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Disclaimer: The only characters that are mine are Addison and Tommy Queen and Carson Harper..
Chapter. 2
"Again Addison." Oliver had been watching Roy and Addison spare for the past half hour in the Foundry.
"What?" Addison turned to face her father. "What did I do wrong this time?" It had been two weeks and she was still no closer to joining Team Arrow on their nightly missions.
"You're still hesitating." He looked down at her. "You can't have second thoughts while you're out there. Pausing to think can lead to being unmasked, injured, or possibly killed."
"Fine again." She turned back to Roy and took stance. He threw the first punch which she blocked, from there it was a blur of hits and kicks from both sides. Oliver only looked away when a hand touch his arm, he glanced over and found Felicity beside him.
"How is she doing?" she asked watching her daughter.
"She's good, really good. All she need's is to be faster." Oliver said.
"She'll get there soon, she's got great teachers." Felicity smiled. "Don't work her to hard." She walked away from him and over to her computers. Oliver turned his attention back to the sparring match. Addison had gained the upper hand now, backing Roy into the corner. Once she had him pinned to the wall he called the match.
"Alright, that was a lot better." He smiled and made his way down to the pair. "Thanks for helping us today Roy."
"No problem, got to make sure my niece knows how to properly kickass." Roy said pulling Addison against his side. "I need to go help Thea upstairs though, so you'll have to take over from here Hoodman."
"It's time for some archery practice anyway." Oliver watched as Addie's face lit up.
"Well have fun, try and out shoot your old man for me Addie." Roy smiled and headed upstairs. Oliver and his daughter headed back to the archery rang he had set up in the back of Foundry.
"You were still a little rusty last time we practiced." Oliver said as he strapped on his quiver and picked his bow up.
"Don't worry, I've been practicing." Addison smiled following her father's lead. "You can have first shot." Oliver stepped up and took stance aiming at the target, and of course he hit the bullseye right on.
"Show off." Addison mumbled as she took her father's spot and took her stance.
"Relax your shoulders a bit, take a breath. Remember your bow is an extension of yourself." Oliver helped her adjust her stance a bit and then she took the shot, hitting just a couple centimeters away from her fathers. "Much better." He smiled.
That night Tommy and Carson were at home with Thea while Addison was in the Foundry sitting with her mom. Oliver, Roy, and JD were out looking Johnny Abela for an up and coming mob boss who was attempting to take over the Glades. He was a drug dealer and a slumlord, who was overcharging his tenants for rundown apartments. She had beg her father to let her go but she insisted that she wasn't ready.
"They're still in the warehouse, looks like they have five or six men outside all entrance covered." Felicity said into the coms. "Arsenal there's two to your left, JD, one on your right." JD had chosen to follow his father's lead when it came to fighting bad guys, going for a gun and hand-to-hand combat over a bow and arrow. "Okay Arrow, you've got three guys on the main entrance." Addison like watching her mom at work, the way she was able to pull up just about anything the team needed and could keep an eye on the whole team at once. Diggle stayed behind her a second set of eyes watching the screen, ready to jump into action at the first sign of injury.
"All entrances clear." JD's voice sounded over the coms.
"Okay, Abela's inside but he's surrounded by about ten other guys, who look none too nice." Felicity said as the screen switched to the inside of the warehouse. They team busted in gaining the attention of everyone in the warehouse. Addison noticed how her mom tensed as the fighting began while she kept check on all three, her eyes seemed to keep returning to Oliver as he fought his way to Johnny. The guards didn't seem to stand a chance against Team Arrow, most of them being taken down in seconds and a few running for the exits. When Oliver finally had Abela cornered his voice sounded through the coms.
"Johnny Abela you have failed this city." It still shocked Addie how intense her dad's voice was when he was the Arrow. "Your actions have led to the further corruption of the Glades." An Arrow shot through the air and into Abela's shoulder. "Felicity, tell one of your friends at Sterling PD you have a gift for them in the glades." He said as Roy and JD tied Abela up.
"On it." Mom said taking her burner phone out and dialing a number.
"You guys headed back now?" Diggle asked as the trio headed back out of the building.
"Yeah will be back to the Foundry in fifteen minutes." Oliver's said before the coms went silent.
"I feel like I should have been able to go tonight." Addison huffed leaning against her mom's desk. "They didn't even have to work that hard."
"Your dad just wants to be sure you're completely ready before he sends you out there." Diggle said. "He wants to keep you safe, and sending you into a drug lords den is not exactly the way to do that."
"Yeah, but he can't keep me hidden down here forever, eventually they're going to need me and I'd like to have a bit of experience when that time comes." She sighed watching as her mother switched off the view of the warehouse.
"That's part of the reason he has you down here when the do these missions." Felicity told her daughter. "So you can watch and learn how they handle things when they go out. JD and Uncle Roy hated this part to when they first started training with your dad. No one like the waiting game." Moments later the rest of the team was joining them, taking they're hoods off as they came down the stairs.
"What'd ya think Addie? Did Uncle kick some ass or what?" Roy asked as he reached the bottom of the stairs.
"I saw uncle miss two of his shots." Addison teased. "Don't worry, I know you can't keep perfect aim with your old age."
"I just put new strings on my bow, they're still tight." Roy argued.
"Sure blame the equipment." Addison laughed. "Looks like dad may be training me as your replacement."
"Whatever little girl." Roy huffed before stalking off as the other's laughed.
Monday mornings always seemed to be like returning to the real word for Team Arrow. For Felicity it meant the craziness of trying to get Addison and Tommy to school and herself to work on time. Which meant being up at five the next morning getting herself ready for the day before making sure her kids were ready. When her alarm went off at five she got up and headed to the bathroom, hearing Addison in the gym already. Like Oliver she couldn't function properly without her morning workout. By five thirty Felicity was dressed and in the kitchen starting the coffee pot before heading upstairs to wake Tommy up. Like his mother Thomas Queen was not in any way, shape, or form a morning person. It took Felicity a full five minutes to get the boy to open his eyes and sit up in bed.
"Morning baby." She said as he wiped the sleep from his eyes.
"Good morning momma." He yawned. "Do I have to go to school today?" Felicity smiled.
"Yes you do, Mommy has to work and you and Addie have to go to school." She watched as he feel back on the bed.
"But it's so early." He whined.
"I know, mommy doesn't want to be up either." She sighed. "Come one, we need to get you ready." Felicity handed him the clothes she picked out for him, and after being sure he wouldn't fall back asleep she went back down to the kitchen. Addison was already down there and dressed sipping on a cup of coffee as she held another out to her mother.
"Drinking coffee now?" Felicity asked with a smile.
"For some reason I'm just not getting as much sleep as I use to." Addison smirked. "Therefore coffee is needed."
"How much sugar did you have to put in it?"
"I'm pretty sure it's more sugar than coffee, but I can actually drink it now." Addison laughed. "Diggle's picking me and Tommy up today right?"
"Yeah, he's going to bring the two of you over to QC after school." Felicity nodded. "Your dad has a late meeting and I have to make sure he has everything he needs." Tommy joined the two moments later climbing up on one of the barstools at the island.
"I want cereal." He said still sounding as if he was half asleep, Felicity and Addison chuckled as the older woman grabbed a bowl and fixed her son's breakfast.
"I was just telling sissy Uncle Dig is going to pick the two of you up and bring you to mommy and daddy's work after school." She said as she put the bowl down in front of him.
"The other kids think it's cool when Uncle Dig picks me up." Tommy smiled. "None of them have bodyguards for drivers."
"That's because none of them have Oliver Queen for daddy." Felicity laughed. By six-thirty the trio was headed out the door to the car; by seven-fifteen Felicity had dropped both kids off and was getting off the elevator on her floor of QC. Of course Oliver had beat her there, he always managed to. She walked into her section of the office and put her stuff down before going over to his.
"I thought you'd like to know that your daughter managed to be up before me this morning, and beat me to the coffee." She said causing him to look up.
"She's starting to slip into team habits." He chuckled and Felicity smiled.
"I having Diggle bring them both her after school since you have that meeting with our partners in Russia via Skype." Felicity leaned against the wall. "I figure that way I can make sure they both get their homework done and Addison doesn't have to worry about getting dinner for Tommy. I'll either order them something for here or get something on the way home depend on what time the meetings over."
"That's fine." He nodded. "I like having them stop by during the week, it makes the work day a bit more bearable." Felicity smiled and returned to her desk as her phone rang.
The work day at QC for Felicity consisted of; making sure Oliver signed the correct papers on time, setting up meetings with investors and potential partners, and answer calls and taking messages while he was in said meetings. All of this was done on top of her other job as IT director, throughout the day she had to check in with the IT manger and go through emails from the different departments of QC regarding technical errors and security issues. By the middle of the day she felt as if she'd done a full day's work.
"I say we should go out to lunch." Oliver said, drawing Felicity attention form the twenty emails she still had to read.
"I was just going to have something brought up." She looked up at him, "I've still got a lot to do."
"Fel-ic-ity." Oliver whined, "Let's go to lunch, I've been stuck in this office all morning and I want to get out for a bit. Please do make me go to lunch alone."
"Fine." She sighed while singing out of her email. "But if we're going out, we're going to Big Belly Burger, it's been forever since I've at there."
"Alright." He smiled. "Whatever you want." Moments later they were seated in their usually table at Big Belly Burger, Felicity happy to back in the familiar setting.
"How are the kids doing in school?" Oliver asked as they ate. "I haven't really had a chance to talk with Addie about it, and Tommy never gives me a straight answer."
"There doing well, Addison's got all A's. All of her teachers keep telling me how bright she is." Felicity smiled. "Tommy's grades are pretty good A's and B's, but he's constantly having problems in class. He likes to try and be the class clown."
"I was the same way when I was younger. My grades where good, but mom was always getting called to the office to talk about my behavior and class disruptions."
"I'm hoping he grows out of it before he and Carson have any classes together or those poor teachers won't know what to do." Felicity laughed. "They'll be playing Arsenal and Arrow in the hallways."
"It kind of scares me they admire us so much." Oliver sighed leaning back in his seat. "I know once they find out they'll both want to join the team."
"You're going to need someone to take over the Arrow hood when you retire." Felicity teased. "Addison and JD won't be able to do it all on they're own."
"It's still a scary thought though." He looked at her. "I'm not sure how you can be so calm about them being a part of all this."
"I'm not going to lie Oliver the idea of my babies out there scares me shitless, but I knew from the day Addison was born that this was a possibility. I have spent the last nineteen years worrying about you, Roy, and Diggle being out there and getting hurt, so I guess I'm just use to worrying." She gave him a small smile. "You've just got to remember that you can't keep them safe forever. Sooner or later they're going to grow up and they'll do things like that with or without your approval. At least if they're doing this with us, you can make sure they know what they're doing, and we have a better chance of making sure they come home each night."
At three-thirty Oliver Queen's office was quite except for the clicking of Felicity's fingers on the keyboard of her computer. Or at least it was until Tommy got of the elevator and came flying into the office.
"Daddy!" he yelled flying right past his mother and running to jump up in Oliver's lap. Addison followed him in saying hello to her mother before falling back on the couch in her father's office.
"I'm beyond ready for summer vacation." She sighed. "I'm ready to be done with all this school work."
"You've still got a few months." Felicity said as she came into the room to join them. "Mommy doesn't get a hello?" she asked turning to Tommy.
"Sorry I was really happy to see daddy." He said giving her a small smile. "We don't usually see him on Monday's."
"We should do this more often shouldn't we buddy." Oliver hugged his son tightly.
"Yeah! I could help daddy work." Tommy smiled.
"I think you being here might keep daddy from getting work done." Felicity said a hand on her hip. "Now you and Addie need to get started on homework." Tommy frowned and grumbled as he got down and grabbed his backpack from where he'd thrown it.
"Here buddy, you can work at my desk." Oliver said getting up from us seat and raising the chair a bit. Tommy happily took the offer as his dad went and sat by his sister on the couch. "Your brother has homework, what about you kid?"
"Nope, I'm merely here as a babysitter today." She smiled. "Our teachers decided they had worked us hard enough in class today."
"As much money as I pay for you to go to that school they better be working you hard." Oliver teased.
"Hey I never asked to go to Sterling Prep." Addison said.
"Yes, but your grandmother would have beat me if I didn't send you there. It is the unofficial high school of the Queens."
"Well I'm glad you're still afraid of Grandma." Addison smirked.
"Your grandma's a scary lady when she has to be." Oliver said, "She had to be as wild as Aunt Thea and I were when we were younger." At four-thirty Felicity and Oliver were gathering there things up and heading to the conference room, leaving Addison in charge of her younger brother who was now finished with his homework. Tommy was still seated at his father desk drawing on some paper Oliver had given him.
"Grandma said one day I might have daddy's job." He said after a while.
"Oh did she?" Addison turned her attention to her brother.
"Yeah, she said I'll be a proper Queen Business man." He smiled. "Just like daddy and Grandpa Walter, and Carson can work here too if he's not too busy running Verdant."
"And what will I be doing while you and Carson are running your business?" she asked.
"You'll do mommy's job since your pretty good with computers too." He told her as he started on his drawing.
"You've got it all figured out don't ya kid?" she smiled and he nodded. Addison would happily let her brother take over QC when there dad decided to retire, in all honesty in wasn't her thing. Running a business was too much responsibility for her, she'd much rather be put to work in the IT department like her mother.
The meeting with Russian's seemed to drag on forever. Felicity knew they were in fact friends of Oliver's and good business partners but she was ready to get home. By the time the video call had ended it was well past six o'clock and she knew Tommy was probably driving Addison crazy.
"Sorry that took so long." Oliver said as they walked back to his office.
"Its fine," Felicity gave him a small smile. "I'm just hoping Tommy hasn't completely destroyed your office."
"I'm sure he didn't do too much damage." Oliver laughed. "If he got to wild Addison probably tied him to the chair."
"That's not funny, she's threatened to do that before when I left the home alone together." Felicity looked up at him. "And Roy's been teach her the proper way to restrain someone in her training sessions" Oliver laughed as they entered the office. Addison was laid back on the couch reading a book and Tommy was playing a game on the tablet Felicity had left for him.
"My brother has decided he is now CEO of QC, and you daddy dearest are out of the job." She said when she heard them come in. "Grandma has already gifted him the position." She glanced over at him.
"Well my little CEO it's about time we head out." Felicity said earning a pout from Tommy.
"Felicity let me take you guys to dinner since I kept you so late." Oliver said turning to face her, watching as she though it over. "Come on Felicity, let me take my kids and the mother of children out to dinner just this once. It'll be fun."
"Okay, but nowhere that's going to be a long wait, Tommy still has to get a shower and I'd like to have him in bed by nine." Oliver nodded and Tommy ran over to him suddenly ready to go.
After a bit of a disagreement about where to go they ended up at a small dinner that had something everyone would eat. Oliver sat across from Felicity his son beside him having a battle with his dinosaur chicken nuggets.
"Aunt Sara sent me an email today." Addison said halfway through the meal. "She said she's in Pairs at the moment and she'll try and come by Sterling as soon as she can."
"I like Aunt Sara she always has cool presents for me." Tommy said before biting the head off one of the dino nuggets.
"She said she was glad that I had taken up archery again." Addison said glancing at her father.
"Yeah I sent her an email last week telling her you we're practicing with your dad again." Felicity smiled.
"When can I start archery?" Tommy asked turning to his parents.
"Maybe if you're good, we'll see about getting you a bow like Addie's old one for your birthday in a few months." Oliver told him, making the little boy smile.
"I want it to look just like the Arrow's." he said, "Then Carson will be so jealous."
"Are you and Carson till planning on dressing up as the Arrow and Arsenal for Halloween?" Addison asked her younger brother.
"Yep." He said popping the p. "Aunt Thea said she could get us really good costumes."
"I'm sure she can." Addison nodded, "There's not much Aunt Thea can't get when it comes to clothing." After dinner Oliver told his kids and Felicity goodbye before heading to the Foundry to do patrol with Roy and JD.
"You're a bit late." Roy said as Oliver emerged dressed in his Arrow outfit.
"I had some business to take care of." Oliver pick his quiver up and strapped it on before looking at his two team members. "You guys ready to head out?" They nodded and the trio headed up the stairs.
Thursday afternoon Addison found herself in her dad's office for the second time that week. Thea had picked Tommy up from school and Addison had headed over to QC. After running into her mom, who was on her way to the IT department, she headed up to her dad's office. She knocked on the door as she entered causing him to look up at her.
"Addie, what are you doing here?" he asked, standing and walking over to hug her.
"I was wanting to talk to you about a part time internship her at QC." She looked up at him. Oliver glanced at her and the motioned for her to have a seat as he sat in his chair behind the desk.
"The school is offering a half day internship opportunity," Addison explained, "we're all responsible for finding our own placements and making sure everything is taken care of with the school and the place we'll be working."
"I don't see why it would be a problem." Oliver nodded, "You'll have to be sure your mom's okay with you taking this on, and your school work is going to come first."
"I'll go downstairs and talk to mom as soon as we're done here." Addison smiled.
"You're going to be working directly under your mom and me." Oliver told her. "More so your mom since I know the IT department is what you have your eye on. You'll be expected to work as any of our other interns would, and if you disobey any of the rules you'll dropped. No special treatment just because you're a Queen."
"Yes sir." Addison nodded.
"Alright, now go talk it over with mom if she says it's alright we'll get the paperwork drawn up tomorrow morning and have it ready for you in the afternoon." Addison thanked him, kissing his cheek before turning to head out of the office. She found Felicity moments later down in her second office, in the IT department.
"Did you get to talk to your dad?" she asked as Addison sat in the chair opposite of her.
"Yes, he said that I would be able to partake in a half day internship supported by the school as long as I had your permission also." She smiled at her mom. "So can I?"
"I don't see a problem with it as long as your grades aren't affected." Felicity nodded. "After all you've always planned on coming to work her once you've finished school, the one the job training will be good for you. How many days a week will it be?"
"Just two, Tuesdays and Thursdays from twelve until three." Addison told her mother. "That leaves plenty of time for homework and I'll still be able to do my….private lessons on the weekend."
"Alright, I'll discuss it all with your father before I head home." Felicity smiled. "Diggle's downstairs, have him take you to get Tommy and you two go ahead home, I should only be here another hour or so."
"Okay, thanks mom." Addison kissed her cheek before heading out the door.
A/N: Yeah for three hour breaks in between classes lol. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I'm going to try and update at least once a week maybe more depending on how inspired I am. Keep the reviews coming.
