Title: Violet
Rating: K
Characters: Raven, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Robin
Overusedness: Green-Skinned, Violet-Eyed Beauties
Notes: Is it just me or do a lot of people think of their kids having green skin and purple eyes? I personally think her eyes are more of an indigo-slightly-purple colour, but here we are! Prepare to be disappointed with their 'children'. Haha, seriously though, I wrote this at two in the morning. Sorry if it's odd. Thanks for all of the revies so far everybody! I really appreciate it and they're encouraging.

"I've been thinking Rae,"

"Oh Azar."

"And I thought you might be able to help me."

She turned to face his serious stare. "Yes?"

"Would ah… would my kids be green?"

"…pardon?"

He flushed a little and looked away. "I mean… I asked Cyborg but he said he wasn't sure how my… condition would react to certain…" he stole a glance at her and looked away again. "mothers."

"Beast Boy," she said softly. "You've just turned seventeen. Why would you be thinking about children right now?"

His eyes connected with hers and he heaved a sigh. "Yeah, you're right. Sorry for disturbing you. I can think about it in a couple years from now." He stood abruptly and left the room, leaving her to furrow her brows and purse her lips.

.:..:..:..:.

The next day, Raven was rather tired from having stayed up well into the hours of morning. She was the last one into the main room, which was a surprise in itself. Nobody was expecting her to just stand in the doorway, looking around blearily. Nobody was expecting her to glare at Beast Boy and march straight toward him. Well… they weren't very surprised at that last one, however. And most certainly was it not expected for her to sit right next to him, draw down her hood, and look him directly in the eyes as she said: "I don't know."

"What…?"

She sighed, running a hand through her hair. "Your kids. I… I did what research I could but…" Raven trailed off and then cleared her throat. "If you want to find out, then you're just going to have to wait until you have kids and find out."

He raised a curious brow, eyes glittering with an odd emotion. 'So, she does care.'

"There have been seven cases of genuine Sakutia in documentation. You, Garfield, are not one of them. You carry a mutated strain. In original cases, Sakutia is a virus that latches onto DNA. It enables whomever the host body may be to rewrite their own DNA, usually taking a primitive, instinctive path," she paused to make sure he was listening. "It's following those primitive instincts that the virus allows the host to shift. However, the virus is aggressive and often times lethal. But, as your infection is mutated… you survived."

She swallowed and averted her eyes. "Now, as with many viruses, it can hide. A virus can be passed down and present in offspring, however the child can just be a carrier. With Sakutia, carriers, too, have the ability to shift. If all they are is a carrier, though, they may not necessarily have green pigmentation. It may be reversed, where they have green skin and hair… and eyes… but no shifting capabilities. It could be that they are not affected by the virus inside them at all, not physically anyway.

"It could be where the virus isn't passed along, and the child is not a carrier. Yet, it could also be where the virus will latch onto them as well, and the offspring could be a mini you." She smiled a little, a tiny smile, meeting his eyes again. "They'd carry the virus, be green, and shift." Her smile melted, though. "Since your infection is mutated, they could very well live a happy, healthy life. But," she looked at her fisting hands, "They may develop the full blown virus and fall fatally ill within forty-eight hours."

He reached out and covered her hands. "In which case," he managed to say thickly, "I've got my parents notes on mutating the disease."

She looked up to meet his earnest gaze, and smiled lightly. "So, was that a totally useless way to spend my night or what? I hardly helped at all. I don't know which outcome would be dominant."

"No, Rae," He smiled warmly at her. "You did more than you could ever know. Thank you."

She nodded slowly.

They were simply gazing into each other's eyes, peering into the other's soul until somebody cleared his throat roughly. They jumped and turned to face the other three in the room, hands pulling apart. "So uh, you two discussing kids already?" Robin teased.

Raven glowered and threw her hood up. "I need to catch up on sleep. I'll see you at dinner."

Beast Boy watched her exit, a soft smile on his face. One it was just the guys and Starfire in the room he turned to face everybody. "Hey Cy? Can you reverse engineer a sample of my DNA to figure out how to mutate Sakutia?"

"Uh… probably. I thought you just said you had the notes on it, though?"

"I did. But I don't."

"So you lied to Raven?" Cyborg raised a brow.

The green man slumped against the couch cushions. "Yeah. I lied. I don't have the notes, all I have left of them is what belongs to my name as inheritance and what I had in my pocket when they… so no. I don't have the notes. Maybe they have some in a vault, but it's unlikely." He looked at the metal man with a sad smile. "It made her feel better about it though, didn't it?"

"It did." Everybody jumped to face Raven in the doorway.

"Raven!" Beast Boy leapt to his feet.

"I came back to get my uh.." she gestured lamely to the mug cupboard in the kitchen. "Why is it that when I try to make somebody feel more informed and prepared for an event in which they're stressed about, they end up consoling me instead?"

"Raven…" Beast Boy repeated, softer this time. "That's not it. That's never it. What you told me today… you have no idea how much it meant to me, do you?" He approached her and held her hands again. "I woke up yesterday and looked at the picture I had in my pocket when my parents died. It's framed now, my parents and I. I looked at it and had a sudden thought: would my kid be blonde with blue eyes? Would he be green?" He swallowed his hesitation and looked her dead in the eyes. "Would he have the second most gorgeous violet eyes in existence?"

When her breath hitched and her violet eyes widened, he continued, "So I asked Cy. He didn't know. So I asked you, and you told me I was an idiot. In other words, of course, but I got the message." He smiled. "And then you stay up all night for me and it's one of the best feelings in the world. And I mean it," he cut her off when she opened her mouth to protest. When her mouth closed he continued, "It meant so much to me, Rae. Means so much to me."

She shook her head. "So why, exactly, did you lie to me?"

"Well first off I figured Cy could finish reversing my DNA in the space of… at least three years. I dunno when I'm gonna have kids, exactly, but I'm only seventeen. As you said." He grinned. "Second, if you were the one to tell me there was a good chance my kids would die within two days, I feel as though you'd never forgive yourself."

When she made noises of protest, he gave her a look and squeezed her hands. "I know you like that, Rae. You're my best pal!" He ignored the splutters of Cy behind him and pulled her into a tight hug, smile a bit too big for her likings. None the less, she returned the hug shortly and moved to pull away. He only held on tighter, and she was forced to limply stand in his embrace, too tired to use her powers.

When he eventually let her go, she shook her head and rolled her eyes. "Alright, seriously this time. Tea then bed. See you later, Garfield."

When she left a little bit later, Cyborg sidled up next to Beast Boy. "So uh, your kids are gonna have purple eyes?"

Beast Boy turned to scowl at his friend's teasing expression. "Violet, Cy. Violet. Not purple."