Decision Time

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Smallville characters as they all belong to WB Productions & DC Comics.

Author's Note: 2 days after Clark confronted Oliver Kara/Linda has lunch with Lois & they discuss what happened & what Kara might do now which she mulls over afterwards in her office at the "Isis Foundation" wherein she goes out for a walk in "Metropolis Park" & meets Oliver who's done the same thing as her & they both sit down & talk about the previous events 2 & 3 days ago wherein Kara makes a decision on what she's goanna do once & for all.

Extra Note: This's the last chapter of the story.

Sitting outside "Café Russo" Lois & Linda are eating lunch there & discussing what happened 2 & 3 days ago.

"God I can't believe Clark went round Ollie's gym & punched him." Lois said.

Linda shrugged her shoulders & picked up some ham salad with her fork. "Yeah well I told him that but you know Clark Lois."

Lois nodded her head & sipped some wine. "Mmm but Ollie going round your apartment & kissing you like that I mean doesn't he know you don't want him or something?"

Linda ate the salad before she replied lying but unsure. "He does yeah but maybe Ollie was right when he said he I must've liked him if I kissed him."

"You were hormonal Linda like your father Simon said Lois commented." (Simon's Zor-El's human name & he's Jonathan Kent's pretend brother in law series 9)

"People don't kiss others unless they like them except family of course." Linda stated. "& Oliver's not just anyone Lois."

"Linda you divorced him because of everything that happened." Lois demised.

Linda nodded her head sighing. "I know yes."

"& have now got your life back on your track." Lois added defensively.

"But what have I got to show for it Lois? Alright yes I have the "Isis Foundation" my dad, the apartment & little money but I don't have a guy though do I? & I miss that you know. I miss been in love & feeling all tingly inside when I see them & sex I want sex." Linda announced.

"Well you can have that with someone." Lois said as she forked up some chilli jacket potato before eating it.

"But no-one wants a pregnant woman & every guy I've been with so far hasn't worked out." Linda answered back.

Lois wiped her mouth with a serviette before pointing her fork at Linda. "Yeah because you're not trying Linda & are of going out with mediocre guys instead of someone you might actually like." "& I get it you know you were only ever with Oliver because he was you're husband so you knew him & how to act round him & felt comfortable to so going out with someone else is scary but you have to do it you know & I love Ollie as friend & believe he's not suicidal anymore & sorry for what he did but after what happened I think this's better for you honestly." "Of course I can only give you my opinion sweetie. I can't tell you what to do."

Linda nodded her head. "I understand yes." "But if I did take Ollie back per say what would you think?"

Lois tilted her head slightly. "That you're crazy but then it'd be your decision sweetie & you'd really have to think could I accept Ollie knowing what he is & not think about that when I'm with him 'cause if you did go back with him & he boozed round the world or cheated on you again then you couldn't blame him for it 'cause you accepted that about him.

Linda nodded again kind of agreeing. "Yeah but what Oliver did wasn't of his own volition but through circumstances that happened with him."

Lois drank some more wine & leaned forward replying quietly. "Killing Lex was though."

Linda moved her head a 3rd time. "Mmm"

"Which you'd, have to take into consideration amongst other things." Lois implied.

Linda stared off in the distance as she answered Lois thinking hard about that. "Yeah"

An hour later at the bigger & more functional "Isis Foundation" near "Watchtower" Kara was typing some notes up from a rough copy of what a client said in one their sessions.

The radio on her table in Kara's office near the computer played out as a male presenter spoke just as a song finished on there. "Okay listeners that was S Club 7 with "Never Had A Dream Come True". "So before the show ends today's topics being about valentine's day & how you celebrated it. Some people got married others got engaged some stayed at home & others went away." "I've an email from Ethel Bolton who marked her 50th wedding anniversary to her husband Derek & wants me to give a shout out so well done to them." "& she's requested that I play this song which I will do for everyone in love & also them so here with "The First Time I Loved Forever" is Lisa Angelle & Ron Perlmen.

The words played out as Kara typed still.

Commentary

Ron Perlmen: Somewhere I have never travelled gladly beyond any experience.
You're eyes have their silence in your most frail gesture are things which enclosed me.
Or which, I cannot touch, because they are too near.

Verse 1

Lisa Angelle: The first time I loved forever was when you whispered my name.
& I knew at once you loved me for the, me of who I am.

The familiar song that used to be hers & Oliver's struck accord with Kara & distracted her a bit as she thought about a time she'd been with him when he picked her up & carried her round the penthouse & put her back down on the couch & Kara screamed & laughed as Oliver tickled her.

Over at Luthorcorp Oliver Queen writing up a report heard this also unknowing Kara did to & thought about the first time he met her when Kara caught the flat screen TV when she was "Supergirl" before it hit his limo & how amazed he felt at what she did & wondering who she was.

Verse 2

Lisa Angelle: The first time I loved forever I cast all else aside.
& I bid my heart to follow be there no more need to hide.

Turning over the clients rough copy page Kara remembered other times she & Oliver teamed up together in the "Justice League".

Closing his file up Oliver poured out a glass of scotch.

Chorus

& if wishes & dreams are merely for children & if love's a tale for fools I'll live the dream with you.

Then leaned back & recalled the second time Kara saved him at the "Daily Planet" & the first time they floated upward in the sky.

Commentary

Or if your wish be to close me, I & my life will shut very beautifully suddenly.
As when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully, everywhere descending.

Kara recollecting a time she & Oliver watched "There's Something About, Mary" where she threw a piece of popcorn & laughed at him smiling shook her head knowing full well what'd happen if she carried on thinking about him.

Finishing his glass off Oliver thought about the impromptu wedding he & Kara had on "The Bahamas Beach". She dressed in a white simple v necked thin shaped dress with her brown loosely curled hair adorning a flower shape tapped clip & small bouquet in her hands, he wearing a black rented tux like Jordan Bart Victor & AC to, with a priest presiding over them & a photographer standing over nearby waiting. Then the times they kissed & the dark time Kara tried to help him through in earlier in the year.

Verse 3

For all my life & forever there's a truth I will always know.
When my world divides & shatters your love is where I'll go.

Feeling stressed now Kara switched of her computer & walked over & put her coat on then picked up her bag & went out the room.

Going to refill his glass Oliver thought about that before he put it down & then got up out his chair & walked out the room.

Kara strolled through "Metropolis Park" holding a plastic cup of decaffeinated coffee as she passed by the flower beds muddling over things.

Oliver possessing regular coffee wandered down the other end with one hand in his pocket pondering why he'd chosen to go there as the last part of the song played out.

Commentary

I do not know what it is about you that closes & opens, only something in me understands.
The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses. Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.

Coming, up by a bench Kara & Oliver notice someone in front of them & both look up slowly seeing who it is. They stay silent a moment not knowing who should go first or what they should say.

Oliver spoke & said. "Hi."

"Hi." Kara replied back.

"I had to get out the office." Oliver announced.

"Me too" Kara stated. "I was a little bothered so I decided to get some fresh air."

"You don't listen when I or anyone else tells you to have time of & take it easy do you?" Oliver questioned Kara.

Kara shook her head. "Not really, no."

"You'll wind up in Hospital if you're not careful." Oliver announced.

The ex-kryptonian flapped her arms up. "It's a walk in the park Oliver not mount everest. Besides Caroline runs things when I'm not in so you don't have to worry about that there."

Kara smiled slightly sighing as she pointed out to Oliver's face which was bruised a little still from Clark's punch 2 days ago. "Clark hit you pretty well then."

"Oh yeah it'll heal don't worry." Oliver demised flicking his hand up smiling. "He had a right to anyway."

He hung his head down then looked up at Kara scrunched faced. "I'm sorry I left you crying. If I'd known I would never have."

"It's okay Oliver I'm alright now anyway." Kara said to him.

She laughed a little then. "Funny how we keep meeting each other isn't it?"

"It certainly is." Oliver replied smiling again. "Listen I'd better go before Clark finds out I'm here otherwise he'll kill me."

Oliver turned round to leave but Kara stopped him. "Hey it's, okay you can stay here you know. I won't tell him. I wanna talk to you anyway."

"Oh yeah what about?" Oliver asked Kara.

"About us I suppose." Kara said as she sat down slowly on the bench with her left hand resting on her rounded stomach.

"I thought there wasn't, any us?" Oliver sat down marginally away & spoke to her.

"Well things have a way of biting you in the bullet don't they?" Kara replied.

Oliver looked at Kara confused. "Whaddya mean?"

Kara sipped a bit of her decaffeinated coffee before staring downward & caressing her bump lightly. "I'm not sure really." "I hate been pregnant sometimes when your hormones play with your emotions."

Oliver questioned her confused again. "I don't get it still?"

She leaned back against the bench & turned round & glanced at Oliver. "Well it's not like I haven't been with anyone Ollie it's just the ones that I have were dull & boring & couldn't accept going out with someone carrying another man's baby so the selection there other than you isn't very big then."

Oliver nearly spat in his coffee hearing that turn of events. "Wait you wanna get back with me?"

Kara sighed a bit. "I shouldn't for all the reasons Lois, Clark & dad said but maybe I did feel something when I kissed you & said what I did because I was scared but if we did things my way then it'd be alright."

"Like what?" Oliver queried Kara hopeful but not too much to frighten her.

"Starting from the beginning by getting to know one another & dating not jumping back into bed or moving in." Kara stated.

Oliver nodded understandably. "Right"

"But you'd really have to work hard Ollie & prove to me that what happened before won't ever happen again because if it did then I will let Clark kill you." Kara said pointing her right finger out next to her thumb.

"Absolutely" Oliver answered back happily but taking in what Kara indicated also. "What about Jordan though & the rest of them?"

Kara replied. "We won't tell them anything until after a while when it's definite."

Oliver leaned forward & responded. "Alright then."

They looked each other in the eyes & tilted their heads sideways closing them up & pressed their lips lightly together before delving in a few moments afterwards.

The End