Spoilers for Arrow Season 2: Keep Your Enemies Closer

[suicideblonde]

I know what you want to say and that you're struggling with how to say it.

It's not that I'm in love with Oliver. I'm certainly attracted to Oliver and every time I open my big fat mouth we both know it, but we're both sticking our heads in the sand. It's just...this is the first time I've heard him come even close to admitting anything along the same lines and look I am not even saying what he's admitting because technically he wasn't admitting anything.

You know there are reasons. They're good ones. Not just the meta level of what could happen with Sarah, and to be honest, you and I both could even conceivably be happy for them if that happened (also, Sarah has a great rack I TOTALLY saw it). It makes sense, the risks involved in really caring about someone. And the distraction. I want him to succeed. He needs me to help him and sometimes we maybe want things or maybe we think that we want things but what we need is more important. He needs what I can do for him right now.

Just because I'm being noble about it doesn't mean I'm forgiving him for one second about Isabel, though. Really? Even if he has to do the whole love the one you're with thing, we both agree: he deserves better.

Long and short of it? It's complicated, okay? But at the end of the day that doesn't stop us from helping him help Starling City.

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[shipwreckedcanary]

[Ignoring anything about her or her and ollie. She gets it though. She really does.]

At least you have what's important down. I guess in some ways Oliver never changes. He's never been one to talk about his feelings, and I guess that hasn't changed.

Oliver's a complicated guy these days, and you seem to handle him really well. He needs you around in whatever capacity you can be there for him.

[suicideblonde]

Oliver's about as forthcoming as a mouse trap.

I guess the way I'd put it is...he's not the air I breathe or anything like that. And I know when it's important, he comes through. I mean, Russia was pretty much him coming through for John. And when you were here, he did the same too.