After school finally ended Danny went straight to his locker to get rid of his books so he could leave. As he did Richard seemed to suddenly appeared at his side, "You look like you really want to go home."

"I don't have a home and I just want to get out of here."

Danny closed his locker and headed for the exit, Richard immediately followed, "So what's on your mind?"

Danny wished he could tell him there was nothing but they both knew there was, "I'm trying to hunt down a blood thirsty murderer."

"Okay yeah when you say it like that it was kind of obvious, but you know if you ever need help you can just call."

"Right, call the heroes that are supposed to be hunting me and ask for help."

"How can you be so sarcastic?"

"I've been all over the country and put into a lot of abusive foster homes and orphanages with nothing but my own anger and wit to get me through it."

"Okay you're being really blunt right now."

"I'm slightly annoyed and done with all this bullshit at the moment."

Richard sighed and held his hand, "Look, I known things are crazy for you right now but my offer still stands, I don't care what it is if you need help just call."

Danny was quiet for a second, "As much as I hate to say it that does make me feel a little better."

"What do you mean you hate to say it?"

"Just keep walking I don't want to be here any longer then I have to."

Richard smiled a little and they walked out of the school, they let go of each other's hands when the others walked over. Artemis spoke, "So, going to look for a killer again tonight Danny."

"Every night I don't people are pretty much guaranteed to die so yes."

Richard spoke, "You're very negative today."

"That's kind of my whole thing, the pessimistic angry kid that can kick your ass in a fight, or did I not make that obvious enough for you?"

Barbara spoke, "No you made that very clear, you just seemed more blunt then usual."

"It's been a long few weeks."

None of them could argue with that, Danny had to deal with a lot since he got to Gotham and he might not have told them everything either. Isabella spoke, "Are you okay?"

"Anyone asks me if I'm okay and I will punch something."

Toxin spoke, 'You are not in a good mood.'

"No I'm not in a good mood and you know why."

'You are annoyed and tired and would like to not deal with anyone for a while but you don't think that's likely to happen.'

"That is exactly it buddy so please, don't."

'I wasn't going to, but you are taking a nap.'

"I can't say no anyway so fine."

'Wise move.'

The others looked very confused aside from Richard who was smiling just a little, if anyone could help Danny it was Toxin. Lucas spoke, "Um, we should probably go home."

Richard spoke, "That's probably a good idea."

Artemis looked at Isabella, "I'll call you later."

Isabella nodded and Danny rolled his eyes and started walking away so his two foster siblings followed, though Danny didn't consider them family in any sense. They got back to the foster home and Danny dropped his backpack on the floor of his room and laid on his bed. He was so done with people today but he knew he still had to be around people which was not a fun thought to him.

At least he could stay in his room for a while, and Toxin was forcing him to take a nap which he honestly wasn't upset about. So he closed his eyes and fell asleep, when he woke up Mary was calling him for dinner and he didn't want to get up. Then Toxin moved his body and made him get up, Danny wasn't happy, "You couldn't have waited five seconds?"

'No, I want food and you were not moving.'

Danny sighed, "I hate you."

'No you don't.'

Danny wanted to argue but he knew he wouldn't win it so he walked downstairs and sat down despite wanting to go back to bed. They started eating and it was quiet which annoyed him a bit, the twins were talking to each other but that was it. John eventually broke the silence, "So, did anything interesting happen today?"

They all glanced at each other aside from Danny who just kept eating, Lucas spoke, "Not really, pretty normal day."

Mary looked at him, "Danny?"

"You know usually people take silence as an indication that someone doesn't want to talk."

John and Mary glanced at each other, they had no idea what to say or do and Danny just got up and went to his room. Toxin spoke, 'Still upset?'

"Look if they have a problem fine but acting like everything is fine is pissing me off, at least have the decency to leave me the fuck alone."

'They have never dealt with this before.'

"Neither have I but I'm figuring it out and I know they are too but history will show that trying to talk to me when I don't want to talk is a bad idea."

'That is true.'

"Exactly, so I'm going to go out and try to find this killer and try not to punch something, and try to avoid a bunch of heroes."

Danny climbed out the window and headed toward the city, he changed and started searching. He felt like he'd scoured every inch of the city over the past few weeks and he still hadn't caught whoever was doing this. He'd say he was frustrated but that was an understatement, he was surprised he hadn't punched anything yet.

They'd stopped a few criminals already and had just left more for the police, when they spotted a familiar shadow. Toxin spoke, 'That is the killer.'

Phantom spoke, "They're not getting away this time."

They started chasing them when something hit them and knocked them off the roof before they knew what happened. Toxin took over and dug his claws into the side of the building, they landed on the ground and Toxin growled. Someone just threw them off the roof and he was pissed, then he saw that they were being surrounded and he glared at who they were.

The team of heroes had surrounded them and their mentors quickly joined them, but they did notice that Robin, Artemis, and Batgirl weren't there. Toxin spoke, "This is getting annoying."

Aqualad spoke, "Give up, you are outnumbered."

"Clearly you didn't learn from the first time, but we don't have time to deal with you."

Batman glared at them, "Who's we?"

Toxin just growled a little, the heroes moved to attack when something buried itself in the ground between them, it was an arrow. Three figures landed between the heroes and the duo and Toxin's eyes widened just a little, it was Robin, Artemis, and Batgirl. Artemis was pointing an arrow at the heroes and Robin and Batgril had their own weapons out and ready.

Toxin and Phantom just stared at them, Green Arrow spoke, "Artemis, what are you three doing?"

She glared at him, "Protecting our friend."

The other heroes looked shocked, Batgirl looked at them, "Go."

They hesitated, neither of them wanted to just leave them there especially when they were clearly going to get into trouble. Then they heard a scream and they glanced in the direction it came from but they still hesitated. Robin looked at them, "We've got this, go."

They wanted to stay but they had to go, Toxin growled a little before extending his arm to reach the roof and pulling them up before running to where the scream came from. Superman clearly wasn't happy, "You just let that criminal get away."

Batgirl spoke, "He's not a criminal and he's our friend, you're not hurting him, either of them."

Flash spoke, "We weren't going to hurt them."

Artemis spoke, "Didn't look that way, we always attacked them first."

Batman spoke, "You don't actually know them."

Robin glared at him, "I'm dating one of them, and you're not hurting them."

The heroes stared at him in shock, Artemis looked at him, "So you two finally started dating?"

"Can we talk about that later?"

The two nodded and looked back at the heroes, this was going to take some explaining.