn't figured out how to use all the features yet, but making a call was something he was sure he could manage. What he wasn't counting on was the giant crack down the middle of the dark screen.

Biting back a swear, he turned it to show her. "I guess we know what happened to your knee."

Felicity's eyes got wide behind her glasses and she snatched the phone from him, expertly pulling the case that was supposed to protect it off along with the back of the phone. He could hear her muttering to herself as she inspected the device and couldn't help but find it endearing.

Letting out a frustrated groan, she looked up and he knew the news wasn't good. The panic was back in her voice as she stated, "I can't fix this. The screen isn't the only thing that's cracked and I don't have any tools to work with."

This time he couldn't hold back his curiosity. "How would you know how to fix it, anyways?"

She puffed out a breath and turned back to the phone, putting the pieces back together as she answered him. "I'm an IT specialist here. Computers, phones, really any tech in general is sort of my specialty, though fat lot of good that does us right now."

Beauty and brains was the unbidden thought that went through his head. He was impressed. He was also immediately intrigued by the thought of how useful it would be to know someone who knew their way around technology with his new extra curricular activities, but he shoved that thought aside for now. He wasn't there to recruit this girl to the cause. He needed to concentrate on one problem at a time.

Suddenly a thought occurred to him. "Hey, don't elevators usually have their own emergency phones? Why don't we just use that?"

Felicity groaned again and bit her lip and Oliver had to look away for a minute or his mind would have wandered again, this time to something decidedly less appropriate to the situation.

"Usually they do but we've been having problems with the system. The elevators are run by an outside company we contract with, so the issue falls to them. Otherwise I would have had it fixed by now." There wasn't an ounce of bragging in her voice. She stated it like it was just a fact. He hadn't seen her work, but he didn't doubt her.

Sliding to the slightly uneven floor, Felicity looked up at him with undisguised fear in her eyes. "So I guess we're stuck for now."

Oliver's own panic made another bid for freedom at the thought, but he again ignored it and sat down next to her noting how cold the floor was and how bare Felicity's legs were in her brightly colored skirt. He blew out a breath and shrugged out of his sport coat, nudging her away so he could spread the material where she had been sitting. When he beckoned her to slide onto the fabric, some of the fear left her face and she shot him a soft look that he had trouble looking away from.

"Thank you."

"Don't mention it."

"Mr. Queen?" She said it shyly, and suddenly he had the urge to hear her call him by his first name in that same tone of voice.

"Oliver, please. Mr. Queen was my father." He wasn't sure what made him bring his dad up, something he usually avoided and he could tell she was wondering the same thing, but she refrained from commenting on it.

Instead, she granted his wish. "Oliver, then." They smiled a little at each other but hers quickly dropped when she asked, "What do we do now? Do we just wait?"

He grimaced at the thought, tipping his head back to rest against the wall behind him. He wasn't good at waiting. He needed to take action. Suddenly, he spotted something that made him sit up.

Turning to Felicity, he grinned and pointed up at the service hatch above their heads. "Maybe not."