What Could Have Been

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. In this entire story. So I'm not gonna rewrite it on every chapter. Because if I did own Charmed would I really be sitting here writing it?

Prologue

O God. Where is she? Where is she? Where is she? This is not good. I knew I never should have left her alone. Crap. He got her. He got both of them. He had to have gotten them. Where else could they be? She knew that I would panic if I got back and she wasn't here. She wouldn't have done that. O god. Where is she?

Melinda frantically looked around the small apartment she and her cousins had been sharing for the past year. They had magically cloaked it in every way that they had ever heard of after Chris left. But it looked like Wyatt had finally found them. She knew it would happen sooner or later. She actually had thought it would be sooner then this.

Okay. Calm down. I'll just go find Chris and he'll be able to find them. This isn't that big of a deal. We all knew this was coming sooner or later. If he didn't think that then why would he have told me to find him if we got found out.

Mel walked into the bedroom and towards the closet. She opened the door pressed her heel to one of the floorboards. After the other end popped up she knelt down and reached inside. There was a small pouch inside that she grabbed before replacing the boards and walking back into the living room/kitchen.

What if I can't find him. Why did Bianca have to go and get herself killed. I could have used some help right now. I guess it doesn't even make a difference anymore. Where I'm going she'll still be alive. Probably not nearly as slutty though.

Mel opened the small bag and turned it upside down. A ring slid into her hand. It was her father's ring. The one she was only supposed to use in emergencies. This definitely qualified as one of those. This was the only option she had left. She would never be able to get to the book and she didn't remember the time travel spell.

What if I screw this up? What if I screw up the past? O God. What if I screw up the present. Then the future would be all screwed up. Ugghh. I hate this. I hate being a witch and I hate Wyatt and I hate time travel. I could have been a normal girl. I could have had a boyfriend and I could have gone away to college and gotten married and had a completely boring job but nooooo I have to be the frickin' next generation of Charmed Ones.

She played with the ring, rolling it around in her palm. She didn't want to do this. There wasn't time to tell Matt and she knew he would worry when he figured out all three of them were gone. Especially the baby.

She's not really a baby anymore. More of a toddler type little person. And either way he is going to flip when he finds us all gone. He's gonna assume we're all being tortured or already killed or something.

Mel looked around the small room for a minute before walking over to the table and grabbing the notebook next to the phone. She quickly scribble a note and grabbed the roll of tape out of one of the drawers. Walking out the front door she wondered if this would actually work.

This is so stupid. The chances of Matt finding this are not good. But on the other hand there's no chance of Wyatt finding it. He doesn't use front doors. He just orbs in.

She broke a piece off and taped the note to the front of the door. If Matt was alive to come check up on them he would find this and figure everything out. Hopefully. Sighing, she walked back into the tiny apartment that had once been her home. After she did this everything was going to change...again.

I just hope this is a change for the better instead of the incredible disaster of a catastrophe that can only sum up what happened last time.I just want us all the be happy. I want to fix this. I can't take living like this anymore. This is it.

She slipped the ring on, closed her eyes, and concentrated a better life.