A/N This is the next part of my uncompleted novel, "No Greater Love...". If you don't know anything about it, check out the summary and table of contents on my homepage.
Of all the parts that are make up my novel, this one makes the most references to "The Witch and The Assassin" written by Sciffantasychic (Scifi to us), so if you haven't read that one yet you may want to at least skim it. Unless you want to be like Rori and try to figure out what's going on yourself! You can also find a link to "The Witch and The Assassin" on my homepage.
Speaking of Rori, if you haven't met the Halliwellls' fourth cousin and don't know about her power of retronition or her huge, unrequited crush on Chris Perry, you may want to read "Oh, My Goddess!...And its Aftermath", especially the Aftermath part, since it properly introduces her and she's a big part of this fic. Originally Aurora, Scifi and I wanted this fanfic to help fill in the months the show skipped between "The Courtship of Wyatt's Father" and "Hyde School Reunion", but it seems to fit better here, before any of the sisters know who Chris is (or, for that matter, about Evil Wyatt), but after the events of "ChrisCrossed", Rori does.
This is based on a fanfic of the same name that was part of Aurora's Alternate Season Seven Series and since she wrote most of this one, too, I changed the author's name to show her as one of the authors. We never quite finished this one, which is one of the few things that I'm truly disappointed about regarding "No Greater Love..", since it was such an important part of the story and could've been such fun. I've attempted to write out what we had in mind, but I'm still hoping that Aurora will at least get a chance to add what we would've wanted to have seen from this fic and that I've missed. I hope you like it anyway!
Again, all original characters belong to Scifi except for Morgan who belongs to Aurora and Rori who belongs to me.
NO GREATER LOVE...
PART FOUR: THE POWER OF THREE WYATTS
by Esmeralda and Aurora Nightstar Based on
the fanfic by the same name written by Aurora Nightstar
and
"The Witch and The Assassin", written by scififantasychic
CHAPTER ONE
As you well know, Chris, I'm usually the type who loves to sleep in late, but a couple weeks later, somehow I just couldn't sleep in. Something just would not let me sleep--this sense that something very special was about to happen, something I was very excited about--something I had longed for so long!! This made absolutely no sense to me at all. After all, this was just going to be a day like any other. I go to work, do my job, come home, play with Wyatt, argue with Chris, try to convince Leo that Chris isn't really that bad of a guy when you get to know him while still trying to convince myself, find out which demon Chris wants us to vanuquish this time, go vanquish it and blah, blah, blah. But I found myself jumping out of bed, like a little kid at Christmas, eager to get my presents. I found myself actually skipping down the stairs as that feeling kept growing stronger and stronger. I knew I must be channeling someone else's emotions, perhaps one of the kids down the street was having a birthday? If so, the kid was really going to have himself or herself one hell of a party!
I saw the lights go on in the kitchen, so I began walking that way. When I heard Chris's voice, I stopped at the door, snooping as always. "How in the hell?" I heard Chris exclaim, as surprised as I'd ever heard our usually-unfazeable everything-going-according-to-plan Whitelighter be.
Suddenly I found myself wanting to start jumping up and down with joy as I became even more excited, and now happy, really joyously happy. Huh? If Chris was happy to see this person, it sure hadn't shown in his voice--if anything he sound upset! Besides, by this point, I was certain that he had taken the same empathy-blocking potion he had given my sisters, since I was never able to read him after that.
"I used a spell on my enhanced power!" cried a female voice, one I'd never heard before, one that sounded very young, very excited, but a bit worried, too. I wondered if she was the one who I was channeling and, if so, why she was so excited and happy. "I had to warn you." She had to warn him about something, but she was still excited and happy? That made no sense at all.
"Warn me?" Chris asked. "About what?" and, of course, I wanted to know, too.
"I think you know," she replied, and I suddenly became tense. "Wy.."
"Don't ask me why," Chris interrupted. "Don't say why!" and now I was very confused. But before I could hear the female's reply, Paige and Piper walked up behind me, and since I didn't want them to know that I'd been snooping, I just went into the kitchen with them.
There was indeed a stranger in our kitchen, a very young, very pretty girl, who looked to be around Rori's age, with short dark hair and big brown eyes. She looked up and looked right at me. I could feel my heart practically melting. Huh, I thought. What the hell is going on? And before I could stop myself, I found myself walking right over to this total stranger and giving her the warmest hug, one I usually reserved for my sisters! I stuttered as I tried to stop myself from saying "I love you." to this perfect stranger! A tear rolled down my cheek. I wiped it away and wondered where it came from.
My sisters were staring at me as if I was nuts. "Who is she?" Paige wanted to know. So did I, but I ignored Paige's question. This girl had all of my attention.