Daniele Magnus's life had never been very good. His parents, Jane and Herald Magnus had died when Daniele was eight years old. He barely remembered them. What he did remember was that they hadn't been a happy couple. His mother had had shoulder length brown hair and blue eyes. His father had had dark brown hair and brown eyes. Daniele had never noticed when he was younger, but the more he thought back on it, the more unhappy he remembered them. They had been a wealthy family. His father had been a local politician, his mother a surgeon. He remembered his father would always come home late at night, or not at all. His mother would get intoxicated and start screaming and throwing things, which caused him to start crying, which resulted in more yelling. He now knew that his father had been having an affair, multiple, actually.
He remembered waking up in the middle of the night when he was eight. His parents were screaming. "You should never have woken up." Said a grim voice. Then he heard gunfire.
He heard footsteps coming toward his room, so he climbed out of his window. He remembered just running and running. He literally ran into a woman on the street. The woman had long dark brown hair and green eyes, she wore a cloak. "Hello, what are you doing?" asked the woman kindly.
"My parents, they're…." he didn't finish the sentence.
The woman looked at him sadly. "Do you have anyone to stay with?"
"I…I don't know." Said Daniele.
"Why don't you come with me?" asked the woman.
"Ok, where are we going?" he asked.
"Your new home." Said the woman.
He knew that going with the woman was probably what set his life on the path it did. In hindsight he would even consider it stupid.
The woman's name was Talia Al Ghul, she brought him home with her. She told him that she could help him, that he could be powerful. Of course he didn't really care at the time, he just wanted a safe place to stay. He was just a scared and confused kid, he didn't know the horrors that would come from going with Talia.
A/N: this was requested by Loki-416. A lot of the ideas were theirs. I hope I did Ok.