WILL MACCARTHY

Chapter One

Paige

Paige Mathews sat on a highly uncomfortable chair. She turned and twisted but in every position she sat in they all turned out the same, uncomfortable. She drummed her fingers on a medal table. Paige was sitting outside near a restaurant where she was told to wait. The elder Elizabeth said, (after rudely orbing into Paige's new apartment, causing her to slip and spill her nail polish) to meet her sisters here at 3:00 pm. That was odd. If Piper or Phoebe wanted to talk to her why didn't they just tell her themselves? She could have easily orbed right to their house and talked to them there. Plus, as far as Paige was aware of, her and her sisters weren't very friendly with the elders anymore. She knew it probably had nothing to do with a regular old demon because it would have been more urgent, but still, if an elder came down from… up there, just to talk to her and her sisters that must mean something was wrong.

A gust of cold wind blew at Paige from behind. Her hair flew over her eyes and she fixed it while she sighed. It was a sunny day in San Francisco but it was oddly cold. There were some scattered gray clouds in the sky and drops of rain here and there, but remained oddly sunny. It was fall and the leaves were orange and brown with cold gusts of wind every ten minutes or so. People after people walked by Paige as she sat outside at this small café which the name of she could not recall. They were talking on phones and listening to music, all busy in their own worlds. Paige sat and waited for minutes after minutes.

She drummed her fingers and played with her long and curled brown hair for over a half an hour. She sighed and watched people pass her. A man with a gray suit and an iPhone was talking as he crossed the street. A woman wearing jeans and a gray t-shirt sat on a bench under a tree on the other side of the street. She was reading. She was holding a gray kindle in her hands. Birds flew overhead and into the distance. Cars passed on the street and a little boy with a big book stopped at the end of the street.

He had dark brown almost black hair. His skin was slightly tan but he was still pale. He also wore large hipster glasses with thick black lenses. He stopped and waited to cross. He looked around 13 years old maybe 14. Why isn't he in school? Paige wondered. She watched him start to cross the street. He was about halfway across when a car appeared out of thin air driving a hundred miles per an hour. The boy didn't notice the car and the driver didn't notice the boy.

"WATCH OUT!" Paige screamed at him.

The boy looked up eyes wide and… everything froze. The whole block was frozen. Running up the sidewalk was Paige's sister Piper. Piper's long brown hair flew behind her as she hastily threw it behind her shoulder. Piper had frozen time. It was one of her abilities or powers.

"Thank god, you froze just in time!" Paige said to Piper. Piper nodded her head and said,

"Okay let's get him out of the way before they unfreeze or someone see's". They both looked up at the place where the boy was supposed to be frozen, but he wasn't. He looked up at them with shock and fear on his face.

"Demon?" Piper said. She raised her hands but the boy was already gone. He quickly ran around the car and out of Pipers and Paige's sight…

Piper

Piper Halliwell was confused. She had just watched a child run away from her, obviously frightened. She too was frightened… frightened at herself. She had almost just blown up a child. She knew that it would have been wrong to hurt him. But she still raised her hands to blow him up…

"What the hell were you thinking? You just almost blew up a little kid! Are you insane?" Paige said angrily. Paige's face was turning red and she was obviously pissed.

"Did you see that though? He didn't freeze! He might have been a demon. And anyway it was instincts. I haven't done this since the whole Billy and Christy fight." Piper replied trying to defend herself. She pulled a strand of her long brown hair out of her eyes.

"Well let's just forget about it for now." Paige told her. "Now what did you want to tell me?"

"Tell me? The elder told me that you wanted to talk to me." Piper replied confused.

The clomping of feet was heard a farther down the side walk and a voice yelling apologies shouted out to them. A short woman with light brown hair and high heels was trying to run to them. While she was running she accidentally bumped into people causing them to yell at her.

"Sorry I'm really late but I just got a message from Elizabeth that I was meeting you here. So I came as fast as I could." Phoebe Halliwell said to them. She was the second youngest sister out of the three. Well, not including Prue the oldest who had died.

(Prue, Piper, and Phoebe one day discovered something "magical". They learned that they were witches, decedents of the great Melinda Warren. Melinda was the first witch to have three powers. Three powers that were, telekinesis (move things with your mind), the power to freeze time, and the power of premonition (see the future). It was told that three sisters, decedents of her would each have a power. And the three siblings who did would be charmed and would be the most amazing power of good ever.

Those sisters were Prue, Piper, and Phoebe. Phoebe could see the future, Piper could freeze time, and Prue could move things with her mind. They are the Charmed ones. But Prue died and the Power of Three died with her. But Piper and Phoebe discovered that their mother once had an affair with a Whitelighter (guardian angel for witches) and a fourth daughter was born. Paige was a half-sister and became the new Charmed one. Being a half Whitelighter and a half witch she could orb (teleport but lots of little blue orbs/lights appear). She like Prue could move things with her mind but they orbed to her or where ever she wanted the object to go. They fought many battles against Evil and demons. The Charmed Ones saved the world many times.)

Piper looked at her sister with confusion.

"Okay so all of us were told to meet here. That's a little creepy." She said as her sister Phoebe reached them.

"Wait which one of you wanted to talk to me?" Phoebe asked. She brushed her hair out of her face and waited for an answer.

"None of us wanted to talk to each other. Don't you see someone wants us to be together, all in the same place." Paige told them. She looked like she was in deep thought trying to figure out what was going on. Piper was in deep thought also.

"Wait, Paige could this have anything to do with the little boy?" Piper asked her.

"No… I don't think so. That seems more like an odd coincidence." Paige replied.

"What little boy?" Phoebe said. Piper nervously glanced at Paige and said;

"Well this little boy almost got hit by a car while crossing the street. I froze time and we noticed that the boy didn't freeze. I haven't been demon hunting in a while so I automatically…"

"…Tried to BLOW HIM UP!" Paige finished for her.

"You tried to kill a little kid!" Phoebe said.

"But I didn't…" Piper said, again trying to defend herself. "Anyway I didn't mean to, it was automatic." Piper looked at the pavement and nervously picked at her nails, afraid she was going to get scolded again. Piper was bumped in the shoulder by a passerby. She looked around her 50's and had short, curly strawberry blonde hair. The person looked behind her shoulder. Piper immediately recognized Elizabeth, the elder who had started this whole mess.

Elizabeth motioned for them to follower her. Elizabeth walked down the sidewalk and turned into an alley. The three sisters glanced at each other and they followed Elizabeth into the alley. When they reached the alley Elizabeth glanced around to make sure no one was listening.

"Time is seriously messed up." Elizabeth told them. Phoebe looked at Elizabeth with worry and confusion on her face.

"What do you mean that time is seriously messed up?" Phoebe asked. Piper was watching Elizabeth very closely. She was trying to detect a lie.

"Well…" Elizabeth said. "Someone or something has messed with the balance of reality. Meaning what should have happened did not," Pipers eyes widened.

"Great! But why does that matter anyway?" Phoebe asked. Phoebe ran her fingers through her hair and gave a long sigh, frustrated, and scared of being sucked into another supernatural fight.

"Well… if the balance of reality is tampered with then… let's just say really bad things start to happen," Elizabeth replied.

"Can you maybe give us an example, please?" Piper said annoyed at Elizabeth's appearance. Piper wasn't exactly friends with the Elders. They had tried very hard once to ruin her and her husband's marriage way too many times.

"Well the balance of reality you three have already experienced before, remember? It was with Chris and you were trying to restore it after Chris was trying to get back home." Elizabeth replied.

"I remember," Phoebe said. "I also remember getting shot that day."

"That's the day Chris died also," Paige murmured under her breath.

"Exactly!" Elizabeth said. "Things like that start to happen. Destiny and fate is all changed and manipulated into a whole different future. The present, future and sometimes even the past get completely rewritten."

"Okay… what I don't get is how does that affect us?" Piper exclaimed.

"You didn't see her?" Elizabeth said to Paige. She looked astonished at Paige who seemed to look as if she had done something wrong.

"See what," Phoebe said.

"Touch my arm Phoebe and get a premonition of what I saw as well as the other Elders…"

Phoebe

Phoebe touched Elizabeth's arm and had a premonition. This premonition started off feeling the same as all of them do. When she touched Elizabeth's arm her heart jumped as if someone had scared her. Then her stomach kind of twisted as an image was harshly placed into her brain. A black and white vision appeared and she watched it forcing the vision to continue.

Paige sat at a table and she looked extremely uncomfortable. She examined people as they walked past her. A woman with long dark hair and a freckle right next to her nose walked behind Paige. She had a kind face and blue green eyes. Phoebe recognized the woman instantly. Paige turned around and looked at a boy about to walk across the street…

The premonition ended and Phoebe stared at the Elder with a look of horror, shock, and confusion. The feeling inside of Phoebe bubbled around inside of her. She didn't know what to think. Would you if you just witnessed your dead sister walk across a sidewalk?

TO BE CONTINUED

Chapter Two

Prue

The last thing Prue remembers is the day she lost an innocent.

"Look, I know this all sounds incredible, but it doesn't make it any less true, all right? You're a healer you do good. Now either you have saved too many lives or your about to save a life they don't want you to save. "She had told the Doctor.

"They?" he replied.

"Yeah demons," She said quickly, trying to fit in an easy explanation. "More specifically Shacks, who is the Sources assassin."

"Hold it, I get it. This is a practical joke, right." The doctor answered. "They must have a hidden camera here!" Prue watched the doctor raise his hand to his forehead. "My second wife put you up to this?" he continued, "Ah, it's just like her!" He laughed and looked up at the ceiling searching for cameras. Prue shook her head.

"Ok Dr. Crefis, listen this anything but…" Prue felt a chill run down her spine. She paused and looked around her.

"What?" Piper said recognizing her sisters look of worry.

"Uh, I don't know… I just felt a chill… PHEOBE?" Prue screamed. She looked upstairs. "Phoebe are you there?" All of a sudden a miniature twister, Prue and Piper know to be Shacks, bursts though the front doors. The two sisters face the twister trying to protect the doctor. "PHEOBE WHERE ARE YOU?" Prue screamed. Prue and her sister were knocked down harshly and the demon Shacks appeared quickly forming out of the tornado.

The doctor backed up. "Dear God!" he whispered.

"NO!" Prue quickly got up and ran in front of Dr. Crefis, shielding him from Shacks. The next thing she knew Prue was thrown back through a wall. Her head hit the floor with a crack and darkness swept over her. At first there was some pain, but them she felt nothing at all.