Richard Grayson huffed in annoyance. Arms folded he walked into the ops rom with a scowl present on his face as the team held back their laughter. Wally who had been waiting anxiously for them to come back took one look at his best friend and burst into a fit of laughter as he rolled on the floor. Dicks scowl darkened.
"It's not funny Wally! This is serious, I need to reverse the effects!"
"But. Oh come on you know how this goes buddy. Zatanna has to contact Dr Fate and he has to go through the spell." Wally cut off his sentence with another bout of laughter.
"Oh shut up and get Zatanna to get hold of that spell. Now Wally!" gasping for breath in between his giggles Wally jumped up and ran to the communications to call Zatanna.
It was barely an hour after the call had been made when Zatanna burst into the room yelling for him. Whe she saw him Dick saw each emotion cross her face. Worry, shock, relief and finally mirth. She found this funny! Oh he was going to have a long talk to her about how upset he had been when it had happened to her.
"Oh dear um Nightwing? You're a lot younger than what I remember." she giggled. Dick rolled his eyes.
"Gee, I wonder why? Come on Zee. I don't want to nine years old again! I'm not going through puberty twice!" He seethed.
Zatanna's giggles stopped and her expression softened. Walked over she crouched down to his height and ruffled his hair.
"Okay I'll go get hold of Dr Fate adn get hold of the spell right now, sit tight for now and when I get back you go on medical leave and I'll take you home." when she winked at him then stood up Dick's face flamed red.
"Uh Yeah uh okay. I'm gonna go uh play games on the computer." He hated it but he couldn't help the fact that he had just gone shy in front of a whoel room of people and mumbled with a blush on his face.
Zatanna smiled warmly at him as he trudged off to the computer with Garth. He was so cute when he was younger. She turned to the rest of the team and told them to keep him busy and happy. She left promising not to be long. She spent most of the day trying to track down Dr Fate. By sun down she had located him and managed to get hold of the powder. Though she couldn't use it because she had to wait at least forty eight hours to see if he would change back automatically. Zatanna sighed, Dick was not going to be happy about this.
When she entered the teams head wuarters for the second time that day Zatanna noticed three things. The first was that their head wuarters was a complete mess. Secondly the whole team seemed to have passed out from exhaustion. Thirdly, the man she loved was still a nine year old boy who was currently looking extremely bored as he poked Wally in the face while the ginger slept.
"Dick, I'm back." She said quietly so as not to wake anyone.
"Hey did you get the antidote?" He asked hopefully as he ran over to her.
"Yep, but we can't use it because we have to wait and see if this is temporary first. What happened here?"
"Crap, seriously? Damn! Oh um I guess I burnt them all out a half hour ago." When Zatanna raise an eyebrow he shrugged. "What are we gonna do Zee?"
"We are going to leave your poor team mates in peace and head back to your apartment. When we get there I will cook something to eat eat while you have a shower because you have been running around all day. After that we watcha movie then go to sleep. How does that sound?"
Dick smiled. "Sounds great Zee."
Zatanna took Dick's hand and lead him out of head quarters to his apartment. Everythign was going great until They ran into the elderly couple that live in the building who had befriended Dick.
"Oh hello, look dear it's the young lady that Richard brought home the other week. Who have you got there he looks just like Richard."
Zatanna froze but smiled. "Oh hello again. Uh this, is Dick's cousin Tommy. He's visiting and Dick wasn't able to pick him up so I offered to bring him here and stay with him til his cousin gets back."
"Oh how lovely, what a good girlfriend you are. We must be going but say hello to richard for us."
Zatanna let a breath she didn't know she had been holding once the old couple left.
"Tommy huh?" Zatanna glared at Dick.
"This is not funny. That was so close, come on let's get inside before anyone else asks questions." She hissed.
Dick chuckled but unlocked the door for them. Once inside Zatanna searched the fridge before pullng out some eggs, milk and a tomato.
"How does some scrambled eggs and tomato sound for dinner cos that's all you have."
"Sounds yum Zee, I'm gonna go have a shower. Be out in a few minutes."
Zee smiled at him then turned around to cut the tomatoes.
While Dick was in the shower he remembered what had happened the last time she was in his apartment. Unfortunately for Dick he had the brain of an adult but the body of a child. This thought had him sulking. He had the most beautiful woman in the world cooking for him in his kitchen and he was stuck in the body of his younger self before he hit puberty. Why couldn't the spell have sent him into a sixteen year olds body? At least then he could still have some fun with Zee. Dick shook his head when naughty thoughts of himself and the sexy magician entered his mind.
All of a sudden he felt a weird sensation throughout his body. He felt his muscles and bones pulling as smike filled the room. It felt odd as he felt no pain. Pulling back the curtain Dick wiped the mirror and grinned. He had changed back! Quickly rinsing himself off to remove the soap and shampoo Dick wiped his skin with a towel and pulled on some underwear and a pair of pants before running silently to the kitchen.
She had her back to him as she stood at the stove cooking the eggs. Silently he approached her until he stood directly behind her and then wrapped his arms around ehr waist making her jump.
"Guess who?" he whispered into her ear eliciting a shiver.
"Hmm, I am so glad you got your body back."
"Really?"
"Oh yeah. As cute as you were I like you a lot better after puberty."
"Me too, now we can play my favourite game." His husky voice and hot breath had her weak at the knees but she refused to drop. It proved extremely difficult though when ehre started kissing her neck and nipping at her earlobe and pulse point.
Zatanna turned off the stove to prevent the food from burning. "Wh-which game?"
"You know, the we played last time you were here, over and over again. You really enjoyed it. We didn't leave the apartment for a couples of days because it was so much fun."
"Oh. Th-that game, yesss I like that game v-very much." Dick continued his ministrations as her hands reached back into his hair massaging his scalp.
"Do you want to play it again?" He was smirked as she groaned.
"Ohhh." Dick was momentarily surprised when she spun in his arms. "God yes!" she breathed as she smashed her lips against his. All thoughts of dinner and a movie left their minds as they staggered to the couch in a heated lip lock.