"Can you repeat that?"
"Rachel and Raven are not the same persons, thou they are similar, so I would guess a cousin or something like that. Rae always said her looks came from her mother, and we don't…"
"Get on with it."
"Rachel is Logan's mother."
"And Beast Boy is the father?"
Cyborg nodded. Robin had to sit down on the closest bed as he looked at the four DNA streams on the computer. Rachel, Raven, Logan and Beast Boy.
"So Beast Boy is the reason Logan is sick."
"Hello, that's not the issue, Beast Boy, our Beast Boy, is Logan's father."
"I guess we have to talk to him."
"You think?"
Robin looked at him, and Cyborg calmed down. Robin sighed before talking up the communicator.
"Beast Boy."
"…"
"Beast Boy!"
"I'm up. Who? What?"
"Med bay. Now."
"Now?"
"Now."
He closed the communicator, before sighing again.
"I really wish Raven was here now."
"You're not the only one."
It took twenty minutes before Beast Boy was placed in the med bay, finally wakening up.
"Whom have you slept with?"
"What?"
Beast Boy just looked like a question mark. Cyborg was sitting on the chair, not saying a word. Robin was standing a few feet away, looking directly at him.
"How many girls have you had sex with?"
"That's really none of your business."
The hostility between Beast Boy and Robin grew.
"How many"
"One. Raven."
"And you are sure."
Beast Boy got to his feet.
"Yes I'm sure."
"You were pretty lost when Rae vanished B."
Cyborg just looked at his friend.
"You drank a lot, and maybe you slept with someone and don't remember"
"I'm sure. I have only slept with one person in my life, Raven. What is going on?"
Robin and Cyborg looked at one another before Robin sighed.
"You are Logan's father."
"What?"
"You share DNA identical with Logan, proving you are her father."
Beast Boy sat down, clearly confused. Robin and Cyborg feel sorry for him.
"How?"
"As Cy said, you were quite lost after Raven… left. And Rachel does look like her."
"I have not had sex with Rach."
"How can you know? Most afternoons you'd get here and couldn't tell us where you had been or even how you got home. You would go and be away for days. You really think it's not possible you slept with Rachel and don't remember it?"
Beast Boy looked down on the floor, desperately trying to find something, anything, that would seem right. Logical. He cursed himself for not being smarter, and wanted Raven to come back so she could explain things for him. He looked up.
"If I had sex with Rachel, how come she didn't tell us? Or me?"
"Maybe she doesn't know, maybe she honestly believes her boyfriend is the father."
"But if she and I had sex, shouldn't she remember?"
"You don't."
Beast Boy rose.
"Where are you going?"
"I need to think."
They both nodded and didn't try to stop him as he walked out of the room.
He didn't go to his rock.
All of the titans had their own place. A sanctuary they went to when they were upset or angry. Starfire had the mall, Cyborg the garage, Robin the gym and he had his rock. Everyone thought Raven had her room. She didn't.
The door opened and to his surprise walked Raven out on the roof. Again he was struck about how beautiful she looked in the blue dress. She looked up and seemed surprised to find someone there, but not displeased.
"Hiding?"
"Just getting some fresh air. You?"
"These shoes are killing me."
She walked over to the edge and sat down, before bending down and pulling off the high heel shoes.
"I'll kill Starfire for forcing them on me."
"I think you look good in high heels."
"You just like to see me suffer."
He laughed and she sighed as she rubbed her red feet.
"Hey let me that."
"I don't know."
"Come on, your feet won't be the worst thing I've touched today."
"That's what worries me."
She gave him a small smile, and he sat down by her feet and started to rub then. She made a sigh of pleasure. He smiled.
"Besides it's nice to see you taller than me, again."
"Actually I'm just happy you finally surpassed me. I was getting annoyed about how you always measured us against one another. One more inch Rae. Half an inch now Rae. Azar."
They looked at one another, before she just closed her eyes and made another sound of delight.
"Where have you learned that?"
He shrugged as he went a bit higher. Now working with her slightly swollen ankle.
"I'm just a natural I guess."
"No wonder girls throw themselves at you."
He stopped working, but his hands were still holding her foot. She looked down as he looked up.
"Actually, you're my first."
They looked at one another in silence.
"So are you."
He grinned before starting to rub her feet again.
"The only thing missing now is the over cheesy romance song."
He looked at her before starting to sing, loud.
"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore."
"Sorry I said anything."
"When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine, that's amore"
He was suddenly silenced by black energy formed over his mouth.
"If you have to sing, please sing something else."
The energy vanished as he nodded.
"Bells will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling, and you'll sing "Vita bella"."
She rose and pushed him away.
"Oh. You always ruin moments Beast Boy."
"So this was a moment?"
She rolled her eyes as he, with a gleam, jumped to his feet and swiped her of her feet.
"Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy-tay, like a gay tarantella."
"Do you want me to hurt you?"
"Neagh, you'll never hurt me Rae."
She moved her lips close to his ear, pressing her hand against his chest.
"I know you're in love with me."
He placed her down on her feet, but they were still close. He looked down on the ground.
"I should have known you'd figure it out. Everybody else have."
He looked at her with a sad grin on his face.
"How long?"
"I'm empathic. I felt, probably before you did, when you went from loving me, to being in love with me."
Her hand rested on his chest, rising and sinking with it.
"And it was a weird sensation, because it wasn't until I felt your love for me, that I truly realised my own feelings for you."
"Rae, please don't tell me how good a friend I am."
"But you are a good friend. My best."
He sighed. He didn't seem to realise that her hand had company. He looked down, away.
"You're my best friend too Rae, and I don't want ruin things between us. So please just forget what I said."
"You are so dense."
She grabbed his face, forcing him to look at her.
"Look around you."
He did. Hundreds of pebbles, tiny rocks, furniture was flying around them. He looked at her again.
"Love is a very strong feeling Beast Boy. It can make people do amazing things. Strange things. Like someone not allowed to feel, risking it because it feels so good."
It took him a moment to realise what she had said, then he smiled from ear to ear. He swiped her of her feet again. Swinging her around.
"When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fagiole, that's amore. When you dance down the street with a cloud at your feet, you're in love. When you walk down in a dream, but you know you're not, Dreaming signori."
"Oh shut up."
He wiggled his eyebrow up and down.
"Make me."
Suddenly his mouth was covered in black magic. Raven jumped out of his arms, grabbed her shoes before walking inside, quickly followed by a still dumb Beast Boy.
"Here you are."
Beast Boy looked over his shoulder as Starfire came out on the roof. She sat down next to him on the edge, oddly calm to be her.
"We have been doing the looking for you."
"He woke you?"
"It is almost morning."
Beast Boy looked at the sea and to his surprise had the sun gone up without him realising it.
"They told you?"
She nodded. He sighed and pulled his fingers trough his hair.
"I still don't realise how this happened."
"Apparently you can get pregnant without the father knowing here?"
"It's not like that on Tameran?"
She shook her head.
"Having a child is a mutual experience shared between two people."
"You kind of need two people here on earth too, but that doesn't mean you remember it afterwards."
"I would have thought that was something you would remember."
"So did I."
They sat in silence for a while. Listening to the waves was up on the shore fare below them.
"I miss Raven. I miss her so much."
Starfire placed a kind hand on his arm.
"You are not the only one friend Beast Boy."
She got no response, so she moved her hand.
"But you need to talk to friend Rachel."
"Why?"
"Because Logan is your offspring."
Beast Boy looked once more at the sea, before sighing.
"I guess you're right."
He rose.
"And friend Beast Boy, be nice."
"I'm always nice Star."
Starfire didn't smile back.