And here it is, the last chapter! This is the part I couldn't wait to write and I can't believe how well this story has been received by you all. Thank you all for the favourites and reviews and I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I loved writing it.

Kid Flash

A few weeks go by and Jinx starts to improve. With the help of Cyborg's sticky gloop, the wounds on her back start to heal, growing less red and angry day by day, although we both know the thin white lines like needles they leave behind will always be there. Her burn marks fade too but her powers have yet to come back. She tries every day to summon back the feeling of energy sparking between her fingers but all she ends up doing is exhausting herself. I've come home from patrol several times to find her zonked out on the sofa, her eyes bleary from trying to hex something, anything.

"You're pushing yourself too hard." I scold her but I know she won't listen. Her powers are a fundamental part of her and I can't blame her for wanting them back; I know I would do the same thing.

Her mental state has improved somewhat as well. When we're alone together I see sparks of her old snarky sarcasm emerging along with her stubbornness and will. She's started drawing again and now my desk is covered in half-finished sketches of unicorns, not that I mind. She's now perfectly comfortable in my apartment and the Titans Tower and slowly she's beginning to bloom there too. Her, Raven and Starfire have formed an unlikely trio and hang out all the time when we go there though I'm still not sure what they actually do. Whenever I look over they just seem to be giggling. She's also started joining Cyborg and Beast Boy in their video game marathons and they still can't believe it when she beats them.

"I lived with five boys remember?" she told them in the most deadpan manner the first time she kicked their butts at Mega-Monkeys. "And this was all they did. Trust me, when it comes to those guys, you both are amateurs."

I think I would have given all the money in the world for a camera just so I could have immortalised their faces as she got up and walked away. Even Robin had to smile. He's warmed up to her a lot since that first day and they seem to have some sort of grudging respect for each other, both being leaders and all. They've started sparring together now to demonstrate their different fighting styles, his more martial arts and hers more acrobatic. It's always good to watch though I'm there to make sure she doesn't get hurt. Robin knows what will happen to him if she does.

Other things however, haven't been as easy. Despite our night out dancing, she's still terrified of leaving the apartment in case we run into the HIVE Five even though I've told her she has nothing to worry about. She only leaves the place when she's wearing a brown wig and those contact lenses and even with those on, she still grips my hand like she's hanging from a cliff. It breaks me whenever I see her cowering away from people we pass and I've been seriously tempted to burn that damn wig but Raven has told me firmly not to rush.

"I know this is hard for both of you," She told me the last time I spoke to her. "But this is one of those things that is going to take time. I can sense that she's improved a lot and she's happier with you, just hold onto that."

I know time is one of those things I have plenty of but I can't help being impatient. It gets at its worst during the night; even though we sleep in the same bed, at times I'm scared to touch her, knowing what she's had to endure. In moonlight, it looks like her skin is made of frosted glass and when I kiss her, I always hold back ignoring my teenage hormones because the last thing I want to do is lose her trust-I think that would destroy me as well as her.

We plod along in a strange yet comfortable routine with me going out on patrols and her staying at home either drawing, cleaning or sometimes attempting to cook, her inability to use her powers making her a lot less volatile around a stove. Weeks go by until it becomes two months since the day I found her in their living room. The Teen Titans have settled back into Jump but I still haven't gone home yet. It doesn't take a detective like Robin to work out why.

That day, the sun blazes brightly in the clear sky and the temperatures soar to record heights, making it the hottest day Jump has had for a long time. I quickly grow sick of being cooped up in the oven of our apartment and I suggest going out for a walk. She agrees but then goes to pull her wig on and I want to rip that thing to shreds.

"You know you're going to boil in that, right?" I say but she ignores me as she puts her contacts on in the mirror.

I go to her and take her arm as we exit the apartment and head downtown. There are swarms of people making their way down the streets in shorts and sunglasses and I felt Jinx's tight clasp on my arm growing tighter with every person we pass. I can also see she's sweating under that stupid wig and I want to tear it off her head but I know if I do I'll cause a scene so I stay quiet.

We're walking down one of the main streets when police sirens start going on around us. Red and blue lights flash from around the corner and suddenly a huge explosion rocks the ground. Jinx and I crumple to the ground but before she's got up, I've already run back home and got into my Kid Flash uniform.

"Stay here." I order her and she nods breathlessly. I make to run around the corner but another much closer explosion sends us both flying backwards. Smoke fills my lungs and as I splutter in the gravel on the street, a group of dark shadows form in the smog. They morph into solid figures as they get closer and as my vision clears, I fill with rage. The HIVE Five are standing there smugly in the middle of the chaos, Gizmo tossing a homemade bomb up and down in his hand as if it were a rubber ball and See-More looking around him with disgusting satisfaction on his face. They spot me and their grins get wider.

"Kid Flash. Just the speed freak we wanted to see." See-More chuckled as Billy Numerous let out a loud hoot and Mammoth throws a meaty fist at the nearest wall, creating a large crack in it. They advance forwards and I turn to Jinx. They haven't seen her lying in the dirt, her chest heaving with large frightened breaths. She's staring at them fixedly, her eyes filled with pure terror and her mouth gaping as her limbs started to scrabble around in panic.

"Stay there!" I cry over as she tries to stand up but before I can do anything, blistering pain fires through my body and I can't get to her. All I can do is thrash about on the floor as the HIVE Five get closer. It's like that night with Madame Rouge, only ten times worse. I try to turn my head and I see Gizmo flying about laughing, waving a remote around. I fight to keep my eyes open and I see her standing there, paralysed in the middle of the street. I try to yell at her but my voice grows weaker with every word.

"Run...Run…for…it…Jinx…please…"

Jinx

He's yelling at me to run. He's beseeching me to run through his pain but I can't move. All I can do is watch in horror as my old teammates, my torturers, step closer to the only boy who's ever believed in me with maniacal grins on their faces. See-More snatches the remote from Gizmo and gleefully turns the knob higher, all trances of the shy meek boy I once knew gone. Kid Flash screams in agony as his body convulses and jerks with the electricity shooting through him and they all laugh like demons.

Hot anger is boiling through my veins and without thinking, I thrust my hands out in front of me and a pink wave shoots out. It goes through the shortening gap between Kid Flash and the HIVE Five and they are all thrown backwards to the ground. I stare down at my hands in astonishment. My fingers are crackling with pink magic again and the familiar feeling of energy is fizzing back through me. It feels amazing, like I've been renewed, and I feel one of my old evil grins return to my face. This is going to be sweet.

Now they are the ones groping around in the road as I step towards them. I shoot another small wave at them and the remote crumbles into silver dust. I hear Kid Flash gasp behind me and I know he is safe. The HIVE Five look up at me in bewilderment.

"What's the matter boys? Forget about me so soon?" I say as I rip the wig from my head and let my pink hair flow free. I then pull the contacts from my eyes and chuck them to the floor and they bounce away into the gravel. I stand there in my full undisguised glory as they all gibber like shocked monkeys.

"Jinx!?" They all shout except Kyd Wycked who just looks shocked with his little mouth hanging open. "We thought-"

"You thought what? That you had got rid of me?" I taunt them, remembering what little I did like about being evil. "It'll take a lot more than what you did to me to do that."

All the power that has been bottled up inside me is now surging through my veins like electricity. My hands are now glowing orbs of pink, my eyes are burning with my magic and my hair is almost standing on end, floating in a cloud around my head like I am underwater. I have never felt more alive and as I look at their petrified faces, I grin and they cower.

"I think it's time I taught you boys a lesson." I say as I draw my arms back. "Consider this my resignation."

They're frozen to the spot as my power builds. "Jinx we-"

"This is for my boyfriend," I throw my left hand forwards and a wave of pink sends Kyd Wycked and Billy Numerous flying back into the smoke. A loud crash echoes round and dust springs up where they smashed against a wall.

"This is for my city," Another wave shoots from my right hand and Gizmo and Mammoth are hurled back into the same wall where they land on the other two with a colossal thud.

That only leaves See-More, my worst tormentor. He stares at me with his one great green eye, begging like the coward he is to be spared. All the times I pleaded for mercy from him as he butchered me like a piece of meat and he never spared me. My resolve hardens. This will be my last act of villainy.

"And this is for me!" I cry out as I bring both my arms out to the sides like I've just finished a gymnastics routine. A ripple of waves head straight for him, growing stronger with every metre and ripping up the pavement as they go. He screams like a baby as they hit him square in the chest and he is bowled backwards to be reunited with his teammates as they lay in a silent heap.

The energy subsides as my anger wanes and police officers dash past me to get at them. I turn and stride away from them, my hair flying back behind me like one of those ridiculous super hero capes. A few people look at me oddly but I just swoosh past them. Nobody can stop me now.

I walk over to Kid Flash who is crouching on the ground, still gathering his strength back. I stand in front of him and he looks up at me like I've just sprouted a halo.

"Jinx?" he says softly, his blue eyes round with awe.

"The one and only." I laugh as I reach out a hand to him. He takes it and I pull him to his feet. He stares at me in wonder for a moment, his hand holding mine tightly as if he fears he's dreaming. Then suddenly his mouth is on mine and he's kissing me more passionately than he ever has before and I respond in kind, both of us ignorant of the commotion surrounding us.

We draw back for air, both our cheeks flushed and our eyes starry with tears. He coils a curl of my pink hair around his fingers and smiles at me tenderly.

"Hey Jinx," he whispers to me cheekily, so no one else can hear. "What took you so long?"

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