Meaning: Youthfulness, energy


Whenever he wants to talk to a friendly face, other than someone on his team because they rarely ever seem to actually get him, he goes to her. This has to be the fifth or sixth visit in the past 2 weeks alone. If her father knew she was letting a boy into her room after 9, she'd probably never hear the end of it.

And if her father knew which boy, then he'd probably need to invest in better health insurance.

She loves it when he visits. There's this really old tree outside her window, and he always climbs up the branches of it to get to her window as if he were Aladdin. He usually knocks on the window - they've made their own special knock to signify their presence to one another - and she always lets him in. She lets him lie on her bed when he's tired, she lets him eat snacks from the secret stash she's got underneath her dresser, and she lets him drink coffee from her own mug.

They have fun. It usually starts with a bit of catchup; he asks what's up with her, she asks what dangerous missions he's gone on recently. Then it gets a bit more physical. They wrestle on her bed, and the winner usually gets a kiss. They cuddle together for a bit before she's forced to kick him out because they made too much noise and her daddy's coming. But once he's gone they text each other for what feels like hours before she decides it's time for bed.

She doesn't know if they can be considered a thing yet, but she doesn't care. She just wants to have some fun, and nobody can tell her it can't be done.

But tonight she's bored. Her dad found out about her "girls' night out" with Artemis a couple days ago, and ever since then she's not been allowed to leave the house without his permission. Dick's visited to keep her company, but there's only so much two kids can do in a bedroom without taking their clothes off. And while she'd absolutely love it if he took those pants off for her, something tells her they're not ready for that yet.

Zatanna rubs her eyes and shakes her head, looking behind her back to see Dick reading her literature homework. She tucks a bit of hair behind her ear. "Kidnap me."

He raises an eyebrow and tears his gaze away from the book to her. "What?"

"I'm bored. Kidnap me."

Dick rests the book down on the bed and sits up so they're on the same eye level. "Your dad would kill me."

"He'd never find out."

"It's too risky. There's rules."

Zatanna glares at him and shakes her head. "And since when have those ever stopped me?" She gets up and walks over to the window, looking back at him with an alluring smirk. "What's wrong, Wonder Boy? You scared?"

Dick huffs and quickly gets up after her, a cocky smirk on his face. "Race you to the bottom, gorgeous."

She chuckles before quickly leaping out of the window, using her magic to flutter down as she smiles up at him.

He watches her float like an angel and pulls out his grapple, wholeheartedly prepared to follow her to the ends of the Earth if he needs to.

He knows he shouldn't. If Zatara catches them, he'd probably be turned into a mystical doormat and she'd be "grounded for life" again. Not to mention what Batman would do to him if he found out he came here without permission.

He sees her laugh blissfully while floating through the air like a butterfly and he hears his doubts vanish in the blink of an eye. He doesn't know how she's doing this to him. He's supposed to be disciplined, he's supposed to follow the rules.

But she goes against every rule he's ever lived by. She's no follower, not like he's been told to be his whole life.

She's the one thing in his life that he has no control over, and he knows he likes it even though it drives him insane.

She's confident, strong, sassy, and independent, and he's gonna follow her because he knows that he wants to be the same.