The Feast!
Inspired by this post
Danny, now an adult, works as an engineer and tech developer for Wayne Enterprises. One day, he has to bring his daughter, Ellie, into work with him. Ellie’s school had been temporarily shut down after a rouge attack, and the campus isn’t yet safe for the students to return to.
Tim couldn't help himself if he tried. The tiny slip of a thing had not only snuck up on him?!? She had apparently also smuggled 20+ oranges in with her. The look on her Dad's face screamed resigned amusement. Everything about her screamed trouble. The good, fun and kind trouble of a young mischief maker. He knew his laughter was likely uncomfortably close to cackling right now. But she was the best thing he'd seen all month. Tim forced himself to slowly stop. Holding his stomach for a second he grinned at the child of an employee. Who seemed gleeful at the chaos she had created. Then he stuck out a hand. Chaos like this needed encouragement after all.
Tim: Well hello there mischief! I'm Tim, who are you and your Dad?
Ellie: I'm Ellie, and Papa is Danny. You should have an orange Mr Tim. You look tired. Snacks help!!
Tim: Thank you Ellie. It's kind of you to offer. So! What are you looking forward to this week? Other than feeding people oranges?
Ellie: Papa works on space machines! And he says there's videos to some of them!! which sounds amazing!!!!!
Tim: It is very cool. Did your Papa tell you why we have the videos?
Ellie: Papa says lotsa reasons? Early detection of stuff. In case machines get broken. To learn more about space! And cause they could so why not.
Tim: *treats ellie with respect, doesn't talk down to her, is delighted by her chaos, is Danny's age*
Danny: *having heart palpitations cause the guy is ALSO very hot* oh god oh no oh fuck oh shit *falls in love instantly*
Loving this so far but I have one very important question.
What about Dan?
Do we have an Uncle Dan who has been banned from babysitting Ellie because the last time ended with several felonies!
An Big Brother Dan who goes to a different school than Ellie and is very upset he doesn’t get to go to work with Danny?
Or a Baby Dan in some kind of high security daycare or spending time with Grandpa Frostbite/Clockpa/Pappy Pariah/Nona Pandora?
Each has its own potential.
For example….
We could have Uncle Dan babysit Ellie while Danny has Date Night with Tim. The two decide to spy on Danny’s date and run into the other bat sibs doing the same.
We could also have Big Bro Dan being super overprotective of Danny and tries to bite Tim who is having Damian flashbacks.
Or we could have Baby Dan using his apparent age to trick people into thinking he’s oh so innocent when he’s really Ellie’s mischief making sidekick/mastermind of behind all the chaos.
Ohhhh god I love the idea of Uncle Dan or Dan being Ellie’s big brother that goes to another school (and he couldn’t come to work bc he had an important test that day or something, otherwise Danny would have absolutely brought him along)
I had been trying to think of how to incorporate Dan when I first wrote the prompt but I couldn’t figure out how to work him in and now you’ve given me ideas.
I was also thinking of a fourth option: Danny is currently incubating Dan’s core after he was injured and had to revert in order to properly heal. And due to the extent of his injuries, neither Danny nor Frostbite are 100% sure how long Dan will need to heal. So imagine Danny and Tim finally start dating, and then, all of a sudden lil baby Dan pops out.
Either Danny can explain to Tim the truth. Or, Tim has convinced himself that Dan is his child now. He somehow indented Danny and now they have a baby brother for Ellie.
