AU Where Rachel "Diane" Mary Grayson is adopted by Lex Luther and not Bruce Wayne. Figured might as well work on at least one of my story ideas. ^_^ Hope you enjoy! Don't forget to review!

Bruce looked troubled as he sat and stirred his coffee for the hundredth time. It was long cold yet he still hadn't bothered to take a sip. He was sitting up in the watchtower in one of the meeting rooms, but his mind was clearly elsewhere. He sighed and massaged his forehead before lifting his cowl back up.

"Hello Bruce." Superman smiled at his friend as he glided into the room.

"hmmm." Batman hummed back clearly deep in thought.

"Something up?" Superman questioned.

"It's just," Bruce hesitated, "this case I'm working on, this girl's parents were murdered right in front of her, and I can't get it off my mind. She has no one. No living family left and Gotham's orphanages aren't the best." He grimaced.

Superman sighed. Now he understood what was bugging his friend. "Bruce, look at me. You're already doing so much for this girl by bringing her parents killer to justice. I mean it's not like you could adopt her." He stated jokingly. Bruce's head whipped up staring at Superman before he stood up quickly.

"That's… that's a great idea!" Bruce was all out smiling. "I mean she would be safe, and be with people who know her pain.." His rambling was cut off by superman laying a hand on his shoulder.

"Bruce, you haven't slept for days, you're busy during the day AND night. And no offence but a young girl needs a mother in her life, not some bachelor playboy. Besides, what do you know about children?"

Bruce looked at him before sighing and sitting back down. "You're right, you're right." He chuckled, "Me with children… You're completely right Clark. The best thing I can do for her is bring her parent's killer to justice." With that put behind him Bruce let the matter go.

"I'm sorry commissioner, but we can't seem to find any foster homes for her, and the orphanages are full. There's nothing we can do. For now the best we can do is put her in Juvenile Detention Center where she will be safe." Commissioner Gordon let out a growl. Who even let these people be in charge of children?

"There's no where you can find?" He asked pleadingly.

"Well…" There was a pause.

"What?" He felt himself getting a headache over this conversation.

"If we could get the right paper work approved, we might be able to move her to either metropolis or Star City." Of course they wanted paperwork.

Gordon sighed and rubbed his eyes, this entire event had been horrible, and he just wanted to get the daughter into a safe home.

"Fine. I'll pull some strings. I might be able to get her to Metropolis."

"As soon as you have the paperwork done, let us know and we'll give things moving!" He was pretty sure that the charming voice on the other end of the phone was not as charming in person.

"Okay, thank you." With that Gordon put the phone down and got to work, praying this whole event would be over soon.

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!

A high pitched beep jolted Diane out of bed. She looked around and realized with a start that she was not in her family's trailer.

"Get up brat." A snarling voice brought real life crashing back at her.

In the past week she had been living with Gotham's scum. Before that her parents were murdered, and now she was being punished for watching them fall to their deaths.

Her roommate, Kallie one of the guards had called her, was standing by the bars with an annoyed look on her face. "Surprise inspection." She grumbled.

Diane was pretty sure that her cellmate had sold drugs at some point or been part of a gang, maybe both, but she wasn't about to ask. All she knew was that if she didn't do what her roommate told her to do, she would get hit.

"I said get up!"

With that Diane did a perfect jump and landing off her bed. She felt tired. She was tired of being here, tired of getting hit, tired of being alone. Standing next to Kallie Diane shivered. Her favorite sweater had been taken, along with everything she had owned when she was put here. Now she was wearing an orange jumpsuit just like everyone else.

Two guards stopped in front of their cell, one reading off a clipboard. "Rachel Mary Grayson?" They looked up.

"Um.. yes?" Her swirling blue eyes scrunched up, recounting everything that she had done that might have gotten her in trouble.

"Please come with us." Was all the first guard stated. With a swipe of the keycard the cell opened and Diane quickly stepped out before it closed again. They walked down a long hallway until finally they ended in what looked like to be a plush office. The second guard knocked then opened the door gently shoving Diane in with him. Inside was a large woman sitting in front of a desk and a man who Diane recognized as the nice commissioner.

Commissioner Gordon coughed before stating awkwardly, "How are you my dear?"

Diane just looked blankly at him not sure if that was rhetorical or not.

"Well uh I was able to pull some strings and there's room in the Metropolis Group Home and I figured it would be better than staying here for you.." He trailed off sounding hopeful.

"I..I can leave?" Diane was sure she heard wrong and everyone was about to laugh at this hilarious joke that she had just stated.

The man and woman exchanged worried looks.

"Yes well let's gather your stuff and we can get going." Gordon smiled kindly at her hoping to ease her after what must have been a week of fear.

For the first time in days, Diane felt a small smile make its way back on her face. She was going to leave! She suddenly saw something colorful that Commissioner was holding out to her.

"Here's your backpack that you had when you came here." He held it out to her. She gently took it and put it on then preparing herself for what would come next, she grabbed the commissioner's hand surprising him, and together they walked out the doors to his car.

An hour later they arrived at the group home. Gordon reached over and shook Diane awake.

"Wha-?" She moaned rubbing her eyes.

"We're here." He smiled at the childish gesture, and realized that here she would probably be adopted within no time.

After a while Diane had been shown to her bed, and Commissioner Gordon had left. The kids seemed nice and the caretaker friendly. Overall Diane wondered if her life was finally taking a turn for the better.

"Found you." Bruce said triumphantly. On the Bat computer there was a list of aliases for a man named Tony Zucco. He rushed off towards the Batmobile intent on making a wrong right. Tonight he would bring the Grayson's killer to justice tonight.

Lex Luthor was not happy. That stupid reporter was doing a fantastic job of trying to destroy his character, all over that spandex, flying menace. It was starting to affect his business relations too, people wouldn't make deals with someone who was an opponent of Superman, and had a bad reputation. He needed to do something to get his reputation back in order.

"In other news, the world renowned Flying Grayson's killer has been brought to justice thanks to Batman tonight. He was found hiding out in Gotham, and was apparently trying to find the youngest Grayson, Rachel, who had escaped her parent's terrible fate. Our sources tell us that she has now been moved to our very own Metropolis and is now safely in a group home. We extend our warm welcome from our city and hope she can soon find her very own happy ending. This is Lois Lane, reporting live from the Daily Planet."

Lex stopped listening as they moved on to the weather.

"That's perfect!" Lex Luthor grinned to himself as he stood and buzzed his assistant into his room.

"Caroline, I want you to find that Grayson girl. I'm suddenly feeling fatherly." With a startled nod and a quick exit, his secretary zoomed out of the room and soon had the group home pulled up on a computer.

"Call my driver, I'm heading out." He said smirking, he could hardly stand himself, he was such a genius! Nothing would improve his standings with Metropolis than adopting that poor, orphan girl. Besides, he figured he'd just hire some nanny and the kid could live in one of his mansions. Easy as pie.

As Lex sat in the back of his limo he texted his secretary to have a room made up for the child, and as he finished scheming his driver announced, "We're here sir."

"Diane? Honey?" Diane looked up from where she had been playing with her stuffed elephant peanut to see a tall, bald man following Miss. Josephine the caretaker. Miss Josephine kept glancing behind her at the man and the man pretended not to notice.

"Yes domnișoară Josephine?" (miss Josephine) Diane asked, looking sidelong at the bald man who was staring at her like a piece of meat. She decided she did not like this strange, bald man.

"This is man is Lex Luthor, and he's interested in adopting you." She smiled at Diane but her smile seemed strained and did not reach her eyes.

"Hello Diane. My Name's Lex Luthor, and I would love to let you come home with me. Wouldn't you enjoy that?" He had bent down so they were face to face and suddenly Diane really felt like throwing a fit. She glanced back at Miss Josephine who was giving here encouraging nodding.

"Nah."

Diane sat back down and picked Peanut back up considering the issue done.

There was a beat of silence as Luthor sat squatting with an open mouth. "Couldn't you consider it?" He asked looking more like he was going to force her into it than anything of her choosing but quickly Miss Josephine rushed to the rescue.

"Rachel Mary Grayson!" This was the first time either of them had heard her cheery voice turn sharp, so it surprised both Lex and Diane. "You have been offered a very nice home with a very nice man and you do NOT get to act that way." Miss. Josephine had taken two seconds to snap at her and Diane stuck her bottom lip out.

"Sorry..." Diane mumbled.

"That's better." Miss Josephine said turning back into the cheery woman she was before. "Let's get your stuff and you can go on your way."

By the time they were leaving the building, a crowd of new casters had circled around and were live reporting. Diane startled by the sudden action grew shy and grabbing Lex's hand hid behind him as he walked. Inside Lex smiled, the kid was playing along perfectly!

"Lex!"

"Question!"

"What spurred this sudden action?"

"Why are you doing this now?"

"Are you prepared for the responsibilities of fatherhood?"

The reporters yelled out questions as Lex ushered Diane into the waiting Limo.

Before he climbed in he turned to the nearest reporter and simply said, "After spending a couple of nights by myself in my house, I realized how quiet it was, quiet and lonely. I've been missing something in my life, companionship. When I saw Diane's story on the news I knew what I needed to do. Thank you, no more questions." The reporters clambered for more questions and smirking, Lex closed the door, trapping himself with his new daughter.

In an apartment elsewhere in Metropolis, a table was smashed in half by a super powered hero.

He quickly grabbed his phone. "Superman?" A confused voice asked belonging to the Flash.

"I'm calling a league meeting, be there in thirty minuets."

"What? What's wron-" Barry's voice was cut off when Superman put the phone down.

"Whatever you're planning Lex, I WILL stop."

- Hope you guys enjoyed! ^_^ Don't forget to Review! Love you all! (sorry this ending grouped together for some reason I fixed it though."