Title: Arsenal: Final Confrontation
By: Kim
Summery: After Arsenal is found unconscious and injured, its up to his friends and family to solve a mystery that could potentially destroy Roy's future.
Disclaimer: All Characters belong to DC

Rating: M -some language and character death

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Arsenal: Final Confrontation

Part 1

Roy opened his eyes, staring at the stark white ceiling above him as his senses slowly adjusted, he felt weak, and when he turned his head to the side the movement made his head pound, causing him to groan softly, he closed his eyes again, and the pain slowly abated.

"Welcome back Red." A feminine voice said.

Tentatively Roy opened his eyes, there sitting beside his bed was Dinah Lance. Realizing he was in a hospital bed he spoke, his voice dry and husky "Dinah…...where's Lian?"

"Oh I like that, not how are you Dinah, or long time no see Dinah not even a hi Dinah, just where's Lian?..." Dinah smiled, and placed a hand on Roy's head and stroked his hair, "She's fine Roy, she's at home, Connor and Mia are with her, Ollie should be here soon."

Roy tried to sit up, but as soon as he moved his head, a blinding white light of pain slammed into his brain, unable to stifle a groan, he lay still with his eyes tightly closed.

"I could have told you that wouldn't be a good idea Boyo" Dinah said "You've taken a nasty whack to the side of your head, and you've been out for a couple of days….."

"Acckk" said Roy suddenly clutching his stomach, and rolling onto his side, trying to suppress the sudden rise of nausea that assailed him, as soon as he moved, his head pounded again, and he could feel himself losing the battle.

Dinah sprang forward grabbing a bowl that was strategically placed on the side table, and helped Roy to lean forward over it.

After dry heaving for a minute Roy waved the bowl away, having nothing in his stomach after being unconscious for three days didn't ease the feeling of misery and helplessness the nausea caused, panting slightly he mumbled quietly "Shit….I'm sorry Dinah"

"Hey….s'okay, Boyo, I've been there before remember,… try and lay still for a minute, see if it settles.." reaching out she pressed the call button to call a nurse.

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Ollie arrived to find Dinah sitting outside the room, "How is he?... Awake yet?" he asked anxiously.

"Yeah, Doctors with him, he's not feeling too crash hot at the moment, you know what it's like a belt on the head like he's had knocks you around a bit, and what ever that drug they found in his blood stream was doesn't help matters."

Ollie nodded "Yeah, I know, not nice, not nice at all…….He say what happened?"

"Never had a chance to ask…" before Dinah finished the sentence, the door opened and a Doctor walked out.

"Hey Doc, what's the go?" Ollie asked quickly.

"He's awake, but, your aware of that of course…… I given him something to help with the nausea, he'll be okay, just needs rest, the scans of his head injury have all come back clear so that's good news, and the substance in his blood stream is passing through his body quickly most of it 's effects had faded by the time he was found and it doesn't look to have caused any permanent damage. However, we still don't know what it was so we will be keeping a close eye on him for another couple of days, he was very dehydrated when he was found, so I want to keep intravenous fluids up a bit longer, certainly while he's feeling nauseated……We really don't know what happened to him , he seems to be quite confused about things at the moment but that may not be unusual given the condition he was in when you found him, He's asked several times about the welfare of his daughter, I've reassured him she is with friends, but other than that it's a matter of rest and time, and he'll make a full recovery." The Doctor moved away as a nurse approached him, and Ollie and Dinah turned and entered Roy's room.

Roy was lying curled up slightly on his side facing the door, he opened his eyes on hearing Ollie and Dinah approach.

'Hey kiddo" Ollie said reaching out to place a hand on Roy's shoulder.

Dinah dragged a couple of chairs around to the side of the bed and sat in one, watching as Ollie continued to stand beside the bed.

"Hey Oll's………Lian ok?"

Ollie gave Roy's shoulder a pat then sat in the chair Dinah had dragged around for him, "Course she's ok son, heard you've asked that a few times today"

Roy's eye's widened slightly in confusion. "Have I?" he asked "I don't remember asking that before"

Dinah spoke reassuringly before Roy had time to worry over his memory lapses "Doctor say's it's not unusual to be a bit confused, so don't worry about it Red it'll settle down soon."

"Kay" Roy said closing his eyes, and drifting back into sleep.

End of part 1