5.
They arrived at the hospital, Oliver barely waiting for the car to stop to open the door. He carried her inside placing her on a gurney as she continued to hold her side crying out in pain. The nurses came over and took her away leaving him by himself. He thought this was supposed to be a happy day, and now he didn't even know what was wrong with her.
Oliver reached into his jacket and pulled out his cell phone calling Dig, he answered on the third ring.
"Hey I thought you were supposed to be sweeping someone off of her feet today?" Dig joked.
"Dig we're in the hospital,"
"Wait, what happened?"
"One moment everything was good the next she was holding her side crying in pain, I don't think I have ever seen her like this Dig,"
"Where are you?"
"Starling Hospital,"
"I'm on my way," Dig said, hanging up.
Dig soon arrived and found Oliver pacing in the waiting room, he made his way to him. His eyes were puffy and red, he had been crying.
"Hey, anything?"
"No, nothing, I swear if I don't hear something soon," Oliver's hands were balled in a fist now.
"Listen, you need to sit down and take a breath, she wouldn't want this,"
Oliver sat down, Dig sat next to him, no words were exchanged.
By four o'clock a nurse came in to the waiting room.
"Smoak family?" she said looking around, Oliver and Dig stood up.
They walked over to her looking down on her tiny frame while she looked up.
"Please follow me," she said, leading them through some secured doors. After walking what seemed like forever and taking an elevator up to the fourteenth floor they arrived at a set of private rooms, outside one room a doctor stood typing away at a mobile computer station.
"Mr. Queen, I'm Doctor Thatcher, Miss Smoak's appendix burst, she is going to need to be on antibiotics for a little while but surgery was successful. She should be waking up soon and I'm sure she would appreciate some smiling faces. I will check on her in the morning, good night."
Oliver smiled and walked into her room and looked at her laying in the bed with an IV in her arm sleeping peacefully. He sat down next to her and Dig took up the other chair in the room.
"I told you she'd be okay," Dig whispered out.
The room was pretty quiet other than the rhythmic beeping of the machine, her ring was on the nightstand, next to her glasses and he smiled. She began to stir, Oliver was focused and looking at her intently.
"Hey, open your eyes beautiful girl," he said to her.
"Oliver?" her throat scratchy, "what happened?" she asked.
"Your appendix burst and they had to do surgery on you."
"Really? I don't feel.." she went to move her hands but winced at the pain.
"I totally ruined this day," she said pouting.
"Not at all, you said yes and that's all that matters. Now I need you to rest so we can go home okay?"
She nodded, looked at Dig.
"You knew?"
"What about the proposal?"
"Yeah,"
"I helped pick out the ring,"
"Traitor,"
"That was one secret I had to keep,"
"I'm glad you did," she said getting comfortable and falling right back asleep.
-A week later-
Felicity was sitting at her desk in the lair watching Oliver use the salmon ladder, her favorite while enjoying a small argument with him.
"I can go back to work, I promise it doesn't hurt anymore," she said.
"I told you," he jumped the bar to the next peg, "no" he said hanging there staring at her.
She sneezed and the look of pain that went across her face she couldn't hide.
"See what I mean? You should be in bed resting,"
"I'm fine,"
He jumped down and walked over to her and stared down at her, she just stared at his abs completely distracted.
"My face is up here you know," he said causing her to turn beat red.
"I know where your face is," she said turning back to her screen.
Oliver grabbed her chair turning her back to him, leaned down and kissed her passionately on the lips causing her to melt.
"I'm going to take a shower then we can go to dinner okay?"
"Okay,"
He walked away and left her sitting there, she googled wedding plans. She was looking at wedding dresses and arrangements to get ideas he walked out and saw what she was looking at and smiled knowing he was going to marry the girls of his dreams and would be spending the rest of his life with the hottest IT chicks in the world.
Thank you all again! I'll see you soon in Series 2….poor Felicity and Oliver…will they survive this next step of their lives?
Series 2 will be called Love Continues see you soon!