Prologue

0I'm standing on my frozen lake.

It was no secret that Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak came from completely different worlds; Oliver was the billionaire playboy who had taken over Queen Consolidated with hope to restore the Queen name to its former glory, he was every women´s dream and all the men either wanted to be him or they hated his guts.

While Felicity was only a middle-class person, struggling with everyday issues and working at the IT-department at QC. She wasn´t the type of girl Oliver would choose, as she had been told her whole life...

Although, these facts were only scratching the surface.

Your frozen lake is the name for what you want the most in the world and you want it, you want it so bad that you'll do anything to get it.

And your heart takes over.

Oliver had been trapped on an island for five years, after being shipwrecked and seeing his father kill himself. He had been tortured in the most horrific ways and he had gone to hell and back before he finally could find his back home to Starling City. There he had put on a facade; acting like the charming billionaire playboy he was by day, and by night he turned into a completely different person, fighting the low-lifes of Starling City with the help of a bow and arrow.

He had been forced to witness part of Starling crumble to the ground, a horrific plan made up by Malcolm Merlin and Moira Queen, Oliver´s mother. This was the one thing of Oliver's crucade he couldn´t prevent and he felt like he had failed his father. As it was by the promise of his father that Oliver had survived on the island, made his way back and started fighting the criminals of Starling City.

Felicity had also gone through some tough times, but it wasn´t something she was willing to tell anyone – yet if ever. And she was helping Oliver in his crucade to save his city with her high-tec IT-skills – and also in his facade as the CEO of Queen Consolidated, only there she was his executive assistant, which had got her in trouble, not to mention the rumours that were circling around about the two of them. These had surfaced the second Isabel Rochev entered the company in her failed (first, sure she had a devilish plan coming down her sleeve) attempt to take over QC.

Felicity looked to Oliver for comfort, she found him attractive - but then again, who in their right mind wouldn´t think he was drop dead gorgeous, with those piercing baby blue eyes of his, which could melt even the coldest icy heart. His smile was also famous.

And Oliver had come to Felicity´s rescue more than once, the last time when she had been taken hostage by The Count and Oliver had killed him with three arrows. This had been his first kill in over five months, since The Undertaking and Tommy´s death. To honor Tommy´s memory, Oliver hadn´t killed since then.

Felicity had known by the look on Oliver´s face after he´d shot the arrows, that he was hurting, like he had failed Tommy and she had apologized to him later than evening, apologized for being the one who forced Oliver to kill again. Oliver had then taken her hand in his, looked at her intensely and said 'He had you and he was going to hurt you' and then he had lower his voice, 'There was no choice to make'.

But because of that, it destroys you in the end.

It's right there, just sitting in the middle of this frozen lake, and you think you're fast enough to go out and grab it before the ice cracks.

Oliver might look to Felicity as only a good friend, he was still too damaged after everything that happened on the island, with the undertaking that took his best friend's life and for which Oliver felt guilty to see her as something more. Or maybe he did have feelings for her but he hadn´t admitted this to himself yet.

He had been involved with several women...

Helena, even though that had turned out to be a total disaster and Oliver´s feelings had taken over his better judgement;

McKenna, but she had moved away to Coast City after being injured (by Helena, ironically enough) on a job and that had broken Oliver´s heart as he really had cared for her;

and last but most definatley not least – Laurel. The relationship with Laurel was more complicated then ten ways to Sunday, and they had been doing this on/off thing for a while before finally getting together in the end, but the aftermath of Tommy´s tragic death had been too painful for them both.

And what you don't realize is you're already standing on the ice and it's falling apart around you.

Neither Oliver or Felicity knew how their paths would cross in the end. Maybe they were destined to be together as crime-fighting partners in their self-named Team Arrow... or maybe the stars had something totally of the opposite planned for them...