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Jinx flipped harmlessly around the barrage of weaponry, releasing a quick wave of hex energy to dismantle an activated containment field but managing to still get blown back from the heat of the explosions. The remains of the surrounding wall that held the cargo door five minutes previously exploded in rubble and bullet holes. She stumbled on her boots but regained her footing quickly, her focus divided between See-more and his raving and the prone body of her young daughter.

'Pay attention to the target.' Jinx scowled, kicking herself for being distracted but unable to stop her eyes from wandering. She noticed the blood blossoms on Irey's t-shirt. See-more still had the haunting of that laugh in his face, and though she hadn't thought of this man in almost a decade Jinx could feel ancient tides of unease and anger. She had tried her best to help him, she had tried.

"As flexible as I remember." See-more said, and though she couldn't see his eyes beneath the shield of his costume she could feel him looking. It made her skin scrawl. It was like she was standing naked. "Will you come a little closer, Jinx?"

Frowning, the sorceress charged. She back flipped, swiping at him with her glowing hands and crumbling the concrete beneath his feet. He seemed to know it was coming and avoided the pitfall, shooting lasers out of his helmet in rapid succession. Jinx ducked, twisted and bent out of the way continuing to send out her magic as she inched closer and closer to his person.

One of See-more's lasers caught her in the left elbow and sent Jinx spinning, her teeth gritted in frustration. She could smell burning flesh. She saw the reminiscent of magic burns curling up his boots. See-more didn't seem bothered by the superficial injuries. It was like he didn't feel pain.

This man wasn't the boy who had been her friend. Everything about him to the way he spoke, his lumbering body language was different. It was obvious to her the years hadn't been kind to him, but she didn't care. She didn't care about any of it. She had only ever wanted peace. "Just give me back my daughter. I don't care what you're doing here. Whatever all this crap is you're welcome to it. The police can deal with your grand master place."

"That kid has superspeed." See-more said finally, stretching out his thin shoulders. She could hear his joints popping. She watched him run his fingers over his collarbones, tapping them against his gloves. They stuck out like broken sticks. "The Flash, she said."

'Irey. Why would you give up your father?'

See-more saw the panic flash for a micro second in her expression and it set him off. It was the same as an admission. He moved too quickly, the back of his hand hitting her clear across the jaw while she was once again scoping out Irey. He grabbed her before she could recover and pushed her against the side of his electronic console, pinning her glowing hands by the wrists and repeatedly slamming them against the hard metal. All Jinx could think was that he was stronger then he looked.

She could have easily used her magic to explode the console, send the ceiling crashing down, break water pipes but Irey was now only ten feet away and vulnerable. Jinx couldn't risk it, she didn't want to hurt her.

She cried out in pain, the fragile bones in her wrists and fingers taking a pounding over and over. See-more was so close to her now he could smell the scent of her perfume. There was something bitter in it. See-more could feel the adrenaline and blood rush in his veins, his legs ached and he knew, feeling her curves and muscle against him how much he wanted her. He wanted her between his legs, he wanted her writhing. He just wanted her bleeding first.

"Who's his father, Jinx? Who have you fucked? Who?!"

Jinx's eyes glowed pink but there wasn't any power in it, just rage. She spat at him, the glob of saliva dripping down his bare chin. He quirked his lips into a twisted smirk. She was still tough as iron, he could still see those lost parts in her.

"My husband."

Roaring, See-more slammed her body into the structure behind her so hard the bones in her hands creaked. Jinx cried out again, metal piping ramming into the muscle of her lower back. The rivets dug deeper at the next attack, puncturing little holes all the way up her spine.

See-more screamed. "Why did you pick him? Why?! I loved you, I worshiped you. I followed you everywhere, every plan. Everything you ever asked me. I did for you. He comes running and you take off, marry him."

He cocked back his fist and slammed it into the metal console, just gracing her ear. Jinx wiggled out of his grip. "See-more." Jinx said simply, recovering enough to grab him by both shoulders. Pink sparks sank from her fingertips and absorbed into his costume. See-more felt odd tingles like ice running through his veins, not painful but strange. It took him a minute to realize it was her magic inside his body. "He's a better man then you."

And then all hell broke loose.

The Flash sat in the control room of the Watchtower bored and fiddling with a Rubix cube. He was on duty for the next four hours but hated watching monitors. It was too stagnant, too still and he hated not being able to do anything about it. The Green Lantern would rack his body across a cheese grater if he got up though. Two months ago he got distracted and Rhode Island had been threatened by B-lister criminal. There had been a few million in property damage. Now a stash of puzzles games lounged in the bottom drawer of a near by cabinet for his pleasure.

His personal line beeped a lazy red and he accepted the call, transferring the image to one of the big monitors in front of him. The image of Metropolis downtown sector was swallowed by his son's face. Jai looked concerned when it popped up on the video screen, his red hair in disarray. The Flash could see the striped wallpaper behind his sons head and knew that Jai was with Barry and Iris in Central City.

"Hey kiddo, what's up?" he offered with a grin and a quick wave. "How's my favorite Kraken?"

"Have you heard from mom?" Jai cut him off, biting his lip.

Flash frowned. He'd been on the Watchtower for the better part of five weeks and it had been a few days since he last heard from his wife. The Justice League had been called to a crisis in Gotham, and she'd been busy with the kids. With the time difference and their competing schedules they always didn't get to talk as often as he wished. He hated it but it happened. "No. No calls today. What's wrong, Jai?"

"Irey ran off and Mom went to find her. I'm at uncle Barry's but I'm worried about Irey, Dad. She was acting funny." The Flash could read the plains of his kids face better then the sports pages. He could see the shake of his shoulders, the guilt in his bright eyes. There was more to this story then he was telling but at the same time, the speed monarch didn't care. Sometimes there was only time for bare facts.

"Irey ran off and nobody called me! Jai!" he threw the Rubix cube back onto the panel, his fingers flying on a separate keyboard. He quickly brought up the GPS signal in his wife's communicator. It was blinking in the warehouse district in Keystone City.

"Mom said she could handle it. Dad, can you go find them?" Jai begged instead, looking over his shoulder at the sound of a door behind him opening. "Mom said it'd be okay, but Irey's faster. Please, can you go?"

The GPS signal was fluttering around a greyed out building, changing the latitude and longitude as if she was dancing. The Flash smiled at his boy, burying his worry underneath the mask of his red suit. Jai looked back thankful, warm with love for his superhero father not seeing his father's unease.

"You got it bud. You hang tight at Uncle Barry's. I'll swing by and take you home when I find the girls."

Jinx did not dance. It was all he could think, already at the panel of the transporter that would bring him back to earth. Fighting could be classified as a certain kind of dancing though.

"Irey, you silly girl." Jinx cried, her relief exhausted her energy and all she could do was take in her daughters prone body into the safety of her strong arms. With a quick spark of magic the handcuffs crumbled into rust. Irey looked pale but unhurt with the exception of a blistering wound on her shoulder. "I'm going to take you home, kiddo."

She heard the click of a dial and instinctively crouched low over her daughter, throwing her left hand behind her. See-more caught her in the back with his laser, but her return hex knocked him back off his feet end over end. She heard the loud crash as he returned to his pile but was already moving. Jinx grunted, moving her daughter as fast but as gently as she could to lay over her shoulders in a fire hold. She wasn't near as strong as someone like Wally or Cyborg and struggled to her feet at the extra weight.

See-more was pulling himself out of the tangle of electronic components he'd been hoarding as Jinx ran by aiming to the open gaping holes in the main wall. If she could just get Irey outside the building she could focus on See-more completely.

"No! You're not getting away!" He yelled behind her.

"Go to hell!" she shot back, kicking her left food out in a sweeping arc, a pink hex flying off her boot in five strong pink waves. See-more dodged this barrage, throwing another one of his eye bombs. It exploded, throwing the mother and daughter clear out the warehouse door. Jinx felt Irey slipping away from her. Pink eyes widened in pain, her nine-year old daughter landing face up and smoking ten feet from her on the pavement. Exhaling, Jinx pushed herself back to her feet, ignoring the heated flesh of her singed back. "See-more!"

See-more halted a few yards from the door, cranking the dial of his helmet. She charged back into the deadly space, throwing both hands up, her pink eyes sending a glow across her pale skin. They both attacked at the same time.

"What happened to you?" Jinx hissed, blinking the blood out of her eyes. "You were never so-"

She dodged his gloved fist. He moved away from her glowing fingertips.

"I'm going to wipe you off the face of this earth. I'm going to scourge you from every memory." he raved, blasting laser after laser blast from his helmet. There was no rationality, just madness. He was hitting anything and everything, including the support columns of steel that kept the roof above them instead of around their knees. Jinx barely managed to shield herself from the barrage.

"You made your own choices."

See-more scoffed, stopping his melee. He stood oddly still for a long moment, and Jinx didn't know why but she felt as if somebody was walking over her grave. Everything went oddly cold.

He removed his own helmet and Jinx's eyes widened in shock. He had never handsome but had been decent enough looking when they were kids. She remembered his kind eyes from their days at the academy. He snuck her chocolate pudding from storage but allowed her to hit him when 'taking it from him' so she kept her reputation ruthless and visceral in front of the others. It had been the reason she allowed him to hang around.

His face was a scarred, sunken mess both pitted and ugly. All she could see was pale eyes, they were milked and she knew he couldn't see, not the way she could. Someone had cut off his eyelids. All his hair had been burned away at the temples, and now it was skinned tight to his skull which clearly had sunken dents as if someone tried to stomp it flat. It was grotesque, like some kind of monster, the bulging sightless eyes following her movements a yellowy pus where they had once been white. He slipped the helmet back over his face, the technology once again activating his improved sight.

"See-more." Jinx voice was soft, suddenly all the aches of her wounds and scratches stinging and alive. She was so tired, the ache of her muscles from their sparring, the drain of her core from the overuse of her magic. All she could feel was pity and loss, heavy like a weight.

"You were right about the Brotherhood." he said, wiping the white foam from the corner of his mouth. "Madam Rouge ordered a hit on you a few years after you left the criminal syndicate. You were causing trouble for some of the Rogue Gallery in Keystone City, they were supplying biochemical components to the Brotherhood. You and that Flash, you ruined the trade circle. Not to mention the history in Paris."

"...what are you saying."

"I stopped three of their assassins before they found out all those 'accidents' were because of me. They gave me a choice to do you in myself or I'd find myself in pieces in a trunk. I went to Keystone City, found a meta who had your body type. You were in the news back then, a golden little hero with partnership problems. Every headline was you and that Flash and the breaking of your little party."

Jinx gaped, her mind instantly returning to that time. She had found out she was pregnant and together Wally and her had decided it was time for her to retire. It was too dangerous. She would vanish out of the public eye and assume her civil identity as Linda Park.

Superheroes, even in their twenties couldn't just disappear however. They had twisted the media for months in their favor. The media caught their 'arguments' and the 'fights' and finally the smack down right in the middle of Keystone City Plaza. She had screamed she couldn't take it anymore, his flirting, his lack of focus and told him with cameras watching she was leaving and he'd never see her again. The whole superhero stick had been a mistake. She had ripped the emblem off her costume and threw it in his face. To the world, codename Jinx had quit and slipped into the world as a retired and hidden ex-superhero.

In reality, she slipped on the face of Linda Park, using her magic and the powers of her probability to hide her identity. SHe could be standing in the middle of a crowd in the Flash museum, standing next to photos of her younger days and still the masses wouldn't recognize her. People had the bad luck of mistaking faces all the time. Even the ones with strange coloring.

"Gizmo owed me a favor form the old days, he implanted a holo chip directly into the women's body. I heard rumors you were leaving that speed bastard, it was every chance I needed. As soon as you disappeared I killed the girl and gave the body to the Brotherhood. They burned her corpse, and since no one saw you again they believed me. My makeover was for the first three assassins and Gizmo's corpse. I had to cover my bases Jinx, and yours."

"...you..."

'He had killed Gizmo?'

"I saved you. I thought you left Keystone. You were never in the papers again, he never had another partner. It was the only reason I could live with this. Except you were married the entire time. It was only because of me you got to live but the entire time you were laughing at me! I gave up everything for you, everything."

"How could I have known? How?" she cried back. "I never wanted you to get hurt. I wanted you to get out. I wanted you to come with me, remember? You didn't..."

"DON'T BLAME ME! All this was you, and now, I'm claiming your body. You owe me. Everything."

Irey blinked open her eyes, she felt aches everywhere and she didn't recognize where she was. The ground was hard and her shoulder was hurting. The little girl wanted to go home.

"See-more! Stop. Don't make me do this."

Irey's warily blue eyes turned to her mother's voice, cutting through the gloom of the night like some kind of beacon. She'd heard that voice almost everyday she could remember, but she never heard it with that tone before. "Mom?"

Ahead of her, through the open segment of the warehouse she remembered sneaking into earlier was her mom. Except she looked different, her jeans replaced with some kind of tight leotard with long sleeves, her long hair loose over her shoulders. There was an aura of pink light shining from out from her hands. She could see her naked shoulders, she was bleeding. Irey felt a shiver of cold guilt and fear.

This was all her fault.

"Kill me!" The man who'd hurt her was there too. He was now covered in wounds, his costume torn. His screaming hurt Irey's ears, he sounded like he was already dying. "You took everything from me, just end it!"

"You shouldn't have hurt my daughter."

"You shouldn't have a daughter! You shouldn't be with him. You should been the person you were born to be!"

Three short lasers, Irey watched mesmerized but unable to find the strength to move. Her mom moved like liquid water, twisting into the air like some kind of gymnastic queen and avoided to blows, slamming her hand to the concrete floor.

It exploded in shards, shocking Irey, who'd never seen her mother do much more then crack the odd tea-mug. There was a tidal wave of awe at the explosion of power, the pink light and energy sweeping across the entire warehouse.

"It's about choice! It's always been choice. Once you had one too, but you pissed it away! I'm over your shit, and I'll never let you hurt my family! That's my life!"

Everything inside the warehouse exploded, glowing with pink light, and Irey couldn't help her scream. Through the crumbling rubble, there was only a micro-moment seeing the slim form of her mom throwing herself on the dark skinned man, grabbing him by the exposed skin of his chin. Then it was only beams, concrete and a smoking crater where the building had stood moments before.

Irey felt her heart breaking, mirroring the shattered warehouse and burning beams.

"Mom."