Zatanna walked along the beach of the little island that had become the home for a few hundred refugees who all looked to her for guidance, inspiration and support. She sighed as her patent leather pumps with their vicious stiletto heels hung from a hand as she walked the beach barefoot. She looked out on the water and felt torn, she wanted to leave this slice of paradise and go searching for her friends....and...her dark, cavalier lover... But too many people needed her here, there was too much to be done if this war against Darkseid was to be won...  "kcud a kcuf!" she spat out in the backwards speech she  so often used when casting spells. Though it was a curse expressing how messed up she felt everything was it carried no eldritch power...but it did make her SMILE a very dark and terrible smile as she PROMISED herself the next time she saw Darkseid that WOULD be the spell she cast... "Sorry Howard..." she said softly then added, ".. It's a far, far better thing you will do..." her laughter spilled from her as her irrepressibly jovial nature reasserted itself, and added a lightness to her step.<br/><br/>"Miss Zatanna, ma'am...Josie told me to tell you Sarah's about to pop," William Ackles, a pharma salesman from Des Moines told her after he approached her from behind her on the beach. Zatanna's smile grew warm and genuine as she turned to him and said, "Thanks, William...can't miss a real magic show can I? Shall we?" She presumed to know his answer as she waved her want over herself and William as she said, "Haras ot Su ekat!" A swirling sparkling cloud of smoke surrounds them as Zatanna uses her magic to whisk them back to the side of William's very pregnant wife. They got there a few moments before the little boy was born pink and healthy to very happy parents. {Forgive me Brucee, this is why I can't just go} O o . Zatanna thought to herself as she watched the precious new life make the couple a family.