Hey everyone well here's chap 4! Thank-you for all of your great reviews! Ok here it is:
Disclaimer: No I don't own the Teen Titans, but I do love Pie and lots of it!
Chapter 4: All These Changes
Kori drove on the freeway. She could hear the hum of her sliver Honda Civic. She moaned, there was an accident and traffic was going slow. All different kinds of thoughts littered her head. What am I going to do when I get there? Are they going to be different? Will Robin still love me? Will he want to help raise Jade? Oh, my God! Jade. What about her? OH, crap! As she thought all this, a memory popped into her head. She smiled.
:Flashback: 2 years ago
It had been another long hard day at the office. Kori was typing rapidly on her computer trying to get a report done by the deadline. She had just finished typing it and had sent the final draft to Mr. Nelson when her cell phone rang.
" Hello Kori speaking."
" Um… hello Ms. Anderson. It's me Madison calling. I don't think I can baby-sit anymore!" A nervous and frantic teenage voice of Jade's 15 year-old babysitter said. " You have a very interesting one year old, she's very…different." In the background she heard Madison yelling, " Please baby get down from there!" and blasts going off in the background. "Could you please come home!"
" Yes, I'll be right there!" Then Kori hung up. She was in her car and driving there within seconds. She rushed into the apartment.
Madison pushed Jade into her arms and ran out, " Here's the demon child!"
Kori just stood with her mouth open. The apartment was totaled. Everything was either broken or on the floor. She looked down. One-year old baby Jade was in her arms and she popped a bubble from her mouth. And then did a little giggle.
Kori smiled. " My little one I'm so proud of you!" She hugged Jade tight. " If you're only your father were here to see this. We shall have a party!"
Kori rushed over to the phone and called Bruce, " Hello?" he said.
" Bruce! You must get over here now. Bring cake and a camera!"
" What happened?!" a worried Bruce said.
" Well let's just say Jade has come into her powers!!!! Come we will clean and celebrate."
" I'll be right there." a confused Bruce said and then hung up.
" Jade, I'm so happy!" Kori whispered as tears ran down her face and she kissed Jade on the head.
:End Flashback:
The gates opened and Kori drove through the circle driveway. She turned off the car and hopped out. She went up to the door and knocked. It opened and there stood Alfred. He held up a finger to his lips and motioned her to follow him. He lead her down and down. Then they reached the Bat Cave.
Bruce sat in a car at the end of a table. Kori was seated across from him.
" Ok, we need to talk." Bruce said.
" I know."
Robin sat up in his bed. After they had arrived they explained everything that happened to Bruce. He checked them out in the medical wing. Everything was fine. It was like everything hadn't happened.
" Bruce, we want to find Starfire." Robin said.
" I figured you would. But it will have to wait. You all have been through a lot tonight, you need rest." They all finally agreed and where shown were they would sleep by Alfred.
Now Robin got up and went to the window. He had seen headlights drive up, the car turned off and a figure stepped out. It was too dark to see but the figure went into the house. He walked out of his room to wake his friends. He knew that this had to be one of Bruce's late night secret meetings. He knocked on all of their doors and they all stepped out into the hallway.
" I think Bruce is meeting with someone. And I want to know who." Robin whispered quickly.
The others followed him downstairs. And Robin lead them into Bruce's office.
" Man, I don't think we should be in here." Cyborg whispered.
" I agree with him." Beastboy said.
" For the first time, they're both right. Robin, if Bruce wanted us to know who he is meeting with then he would've told us. There's a reason why secret meetings are called secret meetings."
" Yeah. Wait- Hey!" Beastboy exclaimed as he realized what Raven said. His mouth was covered by Robin.
" I want to know. He has been keeping something from us, I just know it. Now be quiet." Robin said with confidence. He sat down at the desk and turned around to face the wall. He typed some things into the computer behind him. The wall turned into a big screen.
" There's, cameras throughout the house. And there's one in the Bat Cave." he typed some more things and the Bat Cave appeared. Bruce sat in one chair and the other was occupied too.
" Dude." Beastboy whispered.
" It's-" Cyborg was interrupted.
" Starfire!" Raven finished. They all watched the screen not moving. Little did they know they were about to find out more than they bargained for.
Meanwhile in the Bat Cave…..
" All the tests say they're fine." Bruce said as he showed her the information he had gotten back on a huge screen in the Bat Cave.
" So…" whispered Kori , " They're back for good?"
" Yes."
" Did you tell them?"
" No, I thought I'd leave it up to you to decide whether or not they would be informed about Jade."
" Thanks."
Meanwhile in Bruce's office…..
"Tell us what?" Robin whispered to no in particular.
" Boy she's changed." Whispered Cyborg.
They had all noticed Starfires now deeper voice and the way she talked. She was wearing blue jeans that covered her black high heels up to the point, and a red v-neck shirt that showed just some cleavage. She had grown up into a beautiful woman and Robin still loved her very much.
Back to the Cave…..
" So, are you going to tell them?" Bruce asked.
" Oh God, Bruce what do I say?! Hey everyone guess what I have a daughter. Ah, that's right I got pregnant by Robin when I was 16, in fact it was the day before all of you died. And I had her and now she's three. Welcome back!"
" Kori I didn't--" Bruce was cut of.
" And what do hell I tell Jade? Huh? Hey sweetheart you know how I said daddy was in heaven? Well guess back he's back from the dead! So don't you even give me that " You have to tell them" bullshit 'cause I already know!" She was now standing her eyes pure green.
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Back in the office…
They were all silent. What Starfire had said had taken them all by surprise. She had never yelled before. But, it wasn't that it was the news that they had just received : Starfire and Robin had a daughter!
Robin just sat staring at the screen. A tear rolled down his face. Starfire! I didn't know. I should've known! Why did I have to die!
" Robin are you okay?" Raven asked putting a hand on his shoulder.
" I have a daughter. I have a daughter and left Starfire all alone to raise her by herself. Oh, God this is all my fault."
"No man, it isn't you didn't know." Cyborg whispered. They all looked back up at the screen.
In the cave…………..
" Oh, Bruce I'm so sorry. I don't know what happened I just exploded."
" It's ok. I know you've been under a lot of stress lately and now this has happened." Bruce said in a sympathy way.
Kori started to cry and Bruce let her cry on his shoulder. " You're right. I hate all of this stress! Jade got suspended today."
" Fighting, again?" Bruce asked.
" Yeah," cried Kori, " This punk-ass kid came up to her and just started saying all these cruel things to her. Like , " Your daddy's dead, so you can't make him a fathers day present!" And she lost control of her powers and started to kick this kids ass! She's so much like her father. It's hard loving someone so much that reminds you everyday of someone you lost. You have no clue of how much I want to run home and tell her, her daddy is alive. She gets so left out of everything else a normal girl her age does with her father . I try to fill in both places but it doesn't work."
" You were young when you had her Kori. Having a child at 16 usually makes a lot of people think that you can't have and shouldn't have a child, but you have done such an amazing job with her. She always talks about you and how you're her hero when she's here and how much she wants to grow up and be just like you." Bruce said with a smile on his face. "You're doing just fine."
" So I'm not a bad mother?"
" No, you're the best."
" Thanks Bruce. I needed that." She gave her " father" a hug.
" Can you do me a favor?" she asked.
" Tell them for me. And I'll tell Jade."
" Of course. Better me tell them than you. Jade needs you to be there now more than ever Kori."
" And I need her." she wiped her eyes and stood up to leave. Bruce followed.
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In the office…..
" Wow."
" Poor Star." Beastboy whispered. Then he saw Robin stand.
" They're coming back up here! Hide!" he yelled as he wiped the tears off his face. He turned everything off and ran to go hide in the closet with his friends. Then the hidden elevator doors opened.
" Do you want some tea?" Bruce asked Kori
" No, thanks anyways. I got to get back it's 12:00am and the babysitter is still at the apartment."
" Ok."
" See ya." she said as she walked towards the office doors but then she turned. "Bruce can you do me one more favor?"
" Anything."
" Don't tell them where I am. At least not until everything is figured out. I'm not a superhero anymore and I won't be. I'm a mother and my child needs me to be just that. Not Starfire." then she walked out.
Bruce looked down. The Titans had been listening to the end of their conversation. It kind of hurt to here her say not to tell them where she was. But they knew she was right, if they came barging in her house Jade wouldn't understand.
Robin was now feeling all kinds of feelings. Love, guilt, surprise, sadness, and anger. He couldn't just ignore this. He needed to confront Bruce about what they just heard. Before the others could stop him he had stepped out of the closet.
Bruce turned . First their was surprise in his face in seeing the 4 standing there. But then surprise turned to anger.
" Robin, how long have you been there?" He said with his teeth gritted.
" Long enough to know I have a daughter. I want to know how!" Robin demanded.
Bruce's face softened. He took them to the living room and sat them down.
" After the fight with Slade you four were dead. And I got a call saying that Starfire was in the hospital, but barley alive. I got there and they were able to save her. But then they informed me that her baby was fine also. Apparently they went in to operate and found she was pregnant. I waited three weeks for she was in a coma. And she had to be put under special watch because if anything were to happen to her while she was in a coma the baby could be lost instantly. In three weeks she woke up, but when the doctor said the baby was ok she didn't know what he was talking about. She hadn't known she was pregnant either. After she was released I took her here and put her under my care because she had no one else and teen pregnancy isn't easy. Then nine months passed and she had her and Robin's daughter, Jade Raven Grayson. She lived here for about 11 more months and then , with my help, changed her name and she moved into her own apartment to raise Jade on her own. Well not totally alone because when she needed help I told her I would give it. But she was stubborn and so far has done everything herself. She's no doubt a strong woman."
" That she is." said Cyborg.
"Jade's middle name is Raven. Is that after me?" Raven asked.
" Of course." Bruce replied. Raven blushed, she was flattered.
" And Grayson, my last name." Robin said.
" Correct."
" I have some pictures of her while she was pregnant and after she had Jade. And only one current one. Kori has the rest, she's making an album." He nodded and Alfred brought over some pictures.
One by one the Titans looked at them. The first was Starfire, when she was still a teenager of 16, sitting in a rocking chair smiling at the camera with both hands on a big 9 month pregnant stomach. The second was after she had given birth. She was sitting in a bed with a hospital gown on holding a small baby Jade in her arms. It was strange for the 16 year old Starfire they knew with a baby. Then there was one of baby Jade. In this picture you could see Jade's jade green eyes , black fuzzys, her pick soft new born skin and she was little winkled. She was beautiful and was reaching up towards the camera as though to take it. At this Raven said, "Oh how cute." The last one was current. It was a close up of Kori and Jade. Kori held her daughter and Jade wrapped her legs around her mothers waist. Their cheeks were pressed together and they were slightly pink from the coldness of the snow surrounding them. Kori's red hair and Jade black hair mixed perfectly. And their jade green eyes shimmered.
The Titans stared at the pictures. Robin leaned back from the rest of them and whispered to himself, " This is my family."
Well that's Chap4 please no flames and if you like it than review. Peace out! Just so you all know I had them come back for their sacrifices and I know other people have died and have sacrificed greatly and they don't come back.. But that's the way I had the story go, so tough cookies.
