Author's note: so I am just going to love this right here for you all to enjoy... back on monday... hopefullyou you will enjoy the take down of the mob in these chapters as well as the next update... not to mention Felicity's dad... oh and there is a sweet treat in 38 for SmoaknLance fans...
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BTW I know nothing really about the justice system so I apologize now if I got this wrong...
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"My don't you look nice! What's the occasion Mom?" Felicity asked as her mom walked by their bedroom. Felicity and Oliver were finishing up getting ready to go meet the team about the next step with the mob.
"I have a date!" Donna announced, her excitement and nervousness showing in her tone.
"A date? With who?"
"A nice guy from here. I'm actually going to be late." Donna smoothed out an invisible wrinkle on her dress. "How do I look? I tried to tone it down a bit. I mean it's just coffee. No need to go full glam for that right?" Donna had on a hot pink dress with a halter top neckline that crossed in the front. It gave a slight window effect to her ample cleavage. It was form fitting to her curves and bellowed into an aline shirt with pleats that stopped midthigh. Along with it she had hot pink peep toe pumps that were decorated with a bow on the toes. She had on her favorite diamond cuff bracelets. In her arms was a hot pink saddle purse and she had a light tan trench coat and a checkerboard scarf draped over her arm, ready to be put on before stepping out of the house.
Felicity gaped at her mom. She had not seen her mother nervous over a date in years. Usually she was only excited and talked about where the guy was taking her.
Oliver stepped up to Donna and hugged her. "You look stunning Mom, as always."
"Thank you Sweetie. I just want this to go right. He is not like other guys I've dated. More together. And I don't want to blow it. I want this to work."
"You really like him?" Felicity asked coyly from her vanity seat.
Donna stepped into the room more and walked to her daughter. "I do Sweetie. He is a good guy. Smart, funny, stable, handsome. I just... I don't want to blow it."
"You will do great. You're already ahead of the game." Oliver chuckled.
"How's that?"
"Well you had him come to you and ask you out right?" When Donna nodded Oliver continued, "Well then you already know he's interested in you as you are. You haven't changed a bit since visiting us so if he saw even a couple minutes of that you, he already knows what he wants. You and your daughter have that in common. You show your true selves instantly and it drives us guys crazy and make us want to know more."
"Oliver." Donna cooed as she hugged into his side again. "Sweetie I think you picked a winner with this one."
"I know I did." Felicity smiled up at her soon to be husband as he chuckled at her. "Here Mom. You should wear these." Felicity pulled out a set of fleur-de-lis shaped diamond drop earrings and handed them to her mother.
Donna gasped at the site of them. They were gorgeous and caught the natural light of the room beautifully. "Sweetie are you sure?"
"Yeah Mom. It may be just coffee but a little glam is okay. Leave him wanting more." Felicity giggled.
"So do we get a name?" Oliver asked as he collected his wallet and keys.
"Not yet. Don't want to jinx it. I'll let you know when it gets to be a bit more serious. Right now we are just getting to know one another. Something that is very new to me. I think that is another reason I'm so nervous."
"You will do fine Mom. Just be yourself. Oliver's right. If he already met you and has talked with you, he knows what you are like. You never hold anything back so he has already seen how bright and vibrant and full of life you are. And he asked you out so he must be interested in finding out more about that woman."
"You're right Baby Girl. Okay well I'm off. You two be careful. I want to make sure my little grand babies have their Mommy and Dad return home to them." Oliver had finally opened up a bit about their nightly job to Donna since she already knew. She knew how dangerous it was as well. Oliver had told her their plans for her ex husband and that the team was meeting up today to finalize their movements to end him and the mob.
"We will Mom. You just enjoy your date and be safe as well. Do you need a ride?" Oliver assured her.
"No Sweetie. I got a taxi waiting. Love you all." Donna blew kisses at them as she ran out the room.
Felicity turned back to the vanity and huffed out a breath. "Wow! Donna Smoak nervous over a date. Haven't seen that in years."
"It's a good thing Sweetheart. It means she is really trying to find her happiness. Something you helped me find years ago." Oliver smiled at her reflection as he leaned down into her shoulder. He pressed a tender kiss into the crook of her neck before stepping away to gather the last of their things. Felicity started for the door, Oliver right on her heels.
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"Are you sure letting her go by herself was a good idea? I mean with everything going on, the mob, my dad, then there is the press and paparazzi because of us and the wedding coming up. Mom being in public, unguarded, makes me nervous." Felicity worried as she sat at her computer bank in the new Bunker. The guys had finished moving everything on Saturday while she and the rest of the ladies were at her shower. Barry had even set up all her computers and ran all the programs necessary to protect them in the new location.
"I'm sure. Plus she's not alone."
"I'm know. She is with the 'good guy' but we don't even know him."
"I know Sweetheart but what I meant was I sent one of the guards to follow her. Darren is at the school with Connor and I am not leaving our family unguarded for a second until this is all handled and I know we are all safe. Your mom may be mad later but her safety is my only concern right now. So I sent Rob after her."
"Rob. The guy you ditched in the bathroom your first year back?"
"To be fair he did the same to me." Diggle chuckled as he entered the Bunker.
"Yes but I needed to get away from both of you in order to do my mission. Donna will only need to run away if the date goes badly."
"Fine. If you trust Rob." Felicity succumbed to Oliver's wishes.
"I do. Dig signed off on him when we hired him as well. He is a great bodyguard. He will take care of your mom. Plus we can ask him who your mom was with if you want."
"You do know how I feel about mysteries but I want my mom to tell us. She needs her privacy just like we do."
"I think you two are finally learning how to be grown ups." Diggle laughed as he moved into the seating area that would be used for team meetings and planning sessions now. Felicity had wanted them all to have somewhere comfortable to sit down and talk things out instead of standing around her computer banks or leaning on her desk like they used to.
"Ha. Ha. Dig. And I am not the only one with their own special disappearing skills anymore." Oliver teased as he smiled down at Felicity.
"One time and I swear I will never live it down!" Felicity groaned as the two men fell into a fit of laughter. A couple of sweet giggles filtered into space as Sara, Nyssa, Laurel and Thea joined them.
"Lis don't you know by now that Ollie will use any reason to tease you? Plus you are always going on about his crazy ninja skills. Turns out you have been hiding you own. Or did you inherit them along with the baby?" Thea mocked her as she plopped down into a seat as well.
Felicity rolled her eyes and huffed out a breath of air. "I have baby brain right now and forget things easily. I already told Darren sorry and sent lunch to the precinct to apologize to the cops for wasting their afternoons. I got some really sweet thank yous from that as well."
"Lunch? No doughnuts?" Oliver guffawed as he settled into a seat near the rest of the team.
"Oliver Queen! That's just mean. I don't expect you to eat rich fancy food every meal. Some cops don't like doughnuts. That is just a stereotype." Felicity snapped.
"She means to say, she thought about it but didn't want to seem in poor taste after everything they had already done for her." Oliver laughed and the others joined in. Felicity stood from her chair at the computer bank and moved to one next to him, ready to start the meeting. As she positioned herself in the chair, wiggling a bit to get comfortable, she reached up and hit him on the back side of his head. He looked towards her and she was trying to look menacing by staring daggers at him. It would have worked except for the smirk her lips curled into.
"Anyway now that we are all here. We can get this done. I'm sure we have better things to be doing. I know I have a pile of papers and reports to read through for QI at home."
"I thought you weren't working there for another 9 weeks." Thea questioned.
"Well I just wanted to make sure things were doing well in the department. My replacement has a lot going on and I don't want us to fall behind on any of the projects we have going so I am helping out."
"So what you're saying is that you're trying to replace your nerves and stress over the wedding and the baby with work." Thea teased.
"Leave her alone Speedy." Oliver snarled knowing that Felicity was still a little nervous about all the changes going on. Truth be told he was too. Happy but nervous.
"Anyway so the plan is?"
"Yes the plan. Since we already have all the evidence against your dad, I got a judge to sign off on a warrant for us to pick him up tonight. I figured that we could pick him up right after the Arrow visited him."
"Great. Expect the Arrow is dead." Oliver mumbled.
"Yeah. We need to work on a new name for you since that one is gone. Maybe Cisco and Caitlin can help. Or Iris. They seem better at making names that people here. I mean 'The Hood'? Really?" Felicity giggled.
"Fine I figured we could pick him up after he got a visit from the Green Hooded Archer or whatever you call yourself."
Felicity jumped in at this point to give details about the layout of the location. "He is staying in a 3 floor walk up in the Glades. There are a couple rooftop accesses as well as a fire escape that feeds right into his apartment."
"I would say fire escape is worst choice. Didn't look safe when we reconed the place earlier. There is a rooftop on the south east they you have a clean shot of the exterior back wall from. You could shoot a grappling hook arrow in it then enter through the nearby window." Sara pointed out the point of entry on the flat screen image in the middle of the table. Felicity had created a table with an embedded flat screen that ran off the same network as her computers so that her files could be accessed during meetings such as this one.
"Okay. I can take that entry point. Sara, you and Nyssa will be scouting Ken Shane's location to make sure he is not tipped off. Laurel, you will be with your father and the SCPD team. Felicity, you are on comms."
"As always. Safe and sound here."
"Dig. Speedy. You two are my backup. Keep an eye on the building and make sure no one leaves or enters. Felicity, is there a way you could get heat signatures on the place to give me an idea of what it looks like inside?"
"I can do one better. A.R.G.U.S. has a new satellite that can scan through locations and give us a real time night version view of the building. I just need to access the satellite and get it into position. Give me 15 minutes to get in then it will take another 10 minutes to get into position. By the way, we really need our own satellite for Hanukkah or Christmas. I mean I am always using other people's satellites, why not have our own?"
"The Arrow satellite? Yeah cause no one is going to wonder about that." Thea chuckled.
"Hey it could be QI's satellite. I would just have access to it a lot easier. It's a lot of work getting into these satellites and databases. Seems they are finally noticing all the breaches I have done over the years helping the team and are starting to get smarter. Of course not as smart as me but still. 2 years ago, getting into a satellite would have only taken me 5 minutes and that was on a slow day."
"Let's make it through this and Damien and we will see." Oliver grinned. He knew that was just one of Felicity's babbles so she didn't mean it. If she did, he would make it happen. He could never deny her anything she longed for. Not when she gave him all he needed.
"Okay so what time are we doing this?" Laurel asked.
"Well I'd say around 8 we meet back here. We can have dinner with Connor and Donna then have her put him down while we are here working." Oliver answered trying to juggle his two lives better than he did before. This mission and the safety of the city was important to him but so was his family. They were more important. He would always make sure to make time for them.
"Okay I will tell Dad that we will be issuing the warrant around 10 pm. That will give you guys time to get here and set up then for you to get to Christian's place and have your talk with him. Just keep an ear out for the police. We don't want you guys nearby if they come early."
"I'll be monitoring the bands." Felicity noted to which they all nodded. With the plan set, the team disbanded and went about their afternoon plans. Thea, Nyssa and Sara went to working out while Diggle went to check in with Lyla and explain the evening's plans to her. Laurel went back to work. "You aren't going to do anything stupid during that 'talk' right?" Felicity asked as she and Oliver moved back to her computers, putting the final touches on the files for Laurel before sending them off to her office email from an untraceable email account.
"Like?"
"Well I know how you feel about me and my mom. I know that the fact my dad walked out on us and left us is hard for you to wrap your mind around. You want to protect us from pain and he caused a lot for us in the past. I just have a feeling that you may let all that anger and hatred flood out and you will hit him."
"Sweetheart you know I would do anything for your mom and you. I love you both so much."
"And that is why I don't want you to touch him unless it requires it or I tell you to."
"Felicity." Oliver groaned.
"No! He is my father. He hurt me and my mom. If anyone gets to say if he gets hit, it's me or her. Not you. I know you want to protect us. Defend us. But pounding on him before he turns state's evidence won't do anyone any good. We need him to go in and be willing to give up the information on his own. Not look like he was coerced into it. Then he will be useless because his testimony will be thrown out. So only if needed, which it shouldn't be because you can get in anywhere without making a sound."
Oliver chuckled as he remembered the many times he has snuck up on her over the years.
"Promise me."
Oliver rolled his eyes and was hesitant for a moment but then saw the desperation in her eyes and caved. "I promise. But if he threatens you during any point, I don't care if I am in front of him as Oliver Queen or the other me."
"Green Arrow."
"Green Arrow?"
"Well yeah. You wear green and have arrows that are also green. I like it. Nods to the past but also is a new face for the future."
Oliver considered it for a moment then nodded. "Whether I am Oliver Queen or Green Arrow, I will beat him senseless. He doesn't get to threaten my family and get away with it. You and Donna are now my family and under my protection."
"Oh I like this grrrr side of you. Very... forceful. It's hot." Felicity giggled as she slipped out her seat and into his lap.
"Well we do have a couple hours til Connor is out of school and an empty house since your mom is on her date." Oliver whispered against her skin as he nipped at the back of her neck. She melted further into his lap and softly moaned.
"Now that sounds like the best plan I have ever heard."
"Sure I don't need to run it by anyone else? Make sure it isn't dumb."
Felicity stood and turned to face him. Leaning in so that she hovered over him, the new angle allowing his to see down her shirt to the lacy green lingerie she had on underneath her clothes and the ample breasts that were enclosed in it. His mouth began to water and him licked his lips unconsciously. She leaned further and lined her lips with his earlobe then whispered in the huskiest, sexiest tone he had ever heard in his life three short words. "Get the car."