A/N: Hey guys! Who loved Beneath? Poor Jaime though, he lost his best friend! Poor Wondergirl. So undervalued! Not only that but the abductees! What are they're families thinking and feeling? Next week is the last episode before the hiatus! What am I going to do, you ask? Tell them, Hal:

Hal: MyLittleAngelxxx will of course be putting her time and energy into this story! Yay for her! It will help her withdrawals and give you more updates! Tell her if you're happy with that!

-Roy stumbles in-

Hal: WHERE WERE YOU LAST CHAPTER! OLLIE NEEDED YOU AND YOU WERE'NT THERE! –laughs- Oooh, you're so gonna get it!

Me: ROY WILLIAM HARPER JR.! JUST WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY IN YOUR DEFENSE? –glares-

Roy: I – I was, um, clearing the city of scum? Even though it isn't really my fault you're the one writing this rollercoaster of a story!

Me: O-OK Roy. Please, if I torture Roy in this chapter with Ollie's coldness, will you reviewers forgive me? –puppy-dog eyes-

Now, before you attack me with torches –hands you all new chapter-

Chapter 10: The Aftermath

Queen House, Star City 1994

17 April, 17:30 PDT

Ollie's bedroom window creaked open slowly and a fully-clad archer crept into the room. Roy was shattered. The room was in complete blackness, which caused confusion in the older archer. Why is the room full of darkness? Roy thought, thoroughly confused. He turned to Ollie's bed and saw crystal blue eyes, staring hauntingly at him in the darkness.

"Oh My God! Ollie, don't do that to me!" Roy exclaimed, hand to his heart, trying to calm his erratic heartbeat. He looked at Ollie's beautiful, pain-filled eyes. Wait, pain-filled? What's happened? What's gone on? Why wasn't I there to stop it? Roy thought with ice filling his heart at the thought of Ollie being hurt. He approached Ollie, like you would an injured animal. He got within arm's reach when...

SMACK! Roy clutched his now-throbbing cheek at the sudden pain. "What was that for?" Roy yelled, in anger and confusion. "For god sake, Queen, that fucking hurt! What," he scoffed, "did Collin, I don't know, rape you or something, and now you can't stand-" Roy faltered as he saw Ollie's now anger-filled eyes fill with tears.

"Oh God! He did, didn't he?" Roy's voice was trembling with panic, fear and anger. His eyes filled with tears of pain, regret and shame. He was ashamed that he wasn't here to protect his damaged-mentor-sometimes-lover. He was also angry at himself and at Collin for doing something like that. Who deserved that? "Ollie, I'm so-" Roy started to apologize.

Ollie clicked his fingers and the lights switched on. He held his hand up, to stop Roy's oncoming apology. "Don't." He snarled, the pain and betrayal clear in that one word. "Don't even bother. I don't wanna hear it." That was all the warning Roy got before Ollie exploded.

"YOU WERE MEANT TO BE HERE! YOU WERE MEANT TO PROTECT ME! BUT NO, SAVING THE CITY IS MORE IMPORTANT TO YOU! WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THAT TO HAPPEN TO ME?" He yelled in pain, anger and disgust. "Huh, Roy? What did I do?" He whispered, his voice breaking near the end of the sentence.

"Oh, Ollie. I'm so sorry! I should have never have left you. Come here," Roy tried to apologize, his voice filled with tears, holding his arms out.

"Damn right you should! But, guess what, Roy? You weren't," Ollie managed to say before bursting into tears. "I needed you, I wanted you to save me. I've always believed in heroes, you know? Always believed that every hero hears the thoughts of the people that need them most. So, where were you, then oh-so-great-hero? Oh, yeah, you weren't here! I mustn't be as important as I thought I was to you, then, right?" Ollie approached the furthest corner of the room, and for the first time Roy noticed a backpack, neatly packed. Ollie put it on his back. "Well, I know I'm no longer safe in my own home. So, I might as well leave." Ollie said indifferently, his back to Roy, to cover the tears steadily streaming down his face at the thought of leaving his mother. "Do me one last favour, will you, Roy?" Ollie asked, voice dead of emotion. "Tell her I love her, and I'm sorry but I just couldn't stay here anymore." That was all Roy was able to get, before Ollie launched himself out of the open window.

Roy stood still with shock in the now empty room. The room that was once filled with life and laughter but now would haunt Roy's dreams as his mind tortured him with what could have happened here. Roy collapsed on Ollie's vacant bed, lip trembling, as he realized that the situation was reserved from what had happened in his own time a couple of months prior. He was the one that was being abandoned, and Ollie was the one hating him and the one free.

He put his head in his hands and cried his eyes out. Giant sobs tore from his chest as he cried like he had never cried before. He hated himself and he hated Collin. And now he was left with Ollie's childhood monster. He couldn't stay here, not without Ollie.

He got up from Ollie's bed and wiped his eyes. He would go after Ollie, because – he realized with a jolt – he couldn't live without him, and he loved him. Genuinely loved him. He wanted to be with him – his mentor – and take his pain away, even if he had to fight for his love and trust all over again. That is what he would do. He left the room with the determination to find Todd.

A/N: I know it's shorter than usual, but it's a chapter. Drop a review?

~MyLittleAngelxxx