N.A.: Sooo…yes, I've been bitten by the writing bug :)
I guess this Arrow hiatus brought one good thing for me…I couldn't hold all these plots and stories that popped in my head any longer and finally had the courage to write them.
This is my first story ever and it is pure, unadulterated, teeth rotten fluff.
Please forgive any mistakes that may appear(bc they will :/)…English is not my first language and I don't have a beta :)
My huge thanks for poisonangelmuse for all the kind words and support. You're the sweetest,girl!
I hope you guys enjoy!
[ I don't own Arrow or any of it's characters,unfortunately. But a crazy imagination,plots and plans,that I do...a lot! ]
Prompt:Felicity gets upset bc of her stretch marks.
Sooo…yes, I've been bitten by the writing bug :)
I guess this Arrow hiatus brought one good thing for me…I couldn't hold all these plots and stories that popped in my head any longer and finally had the courage to write them.
This is my first story ever and it is pure, unadulterated, teeth rotten fluff.
Please forgive any mistakes that may appear(bc they will :/)…English is not my first language and I don't have a beta :)
My huge thanks for poisonangelmuse for all the kind words and support. You're the sweetest,girl!
I hope you guys enjoy!
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Felicity Smoak was an analytical person with quite the scientific brain to match with it. She wasn't,by any means,a robot without feelings but she was proud to say that her decisions and emotions were guided by analysed data and facts. So objectively she knew things like this were bound to happen and that it was really a tiny price to pay in order to be part of the miracle that creating a life from the scratch was - she had researched about it enough to appreciate being in the healthy part of all the pregnancy probabilities.
None of it was enough to wipe the way she was feeling upset about those stretch marks she had just noticed down on the right side of her six month belly. She had tried each and every single moisturizer she could put her hands on in order to try to prevent them,but still here they were,mocking her in the mirror. "Pregnancy 1 x Felicity 0" she mutter just before a sigh, finishing applying a generous portion of moisturizer on the offensive marks and lowering her tank top to rest near the boy shorts she was wearing to go to bed, where her husband waited for her. Oliver had gone through the process of preparing for bed already after coming home from a particularly exhaustive business trip from London.
He was dozing of ,in a half seated position leaning against the headboard of their huge bed,but she could see him fighting the heavy lids when he felt the dipping of the mattress, opening his arms to fit her."Hey…come here.I've missed you."She was pressed against his body a second later,leaning on her side,chin propped in her hands near his heart and legs tangled with his."We've missed you more…" and slanted to give him a lazy kiss. They still were as passionate as a couple could be,and had a pretty healthy sex life – specially with her hormones to give a bust to it- but they also enjoyed moments like this,when there was just soft voices, loving kisses and cuddles.
"So what adventures my two favorite girls had while I was away?"His free hand came to rest on top of her growing belly,caressing their baby girl through the blue fabric of her cami while feeling the baby's soft movements in his palm and the trembling of Felicity's giggles."Oliver, you were in London for a day and we talked almost the whole time!" she said in a light tone "There was barely enough time to find adventures. But we went out with Thea though…you know we can always find some piece of adventure with auntie Thea" she teased. More awake now he turned in his side,supporting his weight in one of his elbow, half hovering on top of his wife " So there was adventure!" he said while peppering kisses all over her face and making her giggle even more about how silly he could be."Mommy won't tell me Lilly-bear! Will you tell…" His hand had found the hem of her cami to lift it, as he aways used to do to talk to the baby, when he felt her tense in his arms and her hand reach for the fabric trying to lower it down."Hey,what's wrong?Are you feeling something?" he asked frowning with a concerned voice.
She tried to roll to her side in order to get out of his embrace, her cheeks burning with embarassment- she knew she was overreacting, it really came as an impulse- but he stopped her before she was out of reach."Felicity, talk to me…what is it?" Laying back on his side Oliver reached for her chin, trying to turn her head in his direction in order to meet her eyes. When their gaze met, she felt guilty to see the worry in him through her watery one. "Nothing…there's nothing wrong!"she assured, looking straight in his eyes and trying to do her best to soothe the wrinkle between his browns "We're 's just…" her voice was so low it was almost a whisper now and her hand went to rest lower in her belly, near the place she knew the marks were. Once he knew nothing was wrong with his wife and daughter, at least not physically, he gave the space she needed, waiting for her to be ready to talk.
"It really is a silly thing you know?! I knew it would come sooner or latter, that it would be very difficult to go through this whole pregnancy thing without it,even though I tried all I could think about to prevent…and thinking well it paid of some of the effort,because it delayed it for quite the time…" and in truly Felicity fashion she did start to talk. "Baby, I'm lost…what happened?" He interrupted her to try to understand what it was all about. Felicity was one of the strongest women he knew,and he was still getting used to see her so emotional, but that didn't make him hate seeing her upset any less,even if it was for a silly reason like she was saying.
"It's just…" she sighed and proceed with a trembling voice "..I was taking a bath now and I noticed these hideous stretch marks in my belly."Oliver could feel his entire body relax once he acknowledge the reason and let a relieved exhale. "I know,I know…I'm sorry! I told you it was silly, and I know I overreacted…" she was getting increasingly distressed "Shhh…hey, s'ok,baby…it's ok." He soothed her with a calm voice and brought her to be flush against his bare chest just to feel it getting wet with her tears."You don't have to apologize for being upset." "But I worried you and pushed your hand away…God,I'm so embarrassed right now! And all because of a meaningless thing…" she started again with a still faltering voice,but a bit calmer.
"Those things aren't meaningless, if it's how you feel it's never meaningless…besides, there's a huge change happening, and it is all happening with your body,inside of you…I would say you have all the right to feel upset when you do." He told her, hand drawing vague patterns in her arm. She lifted her face, wet with tears and looked him in the eyes "Thank you. For loving and supporting me and for aways say the right thing when I need" She told in a sweet voice while he wiped her tears away. She grabbed his hand to put in their little girl, lifting the blue fabric so he could feel the marks in her warm skin. His fingers roamed the lines with the tender touches and he kissed fer forehead before he speak "Our little Lilly is protected and growing as we speak because of you, so I'm the one that has to do the thanks over here." Her hand came to rest on top of his in her belly and she felt her chest swell and explode with a love so deep she never thought she would experience.
After a few minutes of comfortable silence and comfy touches, the commotion of the day reached them and they were both caught in a half drowsing state. Her voice could barely be heard when she told him "You're going to be an amazing father you know? I love you,Oliver" and in the same tone and weighted with the same love he answered her "And you're going to be a wonderful mother,baby.I love you too…"