[I do not own Teen Titans or any characters mentioned in this story. Based off of a weird dream I had, don't judge?]
Midday, in a generic neighborhood in Jump City, ten superpowered teens were fighting amongst themselves.
For once, they were only verbally fighting.
The HIVE Five had once again attempted a robbery, though for once it wasn't as petty a crime as usual. They broke into a laboratory in Jump City, hoping to sell the devices and knowledge they found there for big money - enough to at least last them all more than a month without having to rob again. During the Titans break in to stop them, one of the large machines had powered on and no one had time to catch it.
The Titans and the police had already got in contact with the scientists, and found that there was no reversing the effect - what was done was done. The HIVE Five was never going to be the same. Now the teens were all bickering over what should be done with the victim. Lock him in jail? No - far too cruel at this point. Send him to a facility? Like hell was the boy being put through that again.
A distance from all this arguing and fighting, there lay a small, crying baby amidst the rubble of the lab. Jinx, the only person who had yet to even open her mouth to defend or attack anyone else verbally, trudged her way towards the bawling mass on the ground. From the minute the machine shut off, her teammate was where all of her attention lie. There, and with the voice in her head screaming that this was her fault. She'd just ruined an innocent seventeen year old's life and it was all her fault.
The machine, they'd learned, had converted Kyd Wykkyd - Jinx's sort of little brother, the boy Jinx had promised to protect after saving him from the bullies at the academy - into a helpless baby. Kyd Wykkyd had no idea what was going on, apparently having lost all memory from his previous life.
Jinx dropped to her knees in front of the crumpled youth, dry tears echoing like pitiful screams down her pale cheeks.
"Shh, shh…" Jinx cooed as she lifted up what was previously Kyd Wykkyd into her arms, cradling the baby and rocking him back and forth until his bawling ceased. When she finally pulled him away from her chest, Kyd Wykkyd opened his red eyes.
Eyes that normally glared at her, at the world - filled with hatred and betrayal from parents that had abandoned him, a family that didn't exist, and a world that laughed and spit in his face every time he bettered himself. Those terrible eyes...smiled. They smiled along with his baby soft mouth as he giggled and cooed at the bead hanging from Jinx's choker necklace. Those eyes were so happy, so innocent and carefree.
Jinx narrowed her eyes before bringing the baby back to her chest and marching like a revived soldier towards the arguing group.
"Kyd Wykkyd is not going with any of you because he is staying with me." Jinx boomed dangerously, immediately quieting the entire group. Robin raised his hand in defense as if he were about to interject, but Jinx's venomous glare shut him up quickly.
Jinx stormed away from the shocked group, Kyd Wykkyd in her arms as he giggled in wonder at the color of Jinx's hair. The rest of the Five were soon to follow, all desperately clamoring to catch up to Jinx and reason with her. See-More, as usual, got to her first.
"Jinx I-" See-More began, standing in front of her path and blocking it, though he stopped short at her glare.
"I know how serious you are about this, really." He continued after putting his hands up in a sign of peace.
"But Jinx...just, just look at us…" See-More said, pathetically gesturing towards their ragtag group.
"How are four teenagers going to raise a baby?" See-More said, bowing under Jinx's head to look in her crestfallen face.
"Only until we can find some people that will take care of him right!" Jinx exclaimed desperately, earning a very skeptical look from her one eyed friend.
"Jinx…I'm eighteen, Billy is nineteen, you only just turned nineteen - the only 'adult' here is Mammoth, and he still drinks milk from the carton!" See-More said, ignoring Mammoth's very indignant scoff behind him.
"S-See-More...I...h-h-he...I j-just can-can't…" Jinx stuttered between quiet, broken sobs, hugging Kyd Wykkyd even closer to her chest. Kyd Wykkyd started to cry once again, confused why his newfound caregiver had been upset by someone.
"C'mere...give him to me." See-More said reluctantly as Jinx handed the whimpering child to her best friend who started bouncing him up and down, calming him in record time compared to Jinx.
See-More looked down at the baby, who was looking back at him with large, questioning eyes and an excited smile as the baby's pale hands started jerkily wrapping around See-More's fingers.
"One. Month." See-More said choppily before Jinx practically lept at him, disturbing the baby yet again.
"Thank you both so very much for that completely fair voting system!" Billy said sarcastically from behind the two.
[Will continue! Want reviews!]