Here's a cute little Olicity plot bunny for you! :)

Setting: during the Season 3 flashbacks, specifically when ARGUS send Oliver to infiltrate QC.
Summary: Felicity saves Oliver from ARGUS.

Slightly longerrrrr explanation...

In canon, when Oliver infiltrated QC, he narrowly escaped getting noticed by Felicity Smoak.

In this tale, he does not escape her notice.

The good news is that right before this happens, Oliver's comms gear "goes wonky" (to use the British Army's technical term for it) and Maseo either loses or never has access to the security cameras - so no one at ARGUS knows.

Meanwhile, Felicity gets the shock of her life upon getting confronted by a dead man. Oliver starts off by telling her she can't tell anyone he's alive, then he has to elaborate a bit on why, and before he knows it he can't stop talking about the horrors that Waller has visited on him and coerced him into perpetrating. After securing a promise from Felicity that she won't tell anyone that he's alive, Oliver exfiltrates the building with the intel he was sent to collect.

However, what Oliver doesn't know is that when Felicity first realised she wasn't alone in that office, she discretely slipped out her smart phone and started recording... and she captured every word he said, and even got some footage in which Oliver's face is clearly recognisable. (And at no point does Felicity appear herself... or at least, not an identifiable part of her, i.e. head and fingertips.)

The following morning, Waller is horrified to discover that most of ARGUS's files - including those related to all of her 'recruitment and training' programmes and field operations - have been leaked online, and the press are in a feeding frenzy. And Oliver Queen just became the poster child / public face of all her victim-agents, with the video footage (of Oliver having a panic attack while explaining the nightmare Waller has trapped him in) getting played repeatedly on every TV news channel.

Within a matter of hours, Director Waller, General Shrieve and various other bigwigs have been arrested, POTUS has given a live address to the nation from the Oval Office denying any prior knowledge of ARGUS's operating procedures and decrying their actions in the most violent language he can safely use on public television, and the domestic and global fallout is only just starting.

The following day, a stunned Oliver Queen is admitted to hospital in Starling City. Hours later, a member of staff leaks his health assessment to the press, revealing the horrifying extent of his injuries and how ARGUS didn't even bother to reset his broken bones that had been damaged on Lian Yu, leaving him in constant agony.

By the following week, Oliver has returned home, and his mother has first arranged for him to be kidnapped and interrogated about the Gambit's sinking, then further arranged for John Diggle to be hired as his bodyguard. The Yamashiros have vanished to escape their enemies in Japan and start a new life elsewhere. Waller and Shrieve are both dead: officially, they committed suicide while awaiting the start of their trials; but few people believe the official story. Watching the news coverage of Oliver's homecoming, Slade Wilson goes berserk at an ASIS training facility - and is killed when another agent, after witnessing how ineffectual pistol rounds are against him, raids the armoury for an anti-tank missile and blows him sky-high with a direct hit.

And Felicity Smoak is secretly delighted with a job VERY well done.

A week and a day after that fateful first meeting, Oliver visits QC carrying a bouquet of flowers and a package of cookies (which he baked himself) - and seeks out Felicity, presents her with both, effusively thanks her for helping him, and asks her on a date.

Thus Olicity starts nearly five years earlier than in canon, and Team Arrow assembles two years and several months earlier. Without his various canon ordeals in Russia and on Lian Yu in 2010 to 2012, Oliver is less hardened and doesn't default to keeping secrets, and he's less fanatical about running down names on The List to the exclusion of everything else: he is generally speaking in a better state of mental health - and is actually willing to do something about it, namely talking about things (a little bit at a time) with Felicity, Diggle, or both of them together.

...so: what do you think?

Whatever you decide, thank you for sharing your wonderful stories with the world, and I hope you continue to have fun writing! :) *hugs*

hilarious, quirky, and could really use a sequel.
great work.
xoxo

This fic was exactly what I needdd today. The perfect dose of fluff and honestly that scene with Moira and Tommy was just perfection in words. I love you for sharing this with the world (which obviously includes me) and I love this fic. Thank you for writing this story.

Loved it!

This was an awesome read!

Totally enjoyed all 8 chapters of this wonderfully believable story of the characters. Especially your writing if Felicity. So good! Thanks for sharing your talent!

Nice end!

Megan was AWESOME. Loved the chapter.

I loved this story and I want to bake now.

Ha! What a great ending to a fun story. I love that Thea was able to figure out the connection between Felicity and Megan due to her butt. :)

This has got to be your best chapter yet, loved it, this is my 2nd time reading it. I'm still anxiously waiting for the next chapter. It's been awhile.

"she would have had baby demons… which were otherwise known as kangaroos."-got to be one of my favourites lines EVER

I love this! Felicity's ramblings are spot on. Update soon!

Awesome chapter xx

LOL! First of all, I love that Felicity tried to hide even though she was so busted. Moira was pretty nasty so I'm glad that Felicity finally stood up to her. I really love that Oliver's and Felicity's relationship has evolved enough that they are now referring to each other as boyfriend/girlfriend. I can't wait for more. :)

I loved all of the flirting that was happening here. The interaction with Dig and Felicity was awesome. I can't wait for more. :)