Twist of Fate 9/?
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luminare91Title: Twist of Fate
Summary: Oliver finds himself at Smallville High where he meets Chloe and discovers the world of Meta-humans. But will his newfound happiness be threatened by the presence of an old enemy?
Rating: PG-13 (Mostly for mild language and violence in later chapters. I don't see it going any further than that, but if it does, the rating will change accordingly.)
Warning: This is mostly AU. I plan to work in as much from the series as I can, but the timeline is completely mine and character ages have been changed as I see fit. Oliver's only a year older than Chloe is this. She already knows about Clark's powers. And Lois is living with Chloe.
Relationships: Chlollie, Clois (just a teeny, tiny bit)
Previous Chapters: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8
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Author's Note: So I had TWO tests this week in subjects that have been kicking my butt lately, so I am quite proud of myself for getting this done. I want to thank the people who are still reading and reviewing this. I'm nowhere near finished and if you stick around there will be action.
On another note, someone asked me if Green Arrow was going to make an appearance in this fic. Just so that everyone is on the same page, the answer is no. Oliver hasn't made that leap yet. In my opinion, it's too soon for the character. But, there will be plenty of heroics for Ollie. They just won't include green leather.
Chapter 9
The room was dark and completely silent. The only illumination came from moonlight streaming through the cracks in the blinds. Holding her breath, Chloe tiptoed toward her bed, trying not to step on any of the clothes and books she knew Lois had spread out across the room. The last thing she wanted to do was wake her cousin and play twenty questions about her weekend. Oliver had suggested that she stay at his place since it was so late and so she could avoid Lois, but in the end she’d decided it was more trouble than it was worth. If she stayed the night, it would only give Lois more ammunition, which was why she was currently sneaking into her bedroom.
Careful to make as little noise as possible, Chloe slipped her duffle bag off her shoulder, setting it on the ground. She’d already changed into sweats and a ratty t-shirt in the living room so she didn’t have to change. Biting her lip, she pulled the blankets back and was about to lay down when the lights flicked on.
Chloe froze.
“Seriously cuz?” Lois snapped. “Did you really think you were going to be able to sneak in here and avoid me?”
Quickly slapping an innocent look on her face, Chloe turned back to her cousin. “Lo, I just didn’t want to wake you. I know you want all the juicy details, but it’s late and I’m gonna be swamped at the Torch tomorrow, so I really need my sleep.”
Lois glared at her. “Oh no you don’t! You do not get to go spend the weekend with a billionaire hottie and get your name in the Daily Planet without telling your dear cousin all about it.”
“What are you talking about?” Chloe frowned.
“The Daily Planet picked up the story from Star City,” Lois snapped.
Chloe sank down on the bed. “Well then I guess you know everything.”
For a moment, she was glad that her cousin didn’t possess Clark’s heat vision. She was almost sure she would have been burned to a crisp by the glare Lois was giving her. And if there was anything Lois was good at it was glaring. The only reason Chloe wasn’t squirming in her seat was because she was one of the Sullivan-Lanes and was made of tougher stuff than most.
Crossing her arms, Lois stomped across the room. “I want details! You spent the whole damn weekend with him. I want to know what happened!”
Knowing that there was no way her cousin was going to leave her alone, Chloe sighed and collapsed on the bed. “We spent most of yesterday at the beach,” she said tiredly. “It was a lot of fun. We just messed around and hung out. Then we went back to his place talked.” She smiled fondly as she remembered all the things they’d talked about. “We stayed up the whole night. Then we just sat there. I didn’t even realize that I’d fallen asleep till I woke up.”
“Where’d you sleep?” The glint in Lois’s eye revealed exactly what she was thinking.
Chloe rolled her eyes. “On the sofa.”
“He made you sleep on the sofa!” she screeched.
“No, we just fell asleep together in the living room,” Chloe whispered as she drifted off into memory.
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She woke slowly to the feel of the sun on her face. Lois must have snuck in and left the window open again. With a quiet groan, she began to roll over only realize that an arm was wrapped about her waist, keeping her in place. It was only then that she remembered that she was sprawled on a couch, not lying on her bed, and that her pillow was none other than Oliver.
The gentle sensation of a kiss being placed to her neck brought her fully to wakefulness. Twisting around, she looked back at Oliver, who smiled.
“Morning,” he mumbled, his voice rough with sleep.
Chloe quirked an eyebrow. “Is it still morning?”
He shrugged. “I don’t know. But that’s what people say when they wake up.”
“Well in that case, good morning.”
Grinning broadly, Oliver leaned in and captured her lips. A tingle ran through her body, all the way down to her toes. She was definitely awake after that.
“Better than an alarm clock,” she murmured when he pulled away.
“Well I should hope so,” Oliver teased. Reaching over her, he grabbed his cell phone off the coffee table and checked the time. “It’s almost eleven. You hungry?”
Chloe nodded. “I could eat.”
“Well we can have left over chinese, or I can make an omelette. Your choice.”
“You’re offering to cook for me?”
He rolled his eyes and planted a kiss on her nose. “Don’t act so surprised. I have many hidden talents. Now what do you want to eat?”
“Omelette sounds good, but I haven’t met a guy yet who can cook. Even Clark can’t and his mom’s amazing. Maybe it would be safer to stick with leftovers.” She gazed up at him innocently through her lashes.
“That,” Oliver smirked, “is a challenge. And just for that, I’m cooking.”
Chloe laughed and sat up. “Chinese is fine. You don’t have to do that.”
“Oh yes I do,” he said, shooting her a look as he stood. “Why don’t you go take a shower and I’ll fix breakfast.”
Chloe nodded. Oliver pulled her to her feet, kissing her soundly again. Feeling slightly dizzy, she turned and headed off toward bathroom shouting over her shoulder as she did. “There better be coffee when I get out!”
He chuckled and the rich, warm sound followed her down the hall, tickling her spine.
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“Earth to Chloe!” Lois shouted, waving a hand in front of her cousin’s face.
Chloe blinked. “What are you shouting about, Lo?”
“What am I shout--You zoned out! You were right in the middle of telling me how you woke up this morning in billionaire boy’s arms and had hot steamy sex for breakfast!”
“Lois!” Chloe bolted upright and glared at her cousin. “We did not have sex at any point this weekend and no amount of hints from you is going to make it happen any faster. We are taking this slow, for reasons that are absolutely none of your business. Ollie and I talked and got to know each other and we are officially together, but that’s all you need to know.”
Lois beamed. “That’s all I wanted to hear.
Recognizing that she’d been played--and expertly at that--Chloe groaned and flopped back on the bed. “I can’t believe I fell for that.”
Laying down beside her, Lois gave her cousin an one-armed hug. “I’m happy for you Chlo. You deserve this.”
“Well if you hadn’t been the annoying cousin that you are, I wouldn’t have had the guts to go out there,” she admitted. “Which means if it wasn’t for you, Oliver would probably still be in Star City and I’d been sitting in a corner somewhere moping and talking myself out of everything."
Beaming Lois pushed herself off the mattress and went back to her bed, turning off the light as she did. Chloe pulled the covers up to her chin and rolled over, already missing Oliver’s solid warmth behind her.
She was almost asleep when Lois’ voice issued out of the darkness.
“And while I definitely want more details about what else you did this weekend, I’m going to leave you alone because I know if I keep prying you’ll never tell me anything. But tomorrow, everything is fair game.”
Chloe groaned. Oh wonderful.
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The next day, Smallville High seemed more inviting and more like home than Oliver had ever seen it. He walked up the sidewalk with a spring in his step and a massive smile on his face that wasn’t at all fake. People stared at him, surprised, not only that he was back, but by the dramatic change in his attitude. He didn’t care if people thought he was insane. He was happy.
He was barely inside the building when he was ambushed by Veronica Morgan. She was wearing a skin tight, v-neck top and jeans that looked painted on. Her red hair was curly and wild about her face. She was smiling coyly as she latched onto his arm.
“Hey, Ollie,” she purred in a sensual whisper. “I missed you last week. Where’d you go? School was soooo boring without you.”
Politely, Oliver pulled his arm free and stepped back to put an appropriate amount of space between them. When he answered, his smile wasn’t real any more. “I had to go home deal with some stuff.”
Slinking forward, Veronica wrapped her arms around his neck. “Well, we’ll just have to make up for lost time. We never did get to the fun stuff after that football game.”
“No we won’t,” Oliver said pointedly, disentangling himself from her embrace again.
“Why not?” she asked, her lip protruding in a sexy pout.
Before he could answer, he caught sight of Chloe. She was casting an exasperated look at her cousin as they walked down the hall together. Luckily, she hadn’t seen him yet.
“Ollie?” Veronica’s voice was sharper than before and annoyed at the loss of his attention.
Without bothering to answer or even look at her, he walked past her, straight up to Chloe and Lois. Chloe noticed him approaching at the last second and a wide smile stretched her lips. He felt an answering smile on her face.
“Hey handsome,” she greeted. “How are yo--”
His lips on hers stopped her mid-sentence. The chatter in the hall decreased significantly, but Oliver didn’t care. He pulled back just an inch so he could look Chloe in the eye.
“Hi,” he said softly.
“Hi,” she answered dazedly.
Lois slapped his shoulder. “All right. Enough with the moon eyes. The sappiness is going to make me sick.”
“Nice to see you too, Lois,” Oliver smirked.
“I’m nice to see,” she shot back.
“But not so nice to hear,” Oliver said, without missing a beat.
Lois’ eyes narrowed. “You better watch it Queen. That’s my cousin you’re locking lips with. And if you hurt her, I will personally see to it that no one else ever wants to date you, got it?”
“Got it,” he said, without a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
“Good. In that case, I see Smallville. I haven’t had a chance to mess with him in a while. I’m overdue. See ya later.”
With one last meaningful look at Oliver, she hurried down the hall toward Clark, who was walking as fast as humanly possible in the opposite direction.
“Well that was pleasant,” Oliver said, glancing down at Chloe.
She rolled her eyes. “That’s Lois. And you do realize she won’t be the only one, right? I’m surprised Clark hasn’t said something and now that half the school’s seen us together--”
“I wanted them to know,” Oliver cut in. “You’re my girlfriend. I don’t want them to think either of us is ashamed of that. Besides,” he grinned. “It had been way too long since I kissed you.”
Chloe raised an eyebrow. “You kissed me last night.”
“Which means it was almost eight hours between kisses.” He pouted comically.
She giggled. “Well we can’t let that happen again.”
“Nope,” he agreed, kissing her lightly. “What’re your plans for the day?”
“Well, I’m mostly going to try to catch up at the Torch. I’ve got a few articles I should have finished over the weekend, but I was otherwise occupied...” she trailed off at the look on Oliver’s face. “What?”
“Why didn’t you tell me you had stuff to do?” he asked quietly.
“Because,” she said, rolling her eyes, “it wasn’t anything that couldn’t wait until today. It just means I won’t have as much time to goof off today. Now stop worrying. So I’ll be at the Torch most of the day, and then I have to avoid Lois and her invasive questions. But that’s it, unless some sort of meteor freak emergency comes up.”
Oliver slipped an arm around her waist. “Well in that case, what do you say we meet at the Talon after school and hang out for a while?”
“Is that your way of asking me on a date?” Chloe asked, suppressing a laugh.
“No. If I was asking you on a date, I’d be much more obvious. I was just asking you to hang out.”
“Well in that case, I’ll meet you at the Torch after school. I tend to lose track of time when I’m at the paper, so you may have to come get me.”
Oliver grinned. “That sounds like a challenge.”
The bell rang and they parted reluctantly, neither one of them noticing the pale form of Lex standing in the shadows, watching the exchange with narrowed eyes and fisted hands.
Chapter 10
Summary: Oliver finds himself at Smallville High where he meets Chloe and discovers the world of Meta-humans. But will his newfound happiness be threatened by the presence of an old enemy?
Rating: PG-13 (Mostly for mild language and violence in later chapters. I don't see it going any further than that, but if it does, the rating will change accordingly.)
Warning: This is mostly AU. I plan to work in as much from the series as I can, but the timeline is completely mine and character ages have been changed as I see fit. Oliver's only a year older than Chloe is this. She already knows about Clark's powers. And Lois is living with Chloe.
Relationships: Chlollie, Clois (just a teeny, tiny bit)
Previous Chapters: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8
Banner By
552158 Author's Note: So I had TWO tests this week in subjects that have been kicking my butt lately, so I am quite proud of myself for getting this done. I want to thank the people who are still reading and reviewing this. I'm nowhere near finished and if you stick around there will be action.
On another note, someone asked me if Green Arrow was going to make an appearance in this fic. Just so that everyone is on the same page, the answer is no. Oliver hasn't made that leap yet. In my opinion, it's too soon for the character. But, there will be plenty of heroics for Ollie. They just won't include green leather.
Chapter 9
The room was dark and completely silent. The only illumination came from moonlight streaming through the cracks in the blinds. Holding her breath, Chloe tiptoed toward her bed, trying not to step on any of the clothes and books she knew Lois had spread out across the room. The last thing she wanted to do was wake her cousin and play twenty questions about her weekend. Oliver had suggested that she stay at his place since it was so late and so she could avoid Lois, but in the end she’d decided it was more trouble than it was worth. If she stayed the night, it would only give Lois more ammunition, which was why she was currently sneaking into her bedroom.
Careful to make as little noise as possible, Chloe slipped her duffle bag off her shoulder, setting it on the ground. She’d already changed into sweats and a ratty t-shirt in the living room so she didn’t have to change. Biting her lip, she pulled the blankets back and was about to lay down when the lights flicked on.
Chloe froze.
“Seriously cuz?” Lois snapped. “Did you really think you were going to be able to sneak in here and avoid me?”
Quickly slapping an innocent look on her face, Chloe turned back to her cousin. “Lo, I just didn’t want to wake you. I know you want all the juicy details, but it’s late and I’m gonna be swamped at the Torch tomorrow, so I really need my sleep.”
Lois glared at her. “Oh no you don’t! You do not get to go spend the weekend with a billionaire hottie and get your name in the Daily Planet without telling your dear cousin all about it.”
“What are you talking about?” Chloe frowned.
“The Daily Planet picked up the story from Star City,” Lois snapped.
Chloe sank down on the bed. “Well then I guess you know everything.”
For a moment, she was glad that her cousin didn’t possess Clark’s heat vision. She was almost sure she would have been burned to a crisp by the glare Lois was giving her. And if there was anything Lois was good at it was glaring. The only reason Chloe wasn’t squirming in her seat was because she was one of the Sullivan-Lanes and was made of tougher stuff than most.
Crossing her arms, Lois stomped across the room. “I want details! You spent the whole damn weekend with him. I want to know what happened!”
Knowing that there was no way her cousin was going to leave her alone, Chloe sighed and collapsed on the bed. “We spent most of yesterday at the beach,” she said tiredly. “It was a lot of fun. We just messed around and hung out. Then we went back to his place talked.” She smiled fondly as she remembered all the things they’d talked about. “We stayed up the whole night. Then we just sat there. I didn’t even realize that I’d fallen asleep till I woke up.”
“Where’d you sleep?” The glint in Lois’s eye revealed exactly what she was thinking.
Chloe rolled her eyes. “On the sofa.”
“He made you sleep on the sofa!” she screeched.
“No, we just fell asleep together in the living room,” Chloe whispered as she drifted off into memory.
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She woke slowly to the feel of the sun on her face. Lois must have snuck in and left the window open again. With a quiet groan, she began to roll over only realize that an arm was wrapped about her waist, keeping her in place. It was only then that she remembered that she was sprawled on a couch, not lying on her bed, and that her pillow was none other than Oliver.
The gentle sensation of a kiss being placed to her neck brought her fully to wakefulness. Twisting around, she looked back at Oliver, who smiled.
“Morning,” he mumbled, his voice rough with sleep.
Chloe quirked an eyebrow. “Is it still morning?”
He shrugged. “I don’t know. But that’s what people say when they wake up.”
“Well in that case, good morning.”
Grinning broadly, Oliver leaned in and captured her lips. A tingle ran through her body, all the way down to her toes. She was definitely awake after that.
“Better than an alarm clock,” she murmured when he pulled away.
“Well I should hope so,” Oliver teased. Reaching over her, he grabbed his cell phone off the coffee table and checked the time. “It’s almost eleven. You hungry?”
Chloe nodded. “I could eat.”
“Well we can have left over chinese, or I can make an omelette. Your choice.”
“You’re offering to cook for me?”
He rolled his eyes and planted a kiss on her nose. “Don’t act so surprised. I have many hidden talents. Now what do you want to eat?”
“Omelette sounds good, but I haven’t met a guy yet who can cook. Even Clark can’t and his mom’s amazing. Maybe it would be safer to stick with leftovers.” She gazed up at him innocently through her lashes.
“That,” Oliver smirked, “is a challenge. And just for that, I’m cooking.”
Chloe laughed and sat up. “Chinese is fine. You don’t have to do that.”
“Oh yes I do,” he said, shooting her a look as he stood. “Why don’t you go take a shower and I’ll fix breakfast.”
Chloe nodded. Oliver pulled her to her feet, kissing her soundly again. Feeling slightly dizzy, she turned and headed off toward bathroom shouting over her shoulder as she did. “There better be coffee when I get out!”
He chuckled and the rich, warm sound followed her down the hall, tickling her spine.
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“Earth to Chloe!” Lois shouted, waving a hand in front of her cousin’s face.
Chloe blinked. “What are you shouting about, Lo?”
“What am I shout--You zoned out! You were right in the middle of telling me how you woke up this morning in billionaire boy’s arms and had hot steamy sex for breakfast!”
“Lois!” Chloe bolted upright and glared at her cousin. “We did not have sex at any point this weekend and no amount of hints from you is going to make it happen any faster. We are taking this slow, for reasons that are absolutely none of your business. Ollie and I talked and got to know each other and we are officially together, but that’s all you need to know.”
Lois beamed. “That’s all I wanted to hear.
Recognizing that she’d been played--and expertly at that--Chloe groaned and flopped back on the bed. “I can’t believe I fell for that.”
Laying down beside her, Lois gave her cousin an one-armed hug. “I’m happy for you Chlo. You deserve this.”
“Well if you hadn’t been the annoying cousin that you are, I wouldn’t have had the guts to go out there,” she admitted. “Which means if it wasn’t for you, Oliver would probably still be in Star City and I’d been sitting in a corner somewhere moping and talking myself out of everything."
Beaming Lois pushed herself off the mattress and went back to her bed, turning off the light as she did. Chloe pulled the covers up to her chin and rolled over, already missing Oliver’s solid warmth behind her.
She was almost asleep when Lois’ voice issued out of the darkness.
“And while I definitely want more details about what else you did this weekend, I’m going to leave you alone because I know if I keep prying you’ll never tell me anything. But tomorrow, everything is fair game.”
Chloe groaned. Oh wonderful.
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The next day, Smallville High seemed more inviting and more like home than Oliver had ever seen it. He walked up the sidewalk with a spring in his step and a massive smile on his face that wasn’t at all fake. People stared at him, surprised, not only that he was back, but by the dramatic change in his attitude. He didn’t care if people thought he was insane. He was happy.
He was barely inside the building when he was ambushed by Veronica Morgan. She was wearing a skin tight, v-neck top and jeans that looked painted on. Her red hair was curly and wild about her face. She was smiling coyly as she latched onto his arm.
“Hey, Ollie,” she purred in a sensual whisper. “I missed you last week. Where’d you go? School was soooo boring without you.”
Politely, Oliver pulled his arm free and stepped back to put an appropriate amount of space between them. When he answered, his smile wasn’t real any more. “I had to go home deal with some stuff.”
Slinking forward, Veronica wrapped her arms around his neck. “Well, we’ll just have to make up for lost time. We never did get to the fun stuff after that football game.”
“No we won’t,” Oliver said pointedly, disentangling himself from her embrace again.
“Why not?” she asked, her lip protruding in a sexy pout.
Before he could answer, he caught sight of Chloe. She was casting an exasperated look at her cousin as they walked down the hall together. Luckily, she hadn’t seen him yet.
“Ollie?” Veronica’s voice was sharper than before and annoyed at the loss of his attention.
Without bothering to answer or even look at her, he walked past her, straight up to Chloe and Lois. Chloe noticed him approaching at the last second and a wide smile stretched her lips. He felt an answering smile on her face.
“Hey handsome,” she greeted. “How are yo--”
His lips on hers stopped her mid-sentence. The chatter in the hall decreased significantly, but Oliver didn’t care. He pulled back just an inch so he could look Chloe in the eye.
“Hi,” he said softly.
“Hi,” she answered dazedly.
Lois slapped his shoulder. “All right. Enough with the moon eyes. The sappiness is going to make me sick.”
“Nice to see you too, Lois,” Oliver smirked.
“I’m nice to see,” she shot back.
“But not so nice to hear,” Oliver said, without missing a beat.
Lois’ eyes narrowed. “You better watch it Queen. That’s my cousin you’re locking lips with. And if you hurt her, I will personally see to it that no one else ever wants to date you, got it?”
“Got it,” he said, without a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
“Good. In that case, I see Smallville. I haven’t had a chance to mess with him in a while. I’m overdue. See ya later.”
With one last meaningful look at Oliver, she hurried down the hall toward Clark, who was walking as fast as humanly possible in the opposite direction.
“Well that was pleasant,” Oliver said, glancing down at Chloe.
She rolled her eyes. “That’s Lois. And you do realize she won’t be the only one, right? I’m surprised Clark hasn’t said something and now that half the school’s seen us together--”
“I wanted them to know,” Oliver cut in. “You’re my girlfriend. I don’t want them to think either of us is ashamed of that. Besides,” he grinned. “It had been way too long since I kissed you.”
Chloe raised an eyebrow. “You kissed me last night.”
“Which means it was almost eight hours between kisses.” He pouted comically.
She giggled. “Well we can’t let that happen again.”
“Nope,” he agreed, kissing her lightly. “What’re your plans for the day?”
“Well, I’m mostly going to try to catch up at the Torch. I’ve got a few articles I should have finished over the weekend, but I was otherwise occupied...” she trailed off at the look on Oliver’s face. “What?”
“Why didn’t you tell me you had stuff to do?” he asked quietly.
“Because,” she said, rolling her eyes, “it wasn’t anything that couldn’t wait until today. It just means I won’t have as much time to goof off today. Now stop worrying. So I’ll be at the Torch most of the day, and then I have to avoid Lois and her invasive questions. But that’s it, unless some sort of meteor freak emergency comes up.”
Oliver slipped an arm around her waist. “Well in that case, what do you say we meet at the Talon after school and hang out for a while?”
“Is that your way of asking me on a date?” Chloe asked, suppressing a laugh.
“No. If I was asking you on a date, I’d be much more obvious. I was just asking you to hang out.”
“Well in that case, I’ll meet you at the Torch after school. I tend to lose track of time when I’m at the paper, so you may have to come get me.”
Oliver grinned. “That sounds like a challenge.”
The bell rang and they parted reluctantly, neither one of them noticing the pale form of Lex standing in the shadows, watching the exchange with narrowed eyes and fisted hands.
Chapter 10
