Chapter

'my face is going to hurt for days' Oliver thought as he once again burst out in laughter like he had been doing ever since he'd picked her up an hour ago, that was inbetween starring at her he'd dated beautiful women before but she was a different kind of beautiful the look in her eyes was always kind and she was friendly to everyone even the woman who'd bumped into her spilling coffee all over her jacket but she didn't even seem annoyed. Glancing at her again out of the corner of his eye he saw the smile on her face as she watched a group of kids doing some kind of story dance thing and the rose colour spreading on her cheeks from the cold winter air.

"it's rude to stare" she said not taking her eyes off the performance

"hey," he smiled "it's not like i'm the only one doing it" he laughed taking a hold of her hand and it was true he'd seen multiple men stop and watch her as she walked by not that he couldn't understand why she was beautiful but he still felt a small tinge of jealousy as each man cast her an appeciative glance. Another thing he's learned about her was that she was incredibly shy. she seemed embarrassed when he's pointed out earlier how many men were watching her.

"it's still rude" she said the tinge on her cheeks becoming darker as she blushed he was about to retort when a snowflake landed on her face causing her to look up, a few seconds later snow was falling all around them. Oliver instinctively reached out to tuck a stray piece of hair that had fallen back behind her ear taking a step closer to her his hand still on her cheek he leaned down until his face was only a few centimeteres from hers. suddenly three days grace song are you ready for this started playing ruining the moment as she pulled away and he cursed himself for not switching off his phone.

"I'll be one minute" he promised taking a few steps away from her as she smiled "this had better be good"Oliver barked answering the phone

"no it's bad" came Chloe's grave reply

"how bad?" he asked already sensing where this was going

"get here now bad" she answered the worry clear in her voice

"ok" he sighed "see you soon" he said moving back to Megan "i have to go, a work problem" he said taking a hold of her hand again "i'm sorry"

"it's ok" she smiled

"come on i'll drive you home" he said pulling her hand towards the car

"don't worry about it"she said pulling him back "if it's that important you should just go i'll take a cab home" she said reaching up and kissing his cheek

"are you sure" he asked guilt and disappointment swelling inside him to which she just nodded as she turned away before he even knew what he was doing his hand flew out and caught her arm spinning her back round and stepping back into her and lowering his lips to her and kissing her softly. "i'll call you tomorrow" he smiled pulling away from her and releasing her arm to which she only nodded smiling before she turned and began to walk away.

"Chloe, Tess " Oliver called walking into watchtower "what's the problem?" rounding the corner he saw not only Chloe and Tess but also Aquaman, Cybory, Impulse, Black canary, Clark, Lois and John all with solem looks on their faces. "what's wrong?" he asked now genuinely worried. when no one answered he asked again.

"it's not just Lex" lois said taking a step towards him "there's an organisation called the soul seers have been abducting and experimenting on people with abilities."

"what?" Oliver asked amazed he's never heard of them

"and they make Lex look pitiful" Lois continued ignoring Oliver "they've been at it for centuries" she concluded

"How do you know all this" Oliver asked

"I was investigating the new comers "Chloe said reaching for her coffee "i found out they'd been destroying building all over the world that's when i found them." she said taking a long drink

"they have connections everywhere" Tess continued "military, medicine , governments anywhere you'd want a connection they have it" she sighed " we managed to crack one of their files and we found these " she said motioning to a closed file lying on the coffee table. Oliver leened over and took the file and he couldn't suppress the gasp of horror that escaped his lips as he saw it's contents.