Title- Let There Be Light

Author- Kim

Summary- What if Green Arrow responded differently when he found out about Speedy's drug addiction?

DC owns all characters.

Notes- Some quotations in the beginning are direct from the Green Lantern/ Green Arrow story "They Say It'll Kill Me But They Won't Say When" which of course belongs to DC

Part 3

"You okay kid?..You don't look so good." The truck driver asked.

Roy glanced over at the driver than back out the window, "Yeah I'm okay just a touch of the flu is all." he said as he pulled his jacket tighter around himself.

They continued driving in silence for another couple of hours. Roy leaned his head on the truck door and tried to ignore the shaking and nausea that had begun to assail his body.

"This your stop?" the driver eventually asked.

Roy sat up and looked out at the highway to where a dirt road branched off, "Yeah thanks mister." he said, grabbing his duffel bag and getting ready to jump out as the truck stopped.

"I dunno kid I don't like leaving you out here in the middle of nowhere...Shouldn't you be at home instead of wandering around the country side." the man asked, genuinely concerned.

Roy climbed out of the door "That's where I'm going..back home." he said closing the door and waving to the truck driver as he drove off.

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"I give up." Ollie said as he folded his arms on top of the table and laid his head down on them.

"You can't give up Ollie, you don't have that option." Dinah said as she placed a cup of coffee in front of the exhausted archer.

Ollie sighed, he and Dinah had spent two days and nights searching for the boy but they'd found nothing. "I don't know what else to do, if the kid doesn't wanna be found he won't be simple as that, no use looking any more."

Dinah sat down next to him and gently rubbed her hand across his shoulders, she knew he was tired, they both were but they couldn't give up yet. "Ollie what is that boy to you?..What does he mean to you?" she asked.

Ollie looked up at her, 'What d'ya mean." he asked.

"What I mean is...and don't go getting all high and mighty when I say this...but it seems to others that Roy means very little to you, like he was a good turn that you did, another one of your causes and now he's slipped up he's an inconvenience and it's easier for you to move on." Dinah said as softly as possible hoping her quiet tone might prevent the archer from losing his temper.

Ollie's eyes widened."It's not like that!." he snapped.

"Well Ollie make me understand because quite frankly I don't. When you say "It's no use looking any more" have you actually thought about what those words mean?"

"Of course I do Dinah..the kids smart anything I ever taught him he picked up real quick. If he doesn't want to be found there's not much use looking until he does."

"Even if when you do decide to search again, you risk leaving it to late and finding him dead in some alley somewhere." Dinah whispered.

Standing up Ollie walked over to the sink..he stood for a moment before speaking "You know he used to drive me nuts, he wanted to follow me around everywhere and no matter where we went or what we did he'd never shut up..always asking questions, wanting to know the ins and outs of everything." Ollie chuckled softly at the memory "He was...is a great kid..I guess I haven't paid much attention to him lately." he turned to face Dinah before continuing "I don't show it Pretty Bird but I do care for the kid..I don't want anything bad happening to him, and I'm scared to death that I've already stuffed this up completely."

Dinah stood and approached the archer. Uncomfortable with her eyes searchinghis Ollie broke away and headed for the door, "Well what are we waiting for, we've got work to do, lets find my boy and bring him home." he said starting to walk out of the kitchen before suddenly stopping dead still.

"Ollie..what is it?" Dinah asked concerned.

Ollie slowly turned to face her revelation in his eyes "We won't find him here because he's not here there's only one place on this earth that kid would go..only one place he'd feel at home."

Dinah looked confused.

"Pack your bags Pretty Bird we've got a long trip ahead of us, we're going to Arizona." Ollie informed her.

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Roy staggered over to a large outcropping of rocks on the side of the road. Shaking uncontrollably he collapsed to the ground and curled up in a ball holding his stomach that felt as though it was on fire.. his mind was muddled with confusion and pain and overwhelming desire. But he knew there was no way to get what his body craved so desperately, what he knew would ease the agony ripping through him.

He felt anger at himself for putting himself in this position, he knew when he was dropped off in the middle of nowhere...on this dirt road that he knew to be a shortcut to the reservation he grew up on...that he would at some stage face the agony of withdrawal again at the time the thought gave him some peace..he was taking himself away from the temptation to seek the drug that would give him relief. But now he hated himself for taking that option away, he hated himself for his weakness, for the desire's he could not control.

He moaned softly and pushed himself closer to the out crop of rocks, he was weak and worthless and no one would ever want him around, he was better off dead..closing his eyes to suppress the tears that threatened to fall he tried desperately to think of other things, before eventually giving in and allowing himself to cry.

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