When Lois told Oliver that she loved him, but as a friend, and not how he wished she would love him, he accepted that they're in the past, that he missed his chance. After all, it wasn't like he hadn't known how Lois felt about Clark ... he just hoped their old connection could give him a shot to be with her once more, but it was final: they were done.
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He toasted to Clark and Lois's engagement, celebrating as hard as anyone else and he refused to let his eyes linger on the bride to be ... or the groom, whose hand had always felt too right in Oliver's own and whose small smiles made something in him ache for what he knows he cannot have, now twice over.
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When Oliver awoke suddenly, he realized that everyone had shifted in their sleep, and he was in the center of Lois and Clark, their arms and legs entwined together. To learn that he hadn't been the only one who wanted more was one of the best surprises of Oliver's life; being wrong had never felt so good. So he watched them silently for a few minutes before he let himself close his eyes, drifting back to sleep, secure in the knowledge that whatever was to come that day and in the future, he wouldn't be facing it alone.
smallville, clark/lois/oliver, the past may hurt (but the future is bright)
He toasted to Clark and Lois's engagement, celebrating as hard as anyone else and he refused to let his eyes linger on the bride to be ... or the groom, whose hand had always felt too right in Oliver's own and whose small smiles made something in him ache for what he knows he cannot have, now twice over.
When Oliver awoke suddenly, he realized that everyone had shifted in their sleep, and he was in the center of Lois and Clark, their arms and legs entwined together. To learn that he hadn't been the only one who wanted more was one of the best surprises of Oliver's life; being wrong had never felt so good. So he watched them silently for a few minutes before he let himself close his eyes, drifting back to sleep, secure in the knowledge that whatever was to come that day and in the future, he wouldn't be facing it alone.