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A.N. (READ IF AT ALL POSSIBLE)
I do not own any version of the DC universe, even the one in my dreams. Apparently, my mother owns that one.
Chapter 7: Ze long road ahead of her…Part 2, the clown who knew the mind.
Harley looks to the girl on the sofa with a mix between pity and giddiness. It had been a long time since she helped anyone with her skills as a psychologist, and even longer since she felt they actually needed the help. Then again, when your only relative breaks into the home of three of the deadliest women in Gotham, Gotham of all places, just to get you help, you know you need it bad. This would be more fun than a barrel of exploding monkeys.
"So…what do we do with the kid?" Selina asks with a look bordering annoyance, but also going into pity. She knew she should hate that Danny guy, but she also knew she would do anything to help her sister, and if that meant breaking into The Bat cave to get Batman to do it, she wouldn't hesitate. But she also knew that she knew absolutely nothing about teenagers, or how to deal with them. Sure she might have been one before, but she wasted her teen years away looking at boys from afar and studying, she knew nothing about how teenagers worked then, and she damned sure didn't know how teenagers worked now. She only accepted because she thought she could just neuter the jerk when she got off the ceiling, but he was too powerful, she could tell just by seeing him control Ivy, one of the strongest willed of women she knew, and in Gotham, no matter who you were, you followed Gotham's Five Main Rules of Villainous Conduct.
1. Don't Ever Cross Batman!
2. Don't Ever Mess With Joker!
3. Don't Ask Why The Sky Is Red! (LAW 53 of the Laws of Anime)
4. Always Go Where The Money Is!
And last but not least in the slightest
5. If someone more Powerful Than You Asks You A Favor, You Do It!
Selina, heck, they all knew that rule, and followed it, because in Gotham, People only 'asked' once, before they started killing everything you love, and the kid was clearly leaps and bounds above them, so she would play along, for now.
"We'll deal with it like we always do, now, before it gets out of hand. First, we fix the couch," and with a wave of her hand, the foliage is under her command once more, wrapping and expanding in a way that makes the couch as new as it would ever be again. "Now, we talk. What do you suppose we do for the little girl? " Pam asks, her tone softening now that she can feel her babies again, and in pity, because she could see herself like this, it had happened once before, her traumatized, sleeping all the time just to get away from it all, because you thought about it when you were awake. The nightmares weren't much better, but with some skullcap, vervain and horsetall tea, she would sleep so deeply that she wouldn't dream. Seeing this girl now, trying so hard to run away from it in all her dreams, only to find it there waiting for her, she felt a prickle of sadness for her. That didn't mean she would do anything against the group, if they voted the girl gone, she would be on the corner so fast her butt would leave skid marks.
"I say we keep her, I mean, she's obviously just a little girl who needs guidance, and we can give that, I mean, we were once teenagers, we can do this." Harley chimes in with her two cents on the matter, and brightens the mood just by being there. Selina and Pam look at each other and nod. They could do this, and by Rule five, they didn't want to know what would happen if that guy came back and didn't find his little cousin well. They shivered at the thought, not they would ever tell that to anyone.
"Ok, someone wake her, it's too hard to sleep with someone we don't know in the house, and I refuse to let this be an elaborate plan to kill us in our sleep." Selina
With a poke from Harley, Dani wakes up with a cute stretch and yawn routine, rubbing the sleep from her eyes; she looks at the women, then at her surrounding, and immediately jumps back with a scared look on her face.
I was captured? But how, and where's Danny? Oh my God, did the Screamers get him? I gotta find him, I just gotta! With those frantic thoughts, Dani start looking around, phasing through the furniture that she conveniently noticed was covered in vines. Knowing that she only knew one person who could do that, she looked out the floor-to-ceiling window wall that was supported in the lofts' wall and expected to see the city overrun with plant life. When greeted with a red sky and a dark city, she is confused. If Overgrowth didn't cause this and Screamers didn't cause this, then who did?
"Hi!" Harley
With a jump that nearly sent her through the ceiling, Dani turns around to see The three women, who oddly, find themselves even more drawn to the girl. (It is known in manga/anime as the Kawaii Effect).
"W-w-who are you! Where's Danny! Where is this? Where's Danny!"
"Calm down half-pint!" Selina shouts with a voice not many hear from the sultry thief. "Your cousin sent you here for us to help you. You are currently in our flat in East-Gotham. I'm Selina, this is Harley and Ivy. Your name is Dani correct?" At the nod, Harley picks up.
"Look sugah, your cousin dropped hints that your sufferin' from nightmares and probably a few mental disorders dealing with stress. I'm a Psychiatrist, I can help you with that. But you have ta trust meh. Can you do that?" the nod comes later this time, but it still comes.
"Where's Danny?" Dani asks again. She has to know. Danny is all she has left, without him, she doesn't wanna know what would happen to her. That Screamers might still be around, and she never wants to go through what happened when she was alone with those evil sons of bitches ever again. NOT EVER AGAIN!
Dani Starts to shake and rock and mutter incoherent sentences until it settles into one lone stream of "." Ivy heart breaks looking at the girl, and with a wave of her hand, she orders her plants to induce an unconscious state in the girl, stopping her rocking and muttering, but not her shaking, and she would shake well into the night.
