If You Say So/Chapter 4
Vivre Pour Le Meileur (Part One)
Jinx wasn't panicking, that's what she told herself. She was just a calm young woman who was going to meet one of the most famous female villains ever. Well, that's how she was on the outside.
On the inside, she was a squealing, jumping, ecstatic teenager, who was going to meet one of her heroes. Life couldn't get any better.
Malice and Jinx only had a few more feet to walk before they were in front of (technically, beside of) Harley Quinn.
Malice broke out into a run, screaming Harley's name. Jinx pause for a minute, staring at the young brunette, before running after her as well.
"Malice, wait!" Jinx's cry fell on deaf ears; the girl was surprisingly fast for her age.
Harley jumped up at the sound of Jinx's voice, her mask furrowing in an unreadable stare. But the woman smiled and picked up the jumping girl with a laugh.
"What are you doing back, kid," Harley asked.
Malice smiled, "I want ya to meet somebody."
Harley looked up to see the panting girl. Tuffs of pink hair stuck out from the hood and her pink eyes (pink?)glowed slightly as she fought back a glare towards the giggling little girl in Harley's arms.
"I suppose that this is the 'somebody,' right, Hun?" Malice grinned.
"Well," Harley started, "Let me put you down, so you can find Jason and Terry, if the assholes are here. Okay?" Malice nodded again.
"Okay," she said while putting Malice down.
The small girl gave Jinx a large wave, which Jinx returned with a soft smile, before running off. Jinx turned towards Harley.
"Umm… hi."
"Didn't know you could hand to hand."
"A lot of people don't know that."
"You use your powers so much, made us all think that you're pretty much weak without your powers. You are kinda scrawny, y' know?"
"I am not scrawny."
"Coulda fooled me."
"A lot of things fool you."
"You wound me, Raven."
"If only I could finish the job…"
This was pretty much what the banter was between these two. Raven didn't know why she was going easy on Red-X… she just was. They were doing hand to hand combat in front of the warehouse; Raven didn't even know why they were fighting in the first place.
So far, X hadn't shown what he had stolen (assuming he did steal something), and the police reports didn't say anything on what he stole or where he stole it from. They only showed the direction in which Red-X was heading and that was pretty much it.
Raven ducked away from a kick and backed up, still crouched. Hell, she thought, I don't even know why he's here!
Raven hated to admit this but, X was faster than her. Even with enough meditation and training, she wouldn't reach up to X's level of fighting without the aid of her powers. She knew this simply because she had yet to beat Robin in this department of fighting (yet).
But just because she didn't know how to beat Robin and Red-X without her powers didn't mean that she didn't know how to fight period!
Whirling behind X, Raven sent the sole of her right boot to the back of X's knees, causing him to fall backwards… towards Raven. The Titan met him halfway through the fall, flipping their bodies so that Raven would land on top and Red-X would take more out the fall. She was straddling the villain, inwardly cringing, Raven started her job.
Raven decided to use common sense and used her powers to trap both of Red-X's arms behind his head. She sent out the dark energy to Red-X's belt so there that he couldn't teleport. Through all of this, the only sound that came from him was two grunts from the kick and from when he landed on the floor.
Raven pressed both hands on Red-X's chest, feeling a bit of that womanly pride surge through her.
"What're gonna do now, Red?"
Raven could sense the defiance and the primal urges (men!) radiating from X. Under the mask, Raven could feel the smug smirk form on his face. Red only said one word.
"This."
X bucked against Raven, causing her to loose her leverage on X. She crashed into X with an 'oof,' undoing the weak spell she set on X's hands. Red took this to his advantage and flipped them around so that he was straddling Raven.
His left hand kept her right shoulder and arm still while he brought his right gloved hand up to remove Raven's cloak and entangle his hands into her violet hair. He then slipped his left hand under Raven in a slight embrace. Red let out a small chuckle.
"What're you gonna do now, Raven."
"So, what exactly are you doing in Jump?"
Harley didn't respond as she led Jinx towards a building. Jinx held in a sigh and followed her in. This wasn't what Jinx expected.
Next to Lex and the Joker, Harley was the most dangerous criminal out there. Especially since she was Joker's right hand man… woman, whatever. But the thing that stood out about that woman was her personality. And the hyenas…
The building was like many of those old gang hideouts she remembered when she first moved here. Marv talked about this place so many times, Jinx thought. The place had an old, but homey smell to it. There was a round wooden table with at least four chairs surrounding it; Jinx guessed it was used for some type of card games. Harley was still walking and Jinx hurried to catch up to her.
The two were in a hallway now. Paintings and photos of nameless people surrounded them, and out of curiosity, Jinx asked who they were.
"Dunno, these things were here before we moved in," Harley replied with a shrug.
"When you moved in..."
"Yeah, I think this place was a city, maybe some storm came in and the people had to leave it. But don't rely on me; I just came here two weeks ago."
"Mind telling me why?"
When they finally reached the end of the hallway, Harley faced Jinx and smiled, "Well, the answers in that room." She pointed at the door and her smile turned into big grin.
Jinx looked at Harley, then at door. Well, Jinx didn't know anybody except Malice. And this was Harley… even if she didn't know her… and she was the worst criminal out there (and that's a good thing)… and she's crazy… but, she was Harley. And maybe, just maybe if Jinx went with Harley inside that room (that could have bombs in there, or cops… hell, it could be an ambush!), she might be accepted.
"Alright," Jinx said. And Jinx followed Harley in the room.
A/N: More or less a filler chapter. The real action starts in the next one. I hope no one forgot about this story... More love goes to Dennis, for understanding why it took me so long to get this thing up.
Heh, I'm watching Little Shop of Horrors (for the upteenth time...), so if you see me mentioning the movie in the later chapters...