Childhood Dreams
A/N: So here it is. My happy chapter. I did promise you all that I would write one eventually. Just to be clear the timeline here is the one I established in 'When It All Falls Apart'. I'd say more but it may spoil the piece. So without further ado here we go.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans, nor the title, which I borrowed from Nelly Furtado's 'Folklore' album.
Kori was glowing. Not the righteous, greenish glow she acquired in battle. Or the rosy glow she wore during her ridiculously massive wedding to one Richard Grayson. No, this glow was a glow only seen on a select group. It was the glow of mother, as she gazed upon her child for the very first time. Ethereal, effervescent, luminous.
It started in her eyes, lightening them till they sparkled and shone, like emerald stars. Traveled down to her smile, illuminating the brightness of her smile. Continued to her hands, which cradled the tiny bundle, bathed him in her heavenly light. She was shining, glowing, sparking and sparkling.
It had been a brief shock to her, these sudden changes. They had thrown her for a loop more than once with their haste. Less than a month after the birth of her goddaughters Zuri and Elektra, Dick had done the unthinkable. In a rare moment of rashness, he had gotten down on one knee, in the middle of Jump City Mall and proposed. Kori had suffered a brief moment of confusion before she realized that the man on the ground in front her was speaking to her. He was proposing to her. Holy X'hal he was proposing.
Finally.
They tried to avoid a big wedding. Both agreed they would be fine if only their friends attended and if it was kept private. That dream lasted about two days before the calls of congratulations and well wishing arrived. And in a move of incredible graciousness and kindness and (in Kori's mind) love Bruce Wayne offered them his home for the ceremony. Somehow after that all ideas of a small wedding were lost beneath the fuss and fluff that became their wedding extravaganza. And although it was well attended and beautiful, Kori still wouldn't have minded the small private one.
Two months later Kori paced nervously in front of the bathroom, while a nursing Raven and a surprisingly giddy Jinx, watched her from the bed. While Jinx amused herself making faces at Zuri, Kori could only stare at the innocent looking white stick sitting on the sink.
Five minutes later her squeals and screams of joy echoed throughout the Tower.
Kori adored pregnancy. There was no sickness of the morning and she enjoyed the swollen roundness of her belly. It represented life and the beautiful process of creating it in her eyes. Truly though the best part was the look of awe and wonderment that appeared in Dick's every single time he looked at her. It was as if he couldn't fathom the idea that they had created a child. That he was going to be a father.
The only downsides were her unnatural cravings, for what was pizza without mint icing and mustard?
Finally the day arrived. On a brightly lit day in May, he arrived. Her pride and joy, her nine-month labor of love. The reason for her unearthly glow (and her husbands broken fingers.) Her son. Sorin Grayson. Her May born baby had tufts of shockingly auburn hair and amazingly bright blue eyes. Paired with the golden skin tone he'd acquired from his mother and deceased Romany grandparents, the boy was a sight to behold.
Looking up at her adoring husbands delighted face as he slowly embraced his son for the first time, and the smiling faces of her friends and family, all Kori could do was smile and glow as she looked upon the little boy made for her in the stars. As she gazed upon her childhood dreams come true.
A/N: Ow. My teeth hurt. It was so sweet and fluffy and sugary. This was un-beta'd so I hope it doesn't suck too badly. And please forgive me if it's…bad. I don't do straight happy fics; I believe in taking the angsty way to my happiness. Anyway leave a review for me and tell me what you thought.