Legacies: A Young Justice one-shot/drabble collection
Sacrifice
Even five years later, she wished she didn't know that the word truly meant.
Word Count: 260
Pairings: None
Rating: K+
Notes: Someone said that I should do one for Zatanna or Rocket. I chose Zatanna.
This is technically in "Invasion".
What a season opener, huh? :D
Disclaimer: See chapter 1
At 18, Zatanna Zatara has seen and done more than any normal young woman her age should have. But compared to the others in the 'business', she is still young, inexperienced, naïve…
Innocent.
She wants to yell at them for that. She'd done just as much as any member in the Justice League. At too young an age, she has inflicted pain, been hurt, has spent her life in constant danger. Ever since she was 13, Zatanna has known what it's like to work so close to a team that you think of them as family, to hurt when they hurt, to be joyful when they are.
And like so many others, Zatanna understands too clearly and too painfully the feeling of regret.
She lost her innocence that day, November 6, a day that will forever be engraved into her memory. That day, her world was shattered and the true life of a hero was revelaed to her. To be a hero meant making the sacrifices no one sle could, to save those you loved at any cost. And she had thought she'd understood that.
But she had been so wrong.
For five years, that regret gnawed at her on the inside, and it still does. Because the repercussions of her choice in that one moment greet her in every League meeting and on some League missions. The choice she made replays over and over in her nightmares, plaguing her every moment as a never ending reminder.
The price of being a father and a hero is too damn high.
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.chary