Surprise!

I don't own the teen titans so this is all a figment of my imagination.

Reading and Reviewing are welcome. And the only way a flame can hurt me is by me rolling it up and sticking it in my eye, so feel free.

That night Jinx finished her session with Raven and left to go to the gym. She was really rusty and needed to get herself back into fighting form. If only to get her figure back. She was surprised to see Robin working out. "I'm sorry. Raven said you were running tonight. I'll leave you alone."

Robin chuckled. "Nonesense. The gym is big enough for two."

Jinx relented and began stretching. "Say, Robin. You think you could spar with me? I'm really rusty and you're the only one here who can do hand to hand."

Robin huffed and said darkly, "I'm the only one without any powers. I have to be good." His face brightened. "Sure. Only if you don't use your powers."

Jinx looked at him in his cotton Gi. "No, belt so I don't have to worry about the tools. You want to use pads?"

"Nah. I wouldn't be offended if you think you have to." Robin bantered as they squared off on the training mat.

"No, thanks. Ready?"

"Yep." The two fighters began circling eachother. Robin leapt in and began striking imediately. His blows were mainly deflected. Robin frowned as the fight progressed as Jinx seemed to be hesitating. Not wanting to hit him. "Stop it! I know for a fact you're ten times better than this. I will not have my time wasted." Jinx's composure waned. Robin took the oportunity and gripped her tank top and threw her across the mat.

Jinx's face scowled then grinned as she nodded. Robin smiled. "Much better." He muttered to himself. His happiness was shortlived though as Jinx summersaulted over his head and before she landed grabbed onto the back of his Gi and catapaulted him into the hallway. "Ah, oh, oh!" He shouted. "It's on like Donkey Kong!"

"I thought you'd like that." Jinx said as she ran at him.

Beasboy was distracted by the game by a loud crash. Cyborg, too set down his controller. Both watched as Jinx flew from the hall and slammed into the table. They were surprised soon after by Robin running after her. Jinx landed a savage kick that floored Robin. Cyborg and Beastboy leapt up ready to fight. "Stay the fuck out of this!" Robin shouted. "It's been a while since I've actually had a match." He said to Jinx.

"Yeah everyone else at the Hive pretty much sucks, too." Jinx said as she wiped blood from the corner of her mouth. The two colided again. Cyborg and Beastboy watched the fight got progressively more savage with each blow.

Jinx's blows were carefully aimed at weak points, meant to disable the enemy. Robin's, however, were meant to harm. The fight finally ended when a bloody Jinx held up her hands. "I'm done. I'm done." Robin helped her to her feet.

Cyborg rushed over. "What the hell was that!"

Jinx ignored him until she bowed to Robin. "Just sparring."

"That was a bit more than sparring." Beastboy commented.

"Nah. I'm fine." Jinx said wiping another dribble of blood from a swolen lip.

Robin sighed straightening his tattered Gi. "When you fight someone else, some say you have an open window to their soul. I tend to believe that." He turned to Cyborg. "You can drop the restrictions on her. I got nothing on her."

Cyborg looked stunned. "Not that I'm complainin', but you kick the shit out of eachother and then your cool?"

"Those were some wicked moves. What is it?" Jinx asked.

"No style. Just whatever works." Robin replied. "You?"

"Kapueta, cause it's cool, and coup de vitesse cause it hurts. I should teach you the coup. That style is four hundred years of what works."

"I'd like that. And yeah Cy, we're cool." Robin shook Jinx's hand.

Robin left the room. Jinx went to a knee and grimaced. "Wonder Boy has some power."

Cyborg helped her up. "You okay?"

Jinx grinned. "Actually, I'm feeling a lot better. Thanks." Jinx stood and left a bewildered Cyborg and Beastboy staring.

Cyborg left the tower and walked down to the waters edge where he normaly went to think. To his surprise he found Jinx on his rock staring out at the bay. "You know this is where I go to think too."

Jinx started. "I'm sorry. You want me to leave?"

Cyborg waved a hand before his face, "No, no. Of course not." Cyborg picked another rock and sat. "You healing up all right?"

The last remaments of sunlight disapeared from the sky. "It was just sparring. I'll go soak in the hot tub for a while and go to bed. I'll be a hundred percent in the morning."

"I meant with everything." Cyborg said quietly.

Jinx was silent for a long time. "I was almost back to normal. I think that fight is just what I needed."

"What do you mean?"

"I was scared, hesitant. I think I felt like I didn't want to damage my tentative hold here by hurting Robin." Jinx laughed. "That is when he told me to quit being a pussy and to fight like he knew I could." Her laugh went away. "Thats when it hit me." Jinx looked at Cyborg. "He actually wanted me here." She paused as if searching for the words. "I got the feeling that I had to do something really horrible if he was going to kick me out."

"That's Robin. Trial by combat."

Jinx shook her head and she spoke tremuously, "No, the trial was over. The combat was to kick me in the head and get me back on track." She gave a short laugh, "Literally."

"That is a new record you know."

"What is?"

"Beating back the Boy Wonder Paranoia." Cyborg laughed. "Only nine days. Pretty impressive."

"Well it only took four for you to get well integrated into the Hive." Jinx laughed. "But you know as well as I do that the paranoia never stopped there."

"Yeah." Cyborg sighed. "So have you put any thought into joining the Titans?"

Jinx sighed, too. "I don't know." She looked up at the sky and smiled at Orion. "You know that one moment, that one event that makes you begin to doubt everything you knew to be true." She looked over at the confusion in his face. "No, I guess not. I beleve I've had one of those."

"When you were attacked?" Cyborg asked quietly.

Jinx shook her head. "Nope." Cy could hear tears in her voice. "When I woke up and someone was at my bedside." She sniffed and rubbed a hand across her face. "I was certain that no one cared about me. No, one would care if I lived or died. I was glad it was you, but just the fact that someone was there holding my hand. I broke down. I didn't have to fight to protect my own back. That breif instant."

"Wow." Cyborg said reverently.

They sat in silence for a while. No one needing t say anything. Finally Jinx broke it. "You want to go out tomorrow?"

Cyborg was startled. "Sure, but it's a sunday."

"Doesn't matter. Thanks. I'm goint to go wash up then hit the sack. See you tomorrow." Jinx deftly leapt from the rock and ran back to the Tower. Cyborg caught the smile spreading across her face as she left, and he smiled too.

Jinx settled daintily into the hot tub. Whatever Robin was, he was not soft. Jinx watched the crusted blood from her cracked, skinned knuckles dissolve and float away in the soothing water. She leaned her head back and closed her eyes as she reached up and tugged the two rings that held her hair up, off. Reveling in the soft noise of the tub her mind drifted back to the fight. He was definetely holding back. He could have crushed her with little effort, but he didn't. He wanted to draw it out. To teach her something.

"And," She admitted quietly, "He had been right." A soft smile grew on her face. A true leader. Pushing her just enough to show her she could do it, without letting anyone know what he was doing. Batman had trained him well.

Slowly she became aware of another sound. Jinx opened her eyes. It was female giggling. And to her surprise she recognized the voices, but that couldn't be right. The door to the hot tub room was pushed ajar and two figures entered.

Jinx was too shocked to utter anything. She watched as the two swimsuited heroines shuffled to the side of the tub and levitated in. Their eyes were closed as they kissed eachother with utter abandon. Raven and Starfire opened their eyes as they heard the muted cough of Jinx. "I'll... I'll just leave you two alone." Jinx stood rather rapidly and stumbled as she tried to climb out of the tub.

"Nonesense, friend Jinx." Starfire said. It was more the qualifier she added to Jinx's name than the implied refrence to her staying that stopped Jinx.

Jinx blinked at her as Starfire and Raven seperated and sat down. "What?" Was all she could manage. Jinx sat back down heavily as the sudden change in title settled fully on her mind.

"You don't have to leave. We could do this anytime." Raven said. Raven gave a promising smile to Star who returned it.

"What happened to your face, friend Jinx?" Starfire asked.

"Oh, this?" Jinx said absently touching her swelling eye.

Then Raven too noticed. "Your hands are bleeding and your bruising up all over! What happened?"

Jinx smiled. "Robin."

"That Glendorf. I shall pummel him to within an inch of his life!" Starfire'e eyes glowwed an unnatural shade of green.

"NO!" Jinx shouted. Starfire's eyes stopped glowing. "We were sparring and it got out of hand, sort of."

"I'd say." Raven said.

"That does not excuse such harsh treatment. Such behavior is hardly fitting. Why would you two escalate a sparring session?" Starfire settled back into the tub fuming.

"I thought we were fighting." Jinx said. "I was wrong."

"What do you mean?" Raven asked confused.

"He was trying to teach me something. And I just got the lesson sitting by the bay." They were still confused. "I'm sure I'll always be scared, but Robin showed me my confidence back." Jinx gave a short laugh. "The Boy Wonder is one tough customer."

"I was wondering how he was going to do that." Raven said. She stifled a laugh. "Kicking your butt though was hardly how I expected him to do it."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Jinx scowled as Starfire looked back and forth confused.

"You know I'm an empath, right? Well tele-empath." Jinx nodded. "I don't pry into minds, but sometimes thoughts are so powerful they leave the confines of one's own mind. Robin was mulling over how to 'get a fire under her ass' as he so elequently put it. Looks like he manipulated you into doing it with sparring."

"Manipulated me?" Jinx sounded angry.

"Another reason I don't want to see him go bad. He would give Slade's manipulative ass a run for his money. I can prevent him from doing it to me, but he can pretty much drive anyone to do things they normally wouldn't do. He's good about it, but that doesn't change the fact that he is doing it." Raven laughed. "He has no powers whatsoever and I've seen him do work that a mind controling villan couldn't do."

"Why would friend Robin do such a thing?" Starfire asked.

"He's a natural born leader." Jinx said. Reminded of her former thoughts. "He can see what a person is capable of before they know it themselves."

"And drive them to see it." Raven finished. "I know."

They sat in silence for several moments. Jinx finally pointed at Raven. "I thought you blew stuff up when you feel strong emotions?"

Raven laughed again. "What happens when you don't work a muscle?"

"It becomes weak, like spagetti." Starfire added cheerily, knowing the reasoning Raven had given her weeks before.

"And with my emotions I've been hiding them away for so long my ability to deal with them atrophied like muscle." Raven took Starfire's hand gently. "And Starfire here was fed up with me repressing myself for so long. So she took a risk."

"I risked being impaled by flying objects and being tossed myself. I kissed friend Raven. It is customary for ones having affection for one another to kiss. To both of our surprises I did not explode. Many other things did, but not us."

"It is also why my emotions and I pushed you to truly experience all the emotions about your case. I would hate to see you end up like me. Or worse repress it and one day explode."

"I wish I could forget it. But, I suppose you're right." Jinx was downcast.

"Anyway, I didn't want to hurt anyone so I never acted on my feelings." Raven smiled.

"Were you scared?" Jinx asked quietly.

"I was scared witless. But, I finally knew what I had to do." Raven grinned. "Whenever I was feeling angry, or hateful, or sad and frightened I would go to a little pasture up in the mountains and vent." Raven sighed. "It took months untill I felt safe enough to be around people."

"It has payed off rather well. Has it not?" Starfire asked kissing Raven softly on her cheek.

"But when you blew up at Robin when I first got here, Starfire hid behind the couch?" Jinx asked remembering the day well.

"We have to keep up appearances friend, Jinx. As I am to understand it two females are not a well accepted couple here on earth." Starfire frowned. "Or pretty much anywhere for that matter."

Jinx nodded, then began laughing loudly. Both other young woman stared at her in horror. Jinx waved a hand in front of her face to ward them off untill her laughter was under control. "No, it is not widely accepted. But it is the private fantasy of a lot of men to watch to woman make out." Jinx's laughter faded.

"You are right about that one." Raven said. "It still would not do for the other Titans to find out. They would be freaked out."

Jinx shrugged. "I suppose, but look at it this way. What is the worst case scenario? They can't very well dispense with you. So, the worst they can do is huff about it. Sure some will look at you funny for the rest of your time, but it's better than living in secret."

"I suppose friend Jinx has a point."

"I suppose I can tell Cyborg to quit backing off now." Raven said.

Jinx's smile faded. "I know he was staying away, but I didn't know you told him to?"

Raven's eyes widened, "I wouldn't do that. He was giving you space. He didn't want to scare you away."

Jinx's smile returned. "I kind of already asked him out."

Starfire and Raven looked at her in surprise. "I suppose that would be a more direct way of telling him to not back off." Starfire stated.

The three young women giggled for quite some time.