Author's Notes: About the Kyd Wykkyd comment, I know he doesn't talk during the series, but I like to think that's because he doesn't feel like it. I checked a couple of "Teen Titans" related sites, and neither mentioned that he couldn't talk, and so I'll just say he can, but thanks for pointing the detail out to me. As always, criticism and questions are appreciated.

Disclaimer: "Teen Titans" isn't mine, but I can imagine how happy I'd be if it was.

Jinx yawned and got out of bed. She stretched her arms and looked at her clock. It was eight in the morning. She felt tired, but it was nothing a splash of cold water wouldn't be able to fix. She walked out of her room down a hall to the bathroom, pleased with the quietness of the building. One of the benefits of waking up earlier than nine in the morning was that no one else was up that early, and so Jinx didn't have to wait to use the bathroom.

She brushed her teeth, washed her face, combed and put up her hair, and then decided to go to the training room, as she did almost every morning. She kept on the same outfit from yesterday since it was early in the morning, and there was really no need to get another outfit dirty when she would shower immediately after training. After walking back to her room to put her shoes on, she closed the door and walked down the hallway to a flight of stairs. After walking up two flights, she entered a large room that had many pieces of gymnastics equipment.

Jinx started stretching and once she felt comfortable, she decided to head to the balance beam. Needless to say, her balance and movements on the beam were as cat-like as her eyes. She mounted the beam and walked forwards, then backwards, and then jumped forward, doing a somersault in midair, and landed perfectly with her shoes on the beam. After a few more maneuvers, she dismounted and walked over to the uneven bars.

She loved the uneven bars. When she jumped from one bar to the next, she felt like she was flying. The vault was similar. There was so much adrenaline she felt when sprinting to the springboard. She'd jump off and place her hands on the vault to balance herself as she twisted her body in a quick 360 rotation and landed on her feet. The landing this time was a little shaky. She'd have to work on it later.

After an hour of uneven bars, vaulting, and floor exercises (mainly combinations of flips and jumps), Jinx was tired and decided to go back to the bathroom and take a shower. After she finished and put on a clean outfit, she walked to the common room, where Gizmo and Billy Numerous were playing Mario Kart.

"Hey! No fair!" Gizmo yelled as Billy passed him.

"Ain't my fault you can't drive," Billy laughed, not taking his eyes off the screen.

Kyd Wykkyd walked into the common room and watched the game, stifling a laugh when Gizmo took the lead, only to get hit with a bomb fired by Billy, which put Billy back in front, and left Gizmo's face turning a tomato red.

See-More came out of the kitchen and said, "Hey guys…we're out of food."

"How is that possible?" Jinx asked. "We raided that supermarket two days ago. There's no way we'd…oh wait…forget it." She sighed. "I get the feeling Mammoth ran out of food in his fridge."

"Again?" Billy called from the couch. "That guy eats too much. I'm sick of robbing supermarkets."

Jinx shut her eyes tightly, thinking that they would be robbing more than supermarkets if it wasn't for the fact that they could never pull off a robbery outside a supermarket.

"I don't see why he can't just eat from his own fridge," See-More said, annoyed.

"Well, he runs out of food, so he has to eat from ours. Simple as that," Jinx said. "Did he clean out the whole fridge?"

"Nope," See-More answered. "He left a container of hummus and I think some apple juice."

"Okay…could be worse," Jinx said uneasily. In the back of her mind, she was glad that Mammoth hated hummus, which was her favorite food. "Well, I guess we have to rob another store this morning, unless we prefer starving."

"Fine, fine, just after I cream crud-for-brains," Gizmo said through gritted teeth. Twelve match races had gone by and Gizmo hadn't won a single match.

"We'll be here forever, then," Kyd Wykkyd muttered to himself. He was relieved when Billy got up and said that he'd play later after eating breakfast.

Mammoth entered the room. "Hey guys, what's for breakfast?" he asked. The team glared at him. "What did I do?"

"All the food in the fridge is gone," See-More said.

"Naw," Mammoth replied, putting his hand behind his head. "That's impossible. I left you guys some food."

"I ain't eating that weird chick-pea stuff!" Billy shouted. "I want eggs!"

"Yeah, Jinx is the only one who likes hummus," See-More said. "Besides, there's no way that little container would feed all six of us, especially you."

"Okay, okay," Mammoth said. "I know that supermarket a mile away restocks today, so uh, I'll go and get us some food, okay?"

"I'll go," Kyd Wykkyd volunteered. "We just want the food. We don't want to wreck anything."

"Okay buddy, sure," Mammoth said, relieved to be able to stay at headquarters for the morning.

"Yeah…I'll be back in ten minutes," Kyd Wykkyd said, vanishing into the floor.


Twelve hours later, Mammoth, Gizmo, See-More, and Billy were playing video games on the couch, making a ton of noise. Kyd Wykkyd was in his room, on the computer, checking out articles from Jinx was walking to the common room from her own room.

"I'm going out," she announced. The guys playing video games were being too loud to hear her. "Whatever," she muttered as she continued to the door.

Once she was outside, she started walking back to the bank. "If those idiots can't pull off a robbery," she thought to herself, "I'll have to do it alone." She felt a raindrop land on her shoulder. "Crap…I forgot an umbrella…just my luck. Oh well. It's only one raindrop. There's no need to worry over just one."

She approached the bank and shot a hex at the doors, shattering the handles. She pushed the door open with ease. She looked to the corner where the security camera the night before had been, and she was happy to see that it hadn't been fixed or replaced. She turned to the vault and was about to fire a hex at it when she heard a voice behind her.

"I knew you'd be back," the voice said.

Jinx gasped. She thought she was alone. There was no need to ponder over whose voice it was. She had heard it enough times.

"And why are you here?" she asked. "Stalking me, are you?"

"Nah, of course not. I just had a hunch you'd be here, you know, the criminal always returns to the scene of the crime," he grinned.

Jinx turned around to face Kid Flash. "You're not going to try converting me, right? Because we both know that's a waste of time."

"I don't think so," he responded, his voice calm and soft.

"Well, I do. You think crossing over from bad to good is as easy as that," she said, anger rising as she snapped her fingers. "It isn't. And I see no point in changing sides, either."

"Well, you'd be part of a more competent team…"

"Me? On the Teen Titans? Forget it," she said, laughing at the very idea of being teammates with Starfire.

Kid Flash sighed. "Okay, I see this is going to take a while, but…you know, there's no reward in being a villain."

"What's the reward of being a hero? You're the dog of the police, a servant of the people. What about doing things for yourself?"

"You'll come to learn in time how amazing it is to help someone."

"Fat chance."

"Hey, I was wondering…" Kid Flash started, changing the subject, "why do villains rob banks?"

Jinx stared at him. Was he being serious with that question? "Are you joking?"

"No, I'm not. I'm dead serious. I want to know why," Kid Flash responded as seriously as he could.

"For the money…isn't that obvious?"

"Not really. What do you do with the money? I don't think you buy anything with it. I mean, why bother stealing a million dollars when you could just steal a million dollars worth of whatever you wanted?"

"For a hero, that's a pretty dark statement," Jinx said. "Ever thought of being one of us?"

"I'd rather help the people, thank you very much," Kid Flash said, wishing he hadn't asked that bank question. "Well, I should probably get you out of here before you steal something."

"Who said I'd let you carry me out of here?" Jinx said, surprised. Before she knew it, a blur had gone by and she was standing outside the Hive Five headquarters with a rose in her hand. It took her a moment to regain her senses, and once she realized what had just happened, the yellow and red blur was miles away.


More Author's Notes:

I'm not entirely sure if this chapter explained everything correctly. For those wondering why I don't write about Kid Flash's daily routines and such, it's because in the episode "Lightspeed", we don't really see much of Kid Flash, except when he's talking to Jinx or running away from Madame Rouge. I'm trying to write the story in the same style as "Lightspeed" (while putting in a hopefully original plot), mainly because it's more true to the plot of the television show. And now that the explanation's out of the way, if you have any other questions/comments, feel free to say something.