Disclaimer: Let's see, I don't own the Teen Titans but I do own the Avril Lavigne cd that the title song is one, but it's okay. 'Cause I bought it way back when Avril wasn't as hip-hoppy or whatever you might call it. And besides…Sk8er Boi is an awesome song.
Alright, well I think this I'll be all you get for a while I'm going to the crap middle of nowhere North up to a friend's house on a lake so I'll be busy fishing and attempting to get a cellphone signal so I can call my friends and make sure my Harry Potter book is safe at home. Oh, and that's another thing, I'll be busy reading that when I get home so the earliest I'll post will probably be the 27th, sorry.
Now, onto the story…(I'm totally making it much better now)
"Raven, I'm really sorry I just got tied up at work, I'll be there by eight."
"You sure? We can reschedule…" Raven said not believing that Jinx was going to be there in time, this was the second time she'd call to reschedule. The feline had figured she'd be able to get all of Business Tuesday's business done by early Tuesday night, but it was not so.
What Jinx really didn't want to do was reschedule because then she would look like such a jerk to Raven who was nice enough to actual go out with her. She was also afraid she'd be too busy and look like an even bigger jerk when she could reschedule until next Monday. "No, no it's okay. I just got called in and I have to take care of something. It shouldn't take more than an hour."
"Alright," Jinx could sense the irritation in Rave's voice and hoped she wasn't in too much trouble, "I'll see you soon then, I'm sorry you have to work."
"Yeah, I know, I'd much rather be with you." Jinx replied as flirtatiously as possible, she hoped it would score back a few of the brownie points she had lost for being late.
"M'kay, this better be a rockin' date if I have to wait so long."
Jinx sighed in relief, "Oh, it's going to be totally awesome."
Raven groaned at Jinx's childish words, "Go back to work."
"Kay, See you soon."
"See yeah." Jinx flicked her phone closed and glanced at her surroundings. She was over-top the club having already left from a business meeting but now she was being pulled back to take care of some meta-human who had stumbled into her territory. She was more irritated that she would be walking around on a business day in a pair of black bondage pants and a tight Tee with her jacket overtop, ridiculously informal for occasions such as this but Tony's call had seemed urgent and Jinx wasn't about to change again.
She left the room she had been talking in and looked at Tony who stood in the hallway. "So who is this joker?"
Tony motioned his hand towards a doorway as the two walked down the hall and Jinx raised a brow as his lack of introduction. "Yeah'll see when we get in, and yeah won't be happy."
Jinx rubbed her forehead, today had already been a long day as it was, "I don't like not being happy."
"'Either dah any of us, now if yeah will?" Tony replied placing a hand on the door handle.
"Be my guest, are there guys in there?"
"Nah, just 'im," Tony opened the door.
"Who is this bastard?" Jinx asked rhetorically while walking in and she became angrier by the second when she saw who it was. "I told you never to come to my town."
The man looked up form his bolted down chair, "It wasn't my idea."
"Did I tell you to talk?" Jinx asked just waiting for a good moment to hit the guy, "You go off with my sister, treat her like crap and now you come here?" Jinx stood a few feet from the man trying to distance herself so she wouldn't be too tempted to beat the ever livin' hell out of him.
"Your sister sent me." He said glaring at the feline.
"I'm sure she did." Jinx replied, her eyes shifted to Tony who stood at the door his arms crossed, so he's playing body guard is he?
"Don't you want to know what she wanted to tell you?" The man asked and Jinx could see the red in his eyes and wondered just how long it's been since he left L.A. to come here. His clean shave was a respect and formality manner and Jinx was disappointed because she wanted him to look haggard to call him out on his disrespect.
"I'm not speaking with her, and you should be grateful I don't have you thrown in the nearest Jump City prison, I'm sure your record would call for such things…"
"You wouldn't dare—" Jinx gave in and punched the man in the jaw, inhumanely hard. The feline watched as he lifted his head back up and blood streamed from his mouth.
"Don't tell me what I can and can't do in my own town." Jinx walked to the table across from the man and found that none of the drawers were there. She nodded understanding the precaution; Jinx turned her head towards Tony, "What did he have on him when you took 'im in?"
"A switch, beretta, and this," Tony reached his hand into his jacket and pulled out a letter offering it to Jinx. The feline took it from the man and looked at the unopened envelope with Jinx written in Angela's handwriting.
"What does it say?" She asked him.
"I don't know."
Jinx glanced at Tony who walked over to the seated man; Jinx was become tired of this game. "I know you read it, I can sense your magic all over it."
He gulped and Tony cracked a knuckle, not being the easily angered man, Tony was very scary when someone pissed him off. Jinx herself was careful not to cross him, though his loyalty was infallible. "I don't wanta have ta 'urt yeah Greg." He warned and Jinx raised a brow, Tony grinned, "Al'ight so I do wanta hurt yeah, more da reason ta start talkin'."
Greg looked fearfully at Jinx, he knew Tony didn't like him; he had taken Tony's girl. Tony's way into the family. Angela and Tony were raised together, they knew everything about each other and everyone knew he was supposed to inherit the family from Jinx's father. But now, after her mother had left taking Angela with her, her father had died, and Jinx was not in the mood for romancing a man eight years her senior, all of her father's plans had lain ruined.
"Wait, wait!" Greg yelled and Jinx glared at the terrified man.
"Don't yell in my house." It wasn't her house, but it was Jinx's place to call her building a home, it was hers and anything someone owned was a home.
Greg was breathy heavy and Jinx looked down at the pathetic man tied to a chair that was bolted to the floor. The bruise on his face was darkening quite nicely and Jinx wished she could send him back home in pieces. That would teach Angela to come here herself instead of sending messengers, and Greg of all people. She should count herself lucky I don't retaliate for this humiliation.
Greg looked up at Jinx and volunteered his knowledge, "It says, 'a pawn cannot become a queen' that's all it says."
Jinx narrowed her eyes at the man, "Tony pummel him to your discretion, then throw him out in the streets." She gazed down at Greg, "I better not see you in my town unless you're cowering behind your girlfriend."
"Wife," he corrected automatically.
"You got married?" Jinx asked her voice softening, she watched Tony tense and hoped that he could hold back some of his rage.
"Yeah," Greg answered and he at least had the decency to look guilty that no one had told Jinx.
The feline blinked and swallowed hard, her own sister hadn't even bothered to tell her. Jinx hadn't expected an invitation, but at least a notice would've been nice. She looked down at the letter in her hand and opened it, making sure Greg had told the truth. Then she took Tony's lighter and burned the damn thing, letting the flames die on the concrete floor. She didn't say anything, just left the room and headed downstairs.
No one stopped her and Jinx almost wanted them to so she could feel real, how long has it been since I saw her? The feline shook herself out of the trance and finding herself in her car, turned the ignition key so she could pick up Raven.
She navigated her way through the many one way streets and finally came upon the road paralleling the beach closest to the Titan Tower. While pulling off to the side of the road she opened her phone and put a cheerful twist on her words, "Hey, here to pick you up, sorry I'm late."
"It's okay, but we're even for the whole ocean thing now." Raven said monotone and Jinx wondered if that was because she was in the Tower with her friends or because Jinx had done something wrong. "I'll be down in a couple minutes."
"Kay," Jinx hung up the phone and turned on the radio,
Somebody else round everyone else
You're watching your back, like you can't relax
You're trying to be cool, you look like a fool to me
Tell me
Why do you have to go and make things so complicated?
She leaned back against the black leather seats and listened to try to chill out, eventually changing the channel when she couldn't take the irritatingly coincidental lyrics.
Jinx looked out through the window and saw a dark form approaching form the sky. Attempting to be the chivalrous date she got out of her car and stood with her arms folded over her chest, in the cold.
"Hey," Raven said as she landed on the ground.
"Hey yourself," Jinx said while taking in Raven's appearance. The violet eyed girl was wearing a just barely knee length skirt with green and black high-socks ending probably just a few inches past the skirt. Raven had a matching green V-neck shirt with a black hoodie over-top. "So you shop at Hot Topic too…"
"I am not a Hot Topic goth." Raven snapped and Jinx held back a smirk.
"Never said you were, didn't realize you were goth, Raven." Jinx said while walking to the passenger side door. "If you will," she opened it and Raven raised a brow.
"You have a porsche?"
Jinx sighed, "Yeah, I hate driving around the city 'cause I can never find a parking space, it's like being in New York or something." Jinx watched as Raven got into the seat then walked around got into her own seat. "Plus it attracts attention."
"I wouldn't know why," Raven said and she looked at the door, "You have seat warmers?"
"Of course," Jinx answered not really understanding her surprise, practically all new cars these days had seat warmers and she was nearly positive Cyborg would've put them in on his car. The feline put the car into drive and started working her way through the streets.
"So what's this place called again?" Raven asked looking over at Jinx.
"Pei Wei," Jinx answered pronouncing the restaurant's name as Pay Way. "It's really good Chinese food."
"Am I dressed okay?"
"Do you see what I'm wearing?" Jinx asked smirking while she pulled up to a light.
"Yeah, those pants are really clingy."
"And your skirts too long, are we really going to critic each other's outfits?" Jinx stole a glance at Raven who was absently messing with her skirt. She tried to start a conversation again, "So how was your weekend?"
"Your belt doesn't match your bracelet."
Jinx paused wondering how the other girl had known that, then took a chance, "Yeah, well your underwear doesn't match your bra."
"Yes it does," Raven corrected nodding innocently, "I made sure of it, pink—"
"I swear to the goddess Raven if you start describing your underwear I'm going to have to pull this car over."
"And do what?"
"I haven't figured that out yet" Jinx gulped knowing she didn't have good enough driving skills to attempt to keep playing this game. She felt Raven start to lean over, "Seriously Raven, I'm not that good at driving!"
Jinx sighed when Raven leaned back and heard her say, "Sorry." The feline stole a glance again to see the empath's usually pale cheeks had turned a rosy color.
"So how was your weekend?" Jinx asked again.
"Okay, I had to deal with four terrified teenagers Sunday night."
Jinx groaned and pulled into the small parking lot grabbing one of the few remaining spaces, "That's horrible, was it really that scary?"
The two got out and Raven looked over the car at her date, "Well I didn't think so, but I can't figure out what was so scary about it."
"Yeah, had that same problem," Jinx said while strolling out towards the strip center housing the restaurant. "Couldn't stop watching the girls, you know? I didn't even know there were monsters until Flash tried to talk to me about it."
"That must've been an odd conversation," Raven said as they entered the Chinese place. It was oddly enough, rather American with a line to place orders and a section for eating made of dark wooden tables with white table cloths. "This is a Chinese food restaurant?"
"I know, thought the same thing when I came here," Jinx said directing Raven to three large rectangles framing the oversized menus. "I like the orange peel chicken, but get whatever you want. We're also getting Crab Wantons; you're allergic to seafood, right?" Raven shook her head and raised an eyebrow at Jinx, "Man, you mean I have to share?" The feline said and Raven glared.
"I think I'll have the noodles…" She murmured after returning her attention to the menu, Jinx nodded leading her to the man at the register and ordered. They got two cups and grabbed drinks and silverware followed by a table.
"You come here often?" Raven asked tilted her head at how well Jinx got around.
"It's my second date stop," Jinx explained carelessly and when she got a look form Raven she clarified, "Joking, I'm not much of a same-old same-old person anyway." Liar, she thought to herself. "Some of the guys like to go here after work and it's really not that far form the office so it's not that big of a deal."
"The office?" Raven asked skeptically.
"Yeah, uh. You know…where I work 'n stuff." Jinx said trying to down-play the whole thing.
"What exactly do you do?" Raven asked curiously.
"Hey look, Wantons!" Jinx said smiling happily at the waiter who walked out with the plate, "Thanks," from the bottom of my heart thank you, she said to him just before he turned to leave. Jinx looked at the food greedily having not eaten for the last eight hours, she grabbed one with her fork and placed it on her plate cutting the wanton into four pieces. "So did you ever get them to stop freaking out?"
"What?" Raven asked now lost in the conversation.
"The guys, they must've been awfully freaked…" Jinx said before grabbing a bite.
"Oh, yeah Beast Boy and Cy still can't go down into the basement, and yesterday they freaked out at practice because Robin fell into one of the holes in the ground." Raven answered and Jinx was glad she was going to let the previous conversation go.
"Why do you guys have holes in your practice ground?"
"To learn how to avoid holes," Raven explained like it was the most obvious thing. She smiled in embarrassment, "That sounded so stupid."
Jinx laughed a little, "Yeah that did sound pretty stupid. But I guess if you're stupid enough to fall into holes you should probably get training to prevent yourself from doing such."
"I believe that was the logic that went into it."
"Good to know there was at least some thought," Jinx replied while grabbing her third wanton. "We don't even have practice grounds."
"I don't know where you would put them," Raven mused.
"Oh, I could think of a few places, but they're all rather impractical. Besides," she tried to look as intimidating as possible, "We villains don't need practice."
"Hence the fact that you always lose." Raven pointed out causing Jinx to scowl.
"We didn't lose last time."
"What are you talking about, we decimated you."
Jinx shook her head, "More like kept us from making record time. We got away with barely a scratch."
The empath rolled her eyes at Jinx, "That didn't seem like a scratch, you seemed to have been bleeding profusely."
"And yet here I sit, perfectly fine." She flicked the hair out of her eyes, "Well, almost perfectly."
"No, I think you were right about the perfectly part." Raven corrected and Jinx smiled looking over at the other girl. It wasn't nearly as flirtatious as before but it was a good comment setting them of in the right direction.
That moment the waiter returned and alleviated the tension by returning one again with food. Raven looked down at her bowl and then over at Jinx's plate. "Not, uh." Jinx said noticing Raven's gaze, "I'm starving."
Raven frowned looking down at her noodles pathetically and Jinx sighed, "Fine, but you owe me two of your wantons." They swapped dishes and Jinx spun noodles around her fork effortlessly while her date proceeded to enjoy Jinx's food.
"Thanks," Raven said smiling and just then two girls came over to their table.
"Oh my god, it is you!" One exclaimed rather excitedly and Jinx looked at the two sourly. The girls looked at each other and he shorter one reached into her bag pulling out a pad of paper, both of them completely ignoring Jinx.
"This is so awesome! I have to get your autograph, Niki is so going to be jealous she wasn't here! What's it like saving the city 'n all?"
"What's it like working with Robin?" The other asked and Jinx had to smile at how pale Raven had become.
"It's uh…fun, I guess…" Raven said and Jinx bit her lip to keep from laughing, better not attracted too much attention. The titan signed the girl's paper and looked up hoping they would leave soon, "Robin's uh…he's a great leader."
"Fearless leader," Jinx couldn't help but interrupt, she forced her lips back into a frown but couldn't help but smile when Raven silently mouth, "Shut-up," at her.
"You out on a night on the town?" The taller of them asked Raven once again forgetting about Jinx.
"Yeah, kind of." Raven said weakly.
"What she means to say is that we're trying to have an important discussion about sector 12-D of the city and how to deal with its current crime rate and we really need to keep on track. You have no idea how hard it is too keep these titan's concentrating on improving the lifestyle of our citizens and not just cleaning the crooks off the streets." Jinx said trying to get the girls to hurry off.
"You look really young to be concerned with politics." One of the girls said and Jinx wondered at the intelligence in the question.
"Yeah, and you look to young to be milling about the city," she tilted her head at the two girl who couldn't have been older than juniors in high-school, "You know city curfew's at ten thirty."
The two glared at Jinx and then turned back to Raven, "It's so nice to meet you."
"Yeah so totally awesome." Then they moved on, and Jinx watched them leave the restaurant.
"Thank you," Raven said sighing in relief, "I'm so sorry about that."
"It's cool, after I get mobbed by my army of fans you'll totally be so jealous." Jinx said while turning her attention back to the food.
"You have fans?"
"Oh course," Jinx shrugged, "They're not very bright though, still sending letters to the jail instead of my post office box. Really, you think in this day and age people would just email."
"You have an email account?"
"Yeah, don't you?"
"Well, usually people just send letters to the tower. Our mail man hates us."
"I can understand why," Jinx said and she finished he noodles and began picking food off of Raven's plate, she was really hungry. Raven attacked Jinx's fork with her own and the two looked up to glare at each other. "You're going to regret this…"
"I'm scared."
"You should be," Jinx said moving her fork away and then darting in and grabbing a piece of chicken, she ate it before Raven could do anything. "Hah!" Jinx announced and when she opened her mouth the chicken flew back to Raven's plate. "No fair!"
"Oh, like you weren't using your powers." Raven objected.
"You know that chicken has my saliva all over—" Raven grabbed the piece and ate it.
"Mmmmm," She purred dramatically, licking her lips. Jinx twitched her lips involuntarily, so she wants to play ball, huh? Jinx felt Raven's leg against her own and smiled at the girl she was now reminding herself not to kiss. But she looks so cute with that lyingly innocent face.
"Okay, now I realize you probably get enough stuff about animals with Beast Boy around, but I was wondering if maybe you'd be interested in going to the zoo tonight…I mean you don't have to—we can go out for coffee or something, it's just about a half-hour from now is when they feed the nocturnal animals and the place is something else at night."
"A twenty-four hour zoo, huh?" Raven asked skeptically.
"It's more like an animal refuge, you know? They take in the wild animals that the people in the city can't take care of. Lions, tigers, and bears kind of thing." Jinx explained not trying to read into what Raven was accusing.
"Well, I guess it'll be more interesting then coffee," the empath decided and she ate the last bite of her dinner.
"Great," Jinx announced brightly, "I'll grab fortune cookies and we'll head on the road."
And so they did and after twenty minutes of driving which mainly entailed arguing over Jinx's cd collection that Raven had found lying under her seat, they arrived at the zoo.
"Hey you can't blame me for the new Green Day, okay? They're old stuff has always been good and I had to buy the new one…I didn't realize they'd go completely mainstream."
"Everyone could see that coming, didn't you notice all the hype about their new album?" Raven asked getting out of the car.
Jinx clicked the doors locked and walked over to the chain link fence surrounding the zoo. She whistled and a man in his twenties with an overgrown beard appeared a few moments later. Jinx turned her head towards Raven and then looked back at him; the man opened the gate, "Have a great time."
"Thanks, buddy." Jinx said shaking the man's hand a sneakily putting a fifty in his palm. The two walked into the area leaving the man behind.
"Bribery?" Raven asked.
"Hey, like I said the zoos pretty cool this time of night." Jinx pulled out a flash light and handed it to Raven whose eyes weren't quite as adept to the darkness. Raven flicked the button and it didn't light so Jinx leaned over and flicked the cap off with a smirk.
Soft orange light illuminated the area and Raven blushed in embarrassment, "Sorry."
Jinx shrugged and took Raven's free hand, "Come on, I want to show you the best part." She started walking at a rapid pace nearly dragging the empath behind her.
Raven lifted the light up to see the sign on the archway above her, Big Cats Exhibit. "Oh, very original Jinx."
"What?" The feline asked smiling, "I told you it was the best part."
Raven jerked her head behind her when she heard a roar, practically jumping into Jinx. The other girl just attempted to hold in a laugh, "It's okay, it's just the jaguars."
"Ja—ja—jaguars?" Raven said lifting up the flashlight and revealing the jaguar pen where two of the big cats were fighting over a hunk of what seemed to be cow flank. "How could you tell?"
Jinx smiled at the shorter girl, "I've got much better eye sight then you. Now come on, you'll think the lions are awesome." She led Raven to the lion's cage that house an entire pride of lions. There was some carcass that they were dismembering and Raven moved closer to Jinx who wrapped her arms around the empath. "You aren't scared, are you?"
"No," the empath said too quickly, and Jinx smiled and pulled her a little closer.
"Nothing to be scared of, they're all pretty harmless."
"Don't seem harmless…"
"A lot of things look dangerous and are pretty friendly," Jinx sighed and Raven could tell she wasn't talking just about the lions, "then again, a lot of things seem friendly and are dangerous."
"Which one are you?" Raven asked her turning her face to see Jinx's glowing orange eyes.
Jinx looked away from Raven knowing that the two would never work, this whole thing…it just…it can't, "I'm not sure." She replied honestly finally looking at Raven's violet eyes.
"I don't know either," Raven said and all she could think about was how she didn't want this to stop she leaned in and kissed Jinx's lips softly. She wrapped her own arms around Jinx and pressed her nose against the other girl's face while sliding her tongue into the other girl's mouth.
The feline wasn't sure why Raven was doing this, not that she was complaining, it was just unexpected, she felt the empath pull away and Jinx reluctantly let her go. She wanted her to keep kissing, she wanted to smell lavender and unzip Raven's hoodie, she wanted to do a lot of things and stopping wasn't one of them.
"You have a gun?" Raven asked and Jinx could feel the cold metal being pulled from her jacket.
"Yeah." Jinx whispered and she let Raven take the weapon, feeling stupid and knowing Raven had her answer.
"Why?" The empath had pulled completely away and was pointing the firearm towards the ground while looking up at Jinx now more afraid of the other girl then the lions.
"I had to go back into work and when I came to pick you up I didn't even think about it. I usually don't we—"
"Have you ever had to use it?" Jinx swallowed knowing she was losing Raven before she ever really had a chance. She was quiet and Raven shook her head in disgust. "What the hell do you do anyway?" Raven's voice was lashed with anger and Jinx could feel it ripping into her.
"I run the organized crime in Jump City and most of northern California." Jinx answered quietly. "I lied to you, I am in the mob."
Raven blinked, "You're joking, right?"
"No," Jinx said her voice showing her seriousness, "It was my father's business and now my sister and I run it."
"Crime doesn't work that way, there's small groups in big cities that fight each other more than they actually commit crimes." Raven said trying to convince herself what Jinx had said wasn't true.
"Usually, yeah. But when normal people have meta-humans flying around trying to keep them from committing crimes and there's meta-humans out there committing the crimes normal people should be doing, well…they tend to band together so they can keep up their lifestyles."
"So what are you, then?"
Jinx looked up at Raven's eyes, the empath was a good five feet from her and Jinx hoped that somehow confiding in the girl would make the empath trust her. "I'm the one who keeps the peace."
"What like 'the godfather' or something?" Raven said keeping the angry tone in her voice.
"My father was the godfather, I'm just Boss." Jinx said trying to make her words seem dismal, "Look, I know you're risking a lot to see me and I get it if this is too much." Jinx swallowed her pride, "I just I really like you, Raven."
"I really like you too, Jinx." Raven admitted and Jinx saw a ghost of a smile on her lips, "I just…you've been lying to me."
"Yeah, but what was I supposed to do? You wouldn't talk to me for a month because you thought that if you acted like it wasn't me you wouldn't have to lie to Robin when he asked if you ran into any criminals." Jinx said exasperated.
"How did you know that?"
"Because it's so bloody obvious," Jinx told her trying to hold on to her emotions, "I wasn't about to tell you about my job because firstly I don't just tell everyone I see, and secondly you probably wouldn't want to hear it."
"I don't," Raven whispered and Jinx nodded.
"I know, but you found out so there." Jinx walked over to the empath who didn't shrink away. She looked down at the shorter girl and yet didn't touch her, not wanting to make Raven mad again. "I'm sorry, but it's my life. My whole life, when I was little my father always used to go on about how I'd grow up to be like him."
"Are you?"
Jinx shook her head, "I'm not in a box six feet underground, if that answers your question." Raven nodded slowly and Jinx felt like smacking herself, she had gotten Raven to calm down and now she was snapping at the girl. "I'm sorry Rae, do you want me to take you home?"
"Not really," the empath admitted and Jinx felt her lips tug into a little smile.
"Come on, I'll show you around, what's your favorite animal?"
"Ravens," the empath said weakly.
"Very egotistical of you."
"You're one to talk."
"Touché."
So they walked throughout the rest of the zoo and found the aviary to be full of sleeping birds nested in the tress. The conversation was light for the most part and they didn't kiss but Jinx had managed to sneak her right arm around Raven's waist and Raven pretended not to notice.
By the time they had made it back to the Big Cat's exhibit it was nearing ten thirty and Jinx had begun to notice how sleepy Raven was becoming. They turned a corner and ended up at the Tiger cage.
Jinx looked in at the pacing cat, "She looks so lonely…"
Raven looked over at Jinx wondering at the sadness in the other girl's words and then watched as Jinx was gone in a flash. Letting go of Raven's waist and jumping up on the chain-link fence, she twisted climbing to the top and leaping over to land on her feet in the cage. "Are you crazy?" Raven called while attempting to summon her powers, she felt Jinx's block on them and watched the girl as she approached the striped cat.
Jinx eyed the cat carefully wondering for the first time at the intelligence of her plan. She held out an opened hand and the tiger sniffed Jinx's palm and looked up with the silliest expression. Jinx laughed and suddenly the tiger knocked her to the ground. She could hear Raven's yell and Jinx hollered back, "It's okay." She started laughing as the tiger sniffed her stomach, Jinx was incredibly ticklish.
"Jinx!" She heard Raven call and she had to push the tiger's head away.
"I'm okay…"
"That tiger's getting father than I have!" She yelled back and Jinx laughed but this time not because of the tiger's nose. She sat up and the tiger resumed her pacing, "Rae, if you wouldn't mind…"
"I don't know, you seem rather comfortable there…" Raven mused and Jinx stood to her feet turning to glare at the empath.
"Come on, please?" Jinx asked not really wanting to re-climb the fence again seeing as it had barb wire on the inner part to prevent the tiger from getting ideas about freedom.
"Wow, you're already begging, that was easy," Raven said somewhat seductively while she picked up Jinx and levitated her over the fence and into her arms. "You know, when I went out with you Friday I come home and Beast Boy's all, 'you smell like you've been mauled by a tiger!'"
"What did you say?" Jinx asked curious.
"Thankfully Kid Flash was there to intervene." Raven's voice was heavy with sarcasm and Jinx bit her lip to keep from smirking.
"I'm sorry about that…"
"How could you date that guy?"
"How can you be so close to me and not kiss me?"
"I'm sorry I'm just a tease…" Raven said before kissing Jinx on the lips. Jinx melted into her so unbelievable grateful that Raven was no longer angry. The feline knew that the subject would come up again, but all she really cared about was the sent of lavender that filled her nose and the girl that was filling her mouth.
Jinx moved her hand underneath Raven's jacket and let her right hand drift underneath Raven's shirt touching the empath's silky skin. She felt Raven shudder and moved her mouth away from Raven's, kissing own the girl's jaw-line while feeling Raven's hands sneakily move into the back pockets of her pants.
Jinx ran her teeth down Raven's neck and heard a slow exhale of breath which turned to white mist in the air. Jinx bit lightly hearing Raven's quiet moan of approval and applied more pressure feeling Raven's nails against her butt. She wasn't about to stop though, if Raven's quiet groans and movement was any indication of what she wanted. Jinx could feel the other girl's body now completely pressed into her and mixed together with the smell was sheer torture for the girl who wanted desperately to be able to just throw Raven on the ground right then and there.
She eased off Raven's neck, kissing the bite lightly and savoring the fact that she had left a bruise. She kissed back up and let her hands creep further up Raven's shirt so her nails raked over Raven's stomach while her lips met back up with the empath.
She felt tongue before she had a chance to add her own and played with Raven's thoroughly enjoying the effect she was having on the girl before her who was practically putty. She pulled away eventually and felt Raven lean forward for more but she broke away and shook her head.
"Not here." Jinx gasped finding her voice to be a lot softer then it had been previously.
"You have a car, don't you?" Raven asked obviously wanting to continue, but Jinx was afraid of where that would lead to, it's happened before.
"Yeah, but it's getting late. I should probably get you home." Jinx said and she heard Raven groan in complaint. "It's like our second date…"
"What are you afraid of?" Raven asked her violet eyes searching for answers in Jinx's own. Frustrated she let the feline lead her to the car and got in only to jump into Jinx's lap after she sat down.
"Tricky," Jinx whispered her lips brushing against the other girl's.
"Very," Raven answered before bringing her lips down on the feline's. Her hands reached down to grab the buttons on the side of the seat, moving it backwards and leaning it down so she had more space to maneuver in since the steering wheel was taking up most of the room. She felt Jinx's hands move around hers and she hear the engine roar to life, albeit quietly. Raven didn't much care, she was trying to get Jinx to give in like she had and her lips moved over the other girl's, flashing her eyes open to see orange eyes looking at her.
Raven's hands found their way to the zipper on Jinx's jacket and she moved away to unzipped the damn thing, feeling the heat on her own back form the vents. The empath resumed her attack, tugging on Jinx's shirt to let her kiss down to the feline's collar bone. Raven heard what she assumed was a purr as she raked her teeth over the hollow of Jinx's throat.
Raven could feel Jinx's legs moving, feel the girl's tight press against her and feel Jinx on her own thigh, it was even worse for Raven because all she had on was a skirt and Jinx had maneuvered so that the material was out of the way. Raven ran her hands under Jinx's shirt and began to lift it feeling Jinx jerk her legs slightly causing Raven to hold back a moan. Not really caring anymore Raven pulled Jinx's shirt completely off to reveal a black bra and a tattoo just above the girl's belly button.
"What is this? Raven asked now most certainly turned on.
Jinx, now breathing hard, looked up at Raven and blushed, "It's a uh, coming of age tattoo."
"Really?" Raven asked running her finger tips over the skin, it was a rose with a body hanging from it, crucifix style. "What does it mean?"
"It means I'm Boss," Jinx said her eyes looking at Raven's frantically hoping that bringing up the whole work thing was going to ruin the mood.
"Really, you don't seem that in control to me," Raven replied evilly and Jinx grinned and grabbed the back of the girl's neck, pulling the empath to her lips once again. Jinx felt Raven's hands move over her breasts and she moaned when the girl ran her thumb on an erect nub.
"Goddess Rae," she whimpered trying to lean forward and getting pushed back by the other girl. "You play dirty."
"So?" Raven asked her lips trailing downward at a rapid pace. Jinx's hands went to Raven's shirt, the girl's jacket having already been slid off with notice. She wanted to rip the thing off but something told her to stop, we need to slow down. Jinx felt Raven's hands on the front of her pants, yeah, we really need to slow down!
"Raven," Jinx breathed and the girl looked up. "I think," Jinx swallowed hard knowing she was going to ate herself for this later, "we should stop."
Raven looked at Jinx sadly, she was all worked up and now she had to stop. Looking at the situation it made since though, Raven nodded gloomily and moved off of the feline. Jinx pulled her shirt back on and looked over at the girl next to her. "I'm really sorry, I just don't—"
"It's okay, you're right. But after the thing at the zoo…"
Jinx smiled and dug around on the ground to find Raven's jacket, handing it back to her and looking sheepishly at the girl, "I uh, guess we got a little carried away…"
"You think?" Raven asked blushing while Jinx pulled the car out of the parking lot and headed back towards the tower.
"Technically you started it."
"No, you totally started it," Raven countered smirking at the ridiculousness of the conversation.
"Hey…you know, I never got to see if you were telling the truth about the whole underwear thing." Jinx pointed out slyly.
"Oh, you want me to prove it?" Raven asked dead-pan and Jinx couldn't hold back the laugh. "I was being serious."
"I know, that was nervous laughter."
"Ah, I see. I have to remember that form now on." Raven said while rubbing her neck.
"Does that hurt?"
"More like a dull ache," Raven replied and Jinx could hear the double meaning in her words.
"Well that's good, you thinking about healing it?"
"Nah," Raven said moving her hand away and instead messing with the radio. "Call it proof of my alleged date."
"So they catchin' on?"
Raven shook her head, "Are you kidding, I could drag you to the living room and…" She paused and Jinx smiled at the implication, "And they wouldn't notice."
"I don't know Rae, that Robin guy's pretty smart."
"Yeah, he's been pissing me off lately, do you know he checked you out when we were going after Mumbo?"
Jinx's jaw dropped, "No way!"
"Way. It was really annoying."
"Aww, jealous much?"
"Shut-up." Raven snapped and Jinx turned the corner now able to drive around much easier due to the lighter traffic at eleven o'clock.
"Isn't he dating Starfire?"
"I know! It really wasn't cool."
"Oh, I'm sure it wasn't cool," Jinx replied sarcastically and she glanced over to see Raven glaring at her. "What? I can't help that I'm so unbelievably sexy that not even the Boy Wonder can keep his eyes off me."
"That better be the only thing he has on you." Raven growled and Jinx smiled.
"I never realized you were the jealous type."
"I'm not, I'm usually the emotionally detached type but I think you're starting to get to me."
"Starting?"
"Yeah, starting. Don't give yourself too much credit over there."
Jinx sighed, "Oh, of course not. Wouldn't want to do something ridiculous like that."
"You know if you weren't driving I'd hit you."
"Well I guess I'm glad I decided to take my car then."
"Do you have any other cars?" Raven asked curiously now becoming very aware of Jinx's financial position.
"Not cars, no." Raven looked over at the odd way Jinx said this, "Well I have a bike…"
"You do?"
"Yeah, but it's not an impress the ladies type of ride. I like to use it when I need to get away from the city."
"Think maybe I could go for a ride sometime?"
Jinx sighed dramatically, "I don't know, do you know how unsafe motorcycles are? We could crash and then you'd be dead, I don't know if I want to take that chance, Rae."
Raven looked out the window to find herself on the road she had been picked up on, the waves lapping at the beach and the Titan Tower overlooking the city from its isolated island. "You just don't want to share."
Jinx rolled her eyes, "Of course not, that would mean I'd have to buy another helmet."
"You only have on helmet?"
Jinx shrugged, "Never had anyone ride it other than me."
"How long have you been riding?"
"'Bout two years, don't worry I'm a better driver on my bike then in a car. It was actually my first vehicle."
"Really? Your parents must've freaked."
"Yeah…" Jinx looked at the clock and turned her eyes back on Raven. "It's getting late and I can't have you out all night, I'm sure the Titans would like you well rested for crime fight tomorrow."
Raven sighed and leaned over to kiss Jinx softly. "See you around?"
"Of course."
"Call me."
"I promise," Jinx said while Raven got out of the car and flew off to the Tower. She found the door and punched in her code allowing herself into the entryway and she walked into the living room to find Robin and Starfire in a rather compromising position, one Raven had just become very good friends with.
"Ahem," she said announcing her entry and causing the two to pull apart.
"Friend Raven!" Starfire exclaimed sitting on the couch next to Robin. "We were waiting for you to return from the date!"
"Waiting, huh?" Raven asked biting her bottom lip to keep from smiling.
"Raven, what are you wearing?" Robin asked now in control of his voice.
Raven glanced down at her outfit and shifted her shirt, then pulled her hair behind her ears. She blushed slightly and Starfire cried, "Friend Raven are you hurt?"
"Huh?" The empath asked and her hand resting nervously on her neck covering up the bruise, "I'm fine Star, I uhh…I'm just going to go to sleep
now…"
"Kay," Robin said raising an eyebrow at the empath who flew up through the ceiling and into her room.
Author's Side-note:
Okay, well the song is Avril Lavigne titles, and this is a shocker, "Complicated". Uh, I'm thinking Alanis Morissette for the next one, Jagged Little Pill album but I might change my mind to something else, maybe Paramore…Anyway the next one's going to be the best and I hope you enjoyed this one, it's my longest yet and puts me over the 40,000 word thingy…