Yes, I am back with another Flinx story. Never Forgotten's final chapter is almost done and the others...I'm not too sure about. Don't worry people My Name is Isabella Swan and No One Cares is going to be finished. I just don't really know what to do next. And Emmett's Diary is a complete blank too. I should really just stick to one-shots, but I can't and my updating sucks and I'm a lazy fatass. So bear with me please people.
Anyways, this story is basically about Jinx and Kid Flash (obviously) but with a little heck of a twist. You'll find out that Jinx hadn't met him in years and she's started a new life. Also. that things from her past life will bump into her new one at college. This is sort of a filler chapter and you'd understand why its called City Buses for a reason. So please, lay back and enjoy this for a moment. Yes, it is a little boring and my attempts at humor is very poor but read and love it anyway! ;P
Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans
City Buses
Jinx wasn't in a good mood.
She had been through a lot in her life – and a lot of disappointment. Sure, most of them she brushed off and yeah – sometimes it was her fault. But in the end, she somehow in one way or another; it ended well. Basically Jinx wasn't all that well with people either. One normal person would get one glance at her and immediately some alarm in their pathetic brains would ring 'BAD PERSON. STAY AWAY, NO CONTACT' and other nonsense they could come up with. She wasn't that bad of a person – just someone you really shouldn't mess with.
It's not really her fault that people think that way all the time. Best way to blame for her behavior is that she just wasn't cared for. Her parents did die when she was young and she lived up her life in some crummy orphanage that no one cared about. The other orphan kids there were horrible. They stole, they lied, they cheated and they gave no mercy to the younger ones. The eldest that were living there were about thirteen years old and that's when the caretakers, that actually don't do anything but still get their paycheck, throw them out because no one would really want to adopt a troubled teen; would they?
And yeah, you guessed right. She was one of them. But Jinx didn't care about that stupid place. It was just a place were she slept and ate; she had no attachment to it.
She lived on the streets after that; stealing food when she was hungry or soft materials to sleep on. It wasn't that rough or that easy, but she was doing fine until the day her powers kicked in.
To Jinx, her powers were the best thing that she could ask for. Now, her street-living days were about to get even easier and more fun. When she wanted to, she would terrorize the little kids walking on the street or cause people to trip over or hurt themselves.
Life went on sweet for her – and things got even sweeter when she met the HIVE 5; other kids who had strange powers and loved to terrorize things. Together, they stole enough money to get their own base in Jump City. Jinx later discovered the rise of a new evil organization, The Brotherhood of Evil. And looked up to them, ready to make the steal or crime of the day to be apart of it.
But that wasn't possible when her teammates were the laziest bunch of villains ever, not to mention that every time Jinx tried to make them steal something worthy of membership; they would always complain how lame the organization was and why they didn't want to join it. So Jinx never got a chance to do something to join The Brotherhood of Evil.
A few months with the HIVE 5 and she finally had her chance. All she had to do was to catch that stupid spandex-wearing fast hero and hand him over to The Brotherhood of Evil.
Easy, right?
Wrong. So very, very wrong. She couldn't be even more wrong in her entire life. Worse than Billy Numerous wrong.
He was just so freaking fast. It was impossible to catch that guy. Of course it seemed a little cliché when he tripped over some water and Jinx knocked him out with a 'Caution: Wet Floor' sign. It seemed even more stupid when they caged the fast hero in a cage for pete's sake. I mean seriously, what kind of villains trap a hero in a freaking cage? She had to use her entire body's' willpower just to not roll her eyes at those idiots at the time.
But that wasn't the only thing that was bothering her; the fact that he just couldn't try to convince her about joining the other side. He constantly was telling her over and over again that what she was doing was wrong. That she could do better, that she was different.
But she ignored him and carried on with her plan anyway. She had to admit, his soft words affected her a little, and his eyes were so pure and filled with convinced hope. She didn't know what to do but ignore him completely. When she thinks about that again, she wished that she did listen to him back then; instead of letting her pride take over her.
He escaped them.
And trashed their base.
Even went through her secret sketchbook that no one alive ever lived to tell the tale of what was in those pale sheets. When Madam Rouge arrived, she was annoyed, angry, frustrated and embarrassed. She wanted a second chance to catch him, to prove she wasn't completely worthless. The Russian had refused her, but Jinx went for him anyway, desperate to get membership.
She found Kid Flash later on, breathing heavily beside a crate from his attempted fight against Madam Rouge. His normally spiked up hair clung to face his face from that spout of water that she had shot at him. She was about to contain him in a Level Four containment field, but she couldn't. He supported himself using the beam behind him and asked her why she wanted to be like that flexible villain.
Her original response was to tell him to mind his own beeswax. But she found herself explaining herself to him anyway; convincing him that she couldn't be a hero when she was bad luck. He told her something that she got offended by harshly and she watched him crumble to the floor from the electric reaction to the field. She didn't even enjoy him squirming in pain or his grunts from holding back a scream. She only felt guilt. Deep underbelly pangs of guilt and remorseful regret. She only pushed away these feelings that she had never experienced before and tried to enjoy it.
No matter every single tiny organism in her body was screaming for her body to stop.
In the end, Madam Rouges' selfish insults and piercing words made her get so mad she let him go. She crushed the device with her powerful hex and flung the evil villainess away from her; disgusted that she even idolized the stupid women.
He left her a rose.
And that was the last time she had ever seen him or the HIVE 5. Ever since then she had quit the villain life and headed of a life of normal people. Where there was no such thing as heroes or villains or complications of striving to live. She wanted no part of it anymore. So she left everything and transferred to somewhere remotely nice like Star City.
She didn't steal or commit crimes. She didn't use her powers anymore and continued her life as a regular teenage girl. She called herself Jennifer Rose and lived peacefully in a nice apartment (with her own money) for four years. Using the cover story that she lived with her foster parents and that they died the year before; she was accepted to her new life.
Jinx otherwise known as Jennifer was not in a good mood.
She was making her way to her school and it wasn't just any day. It was the very last day. Remember how every last day of school you're all jumpy and excited that it's finally over? For Jinx, she was having the worst day of her life. Having missed the timer on her alarm clock and rushing through everything in the morning, her chances of walking to school was zilch; and she hadn't had that much money for a taxi. So, to her horror, her only resolution was to take the public bus.
Jinx passionately hated the public bus in Star City. Her very first time on one and the very first second, she would've given Kid Flash a freaking kiss so she could be out. The drivers were so sleazily, rude and were complete perverts. When she had no money to pay to for the ride to the other side of town, he'd given her an offer to have some fun with his 'happy stick'. Let's just say…he was lucky enough to land in the other side of the ocean from were Jinx was – and crash on a car unconscious before plummeting into the sea before the cops rescued him.
The passengers were even worse. Old timers, teenage psychos and married men actually tried to feel her up as she was walking down the aisle for a seat. The old women sniffed at her rudely, eyeing her as a source of trouble and what they say as 'those no-good teenagers'. The women with children even whispered not-so-quietly into their ears "Remember (insert snotty name of kid here) stay away from freaky people with weird color hair and eyes. All you have to do is hit them and shoo them away like little kitty cats. Okay sweetie?" Jinx felt like she wanted to go up to every single one of them and shove their stupid mother freaking crap up their –
But she held herself. No need to get an unwanted reputation already, right?
Wrong.
She'd rather risk that then sit five hours sitting in a crowed bus full of perverts and psychopaths. Even the guy sitting next to her kept 'accidently' bumping his hands on her legs. She wanted to scream in frustration when she realized that taking the city bus was the only way to get to school.
When Jinx reached the entrance to her school, she had never been more than happy to see that stupid sign saying: Star City High School where brilliant minds do some brilliant learning! First time she saw that sign, she almost puked at the cheesiness that radiated from it. Right then, she wanted to give it a kiss and a huge stone hug.
Running, so fast that Kid Flash would have been proud of, from the stupid dusty old bus. She proceeded walking towards the high school. Colorful posters and banners bounced off the wall blinding Jinx for a few seconds before she carried down the narrow sun-lit corridor towards her locker. The sound of excited chatter ringed through the air; students talking lightly and loud how happy they were at leaving the school, especially the seniors. Boys tackled one another playfully; girls giggled and gossiped while the nerds and geeks talked about computer camp and other geeky stuff.
She couldn't be any more annoyed.
Jinx had no friends at high school and she planned all year to keep it that way. Getting near to people could get you hurt. They would stab you in the back somehow or mislead you horribly. Staying alone kept you safe. It kept you ready for anything. She'd rather be alone but she craved attention all the same. Her personality was horribly split and complicated that even she didn't understand it herself. She hated everything, but loved it all the same. It was like there were two people colliding with each other, trying to take control of her body. When people kept saying just to be yourself to her; she constantly kept resisting the urge to yell at them 'I don't even know who the hell I even am so stop freaking bugging me about it you stupid pee-brain!'
No wonder she kept her IPod to herself at all times.
Jinx reached her locker and turned the dial to her locker combination. The lockers were stationed all around the halls; all of them narrow so that every student had their own space. She stopped spinning the dial and thumped her fist against it lightly as the door sprang open. Catching the door quickly and casually, she started o shove her books in and out of it; taking in the necessities. Unlike the other students, Jinx never put a single decoration or anything of that kind her own in her locker. She found no use of it since it was temporarily hers until the day was over.
When she was done, she started to weave and thread her way through the massive throng of students bumping into each other. The school bell rang as all the teenagers increased the volume of their speaking before trudging off to their classes for another seven hours of boring information drilling through their thick skulls.
The shrill bell rang and thousands of happy screams ran through Star City High School.
Students piled out of their classrooms and talked to one another happily. Discussing and swapping information about things that they were going to do in the summer. Jinx walked out casually again, not affected by the happy streak that the other kids were taking pleasure of and emptied out her locker for the very last time. Yes, she was a senior ready to take on the world known as: College. She really didn't understand why so many of the other seniors were cheery about; college was just another way of saying High School again; only without your parents nagging you about it.
She walked out with the happy teenagers that seemed to be running around in frenzy; ready to kick off their summer at the beach, roasting and surfing in the sun. Jinx walked normally and turned around the curb of the school glancing back at the school, not really thinking of missing it at all.
She walked down the pavement towards her apartment; a nice little building in a quiet yet loud part of the city. She threw her blue and grey bag onto her nice red couch and woke herself up with a steamy shower. Drying her pink hair out, she walked towards the table in her large wall-less living room/kitchen. The décor was red and orange since they fit nicely together and her room remained blue, black and pink.
Jinx looked at the large stack pile of papers piling up on the light square-shaped marble table and groaned with hope of nothing. She heard the metal envelope flap open from her dark wooden door and tore her gaze from the papers. A large thick envelope was hanging halfway through the golden flap, probably from the mailman; she pulled it out and scanned the contents.
Another acceptance letter; she really needed to start getting lower grades.
She threw the letter on the desk and read through everything. After twenty minutes of going through it thoroughly, she ripped open another one went through it slowly again. Picking bits and pieces that she liked the most.
One down. A hell lot more to go… Jinx sighed, glancing at the papers piling on the table.
How was it peoples? Great, bad? Should I continue?
Kid Flash: Yeah, I wanna be in the story too! :D
Me: Be quiet Wally, you're not gonna be here up till the end of the next chapter, DUH!
Kid Flash: :(
Me: Aw, here's a hug!
Kid Flash: YAY! HUG!
Me: *holds spiky thing at the back of his head*
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