Have I ever told you how much I love Thea's hate for Oliver's new choice of "female friend". Ohhh Thea, never change. I just hope we can see a little bit of her shipping Olicity before the season ends.

16 - Hashtag

For once, Oliver was having a good day. There was no members of the city council arguing with him, no noisy resporters pestering him about whatever was the controversy of the week. He even had time to go out for lunch. However, something was making him feel uneasy. In his experience, when things were that quiet it meant that something big was about to happen. That is why he did not even flinch when his sister entered his office without knocking.

"Why didn't you tell me?" she shouted the moment she entered thought the door.

"Tell you what?"

Thea closed the door before getting closer to the desk, her phone in her hand. "About you and Felicity" she simply said, sitting in front of Oliver.

"What about me and Felicity?"

"Ollie... I'm your sister. You can trust me. In fact you should have told me before I had to read about it online".

Oliver let out a long sigh, dropping the pen he had been holding and covering his face with his hands. He loved his sister, more than anything in the world, but sometimes her communication skills needed to be polished.

"Ok Thea, you are going to need to give me details, because right now I have no idea what you are talking about."

His sister did not answer, she simply rolled her eyes and showed Oliver the screen of her phone. It was an article from a gossip site with the title #Olicitywatch is back on. He took Thea's phone from her hands, letting a "What the hell!" out of his mouth. The article explained how Oliver and Felicity had been seen in the last couple of weeks together in public, with photos included. There was one of a couple of weeks, when Oliver has accompanied Felicity to her car after a night of crime-fighting in the bunker. Also a photo of Felicity with a bag of Big Belly Burguer meeting Oliver at City Hall when she had brought him lunch last week. There even was one of them from a couple of hours ago, when Oliver had met Felicity for lunch by chance in their favourite Indian place.

Those moments had been pretty innocent, after the whole Helix/Pandora hacking that Felicity had gone through last month Oliver was just trying to reconnect with her, as friends hanging out. However, in those photos it looked like there was something else between them. He had his hand on Felicity's back, Felicity was smiling at him like she used to do when they were travelling around the world, and they was barely a few centimeters between them in every photo. They had been growing closer again, but definitely not as much as the article was implying.

"This is not what you think, Thea. Felicity and I are not back together."

"But you have been hanging out together more lately."

"That's true, but as friends."

"Really? You are going to play that card with me?" said Thea, taking her phone back and starting to look for something on it. "Do friends, who used to be engaged, usually spent their saturday mornings going to the Farmers Market?

She showed Oliver her phone again. It was a tweet with the hashtag #OlicityWatch, full of emoticons of hearts and exclamation points, and a photo of them from last saturday, when Oliver had suggested that Felicity needed to stop eating so much take out and had offered to go with her to the Farmers Market in search for fresh products.

"Are paparazzis following me again?" Even while being the Mayor he had managed to keep himself away from gossip magazines, but if he was being followed by photographs all over the city then there was a higher risk of his "green secret" being discovered. But that did not worried him as much as thinking about Felicity being stalked by those paparazzi.

"No, this is just the Olicity Watch."

"The what?"

"Ollie, do you even listen when I talk to you? I explained you this months ago" replied a very annoyed Thea. "#OlicityWatch is the hashtag that people use to talk about you and Felicity. Last year it was pretty active, but it basically disappeared when you two... you know..." Thea tried to avoid the word break up. "Then, a couple of weeks ago, people started to post photos again. And I was waiting for you to tell me the truth in person, but it was getting ridiculous, so I came here instead."

"Thea..."

"Don't 'Thea' me! I'm your sister. You should tell me when you get back together with the love of your life."

"Thea, Felicity and I are not together."

"What? No! Why?"

"I told you. We are just friends."

"But the photos..."

"Are just from two people spending time together. Like they used to do even before they were a couple." Oliver took a deep breath,looking at the dissapointment written on his sister's face. "I'm sorry Thea, but as mush as the Internet wants Felicity and I back together we are not."

"...Yet" added Thea, and continued before Oliver could interrupt her. "Look at the photos! You still care for each other. You still love each other. Even if both of you had tried to move on, at the end you always found each other."

Oliver did not say anything for a few seconds. He was thinking, wishing that his sister's words held some truth to them. "You really think so?"

"I know so." She said with a soft smile. "And when the inevitable happens, I hope you would tell me directly so I don't have to find about it on Twitter."

"I promise." Oliver said, returning the smile. "And we also should talk about how creepy is that hashtag and the fact that you follow it."

"If I were you I would call Felicity first" said Thea, getting up from the chair, smirking. "I'm sure she is going to like it even less than you did."

For once Thea was wrong. Felicity did find the whole hashtag thing pretty funny, and she even started to follow it herself. Three months later Oliver did good to his promise, telling Thea that he and Felicity were trying to be a couple again. And of course, Thea was the first one to tweet about it with a photo of her favourite couple and using the hashtag #OlicityWatch.