Okay. I've written 'afterfire' and 'Mat I', both containing Dani in them. Feel free to read those from my profile. I've written all these in like 2 days.. I'm sure I have carpel tunel and really don't wana see a computer screen anytime soon... Plus.. you can still PM me if you want a quick summary ofDanis life.

WARNING- this chapter has mature themes and a whole bunch of beatin Danielle with the angst tree...

Chapter 34

"Dude! Why didn't you tell me? I thought we were Bros!" Wally exclaimed as he followed the boy wonder to his room.

"There's nothing to tell Wally. Just drop it already!"

"Dude, that was a kiss! How is that not something to tell your best bub about?" Wally pressed his hands to his chest just so prove how big a deal it really was. "I mean, I though you had a thing for Zatanna."

"I do!" Robin blurted out before thinking. Wally raised an eyebrow for a moment before a smirk appeared on his face.

"You're a player! Who'd have thought innocent little Rob to be a player."

"I am not!" Robin shouted, beginning to get annoyed.

"Yea you are!" Wally smirked, pointing at the younger man. He promptly received a door in his face, hearing the electronic lock kick in. "Rob!" He yelled at the door.

"What was all that about?" Artemis walked up. She'd overheard most of it already, of course Wally and Robin didn't know that so she might as well take advantage, see if she could get any more details from the speedster.

"Looks like our little Robin is growing up." Wally smirked as he walked away. Artemis stood with her hands on her hips, staring at Robins door/

"Sparrow!" Came the shout through the cave. It echoed off the walls and bounced back at Artemis as she searched for the young girl. She walked into the large open space near the zeta beams, calling the girls name once more.

"Yes?" Came the sudden answer behind her. Artemis nearly leapt from her own skin, spinning around to see Sparrows face perfectly aligned with hers only upside down. The young hero was hanging upside down from the rafters above, her legs wrapped loosely yet securely in a line, the access gathered in her hands. Her face was innocent, though it was still hard to know what lie behind those glasses that now rode high on her nose, her hair hanging limply towards the floor.

"GOD!" She shouted, placing a hand over her racing heart. "You bats won't be happy till you kill me!" Sparrow chuckled innocently. Artemis looked over Sparrow as she gathered herself. Sh couldn't help but notice, since her shirt had ridden up with the force of gravity, the nasty lines criss crossing over her pale belly. In particulate the line of very deep, very painful looking puncture wounds just above her belly button, as if someone had stuck her with large claws. She shook it off. "Why are you even up there..?" She began.

"It's fun. Don't you get a thrill being up somewhere high?" She asked as if it was normal to feel comfortable balancing on a beam 30 stories above ground.

"I think we need to talk...Maybe you should.. I mean it might be better..." She stumbled. "I mean.. can you just stop hanging upside down!" Artemis finally burst out.

"Oh.. sure" In an instant Sparrow had the wire wrapped around her right foot, inverting herself and allowing the cord enough slack in her hands so that her foot could slide down it, catching herself about a foot above the ground and balancing on her one foot that way. "I'm all ears."

"Not what I.." She started, stopped when she saw Sparrow confused face. "Forget it.." She said, shaking her head.

"I think.. well.. You're getting older now. You're gunna notice guys.." She started.

"Artemis..." Sparrow interjected, waiting for the girl to look at her. "I've already gotten the birds and bees talk... " She'll leave out the fact that Bruce had warned THIS bird to stay far away from any stingers, less the bee be eaten by an angry bat.

"That's the problem. Just knowing the facts ain't enough. I mean.. I don't want you to get a reputation. You seem like such a sweet girl..."

Sparrows face turned cold instantly. "What are you saying."

"Well I mean first it seemed you were into Wally.. why I'll never understand.. but now Robin? And already on to kissing?"

"I never kissed Robin." Her voice was low.

"That's not according to what Wally saw. Apparently it's not what Rob thinks either.."

Sparrows feet were on the ground, her line long forgotten. "I don't get around." She said dangerously. "I'm not a whore." She said angrily.

"I never said you were." Artemis defended. She could see this was a touchy subject. What's worse, she could tell, in sparrows mind, this wasn't really what they were talking about. "Listen.. I think you have something on your mind. You know you should talk about it."

Sparrow huffed as she crossed her arms, turning away. She could feel the scab being pulled away from old wounds, ones she thought she'd locked away long ago. Everyone on her team already knew not to mention certain things, knew her hot buttons and what to avoid. This team was new, to themselves, to her.

"I wasn't just a guinea pig for Derringer." She said shortly. "My father racked up a lot of debt. My mother was dead and we had nowhere to go. I was sold to him. As a prostitute." She said coldly. She couldn't meet Artemiss' eyes. They'd be full of pity, or disgust, neither of which Dani could handle at the moment.

Artemis was speechless. It was a lot to take in. That this small girl, was forced into a situation to sell her body. "Oh my god.. I'm.. I'm sorry..."

"He never got to touch me. He played it all low key, kept a hierarchy. I was given to a street level boss. The process went to give the new girls the drugs, bring them back, teach them the trade and get them hooked on the drugs to numb them until the nanos kicked in.. Robin saved me before anything happened.."

Artemis was taken aback by how cold Sparrow had become. She was certain her voice was stonier than Batmans talking about this. How could you go through all this, sold into prostitution and not even feel anything about it? Especially when the man who sold you was your own father? And she thought she had dad issues..

"Sexuality was part of the packaged deal I got with the nanos." She flexed her hand, staring at it as though it were a curse. "I got speed, agility, strength and an ability to learn quicker than others. It also came with pain, a sensuality that seeps into everything I do. No one will harm someone they want to take to bed. My body reacts in ways I don't want it to, people react..." Her fist clenched. "It comes with nightmares.. not knowing if what I'm doing is me.. or him.."

Artemis put her arm around Sparrows shoulder. "Sounds to me, like if you know enough to talk like that, that it's all you kiddo." Sparrow inclined her head to the older girl. Artemis wanted nothing than to yell at Batman. She knew it was him who had taught her to lock everything away, instilled in her that any emotion, any reaction to this would be a weakness. She knew this, and for that, she wanted to punch him. "Come on. I think we need some alone time."

Okay, so I did, Robin/dan time. Artemis/Dani time, Meghan/dani time.. I really don't know anything about kal so he's going to be hard to have some bonding time with. Also. I don;t know what's up with Artemis. She's go arrowettes outfit and stuff.. and the only artemis I could find in DC verse was a villain. From what I read in the YJ comics (for CN) Artemis doesn't seem to like her dad. It would appear her dad let her mother take the fall for something.. Though I don't know who her dad is. I was thinking it's be hilarious if he was like 'sportmaster' or 'slade' or something but until they air some more dang episodes there's nothing I can do!