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'Of course. He just had to fall asleep during the team debriefing. I can't really blame him since it's way past midnight.' Jinx amusingly thought. She was obviously referring to the one and only, Beast Boy, who had seemed so determined to dedicate his life to protecting Jinx as they took the jet back to the Doom Patrol HQ. At one point he started blabbering on about training harder, longer and even doing so every day because it was his job to protect her. He had a strange fire in his eyes that told Jinx he wasn't exactly lying about what he'd said.
He was so full of energy and dare she think it, passion, but when they arrived back home from the many hour long journey, Mento sat them all down in the conference room and started debriefing them... Only then did Beast Boy decide to silently clock out.
The only person who seemed to notice or even care was Jinx because he happened to be resting his head on her shoulder. The physical contact was nice, even if it was quite troublesome. Beast Boy was a lot heavier than he looked. 'Must be all of that muscle.' Jinx mused.
Many times throughout the debriefing, Jinx found herself nudging him into an upright position so he could rest without her support but his head always found its way back to her shoulder along with the remainder of his body weight. 'This is the last time I'm sitting next to him in a meeting like this.' She paused to weigh in the pros and cons of such a decision. 'Then again, sitting in his lap is the only acceptable alternative. Would Mento would be okay with that?'
"Jinx." A familiar voice called out to the pink haired girl but she was apparently too lost in thought to notice.
'He probably wouldn't. I wonder if he's going to get me the paperwork I need to marry...' She gently pushed Beast Boy comfortably back into his own seat. '... Beast Hunk right there. What type of ID I would need anyway?' It was clear at this point that they hadn't even considered planning their wedding. The only thing they knew was that they were going to marry each other one way or another and they had all the time in the world to sort out the specifics.
"Jinx." The voice called out again.
She subconsciously reached her right hand over to her left in order to twist her engagement ring around on her finger as a way to further distract herself. To her dismay; the ring wasn't even there. She briefly panicked for a moment before remembering that she'd agreed with Beast Boy that wearing such precious jewellery whilst on duty wasn't a very good idea. If something were to happen to the ring he'd given her... She perished the thought.
'Jinx Logan. Hmm, that doesn't sound right. How about Nicole Logan?' She sounded the names out in her head. 'That sounds better. But if my last name was Logan and I called him Logan, wouldn't that just be confus-'
"JINX!" Once more, the same voice called out with the exception that it was much louder this time. The sudden outburst didn't seem to phase Beast Boy's sleeping form in the least.
Jinx's eyes lost the glazed look that had captured them and she focused on the person calling her name. "Yes?"
"I know you've been around my son for a while now but I'd appreciate it if you avoided picking up any of his other bad habits. Day dreaming during a debriefing is reproachable behavior." Mento sternly reprimanded her like a child.
She didn't bother pointing out that Beast Boy was quite obviously sleeping right next to her. "Oh - I'm sorry." She brought a hand up to her chest in a mock heartfelt gesture.
Not quite liking her attitude, Mento demonstrated just how irascible he was by scowling at her. "Why was Starfire there to assist us?"
She returned the favor with a sarcastic quip. "Because Beast Boy and I are her friends?"
Gritting his teeth and bearing the irritating teenager's behavior, the telepath clarified his previous question. "You know what I meant. What were the circumstances of her arrival at General Zahl's hideout?"
After regrouping and gathering what ever data they could, the team had already walked out of the underground lair with General Zahl in their custody. They'd agreed that Beast Boy would take Elasti-Girl back to the jet with one of his aerial forms and they'd fly it back to hover over their location and then open the cargo ramp so Starfire could bring everybody safely inside.
As expected; Jinx secured herself in the seat right next to Beast Boy who had been eagerly awaiting her arrival. On the other end of the jet, Negative Man sat himself near Robot Man who was strapped securely in place with the straps that would normally be used to hold large containers. Zahl was still out cold by the time they secured him in the jet but they injected the villain with a strong sedative just to be on the safe side. Hopefully it would last until they could hand him over to the appropriate authorities.
Starfire took a seat directly in front of the young couple of the day. She decided to join them on the way back so she could catch up with her friends and also because it took her in the general direction of where she was supposed to meet Red X. Under normal circumstances she'd have sped off on her own and made it to her destination in record time thanks to her flight capabilities but these weren't normal circumstances. These were rather, as she'd aptly label them, "glorious" circumstances.
"Oh friends! It is most agreeable to be able to converse with you at last!" Starfire exclaimed as the jet sped up, off and away from the island.
Chuckling, Beast Boy cracked a joke. "Jeez, Star. Are you going to start telling us to live long and prosper as well?"
"I do not understand. Would you not welcome my wishes for your well-being?"
Jinx elbowed Beast Boy in the ribs for his poor attempt at humor. "I'd find it agreeable if you'd stop making Star Trek references, that is, only if you do want to end up living long and prosper." She promptly returned her hand to rest on top of Beast Boy's right hand which he had used to intimately grasp Jinx's upper thigh. It seemed that he was still greatly worried about losing her.
He brought his free hand up to rub the back of his neck. "Ahh yeah... Sorry, Star. I was just trying to be funny."
"It is alright, friend."
Decidedly advancing the conversation, Jinx asked the question they were both dying to broach. "I don't mean to sound unappreciative, but why did you come here, Star?"
Starfire took a few seconds to consider her answer. "Do you recall one of our previous conversations where I mentioned being assaulted by a number of Slade bots?"
"You said that you dealt with them and got away. Why?"
"They did not do the stopping even after we escaped. They found us many times more - each time they were upgraded and harder to combat."
"Did X end up finding any proof that Slade was the one who sent them?" Beast Boy questioned. Slade was supposed to be dead so it was only reasonable for them to try and figure out who was responsible.
"Boyfriend Red X has been unable to locate the person who had sent them. He told me that he had similar difficulty in the past when trying to track Slade's activities whilst he was still alive."
Attempting to be at least a little compassionate, Jinx spoke softly. "That sounds rough, Star. Is that why you're looking a little tired?"
"No." She tersely stated.
"No?" Jinx sought clarification.
"Slade bots were not the only enemies we encountered." Starfire sounded a little hesitant to reveal specific details.
Beast Boy made sure to approach the topic carefully after seeing Starfire look downcast. "Do we even want to know who else you fought?"
She shook her head in response. "You do not. In fact, all of the fighting had caused boyfriend Red X's supply of Xenothium to dwindle down to almost nothing. He discovered that someone was moving large amounts of it so he thought it would be an 'easy steal' as he would say."
Piecing it all together, the pink haired girl solved the little puzzle. "Let me guess: that someone was General Zahl?"
"Yes. That is what lead me to you."
"Why didn't you tell us about what you'd found? We haven't even been able to contact you with that cool communicator thingy you gave us."
"Boyfriend Red X informed me that we were to maintain the 'radio silence' because he suspected that someone was tracking our signal when ever we activated the communicators. I am most sorry, friends. I have greatly done the missing of both of you."
"It would be nice to talk to you a lot more. Do you think he's going to lift the radio silence any time soon?"
"He's working on a way to make our signal impossible to intercept and trace. Once he succeeds I will gladly inform you of it."
It didn't take long after that for Beast Boy and Jinx to start discussing their own lives with the redhead. Starfire almost ripped the safety belts out of their sockets when she tried to jump for joy after hearing that the young couple across from her were engaged. The conversation quickly took a strange turn when Starfire started asking about their mating experiences thus far. With Beast Boy too embarrassed to even discuss the topic, Jinx was left with the duty of telling Starfire that it wasn't proper to question others about their sexual lives just out of the blue like that on Earth.
Starfire was quick to schedule a girls night with the unlucky girl - it was to be had at the soonest convenience of both parties.
Jinx made sure to include unnecessary details throughout her recounting of the whole ordeal, such as detailed descriptions of the warm fluttery feelings she received when ever she shared eye contact with Beast Boy and she also began recalling the friendly catch up conversation that they all shared after figuring out how Starfire found them just in time to save Beast Boy.
Mento knew that she was trying to antagonize him but he quickly cut her off when he concluded that there was nothing more she could tell him. Acknowledging the fact that without Jinx's and Beast Boy's assistance, the Doom Patrol would have failed (he gave a small amount of credit where a lot more credit was due), he announced that the debriefing was over.
Jinx was having a little trouble waking Beast Boy so when the others weren't looking as they stood up, she leaned over and planted a prolonged kiss upon his unknowing lips. Shockingly coming back to the world of the living, he momentarily went wide eyed before returning the kiss with as much intensity as he could muster on such short notice. The two parted with grins on their faces before Mento began ushering everyone out.
Naturally, the chromatically differed duo were the first to exit as they sped off, undoubtedly, to their room to retire for the night. Negative Man commented on this. "Bah! They were getting all cutesy wutesy again."
"You're tellin' me. The way she always sits in his lap when ever it's possible is disgusting." Robot Man commented with a hint of disdain.
Their mock disgust towards her son's relationship caused Elasti-Girl to smile. "You two shouldn't mock young love."
"I don't like her attitude." The Doom Patrol leader blurted out with no apparent room for adjustment in his current view.
His wife placed a hand on his shoulder before speaking. "Steve, you should be happy that she's finally starting to act like a normal person around you instead of a little clay soldier. It means that she's settling in and getting used to everyone."
Mento merely groaned in response before moving ahead of everyone else and quickly evacuating the room.
Robot Man called out from his seat as the last two Doom Patrollers shared a hearty laugh and began walking out of the room without him. "Guys! Mento still needs to fix me."
The lights flicked off and shortly afterwards the door slammed shut.
"Guys?"
Beast Boy could hardly keep his hands off his fiancé as they made their way to their room which Jinx happily commented on after breaking away from another fiery kiss with her green boyfriend. "You're a little hands on today."
"You started it." He pointedly stated.
"I did nothing of the sort." She teased.
As cliché as it sounds; the bright grin on his face made her heart flutter. "Don't play games, beautiful."
"Call me that again and..." Her breath hitched as he aggressively pushed her against a wall and began planting soft kisses along her neckline. She tilted her head slightly to give him better access. "... There will be consequences."
"What kind of consequences?" He daringly questioned.
Leaning her head forward just enough so that her warm breath could hit his ear, she warned him. "The best kind."
"Well, it's not my fault that you're so strikingly beautiful."
She muttered something about him using big words before she turned the tables by maneuvering out of his grasp and shoving him against the wall this time so that she could switch the positions around. Securing her position by wrapping one of her legs around him, it was now her turn to start planting kisses along his own neckline.
"Jinx..." He huffed out in annoyance.
This of course prompted her to smile she began teasing him further. "What? You prefer to be on top and in control?"
A strong wave of possessiveness swept throughout him as something inside of him roared in affirmation. He brought his left hand up to his brand on her neck only to gently trace around it with one of his sharpened nails. "Yes."
"I think I can accommodate for that." She sultrily said as she broke away and reached up to grip his hand with her own before tugging him towards their destination.
The pale skinned heroine wasted no time in groping his manliest of body parts through his uniform as soon as they'd entered the secluded confines of their room. Only by a hair's width did the unsuspecting teenager resist the urge to jump in surprise. "And you said I was the hands on one."
"I like to appraise the merchandise before I do something with it." Jinx naughtily said with a devilish smirk on her face and a teasing glint in her eyes.
If it weren't for the implications of the double entendre, Beast Boy would have more than likely grinned, but he wasn't yet completely consumed by lust which is why he was able to question her intentions. "What exactly do you plan to do with 'it'?"
The poor girl's smirk was wiped off her face as she broke away from Beast Boy and paused for a moment while looking him in the eye. Sighing, she turned around and trudged on over to their bed to take a seat.
Finally moving his own two feet, he walked over and sat next to her. "This is as hard for you as it is for me." He said in as compassionate voice as he could muster.
"It doesn't seem like it." She childishly retorted without turning to face him. She had this underlying doubt that maybe she just wasn't good enough for him.
"You know that I want you too... Especially right now since you're ovulating, but I don't want to do 'it' until we're married."
With a bewildered look, she turn her head to see if he was serious. "How on the hell do you know that I'm... Oh." She recalled a talk that she had with him back when they were still Titans. 'His ears hear all, his eyes show no lies and his nose knows... That damn nose of his.'
"Trust me, Jinx. That turns me on more than anything but it would make me a lot happier if we were married before we went that far. I was just raised that way."
"Okay..." She tried not to sound so upset about being rejected but it was difficult. If she wasn't so upset then she may have even connected the dots about why her ovulation turned him on so much.
"Plus, I don't really want our first time to be in my parents house." He joked in an effort to cheer her up.
She couldn't stop a smile from creeping onto her face after hearing his little wisecrack.
In a nervous manner, he brought up something else that might cheer her up. "Y'know... There are lots of other things we can do."
"Things?" She questioned, getting a little more interested in where the conversation was going.
"Well... I mean... I've been sorta wondering..." He couldn't quite say what he wanted to. To his fiancée, he even seemed a little shy.
A deadly serious look crossed her face. "Yes?"
Now that the heated passion in his veins had long since died down, saying the words was almost pure torture for the green teen. "I wonder what you taste like."
"What I taste like?" It took her a moment to figure out what he meant. After a sudden moment of clarity, she wasted no time in removing her panties as soon as possible in order to indulge his curiosity; purely in the name of science, of course.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: For (minimal) comedic value: I opted to ignore the fact that the team must've dragged Robot Man into the jet, taken him back home and sat him in the chair without remembering that they'd left him in an immobile state. I guess this is a longer chapter to say sorry for not posting updates as much as I used to?