Distortion Chapter 7.

Sorry folks. I thought I would really like to actually explore the Jinx/Raven relationship but then I thought I was going to do alot of things with this story. I'm to busy so I'm just going to go ahead and wrap this up.

Thanks everyone who has reviewed! It was much appreciated. Have a Subway sandwich or something. Sorry I can't pay for it. Cause I would!

And sorry for the bad grammar again.

Having her eyes closed, she saw the blackness. Not the same blackness most creatures saw. For her it had always been deeper and darker. But tonight it did not fill her with loneliness. Her senses were on fire. Warmth was being churned inside her. Although it threatened to overwhelm her it was also seemingly never enough. The warmth was being churned by they hands of another. They traveled across her chest, down her sides to her hips. The contact always left a burning desire for more.

When she inhaled she took in the sent of damp sand, cold air and the other girls breath. When she listened she heard the chirping of grasshoppers the rustling of the cornstalks, the hands testing the fabric of her outfit and her own moans of pleasure. When she thought, all she could think of was the warmth. The main offender was the tongue dancing between her lips. Deliberate and intent, it gave her senses a charge that never got old.

But eventually, it did come to an end. Only when something akin to exhaustion enveloped both participants did Jinx slip off of Raven and slump to her side. There she rested next to her with arms around Raven's waste.

Raven rested and listened to Jinx's steady breathing. Jinx's head was on her shoulder. All she could see was the pink horn-shaped hair.

"I love you," Raven said. Jinx stiffened slightly. "Jinx?" Raven called after a small pause.

"Heh. That's a big word Raven." Jinx looked up at Raven. Her eyes were almost the only thing she could see.

"I guess . . . you're right," Raven said.

"Yeah. And you got a head start. To think about this I mean." Jinx said.

Silence again.

Raven began to question this course of action. She had the girl. Didn't she? She was in love wasn't she? She was sure. This was different from Malchior. She was sure.

"You sure seem to be happy today." Kid Flash said scooping a fork full of rice into his mouth. He sat next to her at the bus stop.

"Maybe I am."

"And the reason might be?"

Jinx smiled gingerly and her head swayed left to right dreamingly. "This total hottie confessed her love for me." she said.

"Well congratulations," Kid Flash said grinning.

"Yeah. I'm so happy. Too happy I think. This is usually the part where the sky falls on me. "

"I've always wondered If I could out run the sky," Kid Flash said.

"Shut up," Jinx said pushing his shoulder.

"Here. I got you something," Jinx said placing a DVD case in Raven's hands. Raven turned it over and read the title. Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. "I don't know if it's exactly CG like those other movies you have but I noticed you didn't have it."

"Oh," Raven said studying the case. "Thank you Jinx, I've never seen this. I think I might have heard of it."

"Cool. Hope you like it. I've never watched it all the way through."

And so that night the two watched the film. Raven didn't speak throughout the entire thing. Her eyes never left the screen. Jinx wasn't sure what the make of this and realized she had never sat and watched anything with her new girlfriend. She missed the grin that snagged at Raven's lips from time to time.

When it was over Jinx probed Raven for her thoughts. Raven bowed her head and sobbed silently.

"Was it that bad?" Jinx asked becoming alarmed. She thought it was OK as far as these kiddie flicks went. That Boogie man was almost bad enough to scare her though and she thought he may give kids nightmares. So much for her heroine streak. Seems she was back to making people cry. She put an arm around Raven and tried to get a look at Raven's face.

"Sorry. It's just that . . . " Raven said. "It's their job but they're not mean."

"Eh?" Jinx couldn't have been more puzzled.

"In the opening credits." Raven said resting her head against Jinx shoulder and looking into the distance with glistening blue eyes. "They were all scary people but they were still good people. It's better than my CG movies. It's like it was made just for me. I want to say I wish some one had shown me this when I was a child. . . " Raven paused and looked at Jinx. "But then I wouldn't have this moment with you." Loving adoration was coming from the blue eyes of the mage.

"Woah woah woah!" Jinx cut her off, moving away from Raven. "I don't want you giving me credit for things I didn't do. I had no idea it was going to be this big a deal."

"So committed to turning over a new leaf." Raven said and Jinx almost thought the goth like girl was going to swoon. This was so a stark difference from any personality that Jinx had ever seen Raven express that she just looked at her mouth a gape.

Secretly Raven found Jinx's expression amusing and her playful side seemed to bubble to the surface. Raven eyes became predatorial and she moved to close the distance between them. Jinx was still puzzled. Raven kissed her startled girlfriend and made moves on the the leather top that bound Jinx. Jinx was alarmed and pulled out of Raven's kiss but not her grip.

"Raven!"

Raven froze and look at Jinx seriously.

"I'm sorry. You're just so . . . you know."

"What?" Jinx asked.

"Cute."

"What?" Jinx asked grinning.

"It's not part of my vocabulary. Sounds weird when I say it." Raven said with a small scowl. Jinx giggled.

Jinx took an abrupt turn into an unfriendly looking alley on her stroll to the corner store. She walked three yards in and stopped.

"Is this location suffice for your half-assed ambush or whatever it is you're tryin' to pull?" she called out to the walls of the buildings.

"Well . . . It'll do," replied a voice.

As Jinx turned, a portly young man stepped from the shadows into view.

"You . . ." Jinx said.

"That's right. It's me."

"Um . . . I never got your name." Jinx admitted. The man scowled.

"What you mean you didn't get my name? You just broke the early convo tension!"

"I don't like tension." Jinx said letting herself become amused by this chubby villain wannabe.

"Its Control Freak!" He shouted at her. He then screamed like a girl and ran from a jab shot she took at him.

"So what do you want Freak?" Jinx asked him while watching him nearly trip as he skidded to a stop.

"I'll ask the questions here!" he snarled at her. "Now," he said trying to look comfortable, leaning on a trash can. "What I wanna know is how you could give it up? They need us! They needed you! There is such shortage of talented AND cute villainesses." He screamed again and ran from another shot she took at him. Jinx figured she should probably not underestimate him and take him out with a Hexbolt but she was having a difficult time taking him seriously.

"Of the three attributes you just named you have the last one going for you. 'Villan-NESS," Jinx snickered.

"You're ruining my monologue," he grumbled.

"Yeah. Just skip to the point. You're running out of time." Jinx said. She grinned and her eyes flared pink.

"Fine," he said. "He removed something from his cloak. He turned it to face Jinx. It was a LCD screen and on it was bald women in shackles. The very image was enough to take Jinx's breath away. Control Freak enjoyed that.

After gaping for half a second Jinx turned her eyes from the screen and tried to play dumb.

"What's that? Your favorite porno theme?"

"Not unless I was into M.I.L.F. Come now Jinx. You know who this is. Time to tell me you'll do anything to have her returned to you safely."

Jinx turned and started to walk away.

"Oh, real cute. Your turning your back on you own mother," Control Freak sneered.

"Why not? She did the same to me," Jinx stated harshly.

Control Freak laughed. "You don't care? If you were really good, you would. Hell. Even if you're really still as rotten as I know you are, you'd still probably care. You know what we have to do to her if you won't comply."

Jinx stopped then. Her feet felt heavy. Her heart was sinking and the farther she was from that LCD screen the more despair swallowed her. Panic was roaring in her ears.

"What do you want? Robin's Belt? Cyborg's Blue prints? Starfire's panties?"

Control Freak mulled it over and wondered why the hell he hadn't thought of bargaining for all those things on his own. He sighed mentally and decided to stay on task.

"I want you're girlfriend." he said.

3 Days later.

The loud cries of the Titan's alarm tore Raven from her dream state. She rushed out of bed and into the living quarters. There her friends were assembling.

"What's going down?" Cyborg asked.

"The vortex is back." Robin told them. Behind Robin, Raven could see that the sky was once agin red with black clouds.

"Sooooooo. Are we going to do what we did last time?" Beast Boy asked.

"Impossible. All of the magic users are missing." Robin said.

"What? Kidnapped? They left hiding but most of them are Titans. They would have called if the needed help. Some of them shouldn't have even needed help." Cyborg said.

"What about Jinx?" Raven asked becoming alarmed.

"Haven't heard from her." Robin told Raven.

Concearn washed over Raven but she didn't let it show.

"I think I can track them." Raven said. "If I concentrate hard enough . . . " Raven paused when she noticed everyone was staring at her in shock. "What is it?"

"Raven . . ." Starfire started but then just continued to stare at Raven's face.

"What?!" Raven snapped.

"The mark of Scath. It's on your forehead." Robin said.

"What?!" Raven screamed and ran towards the window to study her reflection. On her forehead was a glowing red "S."

"Dose that mean Trigon's back?"

Raven closed her eyes and swallowed. Could her father have really returned? The meer thought was devastating. But she didn't sense him.

"Or it means someone is using his power," Raven said standing. "Let's find the magic users. He apparently needs them. If we can take them away we know we can stall whatever he's planning."

And that became the plan. Raven couldn't locate the captives but she was able to locate an alien magic barrier which she figured held them.

"This is it! By time the Titans figure it out, the world will be rewritten. Evil will rule and more importantly I WILL BE COOL!" Control freak screamed.

Mombo Jumbo ignored his chipper companion and watched as the shadowy man worked at the controls of a machine of foreign creation. This machine was channeling magic and manipulating it. It took certain potencies and discarded others. It was the Change Engine and Tribe was it's master.

"I don't care how much magic you pump into that thing, It would take and act of god to make you anything more than a nerd." Jinx told Control Freak.

"Then you just stand there and watch chick. My man Tribe here is a god."

"Well. I will be." The tall gentleman said.

"I'd rather not. I'd rather see you keep up your end of the bargain." Jinx said.

"Ah yes. Control Freak. Take her to her creator." Tribe said, then turned back to his machine.

"Alright toots let's go." Control Freak said and lead Jinx down the hall.

Control Freak opened the door to the cell. As soon as Jinx caught a glimpse of the woman, he shoved her in and locked the door. Jinx glared at him knowing this was there plan all a long.

Jinx said to the form she could barley make out from the shadows of the dark room. The figure moved it's head and now Jinx was looking into the eyes of her mother.

"You're not here to feed me are you?"

Startled by her voice Jinx seemed to loose her own. First she shook her head then realized to woman probably couldn't see her.

"Well what did they throw you in here for?" the woman asked. She strained to see her new cell mate in the dark.

"For being your daughter I think."

The shock hit Chamelia like a smack across the face. Some young thing in the room with here claimed to be her daughter. Could it be a cruel trick?

Tension was roaring in Jinx's ears. Her emotions were running amok. All mixing. There was expectation, disappointment, anger, and some insane desire to just to rush over there, embrace her mother and believe everything would somehow be OK.

"On the off chance that you are not an illusion sent in here to torment me, I guess I should explain myself. I won't bull s--t you. I did abandon you." she paused. That was actually more painful to admit that she had imagined but she decided to press on.

"It wasn't that I hated you. It was just that . . . " Another pause. "I don't hate you. But when you came along I was just going through the motions. Fall in love. Get married. Have children. But I didn't know what to do with you half the time. Even less when your father was executed."

Jinx became choked up and felt tears zipping down her face.

"So that's it? I'm just an accident? A pain in the ass?" Jinx said her voice was strained on every word. She had risked everything for this? It turned out to be about as bad as she had always assumed. She just simply wasn't wanted.

"Look. It's nothing personal and I'm not asking you to forgive me. You can hate me as much as you like. Maybe someday It'll actually be as much as I hate myself."

Jinx's heart retched. 'I'm a first class f--k up and now I see where I get it from. I gave up being a Titan for this s--t!'

After a moments thought Jinx marched over to the woman and grabbed her wrists.

"What are you doing?" her mother demanded to know.

"Picking the locks,"

"Why?"

"I donno," Jinx said with an airy voice. "But in my muddled, adolecent mind I think I should come away with something since I just gave everything up for you."

The abrupt sound of his doors being kicked in and slamming against the floor didn't take his attention away from the Change Engine. He listened and only grinned as Robin barked out questions and threats.

"Why go down fighting? It's already over." Tribe said slowly turning to face his unwelcome guests. The Titans were all poised to attack. "Oh, very well. If we must." the large man hurled a sphere of neon energy, almost the size of Cyborg, in their direction.

"Mumbo Jumbo. Control Freak. Make use of yourselves. Fight the Titans for the final time."

The henchmen complied.

Imbued with magic control Freak was half as fast as Kid Flash which proved to be still awful damn fast. Though he had no combat skill, simply using himself as a projectile seemed to make him enough of a hassle. And when the Titans weren't trying to nail the chubby nerd, Mumbo Jumbo was assaulting them with magic arrows that had unpredictable effects such as the one that became a net when it hit Beast Boy or the one that turned into a pair of giant chopping teeth with wings and chased Starfire.

Raven stood silently with chaos erupting all around her and focused her eyes on the man working the Magic Engine. He wasn't Trigon. Thank Azarath for that, but who was he?

"Nothing you can do now Corbin." he said without turning to her.

She recognized the name Corbin which was latin for Raven.

"I'll pick up where my master and your father left off. I don't need you for that."

"Who are you?" Raven asked.

"I am Tribe." He said turning to her. "Trigon's apprentice."

Raven's eyes hardened. "You can carry on his current streak Tribe. Failure."

Raven didn't hold back. She summoned as much power as quickly as she could and launched it at the inter-dimensional demon. He turned and forcefully backhanded the wave of black magic and to her shock and awe it sped off into a wall. He then turned and waited for her next move. That move seemed to be staring slack jawed and and otherwise motionless. Tribe grinned and turned back to his machine.

"Oh he's an arrogant one." she said as she charged for him. She didn't like this plan. Magic aside he looked formidable but maybe if she got in close enough she could sneak in a good shot with her magic. Once she was close enough she tried to kick him and he moved to her side. She tried for a chop and thought she'd hit him with a magic claw but something plowed into her gut that knocked the wind out of her. It was his fist.

"Kitty has claws," she heard him say. She realized then that her Magic Talon was visible though rendered slack by her inability to concentrate. "Let me show you mine."

Tribe raised a fist. The tormented neon fuschia energy surrounded it and formed a clawed fist. In nanoseconds it doubled in size almost 20 times. It was now 24 feet in length. He brought the palm of it down on Raven's back. The force sent her through the floor where she plummeted into the darkness below.

She wasn't out for long. A familiar ringing was in her ears. It pinged every four seconds. It was a magic sent indicating that a magic user was near. She knew exactly who this one was. There was no mistaking it. but it was getting farther from her. Fading possibly.

"Jinx!" she cried shooting up into a sitting position. All around her was black. She could feel the rubble under her. She got to her feet and chased after Jinx. After several yards she came into a hallway with only one light still working. She caught a glimpse of pink disappearing into a corridor and resumed her chase. Was Jinx running from her?

When she did finally catch up, what she found served to only confuse her more. There was Jinx. She looked fine. No dying from some injury she didn't even want to imagine. Not bound in some kind of magic cell. She was just standing there with some bald woman seemingly trying to find the exit.

"Jinx," Raven said, relief was evident in her voice, but when Jinx turned to her with a startled expression Raven found the feeling wasn't mutual. Jinx stood there shocked.

"What's wrong?" Raven asked her.

Jinx continued to stare then looked puzzled herself.

"Oh," Jinx finally said having realized something.

"So you haven't figured it out yet? Must have bound you good with my spell."

Raven rose a brow and waited for elaboration.

"How did Tribe find the magic users? I lead him to each of them. Even helped him lower their guards." Jinx then waited for Raven's reaction. Raven continued to look puzzled.

"Don't you get it?! I betrayed you!" Jinx screamed at her. Raven could see tears building the bottoms of her large pink eyes.

"Did you know?" Raven said walking towards her lover. The bald woman watched the exchange with interest but remained silent.

"Yes!" Jinx said hating this. She wanted to be away now. It was over. They were enemies now.

"And why did you do that Jinx?" Raven asked.

"Because you were all wrong. I haven't changed. I'm just a selfish crook. I didn't care about them. I don't care about anything but what I want,"

"And that's it? You're damned? You think Being a hero is about caring about what everyone else wants? You think I give a damn about what anyone else wants?"

Jinx risked a look at Raven and stared at her with puzzlement.

"The magic users aren't dead. And you risked them to save you mother which wasn't right. . . . but was in the field of right. Heros aren't boy and girl-scouts. We make mistakes too. We get selfish, and closed minded at times."

Raven smacked Jinx on the back of the head.

"Ah! What was that for?"

"For giving up and trying to leave me."

"That's two things." Jinx said grinning.

"Don't tempt me." Raven said.

When the girls returned the the main floor they found that the Titans had managed to take out Mumbo Jumbo and Control Freak. Tribe was a different matter.

"So. Plan?" Jinx asked.

"The magic users. They are feeding his engine. Maybe if we remove them."

On the far side of the room was a magic barrier containing several people. All were in a sleep like state on the ground.

"He's not going make this easy."

"They never do," Jinx's mother said stalking between them to make her way towards Tribe. She chanted as she walked. Jinx and Raven watched her go with muted surprise. Then they split up and mad their way to the captives.

Jinx's mother finished her chant and a large part of the ceiling fell on Tribe as he was grappling with Cyborg. The heavy flat structure only snapped on the demon's head and fell to either side of him. He turned his bemused glance towards her.

"Not content to wait in your cell until you re-write you Chameli?" Tribe said. He raised his arms to summon but suddenly turned with speed of a predator and turned into a large red tiger. He pounced after his enemy's daughter who had nearly reached his battery supply.

"Gotcha!" He said pinning her and preparing to snap his large jaws on her head. A battering ram of black magic plowed into his side. It was just enough to shove him off Jinx and little else. He turned to Raven now.

The other Titans surrounded him.

"Copy cat." Beast Boy sneered at Tribe.

The red tiger swung a large paw and glowing man shaped figures appeared. They charged the Titans while tribe turned his attention back the battery. He set about wrapping it in more magic energy.

"You want them!" Tribe screamed with his arms high above his head. His skin was dazzled by the multicolored lights of his magic. "You won't get them. In minutes they will be completely drained and in your world I will have no equal!"

"Tribe no. Wait." Jinx's mother said meekly approaching him. "There must be something I can offer you in exchange for a place in your new world."

Jinx closed her eyes and turned away.

"I think I'm going to be sick." Jinx said.

"No. There is nothing. He said." Looking down at her and placing a hand before her face. "Your power is mine." A stream of purple smoke traveled from Chameli to his hand.

"No!" She cried and fell to her knees. Her act complete, she removed a dagger strapped to her thigh and jabbed it in his thigh. The deamon screamed, flailed back and kicked her with so much force that she traveled several yards until she crashed into the battery.

With the demon limping and struggling to recover, Robin assaulted. His kicks did little more than distract the demon from removing the blade burning in his thigh. Not being of this world granted him immunity to the majority of its elements. Chameli obviously had used a blade that transcended the realms.

One good back hand and Robin was sent sailing across the room. When Tribe turned back to finish off Chameli he was shocked to find his power fading.

"No. I'm too close. It can't be." But sure enough. Raven was assisting the captives to escape the cell. Tribe continued to fight anyway but it soon became pitiful. Alone there was no way he could recapture the magic users. He was only as powerful as Raven and very out numbered.

"That was . . . crazy!" Jinx said to her mother who rested on the floor nursing an aching cheek.

"But worth it." Chameli said.

"What are you going to do now mom?" Jinx asked.

"Return to prison as I can't escape your new friends in this condition. Then I'll get out and return to my life of disturbing the peace." Jinx looked at her quizzically.

"I do hope you will be happy my daughter." the woman said lifting into a sitting position. Once again Jinx was overcome by emotion and not knowing what else to do hugged the woman and sobbed.

Raven waited patiently to retrieve her girlfriend.

"Jinx." Raven said after Jinx walked up to her.

"My love," Jinx said.

"Are you ok?"

"Nah. But I'm in love with you."

The warmth returned to Raven's insides.

"I knew that, Raven said.

"Oh, so modest." Jinx said.

"Would you just kiss me already?"

"So pushy," Jinx pouted. "Not to mention impatient." Jinx said but Raven cut her off with kiss.

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