Title: Ready to Fall
Category: Smallville
Genre: Romance/Angst
Ship: Chloe/Oliver
Rating: PG
Challenge: Shuffle your MP3/iPod and write what fits
Song: #02 - Even Angels Fall//Jessica Riddle
Word Count: 321
Summary: He never expected this. Or, okay, he never wanted to expect this.
Ready to Fall
-Drabble-
He never expected this. Or, okay, he never wanted to expect this. Maybe he even closed his eyes, jumped over the edge and hoped for the best. He knew she'd catch him; she always had and always will. So when she takes him up on this no-strings relationship he's happy to know that with her, he'll be safe, she'll be safe, and they'll live it up until they're both beyond caring.
And then she laughs and she smiles and he sees in her eyes things he never expected to see or want every again. So he flies, he crawls, and he falls. He takes her on the adventure with him and blindly hopes she'll feel the same; that he can make her see it his way. But her eyes are closed while his are wide and she refuses to acknowledge the signs, even when he's holding her in the dead of night, both wearing pajamas with no exhausting and primal sex to get them there. When he's tucking her hair behind her ear and smiling at her like she's his own personal angel, a private joke she's not in on.
Time passes and nothing changes; nothing but his feelings anyway. In her he's found hope again, true love, and lost his heart until it actually ached in his chest. She made it so easy, made him free, and when he's standing alone on the precipice of no-turning-back, he stops, wishes she was there, and wonders if she ever will be.
He keeps it to himself, this secret where one day it's heaven and one day it's hell, loving her and knowing she doesn't, won't or can't feel the same. But that's just how it goes. And he continues on, hoping, wishing, waiting for that day when he'll look up and see she's poised to take the leap, knowing he'll catch her on her way down. His angel, falling, for him.
Finally.
