Talk of Emotions
“I couldn’t let my secret keep us apart.”
“What?” Chloe yelped. His sentence burned her mind. Of all the things that she thought he would say to her question. This was not the answer she was expecting. “What are you saying?”
Chloe could feel the confusion, fear and a host of other emotions rising in her. She tried to tame them. She needed to hear what Oliver was saying, not fly off the handle.
“I confessed to being Green Arrow so no one would ever get hurt to keep my secret again.”
Yea that’s what she thought he meant. “Oliver.” Chloe bit down the many many responses that were formulating in her mind. She went with the mildest response. “That is crazy.”
“Really?” he answered skeptically. “Because I was thinking that you died for me so no one would ever know that I was a vigilante.”
Chloe didn’t want to fight. They were finally together again and yelling at each other could open a can of worms about her leaving. She tried to push it down. Fighting about something that already happened wouldn’t change anything. But she couldn’t not say anything about this. This was something that they had to talk about. “I didn’t die Oliver.”
He looked at her sharply. “You died. Maybe it was fake but you still left a gaping whole in my life….You were gone.” He shook his head “It was just like you died.”
She wrapped her arms around him and looked up into his eyes. “I’m sorry Oliver but I knew I had to stay away to protect you.” she felt his muscles tightened at her words. She could see his rebuff coming and cut it off quickly. “I was always going to come back to you, Ollie.”
His body relaxed. Their glaze connected. She could see the truth in his eyes. “And I’m never going to take a chance that you could leave again. Telling my secret was a necessary move because now they can’t use it against us. I won’t let you get hurt to keep my secret ever again. So I told my secret. And a lot of bad things came from it. But I’m not sorry I did it. I’m not sorry I did any of it. Every single decision I have ever made in my life brought me right here to this moment with you. And I honesty can’t regret anything if it got me you.”
She got to her tippy toes and placed a soft kiss on his mouth. Afterward, she breathed out “I love you Oliver Queen.”
He brushed her bangs aside and said easily “I love you Chloe.”
She looked at him semi-sternly “But from now on, wait for me before you make this life changing decisions.”
“Ditto.”
A/N: fic #3 of the day. They were a bit short today. I guess I was feeling super concise. Haha. Well that’s it. That’s all I got in me for today. (plus no one wants to see me post of chlollie again) That successfully completed 2 on my list. Yay! I kept you waiting than I thought I would so I hope it was worth the wait.
This one was harder for me to write because I took a vow (to myself) that I wouldn’t touch on Oliver’s reaction to Chloe’s return and any anger that he felt for that. That is one topic that I wanted to leave to TPTB or at least better author to deal with. But it felt really connected to the way this convo would have played out. So hopefully I skirted that issue well enough. Let me know what you think. I still have gift fics!!!