#oli losing his mind when joel started talking is killing me

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jimmy and lizzie just called joel their daddy this is not a drill

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The Nightmare

TITLE: The Nightmare PAIRING: Joel/Holly (OC) RATING: T CHAPTER: One-shot SUMMARY: Holly wakes everyone up when she has a nightmare.

[A/N - This is based on a dream I had and it really freaked me out, so I wrote a story about it lol.]

“Ellie!” Holly yelled, running through the forest.

On their way back to Jackson, they had gotten ambushed by a group of Clickers.

Holly had no idea where Joel and Ellie were.

Joel could handle himself.

It was Ellie she was worried about. Even with her immunity to the virus. A serious injury could still kill her.

“Ellie!”

Where could she be? Maybe she was hiding? But then why wouldn’t she respond to her?

Holly ran for a few more minutes before she spotted Ellie lying in a clearing. “Ellie!”

Holly ran to her side, but something was wrong.

There was blood spattered on Ellie’s face and she was staring out into the forest with a blank look in her eyes.

Holly reached out and touched Ellie’s hand.

It was ice cold.

Tears filled Holly’s eyes.

“Ellie?” Holly rolled her over and found a hole in Ellie’s chest.

The cry Holly let out startled the birds in the trees. She continued to scream even when she felt Joel’s arms around her.

“Holly. Come on. Wake up.”

Wake up? What was he talking about? Why was he not distraught like she was? Their daughter was dead.

“Holly!”

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Holly opened her eyes and found Joel looking down at her. “Oh Joel!” Holly sat up and threw her arms around him.

“Shhh, it’s okay, darlin’. It was a nightmare,” he cooed as she sobbed. Joel looked up and saw Ellie standing in the doorway watching them with her knife in her hand.

Holly had been screaming Ellie’s name in her sleep.

“It’s okay,” Joel told her, but Holly was too distraught to even notice that Joel wasn’t talking to her.

Ellie nodded and went back to her bedroom.

Joel continued to soothe Holly until she calmed down.

She pulled away from him sniffling. “I…”

“You had a nightmare.”

“It was so horrible.”

Joel leaned up against the headboard with Holly sitting between his legs, her back to his chest. She grabbed one of his hands and played with his fingers as she spoke.

“We were on our way back here. I…I don’t know why, but we were ambushed by Clickers. We were separated. I didn’t know where you were, so I went looking for Ellie and…”

Holly couldn’t finish the sentence. She couldn’t get the blank look on Ellie’s face out of her mind.

“Hey.” Joel’s soft voice brought her out of her thoughts. “It wasn’t real. Ellie’s safe. We’re safe.”

Joel still went on hunting missions with Tommy, but they weren’t fighting for survival anymore. They led mostly normal lives here in Jackson.

“Do…do you think you’re worried about losing Ellie like you lost your son?” Joel asked.

Holly hadn’t thought of that. There wasn’t a day that went by that Holly didn’t wish her son Oli was still here. She imagined Joel felt the same way about Sarah. She still loved and missed her son, but Ellie had filled that hole in her heart. She loved Ellie like she was her own.

“It’ll happen one day eventually.” Holly tried her hardest to be upbeat and positive for Ellie and Joel, there were still times where she became melancholy.

This was one of those times.

“Not if I can help it,” Joel told her, “If I had my way, I would lock her in her room and never let her leave.”

Holly giggled. “I’d like to see you try. She’d probably figure out a way to break out.”

There was a knock at their door.

Ellie opened it holding Dominic in her hands. “He was crying.” Ellie handed him to Holly and she cradled him to her chest.

“I’m sorry, my love. Mommy had a bad dream. She didn’t mean to wake you up.”

Ellie crawled onto the bed and set her head in Holly’s lap.

Holly started humming a song and soon both children were asleep.

Joel kissed Holly’s temple and ran a hand over his son’s head. “Go back to sleep,” Joel told Holly.

“You can’t sleep sitting up. Your back will be killing you in the morning.”

“My back is always killing me. I’ll be fine. Go to sleep.”

Holly readjusted Ellie and Dominic and closed her eyes.

Joel looked down at his sleeping family. Nothing would harm them while he was still breathing.

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Arrow 5x20 - “Underneth” - What We Know What We Hope

What We Know

Extended Promo

Synopsis

OLIVER AND FELICITY ARE TRAPPED — Things get intense when Oliver (Stephen Amell) and Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) are trapped in the bunker together. Meanwhile, Lyla (guest star Audrey Marie Andreson) and Diggle (David Ramsey) deal with their martial marital issues.

Note: My correction based on further reading of various published analises of the episode synopsis.

Promo Stills

Cast on IMDB

Writers

Wendy Mericle & Beth Schwartz

They wrote together

2x11″Blindspot”

2x14  "Time of Death"

2x20 “Seeing Red”

3x07  "Draw Back Your Bow" 

4x19 “Canary Cry”

5x09  "What We Leave Behind"

These writers together have made us smile and enjoy beautifull Olicity but they also brought us high pain levels.

I do notice that all the pain they did brought us was one that brought Olicity together. I am counting Malone’s death because both Oliver and Felicity suffered from it, the pain was real for both of them it just had diferent shades.

Billy Joel song

December Song (until You Come To Me) Lyrics

I am so sorry that I bothered you Now I know why you have to hide I didn’t know what you were going through All I could see was my own sign I will just fade away I will let you be here I won’t say a word until you come to me Until you come to me Until you come to me They just tell me what you’re in there for How could I know you did not say? But now I know what I am living for Tomorrow will be just another day I will close my eyes And I hear a quiet peep I will wait in the shadows until you come to me Until you come to me Until you come to me, oh Ah, sweet youth will all too quickly end And we will never be this free So all I ask is that we look again Before we grow too old to see I will fall alone My elm was sweet and envy Still I will be crying until you come to me Until you come to me Until you come to me, ah

What we expect

Things are bad when 5x20 hits our screen, Felicity chip and all electronic devices aren’t working because of the EMP, Chase will be looming somewhere unseen (I refer you to Marc answer stating that Chase really was there here ); Oliver and Felicity will be trapped inside the bunker with a maniac in total darkness and without comunications.

This is how I see things could play out after this:

Survival mode will surpass any thing that they were arguing about in 5x19 for a few moments. 

Oliver will secure the bunker after getting Felicity to a wheelchair.

Escape mode will come next. Oliver will try to climb the elevator shaft, and fail being hurt himself.

They will try to escape trough some kind of tunnel but Oliver is hurt and losses conscience Felicity will crawl to him desperate, voice riddled with concern

And this is when they will talk.

They’ll adress what came between them. 

I’m expecting 5x20 to follow 5x19 trend of talking honestly and both Oliver and Felicity being vocal about their feellings and needs.

Yes we will have Flaskbacks to a time between Season 4 and Season 5, and yes I know we will have this

it will be nice to watch but what I’m interested in knowing is how it will resonate in the present, because it will or there would be no point in showing it. We are in the last episodes of the Season there’s no time to relive the past if it doesn’t make the present storyline move forward

Marc said Chase was in the bunker when the EMP happen. Should we trust him? Yes, but we have to take care on how we read it. Chase was there but where? Inside the bunker? In the building? In the tunnels? I think his target is Felicity. EMP is the ideal weapon to use on Felicity, for her spinal chip, for what she brings to the table as a true strenght in battle, technology. Tecnology that doesn’t function when hit by an EMP. 

The game is still being played and ”the Queen” just made a sequence of major plays that destabelized the chessboard in Oliver’s advantage. With the EMP the “Queen” isn’t dead but she’s pinned down, unable to “move”.

I don’t know much about chess but I do know the basics, enough to know that to win it’s important to take down the Queen. I allways considered the Queen as the most important piece in the game because she’s free to move where ever she likes as far as she wants to (with the only limit being other pieces, and the board limits). The King is more limited in terms of moves, he can only take 1 step to whichever direction he choses (I know there are exceptions to this rule but they are unique and only possible under strick conditions).

Felicity is the Queen, she has latitude to move how she likes. Or she did, Chase just took that away by trapping her in the bunker, unable to walk and totally disconected. Chase can do whatever he wants in her “absence”.

Remember he doesn’t want to take the King (Oliver) he just wants him to be standing alone in the chessboard, suffering as all the pieces on his side are taken one by one.

Chase move isn’t going to play out inside the bunker but outside. I saw this theory going around and it makes sense. With Felicity out of the way he can make his move... what move?

Not only Oliver will be concern about Felicity’s safety, Felicity concern about Oliver’s safety, they both working to find a way out, and having the adult conversation that hopefully will bring us Olicity back 

but the Team and Lyla will be working on getting them out. Consequently they won’t be thinking about what can Chase be doing. I wondered if this was the moment Chase get’s BS out of ARGUS prison. Everyone is so foccused on Oliver and Felicity, even Lyla, that he could just use that distration to break BS out, but then 5x22 synopsis came out and BS is only showing up then making 5x20 a bit too soon for Chase to break her out. But he’s doing something, I’m guessing it’s probably related to William, something we won’t know about in 5x20 but later.

What I hoped for episode 5x20 when the first hints of this Olicity episode dropped, when paps and reddit fanboys were mad and deciding to skip it entirely was this

 But then we started to get more hints. Marc talked. Then Wendy talked. And my hope changed somewhat. I hope Olicity will be back on a fast track to become the power couple I dream about them being. Having worked out their issues and shared their ghosts. The show this Season as been presenting me Olicity conversations with a dept I never expected and that blow my mind everytime they happen. I’m expecting exponentially higher level of sharing and honesty for this 5x20 adult conversation because it was anounce as the big adult talk so it should be more surprising and heart breaking.

We are going into darker times for Oliver and Team Arrow, I hope he doesn’t have to face all this without Felicity by his side has his partner in the Team and in life. I think a hero needs that balance, that support, or he’s just a guy running down the streets beating up / killing criminals, and IMO losing track of what’s like to be human.

Green Arrow from Arrow will not be that. All I read, all I hear, no one on the show wants him to be that. 

Olicity will move forward. Oliver will have Felicity by his side this I believe will happen in this episode. Maybe they won’t be living together (but then where will Oliver be living with the bunker inaccesible?) or living together as a couple but they will be closer to eachother probably like we have never seen before, no lies, no omissions, respect and trust being actively built on everyday. Am I delusional? Maybe but a girl can hope and I’m the more excited and ready for my heart to be melted and eventually broken into tiny little pieces (mainly because of the Flash backs) as I ever have. 

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