Author's Note: Here is chapter four. Sorry for the long wait. Naturally not edited. This chapter is simple but fleshes out the characters a bit more. Next chapter will be much more serious. Enjoy.
When Jinx awoke the next morning she felt exhausted, she didn't know why as she leaned up from her bed and stretched, feeling her joints and bones give a satisfying crack, pop and snap as she yawned and smacked her lips sliding over to the edge of her bed and dropping lightly to the carpet, rubbing her eyes to get rid of the gunk in them and slowly stumbling towards the door and opening it with a push of a button.
She was in a normal black t-shirt and dark blue shorts, barefoot as she always was unless they had some idiot try to commit a crime so early in the morning and she let out another yawn without any shame as she walked like a zombie towards the elevator, pressing the button to call it to her as her room was at the highest point of the tower, barely making it inside after she closed her eyes for a bit and again pressed the button this time to go down before she leaned against the back of the wall, making a mental note to tell Cyborg that he needed to make the damn machine go faster.
Once it stopped in the Ops room, Jinx made a beeline towards the kitchen and gave a genuine smile towards the only thing she would ever consider worshiping as a god: Coffee.
Just as she was about to make a pot her eyes locked onto Terra who dragged her feet towards the kitchen as if drawn by an invisible force, the blond meta human looked like she had been thrown into a giant blender, she was barefoot like Jinx, her tank top was half off her body with the straps doing nothing to cover her breast and she was scratching her ass with her right hand with no shame, her red shorts nearly sliding off her waist to which she did nothing to bring them back up.
Her hair was literally sticking up in all directions, her eyes were bloodshot and Jinx was half convinced that she had just risen from the dead as Jinx got out another mug for her friend and teammate as they waited for what felt like hours for the coffee to brew and be done as Terra placed her head lightly on the table in front of her, her arms dangling beside her as the two didn't say a word to each other until the scalding dark liquid was done and Jinx poured two cups full, sliding one over to the girl who very slowly lifted her head, took a deep breath and sat on one of the bar stools before reaching for the cup and taking a single sip without hesitation before Jinx spoke.
"You stayed up all night watching horrors movies again, didn't you?" Jinx asked quietly with a smirk as Terra sighed and looked up with a grin.
"And I regret nothing. I don't have night patrol tonight since you are taking over for me with Raven so I thought it would be best to marathon the shit." Terra laughed softly before she groaned and slowly took another sip.
"Raven must have forgot to tell me that Robin approved of the transfer, which is weird since she normally likes to get shit out of the way for her own benefit if nothing else. You know I could have joined you with movie night if you asked?" Jinx pouted a bit hurt since she was just as big a fan of horror movies as Terra was as the young woman rubbed the back of her neck with a hand awkwardly.
"You said you were going to bed and since you got the change for tonight, I figured you want your sleep. Nothing personal, girl." Terra said with a sheepish grin before raising her cup as Jinx rolled her eyes and softly brought her own up to tap the mugs together.
"To the one true god, coffee." Terra mumbled with a laugh causing Jinx to chuckle.
"Amen to that. So what's on the list for today? Training? Maybe stop a bad guy or two?" Jinx asked as Terra sighed loudly before she let out a huge yawn and shook her head.
"Who gives a fuck, long as I can finish my one true love without any interruptions. If nothing eventful happens we can go out and do shit, if you want?" Terra spoke slowly before looking at Jinx with an eyebrow raised, half her head buried in her arms as Jinx thought of her question.
She liked Terra, they connected on quite a bit of shit and though there was nothing romantic even though Terra was pansexual, Jinx's mind drifted off to Raven and questioned if she could get the half-demon in on their fun, maybe make her laugh before hell froze over.
"I'm down, think we can invite Raven? Might help her be less antisocial if she got out a bit." Jinx questioned as Terra took another sip and shrugged.
"I'm cool with that, hell might as well get Kori while we are at it and make it a day with just us girls." Terra sneered as Jinx rolled her eyes
"Yeah you might be right, I think they'll be fine though, right? Still it would be cool if Star could join us." Jinx answered as Terra nodded.
"We could but Star was out with Vic last night for night patrol and I doubt even a woman with such boundless energy would get up from her bed unless we had a mission or something. Besides even if we had training, Dick made it a rule that the two who go out for the night get to sleep in longer barring saving lives, of course." Terra replied as she stretched her arms and rolled her neck with a yawn, giving Jinx a peek of a small bit of her boobs who questioned if maybe Terra might be down for a roll in the hay but then dismissed the thought with a snort.
They would have to be drunk as fuck to even get that far, she guessed and thought about how she wouldn't mind having some fun with Victor but frowned when she knew that even for a one night stand and with the unresolved feelings they had for each other that it would get far to emotional and serious then Jinx wanted for right now.
"Yo, Horseshoe, you hear me?" Terra snapped at the magical women as she snapped her fingers in her face who swatted her hand away with a grimace.
"What? No, fuck you. What do you want?" Jinx spat with a glare causing Terra to look at her with a bored expression.
"I asked if you wanted to grab the girls, if we can get Star up and away from BB with how she normally gets when she comes in from really rough nights and go grab some breakfast." Terra repeated, a bit of annoyance in her tone making Jinx shrug.
"Sure, sounds good. Even though we got food here and Star no doubt already ate but whatever, what you thinking?" Jinx asked making Terra give a grin before she took a larger sip of her coffee.
"I'm thinking waffles, you?" Terra questioned, Jinx yawned before replying that she might get an omlet as Terra nodded, finished her coffee and rushing out of the Ops room screaming back that she was going to shower, enraging Jinx whose eyes lit with purple magic as she screamed back that she was going to shower first while Terra did nothing more then laugh.
With a snort at how disrespectful her friend was, Jinx finished the rest of her coffee, placing it in the sink before walking towards the exit as the doors slid open to reveal Robin who looked as dead as both Jinx and Terra were when they came in.
The leader of Teen Titans West was notorious for his addiction to coffee, if Jinx had to bet he rivaled even Terra in consuming the boiling cup of joe as he wandered in wearing the Flash pajama bottoms, a gray tank top and his hair was a mess, his eyes unmasked as he rubbed them with a yawn and walked towards the kitchen.
"Hey, Dick. We got practice today?" Jinx asked the half dead young man who grunted before clearing his throat and calling back over his shoulder without even looking at her.
"Later...coffee first. Once Vic and Kori are up we can start but not until I wake up and they…" He trailed off and didn't bother saying anything else, completely forgetting about her on his way to worship the liquid god like Jinx and Terra before him as she chuckled before exiting the Ops room and going to grab her clothes to get the day started, after she dragged a naked Terra out of the shower kicking and screaming for what was supposed to be her shower time.
Raven groaned loudly as she opened her eyes, her black t-shirt was heavily wrinkled and she gave a loud yawn before leaning up, pulling the covers off of her as she lazily rubbed her eyes and ran a hand over her face, swearing under her breath for not applying a cold spell to her room which became unbearably hot in the summer and questioning if she should have just slept naked rather than in a shirt and underwear.
With a shake of her head knowing nothing could be done about it until she returned to bed tomorrow morning, she slid to the carpeted floor and attempted to crack her back giving a moan when she heard a rather large pop from her spine before slowly walking towards the vanity mirror and ran her hands twice over her hair and once more over her face.
The spells she performed once Jinx left must have really done a number on her physical state for she was more tired than usual but it was worth it to gain the knowledge and experience, though she doubted she would have to use them in combat anytime soon as she walked to her private bathroom, the only one in the tower when it was being built as no one wanted to anger the most powerful member of the team, or at least for Titans West and emptied her bladder along with her bowels and flushed, washing her hands with soap and water before taking a quick but very cold shower and once she threw out her dirty and sweaty clothes in the laundry bin she walked out of the bathroom naked to get ready for the day, in desperate need of her tea.
One she had donned on her natural dark blue cloak and clasped the red brooch to it that was crafted with an extremely powerful spell in the event of a life or death situation she slipped on her gray slippers and walked out of her room, wanting nothing more then to relax for today due to how tired she was and even wore a blank gray t-shirt with some matching sweatpants underneath to prove such a fact, if to no one else then to herself.
With a sigh, she looked around the hallways and noticed how quiet it was as she walked towards the Ops room, her bedroom being the closest out of all the Titans in the tower to the main room they all went to as the doors slid open and she was surprised to see it was empty.
Glancing at the clock in the kitchen she saw that it was ten thirty in the morning as she frowned and mentally slapped herself. She must have been far more tired then she had been in a very long time to overslept, being one of the few in the team besides Robin and Starfire who were morning people and shook her head softly, making a mental note to not perform advanced spells when it was her turn for night patrol as she entered the kitchen and with her onyx hued magic got out all of the necessary ingredients to brew her herbal gray tea, thankful for the peace and quiet if only for a moment.
When her tea was brewed and she sat down to drink, she brought out the small green leather bound book that held all the spells she practiced on last night and read, both to pass the time and to memorize the spells and before long Beast Boy came into the kitchen, his orange Wonder Woman shirt was stained with if Raven had to guess was tears and his black shorts were crumbled as if he had picked them up from the ground, he was barefoot like most of the Titans when they woke up and for once he didn't say a word.
Completely silent as he got out two mugs and filled them with hot coffee, scratching his head, his hair a complete mess and yawned as he turned, noticed Raven and nodded before he went back to if Raven had to guess, Starfire's bedroom.
For the most talkative of the teenagers to not utter a word meant either two things to the sorceress, either he had a really draining night which should not have been possible since he would not have night patrol with one of the others until tomorrow or Starfire herself must have had a night that she would never forget and that worried Raven and made her shudder at how such evil had no doubt broken the alien's emotional mindset, even if it was only temporary.
Raven could only sip her tea and ponder just how dark and twisted Humanity was and hoped that she would not share the same fate as her friend tonight as she waited for the others to arrive, for once hoping to be a bit more social today, just in case it was her last.