Broken Things...with chloeas

[olliequeen]

Oliver climbed the stairs toward Chloe's apartment, glancing at his watch. He was a couple of minutes late and he cursed the phone conference that had kept him busy longer than he'd intended. When he finally made it to the apartment, he found the door open a little and immediately grew tense.

He could just sense something wasn't right. "Chloe?" he ventured, reaching out and gently pushing the door open, stunned to find the apartment wrecked. Broken glass was everywhere, tables were tipped over, papers scattered.

And Chloe was nowhere to be seen.

"Chloe!" His voice was urgent.

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[chloeas.livejournal.com]

"In here" she called quietly from the bedroom, she was kneeling on the floor, all over her research folders that she kept under her bed were scattered around.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He quickly made his way farther into the apartment and found her in her bedroom. "God. Are you all right? What happened?"

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

Chloe sat back on her heels and sighed, shaking her head, "I don't know, I just walked in and yeah, I'm okay." As okay as you can be right after you find out your apartment was broken into.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He knelt down beside her, putting a hand on her shoulder. "Chloe, I hate to ask this but...code phrase?"

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

She nodded, looking up at him and smiling slightly, "Five five..." she nodded in his direction for him to continue.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

"Seven ten," he finished, relaxing a little. "Do you think this was Tina?" He rose to his feet slowly, looking around. Whoever it was had definitely been looking for something.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

"I can't think of anyone else," picking up a pile of papers, she got up, "they found my files, I need to figure out if anything is missing and that should give us answers."

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

Nodding, he turned to face her, watching her as she worked. "I'll stand guard."

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

Chloe nodded, looking at him, "thanks" before turning back to the files.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

"It's not a bother, Chloe. I'd rather know you were safe than have you stay here alone after this." He motioned around. "Besides, if you insist on staying here, I'll have to spend the entire night lurking on the rooftop across the street to make sure no one breaks in here again." There wasn't a hint of kidding in his voice.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

Oh she knew he wasn't joking, in fact, she fully expected to find Clark refusing to move from her couch for at least a month or however long it took for them to find and arrest Tina. Although she figured it was probably a better idea not to mention Clark right now.

"Fine," she sighed in defeat, "I don't wanna be the reason you get even less sleep." She said as she turned back towards the files, sorting them.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

A faint smile tugged at his lips as he turned away, as well, moving over toward the window, noting it was also broken. He wondered if whoever had trashed her place had left anything untouched. Sighing softly, he looked out the window, scanning the area for any potential suspects. Seeing no one and nothing out of the ordinary outside, he turned back to the room, looking it over more carefully.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

It took her a few minutes but Chloe finally sighed and shook her head as she plopped down on her bed, "it was Tina." She told him, rolling her eyes.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

"How do you know?" He turned to look at her curiously.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

"The only file missing is hers. If it was Lex, he wouldn't have taken any, he would have used a hand held scanner and copied the file." She told him matter-of-factly.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He relaxed a little, nodding. "So it's just a complete psychopath we have to worry about at the moment. That's relieving."

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

Chloe smirked softly at him and nodded, setting the files aside then looking around the room and making a face, "cleaning this will be fun."

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He made a face and finished hanging the blanket up over the window and turning to face her. "Are you kidding me? The guy pretty much cheated on you with Clark's cousin. You thought I liked him?"

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

His reaction, once again, surprised her, "well, it wasn't exactly like that, besides I kept disappearing to help Clark, he thought something was going on with us." Chloe was mostly amused, but she didn't think Oliver was being fair, "Jimmy is not that bad, he's just... insecure."

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

Oliver rolled his eyes. "Jimmy is an idiot," he responded, shaking his head.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

Chloe blinked and raised her eyebrows, Oliver clearly felt strongly about the subject, she just wasn't sure why, "how many times have you talked to him?"

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

"Enough," he said with a shrug. Then he looked around the room. "Do you wanna pack a bag to bring with you back to the clock tower?"

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

She squinted, her eyes on him for a moment then rolled her eyes as she walked back into the closet, "yeah, I'll do that."

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

A smirk formed on his face and he sat down on the edge of her bed. "Remind me to hire a housekeeper for you, Sidekick. This place is a wreck."

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

"Funny," she told him, mock glaring at him as she stuffed some of her clothes into a small bag "very funny, Queen."