To mistressmarionette: Yay! Another review! Anyway, I'm honestly surprised that more people don't go into the twirp's head, but hey, what am I going to do? I'm glad that you like the way I do the paring. I've always believed that they do have a very brotherly-sisterly sort of relationship, but then again, so do Robin and Starfire! - I'm really glad I pulled off the suicidal Jinx well… (I knew doing that report about suicide for heath class would help me out later in life!) The best part of your review was, I was looking for a way to sum up how most people view Gizmo's personality, and you helped me bunches and bunches! (i.e. I didn't need to do any research for this chapter, tee hee)

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Tsutanai Waaurufu

Chapter 5 (Wow, this is getting long, ain't it?)

Kikyoku

$$)( TITAN'S TOWER $$)(

Gizmo awoke in an all white room, his vision a little blurrier than he would like it with a beautiful raven-haired woman looking down on him. She's beautiful… Like an angel… I must be in heaven…

"Close, but no cigar, I'm afraid," Raven said, smirking from his thoughts.

Gizmo's vision returned to him, seeing Raven looking very amused. "I thought you said you didn't like reading people's private thoughts?"

"Well," she said taking his hint to wipe the smile from her face, "When said person passes out from blood loss, I feel it's necessary to monitor the person's brain function to make sure they didn't die."

"How long was I out?"

"About two weeks, give or take… Cyborg needed to raid five 'Blood-mobiles' to find some O positive blood to give you, so I suggest thanking him the next time you see him."

"Why would he do something like that? And for me of all people?"

"Well, as the Teen Titans, it's our duty to protect the citizens of Jump City; even ones we don't know very well." Oh, Lord, he's right; I do sound like a commercial. A political commercial for the Republicans, no less... Damn, how low can I get? Deciding to come out on top of the conversation, Raven added in a very un-commercial-like manner, "And plus, he said now you'd both be even now."

"Soooo… Two weeks, huh? I bet that Mammoth and Jinx have noticed I'm not there about now, wouldn't you say?"

"I'd have to. Speaking of which, how did you get that wound anyway? The last memory I found from you was just what you told me: Jinx was about to jump, and then the sun set and your mind goes blank… I suppose that your mind blocked it out…"

Gizmo thought for a minute. "Yeah, I guess it must of…"

Cyborg came thought the door with his arms folded. "Well, it's about damn time you got up, cripple."

"Gee, thanks. Love you, too."

"I'll bet you do. I needed to trash so many 'Blood-mobiles' cause of you!"

"Well, good for you… Couldn't you have just like… Oh, I don't know… Taken me to a real doctor!"

Cyborg put his face right in his opponent's, those cliché anime lightning bolts coming from both of their eyes, meeting in the middle. "If it was my choice, I would have!"

"Well, that's just fine and dandy, then! Well, let me guess why you're here. You replaced my heart with a baked potato and I now have three seconds to live?"

"You're damn right about the three seconds to live part!"

Raven of course quickly realized that half of their argument was mental, and decided to listen in to her 'comrades' thoughts.

Son of an ass! Is his whole damn fault I'm like this! If he hadn't spied on us, I'd probably be at the HIVE eating lunch with Jinx and Mammoth!

Little basterd! If he didn't fcking worship Jinx, then she'd probably would have joined up with the Titans by now!

This, of course, when on for many more insults, and they all had one thing in common: Jinx. Raven inhaled deeply and closed her eyes. Oh, God. THIS has been what their whole stupid 'rivalry; has been about? The affections of someone they're too chicken to just ask out? I better end this quick… "SHUT THE HELL UP, BOTH OF YOU! Look! The sooner that you both realized that the reason you both hate each other is because you're unknowingly competing with each other for the Jinx's affections, the better! Now, the both of you just need to find out who she likes and stop bitching the winy little baby's you are!"

"Umm… Did I enter at an inappropriate time?" a timid voice said from the doorway. A voice all three quickly realized belonged to Starfire.

"Oh, super," all three of them droned.

Great. Now everyone has to know about my love life…

Shit! Rob'll go psychotic when Star tells him THIS!

Just perfect. Starfire just hade to see me loose my temper. Fantastic.

The trio sweat dropped. "Uh… Look! As far as I'm concerned I'm not welcome here. I'll just be leaving in an hour!"

"Star! Don't tell Robin this! He'll flip! It's bad enough without him knowing, okay?"

"Starfire, this isn't what it looks like. I didn't break anything. I merely started shouting. I was in control of my emotions the entire time."

Naturally, they all said the said those things at once, so Starfire didn't understand a word of it. To further add to this predicament, Beastboy and Robin had just appeared a few seconds later in the medical room, wondering who got shot.

With a much suffering sigh, Raven answered, "No one got shot. We were just having an extended debate about religion. It got out of hand, so I decided to stop these two before Gizmo got hurt more than he already was, and before Cyborg needed to break into another 'Blood-mobile'…"

"Oh!" Starfire said suddenly. "Than I completely misread what you were saying when I entered the room, friend Raven. I thought you were saying that Cyborg and Gizmo should stop bitching like the babies they are and find out who the girl who has the name of Jinx wants to partake in the Earth ritual of 'dating' with."

"Nope," Gizmo said indifferently. "Religious discussion."

$$)( ONE MONTH LATER $$)(

The Titans would be the first people to admit that they didn't trust Gizmo the first few days he was awake. But Raven, Starfire, Beastboy, and, yes, even Cyborg and Robin, grew to enjoy their guest's company over the next few weeks. Raven soon found out that he knew how to meditate, and the pair would escape to the confines of their minds every chance they could. Starfire learned all about the life in the HIVE, and expected a new exciting, and often hilarious, tale about the school everyday. Beastboy found a new videogame partner that was willing to let him win. Sometimes. Cyborg took a bit more time to trust the young prodigy than the others, but once he realized that bitching didn't solve any of the world's problems, he let past grudges go. Robin still didn't trust him completely and would stay up half the night staring at security monitors just in case Gizmo decided to go on a five-man killing spree at some un-Godly hour of the night. But the five soon learned that there was more to him than the "I am short and smart and evil, run away!" shtick that they always assumed of his personality. He was actually fun and kind of nice. In his own weird way.

$$)( THE HIVE $$)(

Jinx couldn't believe it. She just couldn't believe it. Gizmo, her friend, her brother-figure, the one person she loved, was dead. And at her hands. The morning after her attempted suicide, nearly two months ago, she found blood on her hands and around her mouth, as well as on the roof. She barely ate anymore, except what Mammoth made her, she cried herself to sleep nearly every night, nightmares plaguing her rest as it was, and her grades slipped much more rapidly than any of the HIVE's teachers had ever seen before. The one thing that frightened most people, though, was the fact that Jinx walked around the hallways mumbling to herself. Angelica swore she heard Jinx saying 'He's gone… He's dead… And it's all my fault…' but no one dared ask Jinx about it.

That's not to say Mammoth wasn't depressed about the loss of his friend. He was. And he wouldn't deny it in a heartbeat. But he was much more worried about Jinx's strange behaviors, especially around the full moon. She would stay locked up in her room never daring to come out, and while many of the students suspected she was stalking the hallways murdering students, for one student disappeared during every full moon, but Mammoth didn't believe a second of that hideous gossip.

Even Brother Blood was disturbed by the death of one of his top students. It wasn't out of compassion or anything, don't get me wrong. He was disturbed because while he knew a great many people who were willing to make him weapons, only Gizmo was willing to do it for free.

The rest of the students assumed that Gizmo simply ran away, something he's done before, coming back murmuring about building his own damn car, or needing to take a shower like all hell, or simply cursing Cyborg's good name to pieces.

$$)( TITAN'S TOWER $$)(

Gizmo sat cross-legged in the Titan's living room, repeating Raven's famous mantra. Beastboy thought it would be funny to turn into a wolf and scare the living day lights out of the both of them. With a smirk on his face, he transformed into a wolf crept up behind Gizmo, and howled as loud as he could. Gizmo's eyes snapped open remembering what happened to him that night. "Jinx…"

$$)( AUTHOR'S NOTE $$)(

Okay, just to clear it up: Gizmo didn't die. That's just what the HIVE assumes his fate is. I mean think about it, if you don't see hide nor hair (not that you would normally see the latter in this case :-p) of your good friend in nearly two months and you woke up the morning after you transformed into a werewolf with blood around you and no visible cuts on you anywhere, what would you think?

Another thing I should clear up: In my various studies from starting this fic, I found that werewolves don't have memories of the acts they commit while transformed, so Jinx wouldn't remember Gizmo flying off into the night and her not killing him.

Yet another thing: People who have had trauma (i.e. Gizmo's really deep gash in his chest) normally don't remember much of it because their brains block it out. I bet most of you knew that but here's an interesting bit of trivia I bet you didn't know, when you're traumatized and your brain blocks it out, it's not permanent. It's more like a form of amnesia; you get back the memories when something that reminds your brain of the trauma happens, example, Beastboy howling as a wolf.

Translation time! WHOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Kikyoku means 'Depression' Happy, huh?

A bit of irony I noticed today, I started this fic on a full moon. I didn't notice that before now! Ain't that weird?

As usual, review so I can type up another chapter of this exciting saga. For once, I know exactly where I'm going with the next chapter! WAHOO!

Snow Puff