The next time Jinx woke up, Cyborg was gone. In his place was a very bored-looking Beast Boy laying upside-down in a chair. "Oh, you're awake!" Beast Boy said, scrambling to sit upright and ending up face-down on the floor. Under normal circumstances, Jinx would have laughed or made some sarcastic remark- No, scratch that, under normal circumstances she would have been the cause of his little tumble, but this time she just turned her face towards the wall, glad to see she could at least move her neck again. "So, uh…" Beast Boy said, righting himself in the chair. Suddenly his face brightened. "Hey, do you wannna hear some jokes?" He said a bit too excitedly. Actually, Jinx could think of no greater torture, and if it weren't for her paralysis she would have punched him in the head. With a brick. Or maybe even a sledgehammer. However, all she could muster was a little apathetic grunt, which Beast Boy mistakenly took for consent. "Okay, so, why didn't the skeleton cross the road?" Beast Boy waited for a response, but not getting one, he continued anyway. "He didn't have the guts!" Beast Boy guffawed loudly at his own joke, and continued despite having absolutely no reaction from his captive audience. This continued for nearly an hour, until Beast Boy's communicator beeped. "Welp, that's the end of my shift!" He said cheerily, and moved out the door, past Raven. He looked over his shoulder at the pink-haired supervillain and said "Oh, yeah, I'll have some new jokes next time!"
Raven looked over at Jinx and just said "I am so sorry," in a monotone before levitating over the floor and repeating three words over and over… "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos. Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos." Jinx didn't mind after the barrage of jokes piled on by the green imp, and besides, the chant was kind of calming. However, the quiet left a lot of time for thought. Mostly Jinx's mind wandered everywhere she didn't want it to: Who had replaced her at the Hive? Why had she been replaced? Did her teammates even know she was alive? She doubted it would make much difference, from how Robin sounded on Cyborg's communicator; her team was doing a lot better without her. And she knew that, as villains, they would keep whoever got them the most of what they wanted the quickest, without once looking back. There was no way she was ever going back to those & $! %)s. A time passed, Jinx didn't know or care how long, and when Raven's communicator beeped she silently left the room. Cyborg took her place.
"I brought you some food," he said. Normally Jinx would have responded with 'and how, exactly, am I supposed to eat it while my hands are not only paralyzed but also chained to this bedpost?' but what had happened so far was anything but normal. Cyborg sighed at her lack of response. "I'll feed it to you if you turn your head. I know you can, now, you were facing the other way on my last shift and I know you haven't talked once since I left."
"So?" Jinx managed to mumble into her pillow.
"So you obviously couldn't have asked anyone to turn your head!" Jinx remained motionless. "Come on," Cyborg pleaded. "I made sure Beast Boy didn't slip any tofu into it." Jinx was determined to refuse anything any of these people gave her, but her stomach's resolve was stronger than her own. She moved her head an inch towards where Cyborg was holding out a BLT. That was funny, Jinx was expecting gruel. Maybe even tofu gruel. But she had to admit, that sandwich did smell pretty good. She gave in and moved her head the rest of the way. The fact that Jinx's teeth were all filed into fangs to keep up with her 'bad girl' image helped her tear off a chunk of meat, vegetable, and bread despite the fact that she still couldn't move anything below her neck. As she swallowed, Jinx's eyes widened.
"That's really good!" She said, and then mentally smacked herself for giving a compliment to the enemy. Even though the enemy made a mean sandwich.
Cyborg smiled. "Thanks, made it myself." Jinx smiled back, and gave herself another mental smacking. No! Bad Jinx! No matter how cute he is, he… Wait, what? To hide her embarrassment about her own thoughts, Jinx leaned forward and took another bite of the sandwich. And another. Soon she had finished the entire thing. She leaned back, content, only to find Cyborg laughing at her.
"What?!" She asked impatiently.
"Uh… You have a bit of lettuce, stuck right there." Cyborg pointed to her cheek. Jinx flushed, and decided to employ her trademark strategy of teasing others to rid herself of her own shame.
"Well, why don't you just kiss it off?" She said in the most fake, innocent way she could pull off. Cyborg smirked.
"Maybe I will," he said, coming closer. Jinx was not prepared for this, in all her time on Earth her teasing strategy had never backfired! Jinx's face got redder and redder as Cyborg's got closer and closer, until she thought her brain would explode with panic and nerves and thoughts that just went ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod in a loop. That was when his communicator beeped, signaling the end of his shift. Cyborg pulled away quickly, used one finger of his robotic hand to knock off the offending piece of lettuce, and left the room. Jinx was relived, but somehow disappointed. DISAPOINTED?! What is WRONG with me?! Her mind continued racing as Robin entered with a newspaper. The leader of the Titans sat in a chair and completely ignored Jinx as he scanned the paper for any signs of trouble. It was a good thing for Jinx that he did, or he would clearly see from her flushed cheeks and wide eyes that something happened, something that probably shouldn't have. The Boy Wonder was oblivious.