Hey guys, I realized that the way I structured this chapter was a little hard to read and understand so I've re-structured it as I have with the other chapters.

"This is speech"

'This is thought'

As always I take no claim to the Teen Titans I'm simply borrowing them and they will be returned upon a later date.

Now without further ado I give you lovely people the first chapter.

My feet are at the marvellous moment were I can't feel them and yet they are in agonizing pain at the same time. I don't know how long I've been walking, or running however you see it, the only indication that quite a while had transgressed since I started is the aching in the soles of my feet and the fact that the sun had slipped under the horizon quite some time ago.

I do know however that it is a Thursday, or maybe Friday who can be sure without knowing the time.

It didn't feel like morning but it didn't feel like night, it felt as though I was wandering in a place without time. I was brought out of my stupor only by the pain that shot through my leg as I stood on a particularly sharp rock.

'Damn useless flats', although it was my bright idea to wear the stupid shoes I curse the very idea of them,

'no support, no grip and no style but what's a girl to do when she wants to be inconspicuous?"

In truth I did just want to blend in and my usual platfrom boots do the exact opposite.

'Although my feet wouldn't be hurting so bad if I wore them',

I sighed to myself as I realized my internal thought process was going to get me nowhere and most likely make me cranky. Whilst distracting myself from my internal dialogue I took notice of exactly where I was, yet the place looked completely unfamiliar.

'Am I even in Jump anymore?'

The moon seemed to be closer so I knew I had to be up high, maybe a cliff or a mountain yet even with the sky so close the moon had yet to illuminate the ground, although I could see perfectly well in the dark a light in unknown territory can be comforting.

I walked closer to the moon carefully stepping over rocks and sticks to avoid hurting my feet even more than necessary. I continued walking until the hit the edge,

'Defiantly a cliff', and high up too.

I could see all of Jump from here, from the shopping district all the way to the poorer side and even a little of the neighbouring city.

The city was lit up by numerous lights be them street lights or those used to light people's home and there standing tall as ever on the far right was their tower, lit up in all its glory and shining as a giant beacon of hope for the people below.

Suddenly I wasn't in the mood to admire the city and was just about to leave when something caught my attention from the corner of my sight, it looked like a hand but with such poor lighting I couldn't be sure.

Slowly as to not startle the person I turned around only to be met with the sight of a girl, not much older than me, sitting comfortably in the thick rooted tree looking like she owned the world.

'How hadn't I noticed her before now?'

My mind was trying to comprehend the fact that she avoided my senses while my senses particularity one, decided that they liked the sight of this unknown intruder. She was resting with her back against the trunk of the tree whilst balancing on an extended limb.

She looked quite at home as she straddled the branch with one leg hanging comfortably over whist the other was brought up to her chest and being used as a support for her arm.

From what I could make out she had black or maybe blue skinny jeans on with what I assume were converse, and a small cut-off singlet that seemed both too tight yet just perfect. I watched in awe as she brought up her hand that had been hanging limp next to her body and took a long drag from the cigarette her small hand held.

Her head titled slightly back as she slowly exhaled the noxious chemicals into the air.

'She looks so beautiful with the smoke dancing around her from',

I wasn't unnerved by my subconscious thoughts, learning long ago that it'd be much easier to accept them at face value then to skirt around the issue and pretend it didn't exist.

It was clear that she wanted to be alone, given the fact she was over an hour away from civilization and sitting in a tree so I went to turn away and leave but given my luck that was the exact moment the moon decided to make an entrance from behind a cloud.

The first thing I noticed was the girls near porcelain complexion, the moonlight reflected off her skin like she was untainted, the next was her full lips as she inhaled more of the chemicals from her little burning stick and as I travelled with the smoke I noticed the purple hair that cascaded haphazardly across her shoulders to the just below her breasts.

She shifted slightly in her posture and the moonlight glinted off something on the girl's forehead. My eyes narrowed to see what caused the glare when she shifted again, this time to face me and for the first time that night I noticed the little chakra situated on her forehead and her purple eyes gazing at me as if she could see right through me.

She gave a little half smirk at what I presume was directed at my shocked face before turning to face the moon again allowing the beams of light to wash over her as if cleansing her of her sins before she took yet another slow drag only to exhale it twice as slow, deliberately drawing out her words and causing my heart to beat faster than I remember in a long time.

She turned back to me and amethyst locked with pink as she held me in the vortex that was her eyes, that half smirk evident on her face again,

"Hello Jinx", the words fell from her lips as though they were dipped in honey, sickly sweet in appearance but enough to make you sick.

My breath caught in my throat as my brain scrambled for my body to do something, anything but as of right now my body and brain were of two separate entities.

I finally kicked back in to gear after what seemed like days but in reality was probably only a few seconds and got into a fighting stance ready for whatever attack she planned to through at me, and yet she made no move to attack she only raised the cigarette to her lips once again and raised her eyebrow at me making me feel incredibly small and vulnerable.

She exhaled the smoke from her lungs never once leaving my gaze and as she spoke her words were less like honey and more like velvet. Soft and silky, like the lips the words spilled from,

"My quarrel is with Jinx, not who you are in your spare time".

'What?'

I know I looked like an idiot but the words she spoke made no sense, we were the same person and yet she makes out like we aren't, I struggled to find my voice as I relaxed my position into that of a relaxed but guarded lean.

"I... I don't understand" I silently cursed myself for stuttering in her presence but found myself relaxing as she made no indication that I showed weakness.

I watched her intently waiting for an answer and I could see her eyebrows furrow in thought as she mindlessly ashed her cigarette,

"take Cyborg for example, he's this macho, half-man half-robot, who can eat his weight in meat but put a holo-ring on him and he becomes just another teenager with an amazing appetite",

she watched me as I digested the infromation yet as simple as she made it seem I was still confused and I guess it showed because I heard her sigh, only slightly but enough to bother me for some reason.

"When you're with the Hive and in your unifrom you're Jinx, teenage meta-human who is the human incarnate of bad luck, but right now in your civilian clothes you're just a girl"

And just like that I understood. In my black dress and striped stockings I was an enemy, a threat but right now in my purple sweater and ballet flats I was just a girl out for a walk.

She smiled down at me as she realized I understood and turned to look at the moon again. Feeling adventurous I grabbed a lower branch and hoisted myself up so I was slightly below her in the tree.

'She looks even more beautiful from this angle' and it was true. Her hair fell in just the right spot and she practically glowed under the moonlight, she could have been the poster child for perfect had it not been for the cigarette she held.

"I didn't know you smoked?"

My eyes widened as I realized I had spoken but the words were out there and I had unknowingly attempted to make conversation, whether she replied would be another question. Her eyes drifted to me then back again and I suddenly felt nervous in her presence, like a part of me wanted to impress her and I guess I did although I had yet to figure out why.

"It's an awful habit I know but it's not entirely my fault, I blame Red X",

I nodded absent-mindedly until her words sunk in and I had to hold on to the branch I was sitting on lest I fall out of the tree.

"You talk to Red X?" I'm not sure if it was a question or an exclamation or a statement but it may have been all three. She simply shrugged and continued looking across the cliff,

"Occasionally".

I actually couldn't believe it, a Titan and Raven no less talking to not one but two villains like they were old pals, she took notice of my shock and smirked that half smirk I had seen so much tonight,

"Do you smoke?",

I barely registered the question before I shook my head,

"Good, it's bad for you".

I had to laugh at that,

"You're telling me not to smoke whilst you have a lit one right next to you that is double standards",

There was that smirk again but something in her eyes told me that she wanted to smile, I just knew it.

"See, there's a difference I can heal whatever damage I cause myself, whereas you can't and it'd be a shame for someone like you to go out because of a little lung cancer",

I smiled at her and there was that glint in her eyes again that I still had yet to work out.

"Ah, but my dear Raven, I am but a girl there is nothing special about me, remember?"

My tone was sarcastic yet for some reason it sounded playful almost like a taunt.

Her eyes flickered to me and I fully noticed what was hidden before, amusement. She was finding this amusing and for some reason I knew he was up to something, I could tell by the small smile she offered me and suddenly I found myself nervous for what she would say.

"Now my dear how can you be just a girl without a name?"

Her eyes lit up as I realized I walked straight into her trap. Who I was now was different to Jinx, and although I could easily lie and tell her a fake name I found that I didn't want to.

'Damn girl and her tactics',

She smiled at me as she patiently waited for my answer drawing again from that bloody cigarette. I inhaled deeply and shot out my hand causing her to jump slightly, "Jenny, my name is Jenny",

She smiled widened as she accepted my hand in her own,

"Rachel".

And just like that something was created between us, we were no longer Jinx and Raven, villain and hero, we were Jenny and Rachel and nothing more.

We stayed sitting in that tree for hours until we both lost count.

We spoke about anything that came to mind, she listened as I ranted about politics and I listened as she spoke about how she wanted to quit smoking, as she lit up her third for the night.

We stayed there until the lights in the city started to go out and the sun peeked over the horizon signalling a new day.

I had expected her to morph away in the weird black stuff at the first sign of dawn and yet to my surprise she stayed as though our night adventure was normal for the day time.

I watched her flip open her communicator and sigh, and in that simple action I felt my chest constrict. She looked at me like she had something to say but the words died on her tongue as she went to set them free and so instead she just hooked her leg over the tree branch and swung down so she was upside down.

I honestly thought she fell off so I moved to catch her only to have her laugh at me and pull me down with her,

"The sunset is beautiful upside down",

She said as she shut her eyes and although that may be true I never saw it as my eyes were focused only on her. The way her hair fell and how her cheeks turned a rosy pink due to the blood flow just added to her natural beauty and I cursed myself for not seeing it earlier.

My reverie was broken though as her communicator sounded and I had to quickly shift my focus lest she know I was looking at her. A blush fromed on my cheeks as I realized she probably knew anyways.

I heard her sigh strongly as she put the device back in her pocket and again she surprised me by not pulling herself up like a normal person but extending her arms to the ground and hand-standing out of the tree.

Her hair was all messy and her face was flushed but she looked like a Sunday morning in the summer felt, like heaven. She looked at me apologetically and again looked as though she had something to say but bit her tongue instead.

I decided to bite the bullet and say what we were both thinking,

"You'll see me again Rae",

I sounded as sincere as one could hanging upside down on a tree and that seemed to please her because she smiled that gorgeous smile at me.

"Although if you see me as Jinx first, know I won't go easy on you",

I had meant it as a joke because after tonight I don't think I could even dream of hurting her, but it earned me a laugh. It was soft and hard to hear but it was perfect.

"Wouldn't have it any other way",

And with those words and a smile she was off surrounded by the darkness she controlled and in her place stood the rising sun.

I smiled to myself as I continued to hang from the branch and as beautiful as the sun rise was I had found something better.

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Anyways thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of Smoke.