Alright, here's chapter 14 for everybody. Hope you enjoy it.
*Authors Note - I do not own any of the Teen Titans, DC characters or the Grand Theft Auto Cities. I do however own Quake, my Original Character.
Also - 'This is Thinking' - "This is Talking"
Chapter 14 - The New Addition
Jinx POV
It's been 4 months since Quake and I moved into his place back in Los Santos. I must admit I was impressed at the size of his house. I didn't think he could afford it, but he told me he had plenty of money. I didn't ask how he acquired it and I really didn't care. The home was perfect for raising a family. The bulge in my stomach was starting to get more and more noticable since I was now 5 months along. Every day before he had to go out and be a hero he'd give me a kiss on my lips, then he'd bend down and plant a kiss on my stomach. He was really happy about being a father. The day after he was sitting on the couch, and I was laying down with my head on his lap. He reached over with his right hand and started to massage my stomach. I had to admit it felt really good when he did that, and I could feel the stress melting away. We then heard a knock at the door and I was surprised at who was there. It was Raven and Starfire, why were they here?
"Come on in ladies," Quake said. I was eyeing him questionably, wondering what he was up to. He, he couldn't, could he? They weren't here to take me to jail were they. He lied to me, I knew he would. And I just started crying hysterically.
Before I knew it he wrapped his arms around my shoulders and said, "Hey what's wrong?"
Through tears I said, "They're here to take me to jail, aren't they. I knew you hated me." and I continued crying.
"No, it's nothing like that. I thought that maybe you could use a girls day, you know. So I asked them over here."
"Oh..." I said, the last remnants of tears leaking out of my eyes, "I don't know why I would've thought otherwise."
"We'll just chalk that up to your mood swings." he chuckled, and I just glared at him and yelled out,
"Well you try carrying a brat in you for 5 months and we'll see if you get mood swings!" He backed up right away with his hands next to his face. I immediately looked down and said, "Sorry Nicholas, it's just-"
"I know. I expected as much. I saw my Mom during her pregnancy with Tracy so I do, vaguely, know what to expect."
I started to cry again and said, "I'm sorry for making you go through this Nick, I must be the worst girlfriend in the world. You don't deserve me."
He pulled my head into his chest and started to stroke it. "Hey, you're beautiful, intelligent, and you risked your life and former career as a villain to rescue me," he looked away from me so I pulled back from his chest, "If anything you deserve better than me."
I looked at him puzzled for a moment, but then I spoke up taking his cheek in my hand, "Nicholas, you also risked your life on multiple occasions, you nearly died twice because of me. I got better Nick, I got you." We moved towards each other and kissed.
"Are we interrupting?" a voice from near the door said. We both pulled away from each other and looked towards where the voice came from. I guess we both forgot that Raven and Starfire were here.
"Oh right. You ladies enjoy yourselves. I'll be back...eventually. Gonna go see Tracy over in Jump City for lunch. I'll see you later sweetheart. I love you so much," he planted a kiss on my lips and on my stomach and left.
Raven spoke up after he left, "You really lucked out with him as a boyfriend Jinx."
"Yeah I did, didn't I. I don't know what I did to deserve someone as great as him."
"So, you don't have any chocolate covered bacon here do you?" Raven asked me.
"Uhh, we could make some bacon and put some chocolate on there for you." Raven nodded and the three of us made our way to the kitchen. Starfire was wondering if we had any, "Blue fuzzy and hairy delicacies" here. I looked at Raven and she said that this was normal for Star to eat.
The food was made as Raven requested it, we sat down and ate, and after we finished I asked both of them, "So how far along are you two?" They both looked at me with a 'how did you know' look on their faces.
I simply said, "A woman knows. And besides, I'm still getting cravings like the two of you are now."
Raven was the first to speak up, "About one and a half months now. I'm actually surprised at how much Beast Boy matured after I told him. If I knew he would I might have gotten pregnant sooner." Both her and I exchanged a few giggles, but Starfire looked puzzled and was about to speak up when Raven said, "It's a joke Star. I didn't really mean it."
I spoke up to Starfire right then, "So Starfire, how far along are you?"
"I just found out a week ago that I was as you say preg-en-ant." it was funny how she tried to sound it out as she said it, "I have yet to tell Robin about it," she continued.
"You should tell him, and soon. The longer you wait the more likely he is to find out on his own. And the more awkward it will be," I told her.
"Yes, I suppose you are correct. I shall tell him tonight." I took her hand in my left and she held onto it.
"Things are going to work out for you Star, I didn't think that they would when I first found out I was pregnant. But Nicholas stood by me the whole way no matter what. He even proposed the day he found out." I said holding up the ring for them to see.
"We knew about the engagement, Nicholas told us about it. Do you have a wedding date in mind?" Raven asked.
"He wants to wait until our child's born and doesn't need 24 hour attention."
"Have you picked out any names yet?" Starfire asked.
"We've been thinking about Rosie for a girl and maybe Derrick for a boy."
"Such wonderful names," Starfire said.
We spent the afternoon like this, chatting about our futures as mothers. At about 3:45 Quake came home, and Raven and Starfire left., after they both told him that they were expecting. He was really happy for the both of them, especially Raven. He gave both of them a quick hug and they headed out the door.
He turned to me and said, "So how did your 'girl time' go with them?"
I stood up off the couch, walked over to him, and kissed him. "It was great, thank you. I never really got any during my time at the H.I.V.E. academy. I really appreciate this."
He smiled at me and said, "I thought it would make you happy. That's why I invited them over."
I said nothing as I kissed him again. "I love you Nicholas."
"I love you too Jinx."
-4 months later-
"I swear if I get any bigger I'm gonna burst," I said.
"Hmm," Quake said, "might have to cut back on those sweets you eat so much of." I gave him a light punch in the arm, and he grabbed it right away. "Ow, you don't want to leave your child fatherless do you?" I gave him another light punch to the other arm.
"Maybe," I said, "if he keeps on joking like he does."
He gave a little laugh and closed the distance between us, planting a kiss on my lips. "Then it's a good thing you love me so much." he said.
"I guess it's your lucky day then huh?" I said.
A few hour later
I woke up when I felt a slight cramping in my stomach, and a bit of moisture between my legs. I couldn't be in labor yet, it was still 2 weeks until my due date. I looked down and saw a lot of fluids in between my legs and on our sheets.
"Nicholas, wake up."
He rolled over and mumbled "...go back to bed Jinx..."
I sighed and said, "It's really important."
"...whatever it is it can wait until tomorrow..."
I sighed again and stood up, albeit with great difficulty, and started to walk to the door. I looked back at him and said, "Fine but don't blame me when you miss the birth of your first child," and shut the door behind me.
Quakes POV
I was fast asleep when I heard Jinx say something, but I couldn't make out what it was, so I mumbled, "...go back to be Jinx...".
She sighed and told me "It's really important."
"...whatever it is it can wait until tomorrow..." I heard her sigh again and get out of bed.
I was quickly dozing off to sleep when I heard her say, "Fine but don't blame me when you miss the birth of your first child."
That woke me up. I ran as fast as I could around my room, got dressed and was at the bottom of stairs before she was. "What are you waiting for then" I said to her. She muttered something under her breath and made her way slowly down the stairs and I kept the door open for her.
She stepped through, I shut the door and sped off to the car and opened the car door of her. She stepped in and I shut the door. I hopped in and drove away, luckily the hospital was only 20 minutes away. Unfortunately there was construction on the shortest way and Jinx was starting to get contractions.
We got to the hospital and Jinx's contractions were getting closer together. I ran in as fast as humanly possible, to avoid blowing my secret identity, and grabbed a wheelchair for her. She was having some difficulty getting into the wheelchair, so I helped her. I wheeled her into the hospital and the lady at the reception desk took her sweet time getting things prepped.
We (finally) got into a medical room where Jinx, or Jennifer Diaz as I put down on the sheet (It's much better than just Jinx), stripped down and put on a medical robe. I had to help her with it. The doctor led us into the delivery room when Jinx's contractions got to be too much for her.
After 9 hours of labor, we both heard the sweet cries of our child. The doctor gave our child to some nurses and they both exited. I started to panic a bit, until the doctor told us that they were giving our child a quick wash to get the blood off of our child.
Jinx looked as worried as I was, but we both calmed down after the doctor told us that. She looked really worried after the doctor left on another call. I had to calm her down. "Are you OK Jinx? I mean I know you just went through labor, but you look..."
"It's just, I know something's going to go wrong. Whenever something went right in my life, things always ended up turning out horribly."
"It can't always be..."
"Yes it does! When I fell in love with you I hurt you so badly. And when you found me on the roof and confessed your love to me, I was so happy, but then you almost died afterwords. When you found me alone, near death, you took me in and helped me, even after I hurt you so badly. And when you rescued me you suffered from broken limbs from the aftermath of it."
"Hey, not all of it turned out badly. You got yourself a boyfriend...no a fiancé that loves you, and now we have a child. And I know that our child will love you as much as I do."
It was at this point that a nurse came in and said, "Congratulations, you have a healthy baby girl." She came over to Jinx and handed her our child.
Jinx took her from the nurse and brought her close to her chest. She was a normal shade of flesh rather than her mothers grey skin, and had fuzzy pink hair on the top of her head. I leaned in close to Jinx's right shoulder so I could see better. At this point our daughter chose to open her eyes. She had the same color iris that her mother had, but they weren't cat-like, like her mothers. Instead they were normal like mine. Jinx stared open mouthed at our child...our daughter.
I smiled at Jinx holding our daughter and said, "She's beautiful," I planted a kiss on Jinx's cheek, "Just like her mother."
Our daughter stared up at us for what felt like forever, then she let out a laughter. It was the most beautiful sound I had ever heard in my life. Our child reached up with a small hand and grabbed Jinx's finger. She looked down shocked.
"Looks like somebody likes you. She knows who her Mom is."
Jinx's eyes filled up with tears and she said, "Hi sweetie, I'm your mommy," then she turned towards me, handed her to me while saying, "and this is your daddy." She seemed a bit sad that her mothers finger left her hand, but a smile creeped up on her face when she looked into my eyes. I didn't move a muscle, I was so afraid of hurting her she was so fragile.
She looked a bit puzzled as to why I wasn't paying attention to her. So I finally said to her, "Welcome to the world sweetheart, we've been waiting for you." I swear I had the biggest smile on my face when she grabbed my finger, just like she did with her mother. I handed her back to her mother after she released my finger.
The nurse who was still standing there said to us, "Have you decided on a name yet?"
"Yes we have," I told her, ""Rosie Allison Mills"
Everybody we knew came to Los Santos (which was a 2 hr drive away) to congratulate us. My parents and Tracy, Raven and Starfire (who both had a respectable belly bump) and the rest of the Titans at Jump City too. Even Billy and Wally showed up. We headed home after a few days at the hospital with our newborn baby girl in Jinx's arms. We got home and Jinx was in for a big surprise. While she was in the hospital I quickly ducked out and ready for our babies arrival. We entered our home with the newest addition to our family and Jinx's jaw dropped when she entered our room. There was a crib, fully made and ready for a newborn baby. She gave me a quick kiss and proceeded to place our daughter in it. It was late so we decided to get some rest.
-A few nights later-
Jinx POV
I woke up to the sound of our baby crying. I started to get up to see what she wanted, but Quake put his hand on my shoulder and said, "It's alright, I've got it sweetheart." He got up and moved over to where our daughter was in the other room. He didn't know if I wanted the crib in our room or not, but I thought it would be better if it were in the room just down the hall. I got up and walked behind him, though he didn't know it.
He walked over to the crib, where our crying daughter Rosie lay and said, "Hey what's wrong Rose?" he called her Rose for short, "do you need to be burped?" He picked up our daughter so very carefully, cradling her head, placed the blanket we used when she needed to be burped on his shoulder, placed our daughter on his shoulder and patted her back.
In about 30 seconds I heard a tiny burp coming from his shoulder. He moved her from his shoulder back down to her crib. He then removed the blanket and put it back on the dresser. Then he walked back to our daughters crib side and just stood there.
I walked over and wrapped my hands around his stomach, and said, "You're a great father, you know that."
"Really? I didn't think I would be back when I found out I was going to be a father. I was happy yeah, but I didn't think I'd be ready."
"I think you proved yourself wrong. You get up every time she needs us at night, and you always seem to know what she needs. The only time I ever get up is when you wake me up because she needs to be fed. You have a great instinct with what she needs. And you're always exhausted every day because you get up every time she needs us, and then in the morning you make me some breakfast and go out and be a hero to everybody else. You're the best father in the world to her, and the best fiancé in the world to me." I moved to his right side and kissed him. He smiled back at me, then he leaned over our daughter and kissed her on her forehead. I followed suit when he came back up and kissed her on the forehead as well. We made our way back to our bedroom, climbed in bed and fell asleep in each others arms.
And that's that. Just 2 more chapters to go. Then I think I'll work on another Teen Titans story. A 'What If' scenario I think, or a High School AU. I haven't decided yet.
If you want to see one of those, please review and tell me which one you want to see. Most requested gets done first.
