Fighting for the Heart

Untitled Part 15

The group made their way back to Oliver's dressing room and Felicity noticed he was limping. She watched him with a worried expression as Yeo Fei had Oliver sit on the examining table and he looked over his knee. Felicity could see the swelling and that combined with his swollen lip and cut on his forehead made him look pretty beat up. He needed a few days to recuperate. She knew the magazines would be vying for an interview with him but she was going to need to hold them off while he healed.

Yeo Fei walked over to a bag he had carried into the room and pulled out a small mason jar filled with a clear liquid. When he removed the lid everyone crinkled their noses as the stench was intense. Slade glanced down at it with interest.

"What is that?" he asked.

"My own natural inflammation remedy." Yea Fei said as he approached Oliver."

"Wow, once he rubs that on your knee you are going to stink." Tommy said crinkling his nose.

"He drink." Yeo Fei said and everyone's head whipped in his direction. The concoction stunk to high heaven and he expected Oliver to drink it?

"OH this should be good." Tommy said with a grin and stepped closer.

Oliver glared at him as Yeo Fei encouraged Oliver to drink. "It will take care of the swelling."

Oliver wrinkled his nose and then just took a gulp. Tommy and Slade both gave looks of disgust as Oliver's face crinkled with distaste.

Yeo Fei finished cleaning up Oliver's cuts and then John walked over. "Great fight man." he said to Oliver. John turned to Yeo Fei and held out his hand. "We cannot thank you enough for the time you have spent with him. We could not have won today without you." Yeo Fei shook his hand and bowed before turning to Felicity.

He smiled at her and took her hand, "如果你再次需要我美女，你所要做的就是打電話。(If you need me again beautiful lady, all you have to do is call)." Felicity smiled as he took her hand and kissed her knuckles.

"謝謝。(Thank you)." Felicity said and Oliver looked at her in surprise. He didn't know she knew Chinese. She was full of surprises.

Yeo Fei bowed to Tommy and Slade and walked out the door.

"Great fight brother." Slade said and clasped Oliver's hand. Oliver gave him a small smile and hugged him and Tommy before they turned to Felicity.

"Felicity take care of him." Slade said. "He looks like he could use a little TLC." he winked.

"We will see you Thursday Oliver." Tommy said and then he and Slade left.

Felicity gave Oliver a curious look before she grabbed her purse. John and Lyla were still here, and she knew that John had a few things to go over with Oliver so she was going to head home.

"Great fight Queen." she said and patted his arm platonically. "I will call you tomorrow."

She walked over and gave John a kiss on the cheek and then hugged Lyla before she threw a look back to Oliver, who was watching her with a confused, intense stare and then she left.

***

Felicity had changed into her shorts and tank top and pulled some ice cream from the freezer. With Oliver being hurt, she was not expecting to see him tonight and she needed something to get her mind off of him. Seeing him hurt had made her chest ache and all she wanted to do was walk over and kiss every single hurt. But she couldn't do that and it frustrated her. Seeing him today with Heather and not being able to tell her he was hers frustrated her as well.

She sat on the couch and took a bite of her ice cream, her eyes closing as the flavor of chocolate and mint hit her mouth. Oliver had won tonight and that was great news for him and for her. But Felicity could not stop thinking about the personal side of their relationship. She was finding that she wanted to be able to kiss him in public, to walk down the street holding hands, to go on an actual date.

As she went to take another bite of her ice cream she heard a knock at her door. Oliver must have decided to stop by anyway, and she opened the door with a smile on her face only to have it fall away as she saw who was standing outside her door. Tom Waldren had been the guy that she had gone on a date with a few months before and she had told him at the time she was not ready to date. Now he was standing on her door step.

"Tom! What are you doing here?" she asked surprised.

"Hi Felicity. I hope you don't mind that I stopped by unannounced. May I come in?" he asked.

She stood back and let him in shutting the door behind her. She looked down wishing she had put on a robe or something but it had not even occurred to her when she thought it was Oliver.

"So what is going on?" she asked inviting him to take a seat on the couch.

She sat in a chair across from him and wrapped her arms around her waist.

"Listen, I know this is a surprise but I have been thinking about you a lot lately. I saw you at the fight tonight and I was hoping that maybe you and I could try again?" he said, a hopeful look in his eyes.

She took in a deep breath, wishing he had called. Why had he stopped by?

"Tom, you could have called and asked me out. Why did you come over?" she asked suspiciously.

"Your note." he said smiling.

"My note? What note?" she asked, growing even more suspicious.

"While at the fight tonight one of the security guards brought me this note." he pulled it out of his pocket and handed it to her.

She frowned as she looked down seeing unfamiliar handwriting and she read the note growing more confused.

Tom,

I have missed you and hope you are doing well.

Give me a call or stop by sometime. I would love to see you.

All my best,

Felicity

She was about to tell Tom that she didn't write the note when a knock came at her door. She frowned, now who could that be? She glanced at the note again and walked to the door and looked up in surprise when she saw Oliver standing there.

"Oliver!" she said, with a nervous lick of her lips.

"Hey." he leaned down and kissed her and then walked in the door stopping as he saw Tom stand up from the couch. He looked back at Felicity seeing how skimpily she was dressed and then back at Tom. He gave him a cold stare.

Felicity knew she needed to diffuse the situation immediately.

"Tom, listen I appreciate you stopping by but I did not write this note." she said and holding it out to him.

Oliver glared at the note and then grabbed it out of her hand, skimming his eyes over it. His heart stopped for a moment and then he handed it to Tom.

"I clearly interrupted something." he said and stalked to the door.

"Oliver!" she said, trying to get him to stop and he walked out without saying a word, slamming the door behind him.

She let out a breath and walked up to Tom. "Look Tom, you are a nice guy, but I am seeing someone." she said.

"I see that." he said walking to the door.

"I don't know who wrote that note, but it wasn't me. I hope you know I would never play with you like that."

Tom turned and looked at her and then at the note. He balled it up and threw it in her trash can. "Sorry to have bothered you Felicity." he said, clearly embarrassed. "Take care." he said and then walked out the door.

Felicity closed the door and leaned against it with her forehead. What had just happened? Why had someone sent Tom a note and signed her name? She took the note out and unwrinkled it looking at it once more. She grabbed her coat and her keys and placing the note in her pocket hurried out the door. She needed to go see Oliver. He had been angry when he left and she needed him to know that nothing was going on between her and Tom.

She also needed to find out who sent that damn note.