Summary: Jinx has left the Titans and moved on, intent on creating a new life for herself, along with a few friends that she never expected to be with again. Kid Flash has to deal with the Teen Titans being shut down and accept the fact that Jinx really is gone. The two meet, but not in the way either expects. Then, just when things start to look hopeful, someone has to mess it up.
Jinx had no idea why, in the dead of the night, she had packed up and left the Titans' Tower with only a small bag consisting of clothes, a few blood red roses, and a framed picture of her and Kid Flash. Nor did she have any idea why she had traveled almost forty hours away from Jump City in buses, planes, and cabs. Or, why she was standing in front of the frozen statues of her former team, the Hive Five.
It had been a year since the fight with the Brotherhood of Evil, the Titans being victorious and Jinx having joined them. She had spent that year with Kid Flash, fighting crime, and wondering how long it would be until she either burst from not telling Kid she loved him or from the guilt of betraying her family.
As she had aged, so had they. They machine allowed them to live, Jinx knew, because Gizmo had helped build the stupid thing. But nothing was really that different about them, except maybe Gizmo had grown an inch, or half-an-inch. She walked past See-More, Billy Numerous, and Mammoth, stopping at Kyd Wykkyd and young Gizmo. Out of all of them, Jinx knew without a doubt that they would NOT go back to their lowly stealing. They would reform like she had.
Jinx slid the largely stuffed duffel back from off her shoulder and unzipped it. Over a million dollars lay inside. The money from the old Hive Tower. She and Kid Flash had sold everything, save a few useful things from Gizmo's room, and she had kept the money in a safe place for some reason she hadn't known then. But now she knew. Jinx bent down and pulled a yellow sticky note from inside her platform shoes and placed it gently on the bag.
It was a simple note, but one she was sure they would read and follow. Jinx stood and looked at her other three companions. The Titans needed some fun; it wouldn't hurt to release them also…
Jinx nimbly jumped from the shelves of frozen villains to the control panel. Bird Boy, a.k.a. Robin, sure was an idiot, having not destroyed the whole thing when they'd left the hideout. Oh well. She analyzed the machine and laughed at herself. Jinx pressed the giant 'Unfreeze' button and directed it over to Kyd and Gizmo, putting the 'Quick Unfreeze' on. After it was in process, Jinx directed it to See-More, Billy and Mammoth, checking the 'Slow Unfreeze' for them. Hopefully, Kyd and Gizmo would be long gone before any of the others got free. She surveyed over the other villains, noticing that Madame Rouge was nowhere to be seen. But that was not her concern at this particular moment. She'd tell Raven or Argent about it later.
The Sorceress's eyes landed on Cheshire. The Asian girl was calm-looking in her frozen stance, but Jinx knew that behind her grinning mask, she was just a sixteen-year-old girl that was afraid. Jinx bit her lip, contemplating over if she should release the girl or not. Cheshire was her friend…
Twenty minutes later, Jinx was nowhere in sight and Gizmo fell to the ground, damp and confused.
"What bit-sniffer released me?" He looked around the villain hideout and saw Kyd Wykkyd standing beside a black duffel bag full of money. The red eyed teenager held a note in his hand, looking at Gizmo expectantly.
The name Jinx entered Gizmo's mind. He scoffed. "Yah right. She's the one that put us in this cruddy place!" Kyd shook his head and handed the yellow sticky note to his friend. Sure enough, when Gizmo looked down at the signature, it was Jinx's scratchy name. "Crud-monkeys." Gizmo sniffed, pulling out a bundle of dollar bills. "And she left us with all this cruddy money?"
The thirteen-year-old genius felt a swipe of cloth against his bald head. He screamed, jumped and hid behind Kyd, peeking out from behind him to see the assassin Cheshire. Gizmo knew enough about the girl to know not to mess with her. And that creepy cat mask of hers was freaking him out…
Jinx has released you also? Kyd's voice entering Gizmo and Cheshire's heads. The assassin nodded, swaying back and forth. We should find her.
"How do we know she's still in Jump City? Probably with that barf-head Kid Flash." Gizmo mumbled. All that trouble had began with that speedster. "How will we get there anyway?" Cheshire swung her hand out towards the money bag. Gizmo folded his arms across his chest. "Oh yah…"