A/N: Well that was quick. I had a whole bunch of reviews about the vegan cookies and the winner is… Frosty Pickle Juice! Yay for Frosty Pickle Juice! She's a wonderful person! Added me to her story alert list. So I'm a little biased. Whatcha gonna do? Anyway new chapter's up and I need your reviews! Kudos to everyone that reviewed and answered the question! Sorry about the lateness and shortness. I'm leaving for Italy for a week so I wanted to get it up. (the being in Italy also means no updates for a week)
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When Jinx's sobs finally faded into nothing, her and Wally sat on the bed in silence, each waiting for the other to speak first. Finally Wally broke the silence.
"Why'd you leave? After the brotherhood…you…you just disappeared. I thought…Well I thought a lot of things. None of them very happy" He said, his voice becoming bitter. Jinx began to shake, her body shuddering as she tried desperately to speak. Her voice cracked, unused for almost a year.
"The… The Titans." She managed to stutter out. Wally tightened his hold on her, gasping as he felt her ribs. She had always been skinny but this, this was insanity!
"What did they say?" He said, his voice dangerously low. He was angry. The Titans had dared, they had dared to take Jinx away from him. Dared to stick their noses in his business! Jinx rubbed her head against his chest, enjoying just being close to him again.
"They wanted to arrest me…" Jinx struggled to keep her voice level. "I tried to tell them I'd changed." An almost child-like quality sprung into her voice. "Why didn't they listen?"
"Sometimes even heroes make mistakes" Wally stroked the back of her neck with a finger. They sat like that for a long before Wally heard the sound of regular breathing from Jinx. He smiled and softly untangled himself from Jinx, tucking her in with a kiss on her forehead. As he drifted towards the kitchen he wondered how Barry would take it.
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Remarkably well actually. Barry was at the kitchen table eating cereal with papers spread in front of him as he attempted to read, eat and not get on cereal on himself or the papers. Wally took a quick glance at the papers, probably JLA paperwork or something, but paused when he recognised the pictures on them.
"These are pictures of Jinx," he said questioningly in Barry's direction.
"Mm-hmm" Marry made a noise of agreement. "I pulled up her file on the JLA's system. Mind telling me why I should kick her out right now?"
"Huh?" grunted Wally, absorbed in one of the pictures. Why did Jinx have to look so hot when she was kicking butt? It made it incredibly hard to pay attention to anything else.
"It says she runs with the Hive Five or Six or whatever it is." Said Barry with a vague wave of his hand "They're criminals Wally!"
"Not very good ones" Wally said finally pulling his eyes away from the picture. Barry sighed.
"I know but that doesn't mean it's okay to get mixed up with people like them! So explain now why I shouldn't kick her out," Barry said, his exasperation creeping into his voice.
"One" Said Wally holding up a finger "because she's not a criminal. The file's wrong. She changed her mind about the Hive Five." Wally raised another finger "Two because she's tired and hurt and you're not like that. Three," Wally continued counting "She doesn't have anywhere else to go. And last but most certainly not least, I'm pretty sure I'm in love with her." Before Barry could reply, Wally had turned and stuck his head in one of the cupboards. "Don't we ever have anything decent to eat around here?" Barry grabbed the neck of Wally's suit and pulled him upright.
"What'd you just say?" Barry was looking, for lack of a better word, flummoxed.
"That we never have anything to eat…" Said Wally carefully.
"No, no before that!" Barry said with a dismissive wave of his hand.
"That I'm in love with Jinx?" Wally said, fake innocently. Barry almost dropped Wally into one of the chairs before sitting across from him.
"You're not leaving till you tell me exactly what happened." Barry was deadly serious.
Wally opened his mouth and began to tell the story of the enchantress with the pink hair and how through kidnappings and something to do with sandwiches, he had fallen in love with her.
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A/N: Whoot! Second chapter's up and I can't believe how many emails I got about the Vegan cookies. Amazing what you learn on Did you know there are four different flavours of vegan cookies? I didn't! Learn something new every day! Anywho, read, review and then if you're really nice you'll read something else I wrote! Just kidding although I would appreciate it! You guys make my writing worthwhile!
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