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Chapter 3 – Felicity

Felicity POV

Felicity knew from the moment that the playboy billionaire Oliver Queen walked into her Queen Consolidated IT office that her life was about to change. It wasn't every day that a lowly IT tech got to interact with the man whose name was on the building.

When Oliver came to her with a bullet ridden laptop, she didn't ask questions, but she knew he was lying. Then when he came back with a syringe that was an 'energy drink', she knew he was lying to her but, again, chose not to question him. Nextshe helped him with a 'scavenger hunt' he was doing with a friend. After that it was that he was looking for where he could buy a particular type of arrow for a 'friend'. Each time he came to her with something he had the worst cover stories that she had ever heard in her life. The whole time though, she knew he was lying, and knew that one day she would figure out the man that was Oliver Queen.

The night she found him bleeding and dying in the backseat of her car she knew that her life was about to change yet again. She took Oliver to his Dad's old foundry in the Glades and went to the basement like he told her to and when she met Diggle she knew she had just made a new best friend.

Her life completely changed when she agreed to help Oliver and Diggle and joined Team Arrow. She learned that most of the elite of Starling City were in the crosshairs of the Arrow and would be getting a visit from him for some reason or another. She knew that even though he may not realize it, Oliver really was making a difference in the city.

Felicity also knew that Oliver fought his own demons just as much as he fought the bad guys of the city. She knew that he hardly slept, when he did he had nightmares, and when he was stressed he would work out until he was completely spent.

Felicity knew that Oliver had his scars, his share of bad memories. She saw the scars every time he sparred with Diggle, or when she watched him move up and down the Salmon Ladder. She saw where his bad memories started when they went to retrieve him from the Island and she helped him to overcome his bad memories from the Undertaking when he lost Tommy.

She knew that he could be a better man, that he could find a better way. She helped him when she could to see where he could do better, be better. She supported him even when she didn't care for his choices because she knew that he was doing what he thought was best, even when she knew it was a stupid idea.

Eventually she knew she was starting to care for him. She spent hours with him, watching him work the Salmon Ladder shirtless, watching him spar with Diggle, helping with his missions over the comms and sometimes in the field, and in their lives at QC. She knew Oliver was unique, special, and that she was one of the only people who got to see the real Oliver Queen.

She knew that Slade was his worst nightmare the moment she heard Sara say his name. Slade was going to rip everything that he could from Oliver, he was going to take everything that he cared about. She knew she had her job cut out for her keeping Oliver out of the memories and focused on the matter at hand.

She knew when Oliver's limo went missing the night of Moira's rally that something bad had happened. When Oliver didn't show to his own Mother's funeral she knew that he was blaming himself for everything. As she and Diggle finally found him in the second lair she knew as soon as she saw him that he was going to try and turn himself in to Slade and that they had to do something about it.

When Slade took over QC and started burning the city Felicity knew that Oliver had to win. He would not be able to just watch as his city burned and she didn't know how, but they were going to beat Slade. As they stood in the clock tower she knew that he was feeling guilty about things that happened in the past and that she had to do something to help him to realize that he is not the killer that he once was. He was a new man, a hero, and the city needed him.

Felicity knew, the moment Oliver took the call from Slade telling him Laurel was captured, that he felt defeated, simply by the look on his face. He didn't know how he was going to beat Slade because the man was always one step ahead,all everyone wanted him to do was kill Slade, and he didn't know how he could do that.

She knew he needed to know. She believed in him, in what he could do and that he could beat the man without having to kill him. She knew Oliver could outsmart him if he tried. She knew the moment he had the plan and she knew she was not going to like it.

As they walked into the mansion she knew something big was coming. The look on Oliver's face told her that much, even if she didn't know what it was. As he told her what Slade had said, that Slade was wrong her heart skipped a beat. When he told her he loved her she finally knew that he shared her feelings. She had started to tell him that she returned those feelings when he stopped her words by pressing the syringe into her hands. At that point she knew she had been wrong. She loved Oliver and for a split second had thought that he returned the feelings, but now she knew that she was just being a silly school girl.

Slade did come for her and used her to lure Oliver in. She knew he would be there, he had told her that he would always come for her, and that he trusted her. She had the secret weapon and she knew that it was up to her to end this. She knew Oliver and the rest of the Team were counting on her and she couldn't let them down, not now. As Slade went down she knew they had finally won, they had finally beaten him and Oliver could finally rest.

As they were preparing to leave the Island Felicity realized that the purgatory that Oliver had lived in for five years wasn't as bad, was actually a pretty place, when you were there with people you trusted, and that just as Oliver could see the beauty in the Island soon he would be able to start to see the good elsewhere as well, hopefully in himself.

When she turned to talk to him on the beach she knew that she had to hide her true feelings for him or she would never be able to move on. However, when she looked into his eyes she could finally see the real emotions that he had been hiding. He didn't want her to know, didn't want to show it, because as Slade had pointed out, being close to Oliver meant you could be in danger. But she knew, she finally knew how Oliver truly felt and for the first time in two years she had hope for a future with her hero.

Felicity finally knew that Oliver really did love her.

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