*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 11 - Consequences of our Actions (Part 1)

Jinx POV

I woke up in unfamiliar surroundings, I didn't know how long I'd been out. On the plus side I didn't have a fever anymore. I tried to get up but I felt a pain in my chest.

I looked over the room I was in, and I couldn't believe where I was. I was in the Titans infirmary of all places!

Quake must have found me and brought me here to heal. I heard a light moan coming from the right of me. Quake was sitting in a chair next to my bedside, sleeping.

Had he been there all night? Why would he do that? I started to get up off the bed to get out of there fast when I heard Quake speak up.

"Jinx! You're alright!" He moved over to me and embraced me in a hug. I was about to return his hug when someone else walked into the room.

It was Raven. I didn't want to show her that I cared about him. "How are you feeling Jinx?" she asked me as Quake let me go from the hug.

"Alright I guess. I'm ready to get out of here."

"I'm afraid you can't just yet. You suffered from metal poisoning, more specifically Zinc Toxicity. It was lucky Quake found you when he did. Any longer and you might have died."

Quake saved me from what would have been certain death for the third time. You'd think he was my guardian angel or something. "I removed as much of the toxin as I could. You'll have to stay in the infirmary until I'm sure that all the toxin is out of your system."

'Perfect, I have to be waited on by the Titans'

"Whatever you need Jinx I'll get it for you," Quake said.

"I could use a drink of water." As soon as I finished the sentence he was up and gone.

As soon as he was gone Raven spoke up to me. "He really cares about you Jinx."

I blushed and said, "Yeah, he does."

She turned to me and said, "You'd better not be toying with his emotions Jinx. He doesn't know it but his powers are tied to his emotions."

"Oh?"

"The more sad or depressed he is, the weaker he is. The more anger or rage he has the more powerful he becomes, but he has less control over his powers."

I never knew this, but it did answer as to why he couldn't get himself out of Madame Rouge's hideout after I betrayed him like that. It also answered why he beat Madame Rouge so easily after she ambushed me on the street.

Raven continued, "When he's around you Jinx his emotions get out of control. You must be careful not to make him angry, or sad."

"Yeah I will." I wondered what was taking Quake so long to get the water I asked for, when he walked through the door with my water.

"Alright I'll leave you two alone then." Before she left she approached me and whispered something to me, "After he brought you here he never left your side. He really does care, Jinx. As much as you think it is, it's not an act." She turned and left us.

Quake then approached me and handed me the water. "Took you long enough." I said to him, a little mad that he just left me with Raven of all people.

"Sorry about that, had to get something else."

"What was it?"

"This." he said and placed a rose in a vase by the bed.

He also handed me a wrapped box. I unwrapped and opened it and gasped in surprise. It was the necklace I tried to steal when he first foiled me and the rest of the H.I.V.E 5. "Happy late Birthday Jinx."

He remembered my birthday? That was really sweet of him. He was doing a fine job melting the ice around my heart. "I made it myself, the store wouldn't sell the original after the robbery attempt, I hope you like it."

"I love it. Thank you." I said wrapping my arms around his neck in a hug. I thought he'd be a bit apprehensive about letting my arms go around his neck after what happened last time, but he didn't stop me.

Instead put his arms around me and said, "A beautiful woman such as yourself deserves to have what she wants. Even if it's not the way she thought she'd get it." He was right I never thought anyone would do this for me. "Let me help put that on you Jinx."

He loosed himself from our embrace, moved behind me with the necklace, put his hands around my neck and put the necklace on. I put my left hand on the necklace and I said, "It looks beautiful."

"Not half as beautiful as the woman wearing it." I blushed instantly. He reached over and gave me a kiss on the forehead.

He gave a groan and put his hand near his heart when he pulled back. "Your chest..." I said.

"I'm OK Jinx, I was more worried about you."

"You were more worried about me? That shard of metal nearly pierced your heart. It was my fault you were up there. If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have gotten hurt and-" he put his finger up to my mouth stopping my train of thought.

"There's no one on this planet I'd rather die trying to protect than you Jinx." This made my already red face even redder. He'd die to make sure I was safe? Raven was right about him. "It's late, we should probably get to sleep."

He got up and I grabbed his hand in response. "Don't leave."

He smiled down at me, "I'm not going anywhere." he said gesturing to the bed across from mine. "I'll never leave you Jinx."

His words struck a chord in me. He climbed into the bed across from mine and fell asleep right away. Searching for me when he wasn't fully healed must have exhausted him.

He puts my needs ahead of his own every time. When he stopped the building from crushing me, when he thought I was kidnapped he beat every villain there and stopped that heavy object from crushing me, and he saved me from Madame Rouge a second time even though he hadn't healed fully.

He even confessed his love for me on top of the roof before it fell...wait, he told me that he loved me, and I didn't tell him. I had to tell him, though he was fast asleep so it had to wait until morning. I slowly drifted off to sleep.

Quakes POV

Raven said I had to stay in the infirmary until I was fully healed, she didn't want me running off again so Jinx and I stayed in the infirmary talking about whatever came up in conversation. Raven offered to bring in my game systems so the two of us would have something to do. I declined because I wanted to spend my time with Jinx instead, and Jinx smiled at this. Once a day Jinx would open her mouth to say something but she stopped herself every time. I wondered to myself what she was trying to say to me. It probably wasn't important or she would have said something. This went on for about 4 days, I was almost fully healed and the rest of the Titans returned.

I stayed in the infirmary with Jinx everyday until she got better. When I woke up on the last day of her stay I knew something was wrong. Jinx wasn't in bed as she normally was. I got up and knocked on the bathroom door, hoping she was in there. No response. I was starting to get worried. I ran as fast as I could through Titans Tower. Nothing. I ran to Raven's room to see if she knew where Jinx was. No Raven. Come to think of it, Star, BB, Cy and Robin weren't around either. I ran up to the roof, and stared out at Jump City.

It was at that point I remembered I had a Sonar ability. I used it to try and find Jinx. The pulse went as far as the waterfront across from Titans Tower when it returned. Now I knew where Jinx was. I flew over as fast as I could and arrived in time to find something that startled me. A police van was pulling up to where the Titans and Jinx were, and Jinx was in handcuffs.

I landed hard on the ground and Robin said to me, "Good work catching this villain Quake. She's eluded us more times than we'd like."

I was flabbergasted. "I didn't bring her into the infirmary so you could hand her over to the police Robin," the anger was obvious in my voice.

"That's what made it easy for us to slap a power inhibitor on her and a pair of handcuffs." Robin said to me. I could see Jinx, her head was down and she looked saddened. The necklace I gave her was still around her neck. That was a good sign at least.

"You can't take her in Robin. Not after she saved me from Madame Rouge." Jinx's head perked up at this, like she was hoping that Robin would take this into consideration.

"But she was the one that lured you to her in the first place." I growled at him, angry that he'd take the woman I loved away from me.

Jinx was loaded onto the van and I was about to get her out of there when Raven stopped me. "Not now" she whispered to me.

"Quake! I-I l-" Jinx was interrupted as the doors to the van slammed shut. They took her away, and there was nothing I could do.

I had to get away, fast. "I-I need to go, too many bad memories." Robin nodded and let me go, Raven came with me.

We got to my apartment in Jump City and I started taking out my frustration on the only other person there. "Why did you tell him that Jinx was here?" I yelled at her.

"He would've found out anyway." She wasn't wrong.

"Why did you stop me? I should've saved her!"

"You would've been branded a traitor and hunted down." Raven replied.

I slumped down on the couch. "It would be better than being away from her." I was near tears.

"I can't let you do that. You know it's wrong."

I stood up and glared at her. "Do I? I'm starting to listen more to my heart than my head since I met Jinx. And my heart is telling me to go and rescue her."

Raven said nothing. Her communicator beeped and Robin appeared asking her to help out on a robbery attempt by Mumbo Jumbo. She was leaving my place when she said, "Don't do anything stupid Quake." and she left.

Like I'd listen to her. I knew I had to save Jinx, I just had no idea how.

Here's the next chapter. Hope everyone likes it. I broke this down into two parts, cause I thought it would be too long to explain in one chapter.

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