Title: Penance 6
Author: Smileeface
Fandom: Smallville AU
Pairings: Chloe/Oliver,
Rating: PG(for now)
Disclaimer: I do not own Smallville/DC or the characters. I am just playing with them.
Summary: Penance: an act of self-abasement, mortification, or devotion performed to show sorrow or repentance for sin. I am really not like Chloe's story arc so I've decided to change it a little to suit my own needs. That's what fan fiction is right? LOL
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A/N: Hey Guys thanks so much for following this fic. I am glad that you are enjoying this story thus far. Vodooman asked me: "just a question... did davis do something to chloe or not, or is it just really 'only' the following around that chloe couldn't take anymore?"
I felt that I should address this not just for vodooman but for everyone reading, thanks vodooman btw for asking this question. After Oliver leaves for Star City, as seen in the Prelude, we go back to the Smallville story line (minus the dream make out sequence between Davis and Chloe): Chloe finds Davis in the Talon basement…just like in the show she makes a quick decision to hide him and try to cure him. Davis takes her willing to help him as a sign that she has also developed feelings for him the way that he has for her. That is not the case in my fic, but when Oliver returns a couple of days early to surprise Chloe, he finds Davis in her apartment with an unconscious Jimmy. Then it plays through like the show, Davis holds Oliver and Jimmy hostage until Chloe arrives and Clark comes into whisk him away. Thinking that the only way to save Oliver and the others is to leave with Davis, she does so willingly only to be held as a prisoner by Davis and that is all I am going to tell you about what happens to Chloe. This is where I step in and change the Smallville story line to suit me…at Injustice. No one is going to know what "really" happened between Davis and Chloe until the end of my story…sorry. : ) As for the other questions that vodooman asked…all great questions too btw, will be answered as the story unfolds. Thanks sooooo much to all of you who are leaving me comments. All your comments are truly appreciated and extremely helpful when I am trying to write the next Chapter! You all are AWESOME! : )
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Clark easily caught his cell phone and pressed the speed dial number for Oliver.
The phone rang twice before a groggy Oliver answered.
"This better be important, Boy Scout. I've just gotten to go to sleep."
"Oliver, I found Chloe. She's here at the farm. I wanted to call you to let you know."
Oliver sat up in his bed. He wiped a hand over his face, wiping the sleep from him as he did so. Chloe was back. He was glad that she was safe once again, but the anger that he felt the night before returned ten fold. He could fell his rage boiling within him. 'Of course, Clark found her. Of course she would be with Clark.' He kept thinking. Here he was killing himself and his team and she was safe at the farm with none other than Clark himself.
"Well good, now we can concentrate more on doing something about this monster. Thanks for the update, Clark. I'll let the team know." He said just before he hung up. He needed to get off the phone with Clark before his anger at Chloe became evident in his tone.
"Oliver?" Clark said into the mouth piece of his cell, "Hello?" He looked at his cell, everything was in working order but the call had been disconnected. Well, that was strange, Clark thought to himself. It almost sounded like he didn't care about Chloe at all. What was going on? Clark got up and dressed in 5 seconds, made his way downstairs where Chloe waited for him in the kitchen.
"Chloe, there's something wrong with Oliver's phone; I'm going to take a quick run over there to talk to him. Please, just don't go anywhere…stay here and I will be back as soon as I can, ok?"
"Sure Clark. Hey, is everything ok? I mean, Oliver has state of the art equipment, there shouldn't be anything wrong with his phone."
"I'm heading over there now. I'll tell you all about it when I get back."
Clark was gone before she could blink.
He arrived at Oliver's place in minutes. As he entered the lift he buzzed Oliver's apartment. An exhausted looking Oliver met him at the door of the elevator by the kitchen.
"To what do I owe this visit, Clark? Chloe's back, why aren't you with her? Coddling her?" He sneered, not at all the Oliver that Clark had been expecting. He was expecting at least some joy over finding Chloe safe and sound. He did not expect this uncaring Oliver to be the person he met at the lift. This was not the Oliver that had gone frantically searching for Chloe when first she had disappeared. Something had happened to change Oliver.
"Oliver, what's the matter with you?" Clark asked confused. "I thought that you'd be happy that we found her."
"WE did not find her, Clark. YOU were the one to find her. YOU were the one who saved her. WE didn't even find a single blimp on the proverbial map. Nope, it was good ole Clark Kent who found and rescued her, as always." Oliver turned his back on Clark.
"Oliver? Are you upset that I found Chloe? Why?" Clark just couldn't understand where all this anger was coming from.
"I'm not upset, Clark. I'm just tired and I am still trying to figure out how to defeat this Doomsday. Chloe's safe, well good for her, now can we move on to saving the world, please."
"Oliver, where is this coming from? Are you angry with Chloe? She did what she thought was right. She made a mistake; we all make mistakes, Oliver."
"Clark," Oliver turned to look at the confused man, "she didn't just make a mistake with this, she put the whole world in danger because she CHOSE to leave with that monster instead of letting us take care of him. She chose to protect him when he returned rather than to try to destroy him."
"Oliver, Chloe saw the man in the beast. She saw the good in the evil; don't you think that that is worth trying to save?"
"At the risk of the world, Clark…no I don't. The needs of the many definitely out weigh the needs of the few or the one. If one man has to die in order to save the world then so be it."
"Who ARE you, Oliver? When did you become like this?" Clark looked at Oliver his confusion written clearly all over his face.
"I am doing what needs to be done to save the world, Clark. I am doing your job!" Oliver yelled at Clark, "Chloe's safe, NOW are you finally going to step up and be the hero that the world needs or will you hid out at that farm of yours and let the world be destroyed? The choice is up to you. I am not going to sit around and wait for Doomsday. I am going to find him and destroy him…or I am going to die trying. That is my priority. That is who I am. I am the Green Arrow."
"Oliver, don't you see that the needs of the one are just as important as the needs of the many? You were the one who always helped the underdog, tried to make a difference even if it were to only one person. What happened to change your mind? Chloe's back and she's promised to not leave again without letting one of us know. She knows that she was wrong to leave and not come to us for help. She wants to make amends."
"Sorry Clark, but that ship has sailed." Oliver turned to walk to the kitchen; he grabbed a glass from the cabinet and poured himself some orange juice. He needed a moment to reign in his anger a bit. He felt himself loosing control over his tightly wound emotions. "She's no longer trust worthy." He said as he returned to speak with Clark after downing the orange juice. "She's fraternized with the enemy. I don't…she made her choice, Clark. She chose him over us. If you want to forgive her then that's your prerogative. I can't forgive her for her desertion. I don't have it in me, right now."
"She did what she thought was the right thing, Oliver. You're going to punish her for that? You make the wrong choices sometimes too, but no one holds them against you. You are making the wrong choice right now. Chloe is special Oliver, and you can't tell me that you don't feel it. When you say that she made her choice, that she chose him over us, you really mean that she chose him over you, don't you?"
"Clark, what you are implying has nothing to do with it. She chose the enemy over her team. What kind of leader would I be if I allowed that insubordination to go unpunished? She's no longer welcomed on my team. I hope she has a good life, but I no longer want her to be a part of mine at the moment. Her betrayal cut deep."
"Betrayal? Oliver, she never betrayed you. However, and I am not sure that this is the right time to bring this up, but it needs to be addressed."
"Ok Clark," Oliver looked right at him waiting for the next blow to happen. What else can possibly go wrong in his life right now? Oliver thought. "What? What else needs to be said?" He shrugged.
"Well," Clark paused, he knew that this was going to be tough on Oliver, "there maybe a slight problem."
"How problematic are we talking about?" Oliver asked trying to get Clark to the point.
"The team may have been compromised." Clark said quickly.
"May have been compromised how?" Oliver looked at him alarmed. Fear for his friends over taking the anger at Chloe for the moment.
"Well, you see, Chloe sometimes talks in her sleep." Clark began, Oliver knew full well that she talked in her sleep having been privy to over hearing a conversation or two that she's had while she was asleep, himself.
"Ohh kay? What does that have to do with the team?" He wondered aloud.
"Well, let's just say that she may have divulged a name or two while she was sleeping. She would never have let any information about the team slip while she was a wake, but asleep she would have no control over what she said. She may not have said anything to Davis about the team, but she didn't want to take that chance. She wanted to warn you about the possibility."
"See Clark. THIS!," Oliver's anger exploded as he pointed at Clark, " is EXACTLY what I was talking about!" He took a deep breath in an attempt to calm down. "Her decision to leave has left us with a ripple effect. Now I have to scatter the team for their own protection on the off chance that she told Davis about them while she slept. This is the betrayal I was talking about." He said as he walked away from Clark and headed to his computer. He wasn't sure if the guys were on their way to the penthouse at the moment or not. They were all supposed to meet at the penthouse that morning to discuss their search plans. He would have to send a coded text to the guys to meet him here ASAP. Well, Dinah at least was safe in Hong Kong at the moment on an assignment unrelated to this situation. He was glad he didn't call her back to help with the search for Chloe.
"Oliver, you can't hold her responsible for this…she was asleep." Clark argued as he followed Oliver over to the computer.
"Of course I can hold her responsible for putting the team in jeopardy. It was her responsibility, it is her fault that the team has to be scattered. See, Clark, she is completely responsible for all of this, and I just can't forgive that right now. I can't let go of my anger at her as easily as you can. She did this. She caused this. This all is her fault. She left." Oliver turned his back and began walking away from Clark again.
"Oliver, what are you going to do?"
"I'm going to call in the team and send them to the safe houses once we have a plan established. You can take care of yourself and of Chloe. I have to worry about my team, Clark. I will not let anything happen to them because your sidekick thought that she could play superhero while she wasn't equipped to do so."
"My sidekick, huh? She used to be our sidekick. For awhile there I was having to share her. I actually thought that I may have lost her to you for a while there."
"Well, you can have her back. I don't want her anymore. You can tell Chloe, that she's fired. I will find someone else to be Watchtower."
"Oliver, don't you think that that's a bit severe?"
"No, I don't. Now if you will excuse me, I have to take care of my team. I think you know the way out."
Tbc…
A/N: Constructive feedback is always appreciated! Thanks for reading! :)
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