Lost Time (1/4)
Author: Kachica
Titles: Lost time - reunion (1/4)
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Chloe/Oliver
Summary: Chloe disappears during a recon.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Everything belongs to their respective owners.
Thanks for heartbeatsgreen, for reading it to see if it made any sense. Sorry in advance for any English mistakes, not my mother tongue.
Lost time - Reunion (1/4)
Dark. Sudden light. Chloe Sullivan opens her eyes and all she could see were a pair of lights coming in her direction. Where was she? What hell happened? Oh my god, that’s a car! Chloe starts to get out of the way, but the car is coming in her direction and almost hit her, if she hadn’t quickly jumped and rolled to the side. That was close , she thought. It was then it hit her, why she was soaking wet laying down at night in the middle of a road and she didn’t have any clue where and how she end up there.
She started trying to remember where she was last. The first thing the came to her mind was that she decided to go solo to do a recon. But this place seemed anywhere but close to that place.
She tried to see if she had anything with her, but her pockets were empty and her clothes were not hers. What the hell?
She started walking in direction that the car went. After some hours walking she finally saw a house with some lights on. She decided to go there and ask to use the phone.
As she approaches the house, she noticed that the place was not quite inviting. There were a lot of alarms and other protection devices. Alarm clock bells started to sound in her head. It was worrying her. Maybe it’s not a good idea. She decided to go back to the road and see if she found another place.
After walking for some more hours, she finally got to what seems to be a kind of an old village. I think I’ve been watching a lot of old films, she thought.
She saw a bench in front of one of the house and decided to sit there and wait for the sunrise, since she could not find a phone.
As soon the sun came up, a guy - around 30´s, medium height, dark hair, wearing glasses in a suit, carrying a briefcase - from the house beside where she was at, opens the door and goes in direction of a parked car in front of the house. Chloe gets up and goes towards him. The guy almost had a heart attack, since he was not expecting to see anybody up this early there.
“Hi.” She said, thinking that she needed to come up with some plausible reason to be there, so she could get to a phone. “Good morning, I don’t want to impose on you, but it’s possible to use your phone”.
“Good morning, is there any problem, miss?”
“I’m not sure. Where is this place?”
The guy looked at her funny, taking a look at her appearance. “You don´t know where you are? Are you ok? Should I call the police? Maybe an ambulance?"
“Er, just a phone would be ok. I need to call someone. He must be really worried.”
“Sure”. He said reaching for his cell. “Here, you go.”
“It´s probably gonna be long distance, but don´t worry I will pay you back.” She answered taking his cell.
She dialed Watchtower.
“Hello” Said Victor in the other side of the line.
“Hey, Vic. It´s me. I´m ok, I think.”
“Chloe? Where are you?”
“I´m at…” she pause looking at the guy next to her. “Where are we?” saying it, put her hand over the phone.
“We are near Wiscasset, Maine.”
“What? Thanks!” Taking her hand from the phone. I´m somewhere near Wiscasset, Maine.”
“Where?” Victor could not believe it. “I´m sending Bart o get you ASAP. Do you need anything?”
“I could really use some clean clothes and pay for this call.”
“Done. Bart will be there any second now. See you soon, tower.”
“Bye, Vic”
As soon as she disconnected the cell, some wind struck her. That was Bart for sure. And the he was beside her.
“Hey, Chloe. Received the message. Here are your clothes.”
Finally noticing the guy beside Chloe. “hey, man. Thanks for helping her out.” Extending his hand to him.
He gives Bart a shook. “No problem.” Turning to Chloe. “Would you like to freshen up? The bathroom is the second door at your right.”
“Oh, thanks.” She said already heading to the place.
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After changing her clothes, Bart took her back to Watchtower. In her way back home Bart filled her about her M.I.A. situation, the clip notes version. She´s been missing for several days, 10 in total. And on top of that, she got to know how this whole situation was driving Oliver insane. He didn´t know what else to do to get her back. The entire league by now knew about their relationship. Chloe was a little uncomfortable with that.
As she stepped inside the Watchtower, she saw that Emil was already waiting for her to make some examination. Two hours and several tests later, it was clear that Chloe was in normal health and there was no sign of any kind of substance in her blood. As soon as she left the examination room, her eyes met a pair of a very concern ones from Oliver. He just come up to her and embraced her, trying to take every single inch he could of her in his arms. Like he needed her as much as he needed air to live. After some minutes like that, he took a step back to look at her face as he was searching for any sign of damage. Chloe was feeling very vulnerable and awkward for being under his intense gaze. And concern to know everybody knew about them. But Oliver didn´t seem to care, since the whole scene was present in front of half league, Victor, AC and Bart. With the three of them trying to avoid the scene.
It was overwhelming her. But she let it aside since her main concern now was to know what had happened to her. Oliver and the guys told her that they had recreated her steps, but nothing really stood up, so they asked her if she had anything else to add.
The only thing that came to her mind was the fact that on her way to that place, she was almost run over by a crazy driver at Lexton Ave. Victor immediately started searching for any footage near that place. He found a picture of the car, but that only thing that they could make of it was a blurred round thing as a theme. Chloe would have to work on the image to make it clearer. As soon she approached the computer, Oliver grabbed her hand. “Leave it to Vic. You should rest.” He said looking very concerned at her.
“I guess I could do that.” She answered hesitating a little.
“Let me take you to my home, so you can rest. Tomorrow we can go full force to find out what had happened with some fresh energy.” He said offering his hand to her.
Chloe took his hand and they headed towards the Watchtower doors.
The journey from Watchtower to Oliver´s penthouse was short, but very quiet one.
Oliver helped her to get out of the car and walked with her with as arm around her shoulders until the elevator.
As soon as they reach the penthouse, he took her straight to his bedroom´s bathroom. He left her there and came back bringing some clean clothes and a new towel.
“You should take a shower and then go to sleep. Are you hungry? I can prepare something while you are in the shower.”
“That would be nice, thanks.”
He kissed her forehead and left the bathroom again. Chloe strip off her clothes and entered the shower. As soon as she opened the shower, was like she was finally feeling it all. She started to cry. After crying for some minutes, she finished washing herself and dressed, going towards the kitchen, where she found Oliver finishing something on the oven.
“Hey, feeling better? Why don´t you come and sit here. I´m almost done.” Indicating the island in front of him with his head.
“Sure” she said sitting by the kitchen island. “It smells really good!”
“Well, thanks is not much, just make you some pancakes.” While he was giving the finishing touches on the plate. Here you go. “Bon appétit”.
“Thanks, Ollie.” She said taking a bite. “Hm, that´s really good. You need me to teach to make these sometime.”
“No problem, tower. Anytime.”
After they finished eating,they sat down at the sofa. Well, he was sitting on it and she was leaning over him. He was smoothing her back with his left hands while the right one played with her right hand.
“I´ve missed you, sidekick.” He said and dips his head to kiss her forehead.
“I’ve missed you too” She said squeezing his right hand.
After some minutes, she had fallen asleep. Oliver picked her up and took her to his bedroom. He put her over his bed very carefully and then he lies down on her side, turning his body to her, so he could watch her sleep. After some minutes, she snuggled at him. Oliver couldn´t hide a smile. He could not believe how much he had missed her. Oliver stayed up for a while looking at her, she looked so peaceful. He kept thinking about how he almost lost her, and how lost he felt without her by his side or if he could never see or touch her again. Smell her scent. See her beautiful eyes sparkling when she was happy. Hear her laugh. It was the simple things that he missed. How life was too short. He would never want to feel that again, he would not lose her. She was his. She belong there, by his side him. He would do anything to know what had happened to her and make sure that anything like that never happen to her again, but first he had to recharge himself too, and with that thought he fell asleep too, holding her tight to him.
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TBC
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