Getting in the holiday spirit with dl_greenarrow

[chloesullivan]

Chloe was working and as usual, the Watchtower was mostly silent except for the sound of her keyboard and the cooling fans inside the computers.

Silent, that was, until she heard something out in the hall. It sounded like someone was dragging something heavy and whatever it was was hitting against the walls of the elevator and the hallway.

Frowning hard, Chloe reached for the gun that she kept hidden under her desk, her heart beating fast as she walked over to the door only to see an extremely tall shadow on the other side of it, moving slowly towards the door.

Holding her breath, she reached for the door, holding her gun up and yanking the door open quickly, her eyes following not on a hideous, huge creature, but on the biggest Christmas tree she had ever seen and somehow, behind it, she could see a part of what looked like a pine needle covered Oliver.

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[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

"Don't shoot," he said jokingly. "It's just me." He brushed some of the pine needles off his coat and grinned at her brightly.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

All she could do was stare at him for a moment, then she turned around and went to place the gun back where it belonged before walking back to the door and holding it open for him, eyes still wide, "what, exactly, is this? And if you answer Christmas tree, I might hurt you for scaring the hell out of me."

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He beamed, then frowned almost immediately. "You do have a sweeper here somewhere, right?" Cause if she thought he was picking up all those damn needles by hand, well. That just wasn't going to happen.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

"Uh huh," she smirked a little then nodded at the window they used to climb up on the roof, "go outside, shake your clothes off, you have half a tree on them."

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

Her mouth dropped open when she saw the inside of his car, there were boxes, bags and packages everywhere, "that's... all decorations for the one tree?"

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

"Well, it's a big tree," he said, now a little uncertain and wondering if he'd gone overboard. He looked at her with a slight frown. "You think it's too much?"

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He smiled back at her. "I brought eggnog, too," he told her, his eyes sparkling with mischief.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

Her stomach turned even at the mention of the word as they loaded the boxes into the elevator, "I knew that was gonna come back to bite me in the ass," she mock narrowed her eyes at him.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

Oliver knelt down beside her, feeling a little sheepish. So much for this being such an easy task, he thought wryly. "All right. What'd I do wrong?" he asked uncertainly, looking from her to the tree stand.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

"Here," she told him, leaning further down and reaching over for one of the screws and wincing as the needles prickled her arm, head and back "see these four screws? You have to tighten them around the tree until it's standing straight."

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He smiled a bit at her comment, then nodded. "The staff packed everything up pretty securely after my parents died. I guess they knew I'd eventually want them," he told her, carefully unwrapping a glittery green bulb.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

"That's nice," she said quietly, glancing at him as she pulled a couple more from the box and unwrapped them carefully, "these things usually lasted about two Christmas at my house, either they broke or we couldn't find them anymore."

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

Oliver felt around but didn't feel a light switch. "I'll just open the door so we can find it," he said, shaking his head a little at the obvious solution. He reached out and grabbed the door knob, trying to twist it. It wouldn't budge. "Uh, Chloe? Does this door lock from the outside?"

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

Her eyes widened at his words and she stretched her arm until she could find his and stepped closer, reaching for the knob too, "I don't know, I've never closed it from the inside before." She pushed and pulled on the knob for a while, but it didn't move at all.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

"Sorry, Chloe," he said with a soft sigh. So much for decking the halls and brightening her mood and holiday spirit. Instead, his oh-so-brilliant plan wounded up with them locked together in a cold, dark storage space.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

That made her frown even more and she shook her head, "it's not your fault," she told him quietly, "maybe we should call Clark," she hated to even suggest that, they hadn't talked in over a week and things were just not good at all, but she didn't want Oliver kicking himself over this.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

That was when he knew she was more than just a little bothered with small dark spaces. He shifted slightly and eased himself down on the floor beside her. "Zod kills every human on the face of the earth?"

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

She pulled her knees up against her chest, on top of the whole being locked inside a closet thing, there was no carpet on the floor of the Watchtower, which she had come to find out in the past few weeks, when it started getting colder, made it nearly impossible to keep the place warm.

"While that's the worse case scenario, I think there are scarier options."

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

"Believe it or not, heights," he told her. "I was terrified of them until I was ten when I fell off the top of the jungle gym, broke my right arm in two places and Lisa Cunningham signed my cast. Which, by the way, was bright green in case you were wondering."

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

Chloe smiled a little and cocked her head, "okay, so I have two questions: Who is Lisa Cunningham and how did you get over your fear of heights?"

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

Raising her eyebrows, she shook her head, "and how does me letting you get in someone's pants make me your enemy?" She paused, "except for Tess, I will be hanging around your neck when she's around you because I don't approve of her," she pretended to tease, but she was pretty serious.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He rolled his eyes at her first remark. "Well, frankly, I'm a little sick of random hookups with women I don't know who are only interested in me in the first place because of my money." He paused. "And Mercy? Yeah. I don't think that's going to happen again." His voice was quiet.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

"Shoot," he told her without hesitation. It wasn't like she didn't know all his biggest secrets anyway.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

"What would you do if you couldn't be Arrow anymore?" She asked quietly, looking in the direction of his face, it had been something she had been wondering for a while.

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

"I appreciate that," she answered quietly but just as serious.

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

"So I'm afraid that you are just stuck with me until we're old and gray, Watchtower," he said lightly.