The next day Tess walks into watchtower hoping that the same sight wouldn't greet her, and both fortunately and unfortunately it doesn't. Instead, an exhausted, tear-stained Chloe does. She's on the couch typing away on a laptop, which is odd considering she's sitting in the middle of a room full of supercomputers that she could do basically anything with. While that laptop was very limited. Tess walks over and sits down next to her.
"Hi," she says, a little sympathetically. Even though she doesn't know what happened. But she has to assume it was bad. "Hi," Chloe responds icily. And Tess doesn't understand why the hostility is directed toward her, or why the hostility exists at all, for that matter.
Chloe gets up and stalks off toward one of the larger monitors. It must've been really bad for her to be this mad in general. She reminds to be a friend first, confused acquaintance second. But curiosity gets the best of her. "I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure how to respond," Tess says. Chloe doesn't even look up when she says,"Then don't." Tess raises her eyebrows at this remark.
"What did I do? When I left last night you were fine, and unless 'Hi' offends you, I didn't say anything this morning that could cause you to be angry with me," she questions. Chloe freezes, but Tess knows better then to think that it's because she's speechless. That'd be too lucky. She turns toward Tess with a look of almost hate in her eyes. And she nearly jumps back from the intensity. "It's all your fault! You've officially succeeded in replacing me in every aspect of my life! Personally, I don't think my life's that great but I hope you enjoy it!," Chloe exclaims. And that really takes Tess back.
Tess is stunned, and just barely manages to get out,"What are you talking about?" Tess honestly has no clue where this anger came from. "Oliver! We broke up last night!" This is her fault how?
Now, that not only shocks Tess, but makes her feel ridiculous for the way she reacted to what had happened the night before. She just manages not to blush. Talk about awkward. "What does that have anything to do with me?" Chloe rolls her eyes. Now Tess knows they're friends, because Chloe has completely lost that composure she has when dealing with enemies, or really anything that isn't friends. Then again, she did just lose her boyfriend. That would cause anyone to act out of character. Goodness knows she did.
"First you replace me as watchtower with Clark. Then you become BFFs with Lois. Now, I lose Oliver! Take a wild guess why he broke up with me. I'll give you two hints, she has red hair and has wanted this to happen for months." So she's heartbroken and crazy, Tess gathers.
She is actually starting to think Chloe has completely lost it. Oliver hasn't cared about her, especially like that, in a long time. But she doesn't care anymore. Chloe's bringing up old feelings and she's not going to stand for it. Besides, it's not her fault Chloe couldn't keep the people close to her. "Think about this. You went away, so Clark needed a watchtower I became it. Again, you left so Lois needed someone to talk to I listened. You push Oliver away, you lose him. That's the way it works. So don't blame it on me. And don't say it's because he still has feelings for me, because he doesn't. He made that obvious," Tess retorts.
And the last statement brought tears to her eyes, so she turned on her heel and walked straight out the doors. Upon reaching them she freezes. "Just because you need a punching bag, it doesn't mean I'm the one to beat up on," she adds without turning around. As soon as Tess leaves Chloe breaks down in tears again, feeling horrible. For which reason, she's not sure, probably all of them.