25-year-old Samantha Wyatt watched the hundreds of people dancing through
her glass-mirror window It was Freaky Dance Friday, the biggest day of the
week for P3. The music was loud, the food was cooking, and the money was
rolling. So then why wasn't Sam happy?
Suddenly, her cousin CJ Turner burst into the room. "Hey, why aren't you dancing on Freaky Friday?" he asked holding a champagne glass. Sam laughed. "Nice to see you too CJ." CJ grabbed a seat next to her. "Cuz, you don't look so good." He said, turning her head so she was facing him.
"It's May 21st CJ..... you know I never look good on this day. Physically and mentally." she muttered. CJ suddenly changed his expression and looked down to his shoed. "Yeah." he muttered.
"How's Rachel and Alex doing?"
"They're fine. They're back at the house, just chillin.... I don't think they really remembered."
"Can you blame them? They were only like 5 when it happened. They're not even affected by it. we were the only ones who were old enough to understand what happened."
CJ sighed and they both stayed silent for a minute until Sam got up and headed for the door. CJ looked up and came after her. "Sam, where are you going?" he asked in a serious tone. "Oh, just going to the bar. Maybe get a beer, or two." she turned away but CJ stopped her again. "Sam, tou do this almost every year. You get depressed and then do something really stupid. I don't want you getting hurt, ok?" CJ looked at her the way Piper used to look at her.
"Hey, chillax CJ. I'm just gonna get a drink. You just go home with Rachel and Alex. I'll be home right after the club closes ok?" she said turning away from CJ's expression on his face. CJ nodded and hugged his cousin, and then they went their separate ways. Sam squished through the people on the dance floor to get to her special barstool.
The bartender, Mike was cleaning glasses with a cloth. "What'll it be boss?" he asked. Sam stroked the back of her head with her hand. "Just a beer Mike. Put it on my tab." she muttered. Mike read the sad expression on her face. "It's ok boss. This one's on me. I think you got enough worries and bills to pay off." he said. Sam laughed.
"Thanks Mike."
**** CJ slammed the door of his car and walked up the steps of their home, the Halliwell manor. The home CJ, Sam, Alex and Rachel have been sharing for the last 12 years. He opened the door with his keys and hung up his jacket on the coat hanger by the door. He stroked his hand through his short black hair as he called for Rachel and Alex.
"Rachel! Alex!! I'm home!" he called. There was no answer. He looked around in the kitchen, in the basement (now the training room), in the living room but they weren't there. "Rachel? Alex?" Suddenly, he heard an explosion from the attic. "Oh, no. Not again......" he muttered as he ran up the stairs and burst the attic door open. Clouds of smoke surrounded him as he went into the room.
"Rachel! Alex! Are you guys ok? What the heck......" he said as he was waving his hand to fan all the smoke out of his face. He coughed a couple time and he heard other coughing in the back of the room. The smoke detector went off so he couldn't hear anything between all the "beeps." "RACHEL!!! ALEX!!! YOU GUYS BETTER EXPLAIN ABOUT THIS!!!!" he screamed.
"CJ?" he heard Rachel scream. He ran to a window and opened it so the smoke would clear out. He coughed a couple more times. Finally when the smoke cleared up a little CJ found Rachel and Alex on the floor, their faces black with ash, their hair messed up, their clothes dirty from the explosion. "Whoa...." they whispered with their eyes wide open with shock. CJ fanned out more smoke. "What the hell happened here?"
The two seventeen year olds giggled and gave each other a high five. "That was definately wicked." Alex whispered. "Uh, hehehehe........ we were trying some potions from the Book of Shadows." Rachel said, getting up from the floor. CJ sighed. "When are you guys going to learn that the potions are dangerous!! You guys are 17 now, I would expect you guys to be a little more mature and not blow up the house for once!!"
"Geez, chill CJ. We're sorry!" Alex said, sweeping off the dust from his pants and his shirt. He put on a grin that made CJ smile. "Man, that's the 2nd time that somebody told me to chill. I must be high strung today....." he said rubbing his forehead. Rachel smiled and gave him a hug. " How was your day CJ? Hey that rhymes!!" she exclaimed.
CJ rolled his eyes at her immaturity. "I stopped by the club after my internship job, to see how Sam was doing......." Alex suddenly frowned. "How is my big sister?" he asked. CJ shook his head. "Not good." Rachel frowned along with Alex. "Well, it's not a very good day for any of us."
Alex, CJ and Rachel all sighed at the same time. "I think we should go get her, and then we should go to the cemetary......We haven't done that in a long time." CJ said. Alex and Rachel nodded. They all ran down the stairs, grabbed their coats on the rack, and then ran to CJ's car to leave for P3. "SHOTGUN!!!" Rachel called.
"Screw shotgun, I wanna drive!!!" Alex screamed. They were going to leave when Alex stopped CJ. "Wait, CJ, if I know my sister, Sam's probably already there. I don't think we need to go to P3 anymore." CJ nodded and then he started the car, and backed out of the driveway.
****
Sam stood at two graves. A tear ran down her cheek and she sniffled. She kneeled down on one knee and layed her hand on one of the tombstones. "Why'd you have to leave me. Why'd you have to leave Alex......." she whispered. "It wasn't time. It wasn't right." she muttered while shaking her head. More tears slipped down her cheeks. The two graves read:
Piper Halliwell Wyatt Leonard Wyatt
Suddenly, she felt a tap on her back. She turned around and saw her little brother, Alex. He had a warm look in his eyes and Sam hugged him and cried on his shoulder. Alex patted her back whispering in her ear. "It'll be ok Sam. It'll be fine....." he said as he saw the graves, and he started crying as well.
Meanwhile, CJ was at another two graves in the same cemetary only a few yards away from Sam and Alex. These two read:
Phoebe Halliwell Turner Cole Turner
CJ sighed and looked at his father and his mother's grave, with his head filling with many with his mom but what killed him was that he had no memories with his dad. CJ had no tears, but had hate deep in his thoughts andhe made a tight fist with his hand.
Rachel was alone too, looking at her own grave, this time only one. She was looking at the tombstone that read:
Paige Matthews
Rachel had some tears. She missed her mother terrible, but in a way, she didn't know how to miss her mom. She was the only one of the four who didn't have any memories with at least one of her parents. She was an orphan before she reached the first grade. Leo was really the only father she knew, and then it was Sam and CJ she looked up to when he died. She had tried to contact Paige, with a spell, but it would never work, it would only contact Grams. No one else. It hurt for her that she didn't have a good enough reason to cry than CJ, Alex, or Sam did. She walked away without turning her back once, her hands in her pockets.
Rachel found CJ kneeling by his parents' grave. She kneeled beisde him and he got startled. "Huh? What?" he asked looking around. Rachel looked confused for he looked like he was in some kind of trance. "CJ, is anything wrong?" she asked, worringly and she lifted his right hand which was bleeding from the fist he had been holding.
"What the hell....." she said taking a handkerchief from her pocket and wrapping the four deep cuts in his palm made by his nails. "Oh, I don't know what happened.... I wasn't really paying attention....." he said, shaking his head. Rachel glared at him. "You're damn right you weren't thinking! These cuts are freaking deep CJ!!! I don't want you bleeding all over the place." she screamed. CJ gave a half smile.
"Thanks Rach......" he whispered as he put his arm around her shoulder and they wlked off to the direction where Sam and Alex were supposed to be. Sam let go of Alex. "Little bro, you ok?" Alex's face was blank. He shrugged. "I dunno, I'm not really affected cuz, I didn't even know mom, so....." he said as he gave a fake laugh.
Sam was about to talk but was inturrupted by the footsteps of CJ and Rachel. She sighed and turned to the graves for one last look, and then left with Alex to walk to her other cousins. "We're done here. Let's go home." CJ said as the other three nodded and they walked into the darkness.
****
CJ, Sam, Alex, and Rachel sat at the kitchen table, all of them silent. Sam had her head resting on her palm with her elbow on the table. CJ was staring blankly at the table. Rachel was playing around with a spoon and Alex was drawing on a napkin.
"Um, I take it that none of us are sleepy tonight." Sam said. CJ nodded. "Maybe it's the mocha frap I drank today at the mall....." Rachel said without looking up once from her spoon. Alex wasn't paying attention. He was drawing Rachel playing with her spoon. Sam saw this and grabbed the napkin. "Jesus Christ Alex. This is wicked......." she said examining the picture. Rachel and CJ came to examine it. "Hey! This is pretty good! Especially since it's a picture of me!" Rachel exclaimed.
CJ agreed. Alex blushed. "It's not that good. Just something out of boredom." he said shrugging. Sam looked at him. "Did you send the applications for the art college yet?" she asked. Alex shook his head. "Nah, I don't have anything to turn in for my portfolio." he said. Sam kicked him under the table. "You have a million things you can turn in!!" she exclaimed.
Alex blushed until CJ suddenly grabbed his head. "AH!" he exclaimed. Sam ran to his side. "CJ, you ok?" she asked. CJ shook his head. "I just got a premontion." he said rubbing his head. "It hurt.....not like my usual dizzyness."
"What did you see?" Rachel asked.
"I saw this warlock crash through our window in the living room and I saw him attacking us." he said. Sam, CJ, Rachel, and Alex thought for a minute until they heard a loud clash in the living room. "Looks like it's come true." Alex said as they all got up to run to the living room. There, they all saw a man, in a suit, his eyes glowing.
"AHH!" Rachel screamed. Alex waved his hand and made his fly to a cabinet, and the warlock crashed into it. "ARGH!" the warlock shouted as he brushed off the wood and glass of his clothes. Sam tried to make his explode, but he was too fast for her to get an aim on him. The warlock darted to the stairs. Rachel orbed in front him with a bat and smacked him right in the face.
CJ took him by the neck and held him up to the wall. "Who are you????" he screamed at the warlock. Sam, Alex, and Rachel stood behind him. The warlock made choking noises. "Unhand me..." he tried to say. "WHO ARE YOU??" CJ screamed once more. The warlock smiled and threw an energy ball right at CJ's chest so that he flew against a wall, knocking him unconcious for a mintue.
Sam ran up to the warlock and kicked him in the face. Rachel and Alex ran to CJ to help him get up. Sam punched the warlock in the stomach. The warlock returned the moves to her but Sam blocked her. Then she gave a strong kick right in his stomach. "HYEAH!!" she screamed. as the warlock slammed against the wall. He got up quickly and adjusted his jaw and quickly raced up to the attic.
"What the heck?" Sam said as she saw him running away from her. "Come back here!" she screamed. CJ gained conciousness and they all ran upstairs to see what happened. Well, they actually all orbed upstairs. Except CJ shimmered..... Anyway. They orbed upstairs to see where the warlock was heading. They found the warlock flipping through the pages of the Book of Shadows. "The Book!" Rachel exclaimed. The warlock flipped to an empty page and waved his hand.
The empty page suddenly turned into a full page with a spell. CJ ran after him and threw an energy ball at him. The warlock avoided it and it hit a wall, causing the wall to explode leaving a big hole. "Sam! Freeze him!!!" Alex screamed. Sam waved her hands but then the warlock waved his hand and a blue forcefield appeared around his and the magic backfired and made them freeze instead.
The warlock laughed to himself. Then he lit a candle and started chanting. " Hear these words, Hear the rhyme, We send you this burning sign,In another place and back in time." he said. Then he dissapeared and the candle that he lit fell on the floor and the house started on fire. After a while, the freeze wore off and they all returned back to normal.
Sam looked around to see where the warlock had gone since, in their point of view, he had dissapeared in a blink of an eye. Then she noticed the fire. "FIRE!!!" she screamed. CJ dug through the broken pieces of wood left by the hole in the wall. "Look for the fire extinguisher Rachel!!" he screamed. Sam and Alex were trying to put the fire out with some blankets but it wasn't working. Finally, CJ found the extinguisher and used it on the fire.
Flufy white stuff came out of the big black hose and the fire went out. Sam sighed and wiped her forehead from all the sweat off. "Where did he go?" she asked. Rachel shrugged. "What was that spell that he made appear in the book." Alex said as he headed to the Book of Shadows. It was open to where the warlock had it but the page was empty. "Man. It disappeared." he said.
"What the heck. We don't know what that spell could do. What if he like went to the underworld or something to get an army." CJ said. Rachel shook his head. "Warlocks don't need the Book of Shadows to do that." she said. "Well, let's fix this stuff up before we get into any more evil stuff." Just then, a bright light came behind them. Rachel turned around and gasped when she saw who it was.
"UNCLE LEO??" she screamed.
Suddenly, her cousin CJ Turner burst into the room. "Hey, why aren't you dancing on Freaky Friday?" he asked holding a champagne glass. Sam laughed. "Nice to see you too CJ." CJ grabbed a seat next to her. "Cuz, you don't look so good." He said, turning her head so she was facing him.
"It's May 21st CJ..... you know I never look good on this day. Physically and mentally." she muttered. CJ suddenly changed his expression and looked down to his shoed. "Yeah." he muttered.
"How's Rachel and Alex doing?"
"They're fine. They're back at the house, just chillin.... I don't think they really remembered."
"Can you blame them? They were only like 5 when it happened. They're not even affected by it. we were the only ones who were old enough to understand what happened."
CJ sighed and they both stayed silent for a minute until Sam got up and headed for the door. CJ looked up and came after her. "Sam, where are you going?" he asked in a serious tone. "Oh, just going to the bar. Maybe get a beer, or two." she turned away but CJ stopped her again. "Sam, tou do this almost every year. You get depressed and then do something really stupid. I don't want you getting hurt, ok?" CJ looked at her the way Piper used to look at her.
"Hey, chillax CJ. I'm just gonna get a drink. You just go home with Rachel and Alex. I'll be home right after the club closes ok?" she said turning away from CJ's expression on his face. CJ nodded and hugged his cousin, and then they went their separate ways. Sam squished through the people on the dance floor to get to her special barstool.
The bartender, Mike was cleaning glasses with a cloth. "What'll it be boss?" he asked. Sam stroked the back of her head with her hand. "Just a beer Mike. Put it on my tab." she muttered. Mike read the sad expression on her face. "It's ok boss. This one's on me. I think you got enough worries and bills to pay off." he said. Sam laughed.
"Thanks Mike."
**** CJ slammed the door of his car and walked up the steps of their home, the Halliwell manor. The home CJ, Sam, Alex and Rachel have been sharing for the last 12 years. He opened the door with his keys and hung up his jacket on the coat hanger by the door. He stroked his hand through his short black hair as he called for Rachel and Alex.
"Rachel! Alex!! I'm home!" he called. There was no answer. He looked around in the kitchen, in the basement (now the training room), in the living room but they weren't there. "Rachel? Alex?" Suddenly, he heard an explosion from the attic. "Oh, no. Not again......" he muttered as he ran up the stairs and burst the attic door open. Clouds of smoke surrounded him as he went into the room.
"Rachel! Alex! Are you guys ok? What the heck......" he said as he was waving his hand to fan all the smoke out of his face. He coughed a couple time and he heard other coughing in the back of the room. The smoke detector went off so he couldn't hear anything between all the "beeps." "RACHEL!!! ALEX!!! YOU GUYS BETTER EXPLAIN ABOUT THIS!!!!" he screamed.
"CJ?" he heard Rachel scream. He ran to a window and opened it so the smoke would clear out. He coughed a couple more times. Finally when the smoke cleared up a little CJ found Rachel and Alex on the floor, their faces black with ash, their hair messed up, their clothes dirty from the explosion. "Whoa...." they whispered with their eyes wide open with shock. CJ fanned out more smoke. "What the hell happened here?"
The two seventeen year olds giggled and gave each other a high five. "That was definately wicked." Alex whispered. "Uh, hehehehe........ we were trying some potions from the Book of Shadows." Rachel said, getting up from the floor. CJ sighed. "When are you guys going to learn that the potions are dangerous!! You guys are 17 now, I would expect you guys to be a little more mature and not blow up the house for once!!"
"Geez, chill CJ. We're sorry!" Alex said, sweeping off the dust from his pants and his shirt. He put on a grin that made CJ smile. "Man, that's the 2nd time that somebody told me to chill. I must be high strung today....." he said rubbing his forehead. Rachel smiled and gave him a hug. " How was your day CJ? Hey that rhymes!!" she exclaimed.
CJ rolled his eyes at her immaturity. "I stopped by the club after my internship job, to see how Sam was doing......." Alex suddenly frowned. "How is my big sister?" he asked. CJ shook his head. "Not good." Rachel frowned along with Alex. "Well, it's not a very good day for any of us."
Alex, CJ and Rachel all sighed at the same time. "I think we should go get her, and then we should go to the cemetary......We haven't done that in a long time." CJ said. Alex and Rachel nodded. They all ran down the stairs, grabbed their coats on the rack, and then ran to CJ's car to leave for P3. "SHOTGUN!!!" Rachel called.
"Screw shotgun, I wanna drive!!!" Alex screamed. They were going to leave when Alex stopped CJ. "Wait, CJ, if I know my sister, Sam's probably already there. I don't think we need to go to P3 anymore." CJ nodded and then he started the car, and backed out of the driveway.
****
Sam stood at two graves. A tear ran down her cheek and she sniffled. She kneeled down on one knee and layed her hand on one of the tombstones. "Why'd you have to leave me. Why'd you have to leave Alex......." she whispered. "It wasn't time. It wasn't right." she muttered while shaking her head. More tears slipped down her cheeks. The two graves read:
Piper Halliwell Wyatt Leonard Wyatt
Suddenly, she felt a tap on her back. She turned around and saw her little brother, Alex. He had a warm look in his eyes and Sam hugged him and cried on his shoulder. Alex patted her back whispering in her ear. "It'll be ok Sam. It'll be fine....." he said as he saw the graves, and he started crying as well.
Meanwhile, CJ was at another two graves in the same cemetary only a few yards away from Sam and Alex. These two read:
Phoebe Halliwell Turner Cole Turner
CJ sighed and looked at his father and his mother's grave, with his head filling with many with his mom but what killed him was that he had no memories with his dad. CJ had no tears, but had hate deep in his thoughts andhe made a tight fist with his hand.
Rachel was alone too, looking at her own grave, this time only one. She was looking at the tombstone that read:
Paige Matthews
Rachel had some tears. She missed her mother terrible, but in a way, she didn't know how to miss her mom. She was the only one of the four who didn't have any memories with at least one of her parents. She was an orphan before she reached the first grade. Leo was really the only father she knew, and then it was Sam and CJ she looked up to when he died. She had tried to contact Paige, with a spell, but it would never work, it would only contact Grams. No one else. It hurt for her that she didn't have a good enough reason to cry than CJ, Alex, or Sam did. She walked away without turning her back once, her hands in her pockets.
Rachel found CJ kneeling by his parents' grave. She kneeled beisde him and he got startled. "Huh? What?" he asked looking around. Rachel looked confused for he looked like he was in some kind of trance. "CJ, is anything wrong?" she asked, worringly and she lifted his right hand which was bleeding from the fist he had been holding.
"What the hell....." she said taking a handkerchief from her pocket and wrapping the four deep cuts in his palm made by his nails. "Oh, I don't know what happened.... I wasn't really paying attention....." he said, shaking his head. Rachel glared at him. "You're damn right you weren't thinking! These cuts are freaking deep CJ!!! I don't want you bleeding all over the place." she screamed. CJ gave a half smile.
"Thanks Rach......" he whispered as he put his arm around her shoulder and they wlked off to the direction where Sam and Alex were supposed to be. Sam let go of Alex. "Little bro, you ok?" Alex's face was blank. He shrugged. "I dunno, I'm not really affected cuz, I didn't even know mom, so....." he said as he gave a fake laugh.
Sam was about to talk but was inturrupted by the footsteps of CJ and Rachel. She sighed and turned to the graves for one last look, and then left with Alex to walk to her other cousins. "We're done here. Let's go home." CJ said as the other three nodded and they walked into the darkness.
****
CJ, Sam, Alex, and Rachel sat at the kitchen table, all of them silent. Sam had her head resting on her palm with her elbow on the table. CJ was staring blankly at the table. Rachel was playing around with a spoon and Alex was drawing on a napkin.
"Um, I take it that none of us are sleepy tonight." Sam said. CJ nodded. "Maybe it's the mocha frap I drank today at the mall....." Rachel said without looking up once from her spoon. Alex wasn't paying attention. He was drawing Rachel playing with her spoon. Sam saw this and grabbed the napkin. "Jesus Christ Alex. This is wicked......." she said examining the picture. Rachel and CJ came to examine it. "Hey! This is pretty good! Especially since it's a picture of me!" Rachel exclaimed.
CJ agreed. Alex blushed. "It's not that good. Just something out of boredom." he said shrugging. Sam looked at him. "Did you send the applications for the art college yet?" she asked. Alex shook his head. "Nah, I don't have anything to turn in for my portfolio." he said. Sam kicked him under the table. "You have a million things you can turn in!!" she exclaimed.
Alex blushed until CJ suddenly grabbed his head. "AH!" he exclaimed. Sam ran to his side. "CJ, you ok?" she asked. CJ shook his head. "I just got a premontion." he said rubbing his head. "It hurt.....not like my usual dizzyness."
"What did you see?" Rachel asked.
"I saw this warlock crash through our window in the living room and I saw him attacking us." he said. Sam, CJ, Rachel, and Alex thought for a minute until they heard a loud clash in the living room. "Looks like it's come true." Alex said as they all got up to run to the living room. There, they all saw a man, in a suit, his eyes glowing.
"AHH!" Rachel screamed. Alex waved his hand and made his fly to a cabinet, and the warlock crashed into it. "ARGH!" the warlock shouted as he brushed off the wood and glass of his clothes. Sam tried to make his explode, but he was too fast for her to get an aim on him. The warlock darted to the stairs. Rachel orbed in front him with a bat and smacked him right in the face.
CJ took him by the neck and held him up to the wall. "Who are you????" he screamed at the warlock. Sam, Alex, and Rachel stood behind him. The warlock made choking noises. "Unhand me..." he tried to say. "WHO ARE YOU??" CJ screamed once more. The warlock smiled and threw an energy ball right at CJ's chest so that he flew against a wall, knocking him unconcious for a mintue.
Sam ran up to the warlock and kicked him in the face. Rachel and Alex ran to CJ to help him get up. Sam punched the warlock in the stomach. The warlock returned the moves to her but Sam blocked her. Then she gave a strong kick right in his stomach. "HYEAH!!" she screamed. as the warlock slammed against the wall. He got up quickly and adjusted his jaw and quickly raced up to the attic.
"What the heck?" Sam said as she saw him running away from her. "Come back here!" she screamed. CJ gained conciousness and they all ran upstairs to see what happened. Well, they actually all orbed upstairs. Except CJ shimmered..... Anyway. They orbed upstairs to see where the warlock was heading. They found the warlock flipping through the pages of the Book of Shadows. "The Book!" Rachel exclaimed. The warlock flipped to an empty page and waved his hand.
The empty page suddenly turned into a full page with a spell. CJ ran after him and threw an energy ball at him. The warlock avoided it and it hit a wall, causing the wall to explode leaving a big hole. "Sam! Freeze him!!!" Alex screamed. Sam waved her hands but then the warlock waved his hand and a blue forcefield appeared around his and the magic backfired and made them freeze instead.
The warlock laughed to himself. Then he lit a candle and started chanting. " Hear these words, Hear the rhyme, We send you this burning sign,In another place and back in time." he said. Then he dissapeared and the candle that he lit fell on the floor and the house started on fire. After a while, the freeze wore off and they all returned back to normal.
Sam looked around to see where the warlock had gone since, in their point of view, he had dissapeared in a blink of an eye. Then she noticed the fire. "FIRE!!!" she screamed. CJ dug through the broken pieces of wood left by the hole in the wall. "Look for the fire extinguisher Rachel!!" he screamed. Sam and Alex were trying to put the fire out with some blankets but it wasn't working. Finally, CJ found the extinguisher and used it on the fire.
Flufy white stuff came out of the big black hose and the fire went out. Sam sighed and wiped her forehead from all the sweat off. "Where did he go?" she asked. Rachel shrugged. "What was that spell that he made appear in the book." Alex said as he headed to the Book of Shadows. It was open to where the warlock had it but the page was empty. "Man. It disappeared." he said.
"What the heck. We don't know what that spell could do. What if he like went to the underworld or something to get an army." CJ said. Rachel shook his head. "Warlocks don't need the Book of Shadows to do that." she said. "Well, let's fix this stuff up before we get into any more evil stuff." Just then, a bright light came behind them. Rachel turned around and gasped when she saw who it was.
"UNCLE LEO??" she screamed.