Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans and I'd really like it if people would stop assuming so, I mean the old school one is way older than I am...
Alright, well this one kicked out in record time and now I have basically no time left to rank any of these out for another week so be happy I came out with four of them so quickly.
Now on to the story….
Going Under
Jinx flipped the cd absently, wonder what Mr. Big-Banks wants with this piece of junk, she thought and jumped over a red beam of light, falling to the ground and sweeping beneath the next laser. She was having a rather good time and switched to walking in a hands stand occasionally jumping from hand to hand in order to avoid the red beams.
"Jinx, quit playin' around." Came Gizmo's voice from the watch on Jinx's wrist. "You got the disk, right?"
Jinx giggled feeling more alive than she hand in weeks, "Of course silly, how's it going in the vault?" She asked and pushed herself up and over the last laser and landing on her feet noiselessly.
Gizmo sighed, "All's quiet here, we're just waiting for you, should we pull off?"
Jinx smiled down at the video watch the eight year old had made for the team, "You guys got enough cash to pay the rent?"
"And more," Replied See-More and Jinx laughed as he pushed his face into the camera, "You'll never believe how much they just leave hanging around here!"
Jinx giggled and jumped from wall to wall in the narrow place she had found herself in, eventually she managed to get herself to the top of the shaft and appeared before the group. "Alright, now where's my cut of this cash lifting?"
"There will be no cash lifting!" Starfire's voice rang out and filled Jinx with mixture of anger for the Titans' interference with her plans and happiness at seeing Raven again, she shook it off and looked at Mammoth.
"Looks like we got company, how are you Teen Titans? We haven't seen you in forever…Well, it was nice seeing you, but we'd best be leaving before those mangy kids and their puppy show up." Jinx yelled to the group that entered with a rather loud crash, breaking open the windows and sounding the alarms.
"Titan's go!" The Boy Wonder shouted and the Titan's took on their counterpart in the six, leaving Jinx to fight Raven.
"Long time, no see," Jinx called to the dark teen and then she jumped back and discreetly scooped up a handful of hundred dollar bills plunging them into a pocket of her black cargo pants. She shot off pink hex-bolt to deflect the black tendrils streaking towards her. "I rather think that you all are very bad hosts. I mean it's your job to fight the bad guys," she jumped to the archway above the bank and kicked the wall spinning her towards the floating Raven. She wrapped her arms around the teen's neck and held on to the empath while whispering into her ear, "I really like you better in normal clothes. They're definitely sexier than that cloak and leotard."
Jinx giggled at her words and slipped from the empath landing on her feet and taking a second to survey the wreckage, everything would've been fine if the Titans hadn't interrupted, now the Bank was out money and was being destroyed. She shook her head and dodged a kick at her head.
"Well that was quite rude, here I am," she swung out a punch at the violet eyes girl who blocked it with her forearm. "here trying to work and you people keep interrupting me!" She smiled and swept Raven's feet causing the empath to levitate in the air.
"Jinx! Get out, we're leaving!" Relayed Gizmo's voice from the feline's watch.
"Got it Gizzy," Jinx replied cheerfully and she dropped to her feet to let Cyborg's blast hit the wall and then jumped back up to a standing position. Raven dropped down and Jinx leaped to the side and started making a break for it.
The feline jumped through a hole in the glass and rolled on the sidewalk feeling the cut on her arms from where she hadn't quite cleared the glass. She gripped her bicep willing the area to heal fast before dashing down an alley. Jinx kept running as quickly as she could but the slash in her leg was beginning to slow her down as well. She could feel rather than hear Raven on her path and sped up thinking she was doing alright as she turned down back alley to back alley, until the girl suddenly showed up in front of the feline and tackle her to the ground.
Jinx let out a yelp as Raven leaned against her shoulder and Raven glared down at the girl, "You never listen, do you?"
Jinx whimpered as the empath wouldn't let up on her shoulder, "Raven, godess, ahh, my shoulder." She hissed and Raven looked down to see the blood seeping form the wound and let up moving her hand to Jinx's collar bone. "Thank you," the girl whispered sighing in relief at the cease in pain.
Jinx's head went back and rested on the ground, "Are you hurt?" Raven asked and Jinx was slightly surprised to hear concern.
"I'm fine," Jinx groaned.
Raven check the girl and her eyes widened, "You're bleeding on your stomach too, and your leg."
"I know," Jinx replied with a grim smile, she had felt the glass cut into her leg when the Titan's had entered but the injury on her stomach was something she hadn't registered yet, Jinx chopped it off to the adrenaline pumping through her veins.
Thinking about that Jinx realized her heart rate was extremely high and knew the culprit was currently on top of her, I'm going to have to start eating healthy if this keeps up, she thought and laughed.
"What's so funny?" Raven asked, her grip had relaxed and now the Titan was unsure what she was about to do with her captive.
"This whole damn situation," Jinx said and winced as she finally felt the wound in her stomach, "We're just doing our jobs, you know?" She smiled grimly and locked eyes with the empath.
Jinx's breath stopped and Raven watched her curiously, then snapped out of the trance, "Let me heal you."
"I'm fine," Jinx said looking dreamily at Raven, "Go take me to jail like you're supposed to."
Raven shook her head, "Lie still," she commanded and Jinx did as she was told, she felt Raven move off of her and roll up her cargo pants. Jinx tried to sit up only to feel the glass jut further into her stomach, the feline hissed in pain and fell back, stuck on the ground, feeling Raven run her hand along the wound.
Jinx cringed at the contact, "Lie still," Raven repeated and then suddenly she grabbed the bit of glass sticking out of Jinx's leg and pulled it out.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!" Jinx growled between clenched teeth, "goddess, Raven. That hurt unbelievably." Jinx groaned unable to describe the pain while Raven's magic probe around healing her leg.
"I had to get the glass out, else it would've been pointless to heal the area." Raven explained and moved to Jinx's shoulder, this looks like you only managed to cut it," she whispered quietly into the night and Jinx cringed again as Raven's magic began to heal the area.
"Now, for your stomach." Raven said and began to put her hands on the bloody area.
"No." Jinx negated and scooted away from Raven. She sat up and ground her teeth together, balling her hands up into fists to try and convert the pain, "You're not fixing my stomach."
"Jinx, this is ridiculous." Raven said but Jinx was already getting to her feet.
"Thanks for fixing my leg and my shoulder, but I'll just have the guys fix it in jail." Jinx explained and looked down at the pool of blood on the ground she had been previously lying on, "I'm a meta-human, we heal fast." She said and Raven shook her head.
"Hey pit-sniffer!" Called a voice from the other end of the alley.
"Giz," Jinx whispered and looked at the boy appearing from the darkness on his mechanical spider, he smiled at the girl.
"Didn't think we'd leave you, now did you?" He asked and Jinx turned her head as Mammoth dropped down and appeared behind her, she wrapped her arms around the oversized man and he grabbed her waist carefully.
"You alright, Jinx?" He asked and Jinx shook her head.
"Let's get out of here before the others show up." Jinx suggested and Gizmo frowned.
"But there's only one here!" He whined.
Raven suddenly looked up at Jinx who was glaring at Gizmo, "Yeah and she'll summon the others, stupid! Let's get out of here." Jinx felt Mammoth start to walk away and his other arm reached out and grabbed the eight year old.
"Come on, Boss's orders." He grunted and started walked off letting Gizmo glare at Raven.
"Stupid pit-sniffer, we'll get you next time." He warned and spun around falling in behind Mammoth, and soon the three had made it to Gizmo's apartment. It was situated in a middle class area and was the classic suburban apartment with concrete stairs and the whole package, but Jinx was just grateful for the couch Mammoth put her on when they were inside.
Jinx sighed and looked up at the five boys suddenly peering at her, "Yes, I got the disk."
"You're bleeding," Kid Wkkkyd pointed out and Jinx sighed.
"I know that, are you guys okay?" She asked and pushed herself up carefully, controlling her expressions so not to give away the amount of pain moving was currently causing her.
"Yeah we're fine, See-More patched up our wounds." Gizmo explained and glanced at Jinx's stomach. "Are you gana be okay?"
Jinx nodded and moved to her feet, "Yeah, fine, just need some bandages." She said and looked at See-More, "and some tweezers?"
The criminal nodded and fished out his supplied from the duffle bag on the floor, he handed them to Jinx with a smile, "You know I can do that."
"No, you can't." Jinx replied grinning at him and spun around, marching off to Gizmo's bathroom, if I'm not gana let Raven do that I sure as hell am not gana let him! She thought and snickered at that, only causing her stomach to hurt worse. She groaned and took of her shirt, glancing around suspiciously for camera and then sighing, "Gizmo I'm gana kill you if there's a camera in here!"
"That's a good idea!" Mammoth said from the living room.
"This door isn't some seal-proof noise canceling device, Mammoth, I heard you!" Jinx called while picking out bits of glass and letting hem fall in Gizmo's sink with a clunk. She listened with a smile as the others laughed and pictured the very red Mammoth now attempting to look proud and uncaring at the comment. Jinx cringed at the pain from the glass and told herself how stupid she was, she could've just let Raven heal her stomach and then she wouldn't have to wait a few days for the scares to fade. Mentally kicking herself Jinx wrapped the wounded part of her stomach that lay just above her belly button, she looked down at the bloody shirt and sighed, I can't go outside in that, I'd have an ambulance on my tail. She thought with a sigh and called, "Anyone have an extra shirt?"
She heard the boys suddenly quiet down and finally See-More volunteered, he reached into is bag and pulled out a red T and walked over to the bathroom door knocking. Jinx's head poked out and the man wolf-whistled. "You're gana die for that." Jinx threatened glaring at him and snatching the shirt. She slammed the door and heard the boys snicker again, "Stupid boys." She muttered and smiled remembering Raven saying the same thing about Robin. Jinx let her hair down and straightened the shirt which was obviously too big for her, she sighed, it would have to do.
Walking out she glanced at the guys who had seated themselves and were now watching the ESPN highlights of the day. "I'm out, see you tomorrow night?"
"Actually it's tonight now," Kid Wykkyd corrected, tearing his gaze from the t.v. for a moment to look at Jinx. "Nice shirt."
"Shut-up." She told him and looked at her watch, "Damn, it's two already?"
"What did you expect, we're heisted that place at one, your guy better come through, Jinx." See-More said, "As much as I like a good heist I hate it when the Titans blow everything to hell."
Jinx nodded, "Yeah, he's good for it. I'll see you guys at the club." She said and turned to leave hearing Mammoth say to Gizmo in a sing-song voice.
"Aww, she's gana let you in little buddy. You'll never believe the stuff they've got going on in there…"
Jinx closed the door on the conversation and walked down a flight of stairs, she took out her cell phone from a pocket and phoned in a cab, he picked her up from the front of the apartment complex and Jinx directed him to her building where he dropped her off and she took the elevator to her room and crashed on her couch, unable to make it to her bed.
Upon awakening Jinx attempted to bring back her dream, missing the amazing conversation she was having with a cloud, she sighed into a pillow knowing she had landed herself back in reality and slowly opened her eyes to her surroundings. When she saw the digital clock above her television Jinx swore and made a mad dash to her bathroom, showering and discovering that the wounds on her stomach had managed to heal.
She practically ran to her room, grabbing a pair of dark wash jeans, a white button down shirt and a suit jacket. She was so hurried she didn't even realize she was wearing converse until she looked down in the cab, if House can pull it off I guess I can try.
The cab drove off and she paid the driver who in turn thanked her, she was after all, a very good tipper. Jinx walked into the building and road the elevator all the way up to the top of the building, feeling unease with the multitude of mundane workers who crowded he elevator, and if she was uneasy from the people the amount of stops were just pissing her off. Finally the elevator came to the top floor. "Finally," she muttered to no one in particular.
The feline navigated through the many hallways and walked up to the woman behind the desk, "Here to see Mr. Ramos."
The middle aged woman glanced up at the professionally dress—for the most part—teen with her pink hair and arched a brow, "Do you have an appointment?"
"Five o'clock." Jinx said, it was actually four fifty-something, but Jinx figured he wouldn't mind if she came here a little early, actually Jinx was worried more about being late, and that just wasn't very profession. The teen prided herself in her professionalism, it was what kept her from just being another crook.
"You're Pink, I'm guessing?" The woman asked and Jinx grinned.
"How could you tell?" She joked and the woman smiled lightly.
"He's in his office." The woman said, pointing to the door with the gold bar on it reading Ramos.
"Ahh," Jinx purred and opened the door, walking through the entry way and then closing it. "Mr. Ramos?" Jinx asked looking at the Hispanic man sitting in his chair behind a rather over-sized desk. "I believe we spoke over the phone, I'm Jinx."
"I see, you've brought the disk?" He asked glancing at the bag Jinx held.
Jinx nodded, "You've got the money, I presume?"
"Of course," he answered holding up a bag identical to Jinx's. "There better not be any trackers on that bag…"
Jinx shrugged, "It wouldn't mater if there was," she pulled out the disk and handed it to the man, letting him upload whatever was on it to prove she had recovered the correct cd. Jinx didn't watch the monitor, she personally had no curiosity towards whatever was on that disk, and preferred to not know. She concerned herself with moving the hundred dollar bills from one purse to another.
"Why did I have to buy that bag, then?" Ramos asked as he watched Jinx move the money.
"Because your wife is feeling neglected and would probably love a new bag, you should be nicer to her, she did have your children." Jinx said counting the money in her head as she moved it. That was why she had he get a bag, so she could count the money and make sure she wasn't getting jipped.
"What do you know about my family?" He asked sharply, sensing a threat.
Jinx moved the picture that was facing her around so he could see the photo of himself, his wife, and his two children most likely in Disneyland. "Don't be so jumpy, Ramos. I'm just trying to make jokes here, you can return that bag to where ever you purchased it if you like, or you could give it to your wife," Jinx glanced at the now empty bag, "If it's not a knock-off, women have a sixth sense for knock-offs. It's quite interesting to watch a woman practically sniff out a knock-off."
"I get it," he interrupted and Jinx smiled professionally.
"Good," the feline glanced at the man while she slung the leather backpack over her shoulder, "Your disk working for you?"
"Yes." He said nodding to her and Jinx took that as a dismissal and stood up offering her hand to the man.
"Good, it was nice doing business with you and I hope you won't have need of my service again." Jinx said, it was a sentence she said to all her clients she was finished with, a few of them she kept around, but this man needed whatever was on that disk for his own gain and Jinx sense he would've sneaked her out of money if he could've.
Ramos shook her hand and Jinx left the room, followed by the floor, and eventually after a grueling amount of time in the elevator, the building. She caught a cab to a club and when the cabby dropped her off he said, "You're awfully nice looking for going to this place."
Jinx grinned and handed the man his money, "I own this place, honey." Jinx smiled and walked into the club, they were sweeping up for the night and a few of the cleaning guys glanced at Jinx and then shrugged, figuring the bouncers could deal with the girl. The bouncers, on the other hand, were up the food chain high enough to know not to touch this girl, not even to speak to her unless she spoke to you, and those were direct orders form Tony.
Jinx walked through the club and up the stairs the housed the rooms above the two clubs on the ground floor. She ignored the hushed talking from various rooms and opened the door to her office, closing it securely and then opening the closet to grab a black T-shirt and a black leather jacket. She had five or six of them of the exact same make haunting various areas to make for quick outfit changes.
Jinx sighed in relief when she was changed and comfortable and stretched out on the couch that sat in the corner of her office, she liked having the biggest room, it made for a much more comfortable place to nap.
Even though the girl had slept from three in the morning to three-thirty in the afternoon she was still tired, she hadn't really slept anyway, her powers where busy healing her stomach and her mind had been elsewhere.
Settling down Jinx attempted to sleep but it seemed like ever time she closed her eyes for long enough she saw Raven's face hovering above her, she could feel the girl's body against her own. Eventually Jinx couldn't take it and she stood up form the couch and glanced at the clock.
It read out seven-forty and Jinx grumbled knowing it was late enough for both the clubs to be open. She shrugged on the jacket and walked out, locking the door behind her for later. Tony was out in the hallway and Jinx smiled politely at the man, "How are yeah, T?" She asked clasping the man on the back.
He grinned at the teen, "Doin' alright as long as you quit sneakin' up on me."
Jinx frowned, "But that's half the fun of sayin' hi."
Tony shook his head, "Club's been doin' good while you've been gone and Danny says your friends are in the parlor."
Jinx sighed, "Well they're early risers…"
Tony looked at the teen, "You know, the guys hate letting that kid in."
Jinx rolled her eyes and began to walk away from the older man, "I hate it more." She called back as she turned down a corner and walked the hallways. The clubs might be a racy business for a nineteen year old to own, but if the cops only knew the whole thing was a cover for the organized crime in the city, Jinx shook her head at the thought and opened the door before her.
The room was dark ad Jinx noticed smoke came pouring out of it when she opened the door, "How many times do I have to tell you, NO SMOKING!" Jinx growled to the eight year old seated at the table. With a fluid movement she snatched the cigar out of his grasp and chucked it into the trashcan which erupted into flames. "Damn it," Jinx growled as she grabbed a vase of flowers and poured the water onto the receptacle.
She looked back at the five guys around the table, "Anyone else wan to light up?" She asked glaring at the group, they all shook their heads and Jinx sighed. "Guys…seriously, lets try to hold a little lower profile here, I've already got Tony breathing down my neck for using a perfectly good room." This in fact was a lie Tony did was Jinx asked without fail, he was practically her right hand and Jinx let him do pretty much whatever he wanted because of this. In fact, the older man had offered the larger receiving room but Jinx had declined saying she was running a low profile, yet it seemed her five teammates were very concerned with trying to bring someone into the room and trashing that profile.
"Alright then," Jinx began and took off the leather bag form her back. "So fifteen split?" The other nodded and Jinx dumped out the money dividing it into six different piled and putting the excess ten percent into her own pile. "I had a pretty good time, I don't know about you guys…"
"It was sweet, Jinx." Billy Numerous said as he shoved his share into the many pockets of his cargo pants.
"Yeah, we should totally keep this up. I like beating pit-sniffer!" Gizmo said and Jinx looked at the younger kid.
"You have to leave," Jinx said monotone.
"What?" Gizmo asked looking at the feline in indignation.
"You're too young for this place, Tony hates letting you in. And," Jinx sighed glancing at the half-melted trash can, "I think you'd make a scene."
"But—but—Jinx." He whined looking like a toddler about to have a tantrum.
Jinx held her hand out, "Yeah, tell it to someone else." She grabbed the eight-year old by the back of the collar grateful he hadn't stupidly decided to bring his mechanical spider legs. She opened the door and called out, "What is this kid doing here? This is a place for adults!"
"I'm gana get in here some day!" He growled and looked up at the two bouncers walking down the hall.
"Can we take that off your hands?" Once of them asked and Jinx grinned.
"Yes, that would be very nice of you." She let Gizmo's feet hit the ground, "Don't manhandle him boys, he's just a kid."
The two men looked down at the kid who pouted, glaring back at them, "Come on kid," one of them said pushing Gizmo a little and they walked away with the angry eight-year old.
Jinx turned back to the now four guys, "I think we're done here." She made a phone with her thumb and pinky fingers, "I'll call you when I get another job in, kay?" She reached into the pocket of her jacket and pulled out a handful of gold coins, throwing them on the table, "have fun boys." She said smiling and then she walked out of the room, grateful for the fresh air that hit her when she walked out of the smoky room.
A glance at her watch told her it was nearly eight, "Wow," she whispered while walking down the stairs, "Usually it takes long to get ride of those guys." She frowned at her own words and turned the corner into the club,
I'm going under
Drowning in you
I'm falling forever
I've got to break through
I'm going under
Greeted her ears and she glanced around, there were quite a few people. Jinx shrugged at walked through the mass of people to the bar, it was a Saturday night after all. When she made it to the bar she took a seat on one of the stools and looked over at the bartender. "Mojito, dry." She ordered and he nodded and began to fix the drink.
Jinx sighed feeling suddenly lonely and wondered what Raven was doing, probably reading, she always reads. Jinx thought and suddenly looked over at the man standing next to her ordering drinks.
"Cyborg?" She asked looking at the half-robot who was sporting actual clothes for once, probably to cover up the obvious mechanical parts that gave away his identity.
The man turned his head and his eyes widened in surprise, "Jinx…what are you doing here?"
The bartender laughed slightly as he put down the mojito before the feline, "Here you go."
"Thanks," Jinx said grabbing the drink and taking a sip, ah rum, my good old friend. She thought and looked at Cyborg.
"Aren't you going to pay for that?" He asked and Jinx shrugged.
"I know the owner." Jinx explained and watched as the bartender held back another laugh in the corner of her eye. "What are you doing here? Is the whole team here?" Is Raven here?
Cyborg watched her closely and Jinx recognized his face from the flirty smile he had worn at the H.I.V.E., "Yeah, but I wouldn't worry about it, Robin's busy with Starfire and Beast Boy's too busy trying to pick up girls, and Raven's…Raven." He explained and Jinx had to work to hide her happiness at the news that Raven was here.
"What are you doing here then?" Jinx asked smiling at Cyborg flirtatiously.
"Picking up girls," he answered and looked up at the bartender who placed three drinks down on the bar. Cyborg handed him a credit card and the bartender looked at Jinx raising an eyebrow.
"Run the card." She growled to him and then turned her attention back to Cyborg, "Who are the drinks for?"
The android smiled, "Me, Beat Boy, and Raven." He said pointing to each glass, "Why don't you come hang out with us?"
Jinx arched a brow, "That's a grate idea, why don't we get the convicted criminal to come hang out with the superheroes." She shook her head, "You might as well just grab some handcuffs."
Cyborg sighed, "We're taking the night off, just normal people, no crime fighting or whatever. And besides, I'm sure you'd love to meet everyone and not have to blow things up."
Jinx was quiet for a moment, calculating her odds of getting away in case anything went wrong and found luck in her favor, besides, she really wanted to see Raven again. Dramatically the girl sighed, "I guess it might not suck to have a civil conversation with the lot of yeah."
"Great!" Cyborg said and attempted to hold all three dinks in one hand, Jinx rolled her eyes and took one from him, "Thanks, that's Ravens." He explained and Jinx nodded, following after the mechanical man to a booth nearly on the other side of the club.
Jinx looked at it to find Raven sitting with a book in her lap, "Brought your drink," she said and Raven's head snapped up.
"Jinx?"
Author's Side-note:
The songs by Evanescence titled, and this is going to be a real surprise, "Going Under" I told you I'd find chick-rock that didn't suck.
Oh, and I'm going to do that thing that all really bad anime's do with the "what will happen next…" thing, so I must ask you, what will happen when Raven's forced to acknowledge Jinx as a person in front of her fellow team mates, and that's about all the rhetorical questions I can ask in one sitting so I hope it didn't suck…