04. Children - Jinx+Jai

Summary: Part of the Drabble Series. Uh-oh, someone's not happy with the fact that everyone's calling Jinx 'mom'.

I don't own Teen Titans and while I would have liked to have more development between Kid Flash and Jinx, I'm glad they're technically a canon couple and even got to kiss in the comics! 8D Also, Jai and Iris are part of the DC world, being the actual canon children of Wally West. And so, sadly, I do not own them as well.

Please forgive any mistakes, both character-wise and grammatically-wise. I don't have time to re-read or edit things.

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Children

HappyFace1886

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“Iris, have you seen Jai,” Jinx asked her five year old daughter who was currently zipping here and there in the room. The little girl giggled and ran quickly, a blurry outline of her figure barely seen. Jinx sighed good-naturedly before sticking her hand out, catching Iris around the waist before she could get away. “Iris?”

“Jai went that way!” she chirped, pointing towards the gate that led to the school garden. Iris then began to wiggle her legs, the urge to run too strong for her to stay still. “Mommy, put me down! Down!”

“Iris,” Jinx said warningly and the little red-head immediately calmed down, the wiggling stopping as she stilled herself.

“Can you put me down please, mommy?” she asked with a sweet smile.

“Of course, dearie,” Jinx said before lowering Iris to the ground. She chuckled when Iris immediately vanished into a blur, rushing into the school where Jinx heard loud shouts of surprise at the sudden appearance of the little red-head. Iris was definitely Wally’s kid, never able to stay still, filled with lots of life and smiles.

Jai, on the other hand... he was faster than the average child, but not as fast as Iris despite how they were twins. Silently, Jinx feared if he had actually inherited some of her abilities.

She walked into the gardens and wondered where to start. The gardens were huge, having been built by the students of the school and there were many students. Then she saw a little bundle of flaming red hair sticking out from the bushes and smiled, walking towards it.

“Now I wonder where my little Jai can be,” she mused out loud. The bushes shuddered a little and the red hair fluttered a bit. “Mommy will be so sad. She had been looking for Jai for so long and yet, she can’t find him.”

“I don’t have a mommy!” a childish voice rang out, an angry pout lingering with the words.

Jinx paused at this development. She walked closer to the bushes with concern in her eyes. Her hand was raised to push away the leaves when the red hair blurred away. She sighed when she realized Jai was trying to run away. With a patience she reserved for her children, she again stuck her hand out and grabbed Jai by the shoulder and picked him up before he could escape.

“Hey!” he yelled, wiggling in midair. His super-speed made it so that he was actually fighting pretty hard against her grasp, but she had enough experience to not be dragged down by him. “Let me go!”

“Nu-uh,” she said, carrying him under her arms as she walked to the tree he had been hiding next to. “I want to play with the mommy-less Jai.”

“No, let me go!” he squirmed harder, but it was useless. After all, it wasn’t by pure luck that Jinx was able to control a school filled with meta-humans.

She plopped next to the tree and settled Jai on her lap. To her amusement, he was looking at everywhere but at her. When she tried to reach out and run her hand through her hair, he ducked so that she wouldn’t be able to touch. “And what exactly have I done to earn this treatment, hmm, Jai?”

“You’re not my mommy,” he said, sticking his tongue out at her.

“Oh dear, whatever will I do without my darling Jai?” Jinx said dramatically, placing a hand on her heart as though she had been wounded. “What will I do whenever I bake delicious chocolate chip cookies and have no one to share it with? I suppose there is Iris, but I always make enough for two speedsters. What will I do with the rest of them? Maybe I can give them to the others kids and-.”

“No!” Jai yelled in horror. “They’re my cookies!”

“Oh really?” Jinx inquired mischievously. “But I thought I wasn’t your mommy anymore? Why ever should I feed my delicious cookies to anyone other than my precious children?”

“Those cookies are only for me and Iris!” Jai cried out, clutching onto Jinx’s sleeves. He then buried his face into her chest, the rest of his words coming out in muffled yells. “No sharing with the school! I don’t want to share mommy with them!”

Ah, and now they were at the heart of the problem.

“Jai, honey, what’s wrong?” she asked gently, cradling him against him. Jai had never made a fuss about her tending to the kids at the school before. In fact, he had been quite understanding for someone his age, going out of his way to befriend many of the kids here. “I can’t make it better if you won’t tell me what’s wrong.”

There was an incoherent murmur from him as his face remained buried against her.

“Jai.”

“...they’re calling you mommy.” He said with his voice slightly shaking.

“Who are?”

“The other kids here,” he mumbled before continuing on resentfully, his fingers tightening around her sleeves. “It’s not fair! You always spend time with them and now they’re even calling you their mommy! I... I already have to share you with Iris... I don’t... I don’t want you to... sniffle...  leave me...”

She raised him higher until he was burying his face into her neck now. “Jai, you know I love you very much.” He nodded into her neck, her tears wetting her skin.

Jinx held him close to her and hummed softly, running her fingers soothingly down his back as his small frame shuddered into sobs. Her eyes softened at how she had unconsciously hurt her baby boy like this.

There were so many things she could have said there. She could have explained that the kids here had never had a proper mother, a feeling she could understand all too well with her own childhood. But that was a talk she had had with him already in the past. It would be meaningless to bring it up again...

“I love mommy too,” he mumbled, sounding a little sleepy after having cried. “I’m sorry for saying you’re not my mommy...”

She chuckled and kissed him on the head. “All forgiven.”

Jinx tightened her hold around him. The last thing she wanted to do was make him sad, but she couldn’t simply abandon these kids either. Her kids were the most precious thing in the world to her. The moment she had given birth to both Iris and Jai, she had sworn to herself that she would do everything in her power to make sure they would grow up happy and safe. They would never, ever endure the things she had...

But what could she do with this predicament?

“I will never ever leave you, Jai,” she whispered into his hair.

“B-But you have the other kids and-and Iris too,” he said fearfully. “You’ll forget me a-and-.”

“Silly, where did you get such an idea?” Jinx teased lightly before sighing. “I’m sorry that I can’t do anything about the other kids calling me their mom... but I’ll let you in on a little secret.”

Jai seemed to perk up at this, his striking blue eyes that he had inherited with Wally looking at her with such innocence that her heart clenched. “What is it?”

“Don’t tell anyone else,” she whispered conspiratorially, a playful glint in her eyes. She motioned for Jai to come closer until his ear was right next to her mouth. “Mommy loves Jai and Iris the most.”

Pure uninhibited delight shined in his eyes before he looked at her suspiciously. “Even more than Daddy?”

She laughed. “Even more than daddy.”

There was silence before Jai looked satisfied with this. It always amazed her how easy it was for children to forgive and move on. And it simply made them all the more endearing to her. She cuddled Jai tightly to her before she ran her fingers down his side, effectively tickling him. Peals of laughter filled the garden before a sharp breeze blew by.

“Hey, what are you two doing without me?” Iris demanded, her hands on her hips.

“Ah, my next victim!” Jinx cried out, Jai held under her arm as she lunged to grab Iris as well. More laughter filled the garden as Jinx began to tickle them both together.

“Iris,” Jai said between laughter. “W-We can’t let m-haha-mommy beat us.”

“Never give up!” Iris squealed before the two attacked Jinx back.

The older woman laughed hard as the two kids attacked her, all three of them tumbling onto the ground. She held them both close to her, her arms wrapped around their small frail bodies. A moment passed before Jinx kissed them both in the head.

“I love you two.”

There was a cheeky laugh from Iris. “I love you too, mommy!”

“Me too!” Jai said excitedly. “I love mommy too!”

Forever and ever.

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AU: Now, it isn’t like Jai loves his mom more than his dad. He just knows that Wally and Jinx love each other a lot so his only measure of comparison of how great her love towards him would be is that. xD so in his innocent mind, since his mom and dad loved each other the most, if his mom said she loved him more than dad, than that must be HUGE!