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Oliver's eye felt like they would stay this way wide plastered on his face forever. Of all of the crazy things that could have happened from Darkseids minions to Kandorians to someone just kid napping him, the last person he ever expected to see was Davis Bloome. For one he was dead. He had been dead for almost three years. He had back up plans formed in his head before if he ever came back alive again, since he had died and came back alive before. He had died human so he was pretty certain he would stay dead this time. But here he was wearing his black t-shirt and jeans.

"Davis Bloome! How in the hell are you still alive I thought when Jimmy killed you it would be for good? It's a little late to come back now it's been three years. And what the hell would you want to come back for? You're a wanted serial killer with no friends and no one who loves you!"

It was a harsh comment he knew it. It was the sad truth but he couldn't let himself feel sorry for such a murderer. Some people deserved to die alone with no one. And that was Davis Bloome. He had destroyed their lives. He had taken Chloe on a dangerous path and turned into a monster and only turned back to a man with Chloe around. He was crumbling. A part of him did feel bad for him once upon a time but it was never enough to put mercy on him. He had to die to protect Chloe and the world. And he turned out to be more than just a man with an uncontrollable monster inside of him he turned out to be monster himself who killed Jimmy and tried to kill Chloe at the first time Chloe rejected him. What a weak….

No he wasn't going to go there again. He was nothing like Davis Bloome. A long time ago he had been afraid that he would be just like him that he would let his darkness take over, like Davis Bloome did but no he… just did.

No he didn't. He couldn't. That was all in his mind. It had to be. There would be no way that Chloe married Clark. That had to be the delusion.

"I didn't come back Oliver."

"What? Are you talking about? Where are we?" Oliver bit out.

"Well, it's kind of hard to explain but it is kind of a place that's not quite heaven and not quite hell." Davis said calmly.

"Are you saying I'm dead? And I'm in some kind of purgatory?"

"You are in some kind of purgatory, yeah, but you're not dead."

"I don't get it?"

"Are you not dead?"

"I am dead. And I like to finally rest in peace."

"What?"

"Well, I lived a torturous life. I lived in a living hell and I prayed a lot praying for God to send someone and he did he sent her and only for it all to be taken away and I'm living my after life in torture too. So I am on a quest to find peace."

Oliver looked at him like he was crazy. Was he really telling him what he thought he was telling him?

"So you pulled me in purgatory to get some kind of redemption. There was a reason you never got it. You can't grasp it. Killing me isn't going to get you redemption. It doesn't work that way."

"Are you deaf man, or just plain stupid? You're not dead." Davis said a bit frustrated.

"Look, I don't know what game you are playing but I don't have to take it." Then Oliver went to attack him and he fell right through him in his rage.

"I'm dead man, what part of that aren't you getting?" Davis asked annoyed.

"How did I get here? Why am I here?" Oliver asked.

"You really haven't figured it out?" Davis said almost giving him a smuggish smerk. He really did hate the guy for so many reasons.

"You want redemption, I get that, but what does that have anything to do with me?" Oliver asked.

"Everything. It's kind of an angel getting their wings type situation. If I help you fight your demons in return I will get what I want."

"And what is that exactly?" Oliver asked skeptical.

"Peace, love, and the chance to be with her."

"Oh, hell no, if you think I'm going to help to get back to Chloe you are really crazy. There's no way I'm letting that happen, besides she hates you!"

Oliver saw the hurt expression on his face and then he saw him almost swallow it and brush it off and continued.

"There's no going back. I'm dead. There's no going back. I can't ever go back to her. I reached far past the point of no return even if I could miraculously come back she'd never take me back after what I did."

"Then whose her?"

"My mother."

"You have a mother?"

"Doesn't everybody?"

"Yeah, unless your…"

"A crazy kryptonian experiment. Yeah, I was kind of shocked I had a spirit too. Even more shocked I had a mother. She was the woman who would turn into the woman who helped create me."

"Faora."

"Yeah, she's like me, a clone gone wrong who was led on a path by others who created her but she chose to go a different way. Well, she was better than me, obviously." Davis said a gloomly.

"I still don't…"

"She searched for me. Through all of the cosmos when she died searching for me. She was originally searching for her unborn child, she found him but on her search she discovered I existed. I could have a family man. Something I never had before. I had no one until Chloe came around."

"That's all very touching but I can't…" Oliver said starting to feel a little uncomfortable.

"Don't you get it? We need each other. I saved your ass from making the biggest mistake of your existence. You not only would be dead, you would help destroy the world because you let the darkness take over." Davis said in a matter of the fact tone.

"What? No. That wasn't real. It couldn't be Chloe would never. Clark… She loves me man. We love each other. She'd never…."

Davis looked at him his eyes concentrated giving him the impression that he was letting him know that was what really happened.

"It's not about her. That's the problem Oliver. It can't be just about her, man. Believe me. She can't be your only reason for existing. She can't be your only reason to be good."

"What about you? Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black or something? That is exactly what you did. You killed Jimmy because Chloe and Jimmy got back together!"

"Exactly, and you were ready to kill Clark because you thought they got married in some magical drunk stupor."

"So you know what happened?" Oliver asked hoping Davis could fill in some of the blanks.

"It's not about them it's about you and finding the strength to live without her."

"What? Live without Chloe? No. She's my everything."

"That's your problem man, it was my problem too. Chloe can't be your everything. I know the whole 'you complete me' crap is very romantic and the whole 'she makes me a good man' is stuff from epic fairy tales but it's not enough. It makes you lose yourself. It makes you always live on the edge always teetering just waiting for the ball to drop and then everything will explode."

Oliver huffed, he knew exactly what he meant he was teetering on the edge and it just did explode, he let it explode. But wait. This all could be a trick this was Davis Bloome he was very deceptive. He fooled Chloe all of that time.

"Why should I believe you?" Oliver asked.

"Because you know deep down that you're just like me."

"I'm not. I'm nothing like you. You brought me here, make me think you are some scorned hero who is looking for redemption. Well, you killed so many people how can you possibly get redemption for that?"

"All of those times the monster inside of me killed someone it ached and it wasn't my choice it was something that happened to me. So then I killed to save countless of innocents from the monster inside of me. I know if put in a similar situation you would have done the same. It wasn't until I let my emotions completely take me over when I finally had free will and I let the darkness take over that I killed with my free will that the horrible choice was all mine."

Oliver breathed out pain subsiding in his chest. He knew this man had a point, he had many points. He didn't want to believe him. Any of it. He didn't want to believe that deep down Davis was a good man put in a horrible situation. He didn't want to believe if he were put in a similar situation he would do the same thing. He didn't want to believe that he was just about to do the very same thing that Davis did and let the darkness take over.

"So what am I supposed to do?"

"Do what I never could." Davis said simply.

"And what is that?"

"Let her go."