Author's note: Hey so my muse got so inspired by what I planned for the rest of this story that what I planned to be only a couple chapters turned into 9 CHAPTERS! And I got them written and read for posting in just a few days so here is a special treat... enjoy and review!
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Disclosure: I own nothing of Arrow and I also used some dialogue from the show because the writers are just so amazing and I couldn't help myself
"Oliver, behave! We were already almost 30 minutes late because of your need to explore the full extent of our glass walls in our offices."
"Yes but it was fun. Plus I needed to know which office was better to use the next time." Oliver snickered and growled as he nuzzled Felicity's neck. She was finishing dressing after having her exam by Sondra and Natalie. Oliver's hand skimmed over her arm then made it way into her open white blouse, seeking out the warmth of her skin.
She reached down and swatted at his hand as she finished buttoning up the blouse. Oliver continued to snicker as he moved away from her and took a seat near the bed. She was just pulling the Grey sweater she had worn because of the cooler temperatures when a knock on the door pulled their attention. "Hey, can I come in?" Natalie asked from the other side.
"Sure Natalie we're good." Oliver called back.
Natalie stepped into the room and smiled up to them. "Well I got the last of the test results. Little Tommy and Harper are developing perfectly and are healthy. No signs of any deformation or genetic markers for diseases or disorders. Now Felicity your blood pressure is still a bit high so we are going to need to get it down or I am going to have to put you on bedrest."
"I know. I am actually taking a step to do that." When Natalie glanced at her confused, Felicity explained, "I noticed that it was harder for me to keep my energy up and make it through the day so I decided to go ahead and hire and train my replacement at QI so that I can stay at home and relax for the next couple months before these two make our lives crazy. I know I will get some cabin fever so Thea and my mom have agreed to come by and take me out on short trips to different places to keep me active but not overdoing it."
"It's good to see you stepping back a bit. I know it's hard but these two are the most important thing right now and they need you to take it easy a bit so they can too." Natalie smiled, happy that she had finally found common ground with the mother to be.
"I know. And I plan on always making them and their brother and father the most important things in my life. No project or work related report is worth missing a minute with them." Felicity purred as Oliver stood next to her and wrapped his arm around her shoulder, pulling her into his side.
"Well then I will see you again in about two weeks. Will we need to meet on a different day again or back to Mondays?"
"Mondays are fine. We just had a family emergency come up and had to handle it. Then Oliver fell sick for a few days so we didn't feel like getting out until he was better." Felicity felt bad lying to the doctor but knew it was necessary.
"Sick? You okay now?"
"Yeah. Just a stomach thing. Couple days wrapped up in bed with her by me was the best medicine in the world." Oliver brushed off the concern of their family doctor.
"Well good. Okay so I will see you guys a week from Monday. And tell Connor hi for me. Is he ready for Halloween?"
"Oh yeah! We're going shopping for his costume this week while he is out of school." Felicity laughed as she gathered up her jacket and purse.
"Any idea what he wants to be?"
"Green Arrow." Oliver and Felicity stated in unison then chuckled. They waved to the doctor as they left.
"All good, Sir?" Rob asked as they walked into the waiting room. Most of the security guards the couple used frequently and the household staff had begun to keep a watchful eye out on the mother to be and the babies. They were all wanting to see two happy and healthy babies enter this world.
"All good Rob. How about we stop at Big Belly on the way home? I'm sure my wife could use some cheese fries. And I won't tell Raisa about them but you have to eat them all before we get home."
"Throw in a extra chocolaty chocolate shake and we have a deal!" Felicity smiled up to him.
"Would I ever tell you no?"
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"Okay Walter I'll tell her. Thanks." Oliver stated as he finished up a call with Walter. They were sitting in the back seat of the Bentley. A few blocks from the doctor's office his phone had rang and he was on the call the entire time they drove to Big Belly, while Rob placed the order for Felicity and made their way home while she ate.
"Tell me what?" Felicity asked as she chewed on the last of her cheese fries.
Oliver chuckled at the sight, his pregnant wife with a mouth full of cheese fries and a smear of chocolate sauce on her lip from her shake. "We will have several investors in town next week and Walter thinks it's a great idea to host a dinner for them at the mansion. Try to work a few more thousands out of them while also securing their support in the company. He wants me to talk up the solar panel project to show the company's ambition and growth options."
"He's right. Green solutions is a way to grow for most technology companies. That and the computer field. I have been thinking over a few program options that would help not only police and armed forces groups by creating a better identification program but could help on our other job." Felicity answered, her voice dropping to a whisper towards the end.
"Really? You want to make a program for QI?"
"Well yeah. It is just an idea but I think with all the time I will have off now that I am stepping back from QI until these two show up, I could focus some of my time to the development and coding. If I can get it to work, I would love for QI to showcase it exclusively to SCPD as well as CCPD and other groups. Who knows maybe it will become the number one program used for that purpose in the world. I just want to make sure that it works and is safe first so no talking about it until I have it done and tested. No jinxing me." Felicity pointed a finger at him while glaring at him playfully.
"I would never but Sweetheart I know you will make it work. I have the utmost confidence in you and your coding skills. They have never failed before and never will." Oliver kissed her cheek while smiling proudly of his wife. "I still say you can wipe me out in a keystroke if I step out of line."
"Oh believe it buddy. I can and will!" Felicity giggled. She looked down at her cheese fries to see them all gone and pouted. "They never last long enough."
"I say it's a good thing. We're home." Oliver pushed his chin up towards the gates to their house just as they opened. She saw the waves of flashes of the paparazzi as they tried to get a picture of Starling's most popular couple as they ventured home.
"I apologize Mr. Queen. It seems a new story has come out and the vultures are circling."
"New story?" Felicity asked as she pulled her tablet up. She opened the app for the program she created to scan all media outlets for reports and articles referring to them in any way. She saw that there had been a new story; one indicating that Felicity was due any day. There were several versions of the same informations on multiple outlets. "Really? Now they are playing countdown until I pop?"
"What?!" Oliver snapped as he glanced at the articles flying across her screen. He saw one where it was discussing her size and how she is much bigger than normal for the time frame they had indicated in their previous interview with Max when they announced the pregnancy. One tabloid even stated that with her size, the baby she is carrying could actually be Ray's and went on the state that with a quick wedding the couple were trying to hide the fact. "I'm gonna kill them!"
Felicity read the story he was looking at and gasped as she tried to force her tears back down. As soon as the car came to a stop in front of the mansion, Felicity jumped from the car and ran inside, Oliver following after and calling for her.
She burst into the house only to bump into Ray's tall form. "Felicity? What's wrong?"
She glanced up at him and released a soft sob then covered her mouth with her hands and shook her head. She moved towards the study as tears started to fall down her face.
"Sweetheart!" Oliver shouted as he came into the house but only found Ray and Cisco standing in the foyer, confused.
"What's up with Lis?" Cisco asked.
"Seems that the press have determined that her size is not right for the time frame we gave them and since we haven't said anything about the twins, publicly, they made up a story. A tabloid said that Felicity's actually having Ray's kid and we only got married in a hurry to hide it from the world."
"Oh. Oh!" Ray answered. "Anything I can do?"
"Not unless you plan on going out there to the press, tell them that you aren't dead and that you and Felicity never were physically together, which we both know is not true." Oliver growled, still upset over the video Ray had kept of their night together.
"I explained that and we moved past it." Ray snapped back, defending the past decision and its fallout.
"You may have. Hell Felicity may have as well. But I haven't. She is mine to protect and I will always do so. Even from guys like you." Oliver glared at the man and stepped into his personal space, trying to intimidate him into cowering back away.
Cisco saw the tension growing between the two guys and decided it needed to end. "Hey man. We get it. But right now I think Lis needs you more. How about you go check on her and we will see what we can do about that story." Oliver nodded in agreement with Cisco and moved out the room, his eyes studying Ray one final time before leaving the room. "Okay let's see what magic I can work on that tabloid's server. And then you are going to need to tell me what the hell that was all about."
"A stupid mistake that Queen can't let go. I mean Felicity and I were dating when it happened so he has no right to be pissed." Ray stated as he followed Cisco back into the sitting room.
Cisco took a seat again and grabbed his tablet, opening it up to search for the story to find where to start his attack. "Upset about what?"
"I slept with Felicity."
"Well if she was dating you at the time, I don't see why Oliver is so pissed. Felicity will tell him it was her choice. Plus he was pushing her away at the time if Barry told me right."
"Turns out he was but when we broke up and she got with Queen, I never stood in the way because I knew deep down she loved him and not me. Not that way at least."
"So what's got him wanting to use you for target practice?"
"The fact that he kept a memento from his night with Felicity." A voice answered behind them. Cisco and Ray looked up to see Thea leaning in the doorway, her arms crossed in front of her chest. She moved into the room and stood next to Cisco's chair, staring harshly at Ray. "He taped it and kept the video, even after they broke up."
Cisco gasped in surprise. "Dude! You what?!"
"I forgot it was even there. Then with everything with the League happened and then my test with my suit went badly and I just never thought about it."
"See I don't buy that. I saw the list of your videos. All of them were named with dates and times. Nothing that wouldn't be automatically assigned to them when they were created. The only file with a real name was that video and you named it after her. So I think you knew it was there, just decided to keep it. For whatever sick and twisted reason I don't know." Thea stepped around the coffee table so that she was standing over Ray, forcing him to lean back and look at to her. Her eyes became dark and stern. "But if you do anything, and I mean anything, to mess up their relationship and I will show you all the sick and twisted skills my fathers taught me. I will help you experience true pain, both physically and financially." With that she spun and moved from the room, in search of her brother and sister-in-law to see if she could help in anyway.
"Wow! That was… harsh." Ray huffed.
"I think it was perfect." Cisco growled as he glared daggers at the man he had been idealizing for the last few days. He could not believe that someone could do something so disgusting and feel no shame from it.
Oliver had moved down the hall and towards the study. He knew that Felicity had started to see that room as well as the nursery as her refuges in the house. The nursery because of the little ones on the way and all the hope the room gave her. The study reminded her of him. They had redone the room and when he was at home, he would work from that room, especially on weekends; so it had begun to permanently take on his scent and warmth in her mind. She had even told him that nights he would go out on patrol and she was left behind at home, she would find herself drawn to that room, and it's embrace it had on her, subconsciously.
As he walked up to the room, he slowed and took a calming breath, not wanting her to know he had lost his temper a bit with Palmer in the foyer. He reached for the door handle only to find it locked. He placed his ear to the hardwood door and could barely hear her sobs coming from the other side. He knocked softly. "Sweetheart? Sweetheart, let me in please." He waited to hear the lock disengage but never did. "Baby, we can take care of this. We just have to announce the twins earlier than we planned. It's not a big deal. Once they know we are having twins, they will understand about your size and everything will go back to normal. Please Felicity. Please open the door."
"It will never be normal. They will never understand." Felicity sobbed and Oliver could barely make out what she said.
"Sweetheart please. I don't want to have this conversation through a door. I want to talk to you. Please?" He heard the door unlock and slowly open. He slipped inside to find Felicity sitting on the floor, her legs crossed under her and helping to support her belly as she rubbed it tenderly. She hiccupped a sob and sniffled. He saw how red and bloodshot her eyes were and knew she was highly upset. "Sweetheart it's fine. We can fix this. It'll be fine."
"No it won't. Don't you see. They aren't questioning if we're having twins. They questioning if you settled for me. Like you took me and my pregnancy from another man on as something you had to take care of."
"Oh Felicity. I'm so sorry." Oliver whispered as he shut the door and sat on the floor behind her. He slid his legs and arms so that he was wrapped around her and rested his chin on her shoulder.
"They don't think you could ever want to be with me. Like the idea of us together is just… unthinkable. Like I told you before." Felicity stuttered out as she continued to huff and sniffle.
"That's enough of that." Oliver snapped sternly. He was tired of everyone thinking his relationship with Felicity was not real. The press had said so since day one. They had attacked her reasoning for being with him and his commitment to her. Now they were trying to say he was married to her to save face for her. "I love you, Felicity Meghan Queen. I have been under your spell from the very first babble and smile I ever saw. Years ago. Hidden in the shadows of my mom's office late one night. And I wake up everyday and fall under it all over again. You are so caring and compassionate. You are so smart and funny. You make me smile even when you are trying to yell and fight with me. You have such an amazing heart and believe the best in everyone until they show you otherwise. You have believed and trusted me in so many ways over the years where others would have walked away. Hell you jumped out of a plane for me. I have pushed you away so many times but you never walked away. You were always still beside me, even when it broke your heart or hurt you to be there. Loving you is the easiest part of my life because anyone who knows you for just a couple minutes falls in love with you. You have a light about you that I envy and never want to lose. I don't care what those stupid papers or the gossips at work say. You are my wife because you are the only woman I want to share my life with. My bed with. I want you in my arms all the time. I hate going to work because it means I can't have you right here, where you belong." He tightened his arms around her to hold her and emphasize his words. "And as for those two angels in there, they will show the world that they are all their parents. The best parts of us. Your brains and looks and heart. My name."
"Baby, you know you are better than that. You have a great heart too. Look at all you did for your mom and sister. You have always been devoted to your family and the legacy the Queen name leaves behind. One that will continue with these two as well as Connor."
"I know Sweetheart. I love you and Connor and Little Tommy and Little Harper. You four are my world and if I lost you, I… I wouldn't want to stay here anymore. I would have nothing to live for."
Felicity turned in his grip, not wanting to lose the warmth of his arms but needing to see his face. "Oliver, don't say that. You would have Thea and Dig and the rest of the team. They would need you just as much as you would need them."
"Felicity, a world without you in it would not have anything for me."
"Oliver Jonas Queen, you promise me right now. If something happens to me you will not do anything stupid. Your family… our family will need you."
"As long as I breathe, I won't let anything happen to you or our kids. I promise."
"That's not what I asked. Please Oliver. Promise me."
Oliver saw the fear in her eyes and a pain on his chest broke his heart. He dropped his forehead to hers. "I promise. For you, anything. Always."
"Thank you."
"So we agree it's time to tell the world about these angels and set the record straight?"
"Guess so." Felicity shrugged as she turned and leaned back into his chest, his arms winding around her again.
"And Felicity, anyone who matters knows how devoted we are to each other and how much we love each other. The papers are just trying to sell a product so they are creating a scandal where there never will be one. You are the only woman I have ever wanted to marry. I wake up every morning and want to marry you all over again just to believe you are mine."
"I know. It's just hard when they question us. That leads to more whispers at work as well. I just wish so many people didn't think it was so impossible for you the fall for a girl like me."
"That's because they don't know the real me. If they saw what type of guy I am now and stopped thinking I was the same as I was before the island, they would see the only woman for me could only be you. You are perfect for me. As if I picked you out of a catalog. You're a gift in my life and I never plan on returning you."
"You really are getting sappy these days, Mr. Queen." Felicity laughed.
"Only for you, Mrs. Queen." Oliver smiled as he nuzzled and kissed her neck. "Better?"
"Getting there."
"Well then maybe I need to work a bit harder."
"Oliver Queen willing to work? Now this is a day we need to write on the calendar." Felicity teased.
"Oh really?!" Oliver huffed just as he set out to tickle her. His hands skated up and down her sides, softly digging in and making her wiggle and squirm in his lap. She laughed and giggle as she gasped for air and pleaded for him to stop. "Submit!"
"Never!" She challenged, her eyes lit in a playful strength which drove him to double his efforts.
"Good to see things will never change. I swear you two will never grow up." Thea laughed from the doorway while shaking her head at the sight of the two grown adults on the floor in the midst of a tickle war.
"Hey Speedy! Sorry we had a situation and needed to talk privately."
"Yeah I caught the tail end of your chat with Ray. Him and Cisco are currently in the sitting room trying to crash the site's server."
"They're what?!" Felicity sat up quickly only to grab at Oliver.
"Sweetheart?"
"I'm fine. Vertigo. And not the drug." As soon as the words were out, she realized what she said and shut her eyes in shame. "Sorry Thea." she pleaded.
"No prob, Lis. Trust me. That's a ways behind me now. Still good to know my big bro dealt with him."
"Both of them actually."
"Two?"
"Yeah. Ends up that when the first one was killed a new guy stepped in. Long story short, he blew up our first date so your brother caught him and now he is in Iron Heights."
"So that was the infamous first date that ended explosively and not the way Ollie wanted." Thea laughed as she helped Oliver get Felicity off the floor.
"Yep. Wow! Okay sitting on the floor pregnant not something I recommend."
"Are you okay, Felicity?" Oliver asked, concerned again.
"Just a bit sore."
"Well how does a bubble bath sound?"
"Like you are trying to sweeten me up. What's up?"
"Well I told you about that dinner that Walter wants to throw next week." Felicity nodded showing she remembered him mentioning it before all the other drama started. "Well someone is going to need to plan it." He looked at her directly.
"No! No way! Oliver! I don't know the first thing about hosting a dinner party. Especially for a bunch of one percenters and elites like those investors. I would make us look like a joke."
"You could never do that. I believe in you. It will be good for you. You need to keep your mind off the press. All you need to do is sit down with Raisa and create a menu and seating chart. We can have Adira make the invites and get them out on Monday as well as the place cards. Raisa will take care of hiring more staff for the night as well as ordering all the food and supplies needed. Thea can even take you to get a new dress for it."
"Bribing me with clothes won't work."
"What about shoes?" Oliver joked.
"Come on Lis. I'll even help. It'll be fun. Your first company dinner party as Mrs. Queen. I promise it will be painless."
"Except when I have to talk to these people. Oliver what are we going to do? You know I babble. One wrong thing and they could pull their support." Felicity asked as they moved out of the study and started to move towards the sitting room.
"That won't happen. You will always be near either me, Thea or Walter. We will make sure it doesn't happen and that your adorable babble and innuendos are saved just for me." Oliver smiled trying to ease her fears. "I promise Felicity, you will not look bad or do anything to harm us as a couple or the company. You are beautiful, brilliant, and charming. The investors will love you. Just like I do and everyone else at QI does."
"You think you're so charming don't you?" Felicity glared at him teasingly.
"Yes but I am also right."
"Fine I'll do it but you better not be late. Either of you. No leather play that night." She looked at the two siblings who were trying to hide their amusement at her words and realized she had done it again. "See?! Google help me!" she huffed as they started walking through the house again.