Chapter 6:

Turned out there was more in Central Oliver needed to attend to then interdimensional travelers. He and Felicity had stopped at Jitters to try out some Flash espressos (Felicity's ideas of course.)

Flashback

"I'll have two Flashes." Oliver asked the Barista before turning back towards Felicity.

Not really looking where he was going he tripped over a little boy who had bent over to get his Flash figurine. Eerily familiar blue eyes met his own.

"Sorry." The little boy said.

"It's okay." Oliver watched in shock as the boy turned and ran to a familiar woman.

"Sandra?" Oliver asked.

"Oliver. Good to see you again. I'm sorry but I have to go." She turned and quickly ushered her son out the door.

"Oliver, what's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost. Not the kind they are fighting back home, but the supernatural kind. But of course you know all about the supernatural. I'm rambling again."

"I need to tell you something."

"What's wrong? Are you breaking up with me?"

"No. Never Felicity. That woman I was talking to, I saw her the last time we were in central. But before that I knew her from my time before the Island…"

Oliver launched into the whole story, how he had gotten Sandra pregnant during a one-night stand. How scared he was. How he had told his mother. How a week later he was told Sandra miscarried.

"But I just saw her with a little boy. One whos…." He couldn't finish.

"You think she lied. But why?"

"I have no idea. But Felicity what if he is my son?" Oliver looked helpless. "I could be a father and never have known it."

"We need to find out first. You think you could get a hair?" Felicity looked like she was coming up with a plan.

"I think so. Can you find out where she lives? Her name is Sandra Hawke."

"Here's the address. We'll stop there on the way to Star."

So here they were right in front of the house. Oliver was sitting in the car watching as Sandra made sure her son was in the seat. With a nod of reassurance from Felicity he got out of the car and quickly walked over to Sandra.

"Oliver." She dropped a baseball hat in shock.

"Hi again Sandra." Oliver picked it up, discreetly picking a hair out of it before handing it back.

"Why are you here?"

"Is he mine?"

"Connor? No, I met someone after I moved here a month or so later."

"I just thought… He looks around the age."

"You thought wrong. Now I need to bring Connor to a baseball game. It was nice to see you again."

"Yes it was." She said before turning to her car and handing the hat to her son.

Oliver walked back to his own car where Felicity held a plastic bag open. He dropped the hair in.

"I'll have Barry run the test when we get to the lab."

"What if he's mine? I asked if he was and she said he wasn't. She was lying though I know it."

"We'll take it one step at a time. Like everything else we do. Well everything I do. You just jump into everything."

"That I do." Oliver agreed hitting the gas and heading towards Star Labs.

"Hey!"

Barry greeted Felicity with a hug before turning to Oliver with his arms open obviously expecting a hug from him as well.

"I'm not a huggy person."

"You know I could just hug you superfast without you knowing?"

"Fine. No one can know of this."

"You guys good?" Barry said after initiating a hug with Oliver.

"Fine but I need you to do me a favor. Can you run these two hairs for a DNA test?"

"Pleasure." Barry replied

"Where is our interdimensional traveler?" Felicity finally disrupted, (It was amazing she was quiet for so long)

"Someone called?" Wally came speeding into the room.

"You're Wally West?" Oliver looked incredulous. This kid couldn't be more than 22.

"That's me. I'm guessing you're Oliver Queen."

"You know me?"

"Yeah. I'm just used to you with a goatee."

"A goatee?" Felicity giggled.

"So you're Felicity Smoak? I guess Ollie in every world likes blonds."

"Your Laurel is a natural blond? I'm sure not."

"Your Canary isn't blond? Weird."

"So I guess we're gonna help you get home." Felicity said.

"Yeah, Cisco's working on blueprints for a machine that could help me get home. It's based on the idea of Zeta tubes from my earth."

"What are those?" As Felicity and Wally discussed the science behind zeta tubes Barry and Oliver left to discuss other things.

"Any luck with Ray?" Barry asked when they entered the lab and he started the DNA test.

"Thea, Digg and Laurel found him. He's fine and on his way over with the rest of them."

"Good. The more I hear from this kid the more I want to get him home."

"That bad?"

"You heard what I told you and Felicity."

"I guess. I mean I'm not the Arrow anymore so our universe is going in a completely different direction then theirs."

"I think it already is. There's a lot of differences."

"But apparently some things are the same."

"Apparently, he's given away a lot of stuff while he was here."

"Like Cisco being a meta? What exactly are his powers?"

"Yeah, we asked him about that. He figured it out when I changed the timeline."

"Wait changed the timeline?"

"Mardon created a tidal wave that was going to destroy Central City-"

"I think we would have heard about this."

"I'm not done yet. I ran fast enough to stop it, but it also sent me a day back in time."

"You traveled through time? Like Back to the Future?"

"Kind of. After I changed the timeline by capturing Mardon early Cisco started having visions."

"Visions?"

"Dr. Wells, I meant Eobard Thawne, killed him in that universe."

"Cisco had visions of that?"

"We knew but thought it was just a fluke, he did as well. That is until Wells told him that he was a meta when we fought him. Cisco had told him about the vision and Wells said he would do the same thing but that Cisco was a meta with the gift to see through the vibrations of the universe."

"That's deeply disturbing. I never thought I would feel bad for Cisco. Has Caitlyn shown any latent meta abilities?"

"None," just then the machine processing the DNA test dinged, "Here it's done. A paternal match between the second hair and first."

Barry handed the paper to him and Oliver took it in a state of shock. This was happening, he was a father. HE had a son, a son he had never met. Oh god, what was he going to do? Felicity. Felicity would know. He had to tell Felicity. Turning around to find her he asked Barry one last thing.

"Don't tell anyone about the test you just ran."

"Oliver what is going on?"

"Please, just don't tell anyone. I have something I need to work out. I don't think Felicity and I will be staying here much longer."

"We need your help."

"Someone else needs me more." Oliver answered briskly signaling that the conversation was over.