WARNING: Through the entire writing of this chapter, I have been deprived of all manner of chocolate. So excuse me if I sound a little strange...er.
Keep that in mind, okay, and you won't catch my insanity.
God speed, my friend!
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…Tricks
Beast Boy was cutting a slice of butter from the stick for his toast the sixth morning. Jinx made it slip out of his grasp and onto his shirt. He "accidentally" spilled some soy milk on her, and soon it was an all-out food fight. A food fight that lasted all of five minutes. Then Raven took control.
"Enough!" the demonness shouted. Both opponents froze. Starfire crept out from behind Robin's cape as he and Cyborg cam out from behind the only safe spot in the common-room, the counter.
Raven collected all the spoiled food with her powers and deposited it all in the garbage. Then she calmly continued to move the dishes from the table to the sink with her powerfully mind. Jinx and Beast Boy, both blushing furiously, cleaned themselves up, the floor and the table too.
It was then that the fateful alarm rang again for the first time since the whole stuck-together-spell. Beast Boy couldn't help but blame it for the whole mess.
The Titans turned to the computer.
"Cinderblocks and Plasmas!" the leader announced, and then the five-some raced to the door, dragging Jinx with them.
Robin stopped suddenly and turned to face Beast Boy. "You have to stay here."
"What!? But—"
"Robin's right" Raven agreed. "You cannot fight in that condition. You'd just get in the way."
Jinx looked from Raven and Robin to the shocked changeling, and decided to stay out of it and keep quiet. A wise move as it turned out. Cyborg and Starfire both nodded their agreement with the two birds.
Beast Boy's mouth hung open in disbelief, but he saw the sense in their words. He could bearly stand to be in the same room with the witch, so there was no way he could fight in a battle without killing and/or maiming her.
"Okay" he nodded dismally. Robin put a hand on his shoulder then ran out the door with the rest of the team. Soon they were gone.
Beast Boy and Jinx sat down at the now-clean table. Both were suddenly feeling very foolish and childish for the way they had acted at breakfast. Though it was a good half hour before either said anything.
"Sorry about the butter", Jinx finally admitted.
"Sorry about the sot milk", Beast Boy responded. More silence followed this.
Then he started up again, looking around at the empty. "I've never been in the Tower when it it's so…" he searched for the word and decided on "deserted".
"Really?" she questioned, looking up at him.
"Yep." Silence came back in full force as the two struggled in its dismal ocean for something else to say.
"What happened to you and Kid Flash?" the changeling inquired curiously.
The witch instantly went cold. "That would fall under the category titled "None of Your Business'."
He tried again some minutes later (I'm not exactly keeping track of time and neither is he), now desperate to break the quiet, he asked "What's your real name?"
Jinx scoffed, "Like I'm gonna tell you!"
"Can't be much wore than mine", Beast Boy replied stroking his green chin, thinking of all the female names he'd ever heard. He was obviously preparing to spend at least a few hours guessing.
"You wanna bet?"
The two quickly found two scraps of paper and two pens, and sat down again. They wrote their true names on the slips on the slips od paper, then, before either couls lose their nerve, traded.
And instantly burst out laughing!
"You're name is Garfield?!" she managed to gasp between fits of giggles.
"He couldn't even manage a full sentence. "Mildred! Mildred!"
The laughter went on and on. When one's fits subsided all they had to do was look at each other and would once again be consumed be hysterics.
When she could finally speak coherently, Jinx said "I always pictured you as a…I don't know…Chase, or Xander, or something like that."
"I never really thought about it before", Beast Boy admitted. "But I never would have thought of you as Mildred!" A chuckle escaped him. "Elizabeth maybe, but more a Jennifer."
"Thank you", she accepted his statement as a compliment.
"I grew up in Africa." Beast Boy couldn't believe himself. Here he was, sitting with a teenaged criminal sharing secrets he had kept from everyone for the longest time (since Terra anyway, and who-knows-how-long before that).
Jinx gave him a funny look and said "Cool, I was born in India."
"Really?"
"Yep." She thought for a moment. "My father was from England while my mother was a Spaniards. I spent me childhood there, and moved to America when I was about ten. Then I was brought into the H.I.V.E." She paused and came back down to earth. "Why am I telling you all this?"
Beast Boy shrugged in answer.
Jinx leaned forward to him. "Okay, since I told you my story you tell me yours."
He thought carefully, something he didn't often, then said, "I born in a little village by a large river. My mom had grown up in England, but my dad was Canadian. When I was about eight, I jumped ship to the States and been here ever since."
"When you were eight?"
"Yep." Then, before she could say anything, he asked, "You like sherbet orange?"
"Excuse me?" inquired Jinx, raising her left eyebrow an inch.
Walking to the freezer, Beast Boy pulled out a gallon tub of orange colored ice cream. "Ice cream, do you like this flavor?" Jinx shrugged and he pulled out two spoons and sat the un-opened tub on the table between them.
Soon the two were discussing their very different yet similar lives. Jinx told Beast Boy about school life at the Hive academy, and being the only girl on the Hive Five team. The shapeshifter talked of life in the Tower and different battles he'd been in and places he'd been to.
And all this happened over a gallon tub of orange sherbet. But it doesn't stop there!
"I have decided", the witch announced when the tub was half-empty (or half-full). "That orange sherbet is better than chocolate."
"How dare you!" Beast Boy argued. "Chocolate's the best thing that has happened to this world since the dawn of time!" Jinx stood up from sliding the half-melted tub back into the freezer.
"Oh, really", she said as he joined her.
"Yes!" the changeling grunted as he pulled yet another bucket of ice cream out of its frosty housing. It was chocolate. There are no other words to describe its goodness.
Several spoon-fulls into the cream of ice (as Starfire would say) the sorceress relinquished.
"Okay", pause for big mouth-full. "I admit it", another bite taken. "Chocolate", bit bite. "Is the", swallow, dip spoon back in. "Meaning of life."
"Totally", was all the shapeshifter said in answer.
And that's haw the Titans found them an hour later. Their disputes solved and mended by the power of sugar.
The two only waved when the battered, mud-be-splattered four dragged themselves into the common room. Then Jinx and Beast Boy, former enemies-turned-friends, returned to the giver of life that is chocolate.
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You know, I feel really bad for those poor souls that are allergic to chocolate. I really do!
You can tell I like chocolate, can't you? My house was empty of chocolate when I wrote this. You can imagine my displeasure upon finding that out.
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JA