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Title: The Announcement
Author: brittany2922
Summary: One year ago Oliver Queen and Chloe Sullivan's romance ended, but when Oliver finds out that Chloe is about to marry someone else he realizes that he has to find a way to win her back before she end up married to the wrong man.
Characters: Chloe Sullivan, Oliver Queen, Lois Lane, Clark Kent, and several original characters
Rating: this chapter T
Genre: Angst/Romance
Words:2,018
Disclaimer: I own nothing!

Chapter 6

Oliver paced the apartment his phone clenched firmly in his right hand. He had called her over a dozen times in the two days since he had seen her at Clark's house, but each time he got no response but her voicemail. He sighed heavily as the image of her looking down at her phone as he called and pressing the ignore button each time his name and number appeared played in his mind.

He continued to walk to length of the clock tower, from the couch to his desk to the kitchen then back toward the couch. He could have sworn he had done over a hundred laps around the main living area just in the past hour.

He couldn't remember a time that he had felt quite this restless.

He lifted the phone and stared again hoping he had somehow missed her finally returning one of the many phone calls he had made to her, but knowing that he hadn't. If there was one thing Chloe Sullivan was good at it was digging her heels in once she decided to do something. And apparentally what she had decided to do was avoid him at all costs.

Unfortunately Chloe keeping her distance from him was making his plan to work his way back into her life and find a way to make her realize she was marrying the wrong man completely impossible.

The worst part was he had been so confident that he had the solution, it had seemed so simple. All he thought he would have to do is appeal to her adventurous side.

He would just give her the newest intel he had on a few serious baddies and her inner sidekick and justice seeker would emerge, but there was no chance of that working if he couldn't even get her to answer the damn phone.

He lifted the phone higher and flung it toward the nearest wall, , but before it make contact and break into what would be several pieces, he felt a sudden gust of wind.

Clark Kent stood in front of him, Oliver's cell phone in his hand and a knowing smirk on his face, "I take it Chloe hasn't returned one of your many phone calls yet, huh?"

"Good guess." Oliver grumbled. He looked up at the other man, "how do you know how many times I've called her?" he asked eyes wide.

"She may have asked me to come and talk to you," he admitted.

Oliver shoulders slumped and he made his way over to the couch and flopped down defeatedly, "of course she did."

"Can I ask you a question?" Clark asked still grinning.

"What's that?"

"How do you expect her to call you back if you've trashed your phone?" Clark asked making his way over to the couch and holding it out for him to grab.

"I have plenty of others," he said, "Billionaire, remember?" he joked weakly. Oliver reached out his hand and took the phone from the other man. "So if she sent you here to talk to me that means you've seen her?"

"Yeah earlier today actually. And before you ask, yes I told her she should call you back, but I guess she didn't feel like taking my advice."

"I don't know what to do." he said lamely.

"For starters, don't give up." Clark backed up a few steps and sat in the chair facing Oliver, "you and I both know how stuborn she can be when she puts her mind to something." He let out a small chuckle, "just between the two of us I'd say she's close to actually answering one on your calls, I think that's why she sent me to talk to you she doesn't know how much longer she can hold out."

"Yeah then she'll probably just pick up long enough to yell at me and hang up again," he said with a small smirk.

"True but even that can't last forever." Clark said with a smile. "Keep trying." He stood from the chair and headed toward the elevator but turned back toward before he got on, "and Oliver?"

"Yeah?"

"I pretty sure it goes without saying that if you screw up and hurt her again that not even a castle surrounded by a moat of liquid kryptonite will be safe enough for you."

"Of course not, that's when you'd send Lois in to take care of me, and we both know that she is far scarier then you are." Oliver replied with a smile.

"Yeah, she is," Clark admitted smiling back and climbing onto the elevator.

Oliver watched him leave then stood and made his way to the balcony phone in hand.

Ten minutes later he still stood there his arms resting on the railing as he looked out over the Metropolis skyline. He knew Clark was right, the only thing that would work right now was persistence. He lifted the phone and dialed her number again…

"Are you sure you don't want to get that?" Jake asked pointing in the direction of her ringing phone with his fork his eyes slightly narrowed.

"No I'm good," she answered trying to brush it off and hoping he would let it drop, but of course he didn't.

"Chloe, you've been getting a lot of calls you refuse to answer in front of me over the past few days."

"It's no one important, I'll just turn it off," she said reaching over and powering down her phone. "See all better." she said smiling.

Jacob picked up his glass of wine and took a long gulp, his eyes never leaving her face, "do all these phone calls have something to do with Oliver Queen coming back to Metropolis?" he asked frowning deeply.

She sighed heavily.

Jacob hadn't reacted well when he first found out that she had had a relationship with the most famous billionaire playboy on the planet, especially when she told him that the two of them were actually serious enough that she had moved to Star City to be with him. That was one of the first obsticles they needed to overcome, there weren't many men who would feel confident enough to try and compete with the memory of THE Oliver Queen.

Truth be told she had considered not even telling Jake about him but she knew that their relationship had been highly publicized. How could it not have been; one of the worlds most eligible bachlors settling down with a small town girl was bound to make headlines, but not as many as their break up and his subsequent return to the "dating" scene had.

Luckily he had seemed to get past his 'my girlfriend used to be shacked up with Oliver Queen' issues, until now. She should have realized that the return of her ex would cause a problem and prepared for the fall out, but she had been too busy trying to balance herself back out since seeing him.

"You heard he's back huh?" she asked casually.

"Oliver Queen comes back to Metropolis within days of his ex girlfriend announcing her engagement kind of stirs the rumor mills," he answered sourly.

Chloe picked up her fork and began pushing her food around on her plate trying to keep from looking into the eyes of her obviously very annoyed fiancee.

"So you knew he was back then?" he continued "have you seen him."

"Just for a minute. He showed up at Lois and Clark's the other day when I was there, but we didn't talk or anything. I left right after he showed up."

"Hence all the phone calls." he said gesturing toward her phone again.

"It's not like I can stop him from calling, all I can do is not answer. He'll give up eventually."

"I want you stay away from him." He said through clenched teeth.

Chloe's head shot up and her eyes narrowed, " I have no intention of seeing him, but the two of us happen to have a lot of mutual friends so as long as he's in town there's going to be chances of us running into one another. Besides, last time I checked you didn't get to decide who I do and do not see Jake."

"Given the fact that we're getting married in a little less then two months I think I have every right to ask you not to be around him."

"I didn't realize you were asking, it sounded more like telling to me." she snapped slamming her fork back down on the table.

"Look, all I'm saying is that it would be very embarrassing for me and my family if MY fiancee starts getting plastered all over the tabloids with her ex boyfriend."

"Well I wouldn't want to embarrass you or your family." she bit out sarcastically, "but I can't avoid him forever like I said we have mutual friends."

"Like your cousin."

"Yes like Lois." she answered with a single nod.

"And I'm sure she is just dying for you to see him again." he bit out.

Chloe rolled her eyes, the dislike Jake and Lois had for one another was really starting to wear on her.

"You know what I'm not doing this anymore. You and Lois need to get over this whole thing you have with each other, because I am tired of being in the middle."

"She's the one who started this whole thing."

"Really you're going with the whole 'she started it' defense? What are you… five?"

"I'm just saying…"

" Oh I know what you're saying," she said standing from the table, "and let me tell you one thing, Lois is my family practically the only family I have left, and I will never choose you over her so you need to just get over it, and as for Oliver, he and I broke up over a year ago so that's just one more thing you're going to have to get over." she stormed from the dining room, but instead of heading toward the bedroom like she normally did when the two of them fought she picked up her purse and keys and walked out the front door slamming it behind her.

As she climbed into her car she already knew where she was heading. She had to just see him and get it over with, and maybe once she did they could put their past behind them and he would just go back to Star City.

At least she hoped he would…

Read Chapter 7 HERE!