Don't Ever Say "What's the worst that could happen?"
"Are you sure you can't come with us?" she asked pouting just a little bit.
"I will be there as soon as soon as I'm done with the meeting, I promise. Digg will be there keeping you and Tommy company."
"You do realize that our child is like a mini-you? He's like a ninja."
"Which is why you both will be able to keep up with him, you'll be fine. What's the worst that could happen?"
"Did you just," she said exasperated "we have been together for how long now and you know nothing good ever comes from that question," she said upset.
"Hey, name one?"
"The day my water broke and I went into labor, you said that right before we left to the gala and what happened? That's right, my water broke on Mr. Kirkland's shoe, while we were slow dancing," she said with a hand on her hip and eyebrow raised.
"I may have said that then, another example?"
"Seriously, there's like fifty of them! The day you and Roy went to go after Count 4.0 and Roy ended up getting shot and you ended up with several bruised ribs."
"Okay, so I take it back universe!"
"If anything happens, this will be your fault and you will owe me like a bathtub of Mint chocolate chip," she says pointing at him, he smiles and she instantly melts as he kisses her. There's a squeal and a deep voice in the hallway.
"No Uncle Digg, Elaine's my friend."
"Really, if she was your friend why'd I see you kiss her last time?"
"Uncle Digg, you promised you wouldn't say anything!"
"Whatever, I have my eye on you."
They both rounded the corner and there stood Digg with their son, Tommy with his father's copycat looks. He smiled and ran straight towards his dad who easily picked him up making him squeal from joy.
"So, mommy, Uncle Digg and you are going to the park to go have some fun and then I will meet you all later okay? Maybe, if you're good and don't hide from them I'll take you to get some ice cream, okay?"
"Okay daddy, I'll miss you."
"Not as much as I'll miss you. Take care of mommy for me?"
"Always daddy."
"That's my boy," he said putting him down he walked over to Felicity and gave her a kiss on the lips, "I'll see you three later have fun."
"We will, have fun at the meeting," she said smirking at him.
"Loads," he said walking away.
"Digg would you mind grabbing the picnic basket? I made you a sandwich too."
"You didn't cook anything in it right?"
"Hey! Oliver's been teaching me," she said smacking him lightly on the chest. Outside Felicity strapped Tommy to his booster seat and Digg placed their backpack with Tommy's things in it and the picnic basket in the trunk. Soon they were off to the park down the street from Oliver's campaign office. As soon as they arrived and she got Tommy out of his seat he took off towards the slides. Felicity just shook her head watching him run around like a mini nut job.
"He's a perfect blend of the two of you," Digg said putting the basket down next to her.
"I know, at least he got my brains," she said smiling as she sat down on the bench.
"Thank God for that," they joked. Tommy slid down the slides and played by himself, no other parents with their kids were here today which she thought was strange but ignored it. Not even thirty minutes into their play time two black SUVs squealed to a halt next to the park and Digg quickly stood up on point as men in tactical clothes and automatic weapons came out of the vehicle. Felicity ran straight to Tommy and Digg quickly un-holstered his weapon.
"Felicity RUN!" Digg yelled as a fire fight began. Felicity quickly picked Tommy up and took off with him in her arms as he began to cry into her shoulder. It was all no use, she was quickly surrounded and both Tommy and her were injected and soon the world went black. Digg fought as hard as he could but he was rendered unconscious by a hit to the head. Felicity and Tommy were carried into the awaiting SUV which quickly sped off.
When Digg came to he quickly sat up and shook his head willing the noise to go away, Felicity and Tommy were gone. He pulled out his cell phone and quickly ran to the car to go to the mayoral office. He called Lance and told him what happened who basically yelled, Digg told him he was heading to Oliver and to get backup ready. The one good thing about having Lance as Felicity's father-in-law was that Felicity was his daughter too and Tommy was his grandson. Digg quickly parked in front of the office and made his way inside, as soon as he locked eyes with Oliver he was quickly out of the room advancing on Digg with his fists balled up to the side of him.
"What happened?" Oliver said through gritted teeth.
"They're gone Oliver, we got attacked by a team and they knocked me out."
"You're bleeding," Oliver said "what did you see?"
"All black, military grade weapons, they knew we would be there. There were no other families at the park, just us. Even Felicity thought that was weird."
"Meet me downstairs, you call Lance?"
"Yeah," Digg said rubbing his hand across his head.
"Call the team, I need to get rid of these guys."
"Okay," Digg left moving the car to the proper position as he called Thea and Laurel letting them know what happened and to get to Lair 3.0 ASAP. When he made it downstairs Oliver made it down and began to quickly get changed into his Green Arrow gear, anger radiating off of him. He didn't say a word, when the elevator opened again Roy, Thea and Laurel were practically running off to get to their gear.
"Ollie?" Thea started to say but he didn't want to talk, he was ready to kill whoever took his wife and son and make them pay if they even hurt either one of them.
When Felicity awoke she awoke with a gasp then instantly panic seized her until she found Tommy, curled up on a dingy looking mattress covered in a man's jacket. She quickly made her way to him and checked him for any injuries, he was out snoring with his mouth slightly open just like Oliver slept and completely oblivious to anything. She checked her left hand and both rings were still in their places and felt her ears and all piercings were there, she let out a deep breath of relief, they would find her even if they had taken her rings her industrial's piercing would find them or the tracker in Tommy's shoes.
She walked around the room looking for anything that could be used as a weapon, but nothing. There were water bottles, some snack bars and a small child's book this was planned and was definitely deliberate. When she heard Tommy let out a small whimper and saw him began to stir she made her way to him and crouched in front of him so the first thing he saw was her. When he opened his eyes she placed her hand on his cheek.
"Hey big boy, are you okay?"
"I'm fine mama," he looked around the room "this isn't home mama."
"No baby, it's not," she said willing her voice not to break.
"Can we go home mama?"
"Soon baby, okay?" she said as a tear streamed down her face, he reached out with his tiny hand and put his hand on her cheek.
"Mama, no cry. Daddy don't like when mama cry."
"I know baby," she jumped when she heard a noise in the hallway.
"Mama, I save you," he said sitting up and holding her hand.
The emotions as a mother are to always protect your young and in this moment she was willing to kill someone to save herself and her son. She positioned him behind her when the door opened. Two men in black walked in and then a man not dressed up walked in with a smug look on his face.
"Hello, Mrs. Queen."
"What do you want?"
"We've got part of what we wanted already, you're both here. Mr. Queen should be receiving our message here shortly. If he doesn't cooperate," he said getting closer to her and putting his hand on her shoulder "I'm sure I could come up with different plans for you," he said rubbing her arm making her recoil from disgust.
"You have no idea what kind of hell you have unleashed on yourself," she said defiantly.
"Your man is a wimp, he is nothing. He will pay whatever we want him to pay to keep you both alive."
"You'll regret this."
He snickered and turned his back to her and then recoiled back backhanding her across the face so hard her glasses flew off and Tommy screamed and she tasted blood. The men left the room and she fought back the tears forming to keep strong for Tommy. He took off his button down shirt leaving him in his white undershirt, she thanked God that he wanted to dress like his daddy today and he pressed the shirt on her lip.
"Mama I'm sorry," he said quietly. By God he was Oliver's broody son alright.
"Baby, don't be sorry okay. Mommy's okay, I promise. Why don't you try and go to sleep."
"Can't mama, what if the bad man comes again? Daddy doesn't like it when we're scared."
"No he doesn't baby. The bad man won't come back. Daddy's coming."
"He is? How do you know?"
"You know how mommy knows when you have eaten a cookie when you weren't supposed to?" he nods his head yes in agreement. "Mommy knows daddy will always come for her and for you."
"Okay mama," he curled up in her lap as she sat on the floor, her back against the bed and he snuggled closer as she prayed she wouldn't cry. She didn't know how long they were gone for and all she knew was that she didn't know if Digg was okay but she knew Oliver and the team would come for them and she prayed it was soon.
They had been missing for over an hour and Oliver's personal phone went off, a text message as Lance walked off the elevator. It was a picture of Felicity on the floor unconscious and Tommy on a bed with no sheets unconscious also. The message read five million dollars to this account by five pm or you'll find their bodies. His blood was boiling at this point and wanted to get these bastards. Roy sat at her computer and soon had her tracker online and found them in an abandoned warehouse down by the docks.
"Oliver, I got them." Roy said from the computers.
"Good, go get these sons of bitches, Oliver whatever it takes," Lance said to him. He knew this was basically his father in law letting him drop bodies. He nodded in agreement and the team took off towards their bikes and van as they headed to the docks. The team knew what it was going to do to get their hearts back, no matter what it took.
Felicity sat on the floor, listening to Tommy softly snore, he had fallen asleep maybe forty five minutes ago. She was losing track of time, she heard movement in the hallway again so she slowly moved Tommy onto the bed and prayed that for once in his life he would sleep like his mother and not wake up. She covered him up with the jacket and waited for the door to open. It surely did, the smug man came back in the room, and he motioned for her to follow him. She looked back at Tommy and did as he said.
He led her down the hallway to another room and closed the door behind them. When she turned around he was unbuttoning his shirt and her mouth filled with bile. She took in her environment and knew there were definitely more weapons in this room, she moved herself as far away from him as possible.
"Mrs. Queen, you could just make this much easier for yourself. If you don't, let's just say, I like it when they fight, especially if they scream."
She made it to the door, pulling on the handle but it was locked, from the outside, she banged on the door. He was quick to pounce on her but he didn't expect her to fight back like she did, as soon as he touched her she turned around and punched him as hard as she could knocking him back a little bit. He touched his jaw and smiled at her, his eyes changed and she knew she needed to stay away from him as best as she could. She rushed to the desk grabbing the dusty lamp and throwing it at him, he laughed dodging it. He rushed her and she tripped over a box left in the room, she kicked him as hard as she could. He took the opportunity to kick her back in the ribs a few times, she gasped for breath.
She kicked him one more time in the knee knocking him down. She rushed the door again hitting and screaming to let her out. She threw more things at him and he dodged them. He rushed her again, knocking her off balance slipping on the paper on the ground. He was on top of her waist, she was throwing punches and hitting him on the chest as hard as she could. He laughed grabbing her hands in his left hand and moving his mouth down to her ear kissing her along her jawline.
"GET OFF ME!" She screamed.
"I told you I love it when they fight, I'm going to enjoy this." She fought harder and took the opportunity to lift her head as hard as she could hitting him in the nose. This only enraged him more, he took his hands putting them around her throat cutting off the air to her. She scratched him as she tried to catch her breath, the spots were beginning to creep in, she felt pain on her body but all she could think about was her baby boy being left without a mother and Oliver being left without a wife. Tears streamed from her eyes and the last thing she saw and heard was the door to the room crashing in and seeing Oliver as the Green Arrow with an arrow knocked. She blacked out as Oliver let the arrow fly hitting the man in the neck.
"Felicity?!" he practically screamed, rushing to her side as the man keeled over gurgling on the blood in his throat. He felt for a pulse it was there he pressed the comm on his chest. "Digg? Tommy?"
"I got him, he's upset," he could tell by the cries. "Felicity?"
"I got her, she needs medical," he said checking her over. He picked her up and carried her into the hallway where Roy was.
"Is she?" he asked noticing her ripped blouse.
"Fine, let's get out of here."
Outside they could hear the sounds of ambulances and cop cars, Lance on comms heard everything and called it in. Felicity was placed on a stretcher and Tommy was reluctantly handed to an EMT while screaming for his mom.
"MAMA! WAKE UP MAMA!" Tommy screamed breaking everyone's hearts.
They left to change and when they showed up at the hospital they were sent to her and Tommy's room. When they arrived Felicity was still unconscious and Lance was sitting on the bed holding Tommy, well more like rocking him. He held his finger up to his mouth letting the team know he was out. Oliver nodded once and made his way to Felicity, she had bruising on her face, her nails were chipped and one was broken. She had put up one hell of a fight judging by everything her hands were telling. Just seeing that man on top of her and thinking if he was only a few minutes later, a knock on the door interrupted his thoughts.
"Mr. Queen, I'm Doctor Thatcher may I speak with you in the hallway please?"
Oliver followed the doctor into the hallway closing the door behind him.
"How's my wife and son?"
"Fine, your son and wife were injected with a type of sedative, they each will be on IV fluids overnight to clear out there system and to help with the dehydration. Your son is relatively unharmed, your wife on the other hand," the doctor paused and looked over the chart as he read out her injuries "she suffered bruised ribs, multiple bruising along her torso and a major contusion to the head. Brain activity is just normal and there is no swelling, she'll awake when her body is ready. The baby is just fine." Oliver froze looking at the doctor in shock.
"I'm sorry what? Are you talking about Tommy?"
"Oh, I thought you knew, your wife is pregnant, from her blood tests. I'll have to confirm dates when she awakes. Congratulations."
"Thank you," Oliver said in shock.
"I'll be back in about an hour to check on them."
Oliver walked back in the room sitting next to Felicity and staring at Lance holding his son in his arms. He let out a shaky breath and waited, Tommy awoke and quickly wanted to be in his dad's arms.
"Daddy?"
"Hmm," Oliver said holding Tommy in his arms making sure his IV didn't get crimped in the process.
"When's mommy going to wake up?"
"Soon bud, soon."
"Son, I'm going to get some coffee, do you want anything?"
"I'll be fine."
"Bube?" Tommy sat up straighter looking at his grandfather.
"Yeah bud?"
"Can I have some ice cream?" which made Oliver, Lance and Digg laugh.
"Yes, mint chocolate chip?"
"How'd you know?"
"Because it's your mom's favorite too. I love you all, I'll be back soon."
Lance left the room and soon, Tommy was sitting on his bed playing with the tablet Digg brought him to play with. His brow furrowed like his mom's when he was concentrating on the game his mom created just for him. He could figure it out easily but when Oliver tried it took him some time. His son was definitely his mother's child, his looks and her smarts.
"You good man?" Digg asked.
"Yeah, you know I'm going to owe her an entire tub full of mint chocolate chip now." Making Digg snort.
"Why do you say that?"
"I asked her "what's the worst that could happen?" before you guys left to go the park."
"Do you ever learn?" Digg said shaking his head.
"Apparently not," as they both laughed quietly.
Lance soon came back and handed Tommy the child's sized package of mint chocolate chip, which he quickly devoured and soon fell back asleep. Oliver paced the room while Tommy, Lance, and Digg slept now being able to sleep until Felicity awoke. The doctor said it was normal, her body just taking it's time. Around six thirty her heart monitor spiked and he made his way over to her grabbing her hand. Her eyes fluttered open.
" 'liver?" she said hoarsely.
"Hey baby, you're okay. You're all okay."
"Okay," she said closing her eyes wincing in pain.
"Don't move too much, you have a contusion and some bruised ribs."
"Okay, Tommy okay?"
"Yeah, he's asleep with Lance as a pillow."
"Good," she said letting out a scary sounding cough.
"Easy," he said as he handed her the water cup with a straw. "I'm going to go get a nurse okay?"
" 'kay."
He kissed her on the forehead and quietly made his way out of the private room and down to the nurse's station. There an older nurse was sitting, typing away at her computer and smiled when she looked at him.
"May I help you with something Mr. Queen?"
"My wife is awake, could you help?"
"Absolutely, I'll be there in just a moment."
Back in the room, Digg was awake and standing next to Felicity who was crying a little.
"What's wrong?"
"I'm just glad Digg is okay, I didn't know what happened and this," she said motioning to her head, "is just so foggy right now."
"Oh, the nurse will be here soon."
Lance awoke and looked over seeing Felicity and Digg awake and smiled.
"Hey, how are you feeling?" he asked.
"I'm good, really. Thank you guys for coming to get us," she said squeezing Oliver's hand.
"We will always come to get you guys," Oliver said, his voice breaking.
"You put up one hell of a fight girl," Lance said.
"I learned from the best," she said wincing again.
"You good?" Digg asked.
"Yeah, just sharp pains if I move too much. Now I know how you guys feel."
"I wish you didn't," Digg said putting his hand on her shoulder.
A knock on the door interrupted everyone, the nurse walked in and began to check her over.
"Good Morning Mrs. Queen, how are we feeling?"
"Alright, I kind of need to go to the bathroom but sharp pains if I move too much."
"That's fine, gentleman would you give us the room so I can help her use the restroom?"
"Can Oliver stay, please?"
"Of course," she said.
Digg and Lance stepped out and soon she was walking slowly to the bathroom with Oliver's arm around her waist and the nurse pushing her IV cart behind her. She was in there for a little bit and splashed some water on her face and fixed her hair and they helped her back into the bed. They adjusted it so she was able to sit up a little bit better. Tommy snored away and Felicity just smiled at her little boy, sprawled out across the bed. The nurse packed her things up to leave.
"Ma'am could you let the guys know to give us a minute?"
"Yes, sir."
"Oliver?" Felicity asked as soon as the nurse closed the door.
"Baby, I need to tell you something that the doctor told me."
"What? Is it Tommy?"
"No baby," he said smiling at her.
"What is it? You're scaring me."
"You're pregnant."
"What?" she said blush creeping across her face. "Really?"
"Really, he thinks just recent."
"Oh that makes so much sense."
"What?"
"Well, my boobs did get a little bigger and when I caught a whiff of Lance's aftershave it made me nauseous last week. Are you okay with this?"
"Felicity, I would have an army of children with you if it were the will of God."
"Well, good. Oh God, Tommy's going to freak!"
"Nah, he'll be excited to be a big brother, just like I was."
"I hope so."
Later that day she was taken to get an ultrasound were it was confirmed she was pregnant at nine weeks making them both tear up at the sound of the baby's heartbeat. The next day they were released to go home, as soon as the door opened Thea, Roy, Laurel were waiting for them. That night was spent sitting around the living room eating pizza and relaxing.
Two weeks later they announced to the rest of the crew they were pregnant. At her sixteen week appointment they confirmed Felicity's suspicion, a girl. This pregnancy was completely different than her pregnancy with Tommy, she thankfully suffered no morning sickness and not the same cravings to Oliver's happiness.
The pregnancy went as expected with no complications, a week before her due date she got up in the middle of the night to find Oliver not in bed. She walked into the hallway and felt a contraction hit her hard, she took a deep breath and walked down to Tommy's room. Oliver wasn't there either, she walked down the stairs and saw the light coming from his office. She knocked and walked in, he was focused on the screen in front of him.
"Hey," she said.
"Hey, you okay? Is it the baby?"
"No, I'm fine. What are you doing up?"
"Couldn't sleep," he said making his way towards her. She felt another contraction hit and reached out grabbing his arms and squeezing as she breathed through it. "What's wrong?"
"Contraction," she said through gritted teeth.
"How close?"
"Like fifteen minutes, I'm fine."
"We're going to the hospital."
"Not yet, call Thea, have her come over here to watch Tommy. I'm going back to our room and getting changed and then I will figure it out."
"Felicity," he said drawing out her name.
"Oliver," she said mimicking him.
"I'm coming with you then."
She stared at him and began to waddle out of his office as he pulled out his cell phone calling Thea. Back in their room she made her way to the bathroom and began to get changed when she squeaked and Oliver walked in with a look on his face.
"What is it?" he asked.
"Water just broke," she said breathing through another contraction.
"I'm not delivering this baby here, Felicity."
"Oliver," she said whimpering.
He helped get changed and threw a towel on the floor and helped her back downstairs. Thea and Roy arrived, Thea's bump finally beginning to show and gave Felicity a sympathetic hug and Oliver rushed her to the car throwing the baby bag in the backseat. The drive to the hospital normally took thirty minutes but he made it there in fifteen against Felicity's protest. Once inside their suite Oliver helped her get changed into a gown.
When she was checked she was already seven centimeters and eighty percent effaced. She walked the halls with Oliver and he held her as she went through contractions, making him feel helpless. When she had Tommy she had an epidural and felt amazing, this time she opted to wait. When she felt a really strong contraction that had her crying in the hall, Oliver cupped her face in his hands and looked down at her tear streaked face.
"Baby, I think it's time to get that epidural now. Please?" she just whimpered and nodded in agreement.
Within thirty minutes her epidural was in as he kissed her the whole time. Two hours later she was fully dilated and completely effaced and the doctor had her ready to push. Oliver held one of her legs and held her hand as she began to push, her face turned different shades of red but she was a tough cookie. After her third push the head was out and soon the room was filled with the babies scream. Oliver and her laughed.
"She definitely got your loud voice," he said kissing her on the head as the baby was cleaned and handed to her mom. As soon as the baby was placed on her chest she calmed down but when her eyes locked with Oliver's he teared up. She had him wrapped around her fingers already.
"She's amazing," she said putting her hand on her head.
"You're amazing. Thank you."
They kissed and she handed the baby to Oliver who held her as if she were the most precious thing he had ever held in his entire life. She had seen him like this with Tommy and now seeing him with their daughter made her emotional. Once the doctors and nurses left the room, she began to nurse her, Oliver sat on the bed watching his two favorite girls bond. In the morning, Lance, Laurel, Thea, Roy, Tommy, Digg, Lyla and their two girls walked in with flowers, teddy bears and balloons.
"She is so cute!" Thea said holding the baby who yawned at her aunt.
"She has Felicity's loud voice."
"Oh geez," Roy said cooing at the baby.
"Have we decided on a name?" Lyla spoke up.
"Yes," both Oliver and Felicity said at the same time.
"Elizabeth Donna Queen," she said tearing up at her mom's name.
"She would've loved that kiddo," Lance said tearing up and staring at the wedding ring he still wore on his hand.
"I know," she said wiping the tear away. It had been two years since her mom and her were in the accident and her mom was kidnapped by someone and brutally murdered as a sign of ill will towards the current Chief of Police, Lance. It was the worst thing that ever happened, when Oliver walked into the room where Felicity and Roy were and the look on her face was one that he would never forget. She collapsed, Roy catching her before she hit the ground. She didn't speak for days, not even at the funeral. She barely ate her food and between Tommy and her Oliver didn't know what to do.
Thea took Tommy with her to Roy and her's place while Oliver tried to break Felicity out of the depression she clearly was in. As soon as Thea and Tommy were gone Oliver walked into their bedroom, she was curled under the blankets. He ripped the blankets off and she didn't even flinch. He sat next to her on the bed and moved the messy strands of blonde off of her face.
"Baby, you need to get up. I need you to come back to me." She didn't move, he decided drastic majors would be the way to fix this. He put his hands under her knees and another under her neck and walked into the shower turning the cold water on, she flinched and began to blink the water out of her eyes, and he crouched down in front of her clutching her face.
"I'm here, I just don't understand why," she said so quietly and so heartbroken it broke his heart.
"I don't have an answer for you but if you want to help me get him then you need to be the strong and fearless woman I know you are."
She nodded and began to sob as he pulled her into his chest. He undressed them tossing everything aside. By that night, Felicity knew everything about the man who had murdered her mother. That night, the team found him and after he was beaten to a pulp was dropped off in front of the police station and soon sentenced to life in prison.
She shook the memory out of her head this wasn't the time to be sad, this was the moment to be happy and revel in the happiness. She was happy and so was her family, this was perfect. Life would be filled with struggles, arguments, love, happiness but most of all family. Their children would take over for them when they were old enough to save their city, Star City and continue their legacy.