Part 2

Oliver Queen stood aside to let his visitors into the living room. Gesturing for them to take a seat on the sofa, "Coffee?" he asked.

"No Ollie, this isn't a social call we want to know how we can help?" Dick Grayson said.

"Help?" Ollie asked sitting opposite the two young men facing him, he hadn't been surprised to open the door and find Dick and Wally standing there, he knew Roy's friends would be there for him, but as for how they could 'Help' Ollie had no idea.

"Yeah" said Wally, "It's all over the news, and we tried to see him at the hospital but there's a guard at the door, and it's family only"

Ollie hung his head, staring at the ground for a few seconds before looking up again, "I know, their only letting me and Dinah in…..I had to tell them he was Dinah's kid brother or they wouldn't have even let her in."

"He okay?" Dick asked concerned.

"Yeah, he's had a whack on the head and they dosed him up with some unknown drug, but he'll live."

"Did he tell you what happened Ollie?" Dick asked quietly "How could he have done something like this?" there was no accusation in Dick's voice, he knew there had to be a logical explanation for what appeared to be Roy's actions.

"He'd never hurt her, they might not love each other anymore but he'd never hurt her, I know he wouldn't" said Wally

Ollie leaned back in the chair, steepleing his finger tips and staring at his hands, "He doesn't remember anything, in fact he's having trouble even remembering things he say's five minutes after he say's them, Doc say's it'll settle, but he can't guarantee he'll ever remember what happened before we found him, we have to wait and see…… Meanwhile Dinah and I are having hells own trouble keeping the Police from questioning him."

"They haven't spoken to him yet?... You mean no one has told him?" Dick asked, his voice rising at the realization.

"Not yet Kid, he was having trouble just stopping himself from spilling his guts this morning, he wasn't in any shape for us to go into details."

"Shit someone's got to tell him Ollie, and soon, it.s got to be better coming from you or Dinah than the police." Wally stated.

"You think I don't know that Wally? Of course I'm gonna tell him, Dinah's going to ring me as soon as it looks like he's waking up and I'll go straight over, we'll tell him together." Ollie paused, then added "It ain't easy you know!"

"Of course it's not Ollie we understand that… Look I need you to tell me everything you know about what happened, anything, even minor details can help start to piece an investigation together."

Dick listened intently as Ollie began to fill him in.

Three Days ago

Ollie paused as his cell phone rang, answering it he was instantly alert as Roy, his voice sounding panicked and garbled, babbled almost incoherently , "Roy?.… Roy slow down, I can't understand you, Roy?.. where the hell are you?..." not getting the response from Roy he was after Ollie almost shouted, "Roy where the hell are you?" the edge in Ollie's voice seemed to have the desired effect and Roy calmed down enough to babble his location, before the call suddenly ended. Ollie and Connor immediately went to help.

They had arrived at an abandoned warehouse at the location Roy had given them, a quick search later and they realized Roy wasn't there, however Ollie was shocked to find that Lian was curled up in a corner sniffling softly. Ollie cradled the little girl in his arms, and she looked up at him appearing confused at first, then wrapping her little arms tightly around his neck she began to sob loudly, Ollie held the child tighter whispering soothing words as Connor began to scout around the warehouse.

It was quickly obvious to Connor that Roy had been there, a number of red arrows were spilled on the floor as well as assorted throwing stars and a knife, Connor continued through the warehouse cautiously, carefully making his way past a pile of broken crates and into a room that had once been an office, suddenly he froze, staring incomprehensively at the sight before him, a figure lay crumpled on the floor, obviously dead, he'd seen dead bodies before, that wasn't what had shocked him, no, the reason she was dead was what shocked him, there before him lay the dead body of Cheshire the person who killed her had made damn sure she died, five red arrows stuck out of her chest.

Ollie searched the area for two days knowing Roy would never have left Lian alone, he suspected he was still in the area, possibly injured, the Police had searched as well but they hadn't searched as far, they felt Arsenal was on the run and long gone, Ollie knew better and Roy was found unconscious with a head injury after apparently tumbling over an embankment about two miles away from the warehouse

Present day

Ollie looked up from remembering what had happened, "that's about it really Lian was too upset to say anything much, and I'm not going to push her." Pausing, Ollie looked slightly away from Dick.

Dick instantly noticed Ollie's subtle display of discomfort at the mention of Lian and pounced on it straight away, "You said she didn't say much? What was it she did say?"

Ollie glanced uncomfortably at Dick he had kept this small piece of information from the police, and Lian had since refused to talk about anything to do with that night, or her father in fact. But he knew that he had to trust Dick, if anyone could make sense of the whole damnable situation Dick could, "Ok, but you both have to keep this to yourselves no one else knows, and if the Police or the media hear it…….. well lets just not make an already bad situation worse…….She was crying and she said "Daddy hurt Mommy" at first I thought I'd heard wrong but she said it a couple of more times, then refused to say any more.….A few minutes later Connor came out and took her from me and told me to go look in the other room that's when I realized how bad the situation really was."

Wally looked horrified. "Lian saw what happened? She saw her father kill her mother?"

"We don't know that he killed her Wally" Dick snapped. "Yeah it looks bad, really bad but we've been in situations before that turned out not to be what they appeared to be."

Wally immediately wished he could take his words back, he hadn't meant to sound like he thought Roy had done this horrible thing, "I'm sorry that's not what I meant, I know there's a lot more to this than meets the eye it's just….whatever Lian saw……." He stopped, then looked at Dick, "Ok, what's our next move?"

End of part 2