To Build a Kiss

One-Shot: Better

"No," Oliver corrected, his voice almost militant. Pointing at Felicity's bare feet with hot pink toenails, he continued his instruction. "Keep your stance wider."

Oliver and Diggle decided it was time for Felicity to learn more than just self defense since she repeatedly wormed her way into field work against their better judgment. Diggle had the night off, so it was Oliver's turn. He chose the bo staff for this work out session, and Felicity decided he was pretty much a drill sergeant at heart.

"Jeez – " Felicity grunted, rolling her eyes as she widened her legs. "How much longer?" She should have listened to Diggle when he tried to warn her about Oliver's training sessions.

"What are you - six years old?" Oliver chuckled at his own joke. "You sound like you're on a long family trip and can't wait for the drive to be over." He knew it would make Felicity mad, and it worked.

She positioned the bo staff the way Oliver taught her earlier and executed a four-point strike. "I still," she gritted her teeth, ". . . need to check the activity on the trace we put on that drug dealer's car before I go home."

Before Oliver could respond, she struck again. Thwack! And again. Thwack! Thwack!

"Nice! But can you do this?" Oliver went through a complex set of combo moves and spins with the bo staff that he meant, Felicity was sure, to impress her. Unfortunately for Oliver, she wasn't in the mood.

"No, but I can do this." She only meant to run through the quick combo move he had shown her earlier, but she improvised adding a pretty wicked overhead front strike Sara taught her one night while the guys did some recon work in The Glades.

She jabbed with one end of the bo staff and then reset her position. Oliver hesitated. His mistake. She spun and struck with all her might fully expecting Oliver to block, but he underestimated Felicity's mood and frustration.

Her bo staff penetrated his space and struck him on his cheek. Hard.

"Owww -" Oliver groaned, his voice not masking the pain. "Watch it, Felicity."

"Wha? I thought we were sparring. Isn't this what you do when you spar?" She was feeling confident, her mood lifting considerably.

"No - not with you."

"Hmmm . . . you better get better then." And she released another jarring overhead front strike, this time on his shoulder.

Oliver stepped back shaking it off. Felicity could have sworn she heard him growl. He dropped his bo staff to the floor and kicked it away. It rolled off the mat and clattered onto the concrete floor. He wiped the sweat from his brow with the back of his hand and dried it off on his shorts. Getting in a low stance, he looked up at her. Determination set in his jaw, and Felicity knew she was in trouble. He moved in quick as a cat, executing a vicious leg sweep takedown.

He spun around in mid-air and landed on top of her, his bare chest to her pink cotton tank top. His hands grabbed her bo staff and pushed it up over her head, effectively pinning her arms underneath it.

Oliver wasn't sure what happened, and Felicity sure as hell didn't know. She felt as though the air left the room as she looked into the intensity of his blue eyes. His eyes left hers after what seemed like an eternity and traveled down to her neck. His lips followed, leaving lingering kisses from just below her ear downward. His tongue made its way to her salty skin and ran along her collarbone, sucking gently along the way. Felicity, lost in the moment, tilted her head to the side offering more to Oliver. He kissed, licked, and sucked.

She moaned, wanting desperately to run her hands up his bare back. She struggled against his hold on her bo staff, but he only pushed harder against her arms. His mouth played with her skin and moved back up her neck stopping at her ear, kissing at first and then biting the lobe. Not tenderly either.

"Oliver -" Felicity gasped.

"How's this?" Oliver breathed between bites.

She inhaled deeply. "Better. Muuuuch better," she moaned, forgetting all about the drug dealer's trace she needed to catalog.

A/N: I hope my glass of wine and dark chocolate did this scene justice tonight as I wrote it. :)

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