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✦ 012 ✦ [VIDEO] ✦ Network Cafe ✦ (Encrypted from Jack)

[For once, Zatanna isn't broadcasting from her room. She doesn't even bother trying to hide the Guilt on her face as she appears on screen, the clear signs of a random cafe in the background. It would have been a stretch to say she hadn't really slept much since returning from the bottle, but she's certainly not taking any joy from the memories playing over and over in her mind.]

[Memories she needed to get away from, if only for a little while. And there was really only one way to do that:]

Does anybody have a place I can stay for a few days?

[By not being in her suite.]

PRIVATE - Korra

Hey.

Thanks for the chocolates. I really appreciate it.

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[Independent, yes, but sometimes far more in need of an adult than she likes to admit.]

Relatively speaking?

I'm not hurt. A few bruises here and there, but no worse than usual.

[Which is why the obvious call for help is concerning.]

And if we're talking not so relatively speaking?

[Her voice is soft with the question, but Bianca's happy to hear that she's not physically injured, at least.]

Then...not really.

It's kind of a long story.

I can make the time for a long story.

[She's busy, yes. But never too busy that she'll not make time others.]

[Hmm]

[Talking with Bianca was...different than, say, Kaldur or Korra or even Kyle. She was baseline human in every way. And a caring ~~if slightly scary at times~~ mother whom Zatanna wasn't all that close to. On the other hand, she was an older female figure, and maybe she could offer an outside perspective of this whole mess?]

How much do you know about what happened when people went inside the bottle?

[Start small.]

[How much is too much to say? Always a hard question, and it feels like there's never a solid answer.]

I heard about some of it. Like how some people were attacking others. And the dragon.

[Yep. Just a nurse and a mom. Really.]

[You mean you're not Supermom? (No relation to Superman, of course)]

Yeah, I never really made it to the dragon. But the first part was true. There were these...statues. When you touched one of them, they did stuff to your mind. Changed you.

Only I'm not entirely sure that everything I did was just the statue.

[Definitely not! By the way, be careful of the fourth wall, you don't want to walk straight into it.]

You did some things while you were like that.

[...This would probably be easier to handle in person.]

Zatanna, do you want to come over? I can head over to the cafe you're at if you like instead.

[Her shoulders actually slumped in physical releif at the offer. She nodded.]

Yeah. That...might be better.

Where are you?

My suite. EA-1A. [Just in case she needs the reminder.] You won't need to worry about anyone stopping in; Jaime's ended up back here, but he's out doing things.

[That was a plus. No offense to Jaime.]

Alright.

I can be there in about ten minutes, give or take. And...thanks.

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You're welcome.

[When the feed ends, Bianca heads into the kitchen, and sets water up to boil in a few minutes; Zatanna- the one here- was on the young side for coffee, but tea or cocoa? Would probably be a good idea.

She's already waiting for Zatanna's knock, going over and opens the door when it comes.]

I figured talking it out in person would help better.

[She would have chewed on raw coffee grounds if that's what Bianca had offered. But cocoa worked just as well.]

Not really.

But it does help to know there's much less of a chance of certain people overhearing. It's...not really one of my finer moments.

[Bianca gives her a light side hug when she says that.]

Everyone has moments like those. What matters is afterwards.

And maybe not, but I can't offer you anything through the console. Cocoa or tea?

The afterwards is the only thing I'm more worried about than what actually happened.

[Meaning, no, she hadn't confronted him yet.]

Cocoa would be great, actually. The chocolatier, the better. This is definitely a chocolate conversation.

In that case it's a good thing I keep fully stocked for these kinds of conversations.

[She motions for Zatanna to follow her into the ktichen, where she sets up to make the hot chocolate. It's no Abuelita's, but it'll have to do.]

So you haven't hit that point yet. That's okay.

[Her brows lightly furrowed for a moment.]

It's okay...that I haven't talked to him yet?

[Because that is the exact opposite of the advice she'd been expecting.]

Right now? Yes.

You can't put it off forever, but I have a feeling you already know that.

[After all, she did say she was worried about 'afterwards'.]

Sometimes you just need a bit of time first.

How much time?

That depends.

[And here we go, one hot chocolate, custom made, by one mom. And no Jaime around to mourn its going to a good cause.]

But I'm guessing what happened was pretty serious.

Try to imagine the three worst things a girl could do to her best friend...her guy best friend. Because I sort of did all three.

I think I'm going to have to be reminded.

[It's a gentle nudge; some things have to be said out loud.]

[Groan: you're really going to make her say it, aren't you?]

I used my magic on him. Twice. The first time, I just pinned him to a wall, and only because he froze my blood first...but the second time, I froze him there and left him.

[To die, if that were possible. Ironically, it was Jack's undead nature that had most likely spared him.]

But beyond that, I...we kissed. I mean kissed-kissed. We would've probably gone even further if he hadn't snapped out of it right then. Tried to talk me down out of whatever was wrong with me...which I spat back in his face with a bunch of insults and apathetic comments about what he didn't mean to me.

[Magical powers really put a tangle in this, as far as what sort of advice she should give goes. She's going to need a second. On the plus side, boy troubles are still boy troubles.]

When he actually does, but I'm guessing not like that.

[There are a few options here as to what's going on, and she's pretty sure that she's right, but she can't make any assumptions. So she waits to let Zatanna correct her, if she needs to.]

[Her mouth opened to respond...and hesitated.]

He's...my best friend.

[Neither a confirmation nor a denial.]

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