"Nine months." Oliver groaned as Doctor Emil studied the x-ray. "It's been nine months of her changing my bandages and giving me sponge baths, and helping me…you know."
"Pee?" Victor smirked at Oliver who glared. "It's getting to you isn't it?" Victor asked.
"Why are you here again?" Oliver asked.
"Oh, because Dr. Emil won't let Chloe come anymore and she insisted someone else be here so you don't lie to her about what he says." Victor smiled.
Dr. Emil left the room chuckling under his breath and Victor continued to smile. "I'll give you five hundred dollars to tell her I'm cleared no matter what the Doc says." Oliver offered Victor and he just laughed.
"She's killing you isn't she?" He asked.
"My body's on fire." Oliver said groaning which only caused Victor to laugh harder. "Why am I even talking to you about this?"
"I don't know but please continue." Victor said. "I just wish I had a tape recorder."
Oliver just rolled his eyes.
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"Nine months." Chloe said to Lois while she fanned herself. "Nine very long, excruciating months." Lois tried to hide her chuckles.
"He had a doctor's appointment this morning didn't he?" Lois asked helping Chloe serve up the ice cream.
Chloe had been slightly nostalgic for home, not really realizing how much she missed Lois until they reconnected while Chloe was in the hospital. She'd have been content just to go back and visit every other weekend or so but Oliver could never deny Chloe anything, and he never, ever did something halfway. So to cut down on her commute they re-established their base camp in Metropolis after the explosion and they were breaking ground on the new JL Towers in a month. At the moment Chloe was helping Lois man the ice cream booth at Smallville's annual Start of Summer Street Fair.
"Yes, his burns are all fine, the skin grafts took nicely, but they're checking his ribs and hip today." She scooped another cone as Bart and Megan walked up. "Hey." Chloe smiled, glad to change the subject.
"I thought this was supposed to be a coffee booth." Megan frowned at the large Talon sign where fresh coffee was crossed out and cold ice cream was hastily written in.
"It's 110 degrees out here." Chloe pointed out. "Even I won't drink coffee in this heat. So you here to help?
"Yes, where do you want me?" Megan nodded.
"Manning the cones." Chloe smiled and Megan leaned over to kiss Bart goodbye when she saw Lois glaring at her.
"Hey Lois." Megan said sheepishly.
"Megan." Lois nodded then turned to Bart and flashed him a brilliant smile. "Hey Bart, can I get you a cone? On the house?"
"They're all on the house." Chloe glared at Bart.
"Lois, can I talk to you for a second?" Bart asked and she giggled, actually giggled as she walked down the sidewalk with him.
"I'd like to apologize for my cousin." Chloe turned to Megan.
"It's fine." She laughed. "Really, I mean obviously I get the appeal. Besides I know that the only reason Bart would ever leave me was if you suddenly declared your undying love for him." She paused and turned to Chloe. "You're not going to suddenly declare your undying love for him are you?"
"Not in this lifetime or the next." Chloe assured her as Lois walked back up to the table in a daze. "Lois, you ok?'
"I think…" she turned back to look at Bart who was laughing and goofing off with Victor and AC. "I think I just got let down easy by Bart." She made a strange face. "What….exactly happened to me this past month that ended with me being let down easy by Bart Allen?"
"No one knows honey." Chloe patted her shoulder.
"Bart Allen doesn't let me down easy." Lois scoffed. "I let Bart Allen down easy. I mean come on."
Chloe tilted her head at Lois and smiled slightly. "You a little sad?"
"A little." Lois admitted.
"You think an ice cream cone will help?" Megan held out a cone with mint chocolate chip pilled high.
"A little." Lois took the cone and licked it.
"New subject. Oliver's last doctor's appointment. Are you gonna jump him?" Megan asked taking a bite of her own ice cream cone and smiling. Chloe's face turned bright red and Lois laughed.
"Oh she's so going to jump him." Lois shook he her head. "It's killing you isn't it?" Lois smiled at her.
Chloe threw her head back and laughed, out of frustration, desperation, she wasn't sure what. "My body is on fire." Chloe groaned and Megan and Lois could no longer hold their laughter in. "You guys are great friends you know that right?" They just kept on laughing.
"Hot body, eleven o'clock." Lois said sobering up quickly and Chloe turned to see Oliver walked in her direction, a determined look on his face, not so much determined as... "He's going to throw you on the table and have his way with you in the middle of the fair isn't he?" Lois said staring at the look on Oliver's face as he stalked toward them.
Megan and Lois both turned to see Chloe, her hand shaking so badly she couldn't hold the ice cream scoop, her breath coming faster than it had in months. "Inhaler?" Megan reached in her pocket.
"No." Chloe said, sweat dripping down her neck. "I'm fine…" She dropped the ice cream scoop and turned around quickly, reaching in the cooler, grabbing a handful of ice and unceremoniously dropping it down the front of her shirt. Lois and Megan's laughter started up all over again.
Suddenly out of nowhere, Clark walked up to Oliver, blocking him from her view and Chloe was able to breathe again. "Oh God." Megan breathed out at the same time Chloe collapsed against table. "I could feel that from over here." She was fanning herself and Chloe glared.
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Oliver walked more purposefully across the town of Smallville than he ever had in his life. There were people everywhere and somewhere in his brain he registered that the street fair was today. That meant that Chloe would be with Lois at the Talon's coffee booth. He adjusted his route and headed in that direction.
He spotted her as soon as he turned the corner, his eyes almost trained to pick her out of a crowd. She was next to Lois who was laughing about something and she'd somehow managed to rope Megan into helping her out. The coffee had apparently been replaced by ice cream and Oliver suddenly felt the heat of the day press on him and realized why.
The girls were sharing some kind of joke and Chloe threw her head back and laughed at something Lois said and then his feet didn't work anymore. He could see her so clearly, see almost every bead of sweat as it rolled from the nape of her neck, down the slope of her breasts, to disappear under her top. He swallowed hard and then she looked up at him and his determination was renewed and he started toward her again. He saw her mouth open slightly, her breath come a little faster and then watched as she turned around and dumped a handful of ice down her top, this made him smile. Then he couldn't see her. Clark had walked straight into his path and cut him off. "I didn't expect to see you here!" Clark shook his hand and patted him on the back.
"Well, I didn't expect to be here but I go where Chloe goes." He was hoping Clark would get the hint.
"I'm glad you came, got out, took in the fresh air." Clark said slowly.
"Yeah." Oliver said distractedly.
Clark opened his mouth to say something else when Oliver placed a hand on his shoulder and moved him slightly to the side. "I gotta go, I'll talk to you later." He said, not looking at him as he once again made his way to Chloe.
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She was so busy trying to compose herself she didn't see him end his conversation with Clark, or walk over to their stand. What she saw were strong capable hands lay gently on the table top. She heard Megan's sharp intake of breath and had to will herself to look up. When she did she froze, probably everyone in a ten miles radius froze. He was looking at her hungrily, urgently, with a hint of a smile at the corner of his lips.
"Dear God in heaven." Lois whispered before falling into the ice chest.
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Chloe hadn't see him approach so he stopped and laid his hands on the table. She lifted her head up to look at him and he was glad he was leaning on the table because he wasn't sure he would be able to support his own weight at the moment. The look in her eyes went straight from his head to his groin and he had to stifle a moan.
"Looks like you're running low on ice cream." He said to her. She didn't bother to look down at the container that she knew was practically full.
"I could use a refill." She said back, a smile forming on her face.
"I could help you with that." He picked his hands up of the table and straightened.
"It's in the freezer at the Talon." Chloe smiled pulling off her apron. Before she was even finished Oliver nodded and headed up the street in that direction. "Keys." Chloe said to Lois snapping her fingers as her hands shook. Lois jumped up and reached in his pocket. "Keys, keys, keys." Chloe bounced from one foot to the other staring at Oliver's ass as he walked to the building.
"Jeez, hold on." Lois frowned pulling out her key chain and handing it over, then she snatched them back. "It's my apartment now, my mattress…I'm not sure if I want you guys…you know." Lois crinkled her nose.
"Lois I'll buy you a new mattress, I'll buy you a new bed just give me the keys." Chloe said. Lois dropped them suddenly and into Chloe's hand.
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Chloe practically skipped to Oliver, he was standing by the locked door of the Talon, shifting his weight from one foot to the other impatiently as she walked forward, her skip turning into a jog. Oliver grabbed her by the waist and pulled her to stand in front of him then angled her to the door. "Unlock it." He whispered huskily into her ear and she almost collapsed. His grip tightened on her waist and he pulled her closer and she could feel why he wanted her in front of him.
"Oh god." She sighed her forehead falling on the door as her hands shakily brought the key up to the lock. She couldn't get the key in and then Oliver's hand was on hers and he was steadying it and they were sliding the key in and when they door finally unlocked they were both breathing so heavily that Chloe was worried they wouldn't make it inside.
Oliver turned the knob and practically shoved her in side, slamming the door behind him with his foot as she grabbed her by the neck to pull her in for one of the most toe curling, knee bending, bone jelling kisses she'd ever had. When he pulled away she was panting heavily. "Windows." Chloe collapsed onto a bar stool and Oliver walked over to see a few of Smallville's residents staring at them.
"You ok?" He asked over his shoulder as he lowered the blinds.
"I'm fine, it's not asthma." She said taking a deep breath. "I just…"
"I know." He said closing the last set of blinds and making it back to her side in two seconds to claim her lips in another kiss.
"Wait." She pulled back. "Are you ok?"
"Fine." He assured her, moving his mouth to her neck.
"Are you lying to me?" Her voice hitched as he found just the right spot under her ear and he smiled against her skin.
"No." He said. Her hands fumbled around her skirt until she found the pocket and pulled out her cell phone. "What are you doing?"
"Checking." She told him as she flipped it open and dialed a number.
"You don't trust me?" He asked, slowly lowering the strap of her tank top off of her shoulder so he could kiss her there.
"Not as far as I can thrown you." She laughed.
"Hello." The voice on the other side of the phone said.
"Victor." Chloe panted out. "What did the Doctor say?" Oliver had removed the other shoulder strap and was working on that side now.
"What Doctor?" Victor asked and she could hear the smile in his voice.
"Victor." She panted out. "Not, funny." Her voice rose on funny as Oliver placed his hands on her knees and slowly brushed them up her thighs to land on her hips, her bare hip.
"No underwear." He muttered. "Interesting."
"Oh god." Victor said. "I heard that."
"Well you're about to hear a lot more." Chloe swallow as Oliver's fingers dug into the skin on her hips. "So just tell me what the doctor said."
"Clean bill of health. Cleared him for strenuous exercise." Victor chuckled. "You're good to go."
"Thanks." She said smiling at Oliver.
"You're about to miss the pie eating contest." Victor told her as she closed the phone and tossed it behind the counter. She wrapped her arms around Oliver's shoulder pulling him closer to her.
"Ok." She said smiling. "Proposition. Neither of us is going to last very long, so let's not even try to pretend." He smirked at her. "One quick "get it out of your system" before I take you back to my place and hold you hostage for three days?" She offered.
"Make it two." Oliver said. "And you've got a deal."
"I can do that." Chloe smiled pulling him down for another kiss as she tugged his shirt from his pants, they could hear chanting start up somewhere and Chloe figured the pie eating contest must have started. Every other thought was thrown out the window when she managed to free his shirt and suddenly she was touching his bare skin.
He hissed, actually hissed at her and for a second she thought it was pain until he followed it with a growl and lifted her up to sit on the edge of the counter. "We're so not gonna make up to Lois' apartment." Chloe laughed as her legs wrapped around his waist pulling him closer. She grabbed his waistband to unbutton his pants and her hands stopped as the chanting outside turned to screams, horrified panicky screams.
"Ignore it." Oliver said, his hands covering hers to help her with his pants.
When the button and the zipper finally taken care of Chloe reached for the waistband of his boxers when they heard a banging on the door. "Oliver!" Victor's voice carried through the glass.
"Go away." Oliver screamed.
"Yeah sorry to interrupt your….just sorry to interrupt, but we've got a situation out here." AC told him.
"Take care of it." Oliver growled at them.
"Ok, we just thought you might want to know that a contestant in the pie eating contest just sort of burst into flames halfway through his second boysenberry." Bart piped up. "And Clark had to go…see a man about a story."
Oliver sighed, leaning his forehead against Chloe's and took a deep breath. They both looked down at her hands which were just slipping inside of his boxers and they started to laugh. "Oliver?" Victor called out after a second. "Chloe?"
"Just a second." Oliver yelled back, took a deep breath and took two steps back from Chloe.
"I should…"
"I understand." Chloe smiled at him pulling up the straps on her tank top.
"It's most likely Meta related and I promised Clark." Oliver pointed out. Part of setting up base in Metropolis was an agreement to help out Clark who was finally embracing his destiny. Embracing his destiny however meant that he didn't have enough time to deal with the troubles at home, because he was generally "seeing a man about a story" which was their code for "halfway around the world saving someone from something".
"Oliver, someone just burst into flames. There's no way I'm missing this one." Chloe smiled jumping down and picking up her flip flops that had somehow fallen off. "Spontaneous Human Combustion, Meta related or not, it's definitely gonna top sex every time." She assured him as he zipped up his pants.
He laughed hoarsely at her and she kissed him softly. "Besides, at the rate we were going, one of us would have ended up back at the hospital. We need a breather."
"As soon as we can get away." He said reaching for the door.
"I know." She smiled.
"God, you're fantastic." He told her stepping forward to kiss her again.
"I know, would you just go." She shoved him lightly to the door and he opened it to find almost half of Smallville standing there waiting.
Victor, AC, Lois, Bart, Megan, Jordan, and even Holly and Emily were all staring at the door to the Talon and Chloe felt her face turn bright red. "It wasn't me I swear." Emily held up her hands so everyone could clearly see they were gloved.
"What are we all standing around here for?" Oliver asked tucking in his shirt much to Lois's amusement. "Didn't a man just burst into flames?"
"Right this way." Victor smiled.
Lois smirked at Chloe as she fanned her face in the heat. "So I don't remember Oliver being that quick, did you…"
Chloe held up a hand cutting her off abruptly. "Lois, I'm am wound so incredibly tight right now I want you to take a deep breath, think about what that rest of that sentence was going to be and decide if you really, really want to finish it." Lois stopped and bit her lip. "You want to pretend like you never said anything?" Lois nodded quickly and they kept walking in silence.
Lois watched as Oliver and his team walked over to the crime scene. Oliver got distracted by the sight of Chloe pulling her hair off her neck in a small effort to cool herself off so Victor took over. He barked orders to his team and the members of Megan's team, trying to get as much done as they could before the police showed up. "So what's the story with Victor?" Lois asked twirling a piece of hair around her fingers. She caught his eye and waved a tiny girly wave. Victor frowned at her confused but waved back.
"No." Chloe shook her head. "Not again." She took off to the pie eating table.
"I'm not asking for a family history." Lois jogged after her.
"I'm not listening to you." Chloe stuck her fingers in her ear in the classic two year old tantrum pose.
"I just want to know if he's seeing someone." Lois called.
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Author's Note: I know it's really short but I just wanted to tie up loose ends. I've got a few other stories in the works but I'm not sure when I'm going to start posting so just be patient.
