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"…Lose weight, the easy way!"

Click.

"…Just apply it like this, and BAM…"

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"…Oh, Julio, te adoro!"

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"…Who lives in a cucumber over the sky…"

Click.
The television went off. Jinx stood, and stretched her cat-like body. The past couple of days had been incredibly uneventful. After realizing that Kid Flash would not let her leave, and that she was essentially a hostage, the sorceress had taken to scheming. She was turning stir-crazy by staying home for so long. Kid Flash had offered to take her out on "supervised outings," but she had refused. Jinx knew he was merely trying to take her out on a date without calling it so. She refused. So, Jinx spent her days thinking of ways to escape at get back at Kid Flash. So far, Jinx had thought of nothing. All of her ideas were complete bogus, and therefore, she ended up in front of the T.V., drowning her sorrows with mindless light and noise.

Jinx pulled the photograph of the smiling Kid Flash and what Jinx assumed was his sister out of her pocket. She had taken to carrying it around with her. She liked it for some reason, the whole peaceful look of the scene. Studying it, Jinx felt her stomach rumble.

She headed to the kitchen. The good thing about being held captive by a speedster was that there was always plenty of food. Kid Flash had such a fast metabolism that he had to eat several times a day to keep up his strength. Opening a cupboard, she pulled out a bag of chips, just as she heard a whoosh behind her. Hoping that it was just a trick of her mind, but knowing better, Jinx turned around. Standing in front of her was the aforementioned speedster, Kid Flash, holding one of the most beautiful things Jinx had ever laid eyes upon.

"Hey, I brought pizza," He held up the box as a peace offering.

Grudgingly, Jinx said, "Thanks," and trudged over to where he stood. She opened the box, and grabbed for a slice, but where there had just been a box of pizza, there was nothing but air.

"Hey!" The villainess called out angrily. "What'd you do that for?"

"What's the magic word?" Red and yellow boy called from across the room.

Rolling her eyes, Jinx said, "Please," and received a slice of pizza.

Inwardly, Kid Flash grinned. An earlier Jinx would have blasted the box away from him, and caught it deftly in her hand. This slightly reformed Jinx, however, succumbed to manners instead of violence. The super hero beamed at his work.

"What are you smirking at?" She asked suspiciously.

"Nothing," he replied airily, sitting beside her on the sofa. Remarkably, she did not scoot away yet; she also didn't look too thrilled to be sitting next to him.

"Hey," the hero said, his full mouth muffling his voice.

"Must you do that?" Jinx asked, exasperated.

"What?" Kid Flash asked through another mouthful of pizza.

Sighing, Jinx shook her head.

Kid Flash's beeper sounded. He glanced down at it, and sighed.

"Somebody's robbing City Bank; I'll be back in a few."

And without even waiting for acknowledgement from Jinx, the hero sped out the door. Docilely sitting back against the couch, Jinx flipped the T.V. back on.

"…New Grapola! Twice the grape flavor in one-"

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"…Call now, and we'll throw in-"

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"…Boys, who appear to be between the ages of twelve and seventeen, holding captives-"

Click

"…Always using the same old dental floss?"

Wait.

Jinx paused for a moment, then turned the channel back. The blonde news lady appeared, and spoke about breaking news.

"-Bank. They're demanding five hundred thousand dollars and a pre-release edition of Mega-Monkeys Five. Please, if you have any information, call the toll free number at the bottom of the screen. We will be keeping you updated. Coming live, from the scene of the crime, it's Paige Turner. Paige, what do you have to say?"

The camera switched from the newsroom to the actual scene of the crime, just the outside of Jump City Bank. There was a large crowd, and police barriers keeping the spectators back. That was one thing Jinx never understood about civilians. Why would they want to be near the villain, near the danger? Were they hoping to be taken hostage too? People were so stupid.

The brunette woman, Paige, was repeating the same information that the blonde just said, but perhaps with more gusto, for being present at these actual events can make you more emotional. In fact, this news lady was practically crying as she described the situation. Jinx almost felt bad for her, she had never been on the victim's side of the kidnapping.

Jinx analyzed the scene carefully. Didn't Kid just say he was going to a bank robbery? This wasn't exactly a robbery, but it did seem worthy of super hero attention.

Rain started to fall on the scene. She could hear it pitter-pattering outside her own window, too. The people in the T.V. started to shiver. Absolutely absorbed in the scene, Jinx started to shiver too. Silently, she found herself rooting for Kid Flash, waiting for the moment when the red and yellow spandex boy would appear. A full minute passed, and Jinx was teetering on the edge of her seat. Suddenly, there was a flash, and Jinx knew it was over.

Ha Jinx thought to herself. Those punk kids got what was coming to them. Should've left the bank heists to the professionals.

Kid Flash was inside the building for less than five minutes, when the bodies came out flying. Stacked into a neat pile, Jinx was shocked to see, was Gizmo, Mammoth, Kyd Wykkyd, and See-More, dressed in civilian's clothes. The villainess rubbed her eyes, stunned. There's no way that it was them, being beaten by Kid Flash. Not the being beaten part, that was certainly believable, but the fact that they could have planned something by themselves. Usually, it was all Jinx who planned the big heists and secret missions. They never had the patience. Jinx could see now, though, that they were doing fine without her. Well, not exactly fine, as their heist had evidently failed, but still, it was the effort that counted.

Still riddled with disbelief, Jinx watched as Kid Flash quickly and efficiently fought each Hive Five member. He fought them so well; Jinx wondered how they thought they could even stand a chance. It infuriated her, a bit, to see her former team, her brothers, taken down so easily. Couldn't Kid Flash have shown them a little mercy, left them with some dignity? It wasn't right of him to utilize such awesome power, when the most impressive power on the Hive Five was the ability to throw eye balls. Jinx's righteous fury, was overpowering her. How dare he do this to her family? True, she may have left them because they were a bunch of babies, but even babies were loved, despite their annoying nature.

With a final punch, Mammoth, the best fighter of them all, fell to the ground. Jinx's fury overpowered her, and she zapped the T.V. It sat there now with a large hole with smoke coming out of it. Jinx didn't care. She was angry. What had she been doing here the past few days, living a comfortable life with Kid Flash, as though her history had just been erased? Jinx couldn't even justify it to herself by saying she was captive, because she knew that wasn't true. If she had truly wanted to leave, she would have been able to escape at any time without Kid Flash noticing. To be honest, Jinx had been loving the non- hectic life of a normal person. But, she realized, she wasn't normal. She was a villain. She knew that if she even walked out onto the street, a dozen police cars would pull up around her and arrest her for even thinking about doing something evil.

It was time, Jinx realized, for her to stop living the dream life. These short few days were a nice vacation from the reality, which was, Jinx was bad. Through and through, she was a jinx. She didn't belong near nice people like Kid Flash and the civilians that were no doubt thanking him right now. Jinx belonged to villainy, it was embedded in her. It ran in her very veins.

Resolve set more firmly than ever before, Jinx stood up, ready to face any barrier in her way.

Oh so fortunately, she didn't have long to wait.

A swoosh, a stop, and quiet.

"You saw it, didn't you?"

He was standing behind her. All the humor was gone from his voice.

"Saw what?" Jinx asked, deciding to play it cool.

"Jinx, there's a giant hole in the T.V., don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about."

"Those are my friends! And you- you just attacked them like it was nothing!"

"Jinx, they were holding two girls hostage. What was I supposed to do?"
Kid Flash's voice, though not raised by any stretch of the imagination, possessed a deadly calm that Jinx had never heard him use before.

"You could have asked them to stop, or-or-or, I don't know, warned them or-"

"'Excuse me, Mammoth, is it okay if punch you?'" The hero pretended to ask.

"Ugh. I don't get why I even bother. What the lot of you do doesn't matter to me anymore. I'm out of here."

And true to her word, Jinx strode forth, and out the door.

As to be expected, Kid Flash caught up to her.

"Jinx, what's gotten into you?"

The villainess pushed the elevator button furiously, ignoring his question.

"I mean, you left them. Doesn't that mean you're done with them?"

"That doesn't mean that I still don't care about them. And it certainly doesn't mean that I'm done with villainy. I see what you've been trying to do. You're trying to get us close that when it comes down to a choice between good and evil, I'll choose good, because that's the side you're on. Yeah, fat chance. I don't care about you, not at all. And what, is taking this damned elevator so long?"

Spinning away from the elevator, Jinx headed towards the stairwell. Wrenching the door open, the elevator finally came to a stop. An old man stepped out, and called,
"Should I hold the elevator?"
"You already held it up enough!" Jinx called back angrily.

"Sorry!" Kid Flash mouthed to the bewildered man. "Bad mood, that time of the month, you know."

Still with a stunned expression on his face, the man nodded, and promptly stepped back into the elevator to avoid the scene.

Jinx stepped into the stairwell, and squinted her eyes. She had not been in there since the first time, and refused to get distracted from her goal by some pretty pictures. Taking the stairs two at a time, she quickly descended. Obviously, not quickly enough to outdistance Kid Flash. Surprisingly though, he did not meet her on the stairs.

Finally reaching the bottom landing, Jinx broke free into the entrance of the building without breaking her stride. She headed towards the front door, pulled in open, and smacked her face into something very hard: Kid Flash.

"Ow!" she complained, rubbing her nose.

"Will you please stop and listen to me?" Kid Flash pleaded.

"No." And she tried to push past him, to no avail. Summoning electricity to her fingertips, Jinx merely pushed against the hero's suit, enough voltage to knock out an elephant.

"Sorry, the suit doesn't conduct electricity. Or maybe you just wanted to touch my abs, in which case, feel free."

He had that stupid grin back on, like he was the funniest person on the face of the planet.

"Why, why won't you just let me leave?" The sorceress begged. "What do you gain by me staying here?"

"You're better than evil. I know it. Just let me prove it to you."

"No." Jinx said, sounding like a big baby. All the same, a big baby couldn't have produced the hex energy she did to send Kid Flash flying off his feet and out the door frame like she did.