FF#34: Chipped Blocks - Chapter Six
Chipped Blocks
An Olicity Flash Fic Story
Flash Fic Prompt #34: Lust Muffin & ABSolutely
Chapter Six
Felicity could be his friend. His confidant. His parenting guru. But that was it. That was where Oliver would draw the line - where he had to draw the line, because, no matter what he wanted, he had to do what Felicity, and her daughter, and even Oliver's own son needed. While he was in too deep to get out of the vigilante business at that point, he could decide who else he pulled down along with him, and Felicity and her family would not be on that list.
It would be enough, Oliver was convinced. After last night, after just eating some greasy fast food with another adult and engaging in a genuine, mature conversation, he had felt satisfied. His life was still otherwise a mess, but Oliver had gone home with a weight lifted from his shoulders, and that was without seeking physical comfort from Felicity. If friendship had sustained him then, it would sustain him moving forward.
As Oliver left work, as he blandly tried to pass off the mid-day meeting as a make-up parent/teacher conference to Diggle, as he avoided his bodyguard's inquisitive gaze when they stopped to pick up lunch, and as Oliver made his way down the now bright and airy with the afternoon sun and sounds of a busy high school hallway, he kept repeating this mantra in his head. The more he said it to himself, the more he believed it; and the more he believed it, the more determined Oliver was to see it through. And he'd do so in a way that wouldn't hurt Felicity's feelings or make her think that there was something wrong with her, something that had pushed him away.
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