A BIT OF WARNING, IT'S NOT RATED 'M' JUST FOR THE LEMONS, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S ANYTHING TOO UNBEARABLE, JUST A WOMAN GIVING LABOR.

"Are you feeling okay, Raven?" Starfire asked. Raven ignored her, continuing her chant.

"Star, I told you not to break her meditation until she is done." Garfield said quietly to her as he was putting on sheets on the floor and around the bed.

He had changed into a short sleeve, black T-shirt with gray sweat pants on, so that way he wouldn't ruin his uniform. He had some scrubs ready when it was time. He already started to boil some water for cleaning the baby afterward, but if the labor persisted on for a while, the boiling water would become a part of Raven's tea.

"But she has been meditating for a while now." Starfire said.

"And she is going to be meditating for a lot longer. She is in labor." Garfield said quietly. He took Starfire by the side. He wasn't quite sure Starfire knew exactly what she gotten herself into. "Has Raven told you what is exactly going to happen here?"

"Yes." She said timidly. For her, this was such a strange event, and she wanted to do everything perfectly, but she knew that she wasn't. Garfield saw Starfire's sad expression. "I have read books."

"This is going to be a little different then looking at pictures. Look," Garfield said, trying to find a job for Starfire to do. He was trying to prepare a room for a woman about to give birth to his daughter, and Starfire just slowed him down. "Just sit by Raven's side, and-and tell me when she is done meditating. That is your job for now."

"How will I know she is done?" Starfire asked.

"You'll know." He said, as he was already walking away.

He promised Raven she wouldn't regret this, and that promise was wearing him down. He felt like he had the weight of the world on his shoulders, and nobody else, besides him alone, could handle it. Maybe it was because he was just trying to prove something to Raven, or to the team.

Or just himself.

It had been hours since Starfire was ordered to sit by Raven's side, and she had done so, quietly, while attending to little hobbies such as reading Raven's books and learning to knit. Garfield spent the time cleaning up the room, setting up the crib beside their bed, and occasionally catching a glimpse of Raven's belly. He wanted to wait until now to set up the crib, just to give him something to do because he knew he was going to be waiting hours on end.

"Azarath, mentrion….zin…..thos….." Raven said, as her mantra was becoming harder to say with each breath. She became more interested in her breathing, then her calming words. She lowered herself down as the pain became more intense. She grunted.

"Raven?" Starfire said as she put down her knitting. "Beast Boy!"

"No, no, no, it's fine." Raven said, as she held onto her stomach as the pain dug deeper into her abdomen, but she was not reassuring anyone. Garfield rushed to her side. "Ga-Garfield, it's fine."

"Those contractions are becoming closer together." He said.

"Oh, look who's been reading the books now." Raven said, with the hint of pain in her voice. "It-it may seem like it's almost over, but-but it's not." The pain went away; she went back to hovering above the bed, trying to get comfortable again. "It's just one contraction. Many will come. Azarath…..mentrion….zinthos….."

Starfire and Garfield looked at each other with concern, and then went back to their business.

There really was only four or five more contractions that made Raven stop dead in her tracks, but the others were a little easier to endure. Although there were times when she was able to maintain a cool composure, some contractions were harder to deal with.

"AZARATH!" Raven cried out a few hours later. She kneeled over from her lotus position, as if she was begging some unknown force to relieve her of her pain.

"Raven its okay, this too shall pass. Just like you said." Starfire said as she patted Raven's back.

"Oh, shut up." She muttered. Her cool demeanor was being challenged by this baby, and the pain it brought. "By the will of Azar, deliver this child." She muttered to herself quietly. She was not one to call upon her childhood religion, except in a time of need. Another contraction came. "Oh, AZARATH!" She shouted through the pillows that put over her mouth.

"It is okay, Raven." Garfield whispered. He mimicked her position and kneeled down beside her. "It's almost over. Just breathe." She kept inhaling and exhaling deeply, with occasionally trembling to the pain. "Just focus on me."

She stared at him while they both inhaled and exhaled together at the same time. The pain started to go away, but it was still there, and it still burned.

"Come on, Rae, just breath with me." He said calmly, trying to make her calm, even though he was probably more scared then she was.

The room fell silent as the only sound was the two of them breathing in and out, as Satrfire was on one side of the bed, trying not to interfere. At first she thought she was going to be the one to control this situation, but then she began to see Raven in pain, and she couldn't take the sight of it. Fortunately, Garfield was prepared to take this position long before Star was even considering it, even if he needed some reassurance from Rae a month before time.

It was now eleven o'clock at night, and Robin was having difficulty sleeping. He kept tossing and turning as the sound of Raven's voice was keeping him up. Their rooms were soundproof, but Robin could just imagine what Rae's screams sounded like, as Starfire was still not back. But really, he just couldn't sleep knowing that their child was about to be born, and he didn't trust it. Cyborg played on the Gamestation, not wanting to go to bed yet. Occasionally he would see some black energy floating around to catch objects, but they would disaapear as quickly as they formed. He figured it was all part of the process and didn't question their existance. By one o'clock, he went to bed.

Starfire took a short nap on the floor when Raven fell asleep near midnight, but she was up again three hours later to find a sleeping Garfield cuddling up behind Raven on their bed.

That could be Robin and me, she thought to herself as she stared at the two of them.

Raven began moaning around four o'clock, waking up from the pain. She pushed Garfield to the side as she tried to get up.

"Rae?" Garfield said as he was pushed over to the other side. "Rae, come back to bed." He said, forgetting for a second that his wife was in labor.

"Oh, shut up." She muttered as she stumbled onto the floor. She moaned again as the contractions were getting more painful. Garfield remembered that she was in labor, and rushed to her side, up beside the bed, with Starfire following.

"Don't worry, it will pass." Garfield said being half-asleep, again playing the role of the supporting husband and father. Raven sat up on the floor, her sweating face looked over to Garfield, as her hair got caught in her face.

"It's not going to fucking pass," She said trying to remain calm. Again, she was not one to throw cussing words around, except only when it was necessary. She grabbed the collar of his shirt and pulled it over to her. "She's coming, Daddy." She said, grumbling between her words.

"Oh, she's just coming." Garfield mumbled as he yawned. "She's coming. She's coming!" He shouted as he realized what she meant.

Raven pushed her back up against the side of the bed as she squat down. She tried chanting her mantra, but it kept getting interrupted by the pain of the baby moving down. She gripped the side of the mattress, trying to scream out her mantra.

Garfield put his arms around Raven's shoulders, trying to comfort her, occasionally holding her hands, but she would grip so tight sometimes he had to let go.

Starfire was already getting the towels ready, staring between Raven's legs, getting ready to help a friend.

"If I'm not mistaken, you're ready to push." Starfire said, a little frighten of what to expect next.

"Azarath, mentrion, ZINTHOS…" Raven shouted as she began pushing with her stomach muscles. A few more pushes later, Starfire could see the head coming. "Azarath, mentrion, ZINTHOS…." She shouted again as she pushed.

Garfield still was at her side, holding onto her shoulders. With each push she made, he gave her pecks on the cheeks as a form of comfort. She tried to remain calm between each push, but the mixture of pain, sweat, dirty bodily fluids, the dehydration in her voice, and the annoying sounds she could hear was making this not the most ideal experience she had ever enjoyed. It still beat a day in her father's hellhole. Garfield began to hold onto her tighter, as he was afraid something might go wrong at the current moment.

"Azarath, mentrion, ZINTHOS…." She shouted. The pain and sweat was becoming too much for her. "I can't….I can't….." She whispered as she was losing energy from the pain, breathing heavily.

"Yes, you can." Garfield whispered in her ear. With his one hand in hers, he began squeezing tighter, and hugging her shoulder with his other. He tried to make her steady her breathing by repeating her mantra back to her. "Azarath, mentrion, zinthos, come on…" He whispered.

"But…I can't…Beast Boy…." She whispered, trying to steady her breath. "I'm going…to be the….only woman….in history…of having her child….stuck during its labor….and it growing…throughout her life…never coming out….." She said as she rested her head on his shoulder.

"At least you'll be remembered in a positive light." He said, trying to crack a joke, but she wasn't laughing. A few minutes passed by. "Are you ready to try again?" He asked, she hesitantly nodded.

"Azarath, mentrion, ZINTHOS…." She shouted, as she used all her energy to push. He gave her another peck on the cheek as he slowly began to cry. This time she could feel the baby passing through.

"That's it, Raven! That's it! She's here!" Starfire exclaim with joy as she grabbed the pale being from Raven's body. She wrapped layers of towels around the little creature, as Garfield dabbed off the sweat from Raven's face with a small cloth.

"Azarath, mentrion….." Raven whispered as she passed out in Garfield's arms from exhaustion. He kept dabbing her face with the small cloth and hoping that any minute she would awake from her comatose state. He tried to get her stringy hair out of her face, as she made groaning noises.

"It's okay, it's okay." He said in a soothing voice. He started to rock her body back and forth.

Starfire cut the umbilical cord as the baby cried out. Raven slowly awoke from the noise but when Starfire handed her the baby, she didn't take her. She looked up at Garfield, not wanting to tell the truth to Starfire.

"Raven is tired now, I'll take her." He said as Raven slowly dragged herself to bed. Starfire handed him the now cleaned pale, gray skin creature. "She just looks like her mom." He said as the baby opened her eyes. They were gray, for her eye color was still developing. "Oh, she has gray eyes, that'll probably clear up in a week, but she has my nose…oh and my mother's lips. Shh, it's okay little one." He whispered while rocking her as he sat on the bed.

The child was crying out for her mother, but Raven wasn't ready to hold her, not even ready to look at her. She tried to fall asleep, with Garfield noticing this and taking the baby outside in the hallway. Raven then went into a deep sleep.

"But I don't understand." Starfire said, two days later. All the team, besides Raven, was lounging in the living room, just looking at the new member of the team. "Why hasn't Raven held her yet?"

"She's tired." Garfield lied.

The Tower was a mess the day after Raven gave birth, so much so, that Garfield spent the whole day cleaning up, with Cyborg occasionally helping. Starfire could sense that something was not quite right with Raven; she was the one doing all the baby chores, while mommy spent the day sleeping or meditating, without even glancing at the baby.

"I thought she was ready." Starfire said, not believing Garfield's story. Garfield looked over to where Robin was sitting in the kitchen. Robin kept his distance from the baby, not wanting to be near her.

"I'll tell you later." Garfield said, not wanting to speak about the subject in front of Robin.

The little creature was wrapped around Cyborg's arms, as she fell asleep. By this point, it was noticeable that she was growing dark violet hair around her scalp. It was almost black even, just with a violet shine.

"Who's your god-father? I am?" Cyborg said in a cutesy voice, wanting to press thos chubby cheeks, but then he realized the others were watching him. "Hmm, so BB, what is Rae going to name her?" He said back to his normal voice, trying to change the subject.

"She said I could name her." Garfield said, looking over her. "I decided on Lydia."

"Where did you come up with that name? That's just so normal. At least compare to 'Garfield'." Cyborg said, rocking Lydia. She was unnaturally too quiet for a newborn.

"Well, I first saw that name in a book that Raven made me read—"

"—You read a book?—" Cyborg interrupted.

"—Called Pride and Prejudice—"

"—You read an old book?—"

"—Anyway," Garfield said ignoring Cyborg. "I really liked the youngest sister in the book, Lydia, because she was a big flirt, and she reminded me of myself when I was younger—" Cyborg began to laugh. "What?" Garfield asked as if he was insulted.

"You were not a flirt, you were an idiot." Cyborg said as he laughed. Lydia woke up and began to cry from all the noise. "Oh great." He said as he tried to rock her back to sleep.

"Hey, I landed the girl, did I not?" Garfield said, pointing to the hallway doors. By now Lydia just was whimpering. "I also just like the way the name 'Lydia' sounds, Lovely Little Lydia…." He said as Cyborg began laughing again. "What now?" Cyborg was giving Garfield the same look he gave him when he knew that Garfield was in love with Raven, even before Garfield knew it.

"You are really into this whole Dad thing?" Cyborg said. Lydia started to whimper more loudly; Cyborg couldn't take it anymore. "Oh, she's calling you, Daddy." He handed her to Garfield.

Her cries were becoming louder, and with that Robin walked to the hallway to go to his room. He would have to get used to these scenarios. Starfire was a little annoyed by him walking away, but for the time being she was too busy being happy for Garfield.

"What's wrong, why won't you sleep?" He asked himself while her crying became louder.

"I'll take her." Starfire said, taking the opportunity. He didn't say anything, but gave her Lydia nonetheless, since he was tired. Lydia quieted down a bit before Starfire decided to change her diaper. "There you go, all you needed was a women's touch."

Raven had quietly walked into the room after Robin had left, and stood there in bewilderment as to what she was seeing and what she was hearing from Starfire. She wanted to go out there and take Lydia away from Starfire, fearing that Starfire forgot exactly who the one in labor was, but she didn't.

Her mother had warned her about giving the child a strict upbringing, and this meant Raven had to be cautious around the child, which meant not touching. Her own mother barely held Raven when she was a child, but both Lydia and Raven shared the same genes, surely they could co-exist peacefully, unlike her mother did? Or could they destroy the world together?

However, for the time being, she had to trust her mother's advice, and keep her distance from her own child. Half of it was because her mother told her too, the other half was because she was unsure if she was ready to take care of Lydia.

She still wore her maternity clothes, wearing her long, purple, muslin dress, in a scooped up neckline.

"So, you decided on Lydia then?" Raven said that night, as Garfield was preparing Lydia for bed. "That's interesting, since in the book it was the result of Lydia's actions that drove Elizabeth and Darcy together." Raven was on the other side of the room, trying to keep her distance.

"Rae, how long are you going to avoid touching her? I know what you told me—"

"My mother said it could be very dangerous if she gets used to my touch so fast. She needs to learn how to meditate first before I can touch her. Otherwise her—"

"I don't want to argue. Just tell me how long will it be?"

"I don't know; maybe a month, maybe a year, maybe her whole life…" She said, trying to not look so down. She turned towards Garfield. "We can talk about that later; right now let's just follow my mother's advice, since she is a newborn; after all she knows best."

"But you said it yourself that she didn't give the unconditional love that you wanted, how can I trust that this won't screw up your relationship with Lydia?" He asked.

"Because," She said, without any particular answer. "Just because I said so. I'll figure something out, a loophole maybe, but for now let's just do what she says is best." She said. After a few minutes while he was attending to Lydia's needs, Raven thought about a new subject to talk about. "I've been thinking; thinking about what her middle name could be, since you decided on the first. I thought maybe her middle name could be…Tierra."

"Tierra, you mean like the crown?" He said looking back at her, but she shook her head, staring deep into his eyes. "Rae, you don't mean?" Realizing what the name really was supposed to mean, with her nodding her head. "I know I made a big deal about you respecting her, but you don't have to put her name in just for my happiness…"

"No, it's not about you, well maybe a little." Raven said, staring at him as he was trying to rock Lydia to sleep. "Without her in my head that day, Lydia wouldn't be here. Whether I hate to admit it or not, whether it is me swallowing my pride or actually forgiving her, after everything she has done to me, I owe her Lydia, at least. And if there are days I don't want to be reminded, I can always pretend it's the name for a crown. Because Lydia is a princess."

As soon as Lydia fell asleep in his arms, he gently put her in the crib, with Raven moving closer to him. She stared into the light purple crib with white blankets covering her. He held onto Raven's arm, as he kissed her on her cheek, with tears dripping down his face.

"Thank you, Rae." He said.

"For what? Why are you getting so emotional?" She said, wiping a tear away from his eyes.

"For-for everything." He said, a bit surprised at her respond. "Not only have you given m-me a child, but a-a daughter nonetheless. A son would have never been the s-same as a daughter. She has the soul of my lost sister. She has your looks, and now she has name in honor of Terra." He said trying to calm down. "I promise you that you won't regret this, and you still won't, even with your mother's…..advice. You will one day hold her, when you're ready. And I am fully prepared to teach her all about Azarath and Africa."

"I don't know if you should tell her about Africa—"

"I'll start with the positives, like the culture, the art, and the nature. We can't have her feeling sad just yet." He said, and then he began to think. "Why hasn't anything happened yet, anyway? From the way you describe it, Lydia would destroy the world with her cries?"

"Just like with talking, walking, and basic understanding of the world, her body is learning and her body is too weak to form powers right now. She is still just a baby. Her powers are developing as we speak. Right now, she is just a quiet baby, but one day she will explode with emotions, and with that, her powers." Raven explained. "The thing is she is only one quarter, so I don't know when her powers could be triggered. I don't even know if she could be powerful, or uncontrollable. There is a thin line between the two."

"I know you have been reading a lot on those books. Sooner or later you'll find something." He said, trying to comfort her. "But if she can't 'harm' anything yet with her unknown powers, why can't you just hold her?"

"I told you, my mother said that—"

"You're not under her roof, Rae; you are a grown woman with a daughter of her own." Garfield reminded her, starting to become angry with her flimsy excuses, at least flimsy to him. "Rae?"

"Just trust me, please." She said, staring into his eyes. "Let's not experiment with her powers just for my sake. She possibly could trigger her powers if I do hold her."

"I appreciate your mother's advice, but still…" He looked over the sleeping baby, while holding onto Raven.

"It's a strict life, but I'm used to it." She said; he did not envy her.

Two weeks passed by, and Raven still didn't think she was ready to hold Lydia. Her gray eyes developed into a dark green color. Garfield had a diseased that was cure by medicine which made him green, but the only green thing she had inherit was his green eyes. Her pale gray skin seem to clear up each day until one day it was a nice pale peach color. Raven was proud at first that Lydia had the same skin color as her mother, but now she realized that it was only temporary, and that Lydia would have a fair, peachy skin complexion.

She had to remember about genetics; Garfield himself was one time Caucasian before he was transformed into his green state, and her mother was too. After that, she became proud that Lydia wasn't able to retain her gray complexion, for it showed Raven that she was more human then Demonic.

She also had to remember that pride was a fault, and a fault could destroy her. Just like how she noticed that Robin's fault was that he was jealous and not trusting. And that fault was slowly eating him up inside each day Lydia was living and breathing.

Lydia was an all around a normal baby. Well, almost normal. She would do the normal things babies would do, she just was very quiet at times, and that became unsettling to Raven.

The group did medical tests on Lydia to see if anything was wrong, but they didn't find anything out of the ordinary.

"Would this have anything with her being one quarter Demon? Because I wasn't a quiet baby." Garfield asked one day as he was putting Lydia down for a nap, while Raven watched from a far.

"I don't know because I wasn't quiet as a baby myself. In fact I cried too much. But that could be because Trigon was trying to get inside my head." Raven said.

"Do you think," Garfield said hesitantly. "That this could be a human problem? Like an early sign of Autism?" A book full of black energy went full speed towards Garfield, luckily he ducked in time.

"I'm sorry." Raven said, trying to refocus herself. "It's just the stress. I am already worried about the future for her; I can't have her now have some other problem. I tried so hard during the pregnancy to do the best I could, so I could avoid something like Autism. I don't know if it can be avoidable in the womb, but I thought that maybe—"

"It's okay," He said, as he went over to embrace her. He kissed her on both cheeks, as he made his way toward her lips. After a few seconds, he finally broke. "You know what? This has been a stressful time. You're no longer pregnant, and Starfire for the longest time has wanted to babysit. So, why don't we do something tonight that doesn't involved Lydia?"

"But there's nothing I would want to do, rather to meditate or drink some tea…"

"Let's do that too! Let's just get out of this Tower for the time being. We can sit at a fancy restaurant and just stare at each other for all I care. We need to just leave."

"We can't, we now have responsibilities—"

"Rae, I'm telling you, if you don't take it easy, you could get really emotional. I've read about women who get depress after they just had a baby. Star can take care of her, while I take care of you—"

"I'm not a helpless puppy…." Raven said coldly.

"Oh, please don't start with your feminism rants again. What I mean is that, we could take care of each other. Come on; let's just get out of here." He said, she nodded, but she was reluctant to leave Lydia alone. Not because she was afraid Starfire couldn't take care of her, she knew Star could.

But she was afraid of leaving Lydia alone with Robin.

Robin seemed not to be a threat after she was born, but still Raven kept an eye on him. He still was ignoring the Logan's; despite all the attention they were getting from the others and the media.

He was watching, in the living room, as Starfire was feeding Lydia a bottle from a far; Raven preferred to pumped milk from her breast and give it to her from a bottle by someone else, since she didn't want to touch Lydia yet. Robin looked at Starfire, who was in total bliss, carefully giving enough attention to every detail of Lydia's care; motherhood suited her. He couldn't help, but feel happy for her, but at the same time was still not ready to trust the creature she was holding.

"Hmmm, hmmm, hm, hm, hm, hmmm….." Starfire hummed to her, staring down at the dark violet hair girl. She noticed Robin was looking at her cheerfully. "Have you finally decided that this baby is good?" She asked while humming between her sentences.

"No, I still cannot trust that thing that you hold. But you look beautiful as a mother. One day, this will be a beautiful moment, not a bittersweet one." He said.

"Robin, you're going to have to come to realization that I can't—"

"—Can't what? Have children? No, you can. We just need to try harder. We can have a child." Robin insisted. "And then you won't have to rely on Raven's…..on Raven's….."

"Raven's what? Are you going to say 'monster'? Because I can see it in your eyes that that's what you think she is, a monster." Starfire said with a hint of resentment in her voice. She put down Lydia on the couch, surrounded by pillows, to prevent her from falling off. "Robin, how long are you going to keep this up? You can't escape from reality now."

"I can try….maybe it's time Beast Boy and Raven started to think about moving—"

"—Robin—"

"—I mean, move to a different section of the Tower, not out of the Tower." Robin said, trying to add a compassionate tone. "I don't know what else to do? What do you want me to do?" Starfire looked over to him.

"Pick her up." She said.

"What? No." He said, looking over to Lydia.

"Robin." She said in a serious tone, turning around and walking out into the hallway.

"Star, no, don't leave me here with her!—" She was gone. Robin didn't submit to Starfire's demands, so he stood there, watching the baby carefully.

At first, everything was fine, and he thought that he could ignore Lydia and wait until Starfire came back. However, that didn't stop Lydia from whimpering in her sleep. Robin was petrified what would happen if she didn't stop crying, after all, he had lived through Raven's nightmares, and didn't know how Lydia worked with her powers.

Reluctantly, he walked over to the couch, but just stared at her instead of comforting her. She looked just like any other human baby in the world, except her dark violet hair. She whimpered a bit before opening her eyes to see the only person in the house that didn't want her there. That still didn't stop Lydia from crying out.

Robin then, reluctantly picked her up. He didn't do anything more. He didn't rock her, he didn't hum a song, he didn't even look at her; he just held her, with a vacant expression on his face.

Starfire walked into the room, hiding from behind the door frame until Robin would pick her up. As soon as he saw her, he put Lydia down.

"See, I did what you asked. Was that supposed to change anything?" He asked.

"I kind of was hoping." Starfire said sadly.

"Why do you care so much about this?" Robin asked, walking off farther away from Lydia. "Can't you see it from my perspective?"

"No, I actually don't. I pretend too, but I really don't." She confessed. They both stood in their places, staring at each other, and not knowing how to break the silence. "Robin, you were at one time the first person to see the good everyone, even the villains. But you've changed."

"No, Star, I haven't changed. I just…I can't explain it. I just don't feel comfortable with that baby around. Raven should have known better then to allow herself—"

"You're jealous." Starfire interrupted. "There's no mystery to why you hate her; you're jealous that she isn't ours. It is as simple as that. But you're too proud to admit it, because it would mean endangering your friendship and to trust a simple feeling, rather than to upholding some honor as you claim."

When Raven was pregnant, Starfire at first thought Robin knew something more than she did, such as Raven really didn't want this child. Or Garfield had forced himself on Raven, without her consent. Or that Raven would die in the process of giving birth. Or, and worst of all to Starfire's reasoning which she only thought for a brief moment, Robin was the real father.

She had thought about all the worst possible scenarios which could make him object to Ravens baby, but up to a certain point she had never thought that Robin was just merely jealous.

Oh, Jealousy, what a green monster She was; She can turn the most humble and honest men into murdering thieves, and all over a few greedy passions. Starfire herself knew all about the green monster herself, such as the time when Robin went on a date with Kitty.

"I don't have to stand here and listen to this." Robin said. He gave one more glance at her before he walked away.

"Starfire, I don't want him touching her." Raven said in her piercing monotone voice. When she had gotten home that night, she had walked through the living room to get Lydia. She sensed that something happened between the two, but didn't ask any questions. She merely said her piece, not knowing entirely that Robin had held Lydia, and walked away.

Starfire didn't say anything, and allowed Raven to walk away, with Garfield taking Lydia. He didn't ask any questions either, he kind of was used to Raven making weird remarks like those with only her knowing what they meant.

"So, can you pick her up now?" Garfield asked as they were about to go to bed.

He, in his black sweatpants, shirtless. She, in baggy, blue pajamas pieces. Even when she turned a page from her book, her hands looked soft to the touch, and Garfield was having a hard time keeping himself on his side of the bed. He tried to get rid of those thoughts by distracting himself to conversations he already had. He had waited so long, and yet he had to wait more because Raven was still healing after having a baby.

His heart would beat faster each time she glanced up at him. She knew what he was thinking about, but she tried to pretend she didn't. Lust was buried deep inside. And she wasn't going to come out for a while, not after just having a baby. But she would occasionally look back at him, when he wasn't looking, with that familiar small smile on her face, possibly thinking that she sure hadn't felt that pleasant sore in a while—

"Rae, you didn't answer my question." He said, interrupting her daydreaming. "I mean I know you said a year, but I think that's a little extreme. Especially since she is still a newborn." Raven was barely listening, but she tried her best to compose herself and to not give any signals to Garfield.

"Do I have to repeat myself?" She said in her monotone. She had forgotten what he was asking, but decided to go with the vaguest response she could think of so as to hide the fact that she wasn't listening.

She couldn't take it anymore; Lust certainly climbed out of her hole fast. She put her book down and crawled over to his side of the bed, not taking her eyes off of him. She was face to face with him, and didn't know what to do next other than to play with his hair.

He didn't know what she was doing at first, but then he looked into those helpless eyes which could always tell him what she was feeling at that moment. He was at first reluctant to go along with her, since she had just given birth no more than a week ago, but maybe she had healed up rather quickly. Maybe, since she was a healer in the first place, she had sped up the process?

It was a big maybe, and too much wishful thinking on his part. Raven was the sensible person in the relationship, and common sense would have told her to wait, but she kept twirling his hair.

After staring into each to other's eyes for some time, Raven leaned forward and kissed him. Not wanting to be in second place, he took over the position, trying to make each kiss deeper then the last. She started to undo her top, and after she took it off, he started kissing her neck, while embracing her in order to get closer.

Just as he began to turn her over so her back was on the bed, Lydia began crying. As soon as Raven heard her, Lust ran away. They both looked at each other in disappointment, but they knew they were being saved, because not enough time had passed for Raven yet. If Lydia hadn't cried, it just would have been awful, uncomfortable, and probably unhealthy too; Raven didn't want any unnecessary tear then she already had.

As Garfield got up to take care of Lydia, Raven put her top back on. She was embarrassed for her weakness that she portrayed. In the beginning, she wouldn't have sex just for the sake of having sex; she would have it to feel loved, to control Lust, and to make Garfield happy.

Now, she was becoming selfish, because she just wanted to feel that overwhelming sensation with Garfield.

"I'm going to meditate." Raven said, trying to break the tension that both she and Garfield were feeling.

About three hours went by. After a few trips to Lydia's crib and back, Garfield was going to finally get some sleep. Or so he thought.

Lydia started to whimper.

"Please don't, please quiet down." Garfield was whispering as he could hear that all too familiar sound of baby about to cry. She then started to cry. He got out of bed, drowsy as he was. He peeked over to where Raven was sitting, still meditating, before he walked over to the crib.

Garfield led out a screech as Lydia was being lifted up by a ball of black energy. She floated over to where Raven was meditating. Lydia was then being rocked gently by the ball of energy. Lydia slowly stopped crying.

"Raven?" Garfield asked.

"I just thought it was my turn." She said without turning around or opening her eyes. Garfield didn't say anything, because she knew what she meant, and he just went back to bed with a smile on his face, as he went to sleep.

She not only meant that it was her turn to do all the dirty work, but that she was ready. She was ready to be a mother.

This could take my mind off sex, Raven thought to herself. Although that's not the only reason. I'm not my mother, I'll show her. I will be different.

SORRY FOR TEASING ABOUT A LEMON SCENE, BUT I WANTED TO DIVE INTO THE ISSUE OF WHEN IT IS A RIGHT TIME FOR A COUPLE TO GET BACK INTO ACTION AND WHEN IT'S NOT. IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN, I THINK THERE SHOULD BE A LEMON SCENE SOON.

ALSO, MY HEART GOES OUT TO THOSE IN JAPAN RIGHT NOW, IT SEEMS SO DEFEATING WHEN SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENS, AND NOBODY KNOWS HOW TO RESPOND OR DEAL WITH IT WITHOUT CASUALTIES BEING INVOLVE. I PLAN TO GIVE BLOOD NEXT WEEK, IF I CAN PASS THE TESTS. TRY TO STAY POSITIVE.

SEE YOU GUYS NEXT WEEK.