Roommates

You won't believe how many people said Robin/RX! It was inconceivable! But there were a few who said other things: Rob/Jinx,

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Which Pair?

The green shapeshifter banged heads with the missing pink sorceress.

"What the…!" The remaining Titans rushed over to their friend.

Cyborg spoke again, "What just happened?" He bent over the unconscious forms of Beast Boy and Jinx and winced. "They're gonna have some BIG bruises tonight."

"Better get them in the car" Robin began. "We'll drop Jinx off with the authorities."

Cyborg lifted Beast Boy up and Starfire carried Jinx. Then they moved out of the shadows and into the sunlight, and that was when they noticed a piece of black plastic dangling from the two limp figures. Robin pulled out a bird-a-rang and tried to slice it, but the sharp object just glided through it. Robin tried twice more to cut off the trash.

Raven, the patient observer, finally recognized what the plastic really was, but it brought her no peace-of-mind.

"You can't cut it" she droned. Starfire looked up at the goth from her work blasting the black ribbon. "It's a grade C binding spell."

"Ya' put a spell on BB?" Cyborg all but screamed at her. "I know you two ain't close, but, man! "Ya' don't gotta do somethin' drastic!"

"I didn't do it on purpose" Raven growled through clenched teeth. "These two jumped in front of me while I was taking care of Billy-Numerous."

Cyborg gave her a searching gaze before carefully laying Beast Boy and Jinx on the folded down backseat.

"You two'll be alright flying home?" he asked Starfire and Raven. Both girls nodded before floating above the car and out of sight.

As Cyborg drove back to the Tower, Robin turned the binding problem over in his mind looking over the facts of the matter. Jinx and Beast Boy were tied together with magic, that particular fact was bad. Hopefully it wasn't for long, but Robin—who hadn't a drop of magic in him—wasn't very sure. How had they been tied together in the first place anyway?

Once all the Titans had reached the Tower—and I say that because Raven and Starfire got there before the boys—, Jinx and Beast Boy were put in the infirmary where Cyborg began looking them over. First he treated the cuts and bruises the two had received from being thrown into so many objects—and each other. Then he ran a scan for broken bones or infections. Fortunately, he found none of either, on Beast Boy neither Jinx.

As for the other teens, they were sitting around the table in the kitchen. Raven had her spellbook open and was reading an excerpt to Robin and Starfire. Then, in the middle of the sentence, she stopped. Her eyes widened as she stared at something.

"Raven?"

"What is wrong, friend?" Starfire gazed down at the Goth in concern.

"…" Raven licked her lips and tried again. "I didn't do it right." Both of her friends adopted blank looks on heir faces.

"I made a mistake in the spell."

"And what exactly does that mean?" Robin asked, readying himself for the worst.

"There are two types of binding spells mentioned here, one is temporary and the other is…longer" Raven began. "They are very similar in the spoken language, almost identical." Robin raised an eyebrow.

"The one difference is the ending." Raven scanned the page to make sure she was correct. "She was. "The temporary one ends in an 'ot' sound, but the…other one ends in the 'ut' sound."

"What are you getting at?" Robin inquired. He had thought he had known what was going on right up until that moment.

Raven drew a deep breath then went straight to the point. "I accidentally used both spells. "The temporary one I performed on Billy-Numerous, the other on Beast Boy and Jinx."

"And what's the other one?" Robin's voice was barely categorical as 'talking'.

"It is long-term, it might not end." Starfire gasped and Robin fell out of his chair.

"Am I understanding that friend Beast Boy and adversary Jinx are to remain this way for the eternity?" Starfire asked fearfully. Raven responded with a solemn "maybe". It was then that the door hissed open and permitted Cyborg entrance.

All three teens glanced at the human-robot hybrid questionably. He spoke. "They're fine now, a bit banged up maybe but okay. BB's got a gash on his forehead and Jinx's got two, but not big enough for stitches though."

"Okay" Robin finally sighed. "At least one thing is in our favor today."

Cyborg developed a curious expression on his face. "What's wrong?"

"Raven just told us the spell might not wear off" the leader answered. "She made a mistake in it and made the spell long-term instead of otherwise." Cyborg took this surprisingly well and calmly.

"Okay" he nodded. "So there's not much else to do besides wait for it to wear off."

"Actually", Raven countered. "Most spells like these have a counter-curse, in case it back-fires. All I have to do is find it." Her friends nodded their approval.

"But it may take some time" she warned.

"Anything's better than having to tell BB he's stuck to a bad girl for an uncertain amount of time." Cyborg chuckled.

Suddenly, two voices coming from down the hall screamed. And the teens heard the words carried by each shriek.

"What the HELL are you doing here!" was voiced by a male.

At the same moment a female voice shrieked "What the HELL am I doing here!"

"Uh-oh" Cyborg muttered.

"I think he already found out" Robin cursed. The Titans ran to the infirmary.

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This one was more my natural length.

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