Worth The Jealousy Chapter 9
Banner by Eva
Title: Worth the Jealousy
Pairing: Chlollie (of course) aka Chloe and Oliver.
Characters: Chloe, Oliver, and Hal. There will be other people mentioned or on there but for now those are our 3 main characters.
Disclaimer: I don't own ANYTHING. It's all for fun.
Author: Chlollielove4 aka Suses
Rating: I'll say R for now just in case.
Prompt: Chloe wants to be in a full on relationship with Oliver, but he has commitment issues. He runs away and later finds out that she isn't sticking to being 'single' forever. Will he fight for her or will jealousy be too much?
Chapter 9
"Wait a minute. Slow down, and start from the beginning. You did what?" Clark said loudly, making Oliver wince and Dinah look down embarrassed.
"You investigated him after I told you not to?" Clark asked, now stepping forward and getting closer to Oliver.
Oliver nodded "I'm sorry, but I needed to see if I was right. You know what Clark? I am not sorry actually, I mean I am because now I feel terrible about it, but I am not sorry about doing it. I love Chloe! If you don't understand that, it's fine, but I am going to do everything I can to not let her get hurt or worse for someone to hurt her. If you want to stand by and allow it to happen, that's on you."
Clark furrowed his brow, and stepped closer to Oliver, making it seem like he wanted to confront him in a 'fight' sort of way.
"Whoa, Clark" Dinah said, stepping in and putting her hand in between the two men. "I get being angry with Oliver, especially with those comments." Dinah shot Oliver a quick warning look and then turned her attention back to Clark. "I know what he did was wrong, and I helped him, so technically I am in the wrong here too; you have to understand that I didn't agree with him at first, but I do now. If you looked at the file, you would understand. If you want to fight him later, by all means go at it, but right now we need to get this matter taken care of. Is that okay with you? Or do I need to call Lois to straighten you up?"
Oliver laughed but quickly stopped as Clark shot him another look that read 'danger'. Oliver was thankful that Dinah stepped in and said what she did, but he also wasn't about to apologize to Clark.
Clark gave Oliver one last look, and looked at the file across the room on the table. He pushed past both of them, picking it up, swiftly opening it; revealing everything that they had figured out before.
"So....are we going to confront him or what?" Oliver spoke up, staring at the back of Clark. Not really knowing what he was thinking at this time.
Clark closed the file, placing it down and turning his attention back to them.
"No."
Oliver raised his eyebrows. "Excuse me?"
Dinah nudged him to not make it worse, but it was too late, Oliver was stepping forward.
"What do you mean, no? We have so much on him and--"
"What you have is a vendetta against this guy, Oliver! I'm not about to go on a manhunt for a guy that could be just like us, and we don't know it because we are too stubborn to let anyone else in our club."
"Are you even listening to yourself right now Clark? This guy purposefully 'bumped' into Chloe, and you are what? Just going to not even ask him?"
"And say what? That we investigated him?"
"Yes! If that means getting the truth out of him, absolutely!"
Clark shook his head "We need to tell Chloe, Oliver. You are the one that is not thinking straight. She has a right to know, and if anyone should confront him it's her--"
"Are you kidding?" Oliver said, now stepping even closer to Clark.
"Whoa, hold on, hold it Ollie." Dinah said, grabbing him by the arm, but even Dinah was not understanding what Clark was saying.
"You mean to tell me you would rather have Chloe go confront him rather than us? He could hurt her."
Clark stared back and forth between the two. "No, that's not what I am saying, if you would have let me finish Oliver, you would have understood I was saying that if she is going to confront him she should do it with us by her side. Here. That way we can make sure nothing happens."
Oliver backed away and threw his hands up in defeat. "This is ridiculous, Clark."
"That's fine you think so, but we stand for justice--"
"Exactly! Clark, my point exactly. 'Justice' means standing behind your people and defending them, not throwing them out to defeat it on their own."
"We would be here with her Oliver, you are doing this out of revenge, and I am not going to put him on the pitchfork because you want them broken up."
Oliver was about to protest, but he stood quiet. Even though he wanted to punch Clark at this point, he decided it best to just agree with him.
"Fine, if we tell Chloe..."
"It'll be how I say we do it Oliver, you are too hotheaded and I don't want Chloe getting very upset. There must be a reason why he sought after Chloe, and why he hid his identity to her for some time. I didn't tell Lois for years, maybe he was waiting for the right time. If he wanted to hurt Chloe or us, don't you think he would have done it by now? He had been dating her for over a month before he even came to Watchtower, and met all of us. I just don't think he is capable of hurting Chloe."
Oliver opened his mouth, but Clark shook his head "I understand Oliver, I get why you are so upset by this, but I don't want to be the ringleader for this witchhunt, when there could be an explanation. So, we need to call Chloe."
Oliver ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, sighing and nodding.
"I'll do it." Dinah said, grabbing the phone and calling her.
Oliver felt the pit of his stomach contrast.
"Hey, can you meet me at Watchtower, I need some help and I can't decipher this code. Awesome, okay, thanks." Dinah hung the phone up and stared at the two boys looking at her with expectant eyes "She's on her way." she said waving the phone.
"I'll do most of the talking Oliver, you are already in hot water with her."
Oliver rolled his eyes, but found himself nodding.
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Chloe opened the doors to Watchtower and was met by Dinah first, and then Clark and Oliver next. She arched her brow and stared at all of their faces, they looked worried; which in turn made her even more nervous.
"What's going on? I'm guessing this isn't because you needed me to decipher a code."
Dinah smiled and nodded.
"Chloe, we have something to tell you but we aren't sure what--"
"What is it? Clark, just, you know me so well. Just spit it out. I know you so well, that I know it's going to take you forever to say what it is you want to say...especially when you are acting like this; so spill, what is it?"
Instead of staring at Clark's expression, she looked over and saw Oliver's. He looked even more worried than any of the other two. She gave him a half-smile, but he didn't return it.
"Here." Clark said quietly, giving her the file. Knowing Chloe it would take a second for her to know where this was going.
Everyone watched as Chloe scanned the pages and her eyes got wider as she read through.
"What is this?" Chloe said, with a hurt voice. Making Oliver feel even worse.
"Someone tell me what this is now!" Her voice getting deeper and scarier.
"It's Green Lantern...I mean Hal--" Clark started saying, but Chloe stopped him. "I know what it is Clark! Who looked him up?"
Clark opened his mouth, but Dinah put her hand on his chest to stop him from talking. She saw that Oliver was going to speak up but she spoke first.
"I had a bad feeling about him. I don't know Chloe, when I met him there was something off, so I looked him up. It was a simple background check."
Chloe put her hand up to stop her from talking. "A simple background check will not identify anyone as a superhero. You obviously did more than that. How could you do this?"
Dinah scoffed "Excuse me? You mean protect you?"
Chloe rolled her eyes "This isn't protecting, this is my business!"
"Chloe, hold on. Did you read further to see that he bumped into you on purpose?"
Chloe shook her head, wiping her eyes. She wanted to fight with them, to say that she was angry at them for going behind her back and not discussing it with them, but how could she? She knew that it must have been Oliver's idea, and the thought of that made her heart warm. He was looking out for her, but she was still angry.
"I get being angry, Chloe, but you aren't curious as to who he is working for?"
Oliver spoke up finally, looking at her. Locking eyes with her and giving her a look that read he didn't want to fight.
"Fine, if I do this, if I allow myself to see where this leads to, you guys have my back?"
They all nodded in unison and Chloe sighed. "Okay, lets do this."
Oliver sighed in relief, he was thankful she hadn't got more upset and he could see her relax by their reassurance. He wasn't sure if he should feel happy that she was willing to help them figure out what was going on with Hal, but he needed to stay calm.
His heart skipped a beat when Chloe brushed past him and he could smell her perfume. He closed his eyes as the thought made him weak at the knees.
"Are you coming?" Chloe said, looking back at Oliver.
Oliver nodded. Smiling at her and following her lead.
TBC....