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Chapter 21

They landed hours later on the roof of Daniels Manor the sun was setting and Adam was still sound asleep. Vivian was wide awake and starring at the manor with an open mouth.

"Mom, welcome to the Manor." Isabella said proudly

Vivian just kept staring at it in shock as Isabella explained. "We live here but it's actually the headquarters so you'll have to take it up but they'll probably let you stay since you're out mother."

"Are you sure I don't want to impose." Vivian said.

"It'll be fine." Isabella reassured. "Besides, you have no where else since our house blew up."

"Besides there is more than enough room." Adam said sitting up yawning

"I can see that." Vivian said still staring at the manor.

"It'll be fine mom, do you want Isabella to take you to the powers that be here or me?

Vivian shrugged with no preference. "Either one."

"Isa, I'm sure you want to talk her?" Adam asked.

"They'll probably be mad at either one of us. You for running off and me for coming to you without asking them." Isabella reminded. "You know they hate that."

"In this case, I think they will understand." Adam said with confidence

"Ok then, follow me, mom." Isabella said walking in.

"I guess I should go see Felicity?" Adam asked following them.

Isabella said, "No."

But Vivian said, "Yes."

"Wait, what?" Adam asked confused.

"You should go see her." Vivian told him.

"No, he shouldn't." Isabella disagreed. "She's dangerous."

"Isa, she's a pregnant woman who probably wants nothing more than to see her husband." Vivian said

"I still say it's a bad idea. At least alone it is. He should at least have someone else with him." Isabella said.

"What can she do?" Vivian asked.

"Anything she wants. You've never met Felicity." Isabella stated simply. "Even while the developmental equivalent of eight months pregnant, NEVER underestimate her."

"I think you're underestimating your brother Isa." Vivian said.

"I just worry about him, besides, Felicity knows how to to control him emotionally." Isabella said.

"I know, but he needs to talk to her you know that." Vivian said.

"I still say he shouldn't do it alone." Isabella said.

"Isa, you can't always be there and this is something it would probably be better for him to do alone." Vivian said.

Isabella sighed before turning to Adam. "What do you think?"

"I need to talk to her Isa I can't avoid it forever." Adam said.

Isabella hesitantly nodded. "Just, be careful, ok? If you feel her getting inside your head too much, just remind yourself why you have to be careful."

"I will, I promise." Adam said.

Felicity wasn't really doing anything, she was just lying down on her bed, her old bed not the one her and Adam shared, staring at the ceiling when suddenly there came a rapping, rapping on her chamber door. "Dad?" She guessed since she thought she had a fifty-fifty shot.

"Try again." Said Adam's voice from the other side.

"Adam?" She asked surprised.

"Yeah, it's me." His voice said. "Can I come in?"

She hesitated carefully propping herself up with her hand protectively on her belly by instinct before asking with noted worry, "Are you still mad?"

"No, not anymore I just want to talk." Adam said.

Felicity hesitated slightly but smiled and said, "Come on in."

Adam walked in his hair as spiky as she had seen in the video and his clothes still all black he also looked tired. "Hey there." Adam said

"Hey." She said keeping her left hand hidden behind her protruding belly. "I was afraid you'd never come back. I thought you hated me."

"You would think so, and I'll admit I was mad, but I can't hate you." Adam said walking in and sitting in the chair beside her bed.

"But… after everything I did to you, how could you not hate me, at least a little?" She asked confused looking over at him.

"Well, I've been on that table and I can't say I would not have done the same thing if it were me for that long. JUst let me ask you something do you love me honestly do you?" Adam asked holding up his screwdriver behind his back.

Felicity put her left hand on her stomach as the light caught gold, diamond, and amethyst of her wedding ring. "Of course, Adam. I love you more than anything."

The light on Adams screwdriver turned bright green, signalling that she was telling the truth. Adam smiled from beside her.

"I love you too Felicity, so can we work this out?" Adam asked

"I REALLY hope so." Felicity said before giving a slight flinch from the baby kicking. "I don't know what I'd do if we can't."

"I think we can, I mean we've done everything else. I just have no idea where we start." Adam said

"I don't either." Felicity admitted honestly.

"Well, we could talk or we could kiss first it's your choice." Adam said

"Well, which do you think I'd choose." Felicity asked with a smile.

"I think that you would want a kiss." Adam said leaning just slightly closer.

Felicity leaned in but with the baby limiting movement, she couldn't get close enough closed the distance between them and kissed her gently.

"Boy, did I need that." She said with a huge smile after they had to seperate.

"Well, I did too I missed you to be honest." Adam said

With that, Felicity just kissed him again having caught her breath back. Adam kissed her back, but when they separated he was serious. "You know you'll have to talk to Isa too right?" Adam asked.

Felicity nodded, "I know. That's gonna be a lot harder than this was isn't it?"

"Yeah probably, she is really mad." Adam said

"Will you at least be there?" Felicity asked.

"I will, but that may not help you much. Also guess who we found?" Adam asked

"Umm… your mom." Felicity guessed taking a shot in the dark, Rodney was rather cautious on what he told her so she didn't actually know.

"Well yeah actually, how did you know?" Adam asked.

"Well, you're very happy about something that isn't me but also shocked, it was enough to disrupt the list you gave in the video and come here, and face it, people in our lives have a habbit of coming back to life." She explained before adding. "That's great that she is though."

"Yeah Isa and I were both suprised she was alive and...Felicity, are you alright?" Adam asked as she flinched again as the baby kicked.

"Yeah, it's just the baby. I don't remember the first one kicking so hard." Felicity told him. "Then again, I had WAY more things to worry about at the time."

"How far along are you?" Adam asked finally showing his screwdriver as he ran it over her stomach.

"Four months." Felicity answered staring at the screwdriver in confusion and slight worry but she trusted him. "So, the equivalent of eight months."

Adam again flicked it out so the end looked like a claw. "Well the baby is perfectly healthy just hyper appearently." Adam said staring at the strange device Felicity had never seen.

"What is that thing?" Felicity asked.

"Sonic Screwdriver it...well, it pretty much does everything except keep the time and date." Adam said.

"Could it tell if the baby's a boy or girl?" Felicity asked. "Baljeet refuses to tell me."

"Yeah, I actually know from the scan." Adam said.

"Which is it then?" Felicity asked, even though she only had two weeks left, she wanted to know NOW.

"I'm not sure I should tell you. I could just make you wait two more weeks." Adam said

"Come on, please?" She asked giving him sad eyes.

Adam almost caved, but then he remembered what Isabella said. "No I think you should wait." Adam said.

That surprised Felicity, that usually works. "You are much improving young grasshopper." She said like a sansei. "I guess I could wait for the two weeks."

"You'll have too. Oh, and by the way you have to meet mom at somepoint." Adam said

"I look foward to it." Felicity said with a smile.

"And she knows everything." Adam finished.

"And… what does she think?" Felicity asked hesitantly.

"I'm unsure she's hard to read."

Felicity sighed, "Did she say anything about me?"

"Just that you sounded like an interesting person and I should talk to you."

"I guess that's a good sign that she wanted you to talk to me." Felicity observed.

"Yeah, that can only be a good thing." Adam said.

"I assume she's talking with Candace and Isabella 1?" Felicity inferred.

"Yes, yes she is."

"Then I guess we'll have to wait." She said.

"We will, but I think she'll like you."

"Hopefully, she is my mother-in-law, after all." Felicity stated. "I'd rather not have two mothers that don't like me."

"She does not like the sound of your mother if that helps." Adam said

Felicity smiled at that. "Yes, that does help."

"Good."

"So, what do we do till then?" Felicity asked.

"Talk?" Adam suggested.

Felicity looked disappointed. "But I still like the other option better."

"You just never stop do you?" Adam asked smiling.

"Are you complaining?" Felicity asked jokingly.

"Not really, but you can't reach me anyway." He said his head just out of her heads reach

Just to prove him wrong, since though his hand was out of her heads reach, she reached her hand over pulling him to her and kissing him. Adam seemed to melt into her kiss his hands gently running through her hair. Felicity closed her eyes, she was right. She definitely needed that.

Meanwhile Isabella knocked on the command room door. "Hello?" She asked.

"Come on in, Isabella." Said Candace's voice from the other side recognizing her voice.

Isabella entered and they were shocked when her mother followed her in.

"I found a few people." Isabella said. Candace just stared at Vivian in disbelief. She would have sworn she was dead. "Adam's here too." Isabella said noticing who they were starring at.

"Where did you find them?" Isabella 1 asked her counter part.

"Well, that's a story to tell." Isabella sighed and went into her explination of all that had happened since they had all seen the video. She even showed them her screwdriver when they asked about it.

"Why didn't you ask us before you went there?" Candace asked. "You do realize why we have that rule right?"

"Yes, but it was important." Isabella said.

Candace sighed. "Fine, but it would have only taken a second. So, I'm guessing your mother needs a place to stay?"

"Yes and we were hoping she could stay here with us all and where it's safe." Isabella said

They looked at each other coming to a silent agreement before turning back to Isabella and Vivian. "Ok, she can stay."

"Thank you so much." Vivian said and they nodded turning back to Isabella

"Where's Adam?" Candace asked

"He went to talk to Felicity." Isabella said though it was clear in her voice that she still thought it was a bad idea.

"He did, well I think that will be good for the both of them." Candace said.

"We can only hope but the idea isn't very promising." Isabella said looking down.

"Isabella are you okay?" Candace asked.

"I just don't trust her. She's dangerous." Isabella stated.

"That maybe, but she is telling the truth." Candace said.

"How can you be so sure? know lots of traitors here were given a second chance but she was a double agent. That's completely different." Isabella reminded.

"That may be, but she's a special case." Candace said.

"What makes you so sure though?" Isabella asked.

"She tried to warn him at one point." Candace said.

That certainly surprised all three of them in two aspects: that Felicity tried to warn him and that Candace knew but didn't do or say anything. "What? When?" Isabella asked.

"Well I was reviewing some of the video we have from the virtual world and I came across this." Candace said sliding a tape in. "Keep an eye on her finger." Candace told them as the tape started up.

Isabella watched carefully as Felicity started to trace patterns in Adams shirt. They saw what she was talking about as the 'patterns' form letters which forming words, forming sentences.

'You need to help me. An evil guy needs me to get you to date me today and I have to play his game but can you please just refuse. It's nothing personal.' Felicity removed her hand hoping for dear life that Adam caught the message and Rodney didn't while still carrying on her and Adam continued talking.

"How did he not notice that?" Isabella asked.

"He more than likely noticed her running her finger along his back but sense they were talking he didn't really notice what she was forming." Candace explained. "The point is, she did at least try to warn him but had to do it to where Rodney wouldn't notice."

Isabella looked at the ground now feeling guilty. "I should go apologize huh?" She asked

"Would probably be best." Vivian told her daughter.

"Okay, James will show you to your room." Isabella said before blurring off.

Felicity and Adam sperated when Isabella got there. "H-hey Isabella." Felicity stuttered nervously.

"Felicity, I want to say something." Isabella said carefully

"What is it?" Felicity asked still a little on the edge.

"I wanted to say… I'm sorry." Isabella said.

Felicity just looked confused. "You're sorry? Sorry for what?"

"We found that moment where you were trying to warn Adam."

"What?" Adam asked in surprise having obviously not notoced at all past her finger running along his back. He turned to Felicity feeling really stupid. "How did you…"

"I was tracing letters into your back in vitual paris." Felicity said

Adam face-palmed feeling really stupid. "How on earth did I miss that?"

"There was a cute girl flirting with you most boys probably would not have noticed." Isabella said.

"I'm not that cute." Felicity said modestly. "Besides, I had to prevent Rodney from getting suspicious."

"Yes you are." Adam said.

"Besides you did a good job and Adam Candace and Isabella 1 want to see the other screwdrivers." She said.

"I guess that's fine." Adam said pulling out the case with the other ones.

"There's more?" Felicity asked in surprise.

"Nine more other than mine. I have to assume it's time to hand these out." Adam said standing up.

"That's right." Isabella said.

"Okay well who do we give them too? You and James have yours who else?" Adam asked looking at the screwdrivers.

Isabella and Felicity both just shrugged, "That might be their decision." Felicity said referring to Candace and Isabella 1.

"Fine, Felicity we'll be back." Adam said before he and Isabella blurred away.

Adam and Isabella got back to the command room. "Okay, Adam lets see these sonic screwdrivers Isabella told us about." Candace said

Adam opened the case showing them the remaining seven models in there. "They can do pretty much anything you want, except tell you the time and date, there was no room for a clock."

"Why the colors?" Candace asked.

Adam shrugged, "That way you can tell whose is whose."

"Makes sense, so who did you plan on giving these too?"

"Isabella and James already have there own but as for the others I just knew they'd be sent back here." He answered.

"We each get one." Candace said.

"There are more people in the manor than ten though." Adam reminded. "I would have made more but I was worried they might end up in the wrong hands."

"This is true. So,who do we all trust?" Candace asked.

"The people I can truely trust already got theirs but you two can have one so that leaves five." Adam said.

"What about Connor?" Isabella suggested.

"Connor has not been here all that long." Candace said.

"True, but he's been very effective and able to think on his feet." Adam said making a counter point he trusted Connor.

"It still doesn't seem like a good idea to trust a new recruit with one as opposed to one of the longer term agents." Candace said.

"Maybe, but he is good you can't deny that." Adam said

"When did this become a question of skill? I thought this was a question of trust. The most skilled agents just make the most sucessful traitors." Isabella 1 pointed out thinking about her brother. She hasn't been able to stop actually.

"Then tell me which five people do you think should get them?" Adam asked

"I don't know about the other four but Dr. Baljeet should get one, he's constantly loyal since pretty much the beginning and as the manor doctor he could more than likely find the best uses for it." Isabella 1 suggested.

"I can agree to that, with all the times he's saved my life and others. That leaves us with four." Adam said.

"What about Ferb?" Isabella suggested. "Unlike his brother, he never gave us any reason not to trust him."

"Ferb, deserves one it would be good for him to have." Candace said as the others nodded in agreement.

"And then there were three." Adam said simply. "Who else?"

"What about, Gretchen? She's always been loyal and useful in the field." Candace said. They all nodded in agreement seeing no reason to object.

"Mr. Daniels?" Isabella offered

"That's a good idea." Adam agreed. "He's always been very loyal and helpful in all the asspects of Firestorm: physical, technical, research, and of course financial. So, the. There was one."

"Didn't you say you wanted to save that one?" Isabella asked.

"Which one?" Adam asked looking at the case and noticing the purple one was all that remained

Isabella pointed to the one left in the case. "The one you made for Felicity as a force of habit." She reminded.

"Right what do I do with it?" Adam asked.

"The original plan, lock it up until you can truly trust her again." Isabella answered.

"Right." Adam said closing the case and pointing his screw driver at the lock. "There now only one of the screwdrivers can open it." He said with confidence.

"Great, so I assume we should get the other four delivered?" Isabella asked.

"I guess you take two and I'll take two." Adam said grabbing the grey and silver ones.

"Fair enough." Isabella said taking the gold and white ones since Isabella 1 took the blue one and Candace took the red one.

"Race?" Adam offered.

"You're on." Isabella said then blurred off to Dr. Baljeet's office as Adam blurred off to find Ferb and Gretchen.

Adam found Ferb with his brother in the inventing room, but no Gretchen. "Hey there Ferb ahve you seen Gretchen?" He asked in a rush.

"She's out at the pool." Ferb said motioning out the window. "I was gonna meet her out there in a bit. Why?"

"First answer me this: silver or grey?"

"Um, grey." Ferb said still very confused.

Adam handed him the grey screwdriver. "Here you are congratulations."

Ferb stared down at the device. "What is it?"

"Sonic Screwdriver." Adam said.

Ferb looked up at him. "You mean like from Dr. Who?"

"Exactly like from Doctor Who!" Adam said.

Then something clicked in a very delayed reaction. "Wait, when did you get back?"

"Back?" Phineas asked confused since he's pretty much hopeless.

"Oh, about maybe two hours ago." Adam said.

On the other side of the manor, Isabella had gotten Dr. Baljeet his and was blurring all over trying to find Mr. Daniels to no avail so she stopped by Felicity's room. "Felicity, do you know where your father is?"

"Why?"

"Adam wanted my to get something to him." Isabella said in a hurry.

"Uh, well I think he may be in the observation room." Felicity said straining to see Isabella over her stomach.

"Ok, thank you, Felicity." Isabella said before blurring off to the observation room.

"And I'm alone again." Felicity sighted.

Isabella arrived at the observation room. "Mr. Daniels?" She called into the large room

Mr. Danials turned around to her. "Oh, hello, Isa."

"I have something for you." She pulled out the gold sonic screwdriver and handed it to him. "It can pretty much do whatever you want but tell you the time and date."

Mr. Daniels was facinated. "So, your brother finally figured it out?" He asked surprising her.

"How did you…" Isabella trailed off.

"He and I had a conversation about these once while watching TV I said the technology was several years off and he said he would figure it out." Mr. Daniels said

Isabella shrugged, "That's Adam for you but I should get going we're in a race." She said before blurring back to the command room where she was surprised to see that Adam was already back.

"I win!" Adam said happily.

Isabella sighed. "Alright, you won this one fair and square."

"Victory!" Adam said happily.

Isabella just rolled her eyes. "Don't you you have a pregnant woman to attend to?"

"Yes, yes I do and mom wants to see us later." Adam said

"Understood." Isabella said then Adam blurred off.

"Hello." Adam said appearing in front of Felicity

"Hey Adam." Felicity said with a smile as he went over to her side so she could see him a lot easier.

"I bet you will be so happy to have this kid out of you." Adam said.

Felicity nodded, "Very much so."

"Well, just think two more weeks and it'll be done." Adam said

Felicity smiled down at her torso. "And we'll be parents." She looked back over at Adam seriously. "Do you still think I'll make a good mother?"

"Yes, I do you'll really be able to hammer the lying is bad point home." Adam said scooting closer to her

"I guess you're right." Felicity said. "I guess I just don't have that much confidence in myself."

"Felicity you made a mistake we all do it's just in our line of work the mistakes have worse consequences."

Felicity shrugged, "I've always been hard on myself. Ever since my mom though she got the girl she wanted but ended up with a boy with a vagina. Those were her exact words by the way."

"Your mother is just rude." Adam said.

"I know but it's still not something you can just ignore." Felicity said looking down.

"I know, but she should accept you as you are." Adam said

"She should do a lot of stuff she doesn't." Felicity said with a huff. "Like actually pay attention to me more then just when I do something she doesn't like for starters."

"How could your father fall for someone like that?" Adam asked.

"I ask myself that single everyday." Felicity said. "He's a smart man. A genius actually. He should know better than that."

"Yeah I know it's like he's drugged..." Adam said trailing off.

"Wouldn't surprise me. Seems like the only explaination. Besides, I'm pretty sure she's a gold digger." Felicity said in disgust. "I've tried telling him that many times but he won't believe me."

Adam thought this over and then smirked "I know what to do." He said.

Felicity returned the smirk like where this is going. "Do tell."

"We'll prove it." Adam said.

"I get the feeling you plan involves the Sonic Screwdriver?" Felicity said still smirking.

"Those and the general theory that your mothers an idiot." Adam said.

"That's not a theory, that's a fact." Felicity stated simply. "So, what's the plan?"

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