Title: Possibly Maybe
Rating: T
Setting: After You Got (the Right Stuff)
Pairing: Peter/Mia, Sav/Anya, Holly J/Blue, and eventually Leia/Danny
Disclaimer: I don' t own Degrassi or the characters in this story.
Summary: Danny and Leia have been friends for quite a while now. Leia has been Danny's shoulder to rely on ever since Mia turned him down, but now she is starting to realize her feelings for him. Like all of my fanfics, I was listening to a song to get inspired and the song for this one is "Deeper" by Alexz Johnson. I'm not sure why, but Leia/Danny are the couple that came out of that song for me. If there isn't Danny/Mia, I would love these two to get together.

Chapter One: Burger Bribe

As Leia walked to the hallway afterschool, she felt like her arm was going to fall off. In her hands were almost all of her textbooks. She had been in the library trying to study for her math test. Of course she got little work done due to two niners gossiping over some magazine they were looking at. Now she had to walk all the way to her locker and put her books in before - "Omph." She squealed as her arms gave out and all her books crashed the floor and her papers scattered across the tile. Snickers could be heard around her as people walked by not even bothering to help her. She sighed and bent down, grabbing her papers first. When she went to grab her homework, someone picked it up. She looked up to see Danny smiling at her. "Thanks." She said, taking it and standing up.

"Why do you have all these books anyway?" He said, gathering all the papers and her books and standing up. They walked to her locker. "I mean, I don't even think we have all these classes." She laughed and rubbed her aching arms before tuning her lock when they got to her locker. She smiled slightly as she transferred the books from his arms to her locker.

"Some of these books are for pleasure."

"I didn't know you liked to read."

"There's a lot of things you don't know about me."

"Good point."

She laughed and looked over at him as he leaned against the locker next to hers. For a second she got lost in his dark brown eyes and it made her look away, quietly laughing a bit awkwardly. It wasn't like she had instantly felt attracted to Danny, in fact she felt exactly the opposite. He had had this thing with Mia when they became sort of friends and she had just figured he was some dumb jock who only liked girls on the cheerleading team or who could put out. Somewhere during ice cream at the park or splitting fries at lunch, she had developed a crush. He was extremely sweet and not like anyone else on the team. In fact he was the only guy who paid attention to her. That was when he wasn't complaining about Mia.

Speaking of the devil, out of the corner of her eye she saw Mia walking down the stairs with Peter. They were holding hands and she had her Power Squad uniform on, probably heading off to practice. Leia abruptly turned her head inside of her locker, a reaction she wasn't expecting. "What's wrong?" Danny said, looking over just in time to see Mia lean up and kiss Peter softly on the lips before he walked outside of the school to go do his afterschool duties, as she walked into the auditorium - not once looking over. Leia's face peeked out of her locker and stared at Danny. His face was expressionless and blank, but she knew inside he was hurting. In the beginning, every time they spotted Peter and Mia around school, Danny just glared at them or made snide remarks about Mia being trailer trash. Now he had calmed down a bit and just changed the subject casually. "So, what are you doing tonight?" He said, adverting his attention back to Leia. She rose her eyebrows a bit, surprised at the question.

"Umm, I don't know. I think I'm going to read these books.." She said a bit unenthusiastic at the image of her curled up in her bed, getting lost in a fictional character's more interesting life.

He laughed a bit and shook his head. "Leia, it's Friday night. You have all weekend to read. You should be having fun."

"For me, that is fun. My weekends are usually spent practicing for ballet recital or studying for a test. Which reminds me.." She said, picking out her math textbook from her locker. Danny swiftly took it out of her slender fingers, making her look back into his eyes.

"Some guys and I are meeting up at the Dot tonight. Do you want to come?" He asked, making an adorable puppy dog face that made her laugh a bit.

"That sounds really fun but I can't. I have to get a head start so I'm not -"

"Leia, come on. I'm asking you to come. There's a free Dot Burger in it if you say yes."

She let a smile slowly spread across her face. "Okay fine, but only because I haven't had a Dot Burger in a long time." He smirked and handed her back her textbook before walking off, flashing a smile as he looked back at her. Once he was gone, she shook her head slowly and put her textbook back in her locker, locked it, and headed home. All the while she couldn't get that Van Zandt boy out of her mind.