Right Through Me

Summary: When an old fling comes to Gotham High, Terry is forced to relive the past of this dangerous beauty, Jeanette Fuller not only causes trouble for Terry McGinnis, but is also the granddaughter of one of the most dangerous criminals from the past. Assumed by a false name, Jeanette is the long lost granddaughter of Harley Quinn, and not only is Terry forced to deal with this, but Bruce has a feeling Jeanette is after something much more then revenge.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but my own characters.

Jeanette sat on the window sill of the small apartment she shared with her mom and dad, although she looked nothing like them, so she had the feeling she was adopted. Jeanette watched the rain as the door opened, she jumped from the windowsill, her black boots hitting the tile floor as she stepped into the moonlight, her pale skin shining from the light, her black hair pulled up into a bun as her green eyes meeting her mother's brown ones, "Did you do your homework?" she asked as her dad followed in after her, "Yes." Jeanette said taking the bundles from her mom, "Jeanette, didn't I tell you to take those highlights out of your hair?" she rolled her eyes, her "mom" always had problems with her putting any strange colors in her hair. This time it was the fact her hair highlights were green, blue, and pink her dad had no problem with it, but Ciara always had a problem with the fact Jeanette was a reckless spirit. Colby accepted it more, but when Ciara had made her mind up, she was set on it, Colby and Ciara took Jeanette in when her father had appeared at their doorstep with a baby, not much older than 7 days old, fear on his face.

"Adam?" Colby said shocked that his best friend, who he had not seen for four years, was standing at his doorstep, soaked, a baby in arms, "Colby, I need you to take care of Laurie for me." He said as Colby took the jacket and looked down at the small bundle, her green eyes looking up at him, "Adam, what's going on? Where's Cassie?" Colby asked as Adam looked down at his feet, "I can't explain right now. I have to leave." He said touching the baby's face one more time before he left, the baby started crying and Colby took her inside to Ciara who was just as confused as he was as to what was happening.

Fourteen years had passed without a word from Adam or Cassie, no phone calls, no letters, and no sign of them ever returning back into Jeanette's life, it broke Ciara's heart to know two people who would have cared so much for their little girl could just abandon her like that. Colby, however, knew from the look on Adam's face that day that not everything was ok, and there was a possibility that little Laurie, now renamed Jeanette, was in trouble. Colby watched as the young girl started putting the groceries away in their proper places, as she got older, she realized how much she looked like her mother, the green eyes that pierced through you, the same looks, the same "I don't care" attitude, and of course the black hair that was streaked different colors every other week. Colby chuckled to himself shaking his head as Ciara looked at him, "What?" she asked as he looked at her, "Nothing, I was just thinking of how much Jeanette reminds me of Cass." "Oh God." Ciara said rolling her eyes and shaking her head, "Whose Cass?" Jeanette asked as Ciara looked at Colby, "An old friend sweetheart." Was all Ciara said shooting Colby a scolding look as she put the milk away in the fridge, "You guys talk about her all the time, who is she? Why do you keep saying I look like her?" Jeanette asked as Colby and Ciara exchanged glances, "She's old enough to know the truth." Colby said to his wife as she sighed, "Fine. Get the old high school album, I'll meet you both in the living room after I'm finished putting the groceries away." Colby nodded as he motioned for Jeanette to follow him, she walked out of the kitchen and into the living room, and sat on the couch.

Colby went into the book cabinet and pulled out their old Gotham High yearbook and sat next to Jeanette as he opened the book up to the senior photo at the very front, Colby scanned the picture carefully until he found who he was looking for then pointed, "That's your father." Colby said pointing to a boy no older than eighteen with slicked back black hair, brown eyes, and was muscular sitting on a railing next to Colby, both holding up the peace sign, "Adam Fuller was his name, or, is we don't know we haven't heard from him in fourteen years, ever since he left you with me." Jeanette studied the photo of her father as Ciara walked into the room. Ciara sat on the other side of Jeanette looking at the photo too when she spotted Cassie sitting on the bottom step, her hair up in a bun, her green eyes smiling like she was in the picture, wearing a baggy sweatshirt to hide the fact that she was pregnant the first time, "That's your mother." Ciara said pointing to her, "Cass was always the free spirit of the group. The amount of times I've had to bail her out of trouble, I would have never guessed she'd be missing for this long. They said her father was in Arkham Asylum for a long time, so her mother was stuck raising her and her two older sisters, out of all three Cass was the troublemaker, being the youngest." Jeanette looked at the picture of her mother noticing the small bump she was trying desperately to hide, "Was she pregnant with me when this picture was taken?" Ciara sat back to think for a minute, "No, she wasn't dating your father when this picture was done. I forget who she was dating to be honest, but she didn't get pregnant with you until she was twenty-four, Adam was twenty-five, we never saw them in the time she was pregnant with you. We only heard from Cass's sister Rachel that she was pregnant with a baby girl, after that they fell off the map." "Until you were born," Colby said, "you were only seven days old when Adam showed up at our door with you in his arms. No word on how Cass was, no word on what was going on, he just told me to take care of you, and left." Jeanette sat quietly as Colby flipped through the pages of the yearbook looking for more pictures of Adam and Cassie that he could show her.

Ciara looked at her daughter as Colby stopped at a picture of the Senior Prom, both Adam and Cassie with their crowns on since they were crowned King and Queen of Prom, Cass's eyes had dulled and her smile was as fake as it could come, Adam had a small smirk on his face his brown eyes lacking the shine they had before. Ciara looked at Colby as she noticed pain cross his eyes, "I never understood what happened that night," he muttered under his breath but it didn't go unnoticed by Ciara, "the two of them were so happy together." "What happened?" Jeanette asked looking at Ciara because she noticed the change in look of her mother, who had dyed her blonde hair black, and it had different colored streaks in it, "We don't know, they were always fighting about stupid things, but I think that night was a huge fight before they even made it to the limo. Your mother had become controlling towards your dad, we suspected it was because her father was never around, but your aunts never had problems like your mother did. We talked to your aunts about it, but they didn't mention any strange behavior at home, they said she was being a normal seventeen-year-old girl and she was going through a phase nothing to worry about. Apparently normal to them and normal to us was completely different, your mother started getting involved in some very strong drugs, your father had always fought with her about it, by the time she got pregnant with you, apparently everything had stopped, including socializing with us." Ciara said wiping her eyes Colby was still absent mindly flipping through the yearbook as Jeanette stood up.

Ciara watched as her daughter walked out of the living room, down the hall, and heard her bedroom door close as music started she looked at Colby who had finally stopped flipping through the yearbook to look at her, "Do I dare say it?" Colby asked as Ciara looked at him, "She's not going there, absolutely not." Ciara said as Colby sighed, "Ciara, it's the only way, she might find out more about Adam and Cass then we can tell her." "She's doing just fine without being in Gotham High." "She has no social life, we've been home schooling her, the only people she sees are me, you, and the teacher that comes here." "And she's doing just fine." "Ciara." "No Colby." Ciara said standing up going back into the kitchen as Colby sighed. Jeanette had been sheltered since she came into their lives, Colby knew all Jeanette wanted was a normal life, but the last time she had gone to an actual school she had been suspended multiple times and then expelled for her behavior towards other students and teachers. The girl had more social problems than her mother did, but Cass never got suspended, but sent to the principal's office constantly due to her behavior issues. Jeanette was ruled as unstable by her therapist almost a year ago after her incident in middle school with a girl who would constantly poke at Jeanette for being different, needless to say Jeanette had sent the girl flying down a set of stairs knocking her unconscious and was put into a coma almost instantly when she was asked why she did it, Jeanette said "because she deserves to be an invalid, too bad it didn't kill her." The therapist had told Colby that it was not normal for a thirteen year old girl to say something like that and it raised concern at the middle school, which evidently ended her school career quickly, but now she was on an endless list of medication to control her behavior.

Colby stood up and walked up the stairs to Jeanette's room and knocked on it, "It's open." She answered as Colby walked into the room she looked at him, her eyes illuminated by the glow of her laptop on her lap, "Doing homework?" he asked as she shrugged, "You could say that." She answered as Colby shook his head, anytime she said that it was a dead giveaway that she was doing something else, "So, I was thinking, if you prove to your mother, maybe you could go to Gotham High." He said as Jeanette looked up at him from the screen, then back down at it, "She's not going to buy it even if I am on my meds, she won't let me go out into the world because I'm 'unstable' and 'troublesome'. Why can't she put that one incident in the past?" "Because you put the girl in a coma and said something very disturbing for a thirteen-year-old girl." "So I'm now a shut in." Jeanette said moodily as Colby sighed, "Look, your behavior has improved I'm just asking what you want to do." He said as a startling familiar look crossed Jeanette's face, he shuddered; it was the same look Cass would give as a warning before getting pissed off. Colby held his ground as Jeanette's look slowly eased away, Colby had guessed it was because of her medication kicking in before she snapped anymore, "You can try to convince her I doubt it'll work though." She said as he sighed, "I'd like to see Max and Terry again, but I doubt that's even going to happen." Colby narrowed his eyes at her, "Terry? You don't mean Terry McGinnis do you?" "Only Terry I know." She answered as Colby crossed his arms at her, "You know how I feel about that boy." Jeanette rolled her eyes at him, "Yes, but I've heard he's gotten better." "I doubt that very much Jeanette, stay away from him if you know what's good for you." "Yes, dad." Jeanette answered as Colby walked over to her and ruffled her hair, "Hey!" "You're not all that bad, so maybe it'll take less convincing for your mother to let you go to Gotham." Jeanette let out a soft 'hm', "Good luck." She said as Colby walked out of her room.

TBC..

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