Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans or it's characters, which is great because I bend the characters and make things sappy and I can be really mean.
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1.
The new rooms feel unfamiliar. All Titan Towers are set up in somewhat the same way, really, but Wally was just getting used to the Jump City Tower room he shared temporarily with Hot Spot, Aqualad and Speedy. Now the original Teen Titans have finally split everyone into various groups across the globe.
Jaya and Toni have gone shopping as Jinx and Argent. Wally waits, lying flat on his back on Jaya's bed. The space above the headboard is papered with Jaya's sketches and paintings and a couple of photographs. While the majority of sketches are no longer unicorns, several unicorn sketches have prime positions in the collage.
Wally's memorised the whole room at this point, the band posters, the amount of nail polish bottles and eyeliner on the vanity table, the photographs lining the edge of the mirror, the exact corners of the walls and their shade, the exact texture of the bedsheets – it's gotten boring. How long does it take to buy some clothes?
He hears the door open and Jaya dropping the bags on the floor. She hurries into the bathroom before he even looks at her properly, without acknowledging him; he only catches sight of the hem of her skirt and her left boot (both new, it appears) before she shuts the door behind her. Seriously, he thinks incredulously as the shower starts.
It has to be tonight. This stupid bulky box has been sitting in his pocket for almost a fortnight, mocking him. The shower shuts off after half an hour but then there's only silence. Christ. She's probably admiring herself in the mirror (couples share bad habits, it turns out) or something. Sighing, he slides off the sheets and heads towards the bathroom. He hovers outside before lowering himself to one knee, the box sitting open in one hand. Thanks, everyone, for never telling him how fucking uncomfortable this is.
"All right, look," says Wally, and hears the sound of something clicking against the counter. A hair brush, probably. Jaya has always been obsessed with her hair. "Don't open the door, don't come out and don't say anything, this'll be-I don't think I really have the nerve to do anything else right now, which is actually surprising. Just. It'll be easier to do it like this."
Pausing to lick his lips, he gathers the last of his nerve. "Okay, I had a long speech down but, fuck it, I can't remember now. Well. I just. Okay, so I love you, I've loved you for the longest time, and you love me, too. There's no reason why we shouldn't be together. And, Jesus, we've been together for two and a half years now. Maybe, uh, maybe it's too soon, but I've never loved anyone like I've loved you. You're so beautiful and so intelligent and I love everything about you. Like, in the mornings, when you wake up and your hair is a mess and you're still sleepy. I know you hate how you look in the mornings but I think it's really cute." Shit, does that sound off-topic? He ploughs on nonetheless. "You're the only person I want to see when I go to sleep and the only person I want to wake up to, every morning for the rest of my life. Jinx, Jayati, will you marry me?"
The good news is that it wasn't quite as horrible as he thought it would be.
The bad news is Toni Monetti opens the door.
Wally is up on his feet in a flash, backing away quickly, stumbling and slamming backwards into the wall.
A beam is painted on Toni's face and she's teary. Come on, now, his speech wasn't that bad.
"You're proposing!" she squeals with all the delight of a child on Christmas morning.
"Not to you, though- I mean, uh, why-what are you doing here?"
"I think Jaya and I mixed up our room numbers," she says, jubilantly breathless.
"Great. Just great." He slides to the floor, staring hard at Toni for one long, tired moment. "Fuck my life."
Toni's practically bouncing, wiping away tears. "Oh, is this the ring? Wally, it's beautiful! This is so lovely. Oh, Wally, could I please, please be bridesmaid?"
Looking at her ridiculously happy face, his lips tug up in a smile in spite of himself and he feels a growing fondness for the quirky five foot tall New Zealander. "Yeah, fine."
Toni's scream of glee echoes around the Tower.
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A/N: I was rather pleased with this chapter. Argent is one of my favourite characters, and Argent fanfic is just hilarious. Thanks for reading. Please review!
