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💙 Caught in 4k by KizuKatana
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🔒💙 Caught in 4k
by KizuKatana (@kizukatana)
E, Series, WIP, 184k, Wangxian
Summary: A night-hunt goes wrong, and Wei Wuxian is scapegoated for the death of the Jiang Sect Leader and the destroyed core of the Jiang Sect Heir. As punishment, his core is taken and given to Jiang Cheng, and he is stripped of his cultivation credentials and expelled from the sect. What everyone forgot was that Wei Wuxian was wearing the standard issue body camera that each cultivator wore on training missions and high-risk night-hunts. Struggling to make ends meet, Wei Wuxian finds his way to Caiyi Town with the doctor who performed the surgery, a partial core still secretly in place. His application to work at Cloud Recesses is summarily rejected by the hard-edged Second Jade of Lan after an unfortunate initial encounter. But things change when someone hacks into the Jiang systems and releases the footage of what happened. Kay's comments: The series is still a WIP, but the main story is complete! I am so weak for Kizu's modern AUs with cultivation, they are great. Especially the world building and how the cultivation society might function in a modern AU shines in this story. Definitely not a story for fans of the Jiang family, but a story for everyone who wants to see some retribution for the things Wei Wuxian went through. Here, Jiang Fengmian dies during a night-hunt accident where Jiang Cheng's golden core gets destroyed and Madam Yu makes Wei Wuxian give his golden core to him, unfortunately for her, his body-cam is still filming everything. Wei Wuxian finds himself taken in by Wen Qing and her family and we get the sweetest found family and Dadxian vibes here and then meets Lan Wangji as well, who's highly judgemental at first but soon finds himself drawn to Wei Wuxian as well. This story really got it all, the drama, the horny, the softness, the restitution & humor. Excerpt: Still Wei Wuxian forced himself to at least try one last time. “You could also interview me. Have me talk to your best talisman experts,” Wei Wuxian said, forcing himself to keep the desperation out of his voice. “Interviews are scheduled based on receipt of proper credentials and references.” “I don’t have any, at least not right now. But that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t be a great teacher.” “No references, no interview.” “Come on. Look, ask me anything about talismans. You’re an experienced cultivator, right? So you must know enough to at least interview me to see if I know what I’m talking about.” “Simply ‘knowing about something’ is not sufficient. Our lecturers are renown cultivators, and masters in their fields. No references, no interview.” Wei Wuxian felt frustration well up in him, especially at the reminder that Lan Wangji didn’t see him as a cultivator. No one would, in his current condition. Why would they? He didn’t have a functional core, which was the main scale against which all cultivation efforts were measured. He thought he had done a good job of not getting his hopes up about the teaching position, but the suffocating feeling constricting his chest was calling him out for being a liar. He should have known better. Why did he never learn? Some people had luck on their said, but Wei Wuxian had never been one of them. “Right. Of course. Because it would be impossible for someone who wasn’t born to the fucking clan nobility to ever actually be good at something, and the cost of taking the mastery test makes sure that other people can’t do it!” Lan Wangji’s lips parted slightly, like he might say something, but his expression was as opaque and emotionless as before. Wei Wuxian didn’t need to sit around and listen to him defend the clan system. “Good to know that the Lan are just the same as all the other sects,” Wei Wuxian continued, his lips twisting into a sarcastic smile. “Thanks for making that clear.”
pov alternating, modern setting, modern with magic, yu ziyuan being an asshole, dysfunctional jiang family, jiang family bashing, canon divergence, golden core reveal, burial mounds ensemble as family, golden core transfer, golden core transfer fix-it, top lan wangji/bottom wei wuxian, dual cultivation, strangers to lovers, misunderstandings, meet ugly, families of choice, hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort
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DP PROMPT #19
Danny is still a halfta but he gets transported into the realms immediately. He wakes up with minimal memories, only knowing that he has to find his friends. Why? He doesn't know either, but he NEEDS them. Since Danny is a baby ghost, he gets adopted quite easily by his would be rouges and never goes through that phase of 'ghosts are trying to kill me because they are mean'
By the time Danny makes it back to the land of the living, he's on a mission. Things are different, his friends are suspended murderers and are currently on trial. His parents went mad with grief and while they don't think Sam and Tucker killed Danny, they do think that ghosts stole him.
Danny processes to kidnap Sam and Tucker from their preliminary trial and whisk them away to the Ghost Zone. They don't recognize Danny at first, especially since it's been a year or two since the incident. Just,,, Everlasting Trio finds each other and they are all changed but they still care about each other and it's just them learning about each other again.
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Suspended Bridges by foresthearts
@kiaramori
Rating: Mature
243,553 words, 35/35 chapters
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Omega Steve Harrington, Alpha Eddie Munson, Stancy is not endgame, Steve thinks he’s afraid of Eddie when he really just has a big fat crush, Oblivious Steve Harrington, mentions of Mpreg because omegaverse, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Steve meets Eddie before s4, Slow Burn, Steve Harrington Has Bad Parents, Period-Typical Homophobia, Steve is an omega pretending to be an alpha, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Unreliable Narrator, Tall Eddie, Dom/sub Undertones, Dom Eddie Munson, EMT Steve Harrington, Mileven will break up in this i am sorry, Mutual Pining, Family Dynamics, Redemption Arcs, Found Family, Misunderstandings, But hopefully not in an obnoxious way, Protective Eddie Munson
Summary:
“Steve really needed to get his stupid thing he had with Munson under control. He struggled to find a word for it. It was like an anti-crush or something. The same awareness and panic that a crush brought, but not because he had feelings for the guy. Because of the opposite. Because any time he saw Munson, his heart kicked up in fear, his breathing got shallow, his whole body started to warm. Munson made him want to turn heel and run.” In which Steve has the opposite of the suspended bridge effect. (Featuring omega!Steve pretending to be an alpha and alpha!Eddie silently losing his mind.)
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Tipped Off
Wuh-oh. Poor tiny guy gets caught by a giant of dubious morality ;D
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Kole dug his fingers into the thick skin of the giant's palm holding him far too high up in the air, shaking like a leaf.
He scooched as best he could into the center of the hand despite how much it terrified him to be in it in the first place. Anything was better than being close to the edge, to seeing the fatal drop-off only inches away from his shivering form.
The giant's fingers were flattened straight out, offering no stability or handholds for Kole to desperately clutch onto. He'd never felt so vulnerable, so exposed.
At his back, the human chuckled lowly, sending a warm gust of air against him that had the hairs against the back of his neck standing on end.
He swallowed convulsively, squeezing his eyes shut and hunching further into himself, wishing he could cross his arms over his chest in a poor imitation of a hug, desperate for comfort, but too terrified at the thought of taking his palms off the grounding support of his weak grip on the giant's skin.
Kole's eyes snapped back open wide as his world suddenly began to tilt.
As the palm beneath him began to tilt.
He frantically scrambled backwards as the giant's fingers tipped downwards and revealed the awaiting ground below. He felt himself sliding forwards, and a scream ripped free from his throat.
"No - please!" he pleaded, panic-struck, leaning backwards as far as he could to try to counteract the slant of the giant's palm. It wouldn't be enough - it already wasn't enough - and he could feel his grip slip. His heart leapt into his throat as he tumbled forwards and towards the awaiting precipice.
Only to be caught as, at the very last second, the giant's palm leveled back off, causing Kole to land against the being's thick, long fingers with a breath-expelling 'oof' and a choked off keen.
Over the edge of the tips of the human's fingers, the concrete ground so far below seemed to stare back up at him almost tauntingly, and a flashbulb picture of his body, bloody and broken, seared across his mind.
"Oops," the giant teased - teased - and Kole's shoulders rose to his ears as he scooted himself away from the edge once more. He ducked his head, and his lips trembled, his fingers white-knuckled where he once more had them clenched into the grooves of the human's skin.
He didn't want this. He didn't want to play this game. He didn't want to be played with like this was a game - like he was a game, or a thing to be played with. He didn't even know what this giant who had captured him wanted from him at all.
Did he want Kole to beg again? To cry and plead and debase himself for the chance at keeping himself alive?
Kole would do it. He would do anything as long as it meant he wouldn't be subjected to whatever horrible fate the giant could dole out to him as easy as anything. Wasn't that what the being had just done? Shown Kole how simple of a thing it would be to snuff out the borrower's puny, pointless existence?
Kole had never been caught by a human before, but he knew the stories. Even without them, it wasn't hard to imagine what a being so many times larger than him could do. Things even worse than just letting him go splat against the ground. Like step on him, or sit on him, or rip his limbs straight from his body without even exerting any strength, or bite him in half with its powerful jaws, or swallow his entire form whole, or crush him in the palm of its hand.
Kole shivered, fruitlessly attempting to dispel the thought as his awareness of where, exactly, he was in that moment seemed to hone in just that much more.
He just hoped the giant wouldn't keep him.
Perhaps any fate would be better than that.
Above him, there was a loud, impatient-sounding sigh, and Kole startled in shock upon realizing how long he must've been lost in his spiraling thoughts for, his muscles all at once tensing with renewed ferocity.
"You're no fun," the human complained, almost - almost disappointed-like, and Kole's blood froze solid with an unprecedented amount of dread. Dread that became warranted as the hand that had been holding him aloft, keeping him undisputedly as its prisoner but simultaneously, contrarily safe, was suddenly upturned.
The scream that tore its way out of Kole's throat was sharp and jagged as he went airborne, and in that instant he would've done anything to be back in the giant's hold.
Instead, he was free-falling to the cold, hard ground below him. The wind whistled in his ears offbeat from the blood pounding through his skull, his limbs splayed out at his sides as he desperately, uselessly, tried to slow his fatal descent.
The ground came closer and closer and closer, but Kole couldn't even force his gaze away from his imminent fate, his wind-stung eyes locked onto the rapidly approaching grey, flat ground.
It felt like both less than an instant and a million years had passed before something slammed into his side, and for a second Kole was too disorientated from the abrupt end to his fall to realize what had happened.
It was only as he blinked rapidly, feeling warmth seep into his terror-chilled bones from all around, that he realized.
The giant had caught him.
And all at once, it was too much.
His eyes abruptly welled with tears, and he was helpless to stop them. He opened his mouth to take in a desperately needed breath only to choke on a hiccuping sob.
He trembled violently, and it only worsened with every twitch of the human's monstrous fingers around him. Hot tears spilled over his pale cheeks, and he couldn't strangle the horrible-sounding whimpers that fell free from his twisted lips.
He barely had the presence of mind to hear the giant as it next spoke, and he might not have had its voice not been as overwhelmingly deep and reverberating as its kind's was known to be.
"I was just messing with you," it muttered, almost like it was uncomfortable with Kole's pathetic breakdown.
Kole didn't believe the human's words. Its actions were too careless, too cruel, to have been anything but malicious. He couldn't accept the thought that anyone - anything - with a single ounce of kindness, of compassion, in its heart would do such a thing.
The others had been right.
Humans were monsters, and a borrower's life meant nothing to them at all.
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poor bebe ;(
dumb dumb giant, where'd that big brain o' yours go??
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dcxdpdabbles · 3 months
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Danny, working as a cashier: Can I help you?
Tim half-deranged: Please I just want a cup of coffee
Danny squinted, then pulled out a binder: I'm sorry, sir, but you are on the Don't Serve Coffee list. I can offer you some tea instead-
Tim: NO. THIS IS THE FIFTH PLACE. BRUCE CAN'T OWN YOU ALL!
Danny leaning in to whisper: Look, man, I can't give you coffee under the cameras. Meet me in the back alley in twenty minutes and I'll get you a coffee. Bring Cash.
Tim: how much? Five hundred, six hundred or hell even a thousand? I'll bring whatever you want.
Danny: Chill dude, it's a cup of coffee. Three dollars is fine.
Tim: It's not just any coffee! It's my favorite brand and Bruce bought them out just to make sure they wouldn't sell to me anymore!
Danny: okay okay, this coffee means a lot to you. I get it. Twenty minutes alright?
Jason three weeks later in Bat cave: Tim's on drugs! I've caught him trading cash for small containers in a shady alley six times. We need an intervention.
Dick: What?! I thought that was his boyfriend!
Bruce: I also thought that was Tim boyfriend but if it's a drug dealer we have to help him.
Tim hiding in the shadows: shit.
Tim texting Danny: If anyone asks your my secret boyfriend who been making me teas in allies
Danny: who the hell would believe that? But I've had a boring week, so yeah, I'm down to be a pretend boyfriend.
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ghost-bxrd · 3 months
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Prompt:
Tim is the first to find out the Red Hood’s identity and from then on sticks to Jason during patrol like glue (much to Jason’s chagrin, dammit, it would feel wrong to beat up Robin when he’s that starry eyed…)
Cue: PANIC from the rest of the Batfamily, who still think Hood is a forty-something year old crime lord and now assume they’re dating.
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bet-on-me-13 · 12 days
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Vampire Misunderstanding
So! Danny got adopted by Bruce Wayne, but he doesn't know that Bruce is the Batman. He is just supernaturally oblivious to all things Batman related going on in the House.
But he does notice that Bruce leaves home a lot at night, that he doesn't like to go out in the day and often has his parties at night, and once or twice he's caught Bruce with a bit if blood still splattered on his cheek.
So he comes to the only plausible conclusion. Bruce is a Vampire.
He starts trying to hint at the fact that he knows, but doesn't want to just go out and say it. What if Bruce reacts negatively to him knowing? He's dealt with enough Supernatural Beings to know that they don't like other people (and especially other supernatural beings) intruding on their lives.
So Danny decided to subtly hint at it.
He started asking questions like "So hypothetically, how would you deal with having a Garlic Allergy in Gotham?" Or "So if you had very sensitive skin that could sunburn extremely easily, how much cloud cover would you need to go outside?" And "So what's your opinion on a High-Iron Diet?"
Basically just tossing out questions and trying to Guage Bruce's reaction.
He thinks he's doing a good job!
...
Bruce is certain that he has adopted a Vampire.
Danny is a good kid, but he has a few oddities that are hard to ignore.
For one, his skin is constantly Ice Cold, but he never seens to be bothered by it. As if he was an Undead that didn't require Body Heat anymore.
He also seems to like Hanging out in the Graveyard outside, and when asked about it he says that he is comforted by the place. Just like the Vampires he has met in the past, who feel comfortable when surrounded by Death.
And of course the biggest reason for suspicion is the fact that Danny seems to be hinting at it to him.
He keeps asking stuff like "How would you deal with a Garlic Allergy in Gotham?", probably trying to hint that he is a Vampire who can't eat Garlic, or asking about easy to sunburn skin, saying that he is probably not a Daywalker.
Bruce hopes Danny will just come clean about it soon, he doesn't want to intrude upon the kid when he is so obviously nervous about how he will react.
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rboooks · 10 months
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DC X DP fic idea: Congratulations! It's Triplets!
Jason Todd can't remember half the crazy shit he did when he returned from the dead. There were a few years when his memory gaps were so significant lost he honestly forgot what year it was.
So he's not surprised he did some dumb shit where he was less weapon and more power-hungry teen.
He doesn't remember Jazz Fenton that well, but he does remember waking up next to her, making her breakfast as a thank-you for the fun night, and slipping away before she could ask too many questions. Logically he knows that leaving before she woke up was a bit of a asshole move but he hadn't cared back then.
He had thought he would never see her again.
Imagine his surprise when she enters a youth space program WE is running five years later. By this point, he had calmed most of his pit rage and had reconnected with his family. Bruce had even legally made him alive again so he's there as Brucie's second oldest.
Tim had practically shoved him as one of the heads of the program since Jason had rapidly developed the image of being the most Charity drive Wayne.
The point was to help city kids go on clear sky trips and co-work with NASA to help children who love the stars get closer to them.
Jason knew that Jazz, a woman of twenty-three, would have no reason to be present since the program was for kids ages four to twelve.
But the three dark hair blue, eye triplets that were dragging her around the booths indeed did.
By the looks of the triplets, they were five to six-year Olds.
Jason also noticed another thing about them. They were exact copies of himself and five years ago was the last time he saw Jazz before slipping away.
It wasn't possible right?
Trying not to bring attention to himself, he followed them through the event, noting every little gesture the children made. With each passing second he saw more and more of himself in them. Once the lights were dimmed for the crew to project an exploding star on the walls and ceiling, he could creep close enough and steals three hair samples.
Later he would test the DNA against his own and find himself staring at the results with slight horror.
He's a father to triplets and left their mother alone to raise them on her own. Jason needed to fix this as soon as he could.
(Danny, Dani and Dan get de-age after a misguided attempt to take the throne from Danny by a ghost whose extraordinary power was to revert people into a weaker stage and attack them. Luckily even as small children, they were able to defeat her. Unfortunately, they would have to regrow the human way to return to their ages.
Clockwork offers them a different dimension for them to age in, explaining it run crazy slow compared to thier own. One year in the other world would be a week back home.
They talk to Jazz who agrees to take emergency leave from work after faking a terrible accident with her brother, and she hopes over to Earth-slightly-to-the-left to find a house suitable for re-raising her siblings. There she realizes this is her chance to enjoy her youth too.
She has her first one-night stand.
She doesn't tell them when they hope over, and all of them go about life as simply as they can in a city as dangerous as Gotham.
They find out later that there is even a slight version of their family here though it's primarily due to someone on their dads' side of the family messing up the family tree by marrying someone different than their great-grandfather
Instead of Fentons, the versions of their family name is, Evans. Crazy.
Even more Crazy is that they return home after a week-long camping trip through a NASA-based program to find Bruce Wayne at their doorstep, a team of lawyers behind him, and Jason Todd holding flowers next to him.
He thinks he's the father of the three because that's what the DNA pulls since it's a version of them and when Jazz is so worried about collapsing the timeline and getting on Clockworks bad side she plays along.
She later finds out from a very calm Danny that Jason is not related to them. It's just that their comeback from the dead rearranged all three of their DNAs, so Jason was merely matching there. Jazz testing herself against Jason proves this to be true.
Dan and Dani? They just wanted a rich dad who showered them with gifts in an attempt to make up for missing six years of their lives.
Danny just wants Jazz to admit she's in love with Jason.
Abd Jazz? Well, she just wants to be a good guardian for them and hopes she can pretend to be Jason's baby mamma until they can hope back home.)
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shurikthereject · 17 days
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A little sketch of an AU i had in mind for a while now. (Though this is mainly just a way to force myself to get better at drawing animals lol.)
So you guys know how Hobbits don't wear shoes? Well this is kinda the same thing except it's with pants. Hobbits are super confused why other races restricted their movements like that and think that pants are nasty uncomfortable things. The company was bewildered when Bilbo chased after them when they left Bag End with NO pants. Thorin being very embarrassed at this wouldn't look him in the eye and avoid him at all cost. Bilbo thinks he's still mad at him. Misunderstandings occur.
Anyway this sounded a lot funnier in my head. Let me know if y'all would like to see more sketched of them!
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nerdpoe · 6 months
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Jason, freshly returned to Gotham from Nanda Parbat, has a cover for finding out who the Big Players are.
His cover is being a prostitute.
He was not aware of Oracles facial recognition rogram also running for grown up versions of missing kids.
He was not aware that she put Jason's 15 year old face in there out of grief and forgot to remove it.
Now the Bats think that Jason's had amnesia this whole time and really IS a prostitute, and Bruce is trying so hard to be supportive its painfully awkward, and Jason is ready to just say "fuck it surprise im red hood" but like...also it's funny to watch Bruce squirm.
Second thought, it's hilarious.
So Jason commits to the bit in between his Red Hood runs, recording and laughing over how fucking awkward Bruce and Dick and Tim are.
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superbat-love · 7 months
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Bruce: [scowling] And why should I help you, Queen?
Oliver: Come on, Bruce! Think of it as a favor for your best friend.
Superman stomps over, eyes glowing red.
Kal-El: How dare you! [grabs the front of Oliver’s shirt and lifts him off the ground]
Oliver: W-What? What are you doing? What did I do?
Bruce: Kal, put him down!
Kal-El: I won’t let you move in on what’s mine! I’m Bruce’s best friend! You’re just a boy friend.
Oliver: Huh? I’m not his boyfriend! I’m dating Dinah!
Superman’s eyes dim, and he puts Oliver down.
Kal-El: You’re Dinah’s best friend?
Oliver: I’m her boyfriend. Her romantic partner. Dinah and I are in love!
Kal-El: [turns to Bruce] Bruce, I want a downgrade from being your best friend to being your boy friend.
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call-me-strega · 2 months
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Dc x Dp Prompt #15: Not Quite Like Hades and Persephone
Hades and Persephone type au but Danny is Persephone and splits his time between ruling the realms and being on the mortal plane with his family. He uses duplicates to help him out by leaving one in the realms when he goes home to visit bc of course the realms need constant supervision.
One day the JL needs help and summons the ghost king, are awed by his power, blah blah blah, yada, yada, yada, you know the drill. After the fight they’re getting ready to send him back when the duplicate makes a throw away comment about how it would have been easier with his other half and he wonders how the family visit is going before he leaves and everyone is left going “?!?!!???!!!!”
And because none of them know how to leave well enough alone they reach wildly incorrect conclusions the King Phantom has a human consort and they have a Hades and Persephone arrangement going on.
Well all of the except one (1) person of your choosing who straight up tracks Danny down and asks about. They are the only ones who get a straight answer and the truth. Evidently, because Danny is a little shit, he lets them believe whatever they want until they outright ask him about it like the one hero did. The one hero become Danny’s partner in crime trying to convince the others that A) yes this totally is a Hades and Persephone type of situation and B) yes they are totally trying to turn this situation into a throuple.
Chaos and hilarity ensues. Do with this what you will.
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DC X DP PROMPT #15
Despite what most people would think, Danny was an excellent driver. It took a lot of hard work and extra classes, but he is by far the safest driver of the family. So safe in fact that others often make fun of him for it.
'You'll get there eventually with Grandma driving!' 'It's like going even a fraction over the speed limit is gonna give you a heart attack or something'
It was fine. Danny was proud about being a safe driver. It's what he worked for! His family already contributed to enough property damage.
Driving in Gotham was a very different experience from driving in Amity. His new friends made fun of him even more now.
It was one of these playful ribs that he shot out his favorite reply (one he hadn't gotten the chance to use since moving).
"Well, you know what they say; you should only do one illegal thing at a time!" Danny thought he was hilarious (as his species was still technically illegal), the Batkid (you decide) overanalyzed (as usual).
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spacebubblehomebase · 18 days
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Happy birthday, Anthony! I just finished drawing this on April Fools and thought it fits. What better thing to post today than some queerplatonic Radioapple tomfoolery? And the fact that Angel Dust invited himself in it is just one big beautiful bonus! So please enjoy! -Bubbly 💙
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moonlight-stalker · 4 months
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# Dcu x Dp 154
After Danny was able to escape from the GIW he moved to Gotham where he fell in love with Jason Todd aka Red Hood.
One day as Danny was in his room Batman himself appeared and pretty much told him he knew who he was and what he was. Danny thinks that he knows about the ecto acts and is there to turn him in.
He did not want Batman to find out that Jason was also an ecto entity so Danny did the only thing he could in his panic, he left a note that explained what happened and that he was breaking up with him to protect him and that he would brake if Jason is ever caught, that he does not want Jason to look for him.
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dcxdpdabbles · 1 month
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DCxDP fanfic idea: In 30 minutes or less!
Danny is a delivery man.
He got the job after realizing his resume was severely lacking in terms of working experience.
Also when he needed more money for his own purchases. There is a big difference between begging his parents for an allowance and earning his own spending funds.
The thing is, no matter where Danny applied, he was not getting a call back. Jazz warned him that a majority of Amity Park didn't hire them - as she also attempted to get a part-time job when she was his age - because of the Fenton last name.
She swore and hissed, but she couldn't prove that it was the reason they weren't hired. She just heard the talk around the town. They all said they wouldn't want to hire from the lunatic family.
That whenever a Fenton went , something bad quickly followed.
It stung, that not even Nasty Burger wanted him. That placed hired people under sixteen for Pete's sake. But Danny was resourceful. If Amity Park hadn't hired him, then he would just try the other place he had civilianship in.
The Infinite Realms.
Danny figured that if societies existed with the Realms, then they had to have a form of currency. He just needed to find one that used the same one as his world did.
FrostBite was more than happy to point him in the right direction. Since his people were the ones to spend generations attempting to map out the Realms, he had found a part of the ghost zone that Danny could blend into easily.
It was only a thirty minute commute from Danny's family portal. He could easily make that after school.
Thus, Danny flew to the portal location FrostBite told him about and ended up in a place called Central City. He found employment very quickly at Joel's Pizza, and for sixteen dollars a hour he was racing across the city to give some sizzling pizza pies.
. He was given a company scooter, but Danny preferred to fly. No one saw him as he never turned off his invisibly until he arrived at the destination. He got great tips for his speed, and his boss was fun to work for.
His parents are proud that he has a job and is not causing trouble. His friends also have their own jobs so Sam and Tucker have to plan their meet ups now- buts that's just a part of growing up.
The only thing that made his part-time difficult was the ghosts. Not all of them bothered him now a days but a few still did.
Like Young Blood. The brat didn't seem to care that Danny was going to be late to a shift since he had no concept of the importance of adult responsibilities. He was able to text his boss an apology using school as an excuse, but he was still thirty minutes late and sporting a black eye.
Joel stared at him for a long moment, muttered something in Spanish, before handing him five pizza boxes, and told him to take it to the central city police department. Danny was supirse he didn't even lecture him.
When he got to the station, the person in front told him to wait a moment since it was the forensic department that ordered food. He waited a few minutes until a blond man came down the hall, with a cheerful smile.
That smile fell when Danny turned to look at him. There was a brief flash of something dark that crossed his expression before the smile was back ten fold
"Hello," Danny said, standing up. "Order for Barry?
"That's me!" The man grins, holding out a wad of cash "Keep the change."
Wow. A fifty dollar tip!
"Sure thanks!"
"Welcome kid!"
Danny practically skipped away, Barry Watching him climb onto his scooter and slowly blending back into the traffic.
He turned to look at Officer Dawn "Is it just me or was that kid covered in bruises?"
Officer Dawn's mustache twitches with displeasure. "He definitely was. Looked fresh, too. Not only that but he works for Joel Pizza"
"This Joel a trouble maker?"
"The opposite, he was a foster kid. Once he aged out and got his own business, he started hiring teenagers in similar situations. Usually, his staff are all kids who are having a rough time. If things are too bad, he makes reports, but we try to avoid it. Don't want to lose one of the few trustworthy safe spaces for those kids." Officer Dawn's hesitates for a second before he carefully asks."A cop poking around may spook them, but a forensic chemist won't. Do you mind finding out what the delivery kid's deal is for me?"
"I look into it." Barry promises already knowing the Flash is also going to be following the boy just to make sure he safe.
He hates it when kids get hurt. Remind him too much of Wally.
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