A month...that was how long Oliver had been staying with her. She wasn't entirely complaining though, it meant she was getting healthy and balanced meals and there was someone to help out around the house. However, it also meant that her and Oliver were living in close quarters which made not growing feelings for him again very hard. She keeps telling herself that he can't be trusted and that he's just going to leave but then he goes and does something considerate and her heart skips a beat.

A great example is he has been going grocery shopping and always makes sure to keep mint chip in the freezer and always buys her mango because he knows that she is craving it. Whenever they seem to be home at the same time and he can tell that her back or neck is hurting he always offers up his magical hands for a massage. He truly is so caring and wants to make sure that she is comfortable and okay, it made not wanting to trust him with her heart extremely difficult.

Most days he stayed out of her way most of the time and he would be gone before she was even up. Where he was going she had absolutely no idea because she knew that he was on night's at the club at the moment. Frankly, it wasn't any of her business anymore where he was going, no matter how much she cared about him.

Him being a gentleman was making it hard for her to continue hating him. If she hated him then it was easier to not get attached and forgive him for leaving her standing in her living room waiting for him to come back. The longer he stays and the more she becomes acquainted with him being there again and the longer it's going to take for her to get used to life after he leaves.

Waking up with breakfast already made and ready for her each morning and having him be considerate of her wasn't something she was expecting even though he did all of these things when he was practically living there before. It was like she expected the Oliver that was moving in to be a completely different Oliver than the one that she dated, but he wasn't. He was still the same guy that treated her like a Queen, no pun intended.

She knew that if she told him that she needed something that he would immediately leave the club so that he could get her what she needed. He really was an amazing guy and she just wished that he wouldn't have run from her when things had got hard for them.

She thought she was done when they started dating, she thought that she had found someone that she could potentially spend the rest of her life with and then she found out that she was pregnant and everything changed not just for her but for them. He left and it had her second-guessing everything, it had her rethinking what she initially thought about him. Had her second-guessing whether or not she could trust herself, did she not have good judgment? All of these things rushed through her head for a week after he left and they were still rushing through her mind a month after he had been staying with her.

She was also starting to show and it was becoming incredibly difficult for her to hide her pregnancy, she seemed to have popped overnight. She thought that none of her clothes fit before, but now, she really couldn't fit into any of her clothes at the current moment. She knew that she needed to tell her boss Ray and the rest of her team.

She knew that her team wasn't stupid, she worked with a bunch of geniuses, they all knew that something was up with her but she had been doing a very good job of hiding her pregnancy. However this morning imparticular was harder than most, she bought some baggy shirts and loose-fitting pants to wear to work but they didn't do too much to hide her now growing belly. She knew that this was the morning that she had to start telling everyone at work about the baby. Digg and Oliver both have been telling her for two weeks now that she wasn't going to be able to hide this for much longer, and they were right.

She walked into work on a Wednesday wearing the only clothes that fit and knew very well that everyone would be able to tell that she was pregnant. She was three and a half months pregnant and she still couldn't believe how big she was. She really needed to cut back on all of the junk food, Oliver had been trying for a week or so to get her to eat healthy but she hasn't listened and only ate what she was craving and now she was starting to see that maybe she should start to listen to him.

The first person who noticed her was Caitlin when she walked through the doors of their workroom, Caitlin stared at her for a few moments not wanting to say anything. Felicity could feel her eyes on her but chose not to say anything about it. It was silent in the office for a few minutes while everyone was settling in for the day and getting everything out or their work bags. Cisco was the last one to walk in after Felicity and he stopped dead in his tracks and looked at her being able to tell the difference in her appearance.

Felicity looked out at all of them about ready to just scream out that she was pregnant so they could all stop staring at her. She knew that she was only 14 weeks but with all of them staring at her she was starting to feel insanely self-conscious like she was the size of a whale already. She had been pretty secretive recently, none of them even knew that she and Oliver were no longer together because that would mean that she had to explain to them why they broke up.

"Alright, it seems like no one is going to ask so I am going to ask and risk being fired. I know that you shouldn't ever ask a woman this but it would actually make a lot of sense, are you pregnant?" Cisco asks and everyone in the room winces but are all curious none the less about her answer so they listen closely.

Felicity tilted her head not at all really offended by his inquiry, she was more curious about why it would make sense that she was pregnant besides the obvious bulging belly.

"I'm curious, why would it make sense if I was pregnant?" Felicity chose not to answer the question just yet.

Cisco opens his mouth to answer but the look on her face makes him second guess everything that he was about to say. All of the boys were scared of Felicity and her wrath especially the past month. Felicity will be the first to admit that she has been very moody the past month and a half, between the pregnancy hormones and the breakup and Oliver moving back in there has been a lot going on in her life.

She had been meaning to apologize to all of them for the way that she has been acting but she hasn't had the chance to yet. Now seems like a better chance than any, she looks between all of them and chuckles to herself at how scared they all seem to look. She would feel worse if it wasn't so amusing to her.

"Alright, I won't make you guys sweat anymore even though all of your terrified faces are very amusing. Your suspicions are in fact correct, I am pregnant. I am about 14 weeks a few days, I am thankfully out of my first trimester which means I'm not spending nearly every day and night in the bathroom puking my brains out." Felicity says sitting down in her chair and sighing from the relief of not having to stand on her feet in her heels. Oliver keeps telling her not to wear them to work if they make her feet hurt so much and make them swell up but she feels naked without them.

"Oh ew, that was too much information. A simple yes or no would have been sufficient." Barry scrunches up his nose at the image and the memories of two weeks ago of Felicity running to the nearest trash can to empty out her stomach at least once an hour.

"You asked, don't ask a question unless you can handle the answer to it. I also want to apologize for the way that I have been acting for the past couple of weeks. I know that I have been on a warpath recently and I wanted to apologize and say that I am sorry." Felicity said hoping that her apology was accepted.

"We forgive you, it actually makes a lot of sense how you have been acting. We all thought that we did something wrong" Curtis spoke for the group trying to walk on eggshells and not make her angry.

She smiled out at all of them completely and utterly grateful for her friends when she first got hired in at Palmer Tech she thought that everyone was going to hate her. Finding the four of them and being on a team with them though, was one of the biggest blessings in her life.

"How did Oliver react when you told him? It is Oliver's right?" Caitlin asks curious and a bit apprehensive about asking but she just wanted to be sure that it wasn't just some weird accident that happened before Felicity and Oliver got together.

Felicity froze knowing that she would have to at least give them a little bit of an explanation of what happened, she could try and lie and say that they were still together but she also knew that if he ever came around that they would know that something was up between them. She just really didn't want to relive all of that.

"It's Oliver's. He didn't take it the best, but we are working through it." Felicity says avoiding saying the obvious as she picks at her nails out of nervousness. She hates thinking about this, thinking about how empty and lonely she felt that night when he left. For a week she felt hopeless and terrified and scared about being a single mom, thinking about that week still makes her heartache and reminds her why she is keeping Oliver at a distance.

Felicity shakes her head attempting to shake away all of the intruding thought that she knew that she shouldn't be thinking about. Oliver for whatever trouble and heartache that he has caused her has really been trying to make it up to her, she knows that. She wishes that she wasn't starting to warm up to him again but she is and she doesn't completely hate the idea of it.

"I'm sorry to hear about that Felicity, have you found out what you are having yet?" Caitlin asks trying to change the subject and Felicity smiles at her friend thankful for the distraction of thinking about Oliver.

"Not yet, you don't usually find that out until 20 weeks so I am still another month and a half away from finding out. But I know it's going to be a girl, mother's intuition and all," Felicity says starting to feel better. She absentmindedly rubs her belly and feels that familiar flutter movement that she has been starting to feel. At first, she thought it was just anxiety, or gas, but her mom told her that it could be the baby moving as well. It always makes her smile thinking about the fact that her little peanut could be moving around.

"Okay enough baby talk, let's get to work. We almost have the coding and all of the kinks worked out on this. Hopefully, within the next few months, we can work towards getting things moved into the next stage so we can start working towards human trials." Felicity says putting on her game face and getting to work.

They worked tirelessly into the evening, it wasn't until Oliver texted her asking her how she was feeling around 6 PM that she realized that she had barely eaten today besides snacking and eating a small portion of salad that Oliver had made for her. She sighed and decided that she needed to call it a night and go home and eat an actual dinner and maybe take a bath.

She got home from work feeling utterly exhausted and nauseous, she may be out of her first trimester but the nausea doesn't ever seem to get better. She walked into the kitchen and warmed something up not paying attention to her surroundings and was prepared to watch reruns of Doctor Who when she found Oliver sitting on the couch.

"What are you doing home? Aren't you on nights this week?" She asked as she sat on the opposite end of the couch stretching out her legs onto his lap not caring about personal space at this point, she needed a foot rub. She settled into the couch and took a bite of the pasta that Oliver had made a few nights ago as he began to rub the soles of her feet working the knots. She was too focused on the food that was on her plate, to fully pay attention to what he was telling her. She may be nauseous but she was also starving.

"Well I talked to Tommy about being on nights and how I would much rather be working days and taking care of the business side of things, he said that he liked managing the club during operational hours anyways so...we decided that starting tonight I would be working days and he would be working nights so that solidifies my schedule. Plus once the baby gets here it's going to make things a lot easier on me if I am not switching up my schedule every week." He shrugged like it was no big deal as he watched whatever baseball game was on as if what he just said wasn't a big deal.

"It also makes it a lot easier for looking at places if I am on a normal schedule. Working nights and looking at townhomes was starting to wear me down." Oliver mentioned again sending Felicity for a curveball again.

Felicity looked up at him slightly shocked that he was being so cavalier about all of this like it was the most normal thing, and maybe to him, it was normal because he had been thinking about doing it. However, to Felicity this was news and frankly, it warmed her heart and also for some reason made her nervous that Oliver was starting to make major changes to his life for this baby. It meant that he was committed that he was actually going to be in this baby's life for the long haul. All of this meant that maybe Felicity would at some point have to forgive him and if she forgave him then not falling in love with him was going to become very hard. She wanted to not love him anymore, she just wanted to be able to co-parent with him and not fall in love with his gorgeous face.

"Oh..yeah that makes a lot of sense actually," Felicity responds suddenly not hungry, not knowing what else she really could say on the subject without giving away what was going through her mind. She didn't want him to leave. Even though the week that he left felt like a lifetime it was really only 7 days without him. If she could barely spend a week without him how was she supposed to do a lifetime? She was already reaccustomed to having him there, cooking and grabbing things off of high shelves, having someone to talk to and not always being alone. She may not at first have wanted him to stay with her for long but she was already used to having him here again, she selfishly didn't want him to leave.

Oliver looked at Felicity wondering why she was acting weird, was it still a surprise that he was committed? Was it about him moving out? He knows that she has seen him looking for townhouses a little outside of the city with a yard and multiple bedrooms, so he didn't understand why she was acting like this was coming as a shock. He knows that the original plan was for him to only stay for a week, but he really liked it here. He liked getting to be around felicity and experience the little things of pregnancy that he could with her.

He may be looking for houses and for bigger places to move in to but really he wished that she could move with him. He still had feelings for her, he knows that he majorly screwed things up with her but over the past month he has been trying his damndest to show her that he wasn't leaving. He didn't want to get too confident and say that she had forgiven him yet but he could tell that she was n her way to forgiving him. Oliver watched her while continuing to massage her feet trying to figure out what was going on in that head of hers. The only thing that he could see on her face was sadness and he silently wondered why.

"Is that okay? I didn't think that it would be a problem, I figured that it would make things easier actually, both of us having normal schedules. I also figured that you might want your apartment back," Oliver said looking at her and finding her looking down at her plate of pasta.

Felicity honestly didn't know how to react, it had nothing to do with him changing his hours at work or even him moving out, she was just scared. Scared that it was going to be like before and she was going to get used to him being around and then he was going to leave her again. She knew that he wouldn't, he has already proved to her that he was committed to her and this baby. Yet there was still a small part of her that can't help but think that once he finds someone else that he is going to leave her and their baby, just like her dad did.

"No that's not a problem at all. You know I'm actually exhausted, this child is draining all of the energy out of me so I think I am going to head to bed for the night. Don't forget that tomorrow we have a doctor's appointment at noon." Felicity said as she smiled at him and stood up walking into the kitchen and doing her dishes trying to keep herself busy so she didn't start crying in front of him.

"Yeah okay, I'll meet you there. Are you sure that everything's okay? Did I do something?" Oliver asks concerned that maybe he said something to make her angry or upset with him. He hated knowing that she was hurting and it was all because of him, all because he was a coward and an immature asswhole. If only he would have stayed and talked to her when she told him about the baby, things would be so different if he would have.

It has been a month and a half since he found out that Felicity was pregnant and with every day that passes he becomes more and more excited to meet this little life that they have created. Sometimes when he looks at Felicity though he can plainly see the hurt on her face, all that she sees sometimes is the guy that left her and he doesn't blame her. At some point, he just hopes that she can forgive him and she won't always be upset with him.

"I promise everything's okay, it has just been a long day. I told everyone at work today and we made some real progress today with the implant, I think I am going to just take a shower and go to bed early." Felicity says giving him a smile that she knows doesn't reach her eyes. The past week or so whenever she looks at Oliver she sees a sad man trying everything he can think of to make her believe that was sticking around. She hated to admit it but with every day she was softening up to the idea of him being in her life. Even the idea of being a couple again doesn't make her heart seize her and make her want to run.

"Okay, if you promise. Goodnight Felicity." Oliver says forgetting about the baseball game that is on the TV, only paying attention to the beautiful woman in front of him.

"Goodnight Oliver." Felicity walked into the hall and walked into her room and shutting the door and leaning back against it. She sighs and leans her head back realizing that there was no way in hell that she was going to be able to avoid falling back in love with Oliver because she was already starting to fall. She was just hoping that he will be there to catch her when she does.