Chalant Kisses

Cute Kiss

"I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you. I will not let you have me without the madness that makes me. If our demons can't dance, neither can we."

~Nikita Gill

The man was black and blue with bruises. There were scraps under his eyes and he was bleeding from small cuts on his cheeks and his chin. Upon further investigation they found out he was unconscious.

"Where's Robin?" Aqualad asked. Everyone was standing accounted for except for the Boy Wonder.

"Miss Martian, try to reach him in the mind link." Miss Martian pressed two fingers to her temple and her eyes glowed green. She shook her head a few seconds later. "He's blocked me out. Something must have gone wrong"

"Wasn't he with you, Kid?"

"Yeah, but he disappeared when Artemis spotted the leader."

"We should split up to find him," Artemis said.

"We can't. It's going to take most of us to lug these tanks of Cobra Venom back to the Bioship."

"I'll go." Zatanna stood up from crouching beside the unconscious goon. "I can locate him faster with my magicks. We won't be able to find him by running around the entire forest."

"Fine. Go, and be careful." Zatanna nodded and took off back into the forest as the Team started picking up tanks of Cobra Venom and carrying them back to the alien spaceship. Once she got far enough away from the others she stopped, closed her eyes, and reached from within. "Ym evol, ym traeh. Dnif eht eceip fo em taht si gnissim." she whispered.

A blue wisp pushed its way out of her chest and swung left and then right in front of her face, waiting on her steady her breath and open her eyes. It swayed, stilled, then took off. Zatanna sprinted after it.

It flew deeper and deeper into the forest, zooming and zigzagging under fallen trees and through the thick branches. She had lost track of it once only for it to find its way back to her, let her catch her breath, and nuzzle her cheek before zipping back onto its path.

She ran after the wisp further until it abruptly zipped upwards and stopped. Little glowing balls of blue light fluttered down from it and lit up who was below. Robin was crouched down on the forest floor. His knees were bent and pushed towards his chest, his arms were wrapped around his knees and his head was tucked between his chest and his knees. There was a man laying on the ground in front of him.

"Knaht uoy." The wisp made a small move as if it was nodding and zipped through her back to its place in her heart.

She quietly tip-toed as not to alert the man on the ground or spook the dark-haired ninja.

"Robin?" The thirteen year old didn't respond. The closer she got, the better view she got of the man laying on the ground. She gasped and Robin flinched.

The man was worse than the other one from earlier. His eyes looked like someone had tried to gouge them out. Both of his wrist were broken and his ankle look sprained. The worse then was his eyes. His eyelids were bloody and crusty, as if someone had tried to pry them open.There was a small pool of blood beneath his head.

"I almost killed him."

Looking back, she noticed the fingers of his gloves were tinted red. Zatanna kneeled down beside him. The boy was shaking.

"What happened?"

"He figured out who I am behind the mask. He figured out about my past. He called me a homeless, little orphan and said I should've with the rest of my family. I-I saw red." He shook his head and clutched handfuls of his hair. "Batman's number one rule is no killing, and I almost just crossed that line."

"Hey." She moved both of her hands to his cheeks and guided his face away away from the unconscious man to look at her. "He isn't dead. You didn't kill him."

"But what if I did? What if I crossed that line and he gave up on me? What if he left me behind and got a new sidekick? WHat if you-"

"Stop." She kissed him on his lips to get him to shut up. "I will never leave you. Not even if you killed someone."

""You can't guarantee tha-'' She kissed him on his right cheek. When he opened his mouth again she kissed him on his right cheek, then on his forehead, then on his temple, then just under his left and right ear, on both corners of his mouth, on his chin, then back to his lips. She pulled away and made sure he was quiet before speaking again.

"No one would leave you if you killed someone. Batman wouldn't leave you and I definitely wouldn't leave you. No matter what you do, I'll be with you."

His mask grew wide with his eyes and he dropped his crouched position and slammed into her chest, encircling his arms around her. She hugged him back, letting him be as vulnerable as he wanted to be at that moment.