Dick and Jericho left the record store, as I aimlessly looked at a recorded in one of the stands. Not drawing any attention too myself. The bell of the door rang in my ears, making me cock my gaze to the front door, to see them leave, heading in the direction of the tower. I quickly came to the door and felt myself turn invisible as the door swings shut behind me. My eyes were on Dick and Jericho as the walked a few meters in front but I always had them in eye shot. He probably taking him in, Jason was right, he did like saving people...

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I had managed to sneak my way into the tower, using the elevator with Dick and Jericho, but they stood there in silence, waiting for the elevator to reach it's floor. Just then the elevator doors ding open and Dick exits it quickly, as Jericho took a moment too take in the view.

"Follow me," Dick states to Jericho as he made his way forward, and I made my way out of the elevator before the doors closed. I took each footstep with care. "Guys, I have great news," Dick announces to the rest as I came into the main area of the tower, just as it was going to be in the future but this felt more real, more authentic.

"You're rejoining the circus?" Hank joked, as Dawn, Donna and him were at the island cutting things up for dinner. But they stopped and turned around to see Dick and Jericho, making them go tense.

"No. You have to see this," Dick just replies, as the gang moves away from the island.

"You should have called," Dawn states to Dick.

"Something came up," Dick spoke back crossing his arms over his chest, his eyes on his team mates before turning to look at Jericho. "Go ahead. Show 'em," Dick tells Jericho to use his power.

"He's asking, 'Who?'" Dawn states, as he was sign language to Dawn. 

"'Who' what?" Hank asks, clearly not understanding what was going to happen.

"Hank," I see Dick smile as he offered Hank for his project, but I also had a smile on my face as this was going to be funny to see.

"Hank' what?" Hank went on, raising his voice slightly.

"Look at Jericho," Dick replied to Hank, offering a smile to him as he knew what was about to come. I see Jericho take a deep breath as he was readying himself.

"I don't know what this is about, but I'm gonna-" Hank spoke as Jericho's soul or whatever you wanna call it leaps from his body and into Hank, cutting him off. "Dance," he states, grabbing Dawn by the hand and sliding his leg out and began to dance. "Let's dance," Jericho spoke through Hank.

"What?" Dawn was starstruck as Hank was behaving oddly, and it wasn't like him to be like this. They danced together, swaying around the room.

"My mom taught me this one," Jericho spins Dawn around and then out, before pulling her back in and dips her for a moment before letting her back out to her feet.

"What's happening to Hank?" Dawn was freaking out over Hanks new dramatic change.

"I'm not very good at this," Jericho spoke before he does a ballerina spin but clearly not as good. He then chuckles to himself as everyone was looking at him.

"That's not Hank," Dick told the others as they were totally freaked out about it but Jericho was doing different moves playing around with Hank's body.

"So this is like Invasion of the Body Snatchers?" Donna asks as she takes a hard look at Hank as she made her way to stand in-between Dick and Jericho. 

"Kind of. I can make my consciousness jump into anyone I make eye contact with. I control everything. What they do-" Jericho began to explain, as he danced his way through his explanation, a sudden clap rang out as he made Hank's hands clap together. "-What they say. Hank has no idea. I've rented him out," Jericho spoke doing a little booty pop, making me bit my bottom lip, holding back the laughter.

"No way," Dawn spoke in disbelief, stepping forward to Jericho. He smiles at her and began to sign to her, which I could read. I had to learn sign language for the students who used it. "I hope this doesn't freak you out," Dawn spoke what he had said. 

"This is amazing," Donna spoke her gaze flickering from Jericho's body to Hank, who now turned to face the rest.

"No," Jericho began as he lifted the shirt of Hank up to revel his six-pack, which was really hot to see. I mean I wouldn't mind having a ride on the Hawk. "This is amazing," he points at Hank's abs, finding it amazing to have a body like that.

Everyone chuckles at his response, before he drops the shirt back down. "It sucks to have to give it up,"  he states in a disappointed tone before a figure runs from Hank's body and goes back into Jericho as he came back to his original body.

"Did I just black out?" Hank replied now back to his normal self. "And pull my groin?" He touches his groin as he felt like he had just pulled it. Hank eyes lifted from the ground to meet Jericho's gaze. "What are you laughing at? Did you just..." Hank walks forward annoyed at the situation.

"He said, 'Sorry'. He's sorry," Dawn quickly replies as Jericho did the signs, making Hank stop. Though it was typically of Hank to do something like this.

"Where did you get this power?" Donna turns and asks him, hoping for an answer.

"He doesn't know," Dawn translates into words as he does the signs. "He thinks it's from the drugs his dad took when he was in the military," she spoke for him. "How long have you had this power?" Dawn asks him using sign language to communicate with him. Jericho took a second to think, before using signing. "He doesn't know. Since he was a kid. The only person he told was his dad. Once... The only other person he's told is his mom. Until now," Dawn went on, making me take a few steps forward, creeping closer to the conversation.

"Body-hoping," Donna began, before she turns to look at Dick. "There's so much you could do with that," she spoke while turning back to Jericho.

"Can I talk to you for a second, please?" Dawn spoke while walking pass Donna and in front of Dick her eyes on her as she made her way. I step aside as she passes me, I see Dick unfold his arms and follow Dawn to the elevator. Dick passes me, oblivious that I was currently there. To be honest, he doesn't even know who I am because he hasn't met me yet, none of them have. I'm five years too early...

I watch Dawn and Dick enter the elevator, but I came here to learn the truth about Jericho and how he died and why Dick blames himself. My eyes landed on Jericho who watched them go, but I felt sad for the kid, he seems nice and the guys seem to like him...

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After a few moments upstairs, I wondered down to find Dawn and Dick just outside the training room in the hallway, speaking to one another, I was catching onto the end of their conversation.

"We agreed to cut ties," Dawn spoke, as that was their plan to leave him out of this with his Father.

"He needs us. A gift like that, he's gonna use. It's too tempting not to. We can help him use it the right way, for the right reasons," Dick replies back to Dawn giving her a reason on why he brought him here.

"It's awfully convenient, Jericho's needs and yours," Dawn spoke in a quite tone.

"I thought we all wanted Slade,"

"We do. But not at Jericho's expense," Dawn raised her voice back at Dick as she didn't want to use Jericho like this as she's fond of him and didn't want to see him hurt. Dick couldn't look at Dawn at this moment in time. "Look at us. We're using a kid, a damaged, fucked-up kid who just wanted some friends. To find his damaged, fucked-up father," Dawn wasn't messing around, she has a big heart and she cared a lot.

"Slade took from us," Dick replied back in a deep cold tone, angry that he took Garth.

"He's still taking from us," Dawn responded softly, her gaze on Dick.

"What're you talking about?" Dick said, not sure what Dawn was on about.

"I wake up alone. I go to sleep alone too. You're a ghost these days," Dawn explained to him, and it really touched me, maybe this is why they broke up because of this.

"I'm sorry. I know I've been burning it both ends. And I know how this looks, me bringing him here and taking him on. But I'm telling you, he needs us," Dick words were deep, as he couldn't deny someone help. That's why I like him, he's really a big softy at heart...

"Needs us for what?"

"A place to belong. He wants to be out there in the world, to find his people. But for him, it's not gonna be so easy. He's a freak," Dick told Dawn, as he was right, people fear what they don't understand and label us as Monsters or freaks of nature.

"Just like us," Dawn replies to him, making Dick scoff at her comment as he know she was right.

"Exactly," he replied, making me smile at the thought.

"You do have a saving-people problem, Dick Grayson," Dawn states to him, as she was right, but it was one of his perks.

"I'm working on it,"

"It's why I fell in love," Dawn replies but my smile fades, seeing them like this was kind of hard, in the future they were just friends and have a rocky relationship but seeing them like that was strange to me...

The past is an ugly thing to have knowledge of...

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A/N

Was gonna wait until I got home to publish this but I'm too excited not to publish it now! Hope you like the gifs ;) So please enjoy!!!

- Josh(Yoshi)