✦ 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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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.

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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.

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

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

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[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.

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[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.]

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

He's...my best friend.

[Neither a confirmation nor a denial.]