Lost Time (2/4)
Author: Kachica
Titles: Lost Time - Discoveries (2/4)
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Chloe/Oliver
Summary: Chloe disappears during a recon, only to reappear without any recollection of her lost time.
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 first language.
Lost Time - Discoveries (2/4)
The following days were spent on research. After many hours trying to read into the horrible quality image that they had from the car, they finally got a hit to the symbol on it and it belonged to a new organization called “New World”. Their site on internet didn´t explain anything at all, it just said: “New World” - it´s a new company that will change the life that you know and the way you see the world. Come, join us in this adventure for a new life.
Chloe still didn´t get why this company wanted with her. After some deep research, she discovered that this company was created by the one and only Lex Luthor, back in the days when he was in Smallville. And now it was controlled by Tess Mercer. She should have known it.
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Some days before Chloe´s disappearance, Tess Mercer was making some research on Lex´s old archives when she ran into all meteor freak files the Lex had compiled over the years when he was on Smallville. With those files, she found an underground company that Lex had created as soon as he arrived in Smallville. After further investigation, she found a very interested file about the one and only, Chloe Sullivan. She read all the meteor related files, but Chloe´s stood out and intrigued her, since the last file said that her power had mutated. So, she did what she knew was the only way to make sure it had indeed happened, she had Chloe taken with some other meteor freaks for some testing.
After have Chloe test in different ways, she end up clean. There was nothing meteor related in her system. How odd? What hell happened to you, Chloe? She ends up staying there for 10 days instead of one day and a half like the others because of that. Tess needed to find the answer.
The scientists that worked for her came up with a theory, that Chloe must had mutated somehow and gone back to normal. But how that had happened, they still didn´t know. Was it possible to become normal after being infected? Was the question Tess made herself. More tests were applied. Each one more painful than the last one, but she had to get to the bottom of it. If there was a cure to meteor infection she would find it. The world certainly would be a much safer place. The more her scientists experiment on her, the more common Chloe´s result came up. It was too odd, but she could not have more tests on her without killing her, so Tess decided to let her go and watch her very closely and probably in a near future make some more tests.
Tess had her minions abandon Chloe in the middle of a road in nowhere land. That would buy her sometime to cover up all the paper trail that could lead to her company.
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Although by day everything seemed quite normal, the nights were not so good because after two days of her return, Chloe started to have nightmares almost on daily basis. Since the nightmares didn´t seemed to go away, she went to Emil who had attested that those were some kind of suppressed memories of all that had happened to her during those missing days. She was pretty sure she didn´t want to relive all of that, but they could be helpful and might lead her to the people responsible for her current state. She really needed to find them and close them down. She would not let more people suffer what she had gone through.
Those nightmares and the memories of those tests were really painful, because she always ended up, waking up screaming to the top of her lungs and kicking everything around her, like she was trying to get free of it all. And the pain felt so real to her. For Oliver, who slept with her every night, it was too painful to see her like that and the worst part of it was to try to wake her up and make sure she was ok. The first thing he would do was hug her as a way to reassure her that she was safe, rubbing his hands on her back to calm her down until she fall asleep again.
As the days went by, Oliver was getting more concerned, because the terror and the excruciating pain that he saw in her face while she was having this nightmares was growing each day. What hell did they do to you, Chloe? He would never forgive them. They would pay to make this to his Chloe.
During the day, Chloe and Victor were getting closer and closer to uncover the real truth behind the entire organization that was set up by Lex. All the kind of things that they did on their facilities and to sum it up they discovered all the names of the people who were abducted and experimented on by Lex and Tess. Now the only thing missing was, what the hell they were trying to find out with all those? And why they released them after the test and kept tabs only on a few of them? What was that they were really looking for? Too many unanswered questions.
Chloe seemed stable for everybody else, but was when she was alone, usually in her shower time, it was when she let it all go. She cried a lot, because some of the painful experiments were affecting her each day more and more but she didn´t want Oliver and the guys to get too concerned with her. She needed to get to the bottom of it soon.
Although she thought she was hiding her pain very well, Oliver knew that Chloe wasn´t ok as she showed off to be. What he did not know was how deep the pain was until one day, when he decided to enter the bathroom during her shower time. He knew that she cried, but he did not know how much pain she was going through. A simple shower was a very hard task. It was like her body kept remembering her those experiment pains in each simple movement. He needed to know what they really did on her. As he saw her smothering her cry of pain, he revealed himself to her. She could not believe that he did that, but he did not seemed to care, he just got close to her, wrapped her in the towel, and tried to smooth her with his left hand up and down her back.
“Why you did not tell about this. I´m taking you to Emil right know. You are barely functioning the way it is. It seems to get worse by each day. I can´t see you like that, Chlo. It´s killing me too.”
Seeing his pleading eyes, she nodded her head agreeing with him.
After arriving at Emil’s office, Emil said that they should try monitoring one of her sleeping time to see how her brain was being affected by it all. He gives her something to induce sleep to speed up the process. After some minutes she was in a profound state of sleep.
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On Chloe´s mind, all she could see was darkness at first, and then there was a sudden light, like somebody had turned on the lights. Bright white lights shinning through her eyelids. She was laying in some kind of gurney in the middle of a room, it looked like. But she couldn´t see anything clearly, it was all kind of a blur. Then she heard voices, two men and a woman talking while they seemed to get closer to her. She wanted to move, but she couldn´t, she was paralyzed. Then her sight became clear, she could see she was in some kind of laboratory. Three people, probably the owner of the voices she was hearing approached her, one of them with a very thick syringe and out of blue stacked her in the middle of her chest. Ouch! So much pain. She was only paralyzed but not with anesthesia.
“Sorry, but this the only way we can get what we need. Is not likely that you will remember this.” Said the woman among them.
“Stop talking to the subject 4102! How many times I have to tell you to not socialize with the subject.” Said the man who looked like the boss there.
“Right.”
“Next syringe, please. And you, turn her over.” The boss said to the other men standing on the other side of her gurney.
Chloe felt a very sharp pain, then blank. She must have passed out.
Next thing she saw, she was striped, with her feet and hands tied, being held to another place, she was over some kind of a table, so cold. While some lights were all over her, like scanning her entire body. Then, a laser shot right through her into her heart at first, causing a lot of pain. She could barely breathe and her heart beats started to accelerate, then the pain was gone, just to start all over again. Then blank, she must have passed out again. Next thing, all she could see was the same thing, but a little lower, at one of her lungs, she thought, because breathing was too hard, maybe she should just give up. She tried to fight to get free, but she couldn´t move an inch. The procedures were each one more painful than the last. She always ended up passing out from the pain. She was dreaming about another procedure, the pain was too much, every inch of her body was aching, her heart was beating furiously and her breath were short and fast, she was contorting herself in pain.
Oliver and Emil were getting worried by the minute because all of Chloe´s reaction during her nightmares seemed to have direct effect over her body; it was like her body was reliving it, all over again. Then her heart sped up into uneven bits, like she was panicking and then her heart just stopped. The heart monitor besides her gurney just went flat. Oliver couldn´t tear his eyes of her, like he was in shock for some seconds. This could not be happening, he thought. He could not lose her again, so before Emil had any chance to begin any resuscitation procedures, Oliver was already by her side, trying to give her some heart massages. But nothing seemed to work. Emil brought the defibrillator, shocked her three times and nothing. After some minutes trying without any response, Emil just stopped, it was time to let it go. He could not believe in what just had happened. He just stayed there, while Oliver was still trying desperately to relive her at any cost, shouting at her with tears running through his face. He kept pleading her between sobs:
“Please, Chloe. Don´t leave me!” holding tight to her hand.
“Come back!” He squeezed her hand once again.
“I need you, Chloe” He said, brushing her hair off her eyes and whispering it in her ears.
After some more minutes, he finally gave up and slipped to the ground crying desperately without letting go of her hand.
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TBC
Next: Lost time - The beginning of the end (3/4): http://kachica.livejournal.com/3974.html