FF#35: Chipped Blocks - Chapter Seven
Chipped Blocks
An Olicity Flash Fic Story
Flash Fic Prompt #35: A Shot Rang out
Chapter Seven
“What the hell do you think you're doing?” Before she could even adjust to the intrusion, before she could even blink, Felicity then felt her left arm being jerked, the momentum of the tug being used to propel her backwards and away from Oliver. “Don't touch her!”
“Connor?”
But the teenager in question ignored his father's reprimand; he ignored all of Oliver's shock and disappointment wrapped up in that one word: his name. Instead of responding to his dad, Connor turned back towards her. “Do you even know who he is?”
Felicity didn't have the time nor the patience for Connor's...tantrum - not when she still had no idea where Mia was, not when she didn't even know if her own daughter was still alive. Yet, in the same breath, she had nothing but time as she waited for word... or for Mia to show up again. Habitually, desperately, Felicity glanced down at her silent, still phone - its dark screen confirming what she already knew... or, more accurately, didn't know. “It's not like I go around kissing strangers, Connor.” As she snapped at him, Felicity clenched. She clenched her fist around her cell, and she clenched her jaw, her words coming out from between her set teeth.
But Connor paid her body language no mind, lost in his own selfish ire. Snorting in derision, he snarked, “you'd be better off.”
“That's enough,” Oliver bit out. He stepped forward both in an effort to shield Felicity and also to highlight how serious he was by looking his son squarely in the eyes. “I get it. You hate me, and I can even admit that you have your reasons, but you do not get to take that anger out on Felicity.”
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