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Title: Five Times Chloe Met Oliver, and One Time She Met Green Arrow (1/6)
Authors: 
xtremeroswellia and 
chloeas
Rated: PG
Note: This is very AU. We altered timelines, and also made it so Chloe and Oliver are only three years apart age-wise.
Disclaimer: Don't own, would like to.
Seven year old Oliver Queen peeked his head out the door of the ballroom at the Luthor mansion in Smallville, Kansas, and smirked. His parents had dragged him to this lame party instead of letting him stay behind with Lenora, their housekeeper, who'd promised she'd make him cookies and play Nintendo with him while they were away. And the party was dull.
It was mostly adults, and all adults were dull. Especially when they got all dressed up in stupid fancy clothes and talked about things he didn't understand. And when old women pinched his cheeks or patted his head, he wanted to smack them, but he knew he'd be in trouble with his mom and dad if he did.
Instead? He was just going to get the heck out of the party.
Four year old Chloe had lost her parents at some point during the party, but she didn't mind, no matter where she went, they always found her, even that one time at grandpa's house when she was playing spaceship in his closet, behind all of the boxes he had hidden there, and she thought they were the evil aliens looking for her so she had stayed very quiet when they called out her name.
But then it was just her parents and she was being silly.
This time, though, she wasn't hiding, she was exploring this really big castle, she had never been there before and it looked really cool so she wondered if there were monsters or dragons hidden somewhere, because everyone knew castles had things like that hidden in them.
She looked around for a moment and saw a boy sneaking out, frowning, she followed him, boys were silly and he probably wouldn't know there was a dragon out there. She went after him quietly, watching where he was going.
Oliver headed down the long, darkened corridor, peeking into various rooms and hoping to find an exit. Instead, he just found more rooms. "Stupid Luthor mansion," he grumbled, glancing over his shoulder and freezing when he spotted a small figure following him. "What are you doing?"
"Making sure you don't get into trouble," she said matter-of-factly, her hands going to her hips as she pursed her lips together, "what are you doing here? I don't think you're supposed to be here, you know? What if you find the dragon?"
He had started to argue when she mentioned dragon. "What? What dragon?" he asked uncertainly, frowning.
"The dragon that lives in the castle," duh. Everyone knew there were dragons in castles, her cousin Lois was right about boys being dumb, except her daddy, he was the smartest, but he was a daddy so he didn't count, "isn't that what you're looking for?"
"No," he said, shaking his head. "And dragons aren't even real." He was pretty sure anyway. "I'm escaping."
Her mouth dropped open and her eyes widened as she stared at him, "they are too!" She argued, crossing her arms over her chest and glaring at him for a moment for good measure before dropping her arms back to her sides, "what are you escaping from, anyway?"
"This dumb party," he said, making a face that clearly stated she should have known that. "It's lame." He tugged at the tie around his neck until he managed to loosen it, then he slipped it off over his head and tossed it on the floor. "And so are ties."
"What's dumb about the party?" She asked, sincerely curious but made a face when he tossed his tie on the floor, "you are going to have to pick that up, you know? Mommy says you shouldn't leave things on the floor, she told me if I picked up aaaall of my toys, I might get a puppy for Christmas!" Chloe said excitedly, the skirt of her dress bouncing a little as she did.
For a moment, he grinned at her excitement, then he frowned again. Girls were lame. And they had cooties. Except his mom, but she was a mom so that didn't count. "Well, I'm not picking it up," he told her. "And I'm not going back to the party. Because it's all adults and there's nothing to do and I wanna go outside."
With a roll of her eyes, she shook her head and made a face at him, "it's snowing, you can't go outside, why do you wanna go outside?"
"Because it's snowing," he said, shaking his head. "Wouldn't you rather play in the snow?" He made a face back at her.
Chloe considered him for a moment, looking back towards the place her parents were at then back at the boy with big eyes and nodding, "...yeah?" She knew she shouldn't, her mommy said she should be careful because her dress was new but she really liked playing in the snow and there was a lot of it and she couldn't let the silly boy go outside by himself because what if the dragon found him?
He shrugged a little. "Well, first we need to find a way to get out of here. This place is huge." He frowned, looking up and down the corridor.
"We need to be careful with the dragon," she reminded him and made her way to where he was, looking around for a second then shrugging, "I think it's this way!" Without giving him time to think, she started running in the direction she had pointed out.
"Hey, wait up!" He frowned and followed her, running to catch up, and leaving his tie far behind on the floor without so much as a second thought.
But she didn't stop, not until she reached the end of the hallway, she tiptoed and looked out the big glass windows and her eyes widened, there was so much snow, it was almost as high as the window itself, "Woah... look!" She told him, eyes outside, everything around them was covered in snow, it didn't get like that at home.
Oliver gave up any ideas of protest he had when he looked out as instructed, his own eyes widening. "Wow," he whispered. "It's never like this in Star City," he told her, still staring. He'd never seen so much snow in his entire life. It made him want to get outside even more.
Chloe paused, cocking her head and looking up at him curiously, "what is Star City?" She had never heard about it before and she liked learning new things.
"It's where I live," he told her, glancing down at her and actually smiling. "It's in California."
"Oh," she looked at him, "is that really, really far away? Like Metropolis?"
He paused, thinking. "It was an hour long plane trip," he said uncertainly.
At that information, her eyes widened even more, "you were on a plane?"
Oliver nodded a little. "You've never been on one?"
Chloe's eyes widened and she nodded, "Daddy says I was, but I was too little so I don't remember..." she told the boy with a slight pout on her lips, "I wish I did, my cousin says it's fun and everything looks like Lego things from up there! Is it true? Because Lois lies sometimes, like when she told me Santa didn't even exist and then he brought me presents anyway and ate the cookies I left him so he obviously exist."
He started to say Lois was right about Santa, but something kept him from it. "Everything does look tiny from a plane. Like little lego cities. And sometimes if it's cloudy you can't see the cities below at all, just the clouds. Oh!" He grinned suddenly. "You can come on our plane!"
"Really!?" She grinned brightly and bounced again, her pigtails moving up and down, "can my mom and dad come too? Oh and bear! He's my bunny."
"Sure!" he agreed, nodding and smiling back at her. "You have a bunny?"
Chloe giggled and nodded, "he's not a real bunny, but he has a purple tie so I know he's a boy. I wanted to bring him but mom said that I was wearing my big girl dress so I had to leave Bear at home and besides, he could get dirty and then I wouldn't be able to sleep with him and I don't like sleeping without Bear."
The girl talked so quickly he almost had a hard time keeping up with her. Almost. "Oh. I thought you meant like a pet." He started to say something else when he heard a familiar voice down the hall calling his name, and another calling for someone named 'Chloe.'
He sighed a little. "I think I'm in trouble."
Her eyes widened a little when she heard her dad's voice and she smiled, "That's my dad! He found me, he always does." She smiled at Oliver then frowned a little, ignoring the voiced as they got closer, "Why are you in trouble?"
"Because I lost my tie," he whispered, looking worried. "And ran away from the boring party."
"Oh," pursing her lips together as she thought for a minute then grinned, grabbing his hand and starting to run back to where they were, "I know where your tie is! We can find it and then you won't be in trouble anymore!"
He was more than a little surprised when she grabbed his hand and literally pulled him down the corridor, right past their dad's. His eyes were wide as he grabbed his tie off the floor and quickly tugged it on over his head. "Thanks," he whispered as they turned to face their parents.
"Oliver, what on earth you doing?" His dad chuckled a little at the sight of the now-crooked, not-quite-tied tie around his son's neck. "Come here. Your mother will have a fit."
Chloe smiled at the boy then waved at him before wrapping her arms tightly around her dad's neck as he picked her up, "we didn't find the dragon, but daddy! There is a looot of snow outside and I really wanted to play in there but then he said he would let us go on his plane!" She said excitedly.
Gabe chuckled and kissed the top of his daughter's head as she continued to speak then turned to the other man, "better return this one to her mother," then turned to the boy, "Thanks for keeping an eye on her." He smiled and started back to the ballroom.
As her dad took her away, Chloe waved at the boy and smiled brightly before turning to her dad again, "And then he said I could bring Bear too, Daddy, can we go?"