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Felicity was sat on her station when she heard the door opening and saw Oliver going through and walking down the stairs
“Oliver what are you doing here?” she got up from her chair and went towards him while he looked at her like she was asking something obvious
“You called the Team Felicity,” he coughed “you said there was something going on in the glades and that you needed us here” he kept walking to where his suit was
“No, I asked the rest of the team here, you cannot go out today!”
“Why not?” he coughed again, stopping his steps and turning to look at her
“Oliver, you’re sick”
*cough* “no I’m not, I’m fine Felicity” *cough*he said, trying to hide his slight tremors, he was just a little cold. “this is nothing” He saw Felicity roll her eyes so fast and so hard that he was sure it had to hurt.
Felicity approached him and touched his forehead with her hand
“For god’s sake Oliver, you’re burning!”
He huffed, why was she so stubborn? He was fine! A little cough wasn’t going to keep him away from his duty with the city. He didn’t feel that bad!
“Oliver, you have been like this since Tuesday, don’t you think you should rest, even a little to try and get better?”
Okay, he had to admit that going to the foundry in the Ducati in the middle of a storm wasn’t one of his brightest decisions but it wasn’t as if it was his first night in the rain… Come on! It wasn’t that big of a deal! He ignored her and started walking again to his suit, ignoring Felicity’s comments. In that moment the door opened and Roy and Diggle stepped into the Foundry
“Hey man, are you okay?” Diggle asked him as soon as he laid eyes on him
“Yeah” he smiled at his friend but he coughed again “it’s nothing”
“Are you sure? You look like the time you overdosed with vertigo” John took two steps before Oliver put his hands up, stopping him
“I’m fine, really”
“Yeah? told that to your face” Roy said from his position next to Felicity “You look like shit dude”
Oliver was sure they was exaggerating things, sure, he was a little dizzy, but it was nothing
“While I appreciate your concern,” he said, glaring at Roy “I’m okay, really, I’ve got worse, this is” but he couldn’t end his sentence,
“Oliver Jonas Queen, if you say one more time that it’s nothing, I will kill you” Felicity all but yelled at him, he stood there, looking at her with wide eyes “I don’t care that you’ve had worse, I already know that. I’m aware that Lian Yu wasn’t exactly a vacation destiny, but you are not in a deserted-not so deserted island anymore, you are in Starling City, where a cold is reason enough to stay in bed 48 hours with soup and cuddles,” she walked to him until she was mere inches from his body “and most importantly, you don’t have to be strong all the time, I get it, you are used to be in a place where everything is saw as a weakness, and you have to survive on your own, but you are not fighting alone anymore, ” her voice softened which each word, and now she was barely whispering “let me take care of you, please”
Oliver looked at her in awe, this woman was much than he could ever deserved, for some reason she had decided to stay by his side, helping him with his mission, sacrificing her life without asking anything in return, sure he could take a day off if she was the one asking right? So he nodded with a little smile
“Ok, I’ll guide them through this mission and then I’ll be with you ok? You just… lay down in the cot, I’ll be with you in a minute” Oliver nodded again and went to lie down on the cot that they kept in the foundry.
He heard her as she talked to the guys about the situation on the glades, he didn’t pay a lot of attention but he learned that there was some band that was terrorizing the neighborhood shops, with a robbery almost every night, they were very violent and had no problem in hurting people if they encountered.
As soon as Diggle and Roy were out of the door Felicity was by his side, crouching beside the cot
“Let’s go,”
“Felicity, *cough* there’s no need for you to…”
“shut up” she interrupted him, her face serious, her voice hard “I told you that I wanted to take care of you, and that’s exactly what I’m going to do, so come on, get up” He obeyed with a sigh.
Felicity took him to her home, arguing that although his room in the mansion would be bigger, she wouldn’t be comfortable in his house, and there was no way she would let him out of her sight, in part because she promised to take care of him, in part because he didn’t trust him to not return to the lair. Once they arrived there Felicity told him to lay on the bed while she prepared him some dinner and drugs to help him with his fever. He wanted to argue, he wanted to say that the couch would be fine and that he didn’t want to bother her so much, but she didn’t listen to him. She handed him a t-shirt and sweats, signaled to her bedroom and sent him there with a little slap on his ass that made Oliver blushed a little, luckily the fever concealed the new heat on his face.
He had changed in the clothes she gave him and was lying on the bed when she opened the door carrying a tray with a steaming bowl of soup that smelled delicious, a glass of water and some pills in her hands.
“Thank you” he said, after he ate the entire bowl and swallowed the pills, and honestly, feeling better already “I know that I can be a handful sometimes, and you were right, I’m so used to be on my own, that it’s hard for me to accept certain things…like the fact that there are people out there who care about me” he took her hand in his “So thank you, for taking care of me….”
“My pleasure, really” she said, softly “I should… leave you to sleep….” She tried to get up, but Oliver that still had her hand in his didn’t let her “Oliver wh”
“You said something earlier about cuddling, was that true or just false advertising?” he smiled at her and she returned the smile. Without a word he laid on the bed and brought her with him, Felicity didn’t fight it, far from it, she accommodate herself in his arms, with her head in the crook of his neck “Goodnight Felicity”
“Goodnight Oliver”
In the morning Oliver felt much better, he didn’t even cough much and his fever had disappeared, or rather it had migrated to Felicity that woke up feeling like a truck had passed over her. Fortunately she had Oliver by her side taking care of her, always by her side the three days and nights that it took for her to get better. The first day that she woke up without fever and without coughing, he kissed her, passionately.
They didn’t leave her bedroom in two more days, but this time it was for very different and pleasant reasons.