Back in...Green. RP with chloeas

[olliequeen]

The feel of the green leather suit against his skin was both familiar and unsettling as he'd donned his gear a week later. It was too soon for his ribs to have completely healed, but he'd finished off his painkillers, and told Chloe he felt fine. Which was half-true. He felt better, but the pain wasn't completely gone.

She'd insisted on coming with him, and after a brief argument, he'd given in. More because he didn't want to leave her at the Watch tower alone. Now as they stood on the rooftop of a cafe a few blocks from the Daily Planet, his gaze was focused in on three guys below approaching a woman who had dropped her purse while trying to get in her car.

"Here we go." He aimed an anchor line at a shorter building and glanced at her sideways.

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[chloeas.livejournal.com]

Chloe held her breath and nodded at him, when she was on her own, she didn't have any of the gadgets Oliver did, they made it a lot easier to get to places, to observe before trying to take someone down and that alone made things a lot safer.

She wrapped her arms around him securely and nodded at him, "lets go."

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He smiled faintly at her, winding an arm around her waist in return, and stepped up on the edge of the building before testing the line and then sliding down the zip. It placed them on the ground just a couple yards from where the attack was about to take place. He let go of her, released the zip line from his bow and aimed it at one of the guys even as they walked. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," he said, voice distorted.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

As soon as she was on the ground, Chloe reaches for her sprays, her eyes on the men as she stepped towards the wall, towards the woman as their attention had turned to Oliver.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

"Well. You're not us." The guy chuckled. "Look at you. I read Green Arrow was dead."

"Don't believe everything you read," he responded evenly, keeping his arrow trained on the man even as the other two spread out. "You should walk away."

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

Chloe motioned for the woman to be quiet and nodded at her, motioning for her to come to her quietly. She and Oliver had talked about it, and while they were together so they could watch each other's back, they had both agreed that Oliver's fighting skills were much better than hers, so Chloe would watch the suspects and help the victims and jump in if she thought Oliver needed help.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He shifted his gaze from the first guy to the one starting to circle to his left. Without hesitation, he turned, aiming and firing an arrow into the man's shoulder. The green gas knocked him out instantly.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

She took the woman's hand once she was close enough and after one last glance at Oliver, she dragged her behind a dumpster, "it's okay," Chloe told her, "do you have your cellphone?" When the woman nodded, Chloe nodded back, "call the police, tell them it's a tip from the Watchtower."

With all the calls lately, the police had stopped answering to all of them, but thanks to all of her tips in the past, they seemed to answer when Chloe had called with her codename.

She turned her back to the woman and looked over at Oliver was, to make sure he had it under control, but her vision had been blocked by the overflowing dumpster.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

Turning around once more, he focused on the guy who'd spoken. At the moment, he couldn't see the other. "Walk away," he said again.

"You're out of your league here, Robin Hood," the man responded with a smirk.

Before Oliver had a chance to respond, he heard footfall from behind him. Turning, he didn't even see the knife as the third assailant attacked him, knocking the bow from his hands and sending it clattering to the ground.

Oliver slammed his fist into the man's face, and started to shift in order to kick his legs out from beneath him when he felt a sharp pain in his side.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

Just as she stepped around the trash, Chloe saw it, as if in slow motion, she saw the knife and saw the blood dripping off of it when the man pulled the knife back.

Her heart was beating fast, she was breathing so quickly, she felt like her chest was burning as she ran towards the men. The taser in her hand was set to the highest potency a person could take without stopping their heart. She pressed it right to the back of the man's neck and he was on the floor.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

The steps were wide enough to fit both of them, she held on to his good side and helped him down slowly, her arms burning from the extra weight.

They were almost on the ground when she saw a car pulling up and Dr. Hamilton getting outside. She breathed a sigh of relief and nodded, whispering "he's here, it will be okay."

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He managed a faint smile, gripping onto the rail of the fire escape as tightly as he could. Dr. Hamilton quickly moved toward them, taking over Chloe's place of helping him the rest of the way.

"Good to see you, Doc." He met Chloe's eyes for a moment, offering her a reassuring smile.

And then everything went black.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

Doctor Hamilton had told Chloe that the wound wasn't deep enough to have hurt anything. Oliver had been out for a few hours now, he looked comfortable in his sleep.

Chloe sat down on the floor, not wanting to move the bed, she was exhausted, her shoulder and arms were aching. She had almost lost him earlier, if she had been a few second earlier none of this would have happened.

Her arms wrapped around her legs and she laid her head on her knees. She had never wished Clark was around as much as she had when they were on top of that building. She hadn't felt so helpless like that since Jimmy...

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

Oliver woke suddenly, not sure what roused him from his unconscious state. He sat up a little, blinking in the darkness of the room and glanced at the other side of the bed. The side where Chloe usually slept. Alarm shot through him when he realized she wasn't there.

"Chloe?" He pressed a hand to his side, sitting up quickly.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

Her head shot up when she heard his voice, she blinked and took a deep breath, rubbing her face as she pushed herself up, "I'm here." She told him quietly, standing next to the bed, "do you need anything?"

Chloe felt sick just by looking at him, guilt settling in her stomach, if she hadn't agreed agreed to him going out, if she had just gone by herself, none of this would have happened.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He relaxed a little at the sight of her, at the sound of her voice. "No, I just...you weren't here. I was worried." He drew in a breath and let it out slowly. "Why were you on the floor?" he asked, his eyebrows furrowing a little.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

"I was just... sitting." She told him as she walked around the bed, her eyes going down to his side then back to his face, "you shouldn't force it, Dr. Hamilton had to give you stitches."

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

Oliver looked down, not surprised to see the bandages wound around him once more. "At least I was unconscious for that part," he remarked with a faint smirk. "I hate stitches."

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

She adjusted the pillows behind her and leaned against them, nodding a little as she turned her head to look at him, "do you need more pillows? Water? Anything?"

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He shook his head a little. "How long have I been out of it?" he asked curiously, glancing at the clock on the nightstand. It read 9:21. He wasn't sure if it was a.m. or p.m.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

She squinted, turning to look at the clock and frowning, "...about five hours, I think. It's already morning." Mid-morning, actually and she hadn't closed her eyes for longer than two minutes, she hadn't gotten any sleep at all, too worried about Oliver to think of sleeping.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

As if sensing what she was thinking, he patted her pillows. "Get some sleep, Chloe," he said quietly, gazing at her.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

She looked over at him and slid down against her pillows, nodding a little, "I will lay down for a while, I'm not really sleepy," it wasn't a total lie, she was exhausted, but her brain was still hyperactive from everything earlier, she didn't know if she was going to be able to relax.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He reached out and touched her arm lightly, letting his eyes close. "It's all right, Chloe," he murmured. "I'm all right. You're all right. Just try to get some rest."

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

A sigh escaped her when he spoke, she nodded a little and turned on her side, towards him and closed her eyes too, "I thought I was going to lose you too," she admitted quietly, her arm wrapping around his.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He leaned over a little and pressed a kiss to her forehead. "That's not gonna happen," he whispered intently. "I'm not leaving you. Unless you throw me out." A smile quirked his lips.