It had been a couple days since they had discovered the ghost and Oliver and Felicity had not let Tommy out of their sight. Oliver had pushed back meetings and spent most of his time in the bunker with Tommy and Felicity trying to find anything they could on their unwelcomed visitor and when he couldn't be there, there was always someone with the little boy at all times.
But the main thing Felicity and Oliver made sure was that the little boy didn't suspect that anything was wrong, so they paid extra attention to him to keep him happy and keep his suspicions low. They brought ice cream to him and they read extra bed time stories and let him stay up five more minutes when he didn't want to go to bed. They did whatever they could to keep him happy and they were more than willing to do it.
On the third day after the revelation Oliver woke up to his phone buzzing on the bedside table beside him. He slowly reached his left arm out towards the buzzing because his right arm was occupied at the moment, offering Felicity a nice soothing backrub.
Once he reached the phone he pushed the answer button without looking at it and said "Hello".
"Hey Ollie" Sara said.
"Hey, Sara" Oliver said sitting up, as he was suddenly more awake. "What's going on, is the ship repaired" Oliver asked while he tried to untangle himself from Felicity while trying not to wake her, which he succeeds.
"Well not yet" she said hesitantly. "But I just got your message, can we meet in 3o" she asked.
"Yeah, I'll be there" he said and then hung up the phone. Before he stood up he looked back at Felicity. Her hair was fanned out across the pillows and he was so engrossed by her beauty. He slowly bent down and kissed her forehead and then got up to get dressed for the day.
Before he left he stopped in the little boy's room to make sure he was ok, and the sight before him made him stop and just gaze at the boy before his eyes.
Tommy was holding his Green Arrow action figure to his chest while he was still entranced with sleep. As he slowly made his way over to his son he kneeled down and pushed the little boy's hair to the side and softly gave him a kiss on the forehead. And as soon as he did it he got back up and walked quietly out of the room and left to find Sara.
When he reached the spot, Sara told him to meet, he was left confused when there was nothing there. After a minute of looking around dumbfoundedly, there was a flash of light in front of him and suddenly a ship showed up before his eyes.
"Hey" Sara said walking down the ramp.
"Hey" Oliver said with shock still clearly on his face.
"You act like you've never seen a time ship before" she said with an amused look on her face.
"Well, as a matter of fact I haven't" Oliver said quickly shaking away the shock. "Now we need to talk."
"Agreed, follow me" she said, and they both made their way up the ramp into the ship.
Once they made their way to the main bay Sara interrupted the silence.
"So, what's going on, you seemed very urgent."
"A couple days ago, I found a Ghost staking out across from our apartment."
"Ok, two questions, first one what are Ghost's because I'm assuming that we're not talking about the ones that come back and haunt you in the afterlife. And second question, 'our' apartment, are you Felicity back together" she asked as she sat in the nearest chair.
"Ghosts are the people that worked for Darhk, and they are significant because I made sure that all of them were dead."
"And the second one" she said with a raised eyebrow.
"Is not relevant at the moment."
"Fine" she said with a sigh, and rolled out of her seat and went to the main control. "Gideon, have there been any disturbances in the last couple days?"
"In fact, there has been Ms. Lance, about 4 days ago, there was a disturbance in the timeline" Gideon said.
"What kind of disturbance" Oliver asked crossing his arms and looking at the figure before him.
"A man by the name of Eobard Thawne was seen arriving outside of Star City with another man."
"The Ghost" Oliver muttered, while Sara can only respond with a "Who?"
With a sigh, Oliver turns to her and explains who the man is. "He's the Reverse Flash, he's one of Barry's nemeses, it's a long story. But the point is, he can time travel."
"He can" Sara asked with shock and confusion painting her face.
Ignoring her Oliver turns back to Gideon, "Gideon, is he still here?"
"Yes, Eobard Thawne is still here."
"Where" Oliver asked pressing on.
"Here in Star City."
"What?" Oliver asked as fear started to slowly creep in his veins. And without thinking he grabbed his phone and pushed his speed dial. "Hey, I need a favor. I need you to get here as soon as possible, we have a problem." And with that he started to walk away.
"Hey Ollie" Sara said trying to catch up to him. "Hey" she said again this time grabbing his arm and making him look at her. "What is going on?"
"That man is dangerous and he is after Tommy, and we need to get back to the lair and make a plan."
And with that they made their way to the lair without another word.
On the other side of the city, Felicity woke up with her hands reaching and landing on an empty and cold bed. When she realized, Oliver wasn't there, her eyes immediately opened. When the fog cleared from her mind and she put on her glasses she saw that he was indeed not there. After checking her phone, she found a text message from him reading: "Hey, went to talk to Sara, I'll be back later".
After reading the text she got out of bed and put on her robe and put it in her pocket, and walked out of the room. Once she reached the hallway she made her way to Tommy's room. When she reached the door, she peeked in and found the little boy wide awake and running around the room with both of his action figures stretched out in front of him quietly saying to himself "Run Flash Run", which only made Felicity's smile grow bigger on her face.
"So, are you the Flash today" she asked loud enough to get his attention.
When the little boy heard his mother's voice he immediately stopped and turned his head towards her voice. "No, mama I'm the Green Arrow" he said proudly. "I want to be just like daddy when I grow up."
"Oh, do you now" she asked walking into the room.
When he saw her walking into the room he ran to her and wrapped his arms around her legs. When she bent down he quickly looked her in the eyes and said "morning mama."
"Good morning my love" she said with a smile.
"Mama, I'm hungry" he said whispering into her ear.
"Are you, well let's go see if your daddy left anything for us to eat" she said standing up and taking his hand and they made they're to the kitchen.
When Oliver and Sara arrived at the lair they were met to the team training. When Dig saw the look of determination in Oliver's eyes, he immediately stopped.
"What's wrong" he asked.
"We figured out how the Ghost got here" Oliver said clenching his jaw.
"How" Dig asked turning his full attention to his friend which caused all the other men to do the same.
"He" Sara started to say but was quickly interrupted by Oliver when he held up a finger and said "Wait".
"Wait for what" Renee asked.
And then suddenly a gust of wind and flash of red engulfed the room.
"Hey guys sorry I'm late" Barry said.
"For that" Oliver said responding to Renee's question.
As all the new recruits and Sara marveled over the Scarlett Speedster, Barry looked at Oliver and said "So what's the big problem, another bank robbery gone wrong" he asked with a light tone.
"No, the Reverse Flash is back" Oliver said with a serious tone.
"What" Barry asked with all jokes gone. "That's impossible I made sure he couldn't come back"
"Well he came back" Oliver said and then filled everyone in on the new revelations of the day.
"Wait a second, so let me get this right, you have a son, who is not William" Barry asked.
"In the future, and that is seriously the one thing you got out of this entire conversation." He asked.
"Well it's news to me" Barry responded.
And before Oliver could respond, his phone goes off. When he looks at the caller ID, he instantly picks it up.
"Hey, I'm so glad you called I need to"
"Oliver help" Felicity screamed.
And all of the blood drained from his face and when Barry and Dig saw it they immediately said
"Oliver, are you ok?"
"Felicity, it's ok I'm… we're on our way, just hang on" he said trying to calm himself down. And without so much as acknowledging the people around him he jogged over to his bow and arrow to grab it.
"Oliver what is going on" Dig asked.
"He has Felicity" he said looking directly at Barry and without so much as a thought Barry grabbed Oliver and they were gone.
10 Minutes Before
After Felicity and Tommy made it down to the kitchen, she immediately went to the fridge and was disappointed to find nothing new in there.
"Of, course he didn't make anything" she mumbled to herself and then turned around to the little boy and said "I hope you like cereal", and he only gave her a grin.
After getting them both a bowl of cereal she sat down at the table beside him and handed him the bowl, which he gladly took. And they ate in silence, until Tommy said "mama look, this looks like a space ship" he said showing her the honey nut cheerio he picked up with his spoon.
"Yes, it does", she said eyeing the deformed cheerio.
When they were, both done with breakfast they both took their bowls to the sink and she picked him up and said, "why don't we get dressed and then we can go find daddy". To which he nodded very quickly and happily at the sound of his father's name. "Ok" she responded and then walked out of the kitchen and towards the stairs
But before she made it half way, a gust of wind flew into the apartment and started to circle around them. At the quick change of events, Felicity fell to her knees and ducked Tommy under her arms trying to protect him. When she started to feel, the oxygen lift from her, she finally realized what was going on, and remembered she had her phone in the pocket of her robe and blindly pushed the 1 and hoped that he would pick up. A couple seconds later she heard his voice, but couldn't say anything, she was struggling to breathe.
"Hey, I'm so glad you called I need to" he said
And when she finally gathered enough breath to say anything she screamed "Oliver help!"
After that she couldn't hear anything else and just looked down at the little boy who was struggling to breath as well and she put her hand to his face and met his scared eyes, and she tried her best to smile at the little boy to assure him that everything was going to be ok. But she knew deep down that that was a lie. Before she could close her eyes from the lack of oxygen, the circling stopped and she could finally breathe. She took a deep ragged breath trying to get oxygen back in her lungs, and looked at what happened, and before her, she saw the Reverse Flash with an arrow in his leg and Barry punching him. And just as quickly as he was down he was up and gone, with Barry quick on his tail.
As soon as both of the speedsters were gone she continued to gasp for air and she vaguely heard the little boy doing the same only he was crying as well. Before she could say anything, she felt a hand on her shoulder and heard Oliver ask if she was ok.
"Hey, hey are you ok" he asked as he knelt down and looked at Felicity and then quickly took the boy into his arms. "Hey, hey it's ok, it's ok" he said rocking Tommy and pulling Felicity in for a hug and kissing both of their heads. "It' s ok."
While Oliver consoled his family, Barry chased the Reverse Flash around Star City. After a couple laps around the city Barry finally had the upper hand and was about to grab him, when Reverse sped up and then disappeared. Before Barry could follow him, he came to an abrupt stop and looked at the empty space and finally decided to go back and check on Oliver and Felicity.
When Barry arrived back at the Loft, the little family was still on the ground and Oliver still had Felicity and Tommy in his arms but they both could breathe again.
When Oliver realized that Barry was there he quietly asked, "did you get him?"
"No, he disappeared" he said letting out a heavy sigh, and then quickly added "but I could try to go find him."
"No, no. It's fine." Oliver said in a soft voice, being mindful of the little boy in his arms who just calmed down and stopped crying.
When Barry finally sees the little boy in Oliver's arms he kneels down and puts a hand on Felicity's shoulder and looks at her and asks her "are you ok", to which she only responds with a slight nod while her head is still on Oliver's shoulder.
And when he looks back at Oliver he sees the little boy staring at him. And without any warning the little boy says "Uncle Barry" in a choked but happy voice.
"Hi" Barry responds shocked with a smile playing on his lips, and absentmindedly held out his hand that the little boy hesitantly high-fived, while he kept his head on Oliver's chest.
"Gocha Ya" he said quietly which caused the adults to give a small laugh and Barry couldn't help but look at the boy in utter amazement.
"Yeah, you did" he said still gazing at the little boy before him.
After the latest events, they all made their way back to the lair, with Oliver carrying a now sleeping Tommy on his shoulder and Felicity linking her arms with Barry and laying her head on his shoulder. When the elevator opened, they were suddenly bombarded with questions and both men only responded with a stern but quiet 'Shh'.
To which the entire group fell silent as they let the trio make their way to the computers. When they did make it, Oliver sat down in Felicity's chair and faced the group before him, filling them in on what they missed.
After everyone was filled in they took a deep breath and let everything Oliver just said, sink in.
"So, he just disappeared" Renee finally said.
"Well, not exactly, he time traveled to somewhere" Barry said.
"Like I said, he disappeared" Renee responded.
"Ok, so now what" Dig asked, ignoring Renee.
"I honestly, don't know" Oliver said scrubbing his face with his right hand.
"Well, I do" Sara pitched in.
"And what is that" Felicity asked, leaning against the table by Oliver.
"Well, Jax just texted me and said that the ship is repaired."
"No, no way are we taking him back to the time the Reverse Flash may have just gone back to" Oliver said in disbelief.
"Yeah and let's not forget that Damian Darhk is also there. I mean that's why you sent him back in the first place right" Felicity asked getting defensive.
"Look, I know but none of that is going to change regardless if we stay here for another couple days or another couple months. Darhk is going to stay there until he gets what he wants. And Oliver you can't keep him here forever." She said.
"So, what are you proposing" Cutis asked.
"Look, if it's a fight Darhk wants then it's a fight he's going to get. Oliver, you defeated him once, you can do it again, and you won't be alone. You'll have not only your team, but mine as well."
"Yeah and as much as I would love to help, I kind of have my own problems" Barry said apologetically.
"It's fine Barry" Oliver said, now standing, while handing Tommy to Felicity. "Thank you for everything" he said holding out his hand, which Barry gladly shook.
"Yeah, absolutely, and for the record, you two make a pretty cute kid" Barry said, making Felicity blush, and with that he was gone.
After looking at where Barry just left, Oliver turns his attention back to Sara and said, "Ok, let's do it."
4 years in the future
Thawne arrived back into the warehouse that Damian Darhk had been residing in.
"Well, would you like to explain to me why I don't see a little boy in your hands?" Darhk asked.
"I almost had him" Reverse Flash said looking down.
"Almost?" Darhk asked in a curious voice.
"The Flash got in the way."
"Right the Flash got in the… remember when I said no excuses" he said raising his hand and lifting Thawne in the air and choking him. "Because I do, I remember distinct fully saying that I wanted the boy in my arms dead or alive, I didn't care, because either way he was going to have the same fate."
Before Thawne could lose conciseness, Darhk let him go and he fell to the ground gasping for air. "You are lucky, I still need you" he said turning around and walked away into the darkness.
Hey guys, thank you so much for reading, and I hope you guys liked this last chapter. I would love to hear your thoughts on this chapter. I honestly have to say I am quite proud of this chapter because it turned out so well in my opinion. But I would still love to hear what you have to say!
