Number whatever of Fics I Won't Write:
The Drs Fenton die. Via lab accident, their own blindness, whatever. Jazz is in college or otherwise unable to take custody. So Danny ends up in Gotham (either via escape social services or what have you) and he's tired. His parents are dead and he loved them but. They hurt him. A lot. Constantly. And a tiny part of him was almost relieved they were dead. (and didn't that scare him? Make him terrified of the future where he became Dan) he ends up in Wayne manor. And time passes and maybe they Know and maybe they don't but eventually he has to go back to Amity. (the portal was closed before he left in a fit of pain and tears) but he has Unfinished Buisness in the Realms and Amity is still his haunt (though he's starting to think that Gotham could be one day) and, if he being honest with himself, he misses his rouges, just a little bit. They were different after his parents died, though he had been too grief stricken to notice.
He gets back to Amity, maybe with the bats maybe without. But he says hi to his friends, eats dinner with the Foleys like old times, dodges Dash and eventually ends up in front of the portal. The spot where it had all began. And he opens it. Expect Skulker or maybe Technus or even Clockwork.
Front and center. Like they had been waiting for him.
And, you could play this however you want, anger or obsession driving them.
But I imagined them crying. Begging forgiveness. Saying they finally understand. And they can't believe they shot their baby.
At some point the Bats come in and are just all WTF?
And a past Danny would have been angry
Would have forgiven them anyway.
But this Danny was trained by Batman. Taught loss from Bruce Wayne.
Saw what holding onto the need for revenge did to him. Saw what his No Kill rule did to Jason.
This Danny learned that even the unforgivable can be forgiven. Understands that you don't owe it to anyone but yourself.
This Danny knows boundaries. Understands talking and teamwork and peace.
This Danny grieved. For his parents. For a childhood he never got. For his own half death.
This Danny had hope that they would get a second chance. Had hoped for year's that when he opened that portal he would be able to track them down and be a family again.
This Danny knew they were never really a family to begin with. This Danny was a Wayne for all he was a Fenton. This Danny knew that family should be afraid for each other. Not of each other. This Danny had enough sleep and hadn't gone to bed hungry in a long time. This Danny knew that being afraid to eat in your own home was wrong.
He reached out and hugged his parents. Introduced them to the Waynes. And tells them that they have a lot of work to (un)do.
Jazz will be so proud once she finishes her doctorate and sees what kind of man her brother has grown up to be.
