Hello again my faithful readers! How I love to see you! There you all are, reading my glorious story. Ah, what a marvelous scene.

Now, since I'm sure you all are wondering where the other Titans are, this is chapter is meant to set your mind at ease. So, we start off at Titans Tower…

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Status: Still Kidnapped

Two days into the future

Raven gazed out over the sparkling blue expanse that was the ocean. She was standing on the roof of Titans Tower, wondering where Beast Boy was.

Three days ago, the team had come back for their fight with Red X (unsuccessful of course) to find the Tower completely empty. At first they had believed that Beast Boy and Jinx had simply gone shopping, as they often did when left alone. But when the duo hadn't come home for dinner, the four remaining teens started getting a little worried. They went to bed in the hopes that the missing two would be back in the morning in time for a lecture courtesy of Raven and Robin. Ten o'clock the next morning; Beast Boy and Jinx were still not back.

Everyone immediately began looking for clues as to what might have happened. Raven suspected Jinx had run off to find her old team. Cyborg rejected that theory. Starfire was simply worried for her friend. Robin, predictably, had suspected Slade.

Finally, at a loss as to what else to do, Cyborg had checked the Tower's security cameras. While reviewing the tapes, Cyborg had burst into the common room where Raven, Robin, and Starfire were compiling a list as to who might've taken Beast Boy and Jinx.

The cybernetic teen had shoved a tape into the TV, skimmed through it, and finally played it. No sound; only the picture of two oddly colored teenagers watching a car drive away. A few minutes played with nothing, but then someone entered. That someone was blurred so that all the team could tell about it was that it was tall. The intruder lifted its arm and pointed to Jinx and Beast boy, who had whirled around. The next minute, both teens were lying on the ground and the intruder was waving in a group of other tall people.

The tape was turned off, the Titans had seen enough. Robin had said one word: "Slade", and then the group had gone to work locating the villain's hideout.

That had been two days ago. Since then, the team had deduced, through trial and error, that Slade's hide-away was somewhere to the north of the city, towards Gotham. Cyborg and Starfire had been working on what to do when they actually got to the location. Robin and Raven had been stuck figuring out exactly where said location was located.

Right now, the goth of the group was taking a small break to calm herself down. They were getting close, Raven could feel it. Slade would not be able to hide for much longer.

Just then Cyborg clunked unto the roof. "We've got him" he said from behind her, and then he disappeared back inside.

Raven let a scary smile creep onto her face. Oh, yes, Slade would pay. Nobody took her friends away from her. Sure, she had let him go with Robin, but not with Beast Boy. Raven refused to allow herself to analyze these feelings she had been experiencing for the past three days. Instead she focused on exactly what she would do when she found Slade.

The scary smile got scarier, and the violet eyes grew red.

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Day Two of being Kidnapped

Jinx leaned her forehead against the bars of the cage. From the moment he had woken up this morning to the present time, Beast Boy had been talking. An old man had thrown some food into their cage just a few minutes ago, so the witch assumed it was around noon. Beast Boy was now talking while stuffing his mouth; something about New York City.

Slade walked in. "Tell me of Robin" he demanded, not the first time that day. Jinx glanced over at her cage-mate.

"I slept in the boat for a while—" He didn't even pause in his talking. "Robin mentioned staying on a boat once. I think it was after you came and stalked Raven. He's like that. He'll wait until something really bad happens before revealing anything about himself. Now me, I don't even do that. I…"

Jinx turned back to Slade…and had to restrain a giggle. Slade had brought a steel-backed chair with him this time, and now he was sitting in it with his head resting on his right hand. As he was listening to Beast boy, a twitch developed in his only visible eye.

"I keep everything to myself" the changeling went on. "I don't like talking about my past, too many things to talk about. I haven't even told the guys my birthday."

Jinx looked up in surprise. She hadn't expected that. She had thought that the Titans were buddy-buddy close. Now it looked like she had been wrong.

For the next few hours, Beast Boy talked about his life in Africa and then how he moved onto England. In the England portion of his story, he spoke again of his 'Uncle Nicholas'.

"He didn't live in London or in any town for that matter" Beast Boy said. "He lived on this big estate in the freakin' middle of freakin' Nowhere-land. Don't get me wrong, it was a nice place: big house, lot'sa land. But I wasn't allowed to play outside a lot. Uncle Nicholas always wanted me to stay inside but not make any noise, so I was given tutors."

When the shapeshifter paused for a well-deserved breath, Jinx saw it as her chance to speak. "You had tutors?" she said. A glance towards Slade told the witch that he was waiting for some piece of information he could use against Robin. In simpler terms, the great criminal was barely stopping his eyes from glazing over.

"Yep" Beast Boy verified. He turned to face the pink sorceress. "I'm not completely stupid." At Jinx's unbelieving look, he persisted. "It's true. Uncle Nicholas had me studying algebra by the time I was nine; and finishing geometry by ten. I had tutors in all the sciences and mathematics, but also the fine arts."

Fine arts? Jinx was now asking her questions in her mind, as she couldn't really find the space in the conversation to speak them aloud.

As if he had read her mind, Beast Boy went on to say "I can play lots'a different instruments: the piano, violin, flute, clarinet; and I'm really good at sketching and—"

Jinx sighed and turned away again.

"Nicholas never wanted to be around me unless he wanted to see how fast I had become at morphing" the changeling was saying a long while later. "I guess that was the one good thing about Uncle Nicholas: he did teach me how to control my morphing powers. Other than that, he didn't do much else for me. I—"

"Robin's weakness!" Slade jumped up from his chair. "What do you know about Robin's weakness?!"

"Oh, lots" answered the shapeshifter. "But I know lots about other stuff too. Like—"

Slade whirled around and kicked out at the chair. Jinx couldn't really blame him. He had been down here all day listening to the ramblings of a quickly-becoming-lunatic of a shapeshifter. The young witch found that she wanted to lash out at something as well. Then she happened to glance upon the chair. It had slammed into the wall. The wall on the opposite side of the room, forty-some feet away.

Letting go of her must-kill-something thoughts, Jinx turned back to Beast Boy as Slade left. He seemed not to notice that their jailer had vanished and so kept talking. The pink sorceress leaned her forehead once more against the bars of the gigantic birdcage. She tuned out the ramblings and gave a huge sigh.

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I have only one tiny rhyme

Which I now choose to tell to you

So I'm not begging this time

But I'd still like you to review

Please? (slight whimper) And the next chapter will be up even faster! C'mon! I'm bribing here!!!

JA