Thea and Tommy went out into the woods away from the city so they could transform into their wolf selves. They knew they had to figure out how they could connect and be stronger together besides mental communication which they were steadily getting stronger at.
"So how do you think we should do this?" Thea asked.
"I am still trying to figure out how we are special. I mean both of us do seem to be faster than our parents when we've trained but we are younger."
"But they say we are faster than they were and that old texts hinted that we formed one wolf as we learned to think like one wolf. Maybe we need to think about what drives us?" she suggested.
"Personally, I am tired of having to hide from everyone but the male side of my family. I want to get to know mom. I never knew that my mother still existed."
"I'm like that with our dad. To find out that he likes the same things I do, it felt really good."
Suddenly, Thea and Tommy's eyes started to glow a different shade than usual and they felt themselves physically moving closer to each other.
"What's going on, Tommy?"
"I have no idea. But it feels like we are joining as one."
"What the hell?"
They both whined as their bones cracked and shifted to become one large wolf.
"This is scary," said a very frightened Thea.
"Thea, I can still hear you," Tommy shouted.
"Geeze, keep it down."
Almost as quickly as they formed one wolf, Tommy and Thea shifted into their individual wolves and Thea scared to have it happen again, immediately went back to her human form.
"What the hell was that?"
Tommy changed as well as he watched Thea, "I don't know, Thea but calm down. Maybe that is what they mean coming together as one. We don't just know each other but the same thing drives us. We both want to know our parents, Thea. We were talking about them when the change happened."
"I have no idea but I know I am freaking out more than I did when I found out about you and dad and I really just want to go find them."
"Okay. Let's do that."
"What do you want to tell Tommy and Thea?" Felicity asked Oliver as she rested her head against his heaving chest.
They had just finished another round of vigorous lovemaking and their bodies were exhausted. It felt like they were on the right path and that nothing would take them away from each other again but Felicity knew that wouldn't be true until her mother and the other clan leaders were stopped.
"Do you really think our children won't know that their parents are together considering the amount of marks I have on me?"
She tapped his chest, "That's not what I mean?"
"I know and I think they will know but perhaps we should discuss it with them over a dinner or something."
"What should we…"
"Do if your mother has been watching you and finds out that you are seeing someone?" Oliver completed.
I always loved that you could do that.
Oliver smiled, "I can't wait to make you my wife someday. Felicity, you have no idea how awful these years have been for me knowing that I left you."
"It's okay, Oliver. It is over now and we will end this."
"I know," he nodded, "And to answer your question because I do think your mother will get suspicious, perhaps you could say that you started seeing a man named Jonas Michaels and he is the brother of the wife of Thea's boss. Your mother knows about Thea working right?"
She nodded, "That could work."
"I know you are afraid."
Suddenly, they heard a loud knocking on the door.
"Stay here."
She nodded, "Be careful."
Oliver slowly walked to the door and looked out the peephole. He saw it was Thea.
"Felicity, get dressed. It is our daughter."
"I know you are there," Thea whined at the door.
Oliver opened it, "What's going on?"
Tommy caught up to Thea, "Damn, you are speedy."
Thea rolled her eyes, "Can we come in or should we come back later when you guys are done?" she replied.
Oliver opened the door as Felicity walked out.
"What's wrong?"
"We think we figured out why we are special," Tommy answered.
"Wait, your daughter is finally seeing someone and you don't know who," Helena Bertinelli chuckled at Donna during their weekly brunch.
"We don't share as much as we used to. When she first had Thea, she had to rely on me once Oliver took their son, good riddance."
"And if he hadn't you would have anyways," Helena replied.
"That is beside the point. Now, she is much more private," Donna said of her daughter, "But she did say she would come to the meeting."
"Good. We need all of us together. I heard rumor of an uprising."
"What?" Donna questioned loudly.
"Shhhh," Helena replied, "Calm down, Donna. The women are still stronger but I heard whispers of other wolves or shifters coming into the territory. They may be nothing to worry about it but we need your daughter's mind to find out."
"Yes, fortunately, she inherited my looks and her father's brain."
"May he rest in pieces," Helena clinked her glass against Donna's.
"So let me get this straight, you went into the woods, alone," Oliver stated gruffly, "And somehow you felt that you combined into one wolf?"
"Could this be what the texts meant, Oliver?"
"I am just trying to figure out how or why?"
"We think it has something to do that we were both thinking or feeling the same thing at the same time," Tommy answered.
"What do you mean, Tommy?" his mother asked.
"We were talking and we started thinking"
"About how we wanted to know the parents we never got to know," Thea finished for him.
Felicity felt her heart shatter for the genius son she never knew and his sister who never got to know her father. Felicity looked at Oliver.
"It is more than just thinking the same," Felicity responded.
"What do you mean, Felicity?" Oliver asked.
"You felt the same thing at the same time."
"So it's an emotional response," Thea completed.
"And how are we supposed to feel the same thing at the right time?" Tommy asked.
"By learning to trust each other and remembering who you are both as people and wolves," their mother said.
"I also think it is time to do some training beyond shifting," Oliver added.
Felicity and Tommy rolled their eyes as Oliver grinned at his daughter's excitement.
"This is why I call her Speedy," Felicity nodded.