The team walked to the garage, looking for their magician and speedster. They saw the Bioship wasn't in sleep mode anymore, it was awake.
M'gann set up a mental link with the organic ship and asked it to quietly open the door. It obeyed, opening, and the team, as quietly as they could, walked inside. They saw Zane in the driver's chair, which was reclined, with Willow on his lap, her head was against his shoulder, holding her new stuffed animal. They were sleeping.
"Perhaps we should wake them." Kaldur suggested via the mental link.
Artemis shook her head "Bad idea."
Robin looked at her curiously "I know that Willow will just scream at you like a banshee, but what will Zane do?"
Artemis sighed "Remember that time I had pink hair, my nails done, with make-up on my face and wearing a dress?"
"He didn't." M'gann said
Artemis nodded "Yup, that little shit did."
"Did he say why?" Conner asked
"He said something about turning you in to what you hate if you woke him up."
"Wow."
"Perhaps we should let them rest." Kaldur suggested
"Agreed." Robin replied. The team left, leaving the two to sleep. Well, Willow was asleep. Zane was in a form of meditation. His meditative state allowed him to track aura back to its source. His father taught him to do this in case someone he knows got hurt. He tracked Mr. West's aura to the man's job, where he was sleeping at his desk. This was perfect. Zane used his magic to enter Mr. West's dream.
In Zane's dream state, that he used only once before, he was a tall man with a blond streak that went through his black hair and his eyes were red. Mr. West's dream was him in a posh office chair, the company's head office. Zane walked into the office, a black cloak over him.
"Who are you?"
"Who I am is none of your concern." Zane snapped his fingers and he suddenly had Willow's father in a headlock. "Hurt your wife or daughter again, and I will snap your neck."
The older man smirked "You can't hurt me."
"Oh really?" Zane smirked and turned Mr. West over to the window
"Let's see." He was about to shove Mr. West through the glass when the man swiped his hand across his face, leaving a scratch. Zane growled and shoved the man, using his full body weight, through the window.
He screamed as he fell down. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! It will NEVER happen again! I'll change! I'll change!"
"That's all I needed to hear." Zane said, snapping his fingers again. This time, Mr. West's dream was no longer tampered with. As Zane walked towards the door, he turned around and said "If you tell a soul about this, I will be back." He smiled at the frightened look on the man's face.
Zane was woken up by a blast of water on his face. He wiped the water away from his eyes to see Willow was awake. With a water gun in her hand, pointed at him. Zane laughed as he held his arms up "I'm unarmed."
Willow smiled "I know." She squirted him in the face again before bolting towards the door. Zane could do nothing but shake his head laughing. He ran out of the Bioship, picking up speed when he saw Willow standing in middle of the kitchen. He put on the brakes when he saw her uncle was standing there.
"What did you DO Zane?" The older speedster asked.
Zane looked at him with his best poker face, which was awesome because he was raised by magician and played poker for as long as he could remember "What do you mean?"
Flash was NOT amused "Mary called saying that when she came home, Ruddy was making lunch." Zane's epic poker face was still in effect "She said he cleaned the entire house and apologized for everything he's done in the past year." Still epic poker face "She also said Ruddy described seeing a man with black hair that had a blonde streak through it and had red eyes. Sound familiar?"
Zane dropped his epic poker face and said "Alright. You caught me. I went into Mr. West's dream and forced him to change."
"You did that?" Willow asked
"Yes." Zane turned to Willow "For you, I'd do anything."
Willow broke eye contact with Zane to look at her uncle. He was smiling.
"Good job Zane." Flash said, all before grabbing Zane by the front of his shirt and pulling the teen up so they were eye level. "If you hurt Willow in any way, I will find a way to make your life a living hell."
Zane nodded "Yup. I know it."
