Unexpected Trouble. With notofsteel and chloeas.

[dl_greenarrow]

Oliver had just sat down to a plate of leftover fettuccinni in his Star City apartment when a familiar gust of wind blew it right off the table.

He groaned, rubbing a hand over his face and moving to clean it up as he shook his head. "Bart, man, you gotta quit doing that," he grumbled.

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[dl_greenarrow]

Oliver made his way slowly through the building, listening to the eery quiet. His heart beat quickly in his chest. She was here somewhere, with some doctor that had been known to cure meteor infections and in the process, wipe out people's memories.

He drew in a breath, climbing the stairs and then pausing when he heard a faint scream in the distance. Without further hesitation, he raced up the steps two at a time.

[chloeas]

Chloe's heard was pounding as she opened her eyes slowly, squinting as she looked around slowly, she was still at the lab and apparently, she wasn't the only one there. She held her breath as she saw the woman laying down next to her and she could hear Dr. Knox working next door, so she had to get out of there, quietly and quickly.

But as she tried to move, she realized that she was tied to the table, frowning, she looked down at herself and swallowed hard when she saw her shirt was wide open, exposing her bra and there was an 'x' made with a marker pretty close to her heart.

Starting to panic, she tugged as hard as she could with both her arms and legs.

[dl_greenarrow]

He spotted a light on down the hall, from one of the rooms at the end. He quickly made his way toward it, wishing he'd thought to bring some kind of weapon. But he'd been too worried about where Chloe was, about what kind of trouble she'd gotten into, to think about it. He forced himself to take a breath as he peeked in the door and spotted her on a table.

And from the look of things, she was tied down, her shirt open. Another woman was on a table beside her, lying motionless.

Anger surged through him as he glanced around the rest of the room, but didn't see anyone else.

[chloeas]

Chloe tugged so hard on the ties that the table she was laying on moved and bumped against the smaller table next to hers, making a loud noise that echoed through the room as all the surgical tools on it moved around its metal boxes and she stilled completely, but it was too late, she could heard footsteps as Dr. Knox started into the room.

"Awake already, Chloe?" He asked her as he walked in, holding up his hands as if he had just disinfected them.

She swallowed hard and her stomach turned, "let me go."

[dl_greenarrow]

"I don't think so. You see you have something I need." He reached out and gently tapped a finger against her chest, over the X. "Or rather something my wife needs."

Gritting his teeth, Oliver shifted to the other side of the door. Knox didn't appear to have a weapon on him.

[chloeas]

Her eyes widened a little and tried to move away from his touch, glancing at the woman and gasping when she saw Dr. Knox picking up the scalpel and starting to move it over towards the 'x', "wait!" She cried, breathing fast and looking up at him pleadingly.

"I can heal her," she told him, her voice breaking, "I can heal her with my power."

Dr. Knox smirked and shook his head, pressing the sharp tip of the scalpel against Chloe's skin, "she doesn't need to be healed, Chloe, she needs to be immortal."

[dl_greenarrow]

"No one's immortal." Oliver's voice was hard as he stepped into the room, glaring at the other man with something akin to hatred in his eyes. He didn't look at Chloe. "Now I suggest you back away."

[chloeas]

She gasped in pain as the scalpel dug against her skin, closing her eyes for just a second until she felt the Dr. pulling away and she heard a voice, no, Oliver's voice.

Dr. Knox turned to face the intruder and frowned hard, "I suggest you walk away now, whoever you are, or I will have two hearts instead of one."

[dl_greenarrow]

"You can try," he said harshly, descending upon the other man with speed that could have rivaled Clark or Bart right then. He didn't hesitate to slam his fist into the man's face.

[notofsteel]

Clark showed up into the room just in time to see the Dr. punching Oliver in the face and pushing him into one of the tables, he didn't blink before throwing himself against the doctor, pushing him through one of the glass windows and into the next room.

[dl_greenarrow]

Oliver blinked, reaching up to his mouth as he tasted blood there. Grimacing, he pushed himself away from the table, glancing to where Clark was with Knox. Then he shifted his gaze to Chloe. Wordlessly, he picked up the scalpel off the metal tray and sliced the ties binding her hands.

He didn't look at her face as he pulled her shirt closed. "You all right?"

[chloeas]

Chloe swallowed hard and pushed herself up, reaching to button up her shirt too, as scared as she had been that Dr. Knox was going to kill her, this was almost as bad.

"How did you find me?"

[dl_greenarrow]

"Clark said you were missing. I activated the GPS in your phone," he said simply, sliding an arm around her waist to help her off the table.

[chloeas]

She held on to his arm to get down to the floor then quickly let go of it, taking a deep breath and looking down, embarrassed. How could she have been so dumb to think this was a good idea? And now everyone would know.

"Thank you," she said quietly. After everything she had done to him and after how much she knew she had hurt him, he was still there.