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Previously on To Sacrifice the Sun (Fall 2019)...

The new chapter will be out in a few.  In the mean time, you can refresh your memory with the chapter summaries.  :-)

Under the cut:

Prologue:

ARGUS Agent Felicity Smoak is preparing for a mission.  The next day, her team will go to the Temple of the Jaguar in Tikal to find the Obsidian Skull, a powerful Mayan artifact, before Reiter and Shadowspire.

Her “secret” boyfriend, Oliver, arrives and to take her mind off the mission, plying her with Guatemalan rum. Felicity teases him about how most of their team is hooking up. (Ronnie and Caitlin are married.  Lyla and Digg, their CO, are together.  Only Slade and Sara are not).

They make love and Felicity is overcome with emotion and the feeling something horrible is going to happen, but can’t bring herself to tell Oliver.  He tells her after they defeat Reiter he wants to move in together and finally go home to see his family (who believe he died five years ago).  

Oliver tells Felicity about his dream of getting married and having a baseball team of children, a Queen Legacy.  They plan their future together.

Days later, Felicity wakes up in an ARGUS medical facility in terrible pain.  Her surgeon, Shado, explains they defeated Reiter, but Ronnie was killed.   Felicity was shot in the abdomen.  They had to do a hysterectomy and now she can’t have children.  In shock and in pain, Felicity feels hopeless and doesn’t believe she will ever feel happy again.  

To preserve Oliver’s dream, she decides to sacrifice her happiness for his.  Felicity refuses to talk to him, believing he will leave ARGUS, go home to Starling, start over, and have his dream life with someone else.

Chapter 1:

Five years later, Felicity is working as a Team Leader in the ARGUS Science Center, the CAVE.  After Tikal, she sealed her medical records and refused to speak to anyone except Caitlin, who had lost her husband.  

Three months after Tikal, Felicity learned that instead of leaving ARGUS and going home as she had wanted (and expected), Oliver was taking an undercover mission with the Bratva, deep in Russia.  Felicity rushed over to stop him from going but was too late.  Since then, no one has seen or heard from Oliver but his handler.

In present day, Felicity returns to her lab to find Digg, who she hasn’t seen in years.   He tells her that there is a new threat, Damian Darhk and HIVE, who are searching for Kin Cuudad, the Lost City of the Sun, and a magic artifact, Kin Zil, the Gift, which is rumored to be far more powerful than the Obsidian Skull (the totem that killed Ronnie).  Digg needs Felicity to come back into the field, because no one knows the Lost City mythology and the Mayan language like Felicity.

Felicity, suffering from PTSD, tries to deflect, saying the city is just a myth.  Digg tells her they found a Door.  They are assembling the old team and Caitlin has already agreed to come.  He leaves and Cait, who is now a part of Felicity’s CAVE team, asks Felicity to help her face her demons on the Yucatan Peninsula.  Feeling she has no choice, Felicity agrees.  

Chapter Two

At the airport, Felicity and Caitlin meet Curtis and Cisco, two other members of their CAVE team, who are joining them for this mission (Curtis replacing Ronnie as Team Engineer and Cisco running comms from base).  Their silliness starts to relax Felicity until they start teasing her about seeing her “Gorgeous ex” and she realizes Oliver, who she believed was still in Russia would be meeting them in Mexico.  Felicity has a panic attack in the bathroom and Caitlin talks her down, but she is still convinced she ruined Oliver’s life with her bad decisions.

During the flight, Felicity prepares herself to see Oliver again and decides when they arrive at the Beach House/Safe House it would be best to get it over with.  She goes to the beach to find Oliver, only to see him smiling and talking to a very pregnant Lyla.  When Felicity sees him touch her pregnant belly, she panics again and runs.

After calming herself some, Sara finds her and welcomes her warmly, introducing her to Roy, Lyla’s replacement for Special Ops (since she is too pregnant to go on the mission).  Roy worked with Oliver in Russia and recognizes Felicity’s name.  Sara and Roy express their belief that the break-up was Oliver’s fault.  Shado and Caitlin interrupt before Felicity can convince them otherwise.  

Surrounded by friends and support, Felicity is feeling better even if they are all pushing her to talk to Oliver. Until they see him and abandon Felicity to her fate.

Chapter Three

Left alone with Oliver, Felicity freezes.  Oliver takes this badly and offers to leave the team if it would make her more comfortable. This leads to Felicity giving a long, anxious, babbling speech about how she is a train wreck emotionally.  She is devastated to learn that Oliver has blamed himself for the break-up all this time.  When Felicity tries to say it is her, not him, Oliver reveals that he feels responsible for her getting shot since the gun was aimed at him.  Then he walks away.

Later, the entire team gathers in the War Room where they are told they are going to the Mayan City of Palenque to gather clues before heading into the jungle and to the Door.  Curtis and Cisco reveal their inventions for the trip, including a new bow for Oliver.  Digg tells Oliver if things go south it is his job to protect Felicity. Felicity is given a photograph of the supposed Door and translates it with her newly enhanced glasses.  For the first time, she believes this may all be real and gets excited, feeling more herself than she has in years.

The next morning, the team of 8 travel to Palenque which has been emptied of tourists.  The old team (Slade, who lost an eye there, Sara, Digg, Cait, Oliver, and Felicity) come face to face with the Mayan world for the first time since Tikal.

Chapter Four

At Palenque, Felicity is searching the Temple of the Sun for clues to help open the Door to the Lost City, but all she is able to find is a fresco she knows well.  It depicts the founder of Palenque, King Cadmeal, who escaped from Kin Cuudad and is said to be the child of the Daughter of the Sun and the Warrior King.

Curtis and Sara manage to leverage open the stone slab to get into a chamber where Felicity has never been before. She and Caitlin search there for clues and come up empty handed.  She is about to look in one of the four (uninteresting) tombs when Curtis starts teasing her about Oliver and trying to get her to tell them why they broke up.

This leads to Caitlin telling them how they escaped Tikal, after both Felicity and Sara were unconscious, a story Felicity had never heard before.  Caitlin tells the full story, including Ronnie being killed, Sara being buried in rubble, and the gun being shot at Oliver and Felicity stepping in the way.  Only Oliver and Cait, at that point, were unharmed and in his rage, Oliver was able to capture the Obsidian Skull and smash it against the wall, so Digg could shoot and kill Reiter.

After the emotional story, Felicity seeks Oliver out and tells him she is glad she took the bullet because he saved them all and is a hero.  She hugs him and walks away.

Chapter Five  

That evening, Felicity is sitting on the crumbling steps of the Palace staring out at the jungle when Oliver finds her.  They talk about their memories from their time in the Yucatan five years ago and things are just starting to feel normal, until the talk turns to Russia.  

Then Felicity learns Oliver came to bring her to dinner.  Her CAVE team often tease her about forgetting to eat, but she is humiliated that they sent Oliver, until he confesses he volunteered.  

Felicity blurts out that she didn’t want him to go to Russia, that she wanted him to go home to Starling and be happy, which makes things tense again.  She tells him she tried to stop him from going to Russia, but it was too late. Oliver is obviously upset about the information but tells her he’s glad she told him.  

He asks her to come to camp and have some of his famous five-alarm chili.  Slade and Digg want to “initiate” Roy and Curtis.  Felicity agrees, thinking the chili will be her penance.  Then Oliver confesses he made a special not-lethal batch for her and Cait.

Chapter Six:

Back at camp, Felicity confronts Caitlin for sending Oliver to get her and playing matchmaker, until she finds out Oliver really did volunteer.  Cait apologizes for pushing them back together and confesses that she is ready to move on with their CAVE teammate, Barry, and feels guilty about it but, also, she wants both Felicity and Oliver to be happy.

At the campfire, Cait is convinced that the nonlethal chili is evidence of Oliver still being in love with Felicity.  The team gangs up on the newbies as they eat the painfully hot chili.  Roy handles it well, knowing what is expected of a Spec Ops, but Curtis freaks out to everyone’s, especially Slade’s, amusement. In the end, they confess the joke and Slade shares his flask with the team, Guatemalan Rum that reminds Felicity of her last night with Oliver.

The rest of the team gets drunk and decides to try and play Mayan ball, which gets very competitive very fast. Slade’s team starts to win when he puts Sara on his shoulders.  Curtis falls and twists his ankle and Oliver turns to Felicity and asks her to help him, “Kick Slade’s ass.”

Chapter Seven:

Caught up in the moment, Felicity allows Oliver to bring her into the ballgame which involves her sitting on his shoulders and trying to get a ball in a hoop 30-feet off the ground. At first, she’s freaked out, but they work well together and manage to play to a tie.  Roy tackles Sara and Slade, but Slade refuses to forfeit.  The game looks like it will never end when the skies open up and it starts to pour.  

Oliver and Felicity share an emotionally heated (and UST ridden) moment in the rain before Slade calls them to help gather their gear.  Felicity pretends to fall asleep in the tent to avoid Sara’s ribbing and Cait’s questions, trying not to imagine Oliver naked in the next tent over.

Chapter Eight:

Felicity wakes up the next morning after a strange dream about King Cadmeal and his wife dancing around tombs, with the intense need to look in the tombs in the chamber under the Temple of the Sun.  No one else is up and Felicity struggles with Curtis’ fancy coffee maker until Oliver shows up and does it for her.  They have a pleasant breakfast discussing how eggs are eaten in Russia.

The conversation turns to how they slept and Felicity confesses her dream and is pleasantly surprised by how serious Oliver takes it, though he always does.  Oliver offers to take her down into the Temple of the Sun himself and doesn’t seem to find it necessary to wake anyone else.

In the base of the temple, Oliver struggles with opening the tombs by himself, but refuses to admit it. There is nothing exciting in the first two tombs and Felicity starts to think it’s a dead-end.  Talk of her dream leads her to admitting having intuitions and premonitions since before Tikal.  He is upset she didn’t tell him back then.

But then Oliver loses control of one of the huge limestone slabs covering a tomb and it falls to the ground, causing a layer of red clay on the inside surface to crack and reveal an intricate carving underneath.  

Chapter Nine:

The Carving to the underside of the tomb reveals symbols of Kin Cuudad as well as a large fresco/carving of the Daughter of the Sun and the Warrior King, kneeling facing one another and making a strange pattern with their fingers.  They also seem to be wearing jewelry that Oliver postulates may be the Gift, Kin Zil.  

Oliver confesses a fascination with the Daughter of the Sun and while discussing them Oliver and Felicity almost kiss, but it is interrupted by Felicity having a panic attack.

The spell is broken and they explore the inside of the tombs.  The hieroglyphs of one of the tombs reveals it to be Cadmeal, the Daughter of the Sun and the Warrior King’s son and the founder of Palenque.  Another may be his wife and they discover an intricate moonstone carving in her hands.  Her fingers are also splayed like on the carving.

Before they can discover anything else, the emergency comms crackle on and they learn from Digg that they are under attack.

Chapter Ten:

While Oliver and Felicity are in the base of the Temple of the Sun discovering what was in the tombs, Palenque was invaded by HIVE.  The rest of the team engaged in a gun fight and Digg orders Oliver to take Felicity and get her to the Door ahead of the team.

They take what they can from the tombs and photograph what they can’t.  Oliver hoists Felicity out of the underground Chamber first.  While she is waiting, she gives into temptation and listens to what is happening with the team, learning back-up is on its way, but Roy is seriously injured.  An explosion rocks the temple sending Felicity into a flashback of Tikal.

A kiss from Oliver pulls Felicity out of the flashback.  They zipline to the other side of the park, where he drags her into the jungle. There, they find an all terrains motorcycle and take off into the jungle.

Chapter Eleven:

On the back of the motorcycle, Felicity struggles to hold on with the rocky terrain, but manages to work the GPS and communicate with the team (while Oliver drives and only has access to what she is saying.)

Ground back-up has arrived at Palenque, but things are not going well for the team and a medievac has not arrived for Roy who is rapidly losing blood.  Cisco and Lyla, from base, reveal they can not send in air back-up because of an approaching hurricane.  This triggers a panicked meltdown from Caitlin until Felicity talks her down.

Then Damian Darhk announces his presence over the comms, having captured Curtis, Slade, and Sara as they attempted to lead HIVE away from Oliver and Felicity and the rest of the team. Darhk demands the location of Kin Cuudad.

Lyla shuts down the comms, tells Felicity they are erasing all records of the Door’s location from everyone but her and Oliver’s devices, and then cuts them off from the ARGUS communication system to protect them from HIVE.  Just as Felicity is about to explain this to Oliver, a black blur jumps in front of them. The bike crashes and the world goes black.

Felicity wakes up to Oliver’s concerned voice and they discover a jaguar jumped out at them.  The crash broke Oliver’s ARGUS watch and damaged Felicity’s, messing up their GPS.    As she works to fix her watch, she catches sight of their missing jaguar in the tree.

Chapter 12:

Stranded in the jungle without access to the team or base, with broken tech, Oliver and Felicity come face to face with the reason for their motorcycle crash, a giant blue-eyed black jaguar.  Oliver asks for his bow, but Felicity gives him the tranq gun, instinctively not wanting to kill the animal.

Reluctantly Oliver agrees.  While Felicity works furiously to fix her ARGUS smart watch and get the GPS to the Door back up.  Unfortunately, while rebooting the watch it makes loud high-pitched noises that startle the cat and it pounces, leading Oliver to shoot it twice with the tranq gun.  

The confrontation leaves Oliver tense and pessimistic, pushing Felicity to take on more of her ‘Sunshine’ roll.  She is able to get her watch to work on basic settings and tapes it to the handle bars. Then while Oliver checks on their bike, she indulgently watches the jaguar, which she begins to find beautiful and fascinating.

Oliver freaks out a tad when he sees her pet it, but they are soon back onto the bike headed for the Door.

Chapter 13

The remainder of the trip to where Felicity’s broken watch locates the Door is long and largely silent, leaving her far too much time to think.  Most of it she spends thinking about Oliver.  She decides she needs to tell him everything as soon as they have a free moment and, for the first time, she starts to think that they might actually have a future together.

Once they reach their destination, they find nothing special and begin to worry the watch is truly broken. The storm is worsening and Oliver is focused on finding shelter.  

And grunting.  And brooding.  And generally being a pessimistic jerk.  

But when Felicity sits to work on her tablet, Oliver notices that she is sitting on a hidden tarp.  Under the canvas, they find the Door, but since they still don’t know how to open it and the hurricane is fast approaching, Oliver leaves in search of shelter, leaving Felicity to examine the Door.

After digging away at the bottom edge, Felicity finds a carving almost identical to the slab at the Temple of the Sun.  Then she realizes that the sun carving in the center is actually composed of two sets of handprints and her hands fit perfectly.  She calls for Oliver, who is irritated by the interruption, but he reluctantly agrees to place his hands next to hers in the carving.

The Door shifts and opens, disappearing into the hillside.

Chapter 14:

The Door opens to a staircase leading into the ground.  Felicity is ecstatic and disappointed Oliver isn’t, but they head down anyway.  At the bottom of the stairs, they find an opulent room filled with magnificent Mayan frescos and carvings but, unfortunately, no way out other than how they came in.  There is another Door like the first, with a handprint sun, but there seems to be a piece missing from the center and when they place their hands in this one nothing happens.

Oliver leaves to gather their things while Felicity translates. He spends the next several hours out in the storm and she has the distinct feeling he is avoiding her.  Worried and upset, Felicity heads out to find him.  

She finds him struggling with securing the tarp over the entrance to keep out animals during the storm. Feeling foolish, Felicity insists on helping and they quickly get the job done, barricading themselves inside.

After caring for their (fairly minor) wounds, Oliver asks Felicity to show him her translations.  One side of the room depicts the Daughter of the Sun and the other the Warrior King.  They meet in the middle where their lives combine.  During a betrothal scene, the Queen gives the Warrior a sun shaped medallion, a shape that appears in each of her panels and they postulate that this may be Kin Zil, the Gift.

After Felicity tries to begin a conversation about five years ago, but Oliver insists he needs to sleep.

Chapter 15:

24 hours later, things have not gone as Felicity hoped.  Oliver has groused and grumbled and avoided her.  Now he was out hunting it the tail-end of the storm in a thinly disguised effort to be away from her and Felicity has had enough.  Her guilt only extends her patience so far and now she’s pissed.

Sick of being stuck in the chamber alone, Felicity goes into the rain to freshen up.  Outside, she decides ‘frak it’ and takes off her clothes to take a shower in the warm rain.  Oliver returns, dead bird in hand, and flips out.  They have words.  He stomps off.

Back in the chamber, Felicity decides to only wear her dry clothing (her shirt and a pair of panties), and the hell with Oliver.  When he arrives, he’s even more irritable and finally Felicity calls him on it.

Oliver breaks and confronts Felicity on her confusing behavior, now and in the past, and how difficult it has been to interpret.  He wonders if she is playing games and if he ever knew her at all.  Felicity fervently denies this, along with ever lying to him. Oliver says that is a lie because she promised to be with him ‘always and forever.’  Felicity tells him she promised to LOVE him ‘always and forever’ and not only has she never lied, but she never broke her promise.

Oliver takes a moment to process this, then crushes her to the wall in a searing kiss.

Chapter 16:

Oliver and Felicity kiss.

And they kiss.  Then they kiss some more.   Lots of kissing.

Felicity reassures Oliver that she did indeed mean she was still in love with him and always has been. Oliver is relieved, but confused. He asks her why she left him and she tells him he couldn’t possibly understand because he’s missing an important part of the puzzle.

They untangle themselves and Felicity nervously explains how difficult this is for her.  Oliver asks for her to start at the beginning and she explains that the last night in Tikal she had been genuine in wanting to build a life together.  Everything changed at the hospital.

Oliver is upset because he was sedated when this happened and angry at himself, but Felicity only agrees to go on with her story if he agrees not to blame himself.  She tells him there were complications from the surgery which make him think she has a chronic health problem.

Finally, Felicity blurts out that she lacks the requisite parts to make babies.  Oliver is first shocked, then devastated, and she has to fight her own answering defensiveness and anger, realizing a large part of the reason she never told him was her fear he would eventually leave her over it.

Oliver expressed anger over Felicity keeping this from him and believing her choice could possibly have led to his happiness.  He tells her he needs to take a walk and leaves.

Felicity collapses in sobs.

Chapter 17:

After Oliver leaves, Felicity is overcome with grief and, feeling abandoned, she cries her heart out.  But once she is done and is able to think more coherently, she realizes that Oliver probably didn’t leave because she is infertile and doesn’t want her anymore, but because he needs to process the enormity of everything she kept from him.

Pulling herself together, Felicity realizes that Oliver left without even the shirt on his back or a weapon, which is terrifying.  But, since she can do nothing about it, she sits and spends her time fixing his comm link and waiting.

Oliver returns calm and sheepish after getting lost.  They begin to talk and Oliver tells Felicity he is angry with her but not for the reasons she thinks.  He is angry at her for even thinking he cared more about having children than being with her and feels he had the right to mourn this with her, since if she doesn’t have children he has no intention of having children either.

They cry in each other’s arms and talk about their grief and how hard it is, and will be, watching John and Lyla have a baby together.  They reaffirm that whatever happens from here on out they plan to do it together.  They begin to solidify their relationship physically, when Oliver rolls off Felicity and grabs his bow.

HIVE has found them.  

Chapter 18:

Ghosts swarm into the chamber. Thankfully, they seem intent on capture and are not shooting.  With a combination of Oliver’s arrows and hand-to-hand, as well as Felicity taking down two Ghosts with her pen dart, they are able to disable/kill the operatives.

Oliver expresses his pride in Felicity with numerous kisses, but they both realize they are no longer safe. As Felicity begins to gather essentials she has a strong feeling they cannot leave this place to HIIVE.

Unfortunately, Darhk and HIVE are already outside, at a stand-off with their jaguar friend.  Darhk uses his magic to force a confrontation, but the jaguar triumphs over automatic weapons and magic.  When Darhk orders the Ghosts to open fire Felicity calls out, not wanting the jaguar hurt, prompting Oliver to send an explosive arrow into a gas tank.

The smoke sends them into the chamber to grab their things and the jaguar follows.  Felicity picks up the moonstone that had fallen on the ground and a strange calm takes her over.  Speaking to the jaguar (who she names Kinich Ahau after the Mayan sun god and who does not speak back), Felicity realizes the moonstone is the key to the other Door.  

Kinich Ahau lies down peacefully, happy with her deduction.  Felicity places the stone in the palm print sun and her hands on top.  Reluctantly Oliver turns his back on the jaguar, curls himself over Felicity and does the same.

Chapter 19:

As they fit their hands into the door, Felicity feels a sense of rightness and happiness.  The moonstone becomes warm and starts to glow. The wall breaks away and starts to spin.  Oliver pulls her and their bags through just in time for it to seal them into a long tunnel.

As soon as Felicity’s hands fall away, she feels cold and all the confidence leaves her in a rush.  The happy feeling is gone, leaving her dizzy. Oliver comforts her from what he calls a “post-magic crash” and chuckles at her insistence magic is just undiscovered science.

Now that they are safe from HIVE (at least for a while), Felicity wants to continue their reconciliation. Physically.  It seems to help the cold worried feeling.  Oliver instead tries to refocus Felicity on the matter at hand, finding the Lost City and surviving.  

Oliver admits he worries he unleashed a curse when he blew up the tombs on Palenque.  This leads to him also confessing that when Felicity mentioned, “the baby,” during her flashback, he had the irrational fear she was pregnant with another man’s child. Felicity confesses it felt like she lost a child after Tikal and Oliver agrees.  

Then Felicity notices Oliver is still holding the moonstone and is worried it is affecting him, but he denies it.   He convinces her to try holding it again to get information on Kin Cuudad.

Chapter 20:

This time, when Felicity held the moonstone she didn’t feel strange and floaty.  She didn’t think it was working until Oliver shined a light down the tunnel and asked her where it led.  Then Felicity knew with absolute certainty that this tunnel was built for the Royal Family of Kin Cuudad as a secret entrance.  And escape route.

She also has a flash that the moonstone and the sun-medallion (which they have yet to see except in carvings) fit together to create a powerful totem.  That may or may not be the Gift.

But it isn’t the stone that makes Felicity realize that in all likelihood this tunnel leads to where the best scholars thought the Lost City lay, an area 25 miles north-east of there. Having no choice, hand in hand, they begin to make their way down the tunnel.

Three hours later, Felicity is fading fast, but fighting it, refusing Oliver’s frequent offers to rest.  Until she trips over something in the tunnel and Oliver insists.

After a few heated kisses, Oliver insists Felicity is too tired to continue and she falls asleep to his whispered promises of what awaits them back in Cancun.

Chapter 21:

Felicity is woken from a strangely vivid and terrifying nightmare where she is paralyzed and blinded, unable to find Oliver, but with the sensations of intense heat and the smell of smoak.  When she realizes they are in the tunnel she is not reassured and it triggers a panic attack.

Oliver talks (and kisses) her down.  This leads to a discussion of the PTSD Felicity suffered after Tikal and her fear she’s not allowed to be happy.  That they might die down there.  Oliver tells her he would rather die down here with her than live without her.  

That finally pulls Felicity out of her fears.  She wonders at how excessively romantic Oliver is and they talk a little about his life before the Gambit.  And Oliver’s belief that it was ARGUS, but mostly Felicity, that found the goodness inside of him.  

Talk turns to the future and Felicity tells him that she is tired of their lives being in constant danger. They worry over what may have happened to their friends after they left, but Oliver is cheered by the idea of convincing as many as they can manage to leave with them and being able to tell Waller the news himself.    

They resume their journey down the tunnel feeling more hopeful than they have in a long time.  

Chapter 22:

As they walk through the tunnel, Oliver and Felicity are debating  various career paths they could choose after leaving ARGUS when they come to a giant mural of the Mayan sun.  Felicity is excited until she realizes there is no door, just a dead end.  

Oliver attempts to use brute force to get through but sees reason when it becomes clear it’s solid limestone.   Stuck in a loop of hopeless confusion, Felicity finds herself clutching the moonstone and trying to understand why the Mayans would have built a tunnel with a blind end.  

While Oliver is trying to come up with a plan of action, Felicity comes to the realization that if they only have this short time together, she wants to take full advantage.  

At first, Oliver is concerned Felicity’s desperate kiss is a sign of her losing hope, but she manages to convince him it’s about savoring the time they do have and soon they are on the verge of making love against the sun mural.  

Just as Felicity is about to come for the first time in forever, she finds herself falling backward.   The wall disappears and they find themselves in a cave with sunlight streaming in through the ceiling.  There is a pool and waterfall and Felicity realizes this is a cenote (a sink hole, a sacred well of the Mayans).  

Oliver retrieves their things just in time for the wall to reappear, sealing them out of the tunnel.

Chapter 23

Things are just starting to get good when Oliver pulls away to check out the Cenote.  It soon becomes clear he intends for Felicity to join him in the water.   It takes her a moment to realize that her irritation is mostly due to her reluctance to strip naked in the bright sunlight.  She’s not ready for Oliver to see her scars from Tikal.

Felicity manages to get in the water without him seeing and things get back on track, right back where they were before the wall disappeared.  Only better. She even manages to convince Oliver that the first time should be together.  Then everything goes to hell when they attempt to make love and she experiences pain that she cannot hide.

While trying to reassure Oliver (and herself) that there is nothing seriously wrong with her, she confesses (with great humiliation) that she hasn’t been with anyone since him, five years prior.  Oliver is overwhelmed by this and apologizes for his instinctive relief and possessive glee. Felicity meets his possessive passion and they are once again carried away.

Oliver insists on staying in control this time and after giving her an amazing orgasm, they are able to make love without pain.  

They are able to celebrate their bond with great pleasure, leaving them both feeling happier and more whole than they’ve felt since they parted.

Chapter 24

After they make love, Oliver and Felicity swim and tease and play in the Cenote.  They break for food and while refilling their canteens she jokes about the Magical Fairy water.  

It doesn’t distract Oliver from feeding her and Felicity decides to distract herself from the terrible tasting protein bars by focusing on the taste of his fingers instead.  This leads to a teasing blow job where Felicity pushes Oliver to let go of all his control.  After vowing that he’d get “his turn” soon, he lets go.  She’s pretty damn sure it leads to an amazing orgasm, but then she realizes the release let down more walls than she intended.

Faced with an overly emotional Oliver, Felicity urges him to tell her whatever is tormenting him.  

Chapter 25

At Felicity’s assurance that she will love him no matter what he tells her, Oliver breaks down, confessing to doing horrible things in Russia.  Felicity dribbles water from the Cenote on his head and tells him the Magic Fairy Water will heal his soul and wash away his sins.  

Oliver asks if the Mayans believed that and Felicity tells him they believed Cenotes lead to the Underworld and they often threw human sacrifices into them.   Oliver insists they did no such thing in Kin Cuudad.   The Daughter of the Sun wouldn’t allow it.  

Felicity gently brings the conversation back to Russia and Oliver confesses that as part of his cover he slept with a lot of women.  She assures him that he wasn’t cheating. He tells her it felt like he was, but the thing that torments him is that he found out later that many of the girls were victims of human trafficking and not there willingly.  

After finding out one of the girls was sold to the Bratva and under age, Oliver pretended she was his mistress to protect her and later helped her escape Moscow.  He then became involved with a widow, knowing she was using him but consoling himself that at least he knew she consented.  

After finding out what an evil person the widow was, Oliver, now a top enforcer in the organization, kept sleeping with her to gain information until she was eventually killed.  

Felicity understood how much prostituting himself for ARGUS ate at Oliver and wasn’t surprised that he swore off woman after that.  Roy started a rumor that Oliver thought celibacy made him a better killer and he became known (and feared) as the ‘Monk.’

Oliver finishes his story with how he was able to transfer power in the Bratva to his ally, Anatoly, in exchange for the end of Human Trafficking, but is astonished that Felicity isn’t disgusted with him.  

Felicity tells him the story just made her love him more.  She asks if he can finally forgive himself and Oliver turns it around and asks her the same thing.  Thrown, Felicity bursts into tears and tells him that everything Oliver went through in Russia was her fault.  

Oliver carries her over to the waterfall, so it can wash both of their souls clean.  Standing underneath, they offer each other absolution and start the process of forgiving their selves.  

Chapter 26

Oliver and Felicity kiss under the waterfall and joke about the power of the Magic Fairy water.  But when Oliver says Felicity is the one to heal him, she feels the need to remind him it was her fault he was in Russia in the first place.

Instead of arguing, Oliver tells her the story of how Roy learned her name.  Trapped together in a wine cellar by a CIA-triple agent, Roy had asked for advice on how to maintain his humanity in this line of work.  Oliver had told him about how he had survived Lian Yu and how Felicity had taught him life was worth living again.  That it was people like her that they fought for.

Felicity is horrified, because throughout it all Oliver had put her on a pedestal and blamed himself.  He told her blaming himself had allowed him to hope.  After that night he had fought to defeat the Bratva and come home to win her back.

Feeling the need to take responsibility for her actions, and for Oliver to acknowledge them, Felicity insists she is not the paragon of virtue he sees her as.  To convince her that’s not it, Oliver proceeds to list all her faults.

Felicity is left shocked at how well he knows her.  Defenses down, when Oliver promises not to leave her, she tells him that’s not a promise he can make.

Oliver replies with, “If they take you from me, I will find you.  If they take me from you, I will find you.  No man or god, not even death itself can keep me from you.  My soul will find yours.”

Chapter 27

Oliver and Felicity make love under the waterfall.  Beautiful. Passionate.  Inventive.  Athletic. Soul-affirming.

After Oliver carries Felicity out of the Cenote and lies her on the moss.  As he stretches out next to her, he asks her about her scars.

Chapter 28

It isn’t easy but Felicity manages to confess the reasons behind hiding her scars and is rewarded with Oliver’s acceptance and reassurance.  Then she is thrown when he tells her that he wished he’d been awake all those years ago so that he could’ve ask Shado to freeze her eggs.

This triggers a strange sensation, like defrosting frostbite to take over Felicity’s body, ending in a burst of pain and a memory.  Then, horrified and embarrassed that she never made the connection, she confesses that she still has one ovary.

She’s braced for Oliver’s anger but he shocks her when instead he comes to the conclusion that all of this is happening exactly as it was meant to.  He tells her that he believes that they are soul mates and to that Felicity agrees.

But then Oliver catches sight of a starburst of gold ore in the wall behind her.  They follow the veins of metal down to find glyphs covered in a thick layer of moss.

The glyphs proclaim that they are in Kin Cuudad.  What’s more there is a Mayan translation of the exact vow Oliver made to her not an hour before under the waterfall.  “My soul will find yours.”

Under that is a date. Tomorrow’s date.

[leuska]

Chapters: 8/? Fandom: Arrow (TV 2012) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Oliver Queen/Felicity Smoak, Oliver Queen & Felicity Smoak Characters: Oliver Queen, Felicity Smoak, John Diggle, Lyla Michaels, Curtis Holt, Thea Queen, Amanda Waller Additional Tags: Drama & Romance, Crimes & Criminals, Crime, Police Procedural, Alternative Universe - FBI, Alternative Universe - No Island, Angst, Eventual Romance, felicity as a child star, BAMF Felicity Smoak, Stalking, Murder, oliver as criminal profiler, Crime mystery, Mystery, Murder Mystery, Suspense, star city slasher

Chapter 8:

“The Tandoori is really delicious today,” comments Oliver after popping a piece of chicken into his mouth, moaning at the taste.

“Yeah, I know. And Rashid looked almost comfortable as he passed you the bags today.”

The cheeky grin Oliver throws back at her makes Felicity’s heartrate pick up. “Well, me and Rashid go a long way back.”

That makes her bark out a rather unladylike laugh. “You mean that time you were close to outright threatening him at my doorstep, nearly making the poor guy shit his pants when you went all grouchy protective FBI Agent on him that first time he delivered our food?”

“What?” Oliver nonchalantly defends, “I was just trying to make sure he’s who he said he was.” The sight of Oliver’s blues growing huge as he feigns innocence makes Felicity press her lips tightly together in a futile attempt to stop a giggle leaving her lips, her eyes narrowing at him in mock reprimand.

“Too much?” Oliver asks with a wince, half seriously and half-jokingly, and that makes her finally crack, laughing out loud in earnest.

“I think you’ve grown on him though,” she mutters good-naturedly, occasional giggles still leaving her lips as she pops another piece of lamb lathered in curry sauce into her mouth.

“You know, I think so too,” agrees Oliver as they share a conspiratorial smile.

It’s at that moment that her computer pings, causing an involuntary groan leaving Felicity lips, her head falling forward to her chest in frustration, cause really? Now?

It’s her fucking lunch hour. Her favorite time of the day. The single time she gets to spend to relax and take her mind off her work and off the Slasher, simply talking to Oliver about everything and nothing. They’ve been interrupted like this several times already in the past couple of days and Felicity could swear her computer is doing this on purpose just to annoy her, picking the only time of her day when she actually doesn’t want to be interrupted by anything work or case related.

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[avelister]

Nine People You’d Like to Know Better

Rules: tag nine people you’d like to get to know better.

Thanks so much for the tag @fan-writer02​!! Love you to death my dear!

Favorite colors: Green

Favorite ships: Truthfully there’s too many to count but I’ll see what I can actually think of lol: Hiccstrid (because OBVIOUSLY) (HTTYD), Jlaire (Trollhunters), Marichat (Miraculous Ladybug), Kirisuna (Sword Art Online), Zenyuki (Snow White With the Red Hair), Rapunzel and Flynn, Olicity (Arrow), Starco (Star VS the Forces of Evil)... 

Lipstick or Chapstick: Chapstick all the way, I can rarely stand lipstick

Last Movie: HTTYD 3 and unashamed

Currently reading: I’m a Fanficion addict, so I’m currently reading my way through @hiilikedragons drabbles for probably the 20th time cause how can you not? I’m also in the middle of For The Love of a Princess by @shipmistress9 and @athingofvikings (it’s a slow burn but totally worth it because it is so stinking well done). I also have about 7 tabs open of fanfics that I've found that I’m going to read, so that’s fun!

Tagging: @deathberryhime @chiefhiccstrid @geek-fashionista @thebabelebowski @hiccstridfangirl @nefertsukia @e--wills @generalhofferson @evilwriter37

[hopelessromantic694]

Help me find this fic

Hi everyone, 

Ok so I need help finding this AO3 fic from the TV show Arrow. 

From what I can remember its over 65K, like over 15 chapters probs, unfinished I believe focusing on Oliver and Felicity. Premise is Felicity wants to have a baby but isn’t married so she goes to get a donor but Oliver is like “no I wanna be the donor” and they have actual sex instead of artificial insemination and thats how they get pregnant but they are acting like a couple the whole time and everyone is taking bets on when they are actually gonna admit their feelings. Sara, Tommy, Iris, Barry even Caitlin and Ronny are in it. And I wanna say the description of it on AO3 isnt the most reflective of the actual fic. 

Help I’m going crazy trying to find it! 

[leuska]

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Arrow (TV 2012) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Oliver Queen/Felicity Smoak, Oliver Queen & Felicity Smoak Characters: Oliver Queen, Felicity Smoak, William Clayton (Arrow), John Diggle, Lyla Michaels, Rene Ramirez, Dinah Drake (Arrow), Curtis Holt Additional Tags: olicity - Freeform, Canon Compliant, Canon-Typical Violence, season 7, season 6, Post-Finale, Prison, Angst, Family, Romance, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt, Family Drama, Family Bonding, Angst and Feels

Thank you, @missyriver for the beta!!!

Summary: Post S6 finale fic. Oliver is at Slabside, trying to survive, while Felicity is outside, trying to do the same.

"It took him the whole of his first night spent in his cell to figure it out, tossing and turning on his bunk in the dark while shutting out the cat-calls and hisses of the other inmates, passing on messages between each other and taunting the new arrivals, to realize how very mentally and emotionally unprepared he was for this when he took agent Watson’s deal."