IMPORTANT AN'S WILL BE POSTED BEFORE CHAPTER SO PLEASE READ.

TIP #1: The beginning scene of this chapter opens up right after the Epilogue of Stroke of Good Luck, so if you need to refresh your memory or haven't read it I suggest you should so things won't be as confusing.

TIP #2: Pay attention to the time slots presented before each scene. In the first novel, they didn't play as big of a significance because all events occurred in the present but this story involves past, present, and future.

ANOTHER IMPORTANT REMINDER: THIS STORY CAN BE READ WITH OR WITHOUT READING THE FIRST BOOK.

ENJOY.

PRESENT-Bay of Jump City 11:31 AM

Irey West was hurled out of the portal and onto the hard gravel that cut into her spandex uniform.

She let out a cry and her eyes filled with tears from the force of the push and the new scab forming on her knee. A small hand was on her shoulder and she pulled away but saw orange – Jai's uniform.

Irey turned to her hands and cried into them. Jai wiped the blood from a small cut on his chin. He surveyed the place they were in and concluded it was the bay of Jump. The Tower was right behind them.

"What are we going to do Jai?!" Irey managed through her tears. "Mommy and Daddy are-are hurt or they will get hurt!"

Irey hugged her arms to her chest and cried even more. In her mind all she wanted was to be in her Dad and Mom's safe arms.

Jai wiped some tears from his face. He ran in front of Irey and hugged her. He knew he had to be strong for her, for Mommy, and for Daddy.

Irey hugged him tight, thankful that she wasn't alone.

"Mommy and Daddy will be fine, Irey. They've been superheroes forever, they'll be fine." He pulled away and wiped his sisters tears away with some stray red hair.

"We'll be fine too," he said cheerily, "look behind you!"

Irey sniffed and turned around seeing the Titan's Tower. Her blue eyes brightened at the giant T.

There was a streak of red and yellow lightning zip from it and down the building.

"It's Daddy!"

Irey ran after the red and yellow and Jai eagerly followed behind.

PREVIOUS DAY-West Teen Titan's Tower Jump City, California 3:43 PM

There was a get together at the original Titan's tower. Since the end of the Brotherhood and her having to finish her probation to become a hero, she didn't want to go to a Titan party just yet. Wally had gone to each of them and told her all about it at the end of the day. Jinx was sitting on the couch still feeling slightly uncomfortable.

She had all the right to feel uncomfortable.

For one, she was just starting to get comfortable with the people that she used to fight. Wally being a great help at telling other Titan girls to talk to her.

And speaking of the red-haired devil, she moved onto the second reason she was uncomfortable.

He was going around flirting with every Titan girl in the room and she sat awkwardly on the couch, her hands going up and down her thighs nervously. Jinx turned her head and regretted it when she saw him smile at Kole.

"Again?" Jinx jumped up slightly when Raven suddenly interrupted her chain of thought.

She looked away and nodded. Raven took a seat with her, sitting on the side that blocked her peripheral vision from seeing him.

"You know," she started but still didn't catch Jinx's attention, "he shouldn't be putting you through this."

"We swear he doesn't act like this when you're not here."

This

Jinx popped her head up and allowed her eyes to glow pink.

"How do I know that?" The pink got brighter. "How do you know that?"

Raven didn't have an answer for that and looked away from her face. Jinx did the same thing and their attention focused on the carpet in front of them.

"I do know actually."

Jinx didn't respond.

"I'm going to tell you this and not for my benefit, but for yours." Raven didn't know why she was still speaking.

"Wally and I used to date." Jinx felt her heart drop and her posture slumped.

"It was more for saving the world purposes because I needed his powers, but," she stopped herself. Jinx was going to object but remembered Raven say the save the world part.

"Even after the whole problem he stuck around with me, but still continued to do that thing."

Jinx made a slight quizzical face through her misery.

"What thing are you talking about? Flirting?"

Raven closed her eyes and slightly squinted, nodding.

"Sorry I'm just feeling a lot of emotions from you," Raven breathed and whispered her mantra.

Jinx sat up. "And where are you leading this?"

Raven opened her eyes. "He confessed to me one day when I asked him if he'd ever done something, something horrible to one of his ex-girlfriends before."

Jinx prepared herself for something she didn't know she was preparing for.

"I'm not telling you this because it seems like I'm a jealous ex, okay? I'm telling you because I somewhat care for you, and-"

"Raven, just spit it out!"

"Jinx," Raven breathed in, "he cheated on one of his girlfriends."

Jinx felt a chill run through her and Raven felt it too.

"What's her name."

Raven touched her arm but Jinx roughly shrugged her hand off. "Jinx-"

"What is her name, Raven. I need to know how recent this was."

"Artemis."

8:12 PM

Kid Flash sat relaxed next to Jinx, his arm draped around the back of the sofa. They were still at Titan's Tower. He told her they would leave after the other honorary Titan's left. Herald was the last to go, saluting them before he jumped into his own portal.

"Ah, ready to go babe?" He took a piece of long pink hair in his hand.

She didn't look at him as she spoke, "Let go of me."

Kid Flash was taken aback. All the other Titans were engaged in their own conversations.

"Linda?"

He asked slightly confused and tried to reach out to her with his hand. She pulled away from him, still not looking at him.

"You mind grabbing some clothes for me from the apartment? I'm going to be staying here for a while."

Kid was highly confused now, there was no explanation to her reaction towards him.

"What are you talking about? You want to sleep over for the night? Here, I'll get both our stuff then."

Jinx's face hardened but refused to look at him.

"No. I'm staying here, you go back to the apartment."

Wally furrowed his brows under his mask. "Jinx, don't start this now."

Jinx felt her blood boil.

"Fine, I'll just borrow Raven's clothes then." She stood up and started to walk but he was too fast and went in front of her.

He spoke softly, "Is something wrong? You know you can tell me anything." He tried to grab her hand in his but he recoiled and Wally felt himself gasp at her actions.

Raven emerged through the doors and nodded at Jinx.

Robin saw his best friend's confused face and slumped posture. He sighed and made his way to the couch, dismissing Beast Boy from their conversation to have a talk.

Earth 13, Townhouse in Stanford, California 11:08 AM

Artemis heard ringing. She was moving her brows up in an attempt to move her eyes from their closed state.

"Babe," she heard a gruff voice say. Artemis thought she nodded but was still under the influence of sleep.

"Babe, your comm is ringing." A weight was lifted off their bed and it was put back on in a second. It was enough to stir her awake fully.

Artemis smiled at the green eyes and gave him a kiss. She sat up, and put on a shirt she picked up from the floor.

She grabbed the comm from his hand and he fell back onto the bed as she moved closer to the window to see the screen.

"Artemis!"

Her face fell back slightly at the loud voice.

"Sorry, did I wake you?" Artemis smiled at Jinx.

"It's all good Jinx," Jinx looked at Artemis's surroundings and her appearance.

"I'm not interrupting anything, am I?"

Artemis laughed and shook her head no. "So, what's up? I know you're not just calling to ask about how I've been lately."

Jinx looked down, her happy demeanor fallen from seeing her high school friend.

"Well," Artemis saw her look off into the distance, possibly thinking about what she was supposed to say, "Raven, Raven told me something about Wally."

Artemis looked at her. Jinx did not look like she was crying, but then again she never knew how Jinx looked like when she cried because she never cried. Not that she'd ever seen her do so.

"What was it? Was it really bad or?"

Jinx jolted from the sharp chill that ran through her spine when Artemis's grey eyes looked at her with such concern. How could Wally do such a thing? Such a horrible thing to anyone at all! A person that he was supposedly committed to at one point.

"It's really bad, well to me it is. It's one of the worst things a person could do to another and I just can't-"

"Wait you are talking about Wally right? You and I both know Wally is not a person with evil intentions, his sole being is a person who strives on defending those who can't defend themselves!"

Her Wally gave her a look and smirked. She looked at him and rolled her eyes. "I'm not talking about you, you dunce." Wally looked confused.

"It's not something in that sense," Jinx said with no strength in her voice.

Feeling sympathetic towards her friend, Artemis urged her on, "Go on, Lin."

Jinx looked away from her gaze. "She said," her demeanor changed from grim to grimmer.

"She said he cheated on you."

PRESENT-West Teen Titan's Tower, 11:32 AM

Wally had ran to Korea earlier on that morning to grab Jinx's favorite porridge. He knew that she'd sleep in, especially if she was in a bad mood the previous night. Wally hoped that she would be in a better mood and willing to talk about what happened last night.

"Morning Titans!" He cheerily addressed, walking into the ops room and kitchen. They were in numerous parts; Star in the kitchen practicing what she thought was traditional human cuisine, Robin oddly sitting at the kitchen table with the Gotham Times paper, as per usual Cyborg and Beast Boy were competing in Mega Donkeys V or VI.

And finally, the second person he was looking to speak to the most: Raven.

She was in front of one of the tall windows overlooking the sun rising on Jump City. Her normal meditation state was present and he placed the food on the counter and ran at his slowest speed to Raven.

He had learned his lesson before not to come hurdling at her with more than the speed of sound.

Raven felt his presence but waited for him to speak first.

Kid Flash cleared his throat. "Um Raven? I wanted to ask you about what happened with Jinx last night."

Raven said her last mantra before opening her eyes. Her eyes moved to the left and saw Kid staring at her expectantly.

"You shouldn't be asking me about this, Kid. You should be at Jinx's door begging for her to hear you out."

Raven began hovering away from the window and Kid followed her.

"Believe me, I know what to do when Jinx's in a funk like this, but I'd just like to know the game plan before going head first onto the field."

Raven didn't answer and they were already in the hallway where no one would hear them.

She then turned around with a glint in her eye that he didn't know.

"This is one game that you won't be able to win with or without a game plan. So, my only advice for you is to get on your knees and beg for her to forgive you."

A soft knock echoed throughout her room.

Jinx immediately knew who it was and waited for him to speak. He always did when they got into fights like this. She sat in her covers, a white spaghetti strap on and some purple shorts. Both she borrowed from Raven. Her knees were pulled

"Hey baby."

No answer from her side.

"I got your favorite, Juk from our favorite restaurant."

Every time they got into a fight he always brought her, her favorite comfort food from her childhood.

She still didn't answer. She knew what his next move would be.

He set the food down gently on the floor, his head softly thumped the door as he closed his eyes.

He didn't want to let out his anger. He learned the hard way that doing so would lessen his chances of being forgiven for whatever he did.

"I just want to know what I did wrong." His eyebrows scrunched up. "Whatever I did wrong, I'm sorry Jinx it made you so mad you didn't even want to sleep in the same city as me."

Jinx felt her heart sink and her grudge almost dissolve. Almost. Her arms clenched around her knees tighter.

Wally had to admit that her not even wanting to stay in their apartment hurt him. With argument he would've stayed on the couch and they could've figured it out the next day.

"Lin talk to me, please?"

Jinx looked down and hated herself for the words she was about to say.

"I'm not talking to you Flash."

Wally felt a part of him crumble.

"You swore you wouldn't call me that anymore." There was hurt laced through his voice. She could just imagine how hurt his expression was.

"I'm not talking to you Wally."

"Why?" his voice was desperate now. "I'm trying to fix whatever I did wrong to you but I can't if you won't tell me what I did!"

Jinx felt her anger inside rile her up.

"What you did wasn't to me. You shouldn't be feeling sorry to me."

Wally opened his eyes and he glared at the door as if it was her.

"Well why is it affecting you like this then, huh Jinx? I haven't done anything wrong to you that hasn't been sorted out!"

He was yelling as if there were no other people in the building. "You're telling me that there's no real damn purpose for this whole fight?! So what is this? Another one of your tantrums?"

Jinx got up from the bed and stood in front of the door.

"A tantrum?" she screamed, "Don't you compare me to a child when you never take anything serious! See! I won't tell you what you want to know and what are you doing?! You're screaming at me because you can't get what you want!"

The energies that radiated off of the two steamed their anger even more. Jinx was angry, jealous, disgusted, and hurt all at once.

Wally was more than anything confused, hurt, and concerned. Jinx didn't know it but he was scared. He was scared of what made her so angry at him.

Kid pulled off his mask off and shut his eyes against the door.

"I don't want to fight; I don't want to argue with you baby."

Jinx scrunched her eyebrows together in anger.

"No. You don't get to baby me. Not for a while." Her voice wasn't strong, if anything it almost seemed like she was going to break down.

Wally felt a shiver run through him.

"Are you," his throat closed up, "Are you breaking up with me?"

"W-what, no!"

Wally let out a breath he didn't know he was holding. Jinx put her hand on the door where his hand was too on the other side.

"I love you Wally. I love you so much-"

"I love you too Jinx, I don't-"

"But," she cut him off, "I'm not sure about our future now. I just need to think things through."

Wally felt himself back away from the door. His vision was blurred by tears and he did what he did best.

He ran.