A/N: So this is the second half of it, or the last half. I hope you didn't hate the first half, if you have read it already. So without any of my ramblings, I will just let you get back to the story.
As she was walking down the hall, someone grabbed her elbow from behind and spun her around. She was about to scream but before she could, someone's lips crashed to hers. She, in an instant knew who it was and before her mind could think rationally, her body had started to work on her own and she was kissing him back.
The kiss was nothing like she had ever dreamt of but so much more. And mind you, she has been dreaming of this moment for more that 3 years now. They broke apart for air but his lips didn't leave her, he was kissing along her jaw and was moving down to her neck.
When she could think again, her mind had started working again, it clicked that she was in fact kissing Oliver Queen, her boss, well ex-boss now, I guess, and the man she has loved for years now. She broke away from him with a gasp.
"I cant … you … you said … I cant … no … I wont survive this … I wont ..." she knew she was talking because she could hear her own voice, but she had no idea what exactly she was saying. Her mind had not come up with any logical explanation to what they had just yet.
"Felicity! Felicity!" he called her name a few times before she would calm down to listen to what he was actually saying.
He grabbed her by the elbow and they were back in his room before she knew what was happening. His hand traveled along hers and was holding her palms in his now. She had no idea of what was happening and she was looking at anywhere but him.
"Just let me explain everything once and then you can start your ramblings, okay?" He asked but she was still not looking at him.
"Felicity, look at me please" he said and slowly, very slowly, she looked up at him. What she saw took her breath away. He was many things and she had probably seen every part of his that he showed but right at this moment he was showing her something new, something she never thought he ever would be.
This Oliver, he was vulnerable. It pained in her heart to see him like this. It was physically painful for her to see him like this, his soul stripped bare in front of her to look at.
"What I said earlier, I didn't mean it." He started to say but the look on her face made him stop "I mean I did mean it but not in the way you think it did."
She was confused now, and he could see it in her face that she wasn't quite getting what he was saying.
"You said … " she took a deep breath before beginning again, "You said I had messed your life up since I came into it, that everything went out of control and that you didn't know what to do anymore. You … I asked if you wanted me to leave and you didn't stop me when I left a minute back. I … I don't understand" she said and he let her.
"Now just listen to me once, and then you will" he said once she was done and she just kept looking at him.
"I agree I said all those things but not meaning it the way you took it" he said and before she could interrupt again he held his hand up for her to stop. "Just let me finish."
"I meant it when I said that you had messed up my life once you came into it but it was because I couldn't pass a day without needing you to be by my side, I had never thought I would come to depend on anyone in my life but then you came and I couldn't control anything.
"You became a permanent fixture in all parts of my life; in the office, in the foundry, even in my home and I couldn't pass even an hour without thinking about you.
"Wherever I looked, I would see you. Guiding me through the night while patrolling, or during a meeting with the investors and Isabel Rochev. And before you ask, you are talking out loud which I think you didn't realize until now." He said.
"Anyways, that's not important right now. What I meant was I couldn't pass a day without being in you presence and last week you went home for Hanukkah and it was like I couldn't function without you there. I went out patrolling with Roy and I got hurt one night." he said and saw her flinch, her eyes wide with worry.
"I am fine, it was just a bullet graze and when I came back at the foundry, it was Thea fixing me instead of you and it … it just felt wrong. I kept thinking about you that whole night and I even made a plan of going to your parent's house. But then the next day you were back before time, not looking like yourself and I didn't have to go.
"The whole week you were different. You are usually so high on spirit during holidays every year and this year it was as if the life was sucked out of you. And I didn't like it, not at all. But you didn't want to share so we all let it go, even though we knew something was wrong. That's why I let it go.
"And then two days back you got hurt while on that mission" he sighed. It wasn't much, she just fell on the ground while they were fighting the bad guys in the club where she had gone to plant few bugs, and she had hit her head because she became unconscious. If it were a normal situation right now, he was sure she would have been rolling her eyes at him right bow.
Anyways, once he was sure it was safe he went to get her. He had gotten her back at the foundry, and even though Digg told him to relax, that nothing was wrong with her, he wasn't able to sit still until she had opened her eyes and in a very Falicity-like-way asked 'Don't tell me I was out, again.'
"When you opened your eyes, I felt as I could finally breathe again. I didn't have any idea that I was feeling that way until you looked at me and gave me that smile. And then I came back home for the night and I dreamt that you never opened your eyes and suddenly there was blood, so much blood Felicity and I woke up with cold sweat breaking out of my skin.
"I had never been scared like that before in my life. And it was just a dream. That morning I went office before time and was waiting for you to arrive. You are usually never late but that day you were, by almost an hour and I was ready to go out in search for you when you came in, bags laden with Thea in your tow.
"I was relieved and angry all the same time. I was so worried and there you were, shopping with my sister. I had to remind myself from time to time that it wasn't your fault and that I was being grumpy for no reason.
"And when you came to my room today, looking like, like the most beautiful woman on this planet I had to grip the railings so that I don't take you right then and there. Seeing you wearing my colour, in that sinful dress was probably too much for me.
"And then you started talking and I couldn't not listen to what you were saying. When you mentioned why you came back earlier that intended from home I felt happy and sad and angry all at the same time." He said and then took another deep breath. "It angered me that you went out with someone, although reluctantly, sad that your mother has been giving you grief and tried something like that and that you were sad and lastly happy because your date failed and you came back to city earlier."
He took something out of his pocket, it was a small box and put it in her palms that he was still holding. She looked from him to the box and then at him again.
"What is it?" she asked cautiously.
"Its your present. I had to get it once I saw it the other day and hopefully you will understand what I have been trying to tell you once you see it." He said and her breath caught in her throat.
She slowly opened the lid of the box and what was in there, made her gasp.
"Its …" she tried to find words which could describe it but she couldn't think of anything. So she settled for something simple. "Its beautiful. But it is … it is to much, I cant take such an expensive gift from you."
She was cut off with a finger on her lips, his fingers. He shook his head and took the piece out.
She was right it was a beautiful piece, it was a small heart shaped pendant studded with diamond. But the special part was the arrow shaped emerald that pierced through the heart. He had gotten a simple platinum chain to go along with it.
He motioned for her to turn around and when she did, he put it around her neck and then turned her by the shoulders to look at her. In the darkness of the room, it was glowing, she was glowing.
"You are … you are beautiful" he said because he was quite sure that no adjective would compare to what she looked like right at this moment to him.
"I told you, I had to get it for you once I saw it. It is everything I have tried to tell you for so long now. So there is no question about you not being able to accept it." He told her.
She walked towards the mirror without saying anything to her. She looked at herself wearing that and touched the pendent delicately. Suddenly the meaning behind it clicked inside her and she turned back to see him so quickly she almost slipped but he caught her before she could hit the ground.
They were now looking into each others eyes, both his arms wrapped around her waist. One of her hand was around his neck while the other lay steady atop his heart which was beating as fast as hers if you asked her.
They didn't say anything for a long moment but then she broke the silence as he balanced them up to stand straight again. But their hands never left each other and she spoke her realization out loud to him.
"You are giving me your heart?" she asked, almost a whisper.
"Yes" he simply said and she had never felt anything like what she did at that exact moment.
"You … you are giving me your heart" she said again, but this time it was not a question, it was a statement. He didn't say anything; he just looked at her as a flurry of emotions passed across her face.
"You mean …" she stopped herself. She couldn't assume this, he had to say this himself, she couldn't say that out loud.
He saw her face and knew exactly what was running through her mind so he just let go of it all for once in his life.
"I love you, Felicity Smoak. I love you more that you can understand or more that I thought was possible. I don't know when it all started for me but I know it will never end. Even if we are not together, I will always love you. It consumes me whole, this love for you that I feel, it drowns me. I have never known anything to be like this and I have been through some pretty intense stuff." He sighed.
"May be it began when you babbled for the first tie in front of me when I had bought you that bullet ridden laptop saying I spilled coffee over it" he said making her laugh lightly. Her eyes were misty but she was smiling now.
"Or may be it was when you saw the laptop and still didn't question any further and just helped me find out information. May be it was when mom shot me and I could only think of you who I could trust at that moment with my life's secret or may be when I woke up from almost death and saw you standing there with Digg and knew that I was right to trust you with me, my life."
He wasn't looking at her while he said all these, but his thumbs never stopped making circles in her lower back which would make her shiver every single time.
"When I think about it, it could have been at anytime that I fell in love with you and I wont be sure when exactly it happened. But what I am sure about is that I do, I do love you and that's all that matters to me.
"When you asked me if you should leave, I didn't say anything because I thought if I let you go than the pain will lessen that has gotten a grip at my chest since when I don't even remember anymore. That if I let you walk away now, you wont be hurt anymore, that you could have a normal life without all the secrets. I stopped myself from reaching out so many times, because you deserve so much better in life than what I can offer.
But then I watched you walk away from me and it felt as if you took everything with you once you stepped out of that door. My heart, my soul, even my sanity, everything and I didn't even realize I was moving and out of the door before I was kissing you."
She couldn't believe what she had just been listening to for the past few minutes but now that she knew it, she wasn't going to let him keep being stupid and let go of something that was so beautiful. She couldn't deny both of them what they wanted anymore. Because it hurt too much when she thought she had to leave him, this life and move on from it. It was too much and she couldn't handle it, ever again.
So she just chose to say him what she knew he wanted to hear, what she had denied herself as well as him because of stupid assumptions and both their hard-headedness. She closed her eyes once and took a deep breath before opening them and looking at him again.
"I love you too, Oliver Queen. I have loved you for so long that now it has become a prt of me. I love you like I need to breathe air and if you ever, ever do that to me again, I will kill you with your own damn bow and arrow." She said, tears streaming down her face both she had never been happier. Oliver quickly wiped her tears away with his thumb and kissed her cheeks, then forehead and lastly a quick peck on her lips.
"Well … its about damn time" came a voice from behind them and they turned to see Digg, Roy and Thea standing at his doorway, smirking at the two of them.
"You owe my 50 bucks!" Roy said to Digg who probably just remembered the bet and groaned in response but then he looked back at his friends who were still locked in each others arms and his smile returned.
"What are you two doing here? And what all did you hear?" Oliver asked. "How long have you all been standing here?" he asked irritated.
"Chill big brother, we just came in. You never came down and suddenly Liz disappeared as well so we came to look for you both and we didn't listen much." Thea said, rolling her eyes.
"Ya, we only caught the tail of it when I think Liz here threatened to 'kill you with you own damn bow and arrow'" Roy said, making air-quotes.
Oliver rolled his eyes at them and Felicity just hid her face in his chest, embarrassed.
"Anyways, Mom has been asking for you since me and Liz came back and you to need to come back down or else it will be Mom who come through this door next time" Thea said and the other two nodded obediently.
With a sigh, Felicity pulled herself away from Oliver but he didn't let go of her hands even when she tugged at it.
"I need to fix my make up a bit before we go back, so could you?" she asked him, gesturing towards their joined hands and he smiled sheepishly before letting go of her hands.
Thea went to help Felicity and soon all five of them were walking back downstairs where the party was on full swing now. Like the perfect CEO, Oliver went and mingled with colleagues and everyone else. He caught site of his mother from across the room and she smiled at him which he returned. But all while he was doing this, meeting everyone, he never once let go of Felicity's hands which were joined to his.
Thea and Roy were dancing and Digg and Lyla were standing in the corner, talking to each other softly. Although you couldn't really listen to what they were talking but the smile on their faces were enough to let Oliver know that they were happy and enjoying the moment.
He looked at his side to see Felicity talking to one of his colleagues and he tugged at her hand. When she looked up at him he gestured towards the dance floor where many couple were swaying with the music.
The smile she gave him was so bright, he though it could light up a dark room. They excused themselves from the people they were talking to and moved towards the centre of the floor. He took one of her hand in his and his other hand went around his waist to pull her closer while her other hand went around his neck. Thy were so close, they could feel each others breath on ones face.
They danced for a while and even caught the eyes of their other team members as well as Moira but they didn't let go of each other nor did they stop swaying to the beautiful melody that was being played.
"Did I tell you that you look gorgeous today? Absolutely stunning!" Oliver whispered softly in her ear which made her shiver and he pulled her even closer if that were possible.
"You did say something among those lines" she said and felt a rumble in his chest. He was laughing and she looked t him with a smile.
"I don't know how I could just sit back and watch you from afar when I could do this to you" he said and kissed her neck and she moaned softly.
Thankfully Oliver had moved them to a corner of the room and people couldn't listen to them. Neither Oliver's suggestive words nor the moans Felicity was making.
It was almost midnight and the two of them moved out of the room and walked towards the patio. People were doing countdown and they smiled looking at each other.
"5 … 4 … 3 … 2 …" you could hear people shouting from the outside but they paid no mind to it. They turned to face each other, hands joined, smiling.
"Happy New Year" they both said at the same time, smiling. It was as if they couldn't help smiling while looking at each other.
"I love you" Felicity said and his smile got even bigger.
"I love you too" he said back and then they were moving towards each other.
They moved closer until there was no space in between them and their lips met for a sweet kiss.
When they broke apart for air, they were grinning. They were sure that they were thinking the same thing and they said it aloud, together.
"This is going to be a good year."
A/N: that's it. This is the end of it. I will hopefully write more Olicity fics since I love them to death and I adore Felicity and her inappropriate rambling. And who doesn't love them some Oliver/Arrow hotness ;)
Till I see you again, keep reading and I wish to see your reviews up top !
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