Edited. Please enjoy.
-Calamol
15.10.07
Disclaimer: Teen Titans is not mine.
Jinx hurried around the hall, checking every drawer. After which, she proceeded to the living area where she found her lifeless team. Ignoring them, she searched all the drawers once more but she still could not find what she wanted.
So she decided to open her mouth and speak to them.
She was hoping for an answer. But idiots cant really say much. So the most she expected was an unintelligible answer, something along the lines of "D'oh".
"Do we have a vase?" Jinx asked despite the fact that there would be one less hive member around here if she recieved a half-assed answer. She tip toed daintily as she searched the cupboards. The poor pink hair girl was not replied.
Billy Numerous was busying himself, multiplying to the maximum to build his fort with Kid Wyckkyyd. ( Or however you spell that) And his dark friend was collecting the pillows. On the crumb covered floor were See-more, Mammoth and Gizmo; staring at the screen, their minds totally preoccupied with the game station.
Jinx looked at her team mates disdainfully. She was sick of their crazed attitude towards forts, g2s and other silly and incredibly boyish toys. But maybe what made her sick wasn't just them. And maybe it wasn't just the food she ate for dinner.
Perhaps it was her guilty consience she developed after that day.
The one that appeared after she met Kid Flash.
"Dork." was the first thing that came to her mind when she thought about him. Actually it was the second. The first was...
But before Jinx let any sort of hormone filled thought come to her mind, or long enough for her to concentrate on it; she shoved it aside, blaming the soggy pizza.
"You guys are a pathetic excuse for a living thing! You cant even answer a simple question."Jinx huffed, she knew no one was actually paying attention but she decided just to get it out of her system. "Its no wonder you guys got busted so many times!"
Gizmo gave her a look after she finished her rant and returned to his normal baby pouty face. "Hey, hey, hey! Its not our fault that booger of a Kid Flash caught us. He's too fast!" He protested with a drawling whine.
The yelling and shouting from Jinx were taken upon by deaf ears from the rest of the team.
"Its always someone elses fault isn't it?" Blowing a clump of pink hair out of her face, she clenched her fist angrily and her shoulders rose. "Why am I not suprised?" She waved her hands high up in the air dramatically and stormed out of the room like the diva she was.
Jinx was pissed. Jinx knew exactly why she was pissed but she refused to admit it.
Jinx, when will you learn?
" I will control myself." She told the walls. "I will not blame the team for my guilty consience." She stopped dead in her tracks. "Where did that come from?"
She asked out loud.
I'm growing careless. Stomach pains? probably indigestion...
She looked through her drawers to find a beautiful clear crystal vase. "Thats strange." She pondered. "I never had that."
Nevertheless, she shrugged it off and filled the glass carefully with water.
Twisting the tap off, she glanced at herself in the mirror. The reflection of what she saw was disturbing, a red and yellow flash of something ran pass her window. Really fast. Turning around, she opened the window to find nothing.
"Silly girl." She scolded herself. "It was just a flash of your imagination." And then she paused, nearly dropping the vase. Flash, where do I remember that...Oh yeah...Kid flash She thought, looking at the red rose, suddenly feeling very bitter she carelessly dropped the rose into the water and placed it roughly on her new side table.
Flishp. Creushs. Swiiiip.
Jinx tossed and turn on her bed. Relax Jinx... Dont look at the rose.
But somehow, she felt it watching her. The invitingly sweet scent of the single thorny flower was wafting around her small room. She could feel its presence. She could feel the rose's unseen eyes boring into her back. Looking around the room, she carefully avoided the sight of that red rose that constantly haunted her mind.
"You can't feel a rose lying beside you." Jinx piqued childishly at the ceiling. "No one can!"
As time wore on, the more she stared at the ceiling the more the ceiling stared back at her. There it was, the sleeping irritation at the back of her mind was awaking. It wanted something but Jinx did not know what it was.
Why does yesterday bother you so much?
She flipped over. "Sleep." She quietly muttered to herself. "You fell asleep yesterday you can fall asleep today." Restless, she lied on the pillows, fuming with anger.
Jinx shook her head and bolted upright and shook off the diziness that briefly overcame her.
Squirming slightly, she lifted her mattress and pulled out her sketchbook from underneath it. Placing her pencil's tip on the soft paper, she started drawing a unicorn. When fast-as-a-cannon-ball guy found out about her secret obsession about unicorns, it wasn't as fun as it used to be when she first drew them. It did not stop her from feeling better anyways.
After a while of sketching, she decided to lose herself in her own thoughts. Sighing away dreamily she stared at the picture and time ticked on, the world seemed to expand and fade into a massive blur of faded colours while the drawing of her unicorn grew clearer and larger.
And when it did,she noticed a lighting bolt she had gracefully drawn on the unicorn's forehead. It was then when everything snapped back into reality. Carelessly, she knocked the back of her head against the headboard of her bed.
What the...
She scrutinized her drawing more clearly and found out she had drawn a part of Kid Flash. His running body and the lighting bolt on the unicorn's head.
A booming soung could be heard from Jinx's room. Her team mates was a bit shaken by their slave driver's angry yellings but being the idiots that they are, they recovered soon enough and went back playing with their forts.
"I'm obsessed." Jinx caught herself staring at her indigo walls.
It was then when Jinx grew careless, she tilted her head to one side subconciously and the view of a lovely red rose came into sight.
She looked at the flower and remembered yesterday's happenings. It was the first time in a long time she had smiled so sincerely. Nothing near those evil, mocking smiles she gave to the poor victims the hive five bullied.
She scowled and tilted her head from side to side, making fun of a certain someone.
"Can I have some mustard on that?" She asked mockingly in a grudging butlighthearted sort of way. "It looks a little dry." She muttered, finishing his quote. She shot a glance at the rose and looked at the ceiling, sky, heavens and exclaimed bitterly "Not funny." The gods must be laughing.
Looking back at the rose again, she was furious.
How dare he give me such things! I have no platonic relationship with him lest a romantic one and I will forever and ever and ever, never give in to his childish...
She stopped for a brief moment. She didn't know what drove him to give her a symbol of love at first sight. And then she put the pieces together. That one went there and that one when here and...
Obsession with a Jinx! He is stupid.
She paused and found a better reason for the attention he gave her.
Actually he's quite smart really. Giving me roses trying to convert me. I bet he thought I was soft or something. Sure! Start turning me into a puddle of putty in his hands and poof, I'm one of those bloody titans! After that, he would make the rest of the team get drunk and he will proclaim his undying gay love and the reason for his undivided attention for them. And then Poof! Again, he'ld convert them.
Soon, we'ld be marching round the world holding one of those funny yellow things. Obeying like dogs to a corny and overated lines such as...TITANS, GO!
But. I'll probably never see him again, so it wouldn't really matter. She thought. And all of a sudden her face turned sour and sad. Just realising this she paused.
You actually WANT to see him again? The voice inside her head screamed.
Her fist were clenched and trembling, with her pale sharp nails piercing against her own skin. Her body cringing all over at that thought.
Thats it! Get rid of the rose.
Her mind told her body to do so but instead of it- her body remained lifeless and her head shook. Whats this? Some kind of mutany?
Ahem, lets try that again. Kill it...
Jinx scowled and glowing pink lightning waves jolted through the flower did something that she wished she never did.
The rose turned darker and darker and leaves and petals fell out slowly, like a week had gone past and the flower was continuing with the natural process of life. But, this, was not at all natural. She had killed a rose which was to die only in a week.
-Kid Flash
Okay, I wasn't spying or anything but I swear I heard Jinx scream or something. Not one of those blood curdling screams or any of that jazz. More of the I-am-so-mad-at-kid-flash-I'm-gonna-rip-his-body-into-shreds-now kinda thing. But, it could be one of those idiots she calls team mates that were getting on her nerves.
I digress.
WHOOSH.
I was not spying. Nor stalking. I swear! Its just that, I was doing my rounds in Jump City because the titans left me in charge and I was maybe hoping...eh, I'll bump into Jinx?
So now that I've heard her increasingly furious scream, I'll wait a minute or two before attempting to vibrate myself into their 'secret' lair.
Waiting...
...Waiting
Waiting...
...Waiting
Waiting...
...Check my watch...
Only one second passed...
Now two...
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Now three..
I'm not very patient.
I zipped into her room.
-Third person Pov
Kid Flash phased effortlessly into her purple room and grinned in the most unbashfull way ever. Till, he found Jinx motionless on her bed.
It was a weird position, half curled up on her side with one of her pigtails sticking out weirdly, jutting out from the side of her head she was lying on.
That must be pretty uncomfortable Kid Flash thought. He poked Jinx by her side.
Poke.
No reaction. "Jinxiiieeeeeeeeeeeee...Jinx?" Kid Flash taunted her in a soft voice.
No reaction.
Poke
Poke
Poke
Poke
Poke
Poke
Poke
Poke
Poke
Poke
Poke
Poke
Poke
Poke
Poke.
Still no reaction.
-Jinx
Oh crap, is this guy for real? Vibrating into my room poking me to death, trying to get a reaction. Well hes not gonna get a rise from me. I know that, he ammuses himself diobolically by irritating others and it works.
And whats more is, its only been what? Twenty four hours since the last time we met. Dont call the guy in the same week he gave you his number, same rule for meeting you g/bf. He is totally clueless. I dont know much but a heck alot more than he does!
Okay and if the poking does not decease, I will just hold my breath and make it seem I'm dead. Maybe he'ld shrug it off and go do what..well...what..uh...superheroes and all that fancy spandex people do.
Okay. Now, just to wait.
Nope, he still pokes me like theres no tomorrow.
Oooh! That tickles.
Wait a minute...
Nevermind...heheh...
OKAY! Enough poking...
-Third Person Pov
"Jinx is dead."She said with a small smile on her face, Jinx was clearly ammused but reluctant to admit so. Kid Flash could not see her smile because her lying body was facing the other way.
"Hmm, okay. I must be speaking to her spirits then."Kid Flash said wryly.
No reply.
"C'mon Jinx, this act of your is getting old. And I dont wanna play along no more."Kid Flash whined.The things he did for the girl was too much though he would never admit it.
Still lying down, Jinx asked: "Then why are you still playing along?"
Kid Flash paused. And started poking her all over again, "Em," He paused to laugh."Maybe, I just like you too much!" He muttered still tickling her, she was smiling and laughing all the way. Enjoying the inward, oh so silent bliss she got from his presence.
Do not!
Do too!
Do not!
Do too!
Your right, I do. But who's to know? Certainly not Kid Flash!
Without really getting an answer, Jinx didn't think much of it. She basically shrug it off, busy laughing uncontrollably as Kid Flash tickled her.
"Hahaha, hey! Stop that! No. Wait. Dont, go away! Hahahaha."
"Dont go away?"Kid Flash's grin widened. "Sounds like a plan."
Jinx finally got up and turned to Kid Flash, feigning an awfully serious face. "I, Am. Serious. Get out. NOW!"
Kid Flash looked hurt for a while. And only, look hurt. But this did not last long. Laughing again he chuckled, "You look cute when your mad. "
Jinx was speechless. She mad, furious, angry, indignified, enraged, irritated, aggitated, infuriated (ok, I have to stop doing that). But a part of her- asmall part of her. Ok. What am I saying? A big part of her. No. Thats not right. Most of her was blushing inwardly.
And before Jinx could find the words to express her "Anger", Kid Flash said: "Oh wait, no. I stand corrected. You look cute when your pretending to be mad."
Jinx was pretty irritated at the charming speed demon. "Oh yeah," she said dryly, "Cuteness is definetely my element."
"Yes." He agreed grinning cockily.
Jinx felt like jumping from her bed and strangling him, but she didn't. She was a bad guy, and yet. She didn't.
Now why is that lil' Jinxey?
"You." Getting louder when every word is enounciated."Are. Not. Suppose. To. ANSWER THAT!"
Kid Flash just flashed his billion watt smile at her scowling face. "Sure, hey, I have something for you."
Before Jinx noticed he had moved, he was in the same position, this time, holding a fresh pretty red rose in his hands.
"How did you?" Jinx slipped on her evil, angry act a bit as Kid Flash noticed she was just the slightest bit impressed.
He gave her a knowing look. She nodded. "Oh right...Fastest boy alive." Jinx mocked.
"I got you another one, I figured one would be kinda lonely."Kid Flash bubbled light heartedly.
This made Jinx cramp up in every uncomfortable position. She shook her head sadly. Kid Flash was immeadiately alerted.
-Kid Flash
I do not like to see girls cry. Especially tough ones like Jinx. I dont know Jinx very well, but I know enough. Jinx isn't the kind of girl who would break down sobbing. And now, she looked close to tears.
"Is there something wrong Jinx?" He asked, sliding down onto her bed.
No reply. She simply notioned to the crystal vase I gave her sitting on her bed stand. It was seriously wiltered. And roses dont die in one day. So, obviously Jinx did it. Wow. I never knew the girl had so much power lurking in her.
Jinx hates her powers.
"Don't fret. It's only a single rose." I said in my most gentle voice.
Jinx looked down onto her indigo sheets. "You're not mad that I ruined your little gift?" I can't believe she actually ever kept them! But I learnt when I was well...fine! so I was stalking her a bit.
I learnt she was looking for a vase so I gave her one. Much nicer than the first one. I didn't really have time then to choose. Wow. That sounds wrong. Since when did I ever, not have the time to do anything?
"I'm surprised you even kept them!" I laugh.
Mood swings next five minutes for the girl, she looked at me with beady eyes and shook her head disdainfully. "I was only being polite." She says looking away with arms folded and a cute little pout on her face.
"Sure. That's why your all weepy over the rose." I laughed.
She loves it when I smile. Or laugh. I just know it.
She pulls a face and gives me a spitefull evil look. "Weepy? Dont tell me," She snickered cruelly and placed a hand over my lips to prevent me from speaking. "Other words were too much for your pine sized brain to handle?"
Her hands did not linger, they fell back at her sides. I really prefered it where it was just now. It was tinglish, that much I'll say.
"Jinx," I say, becoming serious. Oh no!
Me, serious?
Ok, it happens.
But why has it been happening so often?
Yesterday and today.
Sigh.
Never mind. I'll worry about that later.
"You know why I'm here. Come away with me," Then I pause. She stops breathing a bit. "Wait! No, I mean."
I slapp my masked face with my hands. "Look, no. I meant-"
"Join the good side? Stop being bad?" Jinx asked tauntingly. At least, I have to admit, she was kind enough to stop me from embarresing myself, again. It's honestly becoming a habit. Jinx focused her pink eyes onto the ground. They looked angry and irritated. I may have crossed a line.
Oh crap! I failed. Its over. Darn! Too little too late. I messed up. She's angry. I'm blushing. She's growing colder. Guess I'll have to try next time-
"I'll think about it." She says.
My mouth drops.