Surprise

An: I do not own Arrow. This is another short story. This one has five chapters. I should be able to update once a week.

Summary: Felicity looked up from her computer at her mother.

"Baby, I have a surprise for you," Donna gushed.

"You finally learned to press send when you're trying to send a message on your phone?" Felicity deadpanned.

Chapter 1 – The Surprise

Felicity Smoak was reviewing the last quarter's performance report when a whirlwind of colour swept into her office. Only two people were allowed to walk straight in, Oliver and her mother. Based on the amount of colour in her peripheral vision, it was her mother. She wondered what crazy idea her mother had now. Felicity finished reading the paragraph she was on before she glanced up at her; Donna looked like she was bursting with happiness.

"Baby, I have a surprise for you," Donna gushed.

"You finally learned to press send when you're trying to send a message on your phone?" Felicity deadpanned.

"No I'm pregnant," Donna squealed reaching those high pitches that Felicity thought might one day break the glass walls of her office.

Everything stopped in Felicity's mind for a moment before she started to laugh, "I think I need my hearing checked. I could have sworn you just said you were pregnant."

"That's what I said," Donna said with that confused face she usually reserves for when Felicity is making no sense.

Her mother soon resumed her excited bouncing. Felicity noticed that her mother's high heels had been replaced by a reasonable pair of flat sandals. The change in footwear really made the proclamation sink in. Her mother never wore flats. She was definitely pregnant.

"How is this even possible? Aren't you in menopause?" Felicity asked.

"Well I thought I was heading into it but the doctor said that I was pregnant instead. He says it's a geriatric pregnancy," her mother stated proudly.

Felicity stared at her mother in shock. Didn't she realise that this child's siblings were at least 26 years older than it already.

"Let's go to lunch to celebrate!" Donna declared.

Not wanting to hurt her mother's feelings Felicity reluctantly joined her mother for lunch but the next time she saw Captain Lance she was going to give the man a piece of her mind. Did he not understand what he had done? Did he not know the health risks of a geriatric pregnancy!

Lunch was an utter disaster. Her mother seemed to want to continue on as if nothing had changed when in fact everything was going to change. Her mother still split her time between Las Vegas and Star City. When she brought up the issue Donna said they didn't have to worry about that now. Her mother was almost three months pregnant when was she going to address her living arrangements? After the baby was born!

Donna soon redirected the conversation to Felicity's tenuous relationship with Oliver. They were now getting back on track after the William fiasco. They were back to dating but weren't living together. Even though in the last week, they spent every night with each other. They would probably end up living together soon but Felicity wasn't willing to push things too fast despite what everyone else was telling her.

As soon as she returned from lunch she started researching geriatric pregnancies. She reviewed the records of the leading obstetricians in Star City, culminating in her choosing the one with the best record with pregnancies such as her mother's. She made an appointment for her mother the following week and they were going to go to it even if it meant guilt tripping her mother into it. Their lives were about to change yet again and Felicity was going to make sure they were prepared for it.

Captain Lance entered the lair through the street entrance. He had had a very long day and he was not looking forward to the conversation he needed to have with either of his daughters. The first one up was Laurel. Sara was off with Nyssa somewhere.

"Is Laurel here?" he asked Felicity who was seated behind her computers monitoring Team Arrow on a mission, "I kind of need to tell her the news."

She held up a finger to tell him to give her a minute. Once the team apprehended the bad guys, she spun around in her chair to face the man. From the look on her face he knew he was in trouble. Donna had told him the lunch with Felicity had been lukewarm but he had to admit the kid did have a point about their living situation. He understood that it was probably shocking for Felicity. She's lived 26 years as an only child. To come and tell her now that she's going to be a big sister must be earth shattering.

Felicity's reaction did prompt him to ask Donna to move in with him. The thought of his child in Las Vegas while he lived here was unbearable. Donna didn't take the suggestion very well. Las Vegas was her home and she loved it there. She did admit that she now had solid ties to Star City but she was a little apprehensive about a full move. He would work on convincing her. The support systems that Donna needed to raise a child were here. She had done it before by herself but there was no need for her to put herself through that stress again.

Soon he heard Felicity telling the team to head back in and she was turning to face him. He was standing in the middle of her inner circle.

"I can't believe you of all people knocked up my mother!" Felicity said as soon as she had muted her comms.

"We didn't think at her age getting pregnant was a real possibility," Quentin admitted.

"So you thought she was a safe ride huh. How are you even able to have sex with your heart condition?"

He was going to respond when she held up her hand to stop him, "don't answer that. I don't want to know. The point is you are supposed to be the responsible one. You're always chastising Oliver yet here you are, getting my mother pregnant. You have no right to judge Oliver."

Felicity didn't even let him get a word in. She just continued to lambaste him with the risks her mother now faced. He was sure her voice was now in the loud voice category. He had heard stories of the team not wanting to step into the inner circle when Felicity was angry and now he understood why. The little blonde could be quite scary. He had to tamp down on his instincts to shout back. One, Donna would kick his ass because her baby girl was very important to her and two, Oliver would kick his ass because Felicity was his world.

The team soon returned and he noticed that they were avoiding her inner circle. They must have sensed the tension. Laurel looked quite put out when he called her to join them.

"Hold on a minute," Felicity said. She turned to Thea who was quietly tiptoeing to the washroom, "make some popcorn you're going to enjoy this."

"Popcorn! Really you're going to turn this into a popcorn moment," he said incredulously to Felicity. What on earth was she thinking?

"Yeap," she stated, "It'll be done in two minutes."

He watched Oliver's younger sister scamper off towards their makeshift kitchen as ordered. She really had her team of vigilantes trained quite well.

"Dad what's going on?" Laurel asked worried when she stepped into the inner circle. "I know we were supposed to have lunch together today and I cancelled."

"I have something very important to tell you sweetheart," he said sincerely.

Laurel looked hesitantly between her father and Felicity, "you asked Donna to marry you?" she guessed.

"Strike one!" Felicity said, "You get two more guesses."

He turned to glare at Felicity, "perhaps we should do this in private." He didn't want Felicity's bad attitude tarnishing this important moment.

"Are you sick?" Laurel guessed again not taking his hint to move.

"Strike two," Felicity said. The popcorn had now arrived. Thea and Diggle were standing on the outside of the circle with the bowl. Felicity wheeled her chair over to them and dug in.

"Oh my God is mom ok," Laurel asked scared.

"Strike three you're out!" Felicity said in a deep voice trying to mimic the Umpire in the baseball games Oliver dragged her to.

"Felicity!" Quentin said in frustration. He really had had it with her.

"What is it Dad?" Laurel asked now completely confused as to what was happening.

"Donna is pregnant," he mistakenly snapped at his daughter.

He was aware that both Diggle's and Thea's hands paused mid way from the bowl to their mouths. In the background a bunch of Arrows fell on the floor and his daughter stood there in shock. Honestly the news wasn't that bad. Laurel was already a big sister to Sara.

"You're going to be a big sister again," he said in a softer tone this time.

"You knocked Felicity's mom up?" Laurel said in disbelief.

"I would appreciate it if people stopped saying knocked up. Donna is pregnant and due in over seven months," he said in what he hoped was a calm mature voice.

"I can't believe you did this to me," Laurel responded.

Ok that was his breaking point.

"You know I thought both Donna and I had mature daughters that could handle the news but apparently I was very wrong!" he stated angrily and walked out.

The thought of going to a bar for a drink was very tempting but he could not afford to slip back into old bad habits. He had a baby on the way. He also had to google all those fancy medical words that Felicity had thrown at him earlier. He knew if he was going to convince Donna to stay in Star City he needed both of their daughters on his side. He would give them a few days to internalise the news before he contacted them.

Laurel was still motionless in the centre of the circle. She was going to be a big sister again. Her father was also having a child with a woman who wasn't her mother. It was going to take some time to wrap her head around that. She had thought for sure that if anyone was getting pregnant anytime soon it was going to be Felicity, then maybe Lyla with baby number 2 and then Thea. She certainly was in no position to handle a relationship much less get pregnant. She would need to find a man first and her prospects were very dismal at the moment. She supposed if Donna could get pregnant so late in life there was still plenty of time for her to find one that met her standards.

"You both could have been kinder to him," Oliver said appearing from the back after picking up all of his arrows.

Laurel glared at him but she let Felicity take the lead in responding to him.

"He's lucky he wasn't anywhere near me when my mother told me this morning or I would have strangled him," Felicity confessed.

Oliver frowned, "your mother does share half of the responsibility."

Laurel nodded that was true.

"I know that," Felicity snapped. "But she's the pregnant one so I can't upset her. Captain Lance isn't incubating a human so he's fair game. He's perfectly capable to taking her lecture as well. I still can't believe my mother is pregnant. This has never happened before!"

Laurel snorted. Technically Felicity's mother had been pregnant once before with her.

"You both need to come to terms with this," Oliver told them wisely.

"We have seven months," Laurel snapped as she finally decided to say something. Oliver's hypocrisy and judgemental tendencies could be quiet annoying sometimes. She honestly wonders how Felicity puts up with him.

Still standing outside the circle Thea and Diggle were observing the soap opera in the middle of the lair.

"How do you think Sara's going to react?" Thea mused quietly to Digg.

"Hopefully much better than those two," Diggle responded.

"I guess we will find out when she comes home," Thea said picking up the last of the popcorn out of the bowl.

An: Thanks for reading. Sara returns in the next chapter!

An2: For fans of Treasure, yes I know I need to post the next chapter but the last scene turned into a nightmare and the Muse went on strike. I'm hoping tomorrow I can sit down and concentrate on it.