How to love (Rory regan x reader/oc)

Back in black

2nd pov

"I'll still be here when the conference is over, and the way Oliver describes it, you're the one that's doing all the heavy lifting at the mayor's office." Lural says into her phone. You and Rory stand near felicity. You and Rory were holding hands.
"I guess spontaneous resurrection is as good as any reason for a party, but-" You say looking at lural with curious eyes, it was a miracle she was alive again.
"But we haven't even buried Detective Malone yet." Rory concludes for me, You stop staring at Laural and turn your gaze towards felicity.
"It feels weird to be celebrating?" Felicity asks us, you look at Rory for a moment.
"It doesn't feel weird to you?" Rory asks her.
"Y-yes, weird, yeah." Felicity says with a thinking tone.
"I guess. After the past 4 years, it's just hard for me to accept good news." She says to you both.
" I agree, it just seems like everything good flys out the window when we are involved." You say thinking of the past, Rory nudges you lightly.
"Of course though, there are good moments." You say mostly towards Rory. You both walk off a bit and start your own conversation.
" you okay?" Rory asks you as he notices how much your staring at laurel. You look at him and notice how concerned he looks for you.
"Totally. It's just... so different with her back. She was dead and now.... she isn't." You tell him as he listens to you.
" does this happen a lot around here? The dead coming back to life?" He asks trying to keep the conversation light. You crack a small smile and he brightens slightly when he sees that
" more then it really should. " you say with a smile now on your face. Oliver calls you all into a circle and you both join the rest.
" A little over a year ago, I--I stood right here, and I remarked that I wished it wasn't just the dark times that brought us together.
With all the loss that we have suffered, I think it's important that we embrace the miracles, too, and that we remember they are still possible. Welcome home, Laurel.
Cheers. " Oliver says the last bit and you all drink, you notice felicity carefully watching laurel.

Later****

3rd pov

"Hey." Rory says as he approaches Felicity from behind her chair. She nearly falls out of her chair at that moment.
"What?!" She asks nervously. She tries to hide her screen a little.
" I wasn't expecting anyone here.
It's late." She says regaining her calmer state.
"I--I don't sleep much or at all. Side effect of wearing haunted rags, I guess, so I figured I'd train. What's that?" Rory says to Felicity with a curious tone at the end.
"It's nothing. It's, uh--it's, uh, my Q-mail, you know, my Facechat, Snapbook stuff.
All the kids are doing these new, crazy social media things. " she rambles failing to come up with a good excuse.
"You know, I just--" she tries to add more to make it seem more realistic but is cut off.
" You're running a DNA analysis. " rory states as he sees her screen that obviously doesn't have snapbook on it.
" - Yeah, I am on Laurel's glass." Felicity finally admits. She lets him see the screen.
"That, what, you took from the party?" Rory asks her with a questioning look on his face.
"If by party, you mean my brilliant ruse to collect her DNA, then, yes, you are correct." Felicity says as she rolls around to face the screen again.
"You know, there's looking a gift horse in the mouth, and then there's--" rory says but is then cut off by a fast talking Felicity.
"Being driven by paranoid delusions, drawing comparisons on genetic base pairs? Yes, I'm aware, thank you." She says sarcastically, she checks her screen. The DNA matches.
" So we can rule out shape shifter." Rory says matter-of-factly.
" what about evil twin?" Rory says sarcastically, then upon seeing Felicity's face light up he back tracks. " no I was kidding"
" she actually has one though." Felicity says as she moves to grab her phone.
"- Seriously?" Rory asks shocked.
"Yeah. She's locked up in S.T.A.R labs, we have to-" Felicity didn't get to finish because instantly they were both sonic screamed at and knocked away.
" It's about time someone figured it out.
You know, I am so sick and tired of playing this weak, vulnerable Laurel.
She's such a pill, it's pathetic." The other laurel says, then stops to scream at Felicity as she tried getting up.
"You know, the one problem with my ability is that I can never hear my poor, little victims scream." She says as she watches Felicity on the ground.
" laurel!" Oliver yells from behind the other laurel. Laurel #2 turns around and screams at him as well, then is gone.

Later*****
2nd pov

" So that Laurel's from an alternate reality? " Rene asks Curtis.
"Technically, she's from a parallel universe. We're on Earth-1." Curtis tells Rene, you were right next to them.
"The look-alike Laurel's from another earth, Earth-2." You say to Rene.
" Over there, we all have doppelganger versions of ourselves who could be very similar or incredibly different based on an infinite amount of variables. " Curtis further explains. You think about alternate you and wonder what she is like.
" I would love to see what I'm like on Earth-2.Oh, God. What if I'm straight? " Curtis says and you bust out laughing.
" Ok. One thing I don't get-- well, you know, there's a list of things I don't get, but at the top is this fake Laurel seemed to know, like, everything. " rory says to Oliver and Felicity right as you walk over.
" - How's that possible?" You ask them.
"Prometheus. Cisco just sent this over.
It is from 3 days ago, but nobody knew because no alarms were tripped." Felicity explains as a video starts on her screen.
" Prometheus breaks into S.T.A.R. Labs, gets not Laurel, Henry Higginses her into coming off as real Laurel. That's a lot of hoops.
Why not just kill you?" Curtis asks you all. You shrug but Oliver has an answer.
" He told me he doesn't want to. He's proving to me that I will destroy myself and everyone close to me." Oliver says and you flinch slightly but no one notices.
"Well, he's gonna be disappointed but we are gonna put Black Siren back in her cage." Felicity says determinedly.
" every meta gets a nickname." She explains after all the confused looks she got.
" Let's hit the streets. She is not leaving the city until this is over." Oliver says as he starts walking off.
"What are you gonna do? " Rene calls after him.
"John needs my help as mayor. I'll be on my cell." Oliver explains as he is gone.

Later( after all the fights)

Caution 🍋 ahead

You were in Rory's kitchen getting an ice pack for him since he got punch in the face right over the bruise he already got from all the siren screams. You walk into his living room where he lays on his couch with a hand over his eyes. You bend down and place the pack in the right spot, he moves his hand to hold it and looks at you.
" this is going to sting for a while." He says as he looks in your eyes. You stand up straight and look down at him.
" probably. Don't you wish your haunted rags would absorb the pain for you?" She says with a smile, he gives you a smile laugh and closes his eyes.
" last time one of us was hurt and the other one was playing doctor, we...." you a weak laugh as you remember the first time you two had been together.