Don't Fade Away. With chloeas and thekentboy

[dl_greenarrow]

Oliver stood on the roof of the clock tower, staring blankly across the city, his elbows resting on the ledge. On one side of him there was a glass of whiskey, and on the other side, the rest of what was left of the bottle. It hadn't taken him long to drink a good half of it, but he was starting to think he was still in shock and not feeling the

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[dl_greenarrow]

Oliver drew in a breath. "I'm gonna get dressed. Why don't you get hacked into those files?" he suggested. "Then I'm going to the hospital to snatch any hard copies that are there."

[chloeas]

Her eyes widened a little at his words, "the sun is up, Oliver, you can't break into the hospital now."

[dl_greenarrow]

He managed a faint, amused smile at her concern. "I'm not going as the Green Arrow," he assured her.

[chloeas]

Cocking her head, she watched him, "what makes you think that's a good idea?" She frowned, worried as she started to process what that could mean and she was suddenly very nervous about the whole situation.

"It's bad enough that they have something on me at all, I don't know what kind of weird things they found with me while I was out, and I've drawn enough attention by breaking out of a morgue drawer, if you show up there and demand my records, no matter how much money you throw at them, they will still know there is something wrong with me."

[dl_greenarrow]

"Okay, I'm not going to march in there and demand your records or offer to pay them. I'm going to steal them," he said, moving over to where she sat once more. The anxiety in her voice was clear. . He rested his hands on her shoulders gently. "We have to get rid of the hard copies, too, Chloe. Because the police won't be the only ones wanting an explanation."

[chloeas]

She looked up at him, taking a deep breath and after a long moment, looking down and nodding. She didn't want Lex after her again, but above all, she didn't want to end up in Belle Reve.

[dl_greenarrow]

"Chloe, look at me," he whispered. When she didn't look up, he knelt down in front of her, resting his hands on her knees. "I'll keep you safe. From the police, from Lex, from anyone who comes after you." His voice was quiet, but serious.

[chloeas]

Pursing her lips together, she lifted her eyes to his face and nodded a little, still nervous and took a deep breath, "okay, I need to go erase everything before they look into it."

[dl_greenarrow]

"All right." He gave her knee a gentle squeeze before quickly heading to his closet. "I'll be back soon. Stay here. Alarm the place, all right?"

[chloeas]

Nodding, she raised her eyebrows at him as she stood up, "wear your ear piece, just in case? I'll try to find where it's archived and let you know."

[dl_greenarrow]

Oliver dressed quickly and turned to face her, realizing she was in full Watchtower mode now. He nodded slightly, heading out of his room and down the hall, retrieving his earpiece from his desk and sliding it into place.

[chloeas]

Chloe was right behind him and her communicator was in place as soon as she got back to the desk, it was better if she focused on getting this done than on anything else.

[dl_greenarrow]

"I'll be back soon," he said as he headed for the elevator.

[chloeas]

While Oliver broke into the hospital, Chloe planned on deleting everything from their database, once that was done, even if they remembered her name, they wouldn't have any other information on her and that was as good as it would get.