A Decision to Make

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Raven is having a hard time dealing with a problem and shuts everyone out. Thinking the worst, Beast Boy finally becomes fed up. He digs the problem out and tries to solve it.

Raven sat in the bathroom of Titans' Tower. All she could do was stare at the item sitting on the counter. She was numb. Raven couldn't even form clear thoughts.

We should have been more careful.

We were careful.

How could this happen?

I followed my calendar.

All these thoughts came at her at once. They used condoms. They waited until she was no longer ovulating by her chart. How could it have happened? They were heroes. This could not happen to them. It just couldn't.

Beast Boy had not seen his girlfriend all week. He was beginning to worry. Raven has shut herself away before but not for this long. She turned everyone away who knocked at her door, even Robin, her closest friend. All too many things were running through his mind.

Was she mad at him?

Was she scared of how far they'd come?

Did she want to break up with him?

Far too many thoughts and all of them happened to bad. Feeling distraught, Beast Boy walked to Raven's door and knocked frantically. "Raven! Come on it's me. Babe please open the door."

There was only silence in response. Beast Boy strained to try to hear his girlfriend inside. All he could hear was the ticking of her alarm clock. Beast Boy transformed into a fly and flew under the door slit at the bottom. Once inside, he transformed back into his original form. He looked around to find an empty room. The room itself was a wreck. Clothes were torn and scattered everywhere, book s were cracked open all over the floor, and her trinkets were turned over. Beast Boy walked into Raven's private bathroom to find her sitting in the fetal position in her bath tub.

"Rae…what's going on?" Beast Boy said in a whisper of a voice.

Raven just looked at him. Tears were running down her cheeks. Then she looked at her sink and passed him still silent. Beast Boy looked in the direction Raven was staring at. "Rae what is that?"

"What do you think it is?" She said just above a whisper.

Beast Boy looked at the stick more closely.

"Raven?"

She didn't respond. Beast Boy turned around to pull her to her feet. "Raven is this why you've been locked away?"

All Raven could do was nod her head in response trying not to let out the sob that was trapped in her chest. Beast Boy pulled his girlfriend into a hug. "Rae you know I love you right? You know I'm always here for you." He whispered into her ear.

Raven nodded into his shoulder. "What are we going to do?"

"I know what I want to do, but it's up to you. It's your body babe."

"Which is what?"

"I would obviously want to keep the baby."

"Even if it ended up like me? It'll have my father's blood inside of it."

"So do you and you turned out to be a brave and kind person."

"I'm scared it will turn into a monster. I'm scared of the consequences of keeping a demon. What if something terrible happens? Our priority is to protect the city."

"Rae, we'll be the parents. We defeated your father. The baby will only have good influences, so it won't turn into a monster. Do you trust me?"

"Of course."

"Then nothing else matters."