Hiatus Fic-A-Thon #8 - Hostile Territory
TAKE THE THING. I feel like I’ve spent a week staring at it instead of three days, and I am just as exhausted as Oliver and Felicity will be by the end of this. ;)
I bet you guys thought you’d never see this universe again, but welcome back to the Safe Haven ‘verse and all that goes with it. Which is basically a lot of angst and dystopian feels.
Thanks again to @thebookjumper for hosting @olicityhiatusficathon.
Dark, Dirty, Dangerous series
Prompt: one more time
Felicity Smoak is certain about a lot of things, but there are two truths she holds constant in the world above all others: she is damn good at her job and her boss is a slimy son of a bitch. She hates to say it about Robert Queen because Starling City holds him up as some sort of hero, but she also knows that people don't become powerful without learning to swim with sharks. And, when one swims with sharks day in and day out, she knows that one has a tendency to become a shark to stay alive.
But she wouldn't call him a shark—not really. She thinks of him more like a snake. He's never been anything but polite to her in their years of working together (even when she hasn't been so polite herself), but something about the way his eyes linger a little too long over her form gives her pause. Something tells her that Robert Queen is a man far too accustomed to taking what he wants, and Felicity understands how easy it is to get drunk on that kind of power. Which is certainly none of her business, provided that he remembers he has a place, too—even if it comes with fewer strings than her own. Boss or no, if he makes a pass, she's going to suggest a better place for him to store that cactus on his desk.
A few of the other power station employees are frantic about Mr. Queen's increasingly common visits, but Felicity doesn't see that she has anything to worry about. Sure, the city's power grid is failing because of the severe Eco shortage--that's old news—but she's optimized the system several times in her two-year tenure. They're running on less Eco than ever, which just adds another day they'll have power to the city walls to keep the monsters out. Felicity is the one with her fingers in the dam to keep it from bursting, and, in her opinion, that's the best job security there is.
Besides, Robert Queen isn't nearly as scary as everyone seems to think.
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