Title- Finding the Light
Author- Kim
Summary- What if - Oliver Queen raised Dick Grayson.
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part 7
Green Arrow climbed across the roof of the building, searching the streets below...there were children and adults standing around a drum in which a fire was blazing...His eye's scanned the cluster of homeless people for a glimpse of a raven haired boy..but his search was unrewarded.
Climbing down the fire escape he headed over to the group...Some children smiled and chattered to themselves...Green Arrow frowned..a couple of them weren't much older than Dick...How could kids so young be forced to live on the streets...It was a question he had asked himself many times before..he had always been grateful that he had found Dick when he did..knowing this..or worse could have been the boy's fate.
Green Arrow approached the adults in the group...A couple of them started to back away warily..Until Green Arrow reassured them he was merely looking for a lost child...Holding out a photo, he began to ask if they had seen the boy...Time and again the answer was the same..No one had seen his boy.
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Dick groaned...His throat dry and parched..His eye's fluttered open and he lay staring into the darkness of the night's sky...slowly his eye's adjusted...He was cold..numb..His mind began to go back through the last events in his memory..The men..a loud noise...the gun...Yes he remembered the gun and being shot...but he couldn't understand why he felt no pain..only numbness
Realizing he needed to get to shelter...out of the cold night air..Dick started to sit up...Suddenly the pain that had beenmissing came all at once...searing through his nerve endings and making him cry out.
Dick lay still for a moment as the wave of pain washed through his tormented body...Then with every bit of effort he could muster..he gritted his teeth and forced himself to his feet...standing unsteadily..until that pain that tore at him could be pushed down enough for him to stagger towards the open window of the warehouse.
It tookthe last bit of energy Dick had to force himself back through the window..Unable to steady himself enough to climb to the floor Dick fell with a thud...causing him to cry at the pain that slammed into him..moaning softly he curled up and lapsed into nothingness.
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Ollie was seated at his kitchen table..He had searched all night with no results...Exhausted he folded his arms on the table and lay his head down on top of them...He closed his eye's to rest them as he tried to think of what to do...He needed help on this...of that he was certain..It was a huge city and there was no way he could find a boy who didn't want to be found.
He awoke some time later..sitting up and uttering a soft moan as his stiffened neck protested the sudden movement...Angry at him self for falling asleep when he had to find Dick he lashed out and slammed his fist onto the table top.
Rubbing his sore knuckles he walked towards the phone...He needed help..And he knew it would be no good going to the police..Dick would be just another runaway to them..one of many...No, he would have to suck in his pride and call in some reinforcements...Picking up the phone he dialed a number..humiliation making his face grow red.
A voice answered at the other end..."Wayne manor Alfred Pennyworth speaking."
end of part 7
