Chapter 8: Love and Deceit
Wally awoke the next morning and was met with an empty bed. He checked the time and it read 7:00. "Dammit not again." Wally said rushing to get dressed as he knew what happened last time he woke up to an empty bed. He ran down the hallway trying to get his shoes on. "How could she leave again, dammit!" Wally said as he tripped over himself and fell face first on the ground.
"How could who leave again?" A voice said from the kitchen. Wally turned his head from the floor to look at whoever it was, and sure enough there was Jinx.
She had gotten up early, hungry from not eating much the day before and decided to make breakfast. She grabbed one of Wally's shirts and a pair of boxers and headed to the bathroom to change. Sleeping in her clothes from yesterday was hardly comfortable.
Jinx had been cracking eggs into a skillet when she heard Wally yelling and a thud. So there Jinx was, a spatula in one hand and a quizzical look on her face staring at the speedster who was face down on the ground.
"She didn't leave! She just got up early for once." Wally thought as he ran over to Jinx and hugged her.
"Come on, put me down West. I've got food to make." Jinx said gesturing to the eggs that she was currently frying.
"I thought you left, you can never leave ever again." Wally said into her hair as he refused to let go.
"Let. Me. Go. Now before I hex you senseless." Jinx said sternly squirming to get out of his grasp.
"Sure thing Jinxy." Wally said as quickly stole a kiss from Jinx and ran.
"You are so dead!" Jinx screamed as she chased him down and hit him with her spatula, before returning to make breakfast.
"That's it? Jinxy you've gone soft." Wally said looking up from the couch at Jinx.
"Shut up it's early and stop calling me Jinxy!" Jinx said as she started making bacon. Before Wally could respond however, his communicator went off.
"Morning robbery? People do that?" Kid said looking at Jinx.
"Idiots maybe." Jinx said as she finished up making breakfast.
"Come with me?" Kid pleaded to Jinx.
"No way, I'm exhausted and look at me, I can't go out like this." Jinx said gesturing to Wally's clothes she was wearing.
Kid sped out of the room and came back with Jinx's clothes. "Then put this on! Come on!"
"I'm not going, I'm comfy, besides I'm a villain remember?" Jinx said turning away from Wally, intent on ignoring his puppy dog eyes.
"Jinx you can always give the hero thing another try, now put these clothes on and come with me, or I'll put them on for you." Kid said with a suggestive smirk.
"You wouldn't."
"Try me."
"Ugh! Fine whatever I'll put them on, Jerk. " Jinx said taking the clothes from him and then hexing him for good measure. "That's what you get for black mailing me!"
Eventually Jinx got dressed and Kid wasted no time scooping her up and heading off to the robbery. Jinx stood there next to Kid Flash feeling tired and slightly pissed off. She was over the fight before it even started, she stormed inside like the guys didn't have guns, or hostages and wasted no time hexing them unconscious.
"Man, Jinx I should bring you when you're tired more often!" Kid said as he rounded up the unconscious men and handed them over to the police. Before they headed off home however, a reporter made the sad mistake to grab Jinx and bombard her with questions.
"So, Jinx is it? Are you Kid Flash's new partner? Have you heard of his heart breaker reputation? How long have you known Kid Flash?" The reporter asked her all these questions and more annoying personal ones such as "Is your hair natural or did you dye it? Aren't you worried about your secret identity, why don't you wear a mask? Care for an interview, I'm sure the town would love to hear your back story!"
By this time Jinx had had enough and at the snap of her fingers the camera malfunctioned. "Oops, did I do that?" Jinx said innocently with a smirk on her face. She then proceeded to head over to Kid Flash and demand to go home
"Alright Jinxy, we can go. I think someone needs a nap though." Kid joked as he scooped her up and brought her back to the apartment.
"Go take a nap Jinx, and I'll make us some lunch, alright?" Wally said as he headed over toward the kitchen.
"Fine but I'm sleeping on the couch, since I'm already here." Jinx said as she fell onto the couch and almost immediately curled up to sleep.
Upon seeing this Wally couldn't help but laugh. "She definitely isn't a morning person." He mused as he started preparing lunch. He barely got a piece of bacon this morning before he had to rush off to stop that robbery, so he definitely couldn't afford to miss lunch.
Though, just as he started making the spaghetti there was a knock at his door. "Just my luck." He mumbled as he made his way over to the door. He opened it to reveal Linda, who was a mess. Her hair looked unkempt, and her eyes were red and puffy.
"How'd you get here Linda? Wally asked slightly surprised that she was able to get in the building.
"I explained the situation to the doorman and he let me in. Can we talk?" Linda asked walking right into his apartment.
"Uh I guess, I was in the middle of making lunch though." Wally said heading over to take care of the pot of boiling water.
"I just wanted to discuss our relationship, I mean just because our wedding didn't work doesn't mean we have to give up our relationship."
"Actually that is how it works, I run off, you get mad and vow never to talk to me again." Wally said as he added pasta to the water.
"Well we can be different, or we could start over, please Kid, we can make this work."
"I don't think so Linda."
"Why Wally? Just tell me why!" Linda pleaded to him, on the verge of begging.
"Why are you people so loud! Geeze it's like no one wants me to sleep." Jinx said looking over the side of the couch with her bed head. No one had noticed her on the couch due to the blanket covering her curled up form, and Wally forgot about Jinx the moment he saw the mess that was Linda.
"That's why." Wally said simply as he stirred the pasta.
Linda stood there in shock. "Her? The rude girl from the wedding, why her? She's a freak Wally, I love you more than she ever will!" Linda said almost in hysterics.
"Yeah, but I don't love you Linda, I'm sorry but I love her and she loves me."
"I never said I loved you West." Jinx said falling back on the couch.
"Yeah but we both know you do."
"Whatever, is lunch done?" Jinx asked nonchalantly as though Linda wasn't standing right there nearly in tears.
"Be patient, Jinx"
"Jinx? Her n-name is J-Jinx and you chose her? I have an actual name, and Star City loves us Wally. She's just a nobody!" Linda said in between sobs she was having a hard time grasping that she was left at the altar for this rude, odd looking girl.
"Look lady I feel bad for you, but damn have some pride for yourself bawling in front of everyone really isn't helping your case." Jinx said making her way over to the kitchen where Wally was draining the pasta.
"How did you even get in here! Wally doesn't let anyway stay at his apartment." Linda said pointing a finger accusingly at Jinx.
"Well I came home to find her eating my food and watching my TV and I figured I just had to keep her." Wally said smiling at the glare Jinx shot him.
"She broke in, and you're okay with all this?!" Linda nearly yelled at Wally.
He shrugged and said "Eh, it's okay if she does it. I trust her." Wally said heading over to the table where Jinx was, with his food. "Is there anything else you'd like to discuss?" Wally said looking over at Linda who was staring at him dumbfounded.
"No, I guess that's it. I've made my case and there's nothing else I can do. I'll be going now." Linda said still stunned by the things she heard. She headed over to the door and left.
After about a minute of silence Jinx spoke up. "I told you to not give your apartment code out."
"Hey, it wasn't my fault the doorman let her in." Wally said defending himself.
"I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you don't have a doorman, hence why there's a code outside the building and on the apartment doors. So she either stood outside waiting for someone to come out so she could sneak in or, she stalked the door until she caught sight of someone putting in the code. Both of which to me is pretty creepy." Jinx said finishing her lunch and putting the bowl in the sink.
"Uh, wow." Wally said looking about as dumbfounded as Linda did.
"Now it's the afternoon and it's particularly cloudy out which is perfect sleeping weather so, I'm going to bed." Jinx said walking down the hall to their room.
"That's fine I might as well head out on patrol." Wally said getting up and heading out to scout the city for crime.
Author's Note: I'm honestly proud of how this chapter turned out I'm usually not good at writing long stories and I had to rewrite this like 3 times, but I'm happy with the result.