The next morning was a bit strange, it took a bit for both of them to get used to having the other there during their morning routine. It only took a few minutes for them to dance around each other like they had been married for years. They both snuck in glances at the other when they weren't looking wishing that there was something that they could say.

Felicity felt nervous after her revelation last night, she wanted to make conversation with him but also felt like the second she opened her mouth she would shout "I LOVE YOU" and that would do nothing but make things extremely weird and awkward. No amount of cute and adorable babbles would save her.

Felicity reaches for the pot of coffee and pours herself a cup and Oliver looks at her with a raised eyebrow. "You're not supposed to be drinking caffeine."

Felicity tilts her head and narrows her eyes at his comment wondering who made him the caffeine police all of a sudden. "I can have one cup every once in a while Dr. Queen. I have cut back thank you very much so if you'll excuse me I would like my cup of coffee without you judging me."

Felicity moves around him and grabs the pot of coffee, she was going to have a long day of meetings with executives and she was going to need all the caffeinated help that she can get with all of her boring meetings. It was sweet that Oliver was trying to look out for her and the baby but she didn't need him policing what she could and couldn't do especially when she has already cleared it with her OBGYN. Although he wouldn't know that because he hasn't been to a doctor's appointment yet.

"Do you want to meet at the doctor's office today or do you want me to pick you up?" Oliver asked deciding that for his safety he shouldn't comment about the coffee situation any longer.

"We can meet there it would be out of your way to pick me up," Felicity said as she made herself a bowl of yogurt and granola and went to the table to go sit down. She was being rude and she knew it, he was trying to make conversation and she was blowing him off and she would be the first one to admit it. She felt bad yes, she didn't want him to leave selfishly and she was also terrified at even mentioning this to him. What was she supposed to say? That she still has feelings for him and wants to get back together? That she has started to picture what the rest of their lives could look like if they were together? Nope, she definitely could not say any of that, that would probably freak him out. She going to stick to just being the woman carrying his future child...no, that sounded insanely creepy and weird.

"Okay sounds good," Oliver made himself a bowl of cereal and got his own cup of coffee before sitting across from her at the table and watching her eat in silence for a few moments. There was something going on with her and he couldn't figure out what it could be, not that the past month has been all smiles and rainbows but they have gotten closer. She has actually been talking to him and things have been getting back to normal a little bit, then last night he mentioned his schedule change and looking at places and suddenly she was closed off.

"Did I do something wrong? Or say something?" Oliver asked outright just wanting to figure out what he did so that he could fix it.

Felicity looked up at him surprised by his bluntness and looked up at him to see him staring back down at her, she sighed not knowing exactly how to put what she was feeling into actual words. "No, I'm not mad at you."

"Then what's going on? Ever since last night when I mentioned getting my own place and starting to look, you seemed to freeze up and have been weird ever since," Oliver said not looking away from her so that she could get a good gauge on what she was thinking.

Her stomach did a somersault at the mention of him moving out and she did her best not to flinch so that it wasn't completely obvious what was going on with her. She couldn't blurt out that she didn't want him to leave because she still has feelings, that would ruin the entire dynamic that they have going here.

"Nothing is going on with me, I am fine," Felicity said and she knew that it wasn't at all convincing and she was really hoping that Oliver wouldn't notice.

"Felicity we both know that you are a terrible liar, why won't you just tell me what's going on? Is there something wrong with the baby?" Oliver asked getting panicky and she felt even worse for acting weird. He cared about both of them so much and she knew that he would do absolutely anything for either of them.

"No there isn't anything wrong with the baby, we are both fine. Oliver, really I am okay and there isn't anything to worry about, I promise." She felt bad for lying to him but she needed him off her back if she was going to try and keep her emotions in check.

She looks down at her watch and sees the time and that she needs to get going if she is going to make it to work on time. "Crap, I have to go. I'll see you at the doctor's office." Felicity gets up and scoops the last bite of her breakfast into her mouth before putting it into the sink.

She grabs her bag and had to resist to weird urge to kiss Oliver's cheek on her way out of the door. She stops outside her shut apartment door and leans back onto it wondering what the hell was going on in this mind of hers. She and Oliver already tried a relationship and yes it was wonderful and everything but she wasn't sure if she was going to be able to fully trust him. Who the hell was she kidding? She was already well on her way to forgiving him for everything that has happened, there was just no way that he felt the same. He has made it clear that he is moving out and moving on and that they are just going to be co-parents and nothing more.

Felicity's morning goes by pretty uneventfully as she sits in meetings all day with execs trying to convince them that the work that they are doing could really change the world. Before she knows it she is leaving for her doctor's appointment and she had to say that she was very excited, more so for Oliver. She will never forget the first moment that she heard their baby's heartbeat, it's something that will stick with her forever.

She walked up to the doctor's office and saw that Oliver was standing outside waiting for her and couldn't help but smile. She couldn't help but admire the man in front of her in nice dress pants that made his ass look amazing and that shirt was doing wonders for his arms. Felicity shook her head trying to shake her intrusive thoughts away. She read online that the fourth month of pregnancy is when your hormones are out of whack and all you want to do is have sex with everything and anything and she had to admit that everything she read was true. She would jump Oliver's bones right now if she could, it was not helping that he was smiling at her like she was his whole world which just melted her heart.

"You ready?" She asks him as she walks up to him and he opens the door for her and they walk into the building.

"Kind of, I'm a little nervous if I am being honest," Oliver says as he watches Felicity sign them in and he goes and finds them somewhere to sit and wait for the nurse to come and get them. The waiting room was pretty packed for noon on a Thursday but he was just grateful that no one was gawking at him and wasn't taking out their phones taking pictures. The last thing that he needed was the tabloids or the media getting hold of the fact that he got Felicity pregnant and they weren't even together. They would have a field day with that.

Felicity sits down next to him and sees his nervous tick of rubbing his thumb along his index and middle finger. She smiles to herself and sets her hand on his and gives it a gentle squeeze trying to help him calm down. "There's nothing to be nervous about, they are just going to take some measurements to make sure that the baby is growing properly and then they listen to the heartbeat and we get a cute sonogram picture and then we are done. Easy enough."

Oliver nods listening to what she is saying and grips her hand like a lifeline but it still doesn't make him feel any better or puts him at ease. He wishes that it did but it doesn't, he is still insanely nervous that his genetics were completely awful and screwed their kid up. "I would like to believe you but I'm still nervous."

"Who would have ever thought that Oliver Queen would be terrified of going to the OBGYN even though he isn't the one carrying a child," Felicity says teasing him and she can't help but smile when he glares at her. She can't help but laugh at him and how worried he was, she wasn't making fun of him in any way she just found it incredibly endearing. Moments like these reassured her that he was going to make an excellent dad, he was going to love this baby no matter what. She had to admit that she got lucky by getting pregnant with Oliver's baby, not only was this baby going to be adorable but Oliver was going to be amazing and she just knew it.

"Shut up." He glowered and she couldn't help but let out a little laugh and lean into him just now noticing that they were still holding hands and she couldn't seem to let herself care. She was going to let her brain think for a moment that maybe they could actually be together and that the three of them could be a family together.

"So have you talked to your parents recently?" Felicity asked changing the subject knowing that it was something that has been on his mind recently.

"Wow. You just go from one nerve-wracking subject to another." Oliver said smiling a little bit knowing that Felicity was just trying to be supportive.

Felicity goes to respond with a snarky comment when the nurse opens the door and calls out, "Felicity Smoak?"

Felicity gets up along with Oliver and they follow the nurse back behind the door. They get all of the standard information, weight, height, how much her belly has grown before taking her back into one of the exam rooms to get her blood pressure and take some blood. She instinctively reaches for Oliver's hand needing to hang onto something so that she doesn't pass out, needles were not her friend and this was probably the worst part about these appointments. Oliver grabbed her hand and let her squeeze it to the point of pain but he didn't mind. He liked that she reached out to him for comfort, it made him feel needed and that maybe she was on her way to forgiving him.

"Alright everything looks good, the ultrasound tech will be here in a moment. She is running a little bit behind today but she shouldn't be more than 15 minutes." The nurse says leaving the room and Felicity is still trying to calm down from getting her blood taken.

"You okay?" Oliver asks, she looks pale but he gets the feeling its more from fear than something actually being physically wrong with her.

Felicity nods her eyes still closed as she took some deep breaths before feeling less faint and opening her eyes to see Oliver staring at her in concern in a way that makes her stomach do all kinds of flips or was that the baby moving around? "Yeah I'm okay, I just have a giant fear of needles so these appointments are never fun."

She smiled down at him and moved to remove her hand from his but he didn't make a move to let her, she wasn't going to complain or think too much about it. "You never answered my question."

"What question?" Oliver asked knowing very well what question she was referring to.

"Oliver." Felicity says in her 'no-nonsense' tone and Oliver sighed knowing that he wasn't going to get out of this one.

"Yes okay, I have talked to my parents," Oliver says not giving up a whole lot of information and letting go of her hand, Felicity pretended that she wasn't a little bit hurt that he pulled away. Felicity has been trying for two weeks to get him to talk to his parents for his own sake about everything and he finally caved but then she heard nothing else on the subject. She could tell that he was missing his family and she wanted to help fix that maybe.

"And? Come on Oliver I need a little more information than that." Felicity pokes at him trying to get him to give up information knowing that if Oliver didn't want to talk about something he wasn't going to unless it was her asking.

"Felicity I really don't want to talk about this," Oliver says but that doesn't stop her from looking at him with her puppy dog eyes trying to get him to release the information that she wants to know.

"You know I can't say no to you when you look at me like that," Oliver says and Felicity digs in even deeper knowing that he will eventually break. These were her child's grandparents after all she deserved to know what was going on at least a little bit.

"OK! Fine. Yes, I have spoken to my parents and they apologized. We have been talking to each other more regularly. Are you happy?" Oliver asks looking down at her to see an adorable little triumphant smile on her face and he couldn't resist smiling back at her.

"Well, I am happy to have gotten the information that I wanted but not happy that you and your parents still aren't on good terms because of me," Felicity said looking down at her hands feeling slightly guilty. It was her fault that he was disowned and on his own all because of her and this baby.

"Felicity," Oliver said waiting for her to look up at him but she wouldn't budge. He lifted two fingers under her chin and pushed her head up until she was looking him in the eye.

"Hey, this isn't your fault. It takes two to make a baby remember? They have been fed up with my behavior for years now and this was the last straw. My parents have actually given me access to my trust fund again, they can tell that I am serious about this whole being a dad thing and want their grandchild to be well taken care of," Oliver says.

Felicity scrunches up her face and looks a bit offended at Oliver's words. "I can take care of this baby on my own, this baby will be well taken care of with or without your trust fund."

Oliver was a bit taken aback by her reaction and sighs knowing that what he said was wrong, he didn't mean for it to come across the way it did but now that he has said it he doesn't know how to take it back or apologize. "Felicity that is not what I meant, I know that you can take care of this baby on your own if you needed to but you don't. I am here and I can help especially now that I do have access to my trust fund. I don't want you to think that you have to do all of this on your own, you have me."

Felicity sighs and rubs both of her hands over her face and into her hair, she knows what he meant but she can't help but push back. Her whole life she always hated the thought of ever depending on anyone, seeing what it did to her mom once her dad left; the way that she struggled to keep a roof over their heads. She made a vow to herself when she was ten that she would never let herself fully depend upon anyone because if they ever left she didn't want to be scrambling to try and figure out her life.

She hated that she did this to herself, she knew that Oliver meant well, she knew that. However, she couldn't stop herself from sitting here and getting defensive and put him in his place letting him know that she didn't need him in order for this to work. She knew how mean and cruel that was, he was so supportive and amazing and here she was being unreasonable. No matter how much she thought that she was ready to move on and forgive him these little feelings of insecurities and self-doubt filter through her head. They tell her that he is going to leave again and then she is right back to wanting him to leave and not wanting his help.

She looks up at him and sees the devotion in his eyes and for a few seconds those insecurities are forgotten and she believes that he isn't going to leave and that they are going to do this together. She really wants to believe that this feeling of security will stay with her but she knows it won't.

"I know, but I can't help but be nervous by the hold that your parents have over that money. I don't want them thinking that they can swoop in and tell me what to do, this is our child, Oliver. I don't want them thinking that they have a hold over me because we use that money to support ourselves." Felicity says honestly hoping that he will understand where she is coming from.

Oliver moves to respond before the ultrasound tech walks into the room with a bright smile on her face. "Hey, guys! Ready to see your little munchkin?" She asks sitting down on a stool in front of a computer pressing a few buttons to wake it up before washing her hands and putting on gloves.

Felicity puts on a little smile that Oliver can tell isn't completely genuine "Yeah, more than ready."

"Awesome, well if you just want to lay back for me and lift up your shirt for me mom and we'll get this show on the road." The nurse said in an overly joyful tone that Felicity would have found endearing if it wasn't for the conversation she and Oliver were having prior to her coming into the room.

Felicity laid back and pulled up her shirt showing her protruding stomach, she still could hardly believe that there was a little baby in there. The ultrasound tech squirted some of the goo onto Felicity's stomach and set the work on finding a good image to look at to get the measurements.

It took a few moments for the nurse to get a good image of the baby but she finally did and smiled at Oliver and Felicity as she saw that they saw the little baby too.

Felicity immediately started to tear up, this was the first time that the baby had actually looked like a little person and it suddenly hit her, there was a baby growing inside of her. She was going to be a mom. Oliver was going to be a dad. This was all so incredibly insane but also a moment that she was going to remember for the rest of their lives. She was already so in love with this little person inside of her, she didn't think that she could love someone anymore than she loved this little baby.

Felicity looked over at Oliver and saw that he had the same expression of pure unadulterated love on his face for this tiny little human growing inside her womb. She didn't even know when either one of them grabbed each other's hand but she squeezed his hand and he looked down at her and she saw one stray tear roll down his cheek.

"Never in a million years did I think that I would see Oliver Queen cry over a sonogram." Felicity joked and let her own tears fall down her face. Looking up into his eyes she knew that no matter what happened or what he did, she would always love this man. In her eyes, she already forgave him for what happened over a month ago. She knew that he loved them, both of them, and would protect them no matter what. Even if that meant not being together. No matter what happened between them she would always have some love in her heart for this man.

Oliver laughed and shook his head looking down at her and wiped away the tears that were streaming down her cheeks. He didn't think that he could ever feel this type of love for someone, this pure instinctual sense of love, he knew he would do anything to protect this and make sure that he had it. He remembers listening to Thea talk about fairy tales and true love when she was little and thinking that she was crazy, that there was no such thing as true love. Now he knew how incredibly wrong he was because he was irrevocably in love with Felicity and this little life that they had created and it killed him that he screwed it up so badly that he was never going to be able to have another shot with her.

"Do you want to hear the heartbeat?" The nurse asked them, hating to interrupt the little moment that was going on between them.

"Yes." They both replied and laughed at how in sync they seemed to be without even trying.

The nurse pressed a button and suddenly the whole room was filled with this whooshing sound. Felicity looked up and watched Oliver's face as he heard their baby's heartbeat for the first time, she saw some more tears stream down his face and reached up and wiped them away.

"Oh wow. There's an actual little baby in there." Oliver commented with wonder in his voice. He looked down at Felicity again and gave her a smile that melted her entire heart, never in a million years did she suspect she would ever love another human as much as she loved him.

"Yeah, there is," Felicity said just staring up at him as he stared at the screen.

The nurse pressed a few buttons and the whooshing sound was gone and Oliver had this affronted look on his face that was priceless and adorable. The nurse passed a few paper towels to Felicity to wipe off her stomach and she accepted them happily as she got all the goo off her belly.

"Everything looks amazing, the baby is right on track for growth and the heartbeat sounds good as well. We shouldn't need to see you for another month or so for another check-up and by then we might be able to tell what the gender is. You're all set and can get your sonogram pictures front the front desk and also schedule your next appointment then as well." The nurse said cleaning up and moving out of the room to give Oliver and Felicity some space.

Felicity and Oliver grab their things and walk out and schedule their next appointment, Felicity can't help but smile. It was hitting her all of a sudden that Oliver was really in this for the long haul, they were planning their next doctor's appointment around both of their schedules. Something so small that shouldn't be such a big deal suddenly hit her, they were in this together.

Oliver grabbed their sonogram pictures and stared at them as they walked out of the building and onto the street of Starling. She watched him for a moment as he stood there staring at the four different picture angles before finally deciding on the one that he wanted to keep. Felicity took the other three from him and put them in her purse, they stared at each other for a few moments and Felicity could tell by the look on his face that his mind was going back to the conversation they were having before the nurse walked into the exam room.

"We really need to talk about my parents and their involvement in our lives." Oliver comments and Felicity looks down at the sidewalk and sighs knowing that he is right but not wanting to admit it. She didn't want to have this conversation but knew that it was necessary.

"I know, and I heard what you said and I understand that you want your parents to be apart of this baby's life. I just don't want them thinking that they can control things and tell me how I should raise my child." Felicity says looking him in the eye, she wasn't going to back down. She would allow Moira and Robert to be apart of this baby's life but she wasn't going to let them think that they had a say in how things were going to go just because Oliver used their money to pay for things.

"Your child? So suddenly this is just your child and not our child?" Oliver commented trying his best not to raise his voice, but he was angry that suddenly she was staking a claim on this child as if it was only hers.

"Oliver you know that's not how I meant it, but it's not like we are together anymore. We may be living together but we are just co-parenting together, two single people raising a baby together and I don't want to suddenly one day receive a call or a visit from your parents telling me that I am doing a horrible job at raising this baby. I don't need that kind of added pressure. I am not saying that they can't be apart of this baby's life but I just don't feel comfortable using their money when I make enough money to not need it." Felicity said regretting the words coming from her mouth the moment she says them, this is all coming out wrong. She didn't want to make him feel like she didn't care about him or that she didn't want him and his family in this baby's life because that's not what she wants but that's what it sounded like coming out.

Oliver stared at her for a few minutes giving it his best to hide the emotions that were swirling through his brain. Hurt, sadness, a little bit of anger thrown in, he understood that they weren't together but he didn't think it would hurt this much to hear her say those words. To hear her exclaim it out loud solidifying the fact that they were never going to happen again.

"I see."

"Oliver-"

"No. I get it. You don't want anything to do with my family and especially their help. I get it, my parents can be very overprotective and overbearing. But they will protect this baby with everything they have because this baby will be their family." Oliver says looking away and then looking down at his watch to look at the time. "I should get going, I have to meet my liquor distributor in a half hour. I'll see you at home."

"I also want you to know that I would never let them treat you with the disrespect that you seem to think that they will treat you with. You are apart of my life now and I would protect you and that baby no matter what." Oliver says with finality before finally walking towards his car and driving off.

Felicity watches him walk away and knows that she royally screwed all of this up, Oliver was obviously upset and she didn't know what she could do to make it up to him. She didn't mean to make it seem like she didn't want his family apart of their baby's life, she just got scared. Scared that his family was going to judge her and think that this was all a giant ploy to get his money when in fact that was the last thing that she wanted.

She sighed and started to walk back to her car hoping that there was some way that she could make this up to him because of that sad and heartbroken look in his eyes as he walked away. She needed to make this right, she just had to.