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Oliver POV
An hour passed. Then two. The wolf just laid by the shore line watching. Why wasn't it giving up?
Felicity's head was still resting in my lap. She had fallen asleep after recovering from her near death experience. I almost lost her. Cliche or not, a brush with death is truly an eye opener. A world without Felicity in it would be miserable. She was the one person I could count on to make my horrible days better. If I had lost her...
Looking out towards the ocean, I began thinking of life in Starling. Do they know we are missing? What is Slade doing while I'm gone? How is my family going to react if they don't find us? We need to get off this island. We need to go home.
"Oliver?" A scratchy voice sounded from my lap. A dry cough shook her entire body.
"I'm still here," I whispered softly.
"What are we going to do?" She sounded so tired and weak. It hurt me to see her like this.
"I'm working on it," I replied glancing towards the sandy shore.
"I wish you had your bow and arrows," she muttered.
"Me too. Sadly I didn't think they would be necessary for the trip. Unless of course I was Cupid shooting my arrows of love," I joked hoping to cheer her up some. I rarely saw her like this. A faint chuckle let me know that all hope was not lost.
"We are going to get through this, okay?" I reassured. I felt her nod in agreement on my lap.
I glanced down at her beaten face. Red scratches covered her cheeks. The bruise on her forehead near her hairline was a greenish yellow. Her glasses surprisingly remained in a decent condition considering all she had went through.
"How's your leg and wrist?" I asked knowing it had been awhile since her last dose of pain pills.
"If I don't focus on them, they're at a six on the pain scale." She tensed up at the mention of her injuries.
"I'm sorry." I wanted so badly to swim across the small amount of ocean between us and the shore. I wanted to slay the beast and bring the damsel in distress the help she needs. I didn't have a weapon. The wolf did.
"Thank you," she mumbled unexpectedly.
"For what?" I asked confused.
"For saving me. That wave hit me and I just blacked out. The next thing I know I'm waking up and choking on water. So thank you for saving my life, again. That wolf would have killed me too. Yet without hesitation you push me out of the way and risk your own life. Thank you really doesn't cover it."
"You never have to tell me thank you, Felicity. I will always come to your rescue. Always," I promised.
A loud noise cut off whatever she was going to say. The noise sounded like a boats horn. A spark of hope lit a fire deep inside me. Were we going to be rescued? Were we going to go home?
"Oliver? Was that a boat?" Felicity asked carefully sitting up.
My eyes scoured the ocean looking for a boat to save us. I didn't see anything. Nothing was off in the distance. Nobody was here to save us. Then what was that noise?
"I uh.. I don't.." the noice cut me off. It sounded like it was coming from the island. A loud howl snapped my attention to the shore. The grey wolf had its head thrown back towards the sky as it sat on its hind legs.
The wolf stopped howling and turned its attention towards the jungle. A figure appeared out of the jungle wearing nothing but a loin cloth. The man carried a spear and had some other weapon strapped to his side.
"Hide," I whispered pulling her behind the medium sized rock that lay on the tiny island. I peeked over the rock and watched as the man bent down and pet the wolf. He looked like he was talking to carnivorous beast.
" I know you're out there!" The man shouted as he stood up. " You cannot hide from me! This is my island! All trespassers must die at the hands of Kai!"
"Oliver?" Felicity whispered in shock. I could feel her trembling beside me.
"Asena! Bring me the trespasser!" I heard the wolf bark in what seemed to be compliance. The wolf darted into the jungle and returned a minute later dragging a screaming man. The man fought hard against the wolf's clutches.
"Trespasser! You have stepped foot on Kai's holy ground. You must perish to atone for your sins!" Kai screamed to the terrified victim being pulled by the wolf.
"Please no don't!" The man begged. "I just fly the plane. My name is Ron Geller! I'm a co-pilot. I have two kids and a loving wife. Tomorrow is little Rachel's birthday! She's turning six! Please I beg you! I'll leave and never return!"
"Trespassing is punishable by death. No amount of begging can save you for the Law of Kai!" Kai lifted Ron onto his knees and walked behind him.
"Asena has your scent trespassers. Their is no escape! I will hunt you both down and make you pay for your sins! In the name of Kai!" The man screamed as he pulled out a curved knife and sent the blade across the mans neck. I had to turn my head in disgust. One of my hands had covered Felicity's mouth to prevent her from screaming.
"The next trespasser shall die when I have rested from this tiresome act! We shall meet again!" Kai shouted walking back into the jungle with his wolf following behind him.
We lay there speechless for a few minutes. I had no idea how I could respond to the events that unfolded before me. We have been being watched this whole time on the island. A psychopath who calls himself Kai is wanting to kill us for being on his island. He has a trained wolf that wants to hunt us down and bring us to its master.
"We are going to die," Felicity whispered breaking the silence. Terror laced her voiced heavily.
"We'll figure something out," I responded not sounding completely confident. She turned towards me with red puffy eyes. Tears were running down her face like a river.
"I'm injured and you have no weapon. He has a wolf and at least two weapons that we saw. How the hell do we beat that?" She asked sharply.
"Where did that optimism go that you had on the plane?" I asked extremely worried. I had never seen her like this.
"It fell out of the sky and was killed by a crazy psychopath. This island had been nothing but absolute hell since we've got here. I don't.. I don't see how we are going to make it. That man..I can...he is... " She was starting to hyperventilate.
"Felicity," I said worried. Her chest rapidly went up and down as she continued to hyperventilate. "Felicity." I tried once more. She still wasn't calming down.
Running out of options, I did something unthinkable. I crashed my lips onto hers. I felt as her body jumped in shock at the sudden act. Her chest slowed its rapid movements as her surprised stature eased. The kiss was sloppy and rushed. It wasn't what I imagined our first kiss to be like.
Breaking apart from my lips, Felicity pulled her face back from mine. "What just happened?" She asked confused. Her eyes found their way to mine. Her eyebrows were scrunched together trying to piece together the event that just took place.
"That's the only thing I could think to do to distract you. You were scarring me," I confessed.
"Kissing me was your way of calming me down?" Felicity asked confused still.
"Trust me, that's not how I wanted that first kiss to go. It was just the only thing I could think to do to get you to relax," I admitted.
"Wait you've thought about having a first kiss with me?" She asked taken aback about what I had accidentally let slip out.
"Well I uh... You see I..." I mumbled sounding like Felicity with all her babbling. She placed her index finger in my lips and made a shushing noise.
"I've thought about it too, Oliver. I pictured it to go like this," she whispered leaning her lips back into mine. Her kiss was soft and full of stored up passion. She tilted her head deepening the kiss. My hands gently gripped the sides of her face. Having her here in my embrace like this made me temporarily forget about the danger lurking on the island. I wished I could stay in this moment for the rest of my life. She was pure bliss.
"We are going to get through this Felicity. Together," I whispered against her lips.