Interrogation
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans, but I do own Element and all other characters I create.
Cyborg stepped out of the "special" police's room for questioning criminals, a look of disappointment on his face. "Man, I can't get anything out of these guys, Gizmo keeps calling me names and getting around the subject, Mammoth seems to dumb to tell me anything, and Jinx won't say a single word to me. I don't think we can get anything off of these guys."
Element stepped forward after looking through the two-way mirror at the group of criminals. "You might be doing something wrong."
"Hey..."
"It's not an insult, it takes a certain kind of attitude to deal with certain people. Mind if I give it a shot, while I was away I've done a few of these kind of things."
Cyborg looked skeptic at first. "Well... okay, guess it wouldn't hurt, go on ahead." He opened the door to the room for him.
Element stepped through the door and started to pace in front of the group. "So, you think that no matter what I do I won't be able to get anything out of you, and you'll just be able to squirm around everything I say somehow, correct?"
Gizmo put his feet on the table, which was kind of remarkable considering his size. "Just you try us, snot-for-brains, we aint talking."
"Yeah," Mammoth budded in. "There's no way you're getting anything out of me."
Element stopped his pacing and looked straight at Mammoth, a look of thought on his face. "You know, I think you're right about that."
"Yeah, you..."
WHAM! Mammoth was knocked clear off his chair and thrown into the wall, creating a small crater where he hit. He fell down to the ground, knocked out. Element was standing over the chair that Mammoth was previously occupying, his fist was held out in the manner of that he just hit something, it was covered in the light energy that Element created.
He drew his hand back, the light energy disappearing, and walked back to pace in front of the table again. "Let me finish, the reason I think you are, or were, right is because I know you're too stupid to know anything that's going on."
Gizmo fell out of his chair, his mouth was hanging open after seeing Mammoth get knocked out by just a punch. He got back on and stared at Element. "So are you just going to hit us all like that, snot-eater, or are you actually going to try and get answers from us?"
Element took a step forward towards Gizmo, making him slightly shrink. "Hmm, it seems like you insult people a lot, Gizmo, but the pathetic thing is, they aren't even good insults." He started to walk back, then turned around. "Oh yeah, one more thing..." He launched himself forward, his hand drew back, covered in light energy, but stopped an inch from Gizmo's face. Gizmo fell back off his chair in fright of what Element might do to him, his hands were covering his face. Element inched his head closer until he was right by Gizmo's ear. "Your insults are kind of annoying, in the fact that they are the stupidest things I've ever heard... bitch." He drew his head back and walked once more into the center of the room, his fist extinguished of the light energy.
Finally, he turned to Jinx, who was bowing her head and not looking at anyone. "A little birdie told me that you weren't talking, care to tell me why? Oh wait, that's right..." He said in a sarcastic voice. "You can't tell me since you aren't talking, I guess I'll have to figure out myself."
"Shut up." Her voice went through the silent room, although her head was still bowed.
A look of puzzlement crossed Element's face. In a whispered voice to himself he talked. "Hmm, that's odd, I thought he said she wasn't talking. Okay." His voice grew to normal again to begin questioning. "First things first." He leaned his hands on the table. "I want to know who it was who attacked me."
Gizmo's mouth started to open, but closed as Jinx started to speak. "We don't know anything about what you're talking about."
Too bad for them Element caught Gizmo in the act of saying something. "Oh really? Maybe a description of the guy, perhaps, you should know him by it, he is in H.I.V.E., after all."
"How would you know?"
Element tossed the communicator on the table right in front of Jinx. "I'm not an idiot, I found this on the guy. Now, for the description, he has black hair, is about my age, maybe a little younger."
Jinx snorted. "That could describe anyone, how could we know who it is?"
"Well, you've got me there... of course, there is the small matter in which one of his arms was covered by a machine, I'm pretty sure that narrows the field a good amount."
Jinx shrugged. "Okay then, we know who he is. He's some kid that calls himself Blazer, he's pretty recent, started a few months ago, not that tough."
"Ah," Element held his finger up. "Now there's where you're lying. I was told that you were the toughest that the school had to offer, but let me say one thing, this kid, Blazer, is a lot tougher than your team, hey I should know."
"That's the first that we heard of this." It seemed like her regular voice, but Element could pick up something in it. What was it? A little fear maybe, nervousness, and, jealousy?
Ah, I see. "He is better than you, isn't he, and I bet it's just eating you up inside. You guys used to be number one, until he came and took that away from you, now you're just losers, designated to the bottom of the class, never going to ever be as good as him." He could see that he was getting to her, since she was shaking, and he guessed that her face was getting red. "What does it feel like, to suddenly not be on top? I never knew, since it's never happened to me before. Does it sting, does it burn up inside you, knowing that you'll never get the recognition that you deserve, that Blazer will always have the light shown on him."
"Shut up!" Jinx's head snapped up, anger and jealousy covering her face. "He thinks that he's so great, he thinks that he's better than us, just because he's able to pull off all of those tricks with his arm. We welcomed him into the group, we trained with him, helped him become better, everyone knows that without us he would be nothing. But now all people say is 'Wow, look at Blazer' and 'Did you see the knew high score Blazer beat?' We used to be the ones that everyone thought was cool and wanted to hang with, we were the ones who Blood could count on, now it's Blazer. Everything he accomplishes he holds over our heads, never even thanking us for how we helped him, and gloats on how we're never sent to do anything. And now he thinks that he's so cool and good because he was the one assigned to take you out." She looked relaxed at finally getting that out, until of course she realized what she just said, in which she looked a little worried.
Element stood straight up, eyes blinking at what he just heard. "Assigned? He was sent to try and beat me? This is definitely a new revelation, what more can you tell me about this, what else is going on in the academy that I don't know about?
Once again Jinx bowed her head, not willing to speak any more, good thing for Element that Gizmo was ready to spill his guts. "We don't know what's going on, all we know is that you're the focus of the attack."
Jinx gave him a dirty look. "Shut up, do you know what Blood will do if he finds out about what we told them."
"Does that matter, he should be mad anyway, we went against his orders and attacked the Titans, plus we failed, this is going to do close to nothing against his anger."
So the attack was against Blood's orders, eh, I guess these guys are really not on the track they were before. Element stepped out of the room to leave Jinx and Gizmo at arguing. "Okay, I got all I need, let's put these guys in a cell. Oh, and we're going to need some people to carry Mammoth."
Cyborg stepped forwards as Element motioned for the guards to help him with Mammoth. "Um, do you guys mind just taking Gizmo and Mammoth for now, I'd like to talk to Jinx alone."
After a second of thought Element shrugged. "Why not, I don't see the harm." He turned towards one of the guards. "Is it okay for him to do this?" After the guards nodded their heads, Element spoke again back to Cyborg. "It seems like you can do it, just be careful, okay, she's tricky."
Soon after the guards, Element, H.I.V.E., and rest of the Titans left, Cyborg stepped once again through the door into the interrogation room. Jinx was still sitting as she was before, with her head down and not looking at anyone. Cyborg stood in the doorway and looked at her, finally speaking. "Why won't you talk to me?"
The answer was greeted with silence. Cyborg took a step closer. "I asked you a question, why won't you talk to me?" More silence. "If you think that I'll leave just because you don't say anything then you're wrong, I want to find out why you aren't speaking to me. Does it have something to do with when I infiltrated H.I.V.E.? If that's the case, which I bet it is, then you might as well drop it, that happened a long time ago, it's over." He walked over to her and took a chair, sitting across from her. "Why can't you just leave it in the past, or at least say something to me." After a while of waiting for something Cyborg put his hand on his head and got up from the chair, exasperated.
"Traitor."
Cyborg spun around in response to the whisper that he heard. "What was that?"
"Traitor." She said this a little louder, so that he could hear the word yet still feel the sinister edge of the whisper. "You betrayed us, we were close, we were a team, and you turned your back on us." Her voice had grown shaky. "You were one of us, you were our friend, you were our comrade, you actually led the team, and then you just returned to the Titans like we were nothing."
"Jinx, you don't get it, I was a..."
"What don't I get, huh? What!" Her voice rose to almost a shout. "You betrayed us, you betrayed everyone, you betrayed the school, you betrayed the team, you betrayed Blood, who thought of you as the person who would lead the school!"
Cyborg turned around, knowing that he wasn't going to be able to get through to her, and started to walk away, until he heard the whisper.
"You betrayed me."
Cyborg slowly turned around. "Is that what this is all about, is that all?"
Jinx's head snapped up and she launched herself at Cyborg. As soon as she reached him she started to pound on his metallic chest. "How dare you leave! How dare you turn your back on me, I trusted you, I thought you were on my side!"
Cyborg was about to fight back the futile attack until he noticed the tears streaming from her face. He decided to let her swing away at him, since it didn't hurt him in any way, and he thought about what all this meant. After a while Jinx stopped just wailing away and started to pound slowly on his chest. During one of these poundings Cyborg gently grabbed her hand, in response Jinx struggled to try and get free, screaming for him to let go, until she collapsed on his chest, sobbing.
Cyborg gently wrapped his arms around her, holding and comforting her against his chest. After a while her sobbing stopped and she looked up at Cyborg, tears still on her face. She looked into his eyes for a few moments, and she craned her head up a little as she kissed him on the lips. At first Cyborg was a little shocked and didn't know what to do, but after a while he relaxed and fell into kiss. For a long time they just stood there, sharing the bliss of the kiss.
Okay, first things first, I want to apologize that this chapter is so short, my recent ideas aren't long ones. Speaking of my ideas my writing might be a little shaky from now on, I don't really have many ideas for the middle of this story. Okay, I'm guessing that some of you, make that a lot of you, might be a little mad at the Cyborg/Jinx pairing. Well, too bad, because I'm going through with it, I think that it's a good idea in my story, it's just how I want to write it, okay? But for those of you who don't want to kill me right now, please tell me what you think of the pairing. That's about all I have to say, so please read, review, and don't hurt me.
