***
“What
do you say that we take that tape from last night and watch the end?
Just the two of us?” Ollie suggested when we were lying – finally – in
bed two hours later.
“Hmm... ok… as long as we the only ones who’ll watch it,” I agreed
while making a circles on his chest with my fingers.
“It’s probably a good idea even if we don’t watch it. Someone else might.”
“Oh, come on. Clark isn’t a pervert and I doubt that Chloe would…”
“But they’re not the only one that come to Watchtower from time to time
and I don’t trust Stuart. I don’t know him that well yet.”
I giggled.
“Ok.”
“Are you happy?” he asked me after a couple of minutes of silence.
“Yes, I am. I really am,” I admitted while looking up at his face. “I
never thought I could again, but I am. To be honest… I’m even more happy
than I was during the last year of my marriage.”
“I’m glad to hear that. I promise you, Jess…” he started and his voice
suddenly grew much more serious. “I promise you, you will never be
unhappy with me. I will do everything in my power to keep a smile on
your face.”
“You’re already doing it.” I leaned to him to kiss him.
The kisses grew more and more intense and soon I was straddling him and impaling myself on his cock and then…
“Fuck!” I suddenly screamed and pulled away.
“What happened? I couldn’t possibly hurt you since I’ve already been so deep today…” Oliver started.
“It’s not that… I… Fuck! You’ll hate me!” I covered my face with my hands.
“Baby, tell me!” He took my hands away and forced me to look at him.
“I… I forgot… birth control. I’m so sorry, Oliver, I just… it’s obvious
that I forgot last night, but tonight… I am sorry!!”
“So, we could just make a baby?” he asked me with strange awe in his eyes.
“Well… or last night.”
“It’s ok,” he said.
“What do you mean?”
“I love you. I’m almost thirty years old. If it happened then I’m all in. I have no family, Jessica.”
“Me too… but I hate you to think I just…”
“You just what? Trick me into having a possible child?”
“Yeah.”
“And why would you do that?”
“What?” I didn’t understand.
“Why would you do that?” he repeated. “You have as much money as I do now, don’t you? LuthorCorp.”
“Well, you’re right.”
“So you didn’t try to trick me. I love you. To be honest… I wish I could marry you right on the spot.”
“Ma… marry me?” I stammered, even more shocked with his behavior.
“Yeah. What do you say?”
“What do I…” I couldn’t possibly comprehend it all at once. First I was
horrified that we might’ve made a child and now he wanted to propose?
“Will you marry me?” he finally asked.
I could just stare at him with my mouth wide open.
“Jessica? I’m sorry if it’s too early… forget it… just… I’ll ask again sometime in the future.”
“How soon do you think we can find a chapel and call our friends?” I suddenly asked.
Now he was the one who was stunned.
“An hour?” he finally answered, grinning at me in happiness. “We’re
both very important in this town, so probably we can arrange everything
even in the middle of the night…”
***
Now, couple of weeks later I was married and yeah, pregnant.
And I’d never been happier.
Our friends were shocked with our sudden decision, but were there for us. Happy.
And we merged our two companies.
My life was just starting. Just when I thought I couldn’t go deeper
into despair, I finally found light and my place in the world. A new
sense to my life.
***
(dominion)
When
things got a little bit better with the dark force, something else came
up. One of the Zoners was found on Earth and the only way he could’ve
got here was if he’d gone through the gate. The gate that could only be
open by somebody from the House of El. That meant only Clark as Kal-El
could do that.
“I don’t get it. How could he have your blood?” Lois wrinkled her
forehead, thinking hard. “Maybe there’s some other way for
escaping?”
“There isn’t… unless…” Clark’s face changed.
“What it is, Clark?” Oliver asked.
“Zod.”
“Zod?” I parroted. “But you sent him to the other world!”
“Yes, but Kandorians must’ve banished him to the Phantom Zone.”
“That still doesn’t explain how he opened the gate and what is most
important why didn’t he come down here himself?” Ollie prompted while
putting his arm around me and pulling me closer to his body. He knew
what Zod had done to me and his instinct was to protect me even if Zod
wasn’t physically here. I loved Oliver so much for that simple gestures.
It was true what they said that the little things mattered the most.
“Because I gave him my blood!” Clark finally figured it out. “To save his life!”
“That’s explain it!” Lois said. “You’re right, Clark! So he wanted to send you a massage?”
“Probably, I don’t really know, but I can’t let him just stay there. He
can come back any moment and who knows what he can do here.”
“So, what? You just gonna go up there to meet him?” Ollie asked. “And that’s not crazy at all?”
“What if… what if I go there only for couple of hours?” Clark
suggested. “I make sure everything’s fine there and on my way back I
just destroy the crystal, so no one would ever be able to go through
that gate ever again?”
“That’s crazy!” I said. “You can’t possibly risk everything!”
“I’ll go with you,” Ollie volunteered and left my side to join Clark.
“No! Oliver, I won’t let you!” I said fiercely. “What the hell are you
two thinking?! You don’t only have yourself to think about! You have
us!” I pointed myself and Lois. “We need you!”
“We’ll be back, Jess,” Ollie assured me.
“You don’t know what’s up there,” Lois told him. “I was there, Oliver,
that’s not a place for a human. Clark,” she turned to him now, “you’ll
be stripped off your powers there. You can’t go!”
“I can’t just let Zod kill there and I can’t let him come back here to
kill ever more! I’m going. I’ll be back, Lois, I promise… Oliver, you
will stay here. Jessica needs you and Lois is right, it’s not a place
for a human.”
“Clark, you need help,” Ollie disagreed.
“I can manage. You have to stay here.”
“I won’t let you go alone!”
“And you leave me alone?” I cut in.
“Nothing will happen to me. If Clark will be stripped of his powers
then I will be the stronger one. I’m fighting without any powers all my
life. Clark needs me.”
Clark final answer was of course “no”.
***
But did a simple “no” convince Oliver? Had he ever listened to Clark? Nope!
When I activated the crystal in Watchtower Clark touched it and then
before he disappeared Oliver put a hand on his shoulder and was gone as
well.
“Ollie!” I yelled, but there was nothing I could do anymore. “Son of a bitch!” I cursed.
“Jess.” Lois turned to me. “Jessica! Listen to me! Oliver was right
when he said he had better chance of surviving there than Clark. They’ll
be both back safe and sound.”
I sighed deeply and closed my eyes.
“Can you hear us?!” We heard through the speaker.
“Good, at least one thing went fine,” I sighed with relief and got the
computer. It’d taken me a lot of work to make that transmitter.
“Ollie, I’ll kill you when you’ll be back!!” I snapped.
“I love you too, honey.”
“I’m serious!”
“Don’t worry! I’ll be fine.”
“You’d better be!”
But they were far from fine. We lost the connection pretty soon.
“Shit! They’d better come back within two hours,” I said and my hand
unconsciously stroke my still flat belly. That was only the beginning of
my pregnancy.
“I’m sure Oliver knows what’s at stake and he’ll be back for you and
your child. Now, tell me why is it exactly that they have two hours?”
“Clark told me…” I cleared my throat. “Clark told me to destroy the crystal if he’s not back by then.“
“What?!” Lois burst. “Why?!”
“To protect the Earth,” I said, trying to remain calm. “So the phantoms wouldn’t get here.”
“Son of a bitch!” Lois cursed, mimicking me from the moment ago.
“You see?” I was almost amused. “Now, you have to help me to stop the counter that Clark set up.”
“He what?!” Now Lois was clearly mad.
“Yeah, but even I am better with computers than he is, so I think we
can do that. And better do it now, because if they’re not back soon… we
can…”
“Ok, breathe, Jess, just breathe. We’ll make it through. Hero’s wife’s
life is difficult, but we are strong enough, aren’t we?”
“Yes, we are. I’ve been through so much that this is nothing compared to that.”
“You see? It’ll be fine!”
***
Only it wasn’t fine. They were gone for too long. We hadn’t heard from them anymore.
And that was two weeks ago.
I had no idea how I would’ve managed without Lois. What happened
brought us very close together and now we were really good friends. We
were constantly comforting each other, we were taking shift at
Watchtower, guarding the gate, afraid that something nasty might come
out of it any moment. We called all the available vigilantes from the
Justice League, so there was one of them there all the time in case some
phantom escaped.
But still, no sign of Oliver and Clark.
Just then. Exactly two weeks later. The moment when I started losing my
hope for good and thinking how I would manage to raise a child in such a
brutal world without Oliver, without Clark, without any help. A child
that would be a Queen with Luthor’s heritage… I just couldn’t bring
myself to bear it. It was too much. I wouldn’t be able to go through
that again.
And just then, when I finally broke and dropped on the couch in Oliver’s apartment I heard his voice.
“Jessica?” The voice was uncertain, like the person it belonged to
wasn’t really sure what happened and why I was crying. “Jessica, honey, I
was gone only a few hours… I…”
I jumped to my feet and saw him. Saw my Oliver.
“Ollie!” I yelled hoarsely and threw myself into his arms. “Oh, God! You’re here!”
“I’m here.”
“You’re safe!
“I’m safe,” he kept repeating after me while holding me tight.
“I was so scared that I might never see you again…” I whispered and broke into tears.
“Jess…” Oliver took my face in his hands and looked me in the eye. “What are you talking about?”
“You were gone two weeks.”
Surprise, shock, guilt… it was all on his face now.
“Wh… what?” he stammered, completely taken aback. “What are you talking about… the counter…”
“I stopped the fucking counter and it was a good choice as you can see!”
“Jessica… I am sorry… you have no idea how much it hurts me to see you like that.”
“I
know. I know you couldn’t foresee it, but Oliver… you have to think for
three now. You will be a father. You can’t do something like that.”
“If it makes it any better I can tell you that I saved Clark’s life.”
“Only a little,” I said. “Because of Lois. She’s been through hell.”
“You
were through worse…” Oliver moaned and pulled me into his arms again,
inhaled my scent and then kissed me deeply. “I’m sorry. I will never do
that to you again.”
“You’re just too sure of yourself. You think you can do everything, but you’re not invincible, you know? Even Clark isn’t.”
“I know and I just found out in quite a brutal way.”
He was still holding me tightly in his arms.
“I will never let you go again,” he said after a moment.
“I
won’t let you go either… I need you… come…” I took his hands and he
followed me to the bathroom when we were about to take a very long
relaxing bath and then probably had sex.
***
(finale)
The day of Clark and Lois’s wedding finally arrived.
We
all couldn’t be more happy. I was Oliver’s wife and we had a child on
its way. Chloe was with Stuart. Martha, Clark’s mother, found herself a
man too, it was Perry White.
Of
course, there was the past that would always hunt us. The memories of
Lex and Lana that would always be with me, but I never believed that
there was only one person destined for everybody. I believed in choices,
in the possibility of falling for different people and I was grateful I
could find love again.
I and Chloe were Lois’s braide’s maids and Oliver was Clark’s best man. All was in place.
Except… when Oliver handed Lois the ring and she was just about to put it on Clark’s finger…
Chloe snatched it away.
What? Wait…
And then I noticed it wasn’t gold, it was… oh god! Gold kryptonite!
Oliver’s eyes turned black and I could just stand there, like I was paralyzed.
“RUN!” Chloe screamed. “Everybody run!!”
Before I could snap myself out of that strange stupor Chloe took my arms and pulled me toward the door.
“Jess! We have to go! Clark will take care of it!”
Oliver was infected with the darkness… My Ollie was… I kept repeating in my head.
“Jess! Let’s go!”
I tried to catch a glimpse of my love, but Martha Kent joined Chloe and they were both stronger than me.
“Oliver!” I finally found my voice and screamed.
“Clark will help him. I’m sure of it,” Martha Kent tried to calm me down, but it didn’t help.
“He’s all I’ve got… he’s the father of…”
“Jessica!
Don’t you think Clark doesn’t know that? He would never kill anybody!
Remember when I was infected by Brainiac?” Chloe looked me in the eye
and shook me while taking my shoulders in her hands. “Do you
understand?”
“Yeah… yes,” I finally said, more clearly now and more sure of it. “You’re right. He’ll be fine.”
“Ok, let’s go to the farm.”
***
Of course Clark saved his friend.
They both came back to the farm, save and sound.
“Ollie!” I yelled and jumped to him on seeing that he was ok. “I was so scared!”
“I’m sorry, honey.” He took me in his arms, but held me rather stiffly. Something was wrong.
“Oliver?” I asked and pulled away a little bit just to be able to look in his eye. “What is it?”
“I just…” he took me aside, so no one else could hear us. “I realized
that I’m not better for you than… Lex was,” he confessed with
difficulty.
“What? I don’t understand…”
“He kept hurting you and I’m not doing a better job. I’m sorry for
leaving you and jumping to the Phantom Zone with Clark. I’m sorry for
letting the darkness infect me.”
“Oliver…”
“Let me finish, please. I know that I kept saying that Lex was a
bastard who didn’t deserve you and hurt you, but I realize now… how hard
it is to not hurt the person you love. I’ll do better, I promise. I
just wanted you to know that.”
“I love you, Oliver Queen. What you just said… it must take a lot of
courage to admit it, but I disagree. Lex was hurting me intentionally.
He didn’t want to cave, he was always… controlling me, possessing me. He
thought I would finally break and come back to him even though he was
still doing… what he was doing… With you it’s different.”
“I’m happy to hear that. There is only one more thing I have to do and then I’m back and I’m all yours.”
“I take your word for that… What is it?”
“I have to destroy that sons of bitches that infected me.” He kissed me and with “I’ll be right back” he left.
***
He was back. With a gaping wound on his side.
“What happened?” I asked him while helping him to the couch and making sure he laid down.
“Argh… nothing… just a scratch,” he hissed.
I peeked under his green leather.
“That’s not nothing, Ollie! You’re really hurt!”
“I’ve already called Emil on my way here. He’ll come and take a look at that.”
“That’s good to hear,” I sighed and went to the kitchen for some cloth
to stop the bleeding. “Clark saved us, didn’t he?” I asked when coming
back to my husband. “That planet. Is gone.”
“Yeah, he did a really good job.”
“Good…”
“Say it,” Oliver told me when I was putting the cloth to his wound.
“What?” I looked at him, pretending I didn’t know what he was talking about.
“Just say it. I can see that there’s something on your mind.”
I sighed.
“Nothing… it’s just…” I bit my lip. “It’s hard to be a hero’s wife, you
know? Even harder when starting a family. I understand Lois now… her
reasons for letting you go in the past.”
“You’re afraid that if I keep being the Green Arrow then I’ll
eventually end up dead, don’t you?” Oliver just asked, figuring it all
out.
“Well, to be honest… yeah. I know it’s selfish and I know I have no
right to ask you to stop, because so many people need you. I’m just… I’m
just afraid that I’ll lose you and I won’t survive it the second time.”
“Then it’s a good thing that destroying that Holy Trinity was my last
job,” Oliver said and I looked at him in strange king of awe.
“What?”
“You heard me.” He grinned at me.
“Really?” I couldn’t help but smile.
“Yeah.”
“But… all those people…”
“Honey, the Darkseid is gone and Metropolis have now the truest hero.
It’s Clark. He finally reached his full potential. It was what I wanted
for him from the very beginning.”
“But I can’t let you do that. People need you.”
“My career as the Green Arrow ended when I told the world who I really
am,” Oliver told me. “It’s fine. I want to start a family with you. I
want to have this baby and maybe another… and maybe then…”
“What? Another?” I laughed. “I’m not sure about that. Two seem fine for me.”
“Ok, we can have two.”
“Are you sure of it?”
“Yes. I have all I need right by my side and I’m not intend on letting
you go ever again. It’s a miracle that we’re back together, so I prefer
not to tempt faith.”
There was a knock on the door.
“This must be Emil,” I said and smiled to Ollie. I bent down to kiss him and raised from my sit to open the door.
THE END
