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Zatanna Zatara ([info]i_kaeps) wrote in [info]we_coexist,
@ 2011-10-27 18:47:00

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Entry tags:charlie crews, zatanna zatara

Hello again! (Charlie)
Shadowcrest could supply her with anything she needed and some things she wanted, but one of the things it flat out refused to provide for her were shoes. Zatanna was all right with that since it meant participating in one of her favorite pasttimes. SHOPPING! As weird as the City was rumored to be, its shoe stores were amazing! It was a great way to kill an afternoon.

Coming out of the last store (she promised!) with her bags of leather treasures she spied a familiar face. Part of her thought she should creep off before he noticed, but most of her thought she should try to be friendly. Because that's gone so well with her here with anyone that wasn't Dinah. Oh well. If at first you don't succeed, try to humiliate yourself again and again.

She approached him with a small wave of shoe bags and a smile. "Hi, Charlie."

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[info]i_zen
2011-10-28 01:26 am UTC (link)
Charlie needed to replace his shirts. A few had gotten ruined, and Lucy-Belle's cat hair seemed to be everywhere. He wanted a few new ones. It wasn't that he was overly vain, but he did like new shirts, especially the more expensive kind that he found only in one particular shop in the City.

He had his own bags, evidence of the shopping done. A few bags from men's clothing stores. A few bags from electronics stores. He probably should have asked Ted for the money, seeing as it was now the accountant's, but the cards worked. Charlie didn't think Ted would mind the spending. Plus, some of what he'd bought was for his housemate.

"Hello, Ms. Zatara." Charlie smiled at the bunny pants woman.

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[info]i_kaeps
2011-10-28 01:37 am UTC (link)
"You can call me Zatanna." She used the shrug to adjust a bag more securely onto her shoulder. "And look! No pj's." She chuckled. "I'm becoming a contributing member of society instead of a menace."

It had been a first for Zee to be almost arrested for yelling at her house. Granted when Shadowcrest had been in Gotham City it had technically been on the edge of town so there hadn't been any neighbors to complain when she got into arguments with her house.

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[info]i_zen
2011-10-28 10:47 pm UTC (link)
Charlie smiled again. He looked down at the bags then up at her. So, she had money; not that he was overly interested, but it did get him to thinking. He was nice enough not to ask about the money. He'd had his own strange way of coming into money after all.

"Zatanna. Interesting name." He looked around then nodded to a shop. "Want a break from the contributing? The pastries in there are good." It was one of those high end bakeries. The same one he would get "snacks" for himself and his partner on occasion. He would do donuts, but why should he when he could get something so much better?

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[info]i_kaeps
2011-10-28 11:11 pm UTC (link)
"It's a weird name." She chuckled. "You can say it." She was used to people finding her name strange since she was a kid.

She peered towards the shop he was talking about then smiled. "Sure! I think I've burned off enough calories with shoe shopping I can indulge a little bit."

She made a grand gesture with her bags for him to lead the way.

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[info]i_zen
2011-10-29 03:11 am UTC (link)
"Weird? What's weird? We're in a city that moves around, and it's not the normal rotation around axis or stars." Charlie didn't seem to be bothered by the name. In fact, it was a nice change of pace. For all the strange in the City, names were kind of normal.

He led the way to the pastry shop. "Don't tell my partner that I got you a treat. She might get jealous." The smile didn't say he was joking, but it didn't say he was all that serious. It really could have gone either way.

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[info]i_kaeps
2011-10-29 03:26 am UTC (link)
Her brows lifted as she blinked in slight confusion. "Oh." What did that mean? Was he dating his partner and she was going to get jealous over a muffin? Talk about insecure. Best to go with it. She nodded with an uncertain smile. "Okay. No problem. My crumby lips will be sealed."

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[info]i_zen
2011-10-30 10:02 pm UTC (link)
Charlie just continued to walk on and smile. He was more or less a happy man, if one ignored the issues that prison solitary confinement for years causes, the wall of conspiracy that has little to do with the City, and the definite wish that his partner was around. Not Jennifer, although Charlie did like his current partner. He missed Reese. He missed her, but he'd never want her to be imprisoned. He belonged in one, he supposed. He hadn't let go; he had been in a prison of his own making, and now he was in one of something else's making.

"If you tell, she'd think I' a bit of a pastry slut. I am. I like fruit more, but we must keep up appearances." He raised the bags of things and motioned with said bag at her own. "So, you do magic?" It seemed like a harmless question as he opened the door for her.

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[info]i_kaeps
2011-10-30 10:13 pm UTC (link)
She giggled for that. "Well I'd say I'm a slut for cheesecake in that I'm willing to do almost anything to have a really good slice, but that might give you the wrong impression." She grinned and wrinkled her nose.

At his question her expression went a little crafty, and mysterious. It was just a subtle change in her smile and set of her eyes as she stepped through the door, wrinkling her nose at him as she went past. "Bibbity, bobbity boo." She chuckled. "I work magic."

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[info]i_zen
2011-10-30 11:37 pm UTC (link)
"There's a difference?" Charlie followed in after her; he did catch the change in wording. He was a detective, and from the way he asked, he was actually curious. He did want to know.

"Do you like 'abracadabra' or 'bibbity, bobbity' more?" It was only a small joke. He got into line and waited. The display case held all sorts of goodies, and some of them even had fruit. Charlie was partial to the fruit ones.

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[info]i_kaeps
2011-10-30 11:49 pm UTC (link)
"There is indeed." The smile she gave him was one of appreciation. She preferred people to be curious instead of openly dubious or mocking. Yes, the stage magician craved approval.

"Magic is a force, not an action. A tool to be used, not created." She stood next to him in line, looking at the displays as she continued. "But just like a gun you have to respect it, learn how to use it or it can be dangerous to you and everyone else. And to use magic I speak backwards for incantations. Oh! Apple scones!"

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[info]i_zen
2011-11-01 02:14 am UTC (link)
Charlie avoided any jokes about "using the force," which was probably a good idea with a woman who yelled at her house for no apparent reason. Then again, in the City there might be a reason to yell at a house. He knew some people who were more or less okay and who yelled at their houses and other inanimate objects all the time.

"Backwards? Does it work better that way? Do you think backwards? Though can you think backwards or forwards? It really is just thought." He leaned a little to look at the scones. "They're very good. So are the apple tarts and apple danishes." He'd probably had everything apple the shop made.

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[info]i_kaeps
2011-11-01 02:27 am UTC (link)
"I think and speak backwards whatever result I want from the magic. It's a way to focus my intent. My will." She chuckled and shrugged a shoulder. "My boyfr-..ex-again-boyfriend...he said I didn't have to and that the only limitation I had was my own self-confidence." She smiled a little sheepishly. "Guess who's still speaking backwards."

She pointed at the display. "I'll have a danish then, please."

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[info]i_zen
2011-11-02 12:10 am UTC (link)
Charlie nodded. Maybe he understood, maybe he didn't. Either way he accepted it. They were at the counter soon enough, and he ordered two danishes and two coffees.

"Backwards. So, if you didn't need to speak backwards, you could just get whatever you want?" He smiled at the counter girl. "Just have to focus your will. Interesting."

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[info]i_kaeps
2011-11-02 12:31 am UTC (link)
"I wouldn't say that." Explaining magic and how it worked along with how she worked with it wasn't something that was easy to do, but that didn't mean Zee didn't enjoy trying. "There are still rules like karma and things more powerful than me, like the City." She wrinkled her nose. "My first few teleportation attempts went poorly."

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[info]i_zen
2011-11-04 07:28 am UTC (link)
"Unless they didn't." Charlie managed the danishes, tilting his head for her to handle the drinks. "Perhaps you needed to be in those places. Perhaps what you consider poor attempts were exactly what you needed to do at the time."

He led her to a table, setting each danish down in front of a seat as well as setting his bags down. He held up a finger to excuse himself to get whatever they might need to enjoy their repast. He returned, settling down.

"So, you believe in karma? Action, reaction?" It wasn't exactly science that he was getting at, just the usual cause and effect that was karma.

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[info]i_kaeps
2011-11-04 10:53 am UTC (link)
Zatanna came to a complete stop at Charlie's words. Powers above why hadn't she considered that?! Gods, she was losing it! Jack, Logan and that...other person. Maybe she needed to be there for some reason. It might not have even needed to be a reason for her. Maybe her appearance in their lives at that particular moment meant something for them. Now she felt like beating her fool head against something solid.

She continued to the table with a sigh and a roll of her eyes at herself then set her bags down where neither of them would kick them and sat. "It's a cardinal rule with magic. I mean how fair would it be for me to be able to do or have anything so long as I could say the words backwards and there be no consequences? What's to stop me from becoming the dictator of the universe? Something bigger and more power would come and slap my paws for upsetting the balance."

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[info]i_zen
2011-11-05 02:34 am UTC (link)
"It wouldn't, but that doesn't mean some people don't work as if there aren't consequences." Charlie smiled slightly, knowing of a few men who thought because they wore the badge they could operate outside the system. They also thought that he would be okay with taking the fall. It would be a very long time before he could let that go, especially since he was here not there taking care of it all. He often questioned whether it was justice or vengeance he was seeking.

"It's about balance, then?" The detective could accept that. Balance was something he'd been seeking for a good long while, and he was still working on it.

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[info]i_kaeps
2011-11-05 02:39 am UTC (link)
She nodded as she took a bite of a pastry, then caught crumbs with a finger and a small blush for the mess. "Balance and responsibility. My dad taught me that. He was better than me. Way better."

She looked down a little with a small smile that came to her whenever she thought of her dad. She still missed him, but that wasn't what this was about so she let it go quickly. "It's why I got into the superhero business. You're right. There are people who don't care about consequences and want power. If I can stop them from hurting people then I should."

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[info]i_zen
2011-11-07 04:22 am UTC (link)
"You don't have to be a superhero to do that." Charlie smiled slightly before turning to his own sweet apple treat. It was really just what he needed, but then he couldn't think of a time when eating an apple was a bad thing, unless the person eating the apple was Snow White. Thankfully he wasn't Snow White. Some might say Adam, but Charlie couldn't buy into the idea of something as good as an apple or any known fruit being the downfall of all humanity. It might be tempting, but why blame a fruit? Why set it up with such a stigma?

"So, you are a superhero?" There it was. Charlie didn't know. He still wasn't sure he bought the whole magic existed thing. He wasn't going to say it didn't, but he still wasn't completely sure.

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[info]i_kaeps
2011-11-07 12:01 pm UTC (link)
"Was." She chuckled a bit ruefully before sucking some sugar from her thumb. "I had kind of retired from it a year or so ago." Forcibly retired but that would be splitting hairs, right? She didn't really want to get into all of that. It was personal.

She almost went into how her and Dinah are talking about getting a Justice League going again when she remembered who she was talking to. More specifically, what. A cop. Who might not look kindly on vigilantes. She'd rather not get them into trouble right out of the gate.

"There was the Justice League where I came from. Superman. Batman. Black Canary. They worked together to protect people from the things nobody else was prepared to handle." There. Lay the ground work for good relations. Zee smiled.

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[info]i_zen
2011-11-08 11:19 pm UTC (link)
"They were vigilantes. They are vigilantes. Police usually don't care for vigilantes." Charlie looked serious for the moment, just sipped his coffee and watched her. It was interesting how people reacted to cops. "Of course, some could say that when the police aren't doing the job, someone has to. Even if it requires working completely outside the law, using techniques and resources that could be seen as illegal." He took another sip.

"But, then it's hard to say who the good guys are when the world is topsy-turvy. When the police aren't serving and protecting, aren't they the ones who broke their promises, leaving a hole for those who will serve and protect?" Charlie wasn't looking at the bunny pj bottom lady; he seemed to be thinking allowed, again.

"I suppose it comes down to who's in charge and who's willing to take charge." He looked back at Zee. "I wonder if either of the candidates have considered vigilantes."

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[info]i_kaeps
2011-11-08 11:50 pm UTC (link)
She nibbled her pastry while he went on in his typical cop fashion and Zee felt herself growing a bit defensive. She didn't want an argument so took that time to calm herself down, take a few breaths and order her thoughts together.

She got a neutral smile on her face as she tilted her head a little. "Tell me something Detective Crews." She called him that on purpose since he went all business on her. "Are the cops prepared to handle aliens that are far advanced in technology and weapons than we are? Are they prepared to defend humanity from demon hordes intent on turning us into a slave class? These...vigilantes put their lives on the line and ask for nothing in return. No paycheck. No recognition or gratitude. No pension. And they do it because it's the right thing to do. They have the power and knowledge. Imagine how you would feel if you found out someone was killed or worse and there was someone with the power to stop it that just stood by and let it happen because being a vigilante was illegal."

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[info]i_zen
2011-11-09 01:24 am UTC (link)
Charlie didn't seem insulted, or even bothered by her line of questioning. He tilted his head, looked at her, then looked off in what had to be thought. His eyes narrowed slightly, but soon he came back to the conversation and took a bite of his danish, one of the last bites actually.

"Actually, Batman doesn't need a paycheck, and he's not doing it completely for justice so much as a reaction to something from his childhood. Superman isn't human, and he is super...man. He's not your everyday man. Black Canary is a new one, but I am sure even she has a backstory that puts her at odds with being a normal part of the working society." He put his hand up before she could say anything. "They have knowledge and power because they are different. They work outside the norm because they are different. But, because they are different they cannot be excused for working outside the norm. Cops are not seen as good cops when they aren't working by the book." Here he smiled.

"I should know. I either read the wrong book, or it never came on tape." He took a sip of his coffee. "They help the world, these would be vigilantes. But, I always wondered, do you think Superman hand washes his tights or puts them on delicate in the machine? Do they have to be washed on delicate? Are they specially made? That can't be a normal size, unless he goes to a specialty shop for men."

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[info]i_kaeps
2011-11-09 02:09 am UTC (link)
She has heard that line drawn in the sand many times. She knew there was no arguing against it, no trying to convince him to see their side. Why bother trying?

She smiled a little sadly and looked down at her coffee cup figuring this was the end of their conversation, until he started in on that ridiculous line of questions. It brought her head back up along with eyebrows then she started to giggle.

"I have no idea."

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[info]i_zen
2011-11-09 02:17 am UTC (link)
"Probably not something that comes up often in debriefings." Charlie smirked at the really bad joke.

"Police are concerned with vigilantes in places where the aliens, the powers, and everything the Justice League was built to fight don't exist because they don't exist. Vigilantes where I'm from which has none of the aliens, the powers and everything else usually don't allow the law to do its job. Or in those situations where the law is corrupt, the vigilantes don't know how to find justice without an unacceptable amount of collateral damage." He paused. "There really is no acceptable amount, just what we'll put up with for a resolution."

"Batman and Superman don't live in the world I policed in...until now. Now they're needed; here they're needed." Charlie shrugged. "Maybe there's a website for the tights."

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[info]i_kaeps
2011-11-09 02:29 am UTC (link)
She wasn't certain why he continued on with his point, but patience gave her the answer. She relaxed visibly and gave him a grateful smile. They would be able to work with Detective Crews apparently. That was a relief, and she will be happy to tell Dinah.

She chuckled with a wink and lifted her coffee. "Dub dub dub super suits dot com. Buy one get one free all this month."

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[info]i_zen
2011-11-09 08:22 pm UTC (link)
Charlie was already okay with the idea of working with superheroes. Of course, he had recently found out that his partner had been asked to join the team, so he'd have to accept superheroes or find a new partner. He'd gotten used to Jennifer, become accustomed to her face and ways, and wasn't really in the mood to start with a new partner. He liked his partner just like she was.

"That would probably a good deal. I don't wear tights, so I guess I'm saved." He finished his coffee followed quickly by the last bite of his danish.

"Well, Ms. Zatara," she's started it with calling him detective. "I should probably be going."

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[info]i_kaeps
2011-11-09 09:20 pm UTC (link)
She chuckled with a sly grin and a wink. "But you would look charming in them." Another chuckle had her finishing off her pastry.

"It was good to see you again, Charlie." Hey. They weren't talking business anymore so she dropped the detective stuff. "Come by the house some time when it isn't a noise complaint."

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