Bound- Chapter 6: Decisions
Rating: M
Pairing: Raven/Starfire, Raven/Jinx
A/N: Yo.
Don't own the show. Pointless to sue, don't got money.
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Jinx woke to a room that wasn't hers. She couldn't really remember the night before, but she did remember that she had been in this room before. She just couldn't remember when. She opened her eyes, but was greeted to darkness; it brought an instant feeling of safety, but she didn't know why.
Once her eyes adjusted to the dark, she tried to sit up; to be stopped by something around her waist. For what felt like the first time in her life, she actually felt a bit of fear mixed in with that feeling of safety. She turned her head slowly to look behind her...
And found Raven's sleeping face.
Jinx gave a sigh, I was afraid of Raven? What the hell is wrong with me? She thought. But then she wondered why she was unable to move and looked down.
Raven had her left arm thrown over, and wrapped protectively around Jinx's waist, holding her close. She wasn't wearing a shirt, which wasn't all that surprising; but what was surprising, was the bright red angry burn mark that was covering most of her left shoulder. Jinx couldn't tell if it was hurting the dark titan or not; it was always hard to read the mage, injuries or not. If Raven didn't want you to see her emotions, then you would have better luck finding ice water in hell.
Jinx couldn't hide the smirk at that thought, she carefully removed the half breed's arm from around her and got out of the bed. All Raven did was give a soft, almost silent groan as she turned slightly to rest more on her back. Jinx stood and watched the dark mage for a few minutes.
She still couldn't believe that Raven had come to her aid last night. She didn't know why the other woman had done it, but she was grateful none the less.
After a few more minutes, Jinx left Raven's room, silently shutting the door before walking down the hallway. As she turned the corner, she came to an abrupt stop in front of a black mist. It moved and pulsed for a second before taking the form of Raven. Jinx took a step back,
"Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you."
"And I know this because?" Jinx asked,
The form grinned, "Raven is still in a deep sleep, trying to heal her wound. She knows you left, but is still trying to respect your wishes of leaving you alone."
"Then why are you here?" The metahuman questioned, confusion lacing her voice.
"Raven agreed to let me have free range in spirit form, as long as you're ok with it."
"Well, what do you want?"
"To attach to you." The form answered without thought.
All Jinx did was tilt her head.
"That made no sense, huh?" A low chuckle escaped, "Sorry. I'm her demon side. This form is Raven's 'soul-self' in it's purest form. I want to attach it to you. To protect you."
Jinx nodded, finally starting to get it, "Won't that leave Raven defenseless?"
"No. When she defeated her father, she gained about 75 percent of his power, if not more. The form I am in, is only her power, not what she got from him. And besides, it's not going to be forever. Just for now. I'm getting bored with nothing to do."
"You can get bored?"
Another chuckle came loose, "All of her emotions have something to keep them occupied, me? Not so much."
Jinx gave a shrug, "Alright, help yourself." She said. She watched as the form became mist again and wound around her right forearm. She lifted the sleeve of shirt, and saw runes that looked a lot like the ones on Raven's body, forming; glowing brightly for a minute before dulling down to black. She stroked over them briefly before replacing her sleeve and heading towards the Common Room.
She was greeted to the sight of Robin sitting at the table, drinking a cup of coffee and flipping through a file folder. He stopped the instant he noticed her.
"Hello Jinx."
She chose to stay silent, not wanting something sarcastic to come out. She sat across from him.
"Is Raven still asleep?"
She nodded.
They continued to sit in silence, til a question came to mind.
"What happened to her shoulder?"
"We went after two of the men that cast that spell on her. He could control fire."
Jinx winced in sympathy, "Thank you."
"For what?"
"Not throwing me out?"
Robin nodded, "As far as I'm concerned, as long as you don't hurt Raven, you'll be fine."
The funny thing was, Jinx didn't think she could. Not after the dark titan had saved her.
~o0o~
Raven groaned softly as she rolled over, it turned into a muffled scream of pain when she ended up landing on her left shoulder. She instantly rolled back over, staring up at the ceiling.
After the fight, and talking briefly with Robin and the team, Raven had fled to the old library. She ignored the door with the Mark of Scath as it opened, and rummaged through all the books she found on the selves near the door. Only three books had promising things in them, but she still wanted to see if she could find more.
Unfortunately, that meant she had to travel down into the one place she considered Hell on Earth.
She had descended the stairs slowly, knowing that it would hurt if she went down too fast. The runes slowly drew themselves on her body as she ignored the ghost that flared to life, chanting the the prophecy of her past. She turned and walked over to a well hidden door, it slid open upon her standing in front of it, and walked through.
A large dark room met her gaze and she used her powers to light the candles around the room, showing off a vastly spaced library. This particular library was different than any other that could hold magical books. This one room, held all of the originals. Every book ever written, it's original rested here, safe from all who might use them for evil. Raven was the only person alive that had access to this room now.
The previous had been the head monk of the monastery she lived in as a child.
There was one other layer of protection, every book was written in a dead language, that was only known to the most studious of Azarathians. Raven had been taught all of them; before they were all locked deeply away into her emotion Knowledge.
She spent the next three hours flipping through all the books, finally ending up in the far back. She was on the last book, she flipped through it slowly, and found the spell she had been looking for. She took her cape off, wrapped the book tightly in it, and covered it all with her soul-self. Once done, she grabbed the others and left.
She had planned on reading through all of them thoroughly when she got back. Her body had disagreed. The instant she was in her room, the books were put away and she all but collapsed on the bed. She had curled up on her right side, farthest from Jinx.
Now that she was awake, she could tell she had moved closer. The spot next to her still held a slight bit of warmth.
"I wonder what it looked like." She murmured, carefully sitting up. She moved the blanket and slowly rolled her shoulder. She let out a hiss before moving out of bed completely.
Raven slowly walked into her bathroom, starting a shower (Cold, of course) and took of her clothes. She really wanted to kill her demon, but could tell that she wasn't really there. The body form in her mind was, but the essence of her wasn't.
You know where she went, right? Knowledge asked gently.
"Yeah. She already ran it by me."
Did she also mention she was going to leave her 'body' in my care?
Raven let out a chuckle, but didn't respond. She took her shower, gently cleaning the healing wound on her shoulder, and got dressed. She was in the same outfit that she wore the first night Jinx stayed over, and walked out the door.
She wasn't worried about running into anyone. The only person that would be up, besides her, was Robin; and he had already seen her like that. Cyborg was the only one to see her completely naked, for medical reasons.
She walked into the Common Room, running her fingers through her hair to comb it, and froze when she felt eyes watching her. She turned to see Jinx and Robin sitting at the table, staring at her.
"What?" She asked, confused at the concern she felt coming off them in waves.
Jinx stood up and slowly walked over. She carefully reached out and touched the bright red burn. Raven gave a hiss, but didn't step back. She could feel the pulse of her power in Jinx's touch, and knew that she was touching her wound with the arm that her demon had attached herself to.
"Why isn't it healed?"
Raven grinned slightly, "It was worse last night. It'll be healed by nightfall."
Jinx nodded, suddenly wrapping her arms around the mage's waist tightly. Raven was startled, but returned the gesture,
"Thank you."
"Why?"
"Because no one has eve-"
"No." Raven murmured, shaking her head, "Why did they do that?"
"They wanted me to do another job, but I refused. I had been going back and forth, never truly picking a side. I told them I quit being evil. They didn't like it." Jinx answered. She felt light sting in her right arm and pulled it back from the dark titan with a wince. She pulled up her sleeve to see the black runes glow red, "What?"
Raven held the meta-human's wrist gently and stroked over the marks, making the red fade to black again. She leaned down and kissed Jinx's palm gently.
"There, that should be better. The color will tell you what she's feeling. Red means anger." The dark mage stated, standing fully and starting her water for her tea.
"What are you going to do? She said she was using your power?"
"I'll use my fathers. It's more or less the same, the only difference is that you won't even see what it is I'm using it on."
"Example, please?" Robin asked, listening in,
"If I put up a shield to protect me, you wouldn't even see me. It'd be like a concert wall. I can't see you, you can't see me." Raven explained as she poured her cup of tea, and joined the two at the table. "Most likely, Demon will stay with you till I finish working on the spell."
Jinx nodded, sighing, "I'll have to go and get my things. I can't live there anymore. I'll have to find a new place to live."
"I already got your stuff." Raven answered, taking a sip out of her cup before calling one of the books from last night to her.
"If you can't find a place, you can stay here. You won't have to help out with fighting crime, or anything." Robin added, flipping to another page in his folder.
Jinx sat in stunned silence as she looked at the two titan's. She didn't understand why they would do that. She felt a warmth fill her heart at what they said and nodded, she would stay; for now.
~o0o~
"You WHAT?" Alricx screeched, anger filling his voice, "How do you LOSE to a female? You are three times stronger then her, DAMMIT!"
Zanxt and Norc both flinched, "We tried." Zanxt said, "She seemed to not take in to account what I did to her and bound me down. I still have welts on my back from her powers."
"I couldn't even get to her, Her damned friends were blocking my path."
Alricx growled, "You told her what we wanted?"
"It was either that, or I die."
Alricx sighed and rubbed his eyes, "Fine. We'll figure something else out."
A/N: There, you go.
Hope you enjoyed. ^^
