Summary: Part of the Drabble Series. Robin + Jinx = Bad nicknames and horrible misunderstandings. Part 2!
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
Please forgive any mistakes, both character-wise and grammatically-wise. I don't have time to re-read or edit things.
Jinx took a sip of her soda, internally twitching as she sat in front of Starfire who hadn’t spoke a word during their entire shopping spree. It was something Starfire dragged Jinx out to do once a week since Raven wasn’t the shopping type and honestly speaking, she kind of enjoyed the cheerful alien girl’s presence -though she’d never admit it out loud, even if threatened to have all her teeth pulled out with no anesthesia. She was a little bubbly and over-bearing sometimes, but talking to Starfire showed Jinx that she was more than just the supposed air-headed teen with the occasional insight that everyone made her out to be.
...just as Raven had her girly moments, moments Raven had made Jinx swore under pain of torture to never reveal to anyone.
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
Please forgive any mistakes, both character-wise and grammatically-wise. I don't have time to re-read or edit things.
Pet Names: Part 2
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Jinx took a sip of her soda, internally twitching as she sat in front of Starfire who hadn’t spoke a word during their entire shopping spree. It was something Starfire dragged Jinx out to do once a week since Raven wasn’t the shopping type and honestly speaking, she kind of enjoyed the cheerful alien girl’s presence -though she’d never admit it out loud, even if threatened to have all her teeth pulled out with no anesthesia. She was a little bubbly and over-bearing sometimes, but talking to Starfire showed Jinx that she was more than just the supposed air-headed teen with the occasional insight that everyone made her out to be.
...just as Raven had her girly moments, moments Raven had made Jinx swore under pain of torture to never reveal to anyone.
Living with the
Titans sure revealed parts of them no one ever would have thought about.
“Okay, that’s it,”
Jinx shoved her soda away. “What’s going on, Star?”
“I-I do not know
what you mean,” Starfire was fidgeting now, toying with her hair.
“We’ve been at the
mall for the last two hours and I know if you were right in the head, you would
have flown after that really nice blouse at the last store or those shoes in
the previous one. Instead, you’ve been walking this entire time. Walking, not
flying. Walking.” Jinx tapped her fingers on the table expectantly. “What’s wrong?”
“I do not mean to
be a burden,” by now, Starfire was tugging at her hair and Jinx felt an eyelid
twitch. She was just not cut out for this whole talking-with-feelings thing.
Fortunately for her, she didn’t need to say more since Starfire continued to
speak. “I have just heard... the rumors.”
“Rumors? What
rumors?” Jinx asked calmly. There were plenty of stories about her that
circulated, whether it was amongst the Titans or the civilians. They knew of
her sordid past and because of that, wild stories tended to come out of that.
“Is it true,”
Starfire hesitated, “that friend Jinx and Robin are doing... the dating?”
It took a moment
for Starfire’s words to register in Jinx’s head, her eyes widened to comical
proportions. After all, there was no way Starfire could be asking such a
preposterous question... right? Right?! And where could such a story have
originated? Everyone knew Jinx and Robin despised each other! What was wrong
with the world?
Unfortunately,
Starfire took Jinx’s silence as confirmation. She bowed her head, her hair
slightly covering her face. “...I se-.”
“Starfire,” Jinx
began slowly, stuck in a state of disbelief because of how utterly moronic the
question was. She then slammed her hands onto the table, causing all the
contents to shake as she spoke through gritted teeth. “Robin and I are not
doing... ugh... the dating... we never have and we never will. Hell will freeze
over before the possibility can be even considered. Trigon will return and
actually succeed in taking over the world before blunder-breath and I will even
consider doing that! And we will never bring this up again for the rest of our
lives, am I clear?”
Though delighted
by the fact that Jinx had refuted the rumors, Starfire looked concerned by how
red Jinx’s face was getting. “Are you-?”
“Am I clear?” Jinx
practically snarled, her knuckles popping out because of how tightly she was
clenching her fist.
Starfire giggled a
little nervously since pink sparks were dancing across Jinx’s hand. “Of course,
if that is what you wish.”
Jinx sighed. She
was going to need a bucket of ice cream later to forget all this... a lot of
buckets. “So now that this... misunderstanding is fixed, you want to go check
out those shoes again?”
Starfire’s green
eyes sparkled with delight as she grabbed Jinx’s hand, shooting up into the air
and towards the store. “Oh, yes! Let us continue with the shopping with windows!”
Starfire was just
the first of many strange incidents of the day. Of course, the second offender
just had to be one of the most infuriating Titans of them all.
“How’s it hanging,”
Speedy leered with a suspiciously smug smirk, “sweetie.”
“If you don’t want
all of your arrows to blow up at once on your face, you’ll refrain from saying
that ever again.” Jinx snarled, her glowing hand held up threateningly. “In
fact, how about I mess with your hair right now to show you how serious I am?”
“You wouldn’t,” he
gasped, grabbing the top of his head.
“I would,” Jinx said
with a vicious grin. “I can make you have a bad hair day for the rest of your pathetic
life and not even the most experienced hair dresser will ever be able to fix it
again.”
Speedy glared at
her and took off to avoid having to deal with the aftermath of the humiliating
defeat. Once he was gone, she sighed. Ugh, second time today. This couldn’t be
by chance since Starfire had said there had been rumors and Speedy had just
called her sweetie of all things.
Her eyes narrowed.
There had been
just one other person in that gymnasium that day other than her and Robin.
“Cyborg,” she
hissed under her breath, her eyes screaming murder as she turned towards the
direction that would lead to Cyborg’s room.
“What about
Cyborg?” there was a familiar whoosh and she felt her shoulder become heavy as
someone leaned on it. Jinx shrugged him away with a scowl.
“Nothing,” she
snapped. Ugh, Kid Flash was the last person she wanted to see right now. He had
been gone all day, probably off gallivanting with some girl he had rescued. “I
just have to talk to him about something.”
And by talk, she
meant dismembering him.
“Is that so,” Kid
Flash casually remarked before leaning in to whisper into her ear, “sweetie?”
Jinx stiffened
before pulling away from him quickly, looking at him in astonishment. “Where
did you hear that?”
Maybe he could
help her lead to the source of the rumors so that she could beat the shit out
of them... or at least produce amnesia so that s/he will never produce such
horrible traumatic lies ever again.
The possibility
was thrown out the window when she saw a frown on Kid Flash’s normally cheerful
face. “Is there something going on between you and Robin?”
Jinx groaned, looking
at the ceiling as though it had all the answers to her problem. “Not you too.”
“I’m just saying
Jinx,” Kid Flash said with his arms crossed, a deep scowl settling in on his
face. “There’ve been these rumors floating around about you two and that there’s
even proof of you two being... affectionate with each other.”
“Affectionate,
that’s a pretty big word for you, KF.” Jinx said sarcastically, not catching
how his eyes narrowed. She was really not in the mood for this. And proof?
There was proof? What proof could they possibly have? The closest thing they
could have of her and Robin being ‘affectionate’ with each other was them
beating the shit out of each other.
“And there’s how
you two have been flirting for the past few days-.”
“F-Flirting?” Jinx
choked out. “Who’s flirting? Why the hell would I flirt with bird-brain? And
you, of all people, accusing me of flirting? That’s hilarious KF, really
hilarious.”
“Sweetie, darling,
honey, dearest,” he listed off.
“Bird-brain, boy
blunder, porcupine head,” Jinx droned with him. “Judging by the quality of
names, I’d say if anyone is doing the flirting, it’s Robin and no, he isn’t. We
are not flirting. We are not going out. We are not anything! I wish people
would just butt out and pay attention to their own lives for a change!”
“But I have a
right to be involved!” Kid Flash protested loudly. They were going out for
goodness sake and there was something pretty wrong if his girlfriend was off
flirting with another boy, especially if that boy was his best friend! And what
was it about Robin flirting back? He had Starfire! ...even if it wasn’t completely
official just yet...
Jinx gave him an
incredulous look before smacking herself in the forehead. She mumbled
incoherent words and began to walk away from him. Nope, she was not dealing
with this right now. She did not have the self-control or mental capacity to
have another talk with Kid Flash where they ‘discussed’ his flirting addiction.
She labeled it as ‘discussed’ because it was where she’d confront him, he’d
brush away her anger, and then they’d return to the demented circle of him
flirting his butt off and her stewing away in a pot of anger, jealousy, and
hurt.
Nope, not again.
Ugh, why was she
still with him again?
Right, she was in
lov... like, she liked him. And she was just going to pretend she had never
almost associated Kid Flash and the forbidden big L-word for the rest of her
life. Though what other reason could there be other than love that a girl would
stick with an annoying speedster like Kid Flash.
“I’m going to take
a nap, KF.” Jinx said tiredly.
“Hey, we’re not
done with this conversation.” He reached out to grab her, but pulled away
before he got stung by the hexes that shot down her arm.
“Yes, we are. And
if you accuse me of flirting with Robin again, I promise you that you’ll be
decommissioned from hero duties for an entire month.” She threatened before
storming away, leaving an aggravated and frustrated Kid Flash behind.
“For the last
time, there is nothing going on between me and Jinx!” Robin bemoaned his fate,
collapsing on his seat as Raven gave him a skeptical look. There was no doubt
about it. Jinx was the Queen of Bad Luck and she had sent a serious case of it
towards his way. Maybe he needed to cut back on the mental torture of calling
her cute pet-names. The plan had backfired catastrophically by causing him more
problems. “Seriously! And why do you even care?”
“I don’t,” the
blue-cloaked girl said seriously. “It’s just that recently there’ve been a wave
of chaotic emotions that are seriously getting on my nerves.”
“What do you mean?”
“First off, you
should talk to Starfire about these rumors... and while you’re at it, you two
should hurry up and get together so that we can avoid misunderstandings like
this in the future. It’s not good for the team.” Raven said bluntly, though she
omitted the fact that Starfire seemed a lot better after that outing with Jinx.
Robin sputtered dumbly at her words. “And there’s one other person...”
“Who?” Robin asked
tiredly. Like things could get any worse.
The door slammed
open and Raven tilted her head at the intruder, already knowing who it was.
“Him.”
Robin lifted his
head and saw the familiar shades of gold and red. Great, the worst just kept
happening. “Kid Flash?”
“You. Me. Gym. Now.”
Kid Flash grabbed Robin by the collar and Robin was barely able to let out a
surprised yell before the two disappeared into a blur.
Raven remained
floating in the air and sighed.
This couldn’t end
well.
::TBC::
