Hi, I was shocked this morning when I checked my stats on how many people read my story. I was incredibly shocked and ecstatic on seeing that more than 2,000 people have read my story. I promised to make the 3rd chapter longer, and I hope you like it. Oh and I may have forgotten to thank this person earlier, but thank you so much highlander348 for helping make this story the best it can possibly be and letting me bounce ideas off of you. This chapter is dedicated to you. Fight scene with Felicity and Oliver is next chapter. Sorry guys. This is the effect that Felicity's departure has caused.

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Omniscient POV

"Who is she?" Oliver slammed his hand against his desk at his office at Queen Consolidated. Usually he broods in his basement at Verdant, but it has been plaguing his mind since their encounter a couple of weeks prior after rescuing his little sister. She reminded him a little bit of Felicity, but more dangerous than the bright and fluffy Felicity he knew. Subconsciously, he walked into his elevator, ignoring the calls from his mediocre EA and descended into the IT part of Queen Consolidated. He walked into Felicity's old office that was still barren and had a little bit of dust on it.

A man in a nerdy multicolored bowtie, walked by and saw Oliver sitting in Felicity's chair. He commented, "If you're looking for Felicity, she's in her office at the end of the hall. And tell her congrats on the promotion from Benji."

Oliver walks as if in a trance ti the office Benji had directed him to, thinking about how it is possible that Felicity could come back, get rehired, and be promoted all without him noticing. He stops in front of the door and knocks, sure enough, to his amazement, a blonde head glances up from her computer screen in her spacious office unlike her cramped one before she became his EA. Felicity sees him, but doesn't seem all that surprised to see him and it is confirmed when she says, "I knew you'd come at some point."

(Sorry couldn't resist putting an Omniscient POV in.)

Felicity POV

When I saw Oliver walk into the room, I knew I had to explain myself. Why was I here? How did I get to be the Head of the IT Department? I could basically see the wheels turning with those types of questions in Oliver's head.

He asked the one question that shocked me the most, a simple, "Why?"

"I needed to leave the smog of the city behind for a while. And after my little excursion, I came back, expecting to be put at the bottom of the work hierarchy at Queen Consolidated, but weirdly enough Walter promoted me. I told him not to tell you that I was back because you know, you might try to rope me back into the game, and I'm done with that now. No crime-fighting for me." The lie hurt me to say, but it was necessary to tell the man that I loved that I wasn't going to be his IT toy and use me like a jock would use a nerd for homework answers.

"Walter promoted you?" Oliver questioned. In my head, I deflated with him not even challenging my statement of him using me to get the answers he needed to be the Arrow.

"Yes. That was the day that you weren't at the office, some merger or something, I think and Walter was helping out because your mom was busy planning a fundraiser, and Thea was doing business at the club. And he hired me, he told me that I was a lot more knowledge on computers than most people, and saw my potential. Volla! He gave me the title of Head of the IT Department." I gestured to my office, and spun in my swivel chair, man, I love this chair.

"Does Diggle know you're back?" He pinched his nose, probably trying to come to terms with the fact that Walter had gone behind his back and hired me, and gave me my dream job.

"Yes as well as Thea, which I guess means Roy knows. I chatted with Dig and Thea over the year. I just couldn't cut myself off from everybody." I waited for the explosion of anger to happen to Oliver as he heard these words. And he did not disappoint me. Maybe a year ago I would have flinched at his outburst. But I was expecting it.

"YOU CUT ME OFF BUT NOT EVERYONE ELSE! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT? I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS!" He yelled. Man, I hope none of my neighbors heard that.

"We were, but I got tired of being used all the time, and never getting anything in return. Oliver, you have been using me for information ever since you bled into my car, and I have rarely ever gotten a thanks from you. You always demand and demand, and you never let anyone in. The only one who knows partially what you have been through is Sara, and Sara was there with you firsthand!" I rub my forehead, exhausted with this conversation already.

Oliver fell silent and finally after a long uncomfortable silence, he whispered, "Is that really what you think that was what we were?" I murmur yes and look down at my desk and straighten a few items on my already sparse desk.

"Well, seeing as how I can't come and change your mind about our relationship, I'll just go back to work." He sighs, and walks away from me, seemingly disappointed, but I told him the truth. He can't get mad at me for speaking the truth.

The cool wind brushes away my blonde hair from my face as I make my way to the burger joint to meet Diggle, Roy and Thea for dinner. This is the first time I've seen anyone's faces since my journey to forgiveness. I stand outside the diner, and brace myself for the questioning, but the thing I am most surprised to see is Sara sitting along with them, Roy and Thea crammed in a seat with her. The only empty seat is next to Diggle. It is nice to see my best guy friend after such a long time only hearing him from phone calls and seeing him on Skype. When I approached them, Diggle immediately got up and gave me a big warm hug. I missed this. The warm hugs was what was missing from all of that communication from such a long distance.

I wanted them to meet up, but I've been having writer's block around this so let's just pretend the Team Arrow minus Arrow had a so much fun together!