--13--

"Well first of all, we've got to get her out of here before anyone else shows up. Clark, can you find any more bugs in the room?"

Clark scanned everything with what Chloe liked to call his "thousand-yard-stare" before pausing at a security camera in the corner. In a blink he crushed the camera before returning to their sides.

Emil muttered under his breath about never having thought of that, before speaking up again. "I've got a friend with a private practice. He'll let me commandeer one of his offices if I explain the situation's an emergency."

"Shouldn't we take her to a hospital?" Clark asked.

"Too many eyes," he shook his head.

"Where is it, then?" Clark asked.

Hours later, Oliver was sitting at Chloe's side inside a small check-up room. He was holding Chloe's hand, staring at her as though it would make her wake up. The good news was that her heart and other vitals were fine, she just didn't seem to want to animate.

Clark was pacing stormily outside the room. After dropping Tess off, he had taken Emil's files from her and temporarily stored them at the Kent farm. After coming back for Chloe and the others, his only distraction had been to gather up the rest of Emil's research and similarly dispose of it. Now, however, he was left with nothing to do, and he couldn't intrude on Oliver to wait with him. Frustratedly, he asked for the third or fourth time, "Why didn't she tell me how serious this was?"

"I'm sure she didn't want to worry you. Has anyone called Lois?" Hamilton asked, deciding the only way he would be able to focus was to find Clark something to do.

Clark's eyes darted away evasively.

Hamilton nodded. "Why don't you do that? She's probably wondering what's going on, and you need to come up with an explanation. Telling her that her cousin was attacked by a secret government organization--again--might be a bit much for her."

Clark nodded before vanishing, and Hamilton returned to his microscope, where he was studying the effect of the red kryptonite on a sample of Chloe's blood. It hadn't bonded like the green variety had, thankfully. He added a miniscule amount of green and watched as the red disappeared and the blood cells readily accepted the green like before.

He shook his head. Talk about backward progress.

Chloe's eyes opened slowly, blinking rapidly in confusion. Where was she? For a moment she couldn't remember anything beyond the alarm going off in Emil's lab.

She glanced down and saw that her arm was hooked up to an IV. Following the tube with her eyes, she saw a pouch filled with a glowing green liquid. She shrieked.

"What the hell?" she said, scrambling to remove the IV. "What the hell is that doing here? What's going on?" Strong hands restrained her and she looked up to see Oliver holding her down.

"That is keeping you alive. Relax. You're safe."

Emil came bustling into the room and started checking her over.

"It's not keeping me alive," she said, shoving Emil off of her. "It's poison," she added wildly. She slapped Emil's hand away, forcing Oliver to hold her arms down.

"Chlo, stop it. You already knew that you're body couldn't handle the sudden removal of all the green K. We had to add some back to your system to keep you from dying on us. It's as low a concentration as we could manage," he assured her.

Chest still heaving in panic, Chloe stilled herself enough for Oliver to release her, allowing Emil to come check her over at last.

After 'poking and prodding' her for what Chloe thought was an unnecessary amount of time, Emil deemed her healthy, and unhooked the IV.

When Oliver took Chloe home that night, he was really starting to wonder what was going to happen.

She'd spent the rest of the day with Lois, trying to keep her calm and assure her that everything was all right, and that her doctor was not a 'quack' and her overdose was not in any way his fault.

She hadn't said much to Oliver, yet she'd insisted on staying with him for the night, in spite of her cousin's protests.

"So what did Emil have to say on the phone earlier?" Oliver asked. The doctor had called Chloe's cell phone earlier in the night.

"That based on what he saw today, his plan to slowly introduce red K to my system should work--if followed according to his instructions--" she added ruefully, "as long as I'm willing to put up with the side effects until they wear off, which I am. Apparently, while Clark turns into a jerk, I just turn into a badass...and a bit of an airhead." She chuckled slightly until she saw the displeased expression on Oliver's face. She stopped mid-giggle.

"Do you have any idea how completely stupid that was?"

Chloe couldn't help it. She smirked. "Funny, because when I grabbed the vial, I remember thinking, 'What would Ollie do?' "

Oliver's jaw dropped slightly.

"Well, think about it, it may not have been the most well-laid plan, but the point was to make sure that Checkmate couldn't use me for my meteor power. I absolutely refused to be their pawn. As for the possibility of being killed by it, I still figured death was better than captivity."

Oliver stared at her. That was exactly how he would have looked at it, but there was no way he was going to admit that. "Chloe, you didn't have to go to an extreme like that. We would have rescued you. It would only have been a matter of time."

"Meanwhile I would be having sticks poked at me while being forced to heal enemies once they figured me out, not to mention they'd be holding me hostage in order to trap the rest of you? I think not."

Oliver shook his head and laughed darkly. "You are some kind of woman."

"Which leads me to whether or not we get to have hot makeup sex now?"

Oliver looked at her in surprise.

She smirked but he could tell she was faking it. She was evidently very embarassed. "Well, while on red K, a few things became strangely clear to me. First, that I was being an idiot before. Second, that red K is SO much better than alcohol...not that I'm going to become a junkie for that, either," she added hurriedly, seeing he was unamused by her joke, "and third, that I really care about you and miss you." She looked at him, a little bit of nervousness betrayed on her face.

"Does this mean you might actually, I don't know, talk to me when something's wrong?"

She nodded.

"And that you're going to lay off drinking for a while?"

She nodded again.

"And that I get to take you out in public?"

She looked startled, but he waited determinedly. Slowly she nodded.

"Excellent," he said, closing the space between them. "By the way, in addition to these demands, I expect to be referred to as 'Your Sexiness' for the rest of the night," he told her, kissing her in relief. He would have pressed the matter of how stupid a move she'd made back in Emil's office, but he realized it was pointless. It was after the fact, and she was stubborn. She'd never admit that she'd made the wrong choice, and he knew he needed to take what he could get.

Chloe laughed into his lips, making kissing rather difficult. "We'll see."

He laughed in return. "Do you know how much I missed you during this whole ordeal?" he asked.

She quirked an eyebrow suggestively. "I think I have a bit of an idea."

He rolled his eyes. "One-track mind," he accused her. "That's not what I meant."

"I'm sorry, Oliver," she said seriously.

"I'm sorry, who?" he asked, tilting his ear toward her.

She rolled her eyes. "I'm sorry, Your Sexiness."

Author's Comment: Well, that's all there is; there isn't anymore. I hope you enjoyed it!

BlueSuedeShoes

P.S. As promised, here is the full prompt: Now, I readily admit that I didn't follow it to the T, but the basic ideas still came from here:

"Oliver and Chloe are dating, one night Chloe finds out she has her healing powers back after saving someone, this time she doesn't die doing it. From then on she starts drinking. Oliver starts worrying about her, because she starts becoming distance with him. One night she is at the bar drunk and Oliver finds her there. He tries to help her. She tells they about her healing powers. Anyway they didn't know the Tess was there and listen to them finding out about the healing power, and has her kidnapped. She want to use her, Its up to the gang to save her."