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“Bye, Mom. I have everything I need. I love you too, and yes, I will tell her that you say hello.” Narissa Smoak said to her mother as she boarded the train along with the rest of her teammates. She was headed to Starling City, home to her personal hero and pain in the neck, older sister Felicity.
Wearing her CCHS (Central City High School) Varsity Swim Team sweatshirt with pride, Narissa thought of her sister and the real reason for this whole trip. Her mother thinks its because she has an important meet this weekend that could decide the rest of her years as a high school swimmer, and this is true, but swimming career is not the only thing drawing her to Starling City. During their last weekly phone call which usually ended up lasting into the early morning, Felicity had told Narissa that she had been promoted to Executive Assistant to the CEO of Queen Consolidated, Oliver Queen himself. Narissa had done her homework on him since then and decided that there were only one way her sister had gotten that job: Oliver Queen needed something from Felicity Smoak. Whether it be sex or something else entirely, Narissa was determined to find out what.
“Felicity, where are you going? I still have three more meetings I we have to go to,” Oliver Queen says to his EA and lunch break partner. She had been trying to slip out unnoticed and had failed, but who could blame her? She had been trying to sneak past a trained vigilante.
“I have to go run a quick errand. I’m sure you can eat lunch by yourself for one day. Plus, even if I’m late for the first meeting, Anderson will be even more late.” Felicity replied tentatively as she tried her best to sound innocent. She guessed it must have worked since Oliver just waved a hand at her to signify his goodbye with a slightly disappointed look on his face.
Making her way to her car, Felicity tries to compose her obvious smile that has escaped onto her face. I finally get to see my baby sister! she thought to herself as she started the car to pick up her sister at the Starling City train station.
Oliver picked up his phone as soon as Felicity was out of earshot. “Dig, get the car. And make sure you see which way Felicity leaves. I want to make sure that she’s okay.”
“Please tell me we are not following this poor girl during her lunch break, Oliver” Diggle replied.
In an annoyed tone at the sass Diggle was giving him, Oliver assured his bodyguard that Felicity had been acting strangely excited and out of character this morning and he had to make sure that nothing was wrong.
“Did it ever occur to you that she may just want an hour to herself? She does have to spend most of her day with you, either in the office or in the foundry. That’s enough to make any girl run away.” Diggle asks Oliver as a way to try and convince him to leave Felicity alone. All Diggle hears in response is a grunt as he leaves to get the car.
Narissa stepped off the train with the rest of her team and waited with them until her swim coach was assured that she would be okay and her sister was on her way. Once they left for their hotel, it was just Narissa waiting to finally see Felicity in over a year, in fact, the last time she saw her sister was a few days before Oliver Queen came to visit her in the small cubicle in the IT department with a broken computer. Felicity had told her that week about the encounter with the resurrected playboy and the ridiculous excuses he used.
Just as she was lost in her thoughts about her sister’s accounts of Oliver Queen, she was interrupted by the sound of her ringtone, the sound of the TARDIS from Doctor Who, her and her sister’s favorite show to watch together. She looked down at the caller ID and picked up immediately.
“Hey, I’m so sorry I’m late! Traffic was horrible on the way here,” Narissa heard her sister say as soon as she picked up the call.
“It’s fine. Where are you now? Do you want me to meet you somewhere else?”
“No! Don’t move! Mom would kill me if I lost you somewhere in the city your first day here.”
“Whatever you say, sis.”
“I’ll be there in a few minutes. Please just stay put and wait for me.”
Narissa sat on a bench and waited for Felicity with her blond hair in a high ponytail.
Felicity parked her car with the biggest smile on her face for months. Narissa may only be staying for this weekend and would mostly be at her swim meet, but any time together would be better than none.
She walked into the train station and was immediately was attacked by a smaller girl who squealed in Felicity’s ear. “‘Rissa, although I am very happy to see you, I need my limbs back.”
“Sorry, I really missed hugging you like that. I haven’t done that since I was a kid and you would always pick me up and throw me on the couch or the bed.”
“You were so small then, that it was easy!”
Narissa and Felicity sat on the bench in the train station for another couple of minutes before they finally got up and left the station. As they walked out Felicity couldn’t help but feel like she was being watched.
Oliver watched as a small girl almost jumped on top of Felicity and was about to run in there to stop whoever it was. Before he could move, Diggle put his hand on Oliver’s shoulder. “Wait, I think I know who that is. A few days after the quake, I overheard her talking on the phone to her mother. She kept asking about someone named Narissa. I figured it was a family member, and from that greeting I think they’re sisters. Oliver, has she ever mentioned anything like this to you?”
Oliver looked over at Diggle with confusion in his eyes and couldn’t help but feel like he had failed to somehow see the signs, as he shook his head. He quickly told Diggle to start the car so they could be back to the office before Felicity.