Selena kicked the door behind her locking the door. She calls out, "Danny I got a package for you." She walks to the chair and drops her bags. Hearing a shuffle she turns to see Danny walk up to her from his room. His floppy black hair is messy and his outfit is casual as he works on settling in to his room. He reaches out to grabs the cardboard package from her hands.
"Thanks", he gives her a smile and quickly disappears with his package behind his white bedroom door. Selena gives a slight smile and focuses on opening up her laptop as she researches into her next target mannerism. The following day she receives a new larger package for Danny from Sam Manson.
Selena once again calls out, "Danny you got mail!" This time Selena grunts at the heavy weight of the box. Danny peeks his head out of his bedroom and rushes to her.
"Ah, thanks." He picks up the large box with ease and take it into his bedroom. Selena is no longer surprise by Danny's strength. He demonstrated that regardless of his weak appearance he can easily move furniture around.
"Lots of mail from your girlfriend?" Selena teases lightly at dinner.
"What? No no , she's not... " Danny sees the look Selena gives him. His ears flush and he looks down embarrassed.
"I forgot were official, that shes my girlfriend. Um but to answer the stuff it's just paper documents on Fenton works and Val Co."
Selena sees Danny becoming uncomfortable so she switches topics, "Okay, and how's the transition to School?"
Danny shrugs, "it's school."
Selena doesn't further question him. She hasn't shared that she didn't attend high school as a street kid but hanging around the kids that did didn't make it sound great anyways.
"well let me know if there's any issues."
Danny gives a slight nod. In politeness he ask, "um how's work?"
Selena reflects on her break-in to a building, then buying black market safe cracking equipment parts, following a chase from security guards, then a routine fight with street thugs for her afternoon exercise and her return home researching all the entry points to the next building she needs to sneak into.
"Work was busy, the receptionist Cindy she..." Selena continue to tell Danny a false story of her day. Paying attention how he zones out and she then wraps up her story. Danny quickly excuses himself with the excuse of homework and leaves. Selena smiles slip off her face and she mentally groan. I got to fess up. But just a little bit longer he can still believe I work as an consultant. Just until he's comfortable being here with me.
A week later another even larger box is delivered. Fragile, Hazard, Do not stack, stickers were stuck all over. Selena wonder what's the deal with the hazard warning?
Selena ask Danny as he picks it up, "What's in the box that needs so many stickers?"
"Just some old lab equipment. It's perfectly safe just delicate. "Selena curiosity is perked but she knows better when not to further pry.
"Any plans with all this lab equipment?"
"Yeah, see which ones can be disassembled and get rid off and see what items are patented."
Selena intuition is telling her to check the box and all the previous packages. Why is he so secretive about it? Every time she enters all the items are stored away or closed up still in the box. A bit concerning to see the sticker hazard, it's no good to keep a cat curious. He's skittish and jumps every time she enters his room. Just what is he nervous about? She knows he gained a large inheritance so money not an issue. From there talks she learned he's a fan of space something you can't really see much with the Gotham smog. Is he nervous about me? Do I make him uncomfortable? Is his ptsd from his parents death more severe than she thought? It isn't until a few more days pass she gets a few answers but also more questions.
A banging interrupted her on a call. She placed her cell down, check the entrance and opened the door. The guy rolls with a dolly into the apartment carrying a big square box.
"Can you sign off here?"
She flicks her signature across the page and slam the door shut when he walks out.
She glances at the ticking cat clock to see another hour is left before Danny returns from school. Selena turns her attention back to the package. The box is banged up with the edges barely holding together. Curious about what it could be. She cuts the barely held corner loose easily with her nail and peeks inside. A glowing green light on some sort of object was apparent, brighter than luminescent paint. She picks up the box surprised by the heavy weight. She carries it to his room messy with boxes and new empty packaging scattered around. She placed it on his unmade bed where it fell with a jump and her eyes recognized the object inside. Selena lived in Gotham long enough to recognize that it was weapons inside the box.
She frowns. She knows he only goes to school and stays in his room so what is he involved in that require weapons? When Danny returns back from school Selena asks, "Hey Danny what you get?"
"O-Oh, you know… leftover items from my parents no idea what it is just important," he stammers.
She hums in response watching him quickly disappear into his room. She is well aware that statement was a lie. Why he's being so secretive? Well, she doesn't understand, but for now she'll leave it. She's not sharing everything either. Her green eyes looks over at the genuine Ming vase that's holding her umbrella by the doorway. She then moves her gaze to the living room wall where a famous piece of art now hangs instead of the Szabo crime family's library. She looks down at the gold pen next to her laptop she nicked from Penguin. Her smirked was reflected on the gold pen as she recalled her theft.
