Jinx and Star sat in Starfire's room, enjoying 'the talk of girls'. It had been a few months since Jinx had moved in with Cyborg, and Starfire had declared that they needed to have a girl-only sleepover. Jinx agreed whole heartedly, as she had never been invited to one before, and was as eager to experience it as Starfire. Since neither of them knew what was supposed to happen at such events, Starfire had borrowed an 'instructional' tape from Cyborg's private library. After watching it in Starfire's room, however...they were both pretty sure it was inaccurate.
"Tell me, friend Jinx...what those girls were doing...it looked most uncomfortable?" Starfire said when both their blushing had died down enough to speak.
"Umm...well, for certain types of friends, it's supposed to be pleasurable, as I understand it." Jinx was quite uncomfortable. She knew Cyborg had a collection, as it were. All guys did, as far as she knew. She didn't like the idea that Star had gotten access to it.
"Are...we that type of friend?" Starfire asked, both interested and worried.
"Well, Starfire, do you find me attractive?"
"Well, I know that Cyborg certainly-"
"No, I mean are you attracted to me?"
"Oh! No, most definately not...not that you aren't bad looking, I just-"
"You don't swing that way, as the saying goes." Seeing Starfire's confusion, she amended, "You don't look at girls that way. The only one you're attracted to that way is Robin, right?"
"Oh, yes!" Starfire blinked. "Although our behaviors have not been as...imaginative as those displayed in the video, I do find them most pleasurable."
"Wait wait wait...you and Robin have been getting it on? Doing the nasty? The horizontal tango?" At Star's continued confusion, "Having sex? Making love?"
"The last one, yes." Starfire was blushing now. "Perhaps this is something that should not be discussed?"
"Are you kidding? This is girl talk gold! Go on, spill the details!"
"Well..." Starfire gave Jinx a mischevious glance. "Some of them are quite...extreme, I believe the word is. I would want to be sure that I will not leave you too traumatized or shocked. Just how...experienced are you in these matters?"
Jinx looked straight at her. "You're not fooling anyone, Starfire. YOu wanna know how far I've gone with Cyborg, since we share a room."
"It is only fair. Robin and I do not share the room, and you know how far we have gone."
"Well...okay, yeah, I see your point. And yes, we have gone all the way."
"All of what way? I am confused."
Jinx sighed. "Remind me to get you a dictionary of Earth slang some time soon. I mean that we have been making love as well...quite frequently, actually, since our first time a couple weeks ago."
Starfire giggled. "My first time with Robin was a couple of weeks ago as well. Perhaps it was the same night?"
Jinx grinned wickedly. "Maybe. So come on, spill. I asked first, so you go first."
"Well...alright."
The two friends spent a good portion of the night talking about the things their boyfriend's did to make them feel good. After that - and a pillow fight, just so they could say they did - they fell into an exhausted slumber, curled up next to each other.
Early the next morning, Jinx rushed into the bathroom. "Move over," she mumbled to Star, retching into the toilet. They took turns at that for some time before staggering out to the main room.
"Friend Cyborg," Starfire said. "I believe you need to give Jinx and I the checking up. I believe we have captured the insect."
By now, Cyborg was used to Star's butchered coloquiallisms and just smiled. "Okay let's get to the med lab."
At the med lab, Cyborg ran the tests - with Robin hovering over Starfire - and came up with the results. He grinned wickedly at Starfire's results, but looked with shock at Jinx' results.
"I have the results," he said, his voice down a little. "Neither of you is sick. You're both pregnant."
Starfire squeeled in joy, hugging Robin. "Oh, Robin! We are having the bumgorf!" Robin looked ready to faint.
Jinx didn't look much better. "That's impossible!" she shouted at last.
"What do you mean?" Cyborg asked, confused.
"My ovaries don't work! It's a birth defect." She looked away, sadness in her eyes. "It's...what Blood used to get me to follow him so easily. He convinced me he could fix it..."
Cyborg ran through several rapid trains of thought, and finally came across one with a happy conclusion. "I think you both should try and get in contact with Raven. She'll certainly be happy to hear about this...and probably be able to explain to you how you got pregnant, Jinx, when neither of us produces reproductive cells."
Jinx stared at Cyborg. She knew how his mind worked. She knew the inescapable conclusion he must have come to when he first saw the results. All things considered, she couldn't blame him for it, and understood his relief at learning that this had to be magical. She smiled. "We'll do that, tin man."
Later, in Raven's old room, Jinx was searching through the stuff. Starfire was nervous. "Raven does not like people in her room..."
"Well, I don't know any spells for people finding or long distance communication. THe only way I know of to contact someone through magic is through something magically connected to them. Yes!" she said, pulling out Raven's magic mirror. "Like this!"
"Won't friend Raven be upset with us?"
"Not once she hears our news. Now, we'll need to use ehr chant to make this work."
They sat down together and chanted. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos...Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos..."
In Upper Lamumba, Raven suddenly felt a gentle tug at her mind, and let her shadow - and her awareness - follow it back to the Tower.
Back in the Tower, Starfire and Jinx were shocked as Raven's shadow took shape over the mirror, full sized. She glanced around. "You are in my room..." she glanced down, "...and using my mirror, without my permission. Starfire, Jinx, this better be big."
"We are pregnant!" Star shouted with glee.
Raven's eyes widened. "Really? You guys, too?" She rested her hand on her abdomen, where her shadow showed the slight swelling.
"Friend Raven, this is wonderful news! Why did you not contact us?" Starfire attempted to hug Raven...and phased right through the image.
"I'm not really here, Star. And Gar and I have been kinda busy setting up our homestead. Even with magic, it's not easy setting up a vegetable garden and house from scratch, especially one that can stand up to the kind of weather we sometimes get."
Jinx spoke up. "Raven...how could I get pregnant?"
Raven smirked. "The usual way, I'd imagine."
"No, I mean...My ovaries don't produce eggs, and Cyborg can't make sperm since he became cybernetic, so how-"
"Magic."
Jinx blinked at Raven. "I actually know how magic works. THat's not a catch all for me."
"When two people engage in the act of making love, it's more than a physical act. It also has mystical implications, as their life forces intermingle. For those without magic, this is of no significance beyond the romantic. But for mages..." She smiled. "In your case, your magic alters probability based on your desires?" Jinx nodded. "When you and Cyborg made love, you wanted to be able to have a baby - his baby - so badly, that your magic made it happen. There is no telling what the child will be like genetically, but mystically the child growing in your womb is a litteral blending of your two life forces."
Jinx' eyes went wide. "You mean...this happened because I wanted it to happen?"
Raven nodded. "Also because Cyborg wanted it to happen, probably. Congrtulatiuons to both of you. Where are you going to hold the weddings?"
Jinx and Starfire looked at each other. "Umm..."
Raven rolled her eyes. "You hadn't even thought about it yet, had you?" She sighed. "Well, give me a call when you do, okay? I gotta go. Garfield just got here with the Ibix."
Starfire's eyes went wide. "Beast Boy killed an ibix for you? He must truely love you beyond imagining."
Raven smiled sadly. "He didn't kill it...he drove it here live." The shadow vanished.
Starfire and Jinx looked at each other, then shuddered. "While Raven is my dear friend, her new carniverous needs will take a great deal of getting used to."
"Agreed," Jinx said. "Come on, we've got weddings to arrange."
They went to go confront certain important issues with their respective beaus.