Why Thea Announced Baby #2 to the World

Felicity signed her name on one of what seemed to be a thousand contracts she had to sign that day then took a sip of coffee. Her hand went down in slow motion, however, as she watched her coffee spill over one very important contract with a big corporation that had taken weeks to finalize and Curtis had already signed. Two seconds later, Thea opened her door with Felicity's one and half year old on her hip.

"We're back, yay," Thea cheered looking down at her nephew.

"Ve're bash, yah!" Tommy repeated. "Down, Ah Te-ah, down," he demanded. Thea released him and he quickly ran to Felicity's side. Felicity didn't pay attention as she was dabbing less important papers on the contract. "Mama," Tommy shouted holding his hands out to Felicity.

"Shh," Felicity repeated as normal looking down for a second. "Mommy's working, you have to be quiet-."

"No," Tommy said loudly.

"Yes," Felicity replied sternly. Then Tommy started to bawl. Like alligator tears falling down his cheeks. Thea cringed. Felicity stopped dabbing and looked down at him. "Thomas Noah Queen," Felicity replied. Tommy's cries just got louder. "Shhh," Felicity cooed.

"I sowy," Tommy sobbed slapping his hands to his eyes.

"Tommy," Felicity said softly. Tommy reached for her and she looked down at her papers then picked Tommy up. "You can't yell in Mommy's office. Just like you can't yell in Daddy's office." Tommy whined in Felicity's chest.

"Felicity," Thea quietly said waving a hand. Felicity looked up, one hand still dabbing the papers. "That's a silk blouse, isn't it." Thea cringed. Felicity stopped dabbing, and stopped breathing for a second. Then she looked down at her shirt and saw globs of snot and tears. That's when a knot appeared in her throat.

"Yeah," Felicity said quietly.

"I'm sure it'll be fine. You don't have any meetings, right?"

"I do," Felicity felt her chin tremble. Thea noticed and her eyes went wide.
"Why don't you have some coffee, while I run back to your-."

"I spilt my coffee," Felicity garbled before breaking out into her own tears. Tommy immediately stopped crying and looked up at Felicity. He placed a sticky hand on her cheek and she just cried harder.

"Are you okay?" Thea asked gently. Felicity rested her head in her free hand before shaking it back and forth, undoubtedly messing up her hair. "You've been off for like a week. Has something changed?"

"No," Felicity moaned.

"Are you on your period?" Thea poked the bear. Felicity closed her eyes and counted the days.

"Frack," she whispered.

"What?" Thea asked. Felicity reached across her desk to her phone.

"Charlie," she asked through the speaker.

"Yes, Mrs. Smoak?"

"Bump my meeting at the end of the day for tomorrow morning, I'm leaving now." Thea's eyes widened. Felicity grabbed her coat from behind the chair and walked over to Thea placing Tommy in her hands.

"Where are we going?" Thea asked as she followed Felicity out of the office.

"Drugstore," Felicity answered.

"Crap, no, no, no," Thea said. "You're not?" Felicity looked back at Thea. "He's only one and a half."

"There is such a thing as Irish Twins, Thea. Though, if I am pregnant, which you know is a possibility, then he wouldn't be an Irish Twin cause Irish Twins are less than a year apart. They'd just be close siblings. I mean we didn't know exactly if we wanted another baby. We'd talked about it. Had the talk after Tommy was born and such. We agreed we'd see how it went for a few years before we brought it back up. I mean. That was eighteen months ago, so technically it's been a year, but-."

"Stop," Thea cut her off. Felicity took a deep breath. They picked up Tommy's stroller from Felicity's assistant's nook and took off for the drugstore. Then they headed to the nearest bathroom, the Starbucks beside the drugstore.

"Take Tommy, I'll be out in like. What it takes five minutes, right?"

"It said one."

"Then one minute. Or two or whenever. I'll be back." Felicity snatched the drugstore bag from the stroller's handle and headed for the bathroom.

…

"Well?" Thea asked. Felicity's face was unusually blank. "Are you?" Thea left it hanging waiting. Felicity started to walk out of the Starbucks, Thea following wordlessly. "Felicity," Thea urged.

"Oh," Felicity murmured. She took over pushing the stroller. "Um. It said I was. I don't fully trust it though. Better check with the doctor." Felicity was oddly quiet.

"You know Ollie will love it, right? I mean he's so proud of William and Tommy. And this one might be a girl. The odds aren't strong, but it might be. And-." Felicity patted Thea's hand where it still rested on the stroller.

"It's okay, Thea. It's okay." Felicity smiled slightly.

"We can go to the clinic. I'm sure they'll bump you up in line."

"I already scheduled an appointment for tomorrow at five thirty in the morning." Thea nodded.

"Do you need me to take Tommy?"

"No. Oliver doesn't have to be in till 9."

"Are you gonna tell Ollie?"

"Yeah, of course. I mean not tonight. He's going after that corrupt bounty hunter gone killer, but after he finishes that, yeah."

"Oh, okay." Thea nodded. "So, the teams good?"

"Yeah." Felicity smiled again. Felicity oddly went silent and Thea followed along.

…

Felicity chewed her lip till it felt numb while she waited for the rest of the team to leave. Then Oliver dashed over to the little kiddy nook they had set up and scooped Tommy into his arms.

"Hey, Tommo," he cheered. Tommy giggled as Oliver tickled under his arms.

"Daddy, no."

"Maybe Mommy should join in?" Oliver asked still in his Green Arrow costume, mask off, hood down.

"Um… I might possibly, there's a chance, that I mean." Oliver stared at her. She closed her eyes and murmured, "I might be pregnant." Then she opened her eyes to Oliver still staring at her. "I have an appointment really early in the morning to go check with the doctor. I figured you could stick with Tommy, then drop him off at daycare? I know you did it today and usually we switch off, but-."

"Felicity," Oliver's voice was gentle. "That's great. Can I come with, though? Would you mind?" Felicity furrowed her brow.

She'd kept Tommy a secret for a week before telling Oliver, well blurting it out over their private comms one night when he was literally on his back fighting the guy above him. It just served to give him a nasty bruised eye before Oliver catapulted the guy off. She'd slightly made up for it by buying a foam green baby superhero mask with a white elastic tie, that Tommy used to play "daddy" in the foundry.

"You want to?" Felicity asked.

"I'd like to be there for you, yes," Oliver answered. "Will's still at home. When's your appointment. I can call Raisa to drop Tom off if it runs late."

"Five thirty. I don't want Raisa to come over that early, and last time Will babysat Tommy ended up with red marker all over his face."

"That was a year ago. And William is much more on top of things as of late." Felicity huffed but nodded. "I want to go, please."

"Of course. Just. Don't. Make a big deal out of it if nothing comes of it." Oliver nodded.

…

"I hope no cameras see me walking into your gynecologist's office. Then they'll be speculation and we won't have the time to absorb the facts by ourselves."

"Thea knows." Felicity frowned at her mouth.

"What? Why?"

"She was with me when I took the test."

"This is just like your mom," Oliver groaned. "Now Thea's going to break the news and we won't be able to do it."

"Yeah, but that was kind of nice. Mom got all the alerts and all the conversations about us were in her notifications not ours."

"You're telling me you want Thea to break the news?"

"Well. I mean."

"She's not going to go for it."

"I'm sure we can trick her."

"Trick Thea?"

"Remember how I got Curtis to do the annoying bits of code for a week by drawing straws?"

"You played him?"

"Sleight of hand, Oliver," she murmured. "Things you pick up growing up in Vegas." She winked at him.

…

"I don't want to announce the pregnancy. It's your thing," Thea grumbled.

"Yes, but you lost," Oliver pointed out.

"This is so stupid. There's two of you, chances are you'd get the short straw." Felicity nodded in agreement.

"We can do it again, Thea," she said. Thea narrowed her eyes.

"I'm just going to lose again, aren't I?" Oliver pushed down a smirk and stopped staring at his wife. "Wait, this isn't you?" Thea asked Oliver. Oliver raised his brow in confusion.

"This is just pure luck, Speedy." Thea rolled her eyes.

"Well if I'm doing this I'm gonna freak the hell outta Roy." She got an evil smile and started to scroll through her pictures.