Sometimes A Surprise Is Just What You Need

Untitled Part 8

Lyla and Laurel both gave Felicity sympathetic smiles as they walked out the door, closely followed by Tommy who winked, with a wide grin. The last to leave was John Diggle, and she saw Oliver briefly nod his head at him before John left the room, softly shutting the door behind him. As Diggle walked down the hall he shook his head grinning. Oliver, you have no idea what you have gotten yourself into my friend.

Oliver and Felicity just stared at each other. Oliver briefly looked down before he started to speak.

"Felicity...I...", he stopped as Felicity held up her hand.

"Oliver, we can talk about us later." Somehow she knew that was where he was headed.

"Right now we need to talk about the fact that you expect me to work as your executive assistant. That is not happening.", Felicity took a deep breath. She really needed to try to calm down.

"Why your executive assistant Oliver? I am sure there are plenty of women only more than eager to fetch you coffee, or whatever else you ask of them....", Felicity let that linger. Focus Smoak.

"Did you know I graduated from MIT? I have worked very hard to get where I am Oliver. I am one of the FBI's best. And I don't care how good looking you are, or how many smiles you flash me....." Focus Felicity. "Becoming your EA is unacceptable. Even if it is while undercover." Felicity glared. Deal with that Mr. Queen.

Oliver gritted his teeth, looking down briefly before taking a step toward her. "Felicity, the reason I suggested you become my EA is because QC currently does not have any openings in IT. If we suddenly hire someone, basically create a position, that could tip off whomever we are trying to catch. It would throw up a red flag. And if you are as good as I hear, I am sure you can do your job from anywhere within the company. That being said, the position as my EA is the only opening we have at this time.", Oliver's lips tightened. This was not going as well as he thought it would.

"There has got to be another department? Something, anything.", she grimaced.

"Felicity!!", he said, his voice loud.

"I know you don't feel this is exactly ideal, but this is what we are dealing with, and if you want to get access to the server right away then this is our best option." Oliver was getting annoyed too. It was late, he was tired and his excitement at seeing Felicity was slowly being replaced with his frustration at her stubbornness.

Stepping up, Felicity got into Oliver's personal space, her eyes letting him know she was not playing around.

"Ok, fine. I will go into this as your personal assistant. But let me make myself perfectly clear, Mr. Queen, I will not bring you coffee.", she poked her finger in his chest.

Oliver was starting to get mad too, but a small part of him still noticed that she was beautiful when she is angry.

Standing toe to toe, their chests slightly heaving, Felicity broke their gaze. Turning, she grabbed her tablet, turned on her heel and left. She was still seething inside, and as she walked down the hall, she noticed Slade, Roy, Lyla, Laurel and Tommy congregated near the elevators. She shook her head in frustration when they all suspiciously broke apart as she walked by, heading toward her office. She held up a finger over her shoulder as she passed.

"Don't say one word, Wilson.", she called back. Entering her office she slammed her door.

Diggle glanced back toward the conference room. He needed to go check in with Oliver, but he wanted to talk to Lyla Michaels. He had been informed that they would be working together on weapons and training for dealing with the Triad from a one on one level, and he wanted to introduce himself.

As the others cleared out, John walked over and smiled. She was very pretty.

He held out his hand to her. "Hi, I'm John Diggle."

Lyla looked up into warm brown eyes. She had noticed him the minute he had walked into the conference room. He was not a man you could forget easily.

She took his hand and smiled. "Lyla Michaels. Lance told me that you have special weapons and defense training and that we would be working together, since Felicity will be under cover."

"Yes, I wanted to see if you had a minute for us to go over some of the training I want to schedule for the team, and maybe make some time to go over the weapons that we will be using in the field.", Dig said. She had a beautiful smile. He was starting to think this assignment was going to be interesting.

"Let me just check in with Oliver. I will just be one moment.", he said, giving her a wink before heading to the conference room.

After Felicity had left, Oliver had collapsed into his chair, letting out a breath. Man, he might have gotten more than he bargained for with Felicity. And even though he knew they had a connection, they were going to be working closely together and he needed to try to keep this as professional as possible. Good luck Queen, he thought.