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A Few Hours Ago:

Laurel sat in the computer chairs when she decided to do something about her burning question;

"Who are you, Connor?" She mumbled lowly as she Google Felicity Smoak.

The results of the search were expected, she was the youngest to graduate MIT blah blah.

But what caught her attention was a newspaper article from 2007.

"Multiple victims after a gang exchanging shots at a warehouse where an illegal rave was taking place; 6 dead and one survivor.

The survivor was named Felicity Megan Smoak age 19 she was found bleeding in the alley near the warehouse. Medical report shown that she was drugged, beaten and raped.

There is no statement from the witness due to being put to a coma."

Shocked Laurel fell back on her chair as she stared at the picture of a young Felicity. The pictures showed how she was found beaten in the alley and how she was in the hospital.

After a few deep breaths Laurel continue searching Felicity's name and found the newspaper that wrote about the most successful doctors in Chicago under 30.

"Most Successful Doctor of Chicago Under 30:

No 1: Connor Rhodes

No 2: Felicity Smoak

No 3: Will Halstead

No 4: Ethan Choi

No 5: Vicky Glass

For Link to each individual press their names.

Thank you for reading!"

Laurel was smiling in victory as she pressed Connor Rhodes' name but covered her mouth in shock suppressing a scream.

"NO! This cannot be happening!" Laurel said loudly as she kept on reading the article about Dr. Connor Rhodes.

"Dr. Connor Rhodes is the new Trauma Fellow at Chicago Med ED. He spent a year in Riyadh after his residency, where he learned plastic surgeon suturing techniques and skills.

His origin is unknown but he has an uncle and a cousin here in Chicago with whom he has a rocky relationship.

Spent a year in Riyadh where he got captured by terrorist amongst other fourteen kids and were held captive for fourteen months before being freed with the help of Navy Soldiers and ARGUS double agent Mr. Saxton. Then he took a year off and returned to Riyadh spending four more years which during his time there helped a lot of hostage exchanges.

During his early years he helped the Doctors without Borders along with Miss Felicity Smoak with the immigrant problems in Greece and Italy during their Medical School years, where they met.

Dr. Connor Rhodes is fluent in Arabic, Spanish, Greek and Japanese.

Doctor Rhodes and Doctor Smoak were recently engaged and soon to be married. He is currently living and working in Chicago."

Laurel stare at the screen with tears in her eyes as she closed the computer and walked out of STAR Labs without notifying anyone as she called for a cab to the train station.

She needed answers from both Felicity and Connor and she is going to get them.

Fate had it, I guess, and there were no trains that night. So Laurel end up two days later at Molly's where she saw the newlywed couple.

Now she is crying in her hotel room as she got drunk.

"How is he alive?!" She yelled to no one as she threw the glass to the wall breaking it in the process.

The morning found her wondering in Chicago when she stumbled into Molly's where she saw Felicity and Tommy...I mean Connor talking to the barista.

"So, what does the plan say for today Mrs. And Mr. Rhodes?" The barista, a man around his forties, asked smiling as he dried some glasses with his towel.

"Um...I wanted to visit Shay's grave and then Achilles' and Artemis' graves and from there he doesn't tell me where we are going!" Felicity said with a small smile.

"Sounds like a good plan. You know it's not your fault she is dead, right?" The barista said serious and Laurel saw the frowns on their faces.

Who were Shay, Achilles and Artemis?

"We know but if feels like it. I couldn't save her and Felicity was seas away...great way to be a best friend, Herman. I mean come on I shared an apartment with her and Kelly for seven years and I didn't even get to say goodbye! But she was there to wake me from my nightmares and scold me when I would tear my stitches up. That was not fair." Connor said with sadness and guilt.

Laurel's eyes teared up at the memory that Tommy had gone similar hell with Oliver yet no one from Starling City knew about it.

Did Oliver know?

"Same goes for me! When I was raped and when Katie was taken too she was there for us! She was there when I gave birth to my dead babies...she, April, Mari and her cousin were there for me and I wasn't when she needed me the most..." Felicity said in sadness as Connor hugged her tight.

"Look, things in life happen for a reason. You were there for the funeral and that's what it counts. Now go before you make the atmosphere gloomier!" Herman said half serious half joking to Connor. Just when the couple left Laurel waited for seven minutes before she walked out of the bar too and followed them.

She followed them all the way to the cemetery of the neighborhood.

"Hello Shay! I know I've been a terrible friend. I hope you weren't angry with me for not saying goodbye. I...i did the most stupid thing i could do...i rushed to run away. I checked in with Kelly from time to time but i wasn't aware if he caught you up on my news. I went to Greece and taught at a University in Lesvos." Felicity spoke with tears in her eyes and Laurel watched as Connor hugged her lovingly.

Laurel clenched her fists at the sight but felt a bang of sympathy for them they had lost a friend...she knows very well the feeling.

"Anyway, i finally got married to Connor so i think that you and Kelly won the bet." Felicity said with a sad smile as she moved away from the tombstone and allow Connor to pay his respect.

Laurel moved further in her hiding spot and watched with interest.

"Hey! I should have come earlier but i had many things going on...we had a terrorist attack in the hospital where i work but Samien saved us all by killing the terrorist. You remember the girl i told you that we were held hostage together the first year in Riyadh before i went to Hong Kong to search for Oliver. Remember when i would tell you about her and how she was the only kid that would get constantly tortured; well i was wrong, thank God, she was being trained by a ARGUS double agent and thanks to her we were found. Anyway, i met her again she was one of the victims in the first terrorist hit in the Hotel two of the terrorist were her foster parents after she killed her foster mother who attempted to blow us up. After a long hard battle of custody i adopted her...i'm a father now, Shay i can't believe it!" Connor said with happy tears in his eyes as Felicity held his hand

Laurel was gaping at the sound of the story.

"And I'm a mother...I got a second chance since I lost Achilles and Artemis I felt an emptiness in me and since I met her I feel...whole like when Dawson met Louie...oh! Yeah! Dawson and Cassey adopted Louie a boy they saved in a fire." Felicity said in a happy smile.

Felicity had children?!?

How on earth did she keep all this away from Internet?

The couple stayed silent for awhile lost in their own thoughts and grief when they walked away and Laurel as before she waiting a few minutes and followed them to a Fire House and watched confused as they were hugged by many people and exchanged small talk then they moved further in the building and Laurel decided to go from the back where she saw a small garden with two small tombstones with the names;

"Achielles and Artemis Smoak. Beloved children. Gone too soon but they will be forever remembered."

Felicity there stood still for awhile and then broke down quite literally, she kneeled before the grave and sobbed as Connor kneeled too holding her as she cried.

Laurel's eyes teared up at the scene before her and she wiped them away.

"Hi, my loves! I missed you so much, like always i suppose. I have news for you...i'm married now and i adopted a sixteen year old girl! She is a very troubled teen but i plan to make it right even if i failed with you two. Connor, my husband, is a very nice and brave man...you would have loved him...Achilles, you and him would talk for hours about planes and cars since i like to imagine that you would like...Oh! And you would spar from time to time. Artemis, you would have also liked him...he would tell you stories from Riyadh, Starling City and Greece...at least the good ones. We would take road trips all together, you, Achilles, Samien, Connor and I...just like a family." Felicity spoke kneeled on the ground and Connor's embrace. The pain and sorrow in her voice oozed and it hurt Laurel by thinking how Felicity must have felt losing her children.

Laurel had seen the motherly element in Felicity the moment they met. Now it is explained why she had this motherly aura around her. She was a mother.

Laurel couldn't stay mad at them they've been through so much together and individually that seems unfair. She just need answers.

So she waited till the afternoon to contact Felicity from the comfort of her hotel room.

"Hello?" Felicity's stressed voice was heard.

"Hey, it's Laurel which you might know since the ID caller but i wanted to tell you that i took the liberty to come to Chicago to check Connor before the rest of the Teams get their hands on him and scare the crap out of him. So, what do you say? Meet me at Molly's for an early dinner with Connor?" Laurel rambled anxious without allowing Felicity to speak.

"Um...i'll call you back in an hour since i'm in the Gym, okay?" Felicity said uncomfortable from the other line and now Laurel was able to hear the sound of Gym equipment and groans from the background.

"Okay!" Laurel said happily as she hang up and then sighed at loss.

She tried to keep an open mind as to what was the excuse for Tommy being alive.

An hour before Laurel's call:

Felicity and Connor sat tangled in the sheets of their apartment holding each other lovingly.

"Hey, do you feel like we were being watched today?" Felicity asked as she used Connor's chest for a pillow.

"Yeah, a little but i'm not as paranoid as you, honey!" Connor said chuckling and Felicity playfully punched him.

"It's understandable since i've been working with the Arrow!" Felicity said trying to defend herself.

"Okay, okay! Anyway, so what were you thinking?" Connor said semi laughing semi serious.

"We need to be prepared so i was thinking we go back to the Gym, i mean the one Mills and Antonio went to when they were training for Police Academy. They are really good from what i have heard." Felicity explained as she stood upward and looked at Connor who whined like a child.

"But then everything is going to hurt!" Connor whined and Felicity sighed annoyed.

"Don't you prefer to be safe than be stabbed to death or killed in a mugging gone wrong?!" Felicity exclaimed in worry and Connor sighed giving in.

They got dressed and head to the Gym. Until Laurel called.

Felicity had just done the first round of kickboxing with another fighter and she was laughing as the woman was asking her where she learnt such things.

"I've been learning since i was a kid, Francine" Felicity said cockily as she smirked to Francine a twenty eight years old kickboxing fighter. Then her phone rang loudly which caused Connor who was nearby and pick it up and read the name Laurel.

"Honey! Laurel is calling!" Connor yelled and all the crowd awed as Felicity and Connor chuckled and blushed.

He was not happy how Laurel and Oliver seemed infecting his new life but his love for Felicity was enough to make him turn a blind eye. He sighed as Felicity send an apologetic kiss to him as she talked on the phone.

"Hey!" Antonio yelled happily from the ring as he run up to Connor and clapped his shoulder.

"Hey!" Connor said as he sat on the bench and drank water, his grey tank top sweaty and his blue sweat pants were hanging low and his white trainers showed the miles of running they had suffered in the past.

"Problem in paradise?" Antonio asked concerned and sat down next to his friend.

"Problems in Purgatory actually, Antonio...i swear to God i have never been more annoyed of Oliver's and Laurel's presense in my life! How did Felicity got tangled in their nets? I wish she had never been in Starling City...i know that if she wasn't there we might not have gotten so tighted as friends and stayed in really platonic terms but she would be able to have a less chaotic life. And now i'm rambling too!" Connor said deep in thoughts and he was concered too as to where this wedding will go.

He saw two roadblocks in their futures by the names Laurel and Oliver and he had stepped aside more than ones and he felt robbed of the ability to restart somewhere without having the shadow of Oliver's past or Laurel.

Connor had been shocked of how easily he could open up to people if the people really cared about his problems and he felt blessed with the group he had surrounded himself with and he would feel as if he had failed them if Oliver Queen's problems screwed up their lives too as he had done his....both of them, as Tommy and as Connor.

"What is this about, Connor?" Antonio asked slightly confused. He couldn't follow Connor's way of thought because he had no idea that Oliver Queen was the Arrow he knew that Felicity and him had tried to prevent the Undertaking and Connor wanted a fresh start and now that Felicity was one of Oliver Queen's closetest friends. Also he knew that Connor was cheated on by his ex named Laurel with his best friend who end up being Oliver Queen.

"It's complicated, Antonia and for the sake of you and the honor of your job it's better not knowing the full story." Connor said in defeat as he continue looking the ground.

"Look if it's illegal you and Felicity better get out now." Antonio said in a wise tone as he stood up taking it as a que to leave and continue his training.

"Hey, Connor!" Robyn exclaimed happily as she was done with her yoga class.

"Hey! How was your day?"Robyn asked seeing as her colleague was going through something.

"Messy...just messy!" Connor exclaimed fortunately Robyn knew how it felt to be involed with someone who wanted to make a change in the world but with the illegal way.

She and some other college students used to steal medicines and food from shops and giving them to homeless people and help people with addictions. Robyn even went undercover with CPD in the case of a ring of sex trafficking with small kids, she helped find Lindsay's brother. She was changed after that much like Connor.

When CPD found out that the thieves of merchandice were college students and they were given to good cause they manage to turn a blind eyes and even helped in some extreme cases, Robyn was one of the founding members and she's been part of it for fifteen years now.

So Connor trusted her enough to say that Oliver was The Arrow to her so it was easier to get a fresh pair of eyes and ears to help him decide.

"It's the you-know-who interfiring in your life again?" Robyn whispered with a sympathy smile and Connor rubbed his face and sighed as he nodded.

"Hang in there! Also there is a thing called honesty where you can tell the said person that you don't want them in your life." Robyn said with a suggestive tone and a encouraging smile.

"Say i do that how does my wife will feel? And not it's Laurel my ex who cheated on me with the you-know-who before i...you know...died." Connor said in defeated tone and looked at Felicity who was talking on the phone.

"I stick to my previous advice. Use honesty to your advantage besides Laurel deserves nothing from you, she owes you. Also, if you want just so you can let off some steam, yell at her instead of being the calm Connor Rhodes i know. Be the Connor Rhodes who almost beat up Killer and the guy that killed Shay, be the guy that stopped Kidd's ex and Kelly from fighting and saved him in the process, be the guy who stopped Will from making a job suicide move. Be the Connor that was brave enough to defend Jimmy in front of my dad. Be the Connor who helped Jimmy grieve his brother's death and stopped him and Chief Boden from punching each other. Do you remember that guy? Because i do." Robyn said with a friendly tone as she held his shoulders and looked at him right in the eyes.

"I'm afraid. She and Oliver are the reason Connor Rhodes exist...the reason why Tommy Merlyn, me, was stupid enough to try and save her. Their are the people i run from, my past." Connor admitted sadly and Robyn sighed and hugged him.

"Then shut the past...i'm sorry to say this but Felicity has to choose, she has to understand that helping Oliver she is keeping the door of your past open and she is pacing back and forth. She has to choose your or Oliver." Robyn said as they hugged and Connor looked at his reflexion in the Energy Drinks fridge as he hugged Robyn back.

There was no avoidance, was it?

He wanted to give Felicity everything she ever wanted including helping the Arrow but he also wanted nothing to do with Oliver and Laurel and Felicity was engaging with them on every day basis he couldn't do anything to not being affected by it.

As he let go of Robyn he stood up with courage and walked up to Felicity who was looking at her phone deep in thoughts.

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"What did Laurel wanted?" Connor asked his wife and Felicity looked at him with an apologetic glance.

"She is here in Chicago and wants to meet us. She wants to meet you. I wanted to give you a second chance with them...i thought that you meeting Oliver again might had helped you face your past...i never thought that you might not wanted to do anything with them. I'm sorry. I heard you and Robyn talk...she has a point i have to choose and i'm weak...i can't choose between you or the Arrow. You don't deserve me." Felicity said and Connor saw a few tears in her eyes.

"I will meet Laurel by myself see what she wants and tell her that we didn't patch things up and that we broke the engagement since it would be the truth." Felicity said with tears as she took off her wedding ring and gave it to Connor's shocked hands.

"You deserve someone who will give up everything for a future with you and Samien. I'm not that person. I'm sorry i opened your Pandorica box." Felicity said with sadness as she walked away from Connor.

"NO!" Connor yelled loudly causing Felicity to jump and stop in her tracks.

"I refuse to let Oliver and Laurel win in this. I married you not Oliver or Laurel! We are supposed to be together through thick and thin. We will meet Laurel explain to her...i'll to the most talking. The i will close this chapter of my life but Felicity you have to understand that i don't want anything to do with them...I'm not returning to Tommy Merlyn...Connor Rhodes is who i am, who you married. The topic of Arrow is forbidden in the house okay? You do what you got to do but don't put me or Samien in it." Connor said with determination and Felicity cried as she listened to the words.

"What does that mean, Connor?" Felicity asked confused while crying.

"I mean that i don't care what you do with the Arrow as long as you don't cheat on me. Yes, you can do it from home too but don't speak about with me or Samien." Connor said sternly and put the wedding ring back on Felicity's finger and kissed her.

So? What do you think? Will they marriage last? How will the meeting with Laurel will go? Tell me in your comments!!!