You Could Do So Much Better

~raven-is-my-name-tt

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OK!!! This is my Flash/Jinx pic for and PLEASE excuse the crappy coloring job!! I only had Prang colored pencils to work with so the quality is not as good as Prisma Colors but I worked with what I had and it was either Prang or Colorific....I chose the lesser of the two evils... But I am happy because I am gettin some Poly-Chromo colored pencils for Christmas {and those are the best you can get!! }

I have a looonng story to go with this piece and normally I would post this as a story and make the pic a preview, but I realized as I was about to do so, that I did not draw the picture for the story, but instead I drew the picture and wrote a story for it! So I thought that I should do the picture justice and submit it as a picture with a story rather than a story with a picture!!

Anyways the story:

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“Just go away!!! You guys never understand me!!”

Jinx slammed her door and thrusted her body against it as she screamed. Mammoth and Gizmo were on the other side with the other three Hive graduates behind them.

“Come on Jinx!” pleaded Mammoth, “We’ll go to the pizza place for some five finger discounts!!”

“It’s too late now!! I don’t want to go!!” a pink bolt of light sparked through the door and zapping his hand that was firmly rested on the other side. He jerked his hand away and rubbed the sore spot.

“Told ya we shoulda just gone with her…” muttered Gizmo as they walked away from the door.

SeeMore stood at the door and used his X-ray vision to look through the door…She was crying…He shook his head, “When you wanna go…Tell me okay?” he then walked away from the door to join the rest.

Jinx slammed the back of her head against the door. “UUURRRGG!!!” she stood up and fell face down on her pink bedspread, tears of anger staining the fabric. Rolling over, she absentmindedly looked to her dresser where a vase with a crimson rose drooping over the edge of the porcelain lip sat. She stood up and walked to pick up the flower ‘…Flash…’ The Kid Flash had left a rose on her dresser every other day so that the flower would not have time to get too droopy, yet she would get her wear out of the rose that he left.

Yesterday he did not come to her room to leave a rose…that meant he would come today… She had never seen him drop a rose off before, for, he had always come when she was either in the main room or out stealing things…things of course that he would later come back and put where they were supposed to be before they were ever missed.

She looked out her small window. There was enough room for someone to come in through, but, Flash would not use it. He was far too cocky. He would rather show off his power to move through solid objects…Even if no one saw…

The pale moon blanketed her window sill with light; she walked to it and rested her head in her hand and her arm on the sill. Staring out into the endless abyss of the night sky, she let her mind wander to subjects of her and ‘Flash’ as she would call him, for, in her daydreams, he certainly would not qualify as ‘Kid’. In her daydreams he was her knight in shining armor and she, a damsel in distress. Her distresses? The Hive 5…

‘He was right…They really don’t understand me…’ she sighed when suddenly a yellow and red streak passed by her head. Smiling, she turned around to see the Kid Flash standing at her dresser with a confused look on his face.

“Looking for this?” she asked holding up the droopy rose.

“Aww!! Ya caught me!!” he held his hands up as if he had given up, “And I was gonna surprise you…”

She shook her head, “It’s not much of a surprise when I get them every other day…”

“Well…” was his only reply.

“Why do you give me a rose every other day??” she asked tossing him the dead rose.

“What? You mean you don’t like the roses? How about this?” he threw a small stuffed unicorn at her, “You like Unicorns…I know. You draw them quite well actually…”

She caught the unicorn and just stared at it for a few moments, reading the tag on it, it said: Specially made in Taiwan.

“You went and got this specially made?” she admired the stitching of her name on the animals thigh.

“Any thing for you…” he said in a somewhat sleazy manner.

She shook her head, “ANY thing for me huh? How about frying my team mates out there with your special thing where you heat your molecules up by moving them fast…”

Then he shook hishead. Walking over to her, he held out a red rose before her, “You could do so much better…”

She stared at the flower for a second, then she looked to his face…which was dangerously close… A pink flash pulsed from her hand and pierced her floor. Now the pink from her magic shot up her arm and into her cheeks in the form of a blush. The red head did not move from her once…He just stood there, gazing at her…

Jinx looked up and got lost in his striking blue eyes…She touched the tips of her fingers to his strong, refined jaw line.

“No I couldn’t… I’m just bad luck…” she said, barely above a whisper. He grabbed her hand with his free hand and repeated once more, “You could do so much better…”

He then kissed her lips gently and pulled back to look at her face, “You really could…” He put the rose in her hand and in a ‘flash’…he was gone…

Jinx stood in shock for a moment, staring at the rose in her one hand and the small stuffed unicorn in the other…

‘Did he just?’

She turned her head to look out the small window in the corner of her room where he stood on top of a nearby building. He smiled at her and zoomed off.

Walking over to the window, she set the unicorn and the rose down on the sill where they were bathed in pale moonlight. She then walked away and into the main room where she heard voices…

“…So what is your name anyways?” It was Gizmo’s voice…

“Yeah come ta think of it…You never told us nothin’ bout’ you. Did he Billy?” “No Billy…”

They were confronting the dark, cloaked member of their team…

“So… Ya’ll ready for the five finger discount down at the pizza place?” she said as she walked into their conversation.

They were all startled by her entrance as they did not expect her to leave her room for the rest of the night…The room was coated in thick, awkward silence…

“Uhh…Sure!” said SeeMore as he stood up, breaking the silence.

The rest of the team muttered slurred responses as they too stood up, unenthusiastically. They all marched to the door and out they went in the direction of the pizza place. As she stood there watching them reluctantly move at her orders, the words that the Kid Flash had recited were repeating in her head, ‘You could do so much better…’

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