Disclaimer: I do not own Smallville or any of these characters
AN: Update! Thank you reading this far along. Warning there is a bit of smut or almost smut in this chapter there for now that I know that there definitely will be some NC-17 material in later chapters this fic's rating will be turned back to M. Thank you for all the reviews and to everyone that has taken the time to even look at this fic. So here is Chapter 16 enjoy!
Chapter 16: A Step towards the light
"Finally Smallville. Why did it take you so long to get me out of that cell? Where have you been?" Lois threw her arms up in frustration slamming the truck door as she exited Clark's truck.
"Well I uh…" Clark barely got a few words out as he shut the driver's side door and followed Lois on the tarmac towards where they had to meet his mother's private jet.
"Never mind. It's not important right now, I have to fine Chloe. She's mad at me and I don't know why. She went off on me about the Green Arrow bandit. Something about my lack of understanding of certain things, I hope it's just her hormones. " She kept rambling as she always did, but this time instead about a big story her rant was about Chloe. Which to some people at the moment was a huge story, but Lois didn't need to know that right now.
"Hormones why would it be her hormones, what do you know?" Clark stiffened, maybe Chloe had lied to Oliver maybe she really did know about the baby before confronting Lex. In the same instant as the thought entered his head it left, Lois had to be talking about something else.
"That's a girl's private business Clark, I know you and Chloe are close but there are just some things that you don't need to know. Wait, what do you mean what do I know? What do you know?" The future intrepid reporter stopped in her tracks and turned a disgusted face in his direction. "Is there something you're not telling me?"
"I'm sure my son has no idea what you're talking about Lois." Martha Kent said greeting the pair and hugging her son.
"Mrs. Kent it's so good to see you. I thought I'd never get out of that jail house, thanks for posting bail I promise I'll pay you back." Lois interrupted the small family reunion and gave the older woman a bear hug of her own. "I'm so glad your back I have to talk to you about a Luthor Corp. Faci….."
"Don't worry about it, you can start by going back to D.C for me and delivering this personally to Senator Jenkins personal assistant." The senator cut off her son's friend turned campaign manager turned part-time personal assistant.
Martha was well aware of the explosion down by the docks and its true source thanks to an anonymous source. She also knew that Lois did not need to get involved in anything having to do with 33.1 or Luthor Corp, her son needed time to deal with things and Lois not to interfere. For her own safety of course.
"But I have things here to do I have to talk to you about…" Lois pleaded for a moment but was shut up as Martha's body guard handed her a file folder and ushered her onto the private plane.
"Have I ever mentioned that you're the best mother in the galaxy." Clark smirked and waved good bye to Lois who was peering through the small window of the jet.
"Only every other week since you found out about your inter galactic origins," Martha joined her son in waving the younger woman fair well for the time being then turned around to face Clark and pointed him in the direction of his truck, a serious look on her face. "Speaking of great mothers, I have a few things I need to speak with Chloe about."
"I don't think now is a good time she's a little preoccupied at the moment." From the nervous expression on his face Martha could tell her son was feeling a little uncomfortable. "Wait, Mother? How do you know? What do you know?"
"You don't have to worry, I'm not the one in danger. But Chloe's mother hasn't much time, I 'anonymously' received this in the mail this morning." She put his obvious worry for her to rest handing him the key to finding Chloe's mother. By the silence that filled the pickup truck Martha could tell that Clark was stunned by what she had to give.
"Where did you get this?" Clark echoed the question in his head.
"Like I said I don't know it just showed up this morning with the rest of my mail. But that's not important right now Clark. Wherever Chloe is or whatever she's doing you have to get this to her as soon as possible." From the way she was talking, she hoped her son got the message of how serious she was. Moira Sullivan might have even less time than anyone knew, there was not telling what Lex would do or could do to her.
Her hair fell over the pillow covering her eyes and blocking the pits of sunshine coming through the expensive window shades of Oliver Queen's penthouse. That's right she was here safe in Oliver's bed and in Oliver's arm's wait, where did he go? He was there with her when the withdrawal was finally over and she fell asleep in his lap after a heated make out session that Chloe was sure most of the league witnessed.
But that didn't matter right now, after her lack of edit button the last day or so they all knew about her non-relationship with Oliver. Non-relationship, after the discussion they had last night and her own declarations of love towards the emerald archer. What were they to each other? Did her emotional confession even count considering in her state of duress?
What were the rules about relationships when one was dosed with a mind altering drug? Wow was the cosmic joke getting more hilarious every time she thought about her life. Pushing the awkward question to the back of her mind, Chloe sat up in the large bed noticing again the lack of Oliver's presence next to her. That wasn't fair, make out with her, take her to bed and not finish what he started. Sighing at the irony of it all Chloe swung her legs over the side of the king sized bed frame intent on heading to the closet and readying herself for the day.
"Morning goldie-locks, where do you think you're going?" The bed sunk a few centimeters accommodating itself to support his weight and as the leather clad forearm wound itself around her waist Chloe knew exactly where Oliver or more appropriately the Green Arrow had been.
"Nowhere now, I'm sure. Where have you been Mr. deep voice? Why do you have that thing still on? We both know who you really are?" Chloe didn't protest as he rolled her over so she was beneath his leather clad body his hood still up.
"I wanted to play my new favorite indoor game with you." The deep voice was always a turn on for Chloe they both were well aware of that, but she wanted nothing more than to hear the true voice of the man she loved.
"And what exactly would that be Romeo?" Chloe moaned in response to the knee separating her legs allowing Oliver to rest comfortably between them.
He didn't reply to the small inquiry at first as Chloe pushed back his hood and ran her hands all over him tugging at the leather knowing exactly what zippers to pull and what came off the fastest. She had practice with stripping the Green Arrow and that thought turned him on even more. Oliver pressed his body closer to Chloe letting her know just how much.
"Well now that I know about your own heroic extracurricular activities and your perfect codename, " His lips were on her neck knowing exactly where and how to touch her. "Let's play Watchtower and Green Arrow"
"Looks like you've been playing Green Arrow for a while now. You still went on your patrol this morning." Chloe helped him remove his vest finally having access to Oliver's toned chest running her hands down it as he kissed her again. Chloe rolled them over so that she was on top straddling his still leather clad hips not letting her lips leave his as she did.
"Wow, I almost forgot how good you are at that." Oliver groaned kissing her neck again, this was pure bliss he never wanted to leave. And being a wanted man was supposed to be a bad thing.
"Ollie...Ollie" By the way she was moaning his name he could tell she was too."Oliver!"
"What? I thought…" He halted his assault on her neck pulling back to look her in the eyes worried he had done something wrong.
"As much fun as telling you what to do would be, I think we should talk about last night." Last night what was there to say? They had exchanged their 'I love yous' and he said that he would never leave either of them. Oliver was at a loss for words at the moment and then found his voice a moment later.
"What is there to say? I love you and from what I can tell I would like to think you feel the same way. That's all that matters at the moment. We can forget the lying and the secrets. All that I care about is safe and if you will let me I'll show you just how happy I you make me." Oliver leaned in for another kiss intent on finishing what he'd started, but he lost the chance as Chloe turned her head and dodged his attempt.
"Seriously Ollie, I wasn't in my right mind and I said some things that I didn't mean and other things that..." Chloe silenced herself for a second and then found the words she wanted to use. "I'm meteor infected I can heal people and it..."
"We had that conversation already it doesn't matter to me. I would love you even if you were from another planet, that Martian Manhunter is strong is he really from Mars. Not the point. The point is Chloe I meant what I said last night and the other day when you tried to distract me with the whole 'we can't see each other' bit." He paused taking her hands in his own placing them on his chest. "Don't ever say that again by the way."
"Sorry..." Chloe's voice was a low whisper the regret in it obvious as the small tear that rolled down her cheek as she felt his heartbeat beneath her feminine palm. "I never meant to hurt you."
"I know." Oliver pulled her closer making Chloe put her legs to the side so she was sitting in his lap instead of straddling him. "I love you, and that's not going to change just because you have a gift that trumps all modern medicine and that most doctors would give up their Masters Degree for."
"That's just it. I have an ability, a powerful one. I don't even know the extent of my powers. If I can't understand what's wrong with me how can I ask you to?" She hung her head in despair and tried to pull away from the man that loved her, but Oliver held her in her place lifting her chin making her lock eyes with him.
"You're starting to sound worse than our brooding boy scout. How was I supposed to expect you to understand my green leather fetish or my heroic side?" Oliver tried to turn the tables and make her feel better about her gift.
"You kind of didn't have a choice we we're trapped and thought we we're going to die." She stated the obvious making Oliver roll his eyes at her usual snark.
"The snarkyness aside professor, none of it matters we both have our issues and our quirks. And we'd both be fooling ourselves if we tried the normal thing." He smirked and leaned in trying to kiss her again, but Chloe hindered the chance for any lip locking getting up off his lap and out of the king size bed.
"It's not a quirk Oliver it's a dangerous house of cards waiting to crumble. Every meteor infected person I've ever met has either gone insane or is dead. What if I end up like one of them? What if I hurt you or her?" Chloe placed her palm to her abdomen reminding them both of her current state. "And you've been throwing around the L word a lot this morning. Now I'm not one to stand in the way of love, but is that really what are we doing here Oliver? Until yesterday we were a dirty little secret and that secret is out."
"Well with the hurricane of things added to the bio of Chloe Sullivan recently I just figured that we'd pick up where we left off weird things and all." As his arms wrapped around her waist and his headed rested one of her shoulders Oliver could feel the tension in Chloe's petite form. "Don't worry about it, everything is going to be just fine."
"Why do you have to be so heroic? I want to believe everything your saying I really do. But the only one that can help me understand my curse is my mother that's why I need to find her Ollie." Chloe turned in his embrace facing the blond billionaire. "Will you help me?"
"All you ever had to do was ask." Their lips finally met in another passionate kiss sparking their need for each other once more.
Oliver backed Chloe up to the door frame of his walk in closet, as her back hit the hard surface she wrapped her legs around his toned waist. Working the belt buck on his leather pants was easier than most thought and Chloe had the offending item off in seconds. As she worked on the confining green leather Oliver was busy putting his hands up the shirt he had given her to sleep in hours before. Besides that Chloe wasn't wearing anything but a pair of his favorite undergarments.
"And they say being a wanted woman is supposed to be a bad thing." Chloe moaned out as a large palm skimmed the bottom of her exposed thigh, mimicking the subtle humor normally coming from the mouth of the emerald archer instead of her own. With his hands now roaming her soft skin Oliver could feel his need for her grow and as he was about to remove the last piece of fabric separating them…
"KNOCK…KNOCK!" Really? Chloe let her head fall back in surrender knowing that whatever they had started up again was going to have to wait for later, probably much later. Whoever was on the other side of that door sure as hell better be prepared to die or hope that the world was ending.
"Bart Allen gone. Another Multi-million-dollar installation destroyed. Our little science project irrevocably compromised. But at least you found out son, the jolly green archer can fight fire with fire." Lionel Luthor said playing his role as partner in crime and shutting the door to the over-sized hospital room, only the best for a Luthor.
"Green Arrow and his team? 33.1 irrevocably compromised, what the hell are you talking about dad?" Lex replied an expression of confusion crossing his features.
"So you really don't remember last night do you? I thought you were play-acting when I informed you earlier about your supposed car accident in front of your wonderful fiancé. But now I see that you really are not aware of your most recent bout with death." This was far easier than he thought it would be. Lionel didn't like making up more lies for his son to believe. Lies that were closer to the truth than the story he had fed Lex earlier, but lies just the same.
"I almost died?" From the emotion in his normal monotone like voice, Lex's worry was evident. Good he was worried, Lionel needed his son as emotional as possible in the next few days. If he was going to help save Moira Sullivan, his judgment would need to be clouded with uncertainly.
"I don't believe this you're most valuable asset was almost compromised and you can't recall any of it. You're lucky you had Mrs. Sullivan moved before our not so run-of-the-mill adversaries decided to grace you with their presence. But they accessed most of the mainframe, which means they are aware of our other locations." Playing devil's advocate was never hard for the older billionaire especially when that devil was his own son. Lionel knew just what to say and when to distract his son and send him in a different direction.
"Wait you know where…" Lex wasn't too many words out and Lionel enjoyed cutting him off mid-sentence.
"Of course I know where she is. You didn't think you could hide the location of the key to controlling your little army from me forever did you. I'm a Luthor Lex and by the way things have been going for you. I'm beginning to think that you're forgetting what that means." Swinging low Lionel hit his mark as always. "Remind me again why you're doing all of this considering all your missteps I'm surprised you haven't quit by now."
"Freedom and democracy, these people these freaks are a danger to the world. 33.1 is the first line of defense against the war with the meteor infected. That's why I haven't given up and why I won't let a Terrorist like the Green Arrow stop me." Lex stood trying to defend his reasoning, manipulating him was so easy.
"What about Chloe Sullivan? You have her mother and as I recall she threatened bodily harm towards you the last time she thought you hurt a woman close to her. And now that she's Lana's maid of honor, you're cutting things a little closer than ever. What are you going to do if she finds out about your little plan for world domination at the sake of her mother's moral code?" The snide remark was more of a way to find out how much of a threat Lex thought Chloe was or could be.
"Unlike you dad I don't have a sick fascination with the mind of Chloe Sullivan or that much faith in her ability to find out the truth about anything meteor related." Lex sat down back on the hospital bed giving off the aurora of calm. "Don't worry Ms. Intrepid reported wannabe is not going to find out anything. Chloe hasn't hacked Luthor Corp since Lana and I started dating, and her loyalty to my lovely fiancé won't allow her to start her meddling anytime soon."
"So now the truth comes out, and I thought you missed my lesson on the true value of the right woman?" Lionel smirked at the thought of using Lana Lang against those she loved but felt ashamed inwardly at his own actions.
"Watch how you speak about your future daughter in-law. I truly love Lana, using her as a pawn towards Chloe is just a bonus." Good Lex's mind was in the right place and his guard was down when it came to anything Chloe Sullivan. Things were coming together better that he could have hoped, now just to get Lex away from Smallville and Metropolis for the next 24 hours.
"I'm sorry son, but if you do intend to continue with our greatest scientific endeavor I suggest you get down to Corto Multese as soon as you're able. I have a theory that's the next place the Green Arrow and his team is going to hit. It's the first place on the list." Lionel bated the younger billionaire knowing perfectly well Lex would be on the first private jet down to the foreign facility. It was where he thought he was needed and where Lionel needed him, close enough to keep an eye on but far enough away to keep him preoccupied for the time being.
"What do you mean you're going out in the field? I thought we agreed that you would stay here and coordinate from a distance." Oliver shouted at Chloe standing his ground on the matter, they had been interrupted in there moment of passion and the emerald archer was more then just a little frustrated.
"We didn't agree to anything. You suddenly decided I'm not capable of being as heroic as your leather ass thanks to a byproduct of one of the greatest nights of your life and thought I would just go along with it. Newsflash Arrow she's my mother I have to go. " Chloe yelled back not backing down either, the boys had found a lead on where her mother could be being held. But there wasn't much time, the older Sullivan could be moved at any moment.
"Greatest nights of my life and you said I had an ego the size of Asia. This just in Ms. Dauntless reporter ,he…she …it… that's my child. I'm not letting you put them in danger." He was really surprised when had she grown such an ego? Oliver had to admit though she was right it was one of the greatest nights of his life.
"Did you just refer to our baby as an it? For the last time it's a girl." With her hands on her hips the resolve on her face the rest of the small league could tell that Chloe wasn't going to back down anytime soon.
"There's that ego again. Tell me Watchtower, how do you know it's a girl? The Martian Manhunter tell you that?" That was a low jab and the room was silent as Oliver tried to put Chloe on the proverbial ropes.
"Well actually I had a dre.." Chloe answered her arms over her chest in what could only be described as defeat. The small retreat didn't go unnoticed and Oliver was about to go to her side when he heard a familiar voice from his balcony.
"No I didn't, She found that bit out on her own." John Jones entered the penthouse and sat comfortably next to the rest of the league who were seated around Oliver's dining table.
"Damn, you scared me do you ever knock your worse than Clark. And next time please use the door. Someone is going to notice you one of these days." Oliver turned acknowledging the older hero, someone calling the police saying a mysterious flying figure landed on his balcony was the last thing any of them needed.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything?" Clark piped up entering the large room from the elevator. Oliver groaned gripping the bridge of his nose for a second and then running a calloused hand through his blond hair.
"Why do I even have a high-tech security system? This is not funny." The archer turned a stern gaze on Chloe as she giggled. "This is all your fault Vic, the next time you upgrade my system don't forget to include the alien motion detector."
"Yeah, I'll be sure to get right on that." Victor replied sarcastically.
"John, have you found anything of value?" Chloe took the chance to break the awkward silence to ask her mentor a question.
"No, but I think Kal-El has the information you need." The detective announced causing everyone to look at the farm boy with questioning looks. They all wondered what information he had that they didn't.
"Are you spying on me?" Clark inquired feeling more than a little paranoid.
"No, and now is not the time to ask questions. Watchtower, I believe we have a mission to complete." As he turned his gaze to Chloe the rest of the heroes did as well only to see a broad smile replace the defeated expression that had just graced her lovely features.
AN: Hope you enjoyed it. Next Chapter on to saving the Great Mrs. Sullivan.