A/N: Before we begin I'd like to thank everyone who reviewed this story so far, it really does mean a lot to me and does make me keep up with the writing, so thanks to all of you (especially those that put me on their favourites or alert lists!). I really wanted to wait longer before releasing this chapter but I'm so excited to write more that I just HAD to release this one today, so here you go, enjoy!
"Miss?" The polite doctor asked hesitantly, Jinx lifted her head from her fist and looked up at him blearily, she had begun to doze off.
"Yes?" She asked straightening up.
"You were with Kid Flash when he was brought in yes?" The doctor asked, Jinx nodded silently and he sat down next to her. There was no one else in the room, it appeared that meta-humans had a separate area of the hospital, including waiting rooms, which was nice, she just wasn't in the mood to deal with curious people staring at her unusual eyes and hair at the moment.
"His leg and foot were completely broken, for a normal person it would have been irreparable, we would have even considered amputation." The doctor said solemnly, Jinx eyes widened. Running was Kid Flash's talent, if he was… permanently injured then he wouldn't be a super hero anymore, just some crippled teenager. And it was all her fault.
"But for him… it's different?" Jinx breathed hopefully, the doctor smiled softly.
"His healing process is… remarkably fast. We've already operated on him and put pins into his leg and foot and the bones are already beginning to grow back and heal with them. He could be up on his feet by tomorrow, but I wouldn't recommend any super-heroing for at least another week. But he'll be fine." The doctor smile broadly.
"Oh, thank goodness." Jinx sighed relieved.
"You can see him if you'd like, he should be coming around from the sedatives soon, we've got him on morphine too for the pain so he'll be a bit dopey." The doctor offered standing up and holding the door to the room that Kid flash was in open.
"He was dopey to start with." Jinx chuckled and entered the room. The doctor closed the door silently and Jinx walked over to the bed, his eyes were closed and although he looked a bit pale a gentle relaxed expression was on his face, he was obviously sleeping.
"You're an idiot Wally West." She mumbled affectionately as she ran a hand through his hair, as her fingers tangled in the crimson locks slowly a low sound filled the room, it sounded almost like… purring.
"You're awake!" Jinx accused him indignantly, a slow sleepy smile spread across Kid Flash's face and his eyes slid halfway open.
"Gotcha." He murmured smiling at her.
"You could have been killed." Jinx frowned down at him.
"Myeh, you'd 've been if I hadn't. Ima hero." He slurred slightly grinning up at her.
"Gah… I'll never understand you." Jinx snorted a small smile creeping onto her own features, Kid Flash reached a gloved hand up to her face and clumsily stroked it, narrowly missing poking her in the eye. She didn't protest.
"You're pretty when you smile." He commented as he drew lazy circles on her neck with his index finger.
"How much tranquiliser did they give you?" Jinx asked incredulously and she pulled Kid Flash's hand away.
"A lot. But I could just be using it as an excuse to flirt with you without you hexing me." He winked at her before flopping back on his bed with a sigh.
"I think it's wearing off, I still can barely feel a thing in my legs though, must be the morphine." He added sitting up and rubbing his thighs to try and get some circulation going.
"I suppose that's a good thing, all that healing must be pretty painful." Jinx chuckled, she suddenly noticed that Kid Flash wasn't smiling.
"Kid Flash?" She asked cautiously, he was shaking slightly and his eyes were focused on his legs.
"Jinx. Get the doctor please." He said through gritted teeth, his hands were clenching at the bedsheets.
"Why? What's wrong? Are you okay?" Jinx asked surprised.
"Jinx. Doctor!" He said tersely, Jinx's pink eyes widened. She'd never heard that tone of voice from him before, he was pale, his breathing was ragged and he was clutching at the bedspread as if for dear life. She reached a hand out to him and rested it on his back, he grabbed her pulling her forward and wrapped his arms around her waist and burying his face in her stomach, he was shaking violently now.
"Doctor!" Jinx yelled at the closed door, she flinched as Kid Flash's fingernails dug into her back.
"Ah, Kid Flash!" Jinx squeaked as her cracked rib began to hurt more, he was holding onto her pretty tight and her cracked rib was beginning to burn with pain. Kid Flash loosened his grip slightly and buried his face further into her stomach, finally, unable to hold it in anymore he let out the scream that had been building in his chest, the sound was muffled through her clothing but still loud.
"DOCTOR!!!" Jinx yelled at the top of her voice, she looked at Kid Flash's leg which was making disturbing crunching noises, like bone grinding together. At that moment the doctor burst through the door and stared at Kid Flash.
"Oh god, we need more morphine in here. Nurse! Morphine STAT!" He shouted around the corner before dashing into the room and assembling a rather intimidating looking syringe, a nurse skidded into the room with a vial of morphine as well as an IV bag of the stuff too.
The doctor prized Kid Flash away from Jinx with considerable effort. He fell back on the bed, his screaming louder now. Jinx watched in horror as his back arched and spasamed with the waves of pain he was obviously experiencing, his hands clenched and unclenched and he was gritting his teeth so hard that Jinx was worried they were going to break. The doctor quickly found a suitable vein in Kid Flash's squirming arm and depressed the plunger on the syringe shooting blessed pain medication through his body. Kid Flash's metabolism was mercifully fast in this respect and he soon was only twitching slightly from pain, the nurse hooked up the fresh IV drip of morphine and connected it to his arm. Soon he was completely out of it if not unconscious.
Jinx stood shaking with fear, shock and some other unidentifiable emotion, she glared at the doctor, all her emotions condensing down into fury. Unspeakable, untameable and incomprehensible fury.
"What the HELL was that?! Why was he screaming like that?!" She demanded grabbing the doctor by his labcoat and yanking him towards her.
"He- his medication ran out sooner than I expected!" The doctor babbled terrified by the glowing pink eyes of the girl that was bearing down on him.
"Why?!" Jinx demanded shaking him furiously.
"His metabolism is so fast we hardly know what to prescribe him! And no normal person has that much pain! You're condensing at least two years of healing into several hours, it's not normal, there's no way for us to know what he needs other than trial and error!" The doctor yelped terrified.
"Trial and error?! I'll trial and error you!" Jinx shouted her fingertips crackling with violent pink energy.
"Jinx…" Kid Flash breathed in barely more than a whisper. Tossing the doctor aside like so much trash she ran to his side and stared down at his worryingly pale face, his eyes fluttered slightly as he tried to focus on her.
"I…" He mumbled before his eyes slid closed and he fell into sleep, Jinx stroked his forehead and sighed worriedly.
"Hey there!" Kid Flash chimed happily as he made his way over to Jinx on his crutches.
"You're up." She said eyeing his crutches.
"Yes, alas still another accident and no pirate peg-leg to show for it. I am, obviously, a failure." Kid Flash grinned cheekily, Jinx said nothing at this and resumed staring at the wall in the waiting room her face ashen and blank.
"Gee, you're cheerful." Kid Flash muttered flopping down in the chair next to her and putting his crutches on the floor.
"How long are you going to be on those?" Jinx asked after a moment of silence as she looked at the crutches.
"Eh, a few hours maybe. I think they're going to let me take the pins out of my leg at lunch time. They wanna keep me here for the rest of the day then I'm free to go home as long as I don't do any high speed heroing on the way." Kid Flash shrugged leaning back on the chair, he looked over at Jinx, she looked troubled and tired.
"Did you get any sleep whilst I was out of it last night?" He asked studying her face, dark rings were visible under her eyes.
"Not especially." She answered monotonously, by which she meant she had been sleeplessly sitting at his bedside out of her mind with guilt and worry.
"What are you thinking about Jinxie?" Kid Flash asked in a sing-song voice leaning into her and bumping her shoulder with his annoyingly. She gave no reaction at this, he was worried, something was seriously wrong with Jinx if she wouldn't even rise to THAT comment.
"Jinx I'm worried about you what's wrong?" He asked softly.
"Me? You're worried about me? You're the one that nearly lost your superpower because of me, you could have died, that building-" Jinx began frantically but cut herself short she drew her knees up to her chin and buried her face in them.
"That's what you're all upset about?" Kid Flash smiled rubbing her back, the muscles were ridiculously tense there, "I've broken bones before, it's no biggie, it just hurts is all." He said softly.
"You had NO shin bone! It was just pulverised into nothingness!" Jinx choked out from the safety of her knees.
"Oh Jinx… it's okay." He comforted her as he shifted from his seat onto the arm of the chair that separated them, he wrapped his arm around her trembling back.
"No!" She snapped standing up, she span to face him, her tired face streaked with tears. "It's NOT okay, I told you I was bad luck and this proves it. It's… it's happening all over again!" Jinx sobbed and ran off. Kid Flash struggled to his feet all too slowly to stop her running off, he frowned being slow was not fun at all.
"Jinx!" He called after her but she was already running through the door, he glowered at the world in general. The one time he REALLY needed to be he was no longer the fastest boy in the world, he sighed dejectedly as the shimmer of Jinx's pink hair through the frosted glass doors faded into nothingness.
"What's happening all over again?" He mumbled confused as he picked up his crutches.