It was the 1st of April. 9-year-old Dick Grayson, his cousin Joe age 14, his mother Mary, his father Jon, his aunt Karla and his uncle Rick were standing on a podiam, waving to the crowd below. The trapeze routine had gone off without a hitch. There was suddenly a clunk sound and the rig which held their trapezes fell 200 ft to the ground.
"Wonder what woulda happened if it had broken when we were still on them," Joe whispered to his cousin.
Looking into the broken trapeze, police descovered it was sabotarged. Dick addmited to hearing a man threaten the lives of the curcis troop to Jack Haly. The man turns out to be Tony Zucco and he's sent to prison for etempted murder. Soon after, the Haly's Curcis leaves Gotham City.
...5 YEARS LATER...
Dick and Joe sit on a train, heading back to the grounds where the curcis is set up. Dick, now being a 14-year-old teenaged boy, eyes a raven-haired girl with neon blue eyes. She seems to spot this and walks over to him. Dick and his coison are taking up the 2 seats out of a cluster of 3.
"Hi!" the girl says "My name's Zatanna. There's no seats left. Can I sit next to you?" she asks.
Dick nodds, surprised a girl's talking to him. Zatanna sits next to him and Joe elbows Dick with a smirk on his face.
"Zatanna," Dick says "That's an unusual name,"
"Yeah," says Zatanna "What's your name?"
"D- Dick. Dick Grayson," Dick stammers.
"That's unusual too," Zatanna laughs.
"Uhg!" growns Joe "This is painful!" he coments on Dick's conversation.
"This is my coison Joe," says Dick.
"Nice to meet you, Joe," says Zatanna.
The conversation continues until Zatanna preshures Dick into addmitting he's a curcis trapezest. Zatanna doesn't seem to mind and says her and her father are travelling magishions. Then, across the isle, a sweaty man sits down. He's holding a box for dear life. While Dick was laughing at a joke Zatanna made he hears a ticking comeing from the box. The man reaches in and pulls out... a bomb. All at once there was a large explosion. Shrapnel flying everywhere... lights turning off... the Sun seemingly going out and... in a matter of minutes Dick Grayson, Joe Grayson and Zatanna Zatara are killed... by a scuiside bomb...
Their parents grieve. Giavarni Zatara bumps into Mary, Jon, Rick and Karla Grayson at the police station. One thing that got them all was how their children were when they died. The blast from the bomb had pushed Zatanna into Dick's arms and they were found dead like that. Giavarni and the Graysons become good friends and he soon joins the Haly's Curcis when their currant magishian resianed.
...MEANWHILE, IN AN ALTERNATE TIMELINE WERE THE FLYING GRAYSONS HAD DIED WHEN DICK WAS 9...
Dick and Zatanna pulled away after kissing. They were alone in the Cave so Dick didn't have his shades on. Zatanna looked into her boyfriend's sapphire eyes and remembers a question about his family that she had been meaning to ask.
"Dick?" she said.
"Yeah, Zee," he said.
"Do you ever wonder what your life would be like if you family never died?" she asked, feeling insensative.
"All the time," the Boy Wonder said "Do you wonder what your life would be like if you never stopped travelling the contry as a magishian?"
"All the time," the young magishian said, snuggling into Dick's arms.
Either way Zatanna and Dick are meant to be. GO ROBTANNA! Check out my fanfics, The Apprentice, Cracked, Young Justice in MARVEL-mainia and Future and Past Clash.