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Jinx opens her eyes to find she is surrounded by shelves of books, a small smile forming as she gets up and starts waking, reading titles while she does. Finding a book trolley along her path she stars gathering whatever titles sound interesting to her, romance, mystery, a few kid’s books from her youth and a couple self-help books. When the center of the library comes into view, “this is new, what happened to your table and single chair?” Jinx called out an eyebrow raise to the sole occupant in the book maze.
“Well you did say this was more comfortable for reading,” Raven in a yellow cloak responds, “And I have to say it is quiet nice” calling out from an extra-large dark blue bean bag chair with a coffee table next to it with stacks of books around. Jinx just smiled at the girl, her midnight black hair pulled back into a bun on the left side of her head, a set of fake librarian glasses siting on her face, “you changed your outfit but didn’t lose the cape?” jinx looking at a H.I.V.E yellow shirt that covered one shoulder but was falling off the other and black shorts that formed fit to her legs. Raven hummed to her question, looking like she was contemplating the universes, “how else would you know you were with me if I didn’t have a yellow cloak, now do you want to play 20 questions with me or have me read to you from your selections?” Raven responds, smirking at her knowing which Jinx wanted.
“And where am I to site if there’s only one seat?” Jinx asked going through the motions from the last few months of this same dream
“If there was a second chair how would I play with your hair while I read to you?” Raven responded while shifting her place on the been-bag chair and making sure enough of her cloak could cover jinx while she reads
Jinx smiles at her and moves closer handing her one of the books from her cart not looking or caring which starts the night out on, and takes her place next to the yellow Raven. Her head resting on her chest, as the rest curls around Yellow Raven’s body getting comfy and rapping her cloak around her like a blanket. She feels Yellow Ravens hand start petting her head, running fingers through it and scratching around her scalp. Jinx hums under the attention, “Sounds like you had a good day.” Yellow noted, Jinx smiled up at her “Hell ya, we pulled one over on the Titans and managed to get three different and high valued jewelry stores hit and robed dry!”
“And the Titans didn’t stop you?” Yellow Raven questioned.
“Nope, they had to deal with cinder and plasmas downtown” Jinx explained “And that left us the easiest job all year, even helped 6 other teams finish their jobs. And there’s not much better than having a debt from other H.I.V.E teams and getting our H.I.V.E. debt lowered in the same job, it’s great for the team moral.”
“So how much do you have left of your debt?” Yellow Raven asked
“Oh, you know just about $18 million for each of my team.” Jinx watch as Yellow Raven flinched at that. “Hey 13 to 15 years of merc training and housing is not cheap, with mammoth’s stomach and Gizmo’s tech it raised their debt by a bit. As there leader I’m in tell I got all of them out”
“How noble of you.” Yellow raven joked “Can’t help but notice you didn’t mention Billy, what about him?”
“Watch those compliments Raven I might get the wrong idea when I wake up. But I didn’t mention Billy because he has the lowest debt and has several copies working on his family’s farm and home town. He’s actually a tourist draw for them, nearly every business has a Billy working for them. He’s getting a steady income to clearing that debt and several job offers from legit companies looking for him.” Jinx remarked
Yellow Raven “I always did wonder why he used such power for crime and not used smart for crime. But that does explain quite a bit for him.”
Jinx “Whoa whoa, hold up, what do you mean by not smart for crime! He makes near infinite copies of himself, near impossible to arrest.”
Yellow Raven “Exactly, he could be in every bank, jewelry store or pawn shop with gold and yet. He remains with your team, with his power you could have the same payout today if he leaves one copy with you and sends the rest to rob while you distract.”
Jinx “Oh, ok. So first, that’s not how his power works, for a clone to be stable enough to remain after about a 100 feet, they need to be around for about a week strait. There’s actually an argument in H.I.V.E on wither the Bill left in his home town is his twin brother and not a clone, Billy insists that it’s a clone though. So that’s why we don’t use that plan, far too costly to have that many mouths to feed. And I am insulted that you would think I didn’t already try that.” Jinx raised herself up of Yellow Raven’s chest with a pout on her face.
Yellow Raven “My sincerest apologies Jinx. I was ignorant to your understanding of your team and planning prowess. How can I make this up to you?’ a smile on her face knowing jinx was playing.
“Read to me, be my pillow for the rest of my dream and pet my head.” Jinx stated as she moved herself back to how she was before the conversation started
Yellow Raven chuckled at her request “As you wish”. Once Jinx was comfy Yellow Raven started reading a romance novel about enemy’s to lovers. Jinx listened to Raven’s beautiful voice for about 3 to 4 books before her eyes felt heavy, unable to stay awake she fell asleep to Yellow Raven reading “Sleep well my love, I will try to kill you on the morrow” .
Jinx woke filling rested and ready for the day. That lasted about 5 minutes tell she heard Billy yell out “Fuck me, its level 5 day!” Jinx sighed ‘well there goes the day’s plan’, a level 5 training course was a one at a time, random course, time run that needed all of her team to pass or restarted for all of them. She know that most of the day will be running courses tell they get lucky with the match ups. She hated it but she can’t blame Mammoth for not passing the roof top course, or Gizmo the heavy haul course. “I need a shower and a lot of coffee” Jinx got out of her bed and headed for the shower.