Kid Flash, or rather, Wally West stood bored out of his mind in the middle of a charity dinner and dance, except there was no dancing to speak of going on, just standing around 'mingling'. He stood uncomfortably out of uniform at his mentor's side, he was in a black suit, the white shirt under it itched from over-starching and the black tie was uncomfortable to say the least. Oh for the feel of spandex. He wished gloomily. Fed up he blew his hair upwards, without his mask on and the feel of wind in his hair his hair flopped forward lifelessly, all the running in cold wind and through polluted city air probably did it no good either. Normally if he was going out somewhere nice he would go through the effort to abuse it more with hair products and make himself look nice, but at mind numbing charity events like this he just could care less.
Out of the corner of his eye he saw a flash of hot pink, he neck snapped around, hot pink was definately out of place here. Everyone else was wearing 'classical' ballroom colours, even the women's dresses weren't that bright. He squinted, whatever colour it was. He craned his neck and saw it just for a second again, his eyes locked on a skinny girl about his age with blonde hair, her back was turned to him but it definitely had come from her. The fact that she was so young was a strange thing in itself, he was usually the youngest one at this boring things.
The girl turned her head slightly and pink shone as bright as the sun, a lock of fuchsia hair hung down near her eyes, Kid Flash smiled, Jinx.
"I've uh… got something important to take care of… I'll be right back." He said pointedly to his mentor, the real Flash, out of costume of course. He nodded, obviously understanding that it meant superhero business.
Kid Flash worked his way across the ballroom, he appeared in front of the girl. She was wearing a floor length black satin dress, her skin was a warm peachy hue and her attractive blue eyes sparkled at him, he reached his hand out to shake hers.
"Hello." He smiled proffering the hand, the girl paused suspiciously before taking the hand and shaking it. In one smooth movement Kid Flash pulled her towards himself and whispered in her ear.
"I must say the fake tan helped you blend in a lot, the contacts too were a nice touch, the dress must have been hard to find as well but I'm afraid the wig let you down." He breathed hotly against her skin. He flicked the offending strand of neon hair with a smile, Jinx crossed her eyes slightly to look at it, she sighed and Kid Flash led her down a corridor.
"Fine you got me." She sighed tossing the wig aside with her back to him, Kid Flash's eyes wandered along her skin, the backless dress was… considerably appealing. He tried to drag his thoughts out of the gutter.
"That was a lot easier than I expected, I was anticipating at least a few hexes, are you ill or something?" Kid Flash said raising an eyebrow at her. Jinx shrugged her bare shoulders and unleashed her hair from the tight knot at the base of her skull, far from being the uncontrolled waves that Kid Flash was so used to seeing at night, it slid down in one silky straight curtain. She turned to him, her shiny hair covered one eye.
"What's the point, the good guys always win. And from you're point of view that seems to make you the good guy." She pointed out.
"You've changed your tune." He blinked in shock.
"Not really." She said shaking her head, glassy pink hair waved mesmerisingly.
"Your hair's so straight… I prefer it wild, like normal." Kid Flash noted, a millisecond later he practically kicked himself, he'd said too much. How was it that the fastest boy in the world couldn't be fast enough to stop stupid things going unchecked from his brain to his mouth? Jinx frowned at him.
"How do you know what my hair looks like when it's down? How do you know it's not always like this?" She asked suspiciously, studying his face for any sign of anything suspicious. If she had been as fast as Kid Flash then she would have seen the look of panic that spread across his face for a millisecond, he hid it by shaking his head.
"I just mean, it's up in those… horn things usually, it must be pretty wild to hold that regardless of what you might put on it. And you look more like you like that." He replied smoothly, his face a model of well meaning innocence.
"Yeah well, I straightened my hair so I could get the damn wig on, I obviously needn't have bothered as I fooled no one by the looks of things." Jinx said incredulously as she headed to the bathroom. She pushed the swing door open and entered, Kid Flash stood by the door awkwardly as it swung shut. Several agonizing seconds passed.
"Are you coming in or what?" She asked poking her head out with a frown.
"I-it's a girl's bathroom!" He said in shock, Jinx rolled her eyes and dragged him in.
"Christ, you're like a schoolboy." She laughed at him.
"I shouldn't be in here!" He hissed shifting his weight uncomfortably from foot to foot.
"So sorry for scandalizing you. Look, no one's coming in." Jinx snorted waving a hand absentmindedly at the door, the lock crackled with pink energy, and, Kid Flash judged from the sound it made afterwards, broke. Jinx leaned over the sink and splashed water on her face washing off the rosy complexion and the makeup. Jinx looked skywards and lightly touched her eyes, the contacts slid off onto her fingers, she blinked.
"God I hate doing that, it feels so weird." Jinx shuddered flicking them to the bin, her intimidating bright pink eyes made Kid Flash feel about an inch tall again as always. This is why she's easier to deal with when she's asleep, it's like those eyes can see into my thoughts… He thought wincing.
"Where are the others then?" He asked after a second.
"Came alone." Jinx replied through a 'complementary' handtowel which she was almost certainly staining irreparably with the makeup and fake tan that was rubbing off, she looked over at Kid Flash, several seconds passed.
Kid Flash panicked, what was she thinking? Was the thinking of attacking him and leaving him unconscious here? Cornered in this bathroom it was unlikely he could avoid her hexes forever and going through a wall at this close a proximity to her could burn her so he was trapped. Or was she thinking of turning good? Would the next words he said make up her mind for good? He had to say something.
SAY SOMETHING YOU IDIOT! He shouted at himself in his own head.
"You have no eyebrows, I just noticed that!" Kid Flash blurted out going red.
Oh, that's brilliant. He moaned internally.
Jinx stared at him for a moment before replying. "I hexed them off accidentally when I was younger, they never grew back Captain Subtle." She said dryly, she turned to the mirror and examined herself and wiped off the last remaining traces of her drawn on disguise eyebrows, he hand fell to the silver pendant around her neck which she stroked lovingly.
Kid Flash stood in silence again his eyes cast downward, she shook himself mentally, normally he swept girls off their feet with his suave words, why did he suddenly feel like a gawky pre-teen again?
"You look very pretty like this by the way." He added in an attempt to repair the situation and to prove he could be suave, his eyes fell on the pendant in Jinx's fingers.
"That looks expensive." He said flatly, she'd obviously been stealing again.
"It's mine!" Jinx snapped at him.
"You're going to have to give it back." He insisted. Jinx spun around and glared daggers at him, if looks could have killed Kid Flash would definitely have died instantly.
"It was my mothers! For a hero you can be a real jerk you know!" She snarled, clutching at the pendant protectively. She shoved him aside and yanked the door open in a burst of pink electricity and slammed it behind her.
"Jinx wait!" Kid Flash called after her desperately, he tugged on the door, broken of course. The real Flash watched in amusement as his younger counterpart vibrated through the door and chased after the girl who had just exploded her way through a fire door at the end of the corridor. The kid certainly was learning fast.
"Jinx! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you!" Kid Flash yelped dodging an exploding manhole cover on the street.
"I'm not upset! I'm flattered, you think I'm an even bigger thief than I am, my reputation obviously proceeds me!" Jinx shouted her eyes starting to sting, she blinked furiously. Not here Jinx… not in front of HIM. She reminded herself.
"I don't think you're a thief! I mean, I know you are but I know you're good deep down! If you were really evil you'd have blown me up by now, I know your aim is better than this!" Kid Flash insisted chasing after her and dodging the showing glass from the bulb of a lamp post shattered.
"I just can't concentrate is all!" Jinx snapped angrily, Kid Flash growled and appeared before her grabbing her hands in his.
"I'm sorry, I really am, wait here!" He gasped disappearing, he appeared down on one knee in front of her with a bouquet of dark pink roses.
"I'm sorry." He repeated offering them to her.
"Dark pink means thank you not sorry." She glared at him not taking the bouquet.
"It was the closest I could get." Kid Flash laughed nervously, a thought occurred to him.
"Why were you even here tonight? Not that I didn't want to see you I just… wasn't expecting you here." He added not wanting to offend her again. Jinx narrowed her eyes at him.
"What if I said I had an invitation then?" She pointed out irritated.
"I- did you?" He blinked surprised.
"Well, no. But I could have." Jinx admitted looking away.
"Why were you here anyway? I assumed you were here committing a crime of some kind, but I shouldn't assume with you should I? You surprise me too much." He smiled softly at her, Jinx said nothing, a thought struck Kid Flash.
"Were you here to see me?" He asked surprised, Jinx flushed red, out of embarrassment or anger Kid Flash was never certain.
"Don't flatter yourself!" She snarled yanking on the thin end of his tie tightening it and making Kid Flash gasp and splutter as she stormed off. It took a while for him to free himself from his intricately knotted prison when he eventually did and lay gasping on the floor for air he noticed that the roses were gone.
Kid Flash smiled.