Hello again! It's amazing how much writing I can get done without school! I wanted to put something in that wasn't as dark so here it is! Thank you for all your reviews and feedback so far, I'm really glad to receive and learn from it. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans nor do I own the two songs used.

Kid Flash

Night has come quickly to Jump City and for once, I'm glad it has. On evenings like this, when everybody turns up the collars on their coats and hurries home, no one takes any notice of two teenagers walking down the street holding hands, or alternatively, one dragging the other around by the hand.

Jinx was so timid about going out tonight, I seriously thought she was going to bottle out several times. I think when she brought the idea of dinner up, she meant a takeaway. When I suggested an actual restaurant she went paler than I thought skin could possibly get and she looked like she wanted to hide under the bed in the medical ward.

"It'll be fine," I reassured her. "We're not going as ourselves! No one will recognise you, I guarantee it!"

I then put Starfire (who got very excited about it) in charge of her make-over and, I must say, I was impressed with the results. Jinx's hair now has streaks of dark brown in it and it looks so natural, anyone else would've sworn the pink was the colour that looked out of place. Her skin has been lightly layered with foundation so it still looks pale but has lost its grey tinge. However, it's her eyes that are the most jarring thing. Cyborg managed to rustle up some contact lenses for her and they are eerily realistic, giving her soft brown eyes with no hint of the cat-like pupils that lie behind them. I find myself missing them-every time I look into her eyes, it's like the lenses are blocking me from the real her, putting one more barrier between us.

Raven and Starfire also cobbled together an outfit for her (Starfire was very insistent on it) and she looks cute in a weird Gothic way. She's dressed in a black band T-shirt from some heavy metal group that I've never heard of and heavy black boots from Raven and a swishy short pink skirt and black leggings from Starfire. Her hair is tied up in a messy topknot and she's wearing pink lipstick and heavy eyeliner. I ran back to my apartment earlier to get her one of my black jackets and she looks stunning. I'll have to make sure she keeps it.

I'm wearing my usual Wally West gear of a white shirt and jeans with a brown jacket. When I first showed up in it, Jinx looked so unnerved to see me in regular clothes-she'd only seen me before as Kid Flash or in pyjamas. I reminded her of this quite loudly in front of all the Titans and she tried to hit me. That made me feel euphoric, it's like the old her is coming out bit by bit.

I'm taking her to a small Italian restaurant I know that's quite a way from the Tower and nestled in a corner where a bunch of streets join up. It's one of those places that's really hard to find unless you're looking for it but I'm a regular there, so I find it easily. My first day in Jump, before I had even met Jinx, I stopped a robbery here and now the owner gives me meals whenever. I've not turned up here with company before. I can only hope she likes it.

I walk in the door with her and the head waiter catches my eye. He looks surprised to see me with a girl but then he smiles and gives me a wink and a sly thumbs-up. Two minutes later, we're sitting in a small booth that blocks off the noisy hum and crashing sounds of the restaurant. He comes over with menus and lights a candle in front of us with a grin and I see Jinx blush pink to the roots of her hair. I order us both waters and he leaves us be. I look at Jinx with a smile.

"What do you think?" I say, spreading out my arms. "Not so scary, huh?"

She pokes me in the ribs with a small smile. "No, not really." She admits, looking around. "This is a really nice place."

"Yeah, it's one of my favourites." I tell her. "Later they put music on, clear all the tables in the centre and we can dance the night away."

She looks at me terrified. "I can't dance!" She squeaks.

"Of course you can! Everyone can dance!"

"Trust me, I can't."

"Sure you can. I'll show you later."

She's about to protest again when the waiter reappears with our drinks. We order our food; I get the biggest cheese pizza they have with a side of chips and she orders spaghetti carbonara. She gives a sigh when he leaves. I look at her worried.

"Jinx, is there something wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong," she says, looking at me through a small haze of candlelight that makes her skin glow. "It's just…I feel so happy. And usually when that happens, bad things come along to crush them. You know, karma's a right bitch sometimes." She's smiling, trying to pass it off as a joke but even the contacts can't hide the sadness in her eyes.

I take her hand from across the table. "Don't think about it." I say. "Don't even give them space in your head. I won't let anything else happen to you Jinx."

"I know, it's just…" She still looks worried but also resigned. "I'm bad luck. Things like this don't tend to last for me. And I'm not being sorry for myself, it's just a fact."

"Try me." I say cheekily with a grin. "I can be pretty perseverant."

"I know that." She huffs a wisp of runaway hair from her face and folds it behind her ear. "God, you turned up at all the most inconvenient moments…in my room when I had all my old drawings out, when I was trying to rob that necklace from the museum…"

"They've put it under lockdown now. Maximum security." I tell her and she almost looks proud. "Why did you want that ugly old thing anyway?"

"It's a good luck necklace idiot." She says with a spark of the old Jinx's fire. "Why do you think?"

"Oh." Now I really do feel like an idiot. "Hey, maybe I could persuade them to let you borrow it for a day or something."

She snorts. "Why would you do that? That wouldn't look good for the golden boy of the Justice League, borrowing valuable goods for a villain."

"What?" I shrug as she takes a sip of water. "Can't a guy do something nice for his girlfriend?"

She nearly chokes as she just about manages to avoid spraying water all of the table. She goes all pink again and she sits there spluttering at me as some water dribbles down her chin. "Wh-what?"

"What?" I say innocently. "Did you think I kiss every girl and let them sleep in my bed?"

"You better not now." She growls and I burst out laughing. "But seriously, am I?"

"If you want to be." I reply and suddenly I'm the one blushing under her gaze. For God's sake pull yourself together! What happened to being cool, calm and collected? I look at her and my tongue feels like a brick in my mouth. This never happens to me, why does she have this effect on me?

Then I feel her take my hand again. "I think that would be…nice." I hear her say. She's looking down at her lap but I can see she's grinning, grinning like she used to. "Besides, it would save me having to sleep on the couch."

"Yeah, right." We look up at the same time, eyes and hands locked together. For one brief moment, it's like the restaurant and the outside world didn't exist, that there was no such thing as past, future, hero, villain…it was just now, me and her, the barriers melted away. I move to stand up, to lean over the table and kiss her and she moves to do the same…

Then plates are thumped down on the table between us and the moment is broken.

"Your food!" the waiter proudly exclaims as we both dart back to our seats. Jinx has gone pink again and I stare at him annoyed. I want to yell at him 'You stupid, cock-blocking moron, can't you see we're having a moment?!' but he looks at me and shrugs before he takes off again to the other side of the restaurant where I can't get at him.

We start eating in a peaceful yet awkward silence, neither of us quite sure what just happened. I finish my pizza and chips off easily and start looking at the dessert menu. We chatter on about anything we can think of as she eats her pasta, me finishing off the last quarter of it when she declares she is full.

"How can you eat so much and still be that skinny?" she says as I scrape the sauce from her bowl with my finger.

"Metabolism." I answer matter-of-factly. "I burn off like, ten times more calories through running so I need to eat a lot."

"No wonder your cupboards are so full." She shakes her head.

"You went through my cupboards?"

"I was looking for some coffee."

"I can't have caffeine. It makes me go even more hyper than usual."

"And here I was thinking you couldn't get any worse."

I smirk and poke her in the sides as she wriggles away from me. "Stop it, I'm ticklish!" She says before she realises her mistake.

I can't resist grinning devilishly at her. "You shouldn't have told me that."

I launch an all-out attack on her sides and she starts writhing about trying to get away. "Stop it, you're being so childish, people are going to look-" She gasps out between fits of high-pitched giggling. She's trying to cover up the sound with her hands but she can't stop her mouth and fend me off at the same time. "If you don't stop right now-"

"What? What are you going to do to me Jinx?" I'm almost on top of her now as she tries to escape by sliding under the table but I pull her back up onto the cushiony seat. My face is angled above hers and she is so close I can feel her hot gasping breaths on my face. It's at this point I'm really glad I got us a booth; we look like we're in a very compromising position. "Drag me home and teach me a lesson?"

"Shut up and get off me you idiot!" She hisses. "People will see us!"

I'm about to retort that I don't care who sees us but suddenly we're distracted by the sound of loud music starting up. I recognise it instantly and a huge smile spreads across my face.

Oh, don't you dare look back

Just keep your eyes on me

I said you're holding back

She said, Shut up and dance with me…

"Hey Jinx, this is my favourite! C'mon!" I grab both her hands and pull her off the seat, ignoring her protests as I lead her back into the main restaurant. Just like I told her, the tables have all been stacked up against the walls and the floor is flocked with dancing people. She tries to wriggle from my grasp as I dive into the crowd and I can see the panic on her face. I move my arms but hers are frozen stiff.

"Don't look so scared Jinx, this is meant to be fun." I say into her ear as I draw her closer. "Just mimic me, OK?"

I feel her nodding and I lean back. I let go of her and start to dance, moving my arms around in small gestures to get her started and slowly she starts to loosen up and copy me. I see her anxious look fade away as she concentrates and I build it up, moving my legs in little side steps and shaking my hips. She does the same in a perfect mirror image of my own steps and she laughs. "I…I think I'm getting it!" she whoops as she spins around, letting the music carry her.

"Yeah, you are!" I shout enthusiastically back. I'm surprised she caught on this quickly, she's a natural at it. "Time for some free style!"

With my hands around her waist, we whirl around the dance floor like a pair of lunatics, somehow managing not to crash into everyone. I can hear her laughing and it sounds better than any music ever could. As the song ends we both throw our heads back and sing the last chorus as loudly as our lungs can muster.

This woman is my destiny

She said oooooooo

Shut up and dance with me!

Jinx

I don't know how he does it. I've always avoiding dancing, even at the HIVE Academy dance I kept it to a bare minimum, preferring to stand and watch others make fools of themselves. Yet here I am, dancing like a manic in a small Italian restaurant with someone who used to be my enemy. I probably look like a spider on a hot plate but I don't care. My hair is beginning to fall out in striped waves around my face but I don't care. I will almost certainly regret this later and I'm feeling a tiny bit sick and I'm sweating my make-up off but I still don't care. I can see him grinning at me with that twinkle in his blue eyes and every second of this becomes worth it, just to see that look. I've felt more like myself tonight than I have for what seems like forever and when he's with me…I'm actually hopeful for the future, it feels like I have one for the first time. I really am getting so soppy with my thoughts but then again (and I fear this is going to become a trend) I really can't seem to care.

We dance and dance together until the music stops and the voice of that irritating waiter calls out that the restaurant is closing. Everyone groans but I'm slightly relieved-these boots are starting to rip the skin from my feet. We stumble out into the cold night, our breath cloudy in the freezing air, and Kid Flash starts to lead me back down the darkened streets.

"There," He says with triumph in his voice. "That wasn't too bad was it?"

"It was fun." I have to admit. "But it would have been nicer if you weren't so damn embarrassing."

He pretends to look offended, raising a dramatic hand to his forehead with a flourish worthy of a Shakespearian actor. "Embarrassing? How in the world could I possibly do that?"

"You know what," I say. "And I demand an apology."

He raises a cocky eyebrow at me. "Oh, what's that? You're ready for Round 2?"

He lunges at me and tickles me again, trapping me in a bear hug worthy of Starfire (she gave me one earlier when she finished my make-over; I'm sure she left bruises). This time however, there's no table to constrain me and I manage to twist out of his arms. I make a break for it, running down the street with no clue where I'm going. I can hear him chasing me and I carry on running. To the outside world we must look like two normal teenagers mucking about and I laugh loud and carefree at the thought.

Then suddenly something swoops past and lifts me off my feet. The world blurs by me like a film that has just been sped up and within seconds I'm standing outside Kid Flash's apartment block being carried by him like he's about to take me over the threshold. He puts me down and I wobble about dizzily, trying to get the world back into focus and to keep my food down.

"Did you really think you were going to outrun me?" He gloats. I give him a glare just before my stomach loses its fight and I puke up all my food into the gutter. I stand there bent over for a few minutes regaining my composure whilst spitting out bile before I realise he's holding my hair back.

"Shit, I'm really sorry Jinxie," He says, looking genuinely distraught. "I should've slowed down like I did before-"

"OK," I cut him off sharply as I straighten up. "Rule One: don't call me Jinxie. Rule Two: do not tickle me. And Rule Three: warn me next time! You shouldn't be using your super speed in your civilian clothes anyway!"

He looks down and I see how shocked he looks. "Oh my God, you're right!" He exclaims before looking sheepishly at me. "I guess I wasn't thinking straight. I haven't really been doing that a lot these past couple of days…"

We both blush as the meaning of his words sinks in. "Urm…" I go before I've had the chance to think of anything to say. "We…best go inside. It's cold out here."

"Yeah, course." He says as we go up the steps to his door. He lets us in and both head for his room. All I want to do is sleep for a very long time and I can tell by his yawning that he's feeling the same way. It's been a long day for both of us.

He closes the curtains as I switch on the light. The pyjamas I was wearing earlier have been folded up and put on his bed and I pick them up and smell them. They whiff of clean and some sort of flower but I'm grateful for them anyway. Who needs the faint scent of something when you have the real thing lying next to you?

We get changed with our backs to each other; I'm still not comfortable with him seeing some of the scars I've got. When I look around, he's staring at my back in his mirror, his face like thunder.

"Don't think about it." I say. "Don't even give them space in your head." He looks at me with surprise at his own words and I laugh at his expression. He gives a wry smile back but I can tell how happy he really is. That boy is like an open book sometimes.

We get into bed like it's the most natural thing in the world and before I know it, he's got his arm around me and my head is on his shoulder. We lie there in darkness for a while until I hear he's softly humming something. It takes me a moment to recognise it but when I do I almost want to cry.

I got all I need when I got you and I

I look around me, and see a sweet life

I'm stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight

You're getting me, getting me, through the night…

Instinctively I start singing the words and he carried on humming, pulling me closer as he does so. I look up at him and there are tears in both of our eyes.

Can't stop my heart when you shine it in my eyes

Can't lie, it's a sweet life

Stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight

You're getting me, getting me, through the night

Cause you're my flashlight

You're my flashlight

you're my flashlight.

I stop singing and the silence threatens to engulf us. He kisses me softly and sweetly as our hair tangles on the pillow and I've never been more at home.

Just a note… when I first heard the song Flashlight on YouTube, I heard a much slower, more emotional version by Bethany Mota and I believed that was the real song. When I found out it was a Jessie J song and heard that version I was like What?! But I think both versions work so it doesn't matter but I still prefer the first one. But if you want check both out.

Anyway, please leave a review! The next chapter will be the last so reviewing will help the ending come quicker!