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“Did she mean to do that?” Tommy asks watching and following Felicity back into the kitchen with the boy’s head resting comfortably on the woman's shoulder. The woman only rolled her eyes as she looked back at him.
“Selina is many things, but she is not forgetful. She did this on purpose for me missing Terry’s birthday party because of a mission with Arrow,” The green-eyed girl said her eyes twinkling as she spoke, moving through the kitchen with practiced ease that could take years to achieve.
“Felicity, what is the plan?” Tommy asks following her to her bedroom where she walks into the closet to change leaving Terry on the bed with Tommy. The small boy immediately curls up on the red and gray comforter falling asleep. When Felicity exits the closet she is wearing a floral white and pink pencil skirt with a hot pink top along with a black overcoat casually hanging from her arm. Something she would never be caught wearing at home. The Wayne most knew wore form-fitting business suits and solid color dresses. Only at times wearing floral prints at important galas and even modeling gigs.
“The plan is this,” Felicity starts as she starts putting on makeup to hide some scars from previous missions. An act that makes Tommy think of the more simple differences between Smoak and Wayne. Felicity Smoak never wears makeup, eye make-up particularly, never having been able to figure it out. Evangeline Wayne, on the other hand, adores eye makeup and over the years has become known for her eye makeup precision and it always matches her outfit. A subtle change in character that truly makes all the difference when on undercover missions. “I will go to work at 1300. Call me on my phone. Say you are Dr. Connor Rhodes, it's from a TV show but neither Oliver nor Diggle would know that. You will be informing me of an accident my mother was in on a trip to Chicago. Throughout the day I will contact Jim, Thea, Sara, and Laurel. We will meet here at 1400 hours. If Jim or Thea can’t make it then send them with Terry to the manor earlier, but not later. Either way, they are traveling through zeta tubes. We cannot risk Oliver finding them with us. It will cause questions we will not be able to answer. The couple will take our suits, but we will take our stealth suits with us on the plane. I know you are technically dead to the world, but we will clear that up at the gala or a press conference. Seeing you will get the news away from Bruce as there are now speculations he got sick of us and left us all for death. As for the possibility of getting caught on our way to the airport, since Laurel is new to the team and Sara has been there for a while I will say I wanted team bonding. If we do get intercepted you are the driver.”
“I can’t believe you thought that all through while doing makeup. No wonder you and Dick took turns being the leaders of the team. You can make practically any plan flawlessly within minutes. The bat family is actually insane and brilliant.”
“Tommy, you are apart of the bat family. Just as much as the rest of us. We grew up and trained together along with Helena and the others who aren’t official members. We look out for our own and we are our own family. The bats protect our own we wouldn’t have left you, Tommy, not like Oliver did.”
Felicity leans down to hug the taller man as she speaks. She knows that Oliver leaving him in the DA haunts him. Honestly, if Bruce hadn’t insisted that Felicity and he wear their stealth suits under their clothes he would likely be dead.
“Hold on, Tommy. Jason is on his way via zeta tube. Did it puncture anything?” Bruce asks as calmly as possible while talking to one of the children he raised as they were possibly dying. He and Selina carefully watched over his vitals waiting for their second-oldest son to arrive on the scene. Bruce almost felt he should be freaking out more. His oldest child was somewhere in the city and he had long ago lost contact with her. Though the vitals through the suit said she was fine.
“I don’t think so,” Tommy said as coughs racked through his body. Pulling away his hand to see blood he grimaced. Luckily the suit had prevented the rod from completely impaling him and killing him on the spot. “I take that back I think my lung has been punctured.”
Bruce could feel as Selina tightened the grip she had on his shoulder. As soon as Tommy had left to find Laurel in the falling building he had sent his two oldest sons to the scene. One to look for their sister and the other to look for their friend. They were under orders to help if they can, but not to be spotted or recognized by the civilians and least of all spotted by the hood. All the civilians knew Sparrow had been protecting the city for years as the crime got bad. Soon she had her own team formed there, but once Arrow showed up he began splitting the team-up. If Sparrow went out she and her team would be the only able to be spotted and not in stealth.
“Tommy?” A voice comes over the receiver. Bruce tries not to let out a deep sigh of relief at the sound of his daughter’s voice but also can’t help it cause it is his daughter.
“He is unconscious, B what should I do?” The sound of Jason's voice comes from the transmission. Selina looks to the zeta tube briefly debating on suiting up but decides against it.
“Remember those stabilizing beads I gave you? Put that in the injury, it should stabilize him until we can have Doctor Tompkins look at him. Sparrow come in,” Bruce orders turning his attention to his daughter who was helping some civilians now in her super suit.
“Yes, Bats?” The young woman asks in between telling off someone for stealing while people are dying. A few seconds later saving the man's life a car nearly runs into him.
“Call in who is available on your team. Get as many people to safety as you can. Tommy is being taken back to the cave as we speak. You can visit him after you do your task.”
“Okay, dad” Felicity sighed in defeat nodding looking up to what she knew was the closest security camera. She was smart and knew her dad would be watching along the way. Some of the people Felicity and her team had gone to help were overjoyed at their return and started to strike up conversations with them. Selina laughed at a particular occasion where one teen girl had taken to following Sparrow to keep the conversation going as the superheroine was doing work. The girl would also help sparrow when asked though so at least they had gotten some extra hands.
Later that next day when Felicity had come to the cave ready to collapse she fell into her dad’s arms. Thea, Jim, Sara, and Laurel each following also dead on their feet but also wanting to see Tommy. Walking Felicity over to the couch he told her to sit down while he sees if Dr. Tompkins was finished working yet and if they could see Tommy. When returning with the news the superhero was put into a medically induced coma, the man was unsurprised to find sleeping young adults one on top of another. And if he was the one to move Jim’s arm and rest of his body from around Thea well that was Batman’s business and no one else’s.
“Honestly Bruce! Are you just gonna adopt every child you possibly can into this family?” Selina had exclaimed jokingly seeing the display. At the silence, she received she blinked. “Please this family is hectic enough at least wait until next year. Or maybe just until Thea’s mom is declared insane. Then just adopt Thea, she has been around here since she was nine!”
Bruce smiled slightly at the sight of his sleeping proteges and the sound of his wife grasping at the straws for some normalcy in this home that would never come. Later that year when they took in Katherine Prodes. Nobody knew what Bruce had meant when he turned to Selina and simply said “one year huh”. They did know though that it put Bruce in the dog house for 2 weeks with her completely ignoring him. Until Damian showed up of course just so she could chew him out.
“Come on, Felicity. We need to get this show on the road!” Tommy says after a few moments of leaning into the warm embrace. Felicity chuckles at the man as he punches the air and walks over to one of her cupboards. Inside the cupboard, there was a keypad on the keypad there were both braille numbers as well as regular. Only members of the bat family know how to use them. Since this was one of the security measures. There were nine numbers on each keypad along with one color. This specific color was green. This meant that the braille numbers needed to be added to the regular numbers to do whatever it was that you needed. Each of them had to learn it after their specific intense training, they each had to memorize the codes, but each were in a different pattern, so each must be paying attention every time. Taking out a communicator Felicity raised it to her mouth knowing each connection was secure and safe.
“We have a mission. Meet at Sparrow 3 in 2 hours for debrief,” Felicity speaks easily, slipping into the woman that she is and has always been. One by one each of the team members radio in agreeing to the meeting place and time. Turning to the dark-haired male, Felicity smiles while punching in another command. This time a wall opens up leading to a specially designed weight room with everything a member of the bat family would need to work out.
“After you,” Tommy says nodding at the entrance. The girl grins before entering the room. Making a beeline straight for the boxing bags.