Before I can continue on in this chapter, I would like to make a public apology about chapter 3. Now KorrianderX'Hal realized that LM called Starfire a bitch and no one cared about it. I just want to let you know that he really didn't mean to call her a bitch. The reason why is because one, I was in a bit of a hurry trying to finish this chapter up and two, like I mentioned on chapter 3, that LM is a hothead. Now that that's been taking care of, it's time we go to chapter 4. Starfire's is feeling worse and worse by the minute and decided to go to the doctor. But when she gets there, she receives news that can ultimately change her life.
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Chapter 4: Pregnancy
A week and a half later the Titans were slowly going back to their normal lives without Robin. Cyborg and LM had spent days competing with each other on who wants to be the next leader. After video game battles, street racing, and amateur wrestling competition, LM decided to give up and let Cyborg be the leader. Although everyone is getting over what happened to Robin, Starfire was feeling more worse then ever. For days she'd been vomiting, passing out, getting angry at her friends, and eating more food then ever then the rest of her friends. Even when Raven and Beast Boy buy some food at the grocery store, Starfire will eat half of it. Then one morning while she was putting on her uniform, she noticed something odd. Her skirt wouldn't fit around her waist. She then looked at her full-length mirror and realized that she was gaining some weight from all her eating. For a few more days she'd been working out, getting some exercise, trying to loose the excess weight on her. But no matter how hard she tries, the little bulge is still there and slowly growing. Starfire was a little scared about this as she could tell that something is wrong in her. So she made a decision and takes up on Raven's offer.
Starfire was sitting in the waiting room of the Jump City Hospital, waiting for a doctor. She wasn't wearing her uniform due to bulge on her stomach. Instead, she was wearing a pair of Simply Low Jeans, a pink short sleeve T-shirt with the word, "I'm an angel" on the front, and a pair of Brooks Women's Trance NXR sneakers. People were starring at her, not knowing why a Titan is in the hospital, but they decided to ignore it anyways. After hours of waiting, a female nurse came through the door and looked at Starfire.
Female Nurse: "Ms. Starfire, the doctor will see you now. Follow me please."
Starfire looked up at the nurse and stood up from her seat. Starfire followed the nurse through the door and into a long hallway filled with doors. The nurse then stopped at one of the doors and then opened it. Starfire entered it and was inside the doctor's office with a desk, three chairs, and bookshelves on the left and an examination table and doctor supplies on the right.
Female Nurse: "The doctor will see you in a moment. I suggest you take off your shoes and sit at the examination table."
Starfire nodded and went to the examination table the same time as the nurse closed the door. Starfire sat on the examination table and took off her sneakers, with thoughts going around her head. She knows how doctors handle their patients on Earth; she doesn't know what are they going to do to her. Another thing is what's this sickness she'd been suffering for weeks. Is it a virus, a disease, or some sort of cancer that could come from Earth or Tamaran? Just as she was going to lose it, the doctor came in through the door and looked at Starfire. Starfire looked back at him and saw a male person in his late forties with thinning salt and pepper hair and dressed in a white jacket.
Doctor: "Are you Starfire?"
Starfire: "That would be I."
Doctor: "Afternoon Starfire. My name is Dr. Frank Roger; I'll be your doctor for today."
Dr. Frank approached Starfire with a trusting face.
Dr. Frank: "First of all, I would like to say I'm sorry for what happened to Robin a few weeks ago. I could understand how it feels to loose someone important to you. He was a great man."
Starfire: "Thank you doctor, that's just nice."
Dr. Frank: "Just making sure that you're happy that's all. So what brings you here today?"
Starfire: "Well doctor, for a few weeks I've been having this sickness and I never had this bad before."
Dr. Frank: "I see. Did you tell your friends that you're going to the doctor?"
Starfire: "No actually. I didn't want my friends to know where I am. So I did the lying that I was going to the Mall of Shopping. Is that good or bad?"
Dr. Frank: "It depends on how you felt about it. O.K., let's begin with a few checkups. Now open your mouth and saw Ah…"
Starfire did exactly what he said as the doctor took out his tongue depressor from his coat pocket and placed it on Star's tongue. For fifteen minutes, the doctor checked her heart beat, blood pressure, examining the ears, the eyes, her breathing rate, height, and weight. Once he was all finished, he put all the results on a pad and paper.
Dr. Frank: "Well you seem to be physically fine. Though your heart rate and breathing seem to have quickened. Now what type of sickness you're having?"
Starfire: "Well I don't know what my sickness is. All I know is that I've been vomiting already eaten food, I've been passing out for half an hour to a full hour, and I get mad at my friends when I know I really don't mean it. And to make things more unusual, my stomach is slowly growing and I'm afraid I could be something wrong inside of me. Does this sound like something bad?"
Dr. Frank: "Hmm… Looks like we have to take a few tests. Come with me please."
The doctor left his office with Starfire following him. They walked down another hallway filled with doors until they stopped at the doubled doors. The doctor opened the doors and they went in. Starfire was confused of the strange machine in the room with a brown bed and wasn't sure what it does. Dr. Frank then went next to Starfire and looked at her.
Dr. Frank: "Now I want you to take off your clothes."
Starfire looked at the doctor in surprise and covered herself up with her face completely red.
Dr. Frank: "This isn't what you think Ms. Starfire! You see in order for us to examine your body, you need to take off your clothes or the pictures on the X-Rays would go all wrong. Now please remove your clothing except for your bra and panties."
Starfire sighed in relief since she's not going to be naked and took off her pants and shirt, revealing her smooth orange skin with her Demi bra, No-show thong, and the small bulge on her stomach.
Dr. Frank: "Now, lay down on the bed and we'll start the tests."
Starfire followed the doctor's order, approached a brown bed, and lied on it. The doctor approached Starfire and had a trusting face.
Dr. Frank: "Please remain still during the procedure; moving around will make the test longer. Don't worry, this won't take long."
The doctor then left Starfire and exited the room. Starfire remained still on the bed, not knowing what's going on until she heard humming noises around her. Suddenly a green thin line of light appeared from the machine ceiling to Star's feet and slowly moves up and down her body. What this machine actually does was making X-rays, cat scans, and ultrasound pictures by scanning the entire body up and down for long periods of time. After forty-five minutes of scanning, the machine stopped humming and the thin green light vanished. Starfire didn't know what's going on until the doctor came back in and approached a rested Starfire.
Dr. Frank: "Well, the tests are done. Sorry about the long wait but we have to get all the angels on your body. Now the results will take a little while so I suggest that you put your clothes on and waited in my office. I'll let a nurse take you back to the office."
Starfire nodded as she sat back up and put on her clothes.
Starfire was pacing back and forth in Dr. Frank's office, worried on what's taking so long. She looked up on the clock as she realized she waited for fifteen minutes. She can't wait forever, she wants to know what's wrong with her and hope it's not serious. Not only that, her friends might be worried about her since she's been gone for too long and she turned off her communicator so that no one won't call her to see what's taking so long. Just as she was about to lose her mind, the doctor came into the office and sat on his desk chair and looked through the papers that was in his folder he was carrying. Starfire saw him and headed to his desk.
Dr. Frank: "Please have a seat."
Starfire sat on one of the patient's chairs.
Dr. Frank: "Now Starfire, I got your results from the tests and I got some good news for you."
Starfire: "Tell me if it's really good. Is there no disease in me? Am I going to live?"
Dr. Frank: "Well that's part of the good news. The other half is that when we did a complete scan on you we found something odd inside your body. It's not something serious or nothing of that sort, it's just that this happens a few times."
Starfire: "Well what is it? I want to know."
Frank placed his folder on his desk and sighed, knowing that this would be hard for her to take.
Dr. Frank: "Well it's a little hard for me to say this but I don't have a choice. Congratulations Ms. Starfire, you're going to be a new mother."
Starfire remained quiet with her eyes blinking continuously not believing what he said. She was like that until she started to say something.
Starfire: "Wha- What?"
Dr. Frank: "Starfire, you're almost two weeks pregnant. You didn't know this?"
Starfire stood up from her chair and was about to talk but she doesn't know what she could say. Instead she tries to remember what happened to her for the past two weeks. She remembered the day at the amusement park with Robin, the "accident" they had, they both went to the Tower, confessed their love for each other, they kissed, and then- Her eyes widened as she realized what happened to her. Robin's dead and to make matters worse, she's carrying Robin's baby. She felt all dizzy and her eyesight got blurry. Then without warning, she fainted and landed on top of the chair she was sitting in. The doctor bowed his head down and shook it.
Dr. Frank: "I knew this would happen."
One hour later…
Dr. Frank: "Starfire, are you awake yet. Ms. Starfire wake up."
Starfire slowly opened her eyes and saw Dr. Frank looking at her and was glad that she was awake. She then noticed she was lying on the examination table.
Starfire: "Doctor? What has happened?"
Dr. Frank: "You just passed out on the chair. Thankfully I was able to get you to the examination table and take care of you until you wake up. How are you feeling?"
Starfire: "My head feels light, but I had this strange dream. You told me I was pregnant and-"
Starfire stopped mid sentence when she saw the doctor's head shaking his head no. She then realized that it was no dream, it was real. Star bowed her head down with tears coming down her cheeks. The doctor looked at her and tries to comfort her.
Dr. Frank: "Look, I know this is a kind of hard for you to swallow but you have to accept it. Of all the women who get pregnant around the world, most of them are teenagers and young adults. And since you're eighteen, it's natural for someone like you to have this kind of effect, being you're from another planet."
The young and now pregnant Tamaranean looked at the doctor for a few more questions.
Starfire: "But how does this have to do with my strange illness?"
Dr. Frank: "It's quite simple really, each of your symptoms are a part of your pregnancy. Your angry outburst is known as a mood swing, your constant eating means you are feeding for two people, and your vomiting is a result of your body not taking that much food in your system. Trust me, give this a few months and you'll get use to it. So who is the new father?"
Starfire turned her head away from the doctor and closed her eyes.
Starfire: "You mean who's the father was."
Dr. Frank: "Beg your pardon?"
Starfire got up from the examination table and approached the window that was on one of the walls.
Starfire: "You see, I remember how I got pregnant in the first place. I was and the park or amusement with my friend Robin and we were having a great time. But then we had an accident with each other, which made us feel like we're more then just friends. Then at Titans Tower, we confessed our love for one another; we kissed each other on the lips and then did the making out. And when Robin died, I felt so lost, so saddened, so broken of heart and soul. And now that I'm pregnant I don't-"
She stopped talking and started to cry with tears running down her face. Dr. Frank knows that it's tough on her now that she found out about the news, so he does all he could to make her happy.
Dr. Frank: "So you and Robin didn't know that you're pregnant until now. And with Robin gone that makes you a single mother. That's so sad. You know, very few women who became pregnant are single mothers either by divorce of a husband or if the husband or soon to be husband leaves his wife or fiancé for a long time. But for someone who got killed, before a marriage, that's the first time that has ever happened in a lifetime. My advice to you is that you keep you're child, never give it for adoption or get rid of it. That baby inside you is the only thing that can keep you happy. You have to remember that."
She looked at Dr. Frank again; knowing that he's right.
Starfire: "You're right doctor and there's a reason for that. Since I've been gifted with the power of flight and the shooting of star bolts, I'm afraid this bongorf will have the same powers as me. I will never surrender it to anyone, not knowing what it's capable of. I'm going to take care of it no matter what. But that leads to another problem My friends don't know that I'm pregnant and if I tell them, I don't know what they're going to do with me. What should I do?"
Dr. Frank: "Well, if I were you I suggest you tell them as soon as possible. You can't keep this a secret forever. Once that bulge swells and the baby grows, they will get suspicious. You have to tell them about this at once. Do you understand?"
Starfire looked back at the window and thought about it for a minute. Outside she was calm about this, but on the inside she was scared because of what her friends would say if she tell them about this big news that has already developed. She has to give it some thought about this then she'll tell them. She then looked at Dr. Frank and made her decision.
Starfire: "Understood doctor, I'll go talk to them when I'm ready."
Dr. Frank: "Excellent. Now here's the rest of the information for you. Since you're a superhero, I suggest you won't fight any crime for nine to ten months. You can fly and float around until then, but on the fifth month you have to walk for a while due to the increase weight. You might also have some contractions between your nine-month period so whenever you feel like something is hurting you, just lie down somewhere and get some rest. Any questions?"
Starfire: "No."
Dr. Frank: "Good, then we're all done here."
The two then walked toward the office door leading back to the hallway. But before Starfire could leave, Dr. Frank wants to talk to her one more time.
Dr. Frank: "Remember to tell your friends about this once you get back home."
Starfire: "Of course doctor."
Dr. Frank: "And one more thing. I wish you a wonderful time with you and your child in the near future."
Star couldn't help but smile, thinking about the time she going to have with her future child, and at least she has someone to take care of and be happy with.
Starfire: "Thank you."
Starfire then walked out of Frank's office and walked down the hallway very confident. But deep down inside her heart, she was completely nervous. How is she going to tell her friends about this?
That's the main question on this chapter. Will Starfire tell her friends about her pregnancy? And if she does, what will her friends say? All this will be answered on the next chapter. Please Review.