Some time ago (during Season 3)

"Zatanna…I just can't believe you! How could you?!" The magician cringes, she knew that she was in trouble when Dick called her by her full name and not by any of the pet names that he has for her. She doesn't fully understand why but her name didn't sound right when coming from him.

"I thought that we were pass this"

"We were…we are" Zee didn't know what to do. Dick was fuming and with a good reason.

"It doesn't look like that" Dick pinches the bridge of his nose. "Look, I don't want to say anything reckless or something that I don't mean or likely would regret later…I'm going to do some patrolling, get some air and clear my mind" Dick makes his way to his and Zee's apartment door. He was planning on using one of the Nightwing suits that he has stored in his (and Zatanna's) Blüdhaven's HQ, aka the Nest.

"Dick…please" She tries to stop him by grabbing his arm.

"I need to vent…" Gently, he took her hand of his arm and grabbed the door knob and squeezed it tight. He took three deep breaths before looking at the sad magician. Seeing her like that broke his heart but he needed some time as well.

"I love you" She looked surprised at him after hearing those words and feeling his lips on her forehead. It hurt her that he didn't kiss her on the lips, she just stood frozen on her place as she saw him leave.

"Bobo. Give me another one" A drunk Zatanna asks her chimpanzee friend as she finishes her last shot in one go. Detective Chimp looked preoccupied at his friend.

"Zatanna. Go home. You had enough" Bobo took her hand and meet her teary eyes, full with regret.

"I have no home. I screwed up! Big time!" Zatanna sniffed.

"Don't say that. You know tha-"

"I failed him. I'm a hypocrite! I-I-W-we promised each other no more secrets…we took vows! And again I manage to make him feel useless and that I don't want him to be part of my world…" Zatanna takes someone else's bottle and starts drinking from it.

"C'mon, Tanna. You just told me that he said that he loves you before leaving. You just need to go back to your place and talk things through" The magician takes another big sip from the bottle.

"He Said it jUst 'caUSe. H-HE calLLEd me ZatANNa. He nEVEr CALLS mE thAT! OnLY when he's MAD At mE! I'm his love, his baby, his wifey, his honey, HIS ZEE…not Zatanna" From the corner of his eyes, Bobo, sees a British blonde man just as drunk, if not more, as his friend and knew that the night would get worse before it gets better.

"WhAt wAs I ThinKINg? W-WHY didnN'T I tELL hIM aBout t-thE M-MAgic PRobLEm…HE's GoINg t-TO DI-Di-divorCE Me" Zee shed some tears as she keeps drinking. She couldn't understand why she didn't told Dick about the magic imbalance that she has been feeling for weeks and the living dead rising up from their grave instead, he had to learn it from the Mystik U crew that showed at their doorstep looking for Zee as backup. They were a team and she still choose to hide that from him. Meanwhile, the blonde man smiled like a kid on X-más hearing about the problems in paradise and does a poor attempt to fix himself up but he was too drunk to do anything.

"Don't say that. I was at your wedding. He loves you like you have no idea. I've seen you two together…I'm a talking chimp with an advanced intellect that can solve any case but I-"

"Cut the chitchat Bobo. Let the bygones be bygones. I'm here for you luv" Chimp was impressed by Constantine's ability to talk like that while drunk but he knew that the chaos was coming.

"What about you come with good ol' dear John aND…AHHH!" As he was talking, John tries to put his hand on Zee's waist but inches before he could touch her, Zatanna grabbed his hand and broke his wrist with a swift movement…to the British's bad luck someone else saw the scene and was fuming.

"Get the hell away from my wife!" Dick arrived pushing John away from Zatanna. John was too drunk too fully feel the pain of his broken wrist.

"What do you think you are doing here, wanker? Don't you see that I'm working on something? This place is for big boys, no for baby bats…" John swung at Dick but the acrobat ducked without much effort before hitting the blonde with a straight hand to his face. The impact send the man flying backwards, knocking some people on the process.

"Hey! What's your problem, Chump?!"

"Who are you calling Chump, Keezy male?"

"I'm a woman you asshole!" And with that, a bar fight started. Dick did everything he could to keep Zatanna safe, hitting everyone that came close to them and ducking the flying bottles, fireballs and spells.

"Hey! Dick! This way!" Dick looks around and sees Bobo signaling a backdoor for him to get out. Dick picks Zatanna over his shoulder and follows the monkey.

"You can get out of here through this door. Be safe and take care of her"

"Thanks for this and for calling me to pick up Zee…sorry for the fight"

"Don't worry about that. These guys fight every other day for nothing…still, she's banned from some time for her own good" Dick nodded before getting out of there.

"Hmmmph…" A raven haired woman grunts as she starts waking up. Her head hurt like crazy, everything was spinning and she couldn't remember much from last night…the only thing she could remember was her fight with her husband. Slowly, her senses comes back to her, or as much as possible since she was still drunk, she recognizes the familiar warm all around her body and that sweet scent on the air, her favorite smell. She blinks a couple of times before catching up and realizing that she was in her pijamas and sleeping on top of her husband.

"How are you feeling?" She smiles hearing her favorite voice and relaxes when his hands started to caress her hair.

"Like a truck run over me a couple of times or like when Wally did his special drink to make an Atlantean, an Amazon, a Homo magi, a Martian and himself drunk but like a thousand times worse…" Dick chuckles softly as she buries deeper on his chest.

"Baby, I love your chuckle but can you please don't do it so loud? My head is going to explode" Zatanna wanted to keep the peace between for a little longer. She didn't wanted to get on a fight with him or to get back to their problem but she gasped in surprise and jumped from her spot when she looked at his face and saw Dick with a black eye.

"Dick? What happened to you?" Gently, she put her hand on his face.

"The bar fight…although I'm not sure who hit me…I think it was the dwarf that was on the bar counter" He smiled.

"I'm so sorry. It was my fault…"

"Don't worry. Even tho it's not my style…it was really fun"

"You say that because you enjoyed hitting Constantine…"

"I feel bad at how much I enjoyed it…weird for you to remember that"

"I have glimpses but I'd be lying if I say that I didn't enjoy it too"

"It's what he gets for trying to get handsy with my wife" Zatanna opens her eyes in realization, she remembers how she broke his wrist and how the bar fight started.

"H-how d-did you know I was there?"

"I was done patrolling…took some crocks out, nothing major and Bobo called me and told me that you were in bad shape"

"And why did you go for me?"

"Are you serious?" He asked with clearly annoyance. "You are my wife, my everything, my partner, my Zee…I'll always take care of you"

"I thought you were mad at me"

"I was…I still am but I'd never be mad enough to not worry for you or take care of you"

"I'm sorry. I feel horrible and…I thought that you were leaving me aft-" The magician moves her gaze from his eyes to the side.

"Are you joking, right?" He cupped her face to make her meet his eyes. "We are husband and wife. Dick and Zee. The performers…the most Chalant couple there is" He wipes her tears. "I promise you to stick by your side, always. Through thick and thin…from low to high" Zatanna just stood there in silence.

"We agreed that the "D" word doesn't exist for us. That we would fight tooth and nail for us. That we would solve every problem together because this is worthy. I'm still mad and we still need to talk and fix this problem but we are fixing it…right?" He caresses her cheek.

"Without a doubt" She leans to catch his lips with hers.

"I love you" She lies back down with her head resting on his chest.

"Love you more, Zee" Dick was still upset and had stuff to talk with Zatanna but hitting John after all these years, really put him on a good mood and with Zee still drunk, he knew that they wouldn't be able to talk things properly so he agreed with himself to have a pause from their fight.

"Y'know, I can take care of myself…I did that move that you taught me all those years ago"

"I know. It was flawlessly but…you are mine, no one cross or tries to cross the line without me doing something about it"

"It was hot. I was turned on by that…" She place feathery kisses on his chest.

"I know. You were quite hard to deal with. I had to shower you and put you some clothes while you were trying to have some action"

"W-what d-did I d-do?"

"Well…you were kissing me all the way from the bar to the zeta tube to our place then you strip yourself and took the chance to shower you to try to sober you a bit and you pulled me into the shower…" Zatanna blushes. It does sounds something that she would do, they usually do that when they went out clubbing with their friends or to dance. "I manage to escape your sexiness, put your pijamas, still you were quite horny and keep kissing all my face but fall asleep"

"So you only stay with me because you didn't wanted to wake me up?" She frowns slightly, sadness coming back again.

"No. I was worried about you. This was like the second time that I see you so drunk and I couldn't leave you alone" Zee smiles while they still have to fix the fence, she allowed herself to enjoy the moment.

"Can we stay like this? Can we stay in home the whole day?" Still feeling like shit, Zatanna enjoys rubbing her face on his chest as he hold her tightly.

"I have no problem with that" She happily hums.

"I think I'm still drunk…"

"Yeah. I think I got drunk from kissing you" She playfully smacks him.

"Do we have food?"

"I think we have some frozen pizza on the fridge but we can ask some Chinese or something"

"Please because I'm pretty sure that I might die if the sun or any form of light hits me" Grayson chuckles as the magician nuzzles his chest.

"Good but I'm going to need some ice for my eye…and Zee?"

"Yeah?"

"Bobo banned you from the bar for some time…"

After a whole day, Zatanna was already back into shape, she just had to endure a killing headache and hangover. She was ready to talk with Dick about their issue.

"Hey, Dick…do you have a minute?" Zatanna approaches Dick who was working on an assignment from Oracle. He was rathe confused lately with Barbara's missions; he was getting a hunch that he was getting left in the dark by his fellow bat brat.

"Sure. I'm guessing that you are feeling better"

"Yeah. Thanks to you but I…" She takes deep breaths, she was ready to receive some scolding and argument with her husband but she was bracing herself. She needs to right her wrong. "I'm sorry about not telling you about the zombies and the imbalance with the magic and necromancy"

"Why didn't you tell me? I know that you can handle yourself and you don't need my help for that kind of problems but Pia, Sebastian and Ploop coming to our door and telling me about this great danger and everything going around…I was scared for you Zee. It doesn't matter how strong you are…I will always worry about you" Dick's words were reaching Z and felt bad about it.

"I-I don't know what to say, truly. I wanted to tell you so many time about this but there was something holding me back…I-I-"

"Nightwing! Come in!" Dick comms went off and his watch was showing a priority mission.

"Oracle? I'm in the middle of something. I'll call you later"

"I'm sorry but this really important. Vic apokaliptian tech took over him…"

"What? Is Vic alright?" Zatanna got worried, Dick has told her about Vic's struggles and with one look she told him to put it on speakers.

"He is, he got help from Conner, the Forever people and a guy called Metron…"

"It sounds that it has been handle already"

"Yeah. The things is that Dreamer left her mother box and after some digging and inspection we tracked some apokoliptian tech coming from Gretchen's house"

"The producer?" From the other side of the line, Oracle cringed hearing the magician's voice. Barbara knew that if the Anti-Light force come out and she learned that they have been using not only Black Lighting but Conner, The Outsiders, The League and more importantly, Dick; she would release hell on Batman Inc.

"Yeah. And you know that Gar has been suspecting on Gretchen's strange behavior. I need you and Black Lightning to get into her house and found the source…we cannot call the League or The Outsiders since this is an undercover mission and we need to keep and low profile. I spotted Granny leaving her house and now it's our chance to inspect the place…"

"What about Artemis or Conner? I am in the middle of something really important"

"Otherwise occupied. Nightwing, this is our best chance. You get in and out. It's an easy mission for you and Jeff" Dick took a deep breath and look at Z.

"Sorry, Zee but it seems that I need to handle things and after that we can talk things through" Z felt a pinch in her heart, something was telling her that she shouldn't let him go but decided to ignore it. It sounded like a quick and safe mission. He'll back in no time.

Recognized: Zatanna - 25

"WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?! WHERE IS DICK?!" Zatanna came storming to the Premier building. She throw daggers to everyone inside the building.

"He is-" Artemis was cut off by Dick's screams.

"AGGGHH!" Zatanna sprinted to the medbay where Dick was screaming.

"Baby. I'm here. Dick…it's me, Zee" She couldn't withstand his pain and screaming. Her bond was acting up and was partially feeling his pain. She was fearing the worst…memories of losing her father flow through her.

"What's wrong with him?"

"I don't know. Although he has fever that doesn't goes down…his pain isn't physical…I don't know what it is. His brain is acting up" Jace explains to the magician.

"And Megan can't do anything?"

"No…I tried but if I dig deeper I might break his psyche and way worse that what happened to Kaldur. Jeff told us that it was some kind of torture" Megan rub her arm sheepishly.

"Can you please leave me alone with him?" Megan nodded, she couldn't even see Zatanna to the face.

"Call me if you need anything" Jace goes outside and check on Jeff and the Markovian kids.

"How did it go? How's Dick?" Artemis was the first one to ask.

"He's stable for now but I don't have any idea in how to help him"

"Don't worry. You are doing your best" Jeff tries to give some comfort to Jace. Megan, Kaldur, Artemis and Barbara took the chance to step aside and talk away from Jeff's earshot.

"Does Zatanna knows?" Bruce, Tim and Alfred arrives.

"No. I don't believe she knows. No one here called here, the magic bond between her and Dick is what brought her here and no one has had the chance to talk with her" Kaldur felt awful for his friends.

"She's having everyone heads as soon as she finds out" From the other side of the building, Jeff notice the secrecy between the heroes and starts putting the pieces together. Jeff screams at his so called friends and scold them for using him and putting Dick in that state.

"Hey, beautiful" Zatanna was resting on a chair next to his bed, she was leaning on his bed and holding his hand.

"Dick!" The magician doesn't hesitate to throw herself at her husband's arms.

"You scared the shit out of me, baby. I-I-I thought that I was losing you and my powers-" Grayson cuts her off with a kiss.

"Hey! You did help me. Your voice and your touch help me to get through that stuff…whatever that was…"

"How are you feeling? You still have some mild fever"

"I'll live" He cheekily grins at her.

"I'm so sorry, Dick. I know that you are just waking up but seeing you in that state and know that I could've lose you without fixing the problem that I caused…I- I don't know what would I do without you. You are everything that I have left with my dad still under Fate an-"

"I'm here, Zee. You don't have to worry about that besides…I'm in not position to judge you"

"But you were right. We promise to tell each other everything after the whole Reach debacle and how it almost ended us…we make vows" Dick caresses her cheek.

"That's true. We make vows to be together through everything and make us better. You recognize your mistake and this will only make us stronger. We both knew that we would keep continuing making mistakes but it won't matter as long as we stay together. Nothing can't stop us" Zatanna rested her head on his chest and hugged him tightly.

"Wait! How's Jeff? He was with me in the pit"

"He's fine. He didn't suffer like you did but we do know why…let me call Jace so she can check on you" Zee pecked Dick's lips before exiting the room and see a mess between her friend. Conner and Megan were greatly arguing in the top floor, Beast Boy was screaming at Tim and Barbara, Alfred looked miserably in one corner, Wally and Artemis were arguing, Jeff was screaming at Kaldur and Bruce.

"What's going on here?" The sorceress pondered to everyone in the room.

"Young Miss! How's Master Dick?" Alfred was the first one to get up and get closer to her. Everyone else stopped arguing.

"He's awake and lot better but I was looking for Jace but what's going on here?"

"Brace yourself. I'm going to check on Dick" Jace told the magician, getting herself out of harm's way.

"Why don't you ask our so called friends how they have been using us and they are the reason that Dick is in that bed?!" Jeff was still livid after being used like that and he wasn't sure if Dick was involved or not.

"What's Jeff talking about?"

"Look Tanna. We are…I'm so sorry but I assure you that Dick knew nothing about this" Tigress carefully gets closer to her friend.

"That's true. He was as much in the dark as Jeff and the others" Barbara adds.

"What are you talking about?" Bruce and the rest of the Batman Inc. told Zatanna about everything they've been doing these past few months.

"Alfred?" Zatanna was still absorbing the information.

"I'm sorry Young Miss but I was aware of all this…I should have done something…my boy is terrible hurt" Zatanna didn't have the heart to scold Alfred seeing him like that.

"Go and check in Dick. I'll catch up in a minute" Zee turned her killing gaze towards the others.

"WHAT IN THE WORLD IS WRONG WITH ALL OF YOU?!"

"Zatanna. Please try to understa-" Megan was the first one to try to reach to her friend.

"Understand what? That thanks to your stupid plans and secret society MY HUSBAND almost die?!

"You need to understand that this could happened in any mission"

"But this was your fucking mission. Your son is still suffering and we don't know if he's out of harm's way!" Zatanna throws daggers to her father in law.

"We did what we thought was necessary to-"

"To what Artemis? To put Dick in a coma. Wally isn't the one in a bed, Dick is!" Zee moves her gaze towards the Martian.

"Didn't you guys learn anything from the reach situation? We could've lost Kaldur, Artemis and Megan because of that stupid plan!"

"Dick knew the risk and he's more than ca-"

"Is that your lame excuse Barbara?! You try to take Dick away from me because he rejected you?! And Tim? Dick taught you better than that. He made mistakes and told you to learn from that and yet you did the same!" Zatanna calms herself as soon as Conner puts his hand on her shoulder. She knew that Conner was mad as well but she needed to concentrate on Dick. The magician and the half kryptonian went to the med bay with Grayson.

"Barbara. You know that she didn't mean that…" Everyone there knew that Gordon must feel like shit.

"It's okay. I get her. If I were on her place I'd be as mad as her…and we did look for this. We knew that the sooner or the later this would blow up and it finally did" Wally hugged Artemis.

"At least Dick is better now but I knew that this was a bad idea…how could I do this to my best pal" Wally starts blaming himself.

"This isn't on you Wally. It's on us"

Present

"Wait! NO NO NO NO! Please hold on!" Zatanna wakes up with Dick's movements and screams.

"Dick…baby" She tries to wake him up.

"Mom! Dad! Please!" Zatanna's eyes widened. It has been some time since Dick's last nightmare about his parents' demise.

"Baby…it's okay. Wake up"

"No! No. Please! Mary! John! Zee! I got you. Don't leave me!" Tears starts running down Dick's cheeks and he sweats even more.

"DICK!" Abruptly, Grayson gets up and grabs his eskrima stick from the side of the bed and jumps to fight position in front of Zatanna. He scans the room and finds no treat but sees the worry on his wife's face.

"It's okay. It's no one here. You are safe. We are safe" She tries to calm him down.

"What happened?"

"You had a nightmare…"

"Oh. Sorry for waking you up"

"Don't apologized. Come here" Dick was about to protest but melted as soon as he felt her smooth hands and caring touch. Zatanna put Dick's head on her breast and started playing with his hair.

"Everything is alright baby. Mary and John are safe and sound, and resting" Slowly, Dick calms down with her voice.

"You are safe. I'm safe. We are in our home" Another tear escapes Dick's eyes.

"Our family couldn't be any safer and all thanks to you. You are the best dad and husband" Zee relaxes when she feels Dick's breath steadying.

"Zee…So-"

"Don't you dare to finish that. You have nothing to worry about. I'm here for you, baby. I love you so much. Just relax and let me take care of you" Dick allowed to relax, melt with her touch and enjoy the softness of her breast as he doze off once again.

"Thanks for the breakfast, Zee. This looks amazing" Grayson was enjoying the smell of the fresh juice and pancakes. Meanwhile, Pocus was enjoying her plate with carrots, sliced apple and strawberries.

"You are welcome baby. You can start while I feed the twins" Mary and Johnny have grown so much in size. They were now 11 months old and Zatanna had a hard time to eat and feed them at the same time plus the she was always fearing those powerful bites with her baby teeth on her nipples.

"But your food is going to get cold"

"I can put them again in the microwave if they get too cold" She answers with a smile as she manages to keep the twins each in one breast.

"No on my watch" Dick move his seat and plate closer to Zatanna and cut her and his pancakes. He took one bite from his and then give her one bite of hers.

"Thank you" Those details were the ones that make her fall more for him everyday.

"My pleasure" They keep eating like that until Mary choose violence and bite her mother's nipple.

"Ouch!"

"Was it Mary or John?"

"Mary. She really takes after you"

"I mean in our defense you have really tasty nipples"

"I feel that one day on of you are going to rip them off" The couple laughs.

"Dick…do you want to talk about your nightmare?" She notices how he mood changed.

"No. I'm fine. Your fingers running through my hair did the trick"

"Are you sure? We can visit them or do som-"

"We can do that on the weekend" Zatanna wasn't convinced by his words. The rest of the breakfast went without problem. Dick and Zee talked about their schedules to perform and practice. Dick would wake up early to practice with Haly and Zee in the afternoon. That way the twins will always be with at least one of their parents but they didn't have much problem since Mary and John were Mora than welcome in the Circus and with Zee's crew.

The rest of the day went without a problem but Zatanna was still worried about Dick. She couldn't help to feel bad about him…she manages to get Har dad back, something that was impossible for him. She really wanted to do something really special for him to cheer him up. She lovingly watches how Dick was paying with John and Mary while they were watching a toon version of the Justice League. It was a really fun and colorful show for kids. The first time Z saw the show almost had a heart attack with how thick her toony version was drawn, Dick would tease her with that until he was added in the 9th season as Detective Grayson and later on in the 10th season with his Discowing suit. They would laugh at how theirs relationship was portrayed in the show with their characters fighting over who could do the most flashy attack or presentation.

"Dick. Can you please lie on the floor?" Finally, Zee came up with the perfect idea to cheer up her hubby.

"Right here? Right now? In front of the kids?" He smirks at her.

"Can you please just listen to me?"

"Okay" Dick did as told. Mary, Johnny and Pocus looked confused at her mom as she entered the playpen with them and cuddle with Dick on his left side, putting her leg over his body and her hand on his chest.

"What are you doing?"

"Just wait" It didn't take long for Mary and Johny to walk to where their parents were. Both babies did the same as their mom and rested on their father's right side of his body with Pocus lying next to Dick's head.

"You are the best. You know that?"

"Yup. Now let's have a proper family nap" And Dick was finally able to rest and live his dream.