Ch.21: The Girl The Bat-Fam Didn't Like
Danny aimed a paper football at Tucker's head with a humorous smile on his face. Sam, who sat beside him, had her head in her hands and was trying very hard to stifle her laughs. Danny's goofy smile and Tucker's complete and utter obliviousness was just too funny.
Just as he was about to launch the paper football, the door opened, startling the teen, and Danny flicked the football at Dash's head.
If possible, Sam had to try harder to not laugh while Tucker remained oblivious.
The blonde jock looked back directly at the ebony-haired hero with a murderous look on his face. Danny just remained gaping in total shock before he began laughing nervously. Dash pointed at the smaller boy before making a slash across his throat. Danny sighed and propped his head on his fist. "Yeah... I figured..."
Everyone looked to the front of the class where a girl with dark brown hair in a bob and hazel eyes stood. She looked miserable in her school uniform, like Sam usually did, and fiddled with the fabric of her skirt. She let out a sigh before walking through the door and handing the teacher a slip.
The teacher, Mrs. Lavin, looked at the slip briefly before putting it down. "Everyone, this is Nadia Smith. Ms. Smith, would you like to tell us something about yourself?"
The girl, Nadia, dropped her books onto an empty desk in the front and falling into her seat. "No point. I'm moving in a month anyways."
"Pleasant thought." Mrs. Lavin said sarcastically before turning to the board and finally beginning the lesson.
Danny, Sam, and Tucker all looked at each other when the teacher looked away from her students. Silently, they all agreed.
Time to be nice to the new girl.
As lunch came around, the Infamous Trio took up the picnic table they always used that was far away from other students. They dropped their lunches on the table and easily slid into the bench like they usually did. Danny had a school lunch cause Dash destroyed his again while the other two had their own packed lunches.
The three all looked off in the distance, where the new girl was sitting under a tree and jamming out to her iPod as she ate her lunch. Then they all looked back at each other.
The Trio was a very socially awkward group. Since they mostly stuck to themselves and occasionally a few others, like Mikey, Nathan, and Valerie, they didn't have the best social skills with other people their age. If new adults were involved, they knew to act polite, smile, and be little angels. But with kids their age, it all went downhill. Their mouths would just run and they had no idea how to shut themselves up. It's the exact reason the Trio had never expanded.
Quickly, the three played a round of Rock-Paper-Scissors to see who would approach the new girl Nadia. They played fifteen rounds because they would all lose, which takes some serious skill.
Tucker and Sam eventually beat their other ebony-haired friend and poor Danny pouted. Without sympathy, the two pointed to the girl. The blue-eyed boy got up and trudged over to the girl. He stopped beside her and waited patiently for her to take her ear-buds out before saying anything.
"Hey, you wanna eat lunch with my friends and I? I mean, you don't have to. It was just a suggestion if you wanted to- I'll shut up now." Danny mumbled, placing a hand over his mouth.
As everyone seemed to do when Danny or one of his friends got flustered, Nadia laughed. Danny shook his head and asked the Fates why one of his other friends couldn't do this simply mundane act. Seriously, why did he have to show how weird he was? Why couldn't one of the other idiots do it?
"Uh... Sure I'll sit with you and your friends." Nadia said and got up, grabbing her things as she did.
"Great." Danny said before silently and awkwardly leading the brunette over to his table. Sam and Tucker waved as the two came over and Danny slid in beside Sam while Nadia sat beside Tucker. The four ate in awkward silence since none of them knew what to do.
Tucker finally blurted "We're not good at this."
Nadia smiled and said "I could tell."
"Told you we were bad at being social." Sam said, elbowing her ebony-haired friend beside her. Danny looked at her wildly. "I never denied it!"
"Actually, that's a lie." Tucker said. "There was that one time at the park when you said we could totally be social but we ended up driving everyone in the park away."
Danny coughed into his sleeve and mumbled "That never happened..."
"Yes it did." Sam and Tucker said dryly while Nadia laughed into her sleeve. Danny chuckled nervously before hiding in his arms. Sam patted his back in mild sympathy.
Nadia ended up spending the rest of the day with one or all of the Trio members. It was still awkward but the three were opening up more. Nadia seemed to have social skills so she was slowly easing the three from being awkward around her.
The four walked to Wayne Manor together and Nadia was utterly shocked to realize Danny was that Wayne.
Walking through the massive front doors, Danny screamed at the top of his lungs "I'M HOME!", making the three behind him cover their ears.
"We have an intercom system, Master Danny." Alfred said over the intercom.
"SCREAMING IS FUNNER!"
"It's 'more fun', not 'funner', you little idiot." Jason corrected.
"Says the idiot who never finished school!" Danny yelled at the intercom in the ceiling, as if it was the offending person.
"Just come to the kitchen." Bruce said, sounding very exaggerated.
"Nah, I'm good!" Danny yelled, waving off the suggestion with a smile.
Sam and Tucker took Nadia by the arms and took a step back. "Wait for it..."
There was a lot of stomping from the stairs and a long "DDAAANNNNYYYY~!" before Dick flew into the room and, just as quickly, threw Danny over his shoulder, earning a loud yelp and laugh, before the ebony-haired adult began walking away with Danny over his shoulder, happy with himself.
Sam and Tucker followed behind, eventually followed by a bewildered Nadia. (The poor girl was probably so confused.)
As the three teens followed behind, Dick shot a wave over his free shoulder while Danny continued to laugh, legs high in the air and arms dangling uselessly.
"Hey Sam. Hey Tuck. Hey Random Person."
Nadia was still confused while Sam and Tucker snorted into their sleeves.
"That's Nadia. She's new." Danny explained.
"Ah. Cool." Dick said before they walked through the kitchen door. The oldest Bat set the youngest down on the counter and Danny waved at his other siblings. "Sup guys!"
"Dick, you know Danny does that to you every day on purpose right?" Jason asked, pointing at the teen, who was smiling and batting his eyes innocently.
"Yeah, I know." Dick confirmed.
Jason face-palmed. "Fucking idiot."
"JASON!"
Sam, Tucker, and Nadia watched the scene from around the door. The two of the Trio were watching the normal scene while Nadia was still confused.
Seeing her weird expression, Sam and Tucker chorused "This is normal."
Upon seeing the teens in the doorway, everyone said a hello to the two familiar teens and called Nadia "new girl".
"Her name is Nadia." Danny relayed again. Everyone said a second hello to 'Nadia', not 'new girl'.
"We're going to go study. See you all later." Danny said before hopping off the counter and leading his guests out of the kitchen. Everyone smiled and waved until they were gone.
Once he was sure the teens were gone, Bruce said "I don't like her."
The kitchen erupted into a chorus of agreements. Alfred just stood off to the side and face-palmed, sighing.
Over the next two weeks, Nadia became more integrated with the Trio. She hung out with them and slowly adjusted to their system, ignoring the fact she had to move in another two weeks. Gotham was just a temporary stop on her agenda.
In those two weeks, Danny developed his first crush, which crushed the entire Bat-Family (except for Alfred, who remained exaggerated about the entire ordeal).
The entire Bat-Family waved with cheeky smiles as the Trio (and Nadia) left the kitchen to go off and study. Once the door was shut, Jason said "I can't wait till she moves."
"For Heaven's sake, why do you lot not like this girl?" Alfred questioned, pausing in his cleaning.
"She gives off that weird vibe you get when you're around Poison Ivy or Harley." Dick said, shivering.
Alfred did a sweat-drop. "I think you all are paranoid."
"Of course we are. That's what makes us the Bat-Family." Cassie stated.
Alfred pressed a hand to his head. "I need to go take something for the migraine that is currently forming..."
Two more weeks flew by and Nadia left Wayne Manor for the last time, as she was going to move the next day. It was a depressing goodbye for the teens but they distracted themselves with video-games.
"I'm bummed." Danny said, arms wrapped around his mentor's neck as he rested his chin on the adult's padded shoulder. Batman looked at him over his shoulder and asked "Why?"
"Nadia's leaving tomorrow. The Trio is back to being just a Trio." Danny commented, turning his head so he was resting his cheek against the older's collarbone. Batman just patted the teen's head silently, not saying anything cause that would be a stupid move on his part.
As the two drifted into silence and, out of boredom, Danny almost fell asleep. The silence was abruptly shattered by an alarm, off in the distance.
"Let's go check it out." Batman said as Danny unlatched himself from around his mentor and flew beside him as the adult used his grapple. They rushed to the bank and made it just in time to see a teen girl and what looked like her father escaping with a bunch of money. They were both dressed in blues and purples and had a wall of water behind them.
Danny instantly recognized the girl as Nadia.
Batman mumbled "I knew there was a reason I didn't like her..."
Danny held up his hands and yelled "Well good riddance to you to!"
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