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geneshaven · 6 years

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Adrift In Hiatus

Now that Oliver and Felicity have set sail into the encompassing waters of marital bliss, I am wondering what is next for them. They have solidly become a team in all the ways two people in love can be. Oliver really does love Felicity. And Felicity’s fear of losing him has been tempered by assurance whenever he wraps her in his arms and tells her so.

When Felicity told him after their flashback Bunker sex that she wasn’t ready yet to let Oliver back into her life, one could see in her eyes that she wasn’t really onboard with that sentiment. And again in 505, on the Loft balcony and at Oliver’s office, she looked uncertain of her conviction to move on with Detective Nobody. Oliver was unsure too. Both of them were struggling against the eddies and currents they swam in as their hearts were crying out silently to one another, as if they could look at each other and be okay living with that lie.

I remember thinking at the end of 520 when Felicity came into Oliver’s hospital room---are you ready now? Oliver had been ready (11months ago) ever since he gently lowered her down from the salmon ladder and spun her around with an urgency almost savage. Actually truth be told, Oliver has been ready ever since he smiled at Felicity in the QC IT Department. He might not have had the understanding of what happiness really was back then, but he did know she was a person not out to hurt or torture him, a person that was guilty of only two things---being normal and beautiful.

There is a rare moment when hindsight and foresight become one. Both of them at the beginning began to think about the other on a scale neither could claim experience with. Felicity calmed the raging storms inside Oliver, and Oliver touched those parts of her left barren and cold by Noah and Cooper. When he climbed into the back seat of Felicity’s car trusting and bleeding, Oliver brought with him an excitement and a life that Felicity could not have envisioned.

So here they are now at the other end of that spectrum. All their adventures together, all the pain and hope and frustration, all the smiles and tears and the close proximity of love trying to reach out and claim them---it built itself on the foundation of trust and certainty, a certainty that kept them together for six years; in spite of them getting in their own way from time to time. Finding love and the reasons to cultivate it can sometimes be just as challenging as going up against a villain, a villain like Merlyn or Ra’s Al Gu or Darkhe---and my personal favorite; Adrian Chase. But when things slow down, when the turmoil of being a vigilante is put aside in favor of reaching out to make a connection with someone who has thoroughly captured your heart---it can be so complex in those matters of the heart. It takes compassion and empathy, tolerance and a little elbow grease. You feel love for someone, a wash of colors that brighten your outlook on life, but it still make that leap of faith a scary thing.

No more. Oliver and Felicity have made that leap. Standing next to that quicksilver lake in Central City and telling each other their lives are one; it was an outcome and a dream both had lived on the outside looking in. For far too long. When Oliver told her he was a better human being because he had loved her---one could hear the cosmic click of two souls aligning into place. If felt like relief. They don’t have to deny themselves the reality of why their hearts beat so strong---because they have each other’s.

It is the truth of true love.

So, where do they go from here? To jail? Into the clutches of Cayden James and his band of dark pariah’s? Fighting a civil war against the newbies? Is it the end of their superhero dream? Quiet possibly all of those things are ahead. At least until 623 unfolds, when all the storylines converge to spell out a successful season , if the ride we took was a breathless one. Unless there is another cliffhanger.

I like to think that despite everything else that could go wrong, Oliver and Felicity can step back from it and focus on more important matters:

…like finding a larger more homey place to live, like Felicity taking over the interior design of said dwelling; drapes and linens and what to hang on the walls, like Oliver running for a second term as Mayor, like enrolling William into a karate class so he can fight his own battles, like OTA re-establishing the core of Team Arrow again, like bringing Roy back home and teaming up with Thea as a kick-ass duo husband and wife team, like Felicity getting her company up and running (okay, Curtis can come back for that) to make a difference not just on a city wide scale but a global one, like playing match-maker and bringing Donna and Lance back together, (Olicity’s kids are going to need loving grandparents) like take another vacation traveling the world; this time though, it will be more intimate and endgame and won’t seem like such a whirlwind romance…and the sunsets in Bali will be more spectacular.

Is it wrong for me to want more of Oliver and Felicity’s journey of everlasting love together, more than the threats they are facing with the lackluster stories we’re getting with the FBI and Cayden James, and god forbid, the disillusionment of the Newbies? Is it wrong thinking that Olicity is the main strength of the show? Is it wrong to want to watch two lives building upon each other, enriching and full?

There are some out there who do think all of that is wrong. They are horrified that Oliver and Felicity have become cannon. They are angry and disrespectful and downright fed up. I am not one of those who would want to upend any momentum that Olicity’s relationship and chemistry brings to the show. I will stand shoulder to shoulder and fight against those trying to sink my ship.

Often times during Arrow’s run, it has been a hit-or-miss prospect, a will-they, won’t-they endeavor by the writers. But if you go back through the seasons (as I am currently doing) there are parallels that scream endgame when it comes to Oliver and Felicity. For example: there is symbolism, (like the ring made from the ruins of the Bunker at the end of 423) there is truth, (like Oliver telling Felicity there’s no place he’d rather be) there is belief (like Felicity trusting Oliver with her life and his with hers) and there is love, (like in just about every episode since they first came together.) It’s not hard to see the writing on the wall.

I find myself thinking that there is really nothing left for them to ponder on when it comes to being with one another. They are sailing high, up above anything that would try to dislodge them and bring them crashing down. Regardless of whatever may challenge them, Oliver and Felicity are there for one another, they are there to take what is good and bad and make it their strength. Yes, there will be times they disagree with each other, times when fear of the unknown will touch their doubts and insecurities, times when the whole world (at least the Star City portion of it) will seem too vast and wide and overwhelming.

But there will also be times when all of that will seem easy to deal with; as easy as just reaching out and holding on to one another.

That is their always. And mine too.

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