Opening her blue eyes, the first thing she sees is the soft breeze softly moving the white chiffon curtain back and forth in front of the French doors that are open.
Then her gaze looks up and then she meets Oliver's eyes.
"Hi" she whispers.
"Hi"
"Please tell me everything that happened last night was a dream" she says pouting her lips as her chin rests on his chest.
"Unfortunately, it wasn't"
Groaning she rolls over onto her back, "Well it was worth a shot."
Before Oliver can say anything, his phone goes off, looking at it he says, "Looks like Barry and Team Flash just arrived."
"Ok" she says struggling to sit up, for which Oliver has to help her. When her feet touch the ground all she can say is "Thank you. One of the downsides of being bigger than a house is that I can't see my feet."
"You look as beautiful as the day I met you."
Blushing she rolls her eyes and declares it, "you're such a sap"
"I'm your sap, and with that he presses a gentle kiss to her lips and then gets up to get ready for the day.
Walking downstairs together, they are immediately welcomed to Robert at the bottom of the staircase.
"Good Morning, Dad."
"Hello"
Before he can say anything more, they all hear a set of tiny footsteps running down the stairs.
"Mommy! Daddy!"
"Hey Buddy" Oliver says turning around to catch his energetic son.
"Breakfast" Tommy yells.
"Ok, let's go get some breakfast" Oliver says walking down the last few steps with Felicity following closely behind.
"Felicity, can I speak with you for a second?" Robert asked.
Both Oliver and Felicity eyes meet and after a few seconds, Oliver gives her a look of reassurance and small smile, and then walks to the kitchen.
"What's up? If this is about last night and me running the company, I just want to say that I understand if you are mad…"
"Felicity" he says laying his arm on her shoulder just like Oliver does when he tries to get her to focus.
"I just wanted to apologize for my wife's behavior last night, especially about the company."
"Oh, it's fine, I mean…" she stops trying to find the right words.
"No, it's not fine, it was very uncalled for, and honestly from everything you told me last night, I honestly couldn't be prouder that you are in charge."
As he says these words, Felicity beams with pride knowing that the Original owner of the Queen business is proud of her.
"You are?"
"Yes, very proud" he says giving her a kind smile.
"Thank you, that means a lot hearing that come from you."
"You are welcome."
"Breakfast?" she asks with a smile and he responds with a single nod.
When they reach the kitchen, they hear Oliver talking to the rest of their guests.
"I have a meeting this morning, so there is cereal, eggs, waffles, fruit and whatever else you can find in here" he says while packing some fruit away in a to go container.
"So, Oliver when are we going to get the chance to see the newly improved Starling City?" Tommy asked
"Star City" he says looking up at his friend.
"What?"
"It's not called Starling anymore, now it's Star City."
"Well that's weird."
"Yeah, but I don't think it's safe for you guys to go out there."
"Why not?"
"Well because…" he says breaking off his sentence and looking to Felicity for guidance.
"Because" she says speaking up. "It could change the timeline."
"How could it change the timeline?" Laurel asked casting her glare at Felicity.
"Because, if you ran into your future self it could change everything and make the entire timeline implode into itself" she says with a confident voice, and her eye contact never leaves Laurel's, and that quickly shuts her up.
When she ends the glaring contest, her gaze meets Oliver's confused look.
"Anyways, we should probably get going, we wouldn't want to be late for our meeting, right?"
"Right" Oliver says picking Tommy, and the fruit he packed away, up from the counter and makes his way toward the door by Felicity.
Casting one last glance to the people in the kitchen he says, "Stay here" and everyone nods not wanting to challenge him. And with that the little family walk out of the kitchen.
"The time line can't actually implode in itself, can it?" he asks as they walk outside.
"Pfft, no. I just needed an excuse that would scare them enough to stay inside. Besides it wouldn't matter, their all dead anyways" she says nonchalantly. And then she abruptly stops, "I am so sorry, I didn't mean it like that, I just meant…"
"I know what you meant" he says grabbing her hand and giving her a small knowing smile. "Come on."
And they start walking again, and then she speaks again.
"Oh, and besides, if the timeline really did do that every time someone met their other selves, it would have imploded a long time ago."
"Good point." He says closing the door, as they get in the car and make their way to the lair.
When the elevators open, they are welcomed to bright faces.
"Ollie" Barry greeted as he came over to greet him.
"Uncle Barry" Tommy says excitedly as Oliver sets him down on the ground so that he can run to Barry.
"Hey little man, how are you?" Barry asks as he kneels down to give the little boy a big hug.
"Good" he says throwing his hands in the air.
"Well that's good."
"Hey Buddy, why don't you go sit down at the table and eat your fruit." Oliver said guiding him to the table, and setting out his mini breakfast.
While Oliver does this, Barry stands up and helps Felicity sit down in her chair.
"So, what's so urgent?"
"Well I feel like it would be better if I showed you" she said as she pressed a button on her keyboard and the video popped up.
When the video appeared, everyone but Oliver crowded around the computer monitor.
"What is that?" Rene asked.
"It looks like a portal" Cisco said.
"Yeah, a portal with no owner" Felicity pitched in.
"Is that Laurel" Cisco asked again as he looked closer at the video.
Felicity sighed and said, "Yeah, but don't be fooled, it's not our Laurel."
"Black Siren" Barry asked going on high alert.
"I wish, but no, Laurel from before."
"Ollie who are all these people?" Barry asked.
Walking over to the rest of the group, he finally speaks, "those are my parents, and my best friend Tommy."
When nobody spoke for a minute, Felicity piped in, "Ooh, but that's not even the best part, Oliver do you want to tell them, or shall I?"
Before he can say anything, she says "They are from before the Gambit."
Barry, Cisco, and Caitlyn instantly understand, but the rest of Team Arrow look at Oliver and Felicity with confusion.
"What is the Gambit?" Dinah asked.
"Oh right, you don't know. Umm it's the boat that stranded Oliver for five years."
"And this is a big deal because?" Rene asked.
"Right you don't know all of Oliver's past. You see Oliver wasn't always who he is now. Picture him as a Playboy Billionaire who slept with half of Starling City" Felicity says.
This explanation only gets her a glare from Oliver.
"What? It's true."
"Ok, look I am not by any means proud of my past."
"But I think the bigger question here, is how they got here" Barry said changing the subject.
"Yes, that is the million-dollar question" Felicity said spinning her chair back to her monitors.
"Well the thing that's not adding up, is how the portal opened up in the first place." Cisco said.
"Yeah, that's really odd" Caitlyn said.
"Wait a second, did you check the surrounding areas?" Barry asked trying to think of every possible avenue.
"Well, I checked every camera around the docks."
"What about near the main office?" Oliver asked.
Gasping, Felicity then goes straight to work hacking into the cameras from the main office. When she pulls up the footage, there is a man walking away from the scene.
"Now that can't be a coincidence" Cisco said.
"No, it can't be" Dig confirms.
"Hold on, let me pull up facial recognition."
And 30 seconds later their mystery man comes into view.
"Looks like his name is Albert Watts and he worked for Queen Consolidated once upon a time. He was one of the lead scientists of the Applied Sciences Department and get this, apparently, he was fired due to the cause of his infatuation with time travel. Apparently, he went crazy and he disappeared around the same time the Particle Accelerator went off. Coincidence, I think not." And at those words Felicity, Cisco, and Curtis giggle.
"I see what you did there" Cisco said pointing at her.
"Focus" Oliver said.
"Wait a second, I know that guy, he was the guy who had no powers." Barry said.
"What do you mean he had no powers?" Oliver asked.
"Yeah, there was a break in at Stagg Enterprises last week, but by the time I got there, he was gone."
"What do you mean he was gone?" Dinah asked.
"I mean he just disappeared, and when we went back to look at the security footage, one minute he's there and the next he just… poof."
"Yeah, we've been trying to find this guy, but this is the first time he's showed up since that day" Cisco said.
"Why was he so important that you had to keep tabs on him?" Dig asked confused.
"Because he stole something" Caitlyn chimed in.
"What did he steal?" Oliver asked.
"It was a new suppress agent Stagg Enterprises has been working on." Caitlyn answered.
"What does it do?"
"Well potentially it is supposed to suppress an agent in a chemical mix that could be dangerous and deadly or it can also reverse effects of another chemical."
"Now why the hell would he want that? What does that have to do with time travel?" Rene asked confused.
"It doesn't" Felicity said studying Caitlyn closely.
"Which means that this is about something completely different" Cisco said thinking about what this man could possibly be after.
As the day goes on, Felicity, Cisco, and Cutis all search for their villain. They come up short up until the beginning of night.
"Oh, I found him" Felicity said.
"Where?" Oliver asks already going near his suit.
"On the top of a building at the intersection of 5th and Polk."
And with that, both heroes are gone. When they arrive on the rooftop, they are met to the man that started all of this.
"What are doing here? Why did you bring my family back?" Oliver growled.
"Yeah, and why did you steal the Chemical Suppresser?" Barry asked.
And the only words the man before them spoke were vague.
"Oh, you have no idea what is coming. The time for retaliation has come."
And with that he is gone. Both men look at each other in pure confusion.
"That's all he said, the time for Retaliation has come." Felicity said in her best creepy person impersonation voice.
"Yeah" Oliver says.
"What the hell does that even me?" Rene asked.
"Well that could mean a lot of things, since Oliver has never been on everyone's good side." Felicity said.
"Yeah, well the real question is what the hell did you ever do to him" Cisco said, standing by Caitlyn who is holding a now sleeping Tommy.
"Well this could be about the company and how my father fired him."
"But would he really go through all this trouble just to get revenge for your father firing him?" Barry asked.
"I don't know" Oliver said rubbing his hands through his face. "But there's no point in thinking about it tonight. Let's just all go home and sleep it off. It's been a long day, and we can regroup tomorrow."
Looking around the room he sees tired faces nod to his proposition and slowly make it to the exit.
Before Barry leaves though he stops by Oliver.
"Hey, we're going to figure this out."
"I know."
After leaving the bunker, they pull into the dark driveway and get out of the car and Oliver grabs a sleeping Tommy and leads all of them into the house.
After they walk through the door, they are encircled into darkness and Oliver silently grabs Felicity's hand so that he can guide her tired body through the dark halls.
When they get up the stairs, they make their way to Tommy's room.
Opening the door, they go over to the bed and Oliver pulls back the covers, while Felicity takes off Tommy's shoes and coat.
When the covers are pulled back, Oliver takes a seat on the bed and starts taking off the little boy's clothes while Felicity gets out a pair of pajamas and walks back over to her two boys.
Quietly they change Tommy into his PJ's and the act causes the little boy to softly sigh and turn into his father's chest and holds onto him tightly. Turning around, Oliver slowly lowers his son to the bed and Felicity carefully unlatches his tiny hands from Oliver's neck and once the boy is settled, they cover him with the sheet and comforter and kiss him goodnight.
Before they close the door, they turn on the lights that mimic stars on his ceiling. They found that the stars were what he really loves and keeps him calm. And with one last look, they shut the door and head to their room.
When their heads touch the pillow, they have enough time to say their goodnights before they are pulled into soundless sleep.
As the night goes on the house is quiet, until a creak is heard from downstairs. At the noise, Oliver's eyes are immediately opened and is instantly aware of his surroundings.
Looking over to Felicity, he sees that she is sound asleep and tugs to her pillow more closely. Slowly getting up, Oliver grabs the first weapon he can touch, which happens to be his bow and arrow, and slowly and quietly descends down the stairs.
When he reaches the bottom of the steps he hears shuffling in the kitchen and he goes straight into Green Arrow mode.
As he looks through the opening of the kitchen, he sees the intruder's back and he aims to shoot. But before he can let go of the arrow that is aimed at the invaders shoulder, the man turns around.
"Don't Shoot!"
