this_empty_room
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- Arrow (TV 2012) (3)
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Sometimes We Both Lose Our Minds (to find the better road) by this_empty_room
Fandoms: Arrow (TV 2012)
28 Apr 2017
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Returning back to his old life in Starling City, Oliver had anticipated and planned for many things. Carrying out the mission his father had bestowed on him, falling back into his old irresponsible persona, hiding his true self from his family and friends, and protecting them at all costs. The one thing he hadn’t planned on was gaining 2 new family members, his stepfather Walter Steele and Felicity Smoak, his childhood friend, now also his stepsister. Regardless of the changes and surprises, he knows he has to become someone... something else to make those on his father's List pay for their crimes.
The story is not being told in chronological order, but a timeline will be provided at the beginning of each chapter.
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John got Oliver a job as a bodyguard for Miss Smoak. But he was too late to find out that it is her 6 year old Joanna and not Felicity that he was going to protect.
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Find out who pointed Oliver to the right direction
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“Perhaps you should take a seat,” said Violet.
Colin wouldn't remember the details of what his mother told him next. He would remember her hand warm on his knee, her eyes wide with concern, her voice gentle as velvet. All of it in stark contrast to the devastating news she shared.
Penelope was ruined.
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25 Jul 2025
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Left Behind by emma98
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), Thor (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
27 Mar 2019
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Darcy Lewis went missing in June of 2014, taken by Hydra, and no one even noticed that she was missing. She suffered five hundred and fifty days of pain, torture, experimentation and icy cold sleep before a metal armed Angel of Death became her unlikely rescuer.
Now the only thing that Darcy wants is revenge. James just wants to keep her safe while keeping a handle on the covetous, dangerous Soldier living in his head, and recovering the pieces of Bucky he can.
The problem is, their road trip of retribution has a time limit, a nine month time limit. And that's only if they can stay one step ahead of Steve and the rest of the Avengers.
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11 Feb 2020
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Harsh circumstances often choose their victims at random, and sometimes the mantle of hero is pushed upon those who least expect it. The night before Oliver Queen was to go to China with his father, they received an anonymous tip about the Queen's Gambit being tampered with, so they flew instead. Oliver thus made it to China with his father, where circumstances still threw he and Sara Lance into a fight for survival. One Felicity Smoak, on the other hand, was on her way to China on Ferris Air flight 637 for an overseas job interview. And, with Oliver never on the island, Scylla remained completely operational. Follow them both through their intertwined journeys as vigilantes in Starling City.
Note: Oliver is still the Arrow.Series
- Part 1 of A Different Road
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20 Apr 2017
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He Deserves a Shot (At Being Happy) by ChronicOlicity for Chireusette
Fandoms: Arrow (TV 2012)
21 Jan 2018
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Short version: an AU where Tommy Merlyn didn't die, and is around for season 2 of Arrow.
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Tommy Merlyn has spent most of his life being an expensive disappointment to his family, but now he's a part-owner of a semi-successful nightclub in the worst area of town (it's seriously looking up) alongside his best friend, who — after five years on a deserted island — decided to come back to be a freaking vigilante. It's a long story, one that's longer than Tommy wants to remember, but it took the Glades collapsing and the death of one of their best friends to get him officially done with being a troublemaker. Nothing interesting. Just running a nightclub, and trying not to get into any trouble.Oliver's been gone god knows where for most of the summer, which means he's stuck being the big brother to the guy's snarky little sister, whose boyfriend "Ron" seems completely set on getting himself killed. An afternoon of test-driving Verdant's new cocktails gets interesting when Felicity Smoak and John Diggle show up asking (more) questions about where to find Oliver, and Tommy has to decide whether he wants to keep his new rule.
Spoiler alert: he doesn't.
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31 Aug 2016
Bookmarker's Notes
tommy being awesome, and meddling. Also awesome. And being Tommy. Gah such a good Oliver and Tommy dynamic. the olicity is fantastic.
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The year is 1912, Oliver was 9 and far too old to be babysitting that nonsensical girl Felicity whose parents owned the cattle ranch where his parents worked and lived, but she won him over with oat and raisin biscuits and soon became his little blonde sidekick...with a completely unrequited crush on him.
Years later she returns from boarding school and more than bush fires ignite in the changing times....
***COMPLETED***
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- Part 1 of Run to the Water
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26 Jul 2016
Bookmarker's Notes
Really vividly brings out emotions. Also something about old-timey childhood olicity friendship is apparently hitting all the spots.