#jason's situation was just a mess and danny gave him an acceptable out

[kaidatheghostdragon]

Clearly bruce has very high regards for danny if he's willing to inflict his children on him. This is a good prompt for a hyper competent danny.

The bats try to slack off on post patrol debrief, and danny calls them out on it.

Danny successfully found every last one of tim's hidden caches of caffeinated drinks, and wrangled him into a sleep schedule that could almost be considered sustainable.

He deftly avoided all of steph's pranks except one, which he deliberately triggered just so he could see steph's face when he phased out of the glitter.

Jason's still not sure how it happened, but danny somehow convinced him to cook half the meals and stay for dinner on those nights.

(Alternative idea - if bruce has known danny for years, he would have gone to danny to get help for jason when he returned full of pit rage, so jason already knows danny better than the rest of the fam, and is here to watch the chaos unfold.)

Damian, of course, needed to test the competency of the babysitter, which translates into potentially lethal sneak attacks. He has yet to be able to successfully surprise danny, and danny has caught every knife thrown his way as if lazily plucking them from the air.

He's also kept them all, refusing to return any until he has been dismissed from his duty as babysitter from either bruce or alfred.

Cass took one look at danny and understood that danny was much more than meets the eye. She has been perfectly polite the entire time, and in return, she's the only one of the batkids that danny implicitly trusts.

Dick, despite being the oldest, is the instigator of the majority of shenanigans and bad ideas. The man does not have a single responsible bone in his body. (Danny is pretty sure he doesn't have any bones, period, but that's beside the point.)

Danny eventually understands why these people need a babysitter. Being highly trained vigilantes has done nothing to curb their stupidity. (Danny remembers when he was a young stupid vigilante. He doesnt hold it against them. Its just extremely exhausting trying to keep them alive. Thank the ancients he was already dead, or he wouldn't have survived a tenth of the stupid things he did when he and his friends were stupid teen vigilantes.)

A couple weeks in (Alfred is due to return in the next 48 hours), the joker escapes and has a major plot. The tentative relationship danny has managed to build up with the bats is thrown out the window as they run around like headless chickens, too emotional to work through the proper protocols for the situation without bruce's steadying hand.

Jason, no surprise, is the most compromised, barely able to string a coherent sentence together while putting every last ounce of effort into keeping from running out of the cave, either to hone in on and beat the shit out of the joker, or to get the hell out of dodge before the clown tries to kill him again - he isnt sure.

"This is the guy that killed you, right?" Danny asks him, point blank. It sounds almost callous to the other bats, but jason is the only one who understands how carefully calculated danny is behaving the moment.

Jason only nods, he cant really manage anything more.

"Neither you or bruce killed him out of vengence yet?"

"Batman doesnt kill," Jason gritted out.

"It's more complicated than that, but yeah," Dick defended.

"And he was the one you wanted to avenge you?" Danny continued.

Jason nodded again.

Danny stepped closer to him, breaching the space near Jason that no one else would enter while he was so close to losing it, "Jason, would it be okay if i avenged you instead?"

Immediately, everyone exploded in protest, insisting that the joker is dangerous, nobody should go out alone, that danny is out of his mind. Most of the bats missed jason nodding a third time.

"Enough!" Danny shouted, trying to match what he thought Batman's tone of authority would be in this situation. Almost surprisingly, everyone quieted down, "I've made an executive decision. None of you are to leave the cave. Cass, make sure nobody leaves the Cave. I'll be back in an hour."

Hesitating only long enough to see Cass's confirming nod, Danny vanished from sight.

Everyone except Cass, and surprisingly, Jason, went ballistic. Once it was quickly determined that absolutely nobody could get past Cass (and Jason started helping her when the others tried to be more clever), they eventually turned to the bat computer to watch the Joker's broadcasting live feed, convinced that danny's gruesome murder was about to be livestreamed for all of gotham to witness.

Instead, a shadow covered the entire set in view of the camera, then swallowed up the joker so quickly that it had cut him off mid-sentence. There were barely a few frames of the Joker's genuine shock before he vanished from sight. Then at once, the shadow left again, leaving the camera to record an empty room.

58 minutes after danny had left, he rematerialized in the batcave, holding a fist-sized purple and joker-green pearl.

"Would you like to do the honors?" Danny asked, offering the pearl to jason.

Jason gingerly picked up the pearl from danny's offered hand, staring at it in wonder for a few seconds, before throwing it into the floor, shattering it.

Then he stomped and jumped on the remains just for good measure, grinding every last piece to dust under his boots.

(Everyone went to bed that night without saying a word.)

Bruce has to go off-world for something since he does not trust his children to not destroy Gotham while he is gone, he calls up his cousin to watch the kids. (Grown up) Danny shows up and has to wrangle his cousin’s children. Danny is full-on expected to be babysitting a bunch of little kids, he is surprised when most of them are adults.

Bruce's kids didn't expect to have a babysitter---they are not pleased. So they decide to make Danny's job 10x worse.

Danny wasn't originally going to butt into their patrols, but they're being annoying. So Danny messes with them on patrol.

(Alfred is on vacation and the thing Bruce has to deal with is short notice. Bruce did not want to cut Alfred’s vacation short)