There were a lot of ways I could approach my target. Putting aside all the ripples I'd kicked across the timeline, it was still early enough to know a few things. She was young, new to her powers, not particularly confident in them and very,very distrustful of authority.
In addition to that, and in spite all of that she very much wanted to be a hero... at least for now.
So, not likely to have been swooped up into the wards yet. Not this early. I'd definitely rippled away her initial meeting with the team she'd signed on with in the original timeline but if I recalled correctly, that wasn't due for some time yet either.
So right now she should still be in the phase were she was either recovering from her trigger event, or experimenting with her new powers. Researching other capes, and readying what meager resources she could without a decent set of funds to work off of.
Which was an absolutely excellent window for me to approach her in. Taylor was formidable even without the carefully orchestrated 'nudges' of the original timeline to awaken her 'true potential'. Her power was far more then it appeared, her morals, not yet eroded, and she was deliciously pragmatic and ruthless in the operation of her goals.
She wasn't perfect. Putting aside all the drama and issues of being a teenager and only daughter of a widowed father she had some quirks, both native to her, and brought on by her shards tampering that were potentially troublesome, and her ruthlessness was a double edged sword.
Still, she was the best I could grab on short notice, and it also caused all sorts of guilty pleasure to take a bat to the centerpiece of The Simurgh's big plan.
...Not that I was intending to take a bat to Taylor herself. She was a good girl. At this point anyway. Just her metaphorical role in the plot.
So how to approach? At this point I believed that she was testing herself at the boat graveyard...
Or was that in a fanfic? My memories of my time before awaking weren't perfect. The whole 'rebirth' thing and the havoc it played on my mind, body and soul, as such phenomena were want to do. Either way I didn't trust my notably not supernaturally enhanced senses to help me pick out someone like her in that mess when she didn't want to be found.
That left approaching her at home, or approaching her at school. I could pull the latter off easily. Pull my shadow over myself and bam, new teenager in among the crowd. Though it'd be hard to pick her out as 'skinny girl with glasses and long brown curly hair' and would probably be creepy as hell once she realized I was actually a twenty something guy with no complexion and hair that didn't reflect light. A little research and I could even enter in as a teenager, and slowly edge her into things with hints, and hidden messages in a wonderfully cliché scene.
But nah. I didn't feel like wasting time and the sun was already setting. Instead I just threw on a 'joe normal' disguise, grabbed the phone book, and headed down directly for her house.
Of course that could raise issues if her father was present. Taylor didn't want Danny to know about her parahuman status and still was under the illusion that he might not find out and the bigger illusion that it would somehow shield him from the complications of her cape status.
Ah the naivety of youth. You couldn't help but wince and remember when you were that big of an idiot.
Still very few things would piss her off on the same level of blowing her secret.
That left finding some excuse to slip by an overprotective parent to meet with his teenaged daughter...
Fun.
Not impossible.
Lots of ways it could go wrong though. The obvious approach was to fake being a classmate with homework, but not only could that unravel on me in one of a million ways, it could also fail as much as get me in the door.
While also pissing off and confusing Taylor.
Yeah, no.
Door to door salesman would be less likely to backfire but even less likely to get me in the door.
Officer of the law was likely to get me in fine, but also had all kinds of bad questions tied to it and not just directed to me.
Blunt approach it was.
That in mind, I walked up to the door ready to completely derail the lives of an entire family.