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Kid Flash had a confession to make, he hated the sight of blood. This might seem like a bad quality in a superhero with the number of wounds he was always getting, but oddly enough his own blood never bothered him, but other peoples? It didn't bear thinking about.
"Ohgodohgodohgod, what am I going to do?" Kid Flash whimpered trying to breathe calmly and ignore the tight feeling in his chest. Jinx was passed out on his sofa, and much to Kid Flash's dismay, her blood was seeping onto the carpet.
"She's going to bleed to death if I don't do something!" he shouted angry at himself, his voice echoed back across his small living room and he began to feel rather silly shouting to himself.
"Argh… what am I meant to do?! Ah! Bandages!" He gasped feeling enlightened, he zipped off to his medical cupboard and came back with bandages and anti-septic in hand. Slowly, carefully he knelt down at Jinx's side. In sudden wide eyed horror he realised that he was kneeling in the small pool of
Jinx's blood that was collecting on his floor, Kid Flash desperately fought the nausea.
"Okay, I guess I need to get you out of these blood soaked clothes." Kid Flash shivered trying not to think about blood. Cautiously he reached over and unbuckled the purple webbed collar that Jinx wore, surprisingly it had nothing to do with her dress, also, Kid Flash was surprised to learn, Jinx's sleeves had nothing to do with her dress either, she was wearing a shirt under there.
"This is going to be complicated." He sighed examining her complex clothing. Suddenly, and with a loud crash, Kid Flash's door detached itself from the wall. Mammoth stepped through the doorway and roughly set the door back in place, Kid Flash jumped up defensively.
"Hey! Leave Jinx alone, if she wants to be a hero she can be, I'm not going to let you hurt her!" He shouted glaring at the giant.
"Be quiet little man." Mammoth growled grabbing Kid Flash by the face and chucking him across the room.
"Hey! I- what… what are you doing?" Kid Flash blinked as he watched Mammoth unzip the back of Jinx's dress and pull her shirt off of her gently, kid Flash winced at the ripping sound that the shirt gave as it pulled away from Jinx's wound, some of it had evidently melted itself to her skin.
"Stopping her bleeding to death." Mammoth said gruffly as he chucked the shirt at Kid Flash. He looked down at it, it was soaked with… with… He tried not to think about it. Mammoth sloshed some anti-septic over Jinx's arm and ignored him.
"You're not angry with her? The others didn't seem to happy." Kid Flash said kneeling next to him.
"Jinx my friend." Mammoth replied simply as he picked a few bits of scorched shirt out of Jinx's wound.
"Huh." Kid Flash nodded with a lack of anything else to say. Mammoth carefully wrapped a bandage around Jinx's arm, his work done he leant back on the sofa and sat in silence.
"Is it just you from the HIVE that doesn't want Jinx dead?" Kid Flash asked resting his back on the sofa as well but keeping a wary eye on Mammoth who nodded in response.
"I know Jinx since she was tiny girl," mammoth said gesturing only a few foot off the floor, "we look after each other. Jinx protect Jinx and Mammoth from other people, Mammoth protect Jinx." Mammoth nodded sagely.
"What'd you protect Jinx from?" Kid Flash asked raising an eyebrow.
"Mammoth protect Jinx from Jinx." He replied looking over at her, with a sigh he stood up. "She won't wake up for a while, she shouldn't sleep in that." He added looking at her dress, with a moment's thought he pulled his black shirt off, he looked down at Kid Flash.
"You leave now." He said after a moment, Kid Flash blushed, nodded and disappeared.
With a sigh Kid Flash slid down the inside of his door, how had this day happened? Why on earth were there two possible villains in his living room? And he may be wrong, but Kid Flash had the sneaking suspicion that he had just been kicked out of his own living room by a villain. He ran a hand through his hair, this was getting complicated. A thud reverberated through the door, Kid Flash jumped up and opened it to see a shirtless Mammoth towering over him, a truly terrifying sight.
"I go home now, they will try to find Jinx if I don't. Mammoth is meant to be looking for her." Mammoth informed him.
"Okie dokie!" Kid Flash smiled weakly and felt considerably dorky for doing so. Mammoth lumbered across the flat and paused at the door, he turned and looked over his shoulder at Kid Flash.
"I will be back tomorrow, if you touch her, I break you. Like twig." Mammoth glared at him, Kid Flash suddenly felt about two inches tall.
"Yessir." He squeaked, Mammoth nodded then lumbered off. Kid Flash shuddered, Mammoth was creepy. He leaned over the sofa and looked down at the unconscious Jinx, Mammoth's shirt swamped her, it went down to her knees and the sleeves went all the way down to her elbows, Jinx looked so tiny and fragile.
"What have I done?" Kid Flash sighed, Jinx had been abandoned by all of her team with the exception of Mammoth, and he didn't know what the situation was there. She was injured and homeless and it was all his fault. Slowly the realisation dawned on him, had Jinx become good willingly or just because he'd been whispering in her ear in her sleep?
Kid flash bit his lip, was brainwashing villains in their sleep a heroic action or more along the lines of twisted evil genius? Had he turned jinx to good or had she turned him bad? Kid Flash stood wide eyed in the middle of his living room, his eyes slid to Jinx, she was obviously more cunning than he had given her credit for.
"Argh, stop over thinking things Wally." He sighed pulling his mask off and ruffling the back of his hair that had gotten flat under his super hero outfit. He tried to keep his eyes and mind off of Jinx as he cooked himself a massive mountain of food which he devoured faster than he had made it. He tried to keep his mind off of his current moral status of his actions and had jinx's clothes dry cleaned in china to distract himself, he bought her a quilt from India that he thought she might like, by the time he had gotten back he had killed almost an hour.
In a resigned manner he sat on the floor and looked at Jinx, the floor was clean now thank god, it had only taken him 2.8 seconds to do that, he wouldn't have taken so long if he hadn't been so creeped out about it being blood.
Jinx was pale, well, paler than usual. Kid Flash supposed that it was from all the blood loss, but she didn't look like she was on deaths door so he guessed he should just let her sleep it off. Her brow was creased with a slight frown and she appeared to be dreaming of something.
"Jinx." A voice boomed loudly, Jinx ran through the dark in the opposite direction, she was the sole thing illuminated in wherever she was.
"Jinx!" Another voice shouted, Jinx skidded and ran off in another direction.
"Jinx! Jinx! Jinx!" Voices were shouting her name all around her, she was running desperately trying to get away, her breathing was ragged and she was covered in sweat.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Jinx screamed clamping her hands over her ears and running harder.
Kid Flash frowned, Jinx was thrashing around under her new blanket, her face was contorted with fear and pain.
"No…" She whimpered in her sleep, a tear trickled out of the corner of her closed eye. Kid Flash bit his lip and knelt up and leaned over Jinx.
"Ssssh Jinx… it's okay… nobody is coming to get you. You're safe with me." He whispered stroking her forehead, Jinx's forehead uncreased a little.
A figure appeared out of the darkness.
"Kid Flash?" Jinx questioned still terrified.
"Shh Jinx." He whispered brushing her hair out of her eyes tenderly.
"What?" Jinx mumbled confused as she stepped back, he smiled at her warmly.
"It's okay… nobody is coming to get you." Kid Flash soothed stepping towards her, he waved a hand into the darkness and the voices halted and wherever they were lightened a little to a sort of half light that one experiences at twilight in the city.
"You're safe with me." He whispered in her ear as he wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Kid Flash." Jinx smiled into his chest, she traced the lightning bolt with her finger.
Kid flash smiled, Jinx seemed much calmer now, she even had a small smile on her face. Breifly he wondered what she was dreaming about.
"Probably something strange, my dreams never make any sense." He said to himself as he stood up with a smile and left Jinx to her dreams.