Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?

April 27, 2007

It had been four days since he had last spoken with her, but it felt like an entire lifetime had flashed before his eyes in a matter of a few mere hours. Oliver wasn't concerned with how their previous phone call had ended. As he stood outside her dorm room for the first time in months, he ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?

April 23, 2007

“Felicity....”

Oliver tried to swallow, but there was a lump permanently stuck in his throat. His chest felt empty... like he had no lungs to breathe, no heart to pump life through his veins, and the heaviness of... nothing weighed down upon him. They hadn't talked since Christmas. Hanukkah ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?

December 16, 2006

If he wasn't so disenchanted with... everything, maybe he wouldn't have been drunk. Already. And, if he wasn't so desperate - and lonely, maybe he wouldn't have noticed that shock of blonde hair and reacted so hastily. Distantly, in the back of Oliver's mind, he knew it wasn't her. She was ( Read more... )

Chipped Blocks
An Olicity Flash Fic Story

Flash Fic Prompt #33: Hide From Evil

Chapter Five

Felicity Smoak was very much a creature of habit. She liked routines. She liked predictability. She even liked schedules - always had... even as a child. While she was invariably the first to embrace new technologies, she had been drinking the same cup of ( Read more... )

Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?

November 23, 2006

He had to get out, he had to run, he had to escape.

Oliver felt like he couldn't breathe. That wasn't a new phenomena when it came to Queen family dinners; they often resulted in sucking all of the oxygen out of the room, but today was supposed to be different. And maybe that's what made ( Read more... )

Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?

November 1, 2006

“Hmm... yeah?”

Felicity's voice was deeper, and it had an edge when she was asleep - tired, and exhausted, and vulnerable in her relaxed state, and Oliver would have been surprised by how much he appreciated the sound of it... if he didn't like everything about Felicity Smoak. “Felicity, ( Read more... )

Chipped Blocks
An Olicity Flash Fic Story

Flash Fic Prompt #32: Rules of Engagement

Chapter Four

Oliver was lonely.

If someone would have told his twenty-one year old self that, eighteen years later, he'd be sitting inside of a fast food joint, speeding towards forty, and essentially waiting to meet someone who didn't even qualify as a blind date, ( Read more... )

Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?

September 29, 2006

“So, as a little boy, what did Oliver Queen want to be when he grew up?” For someone who talked as much as Felicity did - and oftentimes in circles, she was oddly adept at getting straight to the point... usually when Oliver didn't want her to do so. “I bet you were just as impossible as a ( Read more... )