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Kid Flash

My communicator is beeping. I open my eyes to see it's little red light going crazy at me from the other side of the room where I tossed it last night in my hurry. I have to gently ease myself from Jinx and I smile as I look down at her. In her sleep her face is smooth, free from the fear and trauma she has been through. Despite the bruises and those barbaric cuts on her back, she's still the most beautiful thing that has ever slept in this bed. Her fingers curl around the bedsheets and she mutters something, her lips twisting into a small smile. I kiss her forehead and stroke her hair before I get up and attend to my bleeping communicator.

I leave the room so I don't wake her up and flick it open. Robin's irritated face looks up at me. The background is full of fuzzy sound but I can make out the sounds of traffic and Cyborg and Beast Boy arguing. I can see the whole team is cooped up in the T-car and are dying to get out. I know the feeling all too well, I hate being stuck in a car when I know I can run there in seconds.

"What's up?" I say cheerily to their disgruntled leader. He sighs at me.

"Don't ask," He says. "We've been stuck in traffic for a while because somebody said we didn't use the T-car enough." He gave a pointed look to the side as protests about how their baby needed to be driven regularly to keep her in the best condition came raining down on him. He ignored them and continued.

"Anyway, you know how last night was meant to be your last patrol before we got back?" I nod. "Well, we've had to come up with a new plan. We need you to take this morning's patrol. We're not too far away from Jump at the moment so we'll probably join you at some point. Then we need to have a talk."

"A talk?" I say surprised. Robin's talks are never good and everyone I know dreads them because he takes everything way too damn seriously. The guy really needs to chill sometimes.

"We've heard reports Madame Rouge was in town. We heard you fought her off but then there was something about Jinx…" His voice trails off as he tries to remember. "I can't think right now but stay away from her. She's cruel and dangerous, you don't want to get involved."

I almost want to cry when I think of how wrong that description is now. I angle my head so I can glimpse her in my bed. She's still asleep and I smile at the sight of her. God, what Robin's face would look like if he knew where that cruel and dangerous girl was right now…

"What are you smirking at?" He snaps. He's massaging his head; I think he has a headache. An orange hand passes him an ice pack and he smiles fondly at someone that can only be Starfire. I hide a chuckle. That boy has it worse than me.

"Nothing. Alright, I'll head off now." I say as I grab my uniform. "Anything else?"

"Just be careful." He groans as Beast Boy starts yelling really loudly at Cyborg again. "Robin out."

The screen goes blank and I change quickly in the hallway. Before I leave, I write Jinx a little note and leave it by the bed so it will be the first thing she sees. I've nearly finished it before I pause and quickly add an invitation to dinner. I mean, what could be a better way for us to talk than over some food? I kiss her again, because I can't help myself when she looks so angelic, and then race out of the door.

I run around for a couple of hours but nothing much happens. I wasn't expecting it to; what self-respecting criminal acts in the morning? I'm tempted to quickly head home and see if Jinx is up-I don't want her to get scared if she's all alone-but then I'm alerted to a bank robbery taking place on the other side of town. I get there in milliseconds and watch as the doors burst open and the thieves clamber out with huge bags of money hoisted onto their shoulders. They freeze when they see me and I do the same. It's the HIVE Five, now actually with five members. The ones who hurt Jinx, who turned her into the scared creature she is now.

They pause before all their faces make the same mocking expression. My hands clench into fists and I'm breathing heavily. Gizmo sees this as he hovers with his jetpack and he laughs at me.

"What's the matter booger-breath?" he taunts in his annoying baby voice. "You gonna throw a tantrum?"

"Big words for someone still in diapers." I snap back. I see Kyd Wycked and Billy Numerous look taken aback at my tone and they give each other a worried look. None of the others seem to have noticed.

"Hey!" Gizmo shouts and lunges at me but Mammoth holds him back.

"Don't you want to know where your precious Jinx is?" He jeers at me with a grin.

See-More laughs coldly at my angry expression. "Don't act so dumb," He sneers at me, his one green eye twinkling with glee. "We know you took her away last night. Big knight-in-shining-armour moment for you, I bet." His voice is bitter. "What did you think of our work? It's a shame really-she was such a fun plaything-"

He doesn't get the chance to say anymore. All my bottled up rage-that I'm usually quite good at keeping in-suddenly erupts and I fly at them. I attack them without mercy; I know that and don't care. I grab Billy Numerous and hurl him hard at the wall where he lands in a heap, groaning. Kyd Wycked opens up a portal but before he's even moved towards me, I've chucked him into it head first. Mammoth roars and dives at me but I dodge him and slam his face into the stone steps. His nose is bleeding heavily but that only seems to enrage me further as I remember the bloodstains on my sofa. Gizmo squeaks and tries to run away on his robotic spider legs but I grab them and tangle them up. I swing him around my head and send him crashing against the wall, where he joins Billy Numerous. I then turn to See-More, whose eyes are wide with shock, and before I know it, I'm on top of him, my fists pounding into his face as he yelps.

"Don't-you-ever-call-her-a-play-thing-again!" I shout at him, landing a punch with every word. I can hear people screaming all around me but all I can think of is Jinx lying on her front with blood all on her back and See-More's sick grin.

Then something drags me away from him. I try to fight it, thrashing out all my limbs but I'm powerless against it. I look and see tentacles of black magic are wrapped around my body and holding me still. They don't let me go until the HIVE Five are safely locked up in the back of a police van, none of them able to put up a fight in their unconscious state. When I'm finally dropped I turn around and find all the eyes of the Teen Titans are staring at me. Raven has her usual blank glare but Cyborg and Beast Boy look dumbstruck, Starfire has her hands over her mouth and Robin looks like he wants to murder me.

"What the heck were you doing?!" He steps forwards and yells at me, his face inches from mine. "Were you trying to kill them?! God, do you realise what could have happened if we hadn't been here?! What were you thinking?! That was crossing the line!"

"Good! They deserved it!" I shout back. All the other Titans gasp. "You don't know what they did, you didn't see her-"

"Who is her?" Robin cuts me off coldly. I stop and stare at him. He stares back and I realise I'm going to have to come clean.

"She's…Jinx."

"Goddamnit Kid Flash!" He explodes. "What did I tell you?! She's our enemy, she's bad news, she's the leader of the HIVE Five!"

"Do you see her with them?!" I shout and he goes silent. "She's not their leader anymore. I bet those reports you heard about Madame Rouge said that she saved me, right?" He says nothing but I can tell I'm right. "They're true, she saved my life and her team have been torturing her because of it. If you had seen her when I found her…"

Robin is looking at me bewildered. "The HIVE Five have been torturing her? Have you seen those guys?" He points over at the van. "We tricked them with a pie for God's sake! They're as incompetent as you can get!"

I wring my hands and shout "You haven't seen her! You didn't find her lying in her own blood with her back torn to shreds…You haven't seen how broken she is! All she's done since I found her is cry! She's scared of everything and I don't even want to think about what they did to her…they called her their plaything!"

The Teen Titans are all staring in shock at my outburst. Robin looks stunned but his face is still stern.

"Is she…that bad?" Raven suddenly asks me.

I nod. "She's got cuts all over her…and some of them won't stop bleeding."

"That sounds really bad man," Cyborg speaks up. "If she's as bad as he says she is, we need to get her to the Tower pronto."

Robin looks at them, then me. I look at him pleadingly. If they can help her then I might have a better chance of getting her back to her old self, just with less evil. Robin sighs.

"Fine. Take us to her." He agrees. "But if she pulls any funny business…"

"She won't," I quickly say. "Believe me…I wish she still could."

Jinx

I'd forgotten how nice it feels to wake up feeling safe. For so long I woke up each morning expecting to see the faces of my team leering at me but today I am greeted with sunshine. I open my eyes slowly and stretch out in Kid Flash's bed. I like the way my long pink hair stands out from the bright yellow of the sheets in an odd clash that somehow still seems to fit together. My hand brushes against something and I sit up to find a note from Kid Flash.

Dear Jinx

I know this sucks but I have to go on patrol (don't blame me, blame the Titans!) so I'll be out when you read this. It's a shame because I wanted to spend my whole day with you but alas it's not to be. Dinner later? ;)

Your Kid Flash

I smile and slightly shake my head. He's so cocky sometimes (I mean who says alas and then uses a winky face?) but I would be lying if I said I didn't think it adorable. He's covered the rest of the paper in wonky kisses in various different sizes like a child decorating a Mother's Day card and I find I'm holding it to my chest and squealing a little, like a girl who's just received her first valentine. The old me would never have done that, I think and I bite my lip hard to banish the thought as I get out of bed. I don't know what to think about this change in me; some of me wants to forget the whole thing and move on whilst the rest wants to fight and get me back. Meanwhile I'm caught in the middle of my own personal tug-of-war wondering when Kid Flash will get back. When he's here…I don't know what he does, he just makes everything better, makes what happened in the past feel more like a bad nightmare that can't touch me anymore.

I thought about him a lot after that night. Even though I wanted to hate him for it, I couldn't. He was so charming and sure of himself and his eyes felt like they were reading my soul when they looked at me. It was so weird feeling like that, like somebody was actually bothering with me and it had felt so nice sometimes I wanted the feeling to be physical and real so that I could hold it and never lose it. When my team first attacked me, See-More said it was punishment for falling in love with a good guy and that it would be good for me in the long run and for a while I almost believed him. It took time for me to realise they were doing it for their own sick pleasures.

I look around for some clothes and spot Kid Flash's pyjamas on the floor. I pick them up and fondle the soft material-this looks like it wouldn't inflame my back. I'm still only wearing the boxer shorts from last night and my regular clothes are all back at headquarters so I can't afford to be picky. I pull them on and they smell of him. I wrap my arms around myself and it feels like he's holding me. Urgh, I think, you've gotten so soppy and dependant, it's disgusting, but I don't let go.

I find myself wandering into the kitchen and rootling through the cupboards. I'm surprised by how stuffed full of food they all are-how much does he get through-and it's all so organised as well. I'm used to living in a pigsty-my room was the only tidy part of the headquarters until I wrecked it. I look and look but I can't see any coffee. My perfect start to the day usually contains at least three lattes with a ton of cream in them but there isn't even a hint of caffeine in this place. I used to get so irritable when I ran out and I would walk around growling at everybody but now I'm struggling to feel anything. I start pondering if I should grab some money and go down to the store but then I remember I'm not sure what part of town I'm in, I'm wearing pyjamas and the thought of being alone out there…Terror creeps its way into my stomach and I want to be sick. I look in the fridge and see some opened orange juice. I search for a glass and pour some out. I sit at the table and sip at the neon liquid, letting the sharp taste shock me awake. I'm not sure if I like it but at least it's a sensation that I'm reacting to. I pour another glass.

The carton is nearly empty when I hear scuffling at the door followed by fast furious whispers. I stand up and try to peer through the glass in the door but I can see nothing. My hand is shaking and threatening to drop the glass so I hastily put it down. The door bangs open and I scream and cover my head but within seconds Kid Flash's arms are cradling me.

"Oh my God, Jinx I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to scare you!" He babbles before he pulls away to look at me. A wide smile lights up his face. "Hey, are those my pyjamas?"

I go red. "Do you want them back?" I say in a small voice that doesn't sound at all like me and I want to kick myself. God, I sound pathetic.

"No, don't worry, I have tons," He says quickly, embracing me tightly but keeping his hands off my back. "You look cute in them anyway."

I blush, another thing the old me would never have done. "How was patrol?" I ask him.

"You got my note?" He says and now he goes red, probably remembering what he put in it. I laugh. It sounds weird coming from me, I can't remember the last time I did. I never was a girl to laugh, the most I would do was smirk or sarcastically chuckle.

"Yeah, what's happening with dinner?" I ask but before he says anything the door bangs open again and I throw myself against the back wall and freeze when I see who walks in. It's the Teen Titans, the sworn enemies of my old team. They are all staring at me as I stand by the wall; Starfire and Beast Boy look dumbstruck, Raven has a strange look on her face, Cyborg is looking at me concerned and confused and Robin just stands there with his arms crossed and fury written all over him.

"Dinner?" He spits out frostily. I glance at Kid Flash and see he is glaring at Robin with equal anger in his eyes. He moves a little so he is standing in front of me and shrugs. He takes my hand and Robin's nostrils flare.

"Fl-flash…I stutter before inwardly cursing. I never stutter, especially not before my enemies!

Kid Flash shushes me before giving Robin a scowl. "Jinx, listen to me," He says cupping my face in both his hands and looking me in the eyes. "I know you're not going to like this but you've been badly hurt and you need to be looked over. Your back isn't healing properly and we need to know what they did to you so we can help you. I wasn't going to do this but this is the only way you'll gain their trust and Raven and Cyborg are the best medics I know…"

"We don't even know if she's been hurt yet." Robin says.

"Dude, did you not see her reaction?" Cyborg says. He waves his great metal hand at me and I flinch. "Anyone can see she's been mentally scarred."

"Yeah c'mon, she didn't even try to hex us for the first time ever!" Beast Boy nods.

"She's also got marks on her." Raven points at my wrists where the burns stand out from my pale skin like black ink on paper.

"Cyborg is right," Starfire says, resting a hand on Robin's shoulder. "This is not the Jinx we used to battle with most fiercely."

I hang my head. Even they think the old me is dead and the last thing I want is their pity. Kid Flash sees this and plants a soft kiss on my forehead. The Titans all look stunned except Robin who's fuming like a volcano but he says nothing.

"Will you come Jinx? Please? They won't arrest you or anything, I promise. Just for me?" Kid Flash looks at me with those tranquil eyes and I find myself nodding. He looks so happy it makes me smile a little too but then Robin makes a grunting noise and I'm shaken back into the reality of what I've just agreed to. I've agreed to walk willingly into the Titans Tower and have myself examined by people who probably hate me for what I did before. I really am stupid.

Kid Flash squeezes my hand. "You're doing the right thing, trust me. We can grab dinner later." He smiles before turning to Robin who sighs in a frustrated way.

"Let's go." He says. He turns to Kid Flash and hisses "I hope you know what you're doing."

I cling to his arm as we leave his apartment. I hope he knows what he's doing as well because I don't have a clue.