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

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[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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[Now you're just patronizing her. ...she appreciates it, Diana.]

Jack Frost.

He's my next door neighbor. [Thus, the need for a place to stay elsewhere.] And my best friend.

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Strong friendships can survive differences of opinion.

And good friends know the difference between ill intent and ill results.

( she's a hallmark card. )

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Can they survive the part where we used our respective powers to nearly kill each other? ...in my case, twice?

Or the part where I turned away from him when he snapped out of it first and tried to help me?

[Or the part where they had a pretty hot make-out session in between all this happening. But that almost seemed like a non-issue in comparison]

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I wish I could tell you there was a hard-and-fast rule. But there isn't.

I believe in sincerity. What happened in the other realm was not your true self. I know that.

If this Jack has any sense, he'll see that too.

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[She gave a low, somewhat ironic chuckle at that.]

You make it sound so easy.

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It isn't. ( very bluntly. )

But it's worth the effort.

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[She inhaled once. Slow and deep. A way of delaying the inevitable, perhaps, but also because she really needed the extra oxygen to think.]

Maybe. I mean, no, he--it is. Worth the effort. But...not yet. I still can't face him yet.

But soon. Once I...figure out what to say to him.

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Then it will be alright, little sister. ( c: )

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I sure hope so.

Thanks, Wo--Diana.

[Never going to be completely used to the idea of being on such close terms.]

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Anytime.

Let me know if you need anything, even if it's a place to stay. Alright?

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No, I will, definitely.

Korra offered. And so did Kaldur--well, not his place, but he knows somewhere I might be able to. Kyle offered too, but... [That one wouldn't work out so well for an overnight visit.] I'm going to go make pasta for him. Poor boy must be starving without me around.

But if things fall through, I'll definitely come to you.

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I'm glad you have so many people to turn to.

But you know where to find me.

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Well, that's what happens when you get stuck on a City that literally moves as slow as a giant Turtle. You end up making friends.

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I can think of worse fates.

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...yeah, I can too.

[Like actually being stuck as Fate.]

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In any case, we'll survive.

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[Once upon a time, Zatanna would have been the kind of person to say that she didn't want to just survive. She wanted to live--or, rather, she wanted to live it up. That was her way. Act first, worry about the consequences later. It had worked for her in the past. Most of the time.]

[She laughed softly at the thought.]

Since when did outright survival become easier than talking to a boy?