Little Distractions with chloeas

[dl_greenarrow]

They hadn't left the Clock tower in a week. Somewhere deep down he knew that wasn't a healthy thing for either of them, but he had no desire to leave her side and Chloe hadn't mentioned wanting to leave. Fortunately for his company, he could do most of his business from his computer at home, and the rest could be done via teleconference

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[dl_greenarrow]

Oliver smiled faintly and then shifted closer, kissing her softly on the lips. "Good," he whispered. Before he had a chance to say anything else, her cell phone began to ring. He smiled at her and pulled away, giving her room to get her phone and talk.

[chloeas]

Chloe sighed softly when she looked at the caller ID, smiling slightly and shaking her head, "I swear, it's like she knows." She told him before pressing talk, "Glad to know you're alive," she answered her cousin's phone call.

[dl_greenarrow]

Lois. He shook his head in amusement and rose to his feet, giving her some privacy so she could talk to her absentee cousin. He wondered idly if Lois did know. He and Chloe had certainly been splashed all over the Inquisitor headlines the last couple of weeks, and he'd heard from A.C. that they'd also had a brief appearance on Access Hollywood.

He grimaced a little. He didn't really want Lois to find out he was in love with her cousin via the media, but if she had, it couldn't really be helped. He sighed softly, moving around the kitchen aimlessly, then leaning back against the counter.

He hoped that she wasn't pissed. An angry Lois Lane wasn't something he wanted to deal with anytime in the immediate future--especially not after what he was referring to, at least in his head, as the week from hell.

[chloeas]

A few minutes later, Chloe went to the kitchen a smile on her face when she saw him, her cellphone still in her hand as she walked towards him even though she had already hung up with her cousin, "Lois is coming back."

Her cousin had been in Gotham for most of the summer, 'improving her journalistic skills', although she had been completely vague about the whole thing when Lois usually babbled on about details, so Chloe had been curious to see if she was going to tell her the real reason why she had gone to Gotham City for almost three months.

[dl_greenarrow]

He smiled at her in response. "Where's she been?" he asked curiously, trying to cover up the hint of nervousness he felt at her announcement.

It wasn't that he wasn't happy that Lois was returning to Metropolis from wherever she'd disappeared to, but he was nervous about what that could possibly mean for him and Chloe. He knew that the two of them were close--like sisters, and had grown even closer over the last couple of years.

And while he and Lois had remained on fairly decent terms--even forming a tentative friendship--he wasn't sure how Lois was going to take the news.

[chloeas]

"She was in Gotham," Chloe told him, the nervousness not going unnoticed by her, "she gets back on Monday, asked me to pick her up at the bus station," She shrugged a shoulder, so many mysterious circumstances around Lois' trip, Chloe didn't even know where to begin making sense of it all.

[dl_greenarrow]

"Gotham?" he repeated, eyes widening just a little. "What the hell was she doing in Gotham? Doesn't she know how dangerous that place is?"

[chloeas]

She couldn't help but smile softly at his concern, nodding a little, "that's probably exactly why she went up there, apparently to try to find the scoop of all scoops or something like that."

[dl_greenarrow]

He sighed heavily. "Naturally," he said wryly. "You Sullivan-Lane women are far too curious for your own good sometimes." A smile tugged at his lips and he rested a hand on her shoulder. "So Monday? I could send a car to pick her up."

[chloeas]

"A part of our charm?" She smiled softly at him, stepping closer, "don't worry about it, she asked me to pick her up, I can pick her up," She set her phone over the counter then placed a hand on his side, rubbing gently.

[dl_greenarrow]

Worry clouded his expression. "Chloe, I'm not sure that's a good idea. Those other guys are still out there, and they're probably more pissed off than they were before."

[chloeas]

Chloe frowned softly at him, shaking her head, "I'm just going to the bus station, it should be okay, they wouldn't know to look for me there." She knew he had every reason to worry but Chloe didn't want things like that to get in the way of her living her life, it was bad enough that she was still scared of something like that happening again.

[dl_greenarrow]

He shut his eyes for a moment, worry tightening his gut involuntarily. Monday was two days away. Surely he could talk her into changing her mind by then. He drew in a breath, then shifted closer to her, placing a kiss to her forehead. Then he opened his eyes to look at her.

[chloeas]

She wrapped her arm around him and shook her head a little, "I'll be okay, I'll just go pick her up and take her home then come back here, don't worry, Ollie."

[dl_greenarrow]

Oliver lifted his hand and skimmed the back of his fingers lightly down her cheek. "As long as you come back to me." His voice was quiet as he held her gaze.

[chloeas]

Her face softened at his words and she lifted a hand to cup his, holding his gaze and nodding, "I'm not going anywhere, I promise."