"Okay. Let me change my clothes before we cut the cake. I got a pretty dress for this party and I'm going to use it" The owner of the house tells her friends.
"Alright. Let me carry you to our room and help you out" Dick was about lift Zatanna up but was stopped by the magician.
"I can walk, Dick"
"I know you can but we have been moving all day long and you must be tired and although we got you those pretty boots and make them comfortable for you…your feet are still killing you or am I wrong?" Donna, Kory, Artemis and Dinah were touched by the man's action while the guys from the Team, look proudly at his friend.
"Sigh* Fine. Be back soon" Their friends watch how Dick carries her wife to their bedroom.
"Where are they going?" Diana ask the other heroes. She came close to congratulate Dick but she arrived just to see the man leave.
"Zatanna wanted to change her wardrobe and since she can't use magic because it's tires her more because of the Twins…she has to do it the old fashion way" Canary comments her fellow leaguer.
"100 bucks that they are not coming down anytime soon" The archer pull outs the money from her purse.
"Normally, I'd agree that these two are taking the chance to fuck but Zatanna put so much effort in this surprise party for Dick. I say that she's just changing her clothes" Black Canary enters the wager.
"Agreed. We went shopping with Zatanna for this party and she has a lot less of energy and she really wants to show off that dress and take a bunch of pictures with her hubby" Donna and Kory place their bets.
"What about you? Diana? Guys?" The blonde archer was looking to make some extra easy cash to get more books.
"I'm not taking part in this"
"Me neither" Kaldur and Conner decided to take a step back.
"You know…for once I don't think they are getting at it…Dick is super paranoid with Zatanna right now. They are coming back" Even with Wally against her, Artemis was still confident in her bet.
"Mmm…" For some reason, Will lick his finger and starts to take the temperature of the room and trying to find to where the wind is blowing. Dinah and Artemis rolled their eyes at their fellow Arrow family member.
"I'd say that Grayson is totally fucking. You saw how he was ready to unwrap himself" Red Arrow set his bet as he high fives his fellow archer.
"They are coming back. I have a hunch that I'm right" The group was surprised that the princess of the Amazon's enter the bet.
"Dick. I have a proposal for you..." The couple takes a break from the party downstairs as the magician looks for a change of clothes.
"I don't know Zee...I'm kinda marry to this hot magician" Dick lifts his hand to show off his ring.
"I'm serious you big Dork!" She smacks him.
"I'm serious too" They got lost for a moment in each other's eyes and smile before Dick decided to speak.
"Okay. What is it?"
"What if I create a glamour charm for us?"
"Why? Wanna get freaky?" Dick takes her lips before she gently push him away.
"No, it's not that..."
"Sorry, Zee. I'm a detective and I'm not following you"
Zatanna takes a deep breath. She moves to get a glamour necklace from a drawer in the night table on her side of the bed.
"What if I use this glamour charm to change the way I look...what if I can look whatever you want me to look and we can do whatever we want? This is my birthday present for you" The sorceress bites her bottom lip and wait for his answer. Dick looks surprised for a moment before his face changes to an excited look.
"For real?" It was her idea but seeing him so excited in changing her, hurt her.
"Totally. All you have to do is picturing how you want me to look and I will enchanted this necklace"
"Alright" Zee hands the jewelry to him. Dick close his eyes and his fist around it. Zatanna places her hands over his.
"Roumalg ekam sih maerd emoc eurt!" The necklace starts shining, the glamour was officially on duty.
"It's done"
"Can we use it right now?" Dick eagerness was another thorn right into her heart but Zatanna told to herself that it was her idea, her plan and she had to face whatever comes next.
"Sure" She did her best to pretend being ecstatic about it.
"Wait! Close your eyes and let's do it in front of the mirror...that way you are going to know how you look like" Another sharp pain came to her heart. She doesn't need to know what Dick has on his mind for a hot girl and what changes he was making to her.
"Sure..." They stand in front of the mirror and Zatanna close her eyes as Dick puts her the necklace. She feels the magic running around her body, the charm worked.
"Zee, this has to be your best idea ever" Dick exclaims.
She can tell that he was really turn on by the way he was kissing her neck and holding her. Slowly, she starts to open her eyes, curiosity getting the best of her.
Gasp*
Zatanna blinks a couple of times. She couldn't believe her eyes as Dick keeps kissing her neck and nibbling her earlobe, caressing her sides at the same time.
"What do you think? Aren't you the hottest woman?"
Dick stops his kissing assault to look at her reflection as Zatanna inspects herself. Her eyes were the same shade of blue as always, her hair was as black and long as ever, her lips were the same... she keeps looking at herself; her boobs weren't any bigger or smaller, her butt was firm, there wasn't any change on her, even her pregnant belly was intact.
"I look the same"
"Exactly" Dick spins her around to meet her face to face.
"You are the hottest woman alive, Zee. I wouldn't change a thing, every single part of you is beautiful and don't you forget it. You are perfect just the way you are" Dick cups her face and caress her cheeks.
"Don't you ever, ever, ever try to change yourself tryin' to please me. You've never let me down before" Dick feels a knot on his throat. He felt that he failed her.
"I don't know where you get the idea that you need to change the way you look to turn me on but you couldn't be any more wrong..."
"I-I-I..." The magician was speechless.
"Or tell me. Did I do something wrong? Did I make you feel like I don't crave you or feel attracted to you?" Dick finally shows his worries.
"No, you did nothing wrong"
"Please. Tell me the truth. If I did something to make you feel this way. I want to apologize but I need you tell me what it was so I won't do it again" Zatanna was shocked at takes his lips in a heated kiss.
"No, baby. You did nothing wrong. I got this stupid idea and..."
"Really stupid. I'm usually the one that covers that part of the relationship" Dick kisses her again. This time he takes her lips between his teeth, gently biting them, pulling them slightly and repeated the action a couple of times.
"You will always have my spoken passion and love" They start a hit make out session before the magician push him away.
"What? Did I hurt you? Did I press our babies?" The man tries to jump back on worry but was kept on his place by the magician.
"No. It's not that. We have a party downstairs…YOUR PARTY"
"And? It's not like our friends and family doesn't know how obsessed we are of each other" Dick keeps pestering with kisses, making his way from her lips to her jaw and takes his time on her collarbone drawing moans out of the woman that puts her hands on his hair.
"You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute…" Grayson moves back up to her lips. Zatanna giggles into the kiss.
"That mentality of yours is what got me this pretty and huge belly…" They stop, and lean into each other's foreheads smiling, trying to catch their breath.
"We better get back to your surprise party, babe. They are going to be looking for us…" Zatanna was saying one thing but her body wasn't following her words. Dick starts to undress her without resistance from his wife.
"Well…they'll have to wait. Because it's my birthday" Dick takes her jacket off, leaving her in just the knitted dress, he moves his hands to her ass and gives her a firm squeeze before lifting her up and place her on the dresser mirror.
"I'm in MY HOUSE" Dick lifts her dress up, exposing her nether regions.
"And I'm with MY WOMAN" He puts her legs on his shoulder as then he bites and kisses her inner thighs as a response, she pushes his head towards her center.
"And getting my birthday present"
"Pay mama her money" Artemis celebrates after the couple emerge from their room one hour later. Wally, Donna, Dinah, Diana, Kory insisted on wait until they come back from their room. They were insisting that Zee took a time to relax and recharger but after seeing the giant smile of the couple as they emerged from the room, they give up.
"God! I should've know better!" Donna curse as she gives the money to the blond archer.
"What are we doing with our money, babe?" The archer scoff before pushing her husband.
"To the loser side, West. And give the money" Will puts his hand in front of the speedster to make him pay.
"It's an universal rule, constant or whatever you want to call it. If you leave those two alone and out of your sight…they are totally fucking" The couple arrives and laughs at Will and Artemis' victory dance.
"Why are they so happy?"
"You couldn't keep it in your pants" Donna spats at the birthday boy as she drags Kory to the bar area for a drink.
"Dude! How could you do this? All your friends and family here to celebrate your day and you go and get busy with your wife…you cost me $100" The redhead speedster dramatically shakes his friend.
"What's Wally talking about Artemis?" The raven haired magician asks.
"We did a little wager. These fools really thought that you two were to your room just to change your clothes…" Artemis counts her money with pride as she does Dutch with Will.
"I mean we did change our clothes…isn't this dress beautiful?" Dick took Zatanna's hand and lift it above her head so she could do a spin.
"Really beautiful, Zatanna. We should dress shopping sometime" Wonder Woman decides to leave the wager behind.
"You got it but I'd have to be in a while. Our babies are arriving this month and once they arrive this house is going to be a chaos" Hearing the word chaos and babies make the other mothers come close to the conversation.
"You don't have any idea. The man of steel turned into the man of paper when little Johnathan arrived" Lois hugs the couple after her comment.
"And wait until they start showing their powers…" Iris loved her tornado twins but two kids with super speed were too much for anyone.
"And you blink and they are all grown up" Raquel adds and Will nods as they look to the side and watch Liam and Amistad playing.
"That reminds me…Artemis, how are you feeling with your pregnancy? Did you already feel him/her moving at super speed?"
"I mean…I'm just a month or so pregnant so it's to soon to- AM I GOING TO FEEL WHAT?!" The presents laughs at the archer expenses.
"Sorry. Sorry. I have to. Don't worry. My kids didn't showcase their powers until after they turned one" Artemis almost passed out from the shock.
"Phew. Don't scare me like that, I just hope to look as half as good as Zatanna looks right now…" Everyone turns their gaze towards the magician.
"Totally. You are rocking the pregnant look, Zatanna. You are glowing" Raquel comments.
"Thank you but I can't help but to wonder why am I this big…neither of you were this big while pregnant as far as I can remember"
"Well, for starters…you are having twins. The rest of us but Iris had just one baby at the time" Lois tells the magician.
"And although you are indeed bigger than I was…I'd say that the genes have to do with this. I mean look a your husband, Dick is taller and more muscular than Barry and that might count for something and you and your dad are taller than me and my family" Iris reassures the woman. That's when Zatanna just re-realize that Wally was indeed the shorter of the men of the Team Year Zero, making the West's not so tall.
"Finally, you make sometime for your brothers. You know that I was in middle of something very important and still make a space in my agenda for you" Jason acts tough in front of the other Robins.
"Don't listen to him Dick. He was ready since yesterday and keep pushing me to be ready on time" The redhead Amazon hugs her boyfriend's brother as she exposes her own man.
"Thank you, Artemis and you are so sweet Jaybird" Jason doesn't denies and just looks to the side.
"Anyways, we got you this. This is from the Outlaws" Jason gives his big brother his gift. It was leather jacket like his but this was black with blue details and just like Red Hood's it was bulletproof.
"Awww. You are so sweet…who'd have tough that the big bad-"
"Shut up, replacement. You are mad because my gift is better than yours" Tim smiles.
"I, with the help of the Outsiders, close 20 trafficking AND drug rings in Blüdhaven. Ask Yin if you don't believe me" Jason clinches his jaw. And starts wondering why he didn't though of that.
"That's nothing. Cass and I cover for him in his self defense classes for the community of Blüdhaven and Cass also helped with the ballet classes" Barbara grins as she raise her hand for the rest of the Batmembers to be quiet.
"I went into the deepest and darkest places of the internet and black market and got him an original collection of Vynils of his favorite bands, all of them in perfect state and first edition. Barbara was aware of Dick's love for vintage stuff.
"Scoff* As always, I'm going to show you why I'm the superior Robin, the superior Brother, the one and on-"
"Cut it baby demon and show your gift" Damian lets that transgression slide as he was sure of his victory. The little Wayne holds a box of medium size and walks towards the couple with pride as he hands the gift towards the magician.
The other bat brats guffaws at the scene.
"You got it wrong. It's Dick's birthday. Cass and I are the clear winners" Steph tries to brush some tears away from the laughter.
"That's what the superior sibling does?" Tim mocks the youngest as he and Red Hood leans into each other. Barbara laughs with everyone but her smile slowly fades away as she sees that their reaction only makes the Wayne smile.
"What's this?" Zatanna asks to her husband's protégées, little brother and to some extend their surrogate son.
"Open it" The couple looks at each other and shrugs. Zatanna opens the box and pulls what's inside with the biggest smile.
"Is this?" The other Batmembers stop laughing when they see that Damian's gift was a top hat.
"Yeah. This is the top hat from the Mall"
"I don't get it… Zee?" The magician was speechless and her husband question brought her back ti earth.
"A couple of weeks ago, Damian and I went to the mall to do some shopping and bonding time, I got some stuff for this party and help Damian with his wardrobe"
"I didn't go shopping with you. I was there as a security" Even if he was way mellow than before. The demon had a reputation that he didn't want to lose.
"Yeah. Sorry. Damian was making sure that nobody would attack me or anything and protected me all the time" Zatanna corrected her story.
"Yeah and then we had to go because of an emergency with the cult of the Kobra and Zatanna was tired"
"Yeah. Damian was called into a mission and I was already tired, but I saw that hat and I make a mental note to comeback and get it but y'know. The weather and being busy with the doctor appointments and all the stuff with the babies…but I never told you that I love it"
"I know but I saw you reaction when you saw it. And then I came back and got it for you" Zatanna was touched with Damian's gift and pulls him into a hug and Dick looks proudly at his little brother.
"This still doesn't explain why didn't you get anything for Dick…" Steph was still confused.
"This is where all of you failed. Grayson loves to help, protect and save everyone but above all…he loves to see Zatanna happy" Everyone looks at the couple, Zatanna was already with her new hat on and Dick was lovely looking at his wife.
"Look guys…I love all of your gifts and this is not a competition…" The oldest of the clan was trying to reassure his family.
"FUCK! The demon beat us" Jason curses.
"Zatanna make quite the party for you, son" Bruce hugs his son as he steps out of the house into the garden where Batman, Zatara, Alfred, Clark and Jay Garrick were talking.
"You are really lucky, Dick"
"Thanks Clark. And you have no idea how lucky I am".
"How's the League is treating you?" Nightwing turns his gaze towards the oldest of the speedster.
"It has been amazing. It's good to be useful and stretch my legs…truth being told, I was looking to work with you after all the praising you get from Bart, Wally and Barry"
"It means a lot coming for you, Jay but you know…family calls"
"Speaking of family…what does Leslie has to say about the twins? Is everything alright?" Dick smirks at his father.
"Like you haven't called Leslie everyday prying for some information" The other men laughs at the Dark Knight reaction of being caught.
"I guess you are not as sneaky as you thought you were Master Bruce"
"Yeah, B. At least Al has the decency to attack Leslie in person or to come to the house once a week"
"It's my job to take care of this family and I have to make sure that you are having a nice diet. I'm glad that Master Zatara is keeping you two in check"
"It's more like Richard and I are keeping my little zebra in my check but she's too smart for us…I still don't understand where she gets all those cookies-" That's the moment that Giovanni and Dick put one and one together.
"Alfred? Anything you want to share with us"
"Don't you worry, Master. Those cookies are healthy, I make them myself and doesn't have much sugar or other of that stuff but don't tell the young Miss or she's having my head" All the men laughs.
"So…where's Talia?" Dick finally makes the question everyone but Alfred , wanted to make.
"She's rather occupied…but I guess you already knew that"
"Yup. Like a couple of weeks ago but I was hoping that you'll talk to me about…"
"Bruce? Are you and Talia?" Clark was worried about his friend and how that detail escape from him.
"Don't worry, Clark. I'm okay and I see that you are as sharp as ever. I'm guessing that's not the only secret that you knew about. Since when do you know about your secret party?" Zatara, Clark and Garrick looked surprised at the young man.
"A couple of months ago. I don't know if she plan this since her birthday or since my birthday last year but yeah…" All turn their gaze towards inside of the house and sees the magician chatting and laughing with her friends. She caught her husband's gaze and tucks her hair behind her ear before blowing a kiss to him. Dick catches the kiss with his hand and plants it on his chest.
"And you are not telling her that, right?"
"Huh? This is the only secret I keeping from her and taking to my grave"
"You are wise, son. That's the only type of secret worth keeping. I have a few of those that I keep from my Joanna" Jay tenderly smiles remembering his days with his late wife.
"I did the same with my Sindella" Bruce places his hand of the shoulder of the magician and Clark did the same with the speedster.
"A toast. For those women that makes us better and that we'll forever love" The men raise their cups.
"Say Dick…Zatara was telling us about that family heirloom that he gave you for your birthday. Why aren't you wearing it?"
"Master Bruce is right. Is very rude from you Master Dick, we taught you better…" Dick looks confused as his parental figures.
"What are you talking about? I'm wearing it right now" Dick reaches for the coin hanging from his neck but Jay, Clark, Alfred and Bruce didn't see it.
"They can't see it, Richard. It's part of the spell…only a member of the Zatara family can see it. It's to protect the coin from being stolen and the user"
"I get that Clark and I can't see it but shouldn't Alfred and Bruce see it since they are family?" Even after all those years working with Fate and other magic user, Garrick was still a stranger to magic.
"It's a little more complicated than that. Although they are family, Richard pledge his life and love to my Piccola years ago with their lover's oath and I'd say that even before that…if I had to guess, I'd say that he was worthy of that coin since they lied eyes on each other for the first time"
"And that's why he can access to Shadow Crest without magic?" Bruce remember entering the Zatara state one time with Giovanni for a mission.
"Indeed"
"I see that your dad and Dick are best pals now" The original Batgirl makes the observation as she spots the two men; alongside Alfred, Bruce, Clark and Jay, talking on the garden.
"Yeah. I mean, we live together after all but yeah. My dad it's even training Dick with some escapism techniques and gave him the family coin"
"That sounds amazing. Who'd have thought that your overprotective dad would accept the guy that kidnapped you on your first day?" Megan giggles with the memories.
"He knew…"
"What do you mean?" Trace asks to her mentor.
"My dad told me that he was afraid of that and overreacted because he saw my connection with him and well…I'm his baby girl and kinda panicked…hahaha"
"Woow. I mean you two are a match made in heaven…performers, heroes, kind, noble, brave…" Donna starts listing their shared qualities.
"Annoying, horny, dramatic, horny, intelligent…did I mentioned horny?" Raquel continues with the list getting giggles from the girls.
"How can we not be horny for the other when we are so good looking?" Artemis rolls her eyes.
"And with an ego bigger than the Watchtower"
"Also, Zatanna. How did you manage to plan all this while dealing with all the stuff from the interviews, shows, pregnancy, missions and all that stuff?" Nimue asks her fellow magician as she takes another sip of her glass.
"It wasn't that hard. Keeping this a secret was the most difficult part. The more pregnant I got the more paranoid he got…"
"And as a bat he has a paranoia like a thousand times more than the normal person has" Donna was way to familiar with that paranoia and the problems that it bring to the rest of the heroes.
"I was so stressed and he can sense that with our bond and I had to tell him that it was just me being nervous about the babies, which it wasn't totally a lie but everything was worthy. I mean…his face was priceless" The magician couldn't be happier.
"Luckily, he didn't have the chance to fully unwrap himself for you Zatanna" The magician blushes with Dinah's comment.
"I have to admit that you two took longer than expected to get pregnant" Wonder Woman enjoys her drink as she shares her thoughts.
"For real. At the Watchtower, before you joined, we thought that Robin was getting you pregnant and your dad killing him"
"Black Canary is right and the fact that you two move in together so young didn't help your case"
"Hey! Wally and Artemis, and Conner and Megan were the same"
"Don't fool yourself girl. You and bird brains are just in another level"
"Can we please change the subject?"
"Okay. Okay. We'll leave you for now" Zatanna relaxes.
"Is Bard coming?"
"No, he's busy with some extra classes. He wants to become a history professor and has an important examen coming up. I was helping him with his studies but he told me to come here" Barbara was more than happy to fix his relationship with Jason and they couldn't be happier.
"Maybe after the party you can go to his house and give him a little more of motivation" Zatanna suggests.
"So we can't talk about your sex life but it's okay to talk about mine?" Barbara arches her eyebrow.
"C'mon, Barbara. You and Bard are so cute together and he's such a nice guy" The peppy Martian adds but it wasn't hard for Megan to like someone.
"Yeah. I mean he got along with all the guys…Will, Dick, Wally, Kaldur, Wyynde, Conner and he's a hero in his own right"
"I know, I know. He's amazing. You don't need to remind me how amazing my boyfriend is, Raquel"
"That was such a good and amazing party, Zee. Thank you" The couple were back on their room ready to rest.
"It was my pleasure, baby" Zatanna undress herself but suddenly stops feeling the lust gaze from the acrobat.
"Did you lose something, Mr?" Zatanna does her best to cover herself with one of his shirts.
"Yeah. That shirt that you have in your hands. Do you mind toss it to me?"
"Why? You already have one shirt on…"
"Yeah but I don't want to put in on. I just want that shirt to get out of the way. I was enjoying the show" The magician smiles mischievously at her husband as she drops the shirt and walks towards him, swaying her hips. She reaches the bed where her husband was waiting for her, she tries to sit up but she pushes him, making him lied on his back as she straddles him.
"Happy Birthday, Boy Wonder" She moans and she slowly sits on him, feeling the familiar and pleasant fullness.
"Say it backwards"