Teen Titans Drabble(s) #9, 10, 30, 71, 76, 78
This is a six part Drabble series.
Title: Heaven Takes Its Toll
Genre: Cartoon
Series: Teen Titans
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Jinx, Kid Flash
Drabble Prompt: #9-Hospital, 10-Sickness, 30-Sister, 71-Time, 76-Death, 78-Rebirth
Word Count: 100
( Drabble Table)
Part One
The steady beep of the heart monitor was irritating enough to pull her from her dreams slowly. She didn't open her eyes but she knew he was there anyways. She felt the hum of his presence near her, the energy that fueled his speed strumming through his stationary body, seeking a way to escape. Even in sleep he vibrated with it, curled around her, radiating warmth.
He didn't know it but she'd become so used to that odd sensation that when he wasn't there she couldn't sleep.
He took her hand and brushed a concerned kiss across her fevered brow.
________
Part Two
Jinx had always known that her powers were an evil thing.
She'd assumed that the nagging "wrongness" that she felt when she used them was normal for being a villainess.
The first time she'd gotten sick Brother Blood had passed it off as fleeting.
The second time Mammoth took her to a human hospital in disguise.
The third time, Kid Flash took her to S.T.A.R. Labs.
The fourth time, she didn't leave.
The very thing that defined her was slowly killing her, eating away at her body and slowly poisoning her from aura out.
Her luck had finally run out.
______
Part Three
Tendrils of black energy sliding through her aura woke her in a scream of pain. Ties around her arms kept her from leaping from the bed and through the haze of medication she could feel Kid Flash holding her hand.
Raven held the other, using the physical connection to probe the nature of Jinx's condition. Raven had probed other people before, to heal them and to examine their injuries, but it'd never hurt before. She removed her aura from Jinx before she could do further damage and sighed silently as the she debated what to say.
"I can't help you."
_____
Part Four
"I'm dying."
Kid Flash couldn't look at her without tears burning his eyes. "No."
She felt...fragile. Soft in a way she never had been.
She felt able to let down her guard.
"Yes," she replied, reaching for him with her free hand, the other had an I.V. in keeping her medicated. "Kid-"
"No!" He yelled standing and pacing quickly. His mind scrambled to find some explanation, some way to prevent the energy that Jinx wielded from consuming her.
"Kid!" The anguish in her voice forced him to stop. "Hold me?"
He could never refuse her.
"All we have is time."
_____
Part Five
She called them late in the night, knowledge that time was running out making her reach out for the familiar.
Despite the distance, they were there within an hour, dressed plainly, hiding their identities. It was akin to walking into a lion's den, but still they came.
Mammoth held her right hand, Gizmo her left; Kid Flash knelt in the shadows of her bed, his blue-green eyes flooded with grief.
Malevolent pink energy rolled beneath her skin, sparks appearing on the tips of her fingers and singeing their hands, but still they held on.
The energy swelled and consumed her.
_____
Finale
She remembers small things...
The scent of her brothers, bringing home to her in a strange place.
The sound of her heart monitor beeping steadily, gradually slowing as the days went on.
The sight of the hospital ceiling, white tiles speckled with gray.
The taste of copper in the back of her mouth, perpetual in her last days.
The feel of his lips on hers when he told her goodbye.
Then the energy that always lived within her seized control and she remembers nothing...until...
She opens her eyes and sees the night's sky above her, stars twinkling.
She feels...different.
Better.
_____
( Sequel )
Read and review, please.
Title: Heaven Takes Its Toll
Genre: Cartoon
Series: Teen Titans
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Jinx, Kid Flash
Drabble Prompt: #9-Hospital, 10-Sickness, 30-Sister, 71-Time, 76-Death, 78-Rebirth
Word Count: 100
( Drabble Table)
Part One
The steady beep of the heart monitor was irritating enough to pull her from her dreams slowly. She didn't open her eyes but she knew he was there anyways. She felt the hum of his presence near her, the energy that fueled his speed strumming through his stationary body, seeking a way to escape. Even in sleep he vibrated with it, curled around her, radiating warmth.
He didn't know it but she'd become so used to that odd sensation that when he wasn't there she couldn't sleep.
He took her hand and brushed a concerned kiss across her fevered brow.
________
Part Two
Jinx had always known that her powers were an evil thing.
She'd assumed that the nagging "wrongness" that she felt when she used them was normal for being a villainess.
The first time she'd gotten sick Brother Blood had passed it off as fleeting.
The second time Mammoth took her to a human hospital in disguise.
The third time, Kid Flash took her to S.T.A.R. Labs.
The fourth time, she didn't leave.
The very thing that defined her was slowly killing her, eating away at her body and slowly poisoning her from aura out.
Her luck had finally run out.
______
Part Three
Tendrils of black energy sliding through her aura woke her in a scream of pain. Ties around her arms kept her from leaping from the bed and through the haze of medication she could feel Kid Flash holding her hand.
Raven held the other, using the physical connection to probe the nature of Jinx's condition. Raven had probed other people before, to heal them and to examine their injuries, but it'd never hurt before. She removed her aura from Jinx before she could do further damage and sighed silently as the she debated what to say.
"I can't help you."
_____
Part Four
"I'm dying."
Kid Flash couldn't look at her without tears burning his eyes. "No."
She felt...fragile. Soft in a way she never had been.
She felt able to let down her guard.
"Yes," she replied, reaching for him with her free hand, the other had an I.V. in keeping her medicated. "Kid-"
"No!" He yelled standing and pacing quickly. His mind scrambled to find some explanation, some way to prevent the energy that Jinx wielded from consuming her.
"Kid!" The anguish in her voice forced him to stop. "Hold me?"
He could never refuse her.
"All we have is time."
_____
Part Five
She called them late in the night, knowledge that time was running out making her reach out for the familiar.
Despite the distance, they were there within an hour, dressed plainly, hiding their identities. It was akin to walking into a lion's den, but still they came.
Mammoth held her right hand, Gizmo her left; Kid Flash knelt in the shadows of her bed, his blue-green eyes flooded with grief.
Malevolent pink energy rolled beneath her skin, sparks appearing on the tips of her fingers and singeing their hands, but still they held on.
The energy swelled and consumed her.
_____
Finale
She remembers small things...
The scent of her brothers, bringing home to her in a strange place.
The sound of her heart monitor beeping steadily, gradually slowing as the days went on.
The sight of the hospital ceiling, white tiles speckled with gray.
The taste of copper in the back of her mouth, perpetual in her last days.
The feel of his lips on hers when he told her goodbye.
Then the energy that always lived within her seized control and she remembers nothing...until...
She opens her eyes and sees the night's sky above her, stars twinkling.
She feels...different.
Better.
_____
( Sequel )
Read and review, please.