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Victoria Craft ([info]just_a_stranger) wrote in [info]dc_nextgen,
@ 2013-10-22 19:27:00


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Entry tags:victoria craft, zachary zatara

It's Magic!
An Elementary School in Gotham City.

Principal Aparo was not a happy man.  He usually was, in as much as any elementary school principal could be, but he had bad news for his teachers his afternoon.  The children were at lunch, with and he had quickly called a staff meeting before it finished. 

"There's a problem," he said.  "The magician we hired for the afternoon assembly is sick.  He had to cancel.  I'm afraid we'll have to postpone the assembly."

"Oh," Mrs. Infantino, the elderly first grade teacher, said.  "The children will be so disappointed."

Victoria frowned.  There was that sudden, sinking feeling.  Slowly... she cleared her throat.

"I... may know someone who can fill in," she said. 

"Who?" Mr. Wein, one of the kindergarten teachers, asked.

"Someone famous," Victoria said, "and a very talented magician.  And I am certain he will agree.  He owes me a favor.  But you must ask no further questions.  I assure you this will be appropriate."

She added a little bit of her mystical persuasion to her words, just in case.

When the meeting broke up, she made a hasty phone call.





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Re: Later than Evening
[info]just_a_stranger
2013-11-04 02:06 am UTC (link)
Victoria took a drink of her wine.

"My apologies, Zachary," she said. "That just seemed so very... unlike you."

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]greatest_zatara
2013-11-04 08:32 pm UTC (link)
"Yes, well, I'm an enigma." He grins.

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]just_a_stranger
2013-11-04 11:37 pm UTC (link)
Victoria smiled. "Is that the word for what you are?" she asked. "Appropriate enough, I suppose."

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]greatest_zatara
2013-11-05 01:44 am UTC (link)
"I try to live up to my hype, since it still falls short of encompassing all that I am." He keeps smiling. "And what do you think is the word for you?" He points a finger at her, still holding his wine glass.

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]just_a_stranger
2013-11-05 02:04 am UTC (link)
Victoria took another sip of wine, then steepled her fingers. "I'm... Complicated."

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]greatest_zatara
2013-11-05 02:17 am UTC (link)
A small nod. "That'll do, Craft. That'll do."

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]just_a_stranger
2013-11-05 11:46 pm UTC (link)
"Babe? Really?"

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]greatest_zatara
2013-11-05 11:51 pm UTC (link)
Zachary blinks, then chuckles. "Oh... sorry, not intentional. But yes, you are." He winks at her.

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]just_a_stranger
2013-11-06 12:20 am UTC (link)
Victoria opted not to ask which of those things she was.

She let out a little breath. "Regardless of anything, Zachary, I am glad to have you in my life. I am neither wholly mortal not wholly unnatural. There are few people who walk well enough in both worlds to provide any true companionship."

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]greatest_zatara
2013-11-06 12:58 am UTC (link)
He grins, as their food arrives. "I walk well in any world. I'm fabulous."

A more subdued smile. "Glad to be appreciated."

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]just_a_stranger
2013-11-06 02:10 am UTC (link)
"This looks delicious," Victoria said, before trying a bit of her food.

"Yours?"

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]greatest_zatara
2013-11-06 02:14 am UTC (link)
Zach cuts himself off a piece and chews it thoughtfully, nodding. "It's good. You know what they say about steak, pizza, and sex, after all..."

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]just_a_stranger
2013-11-06 11:13 pm UTC (link)
"I... must confess, I do not," Victoria admitted.

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]greatest_zatara
2013-11-06 11:14 pm UTC (link)
He cocks an eyebrow. "Really? 'Even when it's not that great, it's still pretty good'? Never heard that expression?"

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]just_a_stranger
2013-11-06 11:20 pm UTC (link)
She shook her head. "I cannot say that I have. Perhaps it is a regional thing."

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]greatest_zatara
2013-11-06 11:28 pm UTC (link)
"Need to get you out more, Miss Craft. You're spending too much time up to your elbows in crayons and macaroni art" He mutters half-heartedly, carving off more of his steak.

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]just_a_stranger
2013-11-06 11:43 pm UTC (link)
This got an actual laugh out of Victoria, in-between bites of her own food.

"It is not all crayons and macaroni," she said. "...Sometimes, we use glitter."

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]greatest_zatara
2013-11-06 11:57 pm UTC (link)
"The things I could show you if you made time for them..." Zach says, almost dreamily. "The canals of Venice, the windings turns of the Amazon, the peaks of the Alps, the neon of Tokyo and Hong Kong..." He turns his gaze back to her more directly, gesturing at her with his fork.

"Not that you couldn't whisk yourself away to them on your own, but you seem to always be in need of a nudge out the door."

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]just_a_stranger
2013-11-07 12:48 am UTC (link)
"I travel enough when the situation demands it," Victoria said. "But rarely for pleasure. Save, perhaps, for the occasional visit to Nanda Parbat when things are getting rather stressful."

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]greatest_zatara
2013-11-07 12:53 am UTC (link)
Zach laughs nervously, clearing his throat as some potato catches in it. He didn't have any official notice, but he assumed he was still persona non grata to Nanda Parbat after his... lapse in judgment with Rama Kushna during the Purgatory incident.

After he's cleared his throat, he smiles to himself, reminiscing. That was a lifetime ago. "Was I ever that young?" he says softly.

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]just_a_stranger
2013-11-07 01:05 am UTC (link)
"Pardon?" Victoria asked, not having quite caught what Zachary had said.

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]greatest_zatara
2013-11-07 01:40 am UTC (link)
"Just wondering where the years went." He smiles. "So far as I know, Zanna and I have decades and decades ahead of us still... but I certainly don't feel like I'm going to be that long-lived. Feels like I'm living at the same speed as anyone else."

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]just_a_stranger
2013-11-07 02:01 am UTC (link)
"I know the feeling," she admitted. "I've no real idea how I will age or how long I shall live. There has never been someone quite like me, so there is no baseline."

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]greatest_zatara
2013-11-07 02:05 am UTC (link)
"'Never been someone quite like you'... I could have told you that." He gives her a wink.

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Re: Later than Evening
[info]just_a_stranger
2013-11-07 02:11 am UTC (link)
She smiled at that, felt her cheeks turn just a little red.

"Thank you, Zachary."

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