6. Friends and Enemies
The sun glistened through the windows of Titans Tower. In the living space of the tower you could find Erika asleep on the floor. The sun shone brightly in the room and Erika began to wake. Her eyelids flickered at first, and then they opened all the way. Erika looked around the room, then out the window. The sun already shone bright and strong; the makings of a beautiful day.
"Wow, the sunrise is even better than night… hmm, what's this?" Erika said in reference to the pillow and blankets that hadn't been there when she'd fallen asleep. "I wonder who put these… Beast Boy." She finally decided.
Erika folded the blankets and placed them and the pillow on the couch. Quietly she walked towards the stairs leading to the rooftop. Quickly, trying not to wake anyone she climbed the stairs. Once she'd reached the roof she looked at the sky. It was a soft shade of pink and misty blue. As she continued to glance the horizon Erika noticed she wasn't alone. Robin stood facing towards the east side of the city. The light morning breeze ruffled his cape and ran through his hair. Erika slowly walked towards Robin so not to startle him. She placed a gentle hand on his shoulder.
Robin felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see who it was. He looked over his shoulder to find Erika standing there. Quickly she took her hand back. Her dark hair and cape were lightly tossed in the wind. Her long white top and red pants clung snugly to her. Erika's icy blue eyes displayed a frightened, yet curious look.
Erika stared in to Robin's eyes; she felt herself beginning to blush. She looked away quickly to hide the color in her face saying, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't-"
"What are you doing awake at this hour?" He asked lightly. Erika began to slowly walk away. "I'm not saying you have to leave, I was just wondering."
"Do you know who brought me the blankets?"
Robin turned to face her saying, "Yeah, it was Beast Boy. He said you looked cold. He must have checked on you at least 20 times last night."
"Oh, that was nice of him."
"Yeah, that's the way he is."
They both continued to stare out across the sky without a word. Soon she began to feel that this was a moment of which he wished to spend alone. "Well it's been awesome, but I best be going." Erika ran quickly down the stairs, not watching where she was going. When she reached the bottom step she ran in to Raven.
Raven pushed herself off the ground shocked to still find Erika hanging around. "Why are you still around I figured you would've taken a hint and left." She said very defensively.
"Well, I was invited to stay while I help you guys with the Terra situation. Do you have a problem with that?" Her voice displayed the same harshness.
"Yeah actually I do, you're evil and I don't allow villains to stay in the tower."
"You're the only one who thinks I'm evil everyone else is ok with me."
"Then they don't have very good judgment do they."
Both girls took fighting stances. Raven sent the first attack, "Azerath Metrion Zynthos." Erika just barely managed to dodge the attack by sliding underneath her attack. Once she was right in front of Raven she slammed her foot in to Raven's chest sending her flying back in to the wall. She climbed quickly to her feet threatening her, "You're going to pay for that."
"I don't think so." Quickly Erika placed her hands to the sides of her forehead. Raven was floating mid-air and couldn't use her powers.
"What's…? What's going on?" Erika gave Raven an evil smirk.
"You're… you're a-"
"A telapath, that's right. And I'm far better than you'll ever have a chance of becoming."
Robin had heard the loud crash from below and began wondering what was going on downstairs. Robin came down the stairs just as Erika had Raven in her control. Quickly Erika dropped Raven, hoping that he wouldn't guess about her powers. Robin looked at both girls then asked, "What's going on?"
"How could you?" Raven asked Robin angrily as she stormed off towards her room.
"Robin I-"
"I don't want to hear it."
Robin left Erika in the stairwell all by herself. Erika dropped to her knees, pulled her hood over her head and began to cry. "Great, what a wonderful way to get them to like me." She sat there for a long while just crying.
After sometime, however, Erika sensed Beast Boy coming. His mind wandered through the previous day. It seemed things hadn't been going well for him until she showed up, and then it only got worse. "No, no, no he can't know about them." And she shoved the thought out of her mind.
Beast Boy came to the stair well that led to the roof. He saw a figure slumped on the ground in a blue hooded cloak. "Raven?" he asked "Raven what are you doing here and why are you crying?" He ran over to her and slowly pushed her hood back over her face. Realizing that it wasn't who he thought he changed his concerns. "Erika? Erika, what's wrong?"
"Like you don't already know!"
"What are you talking about?"
"Why don't you just go away like Robin and not even give me a chance to explain." Erika sat there; tears continuing to rapidly fall from her face to the floor.
Beast Boy reached down and helped a sobbing Erika to her feet. Slowly he looked at her with a comforting gaze. The look she returned with her icy blue eyes was one filled with years of hurt and let downs.
"Erika would you please tell me what happened?"
"Yeah I guess so." Erika wiped the tears from her eyes and began to tell Beast Boy everything
"So you see we had a miniature battle and Robin thinks that I was trying to hurt Raven for no reason. She ran off and I got the blame."
"Why would you mess with Raven?"
"I didn't plan to it just happened. Look I'll just get lost and you won't have any more problems."
"But then how are you going to help us with Terra?"
"What?"
"If you want to leave you can, but you're most welcome to stay." Beast Boy turned to leave but her hand on his shoulder made him turn back around.
"Wait, you mean I don't have to leave?"
"No, but if you do stay I'd keep away from Raven."
Erika laughed at Beast Boy's remark. He'd shown her so much kindness. But something wore heavy on her mind how to get Robin on her side. Erika didn't need anymore enemies, Raven was enough.