(Sequel to Ardor)

Raven and Beast Boy have been married for seven years, they have a five-year-old daughter and a two-year-old son. But will everything fall apart when someone from their past comes to find the boy she loves? Why did Starfire leave Robin behind? And how do teenage demons decide who the good guys really are?

(Robin/Nightwing) Richard/Dick Grayson, (Starfire) Starfire/Koriand'r/Kory Anders, (Beast Boy) Garfield Logan, (Cyborg) Victor Stone, (Raven) Raven Roth.

"Calm down Ally! No! Ow!" Gar complained as he held his crying daughter. "Raven! Raven I need you! Now would be best!"

"What?" she entered the room holding her son.

"Ally is acting like the sky is falling! I need help!"

"Here, take Robin," she handed the little boy to her husband and picked up the tiny girl. "Come here baby girl," she cradled the child until she stopped crying.

"I can't wait for the others to get here, did you talk to Kory yet?"

"Yes, she said she's coming, I'm so glad their all going to meet the kids, hear that Ally? You get to meet the Titans," the little girl stopped crying and looked up.

"Really? I really get to meet 'em!"

"Of course you do! We wouldn't let you spend your whole life without knowing them would we?" Raven smiled, satisfied with her work and walked out of the room.

"Wait! Wait Raven he's waking up!"

"So tell him a story, and not a story about fighting evil zombies, okay," Raven yelled through the closed door.

"Uh...hey Ally, know any stories?"

"Daddy, you'd be helpless without us women in the house," Ally shook her head as if disapproving but with a huge smile on her face. "Hey daddy, is it true that you and mommy named Robin after the Robin? The one you guys fought with?"

"Yes, it is," he carried his son to the counter and set him down.

"Wow! And do I really get to meet 'em?"

"Yes, you do."

"Wow! Bye Daddy!" Her smile never faded as she ran from the room.

"What did you do?" asked Raven entering the room.

"Just told her she would get to meet Dick--"

"You did?" asked Raven with a frightened look upon her face.

"Well, I said Robin, but he's not really Robin anymore..."

"Well Gar, I think your doing a pretty good job of keeping these two kids happy," she smiled and kissed his cheek.

"Why thank you, thank you very much."

"Mommy?" Robin stirred and woke up. "Mommy?"

"Hey kid, you awake?" Raven picked him up and held him in her arms.

"I wanna meet! I wanna! I wanna!" he pouted.

"And you will, just not 'til tomorrow, now it's time for sleep," she carried him out of the room toward his cradle.

"I'll put this stuff away," Gar announced as his wife and son left the room.

The next day Raven sat with her husband and her children.

"Hey Raven?" Gar suddenly spoke. "When are they getting here?"

"In about four seconds," Raven smiled as she watched the window

Raven stood and opened the door for her friends.

"Well hello Raven, and is that BB over there? I cannot believe it!" Cyborg entered first and sat beside his ex-teammate.

"Hey Cy, wanna meet the kids?" Gar held up Robin and introduced him, "This little one is Robin, and that little princess is Ally," he pointed at his daughter.

"Robin? He's named after Robin?" Cyborg exclaimed.

"Yep," Gar said happily. "Raven mainly named 'em, but I suggested it. She made the final decision," he added in a whisper.

"Raven, it's so good to see you again!" said Richard hugging her.

"You too, and Starfire! I can't believe you went to Tamaran! I've missed you so much!" she added hugging the alien.

"I have missed you also, did I not tell you that I would return after a short visit to my home?"

"Well you did, but I expected you to come back sooner!"

"So this is the little me?" asked Dick as he stepped forward to the tiny boy.

"Hi! I be like you! I do! I do!" he cried.

"And this is Ally," said Gar as he pointed to his daughter.

"She has your eyes," Vic commented.

"But she has Raven's smile," Dick added.

"Thank you!" Ally cooed.

"So your not married to anyone but Dick?" Raven asked in a confused tone.

"Only Richard, yes," Koriand'r answered happily. "I feel no affection for anyone else."

"And you don't have kids..." Raven sighed.

"No children."

"That's so sad..." Raven again sighed.

"Your children are so cute! They remind me of...me!"

"Thanks Starfire, oh and call everyone by their super hero names around the kids, I don't want them to go around telling everyone who you guys are," Raven added in a whisper.

"How long have you been married now?" asked Vic.

"Seven long years," Gar smiled.

"Seven happy years!" Raven corrected as she sat on the back of the chair.

"You know, it's weird to see you out of uniform Raven," Dick noticed looking around. Everyone else was wearing their super hero clothes. (No duh about Cyborg.)

"You look different without your Robin clothes on, Nightwing," she teased him.

"Maybe we should go change," suggested Gar.

Raven laughed when Cyborg scowled at the changeling.

"You know, when Kory left, I thought she wasn't coming back," Dick later admitted to Garfield and Victor as Raven and Kory prepared dinner in the kitchen. "It really depressed me..."

"She would never leave you Dick, you know that," Gar said with great emotion.

"Yeah but...three years? It was just so weird..."

"C'mon man, you know she loves you," Victor added.

"Yeah but...we've been married for five years now and...well...we don't even have kids!"

"It's okay to feel like that, me and Rae didn't have kids for two years, we both went to college then got married, then two years later came Ally," he sighed with a smile.

"But it's been five years! Not two! Five!"

"Well she was gone for three of those years you know--"

"Yeah, but doing what? When she came back I wasn't even home! I was with Bruce talking to him about it. Of course that's where she came second, but it was so weird to have her just turn up like that! No warning or anything!"

"Have you talked to her about this?" asked Gar.

"Well...No...I just don't wanna know about Tamaran...the last time we were there her sister tried to kill her! It wasn't all that fun!"

In the kitchen Raven and Kory prepared dinner for everyone.

"He just doesn't want to know why I was there! Every time I bring it up he throws a fit in his head and silently leaves the room! I don't know why he won't let me tell him what happened..." Kory sighed.

"Maybe he's afraid of it, maybe he doesn't want to know but deep inside he's yearning to find out, ever think of it that way?"

"No...I just thought he was...oh I don't know..."

The boys all sat casually on the chairs and couch.

"She seems to always want to tell me what happened but... I just don't wanna know...I don't wanna hear about how much she loves it there! I want her to always be here! Always!"

"Man come on! She is with you! And no matter how many miles or light years or whatever away, she'll always love you! You really should just hear her out you know, give her a chance," Vic tried to convince him.

"I know but...It just isn't--I just--It just--Oh I can't think of anything to say!"

"Dude, come on, lets go help our wives with dinner, oh yeah Cy, when is that project your working on gonna be finished?"

"Soon Gar, we just have a few more things to add to it," Vic stood up and followed Dick out of the room.

About an hour later Raven called her children, "Come on in kids, dinner's ready," she said opening their door.

"We get to eat with the Titans?" Ally asked amazed.

"Of course you do Al. We're not gonna leave you two in there all alone!"

"Wow! Thanks mommy!" they jumped up and Ally pulled Robin into her arms. "Let's go Rob!"

"Hey kids!" Vic scooped them into his arms.

"Hi!" the baby Robin cried in a loud voice.

"Sit down you three," Raven laughed.

"So, how old are you?" Dick asked Robin, and Ally.

"I'm five and Robin is two," Ally said happily.

"Not you! Me!" cried Robin.

"He likes to talk," Gar smiled.

"I like!"

"Yes you do!" Raven tickled his stomach and served him some mashed potatoes. "Gar, can you hand me a spoon?"

"Sure," he turned into an octopus and grabbed one with his long arm.

"Thank you," she took it from his tentacle with a grimace.

After dinner Raven told everyone where they would sleep. "Good night," she said as she tucked her children in.

"I love you Mommy," Ally yawned.

"I love!" Robin tried to echo.

"I love you too," she kissed their heads and left the room.

"You know, I think their very happy to have met you lot," Gar yawned as he left the room.

"Night Gar," Vic said as he too left the room.

After everyone else went to bed, Richard Grayson sat down with his wife and finally asked her, "Okay...what happened on Tamaran?"

"Nothing really...It was simply a visit but...well I guess I can't say nothing...there was a war and I got sucked into it--"

"A war! Who with? Why didn't you tell me before! I can't believe this Kory!"

"I tried! But you never listen! I just don't see why your mad that I tried!" her eyes filled with tears and she buried her face in her hands.

"Kory...I'm sorry...I just...never really wanted to know," he pulled her into his lap and rubbed her head.

"I almost died Dick! I was trapped inside the ground! They threw me into the ground as a prison! I couldn't breath..." her words were short and raspy through her tears.

"Kory...it's okay now! Your safe here with me! Your safe..."

The next morning Raven woke up early and checked on her children. When she saw they were safely asleep she closed the door and began making breakfast.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" All of the food began to float around the room.

"Raven?" Koriand'r slipped into the room.

"Good morning Kory, what brings you up so early?"

"I could not sleep...Dick and I spoke about my visit to Tamaran and he felt so bad...he wants to take me out for dinner tonight, then he's got a whole plan of what he is going to do, but he won't tell me what it is," she smiled.

"Sounds romantic," Raven teased.

"I am hoping so!" Kory giggled.

"Good morning," said Victor as he entered the room. "I thought I heard voices," he yawned and stretched.

"Morning Victor," Raven said brushing past him to close the door.

"Why are you shutting me in?"

"I don't want the kids to know your real names, please keep it down," Raven said returning to her cooking.

"Okay, hey d'you have a computer I can mess with?"

"There's an old busted one in the closet," Raven pointed at a small door.

"Cool!" Vic pulled it out and started taking off the plastic.

"Please don't make a mess," Raven said wiping the counter.

"I won't! By the way did you see a--"

"Pizza with eyeballs?" asked Garfield walking in.

"Ha ha, no a red eye, I lost it last night and was wondering where it went."

"You lost the whole thing?" asked Gar.

"No, just the red cover," Vic looked around and pointed at his mechanical eye.

"Oo, that would suck," Garfield flinched.

"Yeah, it does."

"Is Dick awake yet Kory?"

"Yes Raven, he was talking to Bruce when I left the room," she sighed and looked out the window.

"Daydream," Victor whispered to Gar.

"Mommy?" Ally slipped into the room.

"Oh! I didn't know you were awake sweetie, good morning," Raven walked quickly to her daughter and kissed her forehead. "Breakfast is almost ready."

"Okay, I'll wake up Robin," and she ran out of the room.

"Everybody call people by their old names," Raven sighed returning once again to her cooking.

"Can we call Dick Nightwing now?"

"Of course Vic, but the kids won't know who that is," Gar smiled.

"Oh, then I guess we'll stick to Robin."

"Fine by me," said Dick walking into the room.

"Morning Dick, did you sleep well?" Raven asked setting out the plates.

"Yeah, thanks for asking," he kissed Kory and sat down.

"This looks great," said Gar looking in the pans.

"Shoo! It's not done yet!" Kory's eyes glowed green for a slight second, then she smiled as if it was just a joke. Garfield returned to the table quickly.

Later that day the adults all sat together talking about random subjects; old villains, old friends, and the Tower.

"I really miss Bumblebee, she was always so much fun to be around, but now she's in Africa on that expedition..." Cyborg's voice trailed off. He and Bumblebee had been engaged, the only problem was she was usually traveling and they had to break it off.

"It's okay dude, she'll be back in a few months, everything'll be fine, you just wait," Gar comforted.

After everyone left, Raven and Garfield spent some time with their kids and told them about the adventures they had all been on together, "...And I saved him from falling into a huge canyon," Raven finished.

"Wow! Your a superhero Mommy! A real one..." Ally was just as excited as she had been the first time she'd said those words.

"You've known for years silly," Gar smiled.

"But it's still amazing..."

"Amaze!" Robin piped up, not wanting to be forgotten.

At about six o' clock the doorbell rang. Raven stood with Robin still in her arms and walked to the door. She opened it and froze. "Terra?"

plz. rev.