Falling into Gotham (Dick Grayson Fan Fiction)

Chapter 10

 "Wait, you weren't fucking with me I really have magic?!" I squealed. I tried to stand up but my legs gave out under me. Lack of movement the last 30 minutes is probably to blame.

"I told you that you had magic days ago, you didn't believe me?" Zatanna placed her hands on her hips staring down at me.

"To be honest, no."

"Portal magic though." She shook her head ignoring my last statement. "I wish you could've started out with something smaller like moving a ball with your mind."

"Well, wouldn't portals be a good thing? Isn't that what we wanted?" I slowly stood up, with some help from Dick. He placed his hand on my arm and steadied me while my legs got the blood rushing back towards them. They felt like jello so I appreciated the help, even if him holding me made it hard to think.

"It would be, if you could control it. It's good we know now for certain though that you are the portal opener." Zantanna places her hands on her hips.

"Where did it open up to this time? Back over that hill?" I ask.

"No actually." Dick speaks up. "It opened up in my office. I was doing some research and I saw a small hole open up. It kept getting bigger and bigger until it finally was large enough for me to see you two. That's why I'm here right now."

"Oh. I was wondering why you were here." I grinned at him.

"Are you disappointed that I am?" He bumped his hip into mine. I laughed and stumbled a bit, from my wonky legs. He still held on tight to me and made sure I didn't fall though.

"Nah, I like that you're here. I mean who else is gonna hold me so I don't fall on my ass after unknowingly opening a portal and making my legs literally useless because I sat in criss-cross applesauce for half an hour?"

"Jesus, you're so lucky that your portal opened up to me. I mean, imagine if it was Karen? You'd probably be stuck on the floor."

"The horror." I cover my mouth and gasp.

"The terror."

"The-"

Zatanna held up her hand and stopped me mid sentence, "Aht aht, you're done. Flirt when magic practice is over." I opened my mouth to try and deny the flirting allegations (even though that is exactly what I was doing) but she shot me a look so deadly I snapped my mouth shut immediately.

"Dick." She glares at him.

"Yeah?"

"Leave."

"Got it." He slowly let go of me, making sure I was stable on my legs. And then walked towards the door. "So, is there a chance I could somehow get Angela to open a portal back into my office so I don't have to climb 5 flights of stairs or-"

"Get the fuck out." Zatanna sighed.

"Alright alright. Bye Z." He looked me in the eyes and smiled. "Bye Angela."

"Bye." I said more breathlessly than intended. He was already gone though so that saved me the embarrassment of him hearing me sound weak. I watched the door he walked out of for a little bit before turning my full attention onto Zatanna again. She had disgust written all over her face.

"What?!" I asked.

"First, you're wearing his shirt, then you flirt openly in public while I was standing right here and then you end it off by watching him leave? Jesus girl you got it bad." She shakes her head.

I scoff, "Me? No. I never 'get it bad' over a boy." I do mock quotations with my fingers at that part. "They get it bad over me. If anything, he has it bad over me."

I think I said bad way too many times.

"Whatever you say. Let's start over again but this time try not to open portals to Dick please." She sits back down and crosses her legs.

"It's not like I did it on purpose. Shouldn't you be trying to help me figure out this magic nonsense?"

"What do you think I'm doing? Now, sit! Let's start from the beginning."

The rest of the day was spent trying to control my magic, but I couldn't get that feeling like I did earlier. I sat in that room with Zatanna from morning until night and the only portal I opened was the one I didn't even mean to form.

"Ugh! I give up!" I flaired my arms in the air in a huff. "This isn't working! Why can I only open portals when I don't want to?"

"Well, practice makes perfect Angela. You're not going to get it perfectly on your first day."

"I usually get everything right on the first try." I pout.

"Well, magic is a different beast. I grew up around it and it still took me a while to learn. Let's stop for today, it's getting late and I'm hungry." She stood up and started stretching a bit. I followed suit and cracked my back. Zatanna stopped stretching then sighed and pinched her nose.

"You have a visitor." She said while picking up her water bottle. I furrowed my brows and cocked my head to the side.

"Who? Zahra?"

"You'll see. He's right outside the door waiting. As if I couldn't sense him." She stalked towards the practice room door and swung it open. She wiggled her fingers at whoever it was standing there then turned back to me. "See you tomorrow Angela. Don't stay up late, I wanna see you bright and early at 8 am."

"Got it coach." I sent two thumbs up her way.

"Goodnight Dick, don't have my pupil stay out too late, okay?" She said to the figure behind the door.

It was Dick? Dick was waiting for me? My heart was thumping in my chest. I grabbed my water bottle off the floor and stalked over to the door with an air of casualty about me. I peeked around the door frame and sure enough there he was. Standing there waiting for me in a black compression shirt and sweatpants. His hair was a bit disheveled, like he'd been running his hands through it, but I liked it. He looked nice.

"Hey." He smiled at me as I walked out. He was leaning against the wall but pushed himself off of it once he saw me.

"Hi."

"So, are you busy tonight?" He asked. I couldn't help but laugh. I'm in the tower 24/7, I'm never busy.

"I was going to check up on Zahra later and maybe ask Karen about a hair braider. But that's about it for my nightly plans. Why?" I clasped my hands behind my back and rocked back and forth on my heels while waiting for his response.

"I was wondering if you wanted to hang out with me? I figure you're tired of being cooped up in here all the time and you might wanna explore your favorite city." He tugged on the edge of the shirt he let me borrow.

"I would love to hang out with you. I should run and tell Zahra so we can get ready and head out soon." I turned excitedly for the stairs but he reached out and grabbed my arm pulling me back towards him.

"Sorry, I think something was lost in translation there." He chuckled. I was confused, didn't he just ask us to hang out? He placed his hands on my waist and suddenly the room got about 30 degrees hotter. "I do wanna hang out with you. But... alone."

oh!

"Oh, sorry." My face was on fire. I could feel myself practically melting. "Yeah, I'm cool with hanging out."

"Cool. I'll let you get changed. Wear all black." He let me go ruffled my hair.

"Why all black?" I smacked his hand away from my hair and huffed.

"Tonight you're hanging out with Nightwing." His smile almost knocked me off my feet.

I cleared my throat, "Do I get a mask?"

"Of course." 

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Author's random thoughts: Gotta admit, I did not know Zatanna's power scale at all y'all. I had to do some research cause I was reading smth recently and realized she can manipulate reality. Like ol girl is OP asf. If she was in Marvel she'd be an omega level mutant or smth. She just be saying anything backwards and it happens. Insane. She's too strong. I'm scared of her.