Teen Titans Fan Fiction ❯ The Little Cherub by Beautifulpurpleflame ❯ Family Picture ( Chapter 4 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

A/N: I do not own the Teen Titans. No, really, I don't. I swear to you I DON'T! Oh whatever.

Chapter 4

All of the villains of Jump City seemed to disappear once word of Ravens return spread around the city. Now that the Titans were five strong again they all had to rethink all of their devious plans. They were now just the Titans, not the Teen Titans, since none of them were teenagers anymore. It seemed to fit them well enough, seeing as they had saved the world numerous times since their team's formation.

Raven was sitting at the table with a cup of tea reading a book. It had been two weeks since she and Alex had moved in. Beast Boy had really connected with Alex and the two were barely apart. Raven really didn't mind all that much once she saw how responsible Beast Boy was with him.

“I'm gonna find you,” said Beast Boy crawling around on the floor.

Raven looked up to see what was going on. Alex was hiding behind the couch with an excited smile on his face. Beast Boy knew where he was of course, but it was all part of the game. Suddenly he leapt out from the side of the couch and yelled, “Found you!” Alex gave a scream and ran around the other side of the couch. Soon Beast Boy was chasing him around and around.

“Don't run,” said Raven looking back at her book.

“Yes mom,” said Beast Boy sarcastically. Raven looked up at him and then went back to her reading. Beast Boy grabbed Alex and began giving him a juicy raspberry on his stomach. Alex howled with laughter and screamed at the top of his lungs. Beast Boy couldn't help laughing as well.

Starfire and Robin entered together and saw Beast Boy and Alex playing.

“Oh Robin, I cannot wait until we have a child of our own,” said Starfire slipping her arm into his. Robin suddenly looked a little panicked and pulled at the neck of his shirt as if it was hot.

“Well maybe we should wait until we're married, Star,” said Robin.

Starfire gasped. “Oh Robin! Was that the proposal of marriage?” she asked holding him.

If Robin hadn't looked nervous before he sure did now. “What? No! I mean, I wasn't proposing.”

“So you do not wish to marry me?” she asked hurt.

“No I do…”

“Hurray!”

“NO!” Robin shouted. Starfire stopped her rejoicing and looked at him, he looked quite flustered. “Look, I'm just not ready to get married yet, Starfire. Do you understand?” He waited for her to answer and as he waited he seemed to hold his breath.

“Yes,” she said kissing him on the cheek. “I am sorry I misunderstood.”

Robin gave a relieved sigh and the two continued on. Raven had to laugh at the sight of Robin's fear of commitment. She could only picture what their children would look like someday. How lucky they were to love each other and have a choice as to when they wanted to have children. She sighed and went back to her reading.

Alex let out a long yawn and rubbed his eyes. “Uh oh, I think it's someone's nap time,” said Beast Boy scooping him up. “Hey Raven, should Alex go down for his nap?”

She looked at the clock and said, “Yes, it's about his nap time.” She pushed out of her chair and went to stand up.

“I'll do it,” said Beast Boy.

Raven stopped and looked at him. “You want to put him down for his nap?”

“Sure, why not?” asked Beast Boy with a smile. And then he headed off to Alex's room. Raven slowly sat back down and tried to read her book again.

Beast Boy slowly laid Alex down into his little bed. His little arms were still wrapped around Beast Boy's neck and he didn't let go. Beast Boy tried to pull his arms off, but Alex just whined.

“Come on Alex, you gotta take a nap,” said Beast Boy trying to slide his head out of Alex's arms.

“Hold ya!” he said in his little voice. Beast Boy noticed that whenever Alex wanted to be held or picked up he would always say that. “Hold ya.”

“I'll hold ya when you wake up from your nap,” said Beast Boy, still trying to release Alex's grasp. Alex kept whining until Beast Boy finally got Alex' arms off of his neck. Within five seconds Alex was asleep and Beast Boy felt relieved.

Beast Boy headed over to his room and went to his closet. It was the one part of his room that he never cleaned and he was scared of it sometimes. But he knew what he wanted and he decided to venture in. He slowly opened the door and a waterfall of junk fell out nearly crushing him.

Robin had been passing by when he heard the crash and a slight Beast Boy scream. He looked into Beast Boy's room and saw the mess. “Uh, Beast Boy?” Suddenly Beast Boy's head popped up from under the pile and he shook it. “I thought I heard you.”

“Oh, hey Robin,” said Beast Boy crawling out of the mess.

“You need some help?” he asked, entering the room.

“Uh, sure,” said Beast Boy starting to go through his things. “I'm looking for that little monkey with the symbols that counts.”

“You mean the one that scared us half to death after watching Wicked Scary?” asked Robin picking through the junk. “I thought you said that you were getting rid of that thing?”

“Well… I was, but I couldn't just throw out something from my childhood, ya know?” he said with an embarrassed smile. Robin smiled back and helped sort out the mess.

He had never seen so much useless junk in his whole life, but he figured that it must have meant something to Beast Boy. Old clothes that hadn't fit Beast Boy in about five years, video games that had become obsolete two years ago, even old Halloween candy that was still stuck to his trick-or-treating bag. “You don't throw anything away, do you?” laughed Robin. Beast Boy smiled back and the two continued their search.

Robin suddenly stepped on something and heard a crack. He looked down and saw a picture frame below his foot. He picked it up and saw that he had cracked the glass. He looked at Beast Boy, who had heard the crack, and said, “Sorry.”

“That's okay,” said Beast Boy continuing his search. “Is the picture okay, though?”

Robin looked at the picture and saw that it was undamaged. “Yeah, it's fine,” said Robin. He looked at the picture and saw a blond little boy in the arms of what had to be his parents. “Who's this a picture of?”

“Oh, that's me and my parents,” said Beast Boy tossing an old shoe aside.

“Really?” said Robin looking at it closer. “Ah, so that's what you looked like before you turned green.”

“Cute, wasn't I?” he said smugly. “Just put it on my desk.”

Robin smiled and went to put the picture on the desk. He suddenly stopped, nearly dropping the picture. He looked at it again and noticed something. Something very odd. Extremely odd. He made sure Beast Boy wasn't looking and slipped the picture, once he had taken it out of the broken frame, into his pocket.

“Found it!” said Beast Boy triumphantly. He held up the little monkey with the symbols and wound it up. It began to clasp and sing, “Help me, help me, help me count! 1… 2… 3…”

“You going to give that to Alex?” asked Robin, trying to look as non-guilty as possible.

“Yeah, I figured that if he liked he could play with it,” said Beast Boy pushing the rest of his stuff back into his closet. “I mean, I'm not using it.”

“That's nice of you,” said Robin as he watched Beast Boy quickly close the door before the junk could fall back out.

“Well I like the kid,” said Beast Boy with a smile. “Besides, he needs a good male figure in his life. I mean, who knows better about losing a parent than us, right?”

“That's true,” said Robin as the two started to head down the hall. “Funny, I never thought of you as the paternal type.”

“Are you kidding?” laughed Beast Boy. “I can't wait to have kids someday. I think I'm gonna be a great dad.”

“Well from what I've seen with you and Alex I'd say you probably will,” said Robin patting Beast Boy on the back. “I'm going to talk to Cyborg, I'll see you later.”

“Okay,” said Beast Boy heading off back to the common room to tell Raven that Alex was asleep.

Robin headed down to the garage where he knew Cyborg would be working on his baby. Sure enough he saw two large metal feet sticking out from under the T-car. He tapped on Cyborg's feet with his own foot and said, “Hey Cyborg.”

Cyborg wheeled himself out from under the car and looked up. “Hey Robin.” He stood up and started to wipe the oil from his hands. “What's up?”

“I have another picture for you to see,” said Robin taking the photo from his pocket.

Cyborg made sure his hands were clean and he took the picture. “It looks like Alex. But who are those people holding him? Oh no, you don't think Raven adopted him, do you?”

“That's not Alex,” said Robin.

“What?” asked Cyborg confused and looking up from the picture.

“That's not Alex,” Robin repeated. Cyborg looked back at the picture and grew confused. “That's Beast Boy before he changed. That's him and his parents.”

Cyborg was now very confused. He looked back and forth from the picture to Robin. “Wow, never knew the grass stain was blond.”

“Cyborg!”

“What?”

“Don't you get it?”

“Get what?”

“Alex looks nothing like Jacob, who Raven says is his father, but he looks exactly like Beast Boy? You don't think that's a little odd?”

Cyborg's mind was flooded with various new questions and dead ends. “So… you think Beast Boy's Alex's father?”

“I don't know,” said Robin taking the picture back. “But I am certain that that Jacob guy isn't.”

“So what do we do?”

“I'm going to talk to Raven.” Robin pocketed the picture and headed out of the garage.

“Are you sure that's wise?” asked Cyborg following him out. “I mean, she might flip out on you for thinking something like this.”

“There are just too many things pointing to this for it not to be true,” said Robin getting into the elevator.

“Well good luck, man.”

“Thanks. I'll need it.”