Breathe

The Aftermath

Thea whole heartedly agreed with Laurel. What was currently going on between Oliver and Sara was between the two of them and no one else’s business. Plus, she was pretty sure her brother would be majorly pissed at them if Laurel and she shared his and Sara’s very private reunion with his girlfriend. She still wasn’t sure what she was supposed to make of it herself. She knew that Ollie loved Felicity a lot. There was no question of that… but… seeing him with the other blonde in his life tonight… it made her wonder… Oliver and Felicity were very obviously in love. Almost sickeningly so sometimes. All lovey-dovey… well, not the last couple of days, but still… they were in love. 

 

Oliver and Sara had never been like that. Nothing about any of their involvements had been obvious. They were more private. You never would’ve guessed that they were more than friends if you didn’t know or hadn’t been paying attention two years ago. It were small things that “gave them away in public” kind of, anyway. A lingering touch or look, a short squeezing of hands. No PDA, no honey or sweetie’s. She hadn’t even known that they had resumed their previous relationship (if you could call an (probably) illicit affair (not that anyone knew how long they had been involved before the Gambit or if they had been involved before the Gambit, even thought she was pretty sure the second one was a YES) behind Laurel’s back that) until she had walked in on them one night.

 

But what she had witnessed earlier made it very obvious that what Oliver and Sara had hadn’t just been about sex. Their interaction was so much more intimate than sex and simple friendship. Or anything she had observed between him and his current girlfriend. 

 

Oliver had let his guard down. Oliver never let his guard down, at least not like that. He doesn’t let people see him vulnerable. He doesn’t let people see him weak. Yet, there had been no hesitation tonight. Ollie had let Sara see his weakness, had laid himself bare in front of her without a moment’s thought or hesitation. As if it were the most normal thing in the world. Just as her breaking down in his arms and the way they came together in their pain seemed to come naturally to them. 

 

It was pure chance and the fact that she was thinking about Oliver and Sara and sex well kind of, that she looked at Felicity while contemplating how different Oliver acted around the two blondes in his life, when Laurel made the comment about said very private moment and she noticed the look on the IT geniuses’ face and the way she tensed. Which was why Thea easily caught on to Felicity’s train of thoughts and she suddenly exclaimed:

“Oh my god, not that kind of private! Jeez Laurel you make it sound like they banged right in front of us! Which would’ve been way gross, and I would now be scarred for life. They were so not intimate in the physical way and believe me, I should know. Been there, saw the beginning of that like two years ago and so don’t plan to see my brother in any position like that ever again! Nice choice of words, Laurel.” Thea made her voice sound flippant, amused, and rolled her eyes dramatically for emphasis on how ridiculous the whole idea sounded. 

 

She did it in a way to clear the situation up, reinsure her brother’s girlfriend and lighten the mood all at once.  Her reaction seemed to have the desired effect and relieve Felicity, who visibly relaxed. But she just couldn’t get the picture of the two of them crying in each other’s arms out of her mind. It seemed to be so much more intimate than sex ever could be. There was just something about Sara that brought a side of her brother’s forward that no one else seemed to be able to. A side he hid from everyone but Sara. This made her feel slightly guilty. She felt as if she were misleading her brother’s girlfriend. Not that she thought Oliver and Sara were having sex. She knew that they for one would never do that to Felicity. They both had too much respect for her, and Sara really liked her. Plus, they weren’t the same people that screwed behind Laurel’s back anymore. Plus, they were way too distraught for that. Her own statement made her recall her former thought of how she hadn’t even known that the two of them were in a relationship two years ago until she accidently walked in on a private moment between the pair.