She's about to empathize with him because for Felicity, the past five days here have felt like an eternity that would never end, but Oliver keeps talking.

It takes her a second as she tries to process the phrase 'it's been almost nine months,' but she can't. What was that supposed to mean? Her mind doesn't automatically go to things like time travel or the fact that she doesn't have the right memories, because normal people — smart, normal people don't jump to science fiction when someone tells them something that happened five days ago was actually nine months ago.

"Wait- I don't understand. Oliver-"

Things he needed to tell her about what happened. What did happen? She barely has time to try understanding it again before she hears the sentence that makes her entire body tense.

It's not fair to you for us to be together.

He says something else after that, but she only pays enough attention to know that it wasn't But, I want to stay together anyways. She pulls away, shocked and confused, but most of all hurt in a way that she can't explain because she still doesn't know what's going on.

"Oliver, what do you mean it's been nine months-" When she gets the full question out this time, she realizes, finally, what he actually said. "-for you." No no no no no. "Ivy Town was ... nine months ago, for you?"