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The first time he butt dialed Felicity, she thought it was funny.
Tommy and Oliver were apparently having a boys’ night out and were drinking upstairs in the VIP lounge when Oliver butt dialed Felicity.
“He left like 10 minutes ago, what can happen in 10 ten minutes that he would need me?” She looked at Diggle as she picked up the phone and held it to her ear.
Diggle shrugged.
“Is that Tommy on the phone?” she puts the phone on speaker, “and why is he on Oliver phone and calling me and talking about Marisa. And who is Marisa by the way, do we need to know about her?”
Felicity is trying hard to concentrate but there was music in the background along with Oliver’s laughter which made anything Tommy was saying a tad difficult to understand.
“I think the boy butt dialed you and what you are hearing is them reminiscing about their misspent youth,” Diggle said with a smirk.
“Ah the explains why they are so enthusiastic about Marisa’s acrobatic abilities …. And that other thing that she did when Tommy was … because you know they are Tommy and Oliver and I think I should stop and end this phone call. I mean I already know more about their past than I should know between me doing extensive research on Oliver before joining you guys and Tommy dropping details of many of those incidents randomly so …” Felicity ended the call with her face flushed and Diggle shaking his head laughing at her.
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It was one of those rare days that she left the office on time because she was throwing her roommate from college and her best friend Zoe a birthday party. It’s not every day a girl turns 25 and she wanted to make sure that they all have fun and that she stays there for the whole duration and not get called on Arrow business so she decided to keep the other two members of her team occupied on the same night. She arranged a great date night for Diggle and arranged the long overdue conference call for Oliver with the Hong Kong office that should keep him occupied till 9.00 pm and then made sure that Thea would call on him to spend some time with her. Thea agreed and even put Felicity and her friends on the VIP list that night.
While she was getting ready for the party at her home, straightening her hair and singing under her breath, she heard her phone ring and saw Oliver’s face and thought: Why is he calling me, shouldn’t he be on that conference call right now?
She picked up the phone and said hello. What she heard on the other end was the most awkward or hilarious conversation ever, depending on who you are.
Apparently, Isabel called for a break in that conference call and was coming onto Oliver rather strongly. Oliver was probably squirming (that would explain the butt dial) and trying to tell her that they have to get back to the conference room in 15 minutes and that they should go over the numbers before they restart the meeting and Isabel was saying that 15 minutes are more than enough and she can be quicker than that. She ended the call suddenly because while she has seen the evidence of their tryst in Russia, she did not want to add their heavy breathing to her memory.
A few hours later when she spotted Oliver at Verdant – she took her party to verdant when her friends found out that she has VIP space reserved – she couldn’t stop staring at him. When he asked her what? She point blankly asked him, “So how did you manage to take up Isabel on her offer with all the glass walls in your office?”
When Oliver sported a blank look, she pointedly looked at the phone in his hand and said, “I heard it all Oliver, and seriously, how can you butt dial a smart phone? It does not even have any buttons!”
Oliver looked at her wondering if she only heard the first part of the conversation or did she get to the part where he told Isabel that there would never be a repeat of what happened in Russia and that he cannot hurt someone by being so cavalier with his affections.
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Felicity was on her desk at QC building when she heard the Oliver specific phone ring. She wondered how Oliver got off so early from the lunch with Thea. They do at least one weekly lunch together and he usually comes in late when he goes for lunch with his sister. In fact, Felicity has started to keep his afternoons free on the days he has lunch with Thea because she was tired of cancelling the meetings or making excuses for her boss who was late almost all the time.
She picked up the phone with a worried, “Is everything okay?” but heard Thea saying, “Ollie, I am not handing you your phone back before you tell me what is going on between you and Felicity.”
Felicity’s curiosity is piqued. Why is Thea interested in her? She gets along fine with the younger Queen siblings, one can say that the two of them are sort of friends – probably because she is with Oliver almost all the time and whenever they all end up in the same room, Roy starts gushing about Felicity and her mad computer skills – Roy excused his repeated absences on Team Arrow business to Thea with computer classes at a local community college which also was a great cover for his friendship with Felicity. Felicity always try to downplay that with lines like ‘I should be good, an MIT degree is not cheap’ and ‘of course I have decent skills, I used to be in IT’ but Thea never really questioned further. It seemed like she is inquisitive about her presence in his life now.
“Speedy, hand me back my phone, and there is nothing going on between us. Felicity is a friend and we work well, that’s all,” Oliver sounded exasperated.
“Aha, so you admit that you guys work well, the question here is if it is limited to working in the office or does it transcend in to your personal lives as well?” Thea was shamelessly cheeky.
“Thea, this is not nice and if HR people hear us, I could be in trouble for talking about an employee like this,” Oliver tried to deflect.
“You just admitted that she is a friend so don’t feed me the employee line. Secondly, I have seen the way you look at her. It’s like the sun is coming of out of her ass and before you deny that you have not noticed her ass, you have – many times , and you make this face and noise which is like a cross between a scowl and a snarl whenever Roy acts like her fanboy, it is like you cannot wait to strangle him or at least whoop his ass. He is my boyfriend and I am okay with him being a fan boy. Felicity seems like a well adjusted independent woman and she takes it in her stride – after all it is harmless gushing – the only person who gets mad is you. You get jealous because she is your girl,” Thea had such smug satisfaction in her voice it was like she has discovered the cure for cancer or something just as stupendous.
If the sounds on the phone are to be believed, Oliver, who was probably drinking something, choked on it. Felicity, who was not drinking anything, choked on the air. Questioning herself; wondering if Oliver really looks at her in a special way.
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It has been two weeks since Oliver finally admitted his feelings for Felicity.
They are in Felicity’s apartment, making out on her couch like teenagers when Felicity decided that it was long enough a period and they should move beyond making out to some serious sexy times. She took her cardigan off and straddled Oliver started unbuttoning his shirt.
Oliver got the message and kissed her deeply, his hands moved under her tank top. As his hand moved up her ribcage and his kisses traveled down her neck, she heard the distinctive sound of Oliver Queen ringtone on her cell phone and she pulls back.
“Seriously Oliver, how do you manage to butt dial me all the time with a smart phone? I mean how do you do that?” She had to ask him.
“Err you are stored as my emergency call and the first number on my speed dial and I probably talk to you most so most of the time, you are my last call so I guess …” Oliver left it at that with a confused expression. Felicity laughed at that and leaned in to kiss him.
Oliver breaks that kiss and asks, “So exactly how often do I butt dial you?”