Disclaimer: Sorry, I don't own Teen Titans. Or anything I pretty much use in this fanfiction. (Like Mama Mia songs or Moulin Rouge songs…)–sweatdrop- Except the ipod. I own an ipod. But not the company.
Author's Note: Sorry, characters may be OOC…And this isn't really clear, but I guess this is sort-of AU-ish, because while this IS a high-school fanfiction, I guess the Titans have toned-down versions of their powers…EX – Jinx can will bad things to happen, Wally's super-fast for a human, Beast Boy can do really good imitations of animals, Aqualad can swim very well and fish…follow…his commands…I think you get it…
Hex: A Tale of Childhood Frienemies– Chapter Three
This was weird.
Actually, screw weird. This was insane! This was total chaos! This was impossible! This was…
Victor Stone's first win against Wally since pre-school.
"Awwww yeah!" Victor pumped his fist, and cheered as Wally groaned.
"I must be losing my touch." Wally muttered.
"That or Jinxie's pulling out all the stops to ruin your life, Bro!" Victor continued cheering as he sang, "I won. Oh yeah. I'm good. You're not. I won. Oh YEAH!"
He didn't blame this on Jinx. He hadn't played this game in awhile. And besides, she would get over him seeing the unicorns soon. No big deal. "Whatever, Stone."
"Oh, you don't believe that I FINALLY beat YOU?" Victor asked, feigning shock. "Then let's go again, West!"
"You're on!"
He lost again, but as he thought before…
No big deal. No big—
"Loooo-seeerrr!"
NO. BIG. EFF'ING. DEAL.
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"Jinx, does it bother you that next year, we'll be freshman in college?" Raven asked casually, flipping through one of her medical books.
"Not really, why?"
"I mean, we're be one year away from being college students." Raven continued.
"And your point is…?"
"You won't see Wally anymore."
At this, Jinx froze and a small redheaded boy and a pink-haired girl flashed before her eyes. "I guess I won't."
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"Wally, did it ever occur to you that joining the track team is a good thing?" Robin asked of his best friend, who shrugged.
"It makes no difference, really." Wally said, as he shot a basketball towards the net. It seemed for a moment a clear shot, but it bounced off the rim. "Damnit, I can't make any baskets…"
"Why not?"
"Oh, I saw someone's ske—"
"Not that; Why isn't joining track a good thing?" Robin asked.
"Jezebel isn't on it; Why should I be?" Came the reply.
"This is all for Jinx?" Robin said in disbelief. "Jinx, as in Jezebel Alyss Hex, whom we known since we were like, three?"
"Yep."
"……." It was at times like these that Robin wondered if his friend had any common sense. "Wally, why? Seriously."
"Jez always got sad because I beat her in every race, even if she practiced and I didn't." Wally explained. "She's already pissed because I'm taller than her. Why add fuel to the fire?"
"My friend, you may be handsome and sought after by half the female population in Jump City High, but a genius you are not." Robin sighed as he passed the basketball to Wally, who failed to catch it. He always knew this was true, but he refused to believe it.
His best friend, for all of his straight A's and occasional intelligent conversation, was a complete and utter idiot.
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"Wally, you look awful." Jinx said bluntly as he slid into the seat next to her for Social Studies. "And this is coming from a girl who has bed head every day."
"Gee, thanks." Wally said sarcastically. He couldn't sleep last night because of the throbbing painful in his stomach. Robin had accidentally thrown the basketball into his stomach over and over and over and over…..
"Wally?" Jinx said dreamily, and he knew she was lost in her thoughts. "If we had kids, what do you think they'll look like?"
He didn't answer, because he knew if he did, she would snap out of her daydream and kick his ass for it at lunch. Or dump nachos on him again.
"Wally, I asked you a question." Jinx whispered impatiently.
"You were serious?" He asked in amusement.
"Yes. What did you think?" Jinx rolled her eyes.
"Um, well, I'm hoping a boy will look like me…" He began nervously. "Pink hair with blue eyes for a girl. Red hair and pink eyes. Or she can take after one of us."
"Weird, that's what I thought." Jinx shrugged and then flipped open her textbook.
Wally blinked a few times before doing the same. Did…she just propose to me?
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"Fuck!" Wally cursed when his science textbook fell from his arms. The mud from the puddle it had fallen into splattered his jeans, and upon further inspection, he discovered half the text was illegible. "Damn. There goes sixty bucks."
Robin raised an eyebrow. "That's so weird. Isn't that the first textbook you ever dropped?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Nothing…"
"Robin?"
"Yeah?"
"When a girl asks you what your children would look like if you had kids with her, what does that mean?"
"She digs you."
"Oh."
"Why?"
"No reason."
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"Are you getting sick?" Raven asked in her usual monotone.
"Huh?" Jinx looked up from her library book. "No, why?"
"You've been getting redder during P.E., English, Social Studies, and Lunch, and—" Raven paused, a smirk gracing her features. "—around Wally."
Jinx looked away, her face suddenly red. "So what?"
"So…" Raven chuckled. "You loooove him."
"Shut up!" Jinx laughed, trying to mask it as a scream of anger. "I do not!"
"You do too!" Raven teased, acting extremely unlike herself. "You wanna marry him."
A deeper blush only confirmed her words.
"You do?!" Raven chortled with laughter.
"I-it's not often!" Jinx protested weakly. "I just think about it during English…and Social Studies…and P.E…."
Raven began to laugh insanely, scaring Jinx, who ran out of the apartment in fear.
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"Damnit!" He cursed as he was sent sprawling across the carpet of his apartment. "That's like, the fifteenth time today."
Try as he might, he refused to believe it was Jinx causing his bad luck. (Because it wasn't.)
He got up, rubbing his arm tenderly. "Well, I already got my homework done…Might as well ask Jinx if she wants to see a movie."
After all, the worst thing she could say is no.
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"No." Jinx said. "All the movies out right now are crap."
"So, do you want to do something?" Wally asked.
"It's kind of too early to go to sleep, but not too late to have dinner." Jinx said thoughtfully. "We…could grab a bite…"
"R-Really?" Wally asked, not believing that she had accepted.
"Yes, Wally. Really."
"I'll be at your place in half an hour!" He said excitedly.
"Okay…"
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"Rae, how do I look?" Jinx asked nervously.
The purple-haired girl looked up from the T.V. and nodded in appreciation. "Very nice, Jinxie."
"Really?"
She was clad in a black, formfitting, off-the-shoulder blouse with a single white rose. Her skirt was black, with a slit up the side. Underneath were black leggings that trailed into her black knee-high boots. Her pink hair was loose for once, in all its naturally wild glory.
"Going out with Wally?" Raven teased.
"What about you?" Jinx retorted. "Going out with Garth?"
Raven was wearing a simple black dress and boots that were nearly identical to Jinx's. Around her neck was a silver chain with an onyx stone dangling from it. Her hair was in a chignon bun, with several strands framing her face.
"Yeah, I'm his date to that charity ball." Raven said, rolling her eyes.
The doorbell rang, and Jinx answered it.
"Hey Jinx." It was Garth as she had never seen him before. He was dressed formally for a change, instead of his usual t-shirt and shorts.
"Oh, hey." Jinx said unenthusiastically.
"Hey Aqualad." Raven greeted, kissing him on the cheek. "Looking good."
"I think I should be the one saying that, Raven." Garth complimented, as he offered her his arm. "Shall we?"
Raven rolled her eyes, but humored him. "We shall."
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Three minutes later and exactly five minutes before Wally's appointed time, the doorbell rang.
"Hey." Jinx greeted shyly.
"Hey Jez—" He stopped, his impossibly blue eyes widening as he took the sight of her in.
She admired his own attire. Although he was no Garth tonight, he was dressed a lot nicer than normal. He wore black jeans and instead of his usual dirty sneakers, he wore clean ones. He wore a white t-shirt that fit him perfectly. It wasn't tight and it wasn't too loose.
"Y-You look nice." He managed to stammer out.
"Thanks." Jinx smiled. "You do too."
"So….where do you want to go?" He asked as he led her to his car.
"I'm in the mood for Italian." Jinx declared. "You didn't forget your wallet this time, did you?"
He laughed. "You're never going to let it go, are you?"
"Maybe in five years, I will." Jinx teased.
"Great." Wally said, feigning horror. "Another five years of spurn from the woman I hold dear."
Jinx laughed. "You weirdo."
---
"Hey, remember that time I made you eat worms?" Wally laughed.
"Yeah." Jinx smiled. "To tell you the truth, I didn't really chew it. I just swallowed."
"Gross." Wally wrinkled his nose, and Jinx found that gesture disgustingly, nauseatingly, adorable. "Jez, you're such a freak."
"Remember the day we got married?" Jinx laughed.
"How could I not?" Wally asked sarcastically. "You wore a white sundress, I wore a dress shirt for the first time in my life, and Garth came in a bathing suit because that's what he thought Raven meant by suit."
"Shut up!" Jinx giggled. "He was eight."
"Ah, defending the boyfriend of your cousin, I see." Wally grinned, raising his eyebrows in a suggestive manner.
Jinx reached over the table and pushed his shoulder teasingly. "Oh, shush."
"I'm sorry." Wally said suddenly, seriously.
"For what?" Jinx cocked her head, causing her hair to spill across her bare shoulder.
"For kissing you and then leaving you."
Jinx froze, feeling her face heat up. "It…was my fault. I was so mad that you were leaving, and when you kissed me, it pushed me over the edge, and I got angry I wanted you to break a bone so badly…"
"And?"
"I couldn't."
"……I'm confused."
"I don't know why, but I just couldn't." Jinx said softly. "I didn't mind you tripping harmlessly or dropping stuff or losing things, but I couldn't bring myself to will for you to break something."
Wait.
Tripping harmlessly. Dropping stuff. Losing things. She didn't mind all that?
"YOU!" He said suddenly, and at her confused expression, he began to elaborate on his sudden and odd burst of excitement. "You were doing this because I saw the unicorns in your sketchbook, aren't you?"
"Doing what?" Jinx said with such confusion and innocence that Wally began to doubt it was her.
"I dropped my textbook in a puddle. I lost my socks, my CD, my homework, and a bunch of other stuff. I keep on tripping over stuff."
"I don't know why, but I'm not doing that." Jinx shrugged. "I gave up trying to give you bad luck during fifth grade. I always figured since you were fast, almost impossibly so, that you avoided my will to…inconvenience you out of instinct."
"But I've had the best luck ever…" Wally murmured. "More than most people have in their lifetime."
When he was ten, he found a hundred-dollar bill. When he was six, Jinx gave him a gift certificate to SportMart. When he was fourteen, he kissed Jinx. When he was thirteen, Jinx and Victor broke up after three days of 'dating'. (She never dated anyone else, as far as he knew.) He was the only person ever allow to call Jinx by her real name.
"Hey Jezebel?" He asked.
"Hm?" She asked, the fork half-way to her lips.
"Do you think that the reason I almost never had bad luck was….maybe because you were my good luck charm?"
"That's impossible, Wally." Jinx said softly. "I'm bad luck."
"Not to me." He said.
She smiled gently as his intense blue eyes gazed into her pink ones. "It's a possibility, I guess."
"Think about it, Jez." Wally said. "I'm the only one that's never had bad luck around you; Even Raven's got the occasional case of poison ivy or something. We were always close, even after I came back after three years. We talked on the phone a lot when I was in Star City. And when you saw me with the sketchbook and thought I looked in it, you began to isolate yourself from me, and then all that crap for the past fifteen years, all the bad things that happen to normal people but never to me, started happening to me all at once because for fifteen fucking years, you kept it away from me."
"….."
"Jez?"
"Wally, I think you just made sense." Jinx grinned.
His mouth dropped open in mock-anger. "I feel so insulted."
Jinx laughed, and she leaned across the booth's table, brushing her lips against his before sitting back down. In a baby voice, she cooed, "There. All better, Wally?"
Wally mock-pouted before his lips curved up into a smirk. "Not really; How about some more?"
For his bravery and courage, he was rewarded with a sound smack on his shoulder.
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Well, this is a bit sweeter than I normally write. :D
Wally made sense. LOLL.
Also, I made up Garth's last name because as far as I know, he doesn't have one. Now I know there are readers out there who hate BB/Terra and are diehard BB/Rae fans, and though I slightly dislike BB/Terra, my preference for Raven/Aqualad won over my like of BB/Rae. Um, Aqualad's family is very high in Jump City's social structure, and he gets invited to formal parties a lot. Since Raven's his girlfriend, she's automatically his date for all of those. (Jinx never saw him in formal wear because she's usually already out of the house before he picks up Raven.)
I do realize that Kid Flash and Jinx have a very odd relationship in this story, and my explanation? They're crazy in love. They've BEEN crazy in love since they were eight (but refused to acknowledge it), and they'll STAY crazy in love until they have three children. A girl that looks like Jinx with Kid Flash's eyes, a boy that looks like Kid Flash, and a girl that looks like Jinx.
Also, I know that the summary and the part in here aren't really the same. My compromise? I'll change it. Into something that's not going to be in the fanfiction. Is that okay?
Wow.
Long A/N this time.
~ALyssu
