Super and Magical Moments - A T-Rexcellent Reviews Fanfiction One-Shot Series
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Chapter 2: Midnight Interrogations
Kal had never really given much thought as to exactly how many times he had actually swooped in to protect Zatanna against an attack by their enemies during a battle or how many times he had picked her up in his arms to fly her to safety when something happened to explode nearby them.
Not until Barry had rather annoyingly pointed it out to him, one night after a particularly tough battle against Cadmus and their army of anti-superhuman soldiers, where he had done both of those things in that order.
Kal had been sinking into the softness of his bed with a sleepy sigh, pulling his warm blanket over his torso and nestling his face into his favourite pillow, completely ready and willing to fall into the land of dreams, when the whoosh of his rooms metallic door slid open to reveal Barry's unmasked, with the light of the hallway casting his long shadow into the Kryptonians room as he gave his half-asleep friend a playful smirk.
"Hey Kal, buddy, you still awake?" The Superhuman Speedster asked in a rather overly friendly tone of voice that reminded Kal far too much of the Greek God Hermes in that moment as he leaned ever so casually against the open doorway with no indication of leaving until he got an answer from his fellow super friend.
Kal rolled over with a groan and faced his grinning teammate with a deadpan expression that would have made Apollo proud in that moment. "I was trying to, but that plan fell out the window rather fast, just like your name, what you do want, Barry?"
At this, Barry held out his hands in a peaceable gesture that Kal didn't buy for a second, even in his exhausted state of mind, before responding with. "Hey, chill out man, I just wondering why you always feel the need to be so gallant all the time around a certain we both Sorceress know?"
Something about his fast friend's words or rather the implications of them, made Kal sit up in his bed and glare at his smirking friend from across the room. "And, just what, do you mean, by that, Barry?"
The young Kryptonians at the moment, rather annoying friend, only chuckled to himself in a knowing fashion. "Oh, nothing at all my man, you do realise though that Zatanna can save herself, right? You don't need to go flying in to sweep her off her feet whenever something decides to go kaboom around us."
"Barry, either go away and let me sleep or I'm going to chase you around Metropolis City for an hour". Kal said with a glare, deciding he had more than enough of exactly where this little conversation of theirs was going. "You are not the first smart mouthed speedster I have kicked the crap out of,you know."
"Alright, alright, fine, I'll let you sleep". Barry said as he finally relented his midnight interrogation, but not before getting one last jab into his teammates-tired face. "I guess even Zatanna's Knight in Shining Armour needs his beauty sleep."
Now, if he wasn't exhausted and it was almost anyone else standing in his doorway at that exact moment, Kal's favourite pillow would have hit them directly in their smug faces and thrown them back into the hallway from the sheer force of the impact.
Instead, Barry just gave his best impression of the Looney Tunes Roadrunner and zipped away from harm as fast as he could, causing Kal's favourite pillow to fly straight through the open doorway and hit the opposite wall with a dull thud before falling to the floor with a slightly louder thud.
Groaning in both tiredness and irritation, Kal got from his bed and went outside to fetch his pillow while inside his tired head, his brain went into overdrive mode as in spite of his tiredness, Barry's words had apparently triggered some memories as he quickly went through a list of previous battles and team training sessions as if they were a gag reel and realised reluctantly that the annoying speedster my have had a point.
Okay, so he maybe he had blocked an attack coming for her from behind more than once and maybe he carried her in his arms out of danger when a situation got a little to explosive for his likening, but that was perfectly alright and a reasonable response, teammates looked out for each other, in training and the battlefield, right?
Besides, Kal concluded as he walked back to his room, that he would rather perform a Flying Tarzan manoeuvrer than allow Zatanna to be stabbed in the back by a would-be assassin or be burned to death by a random explosion, such a thought made him shudder unexpectedly.
Anyway, if Zatanna had such a problem with him 'sweeping her off her feet' as Barry had so pointedly dubbed his acts of heroism, she would've surely told him by now, right?
He opens the door to his room and nearly walks into Zatanna who is standing in the middle of it with crossed arms and a crosser look on her face, he almost collided into her and dropped his pillow in shock. "Zatanna".
"Kal." She said with the ominous tone that demanded his attention and had earned her the title of the Queen of Darkness. "We need to have a talk."
"Uh, umm, okay." He agreed hesitantly before looking around his darkened room and asking what he thought was a very important question. "Wait, how did you…"
"Shadow Magic, I can travel anywhere there is shadows, remember?" She told him with a raised brow and magical wave of her hand, black shadows swirling in her palm.
"Right, right, I had actually forgotten about that." He answered awkwardly, feeling more than a little uncomfortable with the reminder that this woman could travel through the Shadow Realm at will to almost anywhere there was darkness, even possibly inside people's mind…
Kal did not want to think of the things these she might find in his head, his memories, his dreams, his nightmares and his dark fantasies…
Kal quickly stopped that train of thought right in its mental tracks, for all he knew, she could read his mind just by looking at him, which she was currently doing.
"Which actually brings me to my point of being here, Kal." Zatanna continued in her serious tone. "you do realise I'm a Master Sorceress and a capable woman, right?
Her question took him by surprise, she was one of the most skilled and capable women he knew, in matters of both the mundane and the magical. "Yes, of course."
"Okay, then why do you feel the need to play the role of Knight in Shining Armour around me all the time?" She asked again, her amethyst eyes staring at him through the darkness like purple daggers. "I'm not some damsel in distress who needs saving all the time, Kal, and besides, we've got Justin to fill the role of Chivalrous Shakespearian on the team already."
In that particular moment of this midnight interrogation, Kal really didn't know what to say to her and was now feeling really uncomfortable with this whole situation he suddenly found himself in.
He didn't know if it was because he was tired and desperately needed sleep, or the fact that both Barry and Zatanna had ambushed him in his room one right after the other, or the fact that what both of them were saying was absolutely true and he had no good answer for either of them…
… or maybe it was the fact he was in his bedroom late at night with a beautiful woman in his boxers and sleeping shirt while she was standing before him wearing nothing but a tight black tank top and a pair of grey shorts, both pieces of clothing doing very little to hide her fantastic figure from his natural night vision.
Kal was suddenly very glad he was holding his favourite pillow down low in his arms for obvious reasons.
"I don't know." He answered sheepishly, as he was honestly feeling more like a Sheep in that moment, than the Wolf he always liked to believe himself to be, as he stood before this gorgeous Dragoness of a woman.
"That's not an answer, Kal". She said with narrowing eyes.
"Look, I don't know, okay, really, I just…" He said the only honest thing that came to his mind. "I just don't want to see you get hurt Zatanna, that's all."
At this truly sincere reply, the Sorceress gaze lost its hardness and her arms uncrossed to rest on her hips instead in a more non-confrontational manner. "That's very thoughtful of you, Kal, and for the record I'm not mad at you either, I just wanted to make it clear to you that I can look after myself in a fight, okay."
"Okay Zatanna and I promise, I won't swoop in to save you all the time when you clearly don't need it." Kal said, breathing a sigh of relief at the end of the impromptu interrogation.
At these words, however, Zatanna's amethyst eyes turned from understanding too mischievous in an instant. "Oh, Kal, you misunderstand, I don't want you to stop."
That took him through a loop as Kal stared at the Sorceress in surprise. "You… you don't."
"No, not at all." Zatanna said in a sultry tone as she came closer to him, making sure to put her hands on his torso when she said these words.
"I'm a capable woman, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy having a super stud like you watching my back, Kal". She said with her usual dazzling showman smile that made his knees feel weak as water in that moment. "Feel free to do so, anytime."
She then walked past him and out of his room, making sure to drag her hands along his chest as she did so, while he prayed, she couldn't feel his rapid pounding heart beneath his muscles.
"Oh, and for the record, Stud." She said stopping just outside his door and turning back to look at him with hypnotic purple eyes of hers. "With the right suit, I think you'd make a very convincing Knight in Shining Armour and I'm sure Justin would agree with me on that you'd look great in one."
Feeling too numb from her touch to talk at that moment and suddenly, very, very awake, Kal only nodded once in reply, which Zatanna smiled at and then walked down the hall towards her own room.
Stepping back out of his room, Kal watched Zatanna walk away, her black tank top and raven hair blending into the dark shadows of the hallway while her sleeping attire grey short's ran up the back of her upper-legs as she sashayed gracefully away like she was walking off stage.
Kal swallowed audibly in response to mesmerising sight and was extremely thankful for the hallway's low lights at that moment, but also for the fact that no one else was around to see him staring.
"Man, you blew it." A familiar voice said from right behind him.
Kal turned and saw Barry just standing there and looking at him with an expression of great annoyance on his unmasked face. "Barry, what are you-".
"I help set you up with a super-hot Sorceress in your bedroom, alone, late at night, in your boxers, and you didn't jump on the opportunity." The Speedster shook his head in clear disappointment. "You, my friend, blew it, big time".
Kal opened his mouth to ask the Speedster what the heck he was even talking about before closing it again as he realised the true meaning of his friend's words and the fact that Barry had interrogated him earlier with this midnight rendezvous in mind for him and Zatanna… without bothering to ask him what he thought of this little plan to get him laid.
Kal rose to his full, opposing height, narrowed his eyes and bared his teeth in an angry snarl that made him feel like the Wolf he really was again, especially when Barry backed up suddenly, realising too late that he had overstepped this time.
"Kal, buddy, wait, remember all the good times we've had-."
"Start. Running. Barry." Kal growled out before taking a swing at his friend's head with his favourite pillow, Barry, who only barely managed to duck out of the way in time, sped down the hall with a panicked scream as Kal raced after him with his pillow swung over his shoulder like a fluffy Warhammer.
While neither Kal or Barry got much, if any sleep that night, Kal was able to release a ton of stress by chasing his Speedster friend around while swinging his pillow at him, like a madman with an axe.
Greetings to all my fellow fanfic readers and writers, I hope you all enjoyed Super and Magical Moments Chapter Two: Midnight Interrogations, please let me know what you think of it and any ideas you might have for this pairing and these super friends.