Chloe Sullivan

It was around four in the morning when she finally managed to stumble into her apartment. Her vision was blurry, her breathing shallow and pained and the front of her shirt was soaked in her own blood. She hoped it was only the front.

She felt weak, but forced herself to remain as quiet as possible. Just a few more steps.

That was what she kept telling herself over and over all the way from the facility where it had happened. The place she'd been looking into when her attacker came out of nowhere. There was struggle but the other woman was faster and she knew exactly what she was going for.

Chloe fought her back as well as she could, but she hadn't been expecting a visitor in a location that had been abandoned supposedly for nearly a decade. She should have known better, especially while dealing with Lex Luthor, but she wouldn't make the same mistake twice.

A struggled noise escaped her but she forced herself to stay quiet. She didn't want to wake up Oliver and especially Maddie. She just needed to make it to the bathroom and stitch herself up, she had done it before.

But her knees kept wanting to give on her so as she started down the hallway toward the bedrooms, she had to stop, leaning her side heavily against the wall, a hand covering her wound and adding pressure to it as she tried to catch her breath.

It should have stopped bleeding by now.

Once Maddie was clean and her hair was mostly dry, she and Chloe joined Oliver in the living room, where Chloe had left Oliver with the option of watching TV after she ordered Chinese for the three of them. She usually tried to get Maddie to eat better than that but today wasn't a normal day and she wasn't going to try to cook for Oliver.

Considering the only person Maddie usually socialized with outside of daycare was Veronica, she was beyond excited to have someone new to talk to and ask questions to, so she had been talking pretty much non-stop during the meal and Chloe could tell she was getting tired but she was fighting it.

Chloe took a last bite of her lo mein then sipped on her water, "there is plenty more if you're hungry," she offered Oliver, she was surprised at how easily he was talking to Maddie considering she didn't think he had been around kids at all before.