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She cleared her throat to speak as she concentrated on keeping her feet firmly planted on the ground. Maybe somehow she heard the man wrong. Maybe he just had his facts wrong.

Chloe was too focused on what she had just been told to look at anyone else in the room. If she had, she would have seen four shocked people, one person who looked as if they were just piecing together some important facts- not appearing as shocked as the others, and one person who did not look surprised at all. Those last two people were Lois and Oliver.

"I must have heard you wrong. That, or you're mistaken. I can't be-"

"You heard me correctly, and I know exactly what I'm talking about. Lex did the procedure when he had you at Black Creek. You were knocked out. They did the abdominal egg extraction and you were none the wiser. Haven't you ever wondered how you got your scar? I'm assuming there's a small scar, because I heard that's what usually happens with this sort of thing."

"Oh my God," Chloe said quietly.

She lifted up her shirt and found what the man was talking about. Chloe took a deep breath and traced the scar with her finger.

"I wondered how I got that since the day I left Black Creek," Chloe said, sighing.

Chloe shook her head and tried to clear it for a moment. She needed to put her emotions aside and remember that she had questions for Lex's guy.

"What exactly does Lex have planned for me?" Chloe asked, unable to keep her mind from wandering back to Rina.

"He was never specific about anything. Basically the only thing he ever really said is what I already told you."

Chloe turned her gaze in Oliver's direction and noticed that Oliver didn't look at all shocked, while everyone else was still wearing greater and lesser forms of it.

"You're not shocked at all?" she asked him, looking him in the eye.

"You were really attached to her from pretty much the first second you saw her. Her being yours makes that make a lot more sense to me," he said, not meeting her eyes.

Oliver wasn't meeting her eyes, and that meant that he wasn't telling her everything. Chloe went silent again and thought about recent events, seeing if she could piece some things together.

And now that she was thinking about it, a bunch of different things started to piece themselves together in her head.

Chloe thought back to the conversation she had with Oliver in Emil's kitchen, the one where he told her that he'd say he was Rina's dad. She tried to remember exactly what it was that she had said before he told her that.

She had been stressing over what to tell her dad about Rina. She said something about leaving her dad with psychological scars if he actually knew the truth.

She said that and he had looked as if he was seriously thinking about something. And then he told her to say that Rina was his.

There was something in that conversation that gave him an attitude adjustment, something in that conversation that made him tell her that he was sure he and Rina would get along and promise her that he would be good to Rina. What was it exactly, though?

Scars. That was it. It was after she mentioned psychological scars. That's when he basically told her exactly what she wanted to hear. Chloe was putting something together in her head. Forget the psychological part, Chloe would bet that that's not the part that caught Oliver's attention. It was just the scar part. The word 'scar' is what prompted it.

Chloe took a guess that when she had said scar, he had thought about the small one she had. And if he had already been wondering about why Chloe was so attached to the baby, if he was wondering if maybe by some chance Rina was actually Chloe's- he might have wondered about the nature of the scar...

Oliver must have thought that that scar could have been exactly what Lex' employee said it was. He had thought that Rina could be hers, and that's why his attitude had changed.

If he thought that Rina could be Chloe's he would want to know for sure. The only way to know for sure would be to run a test. And who would Oliver get to run that test? Emil.

Chloe bit the inside of her cheek, and clenched her hands into fists. That's what Emil was up to yesterday when he collected extra samples of DNA from her. His excuse about losing what he already had was bullshit and that's why he had been so nervous.

Chloe would bet all the money she had that all this is exactly what had happened.

"Emil was nervous as hell yesterday when he collected more samples from me. What would he have to be nervous about if he was really just doing what he was supposed to? "

Oliver cut Chloe off before she could say anything else. Oliver knew that somehow she was piecing things together. Oliver knew that she knew exactly what he had Emil do yesterday.

"Okay, I know what you were getting to. I had Emil collect more DNA samples from you so that he could run some tests. I thought the baby might somehow be yours, and I wanted to know for sure. And I know what you're gonna say, and you're right, you're 100% right, you had every right to know exactly what was going on. You're already stressed, though. I didn't want to give you even more stress. I just wanted you to try to relax. I knew that if you knew about the test you wouldn't be able to stop thinking about it. I didn't want to add more to your plate. And if she didn't turn out to be yours, I would have got you all worked up for nothing," he told her.

Chloe had heard enough. She was angry. Part of her knew that Oliver wasn't trying to do anything to upset her in any way. Part of her knew that these things he had done were really because he just didn't want her to worry, but that didn't matter very much to her right now. What she wanted was honesty.

Chloe sighed, shook her head and started to walk back the way she came in, wanting more than anything just to get back to Watchtower to see Rina. "Someone let me know if you learn anything else from this guy. I'm out of here. Clark, can you take me back?"

"Yeah, let's go," Clark said, following her.

Oliver started to follow, but Lois and Lana grabbed his arm and shook their heads.

"Leave her alone for a bit, Ollie," Lois said, unable to keep Rina off her mind.

Chloe being that baby's mother made some sense to Lois. That might explain why the baby seemed to be so comfortable with herself and Gabe- they were family. This revelation, while Lois felt bad for how confused Chloe must, made Lois quite happy. She adored that baby. It was nice that she'd be able to call her family.

"No," he said, going after Chloe and Clark. "You guys keep asking questions. I'll be back later. I'm not gonna give her any more time to get even more pissed off with me. I need to do damage control. I need happy-Chloe, not wants-to-kick-my-ass Chloe."

"How does he plan on getting Chloe to go from wanting to kick his ass to being happy and forgiving?" Lana asked, laughing a little in spite of what everyone just learned.

She couldn't blame Chloe for being angry, but she couldn't help but feel sorry for Oliver.

"My guess is by getting her alone in Watchtower, somewhere away from Clark, the baby, my uncle and Tess, getting himself and her naked and having a whole bunch of sex with her," Lois said, smirking. "I'm totally no longer interested, but I do remember that he could be very persuasive when he wasn't wearing any clothes."

Lana snorted, and Bart groaned. "I don't need those images in my head, Pretty. I really don't."

Jonn just shook his head and tried not to laugh.