Genosha-Quintin University

Chapter 33

One day, Zatanna gets a call from the tower. "It's your father," said Batman, "he had a stroke. We have him on life support right now. You better get down here." "I'm on my way," Zatanna replies. She rushes to the teleporter and teleports to the tower and goes to see her father, who since the call, has gone into cardiac arrest. "We need to get him to a real hospital," Zatanna demands. "I'll take him myself." She takes the emergency jet and flies her father to the hospital and says goodbye then flies back to college to take her exams. All the time, she can't stop thinking about her father. Once she finishes her exams, she has a break, and goes to see her father at the hospital. When she gets there though, it's not a pretty sight and bad news follows. "Your father had a heart attack," the doctor tells her, "he died." Zatanna falls to the floor in tears with his hand in hers. "I just got him back and now he's gone for good, forever. No, no, no. I just can't believe he's gone. No. No." She took it hard and ran right back to the college and straight into her dorm room and continued to cry. Artemis goes and tries to talk to her, to cheer her up. It doesn't help. She's too destroyed. "She'll come around eventually. She's an orphan. She just needs time for it to sink in. It must be hard for her," Artemis admits.

Jean, being a mom herself now, tries to comfort Zatanna as well as does Scott, since he's a father now too. None of their comfort seems to be working. Not theirs, not Artemis's. She's too sad. She just lost her father. She's an orphan now. That's why she's in tears and won't stop crying. She's denying it. She's broken. She's almost depressed. She doesn't think straight in class anymore. She really and truly misses her father. Her father was old. It's understandable. She kind of, sort of knew it was going to happen sooner or later. All everyone can think right now is poor, poor Zatanna.