Thanks for your review. Things are going to get tough for the Titans for a while but I still have YEARS to go before I'm done with this universe. All the Titans will have families by the time I'm done and there will be multiple children.
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Changeling dropped the orange in his hands and raced to Bumble Bee. "What are you doing?!"
She rolled over onto her side so she could see him better. "What's wrong with you?"
"You can't be on your stomach! You're pregnant!" The last part was whispered harshly.
She rolled her eyes. "I can still lay on my stomach, Changeling. Besides, Marco needs his tummy time."
"I'll do it. We need to bond anyway." He pulled her up and set her on her feet, amid her sighing heavily. He dropped to the floor and made a face at the baby, who laughed.
"You are the strangest dude I've ever met…" Bumble Bee ran a hand over her hair.
"I'm ignoring that!" He sang before rolling to his back. "How long are you going to keep this a secret from everybody?"
"I told you; Sparky and I aren't ready to tell people."
He raised a brow and debated whether to tell her something.
"What?" She groaned.
"You know I can hear your heartbeat and when you say that, it speeds up?"
She stilled and he could hear her heartbeat quicken. "Oh?"
"You're lying. You've been lying for the past two and a half weeks. What's going on, Bee?"
"Nothing." She looked downright miserable.
"Then will you tell me why Cy's not excited? He looks like someone shot his dog (everything intended)."
She lifted a shoulder, looking worse.
"Does he not want the baby?" He sat up quickly.
She dropped to her knees, tears racing down her face as she folded onto herself.
"Bee?!" He tried to get her to open up (figuratively and literally) but she held tight and cried.
"Whatever is wrong, Friends?!" Starfire flew into the common room. "Is someone hurt?!"
"Star, come back in a minute." Changeling tried to get privacy.
"I will not leave until I know for certain what torments my friend."
"It's delicate." He tried again.
Starfire nodded. "I understand."
"Thank you." He blew out a relieved breath.
"Starfire to Nightwing, Cyborg, Raven, Jinx, Kid Flash and Terra. Come to the common room. There is an emergency." Starfire spoke into her commincator.
"Star?!" Both gasped.
"You can speak!" Starfire pushed Bumble Bee's hair back from her wet face.
"You have to call them back!" Bumble Bee panicked. "Tell them you were wrong!"
Starfire's device crackled as each missing team member reported to being on their way.
"Oh no!"
"What is going on?" Starfire demanded.
"Sparky thinks I cheated on him!"
"What?!" Both surrogate almost Kents spat.
"He doesn't think the baby is his." Bumble Bee almost started crying again.
"Marco?" Starfire was blown away.
"No." Bumble Bee put a hand to her flat stomach. "This baby."
Starfire didn't know what to do. On one hand, she was excited Bumble Bee was pregnant again but on the other, could Cyborg really think his true love betrayed him in such a way?
Changeling was completely in the winds.
The remaining Titans burst into the room, prepared to do battle. "What's the threat, Star?" Nightwing demanded.
"You!" Starfire stood up and jabbed a finger at the cybernetic chef. "How dare you?! You are a lornresh knhugh!"
"What?" Cyborg was lost.
"Dude?" Changeling just got his mouth to working.
"What?!"
"How could you?"
"How could I what?!"
"Deny your baby."
Cyborg's face hardened as the others looked between them in total befuddlement. "I don't want to talk about this."
"How can you say she cheated on you? Bee's not like that."
"I thought so. But obviously I was wrong."
Bumble Bee hurt at hearing the pain in his voice.
"Maybe I'm about to pass out from hunger but what's going on?" Kid Flash raised a hand.
"Guess you're going to learn one day." Cyborg refused to make eye contact with his fiancée. "Bumble Bee cheated on me. Now she's pregnant."
The team had wild reactions but they were all based in shock.
Nightwing recovered first. "Will this affect your ability to work as a team?"
"That's all we are is teammates." Cyborg turned away.
Bumble Bee wilted.
"As long as you can still do your job, I have nothing to say about it." Meaning don't ask him to pick a side.
"Fine." Cyborg wasn't at that stage yet. "I have work to do. If there's no real threat, I'm going back to it."
"Cy?!" Changeling stared at his best friend in dumbfounded amazement.
"I gotta go, C."
"Let me come with you."
"Fine. Whatever." Cyborg walked out.
Changeling and Kid Flash followed quickly.
Nightwing left, too after giving Bumble Bee a tortured yet sympathetic look but he wouldn't be following his friends. He was determined to remain impartial.
The girls surrounded Bumble Bee.
"How could you cheat on Tin Man?!" Jinx demanded.
Bumble Bee stared at her, flabbergasted that she'd think that of her.
"Well?!" Jinx tapped her foot.
Bumble Bee dropped her gaze. She was sick of defending herself (having had this fight with Cyborg for weeks) and refused to do it any longer.
"He's a good man and you broke his trust!" Jinx railed. "You know how you are after some harmless flirting so why would you do him like that?!"
Bumble Bee picked up Marco and his blanket and rose to her feet. She walked out.
"How are you just going to ignore me?! You're wrong, Bumble Bee! Wrong!"
"How can you say such things to our friend?!" Starfire glared at Jinx as the doors closed.
"She's always going on about being a good person and she cheated! Just goes to show you don't know some people!" Jinx folded her arms across her chest.
"You have no proof of this accusation and yet you crucify our friend as if she is a criminal! It is unfair and not the least bit friendly!" Starfire burst into tears and ran out.
"She can bury her head in the sand if she wants but the truth is, we were all fooled by her. We're supposed to be her closest friends and she didn't even tell us about it!" That was what hurt Jinx, who thought she was the closest to Bumble Bee. "We could have helped her or something but she kept it to herself and now- now-"
Raven and Terra watched as she ran out in tears. Both looked at each other.
"You don't think this is true, do you?" Terra didn't like this situation at all.
"We should stay out of it either way." Raven hadn't come to a judgement yet.
"But they're all really upset. How are we supposed to live together if we can't get along?"
"Go calm down Jinx. She shouldn't be upset in her condition. I'll take Starfire. Hopefully Marco can calm Bumble Bee."
Terra nodded.
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Cyborg narrowed his eye. "Would you go away?!"
"We're best friends! We talk about stuff like this! And we're going to keep talking until I've talked some sense into you!" Changeling was incensed.
"There is no sense to this!" Cyborg lost his temper. "She cheated on me, man! She's having some other guy's baby! I thought she cared about me but she doesn't."
"Do you really believe that?" Kid Flash didn't understand how any of this could be happening.
"Of course he doesn't!" Changeling snapped. "We would never cheat! We're not capable of doing that to each other!"
"She's the one who says everyone is capable of everything, just change the circumstances." Cyborg wanted to be alone. "Can you guys just go? I got work to do."
"No!"
"Sure." Kid Flash pushed a stiff, stubborn Changeling out.
Changeling fussed the whole time.
"Come on, dude! Chill!" Kid Flash pushed him to the elevator.
"I don't care what he says! He didn't see the look on her face when I told her she was pregnant. She really didn't know."
"Just because she didn't know she was pregnant doesn't mean she didn't cheat." Kid Flash pointed out.
"She didn't. I know she didn't. She was so happy when I told her that she was because that meant he got her pregnant on his own. You can't fake that."
"He's majorly hurting right now. You can't fake that."
Changeling ran his fingers through his jade hair. "I have an idea."
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"Happy Valentine's Day, Mommy." Charlotte told Raven.
"Happy Valentine's Day." Raven pulled Charlotte's dress down.
"Will things still be bad today?"
"What do you mean?" Raven frowned.
"Everybody's sad or mad."
Raven was quiet for a while. "I think it's time for me to start training you to use your empathy."
"Mommy, why is everyone upset?" Charlotte wouldn't be swayed.
Raven sighed. "It's grown up stuff. I don't want you to worry about it. Promise me you won't."
Charlotte nodded, knowing she was telling her first lie. "I won't."
Raven hugged her. "Let's go to breakfast."
The pair left Charlotte's room and went to Sebastian's to pick him up then headed upstairs. As for the past three days, the atmosphere was thick with fraught emotion but no one said anything. Even Christopher was silent.
Raven went back to making heart shaped pancakes (Starfire's request) as the others moved in sync. Changeling, Kid Flash and Terra showed up, still silent.
Breakfast was ready and they sat down to eat. It was wildly uncomfortable and they each ate quickly to be able to leave as soon as possible.
Before they could though, Changeling stood up. "Hey? How about instead of going out today, we all stay in? I rented a couple movies and I thought we could just do a group thing. The kids will love it and-" He faltered before regaining steam. "It'll be good for all of us."
"I agree." Nightwing spoke up when it was dead quiet.
Raven nodded. "It sounds like a good idea."
"Yeah, let's do it." Kid Flash watched his pregnant fiancée.
"Please?" Terra begged.
"Whatever." Jinx sulked.
"Sis?" Changeling leaned on Starfire.
"I will attend." Starfire sniffed.
"Bee?"
Bumble Bee lifted her shoulders without making eye contact with anyone.
"C'mon, Cy."
"Yeah, whatever." Cyborg threw aside his fork. "When are you planning on this thing? I have work to do."
"What work?" Changeling pressed.
"Work work!" Cyborg had found projects to do around the tower to get his mind off things.
"Fine. How about two o'clock?"
"Whatever." Cyborg left.
A sharp cry came from the windows. Both Bumble Bee and Jinx looked.
Kid Flash raced over to the playpen and lifted out his daughter. "It's Tal."
"I can change her." Jinx got up.
"No, I got it. You stay there." He meant talk to Bumble Bee.
And she knew it. But she was honestly too hurt and angry to do so. "Bring her to my room when you're done. I'm going to take a nap while I can."
"Babe,-"
"Bye, Kid Flash." She walked out.
He was stung by her rejection. She usually didn't call him Kid Flash. He jumped when Talah blew on his face. "I remember you. Let's get you changed."
"Do you want to talk about it?" Terra asked when he left.
"I'll be in the gym." Nightwing tried to slip out. "Come on, Chris. We'll see you at training."
"Husband Dick." Starfire frowned.
"Don't forget training!" Nightwing ran with Christopher.
Starfire glared at the closing doors. "I will return with him at once!"
"Star,-" Terra tried but the orange girl was already storming off.
"Do you want to talk about it, Bee?" Changeling asked. "We won't judge you."
"I should go." Bumble Bee got up and set Calvin on his feet. She went to the playpen and lifted Marco out then grabbed Calvin's hand to pull him out.
"Why doesn't she want to talk about it?" Terra didn't get it. "Clear her name?"
"She shouldn't have to!" Changeling was disappointed in his friends. "She wouldn't have done that to him. I just know it."
Terra shrugged. "I'm going to call Garth. I hope he hasn't left yet. I don't think he should come this year."
"What? No. Tell him to come on. We're celebrating together."
Terra (and Raven) looked at him in surprised concern. Changeling usually would have made a joke and agreed that "Fishface" should stay home. He must have been really affected by this.
Terra nodded before getting up and leaving.
"I guess that leaves us to do dishes." Changeling started stacking dishes and went to the sink.
Raven could feel Charlotte staring at her and sighed before turning to her. "Don't worry, okay?"
Charlotte stared back, worried.