DOT: So uhm, this is way over due. School really took it out of me and then I went to Disney World for spring break. So now I'm refueled! Which hopefully means more chapters sooner :) Enjoy! (Oh and I apologize ahead of time if I've screwed stuff up because I had to look up our new character on the internet)

Fallen

Dinah knows Ollie went back to the murder site after he stormed out of the medical bay. She also knows that Green Arrow came back, all business and crime solving fury. Looking at the back alley in the Triangle had only fueled his desire for revenge.

Green Arrow came back with the police report in hand, complete with pictures of the crime scene. He sat and read the report over and over at the kitchen table, his forehead resting in his palm. Dinah can tell every time he gets to the point where it mentions that Roy was killed; his breath stutters and Ollie's eyes flick back to reread the line again. As if he thinks he read it wrong. That if he stares at it hard enough, it will change. But it won't.

Ollie hasn't been showing up for monitor duty at the Watchtower, but no one has called him out on it. Dinah bets that several of the League members can sympathize with his pain. Ollie spends a lot of time wandering around the Queen mansion in sort of a daze. Dinah took it upon herself to start cooking him meals, otherwise he probably would be skipping them.

She misses him. He's here but not here all at the same time. Ollie doesn't make stupid comments or crack jokes now. He's all serious. Dinah has tried to get more than a few sentences out of him a couple of times at dinner, often to no avail. Today is no different, except that it is.

Dinah is just opening her mouth when Ollie abruptly stood up from the table and walked out. She trailed after him, down the hallway to where he keeps his Green Arrow gear. The door shuts with a click and Dinah is left in an empty hallway with not a clue as to what happened.

She decides to leave him alone for awhile, and goes to read a magazine. Dinah cleans up the leftover plates from their meal and settles down into a comfy chair. She picks her feet off the ground and curls up, grabbing her favorite magazine. Dinah is tired and soon her eyes droop closed.

Ollie sneaks past her silently, glancing at her face to double check that Dinah is indeed asleep. She's slumped in the chair, breathing deeply. Ollie drapes a blanket over her body then scurries out the door before she wakes up and tries to stop him. He shoots an arrow at the nearest gutter and climbs up onto the roof. As he lopes along, Green Arrow reviews what he has discovered.

On one of the photographs, up in the very corner and half hidden by a pile of rubbish, sat a gun. Not one of the regular ones he often found on criminals that hung around Star City. It looked too expensive, too refined for a common thug. Ollie cross-referenced it with the files from the Watchtower and it had a match. Deadshot. Apparently, Deadshot had been hanging around the dark alley when Roy was murdered. That scum.

Ollie had downloaded the file on Deadshot and reviewed everything. The man was an expert assassin, one that favors silent guns. Reports show that he is extremely accurate with the silent guns. He's often associated with the Suicide Squad, but a little more research turns up that he left the organization a few months ago. A dangerous man who never let's anything get in his way of finishing a job.

Green Arrow will have to watch his back.

He strides along the rooftops, making little to no noise at all, creeping his way down into the Triangle. The buildings get more run down and rusty as he continues. Ollie alights down at the crime scene and ducks under the bright tape that surrounds it. He wanders around the site looking for something, anything, that will lead him to where Deadshot might have gone.

And there-, right there- is half of a muddy boot print. Green Arrow bends down and dabbles his fingers in it, rubbing them together to gather the consistency of the mud while he thinks. He stares in the direction the print is facing. It heads much deeper into the alley, where it's darker. Green Arrow stands up and hesitantly takes a step in that direction, keeping his eyes peeled for other clues.

There-, that's a bit of a bloody glove print on that gutter. Ollie doesn't believe how blind the police can be sometimes. How could they not see this? It doesn't matter though, because Green Arrow will settle this, Ollie will make sure he does something right for Roy.

Ollie scours the alley until he ends up in the back. Surprisingly, he didn't run into any trouble but with all the police activity it might make sense. Ollie's head hurts; he hasn't gotten much sleep lately and now he can't think straight. He backs up and slides down the wall of the alley, burying his face in his hands.

He doesn't know how long he sits there, and he knows he should be getting back because Dinah is probably awake and freaking out right now, but he just can't get himself to move. Ollie sits and waits. Waits for something, but he doesn't know what.

A light thud echoes in his ear, someone is walking across the rooftops around him. It spurs Ollie into action, his bow is in his hand and notched before he even knows what he's dealing with. A laugh echoes in the alley, the sound bouncing off the walls and sounding slightly distorted. Ollie looks up and meets the gaze Deadshot's metal mask.

"Look what I've found." Deadshot states, his pistols already leveled at Ollie's head.

"What do you want?" Ollie calls up to the menacing figure, he knows he won't win this fight if he starts it, he's on the low ground. Plus guns are so much faster than arrows. That thought just brings up painful memories, how Roy named himself Speedy because he was a faster shot than Green Arrow. Ollie wrenches his focus back to Deadshot.

"I just heard that a resident arrow was in town, and I found you." The man's stance is almost predatory. He's someone who enjoys the hunt. Ollie grimaces.

"I know you killed Red Arrow."

"Did I?" Deadshot mockingly puts a finger to his chin. "I'll admit to having been a factor, but I personally didn't kill him. You took care of the thugs who did that." A growl slips from Ollie's mouth and he can feel his anger rising.

"You were behind all of it!" He's just throwing out mad accusations now, and unsurprisingly Deadshot shakes his head.

"No, he was just… in the way. I had a job that needed to be finished and a client to satisfy and your friend was in my way." Deadshot twirls his pistols and holsters them. "I don't have a contract on you, so there's no reason for me to kill you. Just remember to stay out of my way, or you could end up like your little sidekick." He hisses.

Ollie is ready to shoot the arrow when the form of Deadshot slips away from the edge of the roof. He's gone and left Ollie alone. Green Arrow picks himself up and heads back to his apartment, ignoring Dinah's questions when he gets inside. He just wants to be left alone.

DOT: Could it be? PLOT! Sort of. Anyways, who really thought that Roy was beasting it up in the Insecurity episode? Meeeeeeeee!

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