Chapter 15:
Hey guys! I know I know, I haven't updated in like- what? Three weeks? It's just that school has been making me soooo busy. First off, my choir group had to practice for the Talent Show, then I had to do NJ ASK. Then, I had to finish all these projects and homework. Then- You know what? If I continue, I won't be able to start the story. Anyways, before you throw your tomatoes at me, I would just like to add... Who saw the new episode of YJ? I mean really, KF and Artemis are living together! I hate that I thought it was sort of cute! And Red Arrow married Cheshire! OMG! And they had a daughter. In the comics, it was like that, but their daughter di- Oops, don't want to ruin it! But you probably know what I was about to say. *readers throw tomatoes at me and one person threw a dodgeball at me* Really? A DODGEBALL? Was that really necessary? *readers threaten with dodgeballs* EEP! DON'T HURT ME!
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN YOUNG JUSTICE OR TEEN TITANS!
By the way, when Jinx is in her civvies (civilian) I will address her as Jennifer, and when she's in her hero form, she's addressed as Jinx. And Mas y Menos in their civvies are Danny and Dylan.
'thoughts'
flashback
Enjoy~!
"So, Jenny-"
"Jennifer."
"What about Rose? Or better yet, Rosie?"
"No. Just Jennifer." Jin- Jennifer explained, glaring at the Wally.
Batman, being the cruel and sadistic hero he is, decided to give Jennifer the sameschedule as Wally. She gave a frustrated sigh as she and Wally headed to their next class.
"Where did you even get Jennifer from?" Wally asked, cocking an eyebrow at her. Jinx just shrugged.
"Batman told me he 'narrowed down good names that seemed to fit me'." she explained putting air quotes as she said her sentence.
"I got to say, he did a great job at changing your appearance." Wally said looking her up and down as he wiggled his brow at her. "Though, I think you look prettier as Jinx." He added, his smirk never leaving his face.
Jinx rolled her eyes as she elbowed him a bit. "Not cool to say when I'm in incognito." Jennifer smiled a bit, but stopped when she noticed what she was doing. She shook her head and glared at the boy. "I should be mad at you, not joking around with you."
"Why are you mad at me, anyways?" Wally asked as he remembered her being VERY pissed at him in the little reunion. Jennifer glared at him more.
"Hmm, let's see if this rings any bells in that empty little head of yours." she crossed her arms over her chest as she continued, "Leaving without telling your girlfriend. Thinking that I wouldn't encourage you to go join the big leagues, which I might add, was a chance of a lifetime!" she exclaimed, raising her arms up for emphasis. Wally blinked as confusion flooded in his head.
"You didn't get my message?" Jennifer rolled her eyes again.
"Yea, I got your rose thing, but still-"
"No, not that. You didn't get the voice mail I left you?" Now it was Jennifer's turn to be confused.
"I never received any voice mail from you." Jennifer stared at him with an eyebrow raised. "I didn't even know you called..." she muttered utterly confused.
"Man, the only time I say some passionate words, you don't get to hear it." he muttered as he looked to the ground, a tint of blush staining his cheeks. He tried to play it off with a fake cough, but it did no good. "No wonder you didn't call me back."
"Wow, I wonder what you said. But seriously, you called?" He nodded. "And you waited for me to call you back?" He nodded again.
"I spent 3 months, every time I was home, just staring at my phone. Just waiting for it to ring or buzz or do anything! But it never did, so I gave up." Wally looked a bit sad as he recalled those three months.
"I was going to call you, but never got the courage to. I thought you left because you didn't-" Love me anymore. was what she wanted to finish it, but stopped herself from doing so. Jennifer shook her head. "Come on, we're going to be late."
She started walking faster and more ahead. Wally reached out for her, wanting to say something, but thought against it, pulling back his arm.
He would kill to know what happen to that message.
"Okay, bro. We can do this."
"Yes, we can."
"..."
"..."
"You open it, Dylan."
"What? Why me! You're the oldest, Danny! You open it!"
"We're the same age, doofus! I'm just two minutes older than you!"
"Thanks for proving my point! So open the door!"
"As the oldest, I command you to open the door!"
"Now you're taking advantage of your older brother privileges!"
"Um, excuse me, boys, but I'm guessing you're the new twin students." said a woman, cutting off their bickering. The twins, Danny (Mas) and Dylan (Menos), looked up to see the used-to-be closed door now open, revealing a slim African-American woman wearing a yellow blouse, tan pants, and black heels. She had a warm, welcoming smile on her face as her brown eyes stared at them. The two also noticed that most of the class was staring at them. The two laughed nervously and walked inside.
"Yes, I'm Danny Castro." He explained.
"And I'm Dylan Castro, his twin brother." Dylan added. For some reason, the twins had gotten a lot of attention from the girl population of the class. The twins laughed nervously as he saw the girls with heart in their eyes.
"Well, Danny and Dylan, I'm Mrs. Johnson." the woman stated, giving them another welcoming smile. "You may sit in those empty seats next Jake Morris and Luke Norton." she added pointing at two boys, one with black hair and emerald colored eyes. He wore a white sweater under a green t-shirt and jeans with green converses. The other boy had dirty blond hair and brown eyes. He wore an orange t-shirt and khaki cargo shorts with white and orange Air Jordans. The two walked over to their seats.
"What's up? How's being the new kids and the center of all the ladies' attention?" the one with black hair asked with a laid-back expression on his face.
"First day is going alright... So far." Dylan said leaning back in his chair.
"Not to mention, the attention is awesome." Danny added as he gave a cocky smirk.
"Wow, first day here and I already know that you two are going to cocky." the blond haired one said with a smile. "I think we'll get along quite nicely. I'm Luke Norton, the most amazing basketball player you'll ever meet."
"Jake Morris. Not much of a basketball player, but I'm more of a wheels kind of guy. From skateboarding to rollerblading to biking, I'm all in." Jake said as Luke added, "He's also good at fixing things like cars, game stations, etc."
The twins looked at each other and smiled.
"We got ourselves two new best friends."
How the hell did she get into this kind of situation? All she was doing was going to lunch! Dammit, now her turkey sandwich would have to wait. She didn't even have breakfast! Bats was rushing her, so she had to skip it!
"-and you think you're so cool. Are you even listening to me?" the blond girl's shrill voice rang in her ears like an annoying whistle. Yes, Jennifer has crossed paths with the jealous, popular girls. Why is fate so cruel to her?
The blonde in front of her was like a walking Barbie doll. She had the pink clothes, the high heels, everything! Jennifer wouldn't be surprised if she had a pink car and a mini-chihuahua in her purse. Her two croonies, one brunette and one African-American, stood next to her copied their 'leader's pose, hands on hips and head held high. It's like they had their own colors: Blondie had pink, brunette had green, and African-American had sky blue.
"And you are...?" Jennifer started only to be cut off by her shrill screech again.
"How can you not know who I am?" the blondie she puffed her cheeks "I am Kitten van Cleer*!" Jennifer blinked.
Kitten van Cleer... van Cleer... Where have I...? Oh my god...
IT'S KITTEN! KILLER MOTH'S DAUGHTER GOES TO THIS SCHOOL? HOLY SHIT! Jennifer was having a panic attack in her head. Oh, Jennifer remembers Kitten. She remembers her real good. They used to be cellmates in jail, and the girl wouldn't shut up. She spent two hours just talking about the color of Jinx's hair! Even when the HIVE Five broke her out, Kitten seems to meet up with her one way or another. If only Jinx didn't have a power inhibitor on at the time, Kitten would have been disintegrated on the spot.
"Speechless to be in the presence of the most popular girl in school." At that, Jennifer rolled her eyes.
"More like annoyed and hungry." Jennifer tried to walk past them, but they just stepped in her way. "What do you want?" Jennifer was clearly annoyed.
"I want you to stay away from Wally." Kitten stated. "Yeah, I know about you two being all buddy-buddy. Wally is mine." Jennifer rolled her eyes.
"Whatever." was all she said. Kitten was taken aback by her response. She took one small step back, one hand in front of her.
"'Whatever.'? That's it?" Kitten said in disbelief. Jennifer shrugged.
"What else do you want me to say? It's not my choice." Jennifer started walking past the trio. "But rather his choice."
"Oh, please. Who wouldn't want me?" Her comes the narcissistic talk. "I'm popular, have great fashion sense, and not to mention beautiful!" Jennifer then rolled her eyes again.
"Just don't blame me if he dumps you."A vein popped into Kitten's forehead.
"Don't think this is the end, Thompson! I'll let you go for now, but if I see you even breath next to him, you are so going to pay!" Kitten threatened as she and her croonies walked away with a 'hmph'.
Adjusting her bag's strap, Jennifer rounded the corner and into the cafeteria. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever. I could kick her ass any time. And I thought she was dating that spider-head idiot.
As she entered the cafeteria, Jennifer immediately notice Wally sitting on a table with the two boys he was talking to in the morning. Deciding against sitting with him, she sat at an empty table in the corner. Taking out her turkey sandwich (finally!...), she took a bite and took out her sketchbook. Flipping to the picture of Slade, she looked at it with hatred and a bit terrified. Jennifer traced his features on the paper as she gripped the pad harder.
Not wanting to look at it any longer, she flipped to a different page. The page she flipped to wasn't a drawing, but a page of photos. One of the picture was with all the original and honorary titans. She remembered they took this right after they fought Dr. Light all together. Another picture was of her team, Titans Central.
This picture almost made her laugh out loud. Oh, she definitely remembered the day they took this picture.
"What are you going to do with that camera?"
"I'm going to take pictures with it, duh." Jinx rolled her eyes at her boyfriend's reply.
"No shiz, Sherlock. I meant what are going to take a picture of?" Jinx asked as Kid Flash wiggled his eyebrows.
"Maybe I should take pictures of my beautiful girlfriend." Jinx, again, rolled her eyes. Kid Flash grinned as he caught that faint blush on her face (even though it hid behind the printed blush marks on her face).
"Oh! A camera! How about a group picture, mates?" Argent said as she entered the room and noticed the camera.
"Sure, why not?" Kid said as he smiled a bit.
"Count me out." Jinx said as she started to walk away until a blur of red and yellow ran past her and in front of her.
"Come on! It can't be a group picture if we don't have our leader in it!" Kid Flash had that stupid pout on his face that made him look innocent. And... Oh god, not the eyes...
"Fine! Whatever! Quit staring at me like that!" Jinx yelled as she turned on her heel and walked toward the group.
"I don't want to be in picture either." Hot Spot said as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"Come on, Spotty. This could be one of those precious memory pictures that we would be staring at in the future!" Kid Flash exclaimed as his arms waved in the air. When Hot Spot ignored him, he went on to phase 2. Both Argent and Kid Flash run up in front of him, hands together as in a begging posture and puppy dogs eyes. Dammit, why the eyes!
"Okay, okay! Enough with the eyes! But who's going to take the picture?" Hot Spot asked as they each stared at each other.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. Jinx pressed a button on the keyboard and a picture of Robin showed on the screen.
"Hey, Robin, what's up?" Jinx asked as a box was shown on the screen.
"A delivery for KF. I don't know why it was sent to the Tower but it was." Robin explained as Jinx pushed another button and opened the door. Robin walked in the base and set the box down on the counter.
Just as the box was set down, it opened and something sprang out of it. It looked like the Tasmanian Devil from LooneyToons only smaller.
"What the bloody hell is that?" Argent said dodging it as it sped past her. Jinx also jumped out of the way as it sped by her.
"I don't know, but it's going to destroy the base if it continues like this." Jinx said as she stood up from her crouching position.
Two hours later, Titans Central were exhausted. The creature thing was trapped inside a plexiglass box and hit the glass, trying escape. The Titans Central was, however, in their own unpleasant situation
Argent was hanging upside down on the ceiling, her foot caught on one of the wires. She was swinging around, struggling to get the wires wrapped around her body off, looking like a cocoon of wires. Hot Spot was powered down, but soaking wet and was wrapped in toilet paper like a mummy. Jericho was on the floor with swirls in his eyes, his arms spread out. He was covered in flour and ketchup spots were seen on his face while mustard stained his shirt, pickles were found in his hair as well as a banana peel, Jinx was covered from head to toe in paint. It looked like a rainbow threw up on her: her hair was green and purple, her clothes and shoes were red, orange, and blue and her face was covered with yellow and magenta, not to mention a both disgusted and annoyed expression adorned her face. Kid Flash was in a baby blue Little Bow Peep costume with a tan sunhat, white boots, and white powdered make-up, pink blush and cherry red lipstick. He also had the long cane.
Robin snickered at the sight, picking up the camera in the process. "This is so a Kodak moment."
"What are you looking at? And why are you snickering to yourself?" the sudden voice made her jump and close her sketchbook quickly. She calmed down when she noticed that it was only Wally.
"You scared me." was all she said as she tried to calm her heartbeat. Wally chuckled at her reaction as he leaned his cheek on his right palm.
"So what were you looking at?" Wally asked as he tried to take her sketchbook, only for her to move it away from his reach.
"Nothing, just... Old pictures." Jennifer replied, a small smile forming on her lips. Wally raised an eyebrow at her.
"Can I see it?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because this is my private sketchbook."
"Is it because you drew more unicorns?" Jennifer glared at the boy as she opened her sketchbook to the page of the photos.
"Here." she handed him the book, and he gladly took it, only to laugh at the picture.
"Oh my god, I remember this." Wally said grinning from ear to ear. Jennifer smiled as well.
"How did the thing get you in a Little Bow Peep costume anyway?" Jennifer asked, always wondering what had happened to each of them.
"We raided Argent's closet." Enough said. Jennifer knew that once you go into Argent's closet, always come out with a new outfit on. The outfit he was wearing just so happened to be Argent's Halloween costume.
"It made my paint set spill all over me."
"Look at Argent! She looks like a cocoon."
"I can't believe Hot Spot was cornered in the bathroom!"
"And look at Jericho!" with that they broke into laughter. The people in the cafeteria looked at them as if they were crazy, while Kitten strangled her sandwich. If looks could kill...
Jennifer got up to throw out her garbage, and Wally decided to take a quick look at her other drawings. He had to admit, they were really amazing, until he stopped on one page in particular. It was a picture of Slade. He stared down at the picture then at Jennifer, worry evident on his face. He stared down at the face with hate. This guy will pay...
He closed the sketchbook just as Jennifer sat back down. She tilted her head to the side as she noticed his serious expression.
"What's wrong?" Wally stopped glaring at the table and looked up at Jennifer. He shook his head and put on his usual grin.
"Nothing, just miss the old team." Jennifer smiled a bit and nodded, though she was sad inside. She missed them so much. If only she were there to save them...
RING! Jennifer and Wally both got up, picked up their bags and headed to their next class.
"We should be looking for her!" yelled a Russian-accented voice.
"Be patient, Rouge. Everything will play out as planned." said a voice that gave her chills down her spine.
"Maybe we should get their... Attention." said a mischievous voice.
"Very well. But Cheshire," Out from the shadows was none other than Slade. "keep your emotions under control."
Cheshire nodded, her mask hiding her glare.
"As you wish."
Yay! Done with chapter 15~! I just wanted to show you how the three's first day was. Yes, there's something planned. But you'll have to wait until the next chapter! I hope you liked it! R&R!
*It was said that in the Teen Titans, Killer Moth was the Cameron van Cleer version. So I decided to use his last name.
~Superbluestar428
