Are you excited? WELL YOU SHOULD BE.


Shock didn't even begin to describe how Raven felt. The world around her almost seemed to change, morph from real life to someone else's sick, twisted, made up story. It didn't help that everyone around her was staring at her like a circus freak, either. All four of their mouths had dropped open, incredulous and aghast. Raven's eyes traveled to each of them; Robin, Starfire, Cyborg and... When her glassy gaze landed on Beast Boy, the receiver below them suddenly blew up, bouncing off the floor a couple of feet, sparking and hissing. The noise helped to snap Raven out of her haze, and rage welled up inside her. If the other Titans didn't know whose baby she the pregnant with, they were about to find out.

Raven stomped forward, seizing Beast Boy in her dark magic.

"Whoa, hey!" he yelled, scared for his life now. The dark magic crept up to around his neck, almost tight enough to choke him as Raven stalked out of the room, her eye twitching. Once she and Beast Boy were out of the room, him still writhing and trying to get free of her indestructible hold, she grabbed him by the collar, letting her magic release him.

She threw him against the wall, her anger giving her the strength of a hundred Ravens and making her eyes glow red. When she blinked, another set of eyes appeared, revealing her true identity to the frightened green Titan. "What the fuck?" she yelled. "You got me pregnant? You didn't use protection?"

"I did! I did!" Beast Boy choked, eyes wide with fear. "Every time I swear!"

"Liar!" The sconces surrounding them on the walls ignited, exploding into shards of glass and metal. Beast Boy winced, swallowing hard. Raven bared her teeth at him, leaning in close. "How could you do this to me?"

"Calm down, calm down!" exclaimed Reason. "Don't do this again!"

Love bit her lip in worry."He obviously didn't mean to, Rae!"

Raven held him up off the ground, him kicking his feet. She moved her grip to his neck, nearly cutting off his air supply. "I swear to God–"

The rest of the team ran out into the hall, searching for them. They spotted Raven nearly choking Beast Boy and rushed in, Robin pouncing her and Cyborg running up to help restrain her. Beast Boy dropped to the floor, sputtering and coughing. Starfire patted him on the back, eyes round as she watched Raven kick and holler.

"Let go of me!" she screamed. "Let go!" Even her strength could break through the robotic teen's and the team leader's. Before she could fully escape, Starfire was there, using her alien strength to also hold down the demon.

Raven couldn't think, couldn't think at all. Her rage was taking over, practically shutting her out and taking her place. Her blood boiled, racing through her veins, her heart pumped too fast. She wanted to kill something, or someone. But she couldn't exactly help it. She was born this way, born as half a demon and half something else. Something better, nicer, stronger. She tried to keep the demon emotions and feelings bottled up, hidden away in a part of her brain that she very rarely visited. And by very rarely, she meant never. She had had to deal with them once, when traveling into her subconscious, and they took the form of her father. Beast Boy and Cyborg had helped defeat them, but all this time they've been building up again, waiting to explode. This happened to be the perfect time.

As Robin yelled instructions to Beast Boy, the green teammate scurrying off, Raven barely felt like herself. She felt like she was trapped in her body, not controlling her movements or thoughts, but still there, watching in horror. Beast Boy returned a moment later, holding a syringe filled with milky liquid. He bent down as she struggled against the others, wiping hair away from her neck as she writhed.

"Sorry baby," he said, sticking the needle in the side of her neck and quickly plunging the serum into her flesh. He pulled it out, stepping back immediately and watching his girlfriend slow.

Everything was dimming, and Raven felt her body growing weak. She barely fought against her teammates, putting in one final struggle before she blacked out. Her vision was blurring, and she had to put up a fight to keep her eyes open, but the drug won. Her body went limp, and her eyes closed. Though she couldn't move or see, she still heard everything around her.

"Get her to the hospital wing," Robin said bitterly, letting her go.

"When will she wake up?" Beast Boy asked, concerned, as Cyborg picked up the languid teen.

"A few hours," replied Robin. "Until then, you have some explaining to do."

"Indeed," agreed Starfire.

The last thing Raven heard before completely going under, was Cyborg's low chuckle. "You sure put up a helluva fight." Then everything shut down.


A figure stood alone in a dark corner, watching. Watching over Raven as she slept. The Titans had her in a gurney, a heart monitor slowly beeping against the far wall. The figure swiftly swooped in, staring down at the fallen teen. "Soon you will be gone," they whispered, leaning down to whisper right in Raven's ear. "Very soon."


Raven's eyes sprang open, then closed against the bright florescent lights above her. She slowly opened them again, letting her eyes adjust to the intense bright. She glanced around, taking in her surroundings. She was in one of the Tower's hospital rooms, the walls painted a sickly blue, the cold from the linoleum rising up just enough to tickle the underneath of her bed, making her shiver. A heart monitor kept track of her beating heart, pushed against the wall to her left. She tried to sit up, but was stopped by something over her chest. Looking down, she was incredulous to find restraints over her body, four of them. One over her bust, one over her hips and the others over her legs.

"What the..." She wiggled, but found it was no use. Cyborg knew what he was doing when he put them on. She thought back, wondering why they would have even put restraints on her. She was confused and upset, not remembering what had happened to make them so cautious. But then it all came flooding back to her; the phone call; the news; the fight; the syringe; the anger; the rage–

Her heart rate sped up, the machine chiming madly. Raven snapped her head over to it wildly, seeing that in the corner of the screen, a warning alarm would go off when it got to a certain rate. Don't want them coming in to drug me again. So she forced herself to take a few deep breaths, beginning to meditate. That always seemed to relax her, and the beeps from the monitor said it did, too. "Azerath metrion zinthos..." She continued on like that for a while, but stopped suddenly when she heard the whoosh of the hall door that lead to her room opening.

"Hope she has her emotions a bit more under control now," said Robin.

Raven closed her eyes and lay perfectly still, hearing his voice and footsteps approach her.

"That was quite a fight she put up."

"Yeah," came Cyborg's voice on the other side of her. "Think she'll be wakin' up soon?"

"Pretty soon." Raven felt them staring down at her for a few long moments and wanted to squirm under their gazes. Robin at last sighed. "I don't know what to do, Cyborg," he said, sounding tired. "She just got that new position, and she's an excellent Titan, but...but now..."

"She's preggers?" Cyborg finished for him.

Robin let out another sigh. "Yes."

"Hmm."

"Losing her would be detrimental to the team, but at the same time, we can't have her go around fighting when she's in this condition."

Cyborg shifted his weight. "It would be dangerous, her having a baby in there and all."

A baby.

Robin again sighed. "She's gonna have to take a break from being a Titan."

"Agreed," came Starfire's voice from the end of the room. Raven felt the wind of her floating closer. "Though it would be a terrible loss, she must protect the tiny person growing in her whom. She cannot do that while she is fighting crime. I think it is best for her to take a break, as you said Robin."

"But who's going to take her place as second-in-command?" asked Cyborg.

"Well..." Robin paused for a moment. "...Star?"

Starfire gasped. "Me? Robin I would be honored! Thank you so very much! I must call my k'norfka!"

Raven's skin crawled. First Beast Boy knocking her up, now this? She wanted to break free of these restraints and demand Robin give her back the position. She wanted to somehow reverse time so she had never gotten pregnant. Truth is, she didn't even know how far along she was, or when it had been conceived. She was still getting over the fact that she was actually pregnant. It didn't seem real, she didn't want it to be real. She's too young...she's not ready...she has other goals in life she wanted to accomplish before even thinking of having children.

She couldn't take listening to them talk like she wasn't there, so she feigned waking up, opening her eyes slowly and squinting at their faces. "Robin? Cyborg?"


They let her free of the restraints almost right away, first asking her if she felt alright. They assured her that the serum wouldn't hurt her baby, and she cringed when Robin got a funny look on his face when he said it. They were almost disgusted, surprised, aghast that anything like this would ever happen, especially between two teammates.

"So..." Cyborg glanced down, not meeting Raven's gaze. "...want to tell us what's been going on?"

Raven leaned forward on her hands as she sat on the gurney, glaring at him. "No."

"Raven," Robin started in carefully, "things like this shouldn't happen. There shouldn't be any...romance in the Tower."

She clenched her teeth. "Really now? Well why is it that you're boning Starfire then?"

His mouth dropped open and his eye twitched under the mask. Cyborg's head snapped over, gaping at his superior. "Really?"

"I..." The dark-haired teen set his jaw tight. "That-that's not important right now. We're not talking about me, we're talking about you and...Beast Boy."

"Why do you say 'Beast Boy' like he's disgusting?" Raven demanded. She didn't like him talking about her boyfriend like that. Sure, she had wanted to kill him earlier. Hey, she still kinda did, but nobody talks bad about him on her watch.

Robin and Cyborg exchanged looks, not commenting.

Raven scoffed, hopping down from the bed. "You do think he's disgusting, don't you?"

Cyborg immediately stood from his chair, backing up a step and holding an arm out. "No, no, it's not that." His eyes darted from her, to the gurney. "Could you...could you get back on the bed, please?"

She rolled her eyes at him, but complied. "I'm not going to kill you." Right now, she wanted to add, but kept her trap shut.

"Anyway," said Robin, obviously a bit frustrated and upset that Raven spilled the beans about him Starfire, "we need to talk about something else: your position." They basically said to her again what she had heard, including a few more details about the safety and how it was against a policy somewhere in the Titan contract. Tears welled up in Raven's eyes when they told her she had to pack up and leave, but she put on a brave face, trying not to seem overly emotional. She felt terrible about leaving. This had been her home and these people had been her friends for years. They felt like family to her practically, and now she had to leave all because of a condom breaking or something.


As she left the wing, one lone tear trickling down her cheek, she realized she didn't regret the sex with Beast Boy – it had been wonderful. She bitched at herself for not checking to make sure he wore protection all those times. Because, you know, he isn't the sharpest knife in the block. He could have easily forgotten, but still, when sharing something like that with somebody, he should have been considerate enough to double and triple check. He most likely knows what happens when a baby is conceived, and that it would put a hold on everything important to Raven in her life. That hurt her the most, thinking Beast Boy didn't care enough about her and her life to be careful.

When she got to her room and opened the door, she was surprised, but not too surprised, to see empty boxes lying around her bed, ready for her to fill them up and leave. She sat down at the foot of her bed, amid boxes and rolls of tape. Her body began to tremble as sobs wracked her, tears freely falling from her eyes and onto the floor. She grabbed her face in her hands, feeling completely lost and alone. It was obvious everyone needed her to go, and she didn't even know if she could trust Beast Boy anymore. She crumpled herself up into a fetal position, lying back on her bed as she cried.

After a while, she eventually got tired of crying. No use crying over spilled milk. Besides, it wasn't going to fix any of her problems. So she began to pack, so upset she thought she was going to vomit.

"You're really just going to leave?" demanded Lust, speaking up for the first time in a while. "What about Beast Boy?"

"What about him?" snapped Raven bitterly.

"Well, he's your baby-daddy."

"Whooptie fucking doo. I'll be fine on my own."

Lust shut up, knowing there was no reasoning with Raven. Reason even knew there was no reasoning with her, so she was quiet, also.

Raven was done no less than a half hour later, having used all but one of the boxes. She glanced inside, noticing a paper sticking out from under a flap. She picked it up, curiously, and flipped it over. Scrawled on the paper was a list of web addresses for apartments. How am I going to have money for an apartment?


Robin had said she could have one more night at the Tower, so she left out one pair of clothes on her dresser. She could just throw her dirty ones in the remaining box when she was ready to go. So Raven walked to the kitchen slowly, feeling numb. She hadn't seen Beast Boy since he stuck her with a needle full of knock-out drugs, and was grateful that she hadn't. She didn't feel like dealing with him right now, though it sounded horrible, since the baby is half his. Raven arrived at the main room, the door sliding open as usual. She glanced around, hoping no one would be in the room. No one was.

She slid over to the fridge, longing for a snack. As she dug through the old leftovers and tofu, she felt a breeze on the back of her neck. She whirled around, finding Starfire sitting on the counter behind her. "Hey."

Starfire smiled at her evilly. "How is your baby doing?"

Raven turned back to the fridge and growled. "Who cares. And what do you care, anyways? You'll all be rid of me soon."

Starfire picked a piece of lint off of her cropped purple top. "Just thought I should know, since I was a part of the baby's creation."

Raven's hand dropped from the handle of the refrigerator, swinging back to her side. Oh no she didn't. She spun slowly to face her. The alien smiled triumphantly, looking pleased. "What the fuck did you just say?" Raven said icily.


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