Jinx opened her eyes slowly, it took her a while to realise that she was somewhere strange, she sat bolt upright.
"Argh." She commented as the searing pain burnt through her arm, she looked down, her arm was bandaged although the wound had obviously continued bleeding. How had she got that?
"Traitor."
Jinx gasped, that's right, her team had abandoned her, and shot at her no less. Well, not all of her team, she was wearing one of mammoth's gigantic shirts. So where was she? Jinx carefully stood up and examined the room she was standing in. It was medium sized for a flat, the kitchen was part of the same room, it looked tidy but was completely nondescript. The carpet she was standing on was soft and the sun that came through the window was pleasantly warming, the flat was nice but completely generic, it said nothing about the person. She padded along the room, there were two doors on either side of her, the sound of running water was coming from one so Jinx chose the other, hoping it was the front door.
It turned out in fact to be a bedroom, she looked around curiously, it was painted a happy yellow colour and the carpet was a much warmer orangey hue than the neutral cream colours that Jinx had experienced so far in the flat. She looked around, there were no books or pictures anywhere that she could see, the place was almost freakishly neat, someone either had too much time on their hands or was a compulsive cleaner. Jinx was just starting to open a wardrobe when a scream outside the door jolted her away.
"She's gone!" The voice yelped, Jinx squeaked and jumped in the wardrobe closing the door behind her. Jinx held her breath as a teenage boy burst through the door soaking wet and wearing only a towel around his waist, soaking red hair obscured her view of his face.
"Shit shit shit!" He muttered heading towards the wardrobe. Jinx backed further and hid herself behind clothes, she frowned the clothes were bright red and yellow, she ran a finger down one.
Spandex? She thought confused. Suddenly the clothes were jerked aside and she was face to face with her captor, he looked startled, as well as soaking.
"There you are, thank god." He breathed relieved, he looked at her again and raised an eyebrow, a drip of water slid down his face and dripped off of his chin.
"Jinx… what are you doing in my wardrobe?" the boy asked slowly.
"Who…?" Jinx breathed confused, her eyes darted from the bright yellow clothes next to her to the boy looking at her. Suddenly two and two came together in her mind and made four.
"Kid Flash?" She asked after a second. The boy nodded and stepped aside to let her out of the wardrobe, Jinx obligingly stepped out but kept her eyes on him.
"You're not wearing your mask." She said carefully.
"Technically I'm not wearing anything if you want to be picky." Kid flash shrugged, "I'll be right back." He said casually picking some clothes out of the wardrobe and running off in a blur, within a second he was back in front of her.
"You're still not wearing your mask." Jinx pointed out as she looked at him, he was wearing civilian clothing, simple jeans and a plain yellow t-shirt with a long sleeved red top on under it, his hair was still as unruly as it was when he was in uniform.
"Well, you've already seen me without it now, so there's not much point." He smiled gently as he sat next to her on the edge of his bed.
"Aren't you worried that I'll track you down when you're off duty and ruin your life and those of the people you love and care about? Isn't that why you super hero types wear masks?" Jinx asked eyeing him cautiously.
"That's why we wear masks I suppose, but I'm not worried." He grinned at her.
"And why not? Are you planning on holding me hostage here?" Jinx demanded furiously jumping off the end of the bed, she faced him, her eyes burning with anger. Much to her annoyance Kid Flash proceeded just to laugh uncontrollably.
"Stop it!" Jinx snarled.
"I'm sorry," Kid Flash giggled wiping a tear of mirth from the corner of his eye, "It's just you always assume the worst! Heh, the idea of ME holding YOU hostage is hilarious! You'd hex me six ways to Sunday before I could even try!" Kid Flash giggled looking up at her.
"Fine, so why aren't you worried then?" She snapped looking at Kid Flash who had now laid on his bed with his head hanging off the end and was looking at him upside down.
"Because, for one I trust you." He smiled gently before reaching a hand out towards her and touching her own, "And two, the people that I love and care about comprises almost solely of you, and I'd be a bit upset if you went and hurt yourself just to spite me." He said quietly, he ran a thumb over her palm as she stood rigid with shock, after a moment Jinx regained her composure and snatched her hand away.
"Yeah right." She muttered looking away angrily. Kid Flash sighed and rolled the right way up and sat on his bed cross-legged and looked at her.
"How's your arm feeling?" he said after a moment, Jinx tried not to look at him, without his mask on she could see that he had a few cute freckles on his face and his eyes looked even more blindingly blue and soul piercing than they had before.
"Sore." She said simply. Kid Flash looked her up and down, she was still wearing Mammoth's shirt and her bare legs were distracting him.
"I got your clothes cleaned, but they're still… pretty beat up. Your shirt has a laser hole in it and your dress is a bit scuffed up. I could get you new clothes if you'd like." Kid Flash offered.
"I'd rather steal some new ones." She replied dryly.
"And I'd much rather buy them for you, consider it a gift." He sighed before running off in a blur. Much to Jinx's surprise it wasn't until five minutes later that he blew back into the flat again, with clothes in his arms.
"These were the closest I could find." He said offering several shopping bags to her, Jinx eyed him warily before opening them. She pulled a short black dress out of a bag with French writing on it, it was close to her dress in length and shape, it simply lacked the pointed edges at the bottom of hers. A silky long sleeved shirt came out of the next bag, she knew this was from India instinctively, she ran a finger along the fabric, the material was soft and light. She looked up at kid flash who she realised for the first time looked nervous.
"You didn't have to…" She mumbled.
"I wanted to, do… do you like them? If you don't I can run back and-" he began quickly, Jinx shook her head with a small smile on her face.
"They're… nice. Really. I'm just not used to getting gifts. I'm… going to go and get dressed." She smiled slightly, she stood up and made her way to what she assumed was the bathroom. Kid Flash leaned against the door and talked to Jinx whilst she changed.
"Mammoth said he'd be around to break my front door down to see you again today." He said through the door.
"Yeah, he'll be wanting some sort of decision from me as to what he should do now." Jinx sighed and pulled off Mammoth's gigantic shirt.
"He said you've known each other since you were kids." Kid Flash commented trying to hide his eagerness at a chance to learn more about Jinx as a person.
"We looked after each other, we were homeless, we did pick pocketing and all that just to survive, after we got to HIVE we still stuck together." Jinx replied tugging the shirt over her head, she was right about the material, it was lovely, the sleeves floated around her arms as if gravity didn't apply to them, it gave her an almost ethereal look.
"He said he protected you from you, what does that mean?" He asked having wondered about that all night.
"Heh, he protects me from making dumb decisions. Mammoth is a big picture person, he can see when I'm doing something out of character for me, if it weren't for him… well… it's not a good thing to think about." Jinx replied through the wood of the door, the handle clicked and Kid Flash pushed himself away from the wall and turned to look, Jinx walked through back into the main room and looked back at him.
"Well?" She asked giving a twirl. Kid Flash shook himself, his jaw was hanging open slightly, Jinx looked entrancing. The dress fitted her perfectly and the purple shirt made her look a little lighter as did the completely purple tights, she still looked as alternative as before, and definitely still like Jinx, but she looked less like a bad guy than before. Which, he supposed, was the idea.
"You look great." He smiled broadly at her, a loud crash alerted Kid flash to the fact that Mammoth had just burst through his door again, he jumped in shock.
"Move it little man." He growled gruffly at him, Kid Flash stood still in surprise, Mammoth took this as a sign of contempt and made a swipe at him. Kid Flash squeaked and disappeared just dodging the hand the size of a dustbin lid.
Jinx smiled gently, Mammoth was always like this.
"I suppose you're here to tell me that this is a huge mistake and completely out of character for me huh?" Jinx said her smile fading slightly.
A/N: Thanks so much to all those who reviewed, it really means a lot, I'm hoping to be able to keep up with updating every other day but my classes start again tomorrow, but fingers crossed. If not every day then every other day, so please keep checking back!