Clark had been going to confront Oliver when he'd had to do Blur work. Oliver hadn't been home when he was done, which meant he was probably on a date with Lois. Again. He wouldn't interrupt it this time when it would likely make Lois angrier at him. He was waiting it out at the farm.
There was heavy pounding on the front door. It was Oliver. Oliver angrily pushed past him into the living room. "I have a bone to pick with you, Kent."
"That's funny I have one to pick with you too."
Oliver had malice written on his face, "You go first then, but I guarantee you mine's better."
Clark frowned, "What did you tell Lois yesterday that made her so angry?"
He leered, "Only the truth."
"Which was?"
"That you didn't choose to break up with Lana. You two were forced into breaking up."
"You had no right to tell her that!"
"Were you going to?" Oliver asked.
"If the topic came up, yes."
"If the topic came up," he repeated jeeringly. "Why don't you leave Lois alone and go back to Lana? I'm sure you could find a way to rid her of the kryptonite if you tried hard enough. Why don't you get Dr. Hamilton on the case?"
"You're probably right. If anyone could figure it out, he could, but I don't want him to. I took her picture out of my wallet."
He mockingly threw up his hands, "Well, if you did that, you must be over her."
"I am," he replied through gritted teeth, "but to be honest, I don't care if you believe me or not."
"But you do care if Lois believes you?"
"I do."
"Got her picture in your wallet and everything?" he asked sarcastically.
"I've got her picture where it counts."
"Don't feed me a bunch of romantic bull. You had your chance, buddy, and you blew it."
"I could say the same thing about you."
"If you love her so much, why are you lying to her? Why are you preying on her emotions as the Blur? That's right. Lois told me about your little phone calls to her."
"I'm not preying on her emotions. I just like being able to tell her about that side of me."
"If that's true, why don't you just tell her your secret? If I had a nickel for every time you lectured me about telling Lois I was the Green Arrow because you'd learned so much from your relationship with Lana…you are nothing but a hypocrite."
"You're right," Clark said simply.
Oliver was momentarily stunned that Clark was agreeing with him. "What?"
"I haven't been honest with her and that's going to change. I'm going to tell her that I'm the Blur right now."
He left Oliver standing alone in the living room. Oliver collapsed down onto the couch. This wasn't the outcome he had wanted. He didn't know why, but he was afraid of losing her. He had been afraid of losing her since they'd started going out again. Maybe that's why he had tried to smother her with 3 consecutive dates. Something just wasn't right about this time around and he knew that something had to be Clark. He just hoped that Lois was too angry with Clark to listen to him.
TBC
