Time Storm - Final Event log!

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It's time.
The science and speedster minds have determined that a wave of dark matter washing over the affected will save their lives. Below are main threads - backtagging is always encouraged.

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Felicity partial lock for Oliver but otherwise OTA

[fastesthackeralive]

Felicity was tired. More than just tired, though, she was wrung out. The last few months have been emotionally and physically draining and she wasn't quite sure what to do about it.

She was married to Oliver Queen, which had been the best for the literal second that it lasted, because then instead of being on her staycation honeymoon she was in Los Angeles caught in some freaking time loop and it kinda sucked.

She was in STAR Labs most of the days, trying to figure out what the hell was going on, but at least everyone was safe and well. She was happy about that. She had been studiously avoiding Oliver since she managed to piece together that they weren't at the same time.

So, Felicity was a coward, sue her. Well, don't do that, bad idea. She knew she needed to talk to Oliver, however, so she made her way to his hospital bed.

"How can you make almost dying look good?" She asked pushing her hair behind her ear with her left hand. "It's not fair," She smiled, albeit slightly strained as she sat down.

[snowandfrost]

She had recognized Felicity being in STAR Labs and was grateful to see a member of Team Arrow there to help support them during this trying time.

Caitlin had stepped away for a minute to run over the latest updates with Harry and Cisco and to check in on the others, confirming that they were receiving treatment well. And perhaps leave Cisco and Mick with a few more ice packs. When she came back, she saw that Felicity had looked like she had been hesitating to talk to Oliver.

She came over and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Hey, you can go talk to him. He should be fully cognizant now. I bet he'd like to see a familiar face."

[fastesthackeralive]

Felicity felt the hand on her shoulder, tensing slightly and then relaxing when she realized it was Cait.

"Hey. Yeah, I know. I've been watching him," She spoke to Cait but continued looking at Oliver. I've been avoiding him."

[snowandfrost]

They all had been on edge when all this started happening. But now, at least, anyone who was affected by the poisoning were on the mend. That was something that made Caitlin happy. When it was all over, then she could look into maybe taking a day or two away from STAR Labs, just to gain back some sanity.

Her focus was on her friend, brow furrowing.

"Why would you be avoiding him?"

[fastesthackeralive]

"Because I'm from 2 and half years in his future," Felicity said softly. She sighed softly. "This Oliver doesn't love me, the way that I love him. This Oliver isn't the Oliver that I..." She stopped. "It doesn't matter. This Oliver has a chance for a life without Damien Dahrk, newly found sons, Adrien Chase, and exploding islands."

Felicity turned to face her friend, giving her a small smile.

"I just have to figure out how to let him go."

[snowandfrost]

She didn't think about that. That this Oliver had been from the past. They really didn't have an opportunity to chat about when they each were from. The time they had spent together had been about...everything else. Caitlin looked over at Oliver, then back at Felicity. She gives her another reassuring squeeze, despite all of the information she just gave.

"No one ever said that you need to let him go. Maybe you just get a second chance at falling in love with each other again. Without...all that."

She let go, feeling that coldness rise up inside of her, and looked back down at her tablet, seeing that she had other patients to check in on.

"I need to go see how the others are reacting to the treatments we're providing. But you should go visit him. He might be happy to see you."

[fastesthackeralive]

Felicity looked at her friend in confusion for a second before calling out.

"Caitlin wait!" Felicity closed her eyes for a second before opening them up again. "That isn't going to happen. Oliver said his goodbyes to me Cait, in the hospital. He kissed me and I told him I wished he hadn't done that because I deserved more. And I did... I do. The Oliver in that bed is a man who let me go because he thought he was protecting me. He's going to live his life here, thinking that he is doing the right thing. This Oliver is not the man that saved his son from an exploding island, gave up the mask for William and fell in love with me again."

She reached out to Cait. "He's a different man, Caitlin, still the best man I know, but he doesn't know me... not really. We're not together for him."

[snowandfrost]

She stopped when Felicity reached out to her, confusion coloring her features. Caitlin knew she had missed...a lot while she was gone. She took in what Felicity was saying and tucked her tablet under her arm, giving her friend a reassuring smile.

"Take it from someone who had a second chance to fall in love with her husband taken away from her, Felicity. If I had an opportunity like you do now, even if it was Ronnie from the past, I wouldn't let it go."

She gave the blonde a gentle push.

"If he fell in love with you again back home, then he could fall in love with you again here."

[fastesthackeralive]

In her head, Felicity knew that Cait was right, but something wasn't meshing and she didn't know what it was. She hated mysteries.

"I know. I'm sorry. You're right, but he doesn't love me here, not like that. And circumstances threw us together, you know that. Circumstances that don't exist here. He could fall in love with someone else, just as easily as he could me."

[havingprecision]

A small smile as Felicity approaches. "You make it sound like I make a habit of things like this."

Okay so he kind of does, but it's all about downplaying the danger. "I'm glad you're here." Well. All things considered anyway.

[notthatblonde]

Felicity laughs just a little, because oh he so so does. "If I had a nickle for everytime you said that I would be a rich, rich, woman.... well Richer," She grins at him. There is clear love and affection in her eyes, but there is also pain as well.

"I'm always going to be here, you know that or you did anyway," Felicity said softly. "Things are..... complicated, right?"

[havingprecision]

A weary chuckle. However, Oliver can't quite place her reaction or the way she's looking at him. Or more to the point why given how things had ended with them before he woke up in Los Angeles.

"I think it's a safe bet to say that our lives will forever be complicated."

[notthatblonde]

"Tell me about it," She muttered. She didn't look entirely too happy about that. She leans forward just a bit taking his larger hand in her smaller one. It was kind of funny when you think about it, this simple touch used to ground both of them, but it felt different here.

"I love you," Felicity said looking at him with a small smile. "What's the last thing you remember before here?"

[havingprecision]

But they talked about this..

Oliver closes his eyes. Another person from his future. "I remember Sara dying. Laurel bringing her body back to us. I remember swearing to Laurel that I would find her killer."

And now Sara is gone all over again. Taken away.

[fastesthackeralive]

Felicity sighed softly closing her eyes as well, breathing for a second. "So after the hospital.... after our explosive first date," She offered a small smile, knowing she could joke about it, but it wasn't funny to Oliver.

"Sorry," She said, sobering up instantly. "That happened almost 3 years ago for me." She sat back, folding her hands in her lap.

"A lot has happened Oliver, to the City, to the team, to me," She put emphasis on that last part.

[havingprecision]

"Yeah, I've been told bits and pieces," he pulls himself up, glaring daggers at the intern who tries to get him to lay back and rest. "It seems that most everyone here is light years ahead of me and I'm left playing catch up."

"Tell me you're okay back home. That you're happy."

[fastesthackeralive]

"Oliver Jonas Queen. You lay back down right now," Felicity said, using her loud voice to let him know she was serious. Felicity nodded, sitting more forward in her chair.

"About 2 1/2 to three years if the last thing you remember is JJ being born," Felicity smiled before taking his hand. "Happier then I've been in years actually. The last couple of years have been tough." Felicity took a breath. "I got hurt a couple of years ago and I couldn't walk for awhile, but I'm okay now... I mean obviously because I can totally walk. Things are good. How about you?"

After she talks to Ollie? You choose!

[chosenbylightning]

Barry is exhausted. Completely and utterly exhausted. He's sprawled on one of the couches, drinking all the water he can and downing a handful of speedster grade bars to make up for the energy taken to create the dark matter.

But a flash of blonde hair and familiar voice has him on his feet. "Felicity?"

YES!

[notthatblonde]

Felicity had just come from visiting Oliver and she was trying really, really hard not to totally lose it. She had watched Barry for awhile, so she knew how tired he must be. But she needed a hug.

She looked over at him as the first tear fell and just moved to give him a hug. She stood there for a time just hugging Barry before speaking.

"Hey," was muttered into his chest.

[chosenbylightning]

Yeah, he's exhausted right down to his bones but Felicity clearly needs a friend right now. He wraps his arms around her, letting her hold on for as long as she needs. "Yeah. I know. He's from a few years before us." Oliver doesn't remember falling in love with Felicity. He doesn't remember marrying her.

"I'm sorry."

[fastesthackeralive]

"Three years, Barry," She interrupted softly. She pulled back, looking at Barry for a long time. "Come sit back down before you fall down," Felicity directed. "You ate right?" She asked, all but trying to tug him onto the couch.

"The last thing he remembers is Sara dying. And pushing me away. He doesn't know anything. Thea, Malcolm, Ra's, the Nazi's, Dahrk." She looked at him clearly frustrated and sad. "There is just so much he doesn't know and most of me wants to just go in there and tell him everything but is that fair?"

Felicity stands up and starts pacing. "I mean how do you tell a man that is pushing you out of his life on purpose, that in 2 and a half years everything you know is turned on its ear. "Hey Oliver, you know how you have a hero complex, yeah well that gets you stabbed and turned into Ras a Ghul, but not before we have sex, and I steal my boyfriend's atom suit and save you. We run away get engaged, I get shot and can't walk, oh and you lie to me so we break up and still have sex..... Stop me please...."

Felicity falls back onto the couch in a heap. She looks over at him. "Sorry, this isn't all about me. How are you doing?"

[chosenbylightning]

His face is a wash of sympathy as she vents, even if Barry is more than okay doing that from a sitting-slash-laying position. Recovery, even at speedster levels, takes time after using up so much energy. When she flops back down he tucks an arm around her. "You know Ollie. Tell him thinks that that are pre-determined when he doesn't know they've happened yet and he's going to fight like hell against them."

"You guys will figure it out," he promises quietly.

"I'm okay. Tired. I feel like I could sleep for a week but we need to keep an eye on everyone and make sure they're all right before I go make sure Barney hasn't like shredded a couch or something."

[fastesthackeralive]

"Don't I know it," Felicity said quietly, sitting back on the couch next to Barry. "I don't think there is anything to figure out." She leaned a little into her friend. "I mean he let me go. Or I did, for very valid reasons. He seems content here," She commented quietly.

Felicity sighed softly as she made herself more comfortable on the couch. "Come here," She said patting her lap with a pillow she grabbed on it. "You need to sleep. I'll keep watch and if something happens I'll wake you okay?"

[chosenbylightning]

"It's been hard on him I think, knowing that most of us are from farther ahead in his timeline, that we know what's going to happen to him even if he doesn't." A weary smile at the offer and Barry curls back up on the couch, dropping his head on the pillow with a contented hum.

"Mhm. You're the best Felicity."

A slow blink. "Gotta introduce you to my dinosaur later."

[fastesthackeralive]

Felicity started to give Barry a scalp massage, because well she could. It also relaxed her to a certain degree. Felicity hummed in agreement as she continued. "I told him about my legs. I hate lying to him.... hate it. It's why we didn't work. But telling him everything might not be best. I don't know."

Felicity almost missed what Barry said. "Wait, did you say dinosaur?"