A/N: again, I couldn't stop myself uploading another chapter so soon! Oh well. Thankyou very much to all those who review and favourite! hugs you all
Kid Flash squeezed his eyes shut and vibrated the molecules of his leg fast enough to move through solid objects, a moment or two later a cascade of metal pins dropped onto the bedspread, he looked up at the doctor and grinned.
"I… I guess that's cheaper than surgery." He admitted.
"Quicker too, and as you know, speed is my middle name, first and last too!" Kid Flash added with a laugh.
"Well, I guess we'll give it an hour for the last of the swelling around the bone to go down and then you're free to go as long as you don't do any high speed running for a week." The doctor said examining Kid Flash's leg, the doctor mumbled something about a medical journal and left the room looking thoughtful.
"Tv, my lord and master." Kid Flash said to himself as he picked up the remote, laying back on his pillows and stretching out for an hour of mindless entertainment, groaning he flicked through the channels quickly hearing only a word or two of each show.
"Gareth, no" "Oh Charlene I must!"
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"-simply add some lemon rind"
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"-the possum is a fascinating creature"
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"-belived to be the HIVE five headquaters-"
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"craaawling in my skiiiiin"
Kid Flash blinked and ignored the music video, what had that last one been? He clicked back to the channel before the music video.
"-burnt to the ground. The notorious gang of supervillans all seem to be alive and well at present. Despite their base being burned down, none of them have sustained fire-related injures. Two members of the gang are still missing, Jinx and Mammoth, the remaining members seem to be in good shape except for all mysteriously having broken their legs. The teenage villains are being taken to the hospital in police custody where, after they're bandaged up, will be held in jail to be tried for their crimes."
Kid Flash's eyes widened, true the base could have caught fire on it's own, the HIVE five weren't exactly competent, but all of them having their legs broken, that was too much of a coincidence.
"I think I'll be discharging myself early." He muttered getting out of bed.
It had taken him a whole hour to get back home, a whole hour! He had to take the bus! He'd never been on a bus in his LIFE before! He sighed and tried to slide the key into the lock in his front door only to find it broken. He really had to give Jinx a key so she'd stop hexing the door, it was getting tiresome having to keep replacing the locks. He pushed the door open, the flat was mostly dark with just the light from the bathroom illuminating a square in his flat. Steam rolled in the light before disappearing into the dark.
"Jinx?" He called out as he wandered over to that side of the flat, he peered his head around the door to see Jinx in just underwear and one of his t-shirts that was hiked up to just below her breasts, she was staring at her ribcage in the mirror. She turned and looked at him. Kid Flash tried very hard to keep his eyes on her face and nowhere else.
"You're walking." She commented, but Kid Flash barely noticed that she had said anything his eyes were stuck on the huge purple and black bruise forming on her ribs.
"Jinx! What- what happened?" He gasped reaching out to it, Jinx stepped back and shook her head and dropped the T-shirt down to its proper length.
"It's nothing." She said looking away.
"It's not nothing! It is most definitely something!" He protested lifting the shirt up to her ribs and running his hand over the bruise, she flinched and let out a pained gasp.
"How did you get this?" he demanded thinking of the HIVE five.
"It doesn't matter, it's better than being squashed flat anyway." She said pushing past him to the living room. Kid Flash's eyes widened, when he had tackled Jinx out of the way of the building he'd connected with her about there hadn't he? He kicked himself, how had he not expected to hurt her? He'd taken a run up from Manhattan for crying out loud, that bruise wasn't the work of the HIVE five, it was him.
"I… I did that didn't I?" He breathed, he shook his head and grabbed a bandage running after Jinx at normal human pace.
"I said it doesn't matter." Jinx said shaking her head and moving to the couch where she sat down with a hiss of pain escaping her lips.
"It does matter, this is my fault and I'm going to take care of you." He retorted kneeling on the sofa and biting through the last of the wrapping on the bandage case, he put the safety pins that were included to the side and stretched out the bandage and pushed Jinx's shirt up to her ribs, she squirmed at this.
"Hold still." He muttered wrapping the bandage around, he knew it wouldn't fix the problem but it would at least ease the pain for tonight. Jinx squeezed her eyes shut and tried not to think, ordinarily if Kid Flash had just accosted her and lifted up her shirt he would be hexed unconscious by now, but he was motivated by guilt and worry. His fingers brushed her bare skin as he wrapped it around her ribs once more, she tried not to think about it and focused instead on the pain in her rib. With one last tug he pulled the bandage tight and affixed it with a few safety pins.
"Does that feel any better?" he asked looking up at her, "I'm normally used to just having to do that on myself." He added. Jinx opened her eyes and tenderly touched the bruise, it did feel a little better, even if it was a little hard to breathe.
"Mhmm." She nodded in agreement before sliding down on the sofa and pulling her Indian blanket over herself, she looked at Kid Flash who was sitting half way down the sofa now.
"You're on my bed." She said pointedly, he blinked confused.
"Oh no you don't, we agreed, you have my bed and I sleep on the sofa! You're the guest remember?" He frowned staying put on the sofa.
"You have a broken leg!" Jinx pointed out.
"No I don't, it healed, YOU have a broken rib." He replied wiggling his leg to prove his point.
"I'm not moving." She stated flatly, her eyes glowing slightly in the dark.
"Well neither am I." Kid Flash pouted flopping down on his half of the sofa and staring up at the ceiling in the dark.
"You're going to sleep in your clothes?" Jinx said into the dark after a moment.
"I wasn't planning on it until now, but yes if I have to. If I get up to get changed you'll take the sofa and not let me back on." He replied pulling off his mask and shirt in one leaving him just in his spandex trousers. Silence fell between the two again until it began to make Kid Flash too uncomfortable.
"I saw something interesting on the news." He said to Jinx.
"Oh?" She replied noncommittally.
"Yeah, the HIVE five headquarters burned down, and all of the HIVE members except Mammoth and you have broken legs. Very mysterious." He said lifting his head up from the armrest trying to watch her expression in the dark.
"I wouldn't know anything about that." She replied after a moment and snuggled down into the blanket. About five minutes later Jinx got up on her knees and laid down on Kid Flash's half of the sofa with him.
"Jinx?" He asked surprised.
"Don't get any ideas, lying like that was making my ribs hurt and my legs cramp up." She said poking him in the chest.
"Well… if you're stealing my half of the sofa, can I at least have some of your blanket?" he asked feeling cold and regretting taking his shirt off. Jinx didn't reply but wrapped some of her blanket around his chest. Kid Flash smiled to the darkness in the room and snuggled down further on the sofa so his head was on a pillow not the armrest. He slipped an arm under Jinx's head and curled it around her back, Jinx's loose hair tickled his chest as she wriggled into the crook of his arm and rested her head properly on his shoulder. After some time Kid Flash was aware of Jinx's arm snaking across his bare stomach, he smiled and closed his eyes feeling warm and comfy on his small sofa with Jinx curled around him. As Kid Flash began to feel sleep claiming him Jinx spoke sleepily.
"Are… are you purring again?" she asked blinking, her eyelashes tickled his chest.
"Maybe…" He mumbled trying to quiet the noise in his chest.
"You really are a freak." She laughed softly and hugged him tighter.
"I guess." He smiled into the top of her head.