AN: Despite my hardest efforts, I still do not own Teen Titans or anything associated with them.

Chapter 5

Finally, a week and a half after the procedure, Raven called him up. He happened to be channel surfing on the couch when the phone rang. He casually turned into a squid, grabbed the phone with a tentacle, then turned back. He took a big breath in, since he was just deprived of air, and then answered.

"Hello?" he asked.

"Hi, it's Raven," she said in her usual voice. "I just took a pregnancy test."

"You did!" he said excitedly and nearly jumped off the couch. "And… are you?"

"Yes," she said calmly.

"You are!" he said, falling right off the couch with a thud.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

"Yeah," he groaned and got back up onto the couch. "I'm just happy, that's all. How do you feel?"

"No different," she said. "I have a month or so until I start to feel anything abnormal."

"Like what?" he asked.

"Dizziness and fainting," said Raven. "Thank goodness I'm usually at home."

"I'm so happy for you, Rae," he said with a large smile. "You wanna go out and celebrate?"

"Why?" she asked plainly.

"Because you're gonna have a baby!" he said. "Don't you think this is a special occasion?"

"I guess," she said. "But what could we do?"

"I'll take you out to dinner and then we can go do something you like," he said. "Like go to a bookstore or something. Does that sound good?"

"I do need to stack up on a few books," said Raven. "Come get me in an hour."

"You want me to come get you?" he asked, shocked. "Like, we can actually travel in the same car and you don't mind?"

"Just come get me in an hour," she sighed and hung up.

Beast Boy quickly jumped off the couch to get ready. Raven had only let him drive her once, and that was when she didn't have a choice. So maybe she was starting to grow a little more comfortable with him. At least, that's what Beast Boy hoped. He jumped in the shower, got dressed, ran to a store, and then went to pick her up.

She came out of her condo as soon as he pulled up. She opened her door and saw a card sitting on her seat, addressed to her. She looked at him, and then grabbed the card so she could sit down.

"You didn't need to get me a card," she sighed as she buckled her seatbelt.

"I know," he said with a smile.

Raven took it out of the envelope and saw that it said "Congratulations". She opened it up and saw that he had written:

Raven,

I'm so happy that you're pregnant! And I'm glad that I could help you. I know you're going to be a great mother. And we made it before the deadline!

Love,

Gar

"Um… thank you," said Raven, with a small smile.

"No problem," he said, smiling back.

After a nice dinner they headed over to a large bookstore/café that Raven loved to spend hours in. Beast Boy had been there a few times, so he knew his way around. The two headed right over to the maternity section, as Beast Boy called it. Raven wasn't sure why he wanted to look around with her, but she really didn't want to get into an argument with him; they were actually having a pleasant time together.

"Here's a nice thick book on pregnancy," said Beast Boy, holding up a rather large book.

"I don't care how thick it is," said Raven as she glanced over the hundreds of books. "It's the content that I'm interested in."

"Well, take a look," he said, handing it over to her.

She flipped through it, read a few passages, and tucked it under her arm. "Good choice," she said as she continued to look around.

Beast Boy flashed her a large grin and felt quite proud of himself. He knew that she didn't expect him to know anything about books, but he had become slightly well versed in literature.

They looked around a little more and then Raven decided to look around for books she could read in her leisure time. Beast Boy decided to go to the CD/DVD section and leave her alone since he didn't like books all that much anyway.

He soon had a stack of movies and CDs in his hands and he wasn't done looking yet. He loved to watch movies and listen to music, when he wasn't working on his new ideas for video games. He decided to find Raven and put the stack in her basket so he could continue looking around. He found her in the fantasy section, which let him know that she still loved fantasy books.

"Hey, found anything good?" he asked as he dropped his soon to be purchases into her basket.

"A couple things," she said and watched as he covered her books with his movies and music. "Got enough there?"

"Nope, I was just dropping these off so I can get back to looking," he said with a grin.

"You shouldn't spend all of your money on movies and CDs," she scolded.

"I don't need that much to live on," said Beast Boy. "Besides, I haven't gotten any DVDs or CDs in like a month or two."

"How did you survive?" she asked sarcastically.

He chuckled and then headed back over to his favorite section. Raven shook her head, with a small smile, and went back to looking through the thousands of fantasy books. She had already read half of them, a feat that she was sure not many had accomplished.

After about an hour Beast Boy was finished and he found her again. She had made it down three more aisles of the fantasy section. She could barely lift her basket, what with her books and all of Beast Boy's multiple DVDs and CDs. He carried it for her and the two made their way to the café.

Raven had a cup of tea and a pastry while Beast Boy had some coffee and a piece of pie. The café was known for having some of the best pastries in the city, and neither Raven nor Beast Boy could pass it up. As they ate Beast Boy decided to bring something up with her that had been on his mind for a while. And now that she was pregnant, he figured he should come out with it.

"Uh, Rae, I was wondering something," he said hesitantly.

"And what would that be?" she asked as she sipped her tea.

"Well, it's about the baby," he said.

"What about it?" she asked.

"Well, when you first asked me if I would help you have a child, you said that I didn't have to be involved in its life if I didn't want to," said Beast Boy. "Do you remember?"

"I do recall saying something along those lines," she said, taking a bite of her pastry.

"So, I was wondering, what if I do?" he asked nervously.

"Do what?" she asked.

"Wanna be in the baby's life," said Beast Boy.

Raven looked at Beast Boy oddly and put her pastry down. "You… you want to be in its life?" she asked.

"Well, yeah," he said. "Unless, you know, you don't want me to be. I just think it's better for a kid to have two parents. And I really do wanna be there for it. But, it's up to you."

Raven took a sip of her tea and thought. "Garfield…"

"Pleeeease call me Gar," he pleaded. "I really can't stand it when you call me Garfield."

"Fine, Gar, the truth is that I'm not sure," she said. "I mean, I know that right now you want to be in its life, but how do you know you'll feel the same way in a few months or in a few years?"

"So, you're asking me if I'll grow tired of my child and decide to just stop seeing it?" said Beast Boy. "Well, I can tell you right now, I will never be like that, so you don't have to worry."

"I still don't know," said Raven after a little more thought. "Give me a little while to think about it."

"Sure," said Beast Boy. "Hell, you've got nine months to think about it."

"That should be enough," she said with a smirk and went back to her tea. Beast Boy smiled and took a bite of his pie. Raven gave a small smile, that quickly faded, and went back to her tea.

Once they were done they purchased their items and headed home. Beast Boy couldn't wait to watch one of his movies and Raven couldn't wait to open up one of her new books. She even began to read one on the drive home.

"Well, I'm glad you let me take you out tonight," said Beast Boy as he pulled up to her condo.

"Thank you for a very nice evening," she said with a small smile. "I had a good time."

"Really?" he said, shocked.

"Yes," she said and unbuckled her seatbelt. She then leaned in and gave him a quick peck on the cheek. "I'll talk to you soon." And with that she grabbed her bags of books and stepped out of the car.

Beast Boy sat quite stunned for a few minutes. He watched Raven walk up the four steps to her condo, unlock her door, and walk in. He couldn't believe she had just kissed him. It really was only a parting goodbye kiss on the cheek that didn't mean much, but it meant the world to him. He finally snapped out of his daze and started home.

Raven put her new books in her library, which was soon to be turned into a nursery, and chose one to read that night. She sat down on her couch and began to read. But her mind kept going to what Beast Boy had asked of her. The truth was that she had initially chosen Beast Boy because she was sure he wouldn't want anything to do with her, so he would have no problem letting her take full parental control of the baby. They had always had such a rocky friendship; she never thought he liked her very much.

But all of that changed when she found out he had a crush on her. She really had been surprised when she found that out. The truth was that she hadn't known what to expect when she had contacted him two months before. They hadn't spoken in so long she wasn't sure what he'd be doing with his life. And never in all of her life would she have expected him to take her advice and go to college!

'He really is a nice man,' she thought to himself. 'I don't know why he would have a crush on me, of all people. Should I consider letting him actually be a father? That would mean we would have to be in constant contact with each other and if he doesn't step up and do a good job I have to pay for it.'

Raven had many things to think about and she soon realized that there was no way she could keep her attention on her book. She closed it and decided to go to sleep, just to give her mind a rest.

The next day Beast Boy happily called his friends up to tell them that Raven was pregnant. They each then called Raven up to congratulate her. She then called him up and told him to stop announcing everything to their friends. She hadn't wanted any of this to be that big of a deal, but that was impossible.