Author's note: enjoyed get a couple reviews but my muse is still being a pain... hoping to have more inspiration after tonight's episode... no spoilers for anyone who can't see it yet... I have 4 chapters for you tonight

On another note, I made the coolest pumpkins this year... a white one that has all the Arrow logos from all seasons and an orange one that is made to look like Slade's mask... so much fun

Review and let me know what you guys think

Disclosure: I own nothing of Arrow or Felicity would be sporting something extra right now... if you know what I mean

Felicity zipped up the new dress, standing in a large dressing room, and turned towards the mirror. She stood in a stunning white gown and as soon as she saw her reflection and how the gown fell around her, she was reminded of her reflection on her wedding day as she stood there in her gown. Suddenly tears flooded down her face and she collapsed onto the bench in the room, her face falling into her hands. She sobbed softly as she contemplated how her life had gone wrong so fast.

A quiet knock at the door drew her out of her head and she reached for her purse to clean herself up. She had decided not to show anything was wrong while out in front of Thea and Adira. They didn't need to worry about her more than they already did.

"Lis? You okay?"

"Yeah." She called back, over the door. "Stupid hormones. I swear I would cry over chocolate cake right now. Then eat it as I cried more." She heard a sweet laugh from the other side of the door and knew she had thrown suspicion off for now. She wasn't sure what she would do, how she would feel, when she was finally around Oliver again. As if they sensed something wrong, the twins chose that moment to move and flutter inside her. She smoothed the soft curtained chiffon fabric over belly. "It's okay, babies. Mommy will always take care of you. I love you so much." Felicity whispered as she mused at her growing abdomen. They seemed to settle at that and stopped moving.

"Are you coming out so we can see?" Thea called out, excited at the prospect of a masquerade ball. It had been ages since she had been to one.

Felicity huffed one finally breath as she tried to bury the lump of emotion she had been carrying around back down. It had been about an hour since she found Oliver at that address and still no word from him or Diggle, which only caused Felicity to worry more. What if I had been right? What if Sara and Diggle caught him having an affair? How could I handle that? Could I still work next to him at QI? What about Connor and the babies? Felicity had tried to not think about it but the fact that she was dress shopping for her first gala gown as Mrs. Queen had her stomach in knots and her constantly on the verge of tears. She didn't even want to think about the gossip at work or in the press if word got out about this.

She knew she couldn't hide out forever in that dressing room so she stepped out only to find Adira and Thea were not the only ones there with her anymore. Her mom had shown up at some point. All three women gasped as that took in the sight of Felicity, donning a full length chiffon white gown. The fabric was bundled and collected across the bodice in tiny waves, which were showcased by the stunning bead work that flowed across her collarbones, met and cascaded between her now ample breasts, only to part again just above her belly and follow the curve down to her side and back around to her lower back. The beads hung around the back of her neck, causing her shoulders to be completely bare. The fabric of the gown bellowed from the beading just above her belly and seemed to float down and puddle at her feet elegantly. With her skin aglow due to her current state, she was a heavenly vision.

"Lis, Ollie is going flip. You look like an angel. And you have just the shoes to wear so that you will look stunning and not hurt all night. Those white Manolo Blahnik's with the embellishment on the toes. You have like 8 pairs in different colors."

"What?! They fit nicely and were cute." Felicity groaned as if trying to defend her style choice.

"Trust me I understand. They work for all occasions and don't tense your feet up. I am not teasing you Lis. I'm just stating a fact." Thea smiled. She knew that something had upset Felicity before they left the office but was still unsure what. When she had arrived at Felicity's office, she found the blonde bundled up in one of Oliver's hoodies on her couch and her eyes were red and puffy, as if she had been crying. She played it off as pregnancy hormones but Thea knew better. She knew that Felicity was highly emotional right now and it wasn't because of the twins. She gave her space, hoping that she would open up about it if needed, but not before putting in a call the Donna advising her to come along on the shopping trip to see if that would help Felicity's mental status.

"Baby girl, you're beautiful. You are going to knock them dead Friday night. What is this function for again?" Donna boasted as she walked up to her daughter and wiped the remaining trails of tears away from her face.

"The Children's Hospital. It's their annual masquerade ball. They do it a couple weeks before Halloween but still allow masks and costumes. It's always looked like fun." Felicity explained.

Thea chuckled at the idea. "Yeah fun if you think hobnobbing it up with the same old cronies who go to all of these charity functions to seem like they care when most can't even tell you what the charity of the night is, is fun. Oliver hates these things but comes with the territory of being a Queen as well as head of QI. I would be surprised if you two stay longer than an hour and not stop for Triple B on your way home."

"Thea! Be nice." Donna snapped.

"Fine. But Lis you do look incredible. Oliver will love that gown."

"Thanks Thea. Okay so we'll take this one. Adira did you call the tux shop for Oliver?"

"Yes, Mrs. Queen. They will have it ready on Friday and I will have a messenger deliver it then."

"And I will head to the vault after we're done here to get the jewels for you and drop them off tonight." Thea smiled proudly.

"And Connor will be staying with me Friday night so you and Oliver have the evening to enjoy yourselves. In fact I was thinking about keeping him all weekend long so that you two could spend some quality time together. Remind each other why you fell in love." Donna hinted but the images that flashed through Felicity's mind only tore at her heart more and she was beginning to feel the sting of tears again. She waved her hand and shook her head as she quickly made her escape back to the changing room. "What did I say? What's wrong?" Donna pondered as she searched Thea and Adira's faces.

"Lis has been upset since I picked her up today. She won't tell me why. Did something happen at QI?"

"Not that I know of. She was fine until..." Adira remembered their conversation just before Felicity disappeared for about 15 minutes. Next time she saw the blonde, she was bundled up on the couch sniffling and wiping tears away.

"What?" Thea asked impatiently.

"Mr. Queen had an appointment from 2 to 4 today. He has it every Wednesday but there is no information about it listed on his calendar. He just asks that I keep that time open for him and he leaves when it happens. He has been doing it for weeks now."

"Ollie? That's a little strange. And he didn't tell Lis? Does anyone go with him or knows where he goes?"

Adira shook her head. "Not that I know of. Mrs. Queen asked me about it so I assume she doesn't know. Then she disappeared to question the security guard at reception on our floor. When I came back a few minutes later, I found like you did. In her office wrapped up in the hoodie Mr. Queen gave her for when she naps. She seemed upset and asked that I give her a few minutes so I did."

"What could he be doing at that time? It's not anything for the club I know that. Or the house. The nursery is all set up. Maybe the gym?"

Donna shrugged, unable to come up with a good explanation. Just then a soft whimper came from just behind them. Felicity had changed back into her clothes and draped the gown over her arm. "You know I don't think I am feeling up to going Friday. Maybe I'll just skip it and stay home. Oliver can go without me and just explain that I wasn't feeling well due to the pregnancy. It's not like I would be missed anyway."

"Felicity Meghan Queen, you will be going to that ball and you will hold you head up. I don't know what is going on right now but it will get better. As long as you and Oliver are together and your family is safe and healthy, that's all that matters. Any other issues going on will right themselves and if not, you two will beat them head on. Together. Like you always do." Donna demanded.

Felicity fell apart at that, sobbing uncontrollably as she finally let the idea of Oliver leaving her fill her mind. Her traitorous mind had been screaming it all afternoon but she tried to ignore it, not wanting to live through that pain just yet. But what other explanation could there be. Oliver was going to that address every week for an affair. Donna watched as Felicity sunk into a nearby chair and weeped. She nodded to Thea and Adira, silently asking for a moment alone with her daughter to which they agreed to and stepped away, taking the gown along to finish their shopping trip.

When Donna saw that everyone was out of earshot, she knelt down in front of Felicity and grasped at her shoulders which were shaking as new sobs wrecked through her slender frame. "What's going on?"

"I think Oliver is having an affair."

"What?!"

"He leaves QI every Wednesday for 2 hours and today I pinged his phone when I couldn't find him. I was worried that something had happened. Turns out he was at this apartment building across town. He's having an affair already. We have been married but a month and Adira said he had been doing this for weeks. What if he was sleeping with her before the wedding? I keep trying to remember if he would take off like that before but I can't. What am I going to do? I'm going to be a laughing stock at QI and in town. I mean I couldn't even get him to stay faithful a week. And then there's the babies. And Connor. And my jobs. How can I work around him, both at QI and the Bunker, knowing he has hurt me like Dad did you. He gave up on us already. He didn't even give it a chance."

Donna tried to sooth her daughter. "Shh. It's okay. It'll be okay. Are you sure it's an affair? Maybe there is another reason he goes there. Maybe he was just there today. Do you know if he goes there every week? Could he be volunteering to assist people in some kind of program? You know Oliver feels like he has to take on the burdens of everyone around him. Maybe he is helping someone that lives there through a tough time. Have you talked to him about this? Gotten his side before jumping to conclusions?"

Felicity shook her head and felt ashamed. She had never been one to jump to conclusions or judge someone before she got the whole story. Yes she had feelings about people but she never openly discussed them unless she had proof. But this felt different. She couldn't explain it but all she knew was that Oliver was keeping things from her again and she had an awful feeling about it.

"Well come on. Let's get you home and you can talk to Oliver about it once you have calmed down. I know you are highly emotional right now and your hormones are causing you to feel strange. You'll see. He will have a perfectly good reason for being there and you'll feel silly for being so upset later. It'll be okay."

"Thanks Mom." Felicity smiled up at her mom, tears still resting in her eyes. Donna helped her clean up a bit and stand up, ready to get her home and relaxing after a trying afternoon.

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"Can you pull over here for a moment? I need to run into that shop real quick." Oliver asked from the back seat as he pointed out of the cab. He had spent about 40 minutes walking around the park, trying to clear his head but the thought that Felicity thought he was cheating on her plagued his mind. Finally giving up on trying to unwind, he had decided to head back to QI. Adira text him that they did find a gown for Felicity but she wasn't sure if Felicity felt up to attending anymore and that something was causing her to be more upset than usual. Oliver knew what.

He replied asking Adira if Felicity had gone home already. When he received a text confirming she had, he decided that it was time he and his wife have a talk. Finally put to rest some of her insecurities. He text Donna asking if she would watch Connor until he and Felicity came to collect him for dinner. Once she had agreed, he set out towards the mansion. He was ready to prove to his wife he was not only a changed man, but a devoted one.

The cab pulled to the curb and Oliver hopped out. "Keep the meter running and wait here. I'll be just a minute." He smiled as he shut the door and ran inside the quaint little flower shop.

He heard the bell above the door ring as he stepped inside. A short older woman, who looked to be in her early 60's, glanced up at him from above her glasses and smiled warmly. "How can I help you, young man?"

"I need a bouquet for my wife. She is going through a rough time and a really hard day and I wanted to lift her spirits."

"How sweet. Well I can definitely help with that. Does she have a favorite flower?"

"Felicity? Not really. She just loves the vibrant colors."

"Well let's see what we can come up with." She waved him back and guided him through the maze buckets of fresh flowers throughout the store. "So what has her down? Work?"

"Stress from work yeah but mostly pregnancy hormones. She is pregnant for the first time. Twins too. So she is kind of feeling... undesirable."

The old woman snickered. "Oh I know that feeling. I put my poor husband through the ringer 3 times. But the kids are worth every second of it. I'm Milly." She smiled up at him as she held her hand out for him to shake.

"Oliver." He returned, pleased to have yet another person you could help him get some insight into this new chapter of his life.

"I know. Kind of hard to pick up a magazine or paper these days without seeing that handsome mug on it." Milly teased. She was a small woman, with light blonde thinning hair. It was curled beautifully though and tucked up and away from her face. Her glasses seemed suspended on the brim of her nose, not shifting at all. She reminded Oliver of a sweet old grandmother someone might have. "I remember seeing pictures of your wedding a few weeks back. Stunning. The flowers were beautiful and your wife was breathtaking in that gown."

"That she was." Oliver grinned as the image of Felicity walking down the aisle to him filled his head and a warmth washed over him. He still had a hard time believing it really happened. Some mornings he would wake up with her in his arms and would just stare at his wedding band as if it would disappear if he took his eyes off it.

"It was sunflowers, right? The flowers at the wedding?" Oliver politely smiled and nodded at her. "Well I think I might know just the trick for your wife. I have a few sunflowers in here as well as some gorgeous roses. We could put them together so she will remember that day and everything she felt. I also have some exquisite pink alstromerias that mean devotion as well as some blue irises that mean faith or hope. We could thrown them in with the sunflowers and white roses and a few red amaryllis, which mean splendid beauty. She'll love them. What do you think?"

"Sounds perfect, Milly. I wish Bachelor Buttons were in season."

"Why?"

"They mean felicity or complete happiness. That's my wife's name. I got them for her a few months back and she loved them."

Milly smiled as she continued to gather up fresh flowers to set together as a bouquet. "You know the meanings of flowers?"

Oliver huffed a laugh. "Not really I just did a lot of research. I wanted to give her a gift that had some thought behind it. I was trying to make up for a lot of bad decisions I had made in the last year."

"Well it seemed to work. She married you."

"Yeah now I have to show her I am a different man than I used to be." When Milly stared up at him confused, Oliver sighed. "I have been keeping a secret from her for a few weeks. She found out about it today. Well sort of. She thinks it's one thing while in reality it's another. So I'm hoping these flowers and a nice long talk can help her see I am different than I used to be. I wasn't always the best guy when it came to my actions towards the women I was involved with and she thinks I am..."

"Cheating on her. Because you were not where you were suppose to be and have been keeping things from her. I understand. I thought that my husband would tire of me and my crazy pregnant ways too and stray. We all do. It's hard to feel confident and desirable when you're the size of a house. At least in your mind. But keeping secrets in a relationship is never a good thing. They always seem to find a way to the surface and cause a lot more damage coming up that way than if you had been straightforward in the first place. Take it from an old happily married woman. I have been with my husband now going on 40 years. And I am still madly in love with him. We still act like the teenagers we were when we started dating. You have to be willing to share all of yourself, not just the good parts but also the scary ones. That way your partner can love every bit of you. She will too. If she is the right one." Milly smiled as she finished wrapping the flowers up in paper. She tied it off with a bow and handed it to Oliver to inspect.

"Trust me. She is. Milly, these are perfect. How much do I owe you?" Oliver paid for the flowers and snagged a business card from beside the register. "I'll be back. I promise."

"Enjoy your time with your wife and treat her well." Milly called after him as he bolted out of the shop, more determined to right his latest wrong and make Felicity see that he wants no other woman but her.