Chapter 4
They were both laying in bed practiclly begging for sleep. Beast Boy had finally drifted off but
Raven was having trouble. They had been taking turns getting up for the babies but it was getting
so hard. They were up every hour on the hour and neither of them were getting any sleep in between.
Raven just layed there trying to sleep but sleep wouldent come. She kept having asinking feeling like
something was going to happen to the babies. She worried a lot untill Beast Boy would calm her down. But
Beast Boy wasent awake right now. She heard a strangeled cry from her 3-month old son and rushed in.
On further inspection he just needed a diper change. She sat down in the rocking chair with him and
rocked back and forth untill he fell back asleep. But she kept rocking. He lulled her into sleep
and finally she rested without a worry.
Beast Boy awoke hoping to find Raven beside him. He reached over to hug her but found only
the blanket on the bed. He looked around and didn't see anybody. BB got out of bed and figured she
had gone to take care of the babies. Rubbing the sleep from his eyes he got up and got into his uniform.
Walking out of their room he went into the babies room and saw her. Raven was sitting in th e rocking chair
Apollo in her arms, they both asleep. Her hair had fallen into her face and her face had a dreamy and
peaceful look to it. Her purple robe (starfire had boght it for her) that she wore to sleep in was
hanging limply on her small figure. She had lost so much weight after the babies had been born and
was even skinnier then she had been before the babies. He took Apollo from her arms and he awoke
looking with big eyes up at him. Raven's robe had fallen of her shoulder and he layed Apollo down
in his bed. He picked her up and carried her to their bed. He loved her so much and it showed greatly
but now she needed sleep.
When Raven woke up and found herself in her own bed she jumped up and ran to the babies room immediatly. They wernt there! Where were they... where were her babies.
" Beast Boy!" she cried out. She heard him running down the hall and he ran into the room.
" What is it ?" he asked as concern filled his face.
" Where are the babies, Beast Boy, Where are they?!?!" She was paniking. If she didn't calm down she was going to have a nervous break down.
" Raven, calm down angel, Satrfire is playing with them." he said patiently
The worry drained from her face and she melted into his arms. She calmed down at the metion of the pet name that he used. Angel, she loved it. They made there way to the living room where Starfire was playing peek-a-boo with Aris and ROibn was bouncing Apollo up and down. Raven's smile warmed and she watched everybody playing. Everything was ok... there was no need to worry. Several nights passed like this untill finally Raven was calm enough to sleep. One night she woke up with the same sinking feeling she had had a week before. She tried to make it go away but she just had a feelig the babies were in danger. She got up slowly but felt a hand on her shoulder pulling her back down.
" I just want to go check on the babies, Beast Boy." She said slightly annoyed.
" Are they crying?" he asked not opening his eyes.
" Well no but..." She didnt get a chance to finish.
" Then they will be fine." he said pulling her back down and kissing her on the forehead.
" I just feel like there in trouble or something." She said panic filling her voice.
Beast Boy opened his eyes. " Raven calm down or your going to have a panic attack. No listen to me." He looked at her his eyes hard.
"You ahve to start calming down, your to stressed and it's killing you ok."
His eyes softened when he saw her looking at him with her beautiful violet eyes. " Look, Raven, they are fine ok."
She was still worried but felt a little better. " Ok." she said with a sigh and layed down next to him. He stroked her hair unitll they both fell asleep. Little did either of them know the babies were in very grave danger.
The next morning Raven woke up feeling refreshed and ready to get up. The babies haden't cryed once that night and
she had gotten plenty of sleep. She got up and yawned, her blue nightgown swiftly twirling around her knees.
She was going to go in to check on the babies. As she walked out of her room and into theirs she was thinking of
how odd it was that they haden't cryed at all last night. She went to look in Aris's crib and reached in to get the baby.
Lifting the blanket up the only thing she saw under it was a pillow. She went over and looked in Apollo's crib. The same thing
that had been in Aris's crib was in Apollo's too. She started to panic then relized that Starfire and Robin were
probably just playing with them again. She went into the living rom and Robin and Cybrog were playing video games
while Starfire made somethign on the stove.
" Guys where are the babies?" she asked looking at each of them in turn.
Starfire looked at her. " I thought they were perhaps in your room when I did not locate them in there own." she said with a nervous smile
Raven's lungs got tight. " They are not in our room Starfire!" she said her chest getting tight. Cyborg looked at RObin and then paused the game. Raven leaned against the wall it getting had to breathe. Robin ran off to get Beast Boy and Raven slid down to the floor where Starfire flew over to sit next to her.
" It is ok friend, they will be located in no time." She said tring to cheer Raven up.
Just then Beast Boy ran into the living room and wrapped his arms around her. Her chest was still tight and her vision dizzying.
She forced herself to breathe slowly and try to calm down. Robin was looking around the babies room and on the
back off the door say a large piece of paper with the huge S on it. He gasped knowing who took the babies.