Jinx heaved as it felt like her stomach tried to turn itself inside out, as she retched she cursed Beast Boy and his ungodly food. She heard her bedroom door open as she pulled herself up to the sink and rinsed her mouth out, she swiped at the flush for the toilet and hung her head weakly over the sink gasping for air.
"Hey Jinx, you should see Beast Boy, he's so sick he's green. Well, greener than usual." Kid Flash said quickly before noticing that Jinx's bedroom was empty.
'Don't let him hear me being sick.' Jinx breathed in silent prayer, not that she cared what he thought, but a girl had to have standards.
"Jinx? You in there?" Kid Flash asked rapping gently on the metal door between him and her, Jinx stayed silent in the hope that he'd go away.
"I know you're in there, I can feel the total lack of body heat and the sense of humour vacuum from here." Kid Flash said rolling his eyes.
"Hey!" Jinx snapped automatically before covering her mouth realising her mistake, she had not just been tricked by a dork in neon spandex, she glowered, she could feel the kilowatt smile he was wearing even through the thick metal door.
"Come on, let me in." He whined.
"No!" Jinx snapped angrily and sat down on the edge of the bath waiting for him to go away.
"Aww, come on." He said pleadingly.
"No!" Jinx repeated annoyed.
"You know I could vibrate my way through that door right?" He pointed out.
"No! Don't!" Jinx yelped jumping up, "I'm… ill." She said pathetically.
"Oh no, Beast Boy hasn't gotten you sick too has he?" Kid Flash asked, the worried tone evident in his voice.
"Yeah, like food poisoning or something. Evil little git made it taste nice until this happened, it's not so nice the second time." Jinx said wrinkling her nose and rinsing her mouth out with mouthwash, she noted she was nearly out.
"Oh Jinx, is there anything I can get you to make you feel better?" Kid Flash asked sounding worried.
"More mouthwash." Jinx grumbled sliding the door open and slipping out with the bottle and shoving it at his chest.
"Got it." He smiled gently and put the bottle on the counter top by the door, he ran his eyes over her, she did look poorly.
"You managed to get dressed at least." He observed.
"Yeah, I felt more human after having a shower and getting dressed." Jinx nodded running a hand through her completely fuzzed up and crinkled hair, it was down in a tangled mess by her shoulders.
"You're paler than usual, and you feel all cold and clammy." He noted worried as he felt her face.
"Yeah, I know, I'm a wreck okay?" Jinx huffed stepping back from him irritated.
"You're not a wreck, I'm just concerned." He smiled charmingly before planting a quick kiss on her lips.
"Eww you scuzzbag, I've just been sick!" Jinx protested childishly wiping her mouth on her sleeve.
"I don't care!" He laughed happily and grabbed her into a hug.
"Squeeze me and you'll regret it!" Jinx threatened as the boy hugged her and nuzzled her neck. A beeping from his belt made him pull away with a groan, he checked the beeping thing and sighed wearily.
"A robbery downtown, I gotta go. You stay here and get better, I'll pick up your mouthwash okay?" He smiled before zipping off. Jinx stood contentedly in the silence of her room before wandering into the bathroom and forcing the window open upwards, she stood on the rim of the bath and pulled herself up so she half dangled out of the window. She watched Kid Flash zip off over the bridge with a smile.
"Silly boy." She muttered affectionately before climbing down.
Kid Flash was tired, not physically of course, but mentally. This was the third robbery they'd arrived at in a row but each time they got there the bad guys had got away, the police were so slow to notify them every time that even he couldn't catch them and he was expecting no less at the third robbery.
"They went that way!" A woman yelled pointing down an alleyway, Kid Flash was never one to shy away from being proved wrong.
"I'm on it!" Kid Flash yelled back to the Titans, Robin broke into a run after him, they'd always worked well as a team of two; Kid Flash and Robin. Kid Flash skidded around a corner at high speed and growled at what he saw.
"The HIVE five." He spoke the dislike evident in his voice, they turned around to face him, or rather Kyd Wykkyd and Mammoth did, the alley was so narrow it was impossible to see anyone else. Kid Flash charged at the same moment that Robin rounded the corner. Robin kept his eyes on Kid Flash as he pulled out his birdarangs and blinked in surprise when Kid Flash charged at Kyd Wykkyd and disappeared through the vortex in his cloak.
"Make this disappear!" He growled throwing them at the HIVE five, the birdarangs bounced up the walls and exploded showering the small time villains with rubble and debris, they yelped and shouted before retreating hastily. Robin's eyes widened as he saw the familiar fuchsia horns of hair retreat around the corner as Mammoth ducked to protect himself from the falling bricks.
"Urgh. He teleported me to the bottom of the harbour! You know what an awful swimmer I am!" Kid Flash gasped as he appeared dripping wet and gasping for breath at Robin's side.
"I just saw Jinx." Robin said looking straight at Kid Flash.
"What? Did she just show up? I guess the sickness must have passed." Kid Flash said looking around the corner to see if he could catch sight of her.
"No, with the HIVE five." Robin said unemotionally, Kid Flash looked around at this.
"That's not funny Robin." He said narrowing his eyes at his dark haired friend.
"I wasn't joking Wally." Robin said flatly using Kid Flash's real name to emphasise his point.
"I didn't think you'd sink so low as to lie like that." Kid Flash growled turning his back to storm off back to the others, a hand grabbed his arm.
"I'm not lying." Robin urged his friend, Kid Flash paused and walked back to the group with Robin in silence.
"So much for they only come out at night huh?" Cyborg chuckled looking at the parade of punk styled kids walking past in a parade, it hurt Kid Flash's eyes to look at them, he'd never seen so many different neon hair colours in one go.
"Happy now? You probably just saw one of these girls." Kid Flash said gesturing to the crowd.
"I know what I saw." Robin said stubbornly.
"Saw what?" Starfire asked not taking her eyes of the Technicolor display of hairstyles walking by.
"I saw Jinx, with the HIVE five." Robin stated much to Kid Flash's dismay.
"So he says." Kid Flash added, Raven closed her eyes and extended her mind.
"I can't sense her." Raven informed the group.
"There, Raven says it too, now are you happy?" Kid Flash asked exasperatedly, Robin could be so awful with ideas like this, as soon as he got one stuck in his head he'd never let go, good for investigating but awful for arguments.
"They were running off pretty fast, she's probably too far away now." Robin said waving a hand dismissively.
"Anyway," he added at Kid Flash's groan, "if you're so sure, call her and the communicator will tell you where she is." Robin said challengingly, the boys stared at each other for a while, presumably one of them won as Kid Flash pulled the communicator off of the clip on his belt.
"Fine. I will." He huffed, selecting Jinx's communicator from the list of names and selecting 'call'. The others stood in silence waiting for a result until Kid Flash conceded with "It's off. I'm sure she just doesn't know how to charge it yet or something."
"Let's just go home and see for ourselves then? And hopefully the police won't catch us to do a report." Cyborg suggested to the agreement of everyone.
"Oh, you're a goddess Jinx!" Beast Boy praised the pink haired witch as he ate the food in the bowl before him. Behind them the doors to the tower slid open and the tasty aroma of food reached the noses of the hungry teens.
"Ooh! Food!" Cyborg yelled happily and dashed over to the counter.
"Hey, I was hoping you lot would get back before it got cold." Jinx said serving up a bowl of her food for Cyborg with a smile.
"You cook?" Kid Flash asked surprised from a stool next to Beast Boy who was quite literally wolfing down his food.
"Yep, you want some?" Jinx asked giving the giant frying pan another stir and wafting the tempting aroma over to him.
"Do I ever! I'll have nine portions please!" He grinned charmingly holding out a bowl that he'd gotten from seemingly nowhere.
"You'll have one and like it bud." Jinx said threateningly jabbing a wooden spoon in his direction before serving. "And eat it like a normal person." She added watching as he prepared to inhale the meal, bashfully Kid Flash froze and began eating it slowly.
"Hey Jinx, is your communicator working? I tried to call you earlier but I couldn't get through." Kid Flash asked curiously, he really wanted Robin to have to eat his words about Jinx.
"Oh that thing? I can't get it working for the life of me, I'm awful with technology, it's something to do with my powers, Gizmo had to give me a new communicator practically every week because they kept breaking. Feel free to have a look at it if you want." Jinx sighed having had the experience to never buy expensive gadgets, she couldn't even carry a pager without it exploding, let alone any of the high tech cellphones and ipods the other girls her age always seemed to have with them.
"Anyone else want any of this?" Jinx asked pulling a few more bowls out of the cupboard and missing the pointed 'I-told-you-so' look that Kid Flash sent Robin.
"I'll have some." Raven said quietly as she sat down with Starfire, Jinx dutifully served the two of them, it was about then that Cyborg finished his inspection of the meal.
"Is there any meat in this?" He asked shocked and scandalised.
"No, it's a vegetarian stir fry. No meat, and no tofu either, so no one has to be sick." Jinx said glowering at Beast Boy.
"How many times do I have to apologise? I got sick too!" Beast Boy whined pitifully.
"Until I stop feeling ill!" Jinx snapped throwing a spoon at him violently.
"How are you feeling?" Robin asked coldly from the other side of the room.
"Sympathy? I'm surprised. I'm feeling a lot better thank you, still a little queasy but as long as I'm not doing any back flips today I should live." Jinx said resting a hand on her hip and inspecting Robin suspiciously.
"And pray, how long have you felt well enough to be out here cooking and in plain sight of Beast Boy to vouch for you being here?" Robin demanded.
"About half an hour, stir fry doesn't take long to cook." She replied narrowing her eyes at him feeling like she was being attacked by some high inquisition that was Robin.
"So more than enough time for you to have robbed three stores, be seen by me and have Kyd Wykkyd teleport you back here then!" Robin snapped pointing a finger accusingly at Jinx.
"I'm not going to even bother replying to that bird boy, this is getting beneath me." She glowered at him.
"You may have Kid Flash wrapped around your little finger but I see you for who you are and you'll be behind bars by the end of the week, I guarantee it." Robin snarled at her before stalking off angrily.
"Well I'm spitting in the next meal I cook for him, until then who wants his portion?" Jinx muttered gripping the wooden spoon so hard that it cracked and then caught fire.
"Oh! Me!" Kid Flash yelped waving his hands in the air desperate for more food.
"I am sorry about Robin's behaviour Jinx, it is most unlike him." Starfire apologised sadly.
"It's okay Starfire, he's not your fault." Jinx said shaking her head wearily.
"And it is like him really I suppose. He'd treat Slade or the Brotherhood of Evil the same way, in his mind there's just no difference between you and them. He'll come around, eventually." Cyborg sighed, their leader could be so… difficult sometimes for all his brilliance.
"I hope so." Jinx sighed sitting down with her own food next to Kid Flash who merely smiled into his noodles at this huge display of public affection from someone as defensive as Jinx.
"I'm putting some meat on this." Cyborg said standing up and walking over to the fridge.
"Urgh. Philistine." Jinx said rolling her eyes and laughing.
"Aww, my little housewife." Kid Flash smiled kissing Jinx on the cheek.
"WHAT did you just call me?!" Jinx snapped hexing the boy clean across the room.
Robin stood in the corridor grinding his teeth at the sound of happy laughter and Kid Flash's feeble protests to his innocence.
"Mark my words Jinx, by the end of the week you WILL be behind bars." Robin muttered.