Jinx sat back in her bed, idly lost in thought. It had been two months since the discovery of her and Star's simultaneous pregnancies. Within a couple of weeks, things had been arranged and they'd held the weddings - in Upper Lamumba, in Garfield's tribe's village, so that he and Raven could attend. Raven was Starfire's maid of honor, and Bumblebee stood with Jinx. Garfield wound up pulling double duty, being best man for
They would have held the wedding even sooner, but they had to wait until Galfore could arrange things to be there, since he had the farthest to travel. Batman was also invited. Unfortunately, Jinx and Cyborg didn't have any family of their own to invite...
Surprisingly enough, though, a few old friends wound up crashing the party, just to offer congratulations and wish her well. Mammoth, Gizmo, and Seemore showed up through one of Kid Wykkid's portals, and they all had presents! Jinx was so happy to see them, even if they were on opposite sides now. Mammoth put it best and simplest, she thought: "We may be enemies now, but we were friends first. 'Sides, chrome dome was a good friend as Stone, and he's good for you."
She couldn't help but laugh at Mammoth's simple yet accurate representation of things. At Cyborg's insistence, the four were given temporary immunity from hero persecution - comeplete with free getaway this once - provided they were on their best behavior. Gizmo almost broke that when he gave them his congratulations. To Cyborg he had said, "You'd better treat her right, circuit brain, or I'll turn you into a video player showing nothing but Teletubbies!"
Garfield had diffused the situation by laughing uproariously, saying that it was "a good, original threat," and they went on with the party. Gizmo and the other Hive Five members were quite shocked to find out Jinx was pregnant. They had known about her birth defect. Mammoth spoke before Jinx could.
"Anyone ever hurts the kid, they'll answer to me!"
Apparently, friendship was more important than alignment.
Back in the present, Jinx gazed around the room. Cyborg had made a few changes since they got back. Carpets, curtains, the whole works. The room now looked like a room, rather than a lab, and he had fixed the shower to be normally functioning in adition to his cleansing cycles...although Jinx still occasionally made use of that one button when everyone else was out crime fighting. She and Starfire were put on 'maternity leave'. Surprisingly enough, Mammoth and Seemore had shown up to take up the slack. She still laughed to herself, remembering the look on Robin's face when they showed up. Of course, Robin went by Nightwing, now. Not that that ever stopped Kitten from calling him 'Robby-poo' whenever she showed up. She wasn't fixated on him the way she was when she had been trying to date him, but it still made him wince when she did it.
The dor slid open, and Cyborg walked in, carrying a tray with a steaming bowl. "Here you go, love," he said, balancing it ove her lap carefully. "Just what you ordered."
Jinx dug in heartily. She had started having the wierd food cravings she had heard came with every pregnancy. Cyborg had been a dream about it, as a rapid recharge could have him fully awake in moments, and with the strange diets of some of the Titans, he rarey had to leave the Tower to satisfy her late night cravings...with rare exceptions, which he had some problems with.
"I can't believe any kid of mine would make you crave tofu stew," Cyborg grumbled. "Garfield would never let me hear the end of it if he found out."
Jinx nearly chocked on her stew as she pictured that interchange. Putting down her spoon, she managed to get the laugh out. Smiling, she pulled Cyborg into a tight hug, lanting a kiss on his cheek.
He smiled foolishly. Despite everything, she still had him wrapped tightly around her little finger, and could shut his brain down completely with the slightest show of affection.
After she finished her stew, she lanced down at herself as Cyborg took the tray away. She knew her body would go through changes due to the pregnancy, but...
"Cyborg, do you think my boobs are getting bigger?" she asked, turning to give him the profile, pulling her night shirt tight across them.
There was a clatter as Cyborg fell over backwards with a nosebleed, dropping the tray.
Jinx stared. "Oops," she said innocently, and laughed wickedly