"Mmmm….aggghh"

A beautiful magician groans as she moves on her bed looking for some love and heat but instead she found the loneliness and coldness. Still more asleep than awake, she turns her gaze and sees the close door of her bathroom but the light on.

"Baby…get back to bed"

Zatanna waits for an answer but nothing.

"Mmm…honey? Is everything alright?"

Still no answer. Quickly, she put on her bunny slippers and walks to the bathroom.

"Dick. I swear if this is a prank of y-"

The magician stops mid sentence when she feels something wet on her feet. She looks down and realizes that's blood.

"Dick!"

She opens the bathroom door to find her husband, unconscious in the half full bathtub with his suit still on.

"Dick…baby…c'mon"

Zatanna moves Dick tenderly and softly slapping him.

"Heya, Zee"

Dick weakly answers her.

"What happened?"

"Nothing. I guess that I just fall asleep here…I'm sorry for scaring you"

He tried to stand up with her help. She gasp the moment she sees all the cuts all over his body.

"Oh no. Laeh!"

Zatanna starts focusing on curing him but Dick stops her with a kiss.

"Don't do that"

"Hey, I'm fine. You heal me enough, don't worry"

Zatanna breaths out.

"Fine. Let's get you out of that suit, I'm going to help you shower and patch your wings, Birdie"

Carefully, Zatanna got Dick out his suit and help him wash himself so his wounds won't get infected. Gently, she run her hand past his new scars and start planting soft kisses.

"You don't have to do that every time I get a scar"

"I know…I like doing it. I-I-I feel that it helps you with the pain"

"It really does, Zee. Thank you"

After cleaning him. Zatanna lead Dick to their bed where she started putting stitches and bandages on him.

"Ouch!"

Zatanna jumps a little, thinking that she hurt him but when she looks at his face, she sees him grinning and smiling.

"Don-"

Once again Dick interrupted her with his lips.

"You are doing it wrong, y'know?"

"No, I'm not"

Her eyes doesn't move from the current wound she was treating.

"Yes, yes, you are"

"How so?"

"You are not wearing your nurse outfit…"

Dick smirks at her and finally gets a smile from her.

"C'mon, Zee. Light up a little"

Zatanna lets a heavy breath out.

"How do you expect me to be calm when I wake up and I'm not under your embrace, I call for your name and you don't answer, I walk to the bathroom, step on your blood and found my unconscious husband in the bathtub…"

Zatanna shears a tear but Dick quickly brushed it away with his thumb. She looks up and sees him smiling.

"This isn't something to smile about! I'm upset"

Dick cups her face.

"I know, sorry. It's just that you call me husband…I know it has been some time but I love it. I love you everyday more"

Zee pecks his lips and lean into each other's foreheads.

"Dummy"

"But I'm your dummy"

"That you are…so, are you going to tell who did this to you and why didn't you call me?"

Zatanna was done fixing her bird and start storing their first aid kit.

"It was the Court of Owls…"

Zatanna was taken by surprise.

"The Court? Really? Here in Blüdhaven?"

Zatanna handed to him some painkillers and water.

"Yeah. They are trying to recruit me again, y'know, since I escaped from their brainwashing a few years ago"

Zatanna lies on the bed and signals him to lie on her chest. He does it and she starts playing with his hair.

"Why didn't you call me when you were ambushed by them?"

"That's another weird thing. The comms were off and I'm surprised that our bond didn't call you when I was in a tight spot"

Zatanna closes her eyes and concentrates on her bond with Dick.

"That's weird…our bond is as strong as ever if not more. Maybe the Court is stepping up their magic game. I'd have to look into that…in the meantime you are bench"

"What? Why? You can't be serious"

Dick looks up at her and knew she wouldn't budge.

"I'm being serious. You need to rest and heal…I'm calling Yi-"

"Zee. I'm fine. I can go to work, it's just desk duty"

"But-"

"I promise that the only danger at the precinct are those awful chairs. You go and train your students"

"Fine but if you put that Nightwing costume or go out and do field duty…I'm biding you to bed!"

Dick smirks at her.

"And how that's a punishment?"

Zatanna pecks his lips.

"Alright wise guy. If you put your super suit, neither you nor I, are getting handcuffed or bound for a month"

Dick's grin disappeared.

"Fine. You got me"

Dick relax on her chest as both fall asleep.

"Alright class. Are we ready?"

Zatanna ask ms Mary and Trace as they were in Central Park.

"Yeah. I'm so ready for this…kinda…more or less"

Trace responds while petting Leroy.

"Sure. Let's do this!"

Mary cracks her knuckles.

"But first…another magician is joining us. You meet him at my wedding. Kent's nephew and kinda my little cousin…Khalid"

A brown man in blue hoodie steps forward.

"Hi. A pleasure to see you again"

"Hi! We know each other but this is my friend Leroy"

Leroy starts chirping as Khalid pets him.

"What about we start we something basic?"

Mary groans.

"Why? We are ready to step our game. We can do so much more"

Mary's eyes start to shine brighter.

"Because the better we handle our basics, the better we will handle advance magic"

Zatanna puts her hand on Mary's shoulder.

"What are we doing?"

Khalid asks.

"We are going to meditate"

Zatanna smiles as she sits on the grass and her students follow her lead.

"And now what?"

The Shazam user wasn't having any of it.

"We relax. We close our eyes and think in what makes us happy and we love the most…"

The sentinels starts to breath and relax their muscles.

"What you see? I'm going to start…I see Dick and Pocus, waiting for me at home; my mom and dad, you guys, The Team…my magic shows"

Zatanna's smile grows bigger with the image of her love ones and what she loves to do.

"I see Jaime…I see the both of us at your wedding; I see Leroy and my parents, I see you and Dick having me over your house, The Team"

Trace lets her doubts wash away.

"I see my uncle Kent, aunt Inza, you Zatanna, my parents, the patients…."

Khalid relaxes as well.

"I see Billy, Freddy, Uncle Dudley, Garth, Batgirl, Zatanna…Jason"

Mary's fist start to clinch for a second. She decided to stop at Jason but she was seeing herself as Sargent at the top of the world with all her power.

"Mary, ease a bit, I know it's hard but you have to try"

Zatanna tells her student.

"Yeah. Got it"

Zatanna mutters a spell and the four of them were now on a mystic plane.

"As you might know the magic can be very dark and cruel…"

Zee tells her students as she shows them some magic treats; Klarion, Wotan, Felix Faust, Merlin, Hecate, Circe, mystical creatures like goblins, frost giants, dark elfs.

"But the stronger the dark, the brighter the light…"

Now, the magician were able to see Zatanna performing her shows and the marvel in her fans' face, a younger Khalid and Zatanna training with Zatara and Kent, all the times Trace, Zatanna and Mary had helped their friends and the people with magic. They get back to the mortal plane and open their eyes.

"As you can see the magic, as everything, can be use for evil and for good and our job as sentinels is to keep the balance by doing good"

The sentinels nod at their teacher.

"Alright. For the next exercise I need you to focus and find some friends…"

"What kind of friends?"

Trace asks.

"You'll see. Focus on your magic and you'll know who you are looking for…have a chat with them, you don't know what you might learn"

Zatanna stands up and starts flying.

"What are you going to do?"

Khalid asks.

"Checking you from above. C'mon, go now and have some fun"

The trio takes different paths and try to sense the magic. From above Zatanna watches how Traci approaches a half human/half vampire and starts talking with him. Suddenly, she feels like someone is watching her and taste the dark magic in her mouth but can't be sure of who's the source. She dashes to nearby building and sees that there's no one there.

"That's odd…I better call Dick to see what he's doing"

Zatanna sits on the ledge of the building and starts dialing Dick's number.

"Hello? You are speaking with the luckiest guy on Earth, who has an amazing, smart and smoking hot wife, how can I help you?"

Zatanna giggles.

"Dork. How are you doing, baby?"

"I think that this chair might finish what the Talons started if not the chair, surely H. R. there's too much paperwork to do…"

"Chin up, Dick. I'd give you a massage, patch you up and make dinner once we get home…"

"As long as I get more than just a massage…"

She couldn't see him but she knew that he was smirking.

"Behave and we will see"

"Promises. Promises. How's the class going?"

"Good. Khalid is fit in amazing and they really have an amazing attitude to learn"

"With a teacher like you, I'd be an A+ student"

"Mr. Grayson, you are making me blush"

Zatanna keeps smiling through the phone. She has been worry sick about him but hearing him flirting with her and hear his voice, it makes her feel a lot better.

"I can do so much more if you let me"

"Stop it"

"Alright. Something you want to tell me?"

"Huh?"

"Zee, I can sense that something is off, so what's up?"

Zatanna takes a deep breath.

"I thought I feel something, like someone was watching me…whatever it was it has dark magic but I can't be sure"

Dick takes some time to answer back.

"That's odd. Why don't you check with Nimue? Maybe she can help but if anything happens you now that I'm going to be in a heartbeat, right?"

The magician smiles.

"Yeah. I know. Get back to your work and I'll get back to my students…I think Mary is picking a fight with a dwarf…"

"Roger that. Have fun. I love you, wifey"

Dick sends a kiss over the phone and Zatanna could hear the laughs coming from his end of the line. No doubt his colleagues were teasing him.

"Love you more, hubby"

Zatanna sends him a kiss before hanging out.

"Dick! What are you doing?!"

Zatanna gets into her home and sees Grayson cooking.

"Mmm…dinner?"

Zatanna turns off the stove and pulls Dick to their bedroom.

"You should be resting. You are hurt and I tell you that I was doing dinner tonight"

Zatanna takes Dick's shirt off and gets their emergency kit.

"I know but I got here first and I thought that you might be tired and I need to stretch my legs after dealing with desk work the whole day"

Zatanna sees that the front injury has some blood in it.

"Laeh!"

The injury closes, leaving a new scar on his body. Zatanna traces her fingers and then starts planting soft kisses.

"I'm okay, Zee. Honest"

Zee relaxes a bit.

"I know but this is your first big injury since we got married and it scares me that I could've lose you"

Dick lifts her chin to meet her eyes.

"Hey! I'm okay and I'm here with you. I'll always find a way to comeback to you"

Zatanna makes some distance between them as she stands up and gives him her back.

"You say that now but what i-"

Without a second thought, Dick pulls her down and places her on his lap.

"Have I ever fail you?"

Zatanna shakes her head no.

"And I don't have any plans on starting now"

Zatanna hugs his neck and embrace him on a heated kiss.

"I'm sorry. I know that you can take care of yourself and how responsible you are…"

"Hey! It's okay, I'd be as much if not more worried if you were on my place"

They just embrace tighter.

"Let me wash my hands so we can eat. I hope that you have something really tasty for me"

Zatanna gets up and makes her way to the bathroom. Dick's eyes were fixed on her ass and couldn't resist himself as he spanks her and keeps his hand on her rear as he pulls her closer to him.

"Nothing tastier than you. And if I remember correctly…someone promise me a massage"

"And you are getting it and so much more but after dinner…you are going to need the fuel"

Zatanna purred into his ear before swaying her hips to the restroom. Dick made his way to the kitchen to finish dinner.