Hola everyone!
Sorry it took so long to update, but now that the worst of my finals are over (biology, math, english), i have more time to write! Cause now i only have spanish and global left (im nearly fluent in spanish and global is a joke), so i can spend more time bringing you updates! yaaay!
Anyway, here's another chappie for you, and I hope you all like it. There will be more action/explaining coming up, but this is just what I need to actually get the story started. So enjoy!
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Now, what are you waiting for? Get reading!
I'm 15 for a moment
Caught in between 10 and 20
And I'm just dreaming
Counting the ways to where you are
I'm 22 for a moment
She feels better than ever
And we're on fire
Making our way back from Mars
15… there's still time for you
Time to buy and time to lose
15…there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live…
-100 Years, Five for Fighting
Jinx
…..Wake up, Jinx.
Shut up, I tell myself. Can't a girl get some beauty rest?
…Oh. I remember now. I'm not asleep because I want to be, I'm unconscious because the Hive Five beat me up.
And now I've probably got a—Wait. THE HIVE FIVE BEAT ME UP! I let the HIVE FIVE beat me up? What's wrong with me? WHAT THE--?
Now I really have to wake up. C'mon, Jinx…Push through the darkness.
"Ehh?" I groan. My eyes feel weird, so after rubbing them so much that I probably burned off my eyelids, I look up and see-Kid Flash.
"AH!" Well, that was graceful. I just rolled off the red couch I was apparently lying down on, because the very first thing I see after a very disheartening fight is Kid-Freaking-Flash.
"Don't do that!" I glare at him as he holds out his hand to help me back up onto the couch. He's sitting on a coffee table that's about a yard away from me, and he looks like he wants to laugh, but he's biting it back, because he was probably the one who found me and got me outta that alley. He probably doesn't want to add any insult to injury. That's nice of him.
"Sorry," he said. He's still fighting back his laughter. "But that was….graceful." Just as I make a move to kick him, (which is pretty pointless, he would've dodged it anyway), there's a sharp pain in my knee and I groan and clutch it.
"Are you okay?" Kid Flash asks me. He looks concerned now, and he put his hand on my shoulder, as if he was worried that I was going to start shaking or something. He has very warm hands. It's actually pretty nice, just the two of—ok, Jinx, he asked you a question, now say something!
"My knee just hurts a little. And where am I? Why are you here?" I say it as mean as I can, because he's a hero, and I'm a villain, and we're not supposed to get along. It's bad luck –and actually, 'bad luck' doesn't even begin to cover it. It's like putting the SuperDuperHulaHooper and President Bush in the same room and trying to get them to make small talk. It doesn't work. Or at least, it shouldn't.
"I found you in some alley, getting up by the Hive Five. Then I took you here, to Star City. This is my place," he says, smiling as he looks around. "It's not quite as cool as your HQ, but it's comfortable enough." He smiles directly at me, then speeds to what I can only assume is the kitchen, then zips back with a glass of water, in less than a second. "Here."
I take one look at the cup, and then Kid Flash's hand just jerks, and the water spills everywhere. The fact that I just made a mess of his carpet makes me forget about my knee hurting.
"Oh, I'm sorry," I apologize. See? I told you, Kid Flash. Even if it's just small things like knocking water out of someone's hands by accident, I'm still bad luck. "I didn't mean for-"
"That's ok," he says, and, still smiling, he just starts to spin his hand around really fast around the wet stains on his carpet, and then it's dry. Even I'll admit, that was pretty cool. "Want me to get you some more?"
"No, I'm alright. Thanks, though." I can't look up at him.
"Ok, then," he says, and then I can tell that he, too, is looking away.
There's a moment of awkward silence, but only a moment, because from what I can tell, Kid Flash gets bored really easily.
"Uh, Jinx?" I look up, and now he looks kinda confused, but happy confused. Like, he's still smiling, but it's a confused smile. It's kind of hard to describe, but then I guess I would have to kind of expect that from him. Kid Flash doesn't look right if he's not smiling. Like, it's almost as if it's unhealthy for him to not be smiling. "What happened? I mean…you got beat up by the Hive Five. Sorry, but, by most standards, that's pretty pathetic."
He's teasing me, so I pick up a pillow that's sitting next to me and chuck it at him, but he just catches it and speeds over and sits next to me. And he does it so fast that when he sits down, the cushion I'm sitting on kind of jumps and I went flying. And then, just to show off, he catches me in his arms as I'm coming down. And he's doing all this while he's still sitting on the couch, and eating a sandwich.
"Let me go!" I yell at him, but he doesn't put me down. I don't actually need for him to put me down, 'cause this is also kind of a nice position, even though I'll never admit it. But, I yell anyway, 'cause I'm a villain, remember? I think it's actually a requirement in the Villain's Code of Conduct that you are never supposed to speak at a normal voice. You can yell, or command powerfully, or hiss, but you most certainly can't just talk.
"Make me," he laughs between bites. I make his sandwich explode in his face again. That's always fun.
"Ok, ok, geez," he says as he's wiping the mustard off his face. "No need to get all emotional."
I really shouldn't be here. I mean, I know I can't go back to Jump for a while, because the Hive Five will just come after me again, and if not them, then the Teen Titans (if they're home). Or, Kid Flash. I don't want him to follow me. I just need some thinking time-I hadn't expected to see him for a while. What's it been, now, 3 weeks? Since I let him go free from Madame Rouge. Not that it isn't nice to see him, but I had hoped that when the Knight-in-Shining-Armor finally did, if ever, come back to see me, that he wouldn't have had to rescue me from the Hive Five to do it.
So he puts me down, and as soon as he does, I start walking to the door. I don't know where I am, but I'm leaving. I'm not mad at him or anything, I'm just embarrassed. And I have to pretend that I'm mad right now, for kidnapping me (note to self: if he tries to make me explain, 'kidnapping' is a good word to use). I need to get outta here, and do some thinking.
Kid Flash
"Uhh, Jinx, I'm over here," I say. She's walking towards the door. Is she about to leave…? She just turned the knob, so yeah, I guess she is. Wow, that was pretty random. And here I was, thinking that we were actually having a good time.
"Hey, Jinx-wait!" and I speed over and block her path to the door. "Why are you leaving?" I don't get it. I thought I was doing her a favor by bringing her here.
She looks at me with her bright pink eyes for a minute before answering.
"Because I don't belong here," she said, and then she tries to sidestep me. "I need to go do some thinking."
"But," I say, putting on my sweetest smile and stepping in front of her again. And it's Kid Flash on the save, with the help of a little tool I like to call distraction. "You didn't answer my question. How did you get beaten up by a bunch of losers like the Hive Five? I mean, they're your—uh—" They're not exactly a team, they're more like a group of random people that might call themselves something stupid, like….um, like…like the Hive Five. Or something.
…Even when she's frowning, Jinx is pretty. I wonder if she knows that.
"They're not my team anymore," she tells me, glaring. But, I've noticed, it's a very half-hearted glare. It's the same look that she had on when she was electrocuting me with that level-4 thingy. Like, she really doesn't want to do whatever she's doing, but for some crazy reason, she does it anyway, to keep up with this 'evil villain persona' she's been acting out. "I quit."
"HA!" I shout in spite of myself. "I knew you would! Who called it? Who called it?" And then I did my super-awesome victory dance, because girls think the victory dance is cute.
"You really are a moron, aren't you? I didn't turn good, or anything. I can't. I'm just not with the Hive Five anymore."
"Wait, so…" I scratched my head for a minute, trying to get it to make sense. She looks bored with me. "So, you're not a hero, but you're not a villain?"
Then she stared at me and said, "That's right. I'm not as bad as I was, but I'm definitely not good."
"So, what are you, then?"
"I'm civil."
That made no sense.
"That made no sense," I tell her. I want to say, 'you can choose to be good,' but I know that she will only respond with something like, 'I don't have a choice,' and although she does, I'm not going to get into that right now, because that'll take a lot of convincing to get her to believe it.
"It doesn't have to," she shoots back at me. "You probably wouldn't get it, anyway. And now, if you don't mind, I gotta go."
"Wait a sec," I say, but I know she'll leave anyway, so I grab her arm.
"Let go of me, Kid Flash," she says, and when she turns her head to look up at me, her eyes are glowing pink. Even though I can't see her eyes because they're all glowy and all, I can tell that it's the same look. She doesn't want to…um…jinx me, for lack of a better word, but she still doesn't think that she has a choice.
"Just hear me out, then you're free to go wherever you want." It's a desperate plan, but if it'll keep her nearby, then I've gotta try it. I want her to be near me.
"Ok, then out with it," she says, still half-heartedly glaring at me and tapping her foot. The glowing in her eyes stopped, so that's a good sign.
"Hold tight," I say, and I pick her up again. So, I wasn't going to actually say anything. I think she could tell what I was going to do, but a second too late, because a second is all it takes for me to pick her up and get 2 ½ blocks away from my super-tight HQ. Still, she doesn't reject, like she doesn't cringe or try to fight me off or anything, she just wraps her arms around my neck, leans against my chest, and holds tight. Almost like, she wants me to…how do they say it? "Sweep her off her feet."
But still, just to keep her 'evil' act from slipping up, she yells, "Don't you DARE--!" but it's too late, I'm already off.
Jinx said she needed some thinking time, and when you're as fast as me, time is something you've got plenty of. So, she can take as long as she wants, because I've got all night.
But, she'll have to do her meditating while she's helping me kick some super-villain butt, 'cause I say it's about time to show her that she does have choice.
Did you like it? Did you? Did you?
Well, even if you didn't you're gonna review, to make me happy, right? Yay. lol
And sorry that it took this long to update! Freshman year is crazy!
now to respond to my wonderful hall-of-fame-making reviewers!
robstarforeva21-glad you like it.
AlyRaven-glad you like it, too. lol
.X.Phoenix.X.-muchas gracias! Iknow i didn't really explain much about the hive five-jinx fight in chp. 1 yet, but dont worry, you'll find out exactly how and why.
TTfan111-awww, thanks!
Flying Green Flamingo-haha! thanks. I dont know why, but I find his attitude extremely cute and funny.for almost any other guy to be so full of himself, it would be extremely annoying-but KF just makes it work somehow.
The person with no friends-you do TOO have friends! You are my friend now! Thx for reviewing! lol
Blackbird-i know there's still not a lot of dialogue in here, but I'm working on it. thx for reviewing anyway, tho! your constructive criticism is very much appreciated.
Southern-Rebels-oh, God, I know! I'm terrible at writing action when it's from the first-person. I would write this normally, ('normally' being from an outside p.o.v.), but I've found that it's easier to relate to the characters when they're sharing the thought processes. I'll work on it, thanks for letting me know! and as for, "you may have been able to pass middle school exams, but you've never taken a HIGH SCHOOL exam!" dont worry about it-you're not alone. Damn slave drivers...
Elena the Eccentric-thanks! and you have a point, i specifically chose not to make her a good guy automatically. I agree, i find it very difficult for her to just overcome that, just for Kid Flash, despite any feelings we KNOW she has for him. if it does happen in this story, it'll be very gradual (more chappies for everyone to read! yay)
Meiriona-thanks!
Ven-I'm working on it, keep checking back!
Silverchild of the winds-lol, thanks
pinkprincess-lol, i hope this satisfied somewhat. i will keep turning out the chapters as often as i can (thank GOD for xmas break!)
Grace-I totally, whole-heartedly agree. I desperately WISH there was someone else out there who would write a jinx-kf! But it's very nice to know that some readers like my take on it. ...hey, maybe you should consider siging up for this, i know there's some great KF/Jinx storyline floating around in your head...now put it in Word and let me read it! lol(no, seriously, think about it, ok?)
Maiyuko-chan-am doing my best to bring constant updates. hope you enjoyed this one!
Morbid Cheshire-muchas gracias, amiga!
all my love,
Cara (aka the SuperDuperHulaHooper)