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Dark Weezing: That is The Question now, isn't it??? HERE'S YOUR ANSWER!

CHAPTER 5 THE REAL FATHER

Raven sighed and pulled her hair back into a short ponytail. She groaned as she realized yellow, purple, and red paint was splattered all over her body. She dropped her roller and groaned.

"You had better LOVE this room." She said to her now enormous belly. All of the sudden she gasped. "Cy, get the car."

"Pickle craving?" he asked jovially.

"NO!" she snapped. "Baby coming." She gasped again as her water broke. "And she is NOT going to wait...so hurry!"

Cy ran out of the room, shouting the news to others, and Robin came running in. "You all right, Rae?"

Raven gritted her teeth. "Do I LOOK all right Robin?"

He took in her paint spattered appearance and suddenly smiled. "You always do Raven."

"As much as I LOVE it Robin," she started sarcastically, "It is NOT time to FLIRT! I need to GO!" Her face contorted in pain, and she grabbed Robin's gloved hand. A shiver that had nothing to do with the coming child ran through her. "Thank you," she whispered in his ear as he picked her up gently to carry her to the car.

Somehow he knew what she meant though, and smiled. "You want me to stay?" he asked as they entered the delivery room. "Well," she smiled tiredly, "You ARE the father...if you want to be."

He smiled ecstatically. "You mean it Rae? I could...You..." She just squeezed his hand as the doctor told her to push.

Several hours later, a very tired, very sweaty, very happy Raven held her daughter for the first time.

"Oh, Raven, she is PERFECT!" sighed Starfire happily; gazing at the baby nestled into Raven's bosom.

Robin smoothed back Raven's hair and smiled down into the tiny baby's face. "She looks like a doll...So tiny. So..." he lost his voice.

"Beautiful." Said someone from behind.

"TERRA!" yelped Beast Boy.

Terra smiled. "Congrats Raven. She really is precious."

Raven smiled. "Thanks guys." She started as the tiny being in her arms began crying. "Acelin, darling, shhhhh! Everything's ok...We're all here darling. Mommy's here, and it's gonna be alright." She crooned, smoothing the baby's unruly dark hair.

Acelin opened her eyes, and brilliant amber eyes met amethyst. The baby quieted instantly.

Cyborg looked puzzled as Raven's eyes shot open wide and a smile of delight covered her face.

"What Rae?" he asked.

"My mother...she has my mother's eyes." Raven beamed. She touched the baby's tiny fingers and hands gently in wonderment. "Robin, she's so, SO perfect. So fragile. So...innocent." Raven's eyes met Robin's, and absolute, complete love for him and the new baby shone through.

"I know Raven." Robin said. His happiness slowly faded away though, and he chewed his lower lip in a very un-Robin like manner. "I'm happy too, Rae, but I've been thinking. You having this baby makes you vulnerable. That makes the team vulnerable...You can stay in the Tower, but with the baby, I don't think...." Raven's eyes filled with tears.

"Robin, what are you saying?"

"YEAH!" chimed in Cyborg and Beast Boy angrily. "You can't kick Raven off the team!"

"Raven is important to our team!" agreed Starfire and Terra.

"Robin, I thought you...I thought we...I though...Get out." Raven held the tiny bundle in her arms closer, protectively.

"Rae, if you just..."

"I will NOT give up my daughter for the Titans, even if they give me up because of her. Now, I think you should leave."

Robin bowed his head and left, tears he did not know were there streaming down his face. The others followed, looking upset and confused.

Raven looked down at her now sleeping daughter, then turned her big eyes to Cyborg. "How could he, Cy? We've become so close since he found out. He never said he loved me, but I thought I could see it, and now all of the sudden I'm dismissed from the Titans because of the baby he DID say he loved?! I don't understand him!"

Cyborg grinned consolingly. "I don't think anyone does, I don't even know if he gets himself. I can see where he's coming from, but I don't agree with him in the least. There's nothing fiercer than a mommy."

Raven smiled gratefully.

"And Rae...Maybe he hasn't said it to you, but it's all BB and I hear. The boy's smitten." And with those words, Cy left Raven and Acelin alone.