Au where Billy doesn’t get his demigod form but just a shit ton of magic instead.
(can kinda be read as a continuation of this)
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Zatanna has been hopping around Europe for months now. She’s been finding her father’s old teachers and new ones that are all her own and getting them to tell her everything they can. Since she left the mountain she’s been wringing every drop of knowledge she can from the world and practising it until she falls asleep with all her magic spent.
It feels a little like healing.
Sometimes it feels like something else though. When Zatanna thinks about how the only real connections she’s made on this journey have been with her teachers. Those connections aren’t like the one she shared with her father. Not like the connections she still shares with the Team. She makes the effort to go and visit the mountain on occasion but it’s not enough. The feeling of other people being close and loving her doesn’t fill her up like it used to.
She decides that this probably is healing. This whole thing she’s doing. But it’s a lonely breed of it.
Then a boy with black hair and blue eyes and far too much power, just like her, comes tumbling into her room one day.
“Uh. Hi. I’m Billy.” he says, uncertain. His aura crackles with lightning and Zatanna doesn’t think she’s ever seen someone with so much raw magic running through their veins.”You’re Zatanna right? I was hoping that you could help me? I want- I need to learn magic.” He pauses. “It’s important. A wizard told me so.”
Zatanna hasn’t thought about helping anyone in a long time. She’s been too focused on saving herself to have room for other worries. She realises that she misses it.
She must hesitate for too long because Billy looks far more worried than a kid that age should have any right to. “Please?” he says.
Zatanna smiles, because healing takes many forms and she thinks that this might be one she prefers. “Okay.” she says.
Billy smiles and it lights the room up so much that Zatanna thinks he might actually be doing magic on accident.
They’ll work on it.