Oliver walked into the lobby of Felicity's building and saw that Dig was working the security desk and stopped about halfway to the elevators. He has been doing nothing but brooding and sulking all day about what Felicity said to him at the doctor's office. He knows that she didn't mean to be hurtful and that she would not want his parents to be apart of their baby's life. However, he couldn't help but think that maybe that was actually how she felt and she had just been holding back her true feelings for a while now. He couldn't help but listen to that little self-conscious part of his brain telling him that Felicity might actually truly not like his family and the way that he was raised and wants nothing to do with him.

He understands not wanting his family's money because frankly, he isn't even sure that he wants it. She was right in saying that with that money comes a hold that his parents think that they have. They would think because they are helping to support him that they get a say with what he does with his life. Over the past month and a half living with Felicity, he has realized how free he has felt not having to think about what his parents might think about the choices that he makes. He has, for the first time in his life, made a living for himself and supported himself and he has to say that it feels pretty incredible.

Oliver turns and looks at Dig wondering if maybe talking to him might give him some better insight into what Felicity might actually be thinking.

Dig was already staring at him when he turns around and it would be a little awkward if he just walked away now after staring the man down.

"Can I help you with something Mr. Queen?" Dig asks putting down his crossword puzzle from the paper to stare at the man. He doesn't love the man but he will admit that he admired the way that he stepped up for Felicity and the baby. He would never admit this but he thinks that he was wrong about his original assumption about Oliver Queen.

"Can I ask you a question about Felicity?" Oliver asks a bit timidly as he takes a few steps towards the security desk.

Dig watches him and sees how timid and anxious he is and immediately wonders if he is going to have to beat this man up for hurting Felicity. "Depends on what you did."

Oliver would be offended by his remark but considering the guy Oliver used to be and also leaving Felicity for a week, he doesn't blame the man for thinking that he did something wrong to hurt her. "This isn't really about anything I did. It's more a question about me and what she thinks of me."

Dig looks at him confused and not quite understanding what he was getting at, but the sooner he answered his question the sooner he would leave him alone to his crossword puzzle and that was all he preferred at the moment. "Alright, make it quick Queen."

"Has Felicity ever mentioned me or her opinion about me? Has she ever said that she wished that I wasn't rich or anything?" Oliver didn't know how to phrase it without sounding douchey but it was the only way that he could think to phrase it.

Dig watched the man for a few moments trying to figure what he was getting at and why he was asking. He could tell that Oliver was really vulnerable and self-conscious at the moment. Dig looked at his body language and saw that he was hunched over and was hardly meeting his eyes and his hair looked like he had run his hand through it at least a hundred times which he assumes is a nervous tick along with the finger rubbing thing. Dig sighed and decided that he needed to be honest with the man because he was obviously hurting about something. Damn it, Felicity, for getting him involved in your love life.

"She hasn't ever mentioned anything directly no, she did make a few comments about how the thought of you being a billionaire was a little unsettling but nothing too out of the ordinary for her. I assume that you know how she grew up?"

"Yeah. She told me what it was like for her growing up in Vegas. Never knowing from month to month where she might be living or if they would get kicked out." Oliver said not even being able to imagine what that must have felt like for a young child.

"Right, so knowing that you had all that money and never had to worry about that was on her mind I'm sure but I don't think she ever let it affect her feelings for you. What is all of this about anyways?" Dig asks wanting to know what this weird-ass conversation was about.

"While we were at the doctor's today she asked me if I have spoken to my parents lately, she has been trying to get me to call them and talk with them. I told her I did call them and even though we aren't on the best of terms we are talking and that they can see I'm serious about being a dad to this baby. So they gave me access to my trust fund again and I told her that and she quickly got defensive and told me that she could take care of this baby on her own without their help. Which, I know that and I never once said that she couldn't but then later after our appointment, she told me how she didn't want my family telling her how to raise her child.

"I then got angry because suddenly she was acting as if I wasn't proving to her that I was in this for the long haul and wasn't going to be here like I have proven that I would be. She started to say how she didn't want anything to do with my family's money and I get that because she is right in assuming the second that you take it they feel they can tell you how to use it. She also said how we weren't together and how we were two single people co-parenting and she didn't want my family's opinion. That's what stung the most for some reason."

Dig stared at him trying to digest everything that he just heard and trying to comprehend the fact that Oliver looks like he might actually start crying and Dig wasn't exactly sure how to handle that. He was seeing an entirely new side to Oliver Queen at the moment, one that he didn't think actually existed.

"You still have feelings for her don't you?" Dig asked still trying to process everything that he was just told.

"That's what you are deciding to focus on right now? Really? After everything that I just told you?" Oliver says more than just a little annoyed at the man.

"Listen, man, Felicity...She doesn't care about your money and she never has, I think she is more scared about your parent's influence over you and her child. I have known Felicity for a long time and she isn't the type to care about money, I think that she is scared that your parents are going to try and parent her child and make her seem like an unfit mother. Also, she is probably intimidated by them, I mean who wouldn't be?" Dig suggested.

Oliver listened intently so he would know how to make it up to her when she got home from work. He really didn't want to mess this up. He couldn't lose her in his life even if they were just co-parents and nothing ever came of this thing that's between them. Sometimes it seems like maybe he is just imaging things between them, maybe it's all just one-sided and he really had been imaging things progressing between them over the last month.

"Yeah that was my thought too, I just don't know how to fix this or help her understand that I will always take her side if it came between our child and my parents." Oliver thought out loud knowing that if it ever came between them, he would choose Felicity and their baby in a heartbeat.

"Try telling her that, maybe that's exactly what she needs to hear right now to know that you have her back. I don't exactly blame her though, no offense but your parents don't seem like the nicest or most forgiving people," Diggle admitted.

"None taken, they aren't the nicest people you are right. That's why I don't blame Felicity at all for feeling the way that she does, they are very judgmental and only like people like them. Everyone who isn't rich is below them in their head and that's one of the reasons I wanted out. Getting disowned by them was probably one of the best things for me."

Diggle was starting to see Oliver in a completely new light after this conversation. Until this moment Dig still saw Oliver as the playboy who got Felicity pregnant and left her for a week on her own. But now after sitting here and listening to him trying to make things right with Felicity, he realizes that he really was wrong about him.

"I was wrong about you. Ever since I found out that Felicity was dating you I tried to get her to see that you weren't right for her, but I was wrong. You aren't the guy that I thought you were and I owe you an apology for judging you." Diggle said knowing when he's wrong and needs to apologize.

Oliver chuckled and smiled at the man. "Well I appreciate the apology, you didn't try to hide your dislike for me very well so I knew pretty much the whole time. I don't blame you for not liking me though if I were in your position and my little sister started dating a guy like Ollie Queen I would have probably done a lot worse than just staring him down."

"Yeah, well I promised Felicity not to hurt you or scare you off so you got lucky there," Diggle said with a little chuckle finally starting to feel like him and Oliver might be able to get along.

Oliver noded with the thought of Felicity in his mind wanting nothing more than to make things right with her and he knew exactly how he was going to do that. He looked up at Dig and smiled, they might not be best friends yet but he at least knew that Dig didn't hate him or want to murder him anymore. "Thanks, Diggle. Your advice really helped me."

"Anytime, but this doesn't change anything. If you hurt her I will not even hesitate to murder you." Dig said completely serious, he might have started to see Oliver in a different light and maybe start to like him. However, Felicity and her baby would always come first no matter how much he actually started to like Oliver.

"Noted. I promise I will not hurt her."

"Don't make a promise that you can't keep man," Dig said almost as a warning.

Oliver just nodded and made his way to the elevator to start to get to work on his apology dinner for Felicity.

Diggle watched him leave and went back to his crossword but the only thing that he could really think about was the fact that Oliver still had feelings for Felicity. Dig wondered to himself if maybe Felicity still had feelings for Oliver too.

"Damn it, Felicity, why did you need to get me involved in your love life?" He said under his breath trying to put it all out of his mind and focus on his crossword.

An hour later Diggle saw Felicity walk through the door looking worse for wear, he sighed and wanted to go back to his crossword but the nosy side of him also wanted to know what was going through her head and if she still had feelings for Oliver. He didn't even after to ask her what was wrong, she immediately came to his desk and stood there for a few moments without saying a word. He stared at her for a minute or two waiting for her to say something but she wasn't offering up what was wrong.

"What's got you so down in the dumps?" Dig prodded.

Felicity sighed and looked Dig in the eye before looking out the windows in the lobby and watching the busy city street, She didn't know how to phrase how she was feeling without simply saying that she felt like complete shit emotionally. She spent most of the day trying not to break out into tears randomly or not to yell at her team when they didn't do the simplest of things.

"Oliver and I had a bit of a misunderstanding at the doctor's office today after our appointment. I think I really screwed things up, you should have seen his face Dig he looked like a heartbroken little boy." Felicity said remembering once again what his face looked like after she said that this baby was her child and not their's.

"What happened?" Dig asked knowing very well what happened but he didn't want to let on that Oliver spoke with him when he got home from work.

"Long story short he got his trust fund back and I practically told him that I wanted his parents to have nothing to do with our baby's life and I practically staked a claim on this child. Everything that I said kept coming out wrong and I swear to you it looked like he was about to start crying. I just got scared, I don't want his parents to think that I am using Oliver for his money and I don't want them to think that I am an unfit mother and try to take this child away from me for some reason. I don't want Oliver to think that I think that he is anything like his parents because I know that he isn't, he has proven that. I just...I don't think that I could handle losing him again Dig."

'You have got to be kidding me, I feel like I am in some cheesy romance novel,' is what Dig thought to himself hearing all of this. His suspicions were now confirmed, Felicity did, in fact, have feelings for Oliver and vice versa. Although he was the only one that knew this information and he wasn't sure what to do with this information. They both still had feelings for the other yet he was positive that they both think that it was just one-sided. 'Nope. This isn't any of my business I am going to pretend that I don't know this information.'

"You need to have a talk with him then. Tell him everything that is going through your head, I am positive that he will understand. Then you both can put this behind you and figure out a way to come to a compromise about what to do about his parent's involvement in all of your lives."

Felicity nodded knowing that he was right, talking to Oliver was going to be the only way that they were going to get through this and come to some sort of an understanding. The very thought of losing him sent her heart into her stomach and not in a good way, in a 'my world is falling apart and there's nothing that I can do' sort of way. "Thanks, John, I don't know what I would do without you."

"Anytime Felicity, and maybe take it easy on him next time, you should have seen how he looked when he walked in here an hour ago," Dig said.

Felicity narrowed her eyes at his comment wondering when he suddenly started to care so much about Oliver or his well being. "Since when have you taken a liking to Oliver? Or cared about his feelings?"

Diggle wanted to look offended but knew that he couldn't. Before their conversation earlier he disliked the man with a passion, but now he actually liked the guy and he didn't exactly know how he felt about that. "I don't see how that's any of your business."

Felicity raised an eyebrow and gave him a look that said 'Tell me now or I hurt you.'

"Alright fine. When he got home from work earlier we had a little talk and I started to see that he actually has a heart and feeling and that he isn't just some playboy." Dig admitted and Felicity was impressed that Oliver somehow magically got Diggle to change his mind about him, she was thoroughly shocked.

"Must have been some conversation if you actually seem to care about him and don't want to kill him anymore," Felicity commented with a smile on her face happy that both of the men in her life were getting along.

"It was, but it's not for me to share the contents of that conversation," Diggle said knowing what Felicity was going to ask next, no matter how much he liked Felicity he wasn't about to share what he and Oliver had talked about earlier.

"Oh come on you can't just share a little bit of what he was thinking? Like whether or not he is angry with me?" Felicity asks with her puppy dog eyes knowing that if she tries hard enough that he will cave and tell her. She just wants to know how much she needs to grovel in order to make things right with Oliver.

"No. Stop that right now Felicity Smoak, you cannot break out your puppy dog eyes and think that I am going to share someone's secrets just because you ask nicely," Dig says putting his foot down. He can't on very good conscience share Oliver's thought's and feeling's with her without Oliver knowing.

"Oh come on Dig, I just want to know how much I need to make things up to him." Felicity nearly begs but Dig puts his foot down and crosses his arms while leaning back in his chair.

"Absolutely not. If you want to know what your man is thinking go and speak with him yourself, I am not your messenger."

"He is not my man," Felicity states looking affronted, no matter how much she wanted him to be, she would never admit that out loud though.

"Yeah, you can say that all you want but I am not going to believe you, especially not when you talk about wanting to make things up to him and not being able to lose him again," Dig says with a satisfied smile on his face.

"I don't still have feelings for him," Felicity states trying to cover up how she was really feeling.

"Hmmm, see I never said that you did. Why do you feel the need to prove that to me that you don't?" Digg asks knowing exactly what he was doing. She did still have feelings for him but she was too scared to admit that to herself, even if she has she is trying to push those feelings down.

"I'm done talking about this," Felicity says moving away from the security desk. She has had enough of feeling big emotions today, she just wants to go up to her apartment and take a nap.

"You can't avoid this forever Felicity," Dig yelled as she walked away and gave him the middle finger.

Felicity got into the elevator trying hard not to think about what Dig just said. If he could tell that she still had feelings does that mean that Oliver knew too? Is she not as good at hiding her feelings as she thought that she was?

She sighed as she walked out of the elevator and towards her apartment. She paused in front of the door trying to gather her feelings and squish them down as far as she could before she had to face Oliver. She wasn't sure what she was going to say to make it up to him but she knew that she had to at the very least try.

She unlocked the front door and walked in to see the table set and Oliver putting what looked to be the final touches on their dinner for tonight. She looked around confused, wasn't she the one that was supposed to be groveling and asking for his forgiveness and not the other way around?

"Hey, you're home just in time, I just finished dinner," Oliver said looking up at her and giving her a smile. He watched her take off her coat and her heels, she looked as exhausted as he felt.

"Is that Chicken cordon bleu?" Felicity asked moving into the kitchen and closer to their dinner that smelled absolutely delicious.

"Yeah. I figured I would make your favorite to make up for what happened earlier at the doctor's office." Oliver said not knowing how to go about saying what he wanted to.

Felicity gave him a confused look and cut him off before he was able to say anything. "Oliver you don't have anything to apologize for, I'm the one that needs to apologize."

"No, Felicity I feel like this is my fault, it was my parents and the money that made you feel uncomfortable. I get it thought because they aren't the greatest and nicest of people, but I need you to know that I will always be on your side when it comes to this baby. If it came down between my parents and you and this baby I would choose you every time."

Felicity stared into Oliver's eyes not knowing what to say or how to respond, he was choosing them. He just stood before her and said that if it ever came down to it that he would choose them over his family. What more could she be asking for at this point? All she wanted to do was run into his arms and kiss him senseless, telling him how she felt but she knew she couldn't. She had already made it clear that they weren't getting back together and he was probably already over her and moving on. He didn't mean anything romantic by what he said, he just meant that he would choose their child, not that he would choose her choose her.

"I don't know quite what to say to that, it's good to know that you will stand by me and stick up for me when it comes to your family. I do have some things to apologize for though, I said some things earlier that I know I shouldn't have."

"We don't have to talk about that," Oliver says looking down and not meeting her eyes and she knew just by his body language that what she said really bothered him.

"I think we do Oliver. I should have never staked a claim on this baby and left you out of the picture, I know that you are in this. You are here for the rest of this baby's life, you have made that very clear and I am sorry if I doubted you. I just got scared, I made a promise to myself when I was little that I wouldn't ever depend on someone. I never wanted to end up like my mother just in case the other person left and then I was left on my own wondering how I was going to live. You offering that money just sent me into a panic and I closed my walls and just reacted negatively. I'm really sorry if I hurt you in any way."

Felicity watched Oliver in hopes that she might be able to gauge how he was feeling and whether or not she would forgive her. She didn't want to admit it to herself but after today she couldn't say that she didn't depend upon Oliver. He was always there for her for the past month and a half. He has been going out and getting the foods that she craved and giving her foot rubs when she complained that her feet hurt. He was always making sure that she was taking care of herself and without even really noticing, she had become dependent upon him. Dependent to the point that when he mentioned moving out she shut down.

Diggle was right, she couldn't avoid these feelings forever, they were way too big to be able just to push down and hope that one day she would move on from them. She was in love with this man and she knew that without a doubt, she didn't think that she could love anyone more.

"I accept your apology, I won't say that what you said didn't hurt me because it did but knowing that it wasn't anything personal really helps. However, I would very much like it if my parents and sister could possibly be apart of this baby's life. They asked me if we would like to go over there for dinner just so you could meet them, Thea practically begged. She really wants to meet you and take you shopping for baby things." Oliver said nervously hoping that she would agree to go to his parents for dinner.

Felicity wanted to say no but she knew that she needed to compromise with him, she could tell how important this was to him. Gosh darn it, she really did love this man if she was about to say yes to meeting his parents two of the richest people in the city.

"Yeah we could go over there for dinner, I needed to meet them eventually," Felicity said and the smile on Oliver's face alone made saying yes completely worth it.

"Great, I'll give them a call tomorrow and we can pick a night that's good for all of us," Oliver said as he checked on dinner.

Felicity watched him and knew that she had to tell him now before she lost her nerve and never told him how she felt.

"Oliver? There's actually something else that I have to tell you." Felicity wrings her hands together, she was absolutely terrified that she was about to tell him how she felt and get rejected and ruin things. She also knew that she couldn't keep these feelings inside for much longer, she felt like she might burst.

"Is something wrong?" Oliver asked turning around to get a better look at her so that he could gauge what was going through that genius brain of hers.

"No, nothing's wrong I just...I still have feelings for you. Like huge feelings that I have tried to push down and not feel but after today I can't and don't know if I want to. I know that you probably don't have feeling for me but I just needed to tell you." Felicity watches him and prays to whatever God is up there that she didn't just screw things up.