Felicity walks into the lair, there is a silence which surrounds the lair, Diggle is at his station cleaning his pistols. Roy is sharping his arrows and Oliver is on the salmon ladder. Yes in essence it is loud; the clinking of the ladder and Roy's arrow heads sparking but there is a tension and rift amongst the team.

Felicity stands by the stairs, tears threatening to pool out; she fears that the rift and tension in the room will follow them when they leave for missions and patrols. She worries their differences could jeopardize their work, their job, she worries that the tension will spill when they are in action and things like that never end well. She needs to find a way to bring the group together.

"Hey" she says but nobody answers her, they are all lost in what they are doing.

Roy is sharpening his arrows he needs to concentrate on something because his whole body wants to throttle Oliver. He believes the man deserves at least a few punches.

"Hey" Felicity says a little louder trying to get everyone out of their heads. She receives nods from Roy and Diggle and a look from Oliver which says he wonders if she thought about what he said last night. She stares at is blue eyes hoping to see some sort of regret in them about what he said last night but finds nothing. Quickly walking to her desk she checks on her searches.


Once another name on the list is crossed and the team made it back without having taken their anger out each other Felicity is left in the lair alone with Oliver.

"Oliver" she says trying to grab his attention as he changes into his regular clothes.

"Can't talk Felicity, I think we have talked enough" he says as he grabs his jacket making his way towards the stairs.

"Please, we really need to talk …"

"I'm meeting Laurel for dinner I don't want to be late" he says with his back away from her.

"Why are trying to hurt me?" her voice cracking, tears pooling down her eyes, seriously hormones she thinks.

Oliver doesn't turn around he knows what he will have to face if he does. He hates himself; he hates himself for hurting her over and over again. Without saying anything he leaves the lair.

Felicity picks up her phone and text Roy to meet her at Big Belly she suddenly has found her appetite after throwing up everything she has eaten.


Felicity walks into Big Belly sitting at her usual spot and orders her usual. Waiting for Roy her thoughts are interrupted.

"Hi Felicity"

"Eric, hi feeling like some late dinner" she says, she has been running into him an awful lot but she figured he was trying to get his life back together and make friends.

"You eating alone?" Eric asks, his piercing dark eyes locking with hers.

"No I am waiting for my friend" she doesn't invite him to join them because she really needs to speak to Roy, get some clarity of what to do.

"Oh ok" he remains standing by her booth staring at her, his expression is left blank he tries to contain his rage. She is not inviting him to join her.

"Hey" Roy interrupts looking at Eric up and down not getting a good feeling from the guy. "Who are you?" he asks annoyed.

"This is Eric works at QC" Felicity says with a small smile.

"Nice to meet you Eric" Roy says glaring at the man.

"Yeah" and with that Eric leaves.

"Who the hell was that?" Roy asks.

"Works at QC, mail boy, I feel bad for not asking him to join, I have run into him whenever I come here, and sometimes at the store too, but I really need to talk to you …"

"Wow he must really have it bad for you if he is wherever you are" Roy jokes and winks at her.

"What, not everywhere, well … not everywhere" she shakes her head; ok just the store, Big Belly, now that she comes to think of it when she went to the hair salon to touch up her roots she ran into him on the street. Her hair salon is 20 minutes outside the city, but she pushes the thought back into her head.

"He likes ya" Roy winks again.

"Can we not talk about Eric please and get back to the mini vigilante baby growing inside me, I have my first appointment tomorrow can you come with?" she asks nervously.

"Of course, but maybe Oliver should know before then and he could occupy you …"

"Please Roy"

"Of Course"


Eric left Big Belly, and walked down an alleyway. He sees a man urinating, clearly coming out of a club. His rage and anger has taken over, his body has lost control and he runs towards the man and begins to beat him senseless. He beats him because Felicity acknowledged him as QC worker not a friend, she didn't ask him to join her. Why? What did he do? Why was she all of a sudden being cold to him, why? Why didn't she love him, why did she just brush him to the side? He knew that taking it slow; getting her to fall in love with him, getting their house ready was out of question. He needed to have her now. With him, she needs to be with him so they can be together.


The next day Felicity and Roy head to the hospital. It was her first scan, of course she was nervous, she wished for nothing more than Oliver to be with her.

"Felicity Smoak" the nurse calls.

Felicity and Roy walk in, as Felicity changes and gets ready.

"Ok it's going to be a little cold" the nurse says.

Roy remains stiff by Felicity's side nervous, looking slightly pale. Felicity holds her breath feeling the cold gel on her stomach.

"No need to panic Dad, in all my years I have seen it all, Dad's looking like ghosts" the nurse laughs.

"Oh no, he isn't the dad, he is my brother" Felicity says, Roy turns his head towards her in a confused expression. For whatever reason she didn't introduce Roy as friend in fear of judgment for bringing another man to her appointment.

"Oh that's nice of you dear" the nurse says. She begins to scan Felicity's stomach. "And there is your baby" the nurses points to the screen where there is barely a visible spot.

"Oh" they both say in unison staring at the dot on the screen.

"You are just shy of 11 weeks I understand you wanted to have an ultrasound early, usually we wait until 12 weeks but everything is perfect you can hear the heartbeat" the nurse rambles on, not noticing the tears which leave Felicity's eyes.

She can hear the heartbeat and it sounds healthy, she stares at her baby, her baby, she was going to be a mom, she has known for a week but it all became too real. Roy squeezes her hand tears begin to leave his own eyes. He cries because he is genuinely happy and excited, he knew that she would make the most amazing mom, he wished he had a mom like her growing up. He cries because he worries for her, he cries because he is angry, angry that Oliver isn't here even though Felicity hasn't told him. He cries because he is scared for his best friend, scared that she would be left alone to raise the baby, but knows he would step up. He cries because he thinks of Thea, wondering if this would ever be them, but for it to be them she needed to at least be in the same City as he is.


Ok Short chapter wrote on the train to work but thought I'd update I'm hoping to sneak some writing in during work shh don't tell and hopefully have a better update tonight or tomorrow enjoy thank you all for the reviews.