Later on that night, Roy and Thea were out at dinner and Thea decided that maybe it was time to tell Roy the truth about something she'd been keeping a secret from him.
"How are you able to afford all this?" Thea asked since Roy had insisted on paying for dinner and they were at one of the most expensive restaurants in town.
"Being the lead cop on the ACU has its advantages." Roy said and Thea nodded.
"Anyways, you said there was something important you wanted to tell me." Roy said to Thea.
"Yes, there is. You know how I've been feeling a bit under the weather lately?" Thea asked.
"Yeah, so?" Roy asked.
"Well, Laurel made me go to the doctor a few weeks ago and they discovered that I wasn't sick, but." Thea said and Roy quickly put it together.
"You're pregnant aren't you?" Roy asked.
"Yeah, I am. I mean, I don't know how, since I thought we were being careful, but I guess we slipped up." Thea said.
"Why didn't you tell me sooner?" Roy asked her.
"Because you needed to focus on helping both the ACU and Team Arrow on stopping Church and I knew that you wouldn't be able to if you were also focusing on me." Thea said.
"Okay well, I'll give you that." Roy admitted.
"Exactly, but now, I think there's another discussion we need to have now." Thea said.
"Do we want to have a kid?" Roy asked and Thea nodded.
"Honestly Thea, it's mostly your call, since you're the one who's going to be putting in the hard work." Roy said.
"Maybe so, but this would also affect you since you will be contributing to your kid's life. And we both know how Ollie will react when he finds out." Thea said.
"Yeah, if he doesn't kill me, he'll no doubt make me hang up my hood." Roy said.
"I sense there's a but coming." Thea said.
"Look Thea, you know enough about my parents to know that they were not good at raising me. But having a kid of my own, it would give me a chance to be the sort of parent that I wish I had. But like I said, it's ultimately your call." Roy said, but to his surprise, Thea smiled.
"I was hoping you'd say that. Like you, my parents weren't exactly model citizens, I mean my birth father destroyed the Glades, my mother backed him until maybe 5 minutes beforehand and my legal father was an unfaithful husband who also backed Merlyn and both of my parents were a bit too lenient, considering they let Ollie become a party boy college frat boy dropout he used to be and my mom let me get into drugs for 5 years. I sort of want a chance to know what a real parent feels like." Thea said.
"So I guess we're keeping the baby." Roy said.
"I guess we are. But now we have to worry about the next problem." Thea said.
"Yeah, telling Oliver. He's gonna kill me." Roy said.
"Maybe not. If worse comes to worse, I have something on him that should keep him in check." Thea said.
"Really, care to fill me in." Roy asked.
"Later." Thea promised him and Roy nodded, now dreading the conversation they had to have with Thea's overprotective big brother.
Oliver and John had just returned from following up a lead on Prometheus.
"Who knew Prometheus was a "Babylon 5" fan boy? Don't judge until you've seen it." Curtis said.
"So what begins? That's the question." John asked.
"That's a good point. It would seem like he has already started, considering he's dropped two bodies." Oliver said.
"I get killing Conahan. He led the ACU team to help the Green Arrow rescue the city councilmen, but why take out Church?" John asked.
"According to Detective Malone, it's because Church got in between Prometheus and his real target." Oliver said.
"The Green Arrow." Curtis said.
"Yes." Oliver said.
"So Church goes after you, Prometheus goes after Church, and-shunk!" Curtis said, gesturing a throwing star motion.
"What?" Oliver asked.
"That was my throwing star sound effect? Why? What does yours sound like?" Curtis said.
"I just don't understand. A person that leaves a trail of dead cops just to kill a guy who's after you because he wants to kill you himself." John said.
"Well, I'll say it again. This is serious enough to warrant telling the rest of the team." Curtis said.
"Laurel already knows and Roy is not answering his phone." Oliver said.
"You know what I mean." Curtis said.
"You mean 3 people we barely know, one of which gave up your identity to Church, who we can only pray didn't share that information with Prometheus." John said.
"Well, for the record, Rene didn't give up Oliver's identity, ok? He was tortured." Curtis reminded them.
"That's exactly why we have to keep them out of this. I don't want to put them in harm's way until we know exactly what it is we're dealing with." Oliver said and Curtis nodded defeated.
"Oliver, are you okay?" John asked.
"Yeah it's just, something about Prometheus's tactics, it seems sort of familiar but I can't place it." Oliver said.
"Well, let's hope we figure it out." John said.