Don't ask me to say that I don't love you.

Felicity Smoak & Lois Lane; two heroines refusing to give up on the men they love. [Arrow 3x23 // Smallville 10x19]

Quentin [on the phone]: I’m pretty sure your boy is at the Starling City Dam, and I got officers not listening to me, getting ready to shoot him. Now, despite what I think about your guy, I don’t wanna see him killed while I think he is trying to save the city. But unless you order up a miracle pretty quick, that’s exactly what’s gonna happen. Felicity: Ray, you have to get to Starling City Dam. You have to fly! Ray: I’m still uploading the operating code to the nanotech. And I’m still rewriting on the fly. I can’t leave the station. Why?

What are these two scenes showing us? That they’re both failing. Miserably.

Yes, they seem to have accepted that they can’t be together. But what’s really most striking about these two scenes? How what the one is saying, is linked to what the other one’s doing. Both of them start and end with a sad, longing smile. Notice the words Felicity says to what Oliver’s doing in the scene from 1x08. He constantly has a small smile on his face for Barry; a smile he fakes to play the part. Then, he turns around and lingers on her when she isn’t looking. And lastly, he whispers the last line “Guys like us don’t get the girl.” His voice is breaking as he’s whispering his dream, that quiet dream he can’t have so he keeps it to himself. And that dream? To get The Girl of his life. To get Felicity.

From Felicity’s part? We’ve often discussed how this is, absolutely understandably so, the only time where Felicity didn’t fight for her reunion with Oliver. The same Felicity who always pushed him past what he thought he was capable of, the same Felicity who has either silenced his demons or lit a fire in his heart, giving him all the motivation he needed to do what was needed to get done. The same Felicity who has always stood by his side, has always had his back, has always believed in him and has got to be the person to know him the most. The person he listens to. The person he looks up to. The person he cherishes more than the most sacred thing in his life. That woman, has had enough. She couldn’t and didn’t want to be the one to make him see that we don’t fight only to honor the dead; we’re fighting to cherish the living, too. Some lessons, each one of us needs to learn by themselves. So, Felicity let him go. For his sake, and mostly hers. She has accepted that she can’t have him; that that’s not going to work out for her. So she’s trying to hold on to anything that might replace the void. The thing is, nothing can replace him. No matter where she goes, no matter how much she tries, and even if she has found a guy who would be the perfect “replacement” in the face of Ray Palmer…Oliver cannot be replaced. Because he is The Guy for her. He is It. But she can’t have it. Which leads us all the way back, since when Felicity first appeared on Arrow. We all remember what she was representing back in the beginning, right? The ordinary girl and her growing feelings for the hero. Now, you must also remember what they often say in a case like that: “Girls like me don’t get the hero.”

“That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person… and you realize that that person is the only person that you’re supposed to kiss for the rest of your life.”