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John Constantine ([info]hell_blazer) wrote in [info]dc_heroes,
@ 2010-11-24 07:58:00


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Entry tags:constantine, zatanna

After Work Martini
John Constantine stops at the corner store near the motel he's staying in and picks up some beer and tea, just in case he has company this evening. He left Zatanna a message, inviting her to his temporary home in Coast City, even offering to buy her some of the best take-out she's ever had.

He gets home, takes over his trenchcoat, then locks the door and waits to see if she'll show. In the meantime, he goes over his wall of pictures and information, looking at photos of Ferris, Jordan and Bruce Wayne as he tries to see how it all fits together.



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[info]mistressofmagic
2010-11-25 03:59 am UTC (link)
"Maybe," Zatanna said with a grin as she sat down. "I have grown used to seeing a familiar face in the crowd."

"So it was overall, a decent workday, then?" She asked with a chuckle.

"Hmm...how about mine? Start with something a little classy." Not that Zatanna didn't object to a beer every now and then.

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[info]hell_blazer
2010-11-25 04:15 am UTC (link)
"I can do classy." John says. "Conjure us up a couple of glasses?"

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[info]mistressofmagic
2010-11-25 04:19 am UTC (link)
"Be my pleasure," Zatanna said with a smile. "Owt sessalg fo der eniw."

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[info]hell_blazer
2010-11-25 04:39 am UTC (link)
"I will never get over how hot that is." John says, taking up his glass of wine.

"So, tell me somethin' about you that your fans can't learn from Googlin' you on the net." John says.

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[info]mistressofmagic
2010-11-27 01:11 am UTC (link)
"I can say all sorts of things backwards for you, if you play your cards right." She winked at him.

"I'm a yoga addict," Zatanna said. "Surprisingly, few people know that about me."

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[info]hell_blazer
2010-11-27 03:23 am UTC (link)
"What do you know? Cards is my best game." John grins.

"Well, I'm now convinced that yoga benefits the body." John says, giving Zatanna the once-over.

"I'm a man of Tantra myself, as I mentioned previously. Do you enjoy yoga, Zatanna?" he asks.

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[info]mistressofmagic
2010-11-29 03:43 am UTC (link)
"All the better for you then." Zee grinned at him.

"It does," she said. "I love yoga. It's very relaxing."

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[info]hell_blazer
2010-11-29 04:01 am UTC (link)
"You don't look like you ever have trouble relaxing, if you don't mind my sayin' so." John says cryptically.

Just then a question comes into his head, and he's surprised he hadn't thought to ask it before now.

"Let me ask you something, Zatanna. Why do you do it? The showbiz route, I mean. You're one of the most powerful magi in the world. You could do anything you want with your power, but you spend your time doing magic shows for any sodding idiot in the world you likes to look at a woman in skimpy clothing." John says.

"What's the draw in it for you?" he asks.

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[info]mistressofmagic
2010-11-29 04:12 am UTC (link)
"Honesly, John? You're the first person to ask me that. Seriously.

I do it because...compared to some of the other things I've done over the years, it's far less stressful. It's a nice escape, to go out there and do a show for people, and never worry about disappointing your audience or messing up.

I've done some things I'm not proud of in the past, John. But this is one I'll never have to worry about letting me down. It keeps me sane, in a way."

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[info]hell_blazer
2010-11-29 04:20 am UTC (link)
John nods as Zatanna's explanation. Wielding mystic forces /is/ stressful and nothing like people see in the movies where you can just do something and there are no consequences attached. If it were /that/ easy, everyone would use magic.

He couldn't really imagine someone like Zatanna doing anything that wasn't upright and moral, so the idea of her doing just that intrigued him.

"Can I ask what you did that you think isn't worth bein' proud of?" he asks, sipping his wine.

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[info]mistressofmagic
2010-11-29 04:31 am UTC (link)
Zatanna stared at her wine.

"I erased a supervillain's memory," she said. "He had done something...terrible to a friend of mine. And he said he was going to do it again, no matter where we locked him up. At the time, it seemed like the best thing to do, and I wasn't the only one on my team that suggested I do it. I didn't think there was any other choice."

She had lost a friend over that, in Bruce. It was something she knew that he'd never forgive her for.

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[info]hell_blazer
2010-11-29 04:42 am UTC (link)
John simply stared at her.

"Okay...so what did you do wrong?" he asks. John's moral code doesn't function the way most people's does, so he sees erasing some bastard's memory for hurting a friend as just desserts.

"All you did was erase his memory. Compared to what you /could/ have done to him, he got off with a slap on the wrist. You're much nicer than I would have been." John says.

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[info]mistressofmagic
2010-11-29 04:52 am UTC (link)
"You're the only person that thinks that," Zatanna said. "Even the people that backed me now think I was in the wrong.

It just sucks, really. I lost a valued friend's trust that day."

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[info]hell_blazer
2010-11-29 04:56 am UTC (link)
"Then I don't think this person was really your friend, Zatanna. You did what you had to do to help a friend. He said he was gonna do it again and again, right? That's what you call a rabid dog.

There's only one cure for rabid dogs, in truth, but you found a pretty decent stop-gap, in my estimation." John says, taking another sip of wine.

"Then again, most people who say their your friends only mean it until they get what they want. Then they don't really care what happens to you either way." John says.

"They use you up, then throw you under the bus and move on to the next mark."

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[info]mistressofmagic
2010-11-29 05:02 am UTC (link)
"That is actually very enlightening, John," Zatanna said, taking a sip of her wine.

"This friend of mine had very high moral standards, we'll say."

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[info]hell_blazer
2010-11-29 05:07 am UTC (link)
"People with high morals are either really ineffective or really dirty in truth. You go around puttin' all kind of limits on what you'll do and won't do, people start figuring out how to push you. And when they know they can push you to a certain point before you back off, that's when they've got you." John says.

"So, you did what you had to do, Zatanna. You had the power to do it and it's not like you go around doin' it every day, right? So no harm, no foul." John says.

"Did you do it in fishnets?" he asks slyly.

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[info]mistressofmagic
2010-11-29 05:11 am UTC (link)
"That's a pretty good philosophy, actually." Zatanna said, running her finger along the rim of her wine glass.

She smirked at him. "Actually, no, I didn't. But I wish I did. I don't what I regret more, that, or my current choice at a costume."

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[info]hell_blazer
2010-11-29 05:17 am UTC (link)
"Hey, that's your John Constantine Sage Words of Wisdom for the day." he smiles.

"Don't ever regret the costume. I need dream fuel." John smiles.

"Tell me something else, Zatanna. If you couldn't do magic shows anymore tomorrow morning, what would you do with the rest of your life? Your answer can't be helping people." he says.

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[info]mistressofmagic
2010-11-29 05:35 am UTC (link)
"I'll have to show it you, someday," Zatanna said. "It was definitely one of my worse fashion choices."

"Huh. Good question. I've never given it much thought, honestly."

She paused, mulling it over in her head.

"I think I'd start getting my hands on some rare magical artifacts. See if I can crack the mystery behind them. There's some scrolls of Merlin's I wouldn't mind getting my hands on..."

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[info]hell_blazer
2010-11-29 05:54 am UTC (link)
"I'd like that a lot, Zatanna." he grins.

"You're into artifacts, too?" he asks, his interest piqued.

"Why don't you start now? I know some people who have some good leads from time to time." he says.

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[info]mistressofmagic
2010-11-29 06:03 am UTC (link)
"Just say when." She grinned back.

"I am. I just never really have much time to get my hands on any."

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[info]hell_blazer
2010-11-29 06:20 am UTC (link)
"When." John says glibly.

"You know the whole thing about time is that you can free up a lot of it when you want to, Fishnets." John says.

"For example, if I decide I'd rather hang out with you than do surveillance on a target tonight, I can do that. Oh look, my night just became free." John smiles.

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[info]mistressofmagic
2010-11-30 01:20 am UTC (link)
She smiled slyly at him. "I'm flattered that you'd free up all this time for me."

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[info]hell_blazer
2010-11-30 06:20 am UTC (link)
"Good company is worth the effort." John says.

"I think you're an interesting person, Zatanna. A little...naive and maybe too willing to conform to what other people expect you to be, but those are the only issues I could say you have without knowing you better, luv." John grins.

"I think you need to learn to have more fun." he says.

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[info]mistressofmagic
2010-11-30 02:36 pm UTC (link)
"Who says I don't know how to have fun?" Zatanna asked with a smirk.

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