000 | Appointments

[noitatnacni]

Need a place to get in touch with Zatanna Zatara at luceti? Feel free to post here. Please label threads with the method of contact (voice/video/action/etc.) and the date: Action [June 13].

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[noitatnacni]

[She actually gapes a bit at that, and not just because the love experiment bit is news to her.] So what, you have to avoid me like the plague so the Malnosso don't think they got to you? Isn't that just letting them control you in a different way?

[teenwonder]

Who said I had to avoid you? [TOTALLY not what he was doing.]

[noitatnacni]

Clearly not you, since you haven't been talking to me.

[She sees through your lies.]

[teenwonder]

I've been working.

[noitatnacni]

So much that you couldn't even answer the door a few minutes ago.

[teenwonder]

What's wrong with that?

[noitatnacni]

...You're kidding me.

[teenwonder]

[Nope. Not kidding. Is this going somewhere?]

[noitatnacni]

You heard it was me, turned up your radio--[hope you didn't think she missed that]--wouldn't give me the time of day until I broke down your door...

And you're telling me you weren't avoiding me.

[teenwonder]

I told you I was working. What else do you want from me?

[WHAT IS ALL THIS DISCUSSION OF FEELINGS it makes no sense.]

[noitatnacni]

How we start with you being honest? [IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE SO STOP WHINING.] Even if it wasn’t entirely real, some of it was. That wasn’t all the spirit. What I don’t get is why you’re so stubborn about being like--this.

[And she doesn’t just mean towards her.]

What happened to you?

[teenwonder]

I could ask you the same question, Zatanna. Why does it bother you that I'm not the same as the Robin you know at home?

[noitatnacni]

What does that have to do with anything?

[They're two different people. Zatanna knows that all too well.]

[teenwonder]

You're asking me why I'm like myself. That's not a question I'm going to have an answer to.

[noitatnacni]

Except you said you weren't always the way you are now. Something had to change you.

[And really, Zatanna wants to believe it was more than just getting older.]

Are you actually happy the way you are?

1/2

[teenwonder]

[It makes him pause for a moment afterward.

2/2

[teenwonder]

[But then the moment is over and he rolls his shoulders, cape spilling over to block the light from his costume.]

I'm going to get us out of here.

[Being happy doesn't have to be part of that equation.]

Re: 2/2

[noitatnacni]

[For a second, she thinks she might be actually getting through--until his cape falls, leaving Zatanna to let out a quiet sigh.]

Okay, that's definitely a good goal. But one, you can still have a life in the meantime, and two, it's not all on you. There's a bunch of other people who would be willing to help, me included. You don't have to make yourself miserable trying to save everyone.

[teenwonder]

And you don't have to worry about me. I'll be fine.

[noitatnacni]

Somehow you isolating yourself in the dark doesn't strike me as fine.

[teenwonder]

I get more done here.

[noitatnacni]

And is that all that matter?

[teenwonder]

Isn't that all you need?

[noitatnacni]

No. And maybe one day that'll get through your thick skull.

[But Zatanna doubts that'll be today.]

I guess I've said what I needed to. For now, anyway.

[teenwonder]

...

Don't be upset. It'll throw you off your game.