Rumor Mill (Arrow, Diggle/Oliver/Felicity)

The rumors start as soon as Felicity starts working as Oliver’s secretary/secret research assistance. No one says anything in front of her. The employees of Queen Consolidated know better than to comment on Oliver’s proclivities. She’s always found that it’s what people don’t say out loud that’s more telling. Felicity’s not an IT goddess for nothing. She has hooks in all the internal systems to let her know when someone’s talking about her, Oliver, or Diggle.

She’d set up her digital spy network to make sure no one had connected Oliver, Felicity, and Diggle to the vigilante. No one has so far – really, who would suspect the nerdy IT girl, the playboy businessman, and his bodyguard – but what she has caught so far is way more interesting than speculation about the vigilante.

It feels a little dishonest, sometimes, reading other people’s emails and IMs, but she tells herself that this is the kind of stuff Oliver is paying her to keep track of. She’s their digital eyes and ears and this is her kingdom, her playground. She’s got to keep it covered.

If she happens to find out all the juicy gossip and satisfy her near-insatiable curiosity, well that’s just a side benefit.

Of course there’s the usual speculation that she’s sleeping with Oliver and that’s why she got the sudden promotion way out of her field. That’s not why she has the job, and she almost hates the fact that they are right, if not for the fact that she’s sleeping with Oliver and it is awesome. So awesome. She’s also sleeping with Diggle but no one seems to have picked up on that because unlike Oliver, she and Diggle know how to be discreet.