Disclaimer: I do not own Person of Interest or Danny Phantom. I'm just borrowing their characters.
AN: I'm using Bailee Madison as the face claim for Danielle.
AN2: Okay so this chapter should have been out way sooner, unfortunately halfway through this chapter I saved and went to bed and when I woke up the next morning and tried to turn my computer on, I received the blue screen of death. Fortunately, Geek Squad managed to save all of my files, but it took them some time, so I was unable to work on this chapter for a while. But I got a brand-new laptop now, and all my files and stories are on a brand-new flash drive, so I'm able to write once more, hope ya'll enjoy the chapter!
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Phantom of Interest
Chapter Five: granda simio
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Third Person P.O.V.
Dani watched the look of shock run over Reese's face after she mentioned the library, and she couldn't help but smirk. People where always underestimating her. Mostly because she was 5'2" and had the face of angel {Maddie's words not hers}. Sometimes it got annoying, but sometimes it was extremely useful. Like when fighting, people didn't take her very seriously, which made it so much easier to kick their asses. And it was obvious that Reese had been underestimating her this whole time.
"How-"
"I heard you in the warehouse this morning. And I followed you back to that building. I knew you were there the whole time today! And seriously why where you even following me to begin with?" She exclaimed, cutting Reese off.
Reese eyed her for a moment, and she really wished in that moment that one of her powers was mind reading. Then he shook his head, a small smirk playing on his face.
"Because you were in danger," He answered.
"Yeah, but how did you know that? Who the hell are you people?" She questioned.
"Concerned third party," He uttered, smirking down at her.
Her eyes narrowed at this as she crossed her arms over her chest. The look on his face made her think that that response was some sort of inside joke that she didn't have the context to. Man, she really wished she could read minds right about now, would make things so much easier.
"You're not gonna tell me a damn thing about how you knew I was in trouble are you?" She asked.
Reese just shook his head.
"Yeah, well that's fine, doesn't really matter anyway. I thank you for your help, not that I really needed it anyway, but the danger has passed, and your job is done. So, see you later," She stated, giving him a little sarcastic salute as she turned away from him.
She didn't even manage to make it one step before his hand was around her arm once more stopping her.
"Okay, what part of 'no manhandling' do you not understand?!" Dani exclaimed, scowling back at him.
"That warehouse isn't safe to be living in. And you really shouldn't be on your own," Reese stated.
"I've been just fine on my own for a long time now and I've been just fine. And I've slept in worse places than that warehouse. I get you're worried but there's no need. I'm quite capable of taking care of myself. And I am not going to a police station and I am definitely not being put in some kind of home. It won't matter whether or not you try to drag me to that police station, because the first second someone looks away, I will slip away and once I'm gone nobody's gonna be able to find me again!" Dani ranted, arms waving animatedly.
"You can't stay in that warehouse. We protect people, we keep them safe. That warehouse isn't safe, and I'm not letting you go back there," He replied, looking her in the eyes.
Once more her eyes narrowed, and she crossed her arms over her chest and scowled at him.
"You ain't my dad, and I don't know you, you can't tell me what to do, and you sure as hell can't make me do anything. I am fine, I can take care of myself. I've been doing that for years now. You don't have to protect me; your job is done. You don't have to help me anymore. I'm going back to my little home that I've made for myself, and I'm going to sleep because I'm tired after seeing you shoot several people," She stated firmly.
At that she turned on her heal and once more attempted to walk away. But once more Reese stopped her. Before she could say anything, he picked her up and tossed her over his shoulder, then started walking down the street.
"Hey! Put me down! Put me down right now! vi filo de putino! The hell do you think you're doing?! Put me down this instant!" Dani shouted, pounding her fists on his back.
But Reese just ignored her and kept on walking.
"Mi batos vian azenon! Put me down this instant!" Dani continued to shout as Reese walked down the street.
They weren't that far from the library, so it only took him ten minutes to reach the library. Finch could hear Dani shouting the whole way up the stairs into the building.
"Mr. Reese, what… what are you doing? Why is she here?" Finch questioned, standing up as Reese walked into the room with Dani slung over his shoulder.
"filo de putino, faligu min, nun vi estas granda simio!" Dani shouted.
"She wasn't going to let me take her to Carter, and I wasn't about to let her go back to that warehouse, and apparently she saw me in the warehouse this morning and followed me back here, so she already knew about this place. So, I figured I'd bring her here until we can figure out what to do with her," Reese replied, shrugging his shoulders.
He pulled out one of the chairs at the desk in the middle of the room, and gently set Dani down on it.
"Mi enŝovos mian piedon ĝis nun via azeno, ke vi povos gustumi la spikojn de miaj botoj!" Dani growled, attempting to stand up.
Reese smirked and pushed her back down in the chair, pulled out a pair of handcuffs, and cuffed her to the chair.
"Stay," He ordered, looking her in the eyes for a second.
She stared at him, wide eyed for moment, glanced down at the cuff around her wrist attaching her to the chair, then back up at him.
"Did you jus… you bastard! Uncuff me, right now! You can't keep me here, you son of bitch! Uncuff me, now!" She shouted, yanking at the cuff.
She was damn furious, how dare he drag her here against her will, and then cuff her to damn chair. The second the two of them looked away from her she was so phasing out of these cuffs.
"Bear, bewaker," Reese ordered the dog, pointing at a spot right in front of Dani.
The dog obidently sat down in front of her and stared at her while Reese walked over to Finch.
"Mr. Reese I still don't think bringing her here was a good idea," Finch stated, eyeing Dani hesitantly.
"You rather she sleep in that warehouse that's falling apart?" Reese questioned, one eyebrow raised.
Finch frowned for a second, then sat back down at his computer.
"No, but I still don't think you should have brought her here," Finch muttered.
"Just who the hell do you people think you are? I don't need either of you looking after me, I can take care of myself. And where I sleep is non of your business," Dani growled.
She had to work to not let her eyes flash an acid green with how mad she was. Who where these people that they thought they could just come swooping in like this and tell her where she can and can't live?! Bear whined from his spot in front of her, and set his head in her lap. She glanced down at the dog and couldn't help but smile as he stared up at her with puppy eyes.
Reese watched her as she began petting Bear and couldn't help but smirk. No body could resist Bear, it's why he left Bear to watch over her. Dani caught sight of Reese's smile and scowled at him.
"Don't think that just because I like the dog that that means I like you! You're still an ass in my opinion. And I don't plan on staying here," Dani muttered.
"Not going back to that warehouse," Reese replied.
She scowled harder at that and decided to try to get answer from him one more time.
"Just who are you people anyway? How'd you know I was in any kind of trouble to begin with, and why the hell do you even care?" Dani questioned.
Bear huffed at her when she stopped petting him as she questioned the two men before her. He nudged her hand with his nose and she went back to petting him.
"I told you, we're a concerned third party, we like helping people, just like you like handing out food to all the homeless people you encounter on the streets during the day. As to how we knew you where in trouble... well that's a trade seceret," Reese replied, smirking at her.
She rolled her eyes at that, and slouched back in her chair. She continued to run her fingers through the fur on Bear's head as Reese and Finch started talking in hushed whispers about their next number. She pretended like she couldn't hear them and let her eyes fall closed. Today had been one heck of a day. She'd tried to protect that big ape only to accidently lead him right towards the people she was trying to keep him away from. And then he goes and shoots those guys in the knees and carts her off like a sack of potatoes.
She sighed and glanced out the window near her to see that the sun had gone down. She was damn tired, but while this chair was more comfortable than her cot, it still wasn't something she wanted to sleep on. And she didn't have the energy to walk or fly back to the warehouse so she could stretch out on her cot. Maybe she could just spend the night here then go back to her usual schedule. She groaned and glanced over at the two men who where staring at the computer infront of them.
"So, are you planning on keeping me cuffed to this uncomfortable chair all night or do you plan on letting me sleep somewhere where I can stretch out?" She asked.
Reese and Finch glanced over at her for a minute then at each other.
"We've got that couch in the back room that she could sleep on," Finch stated, one eyebrow raising up.
Dani eyed them warily as she saw a smirk form on Reese's face. He obviously found something funny and she did not trust that smirk for one second. Reese walked over to her and gently uncuffed her. She followed him through the library, Bear on her heals, and into a small room full of bookshelves and books. There was a window seat with a comfy looking red cushion on it off to one side of the room, a table full of books in the middle, and a couch against one wall.
Bear followed her into the small room as she looked over all the books. The sound of a gate closing caught her attention, and she glanced back to see that Reese had just locked her into the room with a metal gate.
"You've got to be fucking kidding me! Seriously, did you just... lock me in here?!" She questioned, moving towards the gate.
"Goodnight Dani," Reese stated, turning back down the hallway.
"Hey, wait a minute. Hey, get your ass back here and open this damn gate!" She shouted, rattling the gate.
Reese just ignored her and kept on walking. He disappeared back into the main room and she slammed her fist into the gate.
"Don't leave me locked in here damn you!" She screamed, kicking the gate this time.
She could not believe that Reese had just locked her in this room. Not that she was really trapped seeing as she could just phase through the walls, but she felt panic envelope her anyway. It reminded her of how Vlad used to lock her in her 'room' in his lab at night, and when he did it she couldn't get out because it was a ghost proof room.
She hated being trapped anywhere, and she hated small spaces. It made her feel like the walls where closing in on her. It took her right back to being under Vlad's control, back to when her very being was unstable and she could fall apart into a puddle of ectoplasmic goo at any moment. Back when Vlad had control of every part of life, and made her help him trick Danny into becoming a lab experiment. Back to when she herself was just some lab experiment.
She felt like she couldn't breath, and she could vaguely hear the sound of Bear barking near her. But her mind was trapped in the past, trapped in that tiny, dark, ghost proof room. Trapped in the memories of that lab and the idea that she just might never make it out of there. So trapped that she didn't even see or hear John and Finch rush into the room...
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AN: Dani is really, really stubborn, but then again so is Reese. And he's got a thing about protecting kids, so I feel like he would never let Dani or any other kid sleep in a warehouse that's falling apart, plus she already admitted to knowing about the library. And the idea of him slinging Dani over his shoulder and carrying her off while she curses at him in Esperanto was just way to funny for me not to use! But yeah, honestly, he's just trying to protect her but, he's kind of going about it in the wrong way. And yes, the room that Reese puts her in at the end of the chapter is the room that Finch locks Root in in the library.
AN2: Yeah, Vlad is an asshole, and Dani has some serious unresolved issues with her time spent in Vlad's 'custody'. Vlad isn't really a good person, and he really didn't treat Dani all that well, and she never really dealt with the trauma from it all. Not for lack of Jazz trying to help, mind you. But just like Danny she doesn't really liked to be psychoanalyzed and instead just ignores everything until it builds up and she can't ignore it anymore.
Translations:
vi filo de putino is Esperanto for "you son of a bitch."
Mi batos vian azenon means "I'm gonna kick your ass."
filo de putino, faligu min, nun vi estas granda simio means "son of bitch, put me down, right now you big ape."
Mi enŝovos mian piedon ĝis nun via azeno, ke vi povos gustumi la spikojn de miaj botoj means "I'm gonna stick my foot so far up your ass you'll be able to taste the treads of my boots"
Bewaker is Dutch for "Guard"
