Title- Finding the Light

Author- Kim

Summery- What if - Oliver Queen raised Dick Grayson.

DC owns all characters.

Part 1

Green Arrow walked cautiously towards the sound...another soft moan escaped from behind a pile of boxes dumped in the corner of the alley.

Carefully he moved the box's aside...shocked to find a small boy curled up, shivering in the corner.

"Hey son." Green Arrow said, reaching out to shake the boy's shoulder. "You ok?"

The boy looked up at him, his raven black hair falling untidily into his eye's, eye's that even in the pale moonlight, reflected fear in there brilliant blue depths.

Whimpering the boy scurried backwards further into the corner.

"Hey...it's ok buddy..I'm not gonna hurt ya." Green Arrow said, squatting down and rocking back on his heels as he watched the boy.

The boy shivered as he watched Green Arrow warily...Slowly realization dawned..he remembered seeing pictures of this man...a hero. Suddenly he remembered his name, "Green Arrow?" he asked softly.

"That's right son, that's my name, now what's yours?" Green Arrow asked.

"Dick" the boy whispered as he moved to sit up...coughing as he did so.

"Your not looking too good son...Lets get you somewhere warmer."green Arrow said as he helped the boy to his feet.

The boy was young...no more than eleven or twelve..He stood unsteadily than collapsed to his knees, shaking.

Scooping the boy up green Arrow decided to keep the questions for after...the boy needed to get into the warmth first.

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Oliver Queen stood outside the door of the bedroom he had placed the child in..The Doctor had just finished examining the boy..and he walked over to speak quietly to Ollie. The boy rolled over and closed his eye's drifting immeadiatly into an exhausted sleep.

"He has a mild chest infection, for which I'll give you some antibiotics to give him..he'll recover from that fine...However I am concerned about the large number of bruises, both new and old the boy has over him.I'm afraid I've seen such bruises before... Mr Queen it would appear to me that the boy has quite possibly come from an abusive home environment." he said quietly.

"A runnaway?" Ollie asked.

"Looks that way." the doctor said.

Ollie followed the Doctor out before returning to the room, leaning against the door frame, he watched the sleeping boy for quite sometime.

The boy looked even younger in the oversized shirt Ollie had given him to sleep in..his black hair stood out in stark contrast to the white pillow his head rested on. A memory of the boy's haunted blue eye's flashed into his mind..."What kind of bastard belts a little kid around." Ollie whispered angrily...He'd seen abused children before, and he would never understand how an adult could physically harm an innocent child deliberately...Something about this child...the way the boy looked at him...the piercing blue eye's...something, reached out to Ollie...Ollie sighed and turned the light off leaving the boy to sleep.

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The next morning Ollie walked into the boy's room. He had washed the boy's tattered clothes, and dried them overnight..he would need to put them back on until Ollie could organize some other clothing for him.

The boy who was awake, sat up in bed and watched Ollie with wary eye's.

Ollie put the clothes on the bedside table and sat down on the end of the bed. "Hey kiddo...sleep well?" he asked.

"Yes thank you Sir." the boy said.

"Sir?" Ollie grinned. "You'll go a long way kid...But seriously..it's Ollie Ok"

The boy nodded.

"So..Dick..you hungry?" Ollie asked.

Dick smiled, nodding vigorously.

"Thought so..I'll go make breakfast..While you get changed...Bathroom's over there." said Ollie pointing to a door opposite the boy's room. "Then meet me in the kitchen..down the hall turn right and follow your nose, ok."

Dick nodded and scurried out of bed, grabbing the clothes before heading towards the bathroom..

End part 1