Sitting in his large office with the glow of the evening sun starting to set through the large space, Oliver is suddenly broken out of trance of looking at different propositions with a phone call. The call was from the police department asking him to come to the station because there was something that he needed to see. After hearing the hesitance and urgency in Detective Malone's voice he immediately gets up and heads over there.
Once he gets there he bursts through the doors and immediately sees Malone, "what's going on, what is so important" Oliver asks. Malone hesitates and says in a timid voice, "there is a little boy in there", pointing to the interrogation room, "who says he's your son." And without hesitation Oliver quickly walks to the room and opens the door imperatively while at the same time saying "William". But as soon as he gets a good look into the room, the name dies on his lips. Sitting there in one of the chairs is a little boy he has never seen before who looks no older than 3 years old.
As soon as the little boy sees Oliver, excitement paints his face and, he immediately says "Daddy" in a giddy voice. Once the words come off the little boy's lips, Oliver goes pale with confusion. "What" he asks quietly and looks at Malone quizzically answers, which the detective only responds with a slight shrug. Once Oliver gets his composure back, he looks back at the little, who looks at him like he is the greatest thing ever, and silently goes over and kneels in front of the boy.
"Hey buddy" he says with the lightest voice he can muster, "what's your name?" And the little boy only responds with a wide smile and innocent giggle that could make even the coldest heart melt, "oh daddy you already know my name" And to that Oliver responds with a slight smile "well tell me again". "My name is Tommy" he says pointing to himself in a cute way and then says, "and your name is Daddy" as he points at Oliver. As soon as the name rolls off the little boy's tongue, Oliver freezes and before he can say anything else, Malone says distantly behind him "I'll be right back". After hearing the tone in the Detective's voice, he turned around to see what put that the tone in the other man's voice only to see Felicity standing in the middle of the police precinct.
"Hey what are you doing here" Malone asks surprised, while walking towards her. "Hey I felt bad for bailing on you last night, so I thought I would bring you some Thai to make it up to you" she says giving him the bag of food. "Awe that's really sweet of you", and as soon as the words leave his mouth, she sees Oliver walking out of the interrogation room and walking towards them. "Am I interrupting something, is there a break in the case… The case that I have no idea about…what case?" she says awkwardly when he reaches them. Before Malone can ask her about her little outburst, Oliver quickly says no and asks her what she is doing here. "I am just bringing lunch to … Detective Malone."
Before she can defend herself anymore, the door to the interrogation room opens for the second time in the last two minutes and out comes an innocent scream "Mommy". Before she can register the words the little boy runs to her and wraps his hands around her legs and buries his face in her legs. With a stunned look on her, she quickly looks at the two other men, who only share her shocked expression.
Once she gets her bearings back, she looks down at the little boy and slowly bends down to look him in the eye. And once again before she can say anything, the little boy gives this breathtaking smile and says "you found me". Looking puzzled, Felicity asks "what", and without a beat of hesitation the Tommy excitedly responds "you said we were playing a game, and that you would find me, and you found me, well actually daddy found me first, but you found me." As she continued to stare at the little boy she tries to process what he just said and slowly looks faces Oliver. Once she sees his face, she notices that he shares her bewildered confusion, and something else, she can't quite pin point. Then she quickly turns back to the boy and asks "do you like candy", which he responds with a lit up face and a "yes". "Good, because this nice Detective is going to get you some candy, right Detective Malone?" Once Malone sees the look Felicity gives him, he immediately answers "yes", and then she responds "good and we will be right back" as she quickly rises and grabs Oliver's hand and leads him back to the interrogation room.
Once they get in there, Felicity shuts the door and turns around and says, "what the hell is going on?" "I don't know, I've never seen that little boy in my life", he responds flustered. As she tries to process the last five minutes, a thought quickly dawns on her, "how did you even know?" "I got a call earlier saying that it was urgent and then when I got here Malone said there was a boy claiming that I was his father, and I thought it was William, but I quickly realized it wasn't". "Clearly" she responds. "And what about you, why did he call you mommy and run into your arms" Oliver asks. "I don't know, you think I've seen that kid before either" she asks exasperated. Once she realizes that was what he was thinking she quickly adds, "don't you think you would know if I had a secret child, and what was that whole 'daddy' thing about" she asks defensively. "I don't know, I'm as clueless as you are", before he could continue Malone walks in.
"Um sorry to interrupt" he says as Felicity turns to look at him, "Child Services is here". "What" Oliver asks slightly taken back. "Yeah when the boy first got here, one of the officers called them". Felicity quickly asks "what's going to happen to him". "They will take him to a Foster Home, until they find his real parents" Malone responds. Before they can say anything else a bloodcurdling scream comes from the other side of the door. At the sound, Oliver and Felicity quickly make their way out of the room. The scene that awaits them leaves them breathless and breaks both of their hearts.
The social worker is trying to hold the little boy to take him away, but the boy is thrashing in the woman's arms and balling his eyes out, screaming "MOMMY, MOMMY". If Felicity thought she could not feel anymore awful, that literally shattered her. Before she even realized it she immediatly yells "Wait". As soon as the words leave her mouth, all eyes fall on her and she quickly responds "I'll take him". "What are you doing" Oliver asks confused. She looks at him and says "for some unknown reason he trusts you, that has to mean something." And without a second thought she turns to look at the Social worker and says "I'll take care of him, just until you find his parents."
And then the social worker looks over at Malone, who gives a slight hesitant nod. Then the woman puts down the boy. Even before his feet touch the ground, he was running towards Felicity, which caused him to drop something that he didn't even notice. As soon as he reached Felicity, she knelt down to catch his hug, and then she gets back up and takes his hand and starts to walk towards the exit.
Before they even get halfway though, Oliver notices the toys that was on the ground, "hey buddy you dropped this" he said while he kneeled down picked up the toys. When he looked down in his hands to truly look at the toys and he immediately notices that they are the Green Arrow and the Flash action figures. As he looks up, he sees the boy run over to him and says "daddy keep them safe" in an adorable stern way that seems familiar to him but he can't quite figure out why. And before he can think about it any further, Tommy grabs his and says "come on daddy, let's go" as he pulls Oliver's hand. And without thinking Oliver gets up and follow him. And with that they all walk out the door.
After leaving the police station, all three of them ended up back at the Loft. As soon as they walked through the door the weight of the day hit all of them. Slowly walking into the main room, Felicity was still holding Tommy's hand and she didn't notice until he raised his right hand to rub his eyes, indicating that he was as tired as she felt.
The click of the door broke her trance and reminded her that she was not alone, that Oliver was there. As she turned around to face Oliver, suddenly the little boy pulls on her dress and says "mommy, I'm hungry". "Ok" she says looking to Oliver for help, which he quickly responds to her silent plea "Felicity why don't you get something set up and I'll get him something to eat." She quickly nods and gives him a small smile of appreciation, which he returns, as he goes over and takes Tommy's hand, and softly says "come on buddy, let's go find you something for you to eat." "Ok" Tommy responds happily.
As the boys walk towards the kitchen, Felicity slowly walks up the stairs towards the guest bedroom. About 30 minutes later, she is satisfied with the bed she made and starts walking back downstairs. When she gets to about half way down she suddenly stops and looks at the sight before her. Oliver had the little boy on the counter, while he was making soup and cutting carrots. She was assuming he was making chicken noodle soup, it was his comfort food, and now that she thinks about it, it was hers to.
After another minute lost in thought, the little boy saw her and happily yelled "momma come eat." And with that pinch back into reality, she slowly got back up off the step she was sitting on and slowly descended down the rest of the stairs and made her way to the kitchen.
After eating Oliver's delicious chicken noodle soup, Felicity got up and cleared the dishes from all three of them. When she reached the sink, the little boy gasped as if he remembered something, and quickly looked at Oliver and said "thank you daddy for dinner, it was…" he hesitated because he didn't know how to say the word he wanted to say. "De…shi…ses" he finished, and Oliver just watched the boy with pure amazement and wonder, and gave him a bright smile, while saying "thank you".
And as soon as Oliver said that, Tommy was already out of his seat and going towards Felicity, "bed time" he asks while rubbing his eyes. Once he asked this, for the second time that night Felicity looked over to Oliver for help and he just gave her a small nod of encouragement. And with that she looked back at the little boy and said "yes, it is".
As all three ascended up the stairs, they made it to the guestroom where a large, comfy bed was awaiting the small toddler. Before the toddler made it to the bed, he started to take his shirt off but appeared to have been struggling. And then without thinking both Oliver and Felicity knelt down in front of him helping him take off his clothes. After they successfully got the little boy undressed, Felicity had an idea and left the room. When she came back she had an oversized dress shirt in her hands, and as Oliver looked closer, he noticed that it was His dress shirt. When Felicity saw Oliver's gaze she got slightly defensive "what, it's not like you missed it" , and he only responded with a slight smirk.
Once they got the little boy in the shirt and tucked in, he looked at them with half opened, tired eyes and a soft smile, and Oliver and Felicity were lost in a trance of love. As his eyes got closer together, Felicity realized that she still didn't know what his name was. "Hey" she says softly, "what's your name?" And as the last moments before sleep took over his small body, he answered in a small sleepy voice, "Tommy Queen". When the name reached Felicity's ears she gasped in surprise and before she could say anything else the little boy, Tommy Queen, escaped into a peaceful slumber.
Once Oliver heard the soft little snores coming from the little boy, he knew it was time to go, so he slowly got up off the bed making sure not to jostle it, and laid a hand on Felicity's shoulder. As she looked up at him, she slowly followed his lead and followed him out of the room. But before they closed the door, they look back one more time at the peaceful little boy before closing the door for the night.
Once they reach the fireplace downstairs, Felicity finally turns around and looks at Oliver. And for the second time that day, Felicity saw something in his eyes, and she finally realized what it was, it was hope.
"Wow, what a day" Felicity says breaking the silence. "Yeah" he responds still looking at her with a look of love. "So, he really is our son isn't he" she asks hesitantly, "yeah, I think so" he says softly. "Which means that we end up together" she says breathless, "looks like it" he responds with a small smile. "Which means two things; that we will get through this" "And the second" she asks holding her breath. "That you're still and always will be the love of my life."
And with those words Felicity finally knew that he was right, everything was going to be ok.