Death Defying Hurt/Comfort Idea
Danny and Dick are dating, their relationship is at the stage where its beginning stages of getting serious. Because Dick's family is so important to him, he wants to introduce Danny to them; And since Dick and Danny live in Bludhaven, they stay at the manor for a week.
But the Wayne's really don't like Danny. He so different from the kinds of people Dick usually goes for, and none of the family really thinks the relationship is going to last. Danny's so ordinary, with seemingly no career goals, not to mention hes weird, completely disregarding his strange family, Danny himself is just weird. The only ones who are open to Danny are Cass and Jason, Cass because Danny is harmless, and Jason because he could care less about the situation. Alfred has his doubts about the relationship lasting, but hes polite and kind regardless.
Danny is super uncomfortable. He can feel that nobody really likes him, but he wants his relationship with Dick to go good so he puts up with it. He deals with the nitpicking, and dirty looks, and judgemental stares, and criticism, and he doesn't say a word about it to Dick because he looks so happy spending time with his family.
But then it goes too far. Damian says something thats just a bit too scathing, and Danny can't stop himself bursting into tears, he excuses himself back to his room, Dick following behind him worriedly, completely confused.
In the room, after Danny has mostly stopped crying he tells Dick he doesn't want to be around his family anymore. He really likes Dick, and hes not breaking up with him or making him choose between Danny and his Family, but Danny refuses to surround himself with people who hate him. He had already gone 7(ish) years in that kind of environment back in Amity Park and he just, he doesn't want to put up with that again. At the end of his explaination, Danny is crying all over again, memories of his Parents hating him as Phantom and his Peers hating him as Danny for the sin of simply existing still fresh in his head.
Dick apologizes profusely, he had no idea they where saying or doing any of those things. He thought maybe Danny would get a shovel or two, and Damian would grump around like a feral cat but, had he known how bad they were being he would have immediately pulled Danny to leave. Its too early to call what he feels for Danny love, but he deeply cares for him all the same and Danny doesn't have to, and shouldn't have deal with that kind of treatment.
Once they're calmed down, Dick and Danny pack, and leave. Its too late to drive back to Bludhaven, so they go to a hotel, and make plans to cuddle up with a movie in the hotel room.
Bruce tries to stop Dick at the door, but Dick just tells him he doesn't want to see the family at the moment. That his family hurt someone Dick was starting to care deeply about for absolutely no reason disgusted Dick and he didn't want to be around them right now. Maybe, he'd reach out in a few weeks, after he cleared his head. With that he shut the door, and continued to the car where Danny was waiting.
















