Title: Collide
Category: Smallville
Genre: Romance/Drama
Ship: Chloe/Oliver
Rating: PG
Challenge: Shuffle your MP3/iPod and write what fits
Song: #09 – Collide//Howie Day
Word Count: 216
Summary: And somehow, despite her pushing and her avoidance, they continue to collide…
Collide
-Drabble-
The dawn is breaking, a light shining through. She's still asleep, a quiet grumble letting him know she was avoiding waking up. He's so tangled up in her, he'd be happy to stay there a lifetime. But as soon as her eyes open, he knows that will change. He's open and she's closed; he's in love and she's pretending it's not there, that she doesn't know it.
He's willing to wait; he knows that eventually she won't be able to avoid it anymore. So he sticks with it, holds her when she's unwilling to admit she needs it, picks her up when she won't say she fell, kisses her just to feel her lips in moments of unseen tender appreciation. And somehow, despite her pushing and her avoidance, they continue to collide; their worlds, their bodies, their very hearts.
"Even the best fall down sometimes," he tells her and she frowns, wants to deny it, doubts him. But then… she smiles and maybe she sees it too, maybe she's figured it out. Even if she hasn't, she's close behind. So he takes her hand, and he kisses her forehead, watches as her eyes open and her breath inhales sharply and there it is, dawning. Not the sun, but the love he knew would eventually find her.