Fics like The Mysterious Menace of Competent Maintenance

The first time Danny saw Batman, he was elbow-deep inside a broken laundromat dryer. This was not how he had imagined meeting Batman. Not that Danny had spent a great deal of time imagining it. He had been in Gotham for exactly nine days, and most of those days had been occupied by more immediate concerns, such as finding food, avoiding police officers, figuring out which gargoyles were decorative and which ones had cameras hidden in their mouths, and trying not to sleep anywhere that smelled strongly of chemicals. Gotham had a surprising number of places that smelled strongly of chemicals. It also had Batman. Everyone knew Gotham had Batman. Danny had known that before he arrived. Batman was one of those facts people carried around without really thinking about it, like Antarctica being cold or school cafeterias serving pizza that technically qualified as an object but not necessarily as food. Batman lived in Gotham. Batman punched criminals. Batman brooded. Batman had probably never once in his life been elbow-deep in a broken laundromat dryer. Danny was beginning to suspect this was a serious oversight in Batman’s education.

Fics like The Mysterious Menace of Competent Maintenance

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