'I definitely didn't mean to hit your car and I am freaking out and oh crap you are really attractive and now I'm doubly freaking out why is this happening' olicity
She’s babbling and she has no idea why. I mean, she babbles. She does. That’s kind of her thing. But the words are spilling out of her mouth way too fast, and the world is going fuzzy in a not-that-fun way but the guy she hit is super attractive, and he has a really nice car. And here she is, driving her mom’s old junker on her way to her internship, and why is she still talking? This is crazy.
The cute guy doesn’t look freaked out or put off by her, though. Instead, he’s concerned. And really, really cute even with that hair.
That’s the last thing Felicity thinks before the world goes black. She doesn’t even get to experience the dubious pleasure of fainting into a very handsome man’s arms because she’s so busy being unconscious.
When she wakes up in the hospital, still wearing her first-day-of-interning-dress, he’s still there and she’s very confused because her memory is really patchy. Felicity has no idea why she’s in the hospital at all, or who the guy sitting by her bed is, and things get very confusing until the doctors confirm that she was in a car accident and she has a concussion. Of course, that takes hours for the official diagnosis to come through, and in the meantime, she discovers a few things:
The guy she hit is Oliver Queen.
He lied to the nurses and said he was her boyfriend because he was a little concerned when she passed out like that.
He totally doesn’t blame her for the accident.
And he’s really funny and he doesn’t even make fun of her for forgetting the word cantaloupe or decoupage. and he’s really nice about the fact that she hates hospitals, telling her stupid little jokes that don’t even make sense (though she doesn’t have the heart to tell him that) to distract her.
Anyway, the doctors finally come back and tell her she does have a concussion, so they’d like to keep her over night unless she has somebody to wake her up periodically. Felicity’s staying alone in intern housing, so her face falls, which is when Oliver volunteers to do it.
Which is somehow how she finds herself with the largest spread of dim sum she’s ever seen all over the cheap coffee table that came with the SCC dorm room (where QC is keeping its interns for the summer). She doesn’t even have a couch, so they sit on her bed and watch Blüdhaven Hills on her laptop together, and she hopes it’s not the concussion tricking her into thinking he smells really good because he does. And she’s edgy and nervous the whole time, but Oliver’s great, laughing too loud at the show and then stopping mid-laugh and giving her sheepish looks because that’s not good for her headache. He tosses spring rolls and catches them in his mouth with unnerving accuracy, too.
She falls asleep curled up on one half of her mattress, and wakes up to Oliver cursing and scrambling around the room. It’s hard to tell in her confusion, but apparently he’s late for something. “My dad’s leaving for China today,” he says. “I was going to go with him—shit, maybe I can still catch him at the harbor—”
He comes back an hour later, annoyed with himself but at least he’s got blintzes. She gets mad at him two days later when she realizes he has a girlfriend (nothing happened but still). But all of that is swept aside when the Queen’s Gambit goes down…
