A/N: Aw, damn, sorry for taking so long with this chapter. I've been overseas and apart from the internet being awful and not working, my laptop messed up for a short while. I admit that I only remembered I hadn't updated this after a couple of days even when my internet and laptop was fine. I apologise again for having the tendency to be a massive idiot. I hope you will all forgive me and do me the pleasure of reading and reviewing. I refer to the characters by their hero names in this because I thought that they would if they were on-duty.

Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans or it's characters.

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3.

Valentine's Day stumbles in and he has to take the opportunity, even if it seems a bit on the cheesy side.

It takes twenty minutes to get everything done, which is like a year for Kid Flash. But he finishes everything and double (and triple and quadruple and quintuple and so on) checks it's all there. He takes dish duty on Jaya's behalf for the day, though he hopes that if she accepts the whole day will be filled with something a lot more interesting than dishes.

The sun is bright through the Tower's large windows, soaking them in its warmth. Jinx, sticking to her predictable cat-like behaviour, stays curled up in her room to read in sunlight. Flash thinks he should have made plans with her earlier and guesses she's probably annoyed at him for doing nothing on Valentines' Day. But she ranted so long on how Valentines' Day was consumerist bullshit. Why couldn't girls just make their meanings clear?

Jericho and Herald are over at Titans North, Jericho to see Kole and Herald to play unwilling chaperone by helping Jericho go over. They left early and plan to come back later in the afternoon, at Herald's insistence. Argent and Hot Spot are splayed out on the couch, Hot Spot lying in Argent's lap with an expression of bliss as she strokes the short hairs on his head and employs her amazing massage technique on his temples. Hot Spot's been complaining about a headache for a couple of days for this. Argent somewhat laughingly gave in to shut him up.

His possibly imaginary headache apparently is not painful enough to keep him quiet or not notice as Flash speeds through the lounge on his way up to Jinx's room.

"Where're you going, Kid?" he smirks.

Irritated, Flash has to retrace his steps and endure the storm. Which, in other words, means Argent predictably freaks out at the roses and chocolate and card. After they get her to relax a bit, Flash sighs. "I thought I could propose on Valentines'. Look." He lifts the card and flips to the last page, where the ring is taped below the words "Love is the little things. Love is this little ring. Will you marry me?"

"Oh, that's so sweet, Wally!" Argent positively melts.

"Yeah, Wally, that's so sweet!" Hot Spot chimes in, barely stifling his sniggers.

"You shut up," Argent turns on him, eyes narrowed, and he does. "At least he gets up and gets the courage to propose to her. Ask me for my magic fingers, why don't you, and never bother to even think about long-term commitment!"

"I didn't-"

"Are you a commitment-phobe, Mr. Crockett?"

"Oh, c'mon, Toni, I was just-"

"I know exactly what you were doing, Isaiah Crockett, now get off my lap. I need to photograph this."

Flash finds the camera for Argent because he just wants this over with and Argent is drawing it out long enough for Hot Spot to find more things to mock him about. In a minute he's standing outside Jinx's door. Hot Spot and Argent are at the end of corridor, where they can see him but Jinx will surely not be able to see them.

He knocks and Jinx is quick to open the door. Her eyes widen at the amount of red suddenly thrust in front of her eyes. Extending them towards her, he clears his throat. "Happy Valentines' Day."

"Well. Thank you," she smiles his favourite smile as she takes the roses first. She inhales deeply and looks back at him. His expression seems to be too intense or something of the sort because she looks slightly confused.

"Um, the card," he manages and ignores Hot Spot and Argent, who he can see out of the corner of his eye exchanging obnoxiously knowing grins.

"Oh." She tugs it free and reads, "What is happiness?"

Opening it, she continues,

"Happiness is lying in bed and joking with you. Happiness is you making me dance to The Sounds or s and realising I don't mind," flip, "Happiness is turning in the middle of the worst villain battle and seeing you have my back. Happiness is knowing we'll always have each other's backs," flip again, "Happiness is making up after our worst fights. Happiness is what I feel every day when I'm with you. Happiness is loving you."

Jinx looks up and her eyes are soft, and her voice is soft, too, "This is really cheesy."

"I know." He shrugged, waiting for it.

"It's also very sweet. Wally…" She begins to tiptoe to kiss him but he's taken a quick step back before she gets very far.

"The last bit," he says quickly.

She smiles and rolls her eyes, slightly exasperated. "What is love?" she begins and then there's someone on Flash's foot.

"Jesus Christ, Herald!" he groans, more from annoyance than anything; he's fast enough to get Herald off his foot before it actually hurts.

"Sorry, man," he says as Jericho also makes himself shown. The portal vanishes and there's silence. Jericho is pink and holding a mound of Valentine cards.

"Why are you back so early?" Argent practically whines as she skips down the corridor, camera and Hot Spot both gone.

"Well, Kole and Jericho were out together and me and Red Star tagged along because it's Valentines' Day, we're alone, and the best thing to do when you're alone on Valentines' Day is bother your happy couple friends," shrugged Herald. "Kole wasn't too well to begin with, but she insisted on going out with Jericho no matter what he said. Well. Not said, but you get my point. Then we were mobbed by Jericho fangirls. Red Star had to hold them back for me to get us to Titan North Tower. We decided Kole should rest home and decided it was time for two of us to come back."

"Jericho's popular," snorts Jinx.

"Quite a lot of fan mail you have there, Joey," Argent supplies.

Jericho looks at his hands and quickly drops the cards, turning pinker. He shakes his head, rubbing at his face before signing, I didn't know so many people there liked me. It is insane.

"I get what you're talking about, Jericho," Flash grins sympathy. "I get mobbed by girls all the time. They can't keep their hands off me." Everyone snorts and Hot Spot picks that moment to run back up.

"Dr. Terminal is terrorising town," he announces, already firing up.

"Let's go!" Argent says.

Jinx drops her stuff as Herald opens a portal and they begin rushing in.

"Jinx, my card-" Flash says, gripping at her wrist.

"Forget the card, Flash, tell me what is says later!"

"Just look at it," he thrusts it into her hands.

She opens it and tuts loudly. "This is one of Jericho's cards, Wally!" It glows pink as it falls in tatters. Flash looks aghast as he gazes at the mound of cards hers has disappeared into.

"It doesn't matter, come on," Jinx says earnestly before disappearing into the portal.

"Flash?" Herald asks, eyebrows raising

"Yeah," he replies idly as he quickly locates his card and rips the ring off it, sliding it into his pocket and making sure it's secure. "Yeah, let's go," and he leaps in as well.

Dr. Terminal was going to get an ass-kicking of a lifetime.

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