Hey lovely people who continue to read my story! Right now I'm about to give you my excuse for why this chapter took me so long, here is is: I'm graduating! Tomorrow in fact. And so Ive been all over the place getting ready, plus I'm a worrier, so I kinda made myself sick :P and then there's family stuff... and blah! you guys don't want to here this! You just want your dose of Olicity!(I don't blame you!)

Well good news for you! Though I'm a lil booked, I just got an idea on what to do next...

Fun fact: Star City is supposed to be in California... Beach trip anyone? comment plz!

Don't own sadly:(

When Felicity awoke with her child in her arms, she could've sworn she was dreaming. She stared at the little girl who reminded her of herself, at least when she slept, her curly blonde hair was sprawled over the pillow and her fluttering eyelids covered her blue/gray eyes. Reluctantly, Felicity got out of bed to go make breakfast, pancakes to be exact, typically she didn't make anything more than cereal for herself, but today she was feeling more… Maternal, for lack of a better word.

They were both sitting at the table enjoying their food; today was Saturday, Felicity had to go into Verdant and pull up some files for Oliver, not only did she not show up yesterday, but tonight the hood was going out for sure and she knew he relied on her for information. She also was going to use that opportunity to find out more about what was going on with the Bernant's, the police never gave enough information to satisfy her, especially now that it was her daughter they were talking about.

When they were finished they got dressed, Felicity did her makeup, being a little more detailed than usual. After all, she didn't want to look like a train wreck.. Oliver might be there.. Oh crap! Oliver might be there! She has a kid now… A very hard to explain kid.. And-and… and nothing… Why should she be worried about what Oliver thinks? It's not like their close or anything…

Felicity grabbed her got her purse "Let's go" she said to Hope, it was kind of funny, she let Hope pick out her own outfit, now they were dressed alike. Felicity was wearing a blue skirt with a green pattern, a white shirt, green cardigan and blue heels. Hope had picked out a blue and green sundress and layered it with white leggings, white cardigan and her multi-colored sneakers. She had a great sense of fashion, like mother like daughter.

Oliver walked down the steps into his basement "lair" as Felicity called it, he heard someone typing on the computer and judging based on the speed, he knew it was Felicity. His thoughts were proved true, when he saw her sitting in the chair, two computer screens were facing her, the one she was gathering some sort of information on and the other… was playing a video? He got closer; silently of course, the video that was playing was some old action cartoon… with turtles?

Deciding he had stood in silence long enough, Oliver cleared his throat, making the blonde nearly jump two feet in the air. Felicity looked at him without turning around and started minimizing her tabs, "Oliver, Hi…" she said in an unusually high voice, he arched a brow, she swallowed hard. She was acting suspicious and he didn't like it, "What were you working on?" he said coming closer, Felicity visibly paled "Wait!... I mean.. just.. ugh.. Promise me something?" Oliver just stared at her "Please let me stay on the team?" Oliver was silent, he trying figure out what was going on, but the look on Felicity's face told him he wasn't going to know anything until she got an answer "Felicity, you're a part of the team, no matter what" seeing his words reassured her, he relaxed a little himself. Felicity spun around revealing a Felicity mini-me sitting on her lap, "Oliver, this is Hope, Hope this is my… friend Oliver"

Felicity studied Oliver's face for a reaction; she and Oliver were standing off to the side by the weapons table while Hope continued watching cartoons. "So yeah…Hope is my daughter" She told Oliver, he was shocked, though he was trying to hide it, "I always thought you were…" he cut himself off "Is the father in the picture?" wondering what else he didn't know about his IT girl, Felicity snorted "The father? I haven't seen him in a loooong time" for some reason that made him relieved "So do you know what happened to the parents?"

"That was actually what I was trying to figure out…" she said grabbing her tablet, she somehow pulled up the same documents that she was looking at on the computer. Felicity leaned into him, probably so he could see the tablet, it was closer than necessary, but he didn't mind "So it turns out that Jerry, Hope's adoptive father, had died in a car accident not even a year after Hope was born." Oliver took in her saddened expression, he waited a moment before asking "And the mother?" "There's no trace of her, it's like she just disappeared; no one's been in contact with her for at least a month. The police talked to a few neighbors of hers, this says that one of the neighbors took home in for a while, but Hope had gone missing after the quake… Susan was so happy…"

He assumed Felicity said the last past part to herself, he looked down at her, even in her three or four inch heels, he was at least a good four inches taller than her.

Felicity looked up at him, his breath hitched in his throat; he looked down at her lips, her bright purple attractive lips. The distance between their faces was a very small one, and it seemed to be getting smaller somehow.

Felicity swallowed "You know, um, you're really close" Oliver realized what he was doing and mentally started kicking himself, he stood up straight and took a few steps back, what was he doing? He was in love with laurel! Not the his IT girl, his IT girl? Since when was she his? "Not that I mind being next to you, you smell really good, I mean your cologne smells good, not saying you don't smell good on your own, you do… Not that I go around sniffing you… I'm gonna shut up now…" Oliver chuckled to himself; he loved her babbling, though she was embarrassed by it, he found it humorous.

"Hope it's about time to go" Hope looked up from the computer "But I'm watching this" "When it's over then it's time to go" she said just as the show ended. "Come on, we'll go to the park" "Okay!" Hope jumped out of the chair and walked over to her "Can he come to?" the little girl asked pointing to Oliver "Well that's up to him" Hope looked up at him "Sure I'll come"

Felicity walked over to her purse and threw Oliver her keys, he caught them just like she thought he would "Can you put her in my car? I'll turn it all off and lock up" she knew she didn't have to explain; they had gone through this before, she didn't like anyone touching her computers, including Oliver. He nodded and walked with Hope up the stairs, Felicity watched them until they disappeared then she turned around and got busy making sure all of her firewalls and encryptions were up and running and turn off the computer. She grabbed her purse; made sure nothing was left behind and turned out the lights.

Felicity turned on the security system and locked the doors to Verdant, she pulled on the door slightly to make sure it had locked, when she was sure it had, she put the keys in her purse and started walking to her car. "Felicity?" a familiar voice rang out, she whipped around to see whom the voice belonged to "Kyle?" she stared in disbelief at her ex-boyfriend, "Wow, it's been a while hasn't it? You look great!" Kyle said "You don't look so bad yourself" his jet black hair was longer by an inch or two, he had developed quite a bit of muscle, in fact it looked as though he had just been on a jog, which was also new. He seemed like a different person, but his eyes were the same, they shined as blue and true as they did when they first lured her in, she was a sucker for blue eyes.

Oliver, whom was obviously worried (otherwise he would have been more patient), pulled up in her car along the street. "I got to go" she nodded toward the car, Kyle saw Oliver in the driver's seat I hope to see into you again, Felicity" he said with a wink and started jogging away. Felicity got in her car, she pull down the visor making she had looked ok "Who was that?" Oliver asked "An old friend" she said using the mirror to look at the blue eyed child in the back seat.

Hey! you get the turtle reference? did'cha? did'cha?

Blue eyes!

Oh BTW! I need your help, I can either go Simple or Dramatic for the near future of this story... Yes it involves Kyle! comment and tell me!

dramatic would be more fun to write... and would get more Olicity scenes... Just saying...