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Chapter 23
"What was that you said about a mole?" Adam asked
"Well, how did you think we know so much about you and everyone else in the manor?" Rodney said with a smirk.
"It certainly would explain a lot." Adam said.
"But unlike Felicity, this one's still active. So, I guess you have some work to do." Rodney said still smirking.
"I guess I do, but don't worry I'll find them. Oh, and before I go Felicity, Adam 1?"
"What?" They both asked.
"I will tell you what I will tell the mole. No matter what he says or does you do not matter to him and he will kill you when you stop being useful. Felicity in your case he killed your parents honestly I found the digital files in his St Louis base. All so he could minipulate you." Adam said.
"Boy, does someone have it backwards." Other Felicity said with a smirk through narrowed eyes.
Adam paused about to teleport off, but that statement had gotten his interest so he picked Felicity up and walked into another room. He unfroze her let her sit down then refroze her. "Explain." He said simply.
"You seem shocked." She stated simply. "Did you really think that incompetent baboon was the one pulling the reigns? By the way, he didn't kill my parents. It's my company, I can make the files say whatever I want."
"So it was you? You have been steadily minipulating him and me. Well I can't say I'm not impressed." Adam said.
"Wasn't really that hard. You just have to be smarter than you pretend to be."
"Oh you are good or evil I guess I should say."
"And all under his collection of names, no one would suspect the seventeen-year old brat who flunked every class she's ever taken."
"Isn't telling me this a bad idea?" Adam asked.
"I have my own reasoning." She said simply. "That of which a simple mind such as your own could not possibly understand."
"A simple mind like mine, eh? I disagree with your assumtion of me, but there is nothing I can really do now is there? Though if you had just left me alone to begin with you realize I would have left you alone right?"
"See?" She asked simply. "Couldn't possibly understand."
"So, last question why don't I just toss you out the window we are forty stories up and your frozen." Adam said.
"You think I didn't think of that? There's a chip in me connected to a kill chip in your wife. If my heart stops so does hers." She said seriously through narrowed eyes.
Adam narrowed his own eyes. "I will kill you understand that?" Adam asked.
"No you won't." Other Felicity said simply. "We both know that."
"Not today no, but soon."
"We'll just have to see about that." She said confidently.
"Do your homework people who say that to me tend to die." Adam said preparing to transport again.
"I'm not like the other's, Adam. You will see in due time."
"Heard that one before too." Adam said before disapearing and reappearing in his and Felicity's room.
Felicity was still trying to calm Roslyn down, but to no avail. "Where were you?" She asked having not even turned around.
"You really don't want to know." Adam said. The second he spoke Roslyn calmed down and smiled a little baby smile.
Felicity let out a sigh of relief that Roslyn stopped crying as she turned around. "I guess probably not, but looks like Roslyn missed her daddy."
Adam smiled taking Roslyn into his arms she snuggled into Adam's chest as he began to rock her to sleep. "We have a few problems." Adam whispered to Felicity as he continued to rock back and forth.
"What kind of problems?" Felicity asked in a whisper but she knew they could only be the worst kind since it's Adam.
"You have a chip in your head that kills you when the other you dies and she's the brains. Oh, and we have mole somewhere here." Adam said
Felicity pinched the bridge of her nose. Things will never be easy for them. "Ok, so we need to expose and dispose of the mole, deactivate the chip, and kill the other me in that exact order?"
"No, I'm getting that chip first." Adam whispered nodding his head towards his sonic screwdriver.
"But if the mole finds out…" Felicity trailed off.
"They won't whoever they are they went to bed long ago and they can't see or hear us in here." Adam said.
Felicity nodded and closed her eyes whispering, "Ok, do it."
Adam scanned her head and found the chip near her stomach he pressed the tip of his screwdriver to it and it turned red. Felicity let out a slight hiss and then a burp as the tiny chip short circuted and fell into her stomach acid.
"Don't tell anyone but I was wrong." Adam admited in a whisper as he put his screwdriver away bringing that hand back to support his daughter. "It was by your stomach, not your head."
"Well, to be fair, that is the perfect place to put it because the stomach and the stomach acid melts everything."
"So, now we need to find the mole." Adam said with a yawn.
"No, you sleep." Felicity said.
"I'm fine, Felicity." Adam said before looking down at Roslyn and noticing that she had fallen back asleep.
"Adam, you need to sleep." She said.
"Ok but so do you?" Adam said putting Roslyn in her crib.
"I will promise." She said.
Since Adam was still in his pajamas, having even went to Wolfgang Industries in them, Adam just crawled right into bed.
Felicity climbed in and snuggled up next to him and within minutes they were both asleep.
They had managed to sleep for about an hour and a half till Rosyln got hungry and started crying. Felicity groaned she had to get up Roslyn was to young for a bottle she had to be breast fed.
Felicity got up and took off her shirt before picking up Roslyn and breast feeding her. When she was done Roslyn burped and smiled at her.
Felicity smiled back and kissed her forehead. 'Good thing she didn't wake Adam up.' She thought. She set Roslyn down in her crib again and she fell asleep quickly. Felicity smiled and went back to sleep.
The next morning they were woken again by Roslyn crying. Adam walked up to her finding that she had a full diaper.
"Aw, Roslyn you had to poop huh?" He asked getting a fresh diaper and wipes. He changed her diaper and realized something he turned to his wife who was just sitting up watching him. "Do you happen to know today's date?" He couldn't live with himself if he literally never knew his daughter's birthday.
"February 4th." Felicity answered since she had started keeping track of those. "Might wanna remember that one."
"Yeah I will." Adam said awkwardly.
Felicity got up and walked over to them putting her shirt back on. "Good, it would be a disaster if either of us ever forget that."
"Yes it would be." Adam said picking Roslyn up. "Isn't that right Roslyn?" Adam asked.
Though she didn't understand a word he was saying, Roslyn gave one of those cute little baby giggles in response.
"Mom was right, the love is instant and unconditional." Adam said turning to Felicity. "So, who gets first shower?"
"Well, me of course." Felicity said in a 'duh' voice before giving him a kiss and blurring off but she was still a lot slower than she was before the pregnancy.
"Your mother is still sore because of you." Adam chuckled slightly smiling and walking over to the small bath tube and starting Roslyn's bath. Roslyn stared at the water curiously and tried to reach her little hand out to it.
"Careful Roslyn, we need to make sure it's not to hot." Adam said stopping her little hand. Roslyn looked up at her father then back at the water and withdrew her hand.
"You are really smart for your age." Adam smiled adjusting the water and then placing her in the tub.
She smiled and laughed a little when she got in the water. She moved her arm in the water accidently splashing him but she surpisingly looked kind of guilty when she did so, she didn't know it would do that.
Adam just smiled. "It's alright Roslyn."
Roslyn smiled and moved her arms in the water more carefully this time. She liked the way this stuff felt.
"Well, at least you got daddy's love of water." Adam said smiling as she moved her arms around slowly. Roslyn giggled as Adam wet a wash cloth and started carefully washing her off. She giggled as the cloth tickled her stomach.
"She seems to be enjoying herself." Said a familiar voice from across the room.
"Yeah, she likes the bath." Adam said.
"That's a relief its hard to bathe a fussy baby." Felicity said with a smile as she walking up to her husband and daughter.
"Not our little girl, she loves the water." Adam said smiling.
"I can see that." Felicity said with a smile. "She obviously got that from you."
"Yeah, but she has your pesonality." Adam said
"How's that?" She asked curiously.
"She's just so, energetic." Adam said.
"I'm not really any more energetic than you are." Felicity corrected.
"Plus, I was right, this girl has me weak." Adam said.
"You're getting better at that with me though." Felicity reminded. "You wouldn't tell me that she's a she even though I gave you my sad eyes."
"Yeah, but we both know you have other ways." Adam said
"Yeah, but one of which I can never tell you." Felicity said referring to the pressure point since it would work on her, too.
"Why not?" Adam asked letting the water out of Roslyns bath.
"Because, than you'd use it on me." Felicity stated simply.
Roslyn noticed the water was going away and started crying.
"It's okay Roslyn you can take another bath later." Adam said picking her up and wrapping her in a towel.
Since Roslyn obviously didn't understand what he said, she just kept crying. "Aw poor Roslyn." Adam said begining to rock back and forth as he walked.
Roslyn calmed down as they walked. "You're pretty good at that." Felicity observed.
"Well, I used to babysit a lot when I lived in Miami and I learned that it's the best way to calm them down other than feeding them, but in Roslyns case I can't do that she's not old enough." Adam said setting her on the changing table and putting her in a diaper.
"Well, thank goodness for that." Felicity said in relief remembering how much trouble she had when Adam had left. "I'm not very good at that."
"You'll get the hang of it. Trust me it took me a while to get it." Adam said
"But until than, I have you." Felicity said giving him a kiss. "… and hopfully not JUST till then.
"Nope I'll always be here for both of you. Now will you get her dressed while I shower?" He asked.
"Of course." Felicity said picking out some clothes.
Adam kissed them each on the cheek and blurred off to shower
Felicity got Roslyn dressed with little difficulty till it was time to put those little bootie things on. Not only was it extremely difficult for Felicity with her own peterphobia but the second she got them on Roslyn just started screaming so Feliss took them off and she stopped. "You are definitely my daughter." She said throwing the booties across the room.
"Ow, who throws tiny shoes?" Adam asked he had entered and been hit in the head with them.
Felicity turned to Adam with a nervous smile. "Sorry, I didn't see you there."
"Why are you throwing Roslyn's shoes?" Adam asked.
"She didn't like them." Felicity stated. "I tried putting them on her and she started crying, I took them off and she stopped."
"She is your daughter." Adam said.
"Yeah, she definitely got that one from me." Felicity said with a smile.
"Told you." Adam said.
"So, what's the plan for the mole?" Felicity asked changing the subject. "We can't really talk to anyone else about it because they might be the mole themself."
"I think whoever the mole is has a sonic screwdriver." Adam said
"That would certainly narrow it down but what makes you so sure?" Felicity asked picking up Roslyn.
"They already knew about Roslyn." Adam said.
Felicity sighed worriedly. "Ok then there's you, who it obviously isn't, my dad, Dr. Baljeet, and I'm assuming Isabella and James, who have the other five?"
"Ferb, Gretchen, Candace, and Isabella 1."
"That only makes nine." Felicity observed. "What about the last one?"
"Well there's just one left." Adam said.
"And that one doesn't have an owner?" Felicity asked a little confused.
"No, it does not." Adam said.
"O… kay." Felicity decided to touch more on that later and focus on the task at hand. "That makes it a little bit easier but what's the plan to figure out which of the eight it is?"
"Anyone who has one can't lie to mine or else."
"Or else what?" Felicity asked curiously.
"If I told you it would ruin the fun." Adam said.
Felicity shrugged it off. "Ok, what are we going to ask? We can't exactly walk up to them and ask, 'Are you the mole?'."
"I'll call a meeting in the library." Adam said.
"Could just work but what if the mole's Candace or Isabella 1? If it's anyone else, the solutions simple but they out rank you." Felicity asked. "What will we do then? Frankly I'm the most suspicious of them because they always demand to know EVERYTHING that happens in the manor and a mole would have to so that they can report the information."
"If it's one of them, the other can arrest." Adam said
"And you're positive it's only one mole?" Felicity asked. Anywhere else she's look paranoid but here the thoughts not very far off at all. "No one Wolfgang Industries ever really told me very many of those things."
"Yeah, I'm sure one mole. Easy enough right?"
"That's what has me worried." Felicity stated simply. "Nothing's ever that easy for us."
"This time it is."
"Ok then, when's the meeting going to be?" Felicity asked. "Right now?"
"Can you handle it right now?" Adam asked.
"Yeah," Felicity said confidently. "We need to get rid of them as soon as possible."
"Yeah, ok."
"So, will everyone be at the meeting or just the suspects?" Felicity asked uncertain.
"Everyone."
"Probably best, then we better get to work." Felicity agreed shifting Roslyn in her arms slightly.
"You two enjoy yourselves, I'll get everyone." Adam said
"Ok," Felicity said still feeling useless but doing a pretty good job at hiding it. "You sure you got it?"
"Yeah I got it, but Feliss I have to ask why do you feel useless. I can read your emotions." Adam said frowning though she noted this was the first time he had called her Feliss since his return.
"Ever since you found out I was pregnant I haven't been able to do anything myself." Felicity said temporarily disregarding the returned nickname.
"I'm sorry, Feliss I was just trying to make sure you and Roslyn were okay."
"I know, and I understand that, but at times it almost felt like…" Felicity voice trailed. She knew what she was going to say but she couldn't bring herself to say it. It didn't even make that much sense. It was an unfair comparison.
"Like what?" Adam asked.
Felicity had barely muttered it but Adam could hear her as she said, "The table."
"The table? I made you feel like that?" He said feeling guilty.
"No Adam, it was a stupid and ilogical comparison and I don't even know where it came from." Felicity said regretting saying it.
"Well, I still feel bad." Adam said.
"It's ok, Adam." Felicity heard herself say. Honestly, she knew exactly why she felt that way, it was only when he was gone though, how she couldn't leave her bed, no one cared what happened to her, and she was just alway unsure of if it will ever change. That's what gets you on the table, not the physical torture, not the rape. just the feeling of being an object instead of a person. That feeling was gone now and will hopefully never come back.
"Are you sure?" He asked.
Felicity hesitated, "Well, it is now."
Adam pulled them both into a hug.
"I love you, Adam." Felicity whispered as if it was a secret but she couldn't return the hug since Roslyn was occupying her arms.
"I love you too Feliss." Adam said. As if to remind them she was there Roslyn made a small noise.
Adam pulled away and bent down to his daughter. "Aw, do you just need attention, Roslyn?"
She just starred up at them then laughed.
Adam tickled the bottom of her foot slightly causing her to giggle more. "You are too cute for your own good Roslyn." He said standing up.
"I need to get going though, I still have a meeting to arrange and a mole to bag." Adam reminded his wife.
"Alright, I going to go show off my daughter everyone does not know yet." She said
"Then why not just come with me?" Adam offered since he had to go get everyone anyways.
"Sure, why not?" Felicity said smiling. The three of them head out of the room in search of everyone else.
The first group they came across were Gretchen, James, Ferb, and Adyson 1. "Hey guy." Adam said getting their attention.
They all turned around and of course the first thing they noticed was Roslyn. Though she was still mad at Felicity, Adyson 1 was the first to respond hurrying up to her and bending down to the newborn's level. "Aw! She's so cute!"
"Thank you, her names Roslyn." Felicity said smiling
Adyson 1 shot a short glare at Felicity before turning back to Roslyn, "Why didn't you tell be she was born? When did it happen?" She asked directed at Adam.
"She was born last night and most of you were sleeping we saw no point to wake everyone. Hey Adyson can I talk to you for a second?" Adam asked carefully as the others came over.
"O…k." Adyson 1 said in slight uncertainty as she stood up.
"Can you stop shooting the glares at Felicity please?" Adam asked.
"Come on, you can't tell me you actually forgive and trust her." Adyson 1 said as if Felicity wasn't right in front of her. "Sure, I was a traitor once but that's completely different. A traitor was truely on the same side just made a bad decision. A double agent was never on the same side and was literally sent here so they could mess with your head and DESTROY us. You can't just sidestep that, Adam."
"I didn't just sidestep that, but I did find out she attempted to warn me early on and I never caught on. Also you and James very literally tried to stab me in the back and you don't see me glaring at you." Adam said.
The others were so caught up in Roslyn they were not hearing anything the two said
"It's a completely different situation. Traitors can and usually do switch their loyalty back to where it was originally." Adyson 1 said having seemingly not heard the thing about the warning. "Well, guess what Felicity is now, she's a traitor against Rodney. She could switch back just as easily as James, Katie, and I did."
"That may be , but you totally ignored what else I said she tried to warn me I didn't catch on and believe me she won't go back. Rodney has that damn table." Adam said
Adyson 1 sighed, "Fine, I guess you're right, I'll stop glaring at her but understand that it will take awhile before I can really trust her again."
"Thank you and I know." Adam said.
Though she wasn't asked to, Adyson 1 turned to Felicity, "I'm sorry for glaring at you."
"It's okay, I actually would have been suprised if a few of you didn't." Felicity said
"There's actually another reason we're here though." Adam interupted.
"Oh?" Ferb asked.
"Yeah I'm calling a meeting in the library in about twenty minutes and I want everyone there." Adam said.
"Ok, well be sure to be there." James said.
"Good, and spread the word." Adam said.
"Okay, will do." James said. "Anything else?"
"Be sure to bring your screwdriver." Adam said looking at him and Ferb.
"Am I suppose to bring mine, too?" Gretchen asked noticing that he only looked at James and Ferb.
"Yes, you should." Adam said.
"Ok, and that's all?"Gretchen double-checked.
"That's all, we have to get the others." Adam said.
"Ok, we'll see you in thirty minutes, then." Adyson 1 said and Adam and Felicity headed off with Roslyn obviously still in Felicity's arms.
"That went about as well as I expected." Adam said.
A half hour later, everyone was gathered in the library, even Phineas was there shockingly enough, and those who have sonic screwdrivers had them with them.
"People, we are here today because we have a mole in here."
Everyone in the manor seemed shocked to say the least as a few whispers broke out. Whoever this mole is is hiding it very well. Not that it will matter in a second.
"So, were going to flush them out."
While keep their compoture, somewhere in the crowd, the mole tapped this in morse code on their thigh. 'He's on to us, he hasn't figured out it's but knowing his that will only last a few seconds.'
"So, first I'll try the easy way. Everyone with a sonic screwdriver come here please." Adam said.
Both Isabellas, Candace, James, Dr. Baljeet, Mr. Danials, Ferb, and Gretchen all stepped up to him.
Adam held his own up and the tip turned dark green. "Now to all of you, are you the mole?" Adam asked simply.
Naturally, everyone had said no but 'suddenly' there was a small yip as the blue sonic screwdriver hit the ground now red with the same thermal energy that had just burned it's owner.
Adam starred shocked at Isabella 1 "So, you're the mole."
Isabella 1 looked down holding her burned hand with the other one. "Yes."
"That explains your need to know everything." Adam said.
"I'm sorry," Isabella 1 said still not looking up. "but it was my brother, family first right?"
"Family first. What about us? Everyone in this Manor, are a family." Candace said.
"I know," Isabella 1 said with a sigh. "Just do what you need with me. I deserve it."
"Fine, as of this moment you are demoted and will be kept in your room until further notice. Also, in light of this Adam you're head of Firestorm."
Isabella 1 nodded in understanding taking off her leader badge and giving it to Adam.
"What, I'm not sure that's something you want." Adam said
"What do you mean, Adam?" Candace asked.
"I don't think you want me as leader."
"I wouldn't have said so if I didn't." Candace said simply. "Besides, it is customary that if the current head is unable continue his or her duties for whatever reason, then the second-in-command take's their place and chooses a new second-in-command themselves."
"Are you sure about this?" Adam asked.
"Yes, and I'll make sure you know what to do." Candace said confidently.
"Can I pick more than one second?" Adam asked.
"Well, it's never been done before but I suppose it could be arranged." Candace said having a feeling she knows where this is going.
"Okay, I pick Isa and Feliss. Also I'm merging my dad organization with Firestorm" Adam said.
"No." Felicity said in a voice that said that that's final, their daughter still in her arms. "I can't accept that Adam. Almost everyone here knows that I'm not anywhere close to deserving of it."
"I say you do and it's my choice isn't it?"
"I can't accept that, Adam." Felicity repeated stubbornly. "Not after what I did."
"Why not?"
"Because, it's not fair to anyone else. I'm a bad person." Felicity said. "Isabella 1 just leaked some information to the enemy and she got demoted and put under room arrest for it. I literally tried to kill you and destroy Firestorm for it and I suddenly get premoted to co-second-in-command for it? How does that make any sense?"
"Alright fine, if you don't want it, but I think you deserve it. Despite that."
"You know what, how about this? If one other person here says I deserve it than I'll accept the offer." Felicity haggled.
"I think you do." Candace said.
Felicity sighed and looked up at Candace but nodded. "Ok, I accept."
"Good, Isabella take...Isabella to her room." Adam said. Isabella picked her counterpart up and blurred off with her. "Any body have any questions?" Adam asked. No one had any. "Good your all dismissed." Adam said.
Everyone but Felicity and obviously Roslyn left to do their own thing. "Your gonna help me with how to do this right?" She asked.
"Of course I am, Feliss." Adam said.
"What about Roslyn? Second-in-command's one thing but I imagine being the head's a lot of work, then to have the other parent as second?" Felicity sighed. "It will be difficult. Not impossible but difficult."
"Feliss, if you don't want to do this, I won't make you."
Felicity just stared down at her daughter who had fallen asleep during the meeting. "I don't know what I want ok? I know I love you and Roslyn and I know I'm kind of hungry but that's really all I do know right now." She said really only bringing up her hunger knowing it will get him off of this for now.
"Let's get you some food then." Adam said smilng.
"Pork chops, please." Felicity requested not really caring what time of day it is.
"I can do that."
The three of them headed over to the nearest kitchen.
"I'm sorry putting all that pressure on you Feliss."
"It's ok, you kind of get use to crazy stuff like this. Hopefully, it'll calm down a little bit so that Roslyn could have a relatively normal childhood." Felicity said.
"Yeah, I should calm down too now huh?" Adam asked.
"Not really, I was referring to the murderous psychopaths always tryig to kill us." Felicity said casually.
"Yeah, we do seem to attract those, huh?" Adam chuckled.
"Definately, but I really hope Roslyn won't, at any age really." Felicity said looking down a her. "I know it's unlikely because we both do but I still hope."
"She won't I will make sure of that." Adam said setting about cooking.
Felicity chuckled at that. "I'm pretty that sure if I knew how to prevent that, you'd prevent that with us as well."
"Yeah, but this is the last one." Adam said.
"What makes you so sure?" Felicity asked.
"Because everyone who could become one because of taking the other you down is being taken out." Adam said.
"I guess you're right." Felicity said with a smile. "It'll feel weird though, having no one trying to kill us."
"Yeah it will, but a good kind of weird." Adam said.
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