Robin's phone buzzed while he was on his way to the telephone booth from school.
He read the message from Wally which says: "Dude, where are you? you're soooo late. This is an emergency"
"Dude, it's just five minutes. Chill, I'm almost there. This better be worth my time." he replied
Robin B-01 announced the computer voice with the Boy Wonder tumbling from the Zeta tubes.
When he got on his feet, Wally pushed him to the couch.
"Woah. What's the matter with you KF?"
"Just sit there. We need to talk."
"And by we, you mean just you and me or also her?" Robin said pointing his fingers to Artemis who was on her way to the living room.
"Including her" answered KF.
"Wait? Why? don't tell me..." Robin was already grinning when Wally who was like reading his mind answered "Oh gosh, dude no! why do you even think that? eeewww!" reacted Wally
"What? I didn't even say anything but based on your reaction..."
Artemis facepalmed and just cut Robin's words with "Shut up you brats! We can never get things done with you two acting like 8 year olds all the time."
"Then what's this about?" Robin asked again.
"Zee" answered the blonde head
"Zee?" questioned the black head
"and you" added the red head
"Zee and me? Why? This is the urgent matter you're talking about?" Rob asked his best pal.
"Yes. It's very urgent since your girl has confessed in us in separate occasions how she feels that she's not good enough for you and that you two are not really getting anywhere serious"
"She told you that?" Robin asked looking confused
"Yes, so you better do something about that. Like what is wrong with you? How can you not tell her straight if you really like her or not?"
"I do like her. very much"
"Then do you want to be together with her?" Arty again asked
Robin sighed.
"I thought so." Artemis continued "If you don't want it to be official then just tell her..."
"so much" Rob said
"What do you mean dude?" Wally questioned
"I want us to be official also like you guys and M'gann and Connor but I think Zee wouldn't like that. She's you know too focused on her studies and the team and I think she doesn't like the idea that her boyfriend's younger than her" Robin explained
"Well, you are so wrong man!" Wally countered. "you'll have to do something about it."
"Agreed. I don't want Zee to feel insecure and not good enough for anyone because of this confusion that you two have" Artemis told them "Plus, don't screw this up Boy Blunder. if you're gonna make a move then please do it right. You and Kid Mouth here have a knack for trouble and I don't want my best friend having love problems because of your constant troubles."
"Aye, ma'am" Rob said with a grin.
Clayface was attacking Happy Harbour and the fair was filled with people, most of which are children, that night. The team went to rescue civilians. Kaldur ordered for Wally and Artemis to rescue the civilians while the rest of them tried to stopped Clayface. The villain was rushing to the Ferris wheel when the team got him cornered. Unfortunately, some kids were trapped inside. Clayface tried to make the ride go down while the team was stopping him. And when the gears were about to fall off, Robin, Kaldur and Miss Martian were able to hold the wheel in place while Zee was commanded to do a spell as to not loosen the bolts.
"Zee, can you hold it for seconds while we try to distract Clayface?" Kaldur said through the mind link
"Yes" she answered
"Good, M'gann, Connor with me now. Robin try checking the wires so the civilians won't get electrocuted by the lights in the ride."
"Roger"
While the team was fighting clayface, Zatanna got hit by one of his muds and fell on the ground. She didn't manage to get to her game again and failed to hold the bolts in place making the wheel fall and roll on the ground. Robin tried to barge his way inside the civilian's place and made a way of securing them by using ropes from his utility belt. When Wally was able to throw the bombs on Clayface and Kaldur using his water bearers were successful on defeating Clayface, the rest of the team excluding Zatanna went after the rolling ride.
Robin tried using his grappling rope to tie the wheel on the structures before it falls off the lake. M'gann flew to it and used her powers to keep it falling from the grround as Robin was able to make it stop. M'gann held the wheel in balance until all her teammates were able to get everyone out. The crowds then cheered when the last girl was saved by Robin. Only this time was Zee able to stand on her feet and rush to where her teammates are. People were already thanking them and a girl who was still in Robin's arms thanked him and said " Can you and Miss Martian be my mom and dad?"
"No sweetie, you already have yours" returning the girl to her parents.
"But you guys are so brave, I want to be a hero when I grow up" she said giggling
"Of course you'll be. Just stay safe from now" he answered waiving goodbye to the girl.
Zee was pushing her way to the crowd when she heard people saying "You see how Robin and Miss Martian pulled that off! Wow they're so cool together"
"Yeah! they're so awesome!"
"You think they're dating?"
"No. Miss Martian's already with Connor and I heard Robin was dating the magician girl"
"There's a magician girl on the team? I haven't heard of her."
"Yeah, she was the one hit by the monster earlier."
"Oooooh. Robin can sure get a better girlfriend than her. I mean look how cool he is."
Zee was holding her hurt arm when someone put a hand on her shoulder and said "Let me see"
Of course she recognizes that voice. Robin still breathless from the action that happened. He tried pulling bandages from his belt and wrapping it to her arm.
"I can do it myself." She said the ran to the bioship almost crying
"Team, take the shower and get some rest. Job well done earlier" Kaldur ordered as they get off the ship. Each one wait straight to their rooms and cleansed themselves. They prepared for bed. Zatanna was taking a shower when she noticed that the luck charm from her Dad was not on her wrist. It must have fell off when the mud hit her.
"Could this day get any worse" she mentally and annoyingly asked herself.
She got dressed and thought she needed air. She wanted to cry but if she does that in her room, the girl will sure hear and will be worried. So she went out from the mountain and walked by the beach. she sat down on a rock and put her face on her knees and began sobbing.
"I believe you're looking for this" again, that familair voice which is none but Rob's came handing her the charm bracelet.
"Where did you get that?" she asked
"I was putting the bandage remember? when you stormed off like cinderella" he joked.
Zee has to admit that made her smile.
"So you're prince charming?" she joked back
"well, do I look like him?"
"Ask your fan girls, they'll definitely say yes."
"I'm asking you"
"I'm not a fan girl "
"Oh, I wouldn't want you to be. You're way too different from them."
Zee couldnt hold her tears anymore. She hugged Robin and continued crying
"Zee, hey, what's wrong? you're gonna hurt your arm"
"It's me! I'm wrong! I'm so wrong for you!"
"What? what are you saying? hey. hey look at me."
She looked at the dark glasses he's wearing almost seeing his eyes but it was dark out but still she can feel it looking at her.
"I know why you're feeling this. I heard the conversation before I came to you. I'm very sorry you had to hear that, Zee. But that's the way it goes. The world, it's cruel. People will say everything against us and not just our relationships but our actions. That's how the hero bid goes. But to be a real one, we have to know ourselves and embrace that. We have flaws and that's cool. We're humans also." he said giving her that smile again.
Zatanna was now trying to stop herself from melting. She has never seen this side of Robin-mature and manly? but she thought there's really more to him than what he shows. his words were sincere coming from the most experienced of them all. They were calm and wise but powerful which kind of magically calm her.
"You might not like what they said. I didn't like that also" he said softly. then paused. She didn't know how to respond anymore. The silence continued, all they hear were the waves and the cold breeze.
"I like you, Zee" he broke the silence.
Zatanna's eyes grew wide.
"I don't want you to be a fan girl. I want to remove the f-a-n" he kept confessing, now in the normal Robin mode playing with those words again.
Zatanna got this. And she was so whelmed. She hugged him and replied:
"I'm s-r-u-o-y" spelling it out also.
