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Butch Hartman said on his youtube channel that Dani is 10, (well physically) so that's the age I'm going with.

Dani POV

I walk into the Blüdhaven community centre where they are holding free kid gymnastics classes beginners, which my foster mother sighed a unwilling me up for as a way to get me out of the house more.

"Hi!" a dark haired blue-eyed man in his mid-20s smiles, "You here for the class?"

"Yep" I nod, "I'm Dani with a i."

"Nice to meet you Dani with a I, I'm Dick I'll be teaching the class" he nods still smiling, "Looking forward to the class?"

I smile, "Eh, I've done a little bit before, so I think it might be a easy. But still fun."

He nods, "Well tell me if it is and I'll see what I can do to make it more challenging for you" then he points to a block of lockers, "You can put your bag over there."

"Okay, thanks!" I put my bag where he says and join the 14 other kids.

"Okay everyone!" Dick grins happily standing in front of us, "I'm Dick and today where going to start with the basics, warm ups, hand stands and forward rolls. Any questions?"

A blond boy speaks, "Yeah who did you piss of to get stuck teaching in this shithole?"

"I volunteered" he replies cheerfully ignoring the attitude before getting to the teaching.

Over the next 2 hours Dick keeps up his cheerful attitude and big smile, happily helping everyone who asks for help and demonstrating the moves like it's as natural as breathing.

"How the fuck does he do that so easily?" the blond from earlier, whose name I've learned is Sam questions after falling over in his hand stand for the fourth time, looking at Dick who is walking around on his hands giving people advise.

"Grew up in the circus!" Dick calls having heard the question, "I've started walking on my hands before I could walk on my feet. With time and practice I'm sure all of you could do this too."

The circus? Very cool. I smile and step towards him, also walking on my hands (Vlad programmed me with basic acrobatic and gymnastic skills, which I practiced and improved on for the last 5 months since I got away from Vlad and Danny re-stabilised me, which is why I didn't think I needed this class,) then cartwheel into a standing position, "Yeah just give it time and practice, you'll get it."

Dick flips into standing too and looks to me, "How come your in this class? You seem to know the basics already."

"My foster Mom wanted me out of the house more, so she could have her boyfriend over without me in the next room" I shrug.

He nods, "Well how about you text her and say you'll be staying longer and I'll give you a test to see if you're at a level to join the next level up, how does that sound?"

I grin, "Yes! That's that sounds great!"

Once the class is over Dick calls me over to tests my skill level, "Okay Dani let's see what you can do."

I run through everything he sends my way, having a lot of fun with all the obstacles and moves I get to do.

"That was great Dani!" he grins when I'm done, "So who taught you before this?"

"Oh" what do I say? "My step-dad, he thought it was a important life skill" I lie.

He frowns slightly looking at me carefully, "That it is. I don't know what your step-dad said but its also about having fun. When I'm on a trapeze its like I'm flying, you know?"

"I've never been on a trapeze" I admit, "But I know what you mean, I love just cartwheeling as far as I can go then falling on the grass and staring at the clouds. It's the best feeling." Though real flying is even better, its true freedom.

He smiles in agreement, "If you want I could teach you how to fly-you know on a trapeze."

"Really?" I grin, that would be the best!

"Yeah" he nods, "Your pretty good. I think by the end of the month, after so training we could start with the rings with a net and move on from there."

I jump up and hug him without thinking, he hugs back with a cackle like laugh, "I'm glad your happy and I hugger, cause I am too."

"Good" I grin letting go, "Cause I always want a hug."

He grins back.

Over the next six months I spend a lot of time with Dick both in and out of class, he teaches me Romani and takes me to his old circus when it comes through town and I meet his adoptive siblings and father. I grow really close to him and come to see him like a father.

"Hey Dick!" I grin, spotting him easily on the practically empty street, while walking home from school.

He's outside a ice-cream shop holding a chocolate one in his hand, "Dani!" he smiles, "Wanna hang out? I've out half an hour til I go to the station."

"Absolutely!" I nod, "Could you help me with my math homework? I swear it doesn't make any sense."

"Sure" he agrees, sitting down at a table outside the shop, I sit down across from him and take out the work.

"Hello Danielle" a unfortunately familiar voice speaks behind me.

I tense, a feeling of cold fear running through me, "Vlad. What are you doing here?"

He moves around so I can see his fruit loop face, "I think you know, my dear" his eyes move to a spot behind Dick where Skulker is hold a big gun and smirking.

Dick sees me look behind him and nods slowly, showing he knows someone's there.

"Come along Danielle" Vlad grabs my arm, "We should be getting home."

"So not feeling the aster" I sigh, "Dick, don't. This guy's not your normal jackass."

Dick glares at him, not listening to my warning "You're not taking her anywhere."

Vlad nods the Skulker, who shoots a green blast, that Dick flips over without looking before running forward and pushing Vlad away from me and pulling me away from the fight then throwing something into Skulker's gun that makes him drop it with a curse and kicks Vlad in the face, "I don't know what you want with Dani but you're not getting it."

Vlad puts out a hand and makes a box around Dick, "You are starting to get on my nerves."

"Let him go!" I glare blasting Vlad with ice.

"Oh, would you look at that you learned a new trick" he smirks, "Didn't expect you to live this long, let alone continue to develop powers."

A sharp pain appears in my neck, blow dart.

Then everything is dark.

When I wake up my hands and feet and bound and I'm on a table.

"Dani!"

I look to the corner and see Dick chained to the wall with a split lip. "Dick? What are you doing here?"

He grins, his teeth covered in blood, "Apparently I'm so annoying I deserve a long painful death. What about you? Are you okay?"

"Other than being back on this dumb table, I'm pretty turbed."

"Back?" he asks worriedly.

I sigh, I had been thinking of telling him I just never knew how, "Long story short; Vlad made me in a lab as a weapon and I escaped, he's been tracking me ever since. Wanting to see why I was successful while all the other clones melted."

"So you were made in this lab?" he questions, "And you're a clone?"

I nod looking away, there's a lot of anti-powered people opinions. I would never think of Dick to be one of them, but right now I don't know what to think and really hopping the man I see as a dad cares for me anyway.

"Hey" he speaks in a soothing voice, "You are amazing, you hide from this guy for months, not to mention realise he was wrong in the first place. You are brilliant, remember that Danielle."

God I love this guy, I smile, "Right we need to get out of here…. Oh! Maddie!"

The hologram appears next to me, "Yes gumdrop? How can I help?"

"What's this? Dick questions looking the hologram.

"This is Maddie, Vlad is obsessed with the Mom of the kid I was cloned from and keeps trying to make a AI of her that loves him, but he always gets it a little too right. So she thinks he's a creep and is happy to help" I explain.

"What a creep," Dick shakes his head, "Okay Maddie can you give me blueprints of the facility, also there's a drive on my belt, code is fjq9#Dh0fjI39*FvjW that will let you download things onto it, copy all of the files you can."

"Happy to comply" Maddie disappears, and 3D blueprints appear where she was.

"So your gonna escape?" I stare at him.

"We're going to escape" he corrects, studying the map.

"How are we going to do that? Your still chained to that wall and I can't phase out of these cuffs" I point out, feeling pessimistic.

He moves his hands out of the cuffs, "Picked them when we first got here, was gonna undo yours and make a run for it but you woke up and here we are" he grins.

Footsteps start coming our way, Dick puts the cuffs back on and the map disappears.

Vlad smirks when he sees me on the table, "Hello Danielle."

"Hey fruitloop" I nod back.

"Maddie scan her" Vlad orders before looking at the laptop while a green light goes over me.

"Scan complete dearest heart. XD-014 is completely stable and has developed a ice core."

"Interesting" he smirks, "I guess Lex was right after all."

Dick sits up at the name, "Lex?"

"Yes, the man sold me an idea for how he cloned Superman, the clone Superboy unfortunately for him went rogue and became a hero" he scoffs, "You seem to have the same fault…..perhaps if I use a different secondary DNA sample."

"What do you mean?" I question nervously.

"Well its not like you'll be alive much longer" he shrugs, "Lex had trouble with the alien DNA is he had to bridge it with human, he of course used his own. He thought I was having the same problem with the ghost DNA and needed to add more human, of course I couldn't use my own, not much human left in me, but Lex add some samples from a few heroes he almost got to kill. Next time I think I won't use DNA from a hero."

"Which hero?" Dick asks forcefully.

He blinks like he's not sure, "Maddie! Which hero's DNA did I use in XD-014?"

"The Nightwing sample sweetgums."

Dick's eyes go wide, and he looks to me like he's seeing me for the first time. Why?...wait from Gotham, incredible acrobat and fighter, he's the best cop in his department and has never used his gun, his best friend is a redhead from Central, his adoptive Dad has like 12 kids, and is a billionaire…. how did I not see this?

Dick is Nightwing.

Dick is my Father, holy shit.

Thankfully Vlad doesn't notice our shock, as he reads over my scans.

After about an hour of tests and staring at Dick when Vlad's not looking he leaves.

"Dani" Dick speaks softly with a small smile, before laughing happily, "Well I'm whelmed. Who would think you bond with a kid and find yourself wanting to be their dad only for it to turn out you are."

Tension drops off me along with the irrational thoughts that finding this out would make him not want to be in my life anymore. I smile at him, "Yeah this is great, weird but great."

He grins, "So shall we get out of here?" he takes his cuffs off again and then picks my cuffs.

I sit up rubbing my wrists, "We shall" I grin back.

Dick picks the locked door in record time then disappears, blending into the shadows do well you'd think he's the one with invisibility.

He reappears next to me and takes my hand with a smile, "Stay invisible and behind me, I'll lend you out."

I blink "How do you know I can go invisible? I don't think I said I could."

"Vlad had your stats up on the screen before" he shrugs.

I turn invisible and follow him out, past lots of traps, guards and ghosts.

Once where clear of the house I turn to him, "How did you get us out of there so easily?"

"I read the map" he smiles.

"That map was only up for a minute" Bats are so weird. I sigh then pick Dick up, "Lets fly!" I jump into air, turning both of us invisible and head for Blüdhaven.

He cackles, "I'll never get tired of this!"

True, I bet Superman and Wonder Woman take him flying all the time, especially when he was a sweet little 9-year-old. I grin to myself and throw him up, he does a quadruple somersault and I catch him.

Dick grins like crazy, "Do it again!"

"You're crazy!" I call back, "Aren't you meant to be the grown up?"

"Yeah I am crazy! Do it again!" he calls.

I smile to myself and throw him again and 8 more times while on the way home.

We land on his roof with matching smiles, "Well that was fun!" I smile for real, yeah getting kidnapped wasn't fun but it wasn't all bad.

Dick nods in agreement, "I'll have the League arrest Vlad" then moves over to me, "Can I grab a bit of hair? I need to be sure of what he said."

"Sure" I agree, knowing bats are paranoid and need to triple check everything I take out a few of my hairs and hand them to him before hugging him, "Bye Dick! I need to get back before I'm grounded for life."

He hugs me back, "I'll call you tomorrow."

I smile and fly to my foster home, its way past 4 in the morning. I'm going to be grounded forever.

The next night I see a shadow in my room, and Nightwing appears.

I grin and jump off my bed, "Hey! Di-Nightwing."

He smiles and hugs me, "Hey kid!"

"So, what did the test say?" I ask after the hug.

"Look like Vlad was telling the truth" he smiles.

So he is my dad biologically, "Have you told your Dad?"

"Yep" he nods popping the p, "He just said 'well good. It will make the paperwork for adopting her easier for you' I think he's happy to be a Grandpa."

"Adopting?" I question.

"I was going to talk to you about it on Friday" he admits, "I started the process like a month ago."

I hug him again, "I would love to be your kid legally. I just have one question."

"And what's that?"

"Would my last name be Grayson or Grayson-Wayne?" I ask.

He frowns, "What about the last name you have now?"

"I picked it out of a phonebook" I shrug, "Like the idea of having the same last name as you."

He smiles, "Then Grayson-Wayne, I'm sure Dad will love having you as his granddaughter in name too."