The Right Thing

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the general idea you see within this one shot. And this will be primarily aimed at a moment of Moira's I never really cared for after learning of it.

Summary: After she finds out about her son getting a girl pregnant. Moira does what a mother should do.

Moira had long given this situation her son had found himself in. And while initially she just wanted to pay off the girl so that she'd never bother her boy again. She later realized that that just wouldn't be proper. And it was high time her son grew the hell up anyway. Of course it would also mean him having a very long over due but important conversation with Laurel. As honestly, she liked the young woman and hated to see her own son was treating the girl. Her musings however were interrupted when Raisa entered the front room with whom she assumed was Sandra Hawke. A beauty in her own right.

"Sorry to interrupt Mrs. Queen, but Ms. Hawke is here to see you."

Moira nodded at the woman and got up to greet her guest properly with a smile on her face. "Thank you Raisa, that will be all for now." She then offered her hand to the young girl in a friendly gesture as Raisa walked out to give the two privacy.

"Good to see you dear, I'm pleased you could make it." Despite her friendly tone of voice, she could tell the young girl was still pretty nervous about what she may have in mind.

"Please, sit and make yourself comfortable as we're waiting for one more to join us."

"We are?" The girl asked nervously.

Moira nodded at her. "Oh yes, the other half of this situation you've wound up in dear."

Before anything could be said to that however, Oliver suddenly appeared and made a beeline towards his mother. Failing to realize that his baby momma was in the room too. "Hey mom! I'm here, I'm on time. At least I think I am on time anyway..." He would have said more but he happened to look to where Sandra was sitting down and noticably gulped as a worried expression on his face appeared.

"Oh boy.." He muttered despite the fact the two women could hear him.

"Oh boy indeed, but yes you did make it on time sweetheart." She told him pleasantly as if there was no huge elephant in the room concerning any of them.

"Well... Um.. How about that?" Oliver chuckled a little but one could hear the nervousness in it.

Moira just let him squirm however as it really was high time he got more responsible. Yes, she understood he didn't want to be like his father and take a place in the company. But he still needed to be less foolish and less embarrassing for that matter too when it comes to showing how he wants to be his own man.

Moira clapped her hands to fully grasp their attention once she noticed the two were staring at one another. "Right! So its become clear that my son here has done something a bit foolish with you Ms. Hawke. And while initially I thought of just paying you off to be gone and lying to my son in order to be rid of the problem. I began to think more and realized just how wrong that solution would be. As what kind of mother would I really be if I just covered up for my son and allowed him to get away with yet another thing he's done with no consequences?" As she spoke, she could see her son's eyes growing wider as she went on. She had the feeling he was seeing where she was going.

Sandra as well could see where this was going and tried not to smile. Even though she really had no real serious interest in him as all she wanted was for him to be in their baby's life. "Uhh mom, maybe..." He would have continued with what he was about to say but the glare he was getting from her got him to shut up.

Moira nodded to herself in satisfaction over that. "And so, while I don't honestly expect the two of you to be in a relationship or even get married. I do expect Oliver for you to be in this baby's life. Not just when its needed, but as much as possible. Its time you grew up and stopped acting so irresponsible. And you will have a much needed conversation with Laurel too. Though I suspect that will not end well. But I will not continue to see you act as some libido controlled fool." Her tone of voice gave her son the very real impression that she was not to be messed with on any of that. And Sandra could be seen smiling widely. She felt she could really get to like the woman after seeing what just happened.

"Um.. But uh.. What about dad? You know he won't be happy. Like, at all." He hoped that might somehow persuade her that this would be a bad idea and it was best to go with something else.

"I will be informing him of this situation sweetheart. Have no worries there." She wanted to smirk at how worried he really looked there but kept herself from doing so.

Oliver groaned as he realized there really was no way out of this mess. "So I don't have to do anything but be in the baby's life?" Hell, he could handle that. Its not like he had to give up anything.

Moira quickly realized where this was headed and proceeded to cut him off. "Oh yes, but don't think this means you still get to party otherwise. Or have you not been listening?" He quickly put his hands up in a defending motion to ward off potential anger. Not that it was likely to do him any good.

"Fine. Whatever you say." He figured he'd give her that. But he wasn't intending on giving anything up just yet.

Moira realized she was going to have an uphill battle with her son regarding this, but hoped that perhaps once his father sat him down then that perhaps he will actually listen. "Well, let's discuss plans regarding the child between the two of you. Afterwards, you will inform Laurel of what's gone on here."

And so the three talked for several hours, which allowed Moira to get to know the young lady more. Something that was making her like the girl more and more and made her glad she hadn't decided to pay her off in the end. Oliver however did indeed go see Laurel later that night and decided for once to be honest with her. It wound up with him getting slapped hard in the face and being told she never wanted to speak to him again. But he did it. The talk with his father however was much worse.

In the end though, he still wound up going on that boat ride with his father. As the man wanted to drill more responsibility into his head and just try and spend a little time with him. Though no one else was with him for it as not even Sara wanted to get involved with him after she learned he got a girl pregnant. Little did he know however that it would be 5 long years before he would ever get to see his child again.

Author's Notes: May you all have enjoyed this. I tried to keep Oliver in line with how he was pre-island as much as I could. I figured he'd still put up a fight about changing his ways as well. R and R!