Chapter 3: Going Through the Motions
Jinx's shift at the café had been anything but easy for her. They were overly busy and almost everyone was making super specific coffee requests. "Damn can't anyone just come in and order coffee? No no of course not instead, it's I need a carmel mocha but not much carmel but enough that I know it's carmel flavored and it can't be more than 200 calories. Ugh idiots! Thank god my shift is over soon." Jinx thought as she was taking people's orders.
Eventually her shift was over and she took off her apron and made her way home, it was quite a walk since the café was in the busy part of town. On the way home she passed one of those shops with TVs displayed in the windows and the news from today of all things was playing. Jinx took one look at the screen and plugged her ears and averted her eyes as she scurried past the shop. "I really need to burn off some steam" Jinx thought as she continued walking. After passing a dark alleyway her wishes seemed to be granted. Four lowlifes came out of the dark alleyway and started tailing Jinx.
"Hey, lady where do you think you're going" one of the guys called to Jinx.
"Oh me? It's really none of your business where I'm going, so why don't you lowlifes go back to your dark corner and work on being intimidating okay?" Jinx said as she turned around to face the guys who are trying to be menacing and she couldn't help but laugh.
"Hey! Shut up, what's so damn funny were going to kill you for that bitch." The same guy said as he motioned for his friends to surround her meanwhile Jinx was in hysterical laughter at how these guys think they can take her
"You want to go? Fine let's go" Jinx said smirking as she snapped her fingers sending a pink hex at them throwing them back. They seemed to recover quickly, one of them threw a knife at her and Jinx barely dodged it. The knife actually it slightly grazed the side of her stomach. "Enough of this, now I need a new white shirt" She yelled at them before throwing a particularly strong hex there way which ended up knocking them unconscious. "Hmph serves them right for messing with me." Jinx said as she stalked off to her apartment which wasn't far away by this point.
Once home she went to the bathroom and began to clean up her wound. "This should do" she thought as she examined her work of patching herself up. Jinx then changed into a tank top and some pajama shorts and went to sleep feeling much better after getting her energy out.
Meanwhile Wally was out on a late night patrol he used it as an excuse to cut his date short with Linda she was stressing him out, sure he was happy with her she was great in some aspects but when she started talking wedding details he had to get out.
He was running around town when he came across some unconscious thugs that were starting to stir. "This oughta be fun." Kid thought as he sped up to the guys. He's dealt with these guys before , drug busts, murder, you name it these guys probably have done it so it was interesting seeing them worn out. "Hey guys enjoy your nap? not like you to be knocked out when the night is so young." Kid said jokingly as he stopped in front of them as they woke up and started moving.
"You again? Go away we've got nothing to say to you." One guy said holding his head and groaning.
"Hey now, I just want to know whoever could take you guys down." Kid said shrugging and leaning against the building behind him.
"We didn't get taken down, we were just gonna have a good time with this cutie, but the crazy bitch laughed in our faces. Fucking pink haired witch. I wish I would've got a better slice at her." He said as he looked over his slightly bloody knife "and then she scolded us for ruining her shirt, if I see her again I'll kill her."
"Ah.. I know who you're talking about." Kid said thinking immediately of Jinx. "I'm surprised she let you escape with your lives if you ruined her clothes." He said as he smiled thinking of Jinx pissed off about her clothes "You know though stabbing a lady really isn't nice so that being said.." Kid Flash then rounded them up and tied them together. After calling the police to report them he headed off to finish his patrol.
After another hour of searching the town Wally went back to his apartment. This apartment was fairly bigger than the one in jump city it was actually a penthouse at a nice place near the center of town the mayor had given it to him after Kid Flash saved his life but Kid wouldn't accept it for free so, he pays pretty low rent for it.
Once inside he took a shower and went to get into bed. He couldn't help but miss Jinx when he went to bed, she was so comfy and he loved having her around. The bed just felt empty without her, he had tried to nap with Linda once and it was all over uncomfortable, her hair was all over his face and she moved around so constantly it was impossible to get comfy. She wanted to move in with him to be able to discuss the wedding details more often but he said he wanted to wait until they were married to live together. "Do I really want to be married? She's a reporter like Aunt Iris, maybe I'll end up as happy as Uncle Barry. I can do this. Can I?" Kid thought aloud as he laid in his bed looking at his ceiling. He was conflicted all over again and what was puzzling him the most was the fact Jinx was in Star City.