I don't own Teen Titans and all that Jazz. I'm only borrowing them for my own amusement
Raven awoke with a throbbing pain in her head. She felt her temple and found it sticky with a small amount of blood. She tried her best to focus but couldn't seem to get a grasp on her powers right now. She looked around with out of focus eyes and saw another person with her. A girl, with pink hair and witchy clothes. It was Jinx.
"Jinx…" Raven asked questioningly. The half-demon girl's eyes widened as she saw the girls limp form and remembered what happened.
It started out as a normal day. BB and Cyborg were playing video games, Starfire was trying to get Robin to eat some of her alien food while he read a newspaper, and Raven was drowning them out while reading a book. Their day was spoiled by the sound of the Titan's alarm alerting them to a crime.
"The Hive Five is robbing a bank. Titans Go!" came the classic battle cry of their leader. Soon they stood outside the bank and watched as the young criminals came out carrying large sums of ill-gotten cash.
"Aww great, it's those crud munchin Titans!" yelled the annoying voice of the pint-sized genius Gizmo. The rest of the Hive Five dropped their cash and prepared for the fight.
Mammoth charged Beast boy who turned into a bear, Seemore and Kyd Wykkyd fought against Starfire, Cyborg and Gizmo played a game of dodge the laser blast, Robin began knocking out Billy numerous and his doubles. And finally, Raven faced off against the pink haired sorceress Jinx for what seemed like to her the hundredth time.
Jinx had merely smiled at her
"Are we gonna exchange friendly banter or skip straight to the fight?" the Sugar demon asked. Raven levitated in place watching her with her usual bored expression.
"We have nothing to talk about." Raven said as she raised her hands, which glowed with black energy.
Surprisingly all Jinx did was laugh and raise her glowing pink hands.
The fight raged on for a while. BB and Mammoth traded blow for blow ending with Mammoth tossing an armadillo BB into the air straight up who countered by changing into a hippopotamus and performing a perfect belly flop with the force of a comet onto Mammoth knocking him out for the remainder of the fight as well as giving the walking behemoth a few broken bones. Starfire dodged Seemore's eye blasts and ducking when Kyd Wykkyd would teleport behind her and try and strike. Only to time it just right and dodge as one of Seemore's blasts hit Kyd knocking him out as Starfire blasted Seemore with a starbolt. Gizmo had jumped on Cyborg's back and tried to hack him only to get an electric shock from Cyborg's newest security system. Cyborg quickly turned around with a grin and ripped off Gizmo's backpack and handcuffing him.
Robin was having a hard time fighting the army of Billy's that kept popping up. Whenever he knocked one down, ten more would pop up in his place. He pulled out his Bo staff and struck a fire hydrant causing an eruption of water spraying down over all of the Billy's. Robin jumped out of the spray and threw a freeze disk freezing all the wet Billy's in their tracks.
Raven and Jinx continued to fight, Raven tossing debris and cars with her powers and Jinx sending her hex bolts causing explosions and cracks in the ground.
Raven was getting frustrated. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!!!" she called out sending a large blast of her dark energy at Jinx who countered with a focused bad luck blast of her pink hex energy.
Their powers collided together and began swirling into a mass of explosive magic. The ground began to rumble beneath them and debris flew everywhere as the ground beneath the two witches gave way, and a large piece of debris slammed into the side of Raven's head knocking her out cold as she and the pink haired criminal fell into the darkness.
Raven's memory had come back to her. She crawled over to Jinx's unconscious body, and shook her lightly. She checked for a pulse and found that she was still alive. She pulled out a pair of cuffs and locked the cuffs onto Jinx's wrists propping her against a wall as she tried to shake the buzzing from her head. She couldn't focus her thoughts.
She looked up to find the hole they fell through but found only rubble blocking them from the surface and judging from the stale air they were pretty deep under the city.
"Ughhhhh…" the pink haired sorceress groaned as she came around.
"Welcome back to the land of the living." Raven said sarcastically to Jinx.
Jinx struggled in her cuffs "Hey! What's the deal? My Hex's don't work!" she yelled in surprise.
Raven smirked "Cyborg whipped those cuffs up especially for you. They negate magic and all meta-human powers." Jinx continued to struggle while Raven spoke which irritated her. She finally gave up after a few minuets and slumped down.
"Fine, I'm caught…now what? You gonna take me to jail?" Jinx asked in a defeated tone. Raven turned to see the look of distraught on Jinx's face.
"Yes, that's what we do to all criminals." She said in a neutral tone watching Jinx.
Jinx slumped her shoulders and stood up. "Lets get this over with… the sooner I get there the sooner I can break out." Raven's head was throbbing "I'll gladly put you there myself, but first we have to get out of here." Jinx looked around and saw that they were trapped.
"Why don't you just phase through the rocks with your powers?"
Raven groaned. "I... hit my head. I can't seem to focus enough." She was rubbing her temples slightly. Jinx smiled.
"So the great and powerful Raven is human after all." She shot Raven a wide grin.
Raven just mumbled under her breath and walked over to the wall feeling along the rocks.
Jinx arched an eyebrow. "What did you say?" she asked
Raven half turned to face Jinx. "Half...human." she looked like she was embarrassed saying it and turned away.
Jinx looked up with a curious expression and walked over next to her.
Raven pretended not to care and examined the wall. "We need to get out of here. We aren't safe."
Jinx sighed and looked at the wall. "Fine, It's not like I want to die in a hole like this. How can I help?"
Raven turned and nodded. "We're in the city's old subway tunnels. If we head north we should be able to find the connecting station in the old district."
Jinx nodded and held up her cuffed wrists "Don't suppose you could let me out of these?" she asked with a smile.
Raven frowned "You do realize that if you used your powers down here that the entire structure would fall around are heads and probably crush us right?"
Jinx gulped "I get it." She said lowering her hands.
Raven turned and began to carefully pull large rocks away from the blocked tunnel and toss them aside. Jinx watched curiously before helping as best as she could. Her eyes darted around and she was becoming more nervous by the second at the tight quarters. She began to breath heavily and speed up at pulling the rocks down.
Raven could feel her fear. "Be careful. You don't want to pull the wrong..." but before she could finish Jinx pulled out a rock that was supporting most of the wall. They both looked up as the wall of loose rocks rumbled and began to fall around them.
Some how they managed not to be hit by a single rock but were thrown into a coughing fit by the dust that rose from the fallen debris.
"What...cough... was that about Jinx?" Raven asked angrily as she tried to breath.
Jinx was coughing also but ran into the new open passageway breathing heavily. She placed her hands on her knees and tried to pull herself together. Her eyes were tightly shut as she mumbled under her breath.
"I'm ok, I'm ok, I'm ok!"
Raven walked up behind her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "What happened back there Jinx?" Raven was surprised that she was being so concerned about a criminal who she herself had put away numerous times before.
Jinx looked up at Raven and then turned her head away "You'll laugh at me..." she said.
Raven arched an eyebrow "Have you ever seen me laugh?"
Jinx turned back to face her. Her cheeks were blushing as she looked to the floor "I'm... claustrophobic." she said in a low tone.
Raven stared at her for a second just blinking. "You're joking..."
Jinx didn't say anything. Raven could sense that she wasn't lying. "Don't worry about it, lets just get out of here." She told Jinx.
Jinx stood up and the two began walking through the dark tunnels. Jinx was doing her best to keep herself under control and was now silently glad for the magic restraining cuffs she wore. Without them she would most likely be lashing out at the walls and ceiling.
The quiet between the two was deafening. They had been walking in a straight line along the old subway tracks for forty-five minuets without saying a word.
"Soooooo, you come here often?" Jinx tried to break the silence with a joke.
Raven just groaned and rubbed her temple. "I have a serious headache, so please lets not talk unless it's necessary."
Jinx lowered her head.
Raven kept her gaze ahead. After a while she glanced to the side and peered at the pink haired sorceress. The girl's tension was noticeable even without her empathic ability.
She groaned inwardly "So, Jinx... have any hobbies?" she didn't really want to talk but she didn't need the thief girl flipping out in this situation.
Jinx looked at her and smiled lightly. Not her mischievous smile but an honest relaxing one.
"Yes, I enjoy reading, movies, sketching, gymnastics, and of course crime." She smirked at the last item and waited to see Raven's reaction.
Raven didn't react to Jinx's list. "You actually enjoy crime?"
Jinx smiled. "It's the ultimate test of my skills. I love the thrill of breaking the law. Plus I like getting stuff without having to pay for it."
Raven let out a sigh. "Childish..." she continued to rub her temples trying to dull the pain in the side of her head.
Jinx frowned. "Just because I have a need for material possessions, you call me childish?"
"It's childish that you seek thrills by breaking the law." Raven groaned.
Jinx frowned and puffed out her cheeks. "So why do you play the hero card? Got a thing for law and order? Or do you guys get paid good?"
Raven didn't look at her. She seemed more like she turned her head away slightly.
"I want to help people... it's as simple as that. And our pay isn't that much"
Jinx looked surprised. "So, you guys risk life and limb...for pennies?!"
Raven shrugged. "It's not a big deal..."
Jinx looked away. "I... I always wondered what you guys were like. Being a hero... it seemed like a bunch of romantic dribble. No one ever saved me. No one ever wanted me." Her expression was sad, like she was deep in a well of solitude.
Raven turned and looked at Jinx...not as a criminal, but as a person. She had feelings, dreams, and hopes. She got lonely, scared, and sad.
Raven was groaning and she was sure she would regret this. She pulled out the key to Jinx's cuffs and reached over unlocking them.
The cuffs fell from her wrists and clattered to the floor. Jinx stared in disbelief as she rubbed her wrists. "Raven..."
Raven sighed. "Just... don't go flipping out."
Jinx smiled up at her. Then she did something without thinking. She leaned up and kissed Raven on the lips.
Raven went into shock. She stared in disbelief at Jinx who pulled back and blushed with an apologetic face.
"I'm sorry..." she said quickly.
Raven placed a hand on her lips "you...you kissed me..."
Jinx looked up at her almost in tears. "I'm sorry...I wasn't thinking."
Raven reached down and placed her hands on Jinx's shoulders. "It's ok Jinx... calm down."
Jinx looked up. The tunnel didn't seemed as cramped as it did a little while ago as she stared at the lavender haired beauty. Her biggest secret... the one she had never told anyone in years... she liked girls.
Raven felt the flood of emotions coming from Jinx. "Jinx...I..." she didn't know how to react. She could feel Jinx's attraction to her.
Jinx smiled nervously up at her and took a step back. "Sorry, I know it's probably a surprise. I'm a lesbian. I play for the other team and all that."
Raven stared at her dumbfounded. "I... never suspected..." she turned her head away and turned back to face her with her normal expressionless face.
"It doesn't matter. We have to continue, it's still not safe here."
Jinx nodded slowly with a small smile.
They walked for a while in dead silence. Each one preoccupied with their own thoughts.
Jinx turned her eyes slowly to look at Raven in a way she wouldn't notice. She had often seen Raven as an attractive girl but it had been mainly been during their numerous battles and she had seen little of the dark girls face as it was almost always covered by her hood. But now she looked up at the girl and saw a lovely face. One of caring and compassion. Jinx felt a sensation she had thought was gone from her... Trust and caring.
Raven herself was preoccupied with her own thoughts. Jinx had kissed her, this thought was running over and over again in her mind and it wouldn't go away. She had always thought of herself as straight but this little pink haired devil had her doubting herself. Raven turned her head slightly to look at the criminal in her charge. She had to admit, as far as she could tell Jinx was an attractive girl. Those exotic eyes...long legs (even if they are hidden behind those weird socks) her pale flawless skin... her perfect chest... Raven shook her head to clear her head of the disturbing thoughts. stop that right now she thought to herself.
Raven looked up after half an hour and saw the old underground station that would be their exit.
Jinx looked at it with a wide smile.
"We can get out now." She said excitedly. Raven nodded but then turned to Jinx and held up the cuffs again.
Jinx saw them and frowned "Oh, I forgot about the whole jail thing. Couldn't you let me go... just once?" she seemed to plead.
Raven shook her head. "Sorry. But I can't. I have to uphold the law and bring you in. why don't you just serve your time and turn over a new leaf?"
Jinx smiled. "I enjoy crime too much." She said as the cuffs were reattached
Raven held her head and sighed as they walked through the lightened tunnel to the surface of old town Jump City. Raven tapped her communicator activating the tracking beacon that would alert the other Titans.
"They should be on their way." Raven said quietly.
They sat and waited, each one growing impatient at the sudden silence.
Jinx looked at her and broke the quiet.
"Um... Raven? After I break out...would you like to meet up some time as friends?"
End chapter one
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