Chalant Kisses

Vampire Kiss

"May flowers grow in the saddest parts of you."

- Zainab Aamir

"Stay still." His voice was low when he made the demand. His fingers were light as feathers as he ghosted over the new silver of a slice close to the jugular of her neck.

"I told you I'm okay. The cut has already healed." Zatanna was leaning back on the medical cart. She had long ago stopped trying to calm him down, so she let him check her to his heart's content. She hoped her words would be able to get through to him instead.

"You wouldn't have it if you had listened to me." Some of her blood had spilled and dried on her shoulder. He wiped away the crusted blood that marred her porcelain skin.

"He had you in a headlock and had a knife to your cheek! What was I supposed to do?" She threw her hands up. It was a spur of the moment thing. She had heard the maniacal laugh while she had been fighting one of the thugs. Turning around and seeing her boyfriend in that predicament, she couldn't think of a spell before her feet took control. She had pushed Joker away just before the knife hit his flesh, but she couldn't prevent the small knick it left on her.

She had saved her boyfriend, but now she was getting yelled at for it. How does that work?

"Not take the hit for yourself!"

"It was barely a scratch!"

"I'm not a baby! I can take care of myself!"

"No one's calling you a baby, Zatanna!"

"Yes, you are!"

He huffed out a groan, spun around and pinched the bridge of his nose. If there was anything Zatanna hated it was getting babied. She had spent a lot of her life being babied and sheltered by Zatara. With Zatara wearing the helmet, she'd be damned if she let anyone else baby her.

Robin knows this. There were times when overprotective toed the line into babying and the magician had set him straight.

In two deep breaths he released his anger. A mad Zatanna was a rare thing but it is something he knows. They never get anything done when the both of them are upset.

"I'm sorry." He turned back around to face her. She was slouched down on the cart with her hands folded between her legs. "You're one of the strongest people I've ever met. I know you can handle yourself."

"You're just over protective. But you have to remember that we're both in this life. We both know that the job is dangerous." She grabbed his hands with both of her own and swung them between their bodies, "and that I can take care of myself."

"I know." He actually looked guilty. She smiled and pulled him to her by his hands and kissed him. She wrapped his arms around his neck and he wrapped his arms around her waist.

The first kiss was slower than the second and the second was slower than the third. Zatanna gasped when he bit the bottom of her lip, giving him access to her inner crevice. To take it a bit further, he trapped her tongue between his teeth and rucked lightly on the appendage before nipping the end.

She pulled away [anting. "I don't think we should continue this in the Medbay, where anyone could walk in."

"Your place or mine?"