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Disclamer: I do not own the Teen Titans,...'sigh' but if I did...

Chapter 4

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Once Star had Azure in her arms, the poor boy made no move of escaping the "hug" but did glare rather evilly at Robin.

Raven held back a smile as she watched Azure glare daggers at the unsuspecting hero. "You have just made a loyal friend, Robin."

Robin glanced at Azure and his masked eyes widened at the look the boy was giving him. "W-what's wrong? What did I do?"

"You are so naïve," Raven shook her head as in disappointment.

"Why? What did I do-oh!" Robin scratched the back of his head sheepishly, "Uh, Star? Could you, like, allow Raven to introduce herself to Azure now?"

Raven gave him a weird look, "Is that the best you could come you up with?"

"Forgive me Raven," Star detached herself from the now traumatized boy and apologized. "I'm so sorry for hogging A-zure."

"It's okay Star."

Raven was now the one glaring at her so called friend, Robin. Robin had the decency to look away and shut his mouth.

Raven sighed and turned to look at the boy who had sat down on a nearby chair, "Hello, Azure."

Star was about to jump on the chair with the boy who looked aobut to have a heart attack when Robin stepped in and grabbed her elbow, "Star..."

Azure sighed in relief as Star seemed to have changed her mid of running over the cute boy and instead held on to Robin's arm and smiled up at him cheerfully. Raven sweatdropped, "Azure?"

The boy looked up to meet her gaze and a smile formed around his lips, "Hello.'

Raven felt something pounding rapidly against her chest, "You have an amazing name, Azure."

"Thank you, I wish I had a story behind it to entertain you."

This young lady put him in an astounding ease. He could see her powerful aura resisting to blend in with the others. And he now understood that was part of why he was here, to make sure those two persons who created him would forever remain together, their auras intermingled. Their bond had to be held together tightly, to be able to resist anything and anybody.

Robin glanced at the content smile on Prince's face and looked over to Raven's distraught one. Something was going on without his knowing.

Raven clutched her chest as a sharp pain passed through and traveled to her abdomen where it spread. Her hear was punding furiously against her rib cage, beating almost painfully. She knew this young boy, he seemd so familiar. Her head was bombarded with images. Some were memories of the new born Teen Titans some where back from when she was a baby in her mother's arms. And some she didn't recognize ever happening. Was she looking into future?

Azure reached out to wrap his tiny hand around her wrist. He could rememver someone cradling him in secure, loving arms. Looking directly up, small-twinkling spots in the dark background shined down at him soothing his newborn heart.

Robin managed to make it on time to capture Raven's limp body from hitting the floor.

Something or someone was burning itself into her wrist. She writhed agaisnt the blaze of the fiery fire, wanting to excape and save her...child.

Her child, her protégée, their heir.

Star bent over to lok at Raven's serene face. What had happened to her friend?

Robin clutched his eyes closed, unable to look any longer at Raven's agonizing face. He could feel her pain surging on to him as he held her in his arms.

Starfire shook Azure as he appeared to have fallen asleep at the exact time Raven had her fainting spell.

Azure came out of him stupor with a cry.

The cry's loudness increased as arms wrapped around his small body.

"A-zure?"

He peeked a glance at Raven's unconscious form being held up by a kneeling Robin and asked,"What happened?"

"I do not know, they just..."

Azure slid out of her hold as he took notice of the facial expressions of both birds. He seepied into their minds and was thrown back at the pain they enamated. He place his hand over their claped hands and closed his eyes. He transmitted an image to them as the pain they were going thru showed itself.

Raven slowly opened her eyes to a majestic sight, the dark nightsky shining with twinkling stars. Her heart beat steadily slowed down to a comfortable rhythm. Breathing in the soothing smell of the crisp night calmed her down without fail. She sighed in relief, everything was going to be alright. She wassure of it.

Robin blinked his eyes open. It seemed he was in a spacious room but his sight was hazy and so unable to make out the interior of the room. He slowly stood up from his knees and walked forward unsure of where his destination was going to be. The room seemed like a wide hallway, he could feel walls keeping him in by the sides with outlines of portraits hanging on the walls and busts on top of small tables. Where had Raven gone? His sight had began to improve when he heard a cry ring out ahead of him. Following it came a shrill scream, and a curse. He recognzied the sound of the voice and without hesitating ran towards the screams feeling as a blindman.

He abruptly stopped as a shape of a bed appeared infronthim. Henoticed it was occupied by a limp form of a woman whose only sign of life was the heaving of her chest. Beside her was another woman who held a small bundle of blankets and beside her a stretcher with bloody towels and blankets.She leaned and gave the small bundle to the woman on the bed, as the woman cuddled the bundle the able woman walked towards him and stopped infront of him to snatch the bloody cover off the bed. A door opened somewhere in the room and someone hastily walked up towards them, the silhoutte of a young man abruptly stopped behind him as in shock at seeing the blood. The adept woman turned around, allowing Robin to examinehermature face with age wrinkles around her mouth and eyes that witheld a revered gaze.

Robin caught his breath as the elder woman stepped forward and passed right tthrough him to speak to the stunned man. "Were you able...?"

The man shook his head sorrowfully, " No."

"Simply as that?" The woman asked annoyed.

The man was loss for words...

"Did he not want to see his newbabe?"

The man remained silent.

The elder woman's tone raised in emotion, "Did he even want to consol his wife if the babe died?"

"Did he even want to be with his babe if the mother died?"

"He-"

"That bastard of a man."

A frail voice spoke up from teh bed, "It's okay...Jizo."

"My Miss-"

"No use in...losing energy on...unneccessary things..."

"Unneccessary thing? Mistress, he is your husband, the father of your-"

The weak woman seemed to had tried to sit up causing the elder to hurry to her side, "Miss, you shouldn't try to move so much in your weak state."

"Please, I need to look at him," the woman whispered.

Robin felt like his heart had suddenly filled with sand, making it feel heavy inside his chest. He recognized this voice... but it sounded so different when when it was enervated.

He saw the able woman help the figure on the bed sit up and take hold of the small bundle from her arms.

The woman, he noticed, was surprisingly young. She seemed to be around her early twenties and had a reverent air to her gaze. His eyes widened in horror as familiar violet eyes stared back at him.

A/N:Was that a good enough cliffhanger? Should I had just went on a bit more? I thought this chapter was getting too long. And I could not help putting in the word 'horror', heh.So sorry if you don't like cliffhangers but it was a must do for me. Anyways...

And sorry for making Starfire so dim-witted my muse just didn't come through for me on her character, the original chapter was like a comic relief one but it so did not go that road at all after I edited it. Oh well...

lunafan, thank you for the info, andifsomebody wantsto see the action going on betweenboth birds justgo to the Teen Titans forums. Oh!- andthere's some really good videos dedicated to R/R's in YouTube, I have links in myprofile if interested 'smiles'

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