Jinx bit off a huge chunk of pizza. Cyborg laughed. "I assume this means you like the food here?" He asked, not expecting a response, but he got one.
"Ss goo, bu I lie your coongk be-er," Jinx said, with her mouth still full of pizza.
"Mind repeating that?" Cyborg asked.
Jinx swallowed before speaking again. "I said it's good."
"And that second part?"
"What second part?" Jinx countered, batting her eyes innocently.
"The part where you said you liked my cooking!" Cyborg huffed.
"I don't remember that," Jinx said, continuing her angelic act. She stuffed another huge bite of pizza in her mouth before Cyborg could respond. He rolled his eyes and took a bite of his own slice.
"Geez, if you weren't so cute…"
"What was that?"
"Nothing," Cyborg responded, too quickly. Jinx raised an eyebrow, but continued eating without pressing him further. They continued idly chatting and laughing at each other across the table. They both wore disguise rings, so to anyone passing by, they just appeared to be a normal teenage couple out on a date. About twenty minutes later they had both finished their meals but were still unwilling to leave. Jinx was grinning madly at something Cyborg had said and Cyborg was grinning madly at Jinx's reaction when he suddenly leaned across the table, catching her lips mid-smile. He pulled away just as quickly, blushing. Jinx found her face heating as well. "Sorry, I, uh…" Cyborg gulped, trying to explain himself. "You, well, you had some pizza sauce on your lip and I… uh…"
Jinx smiled. "And you finally decided to kiss it off?" Cyborg blushed deeper, but nodded. They both leaned across the table again, blushing, but Cyborg's communicator beeped, and he pulled back suddenly.
"Uh, we'd better get you back to the Tower before Robin lays an egg," he said, still blushing.
Jinx giggled. "Yeah, that's probably for the best."
Robin was waiting for them as soon as the elevator doors opened. "Where have you been?" He asked, with arms crossed.
"Pizza," Cyborg responded casually. "I told you we were leaving." Robin squinted.
"And why haven't you been answering your communicator?" He asked. Cyborg looked down at the object in his hands.
"Oh, well, look at that, it's on 'silent except for emergencies' mode. I didn't notice," he said, pretending not to see Robin's angry glare. Jinx decided that it was not a good time to bring up the kiss. In fact, judging by the look on his face, there would never be a good time to bring up the kiss. Cyborg seemed to agree with this sentiment, judging by the fact that he didn't bring up the kiss. Oh god, Jinx couldn't stop thinking about the kiss. It was just a kiss! Jinx would've smacked herself on her forehead if Robin wasn't right there and still really angry.
She snapped out of her thoughts when she heard her name in the conversation. Robin was saying "Beast Boy, can you watch Jinx while I have a talk with Cyborg?" Jinx considered offering to watch herself, 'kindly' reminding Robin that she was not a child, but realized she was still kind of a supervillain. Of course she'd need supervision, especially now that she'd gotten her powers back. So, she simply bit her tongue and allowed Beast Boy to escort her to the infirmary. The "grass stain", as Cyborg liked to refer to Beast Boy, seemed all too eager to get out of the tension-filled room. He didn't even try to bring out his arsenal of jokes; instead he sat quietly in the chair and awkwardly shuffled his feet. Jinx strained to make out the voices of the arguing parties, but they kept the volume down, which was a dead giveaway that Robin was really furious.
Jinx had waited for just about as long as she could stand when Cyborg finally entered to explain the situation. "So, uh," he started. "I'm not really allowed to take you anywhere by myself anymore, sorry about that," he continued, not noticing (or at least not bringing up) the look of disappointment on Jinx's face. "But I convinced the Bird Brain to let you have this," he offered. Cyborg handed her a laptop and charger. She opened it, and realized that it was connected to Wi-Fi.
Jinx raised an eyebrow. "You're gonna trust me with the internet?" She asked sarcastically. "What if I used it to escape, or to blow up the planet or something?"
Cyborg shrugged. "I didn't think you wanted to escape anymore," he said, nonchalant, but to Jinx it was more than a small sentence. Somehow Cyborg had looked right through her and saw what she wasn't even admitting to herself, had seen that she truly didn't want to leave the tower and her new friends and… And oh god, that was corny. Jinx couldn't believe the sappy thoughts going through her head. Cyborg had turned to leave as soon as he had said the sentence that set Jinx's mind ablaze, and while she had been dealing with the storm of thoughts, the normal shifts had resumed. Robin sat in the chair with a newspaper, not talking, but occasionally glaring at the computer in Jinx's lap. She was guessing it was a hard-won argument for Cyborg to get her this. Jinx started snooping around the documents folders and found a word document that was titled with her name. Curious, she opened it. There was some text written in Wingdings. Jinx rolled her eyes and almost closed out, but impulsively decided to translate the words into a more readable form. A few clicks later, the words on the screen read "I had a great time, don't let Pigeon Toes get you down. –Cyborg." Jinx glanced at Robin discreetly and found that Cyborg was right; Robin did indeed have pigeon-toes. She nearly laughed out loud, but quickly changed it into a giggle when Robin looked up suspiciously. Jinx continued reading the text over and over, laughing again.