"Zee. Turn off the AC, you are going to freeze…"
The raven beauty that was still mad at her husband decides to keep walking into their (her) closet to get ready to sleep. They were still mad at each other.
"You know that I'm always hot and if it's not cool enough, I can't sleep…"
She sits on the bed as she fluffs her pillow.
"Zee, I can see that you are cold already…"
The ravishing raven woman was wearing just her panties and one of Dick's (her) shirts.
"Hey! Don't look at my breast! You don't deserve to look at them when I'm mad at you"
She puts the blankets on to cover herself.
"I'm mad at you too, y'know? I ask for that one thing and-"
"Yeah, because I spend all day long just sitting around doing nothing!"
"I didn't say that but fine. Freeze yourself"
Dick gets on the bed and covers himself. The couple were giving the other their back.
"I won't"
Just to prove a point, she lowers the AC. After the events that they have been facing all these weeks, it wasn't hard for them to fall asleep quickly.
A few hours pass by and the magician wakes up freezing to death but her pride was too big to turn off the air. She turns around to see her peaceful sleeping husband, she hates the Bats and their resistant to uncomfortable environments. Since she and Dick starting sleeping together (just sleeping), she hasn't had the need to use a heating spell in herself but she was seriously considering breaking that streak today. There was no way she was going to move to his arms…but in the other hand, she was pregnant and she should put her ego aside and just turn off the AC and hug her husband for some heat. She bites her lip thinking what to do until she feels his arms around her.
"What are you doing? I'm still mad at you"
The magician tries to keep her facade although she was feeling way better with his arms around her and his hands caressing her pregnant belly.
"I'm mad at you too but not at our babies…besides I love you too much to let you freeze to death"
She feels his breath on her neck and shimmers. Thinking that she was still cold, he pulls her closer getting a cute yelp from her.
"Fine but only because the twins wants you close. Don't get any ideas but I love you too"
Finally, feeling better the magician gives in his warmth.
"Zee…"
"Yeah?"
"I told you so…"
She was to drowsy with his body heat to say something to him and just went to sleep.
"Good morning, Dinah"
The man doesn't hide his emotion and surprise to stumble with his fellow leaguer and friend at his daughter's house entrance.
"Good morning to you, Giovanni. I see that you are getting better by the minute"
The leaguer embrace in a quick and warm hug.
"Yeah. All thanks to my Piccola and Richard to some extend but don't tell him that…"
The woman giggles
"I won't. My lips are seal"
The blonde pretends to zip her mouth.
"And to what do I own the pleasure? We didn't have any appointments, right?"
For a moment, Black Canary forgot why she was there.
"No, it's not that. I came here to see Zatanna and Dick. Are they home?"
"Yeah. Richard is training and Zatanna is resting…both are in the garden, make yourself at home. I have an errand to run. C'mon, Pocus"
The fluffy and cute bunny starts following her grandad, one jump at the time. Canary smiles with the scene before entering the Grayson's home. In the garden, she first spot the raven haired magician, who seemed to be in a trance, Dinah couldn't help but to notice her bigger belly and how she was resting her hands on top of it, she follows Zatanna's gaze and sees the reason behind her drooling state, there he was, Dick Grayson, working out shirtless doing a very impressive gymnastics routine on the floor. Lance got herself in a trance watching the man but after a few moments, she returned back to earth and approached the magician.
"Hey, Dinah. I was wondering how long you would be staring at MY shirtless husband before approaching me…"
Dinah turns herself into red canary with that comment and starts to stutter.
"I wasn't-…I-"
She stops the moment she hears the young woman's giggles.
"Sorry, I had to but I know that is sight to behold to"
The blonde notices how after all these years together, Zatanna would still bite her lip every time she was turn on by Dick's actions, which was quite often.
"It's my imagination or he's bigger?"
"Hey! Look at his eyes!"
"That wasn't what I me-"
Once again, the therapist falls for Zatanna's trap.
"Sorry, sorry but you have to admit that you put yourself there"
"Artemis is right. You two are so alike that normally is really cute but other times is so annoying"
The acrobat stops exercising after hearing so many giggles from his wife that were one of the most glorious things he has ever heard.
"Hey! I can't concentrate over there with all those cute noises over here!"
"Wait! Stop! Dick, you are too sweaty…"
The raven beauty tries to push her man away as he keeps trying to kiss and hug her.
"You never seem to mind that in fact-"
"But that's because I'm horny!"
"And you are not right now?"
The woman turns beet red before they were interrupted by Black Canary, who clears her throat for attention.
"Hey, D. How are things going?"
"I see that not as good as they are here but good enough"
"And not that we mind having you here but at what do we own the honor?"
"I'm here to ask a favor to the both of you. I need help with something and-"
Dick raises his hand for her to stop.
"Say no more. Just let us get in the shower and you can tell us all the details"
Canary arched her eyebrow and sees that Zatanna was as radiant as ever perhaps even more with the pregnancy but she didn't seem to need a shower.
"It's a rule of the house…"
"That you always have to shower together?"
"Obviously, it only applies when we are both at home but yes"
"And let me guess…it was Dick's idea?"
The magician starts playing with her hair as a smirk appears on Dick's face.
"Actually, it was the Misses' idea but I guess that you might be in a hurry. So…No time to lose"
Those were Dick's last words before picking up Zee, bridal style, and taking her to their room. Dinah sights.
"It's going to take a while I better make myself comfortable"
"Dinah…Dinah…Dinah…"
"Mmm…five more minutes…"
The Justice leaguer turns herself as she covers her ears to keep sleeping until she remembers where she was.
"How long…?"
"You don't want to know but Dick made some snacks while you were asleep"
The sorceress tells her colleague. Black Canary starts to stir and sits up from the couple's super comfortable couch and spots Grayson setting the table with some sandwiches, fruit and juices.
"Welcome back to the living world"
He teases. The blonde makes her way to the bathroom to wash her face and fix herself up and comes back to the table with the Grayson's.
"So…what are we good for?"
"You remember Ted Grant?"
"Of course, he was Wild Cat and your mentor. He passed away some time ago…what about him?"
Nightwing was as informed as ever.
"Yeah. Rumor has it that there's a new Wild Cat fighting in some underground tournament, fighting heroes and villains alike…I'm not sure what the whole deal is but-"
"He's ruining your mentor's memory and getting himself killed in the process"
Dinah nods.
"And you want me to enter in the tournament and meet this guy, stop him and close the whole tournament?"
"You marry quite the detective, Zatanna"
Both woman smile.
"I'm in but why don't you enter the tournament? I'm sure that you can take on everyone there. You are among the best fighters in the league"
"Thank you but this tournament is men only and it doesn't matter how good fighter I am…I don't look like a man do I?"
She gracefully moves her hair to the side, slightly flirting with the man.
"No, you don't. But why don't you ask Oliver? Or someone from the Quiver?"
Dinah sends the man a flirty smiles, she couldn't help but notice the change on the face of the magician.
"First, Roy is too hot headed. Second, Will is out of the game and he isn't in his top shape to enter the fight. Third, I don't want to speak about Oliver at the time…"
The couple notices the anger and discomfort in her words.
"And fourth, none of them are as strong as you. You took down Batman and Red Hood, who better than you?"
"Okay. Enough flirting!"
Now, it was Dinah's time to start laughing.
"You owned me that for the teasing when I arrived"
I'm efforts to save his life, Dick tries to hold his cackle as the magician pouts.
"So…what's the play coach? I know that you have a plan in mind so let's hear it"
Nightwing gets back on topic.
"I need you to be a Talon. As I said before, this is a hero-villain fight club but that doesn't mean that we can expose both Justice Leaguers and a couple so high profile like you guys…and for us, I was thinking that Zatanna can glamour us up to make us look different"
"That sounds good. All I have to do is to fight my way until we meet the big boss and this copy-cat. Sounds pretty easy to me"
The couple was excited as ever and ready to help their friend but couldn't help but notice Canary's long face.
"I'm so sorry for asking this to you guys. I know that you are trying to be careful with the whole pregnancy and that you have been facing struggle after struggle sinc-"
The couple embrace Dinah in a warm hug.
"There's no need for that. You have always been there for us…"
"Let us be here for you"
Lance gives in the hug.
"I thought all the Talons were either under Justice League surveillance or in a hole after that mess on that island. Look, whoever is under that suit, wether you are the real deal or not…you are going to make me rich just by fighting in that suit"
The fighting broker tells excited to the new 3 figures in front of him, there was a Talon with 2 blonde women wearing a Court of Owls' mask.
"You underestimate the power of the Court…that's not very wise. We have agents all over the world"
One of the woman spits those words back as she steps forward.
"I always heard that the woman of the Elite group were gorgeous but you two are a delight…what about we go a few rounds and let your slave take a stroll in the meanwhile…"
The man starts getting closer to both women but was stopped by the Talon who placed his hand on his chest.
"What do you want? Why don't you go and start stretching or whatever while I str-"
The man couldn't finish his sentence as Dick knocks the wind out of him making him go to his knees; other fighters saw the scene and approached the trio.
"Y-Y-You b-bastard"
The fighting broker signals his grunts to attack the trio; Talon took down his with one punch to the gut, Dinah took hers with a kick to the face; Zatanna was ready to knock out her enemy, the guy decided to kick her in the belly but Dick caught his leg and pull him close before snapping it with his elbow; before the fight could get any worse, the big boss, Tobias Whale, shows up.
"Hey! That's not a way to treat our fighter and his handlers. My apologies, Court"
The man bows as he signals his men to take out the "trash"
"I hope this misunderstanding won't affect our business relationship as a fighter such a yours is good for the business but I can see that you can handle yourselves after all"
The kingpin didn't fail to notice the fighting skills of one of the women and how much the Talon paid extra attention to the other.
"Of course we know how to defend ourselves from the filth. I can't believe that I have to touch that low life"
Dinah does her best impression of a stuck up person from the elite.
"And you have my apologies for it. Please, step inside and you will get the first class treatment that you so much deserve"
Once again, the huge man bowed for the trio to walk in first. The man lead them to a VIP lounge for them to rest until the brackets were ready for the fighters.
"Okay. We are in, we can bounce from this…and we know who is behin-"
Canary stops mid sentence as she feels the tension in the room between the magician and the acrobat.
"Dinah? Can you give me 5 minutes with Talon, alone?"
"Sure. I'm going to try to collect some intel and see if I can find Wildcat's copycat"
Dick snorts at the wordplay and both women rolled their eyes.
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!"
Once the door was closed, the magician screams at her husband as she rips off his mask.
"What's going on? What are you talking about?"
Dick wasn't sure why she was mad about him.
"The grunt at the entrence?"
"What? He attacked you and I protected you like always"
The man tries to keep his calm.
"I'm not mad about you protecting me even if it wasn't need it. We already established that not matter what we will look out for the other"
"Then? What's the matter?"
The magician takes a deep breath, the problem was more serious that she initially thought if he didn't knew what the problem was.
"You broke his leg. You could have done like a million things to keep me safe and don't be so violent while at it…"
"I-"
"And don't say that it was to keep your Talon image because we both know that's bullshit"
"I freak out! Okay?"
Dick seats down on a stool and Zatanna comes closer to him.
"He aim at your belly and like a million things went through my head because that hit would have not only hurt you but the babies as well…"
She cups his face to meet his eyes.
"You know that I have a protection spell on me and-"
"And I know that even if you didn't, you could've easily dodge, parry, counter or whatever…that guy doesn't have anything on your fighting skills"
"But…?"
She already knew the answer to that even before she called him out but she needed for him to let it out.
"You and our babies are my everything and I need to protect you no matter what but…as usual I got carried away a little"
The sorceress softly smiles as she pecks his lips.
"Just don't let this be a problem, okay? You can protect me but don't lose yourself while at it"
She flinched seeing his smirk.
"You are want to talk…because If I remember-"
"Different cases. No need to bring that up"
The woman blushes as Dick pulls her closer by the waist.
"I would say that we are even on that department…"
"Maybe but we are not lost because we have each other"