Arrow Queen

Sorry friends! I meant to post this sooner, but life got busy the past few days. The 5x22 Follower Giveaway is a goodie from HVFF Chicago - artwork by Brian C. Roll (oydsseyart.net) and signed by DAVID RAMSEY! Yes, it is 100% authentic. I chatted with David and watched him sign it. :) 

I know many of you will never get the chance to meet any of the Arrow cast, so this is just my little way of sharing the experience!

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I will announce the winner after 5x22 airs Wednesday May 17th!

Summary: Felicity is organizing Oliver’s birthday party. After 5 years in Hell and another 5 years saving the city clouded by darkness Oliver memory of the passing of years had ame void and forgotten. Not this year, the Mayor of Star City birthdate would be celebrated.

The planning was harder than she thought. It was not the planning, nor the organizing but the keeping it a secret. From Oliver of all people.

To her infinite happiness they had found the balance. They were on the same page, every time, and when they weren’t they talked and got an understanding. Hiding anything from him was hard.

But it didn’t matter, it secret would end soon enough, and Oliver would love it but still, it was something she was hiding and Oliver was clever. Clever enough to spot her cover up.

“Any news?”

Controlling her sense of urgency, Felicity presses send on the message she was typing to the caterer.

“Nothing. And Star City is calm.”

“We got them all?”

“Doubt it. But they are either hiding or just left town.”

Oliver stands hovering at her side. His usual stance, she was reading way too much on it.

“SCPD is still out there. People need to see them. To feel safe.”

Felicity nods distractedly.

“Hey, you okay?”

The softness of his voice adds to the hand on her shoulder.

“Just frustrated.”

Oliver smiles. And she loves his smile, she missed it more than she thought.

“You’ll get him.”

“Probably too late. Like before.”

Felicity hears his intake

“Hey. It wasn’t your fault.”

She still wasn’t sure of that. Something had triggered the EMT and she was sure it was something she did.

“Not so sure.”

“Chase put the bombs in here.”

With that she fully agreed.

“And yet we aren’t closer to get him.”

“He’s close. You will find him.”

Oliver’s phone rings. Felicity doesn’t catch the words.

“I need to go. Will you be okay?”

Felicity smiles. He’s still afraid Chase will come storming inside the Bunker. He could, of course, but this time it wouldn’t be that easy.

“With all the traps I set up with Curtis? Of course.”

For a moment they eyes lock. For a moment Felicity wishes Oliver would kiss her. For a moment she can feel Oliver wants the same. But they both know Oliver is not ready, not yet. And it’s with a smile that Felicity shows she’s still there waiting, for him, for when he’s ready.

Felicity’s phone rings as the elevator doors close. The image on the screen has her reaching for it in haste.

“Thea. I need you.”

“You are going with me.”

“I have a killer to catch.”

“It can wait… in fact it can’t, but doesn’t matter. You have to eat and I need someone to go with me.”

“Take Felicity.”

“Felicity won’t do.”

“Don’t be mad at Felicity. I asked her to do it.”

“I’m not mad at Felicity.”

Thea kept following Oliver along but now she stopped him

“But… wait what did you ask her to do?”

“To undo whatever you two had done to Susan.”

“You…”

Thea struggles to form words

“You asked Felicity to do that? How could you?”

“It was wrong it should be corrected. No one better than the persons that did it. Being you were unwilling.”

“You asked Felicity, to do it.”

“And she did.”

Thea turns away with Oliver on her heals

“As she should.”

“I don’t know what’s worse. You asking her, Felicity doing it, or you not seeing how many levels of wrong that was. How it must have hurt.”

He never thought about it. At the time Felicity was so far, so terribly far away, everything was so impossible but now he saw it.

“At the time she was…”

“…over you? I would laugh if it wasn’t so pitiful that you ever thought that. Or her.”

Thea was already at her car.

“Get in.”

“Thea…”

“I need you to come with me, Ollie. Please.”

She had won she knew it the moment she heard the sigh.

“I can’t stay long.”

But he would.

The building was light up. All of Oliver’s friends, acquaintances and coworkers were there.

“I could have gotten him. It would have been much faster”

Barry plan would have worked on anyone except Oliver.

“He would turn you into a pretzel, Barry.”

Felicity had to laugh at Cisco. She was glad they were here. She had no idea how Oliver would react and having friends, close friends, helped.

“He’ll be thrilled, Felicity.”

Diggle and Lyla stepped closer.

“I know.”

But she didn’t. Inside she still felt that maybe it was too much too soon. Diggle and Lyla smile trying to ease her nerves. Didn’t help.

“Looks like all the city is here.”

Oliver canvas the entrance while Thea locks the car.

“Only missing the Mayor.”

“The Mayor is a bit busy at night.”

“Tonight he’s busy here.”

Oliver walks in the room and after a moment it all goes silent. He has been getting used to being the center of attention again but not like this. Everyone looks at him expecting some reaction he can’t fandom. It’s Thea that gives him the clue.

“Happy birthday, Ollie.”

The room explodes and only now he remembers. It’s his birthday. Over the years he almost forgot. But someone remember and he knows better to think it was his sister. His eyes search the room until he finds her.

Getting to her is harder. Compliment after compliment, handshake, hug. He loses track of all the faces. Until he finds the one he wants. She had met him halfway.

“You did all this.”

Felicity nods.

“Are you happy?”

“This was what you were hiding from me.”

“I hope I’m forgiven.”

The “I love you” is right there. Threatening to come out.

“Thank you.”

Five perspectives on one heroic battle. See how James Bamford brings to life the iconic clash of Team Arrow and The League.

I have the feeling I’m going to love 5x19.

Oliver shocked to the core. Facing Felicity in the field. Felicity moving on her own accord, not listening to him.

Felicity sure of herself and moving seamlessly on the field and owning it.

So three “confrontations” Oliver / Felicity - One in the Bunker; one in the loft; one in the field.

And can I just say I beautiful Felicity looks in that still of the her and Oliver at the loft?

We are TIED with L*uriver????

Listen y’all I can put up with a lot but this shit cannot stand. PLEASE VOTE.

for those unfamiliar with bannon, this is the neo-nazi who used to run breitbart, have previously said he wants to “destroy the state, bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment”, and could likely be the mind behind all of trump’s executive orders (including the muslim ban)

WHAT you may ask is the National Security Council?

It’s a group formed in 1947 inside the US government to provide counsel to the President because the world is too complex to merely have the State Department provide all of the intel and major points of interest.

WHO is part of it traditionally? Well, consider, if you have a council made specifically to guide you in matters of national defense, domestic security, policy, economics, espionage, technology…etc etc you would have the heads of the major players. Like the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of the Joint Chief’s of Staff who in their turns represent our spies and our military respectively.

HOW has Trump altered this? He has in effect said that the National Security Council doesn’t need authorities from the various departments to help the President understand or provide their personal insight to decisions…instead they will be replaced in the NSC by Steve “Actual Nazi” Bannon and RNC chief Reince “Fucko” Priebus.

BUT WAIT…what about matters of national defense and espionage or counter intelligence? According to Der Fuhrer Bannon and Priebus will do the trick, since they clearly have spent so much time in the military and intelligence communities. If a really tough question comes up the traditional members of the council can be called, but hey, who needs those guys anyway, if they were actually important they’d be there right?

SO WHAT’S THAT MEAN? It means that the President’s foreign and domestic policy is basically guided by a Nazi and the head of the Republican National Convention. I don’t mean that lightly, imagine if you wanted to run a country and needed goals and guidelines for what you would do, you’d ask the heads of your governments various offices and groups to tell you what’s happening to make those decisions right? What the Piss Lord in Chief has done has said 'I don’t want to meet with them because I think the world is too complicated to be described by these types…instead I’ll have a Nazi news pundit, and the guy who directs the Republican party’s campaign finances to tell me how things should go and who I need to look out for.’

HOW’S IT GET WORSE? Oh yeah, this is kinda important, you see we used to have a system in place where the Pentagon, the Joint Chief’s of Staff, and the NSC all had to agree on when to target someone for killing, specifically for when a US citizen needed to be assassinated, those three groups had to agree that it should be done. Well…You see, Susan Rice under Bush, and continued under Obama created the Disposition Matrix, that streamlined the process. The argument was that things could move so rapidly that trying to get so many divisions of the government together to agree on a target was unfeasible, so let the NSC just decide unilaterally, since the Joint Chief’s of Staff are literally always part of it. EXCEPT MY FUCKOS that now the power to selectively assassinate any US citizen has been handed to the President, Steve ‘Sieg Heil’ Bannon, and Reince ‘Dumbass Name’ Priebus…and the Joint Chief’s are out of the picture. 

Guess who just put a gun to the head of every American domestic and abroad? The President. 

Anyone wanna guess how long before he decides that any dissent is considered an act of terrorism? Probably not long.

When exactly do we use the Disposition Matrix? When the President and the NSC want an American citizen dead for any reason? 

James Bamford: This is how @barnhand parked on set today……jeez.

“The last lab experiments brought good result. I talked to the head of the laboratory. He sent his report to the FDA. If everything goes as planned, we can end the preclinical test phase and proceed to transplant the first chips into actual patients. I already talked to the team of neurosurgeons in charge of the clinical test phase to let them know that the chip will hopefully be released for transplantation soon. I also passed on the body plan of the final version and the protocols of the test transplantations we did in the preclinical phase to them, so they can figure out if the same procedure works for the surgeries or if they need to change something. Professor Fulton has participated in the last preclinical tests and he told me he will convoke a meeting to supervise the team of surgeries in the procedure.”