My first FLINX! Yes, I am aware it was one (and a half?) episodes in the cartoon, but I am in love with this pairing. I can't wait to hit the comic book store and get some Flinxy issues of Teen Titans Go! Kid Flash is just too cute that my Not-A-Fangirl-Filter is failing. I also apologize for Rouge's accent. I most just replaced the 'f's, 'b's and 'th's with 'v's and I changed 'threaten' to 'treaten'. I don't actually know anyone with a French accent so . . .

EDIT: Uh, yeah. So apparently Rouge's accent is Russian and I did the accent weird, so I went back a fixed it as much as possible. Sorry!

Disclaimer: Oh, I would like to own Teen Titans. The series would not be over if I had any control over it.

The Catalyst

Red lights engulfed the small enclosure and an obnoxious blare thundered through speakers systematically situated through Keystone City's Titan base.

The current team, comprised of a duo of super teens, gathered around the central computer. As the machine identified the offending criminals, Jinx grimaced.

"Old flame, huh?" Kid Flash asked, as the digitized photos of the H.I.V.E Five presented themselves before his female teammate.

"Let's finish this quickly," Jinx responded as he swept her up in his arm and whisked her away to the sight of the crime.


"Shouldn't someone be trying to stop us right about now?" See-More inquired.

"Who cares? Billy Numerous is now the proud owner of a brand-spanking-new veHICle!" said villain proclaimed, his southern dialect accenting the 'HICK' sound of the final word.

"Get your head in the game you crud munching idiots! Stick to the plan!" Gizmo shouted, settling in the driver's seat of the winning racecar at the local derby.

"I'm sorry, but you'll need a license to drive this vehicle and a booster seat to reach the wheel," a familiar voice intoned as pink energy spurted from the crevices of the car, which promptly fell apart.

"How nice to see you again," See-More greeted his former leader with suppressed traces of bitterness.

"Likewise," Jinx nodded to the sole member of the H.I.V.E Five competent enough to operate a toaster without bagpipes and a bucket of quick-dry cement.

"As much as I'd love for you guys to catch up, we gotta arrest you now," Kid Flash urged Jinx, placing a hand on her shoulder.

Mammoth appeared behind the duo, brandishing a monster truck. Without even turning around, Jinx snapped her fingers and hexed the truck, causing it to collapse onto Mammoth. Kid Flash sped to Kyd Wyykyd's side and leaned his elbow on the young villain's shoulder.

"Hey buddy, how've you been?" he said before flashing away, due to Kyd Wyykyd's razor cape attempting to slash him.

"Not so well, huh?" Following a quick moment of hexing and flashing, the H.I.V.E Five lay dog piled, defeated. Jinx grabbed Gizmo's collar and yanked him up to her face-level.

"How did you guys escape the freezer?" Jinx asked.

"Yeah, I distinctly remember piling you guys up before Mas y Menos freezed you. Much like the way you're all piled up now," Kid Flash added.

"Wouldn't you like to know?" Gizmo answered, holding up his arm. Through her peripheral vision, Jinx saw him press a button on a remote. The sound of Kid Flash's agonizing scream of pain caused her to drop the bratty genius and when she turned around, he was writing on the ground, trapped in a Level 1 containment field.

"Kid!" she cried as she attempted to come to his aid, only to receive a bone-shaking shock for her efforts. Jinx whirled on Gizmo. "I hexed that remote! How did you—?"

"I made the thing! What makes you think I couldn't fix it?" As Jinx prepared to hex the remote again, a strong fist struck her in the back of her head, causing her to fall to the ground. A tall, slim figure stepped out of the shadows as its fist retracted back to the body.

"Madam Rouge!" Jinx exclaimed, gasping at the sight of her former idol, "How did you escape the flash-freeze?"

"You zink zat veak contraption can hold me?" she asked in her thick Russian accent. Jinx narrowed her eyes as she stood up.

"What do you want?"

"We want you to come back and lead the H.I.V.E Five," See-More answered, "We need you, Jinx." Her eyes began to spark and glow.

"What makes you think I want to come back?" Madam Rouge smirked and took the remote from Gizmo.

"Zis!" The villainess cranked the dial on the remote to Level 4.

"No!" Jinx cried as Kid Flash's groans of pain became louder and more frequent. Jinx looked at the ground and began to contemplate her decision.

"You might vant to decide quickly," Madam Rouge advised as she stepped over to the struggling Kid Flash and brandished a dagger with a rubber hilt so the electricity would not affect her. She knelt down and poised the knife above his chest. Jinx was surprised, there had always been an unspoken rule about killing, but she guessed that was in her world. Madam Rouge was playing hard ball in the big leagues. She was going to . . . kill Kid Flash.

"I-I . . ." Jinx hesitated.

"Jinx . . . Don't . . . do it . . ." Kid Flash mumbled through his clenched teeth. Madam Rouge became impatient.

"Too slow!" she yelled as the dagger plunged downwards. The tip of the blade gleamed silver with the full moon and whistled through the air.

"Wait!" Madam Rouge halted and smiled devilishly, knowing that her threat had been received.

"I-I'll do it."

"No . . ." Kid Flash said futilely, still suffering from the Level 4 containment field.

"Vonderful." Madam Rouge wrapped her arm around Jinx's drooping shoulders and led her away, "You're coming vith me."

"Wait! You said you'd help us get Jinx back when we unfroze you!" See-More protested.

"Tuv luck," Rouge replied, tossing them the remote.

Kid Flash sat up and groaned, rubbing his throbbing head.

"Ugh . . . Jinx, I just had the weirdest dream. The H.I.V.E Five came back and so did Madam Rouge . . . And the weirdest part is that she convinced you to return to the dark said and you abandoned me . . . Crazy, huh? Um . . . Jinx?"

He blinked and found himself sitting on the derby track in the wee hours of the morning. The remote was where Gizmo left it, thrown down at the ground with rage at being betrayed, sucker punched . . . set up by Madam Rouge.

"Oh poop." His Titan Communicator began to beep insistently.

"Kid Flash, I—" Robin began.

"Look Robin, now probably isn't the best time . . ."

"Listen, I need to know where Jinx is, she's not picking up her communicator."

"She's with Madam Rouge," Kid Flash answered gravely.

"What? But surely our friend Jinx would never betray us, yes?" Starfire chimed in, pushing Robin's head off-screen and grabbing the yellow device.

"No!" Kid Flash yelled, "She would never do that! She did it to protect me!"

"Kid . . . Did Rouge threaten to . . . kill you?" Kid Flash nodded cautiously in response. Robin took the communicator back from Starfire, although his girlfriend remained in the background of the screen. "The Brotherhood of Evil is getting almost too dangerous for my liking. Maybe we should call in the JLA."

"No, this is my business, and I intend to take care of it myself." Robin's face hardened.

"I'm giving you one chance. Mess it up and I'm contacting Flash, Batman and the others." Kid Flash nodded enthusiastically.

"Thank you Robin!" Robin closed the communicator after the screen switched to the snow channel and sighed.

"Robin . . . do you really intend to contact the Justice League to retrieve Jinx if the Kid Flash were to fail?" Starfire inquired, clasping her fingers together.

"Of course, Star, Kid Flash could die if he confronts Rouge. She's ruthless, a known killer."

"But when you were apprenticing to . . ." Starfire winced inwardly, "Slade, he only told you not to contact us. He never said you could not contact the Justice League for assistance. However you did not."

"That was my battle, Star. The Justice League had no business there!" Robin retorted, trying to control his temper.

"And this is the Kid Flash's battle, Robin," Starfire countered.

Kid Flash shut the T-Communicator and ran to the central computer at base and began to track the H.I.V.E Five, knowing that Rouge would be much more difficult to find. Kid Flash located them at a new base in the upper east quadrant of town. Within seconds, he was at their doorstep. He knocked lightly on their door before it creaked dangerously and fell away from him. It opened up to a building stained with mysterious blue substances and food splatters arranged almost artistically on the walls.

"Uh . . . Anyone home?" Kid Flash called softly. Hearing no response, but plenty of blasting-beeping-booming sounds coming from the next room over, he walked—yes, walked—through the passage and turned the corner, only to see Mammoth and Gizmo facing off in a video game, Billy Numerous and Kyd Wyykyd building a fort out of the sofa cushions and See-More at a computer. With a plan formulating in his little redhead brain, Kid Flash launched into action. He wrapped the video game controller's wires up the length of Gizmo and Mammoths' bodies, entangled Kyd Wyykyd and three Billy Numerous in the blanket draping over their makeshift fort and pulled See-More from the computer and held him by the collar.

"Where is Jinx?" he hissed. See-More's eye narrowed.

"If I knew that, I wouldn't be here right now!" he retaliated, pointing to the computer screen, "I'm looking for her before you so rudely interrupted my work!" Kyd Wyykyd phased out of his bindings and began freeing his teammates, although none of them began to attack the intruder.

"Rouge took her after you blacked out, the crud scrubbing freak," Gizmo muttered, crossing his arms angrily.

"Now if you don't mind, could you see yourself out? We'll let you know if we find anything, and we expect the same thing from you," See-More said coldly, pushing the young hero off of him.

"I don't work with villains," Kid Flash replied, just as icy.

"It didn't seem like you had a problem working with Jinx, even before you took her from me!" See-More yelled, the heat of the argument increasing and the other occupants in the room cowering behind the sofa and in the fort extending from it. Kid Flash prepared to yell back, a plethora of scathing insults burning in the back of his throat when he registered See-More's word choice. His eyes softened in the slightest amount.

"You . . . You like her too . . ." It was no more of an accusation than a known statement. The other four boys went wide-eyed at the understanding that both See-More and Kid Flash had the hots for their ex-leader. Well, Kid Flash was kind of obvious, what with the roses and everything . . . but See-More?

He blushed and suddenly became defensive.

"What of it?" See-More shouted, attempting to reignite the argument, but Kid Flash wouldn't take the bait and instead he left the building in a blur of red and yellow.

"You can't keep me here," Jinx said, crossing her arms and glaring at Madam Rouge, "Kid Flash is no longer in danger; I can leave anytime I want. You didn't really think this through, did you?" Rouge laughed in response, her mocking jeers reverberating off of the metal implements with no clear purpose stationed throughout the institute.

"Is zat so?" Rouge taunted smugly. Jinx narrowed her eyes and the beginnings of a hex itched at her fingertips.

"What?" Jinx gave in, no able to suppress her urge to take the bait.

"Ze Kid Flash has a disease. Ze more he uses his powers . . ." she trailed off for dramatic effect, "Ze quicker he vill die." Jinx was thrown off of her guard and her best way to retaliate was:

Denial.

"You're bluffing," she accused, "Kid would've told me!"

"He is not aware of his condition. However, I have reliable sources, and they all say ze same zing. He. Vill. Die." Jinx strongly refused to believe the verifiability of this development. Although the existence of a strange disease destroying his body did explain why he always seemed more tired and paler than usual, Jinx could not believe that he was going to die soon. Rouge could easily see Jinx's intelligent eyes processing the facts and coming to the realization that Rouge was right. The super villainess produced Jinx's communicator in the palm of her hand.

"Iv you disobey me, try to escape or commit a single good deed, I vill contact ze Kid Flash, treaten you . . . and he vill come rushing to your aid, von't he?" Jinx grimaced, knowing the truth was hit right on the nose. Madam Rouge walked closer so she could effectively look down on Jinx.

"Every time you so much as help an old lady cross ze street, your little vriend vill ve zat much closer to dying," Rouge continued, accentuating her point with two fingers held centimeters apart. Jinx's face fell and she hugged herself.

Rouge frowned and lashed her arm out at Jinx.

"Ze apprentice ov Madam Rouge should not be weak!" she shouted, knocking Jinx to the ground. Out of instinct, Jinx's eyes flashed pink and she prepared a hex, before remembering Kid Flash's condition. "Veing a hero has made you soft," Madam Rouge scoffed before tossing Jinx her communicator. Jinx looked up in question and her new "mentor" grinned wickedly.

Kid Flash paused mid-step as his communicator begun to beep once again. He slid to a violent stop and threw the lid open, finding the face of his partner displayed on the screen. Jinx frowned, seeing the inevitable dust trail and the flash catching up to the body; signals that he had been using his powers.

"Jinx! Thank goodness you're okay! Did Madam Rouge hurt you? Where are you? Is Rouge—"

"Kid . . . I . . ." Looking up from the communicator, she saw Rouge's disapproving look. Jinx hardened her eyes and drew her lips into a straight line.

"Kid Flash, you are to stop trying to rescue people. Do you understand? If I catch you even making change for someone, you will regret it," Jinx revised, "Use your powers and you might encounter a bout of bad luck." Kid Flash frowned and furrowed his brows, worry overtaking his features.

"Jinx . . . ? What happened—?"

"Do you understand?" Jinx insisted sternly, staring him in the eye. He looked at her like she should know the answer, and she did.

"I won't stop fighting for you," he replied. Jinx shut the communicator brusquely and pursed her lips.

"It seems as iv you have vailed me," Rouge intoned after a moment. Jinx leered at her from behind her bangs.

"I did no such thing. You said to 'tell ze Kid Flash to stop trying to ve a hero'. I did. You never told me to convince him. So what if he refused?" Jinx argued, imitating Rouge's accent. Madam Rouge walked over to Jinx and cupped her chin and forced her gaze into the sorceress's.

"Clever girl. Vatch your tongue, tomorrow it might not ve zere." Jinx swatted Rouge's arm away and turned on her heel.

"Like I said, nobody messes with me."


The canon completely screwed me over when I was wikipedia-ing Kid Flash. Not only does he contract the 'mysterious disease' which is mentioned in the above fic, but he gets married to ANOTHER WOMAN! WHAT THE HELL LINDA PARK?