Tonight finds all the members of Team Arrow, Thea, and Quentin in the hospital surrounding Oliver. This time under better circumstances than the last. Adrian Chase had been outed and killed. The Green Arrow's name had been cleared. And Oliver's hope was on the mend.

Oliver had asked Felicity to call everyone and get them there so he could 'purge'. His speech had been the most honest any of them had ever seen. He told them the full truth of what Adrian had made him believe. He'd told them why he believed and about seeing a therapist about his issues. He also promised them that when he took on the mantle of Green Arrow again it would be different. He told them the things he was proud of and the things he regretted.

When he was finished Thea was the first to speak, "Therapy seems to be working. I don't think you've talked this much without being on some kind of drug."

After everyone left, one person remained. Felicity.

Oliver wasn't sure where to even begin where she and they were concerned. He'd spent the better part of a year waiting for her to be ready to talk. But after Billy, he thought he'd destroyed any possibility of reconciling with her. Was she staying close because she was still in love with him or was it something else?

He knew there was only one way to find out.

"Felicity?" He asked, waiting for her eyes to meet his before continuing.

That was a mistake. He felt the words he'd prepared in his mind fly out the wind.

"Um, I know - I was thinking…" He tried to find a start and failed miserably.

She gave him a confused face, much like when he'd babbled about dinner the first time he asked her on a date.

"You know what, nevermind." He sighed with defeat.

He looked up at the ceiling wishing he had never opened his mouth.

"Oliver, what were you going to say?" Felicity asked, curiosity getting the best of her.

She hates mysteries.

"It's just the drugs like Thea said." He tried to laugh it off.

He heard her get up from her chair and then her heels clicking against the floor. He felt the bed sinking down next to him and then she spoke, "Honey, don't close off now."

He was closing off, wasn't he? He hadn't even noticed it happening. He'd promised both his therapist and himself that he would work on accepting his emotions. He took a deep breath and did his best to accept whatever emotions came as he spoke.

"I need to know something but I'm scared of what you'll say." He explained.

"Whatever it is, I'm still gonna be right here." She encouraged.

She was right. He'd watch her walk away from him many times but she never went too far. They are a part of each other. We found ourselves in each other.

"Is it all too much?" He asked, willing his head up so he could see her, "I know we don't talk about it but before the island, I loved Laurel. I really did. I had a shitty way of showing it but I did. But when I came home and we tried again. It was all too much. She was the love of my life I never had, you know? And this feeling I have now with you-"

"Is like the one you had when you realized it was too much for you and her?" She finished.

"Yeah." He let out a breath he didn't know he was holding.

"Oliver, I'm sure you don't remember this but I already told you how I feel. I love you." She admitted.

"I know. I know you love me but are you in love with me?"

"I have been in love with you from the moment you showed up at my cubicle babbling about laptops and lattes. From the moment we met there has never been a day where I wasn't in love with you. There were days I wanted to not be and days where I fell in love all over again. Oliver, I know this love isn't easy but it's worth it."

"I don't babble."

"Honey, you babbled about ten minutes ago."

He gave a look that bordered on a pout and she caved. Oliver doesn't babble.

"So, it's not too much?" He asked with a shaky voice.

"No, it's not too much. We have a lot to talk about and understand but I want to do that." She reassured.

"Oh thank god," He exclaimed, "I mean, I do too."

Felicity giggled before leaning down to press her lips to his. This small action made Oliver's heart feel like it was stopping and beating out of his chest all at once. When their lips met for the first time in almost a year, it was like the someone turned on the light in a dark room. It felt like safety, lazy Sundays and coming home. The pulled away and Felicity lay her forehead against his and Oliver made her a promise, one she'd waited five years to hear.

"No more lies. No more secrets. No more walls. I want you in everything. I want to show you everything; the good, the bad."

They stayed like that for several moments, wrapped in the new beginning and Oliver's promise.