Sorry to all the people reading this about the long delay between uploads. Life gets in the way.

Without further ado, Chapter 7

*Authors Note - I do not own any of the Teen Titans, DC characters or the Grand Theft Auto Cities. I do however own Quake, my Original Character.
Also - 'This is Thinking' - "This is Talking"

Chapter 7 - Redemption

Jinx POV

I woke up a few hours later in a panic. 'How long was I out for, and how long has he been with Madame Rouge.' God, I was so worried about him. I never cared about anyone like this before...well that's not entirely true, Stone aka Cyborg did seem to have some kind of interest in me when he went undercover at the H.I.V.E. academy. I also had an interest in him, but it never got serious between us.

How did I end up falling for Quake anyway? He was annoying, cocky, arrogant, stubborn, smart, and...always nice to me no matter what I did to him. I didn't know if Quake felt the same about me, but it doesn't matter. I like him a lot, but I couldn't admit to myself how much I really did like him. I had to help him escape, no matter what. I got dressed and headed out to where Madame Rouge was. I had to think of a way to get her out of there without being suspicious. How to do that though?

I arrived at the holding area where Quake was. When the door opened I heard him yell out in pain. I stepped through the door and saw Quake hunched forward as far as he could with chains on his wrists. He looked like he'd been tortured for hours. I wanted to shed more than a few tears, but I had to keep my composure in front of Madame Rouge.

Calmly I moved towards her and spoke to her, "Hello Madame Rouge, have you gotten anything out of him yet?"

"No, nothing yet Jinx," she replied, "Zis one is being more stubborn than most heroes" as she gave him another shock.

"You've been at this for hours Madame, do you mind if I take another turn questioning him? You could get some much-needed rest".

She mulled this over briefly, holding the button down. "Very vell Jinx you may take over, but as before vhen he breaks you let me know right away."

"Of course Madame." She handed me the remote and left. When the door had shut, Quake spoke up to me.

"...hey Jinx...enjoying yourself?..." he managed to croak out. A single tear leaked out of my eyes when he said that, he'd been tortured for god knows how long and it was all my fault.

"No I'm not, as much as I thought I'd be at the time." I looked over his body, his muscles obviously in pain as I could see them convulsing under his costume. "I can't stand seeing you like this knowing it's all my fault"

"...it's not your fault Jinx...I came here willingly to rescue you...I was half expecting a trap for me...I just...wasn't expecting you to be in on it..." my heart sunk when he said that.

"Look, I've decided to help you out, to let you escape. But this doesn't mean that I'm going to be a hero. I just want to repay you for saving my life when the building almost collapsed on me alright."

"...it would frighten me if it would be that easy.." he said with a smirk on his face. I just glared at him. "...soooo are you going to get me down?..." I smiled at him and hexed the chains that bound him to the wall and he fell with a thud on the floor.

He yelled out loud "RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH"

"That fall couldn't have hurt that bad."

"My leg, it's still broken." I'd almost forgotten the rubble that fell on him when he tried to rescue me. "It should-be healed already. Why...the shock collar. It's been constantly sending shocks throughout my body, suppressing my powers...and my healing."

"Can you walk with it?"

"I'll try". He tries to stand up, but the pressure becomes too much on his left leg and he collapsed onto the floor. "I can't stand up on my own. I need help."

I grumbled a little bit but I knew I had to help him. I knelt down and tossed his left shoulder over mine. We started to move towards the door, the energy field was disabled thanks to me, when he spoke up.

"Jinx, wait." I turned to look at him and he put his hand on my cheek and pulled me into a kiss.

A kiss! Not on the cheek like the first time he kissed me, but on the lips this time! It was timid and shy, like he'd never done it before. As fast as he initiated the kiss, he pulled away. I whimpered a bit when his lips left mine, I wanted to deepen the kiss.

"W-why did you do that?"

"To say thank you for rescuing me, in case I don't get to later". What did he mean by that, 'in case I don't get to later'. Did he think he wasn't going to make it? Or did he think I would leave him. It doesn't matter now. What matters is getting us out of here.

"Ummm, Ok then. Lets get out of here."

He chuckled a bit and said "I'm on your time Jinx". I glared at him again. Couldn't he take this seriously?

We headed out the door and down the hallway, and I took notice of how little security there was. Something was off about it, either they hadn't planned on me rescuing Quake or there was some other kind of security measures in place.

Suddenly out of nowhere a fist flew towards us, and more specifically me. At the last second Quake pushed me out of the way and absorbed the hit himself. "You think I vouldn't know if you escaped Quake? Zee chains vere connected to a silent alarm system vhich activated vhen they broke."

He stumbled backwards and Madame Rouge took the opportunity to grab him, lift him in the air and throw him against the walls repeatedly. "You cannot escape from me".

I couldn't take it anymore, I hexed Madame Rouge. I attacked my idol. The person I looked up to my whole life. She was stunned for a second but launched a flurry of attacks at me. I cringed and waited for the attacks to hit, but none of them did. I looked around and a blue sphere was around my body protecting it.

It didn't take a genius to figure out Quake protected me. Madame Rouge figured it out too and flung her arm towards him. It connected with his head and he hit the wall beside him. The sphere disappeared when his head hit the wall. Madame Rouge attacked me again and this time there was nothing to stop it. Her punches and kicks connected with my head and stomach.

At that moment, Quake lunged himself at Madame Rouge. When his fists connected with her head, it created shock waves. He moved so fast, and fought so hard against her I think he forgot about his broken leg. With one more punch he knocked her out cold, and collapsed onto the floor.

My body hurt from the attacks Madame Rouge gave me, but I knew I had to get Quake out of here before Madame Rouge woke up.

I walked over to him and said, "Come on, we have to go". I picked him up because of his broken leg and it was obvious that he wasn't fully there. His eyes couldn't focus on anything for very long, and his limbs were limp. I had a hard time getting him to the truck that brought us here. It didn't have much gas in it but I hoped it was enough to get us to his home, where he'd be safe.

I started up the truck and drove us as far as the truck could until it ran out of gas. We were in the middle of downtown, luckily it was late at night so everyone was asleep. I got out of the truck and helped him out. In this part of town the truck would be gone by morning.

He could partially move under his own power trying to walk with his right leg, with his left still broken. After a few hundred meters of walking it was obvious he was getting weaker and weaker. Eventually he collapsed over almost taking me with him.

I was frantic at this, I tried to get him to stay conscious saying, "Come on Quake, stay with me."

"...don't worry Jinx...it wasn't your fault...". And with that he closed his eyes. Tears were streaming down my face like a river. I didn't even notice the figure approaching behind us until he was there, with a big lightning bolt on his chest.

So there's Chapter 7, Chapter 8 will be up soon (hopefully).

Also points to those who guess which DC character it is.