Chapter 7
Beast Boy watched Raven collapse in slow motion. He lunged out to grab her hand but her fingers went within inches of his as she dropped to the floor. He threw himself down next to her and slid his arm around her shoulders. He lifted her up and put his face against her cheek and almost screamed when he felt how cold she was. He lifted her up and ran with her out into the hall. He pushed the panic button and waited until the others came running.
Robin followed Cyborg and Starfire came as fast as they could. They looked horrified when they saw Raven limp in Beast Boy's arms.
"Dudes! She was screaming at me one minute the next thing I know she's out cold on the floor. I don't know what happened." Beast Boy yelled in a full panic and was almost in tears when he handed Raven off to Cyborg and watched him and Starfire head off to the med-lab as fast as possible.
Beast Boy sunk to the floor and began to cry. It was the second time today that he had caused Raven to get hurt or sick. He was pulled off the floor by Robin and then allowed himself to be steered to the Med-lab. When he and Robin entered the med-lab Robin stopped him and asked him what happened.
"Honestly I don't know. She was screaming at me for kissing Bumble Bee and I mean she completely lost it. I tried to reason with her but for some reason that seemed to set her off even more. For some reason she seemed to think that Bee and I were having an affair behind her back. So she kept on going and going until I couldn't take it any more so I grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her and told her that I loved her and that she should stop being stupid and then she collapsed." Beast Boy had his arms wrapped himself as if trying to keep out the reality of the situation. He looked at the still closed doors and shuddered. Robin ushered him to a chair just inside the doors. All they could do was wait.
Starfire came out a little while later and went straight to Robin and whispered something in his ear. With a nod he got up out of his chair and left the room. Starfire smiled briefly at his retreating back and then turned to Beast boy.
"Friend Beast Boy, it appears that Friend Raven is going to be alright. But Cyborg can not seem to find the cause of the passing out. Her vitals are all normal except something to do with her heart beat. It would appear at times that she has two or that her hear speeds up considerably for a few moments then slows back down again. Cyborg believes that once he finds the source of the problem, we will know why Friend Raven did the passing out. Don't worry she will be alright." She had briefly and gently squeezed his shoulder. With that said Starfire gently floated back to her room. Beast Boy watched her retreating back until it disappeared from view.
He let his head hang down on his chest and pressed his heels of his hands into his eyes. He rubbed them until he saw spots. He turned around and punched a whole in the wall.
"Great, now we have two injured Titans." Robin said sarcastically with a wry smile. Beast Boy looked up at him hopefully. And Robin couldn't help but think of how much Beast boy had changed over the past few months. He was calmer and more reserved; he was the same crazy Beast Boy. But to put it simply, Beast Boy had grown up a lot over the past months. He shook his head and knew it was all due to his relationship with Raven. The same thing had happened to him because of Starfire. According to Cyborg he was less intense, less scary. Shaking himself out of his thoughts, he regarded Beast Boy once more. He was leaning against the wall with his left hand bleeding freely. He looked like he was ready to die.
"Beast Boy, go get some sleep. Cyborg is still running tests and he probably won't be done until much later. So go bandage your hand and get some sleep." With that said Robin went back to his room to sleep in the arms of the woman he loved.
Cyborg kept running and running tests over and over again, there was no apparent reason for her to pass out the way she did. Finally Cyborg did the thing he had been dreading. He reached into the drawer and pulled out a syringe. He went over to Raven and gently drew more blood. He put the blood in the machine and watched as it charted all of her proteins and hormones. When it was finally done he noticed that one of her proteins was through the roof. He ran it through the database and was shocked when he found out what it was.
"No! It can't be….Raven pregnant. Its just not possible." He said as he rubbed a metal hand over the skin part of his head. Looking at Raven he couldn't believe that she was pregnant. He was going to kill Beast Boy. With that thought he got up and left the room with a last glance in Raven's bed before he shut the door.
Beast Boy sat in his room wrapping gauze around of his hand. It was the first time he had been in his room in over three months. Everything was up off the floor and put away. When they had cleaned it Raven had found a hamper underneath the mess. He smiled and looked around the room. They had spent an entire Saturday cleaning this room together and it had honestly been fun. Beast Boy lay down on the bottom bunk and let himself remember. He thought about their first date and how he had surprised her. It has been amazing. But he wouldn't have had been able to do it without the other titans. He was just about to drift off into sleep when Cyborg kicked the door open and stormed in. Beast Boy jumped up and was immediately startled by the look on Cyborg's face. He had never seen Cyborg so mad in all of his time they had friends.
"Dude is everything alright?" Beast Boy asked carefully.
"How could you be so stupid and irresponsible?" Cyborg screamed as he turned towards Beast Boy. Beast Boy just stood there having no clue whatsoever as to what Cyborg was screaming about.
"Cyborg, what's wrong did you find out what's wrong with Raven? Did I poison her with my soy milk?" Beast Boy asked lamely as he watched Cyborg start pacing the floor and clenching and unclenching his fists.
"Man, don't play stupid with me Beast Boy! I know you know exactly what I'm talking about. What I don't get is how you could be so stupid. I mean of all the stupid things you've ever done this has got to be top of the list………." Cyborg kept going to but Beast Boy couldn't hear him he was trying to figure out why Cyborg was flipping out so badly over so spoiled soy milk. He sat down on the edge of his bunk and waited for Cyborg to finish. That was the one thing he had learned last night. You never interrupt someone on a raging, ranting, tirade. Otherwise they would just get started on an even worse one. He waited it out and eventually Cyborg just stopped in front of him with his head hanging and his mechanical arm rubbing the still flesh part of his neck.
"Man just tell me one thing." Cyborg asked in a tired voice.
"What? I'll tell you anything, just please for the of tofu stop screaming and breaking my stuff."
"Why didn't you use protection?" Cyborg asked as he rubbed both of his eyes.
"Dude what the hell are you talking about? Because I sure as hell have no idea what as to what you're trying to get at." But this seemed to send Cyborg over the edge. He ran over to where Beast Boy pulled him off the bunk and held him by the front of the uniform, and then lifted him about a foot off the ground floor.
"I know Raven's pregnant. That's why she passed out, due to an imbalance of hormones. Her body isn't handling the pregnancy well. It could be dangerous for her. Why didn't you tell us as soon as you found out?" Cyborg gently let the front of Beast Boy's uniform go and he fell to the floor with a soft thump.
Beast Boy looked up at Cyborg all the blood drained out of his face and stared at Cyborg as if trying to see if he was telling the truth. Finally Beast Boy managed to croak.
"What do you mean pregnant?"
A/N: I know I'm a complete bum for not updating in so long but what can you do? Especially as a first semester college freshman? Update more often I guess.
