The sun was up as Gia opened her eyes. She sat up in her bed, yawned and stretched. Her eyes fell on the floor and she was surprised to find it covered with grovel and her window cracked. She fixed the window, pulled on a green sweater and brown trousers before walking out of her semi-clean room. As so often before slithered a song into her head, and with a smile on her lips started she to sing and dance down the hall.

"Gia?"

Gia stopped as she almost danced into Sashi, and she smiled up to her older brother. But something was wrong. Sashi's maternal powers forced him to have control over his feelings, but that didn't mean he didn't have them. He was upset and angry.

"What is it?"

One of Sashi's eyebrows rose as he looked down at her.

"You don't remember?"

"Remember what? Did something happen?"

"Kind of."

He turned and started to walk to the common room and Gia had to run to keep track next to him.

"Sashi, if I did something I'm sorry."

He looked down at the clock around his right wrist and Gia would have sworn he was anxious.

"You better hurry up and get ready for school."

Gia rolled her eyes and smiled as he held the door open for her. She quickly went to the fridge with him strangely close. She bent down and after a few seconds she found the soymilk, she couldn't stand tofu, opened and drank straight from the cart.

"Gia."

"What? You said hurry up."

He looked at his watch again and quickly around as she took a new sip.

"Gia you know you're not supposed to do that."

Gia looked at the people standing a few feet away, and dropped the cart in the floor as Sashi swore under his breath. Gia started at the tiny boy standing next to her father, as the last night's actions suddenly overflowed her memory like a tsunami.

"Gia we need to talk."

"Can't late for school dad."

Without waiting for her to say anything grabbed Sashi her arm and almost ran out there. Gia just barley got a glimt of them before the door closed behind her. Somewhere deep down Gia knew she should protest, but she was still overwhelmed about everything that had happened lately, and by instinct she trusted Sashi. She always had.

Sashi pulled out of the tower and soon they where driving between the high skyscrapers. He parked and was breathing heavily like he had just run. Gia looked at him with her head tilted to one side, still in shook. The entire car was covered in black energy and finally the front window cracked before exploding.

Gia felt something warm run down her chin and turned to the side mirror. A apatich image of her looked back with a long cut right under her left eye.

"Oh Gia, I'm so sorry."

"Why did you pull me out of there?"

Gia looked over at Sashi, who looked desperate at her. She waited, but he said nothing.

"You don't like Adam do you?"

He looked down and a small blush covered his chin.

"No."

Gia couldn't explain why, but that angered her.

"Why? Because he reminds you that I'm not really your sister like Neela?"

He looked up at her and Gia knew he was hurting, but didn't care.

"He isn't your brother Gia."

"If he's not my brother, then neither is you."

Every other window in the car broke into tiny pieces, and to Gia's surprise fell a teardrop down his cheek. Gia didn't think she had seen him cry, ever. But she was still hurt and angry, so to stop her from hurting him more morphed she to a hawk and flew out the broken window.

She flew back to the tower and landed behind her mother meditating, before she morphed back. Her mother just rose and turned.

"Where is he?"

"Downstairs with Star and Bee."

"Aunt Bee's back?"

Her mother nodded before quietly leading her down the stairs. Gia was still shook up after her fight with Sashi, and Raven was wise enough not dig. If Gia needed to talk, she would. They stopped and looked in.

Adam was sitting in the floor with a pile of stones. Starfire was sitting next to him using two stones as puppets while Bee was sitting on the sofa not far from him talking to him and Star. Bee and Cyborg had been married for almost seven years and after six and a half years of trying to get children she was finally now eight and a half months pregnant. It had been regarded as a miracle.

The boy smiled at Starfire and Gia gasped. It was her smile. Gia remembered when she had been younger, before the incident and the trial. When she had been mom. Gia had begged for her to smile. She had done everything in her mind to please her, and when she had smiled Gia's heart jumped over a beat.

Here it was. Her she was. In him. Gia looked down at her hands. Her slim hands inherited by a mother that hated her. In her. Gia looked at the boy again. She had used the last seven years to build a life without her mother. To forget her in every sense, since remembering that she hadn't been enough for her always had pained her.

Gia turned her head away in disgust. From him. From her. Her arms hanging limp down her sides. Only having the energy to stand. Everything going to controlling the ting swirling inside wanting to rip the very ground the tower was standing on apart.

"What is going to happen to him?"

"We have called the police, and since they can't find Terra he will probably go into foster care."

Gia looked at a grey spot on the wall. Her eyes where glued at this spot. Her best friend was in the system, and she knew what she had gone through. What she was going through.

"Did mo, Terra, tell him anything?"

Raven didn't answer, and finally Gia was forced to pry her eyes from that grey spot and look at her.

"What?"

"Apparently Terra told him you would take care of him."

"Me?"

Gia couldn't believe it. What was Terra up to? Gia looked once more at the boy before feeling something inside. Something disgusting. Something overwhelming. Something that made Gia want to throw up. How dared she? Gia was eighteen. She wanted to go to New York and go on the stage. She wanted to date. To sing. To live. So this was her mother's big plan. Turn her into a teenage mother.

"Well call child services."

"Gia."

"What? I won't stop my plans. I won't."

"I never asked that of you."

Gia was shaking.

"I hate her. She almost ruined my life. Why should I help raise her son?"

"Because he's your brother."

Suddenly something was visible out of the corner of her eye. The boy's eyes glowed yellow and the rock he and Starfire had played with rolled slightly on the floor. A few seconds later the yellow was gone and he started to bellow. Starfire and Bumblebee looked desperate at one another as they tried to calm him down.

Gia knew what he was feeling. She had gone seven years with it before Raven helped her take control over her own powers. If he got into the system, who would help him?

"If he stays, how I'm I suppose to not hate him?"

"Because you see something in him. Like I saw something in you."

Gia turned her face to her mother again.

"What?"

"That he isn't Terra."

Gia looked at the boy who was still crying before something changed. She looked at his mouth, his nose. They where hers. She walked over to and bent down.

"Hi Adam."

They boy looked at her with red and glassy eyes. She picked up one of the rocks and with her powers smoothed it. Then made a big A on it. Like her own necklace, with the exception that hers bore a G. One of the few positive things she remembered about her mother.

They boy laughed as he got the stone, and she rose. He looked at her and raised his arms.

"Up. Up."

She picked the boy up and held him tight when she heard a sound from the door. Behind her mother she saw Sashi, who looked at them before he vanished. Gia sighed and buried her face into Adam's hair. Cursing her biological mother for ruining everything.