backwordscompatible | IC CONTACT (HAVEN)

So I was wondering if you wanted to go for a walk with me. We can flaunt our health, youth and romantic status. We could even hold hands.

What do you think?

[To consider a phone call like this unexpected would have seriously underestimated how well she had come to know Kon. All of a day had passed since he had returned from the brink of Death...or, at least, what had appeared to be the brink of death...and even though she still wasn't entirely sure how or why, Zatanna wasn't going to look this gift horse in the mouth.]

[Something told her this particular horse liked to bite.]

We'll see about the holding hands part. I'm not sure I'm ready for that kind of commitment yet.

It's cool. We'll take it slow. We can stroll and occasionally I will bump you with my elbow.

[Kon is currently ~~on top of the world~~ above Haven. After what seemed like an eternity trapped in a body that hurt to move even slightly, and a world that extended only as far as the tightly drawn curtains, he had every intention of staying up in the air until he was forced to come down.

He didn't anticipate that he'd feel lonely. Or that his thoughts kept returning to someone who'd been at his side almost the entire time. Kon feels he has a lot to make up to his friends and family, and it makes sense to start with Zatanna.]

[Well, that would explain why she couldn't find him.]

Where are you, exactly? I can't tell if your phone is upside-down right now, or you are.

[Squint. One of the eternal pains of these junky devices that passed for communication means was the screen. Oh, how she missed the beauty of holographic monitors. Portable, convenient, and capable of producing font sizes she didn't feel like she needed to borrow her dad's reading glasses to make out.]

Up.

And both myself and my phone are upside down right now.

[Kon's smirk says 'so there.']

I'm staring to think you really enjoy messing with me like this.

[It probably didn't help her cause that she was grinning as she spoke. Tell me where you are, or I'm going back to the room may or may not have been subtly implied in her tone. Very subtly.]

Would I do a thing like that?

[Kon lazily drifts right way up, tipping the phone so that Zatanna can see that he is floating down towards the food bank.]

Don't ask questions we both know the answer to.

[Ah. The food bank. Of course.]

[When in doubt, it wasn't uncommon to find either one of them at the reconstructed warehouse building. Almost as strong of a guarantee as popping by Housing Block Six. The bank was Kon's pet project, and with Zatanna's continued encouragement in reviving it...well, to make a long story short, it was a suitable meeting place. Fitting.]

[She wasn't far when he called. Only a few blocks away at the time. The trip took just over five minutes, and she remained on the phone with him the entire time. No reason. Only because she wanted to.]

Anybody stop by today?

Nah, It's been quiet.

Although I did get a call from a guy who wants to start a soup kitchen and is hoping we can help him out. I figure we can give him stuff good for soup and give what's left to Im-- Kid Flash.

Still feel pretty weird to say, huh?

[She could tell by his slip of the tongue. The changes in his best friend...changes he had yet to experience...it was almost similar to Zatanna's reactions to finding out how much about Conner had changed in the five years between her time and his. And they hadn't even been that close back home.]

[Turning the corner, she caught sight of the back of the warehouse. Only another block to go.]

It is beyond weird!

[Zatanna can't see Kon waving his hands, but she might be able to hear it. Reconciling Imp, who never thinks, Imp who gets them into more trouble than the rest of the team combined, Imp who you never can be quite sure what is going to come out of his mouth with Kid Flash who is definitely Bart but definitely grown up is -- Kon is finding it a lot harder to accept than Tim's differences.]

If he is more mature than me, I am quitting everything.

[Kon, she loves you an all, but every single child in this city is more mature than you. ~~Including~~ Especially Jessica.]

No, you're not. You don't have the attention span to quit everything.

[In his defense, neither did she.]

[You don't know what is at stake here, Zatanna!]

I am willing to make an exception for this.

...does this mean you're quitting me too? Because if I need to go find a new boyfriend, a little warning would be nice.

[She doesn't do steaks. Vegetarian.]

You could quit with me. Come and live in the subway tunnels with me and Red.

[Why Kal-el, are you asking her to run away with y--wait, why is Red...?]

[No, never mind, don't answer that.]

Subway tunnels. Very tempting.

[Why is Kal-El running away with Zee? That is the real question here.]

That's how everyone knows we're seriously quitting Haven.

[...because autocorrect apparent translates Kon-El to Kal-El. And here I was set to blame the NyQuil again.]

Wouldn't it just be easier to tell everyone you're quitting? [Emphasis on the you. They were tempting, but not that tempting.] That way, you can still quit and you don't have to go live in the tunnels with Red.

[She walked around the back of the warehouse, until the main entrance came into view. Now where was he floating off to...?]

Hey, if I am quitting, I am really quitting. It's not complete until I have stormed off somewhere in disgust.

[The click of Kon's phone being turned off is immediately followed by him floating down to join her.]

Hey.

[Click. Oh, he did not just--]

[And then a not-so-surprise Kon floating down towards her. Her eyes turned upward, and she grinned.]

Hey yourself.

What's up?

I was just thinking that we were overdue something sickening and couple-like. I don't count hanging out and changing my bandages as a date.

[Is that so?]

[She didn't respond back. Not verbally. Instead--with that little gleam in her eye Kon was oh so fond of--she closed what little space their was between them. Hands placed on either side of his chest as she leaned in and tilted her head slightly upward. When their lips met, hers were soft and warm, if slightly dry, and not once did things ever go past chaste. Despite the way she leaned into him as if his frame alone was keeping her standing, or the way she audibly exhaled when pulling away.]

...I don't really do sickeningly couple-y.

[It was a testament to her acting skills that she managed to keep a straight face through the entire statement.]

[Kon had just time to register that gleam and then -- kissed. Zatanna seems to mean business, but Kon's left wanting before he even knows what he wants and he leans after her, clumsily communicating more need than he wants to and trying hastily to cover that.]

Too bad. I'm told I hold a mean hand.

Is that a threat or a promise?

[She had to tightly press her lips together to keep from laughing at the expression on his face. He was strangely adorable when he was so obvious; she was so incredibly tempted to give in right there and then.]

[But there would be time for that later. Plenty of time. They still had that, after all.]

[And speaking of...]

[In her effort to avoid his gaze momentarily, her eyes drifted downward. As did her hands. From his shoulders to his upper chest. Not so much feeling the solid muscle beneath his shirt as she was simply feeling the lack of injuries. Without realizing it, her mind flashed back to that horrific first morning, when she'd awoken to find him covered in gaping wounds. Bleeding everywhere. She traced over each and every single spot in her mind's eye. And with her fingers, as if wanting to make sure that all of him was still really there.]

[It was.]

I know one way to find out.

[Kon is about to offer Zatanna a hand when she forestalls him. Not that he can blame her -- his chest is pretty great. He preens a little, but it doesn't take him long to realize that her focus isn't inwards, and not on him.]

Uh.

Zee? Objectification. You're doing it wrong.

-- or too well. I'm not sure here.

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