I'm Fine (book 2)

Hard Pills to Swallow

Bee sat wide-eyed for a couple of seconds until the shock of the situation wore off. She examined the scene. Raven lie motionless on the white tile floor, covered in Bee's blood

"This is bad! This is really bad!" She mumbled as she knelt to check Raven's vitals. She was breathing and had a pulse but she was out cold. She scrambled for her pager. "Emergency in the bathroom by the kitchen!" She called out. Cyborg was the first to respond.

"What's happening? Are you okay!?" He shouted back with every possibility running through his head. Bee took a deep breath.

"Yes, but Raven passed out trying to heal me." Bee admitted feeling incredibly guilty.

Robin was the first to get there followed by Cyborg.

"Holy shit!" Robin exclaimed with a wide-eyed enthusiasm that you'd expect from a teabags boy lurking at a murder scene. Cyborg rushed in to check on Raven as the rest of the Titans gather in the hallway. Beastboy stood silently as if he'd seen a ghost.

"When I ask if your okay, I don't want to see you covered in blood on the bathroom floor later because you lied to me!" Cyborg snapped as he picked up Raven. Bee silently followed Cyborg to the hospital wing. Beastboy silently stood in the doorway of the bloody bathroom, zoning out at the floor.

"Are you the O.K.?" Starfire asked Beastboy to which he just nodded.

"Let's get you something to drink..." Nightwing nudged Beastboy out of the doorway and to the kitchen as Starfire and Robin followed.

Cyborg checked Raven over in the hospital bed as Bee sat watching on the edge of the bed next to her. Cyborg was holding in his anger as he took Raven blood for a lab and hooked her up to an IV. Raven's was showing some signs of severe dehydration but he also noticed a small rash around her neck that resembled hives. He opened her mouth and saw some swelling in her throat and checked her blood labs. There was a moderate amount of immunoglobulin e in her blood which is an antibody typically present when an allergic reaction is just beginning. Cyborg administered an epinephrine shot and moved over to Bee as he waited for everything to kick in for Raven.

"I don't know whether to be mad or disappointed..." Cyborg mumbled as he started to clean the gash to prepare it for stitches.

"I know..." Bee whispered. She was mad at herself too.

"This all..."Cyborg started, "Why on earth would you ask Raven to heal you when she just woke up from a coma!?" Cyborg's voice picked up as he loaded the needle with surgical thread.

"I didn't ask! She walked in on me bleeding in the bathroom and I was too dizzy to deny it!" She shouted and immediately regretted her word choice.

"BEE! WHEN I ASK IF YOUR'E OKAY, DON'T LEAVE THIS SHIT OUT!!" Cyborg sat dumbfounded with anger. He grabbed her head with one hand and started to thread the needle through the first bit of skin with the other. Bee winced at the first poke.

"I wasn't thinking straight..." she admitted, "I just don't want to be useless anymore! I want to get back to fighting!" She muttered as he finished up the gash in 5 stitches. He gently placed the gauze on top and sighed, softening his demeanor.

"You never were useless! You held this tower together when Nightwing fell apart! You're our glue!" Cyborg spoke candidly as he cleaned up the rest of the blood that had dropped on her face, neck and arm.

Meanwhile Beastboy zoned out at the water bottle on the table in front of him.

"Are ya gunna stare at it all day or..." Robin started before Nightwing smacked the back of his head. Beastboy cracked open the bottle and gulped the water down. He took a deep breath and looked around, still looking a little dazed.

"That was a little too real." Beastboy whispered. "I know that was all Bee's blood all over Raven, but...wow..." Beastboy continued as Nightwing sat down next to him.

Cyborg just put away the needle as he heard a gasp come from Raven. She stirred awake as Bee and Cyborg watched. Her eyes opened slowly as she panted through the pounding headache and racing heart.

"Why is my heart berating so fast?" She mumbled as she sat up slowly.

"Epinephrine is a form of adrenaline for allergic reactions..." Cyborg began to explain.

"But I don't have any allergies?" Raven interjected with a lost expression.

"Explain the hive around your neck and the swelling in your throat!" Cyborg responded confidently. "I don't think that alone made you pass out. You were also incredibly dehydrated, but the combination wasn't great." Cyborg offered.

"I haven't been around anything new?" Raven whispered to herself as she felt a pain in her abdomen pulse. She laid back down slowly with a wince as she had a horrifying revelation that connected the dots.

"What's hurting you?" Cyborg asked catching the wince. He turned to pour Raven a glass of water.

"My head and my stomach. My head has been consistently pounding since I woke up, my stomach started hurting last night night when Beastboy and I went to bed." Raven spoke softly trying gently hint what happened.

"Did you do anything out of the ordinary when you fell asleep?" Cyborg asked oblivious to the hint.

"Beastboy" Bee snickered as she picked up what context Raven was trying to suggest. She slipped out of the door to go tell Beastboy she was awake.

"Ooooohhhhhh!" Cyborg sighed, "At least grass stain won't die alone!" He mumbled under his breath as he chuckled. He placed his human hand on her abdomen and gently pressed down starting at the bottoms of her rib cage and moved lower. Raven jerked in pain when he pressed right below her belly button. Cyborg looked over at Raven feeling there's something he was missing. "Raven, what's going on?" He asked softly assuming there was an injury or something horrific. Raven let out an uncomfortable pant from her mouth.

"I'm pretty sure the condom broke and my human half is reacting to his mutant DNA... I threw up this morning from the initial pain in my stomach but assumed it was food poisoning... I found the broken condom on the floor but I wasn't sure what it all meant. I think I'm allergic to Beastboy's mutant DNA..." Raven trailed off closing her eyes. Cyborg passed her the water glass and she gulped some down. This was entirely new territory to Cyborg and he had no idea how to even comprehend what he just heard.

"Let's just add some antihistamines and pain meds to the mix and see if that helps..." Cyborg spoke softly. He looked down and noticed her dark circles were back under her eyes. He got up to get the medicine as Beastboy quietly walked in and sat at the chair next to her bed. Cyborg handed her the cup with a few pills and more water and swiftly left to give them alone time.

Nightwing could feel a little pain in his back as he sat to read the newspaper next to Starfire who watched tv on the sofa. He turned to the last page and noticed a quiet crime page. He zoned out for a moment, deep in thought about his future and the role he needed to have moving forward. He abruptly shut the newspaper and draped an arm on Star's shoulders as she leaned into his chest.