PRESENT - Teen Titans Tower, Jump City 1:40 PM
Once Jai felt he was out of earshot, he sped back to Jinx's room.
His mommy and daddy might not end up together, and even at such a young age, Jai knew what that meant. Jai felt tears blur his eyesight. His mommy and daddy loved each other with all their hearts.
Not even opening the door, Jai vibrated his molecules through the door and came to a harsh stop at the foot of the bed.
That motion alone made Irey jump from her spot.
"You scared me Jai, what are you doing?" She said as she rubbed the sleep out of her eyes.
"Irey."
Jai paused and rubbed the back of his neck. A quality he inherited from his father.
"I think mommy and daddy aren't going to be together anymore."
Irey with slightly puffy eyes made a quizzical face. The night mode on the windows faded and they could see it was around midday.
"I have no- where did you even get that idea?"
Jai sat himself down, his back facing away from her.
"I heard Mommy talking to Auntie Raven and Uncle Dick that she and Daddy had taken a break."
Irey, for what felt like the tenth time that day, felt herself wanting to cry. What if her and Jai being thrown back in time would be their downfall? What if their parents never fell in love and never had them?
Don't be scared Iris!
Her father's voice reminded her. She breathed in and out to calm herself.
"I know how we can help them."
Jai turned around, left eyebrow risen up. "I don't think we should-"
"If we don't try now," she had her brave face and voice on, "there will be worse things that could happen."
FUTURE - Evidence Room, TT Tower 12:43 AM
"So now we know that the Brotherhood, or a Brotherhood wannabe is coming after you and your family." Dick summarized to Wally.
"I thought we already knew that much, but the part that we don't know is who this new stupid villain cult is," Wally grumbled unhappily.
Dick began looking through various prisons that all the Brotherhood members were supposedly at.
"Or those creepy guys in the cloaks could be the old Brotherhood."
Wally zipped behind Dick's chair as he pulled up records from each of the core members.
"Security and psychological reports of the main four members are oddly strange. Says here when asked about questions rather than saying their normally crude things, they would give the most vaguest answer."
Wally raised an eyebrow. "That does seem suspicious, but what could they do? These prisons that we're talking about, Belle Reve, Arkham Asylum; I highly doubt any mediocre villain from the BoE could get close to the perimeter, much less inside."
Dick double checked.
"But, Wall. The prisons all of them are in, aren't magicked. There's a high chance that a supernatural event was going on when no one was paying attention."
The theory that Dick just spilled made most sense out of all the ones they came up with, but they were missing a big who in the story.
"It still doesn't make sense as to how See-more fits in this. We haven't heard from him for years and all of a sudden he's big and bad trying to take my wife and kids for himself!"
He was frustrated and tired of this. He just wanted to go back home, eat some of his wife's delicious food, and play with his children till they fell asleep.
Dick wasn't doing too hot either, this whole case was stressing out the whole team. They were put under too much pressure and the stakes of their family were at risk. Despite Wally and Jinx in their own city, they had become nothing less than family. Dick was the godfather of both the twins and promised he'd do everything in his power to keep them safe.
In the waning light of the moon, Dick sighed and turned his chair around to face Wally who was rubbing his eyes.
"We have to get some rest. If we keep stressing too much it won't amount to anything."
Dick stood up and the computer began power its system off. He put his arm around the redhead's and clapped him as they walked out the doors.
PRESENT - Streets of Jump City 2:54 PM
After her talk with Robin and Raven, Jinx decided she needed to go out into the city to think to herself. And she also remembered Jai and Irey didn't have any clothes other than their super suits to wear. The twins wanted to go out with her into town to see what the old Jump looked like but she knew it would raise the attention of the paparazzi if Jinx was seen walking around with two young speedsters. She could practically see the ridiculous headlines.
Kid Flash and Jinx: Teen Heroes and Teen Parents?!
Secret Speedster Children?! See page 10 for the delicious details behind KF and Jinx's secret pregnancy
After buying them a ton of outfits from the mall (with Robin's credit card, of course) she made her way out of the little boutique. There was traffic from the desperate civilians trying to get home and that's how Jinx ended up in the back of a cab. A child walking past her cab with a woman was carrying what appeared to be a Flash and Batman balloon.
The two were going into a closed off area where a person lazily sat in the booth, flipping through a magazine. Come to think of it, there seemed to be a lot of people going in with capes and costumes.
Curious, she asked, "Do you know what that event is?"
The driver cocked his head to the side and cleared his throat. "It's supposedly Superhero Appreciation Day, thanks to all the heroes for everything they did."
Jinx turned her head and saw what looked like a person dressed as Kid Flash. Scratch that, it was Kid and he was surrounded by various girls trying to pull his spandex only to see that it wouldn't budge. Jinx felt herself seethe as he smiled his charming smile at one blonde.
Her eyes were bright pink and she just remembered herself paying the driver and just teleporting in a bright flash of pink.
The cab that glowed bright pink didn't go unnoticed by a certain masked redhead.
Teen Titan's Tower, Jump City 2:54 PM
"Stupid, idiotic, self-centered, dim-witted-"
"Mommy!" Jinx snapped out of her thoughts and saw herself in her room. All the bags full of clothes and shoes were next to her on the ground, the handle burned off.
Irey and Jai were laying on her bed in front of her laptop and she blinked. She had to get used to this having children thing.
"Oh. Hi, kids."
Irey and Jai were still widely staring at her.
"Hi Mommy. Were you just talking to Daddy?" Jinx looked at them quizzically. "What makes you think that?"
"Usually whenever you disagree with Daddy you always mumble those things when he goes out to cool off."
Jinx marveled at them. There was no denying that she was their mother, they adopted all her characteristics of being able to observe a situation for all it's worth. And they were what, six? They had an advanced vocabulary for their young age.
"That's- that sounds like us, yeah."
Jinx moved away from their line of sight and picked up the bags, putting them on the bed.
"These bags are your civilian clothes. Robin let me use his card to get these so you better say thank you." She pulled out all the articles of clothing and handed them to the, er, her kids.
"Is this for if we go out in public?" Jai asked as he eyed the blue running shoes.
Jinx answered a 'yes' as she packed the bags and boxes away.
Jai looked over to Irey who had the same expression he had on his face. He nodded at his sister and she did the same.
"Hey mommy?" Irey sped to her mother's side and looked up at her.
"Do you think we can go to the superhero fair today?" she inquired sweetly. Something flashed in her mother's eyes when she mentioned the fair and she knew it wasn't a good sign.
"I-I'm not sure about today, Irey, I'm not-"
"We really wanna see what Jump looked like in the past!" Jai blurted out interrupting her. He flashed next to his sister and they shared the same pleading look in their eyes.
Jinx raised an eyebrow. "I'm pretty sure you guys have seen online and through pictures what Jump was. You guys didn't travel that far back in time."
Knowing their mother would remark something like that, the twins planned ahead.
"But we wanna see it in person! I mean," Jai trailed for his sister to finish, "who knows how long we're going to be here?" Irey pouted sadly.
"it could be a while and we don't want to stay in the tower all day," Jai drabbled on.
"and when we stay in the tower all day we'll get bored and we'll-"
"Alright! Alright! We'll go." Jinx finally gave in, a headache forming.
Irey and Jai smiled at each other. Their plan was working beautifully.
3:27 PM
It turns out that the rest of the Titans had to go to the fair as an agreement with the mayor. Since Jinx was not a core member of the original Titans, she didn't need to go. They also didn't want to bother her after her hectic day.
They were surprised to see Linda with Irey and Jai in their civilian clothes. Linda was wearing a white off the shoulder long sleeved top with some blue jeans and brown sandals. Her black hair was split down the middle and placed behind her.
Irey was suited in a nice yellow dress, her red hair up in its signature pigtails and white sandals. Jai was wearing a Flash shirt and some black cargo shorts. His little feet were adorned with the blue running shoes he was looking when Jinx first brought them out. Cyborg had offered them a ride to the fair and they happily obliged. At least Jinx didn't have to pay over $30 for a cab seeing the traffic she encountered earlier.
They were dropped off in the front of the fair and told the Titans they'd see them back at the Tower when the fair was over.
Linda was getting her money situated to get tickets when she heard an all too familiar voice call her name.
"Linda?"
Said girl slowly turned around to see a yellow shirt with the Flash logo on it. Linda turned her head up slightly and saw Wally West.
He had his hands in his pockets and was biting his upper lip.
"I- uh didn't know you'd be here with them," he looked down to the twins who were gazing up at him.
Linda turned down to look at the two and saw they were captivated with their brand new shoes all of a sudden. Nice.
"Uh-huh," Linda nodded, still looking at the twins. "So, how'd they talk to you?"
"I got a text from your number telling me the twins wanted to go to the fair, but that you weren't feeling too well."
That last part was true on so many levels.
"You wanted to see your Daddy so badly, c'mon at least say hi to him." Linda gently pulled their hands forward so they could be in front of him.
Wally crouched down so he could be at their level. Irey was the first to come forward. She was always a Daddy's girl.
He had a look of guilt on his face when he remembered what had happened earlier that day.
"Irey, I'm sorry about-"
She cut him off by wrapping her little arms around his neck. Wally was shocked to say the least, but wrapped his arms around her. He squeezed her lightly for comfort.
Iery pulled away and looked at the same blue eyes they shared.
"I forgive you, Daddy. You didn't know and you weren't in the right state of mind." Wally smiled and kissed her little nose causing her to giggle.
He peered over her shoulder to see Jai kicking the concrete.
"I'm sorry to you too, Jai. I didn't mean to scare you guys," Jai looked at him and at Irey who nodded.
Jai nodded and smiled at his father.
"It's alright Dad, you were only acting on impulse." Wally grinned. He stood and ruffled the boy's hair.
"I was just trying to protect my little sister," Linda smiled on that one. Jai was the first one out then.
"You're only older by seven minutes Jai!" Irey pointed out in an annoyed tone.
"It still counts, Irey."
"Does not," she glared at him.
"Does too," he bit back.
Linda saw where their conversation was going and interrupted.
"How about we go in now?" She had her money in hand and was about to pay when a big hand grabbed her shoulder. Wally smiled a small smile.
"I got it."
After he gave the bored teen the tickets, Irey and Jai clasped onto their father's larger hands, racing inside. Linda smiled. He would be a great father some day.
She snapped herself out of the thought when she remembered the predicament she caught him in earlier. Linda let that idea sink in as she strolled over behind the trio.
Wally smiled down at the children that were grasping his hands. He turned over to Irey, his little girl that had his blue eyes and red hair, and freckles, that were fading?
The tiny hand he was holding was fading and he abruptly stopped. Irey looked at him confused and as he was about to answer, something, rather, someone bumped into him.
The two fell to the ground, Linda on Wally's back. She quickly brushed herself and felt herself a teeny bit sad that he didn't care to check on her.
What was rather weird was he looked to both and Irey and Jai, as if they would disappear in front of his eyes.
Wally sighed when he saw the two children, not fading from existence. He already knew the reason why they were fading the way they were. It had something to do with his breakup with Jinx. If they never got together, Irey and Jai would never be born.
He suddenly remembered that Linda had fallen on him and turned to see her, brushing her clothes off. He offered her his hand to pick herself off the ground but ignored it and got up herself.
Wally cleared his throat and put a hand behind his neck nervously. The air around them was tense and people just ignored the weird event and kept walking on.
Irey and Jai looked at each other and smirked. It was time to enact part two of GMADBT. (Get Mommy and Daddy Back Together) The name was created by Irey who caused her brother to roll his eyes. He said the name was too long, but went along with it anyways.
"Come on Mommy/Daddy!" Both twins said at the same time.
Irey grabbed her father's hand and Jai grabbed his mother's hand. Wally and Linda were put in between their children and both blushed when they were called Mommy/ Daddy.
The four began walking towards the center of the fair where the Titans would be honored for their heroics. Jai noticed his mom was slowly inching away from Wally and his brown eyes narrowed.
With little strength, he bumped into her side to make her bump into the tall redhead. Wally felt the bump and saw Jai's smirk and mirrored it, putting his arm across her shoulders.
She turned and glared at him but he just grinned and continued walking.
Behind them, on top of the seats that went over the fair was a green changeling and his empath girlfriend. Beast Boy snapped a picture of the four on his phone and sent it to Wally.
Raven rolled her eyes, but leaned her head onto the crook of his neck.
"You know Jinx is going to kill you for taking that picture right?"
Beast Boy put his phone away and wrapped his arm around her.
"I think she'll thank me for it later in the future." Raven looked up at him and saw his fang. She turned her attention down to her friends and their children.
"You think we'll be like that someday?" Beast Boy smiled down at her and kissed her forehead.
"I know we will."
Despite Linda not really talking to Wally unless it was necessary, the four had an eventful day. No villain dared to attack or rob a bank that day, knowing how many heroes were coming into Jump.
Batman had made a quick visit (much to Robin's dismay) and talked about the progress that Jump had gone through ever since the Titans moved there. Wally and Linda had learned about the quirks of their children. Irey had much of her father's outgoing personality, but was easily irritable and annoyed. Linda argued that it was her redhead temper (Wally had that too, as much as he never admitted).
Jai was overprotective over his family and especially his sister. Wally and Linda both knew he inherited that from his father. He as well as his sister got annoyed and infuriated a lot at things.
They were both impulsive. The two new parents discovered that when they ordered almost from every food stand and then went on each rollercoaster.
They didn't phase them and the three speedsters would play games while on the ride. Poor Linda was shaking, her tube top not offering any comfort.
Wally had offered her his red and blue flannel, which she refused. He still draped it over her, and taking as how she didn't shrug out of it, he didn't comment on it.
Wally knew that they couldn't ask Irey and Jai too many questions about the future, so every time Linda tried to peek into it he swiftly changed the subject.
He'd have to explain to her why they couldn't know too much.
The Titans that night had asked Kid if he could take patrol that night. He complied and the kids were taken in the T-car and tucked in by Linda.
Jinx, however, had other plans.
Roofs of Jump City, 11:01 PM
Jinx was sitting on top of some roof of a building. Her legs swung over the ledge and she looked out onto the vast sky of stars.
She had finished going through the slums of Jump. Left a few crooks out for the lazy police to round up and made her way to this building.
Jinx knew that he'd come here. This was their meetup point whenever they had to take patrol in Jump.
There was a breeze behind her, but she didn't move.
Kid raised his eyebrow when he saw her form there. He couldn't say he didn't enjoy it though. The redhead shook his head out of the gutter.
"Jinx?" he began walking to her, "what are you doing here? I thought you put the kids to bed."
Hearing himself say that sentence made him realize what their future would be like.
Kid sat next to her now and he heard her sigh.
"I love them already, Wally."
He looked out onto the moon.
"Me too."
Jinx looked at him and saw him. Really saw him. He would be the father of her children. He would be her husband, when she thought she would never achieve a future like that. A house. Kids. Significant other.
"What are you thinking about." He said it as a statement, not a question.
Jinx turned her eyes back to the moon.
"I think I know why they're here. Or, at least why they were sent to us at this time."
Wally had never thought of that. He just knew his kids from the future came to him and now he had to wait for his future self to pick them up.
He didn't answer because he didn't know how to.
"It's a rough patch in our relationship. A really, really, rough patch. Jai, Irey," she paused, smiling down at her feet, "they're here to help us get through it."
Wally knew not to ask what was causing the rough patch they were in, so he held it in. Coming from an impulsive literally do the first thing that comes to mind, that meant a lot.
Jinx knew it too. What he wanted to ask.
However, there was a bigger question in his head. One about their future.
"Are you okay with that? I mean, you have our future literally right in front of your eyes."
He was trying to read her face.
"Why are you asking that?" She looked into him, inquisitive.
Wally remembered feeling Irey's hand disappear in front of him. He held up the hand that held her smaller one.
"Today," he mumbled quietly, "we were walking through the fair. I saw her fading away."
Jinx remembered running into Wally at the fair and crashing into him. Nothing could've made him loose focus, he prevented most clumsy incidents and she was too caught up in her own head to notice.
"My little babygirl was fading away and I couldn't do anything about it." His voice was broken slightly as he had both hands in front of him, slightly shaking.
"Is that why you kept dismissing all my questions about the future?"
Wally limply nodded, now just staring at his hands.
"What if we never get past this rough patch, Linda? What if we don't end up together? What if we fall out of love?"
His last question was followed by silence. Jinx knew deep in her heart, she would always love him.
"You old fashioned hill billy," Jinx sharply turned her head towards him, "I didn't break up with you. I just needed some time to think about our future, and now this whole situation came up and decided for me."
Kid Flash looked at her with equal rage.
"So, what? You don't want to have to deal with me to have the twins? Well you know what? I want the twins, with all my heart, you can pack up and leave me with the twins if that's what you want!"
Jinx felt a shiver of rage go through her.
"I never said I didn't want the twins! You're twisting my fucking words! Damnit, Wally! You didn't even listen to the first part of what I said, huh? I just wanted to breathe! To think!"
"To think?" His nostrils flared. "Think about what?"
Jinx gripped the concrete to cool herself.
"I love the twins. I love Irey and Jai. I sang them the lullaby you sang me when Irey cried, asking why her Daddy would hurt her like that."
Kid Flash felt a pang of guilt. He remembered the tears and fear in her eyes.
"Most of all, Wallace Rudolph West, I love you."
Jinx took his larger hand in her smaller hand and looked in his eyes. "I just wanted a break, I still need one."
Kid Flash's eyes never left hers.
"I can't have you, or anyone for that matter, influencing my decisions."
Jinx intertwined their hands.
"You have to trust me."
Yeah, yeah, Jinx didn't tell Wally why she needs to think. But do you guys like that last line? ;) That scene can easily be called one of the most iconic scenes in the whole TT series.
! Did you guys know, they're planning on making a Live Action Teen Titans Show called Titans! They cast their first character, Raven and it's expected to be shown in 2018 or 2019! I am so hyped AH! I'm not a fan of YJ, and I became a little sad when they were getting their season 3, but TT are getting a live show like the Flash, Arrow, and Supergirl!
I only watch the Flash, but I still watch the crossover ones! I am so excited! Hopefully there'll be RobStar and maybe BBRae? I'm not sure, but they better have Flinx, FLINX, FLINX, FLINX!
Sorry for geeking out, I'm out.
