Author's note: Thank you for all the support. Just a couple of things I should say to help organize the timeline, and about the schedule for this story.

For the timeline, Ultimate Enemy and Phantom Planet have not happened, and the first couple of chapters take place before the Teen Titans are formed. Jack, Maddie, and Sam were involved in an accident and proclaimed dead. Danny is 23, he has been out of hero work for 5 years.

For the schedule for this story, I plan to update as much as possible, I'm constantly writing lately. I plan to get a chapter out every other day or so. Thank you for listening to me talk.

Danny looked out the window of the plane, as it took off from the airport. Jazz had taken him to the airport and said goodbye an hour earlier. She waited to watch him leave, and then went back to the house to get some more sleep before her finals. He sighed and leaned his head back to get some sleep, since he had to wake up at 4:30am to catch the earliest flight to Jump City.

"Sir?" The stewardess was waiting by him. Danny looked around and saw he was the last person on the plane, and sleepily nodded and stood up. The stewardess stood back and pointing him toward the front of the plane. Danny grabbed ahold of his backpack, which only had a change of clothes, before getting out of his seat. As he walked through the terminal, he scanned the room, avoiding people who almost bumped into him, to try and find the signs leading out. Danny noticed a snack counter and walked over to grab something to eat. As he stood in line, he observed the other passengers disembarking and shuffling about, waiting for flights, or heading out of the airport.

As Danny was turning around to pay for his item, he noticed a girl trying to stay along the edges of the room. Danny watched her, noticing her avoiding eye contact with anyone and trying to stay out of people's way. Danny was struck with how similar she looked to Sam, for a moment, he wasn't sure if he was seeing Sam or some stranger. He stood in a daze until she paused and looked directly at him. He gave a small smile and waved, she ducked her head and walked faster towards the exit. He put the cash for his granola bar on the counter and looked around for her. He couldn't see her so he shrugged it off.

Danny walked toward the exit of the terminal, tearing open the packaging on his granola bar. As he ate his snack, he looked at a map of Jump City that was on the wall. He found the location of the bookstore and calculated the distances in his head. Danny decided to walk to the bookstore instead of getting a cab. Heading down the sidewalk, he tilted his head up, enjoying the sun on his face.

After about half an hour of walking, Danny turned the corner to see the bookstore with a for sale sign in the window. Opening the door, Danny walked in to the store and looked around. Dust tickled his nose as he ran a hand through his hair. Walking farther into the store, he examined the shelfs, and made notes of everything he saw that needed to be fixed and things that were good just the way they were. As he was looking at the selection of books, he heard a cough from among the shelves.

Venturing further, he found the girl from the airport sitting on a box, leafing through a book. Danny stood at the end of the aisle, and cleared his throat causing her to jump and drop the book. Danny put his hands up, backing away while the girl scooped the book up and moved away from him.

"Hey it's okay. I'm sorry I scared you." Danny spoke with a soft, even tone, and an apologetic smile on his face. She narrowed her eyes and stayed in a defensive position. Danny sighed and ran a hand through his hair until he ended up rubbing the back of his neck.

"Did you follow me?" She gently put the book back on the shelf, and spoke with a quiet and gruff voice. She didn't seem to be afraid, causing Danny to raise his eyebrow a little. He shook his head, and looked around.

"I plan on buying this place, you just happened to be here. My name is Danny." She raised an eyebrow, and crossed her arms. "Danny Manson." He held his hand out to her, and she slowly raised her arm, keeping a closed expression.

"Rachel." She pulled back quickly. Danny stepped back and looked around.

"Do you like this place?" Danny asked her, and she shook her head.

"Never been here before, but I hate to see a bookstore get closed. I'm glad that this one won't be." She kept a straight expression the entire time, not once showing a smile, or expression of any kind. Danny got an idea and looked at her.

"How about after I buy this place, I hire you to help me run it." Rachel looked at him with a confused look and thought about it.

"Most people don't hire people they just met." She took a deep breath and smoothed the look on her face. Rachel put a hand to her head and shook her head. "This is stupid, I don't need a job."

Danny smiled at how much she was like Sam, he couldn't help thinking about it. "Everyone could use a bit of money to help them pay for things, like food or a living space. If you decide you don't like working here, you can leave and I won't stop you." He pulled his phone out, and called the number he had seen on the sign outside. "If you want, I can have you start as soon as I finish buying the place."

Rachel thought about it, and nodded. She did need the money, with being new to the city. "Okay, but don't expect me to be a ray of sunshine."

Danny chuckled and turned away, the phone ringing. "Of course, I don't expect you to always be a ray of sunshine." He held the phone with his shoulder, and dug a pen out of his pocket. Finding a scrap of paper; an old receipt he picked up off the floor. Writing down his cell number, he handed it to her and pointed to his phone. "Call, or text me, when you decide what you want to do."

He walked away, finally getting an answer on the other end of the line. What he didn't see was Rachel disappear in a pool of inky black magic. Danny walked back out the front of the store, talking to the current owner of the store about when he could meet up and make an offer on the store. Walking down the street, he decided he wanted lunch. Remembering that there was a pizza place around the corner, he figured it might be good to scout out local restaurants and headed that way for lunch.