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.

[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]

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]

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

[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.

[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.

[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?"

[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.

[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?"

[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]

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]

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

[chloeas.livejournal.com]

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