AN: I know that there are some grammar mistakes and the thing is I don't have a beta and I can only read through the same thing so many times until even I can't spot the mistakes anymore. If someone is willing to beta for me let me know.

As for the pairing the poll is still open and will remain so for at least two more days and I only put in characters that I know I can portray well, I won't add characters that I don't know very well because then I write them badly and badly written characters ruin the story. If the characters aren't seen in the cartoon I'm not adding them, the thing with canon is that there was already a large amount of heroes and villains seen and the seasons of YJ only run for 6 months with a lot of time to spin my own story in between the episodes without taking away from the already good story that is canon.

Barbara is a character that I don't ever write well and I don't want to break the connection between Barbara and Dick so I can't pair her with Danny but both Zatanna and Artemis are characters that I can work with well and keep their relationship as realistic as possible but I want to point out, he isn't going to start dating just yet. It's a little soon for him to be ready for that both mentally and emotionally, it has only been six months since he came here.

Please don't comment your vote because I technically can't add that to the poll and I will go with the poll winner so far its Zatanna. Can anyone guess who Danny met? I also have an account on ao3 which has some other bat related stories as Amara22 for anyone interested.

Chapter 6

Dinah was tired both physically and mentally. These past few months had been some of the most demanding times in her life not just because she was dealing with a teenager who had lost everything and was so desperately trying to piece his world back together by holding onto threads. She had been let into the Bat cave a place that many of the Leaguers didn't know. The fact just was that Batman was one of their most mysterious members and they did trust him, he just didn't trust them, not completely.

Many of the newer members of the League were shocked that he allowed a child by his side and many had no idea what the relationship between the two were, very few knew that Robin was his son. As a woman who had once crushed on Batman she actually found that she thought it was really silly in hindsight. She liked the mystery, the shadows and aura of danger the same way a teenage girl would fall for a bad boy but there was so much more to him and now that she was basically sharing custody of a teenager with him, she found herself falling in love with him.

This wasn't dreams and fantasies, this was real, she wanted to help him shoulder his burdens, to help him understand that even though his parents were gone he had managed to make a family and she was so proud of the amount of strength that he showed. He was a little work obsessed but at the same time, she was not a woman that needed a lot of attention, not really. Dinah liked to stand alone, to go about her life but at the end of the day when she came home to a table with Alfred there and Danny and Dick and Bruce, that was enough. She wasn't some silly girl that dreamed of being romanced, that wasn't who she was but she was someone who was able to see that a person cared in the little ways that they treated her.

He would never stop his crusade and settle down to have a family with her but that wasn't something she had ever dreamed off, she always wanted to follow in her mothers footsteps, she knew logically that if she did so it was likely that she wouldn't have a child and the white picket fence deal but if he could have a son then why couldn't he have someone to share his life with?

She could take care of herself in both of his worlds, she wasn't a pretty flower that would need to be coddled and protected. They could make it work if they really tried and they had been dancing around each other since March after Danny called her 'mom' jokingly. There was something there between them and she wasn't going to just let it go. She was willing to fight to keep her place at his side and if she had too then she would fight against his stubbornness as well.

Bruce was spinning and he had been ever since Danny had showed up. There was an entire other multiverse that had ended one that was connected to a different type of ghost than the few he had encountered and then there was a half dead teenager that had imprinted on him of all people. He had to admit though that it was nice to have Danny around, the boy was able to understand him a lot better than Dick. He didn't mean anything bad it was just that Dick was the type of person that needed communication and he knew that he wasn't able to talk and convey his emotions to his adopted his son and that often caused misunderstandings between them.

The communication thing wasn't really a problem right now, Dick was still young but like Dinah said he would eventually get older and end up frustrated with him and he didn't want to think about how bad their fall out could have been if he hadn't taken her advice but Danny was different. He was able to understand him without a word or action and he was able to make Dick understand without him having to say anything.

Then there was Dinah, she was not part of the plan not at first. He was the one who told her she could stay but he thought it would be for a week or maybe a month at the most, he assumed by then Danny wouldn't need Dinah around constantly however the opposite proved to be true. He needed her and Bruce had slowly come to depend on her advice. He knew that Alfred liked her and was glad that she was sticking around and then the media decided to let the world know that Black Canary was now located in Gotham.

It was bad enough that the press thought that 'Brucie' was finally settling down, he got a slight headache at the thought of what he would have to do to maintain his secret identity but when they weren't talking about the 'White Knight' of Gotham City then they were talking about the 'Dark Knight' of Gotham. It was well known throughout the world that Batman and Robin did not allow other heroes into Gotham nor did he let meta humans run around, the people in the city could count the number of times that the Justice League was allowed into the city and then it was only for a major crisis, like the world ending type which was the reason why there was speculation that Black Canary had married Batman. Dick and Danny had framed the article in their rooms, Bruce sighed and Dinah rolled her eyes.

Bruce knew that he was on a slippery slope when it came to her, it was easy to ignore her crush when it was meaningless however they were basically parenting together, living together and spending all their time both day and night, in and out of their masks together, he had somehow come to realize that he was depending on her a lot, trusting her to watch his back. It was dangerous for him to get close to her, loving someone with the life that he led never ended well.

He loved Selina with his whole heart and he knew that she had loved him but not even she was able to be with him while he lived this life and he doubted that she would be able to stick around as well. He had loved Talia and she had chosen her Father over him. He just wasn't capable of giving her forever and he believed that it would be for the best that she returned home before things between them went any deeper before they took pieces of each other that they wouldn't be able to give back and then he told her to leave instead Dinah sat down and raised an eyebrow. Bruce sighed and spoke again, "We shouldn't be doing this."

Dinah folded her arms, "We aren't even doing anything yet."

Bruce wanted to punch something or someone so he responded in clipped tones, "You think you know what you want but you don't and eventually you will leave and we shouldn't complicate things."

Dinah rolled her eyes, "Bruce I know you're worried but here is a little newsflash every person that ever enters a relationship worries about failure and while I will agree that the stakes that we face are higher like the fact that we won't work out and the relationship will end or one of us could die. We both wear masks Bruce, we will always make the choice to sacrifice our lives even knowing that there are people we leave behind so yes there is a chance that this will end badly but we live our lives walking the line of death every day and I for one want to be with the person who makes me happy for as long as I can."

Bruce knew that logically she was telling him the truth but he couldn't do it, he couldn't just let a woman into his life, someone that could make him vulnerable. He didn't want to lose yet another person that he loved and he knew that eventually she would change her mind and she would leave him.

Dinah frowned at him when he said nothing and she knew what he was thinking, "Your whole life you have strived for control but you can't control how another person feels which also means that while you can never be sure that I will never leave you also cannot tell me how I feel, I love you and I choose to stay, you cannot change that and I cannot force you to accept my feelings but you need to know as long as you are willing to try with me I will stay."

Neither of them said anything for a little while until Bruce finally spoke again, "As long as we're willing to try and make it work you'll stay?"

Dinah nodded and that was the beginning of their relationship nearly four months ago, they managed to keep it secret from the boys for two months until they were caught and then the media found out and Alfred was the one left to come up with some sort of excuse for the reason that the 'Brucie' mask was falling. The truth was that when Bruce first went away to train at the age of 17, everyone had high hopes for the Wayne Heir but when he returned, he was 22 years old and he was ready to become the Batman.

There had been rumours that when he went away he saw something that changed him, that made him lose all ambition and turned him into the spoiled playboy but those rumours eventually got smothered as 'Brucie' caused more and more scandals however he couldn't keep up the façade any longer, not when he was with Dinah. Batman was busy with the League, Robin and Phantom were busy with the team and Alfred was left at one of their many charity gala's Dinah had been brought into the spot light as basically introduced as the Lady of the Manor.

Alfred told Dinah to play the part of a strong woman able to keep him on leash so to speak and the papers ate the whole thing up. Danny and Dick laughed at Bruce playing the whipped boyfriend too afraid to tug on his leash too hard.

Danny on the other hand knew that technically he was keeping the team far away from his heart. He didn't want to allow them too close, they were heroes, they could die and while the same could probably be said for his family that was different. He knew that he could protect them but that team was just something different.

He had been talking to the League and so far they were all either happy or impressed by the Team, there were some who didn't have much of an opinion yet but they were doing well but gaining not just experience but also they were also building their reputations. Danny was also very proud of how far Dick was coming. He was growing into his own person and his own hero but right now Danny was tired.

This world was so different than his own, he had been known, it wasn't just the fact that he wasn't the only hero or the fact that aliens attacked this world more often than ghosts. There was almost nothing the same here not even a Nasty Burger and sometimes Danny didn't feel like he belonged here, he knew logically that he would always be a little homesick but he hoped that he would find something similar or familiar to him so that he could just breathe a little.

He missed Sam and he missed Tucker even Jazz and Valarie. He was once known for being a slacker and here in this world he was known as the genius adopted son of Bruce Wayne someone rumored to soon be the world's first Trillionaire. He had slowly adapted to people watching him, to being in the newspaper, to being known as intelligent, to having money almost constantly, to being recognized as Danny Fenton-Wayne and not being seen as Phantom. He had slowly claimed Gotham as his new haunt and stretching to the team was just not something that he wanted to do. He guessed that he had changed in the time here, he was sort of like Bruce, he didn't like being around too many people anymore. He valued his alone time.

Danny found himself in Crime Alley and he nearly wanted to hit his head against a wall. He was dressed casually, jeans, sneakers and a hoodie but even he could see that he did not fit in here. He was still too put together and the people here seemed to know that he wasn't one of them, he might as well been walking around with a neon sign around his neck claiming that he was from the upper side of Gotham City. He wasn't even sure how he ended up here, he was just walking lost in his thoughts and he ended up here. This was probably the worst part of the city and it was also something that he had never seen before. Amity Park didn't have a place like this, hell most cities in this dimension didn't have a place that was this bad.

Danny didn't know why he didn't just turn around and leave but there was something here, something that was tugging on his protective instincts, something that was familiar to him. He had been slowly developing his telepathy with Martian Manhunter but the process was slow going, every mind was unique and so far all he was able to do was understand emotions, the deeper one probed into another's psyche the more of the emotions got confused in his own head, he had trouble not getting drawn into the other persons emotions so he struggled to move to the next level but the power was developing and right now he was reading someone similar to his family, to Bruce.

Danny found a boy dumpster diving, he was young too maybe 8 or 9 years old but that could just be the malnutrition making him younger. He wasn't as dirty as the other street kids but Danny also knew that he wasn't homeless or at least not yet. He was hungry but not without anyone to care for him. Danny picked up worry and protective instincts coming from the boy but not for him for someone else probably his mother. He was looking for food for but not just for him for his mother as well and Danny felt something tug on his heart. Bruce had handed him a pile of bills in the morning for him to get whatever he wanted but he assumed the boy need it more.

"Here kid."

Danny was holding out a hundred dollar bill and the boy looked at him suspiciously.

"I ain't no whore mister."

Danny laughed, he actually laughed he couldn't help it, he could feel the boy's mind and there was so much potential, he was actually shocked. He never met someone with so much raw emotion, this boy would probably be very passionate but it was more than that. There was so much potential there intelligence and stubbornness as well. This kid he would make the world bow to him before he bowed to it, he reminded Danny of a hurricane, he would consume all in his path if they stood against him but his morals they were faltering, the lines of good and evil were blurring and he would grow and when he did he would be a force to be reckoned with and Danny could hardly wait to see what he would become.

"I'm not looking for a whore. I'm lost, I'll give this to you if you guide me out of here."

The boy narrowed his eyes, "Why me?"

Danny just shrugged, "You seem less likely to take the money and run."

"What makes ya think like that?"

Danny smiled at him, "You seem like a person willing to stand by his word. Remember kid, even when you have nothing all you got is your word and your word is your bond."

The kids eyes flashed with intelligence that Danny knew he possessed, "What's that mean?"

"Its an old fashioned way of saying promise. In this world when the chips are down and you don't have anything, you have to have honor, a man a real man keeps his promises that will be the only thing that will separate you from the others. Do you want to be an honorable man or a coward?"

Danny stopped there, he had planted way more than enough and the kid was still very young. If he over did it then the kid probably wouldn't trust him so he waited for the boy to climb out of the dumpster and show him how to get back to the main road and then Danny gave him the money.

"You're an intelligent kid, there's a public library just down that road. You can go in and read a little about what I told you if you're interested."

Danny waved goodbye and pretend to leave but instead he turned invisible and followed the boy. He walked all the way to library and looked inside, he hovered for a while and then he went inside when no one bothered him he found a place at the back of the library filled with childrens books. He seemed to wonder through the titles for a while until he picked a few books and sat down in the corner again.

Danny left him alone and smiled he had something new to focus on for a while. Dick seemed to pick up on Danny's happier mood and he asked about it so Danny told him about the kid that he met and Dick didn't seem to understand what was so great about the kid.

"I can't explain it, he reminds me of Bruce a little and then there is a little of you. He has the same strength of mind, he is more emotional, he feels very deeply but there is so much potential. He reminds me of a storm and one day he will become a hurricane I can feel it."

Dick frowned, "You think he will become a criminal?"

Danny shook his head, "I don't know, I sense that he is on a slippery slope, his protective instincts are deeply ingrained but we all know many people who think they're doing good by hurting others."

"Like an anti hero?"

Danny just shrugged, "He is just a kid but he reminds me of Valarie."

"Who was Valarie?" asked Dick, he knew of Sam and Tucker and Jazz but Danny never mentioned a Valarie.

"Valarie was a girl from my school, there was an incident with a ghost when I couldn't really control my powers and she lost a lot when the dust cleared. She became one of the best ghost hunters that was in Amity Park but she hated Phantom. She really wanted to help people but she hated all ghosts. She was passionate and well trained but blinded by vengeance and that was also her weakness. This boy he reminds me of her and unlike Valarie I couldn't help her but I can help him."

Dick was happy that his brother managed to find something that reminded him of home, someone that he could focus some of his energy on. As much as he had hoped that the team would help him, they just didn't need the amount of mother henning that Danny needed to get out of his system, they were all looking for independence not for another person to take care of them and he knew that Danny wasn't able to mother Dick as much as he hoped. This kid was younger so Danny had someone to really take care off. Dick just smiled and said, "Whatever makes you happy Danny."