Chapter Twenty-Five:
Author's note: If you are wondering where Laurel is for the next several chapters, she is back at work.
Sara was quickly filled in about what had happened before she showed up, but it was Tommy that thought of a plan. "You can track a phone number pretty easily these days, Walter can ring the phone company and say that Moira lost her phone and wants to know where it is. As their married they should tell him," Tommy explained. Walter nodded and rang the number for their phone company; he wanted to know where his wife was and what she was hiding. He hung up once he got the address and then double checked it to make sure.
"She is at Merlyn Global," Walter told them. "This all keeps going back to dad," Tommy pointed out. Slade nodded his agreeance. "I think it can be agreed that he is involved or behind whatever this is," Slade said. "We can go see Felicity, she can find out what Tommy's dad is hiding," Thea announced standing in the doorway still in her pajamas. Tommy jumped in surprise as his back was to her and he hadn't heard her coming in. "Well done Thea," Shado praised with a small grin. "You're praising her for scaring me?" Tommy asked pouting. "You need to learn how to pay attention to your surroundings," Shado teased. "Do you honestly think she could help Speedy?" Slade asked seriously. "She found you, didn't she?" Thea answered sincerely. "Let's do it, we can take the limo in with Walter this morning," Oliver announced. "I'll ring our bodyguards," Tommy offered and walked out of the room as he began dialing.
Within the hour Oliver, Slade, Shado, Sara, Tommy, Joe, Thea and Walter with the bodyguards were seated in the limo and on their way to Queen Consolidated. Slade made a mental note to remember to play with Joe after this. "We can use my private elevator and I will call Miss Smoak up to my office, that way no one should even know you are in the building," Walter explained. "That sounds good, we don't need a repeat of the media just yet," Oliver said quietly. Slade and Joe nodded their agreement. "So tell us more about Felicity, Thea," Sara asked changing the subject. " Umm, she interning for the break and she is at MIT but I forget what she is doing something with computers and science. Oh and she is goth," Thea added as an afterthought. "What's goth?" Joe asked. "When people prefer to wear dark colours and sometimes listen to rock or similar types of music," Tommy answered. The car stopped then and they quickly made their way into Walter's private elevator and were soon heading up to the top floor.
Once the doors opened Joe immediately ran out and stopped at the large glass windows overlooking the city. "Wow," Joe said awed. "Pretty good view huh," Oliver said as he stopped next to Joe, also taking in the site of his city. They all stood there for a moment looking until Walter broke the silence. "My office is this way," he told them. As the rest of the group began following Walter, Oliver hesitated and with him Slade. Oliver looked out and took in Starling City as a whole and thought of all the times he stood in this exact spot with his father. "I won't fail you dad, I'll right your wrongs," Oliver whispered. Slade put a hand on his shoulder and gave a gentle squeeze in support, and together the two of them began walking over to Walter's office.
"She should be up soon," Walter informed them as they walked in. Oliver nodded and looked around the office, remembering all the times he had come to see his dad while he was working. Soon there was a knock on the door. "Come in," Walter called. Felicity walked in, and true to Thea's word, was dressed as a stereotypical goth. She had on a black skirt and a charcoal grey blouse. "Hello, oh, you're here. Like actually here, in person. The satellite wasn't the best so I couldn't see perfectly but you all look well. Not missing a leg or anything, not that it would be an issue. The best pirates managed perfectly well without legs, not that I'm comparing you to pirates or anything. " Felicity paused in shock as she noticed everyone who was present in the room, her jaw still gaping as Thea gave her a hug. "You helped me find them," Thea told her. "It was nothing, well not literally nothing but much easier than hacking the CIA. Did I just say hacking the CIA, because that's not something I have ever done, because that's illegal and I don't break the law, ever," Felicity rambled. The whole group stood amused, and Sara thankful her dad was at work instead of here to listen to Felicity incriminate herself. "And hacking the satellite to find us wasn't illegal?" Slade queried, amused. "I was just borrowing it, they didn't even know it had moved," Felicity defended and then paled as she realised what she said and quickly turned to Walter.
"Please don't fire me, can you even fire interns?" Felicity begged. "Why would I fire you? You helped me find Oliver and the others, something no one else thought was possible. I owe you a great deal of thanks Ms. Smoak," Walter told her. "Don't worry about it, just doing my job," Felicity quipped with an easy smile. "Your job wasn't to save us from hell, but I was wondering if you would be able to help us with a technological problem? Only if you want to of course," Oliver asked with a smile on his face. Thea had been right, he did immediately like Felicity; she had an innocence about her that reminded him of better times. He had noticed that everyone else had taken a liking to her as well, while it was too early to tell he could imagine Felicity fitting in nicely within group. "What do you need me to do?" Felicity asked. "Can you hack my dad?" Tommy asked seriously, leaving Felicity with a surprised look on her face.