Chalant Candlelight

Chapter 46

(Zatanna's POV)

Everything was fine... Wally and I watched over the three while they were lying on the table. Kalder and Conner both monitered vitals and such.

Suddenly Magan's eyes shot open, glowing green. In the blink of an eye, she was straddling Robin on his table strangling him with her bare hands as he began to thrash around,

"Magan!" I screamed as Wally and I tried to get her off of him. before realizing she wasn't awake, it was like she was possessed. Kalder and Conner rushed to the scene trying to pry her off while Wally and I attempted to keep Robin from thrashing around and accidentally hitting Conner and Kalder. Magan was unmovable. We all panicked, panicked being an understatement as we were unable to get Magan off of him and his neck was turning black and blue under her hands, tears forming in his eyes and his lips purple.

 There was silence in the room as Magan stopped, sitting back on her knees, on either side of Robin's hips her face lifted, her shoulders fallen, as if she was dead. We all held our breath for a second to see if Robin would begin to breathe again.

Three gasps filled the room as they all woke up in the same second. Wally dropped everything to go to Artemis's side and quickly Kalder and Konner went to the vitals machine.

Robin was still catching his breath as he coughed, his hand instinctively grabbing his neck. His and Magan's perception came to as they both made the most awkward eye contact, Magan being on top of him,

"Oh sh-" Robin jumped back as Magan quickly flew off of him. Robin sat up in shock, his hand inspecting his sore neck,

"Magan, you were spor- you-" Robin was not mad at all he was more in plain shock and confusion, just as Magan was. Both trying to figure out what was going on. 

Artemis who stood up with Wally's help was confused by the event as well. I quickly took Robin's jaw in my hand, inspecting the awful bruising on his neck. Everyone watched as Robin was completly calm in my touch, not pushing me away,

"Oh my goodness," I said breathing in relief that he was alive, but the sigh still held knots in my stomach from all that just happened, and my tears coated my eyelashes,

"What have I done," Magan laced her fingers through her hair.

~A few moments later~

Artemis, Magan, and Robin all sat side by side on the green couch in the kitchen living room completly drained and spaced out,

"Dang, they all look like they need aftercare or something," Wally nudged me, laughing like he wasn't having a panic attack and crying all afternoon,

"Wally, don't say stuff like that!" I smacked him away before he ran off when I threw a water bottle at him,

I approached the couch, touching Robin on the arm causing him to flinch and look up at me, softening when he saw it was me. My shoulders lowered as he looked at me,

"Do you guys want to talk about it?" I asked squatting in front of them,

"No," Artemis held her arms, taking up as little space as she could, unable to make eye contact,

"I don't want to talk in front of them," Magan glanced at Kalder and Conner,

"Magan, we are all a team, you can open up to us-" Kalder said as Magan stood up suddenly and cut him off,

"We weren't a team when I made a mistake earlier today," She recollected, "You guys just blamed me and didn't try to help at all." She sat back down, her eyes staring down at her hands that lay in her lap, "I was scared too..." She said lowly. Artemis looked over at the girl putting her hand on top of the other girl's hand. They made a sweet eye contact, Artemis comforting Magan,