A/N: Look! Look! I tell you all that I will never abandon a story and I don't! It's crappy, in my opinion, but it's done. Sorry it took so long but I somehow managed to loose the file...While it was saved to my computer. And then I didn't want to re-write it so, well, this is what you all get. Again, apologies to everyone that I have let down! (To those reading my newer pieces, my writing style has changed. As I said, this is an old file that I just found.)

Jinx would never say that she knew everything. She would never say that she knew 'personnal things' about many people. She was certaintly not one to tell people that she was home-sick.

It wasn't so much the 'home' itself that she missed, the tower that Titans East lived in was much better. It was the people. She missed her family. Not her mother. Not her two sisters. But her real family.

In her real family she wasn't the oldest, she was just the one in charge. As the only female she was the one that they had deemed 'responsble' for keeping the house -or what they liked to call a house- up and running. So what did she do? She got a puppy-crush on a super hero and left them.

She left her brothers. She left them to fend for themselves. She let them freeze! Jinx knew that they had gotten loose, she wasn't sure how but they were out and alive, she just wasn't ready to confront them yet.

-x-

Her youngest brother, Gizmo. He was the baby of the group even if he didn't like people to think that, let alone call him that. She couldn't look at any electronic device with out thinking of the younger boy.

Jinx knew that Gizmo didn't have any family, they were all dead. Even the aunts and uncles that you usually had even when you didn't know about them. He had no one outside of his team.

Jinx knew that if he was given the chance to, he would become a vegan. Gizmo was a health nut. He hated eating the greasy, fat-filled, heart-clogging food that the Hive Five ate because it was all that they could afford.

Jinx knew that even though he was only twelve years old he was smarter than Cyborg would ever be. He was smarter because he had streetsmarts. He was smarter because he had to be or he wouldn't still be alive.

Jinx knew that even though he wouldn't have shown it to any of the other Hive Five members, when she left he had probably gone into his room and bawled his eyes out. Then he would have gone on a cleaning spree through his room and criticized everyone he came across.

-x-

Her more annoying brother, Billy Numerous. The boy was country as country as you could get. Accent, farm stories, a perpetual tan that never seemed to go away even though it had been years since he worked in daylight.

Billy was a down-home, country boy at heart. He had the accent, the speech, he even had the stupid country comments and all of those annoying sayings that really didn't make any sense.

After their 'jobs' when they had either had to fight with the Titans, the police, or even the few times that one of them had actually been arrested...Billy was the one that complained how tired he was and then compared it to something from his days on the counrtyside.

He was the one that, even if no one wanted to admit it, kept everyone smiling and shaking their heads and he never really let anyone just sink into self pity with out -and this is quote en quote- 'a valid reason'.

Jinx was pretty sure that he would have been the only one to keep his complaints about her leaving to himself. He might say something here or there but it would mostly just be him trying to make the others cheer up.

Then there was the peace-maker of the group, the medium so to speak, Kyd Wykkyd. With a name like that, and with an appearence like his, everyone thought that he was the leader of the group. The real truth was that Kyd Wykkyd was nothing more than that. A kid.

-x-

Kyd's idea of a good heist was being able to steal a matress or an armful of pillows. He didn't really like stealing money or jewels or anything like that. He did it because he had too and because he knew that it was easier for him than it was for the others.

No, Kyd's idea of a good haul was some pillows and a new mattress or two so that he could build a fort when he got back. He was in the Hive Five because they were the only family he had; and while he didn't push that thought on anyone, they could all tell it was how he really felt.

He lived, day to day, knowing that the Hive Five would always be there waiting for him when he got home. When he got out of jail. When he came back from a beating, normally one he got because of someone else's wrong-doing. And Jinx knew she had probably hurt him, and hurt him bad, when she left.

-x-

And then there was Mammoth. If Jinx was considered the mother of the group, then Mammoth was a father to the younger members. He was fiercely protective of them and he had no qualms letting the whole world know it. Jinx figured it was because he was already an older brother so he knew how to act.

With the Hive Five, he was a gruff father figure. If they couldn't go to Jinx for some reason or another, and, being boys, sometimes they couldn't, then it was Mammoth they went to. Because he would listen, he would offer some gruff advice, and he would send them on their way if it was nothing serious. There was no coddling and, sometimes, that was what they needed.

When they went battle though, it was all nails and anger and don't touch my family fury. Because they were all that Mammoth had left and he would let no one near them if he could help it. Not the Titans, not the Brain, not Brother Blood himself.

And Jinx had left him, just like she had left all the others. Because she fancied a super hero. Mammoth didn't trust easily and Jink knew, with that feeling you got when there was no alternative to it, that it was trust she would never get back. Didn't deserve to get back.

-x-

It is for those reasons, those betrayals, that she stays at Titans East. Even though she knows she doesn't belong there, never really belonged there. She doesn't think she'd belong with the Hive Five now either. Not while she carried the guilt over what she did to them.

So she purses her lips and closes her eyes and tells herself to just wait.

Eventually, things will work themselves out.

Hopefully, when it does, she'll have a family again.