Felicity Smoak and Tommy Merlyn knew each other way before Oliver introduced them in the Verdant.

You know by now that Felicity Smoak is a GENIUS! What you don't know about her is that she didn't just attended MIT but a year after she graduated she decided to go to Med School, you see QC hadn't discovered her yet. So she went to Med school and work at a huge bookstore/café place in Chicago.

The first year of her studies she met Tommy Merlyn who went under the name Connor Rhodes in the school so he can get away from his playboy persona and focus on him studies, weird right? I know!

They became great friends since they were sitting next to each other and when Felicity's salary couldn't take it living by herself she asked him if he was interested moving in with her so he won't have to take the train every day from Starling City to Chicago, a three hours ride.

He agreed and then he moved in about half year through her cousin Kelly Saveride asked if he could crush too since he was working as a Lieutenant in the Fire Department of their neighborhood.

So they were two guys and one girl until Shay, Severide's colleague, requested if she could stay with them for a few months until she found a better home since she was new.

So the numbers of genders equalized and Felicity was glad! The months turned into a year and Shay remained in their house and they had become a small family.

Around the third year Felicity and Tommy couldn't be more thankful for the group of friends they had made. They knew the entire Fire Department. Life was good.

Until graduation rolled over and Felicity got the QC letter she's been waiting and like that Tommy decided to return with her to Starling City and return the favor of helping her find a suitable house for her.

Their friendship dulled since routine separated them and Tommy had to slip back to his old self for the sake of the public and Felicity had to deal with the new job adjustments.

Around her second year in Starling City Oliver Queen came back from the dead and Tommy passed his time with him completely forgetting about Felicity.

As the year went on Felicity was multiple times asked for a favor from Oliver and soon she found herself in Team Arrow. She and Tommy had stopped talking completely because they knew if Oliver found out they had a lot of explaining to do besides she knew that Tommy wanted to keep his medical background a secret.

Just when Tommy found out who the Arrow was he contact Felicity and told her that the past few months he was thinking of going to Riyadh to start his four years of practice and because he needed a way out.

Felicity supported that but the Undertaking took place and Tommy died...for Starling City. You see Tommy and Felicity took the Undertaking as opportunity to fake his death and officially, and legally, Connor Rhodes to be on full display.

And like that Tommy left Starling City and entered Riyadh as Connor Rhodes.

Let's fast forward four years into the future just when Connor decided to return to US and especially Chicago since he took the job of Head Trauma Surgeon they offered.

Unknown to him that Felicity was also offered a job at the same hospital and as QC was bankrupt she needed a job and secretly she took it.

What? Three hours of train ride gave her enough sleep so she can be active member of Team Arrow and besides if some days she couldn't show up they had Sara and gorgeous Laurel to help them out, she could lie that she was sick and stay in Chicago.

And like that Felicity and Connor met again in Chicago surrounded by old friends and a job they both loved, being doctors.

Now what Felicity didn't expect was the fact that Oliver seemed to become more possessive over her and Connor more mature.

"Hey! Dr. Smoak!" Connor called in a teasing tone from behind her as she got off the train.

"Hey! Dr. Rhodes! What brings you to the train station?" She asked cheerfully.

"Well you. I know I've been a bad friend the past seven years and I'm trying to make it up to you." Connor said truthfully and Felicity smiled.

"I'm glad you saw your mistake. I'll give you a try." She said as they started walking in the cold Chicago.

"I say we take hot coffee and we wait for the bus." Connor suggested and Felicity nodded since she felt too cold to walk all the way to the hospital.

The day went buy smoothly but the sicken feeling in Felicity's gut didn't vanished till she felt like screaming.

"TRAIN CRUSH INCOMING!" Maggie yelled and Felicity felt her chest tightens as she rushed to the door and saw Saveride smiling sadly at her as he gave her the gurney.

Felicity froze when she saw Caitlyn Snow on it.

"What happened?" She asked in a gasp.

"She and another guy were on the train and they got hit...the other guy has no scratch on him for some weird reason but she is hit badly. I'm sorry I knew you were friends." Saveride said as he rested his hand on her shoulder and pressed a kiss on her head.

"Thanks." She mumbled as she proceeded into helping.

Unknown to Felicity Barry Allen stare shocked at her and her interaction with Saveride, the Fireman.

He took out his phone and dialed Oliver's number and waited.

"Hello?" Oliver's voice was heard from the other line.

"Where is Felicity right now?" Barry asked without losing time.

"Um...I don't know. I suppose at work? Why? Is she okay?" Oliver asked worried and Barry sighed.

"Nothing I thought I just saw her in Chicago." He said and closed the phone. The thought that went through his mind the moment he heard Oliver's answer was that Felicity might wanted to keep the whole hospital work a secret for personal reasons if she hadn't told Oliver yet.

He needed to talk to her.

Right now Caitlyn was the priority!

A few hours later Caitlyn was stable and out of surgery since the extract the metal that pierced her sides and manage to stabilize the bleeding from the wound and stitched it.

"Why you never told Oliver or anyone?" Barry asked Felicity as they waited for Caitlyn. Mrs. Goodwin had allowed Felicity to wait with Barry knowing they were friends.

"Because I didn't thought it mattered." Felicity answered truthfully. She didn't feel bad that she never told Oliver or any one about her Medical Degree.

It was her personal business.

"I understand that but Oliver has to know that you now live in Chicago. He can't keep thinking that you live in Starling City." Barry told her and to be honest Felicity saw his side but she was stubborn to accept that.

Oliver keeps secrets why can't she?

"It's not Oliver's business to know where I stay. He is not my boyfriend or legal guardian." Felicity told him with a harsh tone and look as she walked away since she was being paged.

"Good talk." Barry mumbled sarcastically to himself as he slammed on the chairs of the waiting room.

Felicity's day was one of the busiest and she was too tired to even think about going to Starling City and helping Arrow she was dead tired.

She was at the bus as she started dialing Oliver's number that Connor manage to sneak to the seat next to her.

"What are you doing?" He asked with a childish smile.

"Calling Oliver to tell him that I won't be able to make it to the Foundry and that I have a contagious cold." Felicity said as she waited for Oliver to pick up.

"Hello?" Oliver's voice came from the other line.

"I won't be coming today...I got a terrible cold and the only thing I do is coughing and sniffing and I don't want to make you sick too, the city needs you. Can Laurel or Sara take over?" Felicity asked and she pretended to have her nose blocked and her voice to sound heavier than usual.

"Um...yes of course! Get well soon and I'll come by to check on you." Oliver said and Felicity's eyes widen.

"Oh! No! You don't have to!" Felicity said quickly and Connor who was hearing the conversation shook his head at his ex-best friend's tactics.

"Why not?" Oliver asked alerted.

"Because I'm staying at...Connor's house, my boyfriend's house!" Felicity said quickly and Connor raised teasingly his eyebrows and Felicity hit him in the arm.

Connor smirked and sent mocking kisses her way. Such a child!

"Your boyfriend? Since when do you have a boyfriend?" Oliver asked surprised and jealousy was visible in his voice.

"Um...about two years?" Felicity answer/asked unsure of how to cover this big lie.

"Oh! I see. What is his name?" Oliver asked and Felicity looked panicked at Connor who smirked, enjoying this.

"Connor Mykonos." Felicity said and Connor stood up quickly and went a few steps away to laugh loudly. He knew that his name was after a Greek island but didn't expect Felicity to say Mykonos.

"Mykonos? Really? Next thing you are going to tell me is that you have a friend that his last name is Rhodes." Oliver said chuckling at the funny name.

"UM...yeah!" Felicity said uncomfortable as she looked at Connor who was hitting the window while laughing his ass off.

"I have to go! Connor made soup and it's getting cold. Good luck!" She said quickly and hang up as she showed Connor her middle finger and that caused his to laugh even more.

"Connor Mykonos? Seriously?" Connor exclaimed in laughter as they walked to Felicity's apartment.

"Shut up, Rhodes! You are the one to talk!" Felicity said trying hard not to laugh at the whole thing but failed since from laughter she slipped on icy step of her stairs and Connor caught her.

"Easy!" Connor said as their eyes met and time stood still.

Never in their life they thought each other romantically and everyone had betted that they would be the next Harry and Sally that would take them twelve years to finally realize their feelings...well they had seven years of friendship...they are getting there.

"Thanks." Felicity said quietly and Connor cleared his throat nodding.

Felicity and Connor walked into her apartment and then Connor did something he had never thought before.

He pushed Felicity against the door and kissed her passionately. Felicity kissed back then they moved the 'party' to her bedroom.

The morning welcomed the couple with a cold air since Felicity had forgotten the window open from the previous morning.

"Good morning!" Connor told her since he was waiting for her to wake up in the bed where he read something on his phone.

"Hey!" She said smiling goofily at him.

"About last night...well...I just booked us a reservation at Molly's...I know not the most romantic place but I thought that their burgers are to die for!" Connor rambled as Felicity stood up letting him to see her tattoo he and her had taken on drunken night.

Their friendship tattoo showed a bird and as the bird behind it had butterflies following it and the bird held a heart in his mouth. Connor had taken it on his back while Felicity on her shoulder and reached the middle of her spine.

He smiled as he caressed it.

"So you're asking me on a date?" Felicity asked with a smile and a teasing tone.

"Yes, let's make Mouch and Odis loose the bet they put on us that we will take us twelve years to start dating." Connor said smirking and Felicity threw her head back and laughed and her head touched Connor chest and he hugged her.

"Deal! I accept!" She said and then stood up and went into the bathroom.

"Should I join you?" Connor yelled teasingly behind her and expected her to say no but she said yes and he rushed to her.

The morning was slow since it was their day off and they stayed indoors watching movies and talking.

"So we are dating right now?" Felicity asked and he said yes.

At Night:

At Molly's it was Spanish Night so Felicity and Connor danced at Enrique Iglesias' music. Felicity and Connor had three reason to be happy that day; one they finally started dating, two Caitlyn was okay and she woke up from the coma they put her in and three Mouch's and Odis's faces when they came in were priceless and Saveride won the bet and spilt the money in half between him and Shay.

Felicity laughed as she was twirled around and then went back to Connor's embrace.

"I love watching you smile." Connor told her with a smile that reached not only his eyes but ears too since they had become red.

"I love watching you turn into an elf, Rhodes!" Felicity teased him as she poked his ears and he laughed.

The night went by with them eating, drinking and talking between them and with friends who were at Molly's.

Felicity had long forgotten her phone which was ringing and Oliver was looking for her desperately to tell her that her 'boyfriend' was lying and the name he gave her didn't exist in any data base.

"She doesn't answer, damn it!" Oliver growled as the team stare at him.

"Maybe I could trace her phone." Sara volunteered and Oliver nodded as Sara sat in Felicity's chair and typed away.

"She is in Chicago...at some bar called Molly's." Sara read confused after ten minutes of searching.

"What?" Everyone asked confused as they rushed to see the screen.

"We are going to Chicago then." Oliver said with an angry tone and jealously was heard in his voice. Diggs sighed annoyed by his tactics while Laurel seemed annoyed that Oliver cared so much for Felicity.

Sara though was worried that Felicity was in danger.

After three hours of road the Arrow gang was standing at the train station staring at the map before them trying to find the address of the bar called Molly's.

"Oliver, what if Felicity is with her guy? You would walk in and demand to tell you who he is or are you going to play the jealous ex?" Diggs asked him serious as they walked towards Chicago's bus stop.

"No, I'm going to call her see if she answers it if she doesn't then I will walk in and ask gently to talk to her." Oliver answered and Diggs sighed shaking his head.

"I say we do that...you think she would like the fact that you ruined her romantic date?" Diggs asked him trying to make him change her mind.

"What if she is in danger and that man seeks information on me?" Oliver whispered angrily.

"It's not all about you, Ollie! What make you Felicity won't get approached by a nice guy just because she is pretty?" Laurel asked slightly offended on behalf of Felicity. Oliver seems to misjudge Felicity and her on their abilities lately and she couldn't avoid it anymore so she speak up!

"I...I..let's just find her, alright?" Oliver said angrily as they climbed on the bus.

Forty five minutes later Connor and Felicity walked out of Molly's laughing and stumbling.

"And then she brought a cup! Not a monkey!" Felicity said laughing loudly as Connor tried to hold her up.

"Yeah, I know I was there!" Connor said amused by the drunken Felicity but he then he saw Oliver and Sara walking looking lost towards Molly's and he panicked as he rushed to the ally way near the bar.

"Felicity! Oliver is here!" I whispered to her but she just looked at me and then she kissed me.

"Love, I'm telling you that Oliver as is my ex-best friend is here!" Connor tried to tell her that and then Felicity realized what is going on and tried to sober up.

"Okay, let's call a cab!" Felicity said and gave Connor her phone to call the cab since he was the least drunk.

In a few minutes both of them were safely in the cab just when they passed the bar Felicity caught a glimpse of Oliver who helped Laurel get down from the stairs of the club and she seemed in pain.

Felicity sighed in relief since no one saw her and she kissed Connor.

"I feel like a prisoner in my new home." Connor whispered to her ear and she nodded understanding exactly how she felt.

Chicago supposed to be her safe haven from Oliver and Sara's or Laurel's and Oliver's blooming romance. It was true ever since she joined the team she's been in a numerous adventures but that sacrificed her freedom for personal life because of the threats Oliver faces the team is worried about her, they think that if she is not with them she is in danger, she was thankful for awhile but lately it became kinda a pain in the ass.

They act like she had never been in danger before like her life before them was safe well it wasn't. Life had its bad turns. What no one knows besides Connor and the rest of their friends in Chicago was that in her first year of MIT she got drugged and raped that resulted into an unwanted pregnancy and then a birth but the kids were born dead because she had many complications and stress of school was getting to her.

Saveride went into a fit when he learnt that the guy who had done that to Felicity had moved to Chicago and kidnapped Katie. When Void learnt that, after he was out of jail, well he took care of him as an apology for the odyssey he put through Felicity and many other girls including Katie. Void might have been a douche bag but he was against taking advantage girls no matter the age!

"Are you okay?" Connor asked her and she looked at him.

"Yes, just thinking about my past." Felicity told him and he understood that she meant her dead baby.

"We can go to her grave if you want." Connor said and Felicity nodded.

"Tomorrow." She said and Connor kissed her.

The whole Fire Department when they learnt that they made a DYI grave in the memory of her dead baby in the department's backyard.

The Next Day

Felicity and Connor walked happily into the hospital and everyone smiled at their united hands.

"Hey!" Felicity said at Barry and Caitlyn as she walked up to them to check her up.

"Look at you! Dr. Felicity Smoak!" Caitlyn teased her and Felicity mocked a bow.

"Barry filled you in, didn't he?" She asked with a smile.

"Yes I did. She wanted to know who saved her life." Barry said and Felicity smiled.

"Oliver is in Chicago." Felicity said bluntly and the pair before her froze.

"Yeah...I feel like a prisoner." Felicity commented at their shocked faces.

Then Connor walked in with Natalie to tell her that Laurel Lance was in the ER with a broken angle due to a high heel fail and Connor and her should stay hidden and that those words were Goodwin's orders.

And like that Barry and Caitlyn learnt the story of Connor Rhodes and Felicity Smoak. They learnt everything including the pregnancy.

That day was one of the longest Felicity had ever lived but once Halstead came told them that they were okay to walk outside Felicity and Connor gladly rushed out of Caitlyn's room eager to attend patients.

At night the pair said their goodbyes on the bus as Felicity climbed out of the bus as she stood in front of the bus stop she felt like she was being watched and when she turned around saw Dawson and Shay waving at her from the opposite pavement.

"Hey, girl! Long day?" Shay asked as she hugged Felicity and noticed her tired look and messy hair.

"Yes, I had to stay for three hours in my friend's Caitlyn room because Oliver with Laurel were in the ER and Goodwin didn't want me to be seen, especially Connor, so we were bored out of our minds. Once we were told they had left the workload was so much that between twenty minutes of working in high speed I felt like I had done two 48 hours shifts." Felicity rambled as they walked to their apartment building, thank God they were living in the same apartment building.

"Sucks living a double life, huh?" Dawson asked her and she nodded.

"You can't possible imagine!" Felicity exclaimed as she looked at Dawson and then at Shay.

"Then quite Team Arrow." Shaw said bluntly and Felicity stare at her with her mouth open.

"You can't be serious!" Dawson exclaimed in shock.

"You can't consider that Felicity, you help a lot of people!" Dawson said in pleading tone.

"Come on, Gabby! She has build life here with us and Connor why does she have to lie to Oliver and becoming more tired by having less sleep. She is a doctor! She needs as much as sleep she can get because she is saving lives for a living in the light of the day! Isn't that enough?" Shay tried to explain her way of thinking and Felicity could see how right she was.

"She is right." Felicity said lowly in shame.

"I'm lying to Oliver while he tries to protect me the best he can. Also I'm saving lives in the light of day and I do need more sleep. Besides the Foundry feels too crowded lately with Laurel and Sara being present every night." Felicity confessed with a tired voice.

"If it as you say then I'll have to agree with Shay." Dawson said with a defeat sigh. They had reached their apartment building by now.

"Okay, so I will order pizza." Shay said happily in the elevator.

"Good for you!" Dawson said and Felicity looked at her confused as to why she said that.

"We will eat it together, dummies!" Shay exclaimed excited.

"Won't we wake Odis up if we come?" Felicity asked confused.

"No, he has the night shift." Shay said and the girls looked each other and shrugged.

A good pizza after an exhausting day sounded great!

After a week of thinking she had made a decision. Oliver might be possessive but he had a fair reason behind it. He had past years of hell, not being able to trust anyone and anything! He deserved a close nit group he could trust and Felicity with Connor had betrayed that trust.

So it remained do to one thing, go to him and tell him everything and quit the team it was the only fair thing Felicity could think of and Connor had agreed at first.

He was negative about it but then as he heard Felicity's thoughts he agreed so right not she had called Oliver and asked him to meet her at Chicago's train station and to be open minded.

Oliver didn't know what to expect when Felicity called and asked him to be open minded but as the train came into a halt millions of weird scenarios had crushed through his mind that made him anxious and less open minded.

He didn't expect to see Felicity and Tommy waiting for him at the station, one scenario that hadn't played in his mind. How could he best friend be alive after seeing him die?

"Tommy?" Oliver gaped as tears clouded his vision and Tommy hugged him as Oliver dropped his bag.

"How?" Oliver asked Felicity and she smiled sadly.

"Modern Medicine and hacking through the system and forging a new id." Felicity said smiling and Oliver hugged her too.

"But I don't go by the name Tommy Merlyn anymore. I go by the name Connor Rhodes." Tommy said with a hesitant smile as he walked away from Oliver and uniting hands with Felicity.

Oliver stare at their hands and then at them and then back at their hands.

He was shocked, jealous and a little sad but what he felt the most that moment was relief and happiness for his friends.

"I'm glad!" Oliver said with a smile and hug them both.

"You became a hugger, huh?" Tommy joked as they walked to his car.

"Yep, Felicity has been a great help." Oliver said and Felicity smiled while Connor laughed.

"Well she aced the Psychology exams on Mid-terms every year at Med School so it was expected." Connor said chuckling as he searched for his keys. Too busy to notice Oliver's shocked halt.

"Med school?" Oliver asked and Felicity sighed.

"Okay, Molly's?" She asked Connor and he nodded.

Oliver waited for an answer but he didn't got one till they reached the bar him and Sara with Laurel had stumbled out of a week ago.

Look how small the world really is!

"So, Med school?" Oliver asked again once they ordered their drinks and he was introduced to their friends.

Felicity sighed and told him her story and Connor jumped in and said funny moments or the time he had broken Severide's nose with his Anatomy book because he passed him for a burglar.

Oliver laughed and understood where both his friends came from.

"I'm sorry I kept it a secret." Connor apologized and Oliver smiled.

"Hey! If you can forgive me for sleeping with Laurel while you were together then I owe you to forgive you too." Oliver said with a sad smile. Suddenly Felicity tensed as she grasped Connor's hand and squeezed it. Oliver turned to see a guy around his thirties walked in the bar like he own it.

"He is here." Felicity whispered and Connor growled with hatred and Oliver stare in shock.

Who was that guy.

"You are Severide's cousin, right?" The man walked up to them and Oliver swore he saw Felicity grab her keys.

"Yes." Felicity said as she punched him in the face while in her fist she held her keys.

"That's for me and Katie! You sick bastard!" Felicity yelled at him as he kept beating him and then as Connor and Oliver pulled her from him she spit at him.

"Oh! So you are the girl from the MIT, right?" He asked with a sick smile and Felicity struggled against Connor and Oliver.

"Felicity! He doesn't deserve you time!" Christopher yelled from the bar.

"Yes, he does! He raped me and Katie! YOU LEFT ME PREGNANT YOU BASTARD!" Felicity yelled at him as he elbowed both Connor and Oliver in the guts and launched at him again. Kicking him and punching him again and again.

Oliver had never seen her so angry or beating someone. He thought she didn't know how to fight but he was wrong.

Oliver watched shocked as Felicity kicked the man on the ground.

Suddenly Christopher and Odis dragged her away from the man that was groaning in his own pool of blood.

"How dare you come here?" Felicity yelled at him in so much anger. Her face was red and her eyes glowed dangerously.

"She was raped and pregnant?" Oliver asked in pain at Connor who nodded with sadness.

"That bastard raped her and Katie. He had a beef with Katie's half brother and Felicity's cousin and he did it as revenge. Felicity lost the baby but she was never the same after it. Saveride taught her how to fight and now she used it against the asshole." Connor explained to Oliver with sadness as Felicity had broken down in Shay and Dawson's arms.

Oliver stared at them and then at the guy...oh how he wanted to put an arrow through him!

"Felicity?" Oliver whispered as he hugged her.

"It's okay" Oliver whispered as he soothed her.

Oliver watched her as she cried and then she saw him, the bastard standing up and with a gun at hand. Felicity stood up and yelled no as she stepping in front of Oliver this getting shot three times.

One in the chest near the heart, one in the stomach and one near her abdomen.

Oliver and Connor rushed to her as Oliver held her when she collapsed.

"It's okay!" Felicity said through the pain.

Then Connor then grabbed the gun and shot the bastard dead.

Felicity then collapsed in the ambulance but she stabilized with Connor's and Will's help.

Oliver was shocked seeing Connor in doctor mode. He was jealous watching them being all a tight family because they were all there the whole Fire Department 51 was there even three policemen, Halstead, Dawson and Lindsay they were in the waiting room along with her.

They were a family!

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