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Look, I'm sorry I left!!! I'll never do something so stupid ever again!!!!!!!!!! Please take me back! Plllleeeeeeaaaaaassssssseeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Clashing Colors: Part One

Time slows down as the comics fly through the air. "NOOOO!" screams the shapeshifter in slow-time exaggeration. Jinx rolled her eyes in regular time.

Beast Boy caught his precious comic books as the fell back to earth hands. (Let's take another look at that one! The books flew through the air in what is called a hyperbola. Its descent is marked by the points (3, 9), (2, 4), and (1, 1). Just explaining that. Sorry to slow you down.) Anyway…

"WHAT do you THINK you are DOING?" he asked her, accenting certain words in a peculiarly annoyed fashion. He placed his comic books carefully back on the shelf that had once been littered with his precious junk.

Jinx shrugged. "Just tidying up a bit" she answered in an unbothered way.

"You're not allowed to do that! My room, my—" He was interrupted when she shrieked at him.

"It's my room too! As long as we're enchanted, we live together."

A single strand of pink hair fell across her face, but she was concentrating on her new foe to notice it. Beast Boy had a wild look in his green eyes, but with a touch fear for his beloved mess. But the thing that both of them had in common was this: both were not going to back down from the argument without a fight.

After those words, the two slipped into one of their many brief silences. Of course, then they attacked each other.

The witch and the changeling lunged for one another at the exact same moment in time. It wouldn't surprise you to learn either that both had the exact same idea in mind too: to completely and utterly…uh…cause the other extreme pain (can't have the kids reading severe violence, now can we). Fortunately, the two seemed to forget that they had certain powers and so did not use them. Perhaps they thought themselves siblings resolving a dispute through the traditional method. Or perhaps they simply didn't think of anything except death and destruction.

It almost seemed like they had worked for months on this dance sequence: lunge, punch, kick, lunge, punch. If it wouldn't have endangered your life, I'm sure you would have thought you were watching a redo of an elaborate ballet. Maybe the Nutcracker, or perhaps Sleeping Beauty.

Then Jinx saw an opening in her foe's defenses, it was a small opening, but any opening was good. She swept forward with a jab, and then pushed Beast Boy to the floor and held him down. To escape he kicked her in the stomach and then rolled on top of her. Taking a leaf from his book, she rolled until she was on top of him. Soon the twosome were spinning around the room, occasionally kicking or punching one another.

They stopped their revolving act and began the pathetic play of slapping and biting. Beast Boy had the longer end of the stick in biting because of his fangs, but Jinx's nails scraped his skin wherever they landed. Then there was the hissing sound of the mechanical door, which was followed some minutes later by someone clearing their throat.

Both teens briefly considered responding to the Throat-Clearer, but both denied this act. He's going to see my way, or die! She'll stop touching my stuff, or die! As you can see, they had much more in common then they were willing to admit.

And then two strong forces wrenched the Color Duo apart. But even as Jinx was held aloft by Cyborg and Beast Boy by Raven's power, the two continued to kick and hit the air in-between them in hopes of making contact, preferably fatal.

"Cut it out!" a steady voice cut through to the brains that had been buried beneath mountains of Cave-Man attitude.

Jinx and Beast Boy ceased their brawl long enough to see who had yelled. Seeing it was only Robin, and that he was insignificant at the moment, the two continued. Until, that is, Raven knocked their heads together.

Nodding thankfully to the half-demon, Robin enunciated "What's going on here?"

Traditionally, this is when the finger-pointing begins. And the two stuck to tradition. "He started it!" "She started it!"

After two seconds of that, Robin rubbed the bridge of his nose and sighed. "Shut up! I don't care who started it! I want to know how it started." And he waited, simple as that.

He didn't have to wait long. "She was messing with my stuff!" the shapeshifter complained instantly.

"You mean your mess, not stuff." The sorceress crossed her arms. "I mean, most of this is trash, and it's all junk." She knocked a leaning tower of crumpled paper over by simply swinging her foot slightly. Beast Boy swung for her, but was jerked back in time by Raven.

"Both of you are being idiots" she muttered, using her favorite term in this whole universe. "If you do not cease now I will have no choice but to throw you both into another dimension just so I can meditate in peace."

Beast Boy shut up immediately. Jinx, seeing this and remembering all the Goth's powers she had ever witnessed, followed his example. Either way, neither held any belief that Raven would be unable to follow through with her threat.

"Now" Robin began again, glancing between the two glaring teens. "Beast Boy, there's nothing wrong with a little tidying up." He then turned to the witch. "And Jinx, you shouldn't touch other people's stuff without their permission."

"But, but—" Jinx spluttered. "I had his permission!"

"Nuh-uh!" protested Beast Boy. "I would never—"

"Last night" she reminded him sneeringly. "Next time, you should actually listen before you say 'yes'!"

His mouth opened and closed several times before there was movement once more. Beast Boy lunged once more to his irritating roommate.

Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending upon whose POV), Raven had been expecting this and jerked back quickly. But that didn't stop the changeling's mouth (what does?).

"You manipulative, little busy-body of a" and here he slipped into some dialect which only one of the Titans understood. "Diaso, breeta, Loshu TIUNO—"

"Beast Boy!" Cyborg cried out. "You shouldn't call a lady those things." The changeling growled in response.

"Things? What things?" Jinx queried. "Did you say something dirty?!" She kicked out at Beast Boy, but Cyborg held fast. Beast Boy stuck his tongue out at her. This enraged her even more.

"Stop it!" Starfire finally shouted as the two readied for another lunge. "This is not an honorable battle, and, therefore, should not be fought."

"Okay, if you two have so much energy you don't know what to do with it, you'll spend it in the gym" the Titan leader concluded. "Cyborg, Raven, would mind carrying them there?" Both responded by simply walking towards the doorway.

Jinx began spluttering again. "But, but…I'm not even dressed!"

"You! I've only got a t-shirt!" screamed the changeling. "NOT COOL!!!!"

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So, what'd ya think? Do I still got it? Or am I off? DO TELL!!!!!!

Sorry about Parenthood, but I'm gonna finish this one first or die trying!!!!!!

I've worked out a schedule that I think'll help us all. I took a leaf out of leggylover03's book. I'll now be updating Roommates every single Monday. So come back next week and I'll have chapter seventeen up!!!

See ya later dudes! Or next week, which ever comes first.

JA