Felicity and Noel (2024)

Noel and Felicity is a relationship on Felicity, portrayed by Scott Foley and Keri Russell.

Story[]

Noel sees Felicity for the first time talking on the phone with her parents in her room, when he comes to introduce himself as the RA, and is instantly mesmerised.^[1] They start a flirtation, where Noel is dismayed at Felicity's infatuation with Ben. Eventually Noel kisses Felicity, after which he tells her that he actually has a girlfriend. Felicity is mad at him but they make up and agree to be friends, despite harbouring feelings for each other.^[2] This culminates when Hanna visits at Thanksgiving. Noel and Hanna break up and he starts a relationship with Felicity.^[3] They're happy together, but when an old friend of Felicity visits New York and awakens her latent passion for art, things change. Felicity delves into the art scene at university, while Noel promises to help Hanna with her music. Felicity gets jealous but tries to be understanding, until she starts to feel like she might be losing Noel. When he leaves with Hanna, Felicity goes to the art studio and ends up spontaneously sleeping with one of the art students, Eli.^[4] After the fact, Noel and Felicity can't get past hurting each other and break up.^[5] Despite being hurt, they admit that they love each other^[6] and want each other back. They get back together briefly, but then Ben kisses Felicity and she finds herself torn between the boys.

She chooses to go on a road trip with Ben for the summer, breaking Noel's heart and her own as he doesn't want anything to do with her. Despite his anger, they tentatively try to find their way back to being in each other's lives and Felicity apologises for how she hurt him. They are also, once again, drawn to each other in spite of themselves, and get jealous when both start dating other people. When Noel gets drunk at Thanksgiving, they kiss and are caught by their arts professor, who happens to be the mother of the guy Felicity is dating, who is also there, along with Felicity's parents. Despite the awkwardness that ensues in class, Felicity and Noel realise they want to be together. But Felicity decides not to pursue her feelings when she sees how upset Ruby is. Noel stays with Ruby, who soon gets pregnant, leaving him occupied with a very serious situation. He eventually learns that he's not the father and Ruby cheated on him, although he still decides to be there for her as a friend. Meanwhile, Felicity starts seeing a pre-med student at the clinic where she works off her community service, but is eventually courted by Ben and gets back together with him at the end of her sophom*ore year, while Noel finishes his junior year lost and confused, eventually disappearing with Javier's cousin, Natalie.

Noel doesn't return for the start of his senior year, leaving everyone very worried, especially Felicity. When they find out that he goes by an alias - Leon - and married Natalie, they're all shocked. Despite trying to help Noel, they host an intervention and Noel is furious. Felicity goes after him and they manage to talk. He confesses to her that his junior year was a blur. That Ruby was a distracting for him from his and Felicity's break-up, and then suddenly he found himself lost. Noel decides to end the marriage and comes back to school, while Felicity is all in on her relationship with Ben, which is very unstable. Despite being back at school Noel still feels lost and when he collaborates on an animation project with Felicity, her mother realises that Noel is in love with her. Felicity rejects the notion, but is shocked to learn that it's true, which Ben also points out after finding the break-up kit that Noel made for her. It culminates in Noel kissing Felicity when they TP the school together, but she rejects him. He finds himself unable to be friends with her, which devastates Felicity. They do, however, end up being the only ones left in the city for the summer.

After spending practically every day of the entire summer together and being totally in sync, Felicity and Ben have issues as he returns laser-focused on pre-med and becoming a doctor, while Felicity is lost and unsure about her future. Noel and Felicity getting so close results in them having sex together for the first time, on the roof of The Loft. Afterwards, Felicity rejects Noel once again, saying she wants to be with Ben, and tries to continue that relationship without revealing that she cheated. Noel accidentally tells Ben, and Ben breaks up with Felicity. Meanwhile, Noel has become depressed, which culminates in him bailing on Thanksgiving with his brother and getting arrested for solicitation after going home with a woman at a bar who robs him. Noel agrees to start therapy and gradually tries to put his life back together, although it's hard. He finds work at a graphics design company, where he meets Zoe Webb, whom he starts seeing. Felicity, meanwhile, goes back and forth with Ben, who ends up having a child with is father's ex-girlfriend, and eventually stays with Ben in California.

In the epilogue, Ben cheats on Felicity and when she attends Noel's wedding to Zoe she feels like she made the wrong choice. Meghan casts a spell that sends Felicity back to the start of her senior year, on that rooftop with Noel. She immediately decides that she wants to be with Noel, who is confused and surprised, but happy that she chooses him. Felicity altering events in the past, however, leads to Noel dying in the fire at the university, and Felicity seeks out the author of Meghan's book to travel back to the present. Eventually she is succesful, or so she thinks - it turns out to all have been a dream, as Felicity got a fever and her friends worried about her. Ben shows up at the wedding and Felicity reluctantly takes him back.

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Songs[]

Season 1[]

something wicked this way comes | BARRY ADAMSON

felicity and noel compliment each other. 1x03.

all i need (feat. beth hirsch) | AIR

felicity and noel play boggle and kiss. 1x04.

calcutta | LES BAXTER

felicity and noel on a maybe-date. 1x04.

up on the roof | THE DRIFTERS

noel gives felicity advice. 1x07.

i'll be around | THE SPINNERS

noel sets boundaries with felicity. 1x07.

happiness | ABRA MOORE

felicity's jealousy-rant about noel and hanna. 1x09.

falling in love again | EAGLE-EYE CHERRY

felicity and noel in the hall. 1x09.

swingle jingle | LIONEL HAMPTON

noel and felicity dtr. 1x10.

samba saravah | PIERRE BAROUH

felicity is focused. 1x11.

un homme et une femme | NICOLE CROISILLE & PIERRE BAROUH

noel and felicity at the hotel. 1x11.

Trivia[]

• At the 2018 ATX Felicity 20th anniversary panel, Scott Foley didn't remember that Noel died in the time travel episodes, leading him to joke that Felicity ended up with Ben only because Noel dies.

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