Chapter 14:
So, who saw the last YJ episode? YJ keeps on making me depressed. I mean really, Five years later? And what about Miss Martian and that Lagoon boy? What the hell just happened? was what I kept saying to myself. And where's KF? Whatever happened to the REAL Speedy? Robin's not that bad though... And let's not forget to mention that Nightwing is pretty hot. Lol, but I miss adorable Dick Grayson Robin. Tim is... alright, but Dick Grayson is so much better.
Btw: in the second chapter, I posted the ages for Robin, Speedy/Red Arrow, and Kid Flash. I think it would better (for the prequel and all) to be like this:
Robin was 13 when he founded the Teen Titans, but left at 14 (now 15). Speedy was 16 when joining the Titans, leaving at 17 (which he is now 18). Kid Flash, when joining the Titans, was 15, he left at age 16 (he is now 17). I think that clears it up. So that means they left the Titans just a year before. I should change that in chapter 1 (the chapter after the prologue that is).
"So it seems that some of the villains of the Teen Titans that were supposed to be frozen and in Paris are now unfrozen all thanks to Slade." Batman summarized their explanations. They all nodded slowly, watching Batman's reaction closely, just in case he was going give them one of his Bat-speeches.
Sure, they (well, most of them anyways) were safe and unharmed, but they let seven villains escape, two of them who actually poses as threats. Jinx seemed unfazed, even when Batman gave her a vicious bat-glare.
"Don't think this is all my fault." Jinx said with a glare of her own. She crossed her arms and leaned on a wall.
"I never said I did," His eyes narrowing even more, "but I wouldn't be surprised if it was." The two began a glaring showdown. The Team and the twins shrunk as the intensity of their glares filled the room with tension.
Robin, deciding that the tension was too much, pulled on his collar a bit and cleared his throat. "Okay, Bats. Sorry for the escaped villains. We'll check Paris first thing tomorrow. We had a long day and we're exhausted from the fight."
Batman tore apart his gaze from the pink-haired witch to look at his sidekick. "Right. Get some rest and check Paris tomorrow." He turned to Jinx and the two boys, who were hiding behind her legs. "As for you three, you should stay here. You are to stay here and are never to leave until we track Slade down." at this point, his eyes narrowed at Jinx "Especially, you. The League doesn't need to clean up your messes. "Miss Martian will show you to your rooms."
"How about I show you my finger first, you jack-"
"Okay! Thank you, Jinx, for your- um wonderful words. I would have liked to hear the end of that, but I am stumped and would like to get some sleep." Robin intervened as he put his hand over Jinx's mouth. "I'll stay here at the base. Kaldur, Wally, and Artemis probably need to go to school tomorrow." The Team looked at each other, shrugged, then turned back to Robin, slowly nodding their heads. Batman nodded as well before turning and leaving through the zeta tubes.
"Batman 02."
Jinx glared at the zeta-tube before looking toward Robin. "Now I know where you got your personality from." She turned on her heel. "Just show me the stupid room." she muttered. Miss Martian nodded her head and lead the way.
"She sure has a... Colorful vocabulary. She is such a charmer." Artemis said before Kid Flash elbowed her. She rubbed her arm.
"Lay off, Artemis." Kid Flash said. The twin yawned loudly as they began to walk, rest followed in suit.
"¿Podemos tener una habitación al lado de Jinx?" Mas asked looking at Robin. Menos smirked.
"Mejor aún, podemos dormir en su habitación?" Menos asked as he wiggled his eyebrows. "Si sabes lo que quiero decir." Robin chuckled.
"You two are such pervs."
"What's they say?" Kid Flash asked, listening to their conversation.
"Mas asked if they could have a room next to Jinx's, then Menos asked if they could just sleep with Jinx."
"Absolutely no-"
"Actually, I wouldn't mind the company." Jinx said softly, also hearing their conversation. Artemis glanced at Kid Flash's face. His mouth was wide open as well as his eyes. Mas y Menos's faces, however, lit up.
"¿En serio?" Jinx turned to them and smiled.
"Sure." Mas y Menos started doing a victory dance before mocking Kid Flash, who had dumbfounded look on his face.
"Here's your room. I wish you good night." Miss Martian said cheerfully as she pointed to a door. It seemed to be the same door she was resting in before. The door slid open, just like the Titan's Tower's doors.
The twin sped inside the room and looked around.
"Esta habitación se parece a una habitación del hospital." Menos said as he looked at the gray walls.
"Excepto que es gris." Mas added looking at the bed. Jinx gave another chuckle before entering the room herself.
"B-but-!" Jinx glanced at the speedster and almost laughed in his face as he attempted to object. Only a giggle escaped her lips.
"Good night, Kid." she said as if taunting him before the door slid closed. Robin chuckled at Kid Flash's dumbstruck face.
"Smooth, Wally. Smooth." Robin mocked, smirking at the scene. The others chuckled before they went their separate ways. Miss Martian and Superboy went to their own rooms in the cave, while Kaldur and Artemis headed to the zeta-tubes.
"Maybe I should-"
"No, KF. We all know that you won't want to go to school if you stay overnight. Plus, you're parents won't accept it. Go home, and get some rest. I'll stay here and watch over her." Robin said as he gave the speedster a reassuring smile. The said speedster sighed, nodding before speeding to the zeta-tubes.
Once the computer voice announced their exit, Robin turned on his heel and headed for his own room. But as he left, he muttered: "For someone so fast, he's a bit slow."
Her dreams were clouded with screams and horrified faces. In the dream, she was running. In front of her, the Titans- no, her friends- were there. Her hand was outstretched, reaching out to them, but they kept getting farther and farther away from her until they were no longer there.
She could hear the panicked calls from her communicator from the other Titans and her own Titan team's. Jinx just kept running. She didn't know who she was running from, but she just knew she couldn't stop. A black gloved arm grabbed her and pushed her against the wall. She came face to face with that masked figure. Oh how she wanted to rip that guy's head off. Even though the mask covered it, she could tell he was smirking at her.
"My dear Jinx, you won't be able to hide forever." his voice was taunting her, which gave her shivers down her spine.
Just as she was about to get pummeled by his oncoming fist, she awoke out of breath and sweating. She sat up almost immediately. Jinx gazed at the two boys, who were now out of costume and cuddled peacefully together, right next to her. She stared at the nearby clock and almost cursed aloud as she noticed the time.
3:00 AM. It read, the bright, red letter taunting her. Jinx had only slept for two hours. It's too early to be awake, then again it's too late to go back to sleep now. She was wide awake, and she definitely didn't want to meet Slade again in her dreams.
Quietly, she got up from the bed and made her ways to the door. She grabbed her sketchpad (which was the only thing she brought after escaping the Slade-bots) and headed out the door.
She went to the kitchen and sat on one of the stools. Jinx laid the sketchpad on the table before her hand started to create the image on the paper. Slowly, the image began to become clearer and clearer. She was in such a daze of what happened in her dream that Jinx did not even notice what she had been drawing. It had been when her hand finally stopped drawing and looked down at her work that she noticed what she had been drawing. She almost screamed, but she covered her mouth to prevent the scream from escaping her lips, dropping the pencil in the process.
There, on the pad, was Slade. His eye looking right at her, the background looking as if there were fire. She got all the correct details and that terrified her. Jinx thought it was so realistic that he could just come to life right now-
"Couldn't sleep?" Jinx gave a little petrified squeak, turning around, ready to attack, until she noticed it was Robin. Jinx relaxed a bit, glaring at the Boy Wonder in the process. Robin gave a nervous chuckle. "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you."
"I'm just a bit too paranoid to sleep." she replied as Robin took a seat next to her. She glanced at him before asking, "And you?"
"Same."
It was silent between them, an uncomfortable silence. Robin fidgeted in his seat while Jinx just stared down at her lap. A thought tugged at Jinx's mind, enough to make her ask: "How can you stand it?"
"Stand what?" Robin asked, cocking an eyebrow at the girl.
"Stand letting Batman walk all over you like that!" she said as she put a hand on her hip. "Don't you ever realize what a fool you look like? Taking orders from some adult. Adult can't control us just because we're-"
"-kids." Robin ran his hand threw his hair, sighing as he did so. "I know that. But before our relationship was unfathomable to me. Now, after spending more time with him it became pretty- well, fathomable."
"But you still hate it, right?" Robin clenched his fist and he gritted his teeth. "You are trying to suppress your feelings of anger. You keep telling yourself, this is a chance to start over with Bruce."
"It is."
"But are you happy with it?" Jinx asked as Robin's eyes widened. "Look, I'm not here to just tell you off. I'm just telling you this because you're one of my best friends, and I can't stand just watching as Batman tell you what to do."
"He can because he's an adult and also my mentor." Robin seemed to wince at that word. "I always wanted to be the Batman, but after that huge fight and me creating the Titans, I realized that I can be so much better than Batman." Robin smiled, his anger diminishing. "Besides, I always liked being a kid."
Jinx stared at Robin, who was smiling proudly, not caring that Jinx was just staring at him. Her lips curved up into a smile. Now this was the notorious leader of the Teen Titans she remembered.
After their little chat, Robin decided that it was time they both try to go back to sleep. Jinx, noticing she was getting a bit tired herself, agreed and returned to her room, only to be woken up three hours later by Miss Martian, saying Batman want to speak to her and the twins.
Heading into the area where they were given mission (Miss Martian explained to her, calling it, the meeting room), Jinx and the twins were met with Batman's piercing gaze. "What's this about?" Jinx asked grouchily, having to wake up too early and to see him, her morning was not going well. Batman handed them each a bag full of new clothes and two manila folders. "And these are...?"
"New clothes, money, and information." was all the Dark Knight said, Robin smiling beside him, looking a little too eager.
"For...?"
"You three are going to school." Bruce crossed his arms, a scowl forming on his lips. Jinx stared at the Dark Knight, disbelieving. Were her ears deceiving her?
"You're sending me where?"
Batman glared at the pink haired girl, which she gladly returned with a glare of her own.
"School. You're still a seventeen year old girl, and I can't have you three just lounge around this place waiting for trouble." Batman replied sternly, crossing his arms.
"B-but I've never been to a school in my whole life, unless you include the HIVE, which-if you didn't know- is a school on how to become a villain!" Jinx shouted as she threw her arms up in emphasis.
"Then you at least have some experience." Batman sneered before turning to the twins. "You two will also be going to middle school."
"Wait one damn minute-"
"Also try to keep your colorful vocabulary to a minimum. I don't need you to be cursing out innocent people." Batman added before handing them rings and the twins were given their plus and minus sign necklaces back. "These rings are power inhibitors. For you Jinx, this ring will help you change your appearance. The envelopes will tell you where your schools are, along with some info that might come in handy. We also modified your necklaces, so that you two are able to speak perfect English."
"¿cuándo- take our necklaces?" Mas asked just as his necklace was around his neck.
"Dude, you're speaking English!" Menos said, his own necklace around his neck, before his own eyes widened.
"You too!" Mas exclaimed as he pointed at his twin brother.
"Oh my gosh, we're speaking English!" Mas y Meno said in unison as they waved their arms up in panic.
Jinx rolled her eyes and untied the red string, opened the flap and removed the papers from inside. As she skimmed through the papers, she noticed a familiar name.
"You have got to be kidding me."
Wally West sat with his legs propped up on his desk and his arms behind his head. His eyes were closed and was enjoying the moment as his friends talked in the background.
"Seriously, I think that our school's football team will bring us to championship." his friend, Hartley, explained.
"But the Quarterback sucks! I say we should just quit while we can." Jerry, his other friend, added as he leaned his cheek on his hand.
"Isn't your brother the quarterback?" Jerry just shrugged as Thomas shook his head. "Way to have some encouragement, dude."
"That's right, our football team does have a chance." Wally added not opening his eyes. "The Eagles suck, and they can't catch a ball for their life."
"Says you, football's not your thing, Track Star." Wally opened his eyes just to roll them.
"Whatever, bro." Wally said just as the teacher walked in.
"West, I recommend you get your feet off your desk and make yourself look presentable." Wally hurriedly put his feet down to avoid getting detention. Again. For the tenth time that month. "Class, we have a new student today." It was then Wally noticed that a girl stood next to the teacher.
The girl had long, wavy auburn hair that a bubble gum pink streak in it, pulled back with a black headband. Behind her thick framed glasses, her eyes were revealed to be a shade between brown and gold. She wore a v-neck dark violet t-shirt that was not too revealing with matching violet combat boots and black skinny jeans. Around her neck was a black choker with a red rose dangling from it. She was seriously skinny (but doesn't look like the anorexic type) and had perfect curves. She actually had a bit of muscle, and looked, he noted, as if she does gymnastics. And boy was she hot.
Wally knew his jaw dropped, and he was gaping like an idiot. "Would please introduce yourself?"
Her eyes seemed to be scanning the room, searching for something- no, someone. She laid eyes on Wally, a smile- wait, was that a smirk?- graced her lips.
"I'm Jennifer Rose Thompson. Glad to meet you all." said the girl, her eyes twinkling with amusement. Wally closed mouth and did a double take. Why did this girl seem strangely familiar...?
"Well, Ms. Thompson, please take a seat next to Mr. West in the back." Jennifer nodded, making her way toward the boy, who kept his eyes on her. She took a seat next to him, glancing at him from the corner of her eye.
Wally, coming out of his daze, decided this was his chance to flirt. "Hey there beautiful. I'm-"
"-a little slow, is what you should end that sentence with." Jennifer said smirking a bit. "You do know who you're talking to right, speed idiot?"
Wally's brain finally put two and two together. His eyes widened at his stared at the girl next to him. "Jinx?" he whispered, the girl just smirked even more.
"The one and only, though I think it would be better if you called me Jennifer here. Bats will get mad." Jen- Jinx said. "I'm guessing he didn't tell you." Wally shook his head, unable to make himself say words.
Wally was speechless. The only thing he thought of saying was: "Can I call you Jenny?"
"Don't push it."
And there you have! Chapter 14! Yes, Jinx was sent to Wally's school. I enjoyed writing the now-English-speaking twins scene. I love the twins! Thank you to everyone who reviewed! I hope you all review again!
Translation:
¿Podemos tener una habitación al lado de Jinx?- Can we have a room next to Jinx?
Mejor aún, podemos dormir en su habitación?- Better yet, can we sleep in her room?
En serio- Seriously?
Esta habitación se parece a una habitación del hospital.- This room looks like a hospital room.
Excepto que es gris.- Except it's gray.
¿cuándo- When did you-
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~Superbluestar428