++++++ So this chapter is a little bit of a filler but basically the action will start next chapter.

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Fourteen

"Where are Suki and Scarlet?" Oliver questioned.

Standing in the kitchen making an English breakfast, Felcity waved the spatula at the window. "Outside," she answered.

It had been just over a month since Scarlet had been living at Queen manor, frighteningly Suki's grades had dramatically improved and she was getting into less trouble and she was more focused on her work with the YJ than she had ever been before.

Oliver sighed. "When does everyone start getting here?"

"Well River said that Teddy and Sage will come home this afternoon after school with Suki and Scarlet," Felicity answered. "Starla and Barry will be here with Bart and Jessie around four. River and Roy will come after work. Everyone else will be here in the morning."

"I don't mean to exclude Barry and Starla from anything but is it a good idea?" Oliver asked. "I could easily pull some strings and get Scarlet on duty with Connor this weekend."

"Maybe do that in the morning," Felicity suggested. "See how it plays out.

The outside door to the dining room opened and Suki came in with Scarlet, both dressed in the white blouse, red tie and red and black tartan skirt of Saint Jude's Academy. "We were just feeding the fish," Suki explained, "sorry Ollie."

Oliver smiled. "That's okay. Listen…Scarlet I'm just letting you know that Starla will be here this weekend."

"Figured," Scarlet shrugged. "I can avoid her if she can avoid me."

"What I can do is that if the night doesn't go well," Oliver started, "you can stay at Mount Justice for the rest of the weekend. Okay?"

Scarlet shrugged. "Might be for the best. Thanks for looking out for me Oliver. I know I haven't given much reason to trust me but it means a lot."

Oliver nodded. "Glad to help, Scarlet."

"Can I go?" Suki pleaded. "Please, Ollie?"

"I can't see why not," Oliver shrugged. Little did he know that Richard had traded shifts with Barbara that weekend so it would be the two girls plus Connor and Richard.

"Go get ready for school," Felicity told them, "Diggle has errands in town so he said he's take you this morning. Moira left for school already, drag Shado out of bed if you can."

Oliver sighed as the girls ran out of the kitchen.

"Something wrong?" she asked.

"We need more testosterone around here," Oliver huffed.

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Starla and Barry arrived at Queen Manor about four thirty that afternoon. Bart and Jessie ran off the moment they got there and the two adults found Oliver and Felicity in the manor gym.

"Hey you two!" Felicity huffed, punching Oliver in the face.

"Don't think that because we're married," Oliver replied, flipping her legs out from underneath her, "that I won't knock you on your ass!"

Felicity hit the ground, hard. She grabbed Oliver's ankle and pulled him down to the ground before straddling his chest.

Starla laughed. "Look at them, Barry."

Barry chuckled. "God I remember meeting Felicity and thinking whoa she's the female me. Then I found out she could hack computers with her brain and it got super weird."

Felicity shouted out as Oliver wrapped his legs around her and threw her off him. She rolled across the mat and came to a stop. "Oh it's on like Donkey Kong, Queen."

"Time out!" Barry shouted. "Before you bring the house down!"

"Hey Barry!" Felicity grinned, running over to hug him. "Glad you could make it."

"How's my sister?" Starla asked. "Is Scarlet okay?"

Felicity nodded. "She's amazing. Always helping out. She's rather smart and she assures us that she's not using her gifts to be top of the class. Even Suki's grades have improved. Scarlet likes to read."

"Can I go see her?" Starla asked. "I think it's time we sort things out. Maybe she'll ever agree to come see our mother."

"Before you go," Felicity smiled, "girl or boy?"

"Early blood tests say girl," Barry grinned, "we're gonna call her Nora. After my mum."

Falicity grinned. "Barry I am so happy for you guys. Congratulations. Now, if you're looking for Scarlet, she's in the dining room. Oliver go with her," she instructed.

Oliver untapped his hands and followed Starla into the dining room where Scarlet was studying.

"Scarlet?" Starla whispered.

Scarlet looked up from the dining room table where she was doing her chemistry homework. "Oh-it's you. Oliver said you were coming," she muttered.

"I wanted to talk to you," Starla smiled softly.

"Surprise, surprise," Scarlet huffed, "that's all you ever want to do. I'm kind busy with my chem homework. Do you mind?"

"This will only take a minute," she replied. "I've been thinking a lot about our current situation. Us being sisters and all…well I'd like it if you were to come and speak with our mother…together."

"Nope," Scarlet answered, popping the p. "I'm perfectly fine here, actually. Oliver and Felicity are being incredibly nice to me and I've got perfect A's in school. I like it at Saint Jude's."

Starla cleared her throat. "No one said anything about moving."

"I'm seventeen," Scarlet answered. "Which means legally that woman can come here and take me away. I don't want to go away. I want to stay here. In a few months I can find my own place or I'll move into the base. I don't need your help, Starla."

"I want to help," Starla replied. "You know…when you were born the first thing dad did when he left the hospital is put a fifty in a trust fund for you. He said to me a year ago that every week he's put a fifty for you and a fifty for me. I got my trust fund when I turned 18. It will help, Scarlet. I promise."

"The answer is no!" Scarlet snapped, turning around. "Make the change, Oliver," she huffed, walking past him as he hovered in the doorway. She marched up the back stairs and on the way managed to bump into Theodore Harper or as he liked to be called-Teddy.

"Hey, Scar," he grinned, pulling his headphones out. "Listening to Skillet's new album. Wanna listen?"

"I wanna hit something," she muttered, running up the stairs.

"Hey, Scar," Teddy called out, catching her as she got to the landing. "I was wondering if you'd come with me and a couple of the guys to the Coffee Cookie tomorrow?" he asked. "It's just a bunch of guys and some of the girls."

Scarlet grinned. "I'd love to, Teddy. But I kinda got duty this weekend. Me and Suki are spending the weekend at MJ."

Teddy rolled his eyes. "Buzzkill," he joked. "What about Monday? After school?" He ran up the stairs and got to the landing. "It'll be just us…like a date?"

Scarlet blushed. "Um-okay. Sure Teddy."

Teddy grinned. "Wicked."

"Teddy's got a girlfriend!" Sage screeched from above them.

"Get lost, Sage!" Teddy snapped.

Scarlet giggled, she had a soft spot for Sage Harper, as crazy and as insane as she was, she had a great personality and outlook on life despite her criminal parentage. Sage was the daughter of Harley Quinn and the Joker, brought to River and Roy by Bruce Wayne to raise as their own.

Sage laughed and jumped down from the beams in the roof where she liked to hang out when she was here. She landed on the banister and jumped again, landing on the floor before running off, her pale blonde hair flowing behind her.

Teddy rolled his eyes. "She's a few cards short of a full deck."

"See you Monday, Teddy," Scarlet grinned, heading back to her room to pack.