Title- Finding the Light

Author- Kim

Summary- What if - Oliver Queen raised Dick Grayson.

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Part 4

Speedy hugged the wall, easing his way to the corner. He could feel the racing beat of his heart as he crept along.

He knew his mentor Green Arrow was on the other side of the building echoing his movements..Reaching the corner he paused, listening to the voices of the men who were loading electrical goods, into the trunk of their car from the building they had just broken into .

He cautiously peered around the corner..He could see his mentor doing the same on the other side of the building..Speedy watched as Green Arrow nocked an arrow into his bow, ready to fire..Reaching for one of his own arrows, he followed suit.

The men began to gather at the back of the car..And Speedy watched intently for a sign from Green Arrow that would signal an attack.

Finally all four men were gathered together.

Suddenly an arrow hurtled through the air..the large round bulbous end of the arrow knocking one of the thieves out cold as it struck..The other four men scattered.. One running away from the car, the other two running towards Speedy's side of the building...Speedy quickly released the arrow he had nocked...a similar one to the one Green Arrow used..it flew straight, hitting one man square on the forehead, knocking him to the ground.

Speedy reached for another arrow..out of the corner of his eye he could seethe thief who had run away from the car, cry out and fall, his legs entangled with a bolo arrow...As Speedy nocked his second arrow, he realized it was two late..The fourth man ran straight into him elbowing him squarely in the face...stunned Speedy fell back, landing on the ground..he quickly sat up...just in time to see the man fall to Green Arrow's second bolo arrow.

"You ok kid?" Green Arrow asked casually as he dragged the would be thieves to the front of the building.

Speedy nodded as he sat, holding his bleeding nose as Green Arrow handcuffed the thieves to a hand rail that ran along the wall, and called it in to the Police.

An hour later Dick Grayson..still in his Speedy costume..minus his mask, sat holding a bloodied towel and an ice pack to his nose, as he sat at Oliver Queen's kitchen table.

Ollie walked into the kitchen..he'd already showered and changed and approached the boy, "Okay give us a look, now." he said as he lifted the towel and ice pack and inspected his wards face. "well your gonna have a shiner and a half...Doesn't look like your broke your nose though...you were lucky kiddo."

Dick smiled "First one." he said in a nasally voice, referring to his ever blackening eye.

"First one all right...your lucky it's school holidays or we'd be trying to come up with good excuses for that one." Ollie ruffled the boy's hair affectionately.

"Dinah's gonna kick your butt." Dick replied, a mischievous twinkle in his eye's.

Ollie chuckle.."Well I hope so..couldn't think of a more enjoyable way to spent the night." he said.

Dick looked puzzled.."You want her to kick you butt?" he asked...His mentor sure was weird sometimes.

Ollie looked at the boy "I..uh..could do with the exercise..and um if Dinah wants to spar..well that'd be ok by me."

Dick still looked puzzled, but chose not to comment..It would only get weirder.

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"Oh for crying out loud, Ollie, will you look at him." Dinah ranted as she sat next to Dick and put a motherly arm around his shoulders.

Dick smiled and leaned against her.

"Comes with the territory Pretty Bird..you know that." Ollie said

"Wake up Ollie..he's only twelve for crying out loud...You shouldn't have him up front with you, he should be staying back..letting off a few arrow's from a distance..What the hell is the matter with you." Dinah leaned around to look at Dick's bruised eye and swollen nose again. "You're lucky this wasn't a lot worse." she added angrily.

"He likes being in the thick of it..Dontcha kid?" Ollie said feebly.

Dick nodded..Ollie had to go out a lot, they didn't always get much time together. So working with Ollie meant they could be together. Sometimes while they were on a stakeout they got to talk for ages. And when Dick got to help Ollie take some of the bad guy's down..it made him feel that Ollie was pleased with him, and he really wanted Ollie to be happy.

Dinah stood up to face Ollie. "Oh for heavens sake, grow up..He's a child..It's not all about what he like's...It's about what's good for him.." Dinah paused thinking for a moment, "Ok that's it..If you're going to drag this poor kid around on cases with you..he's going to need more skills than you've bothered teaching him." she stated angrily.

"Come off it..I've spent months teaching him to use to bow..." Ollie started, stopping as Dinah cut in.

"Ollie..he needs more than the bow..he needs defensive skills...he needs to learn how to fight...he doesn't have the brute strength you have in hand to hand." Dinah softened her voice, walking over to look up at the archer. "I don't want to see him hurt like this again when it could have been easily prevented, if he just knew some simple defense skills...I'm going to teach him Ollie" As Ollie opened his mouth to protest, Dinah added firmly. "And don't you even think you have a say in this..because when it comes to his safety, I won't step down...do you understand?"

Ollie grinned, "I love it when you get all decisive and bossy." he said, smiling at Dinah as he wrapped his arm's around her waist.

Dick sighed, as he watched the archer smiling..he knew that look..that meant he'd be going to bed early tonight.

end part 4