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]

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]

"I'll help," he offered without hesitation.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

If there was something she couldn't picture, it was Oliver Queen, cleaning an apartment. She smiled a little surprised at him but nodded, "thank you. Can you think of a way to cover that window until tomorrow, when I can get someone to repair it?"

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He thought for a moment, then glanced at her. "You have a hammer and some nails?"

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

She considered for a moment then disappeared down the hall and came back with a tool box and held it out for him, "never used it before, this is all I have, my dad said I would need it eventually." She smiled softly.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

"Smart man." He smiled a bit and took the toolbox from her. "How's he doing, anyway?" He moved over to the window, set the toolbox on the floor, then grabbed a spare blanket that was lying beside the bed. "Okay if I use this? I'll buy you a new one." He looked from it, to her, then to the window.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

She nodded, starting to pick up her clothes and folding them over her bed, "go ahead and you don't need to buy me a new one, Oliver" She gave him a look before looking back at the clothes, "he's okay, he called me after the Inquisitor article came out."

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

Oliver had just begun to swing the hammer in order to nail the blanket to the wall when both the hammer and the blanket fell from his hands at her words. "I'm sure he was thrilled," he mumbled.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

She had to grin at his reaction, and then shrug a shoulder as she took a pile of clothes into her closet, "he said out of the billionaires we had in the state, he thought you were the nicer one."

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

Oliver paused at that, a little surprised, then leaned down and picked up the blanket and hammer once more. "Well, it wouldn't take much to be nicer than a Luthor."

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

Chloe rolled her eyes and shook her head as she picked up more clothes from the floor, "you don't know how rare it is for my dad to think someone I could possibly be going out with is 'nice'." She said teasingly.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He raised his eyebrows at that. "Your dad didn't like Jimmy either?" He grimaced as the 'either' slipped out, and hoped she wouldn't catch that.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

Of course she caught it, and she was surprised by it, "you don't like Jimmy?" She asked, raising her eyebrows and stopping what she was doing to look at him.