Hey guys! This chapter is a bit rough, but its been a long time, so I tried to put this up as quickly as possible. Enjoy! oh I also changed a few scenes in previous chapters.
Oliver's Apartment
Setting her cup of coffee on the glass table, she sat in her chair and slipped the ear piece and microphone on.
Chloe tapped a few keys, bringing up all the different feeds she would need. Chloe's eyes moved rapidly, trying to catch everything as the screens popped up..
'Hello Chloe' the automated female voice rang in her ears.
'Hello Lady' Chloe replied before grabbing her coffee cup and taking a small sip,
The prompt on the center panel glowed green against a black screen, 'WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONNECT NOW?'
Chloe clicked yes, suddenly finding a series of video feeds and a rush of voices bombarding her senses.
'At the checkpoint Boss, and let me just say, fine choice!'
'Its the black, not the blue'
'I'll show you black and blue'
'Hey...waterfight'
'Like I haven't done that before-'
'Guys' Chloe broke in.
'so let me get this straight, you don't like skiing...and you don't like the girl, so why are you going skiing with the girl-'
'Guys'
'You need to get laid bro-'
'GUYS' Chloe called out, not wanting to know where this conversation was going.
Silence filled the air for a few seconds, before each of them simultaneously greeted her.
'What's up Chlo?
'Mamacita? Qe pasa?'
'Hey watchtower'
'sidekick?'
Chloe smiled as she flipped through the feeds, making sure each camera was working. 'You in Green Arrow?'
'In and out'
'That's what she said' Flash broke in, to the groan of everyone else.
'He has his moments' Chloe quipped.
'Very funny sidekick'
Chloe shook her head while tapping a few keys, bringing up the black and white scene at a ballroom. She watched as Oliver stood in front of the camera, another beautiful woman on his arm.
With her cup of coffee in her hand, she watched as he brushed the woman's lower back before resting his hand just above her…Chloe curled her lip a little.
Taking a deep breath, she continued typing, switching to another camera. On screen Oliver turned slightly to the right, and an image of the woman's chest was in full view.
Chloe spat her coffee out, 'eyes up Arrow' she snapped, and suddenly the camera went to the woman's smiling face.
'Hey can I get a copy of that?' another voice squeaked in her ear.
Chloe rolled her eyes as she saw Bart at the bar chatting up two women.
Chloe heard Oliver's low chuckle in her ear as he talked to the woman, asking her what she did.
As Oliver and the woman conversed, Chloe tapped a few more keys. A schematic of the entire building filled the screen.
Chloe tapped her ear, 'alright Cyborg, tell me when your at checkpoint.'
While waiting for Cyborg to get to the upper floors, she leaned back in her chair and watched as Oliver and the woman chatted.
Moving her microphone away, she couldn't help but snort in disgust, just watching him try his pickup lines on the young woman.
'I'm Oliver Queen, I have billions upon billions of dollars, and I sleep on a bed of money.' Chloe mimicked the lines.
'Oh Mr. Queen, money doesn't matter, I'd take you even if you were poor and in the slums' she answered herself.
'Sure you would, because my gorgeous body attracts all females within a ten block radius'
'Oh please Mr. Queen; I can be the maid Marion to your Robin Hood. How could I repay you?'
'No need, my awesomeness is awesome enough-'
'You there Chloe?'
Chloe sat up quickly, face turning red as she scrambled to flip feeds.
'Chloe?' Oliver asked with worry.
Putting the mike back on, she tapped the speaker on, 'uh…yeah…just burned my tongue.'
'Alright we're done, Victor is in, and we have our info, sending it to you now. Let's rendezvous and we're done boys. ..Oh and Chloe…I wouldn't mind you being the maid Marion to my Robin Hood' Chuckling he switched off the line.
Chloe turned tomato red as she tore the mike and speaker from her ear and tossed it on the desk. Still embarrassed at being caught, she finished downloading the file Victor was able to get
Chloe sighed as a window popped up.
'Stupid' she whispered to herself, still trying to stop her cheeks from burning.
Typing in several different passwords, she was continuously denied. Sighing, she tapped in another command, initiating a program she and Victor had written meant to create a backdoor.
Knowing it would take one to two hours for it to finish.
Sighing she looked at her watch, before spinning around in her chair to stare at Metropolis's skyline.
The victims so far were straight forward, female, young, late teens, early twenties. But that was it. One of them was a waitress at a decent restaurant, another was a college student at Metropolis University, and another one was working for a major corporate company in human resources.
And the newest victim was the youngest of them all, at age seventeen. The parents had said she was going on a date and they weren't too concerned until they got the call. A priest had found the girl on the altar, when he was finishing his work for tomorrow's sermon.
Chloe wondered what the killer was playing at, the beach, the park, the church.
'You're one of them Chloe' she held up the disk, the one Oliver thought he had destroyed in the fireplace.
Chloe saw regret in her eyes as the ball of fire reflected in Chloe's eyes.
BOOM!
Chloe jerked awake.
Heart beating rapidly she lifted her head, realizing she was in Oliver's apartment still
She had fallen asleep at her desk. Groaning, she closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths.
'You're one of them Chloe'
Chloe frowned, shaking her head a little. Sitting up and pressing her palms to her eyes, she could feel something on the edge of her mind, but whatever it was her gut instinct told her it would be important.
Looking at her watch, her eyes widened, it read 2 in the morning. Glancing around, 'where the hell are they?' she muttered.
Turning around in her chair, she was happy the program finished.
Tapping a few more keys, she brought up the file. But the screen would disintegrate every time she clicked on the file. Firewall.
Chloe tapped in a few more keys, but an ACCESS DENIED popped up. Chloe looked at the watch…biting her lip she looked over her shoulder for a second.
Standing up, she grabbed her keys and jacket, and the disk.
Pausing on the way to the elevator, she turned and with a tap of a key, erased everything on the computer.
Suburb of Metropolis, 1.5 hours later:
David grinned as he just beat the newest resident evil in 2.5 hours. 'Who's the man?' he said raising his fists in silent worship to himself.
'You're the man.' Chloe stood behind him grinning.
David looked over his shoulder grinning at his favorite girl…well his only girl other then his mother. Chloe laughed as David tried to put his hair to right, and secretly smelling his clothes to make sure they didn't smell funky. 'CHLOE! Where have you been?'
'Mind if I sit?' she gestured to a tower of magazines on a chair.
'uh…yeah!' David threw the computer magazines off the opposite chair and gestured for her to sit down.
'So to what do I owe this visit?'
Chloe held up the disk, 'got something I need you to help me with.'
David reached out and grabbed the green disc. Turning it over and over again, raising an eyebrow, 'how much trouble would I be getting into?'
Chloe smiled, 'let's just say that Guatanamo Bay would look like paradise. Three groups of people want this disk'
David flipped it over again, looking at it with awe, 'what about your friends?'
Chloe sighed, sitting back in her chair, 'they would be one of those groups of people.'
15 minutes later
Oliver dropped his hood as he entered his apartment.
Ready to find out what was on the disk, he stared at the empty chair.
'Watchtower?'
Nothing
Quickly crossing the room, he pressed the laptop on, only to find it completely fried.
Standing, jaw clenched, his fist hit the glass table.
Tapping his ear, 'Guys…We have a problem'
Chloe had found David when he was trying to break into Queen's systems and ever since then, they were good friends.
He was the go to guy when Chloe had trouble, although he was always suspicious that she was working on something other then just a story, she never said a word. Which made her that much cooler.
David rubbed his hands together, 'Let's pop this thing in.'
Chloe moved her chair closer, 'I only found a list of names, I want to know what the lists are for.'
Chloe looked over his shoulder as he surpassed several firewalls, until he hit upon a gate.
A password prompt popped up.
David looked up, 'well whatever this is, it's good. Really good.'
Chloe sighed, 'I was hoping you could get around this.' Unable to help herself, she teased him, 'you think Chase can do it?'
David threw her a dirty look, 'that hack wouldn't be able to tell dos from a dotcom.' Chloe shook her head smiling as David sat back thinking, staring at the computer screen.
Chloe looked down to her pocket, pulling out the phone to see Oliver's number. She shut the phone off.
'What about a virus?'
Chloe looked at him as if he was crazy.
David waved away any questions she was about to form, 'Here me out.'
'Think of it as a few tricks of the trade.' David reached a hand past her, accidentally brushing her chest.
Turning bright red, he mumbled quickly, 'sorry'
Chloe gave him a smile, 'its okay. Frankly, that was the most action I've gotten in months.'
Dave still wouldn't meet her eye, as he popped the disk in.
Half hour later, David and Chloe had it cracked. Clicking on one of the documents, David watched as several names scrolled by.
'Wait!' Chloe said looking over his shoulder, running her finger down the list. It was made up of 75 names.
'Oh my god!' she whispered.
Chloe drew out the notebook she kept when she was on a story. Flipping it to several different articles, she looked up at the list.
'Look' she pointed to the name of the victims, and to her horror, their names were on the list.
David opened his mouth, then closed it…before opening it again, 'uh…where did you get this list Chloe?'
Chloe slammed her journal closed, as she leaned forward. Taking the mouse, she scrolled down, making sure David couldn't see. One name was highlighted. Chloe Sullivan.
silence
'Chloe?' David asked behind her.
Chloe moved the list up again.
Chloe looked over her shoulder at David, 'have you ever heard of Brother Eye?'
Victor banged the keyboard hard. 'She's erased everything.'
Bart looked between all of them, eyes wide. None of them thought Chloe would do something like this, 'She has to have a reason, Chloe isn't like this' Bart insisted.
Oliver ran a hand through his hair, 'I trusted her.' He muttered. 'I called Clark, but he isn't picking up. Bart…could you?'
Bart gave him a two finger salute, 'aye aye boss.' Before zipping away in a red blur.
Oliver turned to A.C, 'Lois?' A. C nodded.
Oliver turned to Victor, but he already started typing, 'I'll keep working on this.'
David staggered out of his chair, eyes wide. 'Whoa! Chloe, are you crazy? Oh my god! Oh my god! I'm so dead'
Chloe raised an eyebrow, watching as he paced, 'David?'
'And then my mom's gonna kill me-'
'David!'
Turning to Chloe, 'Why aren't you freaking out!'
Chloe raised her hands slowly, 'Hey, you look like your doing a good job for the both of us.'
David stepped forward, hand in the air, 'I don't think you quite comprehend the gravity of the situation. Brother eye is like…is like the Phoenix. It's a myth. It pops up every few years, people talk about it, but no one's seen it. It's this thing...'
'…that Orwell would be proud of...or scared of.' Chloe finished for him.
David jerked back, 'h-how do you know that?'
'Because we have proof it exists' Chloe recalled the eyes on their chests, 'Of course' she whispered to herself, 'Idiot!' she cursed herself for not seeing it.
David blinked, pausing '…how?'
Chloe reached for her bag and slipped it over her head and across her shoulder. Opening the disc drive she took it out, before turning to him, 'No copies'
Slightly offended, 'Of course not…but how...Chloe!'
Chloe stood on her tiptoes and kissed him on the cheek, 'thanks David.'
David watched as she walked to the door, 'C'mon Chloe how?'
Chloe walked through the door, calling over her shoulder, 'Bye'
The door slammed shut behind her.
'Nice going, you finally get a girl down here.' he muttered as he slumped in his chair, 'Idiot'
A/N: WOW I had major writer's block as to how this was going. For some reason I couldn't figure out how Chloe was going to get her hands on the list again. Hint hint. But i figured it out, and now Chloe is going to start putting it all together including her own role in it all. I did change things in previous chapters, certain scenes so they make more sense. Especially two of the flashbacks i think, and I cleaned up any spelling mistakes. Hopefully I can get the next chapter sooner, but when I mean I had writer's block, I wrote 50 pages of crap. Phew! thankfully it's over. I know the scene of Chloe playing out the lines on the video might seems out of character, but I could still see it in my head, and thought it was funny. Okay...i think that's it.
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