“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 ( Read more... )

“So what’s the story with the blonde?”

Carter’s question jerked Oliver away from his equipment. He had been doing a quick cleaning of his bow. The team was just starting to unwind down from their confrontation with Icicle.

“What?” Oliver answered.

Carter gestured over Oliver’s shoulder and said “The apparent brains to your ‘brawn’? What’s her MO ( Read more... )

Being in a long distance relationship sucked.

Oliver was back in Metropolis and Chloe …... Well she said that she was going to Jump City. But now that she was teamed up with Bart to recruit, she could be pretty much anywhere in the world.

They separated very reluctantly a week ago. The world called far too soon, interrupting their ( Read more... )

Oliver’s arms groped the bed searching for her heat. “Chloe?” he grumbled her name when his search came up empty. The sun’s rays were just starting to shine through the window.

“Yea?” her voice carried from their connected bathroom.

He grinned to himself. Their. His things was their stuff. Her stuff was their stuff. He was ecstatic about the ( Read more... )

 “What did you just say?” Chloe had tuned in for the live media coverage of Oliver Queen’s latest press conference. She was grateful that his existing notoriety allowed for prime media coverage. Her little motel in Jump City didn’t exactly have a wealth of channels to search. She was just as shocked as the rest of the nation at his confession ( Read more... )

 Her leg stepped impatiently. She knew that this was her coffee shop. She picked it out for the quality beans, short distance to Watchtower and extended hours of service. The problem was that everyone else started to realize that it was amazing too. The line was getting increasingly long each time she came there. She was the sixth in line out of ( Read more... )

Chloe finally made it to the front of the line for coffee. Her leg stepped impatiently. She knew that this was the best coffee cart on campus. The problem was that so did everyone else. The line was always long. But she needed something in her system before she went back to the paper. The edition need her approval before it went to print. Time was ( Read more... )

Title: No More ( Read more... )

“Ollie, are you awake?”

“hmmm… yea.” he responded slowly.

She craned her neck to look at him in the eye. “Are you really?”

He sensed her movement, drawing his arm to cup her nape. “Mostly. What’s up?”

She bit her lip preparing for this particular conversation. “You know how you said it was our anniversary?”

“Of which you proceeded to tell me ( Read more... )

She loved that he looked good in leather. And a business suit. And bare thread jeans. And nothing at all. It was no hardship to look at Oliver. He was all tight muscles and contained strength.

It should have bothered her that he dated her cousin and quite publicly on top of that. Lois and Oliver were two peas in a pod with their straight ( Read more... )