I figured this story would need a disclaimer so here it is. I do not own Teen Titans.
Jinx had told Kid Flash that she needed some time alone to deal with her near death experience. So, like a good boyfriend, he had respected her wishes and vanished, deciding to visit Isis and tell her what had happened. Maybe Isis would be able to give him a few more clues as to who he was trying to find.
He went, at first, to the place where he had first met her only to find no one. But that was not a surprise as the place was just an isolated street that happened to have an old broken down bench. The street was littered and dingy. The solitary light post hardly have any light to see with.
Kid Flash thought he remembered the street being much lighter when Isis had been there, but put it down to a fallacy in memory as humans were prone to have. Instead, he ran all over Jump City, trying to find Isis.
He had ran around the city for the sixth time when someone tapped his shoulder. Kid Flash turned around and, lo and behold!, Isis was standing there with an unreadable expression on her face.
Kid Flash mentally jumped ten feet in the air.
"Have you found her?" Isis asked him, though her tone made it clear that she did not expect him to have.
Kid Flash confirmed her expectations and shook his head. "Jinx almost died." he told her.
"Oh?"
Kid Flash frowned. The tone was to disinterested and did not have even a spark of worry. Indeed, Isis was starting to look rather bored. Still, he answered politely, keeping his doubts to himself.
"She got better." Kid Flash told Isis. "She completely recovered in the same night we were wondering if she would survive."
"I know." Isis answered.
"What?" That had not been the answer Kid Flash had been expecting.
"My brother was kind enough to inform me of the young ladies condition." Isis elaborated. "And of her recovery."
Kid Flash nodded, Isis' actions from earlier now making sense. All doubt was erased. "Could you give him my thanks, then?" he asked.
"We are not exactly on speaking terms unless there is something vital at stake." Isis answered slowly. "I suppose I could try..."
"Great," Kid Flash answered, even if he did not understand why Isis' brother would tell her about Jinx if they were not on speaking terms. "Is there anything that would help me find, um, your niece?" Kid Flash did not like saying that because he knew that helping her arrest a member of her family had to be hard for her. But Kid Flash didn't have any other thing to call her. Maybe if he could figure out what her name was...
"No, but I feel your girlfriend would be safer if she left the country until we could find our query."
It was interesting, how Isis talked as if her own niece was not a human, but Kid Flash assumed it was so she did not have to think about her relation to the person Isis was helping bring to justice. "Wouldn't she just follow?"
Isis shook her head, "Not where I'm thinking."
Jinx checked of her list as she packed. Clothes, check. Pajamas, check. Travel money, check. Cosmetics... Jinx looked around for her makeup before realizing they had fallen to the floor. She placed them in a side pocket and checked that off. After packing the money for food and hotel rooms, she was ready. The money had come from her days as a criminal. She had returned some of it, but had kept most of it just in case she would ever need it. Like situation around her H.I.V.E communicator, Jinx hadn't told Kid Flash about her decision. It wasn't like the people she had stolen it from needed it anymore. It had been so long ago that they had gotten over the amount of money they had lost and now had even more. Surely, she reasoned, she was allowed to keep some for herself.
However, it was another action that had lead Jinx to the conclusion that she was not a heroine. Starfire and Raven would have returned all of the money, not just some. It also led her to question her relationship with Kid Flash. After all, what kind of a girlfriend kept secrets from her boyfriend?
"Hey, Jinx, can I come in?" Kid Flash called from the hallway.
Jinx sighed, hoping that Kid Flash would not be overprotective and insist she stay in the tower. "Yes," she called, adding her sketchbook to the suitcase.
The door slid open. "You're going already?" Kid Flash asked.
"What did you expect? I'd stay here forever after telling you I was leaving?" Jinx asked.
"Actually, I was coming her to ask you to go somewhere for a bit," Kid Flash answered. "For you're safety."
":I can take care of myself." Jinx replied, irritated at the implication. "You, of all people, should know that."
"Just this evening-"
"Last night." Jinx interrupted.
"Last night," Kid Flash continued, "you were comatose and someone told her their neice is trying to kill you. I just don't want anything to happen to you."
That someone had told Kid Flash someone was trying to kill her was news. While Jinx had known that Kid Flash had been certain foul play had resulted in Jinx's illness, he had never said why. Jinx had just thought she was gotten sick and that her boyfriend was being overly cautious. Now, it seemed he had every reason to worry. Still, there was no need to let Kid Flash know she was worried.
"I'd be fine." she insisted, "But, I'm going any way. I promised I'd help someone out."
"Maybe you should take someone with you." Kid Flash mused.
The last thing Jinx wanted was a babysitter. "I'll be fine!" She threw a note explaining where she was going down on the bed before she stormed away, putting as much as possible between her and the potential babysitter. For the first time, Jinx wondered if she should have written that she was going to Egypt.
Kyd Wykkyd was surrounded. Granted, he was surrounded by sweet bunnies holding all number of treasures, but he was still surrounded. And Kyd Wykkyd didn't like rabbit, especially after one incident regarding a rabbit and it's carrot. It was a rule. Never take a carrot from a crazed rabbit if one wanted to keep one's fingers. Just like one would never take a Robin away from a crazed Starfire if they wanted to keep their limbs and sanity. You just shouldn't do it.
Kyd Wykkyd tried to twist away when one of the rabbits started to poke him with a stick. It was only when the rabbits lept on him, shaking him that Kyd Wykkyd lazily opened his eyes.
And found Kid Flash holding a bucket of water above him.
Kyd Wykkyd leapt out of the way, narrowly avoiding the water as it splashed over his sleeping bag. Kyd Wykkyd was glad he always slept above the covers (or sleeping bag as the case could be), but still glared at Kid Flash, upset that he would have to wait for it to dry before he could pack it away. If someone didn't have a solution to quickly dry it of, Kid Flash was going to pay somehow.
"You're Kyd Wykkyd, right?" Kid Flash whispered, probably trying to avoid waking the other H.I.V.E members. He needn't have bothered. Jinx and Kyd Wykkyd were the lightest sleepers in the team and Kyd Wykkyd did not wake easily. Still, Kyd Wykkyd just nodded his head.
"And you're close to Jinx?"
Kyd Wykkyd shook his head at that and pointed at Gizmo and Mammoth. Those two had known her for a long time and had even been her teammates and in the H.I.V.E, people generally only became close to their teammates.
"But you like Jinx?" Kid Flash persisted. Kyd Wykkyd conceded that point. In the H.I.V.E, he had only known that she existed as was good, but his time in her team had allowed him to learn some of what she was like as a person.
That was all Kid Flash needed. "Read this," he whispered, passing Kyd Wykkyd a note. It read:
Hey guys,
I'm going to Egypt as a favor for someone for a little bit. I'll come back when I'm done, though I'm not entirely sure when that will be. I'm going to be searching for a missing person. Sorry I didn't tell you in advance but at least this time, I left a note.
And Kid Flash- I'll be fine! I'm a big girl now!
Jinx
Kyd Wykkyd passed it back to Kid Flash. He was glad that Jinx had learned her lesson somewhat, and hadn't just taken off again. Instead, she had even told them some of what was going on.
Kid Flash accepted it, "So, I was wondering if you could follow her and keep her safe."
Kyd Wykkyd rolled his eyes. Hadn't Jinx written down that she would be fine? Didn't Kid Flash trust her? He shook his head.
"There's someone trying to kill Jinx." Kid Flash argued.
Kyd Wykkyd, having heard that theory just before he went to bed, remained firm and shook his head again. His sub-conscious mind might believe it (and feel guilty because of the voice), but it didn't mean his conscious mind had to believe it, as well.
Kid Flash seemed to be thinking of something to say. "I'll give you two-thousand dollars and pay for all necessary expenses for you and one friend." And with that, Kyd Wykkyd was sold. He went to wake up Billy Numerous and right a letter of his own.
Meanwhile, Kid Flash had one more person to wake.
Beastboy grinned as he pulled a portable video game player out of his pocket. He had never expected at actually use it, and had almost forgotten it's existence. But now, he was glad he had brought it. After all, plane rides could be terribly boring.
Cobra was staring out the window, completely mesmerized. From the way Beastboy say it, the world could have been imploding and she would never have stopped looking out that window. From the moment she happened to see what was out there, she'd been staring, creating a boring plane ride.
About an hour into the flight, she stopped.
"Is this you're first time in Egypt?"
Beastboy nodded.
"Well, I hope you know something about it."
Okay. I did not like the last few chapters. It just feels like the characters are too OOC, even if this is a weird position for any of them. Hopefully their quality is improving. It's weird though. This story was supposed to be about both the H.I.V.E kids and the Titans, but the Titans are not really being shown. Giving both teams some consideration just isn't working at the moment.