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canonical_insanityFor Laura (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cheesydorito), who asked for a Jinx fic.
Story Name: Reflections.
Story Genre: Teen Titans.
Story Rating: T
Pairings: Jinx/Kid Flash.
Disclaimer: ...I own pretty much nothing.
A/N: For Laura. Okay, so she just said Jinx, but I took writer’s prerogative and threw herliving vibrator boyfriend too. It’s TV series, post- ‘Titans Together’, meaning good! Jinx and I’ve never written Teen Titans before, so this could be horribly wrong.
Jinx was starting to like being one of the good guys. The pay wasn’t as good, but the perks made up for it. For once, she wasn’t leading her own team and could sit back and watch Robin do all of the hard work.
She almost felt sorry for him. She had hated leading five other people, while he now had to lead a team made up of...well, everyone that they could call on such short notice to take out the Brotherhood of Evil.
Including her. She still couldn’t believe that she’d done it.
She looked at herself in the mirror. Pink hair, check. Goth outfit, check. Pink eyes, double check. She still looked the same as she had done before. She still looked evil, right? So, what had changed about her? How had she been able to leave? To hex her old team, of all things.
Helping against Madame Rouge was different. She had deserved it for patronising her abilities, for making her feel insecure. For attacking her, when they hadn’t been on opposing sides. Or had they? For all she knew, they might have been on opposing sides from the moment she had met Kid Flash, and she had just not realised it at the time.
As she was thinking about him, in one of the most cliché appearances that she had ever seen, he appears behind her and peeks in the mirror.
"Ooh, niice."
"Yeah, I thought so. You’re okay looking too." She teases him slightly, starting to smile.
The mirror image smiles back and she realises what the change is. There’s no malice behind her smile anymore. This Jinx is still sarcastic, cynical and ruthless to a degree -she hasn’t changed that much- but her eyes smile with her mouth. She looks happy and loved.
And it’s all his fault.
Out of all of the perks that she had discovered from being a hero, she decided that she liked this one the most. He was obnoxious, but after being stuck with Gizmo for as long as she had, she was immune to that particular character trait. And, okay, he didn’t have much free time on his hands, but that was a minor downside.
Besides, she probably got to see him more than most superhero’s girlfriends. With the exception of Starfire, of course, because even if she wasn’t officially dating Robin yet, she was as close as Robin was ever going to get to a girlfriend.
Mostly because she had a sneaking suspicion that Starfire would beat up any girl that tried to date him. Super strength has its advantages, after all. And she did look like the jealous type, although since she was trying not to get herself killed, she probably wouldn’t mention it.
Also because she needed some new friends. If -no, when- the Brotherhood of Evil defrosted, she was going to be high on their hit list. She hoped that she would be ready to fight them when the time came, if it came at all.
But secretly she knows that she’ll never be ready to fight them. They could have ruled the world and she could have had all of the power that she had ever wanted. She wonders if, when they thaw out, they’ll understand why she did it.
Why she threw all of that away for the sake of an arrogant, attractive hero who probably has girlfriends by the dozen and lovers by the hundreds. And if they ask her, she’ll tell them why.
She’ll say that it’s because he saw something different in me from what everyone else saw. That he had always seen the Jinx that she now saw in the mirror. Happy, loved and with a lack of the malice that had always dominated her life.
Fortune smiled on her and she hadn’t even needed that amulet from the museum to force its hand.
cheesydorito), who asked for a Jinx fic.Story Name: Reflections.
Story Genre: Teen Titans.
Story Rating: T
Pairings: Jinx/Kid Flash.
Disclaimer: ...I own pretty much nothing.
A/N: For Laura. Okay, so she just said Jinx, but I took writer’s prerogative and threw her
Jinx was starting to like being one of the good guys. The pay wasn’t as good, but the perks made up for it. For once, she wasn’t leading her own team and could sit back and watch Robin do all of the hard work.
She almost felt sorry for him. She had hated leading five other people, while he now had to lead a team made up of...well, everyone that they could call on such short notice to take out the Brotherhood of Evil.
Including her. She still couldn’t believe that she’d done it.
She looked at herself in the mirror. Pink hair, check. Goth outfit, check. Pink eyes, double check. She still looked the same as she had done before. She still looked evil, right? So, what had changed about her? How had she been able to leave? To hex her old team, of all things.
Helping against Madame Rouge was different. She had deserved it for patronising her abilities, for making her feel insecure. For attacking her, when they hadn’t been on opposing sides. Or had they? For all she knew, they might have been on opposing sides from the moment she had met Kid Flash, and she had just not realised it at the time.
As she was thinking about him, in one of the most cliché appearances that she had ever seen, he appears behind her and peeks in the mirror.
"Ooh, niice."
"Yeah, I thought so. You’re okay looking too." She teases him slightly, starting to smile.
The mirror image smiles back and she realises what the change is. There’s no malice behind her smile anymore. This Jinx is still sarcastic, cynical and ruthless to a degree -she hasn’t changed that much- but her eyes smile with her mouth. She looks happy and loved.
And it’s all his fault.
Out of all of the perks that she had discovered from being a hero, she decided that she liked this one the most. He was obnoxious, but after being stuck with Gizmo for as long as she had, she was immune to that particular character trait. And, okay, he didn’t have much free time on his hands, but that was a minor downside.
Besides, she probably got to see him more than most superhero’s girlfriends. With the exception of Starfire, of course, because even if she wasn’t officially dating Robin yet, she was as close as Robin was ever going to get to a girlfriend.
Mostly because she had a sneaking suspicion that Starfire would beat up any girl that tried to date him. Super strength has its advantages, after all. And she did look like the jealous type, although since she was trying not to get herself killed, she probably wouldn’t mention it.
Also because she needed some new friends. If -no, when- the Brotherhood of Evil defrosted, she was going to be high on their hit list. She hoped that she would be ready to fight them when the time came, if it came at all.
But secretly she knows that she’ll never be ready to fight them. They could have ruled the world and she could have had all of the power that she had ever wanted. She wonders if, when they thaw out, they’ll understand why she did it.
Why she threw all of that away for the sake of an arrogant, attractive hero who probably has girlfriends by the dozen and lovers by the hundreds. And if they ask her, she’ll tell them why.
She’ll say that it’s because he saw something different in me from what everyone else saw. That he had always seen the Jinx that she now saw in the mirror. Happy, loved and with a lack of the malice that had always dominated her life.
Fortune smiled on her and she hadn’t even needed that amulet from the museum to force its hand.
