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Tile: The Wager
Author: brittany2922
Summary: Oliver Queen meets a beautiful reporter named Chloe Sullivan and ends up making a bet with Bruce Wayne that he can seduce the young woman. But what happens when he falls for her?
Characters: Chloe, Oliver, Lois, Clark, and Bruce Wayne (Appearances by the JL boys in later chapters)
Rating: T

DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING!

"Well are you gonna tell me how it went or not?"

Chloe walked into the living room and tossed her purse onto the couch, "there's nothing to tell Lois." She plopped down on the couch, "Wait a minute, Why aren't you with Clark right now?"

"No way, I am not letting you change the subject. How did it go with the sexy billionaire?"

"Um… It was fine," she answered standing and walking toward the kitchen.

"Oh my God!" Lois said jumping up and following her.

"What?"

"You like him."

"I do not."

"Yes you do... admit it."

"I'll admit that it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but that doesn't mean that I actually like him."

"Okay fine you don't like him, but if thats the case then why didn't you come in here screaming at me for leaving you there alone with him."

"Because I know you, and I know it wouldn't do any good to yell at you. Plus I know in your own little Lois way you were just trying to help."

"I really was," she said smiling brightly at her cousin, "I just wish Clark realized that." she said glancing away.

"What do you mean?"

"Nothing, he was just angry with me for setting the whole thing up and decided to give me one of his lectures."

Chloe laughed, "I would have loved to see that."

"It's not funny, he told me that I've got to stop butting my big nose into your business." she said with a small pout, causing Chloe to laugh even harder.

"Chloeeee…" Lois whined.

"I'm sorry Lo, it's just those words coming from Clark of all people is funny. I mean he never misses an opportunity to comment on my life."

"That's what I told him."

"You actually said that to him?" Chloe asked, cringing slightly at the thought.

"Yes, and he got mad and stormed off." Lois said lowering her gaze to the ground.

"Oh Lois, don't worry about Clark, He's just doing that stupid big brother thing. I'll talk to him tomorrow tell him I had a nice time and to get over it."

"Really?"

"Yes, first thing."

"Thanks Chlo,"

Lois paused for a moment, "So are you gonna give me any details about what happened tonight after I left."

"You're really not gonna let this go, are you?"

"Of course not."

Chloe took a deep breath and leaned against the counter, "I already told you, nothing happened, we had dinner he brought me home, end of story."

"You're serious, not even a good night kiss?" she said wiggling her eyebrows suggestively.

"I'm serious, not even a kiss."

"Well I hope to plan to fix that the next time you see him."

"I don't think he'll be wanting to see me again."

"Why not?"

"Well I kind of jumped out of his car and ran like a scared little girl not even really giving him a chance to say good bye."

"You didn't" Lois said covering her mouth.

"Yeah I did."

"Why?"

"I don't know… because he threw me. I mean he was supposed to be arrogant and snobby, but he wasn't."

"Okay well if he does want to see you again what are you gonna do?"

"I have no idea."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Oliver closed the file in front of him.

It had been three days since the dinner with Chloe and that night when he gotten home he started looking for her old articles. He was shocked to find that the term, 'sticky situations' was hardly accurate for all the trouble she had found herself in.

He'd managed to find every article she'd written for the Daily Planet and her high school paper quickly. While most of what she wrote at the Planet seemed like everyday news stories, what she wrote in high school had shocked him. He had no idea what exactly a meteor freak was but there seemed to be an abundance of them in Smallville Kansas.

Yet as shocking as the articles she wrote were, the articles written about her were even more so. She seemed to be a magnet for trouble so much so that he was surprised that the Green Arrow had never had a run in with her.

As he sat lost in thought his office door opened and Bruce entered sitting in the chair opposite his desk. "So have you finished researching the captivating Miss Sullivan?"

"Yeah the last bit of info was faxed over to me last night." he answered picking up the file on his desk and handing it to the other man. "She really is something. I mean I don't know many people who could go up against the Luthors and survive, but she did. Even more impressive is that she did it while she was still in high school."

"What?"

"Yeah, you remember a few years ago when Lionel Luthor was on trial for murder and they had a star witness who's identity they kept under wraps because she was a minor?"

"That was her?"

"According to my investigator, and we both know he's the best there is, and that's not all. In the few years since she graduated and moved to Metropolis she's had quite a few run ins with Luthor Jr."

"Lex." He asked opening the file and skimming the first page.

"That's right."

"Well, she really is quite a woman." Bruce said raising his eyebrows.

"Yeah she really is." with a small smile.

"Oh no," Bruce said leaning back in his seat.

"What?"

"I know that look."

"What look?"

"A look that says you're really starting to like her."

"No. I'm not," Oliver pushed away the image of her eyes and the way they sparkled when she was teasing him.

"Yes you are," Bruce insisted with a small chuckle, "look at you practically mooning like a school boy over a woman you've known for a week. I can honestly say I'm disappointed in you Oliver."

"You don't know what you're talking about." he told Bruce through clenched teeth.

"Really, then what's this about?" he asked tossing the folder back on the desk.

"I'm just looking for an in. I have a bet to win, and as you mentioned before it's already been one week. I only have three left."

"So this is still all about the bet?"

"Absolutely,"

"Are you sure about that?"

"Bruce, she's a challenge. Truth be told this little game is the most fun I've had in a long time, but that's all she is to me. A game."

"If you say so." he said shaking his head, "so when are you going to see her again?"

"I was actually going to call her and ask her to the art opening tonight."

~*~*~*~*~~*~*~

Chloe sat at her desk. She had been right when she told Lois that she wasn't going to see him again. She really wished she hadn't been though.

The Oliver she had dinner with the other night wasn't at all what she expected, and she was actually hoping to see him again even though the thought of it made her very nervous.

Suddenly her phone rang causing her to jump, "Sullivan." she said.

"Hi Chloe, it's Oliver."

"Oliver… hi."

"Listen I know you're working and this is really short notice but I've got this art opening tonight and I was wondering if you would accompany me."

"Accompany you?"

"Yeah, I'm using those prep school manners you seemed so impressed with the other night."

She smiled at that, "Well since you asked so nicely I suppose I could go with you."

"Excellent, I'll pick you up at seven."

"All right I'll see you then."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

He sat in his office listening to the recording with a wicked smile. He knew after the way he had heard them openly talking about their little game in the restaurant the other day that it wouldn't take long for him to get the ammunition he needed.

He'd had each of their Metropolis offices bugged just the night before and already he had what he wanted.

Now all he had to do was wait for the perfect time.

A/N Thanks for reading

Read Chapter 8 HERE!