I'm back baby!

Once again this story belongs to PurpleCat, however the OC's are mine.

Those of you who follow me regularly know I love using supernatural elements in my stories and was going to for this one, however to stay as close to the original storyline as I can I cut back on the supernatural but only slightly.

OC Warning!

Drake Daniels. Can change into a Dragon with a teal necklace around his neck. Six feet tall, short brown hair, bright hazel eyes they are almost green.

Carnus Valogneus. While only mentioned in this chapter it's important to note that he killed members of the Teen Titans. In the original storyline he killed Jericho, Aqualad, The Herald, Argent and Hotspot, however in this universe he didn't kill Aqualad. Carnus is a Demon.

Any more questions about these two take a look at my fic "Feelings"

A HUGE thank you to all that read review follow etc, or just send good thoughts.

Anyways

On with the show.

Chpater 2: Alone

Drake Daniels wasn't an official member of the Teen Titans, Honorary or otherwise, but he proved to be a valuable asset both as an ally and a friend. His knowledge of the supernatural and the paranormal had helped the Titans in more ways then one, especially considering the events that took place about six months ago considering the Demon, Carnus Valogneus. The Titans still had a hard time with that situation, and the worst yet was that they still had no idea where he was.

Knowledge wasn't the only thing that Drake offered either. He was a skilled hand-to-hand combatant and very fluent in the art of sword fighting, knife throwing, and other hand held weaponry, and this was all before they got to his actual powers. A teal colored ruby with a silver dragon wrapped around it was the source of his incredible, and unusual, ability to change into a Dragon, earning him the title, Dragon Knight. Though when he was with the Titans he tried to stay in his human form as often as he could and opted to "borrow" power from the Dragon inside of him. Strength and hightened senses for example.

When he wasn't with the Titans we was traveling across country, and the whole world on a few occasions, killing creatures that no one else could deal with. This in conjunction with his powers made him the perfect Monster Hunter, but whenever he was in the area of Jump City he was more then welcomed to crash there, and any other Tower he found himself near. The Titans of Jump City were lucky they caught him during some off time, once he heard about Raven's disappearence he high-tailed it to Jump City as fast as he could, with every tracking spell in his possession that he could think of.

That was two days ago, and by the end of the third day he was coming up on his last spell. It all came down to this.

He stood over a brass bowl which was filled with different herbs, plants, and powders, spoke a few words that sounded Romanian, then dropped a lit match into the bowl. The contents ignited in a burst of white smoke and floated into the air. It hovered there a few moments before suddenly vanishing into thin air. With a heavy sigh Drake slumped his head foreward.

"Well?" Beast Boy asked anxiously. Drake responded by shaking his head, indicating that it was a failure.

"Okay then. We most move on to the next spell that does the tracking." Starfire said in a hopeful voice. "What items will you be requiring." Her and her team waited for instructions, but Drake made no movement except to rub the back of his neck nervously.

"Drake what is it?" Robin asked.

Drake let out another heavy sigh. "I have tried every tacking spell that is within my power, and some that's not. Romanian, Atlantean, Welsh, Native-American, Aztec, Egyption, Chinese, Japanese dirty knees look at these, and NONE of them have worked."

The Titans shared uneasy looks. "So . . . What does that mean?" Cyborg asked.

"Drake began cleaning up the objects around him. "Two things. One she is keeping herself hidden from these spells by some crazy advanced warding magic. Granted she may be using Azarathian Magic, which is beyond my expertise. I may use magic to change into my dragon form, but that in no way makes me a spellcaster. Just a guy who knows a few spells."

" . . . Or . . .?" Terra asked when Drake paused.

Once again Drake got uneasy. "Or . . . she's-"

"NO!" All eyes turned to Beast Boy. His fists balled in anger and his brow furrowed slightly, his body shaking in anger. "She's. Not. Dead." He said through his teeth.

"I didn't say she was. I'm saying it's a possibility. One that looks more possible the more and more tracking spells fail."

"SHE'S NOT DEAD!" Beast Boy felt the hand of his current girlfriend on his shoulder, but he quickly shook it off and stormed out of the common room.

She's not dead, he said to himself, she can't be. Not after what I did to her.

Jump City Library.

Mr. Adams looked over the rather unimpressive resume, then glanced back at the young seventeen year old brunette in front of him. Raven had never been in a job interview before, but after researching online what to do, she was pretty sure she could pass with no problem, if pass was the right word to use. She made sure to dress nicely and keep a positive (at least what Raven would call a positive) attitude, while maintaining a small smile. She reached out a pinch of her empathic power and felt his indecision and uncertainty, which made her nervous.

"Well Miss . . . " he looked at he resume for her name, "Taylor. How do you say your first name?"

"It's Aderyn, or Adi." she answered.

He nodded. "Well Adi, to be honest your resume is not that impressive, but I am impressed with how much you engrossed yourself in community service projects," oh the irony, "Plus you are very intelligent, and you know the Dewey Decimal System like the back of your hand, that alone is very impressive." He got quiet again and set her resume down, she could tell he came to a decision. "Given that fact, and the fact that I can't turn away a pregnant young girl . . . you got the job. You start on Monday." He extended his hand, which she took eagerly and shook.

"Thank you so much for this opportunity Mr. Adams." Her excitement was so much, a few things in his office moved, but he hadn't noticed. She left his office with a smile on her face, while trying to wrangle in her excitement, but felt a hard glare and a feeling of contempt coming from someone staring at her. An older women, on of the employees, was boring holes into her with a harsh glare. Raven met her gaze, noticing that the women wasn't shy about letting the young pregnant girl know of her disapproval.

"What's her deal?" Raven muttered to herself and went about her day.

. . . .

Each member of the Teen Titans had their own personal nemesis. Robin had Slade, Starfire had Blackfire, Cyborg had Brother Blood, Beast Boy had the BrotherHood, and Raven of course had her own father, Trigon. But now she had a new nemesis, something that brought up in her more hate, and malice then her father ever could. Something that would not only test her limits to the breaking point, but test her in ways she would never have thought possible.

. . . .

Stairs.

. . . .

She looked up at the cursed three flights of stairs that led to her tiny apartment, then down at the bags of groceries in her hands. She couldn't levitate to her apartment, or teleport, you never know who could be watching after all. Sure she could levitate the bags and just hang onto the plastic handles, but nowadays the slightest use of her powers left her drained of energy for the rest of the day. She assumed this had to do with the fact that she could feel her powers protecting her unborn child, much like in a normal "human" pregnancy, the baby would take the mothers nutrients, immune system, etc. In her case it was also her powers.

She set her face and began the journey up the stairs, but after the first set she was ready to make base camp and head for the summit later, but still she pressed on. She was a few steps away from the next and last flight of stairs when she felt a rip in the bag carrying her milk and in one motion, the liquid spilled out onto the concrete stairs. Another thing about being pregnant, a file that was getting pretty thick, was her emotions were more unbalanced then normal and watching her milk flow away filled her with so much sadness, her emotions were let out in the form of fat tears down her cheeks. On the plus side, with her power weakening there was less chance of things exploding.

"Oh My God!"

She froze, a million thoughts running through her head. Was she recognized? Was it a villain? Was it her team? She mentally prepared herself for the worst, but was in no way expecting a NORMAL person come running to her aid.

"Are you alright?" he asked as he began to pick up her spilt items and tuck them into his arms. "Which apartment are you?"

Hesitant, but desperate, she revealed her apartment number then watched with caution as he hurried the rest of the way to her little home with her more heavy items. She followed closely behind, ready for him to attack at a seconds notice, but her small use of her empathic powers told her he wasn't a danger to her, or her unborn baby.

"You shouldn't be trying to carry all of these things at once in your condition." he said as he set her items on her table.

Even though she knew she wasn't in danger, her natural pride and stubbornness began to shine through. "I'll keep that in mind." she snapped. "Now could you please leave?" He looked at her through a pair gentle brown eyes, and clearly taking offense to her comment. She sighed, her frustration beginning to overwhelm her and she flopped onto her couch with her head in her hands. "I'm sorry. I just . . . I'm not used to asking for help." That was the truth. She WAS after all Raven of the friggen Teen Titans, their most powerful member, and she couldn't even carry her own groceries.

It was quiet for a moment before he spoke. "It's ok. When my sister was pregnant, she was easily irritated."

"Gee, thanks." she said feeling more guilty.

"N-No what I-I mean I-Is-uh"

She removed her head from her hands to look at him as he stumbled over his words. It reminded her of someone. "I'm just kidding with you. I know I've been a pill lately, your just the unlucky guy who happened to be here when I snapped."

He exhaled. "How far along are you?"

She scrunched her face in thought, something this young man found super cute. "About four months."

"Oh wow!" She raised a brow. "I mean-uh-you looke good for four months-I mean-I'll be going now." He walked to the door in a hurry.

"Wait." She didn't bother getting up from the couch to stop him, but he turned around to face her just as his hand hit the doorknob. "Stay a bit. I'll make us some tea, as kind of a thank you."

He smiled, a handsome toothy smile that she found familiar and comforting.

"That would be nice." he said turning away from the door. I'm James by the way. James Montgomery." He held out his hand, shaking hers while helping her to her feet.

"My name is Aderyn Taylor." She lied.

2 Months later.

Raven considered herself a pretty easy going person and didn't get bored that easily. All she needed was a good book, a cup of tea, and a quiet place to meditate and she was set. However after two months she could say without any hesitation whatsoever that having a "normal" life, was BOOOOOOOOORING! With a capital B! Good God how to people stand it?! Doing the same thing over and over and over again?

Wake up.

Go to work.

Come home.

Eat, sleep, poop, repeat!

For goodness sakes by the end of the third day she wanted to blow her own brains out all over the library! Needless to say she had to do some very . . . questionable things to ease her boredom.

Like right now.

It was about four oclock and the local schools had just gotten out for the day. This was her most trying time since around this time every day a group of rowdy twelve year olds would come into the library and be a disturbance and no matter how often she told them to behave themselves they would not listen. And today she finally had enough.

At the moment she was restocking some books while trying to maneuver around her ever growing belly, when the commotion they were causing was starting to grate on her nerves. Glancing at the three delinquents she noticed they were trying to flirt with a couple of girls obviously much older then them.

Perfect, she whispered with evil glee. The next sound that was heard were the cries of agony when the young boys had their underwear pulled up and over their heads, the two girls laughing at their expense. She smiled to herself. It felt good to use her powers on occasion especially when-

She gasped almost dropping her books. Her hand came slowly to her-she gasped again this time a smile spreading across her face, a smile of pure joy.

Her child just kicked her.

Terra's bare feet padded across the cold ground of the Titan Tower hallway headed towards the common room area. She was dress in a loose light blue robe that hung over her shoulders, a white tank top and yellow booty shorts. It was now four-thirty in the morning and she had woken up alone again, of course by now she had come to expect it from Beast Boy. Since Raven went missing he was out to all day and night, came back in the wee hours of the morning, slept for about two hours, ate little then went back out again to look. At first Terra let him do his thing so he could learn to cope with Raven leaving, or going missing, or worse, but now she wanted her boyfriend back. Waking up again with him not there was the last straw. She was now on her way to confront him whether he liked it or not.

Walking into the kitchen area she heard the clatter of kitchen ware telling her that he was indeed back from his daily searching. She didn't bother hiding her footsteps, she knew he could hear her anyways, as she turned the corner, and as she was about to lay into him she froze. His back was to her, and this was probably the first time she had ACTUALLY looked at him in a long time. The first thing he noticed was that he lost weight, his uniform was now hanging loosely off of him, and his movements seemed more clumsy and unfocused. His hair was a mess, he kind of smelled, all and all he was a mess.

"I know your there Terra." His voice startled her, not because she wasn't expecting it, but because his voice was different, like it was sore or something.

"Beast Boy are you ok?" she asked walking up to him to get a good look at his face. Once again she was surprised at what she saw. His once lively emerald eyes became dull and bloodshot, they were dark and puffy, and looked to be stained with tears. What was the most odd was that he was drinking tea, not just any tea though. HER tea. "Beast Boy what's happening to you?" she asked now clearly worried.

"I'm fine." His voice was raspy and hoarse, almost as if he was screaming from the rooftops trying to find her.

"Beast Boy, you can't keep doing this to yourself-" she tried to reason but he wasn't having it. Once he finished with his tea he turned and stalked away. "Beast Boy don't walk away! I'm worried about you."

"I didn't ask you to be." He said with his back to her.

"Damn it Beast Boy talk to me!" She begged, tears in her own eyes now, but he didn't turn around. Instead he continued down the hallway and disappeared into his own room.

2 months later

"No you need to stay off your feet!" James scolded. He pushed Raven out of the kitchen while he made dinner for the both of them. She groaned rolling her eyes, but relented and waddled back to the couch and sat down.

She leaned back staring at the ceiling and started talking to it. "Oh please let this baby come." she groaned.

"Just a few more weeks Adi, you can do it." James called from the kitchen. She whined again, but her discomfort vanished when James came in with a tray of two bowls of soup and some sandwiches. "Dig in."

"Thank you, but what are you going to eat?" she said as she hungrily began to devour the food. He just laughed and CAUTIOUSLY took a sandwich, praying she didn't take his hand with her as she ate.

Raven couldn't explain it, but she felt so comfortable with James, normally she would be moritfied if ANYONE saw her eating in such a distasteful manner, but with him she didn't seem to care. She felt like she could open up to him . . . if she wanted to. She doubted he was ready for the "my father is a multi-dimensional Demon who tried to take over the world because I was his portal" talk. It didn't hurt that he was handsome as well, in a geeky sort of way with short brown hair with matching lively eyes. He was successful, smart, funny, sweet, he was the complete package, but there was one thing about him that she found . . . slightly off putting. He was, for lack of a better word, delicate.

One night a while back while they were making dinner together Raven accidently cut herself while she was cutting carrots. James took one look at the blood and passed out right then and there. Her pain was forgotten as she looked down at him with a "did that SERIOUSLY just happen?" face. They never spoke about it again seeing as how it was a sensitive subject for him, but now she had the perfect ammunition should she ever need it, and at this point she doubt she ever would.

He was very INSISTANT about helping her out with all manner of all things baby. He helped put a nursery together in the second bedroom, every time he came over he had another toy or article of clothing from his sister when she had her kids, and took her to her check-ups. Even with her powers on the low end she could tell that he had deep feelings for her, but there was more then that. He was a genuinely nice guy. A very rare breed indeed, and he wanted to help her in anyway he could.

Once lunch was finished, Raven made an attempt to clean up, but he gently pushed her down. She huffed and stayed were she was.

"So when are you leaving on your business trip?" Raven asked.

"Tomorrow." he called from the kitchen. "And I'll be gone for a week, so your not allowed to have your baby until I get back." She rolled her eyes while rubbing her belly, her child kicking wildly causing her to groan. When he walked back he saw the discomfort in her face and he chuckled at her expense. "Let me guess. Kicking again?"

She nodded. "All day every day." James continued to laugh as his phone started to buzz, his face falling when he saw the text message. "You gotta go?"

He nodded. "Yup. The joys of running your own business." He pocketed his phone. "Do you need anything else."

She shook her head. "No, now leave before I feel like a leech."

He smiled again, that smile she came to know and love. "You'd never be a leech." He leaned in gave her a quick kiss on her forehead and left her home. The good-byes were always awkward. She could feel his affection for her, and she made it clear she didn't want a relationship until her child was born, but maybe afterwards, and he was fine with that. A relationship really was the last thing on her mind, right now she just wanted to be ready for her baby. She rubbed her belly contently, smiling down at the large lump.

"I can't wait to meet you." she whispered and leaned back on the couch to try and nap, if her kicking child would allow her. "Mostly so you'd stop kicking my ribs."

A few days later.

Beast Boy felt his stomach rumble for the second time in a minute. He honestly didn't remember the last time he ate, or slept, or anything for that matter, but he didn't care. He couldn't care. In his mind he didn't deserve sleep, or food, or comfort, or anything until he found Raven safe and sound. He didn't care if she never came back to the tower, if she was never a Titan again, he just had to see her alive with his own two eyes, then maybe he could get some piece. But no matter what he did, no matter where he went, he couldn't find her, and his depression and guilt continued to eat away at him like a carniverous bacteria.

He was in the form of a Falcon as he made a landing on top of the roof top of the tower, of course it was a rough landing. He shifted back into his normal form, coming to a rolling and painful stop, before shakily getting back to his feet. As he made it to the door though he stopped. He cocked his head to the side, his ears standing on end, as he listened and felt. He felt as if something from the city was calling him, he didn't know what or why, but he felt a NEED to be . . . somewhere. The growling of his stomach weakened his knees, so he ignored the feeling as best he could, but it would continue to plague him.

"Your doing great Aderyn!" The female doctor tried to encourage, but all she did was make the half-demon want to rip her head off and bite into it like an apple. "Just a few more pushes." Raven's water had broken earlier that day, and since James was out of town she had to call for an ambulance to take her. Another unholy contraction hit her and she pushed with all of her might. "It's starting to crown!" Raven sat back after the last push, the likelyhood of her killing Beast Boy for doing this to her was getting higher and higher. "Your doing great just a few more pushes."

Another contraction. With a glutteral growl, and blood red eyes she pushed with all of her might.

. . . .

. . . .

"WHAAAAA WHHHAAAAA WHAAAAA!"

Beast Boy sat on the edge of the tower, a tofu sandwich in his hands, and two more waiting to be devoured right next to him. As soon as he would be done with his food he would take off into the city again to search f-

His head jerked up. His ears twitched. What was that noise? It sounded like . . . a cry . . . a baby? His ears took in the faint sound of a baby crying on the wind, the very sound seemed to awaken something within him, but he couldn't place it, but whatever it was filled his very soul with a warm sense of love, happiness and hope. Tears filled his eyes as the familiar and old feelings began to swim in his heart, but as soon as the crying started it stopped. He strained his ears, cursing his dehydration and malnutrition for not being as in tuned with his senses. After he waited a few more minutes of silence he slumped his shoulders, the warmth in his heart turning back to ice.

"I guess it was . . . just the wind." He didn't finish his sandwich after that.

Raven couldn't believe it. The high pitched screaming of HER child filled her heart, and soul with so much joy, it was the most beautiful sound in the entire world, and it was coming from HER child. The doctors immediately put some drops in the still screaming childs eyes to prevent the goop she was covered in from getting into her them and risk infection, then wrapping the baby loosely in a blanket they took the child to it's mother.

"Miss Aderyn Taylor? Would you like to hold your daughter?"

Raven wanted to say a loud "HELL YES", but only managed to weakly nod. The doctor placed her daughter onto Raven's chest and immediately the babies cries faded into whimpers as she grabbed for her mother with her little hands.

"She's perfect." Raven sobbed. She didn't care she was crying at this point, this was what she was waiting for, for the last nine months. "She's finally-" she looked up through her tear filled eyes, only to find that no one was there, but doctors and nurses who were talking amongst themselves not paying the least amount of attention to the young mother. There was no proud grandparents, no happy brothers and sisters, and no husband to help welcome this little girl into the world. . . just her. Raven looked back down to her baby and the feeling of lonliness faded, but it was gone again when they had to take the baby girl away to get her cleaned up. Raven shrunk back when they came to take her baby, ready to rip apart anyone who DARED touch her daughter, but she knew her little girl was safe, they just needed to check her. Reluctantly the nurses took her daughter, and the feeling of lonliness overcame her again.

For what felt like an eternity she laid there waiting for them to return then finally the nurse with a large smile on her face and a small bundle in her arms approached Raven. "Here she is." She said sweetly.

Raven eagerly took her baby into her arms and looked over her daughter now that she was clean of goop. The first thing that stood out to her was a slight dusting of curly hair on her head, it was blonde. She tilted her head in slight confusion. Blonde? Why would she be-OH WAIT! Beast Boy was a blonde before he turned green. The next thing she noticed were her ears. They were pointed. She gasped in amazement and happiness, it was the cutest thing she had ever seen in her life, and yes Raven used the word "cute". Unfortunately Raven wasn't able to tell what her skin color was just yet, but hopefully she would get a better idea as she grew over the next few days. Working at a library she had access to a lot of baby books, all of which said the skin and the eye color would change over time.

And speaking of eyes.

Once the baby girl was given to her mother she opened her eyes a crack, the light making her close them quickly, but Raven still caught the sight of blue. Huh blonde hair and blue eyes. Wonderful. Although she didn't care, at this moment in time was the happiest moment of her life.

Raven looked down with complete adoration at the little life in her arms. Currently Raven and her daughter were in the living room of her apartment while Raven's little girl filled her tiny tummy with her mothers sweet breast milk. This was by far her favorite part of the whole motherhood experience. The suckling and grunting of her daughter as she ate was just the most wonderful sound she had ever heard. Looking down at her daughter she had a perfect view of her pointed ears which Raven was just in love with, she wondered what colored eyes she was going have, but at this point her skin was light and fair, not pale or green. Something she was thankful for.

A knock at her door brought her from her musings. She hurridly covered herself with a blanket since her daughter was still feeding. Reaching out her power she felt that James was on the other side of the door. "Come in." she said with a smile.

He hesitantly entered, a bag in his hand, his eyes growing into the size of dinner plates when he saw her. "I-Is that?-" Raven nodded. He scoffed playfully. "I thought I told you to wait?"

"Well you know what they say, 'when you gotta go, you gotta go'." They shared a laugh as he took a seat next to her.

"Can I see her?"

She rolled her eyes. "She's kinda busy right now."

"That's okay I don't mind." She glared at him, as he laughed.

"Nice try. When she's done, you can look at her." They sat quietly listening to the baby girl eat her fill.

"Oh I got this for her." He reached into the bag he had with him and revealed a stuff animal.

Raven's smile faded.

He noticed this. "Is something wrong? You don't like it? I'm sorry I di-"

"No, no, no, it's not that. I-uh it's just an interesting color." Raven stared with a sad smile at the very GREEN teddy bear.

He shrugged sheepishly. "It was the only thing I could find at the airport terminal." Raven shook her head, then she felt her daughter detach from her breast indicating that she was done. She eyed James who looked away while she tucked her breast away and brought the little girl to her shoulder, and started to pat her back.

"You can look now." James turned back around, his eyes getting the exact same look of love in his eyes.

"Oh Adi . . . she is beautiful."

She smiled, then her little girl let out a small burp. "She says thank you." They laughed again, then he squinted his eyes.

"What's wrong with her ears?"

Raven could tell he was just curious, but something about his tone rubbed her the wrong way. She pushed it away thinking as she thought of the best lie. "Dunno, but the doctors say she's fine, so she's fine."

James continued to stare at her little ears then shrugged it off. "Can . . . I hold her?"

Raven smiled slowly handing him her little girl. He took her gently, even if he was slightly uneasy with her, but he got the hang of it and cradled her softly in her arms. She grunted when she shifted arms for a bit, but settled in to the mans warmth. Raven watched as James looked down with love, but her eyes landed on the green stuffed Bear on the ground. She couldn't help but wonder if Beast Boy would have this much love for HIS child.

Beast Boy walked through the double common room doors and headed for the kitchen for something to eat, not even noticing his entire team was in the living room, waiting for him.

"Beast Boy." Beast Boy ignored his team leader, wanting to just get something to eat and get back to his room, but once he turned around, he was walked into the giant metal chest of his best friend.

"Get out of my way Cy." Beast Boy's teammates looked at him with absolute pity. His voice was hoarse, his eyes were dark and baggy from exhaustion, his uniform was hanging off of his body, and he smelled aweful.

"What are you going to do Beast Boy?" Cyborg asked crossing his arms.

"Eating this then going to look for Raven." Normally when Beast Boy was asked that question he made up an answer, but he was too exhausted to come up with a lie.

"Beast Boy, you must stop." Starfire pleaded. "You do not look well."

"I'm fine." he snapped. He made a move to get around Cyborg, but he kept the pale green boy in front of him.

"Cut the shit Beast Boy." Terra approached her boyfriend. "Look at yourself." Beast Boy looked at himself in the reflection of Cyborg's armor, he cringed slightly.

"I don't care. I have to find-"

"Beast Boy . . . you need to stop . . . " Robin approached his teammate, placing a hand on his shoulder. "It's been months. You need to accept that . . . "

Beast Boy spun around grabbing the Boy Wonder by his cape, but he didn't have enough strength to push him away. "She's not . . ." He couldn't shout, he couldn't fight, he couldn't do anything, but beg. "She's not gone. She's not gone." Robin took Beast Boy into his arms as he fell to the ground in a crying mess. "She's not gone. She's not gone . . . " He said over and over and over again, trying to convince himself.

"WHAAAAA WHAAAAA WHAAAAA." It was the middle of the night and Raven's little girl had been crying non-stop for the last half hour. Raven didn't know what to do. She fed her, she burped her, she changed her, and still she cried.

She sat in the rocking chair looking at her daughter with pleading eyes.

"Please!" she begged over her daughters screeching. "What do you want!? I've fed you, I've burped you, what do you want?! Please! Tell me!" She begged and pleaded, but all the little girl did was flail her little limbs and shriek.

Raven thought back to the books she read, yes babies would just cry for no reason, but this was rediculous. She thought of anything that could help her, but nothing was working. Finally she had an idea, a conversation she had years and years ago that was completely ludicrous, but she was desperate.

She cleared her throat. "Why did the cookie go to the doctor? . . . because he was feeling a little crumby." No . . . freakin . . . way. Her daughter's screams had died down to soft wimpers, but she was still fussy and flailing about. Oh well whatever works. "What do you call two banana peels?. . . a pair of slippers. Uh . . . why did the Ardvark cross the street? . . . to beat up the idiot telling jokes about him." A bunch of stupid jokes later, her little girl had finally quieted down, her mother just shaking her head.

"You really are your fathers daughter." After a little while longer the baby girl was asleep. Raven took her daughter to her crib and laid her down. Raven took in the sight of her . . . and Beast Boy's daughter. She wondered if she would ever tell him about her . . . but he was with Terra and they had their happy little life. She wasn't going to ruin his life with THEIR daughter. Right now it was just her, her daughter . . . and James.

Raven stroked her daughters cheek. "Good-night my little Farah."

I hope you like what you read, and I'm anxious to hear your thoughts and feelings.

See ya next time.