Chapter 7 - The Ladder
Felicity sat at her desk absent mindedly rubbing her hand over her baby bum. She found herself doing it a lot, but she wasn't sure if it was for the sake of her baby, or for her to reassure herself that she was actually having a baby. Felicity turned her head and looked over into Oliver's office, he was bent over his desk and was rubbing his eyebrows, which had slowly been disappearing over the last few weeks. He hadn't been right, since he had told Thea about the baby being a boy he had just been odd. Oliver kept coming home late and always cringing whenever he sat down on the sofa or lay down to go to bed, and no matter how good Felicity was as reading Oliver she couldn't pin point what it was that was annoying her fiancée so much.
Felicity turned back to her computer screen and scrolled through the news, she had been so busy lately she hadn't been reading it much or watching it in the mornings for that matter. So scrolled down the page to look at the news stories from a few days ago, one title interested her so she clicked on it to read more,
Green Arrow Back Again!
The Green Arrow formally known as The Hood and The Starling City Vigilante was seen last night helping to stop a drug dealing. Although the normal method used by the Arrow was not used we are sure it is the same hero. This time The Green Arrow did not kill his victim's, but he tied them up and then placed a call to a local police station. The Green Arrow normally focuses on rich people who have normally committed some type of fraud, but it seems that after the hero has been missing for several years it looks as if he has changed his ways. After the collapsing of the glades The Green Arrow has not been seen, but now he is back and hopefully crime rates will drop again.
Felicity sat staring at the screen and it clicked in her mind what was on the top of Oliver's. He had picked up his bow again and was saving the city. Felicity smiled and couldn't help feel slightly proud of Oliver, that no matter what was going on his personal life he was still willing to help the city, but at the same time she was annoyed that he hadn't told her. Felicity walked into Oliver office and sat in one of the chairs in front of his desk and gave him a small smile,
"Ollie, is there something you want to tell me?" Oliver looked up from his papers and thought for a second,
"I love you…." Oliver said slowly, unsure if he had forgotten an anniversary or something.
"no that you picked up the hood again!" Felicity nearly shouted, Oliver threw the pen he was using over the other side of the room and then sat back in his chair. "you should have told me!" Felicity lent forward and placed her elbows on his desk, "I'm not mad and you, I'm happy that you are doing something that you enjoy. I would have just liked to know."
"I just didn't want to stress you out – I know how worried you used to get when I went out and now that you are pregnant and we have our son to look out for I didn't want to stress you out even more. I'm sorry and I should have told you." Felicity got up and walked round the other side of the desk and grabbed Oliver hand and lead him over to the sofa, she curled up next to him and rested her head on his lap and they both rested a hand on their son.
"I'm not mad at you and I won't be stress out. Does Diggle know?" Felicity wondered about the 3rd member of their team. Oliver took a deep breaking and ran his free hand through his hair,
"yes. He has been helping me with the tech side of things but he is nowhere near as good as you." Felicity smiled as Oliver lent down and placed a kiss on her head. "I'm sorry I just didn't want you to worry, but if you want in you can have in but my one rule is that you o not go on any missions. Can you live with that?" he asked and looked into her eyes.
"yes I can live with that." Felicity turned round in his arms and gave his a kiss on the cheek, she jumped up and grabbed her phone off her desk and walked back into Oliver's office, he was still lying on the sofa, "up you get mister, we are going to lunch because I am hungry." Oliver rolled over off the sofa and tried to hide the pain but Felicity caught onto the wince that spread across his face, "and then we are going to the lair and I am going to look at that injury."
"Oliver!" Felicity shouted at him as she was investigating his wounds, ones that he had tried to sew up himself but had not been done probably, "why didn't you tell me about this!" Oliver winced as she put some anti-biotics on it.
"as I said all throughout lunch, I didn't want to worry you." Oliver squeezed his eyes shut in pain, where someone had obviously cut him with a knife over his hip there was a bunch of bad stiches as the skin was slightly yellowing, meaning he might be coming down with an infection,
"well this is worth worrying about! This isn't just a scratch Oliver! This is serious it has scratched the bone and it looks on the verge of infection!" she grabbed some tread and a needle out of the first-aid box that was sitting next to Oliver's leg,
"I'm sorry, but take my mind of something because that hurts!" they locked eye sight for a second and Felicity let out a sigh.
"what names have you come up with?" Oliver asked, Felicity thought for a second,
"well I know how much you loved tommy so I wanted to put his name in their somewhere, but not as his first name because I think it might be to hard. But for first names I was thinking something along the line of Aaron or James," Felicity carried on naming names that she had thought of for the rest of the time while she was sowing Oliver's wound up, he lay their quietly paying attention to anything she did or said, and his mind just kept wondering to how she was going to be an amazing mother. "what did you come up with?" she asked as she placed a giant plaster type thing over the newly sown stiches,
"I like Christopher so he could be called Chris for short, but I like the idea of having tommy in their somewhere. But we have 5 months to discuss it." Oliver smiled and slipped a shit on, much to Felicity's disappointment. "I can't believe that we will be parents in 5 months." Oliver said just as there was a loud crash upstairs. "you wait here I will go and see what it is." Oliver said to Felicity, she tried to get up but Oliver sat her back down in her chair by the computers.
Felicity started to draw little circles on her bump with her hand and she started to think, that at 17 weeks she hadn't felt any movement. She had asked her mum about it and she didn't feel like she should worry Oliver. Her mum had tried to convince her that it was normal especially with first pregnancies, but she still lay awake sometimes wondering if everything was right. But doing that made her worry and then she had to tell herself that if something was wrong it would have shown up on the ultrasounds. Felicity glanced at the clock in the corner of her computer and then realised that it was already 5 o'clock. Felicity got up and headed over to small kitchen that she insisted Oliver fitted, she noticed a giant packet of crisps on the top of one of the cupboards, when they first found out she was pregnant Oliver had taken to hiding all of the sugary and salty foods on the top of things so that she couldn't get them. Felicity grabbed the ladder that was leaning on one of the walls and set it up in front of the cupboard, she began to climb the ladder determined to get that packet of crisps. Felicity being quite short was kneeling on the top of the ladder to try and reach the crisps, they were just out of her reach, and she was so hungry so Felicity lent forward to grab the corner of the crisp packet that was leaning over the edge of the cupboard. Her weight on the ladder was unbalanced and I caused the ladder to slip, felicity let out a scream as she fell to the floor hitting her head on the way. She landed on her front and kept screaming for Oliver but even she knew that he wasn't going to hear her, felicity felt a stabbing pain going through her body and it all became too much, and she knew what was happening, but she didn't want to face it. She couldn't face it. The last thing she could remember hearing was the door to the basement opening and footsteps coming down the stairs, after that she couldn't remember a thing.
The noise that they had heard earlier was one of the bartenders dropping a case of wine, after Oliver helped him clean up and get another one out of the back without dropping it, he headed back down to the basement to get felicity and then go home to watch a film, and have a quiet night in. Oliver punched the code in for the door and then trundled down the steps slowly, when he reached halfway he could spot felicity laying on the flood in the kitchen with the ladder lying next to her. Oliver ran down the steps over to felicity, he placed his head next to her mouth and he could hear that she was still breathing, but wasn't conscious. Oliver lifted her up and headed out the back to the car, he lay her along the back seat and ran every read light on the way to the hospital. Oliver could barely see the road through his tears and his hands were shaking so much. Oliver swerved into the A&E part of the hospital and ran round the other side of the car to get felicity out. She had put on weight since that start of her pregnancy but Oliver could still carry her with ease.
"help!" Oliver shouted as he ran into the waiting room, which caused several doctors and nurses to run over to him, "my fiancée fell, she is 17 weeks pregnant, and unconscious." One of the doctors yelled for someone to bring over a stretcher and when they did so Oliver placed felicity down on it.
"sir we are going to do everything we can but at the moment we need you to take a seat and wait," One of the nurses told Oliver. He nodded and lent down to place a kiss on Felicity's head,
"I love you and our little boy, don't forget that," he whispered in Felicity's ear just before they wheeled her out of the waiting room.
After that everything went in a blur for Oliver, people shoving forms at him, the occasional person taking a picture of him crying and even the odd person trying to comfort him, but all he could focus on was hoping that Felicity and their son were okay.