1. This is a fan fiction based on characters owned by DC Comics. I DO NOT OWN THEM. This is just for fun.
2. Just to be safe, I don't own Big Beautiful Women, either. Not that the story has anything to do with BBW... but I thought it worked for a title.
3. This is a femmslash story. If you don't like that sort of thing, you won't like this.
4. Yes, I'm already doing Elseworlds. This is because, within my own Selina/Zatanna canon, I don't think this would happen. But even so, I have more Elseworlds stories in mind. Besides, isn't all fanfiction Elseworlds... ?
5. This is a story request by The Sacred and Profane. Apologies for the time it took to answer.
PART 2
"Tell me what the hell that was all about!"
Zatanna sat at the kitchen table. "I said I don't know what you're talking about."
Selina folded her arms. "Don't give me that shit," she growled. She had tried to talk to her wife outside the cafe, but Zee had kept silent as she continued the walk home. Even now, back at their apartment, Zee was not talking. "We invited them to lunch, and just as we're about to tell them why, you go all weird!"
Zatanna frowned. "I said I'm fi... "
"Zatanna, don't lie to me!" her wife cried. "I thought the whole point was that we were going to tell them!"
Remaining silent, the magician kept her gaze away.
"Don't ignore me, either! Don't you dare!"
Zee felt her anger growing. "It's nothing, Selina... "
"Which means it's something!" yelled Selina. "As if I didn't know! Really, Zee... I don't confuse easily, but you just walked off! The whole point of today was telling them our plans... you know - that we're planning to have a baby! It was your idea to tell them!"
"Yes," sighed the magician. "It was."
"Then what's wrong?" Selina moved her arms from across her ample chest to her shapely hips. "What - don't you want us to have a child anymore?"
Suddenly Zatanna glared at her. "Of course I do! I want nothing more than for us to have family! It's... " She paused.
"What?" snapped Selina. "Talk to me, Zatanna. Please... " She sighed dramatically. "What happened there?"
Zatanna was silent for a moment, then took a deep breath. "Did... you mean what you said about being fat?"
Selina stared at her incredulously. "W... what? What the hell are you talking about?"
"Are overweight people that disgusting to you?" asked Zee.
"I... " Selina was clearly struggling what to say. "I've never really given it thought. I don't really care. I... " She then blinked. "Wait... is that what this is about? Oh, come on Zee! I was just... just... !"
"Just... ?" the magician pressed.
"Fucking hell, Zatanna!" Selina yelled. "You know I hate games! Tell me why what I said pissed you off!"
Zee knew she had to say it. "When... if... I mean... ugh... when I become pregnant, I'm going to be... fat."
Stunned, Selina glared at her. "Are... are you... ?" She suddenly threw her arms up in the air. "Oh, come on! You can't be serious!"
"I am," Zee said sternly. "Do you... will you... have a problem with me getting bigger?"
"That's different! You'll be having a baby! This has nothing to do with... with obesity!"
"No, it doesn't," breathed the magician. "But your opinion means everything to me. I need to know you'll support me, Selina. That you won't think I'm... disgusting or something."
"This is utter crap!" Selina spun around and headed for the door. "Utter crap! I can't believe we're having this conversion!"
"This is hardly a conversion," mumbled Zee. "If it was, you wouldn't be yelling."
Stopping at the doorway, Selina turned back to her wife. "Maybe I wouldn't be yelling if you weren't talking complete shit. Zee, really... neither of us will ever be that big, so why even care? And as far as you getting big during the pregnancy... you think I won't love you anymore?"
Zee felt her eyes watering. "I didn't say that... "
"I can't believe I still have to... have to prove myself to you! Especially after I make a little joke! This is bullcrap!"
Zatanna shot up out of her chair. "It wasn't a joke! It made me feel like crap, Selina! Do you realise how worried I am about this? There we were, about to tell our friends we're 'trying' for a baby, and you make a crack about fat people! Well, guess what, Catwoman - not only will I be big, but there's a chance I'll be huge! We both looked at pictures of pregnant women. Some of them were massive." Now tears were beginning to trickle down, more out of anger than anything else. But Zatanna was on a roll now. "I'm worried enough as it is, and then you say that! Even if it was a joke, it was a sick joke! That you'd kill yourself if you got fat? That's obsene, Selina! Especially as I might be almost that big myself in a few months! I felt like shit, Selina! And I don't want to go for nine months with you thinking I look revolting!"
Selina was silent. Looking dumbfounded, she was breathing heavily, clearly having trouble controlling her anger. "This is the most complete bunch of crap I've ever heard!" she eventually seethed.
"Is it? How am I supposed to think otherwise?" Zatanna wiped the tears from her eyes. "I tell you, Selina, it would never matter to me what you looked like! I'd love you no matter what!"
"This is bullshit," said Selina, calming... though Zee knew it was only outwardly. "You actually think I'd ever find you physically unattractive? What bullshit. I've... I've had it with this! I'm going out!"
"Out?" Zatanna blinked. "Where the hell to?"
"I never had my lunch," growled Selina. "I'm hungry. Is it alright if I go eat something? I wouldn't want to be disgusting to you!" With that, Selina stormed out. Zatanna stood still as she heard the front door slam shut. She stared numbly ahead of her, thinking over what was said... or rather, shouted.
Did she really think Selina felt that way? No... but it still hurt. Zee was worried about their... her... planned pregnancy. And her wife's opinion of her, in whatever capacity, indeed meant everything to her. Just as she hoped hers did to Selina. So when she made that joke... as harmless as she may have meant it...
Thinking back at the lunch at the cafe, Zee had managed to remember that Diana was none too thrilled over what happened either. Bruce's comments, though not as hurtful as Selina's, were hardly tactful. Zee clenched her teeth. Bruce and Selina could be so thoughtless.
Zatanna's eyes narrowed. They really needed to learn to keep their mouths shut sometimes.
They needed to be taught some manners.
An idea popped into the magician's head. Perhaps there was a way to teach them the error of their ways.
But Zatanna herself was not tactless. She needed to make a phone call first...
TO BE CONTINUED
