#and than maybd tries and get better

[cursedzucchini]

Excuse me but yoooooooo. I'm gonna change the direction entirely

What if this somehow got to red hood and what if the reason why he took in mechanic w literally no previous experience in his file, was bc they were always kidnapped by other villains (kinda like chemistry teachers) or were just plain evil (like trying to assassinate the one they work for).

Now Jason was pretty happy about his new mechanic, but he figured it wouldn't last forever. And now here it was. But dude is really good at fixing (and making) stuff, so until he actively tries to kill Jason, its probably going to be fine (yeah, it definitely doesn't have anything to do w how cute he is, and how he always stammers and blushes when he tells Danny he's under his protection. No sir, no simping here)

So. Now you have Danny, hopelessly in love with a crime lord, trying his best to make a cool gun to impress him, while his ghost hormones (and human ones too) ho haywire.

And Jason, who thinks his mechanic is adorable, but is convinced he's probably going to try and assassinate him in the near future and the pits which literally purr around the guy.

Ig this is all i have, but we could add depth to the reason why Danny wants to gift Jason a gun - i imagine Danny's parents had the love languages like quality time and gift giving, but in the weird ghost way y'know. Like jack would be sad about breaking something, so Maddie would stay up and fix it so she could show him in the morning. Or Maddie would talk about how she would love to do this experiment and jack would prepare it for her. Or they would just spend time together and work in silence, humming some songs playing in the radio.

And Danny could see this as the height of romantic gestures. So now that Jason stops by, stays as he works just doing his own thing, always shamelessly flirts, and sometimes brings him better tools, when he sees they're falling apart, Danny can't help but swoon.

Like just Jason accidentally romancing Danny's human and ghost side idk

The Crime Lord does not stop flirting with me!

When Danny ran away from home and ended up in Gotham he wasn't quite sure what to do, adrenaline was coursing through his veins and all he wanted was a place to be safe.

That's when Crime Alley lit up like a Christmas tree and Danny knew it could be his new home, something about Crime Alley was drawing him in. It wasn't long before he decided to get a job to lay low. Of course, the latter was a bust because Red Hood noticed him almost instantly.

Contrary to his expectations, the Crime Lord took an interest in him but said nothing. He simply asked him to repair his motorcycle like a normal customer in his new job. Danny did and well, he couldn't help but repair some damaged systems and add some modifications. He hoped he wasn't stepping out of line, he just couldn't help himself, it was second nature to repair damaged things.

He thought Red Hood would be angry about it but the man seemed delighted (or as delighted as he could look with the mask), he looked at Danny and asked him what else he could do. Nervously, he told him that he was somewhat good with technology and before he knew it he had been hired by a gang (more or less, they were just asking for some custom orders).

So, technically he established as the mechanic and supplier to the Hood gang, and more specifically to the Crime Lord himself. He gave Hood some upgrades and became his supplier of (mostly harmless) weapons and upgrades. This attracted the attention of most of the gangs that were against the Crime Lord and Batman himself.

Jason, noticing how nervous the guy was assured him that he would protect him and no one was going to hurt him as long as he was around, it was obvious he wasn't from Gotham. For some reason, his new employee blushed every time he said those words.

Danny didn't know if Red Hood understood what he was doing (That was totally a flirt for protection spirits!), every day it was getting harder and harder not to respond to him. His ghost side kept screaming that he got a good match!

Which was technically true, considering that Red Hood had promised him protection and let him stay in his haunt (it became obvious that Crime Alley was his haunt after a few days in Gotham but strangely it accepted him)

Jason continued to promise Danny that he would be safe (poor boy always looked nervous) and Danny wondered how many days he could take the blatant flirting.