Summary: KF knew Jinx was amazing, but no matter the sass or the powerful hexes, she was still only human...
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.
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.
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HappyFace1886
It began with a
simple remark made by Starfire.
“Glorious,” the
red headed beauty chimed at Jinx. “You recover much faster than the average
earthling. Robin is still not allowed to be in the training room and Beast Boy
has yet to leave the recovery room.”
Jinx’s features
froze a little before she gave a careless one-armed shrug. “I guess I do heal
faster than most people. Though don’t tell Roby-poo that, he might get
jealous.”
Starfire giggled,
finding the name amusing as long as it wasn’t a certain blonde spewing the
words. Kid Flash, on the other hand, had a thoughtful look, having overheard
their conversation.
Now that he thought
about it, Jinx had suffered a pretty hard blow in the last battle. It should
have left her out of commission for a week at least, but only a little over a
day had passed. Actually, the more pressing question was when was the last time
Jinx had rested longer than a few days after a harsh, bone-crushing fight? Even
when he knew she was bruised and battered, she would seem completely fine the
next day or two.
Maybe she really
did just heal faster. Batman was known for being able to heal quickly even after
breaking several bones... though Robin did hint that the dark knight simply had
higher pain tolerance and was too stubborn to sit around even when he was
seriously injured. Alfred was the only one who could keep him still... kind of
like how Starfire was the only one who could make Robin stay inside. Anyone
else would need to use brute force to make them rest.
....or maybe he
was just over thinking things.
“Jinxie!” Kid
Flash yelled happily, zipping right behind her with his arm around her waist. Normally
she’d jump in surprise before relaxing, having become accustomed to his random
appearances. Instead she stiffened for a good few seconds before standing
tensely in his arms. “You okay?”
“Fine,” she said
with a grin and leaned against him as to emphasis just how find she was. “What’s
up, KF?”
“Nothing, just
seeing how you’re doing.” He said with a grin, hiding the concern that
threatened to show. It had to have been his imagination, right?
“Fine, just
paperwork,” she said with a small grumble, gesturing to the pile in her hands
that she had been about to take to her room to work on.
“What you do to
piss Robin off now?”
“Added pink
hair-dye in his shampoo. Unfortunately, his hair is pretty dark so it didn’t
turn out pink.” Jinx gave Kid Flash an impish grin. “However, there are now a
bunch of pink streaks on his head. That’ll teach him to call me pinky. I can
tolerate any other nickname but that.”
“Which, might I
add,” he said kissing her cheek, “I had to learn the hard way. He got off
light.”
“Well, based on
how much he cherishes his hair, I believe he would beg to differ.”
“Mhm,” Kid Flash
wasn’t really listening anymore, nuzzling his face into her neck. It had been
so long since his last visit to the tower. He kissed her pulse, his lips
skimming her neck as he trailed up higher. Jinx shivered under the
feather-light touches.
“H-Hey, I have
work to do.”
“It can wait,” he
murmured, rising higher until he reached her ear. Kid Flash nipped the soft
appendage, running his tongue lightly over the reddening mark before whispering
into her ear. “C’mon Jinxie, I missed you.”
“No, work first,
play later.” She shoved the papers in his face to push him away and while it
did make him pull back, he tightened his grip around her waist so that he
wouldn’t have to let go. Jinx let out a sharp hiss and her knees slightly
buckled. Kid Flash’s eyes widened before he quickly readjusted his grip,
helping her stand on her feet.
“What’s wrong? Are
you okay?” he asked urgently before Jinx, after breathing in harshly, pressed a
hand against his chest.
“I’m fine, I’m
fine, it’s nothing,” she said, recovering her voice. Then, acting as though
nothing had happened at all, Jinx stood on her own and slowly wiggled away from
his hold. “I have work to do. We’ll continue this later.”
“But-.”
She gave him a
playful smile, taking a step closer until she was right in front of him, her
cheek pressed against his as she lightly whispered. “Patient boys get
rewarded.”
His worry wavered
at her heated voice and he spoke before he could even think. “What kind of
rewards?”
“The special
kind,” Jinx purred before demurely pulling away, the wicked glint in her eyes
stunning him before she sauntered off into her room. By the time Kid Flash
snapped out of it, she was gone and he was left torn between being aroused and
concerned.
The last straw
came after a particularly nasty battle with Cheshire. Since Jinx and Cheshire
were old... acquaintances, there had been no bars hold in the midst of their fight.
Unfortunately, Cheshire was lethal. There was no doubt about that. She could
easily take on the majority of the Titans on her own so it came as no surprise
when Cheshire was able to land a particularly deep set of clawed wounds on
Jinx’s shoulder to her upper stomach. The only saving grace the pink haired
girl had was that she was able to kick Cheshire on the shoulder, setting the
girl off balance enough to fall down the rooftop. But they knew it wasn’t the
end of the assassin.
Kid Flash had
hovered around worriedly, having rushed from Central the moment he heard the
news, while Raven had taken a look at the wounds. She ended up telling them
that Jinx would need at least two weeks of rest before the injuries would be
somewhat healed.
Raven had clearly
said two weeks.
...and yet three
days later when Kid Flash had zoomed back to Jump City to check on Jinx, he
found her wandering around as though she hadn’t been injured at all. The other
Titans were amazed. Only Kid Flash wasn’t convinced. At least, not anymore.
“Raven said two
weeks,” he said with a frown.
“I’m fine.” She
said, brushing away his concern.
“Did Raven at
least give you a check-up to see if you’re really fine?”
Jinx rolled her
eyes. “After she saw me doing a triple back flip during practice, I think she
found the need redundant.”
“A triple flip?”
he said with eyes bugged out. “There is no way you did a triple flip only three
days after getting an injury like that.”
“There are the
security tapes and the Titans as witnesses.” She said, sounding bored. “Are we
done now? Because I’m getting pretty sick of this subject.”
“No way, we are
not ending this topic here.” Kid Flash scowled. He was going to get to the
bottom of this if it was the last thing he did. Raven said two weeks and yet,
in three days Jinx was looking and acting fine. Normally he’d have believed
that she must’ve had super-healing powers or something, but he still remembered
the times Jinx would stiffen and flinch when someone would brush against her in
where he remembered she had gotten hurt or if they handled her too roughly
right after a brutal fight. There was something fishy about this and he was
going to get to the bottom of this.
“Suit yourself,
have fun talking about it alone.” She said with a wave, about to walk off. Kid
Flash grabbed her by the shoulder and whirled her around, only to flinch and
freeze when he heard the small muffled gasp of pain.
He gritted his
teeth. There it was again! “Jinx, please, I’m begging you, talk to me.”
There was sweat
gathered at her brow and she still had the audacity to grin reassuringly at
him. “I’m fine, you idiot. There’s nothing to worry about.”
His straining
patience that had been at its limit snapped apart and he moved without warning,
gathering her in his arms before running in super speed. He barely heard her
yelp of outrage, telling him to let go. Fat chance of that happening.
The world became a
blur and by the time Jinx was able to see properly, she was sitting on what
felt like a soft matted floor. She narrowed her eyes as she took in her
surroundings, having had enough lessons at the HIVE to deduce where she was.
“Why am I in a
hotel in Japan? And... is that sulfur?” she sniffed, tilting her head up. “Are
we at a hotspring resort or something?”
“Take off your clothes.”
He ordered tersely.
Jinx lifted what
would have been a brow. “Excuse me? If this is your attempt in getting me
naked, than you-eek! What are you doing?”
Kid Flash pushed
her down onto the ground as gently as he could, feeling his chest tighten when
she still flinched in pain. But it was a necessary evil. She wasn’t cooperating
so he had to do something somehow. He had already pulled down the zipper of her
dress and was now peeling the material off her skin.
“Kid Flash, stop
that! Are you listening to me?” she yelled angrily, the panic now clear in her
voice. Her powers sparked occasionally, but it didn’t hurt him. She could never
really hurt him. Not anymore. “Will you just stop it already?”
The dress slipped
off her shoulders and he couldn’t stop the loud gasp at the sight of the angry
red wound on her shoulder that was still a bit bloodied. Her pale skin was
marred with bruises and unhealed injuries. Scars ran up and down what felt like
almost every inch of her skin and he feared what he would find if he was to
pull her dress down any further.
Instead, he pulled
back a little, his voice slightly shaking. “Why didn’t you tell me t-that you
were-?”
“I’m fine,” she
hissed, wanting very much to cover herself, hating the fear that welled up
inside of her at the feel of his eyes roving over her skin.
“You are not
fine,” he hissed back. “This,” he gestured at her wounds, “is not fine! Now
tell me what the hell is going on?”
Though taken aback
by how he had yelled at her, something he had never done since their entire
time together, Jinx still glared at him. “It’s nothing I can’t handle so stop
trying to baby me. I-.”
“Jinx, if I pull
away the gauze even a little, you’re going to be bleeding all over the floor.”
He said brusquely with hardened blue eyes. “That injury from a month ago is
still healing because you haven’t been taking care of yourself. I knew you
healed far too fast for it to be normal, but I fooled myself into think that I
was just over-thinking things... but I wasn’t, was I? You just pretended that
you were fine and bore through the pain, am I right?”
She didn’t reply.
“Am I right?” he
clutched onto her shoulders, looking almost desperately at her.
“Why does it
matter?” she murmured, looking away.
“Damn it Jinx!”
Kid Flash yelled. “You can’t continue like this! You’re only human! You’re
going to reach a breaking point sooner or later and then what?”
“I’ve never had a
meltdown in my entire life,” her voice was cold, almost emotionless. It sent a
shiver down his spine. “I’m fine, Kid Flash. Stuff like this isn’t enough to
stop me for the next fight.”
“The next fight?
Who cares about the next fight!” he spat out, wondering what the hell was going
through her mind. Why was she so fixated on acting as though she was okay? Why
was she so afraid to show that she was in pain? “Was it the HIVE? Did they
engrain some twisted logic inside of you that it’s okay to be hurt?”
She snorted. “The
HIVE had nothing to do with this. I’m fine, I-.”
“Oh, so it’s okay
to be hurt? Its fine if I decide to grab this pen and just stab myself right
here and now?” the pen seemed to materialize out of nowhere with his
super-speed. Before he could shove it through his chest, Jinx’s hand shot out
and grabbed him by the arm.
“Are you crazy?”
she hissed, internally knowing he knew she was going to stop him. If he had
really wanted to hurt himself, he would have moved too fast for her to prevent
it from happening.
“You tell me,
Jinx,” he spoke coldly.
Argh, this stupid
boy! She very much just wanted to tell him that it was none of his business and
it really wasn’t! But how could she say something like that to him? How could
she bare seeing the hurt rise into his features? It wasn’t fair! This control
he had over her... it wasn’t... it wasn’t fair...
“Meta-human
fights...” she murmured softly, her eyes turned to the side so that she
wouldn’t need to look at him or the emotions in those damn expressive blue
eyes. “There are underground meta-human rings... I’m sure you heard about
them.”
“Yeah,” he replied
softly, having read reports about the illegal gambling arenas where meta-humans
would have deadly matches while the wealthy gambled on them. Kid Flash’s eyes
widened. Don’t tell him that-?
“There were
children divisions in the past... and I bet there still are right now. They
were always good at hiding...” She spoke scornfully. “This was before the HIVE,
before Brother Blood bought me after attending one of the events and noticing
my... potential. In the ring, it’s always a life or death fight. You’re given
no time to heal in between matches, sometimes they were back to back... it
didn’t matter if you had a broken bone or if you had even crapped your pants
because of how tired you were... you’d get sent out to the ring and you’d
either die fighting or come out barely alive.”
“B-But killing is
illegal in those arenas. S-Something... Something about merchandise being hard
to come by.” He said in shock, sounding sick even as he tried to soften the
blows being laid on him.
Jinx smirked,
though she still wasn’t looking at him. “Is that how it is now? Back then, it
was either life or death. If you were weak, you were killed. If you showed that
you were hurt anywhere, believe me, that’s the first place they’ll hit you. And
they’ll hit you hard.”
“Jinx...” he
breathed out, his vision going blurry with the tears gathering in his eyes. He
had always known that her past had been sordid with her involvement with the
HIVE and all, but to this extent? ...he really didn’t know much other than the
reports given about her time at HIVE and their time together... he really
didn’t know much at all...
With an angry
frown, he slowly, almost reverently, lifted her up from the ground, pulling her
into his arms until he had her in a gentle hug. He buried his face in her hair,
breathing in the deep comforting scent. He had barely even scratched the
surface of who Jinx was and something told him that it would only be getting
dirtier as he ventured forth, but he wouldn’t turn away. He would never back
down.
“I’m sorry,” he
whispered in a raspy voice.
“For what?” she
spoke quietly, her hands tightly clutching onto her dress. He wasn’t disgusted?
He wasn’t angry? He wasn’t... wasn’t revolted by how she wasn’t picture perfect
with those flawless skins that guys supposedly adored? “It wasn’t like you
could have done something.”
“But that’s what
heroes are supposed to do! Be able to help people when they’re in need,
especially the kids!” he yelled, his voice cracking with emotion.
“You can’t be at
all places at once,” she lifted a hand to run through his hair, feeling his
frame shake as he held her. She didn’t want to tell him because she was afraid
of what it would to do him... and look what she had caused... he was probably
crying right now, that little baby. “And it’s alright now. You saved me. You
rescued me before it was too late.”
“Don’t ever keep
something like this from me again,” Kid Flash said vehemently, pulling away so
that he could look at her. “Promise me Jinx.”
Jinx sighed, as if
she could deny him anything when he was giving her such a heart-broken look.
“...I promise...”
“Good.”
“Now mind telling
me why we’re in Japan of all places?”
“I figured you
were still hurt,” he murmured into her hair, unwilling to let her go. Kid Flash
had her seated on his lap, his hand absentmindedly running up and down her arm.
“And I heard that hotsprings were good for you. Not to mention, they have mixed
baths here.”
“Wally!” she
scolded, her face turning red.
“Hey it’s for a
good reason!” he protested. “I get to check every part of you to make sure
you’re okay and that you’re not hiding anything from me. We’re coming here from
now on so that this doesn’t happen again.”
Jinx’s eyes
widened comically as she gawked openly at him. “You’ve got to be kidding me.”
“When it comes to your
safety Jinx, I’m never joking.”
::End::
AN: Yay, another post! I can imagine a scenario like this influencing Jinx, if she's had a traumatic past as described in this post, and Wally being aghast at being so helpless about it all. Since Teen Titans never really went into detail about her past, I've taken personal liberties of thinking of my own. :)
