Sara's Decision

Chapter 45

A couple of weeks later, Sara had her first appointment with the doctor to see how the baby was doing. They had not said anything to anyone yet about the baby because they wanted to know that everything was alright before they made the announcement. The doctor told them that everything looked to be good so far, so they made the decision that it was now time to tell everyone about the baby.

They invited Moira, Quentin, Dinah, Thea, Laurel, Barbara, Roy, Tommy, and Emiko over for dinner so that they could make the announcement.

"Not that I don't enjoy the meal, but why did you need us all to meet up tonight?" Thea asked.

"Well, we have some good news. I was just come out and say it. I am pregnant." Sara said.

Everyone got up to hug the couple and tell them congratulations. Once that was done everyone sat back down and they started to talk about the baby and other things that had been going on in their lives as well.

Once Dinah, Moira and Quentin had left, they started to talk about the team. "What are you going to do while you are pregnant? I mean we all know you can't go back in the field right now." Laurel said.

"Laurel makes a good point. If the White Canary is out for nine months, people will get suspicious and they might even think that it is you somehow." Barbara said.

"We haven't really gotten that far yet. I guess we were lucky that we have it so that people can take time off every now and then. It might make that easier to explain." Sara said.

"But you will be missing for nine or more months. That's a little to long for it to go unnoticed." Emiko said.

"I know what we can do. It will probably take some work, but I think it is doable." Oliver said.

"What would that be?" Thea asked.

"Well, we have three other women on the team. You will take turns going out as White Canary. It will have to be done like you said so that people don't get suspicious." Oliver said.

"Ok, the only one here who can pull that off is Laurel. Her hair is blonde just like Sara's and their eyes look close enough that they could maybe pass as the same person. Emiko and I have dark hair and Emiko even has brown eyes. So, what's your plan for that?" Thea asked.

"Well, there are these things called wigs and also contacts for Emiko. I think we can make it work." Oliver said.

"Ok, we will try it for now and see how it goes. So, I guess we better get to the bunker so that we can get out on patrol." Laurel said and they all left the apartment.

When the team got to the bunker, they all changed into their suits and got ready to leave for patrol. Sara stayed in the bunker with Barbara and Tommy. This is what Sara was really going to hate because she wanted to be out in the field with the others, but she knew that she couldn't with the baby.

"Ok, teach me how to do something here so that I don't lose my mine." Sara said to Barbara and Barbara nodded and started to teach her how to hack.

She picked up hacking pretty quickly and now she knew that if Barbara wasn't in on some nights that she would be able to take care of it. She learned a lot from just watching Barbara work. Finally, she thought she knew enough that she could do this on her own, so Barbara let Sara take over at the computer and put her new skills to work.

The team entered the bunker a little while later looking pleased that everything seems to be good in the city. Since Darhk had been taken down the city seemed to be slowly getting back too normal. They just hoped that it stayed that way.

"Let's go home and get some rest. We have all worked hard tonight." Oliver said as everyone went and changed into street clothes and left for the night.

The next day was Quentin's first debate. Ruve Darhk seemed that she would not be leaving the race, so Quentin still wasn't able to run unopposed. They didn't know why Ruve was still around, but they knew that it couldn't be good. Either Hive was still active, or she has found someone else to work with.

"How the hell is she even still in the race? We thought she would run once her husband was dead, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Barbara does some digging into Ruve and see what you can find on her." Oliver said as they all got seated so the debate could start.

"You got it Oliver." Barbara said through the comms.

The debate had actually gone well, and it looked like Quentin had done his job and answered all of the questions to the best of his ability. Later that night on the news, Sara and Oliver saw that the polls showed that Quentin was up by a big margin. It looked like people trusted Quentin more than they do Ruve.

"I don't want to get my hopes up just yet, but it looks like dad is doing pretty good with this. He always knows what to say and he had been completely truthful with all of his answers." Sara said.

"What's wrong? You look worried about something." Sara said.

"I just have a bad feeling about Ruve still being around. It's probably nothing but I need to know for sure before I dismiss these thoughts." Oliver said.

"I understand. It doesn't sit right with me either. Hopefully Barbara will dig something up soon and then you can, so we know one way or the other." Sara said.

"Ok, enough about that. Let's go get some sleep because I need my beauty sleep. Sara said.

"Babe, you are always beautiful even when you might not be getting enough sleep." Oliver said.

"Way to butter me up babe. Let's go to bed but before we go to sleep, I am going to have my way with you." Sara said and winked at Oliver as they both went to the bedroom.