Blocked Caller

Terra's Head was reeling. She pressed her palm to her temple as if trying to steady herself as her thoughts spun in her mind. She had suddenly remembered the last time she'd seen her reflection in that heart-shaped mirror. Mirrors... which made her think of the house of mirrors at the amusement park... the park which reminded her of the ferris wheel... the ferris wheel where Terra and Beast Boy had their first date... and Slade ruined it. It was her. She was Terra. The memories were as clear as day. The blonde girl ran to her backpack where it was resting on the couch and zipped it open. She searched inside for a bit and pulled out a radio... a yellowish radio. It was scuffed around the edges. For the longest time, she had thought it was just a toy. It was one of the only possessions tucked away in her pockets when she was found roaming the streets. She had kept it after all this time because she thought it would bring her good luck... now, however, it brought on a heavy burden of the truth.

"Are you ok? What was that crash?" Robin's voice came from the doorway, causing Terra to jump. As she spun around to face him, his eyes fell to the communicator in her hand. "I-I" She stuttered "I'm fine. I just dropped that little box and it broke."

"Where did you get that?" Robin asked, ignoring the shattered heart-shaped box on the floor. His eyes didn't move from her hands. "It's a Titan Communicator."

"Is it?"

"The 'T' is pretty much scuffed off but I know those communicators pretty well, yea." Robin's gaze moved to meet her eyeline. As they stood across from each other, suspicion arose within Robin that perhaps Raven was right to be cautious about this so-called innocent school girl. "Where did you get that?"

"I... I've had it for as long as I can remember. It doesn't work. I don't know where it came from," She lies. She's unaware as to why she won't come clean and admit her memory has cleared, that she was the Terra they all knew. For some reason, she felt afraid to say anything at all. Everything had come rushing back so quickly that now, she wondered how she could have possibly forgotten it all.

"It does work..." he realized. They all had seen the homing device on Starfire's communicator before Terra arrived. It was clearly a Titan communicator that was tracking Terra as she approached the tower. Now Robin had a thousand questions as he the odds of this girl being the real Terra grew more and more. "You're sure you don't remember a thing about us?"

Terra stood for a moment, her hand tightly clutching the communicator, before saying. "No... nothing at all."

"I think Beast Boy is broken," Cyborg mumbles as he makes himself a sandwich. "He hasn't moved from that spot on the couch and the TV isn't even on."

"Oh the poor thing." Starfire sighs, "All of this business with Terra has befuddled his brain."

"Not like there was much of a brain to start with..." Raven mumbles beside her, her head in her hand with a look of exhaustion on her face.

"Yo, what's your damage?" Cyborg says as he takes a break from assembling his sandwich just to give her a stern gaze. "You know how emotionally invested he gets. He thinks this is the real Terra. Even if it isn't her, can you at least go easy on him?"

"Don't look at me like that," she mildly snaps back. "If anyone needs to go easy on him it's that blonde prep-school girl up the hall who is messing with him."

"She would only be messing with him if she was the real Terra, knew it, and acted like she wasn't."

"And we don't suspect that that's what she's doing because...?"

Just then main hall door slides open to announce the entrance of the Titan Leader.

"Woah, Rob," Cyborg says. "What did you do to your radio?" He motioned to the scuffed up communicator in Robin's hand then returned to the construction of his towering sandwich. "It looks like it's been through an earthquake."

"Something like that," Robin says vaguely as he tucks it into his pocket, not wanting to tell them it belonged to Terra. There already were so many mysteries surrounding their new visitor and he didn't want to add more to them. "I'm going out for a bit."

"To do what?"

"I'm going to visit that foster home."

"Terra's?" Beast Boy asked from the couch, finally joining the conversation. "How come?"

"I just want to get to the bottom of this little mystery sooner rather than later."

"Can I come?" Beast Boy asks as he stands. This was followed by an amused hum from Raven as she sarcastically said, "I would've thought you'd want to spend as much time as possible with Terra."

"That's actually not a bad idea, Raven," Cyborg says earning him a surprised stare from the Azarathian. He continues, "If she really is Terra, then maybe spending time with you would help her remember. After all, you two were the closest.

Robin glances to Beast Boy and in a sad tone says, "I don't think that's the best idea, Cy. She seems pretty off-put by him now." He hated having to say that, for it makes Beast Boy's face drop as he says a sad, "yea..." then sits back on the couch. In truth, Robin only said it because he didn't want any Titans getting too close to Terra until he was positive what was going on. "I'll be back in a bit."

"Be careful, Robin," Starfire said in a caring tone. Robin returned her kind words with a nod then walked out.

Not two seconds after the main door had shut, the phone rang.

"Titan's Tower." Cyborg said in his usual optimistic tone. "Hello? Hellooooo?" He pulled the phone away and stared at it while mumbling, "If you're going to prank call, at least tell me a lame joke." He then hung the phone back on the receiver and returned to his sandwich.

"Nobody was there?" Raven asked as she folded her arms and leaned on the counter.

"Nope." As soon as he said it, it rang again. Cyborg was a bit more aggressive in answering this time. "Hello?!" There was no response and he hung up quickly with a harsh exhale of frustration. He checked the call log. "Nobody there and it's coming from a blocked number."

While the phone was still in his hands it rang again and all the titans let out a groan, save for beast boy who was pouting on the couch. He clearly had wanted to go with Robin. He wanted to get answers for Terra. He didn't know why... but he couldn't accept the fact that she was anybody else but the girl he'd grown so close with a year ago.

"I shall try," Starfire said as she held her hand towards the phone. Cyborg handed it over and with a pleasant voice, the alien girl answered with a, "This is the Teen Titans... could you tell me who is there please?" Nothing but silence. With a "humph" she handed the phone back over.

"It's busted. Just leave it off the hook." Beast Boy said impatiently and stood.

Cyborg was turning to hang it up when a knowing look passed over Raven's face and she said, "wait." All eyes turned on her and she reached out. The phone passed to her and she lifted it to her ear. She listed to the silence for a long time before going. "Someone's there all right. Just... listening."

"Well speak up dude!" Beast Boy shouted at the phone.

"No." She said. "They wont... because we aren't the one they want to speak to."

"Well it's Titan's Tower," Cyborg said with a shrug. "Who else could they be calling for?"

As the question left his mouth, the answer popped into all of their minds and one by one their eyes moved from the phone to glance up the hall towards Terra's room.