First Chlollie ....
Crossroad
So here it is - my very first Smallville fanfiction. I was playing with some ideas for a while now, but nothing really seemed to fit. This is what I came up with, after discarding everything else. Hope you guys will like it!
Summary: Oliver doesn't know about superheros, secret societies, villains, who are after more than just business until he gets caught in the middle. Meeting Chloe will offer both far more than they'd have ever expected.
I want to thank babydee for putting up with my rant, cking1575 for beta-ing and editing this and even more so for encouraging me and for -probably-kicking my ass if I won't continue this, realchemistry for being the friend she is.
You babes totally rock!!!
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Oliver Queen felt exhausted. It was the only word to describe his current state of being. He couldn't tell exactly how many countless days and sleepless nights he had as he tried to find a way to prevent the take over of Queen Industries.
One morning a few weeks ago, at one of his rather rare fleeting visits to the office he had found a plain envelop grazing his desk. It held an anonymous tip that one of his employees was a traitor. This traitor was secretly bartering information to Lionel Luthor who was arranging the take over of Queen Industries. Said person turned out to be an elderly woman who had been employed at Queen Industries for as long as Oliver could remember. She was like family, had been there when he was old enough to run the company and her knowledge was something he relied on in his first months after he had taken over the company. He had trusted her in every way.
Lionel surely had done his homework. Oliver had never thought that someone who he considered family would betray him in such a horrible way. That made the breach of trust even more painful.
For a moment, just a moment, he considered letting the take over happen. This wasn't the life he had wanted to live. All he had ever dreamed of was to have a job he enjoyed and a family to adore. But with the early death of his parents everything had changed. His dreams were shattered as was his heart. He was thrusted into the role of CEO of Queen Industries and into a life that belonged to his parents and not the life he longed to have for himself. Ever since then he had closed his heart to all those dreams he once had; he began to live another life that wasn’t his own…the life of a playboy. It was easier to spend the nights with various women than to actually care about someone and get hurt in the progress. That was the reason why he never took the time to get to know one of these women - he was too afraid that they would leave him like his parents had and he couldn't live with heartbreak.
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After that moment of hesitation subsided, his will to fight awoke. So here he was exhausted after he spent hours upon hours of trying to disrupt Luthor's plans for a take over. He finally accepted what he denied for so long - he had to stop partying and start working. He owed his parents and his employees the continuation of the company.
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What Oliver didn't know was that the take over of Queen Industries and winning the never ending duel between the Luthors and the Queens was just the icing on the cake for Lionel. He was after something much greater, something Laura and Robert Queen had died for…he was trying to keep the secret that was Veritas. Veritas was a secret society that was founded to protect the one called the Traveler. The Traveler was supposed to be an extraterrestrial being from a far off world who was supposed to come to the Earth and guide the inhabitants. Lionel had killed to protect the Traveler more than once and he was willing to do it again. He just had to get the information he was sure Oliver had hidden and then another member of this society would die.
Lionel had to admit that he enjoyed the struggle of his son's former classmate, but in the end it was all for his pure entertainment. Queen Industries would belong to him once he had made sure to kill the last person besides him who knew about Veritas. His face twisted into a malicious grimace; he couldn't wait for the power of the Traveler to be his. So, he watched and he waited from afar for the perfect moment to strike. Like a snake lying in wait for its dinner so did Lionel wait for Oliver to make his mistake.