Author's note - sorry this is so short. It's pathetically short. But i know a lot of you kind folks are probably really impatient with my slacky. So I figured I'd get something out there. This is kinda sad, it opens up a part of Bart that the show doesn't really go into. So enjoy.
"How are his dreams?" Lex asked the scientist studying Bart Allen.
"They are very revealing, sir," Dr. Schaull answered. "He has very many insecurities, sir."
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"Chloe?" Bart asked, flinching as his voice echoed around the empty room. Then he saw Chloe. She was seated in a chair that hadn't been there a few minutes ago. "Chloe? What happened?"
Chloe looked absolutely perfect. He hadn't ever seen her so aglow and happier before. She was no longer caged, no longer a prisoner. "Oh, it's you," Chloe said, rolling her eyes.
"Chloe?" Bart asked, suddenly feeling dizzy.
"Clark told me everything about you," Chloe told Bart. "That freak of a power you've got. How you use it in your own little selfish ways. Imagine I'd almost liked you. But I don't go for freaks, Bart, if that is your name."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Bart asked. Hadn't Chloe already known about his powers. "But clark -"
"Clark may be a freak, Bart, but he's not the same. How you use your powers -"
"Chloe, maybe you shouldn't be talking like this here." Bart glanced around. "Luthor could -"
"Change you?" Chloe interrupted. "I wish. Nobody wants a freak like you around them Bart."
"Chloe, you don't mean that," Bart murmured, his voice growing soft.
Chloe gave a short laugh. "Don't I? You're not even good enough to be a freak," she said suddenly. "God must hate you."
"Stop it," Bart said forcefully.
Chloe had suddenly appeared on her feet. "What's the matter? Pussy." She was advancing on him and Bart couldn't do anything else besides back up until finally she had him pressed against the wall. "Clark sure knows how to pick them, ey?"
"Chloe, this isn't you," Bart murmured defensively.
"You're right," Chloe agreed. "This is me deep down. This is how i really think of you. And you disgust me. Freak."
Isn't that what his parents had called him when they first realized what he could do. He had been so scared to reveal himself to anybody else...before Clark. And even Clark had been upset with how he was treating his 'gifts'. Nobody had ever been satisfied, until Green Arrow. But now there was no way out without giving Green Arrow to Lex Luthor on a plater. He didn't know what he was going to do but he wasn't going to betray the only person that gave him a chance and accepted him for who he was.
"I'm sorry Chloe," Bart murmured.
"You should be," Chloe murmured, pressing closer to him, pushing him harder against the wall. "You have a lot to be sorry about. If you wasn't such a pussy, you would tell Lex where Green Arrow is. You wouldn't just think about yourself."
"You're right," Bart murmured. "That's why I'm not telling him."
"Fine. But I am." Chloe looked up at the ceiling and then Bart realized something. This wasn't Chloe. "Green Arrow isn't some strange man he's O-"
Bart tackled Chloe hard, pinning her on the ground. "Oooh," Chloe groaned. "You're still a pussy."
Bart stared hard at the ceiling. "You can wake me up now, I'm not telling you where Green Arrow is."
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Bart had blink several times to clear his vision. For such a long nap his head sure did hurt. He groaned, craddling his head. He'd been put back in his cell. Or maybe he'd never left his cell. He didn't know. What if they did this whole dream analysis with Chloe and what if she told them something? "No, she wouldn't do that," Bart told himself. But he would, if he was like her in her dream.
"Go morning sleeping beauty." It was Lex, but how long had Lex been standing there. "Did you have a nice nap?"
"You petty son of a bitch," Bart said, standing up quickly. He had to pause, though, to steady himself because he was beginning to get dizzy. "Your plan didn't work, now did it?"
"Not on you," Lex agreed. "Luckly I caught two of you, huh?"
"She would never tell," Bart told Lex, but he sounded more like he was trying to convince himself. "What are you gonna do when you finally realize neither of us are gonna rat?"
Lex smiled briefly. "It looks like I won't have to worry about that," he replied softly.
"Green Arrow's rigged," Bart shouted after Lex's retreating form. "Catching him's impossible!"
"To a petty thief, maybe," Lex said, glancing back at Bart. "But not to Lex Luthor."
