Part One Nana's House
Robin sat back in his lounger, reading. A large pile of trash lay on the ground at his feet. These trashed papers contained plenty about rearing babies, if the desired result was a sociopath.
Raven stepped just into the lounge. "Find anything useful?"
"No. How are things going with Jasper?" Robin said, throwing another stack of sheets away.
"Beastboy's turned into a fox and is wrapped around the kid, and Starfire's trying to make him laugh. I have no idea where Cyborg is." Raven replied, sitting down. She grabbed a few sheets of paper.
"What would drive a woman to leave her son with five superheroes?" Robin asked. "I can't wrap my mind around this."
"Whoever she was must have assumed we'd keep the kid safe." Raven said. She scanned a printout. "To develop normally, babies require a lot of physical contact." She read. "Make sure to give your baby a massage at least once a day, and make sure to hold the baby for the first stages of growth and development. Remember, the baby will recognize its primary caregivers."
"The funny thing is," Robin said after a moment. "We'll have to leave someone here to watch this baby if we go out to fight."
"We can't leave Beast Boy. He'd likely panic and leave Jasper by himself anyway." Raven said. After that, she and the boy wonder finished going through the printouts in affable silence.
The silence was broken when Cyborg came strolling into the room, carrying two large bags.
"Did you go grocery shopping?" Robin asked, looking at the mechanical man. He noticed Cyborg had another bag clenched in his teeth.
Once Cyborg had rid himself of his burdens, he sat down. "I went to see Nana, my grandmother. I explained about the baby, and she gave us the old baby stuff from when I was that small."
"Bottles and everything?" Raven asked. At that moment, a keening wail drifted through the Tower. Beast Boy and Starfire came rushing into the lounge, holding the baby. (Wrong, might I add.)
Raven took the baby from Beast Boy, and looked at one of the pages. She managed to get correct hold of Jasper.
"I think he might be hungry." Cyborg said over the wails. "Or dirty."
It turns out Jasper was actually wet and hungry. While Cyborg tried to figure out how to make baby formula, It fell to Raven and Robin to learn how to change diapers, as Beast Boy passed out and Starfire panicked.
Robin watched Raven out of the corner of his eye. For some reason, the sight of Raven bottle-feeding Jasper stirred up a weird feeling. When Jasper was done, Raven, grimacing, put the baby over her shoulder, and burped him.
"Do you want me to take him?" Robin asked. Raven shook her head, and mouthed He's sleeping. Robin nodded, and went back to his reading.
With the backing of the rest of the team, Robin contacted the police about Jasper. The chief found the situation funny, but agreed to provide the little help his force could.
"And the baby?" Robin asked.
"Well, I had thought, if your group was willing, you could hold on to little…Jasper for the time being. Just a few weeks, I would think."
One could say it was Robin's extreme bad luck to get into the shape he got into. When the alarm blared, which woke up Jasper, Raven was chosen to stay behind. In robin's mind, she was the logical choice.
The Hive had decided to make mischief at a bank, and Mammoth got hold of Robin, and ran him through the blender. As always, the Titan's won, even without Raven.
Once they got Robin back to the medical wing, Cyborg's analysis was two broken ribs, and a hairline fracture in robin's left arm, in addition to any number of cuts and bruises.
Cyborg firmly ordered his friend to stay out of combat for the next five weeks at the minimum.
Robin, though obviously very displeased, cracked a grin at Raven. "Looks like you won't have to stay here with Jasper."
"I'm afraid that's wrong." Cyborg said. "You see, as of this moment, you two are the only ones who know anything about babies."
"So?" Raven asked. Cyborg shielded himself with a few pieces of lab equipment.
"Nana has agreed to let you two come stay with her, in the suburbs." He replied. "Speedy is coming from Tower East to help out here."
Raven reacted better than he expected her to. She only nodded. "Oh." Raven left the room, Jasper in her arms.
The next day, Robin and Raven, dressed in newly bought civvies, pulled in at a large ranch house in the Jump City suburbs. Since they were alone save for Jasper, Raven had talked robin into taking off his mask, so the two were going by the names Richard and Rachel Grayson. The plan was if anyone asked who they were, the two could say they were husband and wife, and had gotten jobs as live-in caretakers. Cyborg, before they had left, had helped them with this cover story, which would work, since Nana was blind. The joke was, only Robin and Raven knew that the fake name was Robin's real one.
Robin, for his part, was glad that they'd gotten hold of an automatic, since he wouldn't be able to drive stick. While Raven grabbed Jasper, he walked up to the door, and knocked.
"Come on in!" Nana called.
The next few weeks were going to be interesting. Nana, though neither of them knew it yet, had a sharp wit.