Who else thinks Arrow's last episode was the best ever? Seriously, it was everything I could wish for and I absolutely loved Mama Smoak, seriously, a lot of us, me included, thought she was a cold woman, and then we get Donna Smoak and she is the funniest and cutest mom on TV. So, yeah, those family feelings made me write this little bit...
I hope you like it!
Untimely arrival
"You have everything you need, right?" Felicity asked from the doorway, watching her husband recheck his suitcase in case he missed something.
"I think so, but I can't stop the feeling there's something I'm forgetting…" Oliver replied, stretching his back.
Felicity walked inside the room and started rubbing his shoulders, getting rid of his kinks.
"It's nerves…" she said softly and Oliver rolled his eyes.
"It's not nerves… You know I don't like leaving you like this, especially now…" Oliver replied, turning to face her.
"But you need to go to that meeting… You already postponed it twice and you know how Bruce gets when it doesn't go according to his plans…" Felicity stated and Oliver huffed.
"Stupid bat-fan…" Oliver growled and Felicity chuckled.
"Now, now, don't go making fun of each other's hero identity… You know how Selina gets if you make fun of him…" Felicity laughed and Oliver rolled his eyes.
"She is always making fun of him…" he recalled and Felicity nodded appreciatively.
"Yes, exactly. She is the only one that can make fun of him, just like I'm the only one that can make fun of you…" she said with an innocent smile, while arranging his jacket's lapels.
Running steps echoed behind the couple and they turned around to face the five years old boy running with a plush toy under his arm.
"Daddy, daddy! Can you give this to Uncle Bruce? It's a black dragon that looks just like a bat!" Tommy said excitedly and Oliver smiled forcedly. The bond between his sweet, great son and that bastard of Wayne was something he could never understand. According to Felicity, he loved the man too, just was too stubborn to admit that since he got the police in Gotham to use his Bat signal right before Oliver could convince Quentin that they needed a quicker way of communication.
Oliver grabbed his suitcase and brought it to the doorway.
"I love you…" he whispered against Felicity's lips and she smiled, whispering the same words back in a deep lusty way that made Oliver's pupils dilate. The only thing stopping him from ravaging her was the little boy watching them with a smile.
"I will bring you something cool…" Oliver said, hugging his son and the boy smiled. "Take care of your mom, okay? If anything happens call me or Uncle Dig immediately." Oliver told his son and the boy nodded like a little soldier.
"Your mom and Lance are always with their phones on, I told Donna specifically to always use hers, Thea and Roy will be ready to come here, just in case, even during Verdant's opening hours, Lyla has her emergency phone always with her, Sara told me she was arriving tomorrow morning, Barry said he could be here in a few minutes and Laurel and Ted are just a phone call away." Oliver listed and Felicity sighed.
"Everything will be fine!" Felicity said, exaggerating the last word and Oliver kissed her again.
Seeing her husband depart with her best friend, Felicity sighed. He was bordering on over-reaction into paranoid.
And just to make sure everything was as he planned, during the next hour, Felicity received text messages from everyone mentioned above, asking how she was and if she needed anything.
"I thought it would be harder to make you come here…" Bruce said as a way of greeting when Oliver stepped into his office.
"Cut the crap. I don't have time for this. I want to be in Starling by dawn…" Oliver replied and he felt Diggle chuckle silently behind him.
"So, Felicity made you come… And how is she? Are you ready?" Bruce asked and Oliver noticed the true sincerity in his words.
"Of course, it's not going to be the first time. I have everything planned. We still have fifteen days, that's why I came today." Oliver explained, while taking from his briefcase a pile of papers and the plush toy Tommy gave him. Bruce eyed it with surprise and smiled when he realized who it was from.
"I won't lose my daughter's birth because of a meeting with you…" Oliver said and Bruce chuckled darkly.
"Selina wants to go to Starling next week to see Felicity, maybe we should wait a bit more and just go when the baby is born…" Bruce replied and Oliver was ready to answer him when his, Diggle's and Bruce's phones started ringing at the same time.
"It's time!" Tommy yelled in Oliver's ear and he could hear a lot of voices behind his son's: Felicity's grunts of pain, Laurel's soothing words and Ted's quick talk. Then another voice spoke.
"You better get in here, Oliver Jonas Queen! My baby girl is not going to be alone for this!" Donna yelled.
"Get him here!" Lyla commanded to Diggle, with Thea's yelling words on the background, telling Roy to grab the baby's bag.
"Get a fucking chopper!" Sara ordered when Bruce picked up. "I'm not getting into that laboring room with her, she will break my hand and I need all of my fingers to grab my Bo staff!"
"Queen, go in my chopper!" Bruce yelled, pushing Oliver out of his office and running up the stairs towards the roof of Wayne Enterprises. "It's ready to go!"
Oliver jumped inside the helicopter, with Diggle behind him and yelled at Bruce.
"I will reschedule this after seeing my daughter!"
Bruce laughed and run out of the roof, his jacket flowing around him with the picking wind.
"Am I late?" Oliver screamed when he opened the waiting room's door.
"No, just go!" Thea pulled him behind her and directed him towards the room where Felicity was. "She wanted to wait for you, so she was too far gone for them to give her an epidural. Just follow the screams…" Thea said smiling and Oliver's face fell. She was in pain because of him, and he run towards her.
She wasn't screaming like Thea joked, she was too stubborn for that, but he could see the high amount of pain she was going through, in her face.
"Honey…" he whispered and Felicity opened her eyes and tried to smile.
Donna was there with her daughter, holding her hand, and she sighed when Oliver appeared. Apparently Felicity was even more stubborn that her mother knew.
"I was just telling the doctors you would get here in time… There's no one more stubborn than you…" Felicity gasped and Oliver grabbed her other hand.
"Except you…" he and Donna replied at the same time, he with a smile and her with barely concealed fear, while the doctor gave Oliver hospital clothes to wear over his own.
Felicity smiled weakly at him, the sweat running down her forehead. Oliver tried to clean it with a fresh cloth one of the nurses gave him, but he could do nothing to alleviate her pain.
Donna kissed her daughter's forehead after the nurse told her only one person could be with Felicity and leveling Oliver with a look that clearly said "You better not pass out", she walked out, pale and nervous.
When, two hours later, they were holding their daughter between them, Oliver felt his phone vibrate inside his pocket. It was a message.
You own me, Queen. Now, how cute is the kid?
"What's that?" Felicity asked and Oliver rolled his eyes.
"Wayne's text…" he replied, showing her his phone.
Felicity laughed.
"See, I told you, you two love each other…" Felicity replied and Oliver huffed.
"He has to count himself lucky that his stupid meeting didn't make me lose the birth of my daughter…" Oliver said darkly and Felicity shook her head in exasperation.
These two… seriously, they were just too alike… She pitied the day Selina got pregnant… Bruce would have a field day with Oliver.
