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Years later....
"Where is Oliver?"
"You know how him, Quentin." Felicity whispered over to him, adjusting her three year old daughter, Mia Samantha Smoak-Queen, in her lap. "He's famously late again."
"Had it not been for your secretary, beautifully named Donna by the way," Mama Smoak mentioned for the hundredth time, "dragging his ass to the hospital he would have been late to his own daughter's birth."
"I am so grateful for her." Felicity grinned thinking of that day. "You know she even scolded him that day so I didn't have to."
"That's my girl." Donna smiled proudly as she held onto her husband's hand.
A few months after Felicity moved to Starling City, Quentin and Donna Smoak eloped to Las Vegas and got married. They knew that they wanted to spend the rest of their lives together and didn't want the fuss of the rest of the world. It wasn't long until she grabbed her things and moved in with her new husband, closer to her daughter.
"Oliver still late?" A sweet voice came across a seat apart on the other side of Felicity.
"Annie, Steve, you made it!" Felicity squealed excitedly.
"We wouldn't miss this for the world." Steve leaned past Annie, smiling.
"Let me see the ring." Felicity put her hand out for her newly engaged friend.
"Isn't it perfect?" Annie smiled happily, showing her new bling to people she considered her extended family.
"Gorgeous!" The blonde agreed before hugging her friend careful not to squish the two year old in her arms.
"I also want you to be the first to know that Steve and I are moving across the country." Annie reached back holding her fiancé's hand.
"I got a job offer a city over from Starling. I start in the fall." Steve said.
"Oh my god!" She gasped. "My guys is going to be happy to have you closer."
"What are you guys going to be happy about?" Oliver squeezed in unexpectedly and over to his seat between Felicity and Annie.
”Daddy!” Mia reached her small around out.
”Bunny!” Oliver smiled wide grabbing her, sitting her on his lap.
"Oh, hush, he just walked up to the podium." Kevin waved over to the whole clan politely not takin his eyes off the younger Queen, he has called his boyfriend for a few years now, on stage.
"Hello fellow graduates, family and friends." William started his valedictorian speech. "Like many kids I had a hero I looked up to but mine didn’t wear a cape or tights. No, mine wore glasses, skirts and stilettos. Her name was Felicity Meghan Smoak, CEO of Smoak Technologies. I have always been interesting in Computer Science – that’s why I am earning my masters on it today.”
The crowd chuckled.
“My father and mother would buy me just about everything in regards to it. Books, broken down toy trucks, anything. I even wired my skateboard to go automatically for me by controller when I was 8. A few weeks later I see this magazine on Forbes 100 with a woman looking powerful and I pick it up and I never put it down. I became obsessed with her. ”
Felicity reached over and grabbed hold of Oliver’s hand tightly, listening.
“Before my mother passed away she recorded interviews, speeches, and I paid close attention to her career. Then one day I heard she was going into business with my father and that is any kid’s dream – to meet their hero. I was bursting at the seams to meet her and talk to her. I wanted to get a glimpse of her mind. It was truly a dream come true for a 14 year old kid. I am lucky to still be living that dream at 22. Over the years, she became my mentor and that inspiration of pushing harder to succeed in what I do, but more than that she became my mom too.”
Oliver brought Felicity’s hand to his lips and kissed her over her wedding ring. They both smiled proudly at each other before turning back to their son.
“She taught me things I know my mother would have done for me if she was still with us. She corrected me when I was wrong and allowed me to push out of a box I closed myself in. Felicitygave me a little sister and an extended family. It was all a little boy who only had his father, grandpa and a nanny could ever want. So I say to the graduating class. Find your purpose. Find your inspiration and don’t let go because it will take you places and you have to believe in that. I did and it brought me here before you all.”
He took a second and caught his father’s eyes. He was hiding this secret.
“It brought me to signing an investment deal for my start up.”
“Yeah!” Oliver jumped to his feet and pumped his fist in the air as he held his daughter clapping excitingly in his arm. “That’s my boy!” Oliver turned in full circle, screaming it to everyone in attendance.
“Oliver, sit down.” Felicity giggled pulling him down. “Let him finish his speech.”
He looked over to his wife proudly as his son continued his speech in the background. “Our boy did it. Did you know about this?”
“Yes, I did he told me he wanted to surprise you.” She bit her lip smiling.
“You two and your surprises.” He shook his head.
“I have one more for you.” She looked him in the eyes, speaking low for only him to hear. “I’m pregnant.”
“Are you serious?”
She giggled and nodded as she cupped his face. “I am. We are having another baby.”
He pressed his lips against hers feeling the excitement rush through his body. Everything was right with the world.
They created a beautiful family, related or not, together. They made each other better.
They were the right fit.