Timelines

A Teen Titans Fan Fiction by Jacob McDonald

Opening Notes: Bwa ha ha!

Standard Disclaimers apply. I don't own Teen Titans.

The Future – Ties That Bind

Jinx rolled over and pulled the sheets up to her chest, just covering her breasts. She grinned across the open expanse of her apartment at the young man dressing there. He was just smoothing his eye mask back in place when she spoke in a sarcastic tone, "You can leave the money by the door on your way out."

"Oh, I'm sorry Jenny." He turned and glared at her, his bare chest rising and falling in an exaggerated sigh, "I didn't realize this was a flowers and mix tapes kind of thing." He turned away again to find the top of his uniform and scowled, "This is sex, Jen. Nothing more."

"Nope." Jinx flopped back, "Nothing more at all."

"And what does that mean?"

"Nothing… just… what if she finds out?"

"She won't."

"I think Raven already knows."

"Then why is she letting it go on?"

"Probably because she loves us both and doesn't want to see us get hurt."

He was silent for a moment, then finished putting on his uniform and swept out of the apartment, leaving her naked and alone once again.

Beast Boy laughed a little, "Hanna, are you sure Raven said she'd be over here?"

Hanna pulled him by the hand through the Westbrook Mall and nodded with a happy smile, "I know you're useless, but she might be able to help me find a cute outfit to wear to Becka's dad's party."

"Why can't you wear the dress from the dance at the WJCIE?"

"Aside from the fact that I tore the crap out of it while I was running around playing vigilante with Ginger?"

"Oh yeah… forgot about that…"

"Yeah, you would. You do it every night."

"Not every night."

"Whatever. Now if I'm not mistaken, we'll find Raven just over here at the Hot Topic…"
"What the hell is Raven doing at the mall without Star?" Beast Boy asked, "I mean, she doesn't really like shopping by herself."

"She said she was meeting a friend here. I'm sure since we're in the area, she wont mind hanging out with us too."

"What friend?"

"I dunno. She didn't say."

Beast Boy scratched his head, "Raven doesn't have too many friends… I think I know… all … of them…" he trailed off as he spotted the dark Titan standing in the corner of the store, holding a baby-tee up to the slim torso of the blonde girl she was shopping with. Hanna blinked at him, then looked over at the pair.

"You know her friend?"

"I…" Beast Boy couldn't talk.

Raven suddenly looked up, then over at them. Hanna swore she grew even paler when she saw Beast Boy. The green changeling took a staggering step forward and held out a shaking hand, "Terra?" he whispered.

Hanna's head snapped around and she locked eyes with Raven. As the violet eyed girl saw the hurt and betrayal start to form in the blue eyes of her pregnant friend, she stepped forward, "Hanna, Gar… I can explain…"

Hanna turned and ran from the store, and Beast Boy just looked at Raven dumbly. Tara stepped up next to the dark Titan and whispered, "Um… busted?"

"Yeah…" Raven sighed, "Busted."

"You… you… bitch!" Janice screamed, and staggered away from where Ami sat on the sofa, tears streaming down her face, "I can't believe… after everything we've been through… all the times we've been together… you slept with him! Him!"

"I'm sorry, Jan!" Ami sobbed, "I told you, I was drunk, and he was being so nice… I just… I didn't know what I was doing until we were already done… and at least I'm telling you!"

"What the hell does that mean?" Janice demanded, taking a step towards her roommate.

Ami glared up at her through wet eyes, "It means that you never told me about when you had sex with that Bethany chick a week after we moved in here."

Janice's eyes grew wide, and she took a step back this time, "How did you… I mean…"

"How'd I find out?" Ami laughed bitterly, "Beth told me a few days later when I told her to stay the fuck away from you. That girl is poison, Janice."

"I know that now… any way, you and I weren't even together then!"

"Oh, so when you fucked me two days after her, we weren't together?" Ami demanded, standing up to her full five foot four height.

Janice shrank back from the rage of her lover, "I… we weren't…"

"I'm sorry I slept with Rodger, Jan, but don't you dare… don't you dare… try to make me out to be a slut and yourself out to be a saint. We both know differently."

Janice fell to the floor and held her face in her hands, sobbing uncontrollably. "I'm sorry!" she wailed, "I'm sorry!"

A moment later, Ami was crying and hugging her, "Janice… baby, we're okay, you know? It was just one time, and he used protection and everything… we're gonna be okay… you and me."

"I know… I just… I love you so much, Ami…"

"I love you too Jan…"

"Really?" Janice snuggled into her lovers embrace.

"Janice…" Ami murmured, "I would die for you."

Star stroked his head, pushing some of the black hair from his eyes. He rested against her bare breasts, breathing evenly. His naked body pressed against hers under the sheets of the large bed, seemed to fit perfectly.

"I… don't know how to feel right now." He said.

"Happy?"

"I guess. I just worry about you."

"Why is that?"

"What if…" he trailed off.

Starfire closed her eyes and shook her head, "No…" she opened them and looked up at the slowly rotating ceiling fan, running her hands through his ebony locks.

"Robin will never find out about us…"

Jinx locked pink eyes with the green ones across from her, "No." she said.

The black leather clad vixen smiled in an almost kind sort of way, "Jenny, baby… it's not exactly a question of choice at this point. You're in too deep. You'll have to play by the rules now."

"Selinda-"

"Look, Jen. We're standing in a vault full of money we just stole, our faces and names exposed, and the only witness that can bust us is right here. Unless you want to go back to prison…" she trailed off and stared down at the man kneeling on the floor between them. He was sweating and praying silently under his breath.

Shimmer looked back up, "Pull the trigger, Jinx."

Cyborg sighed and sat down next to the blonde heavily. She smiled over at him and then back out at the kids she was watching.

"How've you been?" she asked.

"Oh… you know. Heart break and butt kicking. It's just how my life goes."

"Well, we always like it when you come here."

"Sarah… even after everything that went on between us?"

"Vic, just because we broke up, doesn't mean I hate you. I'd say you're the best man I've ever been with, actually."

"Heh… you sound like you want to give it another shot."

"Do you?" she turned a kind smile on his frowning face.

Cyborg stared for a good long time then nodded, "Yeah. I do."

Sarah stood up and kissed his cheek lightly, "I'm free for dinner tonight if you are."

The sword slid easily out of the dead guard's skull, and she flicked it to one side, flinging the blood off of it. As she jumped down from the ledge she was standing on, she grinned at her father, her half mask exposing her mouth.

"Next time you're interrogating a prisoner, try to leave them alive a little longer." Slade told her in a kind of teaching tone.

"I'll try." Ravager nodded, "But at least we found out where they have the nuke. Are you sure your plan will work?"

"Of course." Slade replied, "When we give it to Psimon, he'll naturally want to destroy the first major city he can, and Jump just happens to be very convenient. The Titans will try to stop him and be torn apart from the inside out."

"Cool." Ravager sheathed her sword as she thought about the destruction of the Titans, "Oh Daddy…" she hugged his arm, "This is going to be so much fun…"

Becka gripped her best friend's hand and pleaded with her, "Just one more push, Hanna… one more good one…"

Hanna groaned low in her throat and bore down. Becka glanced over just in time to see the torrent of blood and the doctor's face turn pale under his mask.

As the cry of the child's first breath split the room, the heart monitor droned out a long, low note of it's own.

Tara looked at Raven, standing before her in a sweeping cloak and drawn hood with a half smile, "Hey there, Raven. What's up?"

Raven lifted her head so Tara could see her face inside the hood. She was frowning, and the blonde girl swore she saw a tear at the corner of her friend's eye, "I'm sorry, Tara." Her cloak whipped in the wind and an edge of it flapped past Tara's shoulder, "I'm so, so sorry…"

"Raven, what-" Tara broke off as she noticed Raven's cloak was longer than it had been a moment before. She turned in shock and saw that it was wrapping around her, "Raven, what are you doing? Raven!" Tara screamed as the cloak enveloped her, then all was dark, cold, and Nothing.

"So this is what it's come to?" Robin asked as he pulled out his staff and extended it.

"I guess so." Raven nodded, sweeping her cloak back and dropping her hood. She pulled out her T-Comp and tossed it aside. Robin did likewise.

"Don't hold back." He ordered.

"I don't plan to." Raven replied.

"Ready?"

"Ready."

There was a two second pause, then the two charged each other, intent to kill written plainly on their faces.

Becka held her cell to her ear, "Carrie? It's Becka… yeah. It's about Hanna… she…" the brunet girl trailed off and started to cry all over again.

"Ay-mae?" Janice's southern accent was back in force, "Baby? Talk ta me girl!"

"Told you…" Ami smiled, blood trailing from the corner of her mouth, "I'd die for you…"

As her hand went limp in Janice's, the dark haired girl screamed.

Donna blinked at him as the news sank in, "Dick… what are you saying?"

He just stared back at her, the blood staining the side of his face making the message all too real, "I'm sorry, Donna. I…" he trailed off and reached out for her.

Donna fell back from him and Speedy rushed over and caught her before she could hit the ground. The black haired Amazon stared up at the sky for a moment, then an unearthly wail broke from her throat.

"No!" she screamed at the heavens, "Not my baby! Not Robert! NO!"

Jinx stared hard at Raven through the dust that swirled though the rubble. With every building within a block of them leveled, the sun was able to shine down on them, making the decimated cityscape even more surreal.

"Almost by yourself…" Jinx smiled, "You defeated four of the Fearsome Five, with only a little help."

"The Titans did it together." Raven replied, a frown etched on her face, "Jenny… don't do this."

"But I have to. Don't you see Raven?" Jinx was almost begging, "You're a good guy, I'm a bad guy… this is how it has to go down."

"You're not… Jenny, how can you say that? You've practically been a Titan for almost a year now!"
"But I'm not… Robin was right about me." Jinx took up a combat stance, "I'm the fifth member, Raven. And now… it's just you and me."

Raven raised her hands and black energy swirled around her, "Jenny… please… I don't want to fight my own sister…"

"Neither do I, Cassie." Jinx raised her hands as well and pink energy crackled around the area, "That's why I'm Jinx… and you're Raven."

"What now?" Terra asked.

Robin stared across the battlefield at the two crumpled forms. As he started to walk towards them, he replied, not even looking at her, "We bury our dead."

"The ties that bind us are sometimes impossible to explain. They connect us, even after it seems like the ties should be broken. Some bonds defy distance, and time, and logic. Because some ties are simply… meant to be."

Ties That Bind

A Teen Titans Fan Fiction by Jacob McDonald

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