zarataz (zarataz) wrote in silverage, @ 2011-08-21 16:42:00 |
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Entry tags: | !log, remus lupin, zatanna zatara |
Who: Remus and Zatanna
What: Show tickets in exchange for helping her out with her boggart problem
When: Sunday night
Where: CBS Studios
Warnings: Nada!
Zee smiled brightly at the crowds of people applauding her from their seats in the audience. It was taking them forever to let her off the stage and she knew that Ed would get tetchy if she took up too much time in the limelight past her allotted ten minute act. She held up her hands and took one more bow before beginning her slow backing off the stage. As was customary Zee paused to plant a kiss on Ed's cheek, thanking him for having her on yet again, and then passed another cheeky smile and wave to the audience. "Thank you and good night, everybody!" Crossing her fishnetted legs, Zee blew a kiss to the crowd and muttered behind her hand, "Raeppasid ot ym gnisserd moor. Ekoms stceffe!"
Her dressing room greeted her with a welcome silence.
With a loud breath, Zee collapsed into the plush, velvety chair that sat in front of her changing screen. The show hadn't gone horribly that night, but she was an utter perfectionist and couldn't help going through every minor thing that had gone wrong. To be perfectly honest, they had been minor, but she was still going to curse the fact that her rabbit had been a little too sedated to be stage ready. These things happened when one was working with 1960s tranquilizers. But hell, at least PETA didn't exist. That would have been bad.
She reached to the side, picking up a ribbon so that she could pull her hair up off her neck into a pony tail. "Eight o'clock," she mumbled under her breath. Could she go home and take a bath now? Something with bubbles in the ancient, clawfootted tub she'd been using since she'd been a child. Zee closed her eyes thinking about it and decided to take just give herself a moment complete, and total silence before--
Knock, knock.
Zee opened one eye. "What?"
"Your guest here to see you, Miss. Zatara!" What? She thought, both eyes opening now. She had guests? No, that couldn't be right-- the staff at the Ed Sullivan show knew that she hated to be bothered directly before or after performances and she'd never had a problem with enforcing that desire. "A Remus Lupin for you?" The name tumbled clumsily over the staff woman's tongue but it gave Zatanna the information and memory she needed. Remus Lupin, the magical teenager who'd helped her with her boggart problem. The magical teenager she'd decided to keep an eye on because Zatanna, in general, simply didn't trust magical teenagers to always make the proper decisions, no matter what their intentions.
Of course now she remembered giving him tickets to the show as thanks for dealing with her boggart issue and telling him to come say hello back stage. "Gnikrow setholc ffo." Zee pushed up off her chair and pulled her robe down from where it hung on the edge of her changing screen. Teenaged boys (usually her cousin, Zachary) always seemed to catch her at her worst.
"Come in!" she called.