My Fabulous Reader,
I am completely blown away from the response to this story! I don't think I've ever written something on Fanfiction that had the response it did with just ONE CHAPTER!
So as a treat, I am posting the second chapter a little early :). BUT Chapter Three will be posted on Thursday (I am making the postings on Thursday's because if anything happens in the season that I feel impacts my story I want to make sure I add it!)
I would also like to thank a Guest Reviewer who informed me that "Connor" is actual Oliver's Son in the comics. So I will be doing my best (hard core wiki searching) and will try and incorporate that.
Also before reading this chapter please READ THESE NOTES!
~ I have EDITED the 1st Chapter, so if you read it before 2/20 It has changed a bit. I just wanted to do Felicity right :)
~ While this story will mainly be Canon I have made some AU changes just for the benefit of my story:
1. Oliver was able to get his money back. I don't think I'll ever explain why but he is living in the Queen Mansion.
2. Thea is still living in the Loft.
3. Because this is the DC universe, I am making Marvel a comic and fantasy in this story.
For now, that is the only thing I have done that is "AU"
Now that I'm done babbling, please enjoy the 2nd Chapter!
CHAPTER TWO: The Little Lie
It was rare when Oliver Queen ever had a moment of pure silence. After being stranded on an island and returning to Starling city 3 years ago the one thing he never thought he would request was peace and silence.
From the paparazzi constantly hounding multi millionaire Oliver Queen to the hero and vigilante Arrow, the moments where Oliver could just be by himself were becoming increasingly more difficult. It isn't that he didn't want this, he asked for this. He wanted to be the vigilante and protect his city and he wanted all the responsibilities that came with being Oliver Queen, good or bad.
But that doesn't mean he didn't love those moments of silence when they came. Laying in his bed, in his old room it was like it use to be before the island ever happened. He could just be himself and not have to put on a mask (real or not).
Of course as quick as the silence came it was ripped away.
"Oliver?" Thea called from downstairs.
Just one more minute. He thought to himself
"Oliver?" She called again, this time much closer.
Maybe if I pretend to be asleep she will leave me alone.
Thea knocked on the door and walked in after no one answered.
"I know your not sleeping." She stated crossing her arms and leaning against the door.
"What is it?" Oliver replied rising from the bed. Thea walked towards him holding out her phone.
"Felicity called and has left multiple voicemails on my phone since you threw yours on the island." She remarked as she handed him the phone. Oliver grabbed the phone and hit play on one of the voicemails.
"Oliver you need to get to the club as soon as you can. No one is in danger but we have something we need to discuss."
She sounded calm on the phone from what Oliver could tell, but none the less her grabbed his stuff and headed out of the door.
"Is everything okay? Do you need me to come?" Thea asked at the bottom of the stairs.
"No, you go back to your loft. I'll call you if we need you." He told her giving her one quick kiss on the head before heading out to grab his motorcycle.
…
"Do you want to sit down?" Diggle asked Felicity. She had been pacing the room for over an hour while they waited for Oliver. Felicity stopped for a moment and looked over at Diggle.
"You're in my spot."
Diggle looked around and realized he was sitting right in front of the monitors where Felicity usually sat. He sighed and began to get up.
"No it's fine. Don't get up. I just don't know how he didn't tell us! I thought all the secrets were out in the open by now and then bam here comes a little Oliver walking right into my office!" Felicity rambled as she continued pacing the lair.
"How are we sure he is Oliver's son? I mean it could just be a family friend" He asked.
"You should have seen him! He looked just like him! He even had a hawk eye action figure in his hand!"
"So you're basing the paternity of this child because he had an arrow shooting action figure in his hand? Felicity listen to yourself." Diggle laughed.
"Diggle, he was Oliver's. He looked like he was the right age too. He would have been born 8 years ago."
"Who was born 8 years ago?"
Felicity stopped walking and looked up at the stairs. Oliver arrived with his motorcycle helmet under his arm. Diggle got up from the chair and leaned against the beam in the corner.
"I'm sorry I didn't see your messages earlier, I was busy dealing with Malcolm and then I dropped my stuff home. Is something going on?"
"Oliver is there something you wish to tell us?" Felicity stated crossing her arms. It didn't take a genius to see she was annoyed and exhausted.
"We aren't talking about my trip with Thea right now are we?" Oliver concluded looking confused.
"No we aren't talking about the island we are talking about something much bigger than the island. Something that happened before the island, like the first island trip when you were a Oliver Queen, bad boy and you slept with every women in Starling City. Can you think of anything you may have kept from us?!" Felicity voice raised.
Oliver looked taken back from the comment. He looked at Diggle for help but he just stood there, like he was watching a scene from a play unfold. Oliver would have to take on Felicity himself.
"What are you talking about Felicity? What happened?" Oliver asked exasperated.
Felicity, still thinking Oliver was lying would later regret the way she said next.
"Cut the crap Oliver, I saw your son today. You can't lie about that. He looked just like you. You would think that would be an important detail to tell your team that you had a son."
Oliver froze in shock.
"I don't have a son." Oliver said in a dead quiet voice.
"So you didn't knock up some girl before being lost on the island?" Felicity replied.
Then he remembered.
Eight years ago, he met a women named Sandra at a club and again later that night. She came back a month later and told him she was pregnant and then a couple of weeks later she called and told him he lost the baby. He was devastated. It wasn't like Oliver was ready to be a father, in fact he was the farthest from it at the time but it was hard to lose something that was just beginning to change your life.
Since then, Oliver never thought about that moment because it was to painful. Until now.
"She lost the baby." Oliver said looking away from everyone for a second. Felicity saw the change in Oliver. He suddenly became more distant, something she hadn't seen since she first met him. This time she spoke a little softer.
"What do you mean?" She asked him. Walking closer to him.
"Her name is Sandra. She was someone I met at a club with Tommy. We slept together that night and I thought that was the end."
"Until a month later" Felicity finished
"But she told me she lost the baby. She told me on the phone that it was all over and that she was going back to Central City. We even ran into her when we were at the coffee shop with Barry and Iris." Oliver defended. Felicity suddenly remembered that women. Everything was beginning to click into place.
"I remember that….extremely intense conversation" Felicity said as she sat down at her desk.
"What was her name again?" Diggle asked
"Sandra. She never told me her last name."
"You said she was living in Central City?" Felicity asked as she began typing away on her computer.
"Yes, what are you doing?"
"Trying to find out what is going on." She replied as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. A few minutes later she found something, an article with a picture of the boy.
"Sandra and Connor Hawke. Thank god for captions." Felicity blew up the article so everyone could read it. The article showed a picture of a mother and son watching the a parade happening in the city from a couple of years ago. Below the image, the caption read
"Sandra and Connor Hawke attending Central Cities 22nd annual 4th of July Parade."
Oliver couldn't believe what he was seeing. She told him she lost the baby. Why did she lie to him? Did he do something wrong?
Felicity began typing some more before stumbling across one more article.
"Central City Citizen's Were Among the Dead in Starling City Last Night"
The article was from the night when Oliver returned to Starling City after battling Ra's Al Ghul. The article went on to recapped the events from that night including a list of the dead.
Adam Barkley
Hannah Edwards
Ben Fields
Sandra Hawke
"Oh god." Felicity gasped. She immediately thought of the little boy from earlier that day. He just lost his mother.
"That would explain social services." Diggle concluded.
"Social services?" Oliver questioned clearly missing a chunk from the situation earlier today.
"Social services came to my office today. Her name was Erica and she was looking for you." Felicity said as she walked over to her purse and grabbed the card Erica gave her.
"I think you should give her a call." Felicity handed over the card. Oliver just sat and looked at it a second.
He didn't realize it then but everything was about to change after he made that call.
Like it? I know Felicity seemed a bit angsty, I will try not do that again :)
The next chapter will be all about Oliver meeting Erica and discussing Connor!
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