Chapter 2, One-shot.

A/N: Jealous Oliver again with Tommy playing wing man again but this time with Moira and Walter helping Oliver see the light.

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Oliver gulped down his scotch then winced at the strong taste.

"Man, you trying to kill yourself or something?" his best friend Tommy was suddenly by his side giving him a funny look.

"Or something," he felt compelled to answer.

"Does the cryptic or something have to do with that over there?" Tommy asked directing his thumb toward Felicity being charmed by Ray Palmer himself, renowned tech whiz and owner of Palmer Tech, a known competitor of Queen Consolidated and market leader in wearable technology.

Oliver growled and narrowed his eyes at the sight of Ray Palmer giving Felicity, his Felicity, a toothpaste smile one that Oliver himself used a lot during his misspent youth to charm a lady into…well, whatever.

"Now what I don't understand is why you are all the way here, when your girl because she is still your girl right, is all the way over there being buttered up by the competition."

Oliver gritted his teeth in frustration, "she wants to keep our relationship private."

Tommy gave his friend an incredulous look then laughed, "wait a second, you're telling me that Felicity doesn't want any PDA or even to be identified with you in public." Tommy shook his head, "that has to be a first, ever. Usually it's the reverse. You're the one who could get away soon enough. Who had no time for clingy women. Hell, you shy away from relationships. Why the hell are you letting her do this?"

Oliver barely got his next sentence out, "because it's what she wants. She doesn't want anyone to get the impression that she got where she was because she's my girlfriend."

Tommy shook his head at his best friend again, "mighty big of you to do what your girlfriend," emphasizing the word, "wants. Damn boy, I was right the first time. You're deeply smoked by Felicity," grinning at his own pun then turned serious, "you do know that as long as you don't put your claim on something as," Tommy grasped for words that described Felicity and finally settled on, "perfect as that in a public setting, the likes of Palmer over there will forever try to charm her away from you."

"Don't you think I know that? I fall for the one woman who doesn't want to be seen with me in public."

Still distracted by Palmer and his obvious attempts at trying to illicit a response from his girlfriend he failed to notice his mother and Walter Steele in front of him and Tommy at first until Moira spoke.

"Walter dear, isn't that the guy who is into all that future technology stuff," pointing out Ray Palmer to her husband.

"Yes dear, that's Ray Palmer, CEO of Palmer Tech. One of our stiff competitors," Walter frowned at what he was witnessing with his eyes, "and not above trying to poach one of our best if not our brightest IT specialists away from us."

"You mean that young and beautiful woman with Palmer is one of our own at QC, our IT Specialist?" Moira asked Walter intrigued.

"I personally interviewed her more than a year back, top of her class at MIT. It took quite a bit of persuading by our Human Resources to get her to work for us instead of Wayne Industries at that time," Walter shared with his wife.

Tommy looked at Oliver as if saying 'you see, on her own she has enough credit to her skill that even if it was a known fact that Oliver was dating her, the fact that she was dating the son of the owner wouldn't reflect badly on her future success within QC.'

Oliver gave his friend a freezing look before he looked back at his girlfriend and Palmer, making a decision that would change not only his life but her life irrevocably after tonight.

"I don't think Palmer would ever be able to charm her out of QC, ever," he told his mother and Walter smugly.

Walter gave him a surprised look knowing that his stepson was not one for loaded statements like the one he just made. His wife was looking at her son speculatively and she dared to voice the question he wanted to.

"And why is that son?"

Oliver smiled, a rare, real, dimpled and bright smile that had Moira almost taking a step back at the change in her son's demeanor, "because that woman Palmer is trying to charm is my girl, my girlfriend actually," he said the last part sheepishly with a very faint blush on his neck.

Moira looked at her son in shock, then to his best friend Tommy who was nodding enthusiastically as if anticipating his best friend's mother seeking confirmation then back at her son, "Oliver, you have a girlfriend?"

Oliver rubbed his neck shyly, "yeah, it's kind of new and Felicity doesn't want it broadcasted."

Moira was taken a back at her son's statement, "she's the one who wanted to keep this under wraps?"

"Yup Mrs. Q or Mrs. S, sorry Walter," Tommy said apologetically, "that's exactly my reaction earlier."

Moira nodded at Tommy then looked back at her son searching his face for a full minute before she gave her son a smile and squeezed his hand, "this is serious then?"

Oliver exhaled heavily and then gave a nervous laugh, "on my end it is, I'm almost sure of it."

"Then what are you doing here when there's a guy all over your girl over there?" Moira asked him confused.

"Because I'm respecting her wish, that's why," a little peeved at his Mother and Tommy now ganging up on him.

Tommy frowned, "just a thought bro. What if the reason she doesn't feel confident about PDA is because she just didn't want to be another feather in your cap, identified as one of the many Ollie girls."

Moira nodded in agreement with Tommy and also to encourage her son.

"That's not what this is. Felicity is different…..she's special," Oliver said.

Walter joined in to make his stepson she the light, "if she's worried that being identified with you would affect her career and her opportunities for growth in QC then I can assure you it wouldn't. She's been on a fastrack career to the top the day we signed her, human resource has been tracking her progress. She's definitely up for promotion but that has nothing at all to do with you son and everything to do with her and her skills."

"Then there's nothing left for you to do but claim your girl bro," Tommy gave his friend the final push.

Oliver looked at the three people in front of him giving him encouragement then he finally blew out a breath, "now you got me all nervous, what if she pushes me away."

"She won't. She just wanted you to be sure of your action I think more than anything else," Tommy grabbed his friend's arm, "if you do this and hurt her, you'll have me to deal with. She's my friend too. The girl has me wrapped around her finger."

Oliver nodded to his friend acknowledging the not so veiled threat. Just as he was going to step away toward his girl his mother said, "Oliver son, I expect you and your girlfriend for dinner at the house tomorrow evening. It's time I get to know this girl. It isn't fair that I apparently am the only one here who hasn't officially met her."

Oliver grinned at his mother like a little boy, "sorry Mom, like I said it's new and I'll tell her about dinner tomorrow night. But right now I have to get to my girl."

Walter, Moira and Tommy all watched Oliver approach his girl and Palmer with Oliver sliding an arm around her waist and Felicity jumping then giving him a shocked look then as if seeing something in the look Oliver was giving her, leaned in to him giving Oliver the opportunity to further pull her into his side.

"You know getting them together was my idea." Tommy told Moira and Walter, "it was getting painful watching Ollie make puppy eyes at Felicity for months."

"Months?" Moira raised an eyebrow at Tommy then looked at her husband as he laughed in reaction as he realized something.

At his wife's questioning look he shared, "a few weeks after Oliver first got back, he asked me to recommend someone who was very good with IT, I gave him Felicity's name." Walter looked at Tommy then his wife, "I wondered why he was always hanging around QC, particularly the IT department."

Tommy lifted a hand and folded his fist then moved it toward Moira, "fist bump Mrs. S?" he playfully asked Moira, "no? Well, I expect to be Ollie's best man at his wedding being the first class wing man that I am." He told Moira and Walter before walking away.

This time Moira watched Tommy walk away thinking that her son was very fortunate to have someone like Tommy Merlyn always watching his back, wing man indeed.