Trica
"Nell, what's wrong with you? Ever since you got back from school you seem so different! We used to be so close, but now you don't even want to be around me anymore." said a teenage girl. The girl had medium brown hair and blue green eyes and couldn't have been more than around fifteen or sixteen years old.
"Can I help it if I don't want to spend tome with my little sister anymore Trica? Maybe if you weren't so annoying I might still want to be around you. I want off to college and discovered the fun in being bad. Unlike me baby sister, you are all good all the time, and absolutely no fun to be around!" hissed Nell. Nell had slightly lighter hair, with brown eyes, and looked to be around eighteen or nineteen.
"You know what, fine be the biggest bitch in the world Nell, I don't care anymore. But when mom and daddy find out what's going on they're gunna kill you!" replied Trica.
"Somehow I don't think they're gunna mind all that much." Nell said with a slight laugh.
"Whatever. I'm going to bed." answered Trica.
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A young man orbed into the room that Trica and Nell were sleeping in. He walked over to Trica's bed and gently shook her. "Come on you have to get up." he whispered to her.
"Huh, what's going on?" Trica said.
"Shhhh...... Don't wake up Nell!" the man answered "I have to take you somewhere now!" he added quietly, but urgently.
"But why, is there something wrong?" asked Trica.
"Yes, but I'll explain once I get you out of here!" the man said.
"O.K., fine but you better tell me!" said Trica.
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"Hey Phoebe. How come you're so late?" asked Piper.
"Oh, I was waiting for Cole, but he didn't show." answered Phoebe slightly depressed.
"Don't worry hunny, I'm sure that he'll come soon, he's probably just waiting until it's safe." reassured Prue.
"What if he can't, what if something went wrong! I should never have let him go down there!" cried Phoebe.
"Phoebe, you didn't let him, he went on his own, remember. For the greater good." said Leo. Just as he finished talking he looked up with a strange look on his face. "Piper, could you freeze the club for me? They need to see me."
"I thought they were giving you the night off?" asked Piper.
"I thought so too, but they said that it was important." replied Leo.
"Oh, I guess if it's important." Piper said throwing her hands into the air.
"Thanks." he said giving Piper a kiss and then orbing away.
"Uhhhhhh, I hate it when he does that!" she said
Phoebe and Prue just gave each other amused glances.
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When Leo got up there he noticed a young girl in her mid teens standing next to a young man in his late teens who was talking to the elders, both of whom had their backs to him. "I wonder how that kid knows how to speak like a whitelighter, they wouldn't have made him one, would they?" he said to himself.
"Ahhh Leo thank you for joining us so quickly." one of the elders said to him. Did he just talk to me in English? Thought Leo. Now I bet that you two are wondering what you are doing here" the elder continued, speaking to Leo and the girl. "Leo, this is Trica" he said as she turned around. As she did Leo stuck out his hand to her, as she saw him he noticed something flicker in her eyes. She took his hand, but glared angrily at the young man.
"Hi Trica, nice to meet you." Leo said.
"You too" Trica replied.
"And Leo this is Rocco," the elder said gesturing towards the young man "he's Trica's whitelighter." Leo was shocked, Rocco couldn't have been more than nineteen or twenty when he died he thought, but he said nothing. The elder continued, looking directly at Leo "Leo, Trica is a very powerful witch, one of the most powerful the world has ever known. It seem as though her entire family has been turned. We had Rocco get her, but now we need you and the charmed ones to protect her. It was decided by the source himself that id Trica wasn't also turned by tomorrow morning someone in her family was going in to kill her."
"Jeeze, it's like I'm not even here. I mean hello I am standing right next to him!" Trica mumbled under her breath. The elder gave her a look, but said nothing.
Leo looked at Trica before saying "Is her entire family was turned, why wasn't she?"
"Apparently they all have a predisposition to evil" said the elder "Trica is just powerful enough to resist it." Leo looked at the teenage girl in front of him, could she be that powerful? He wondered, and why is her family so important to the source? They were questions he would have asked, but Trica cut him off just as he was about to.
"So where am I going I'm tired and I want to go to sleep!" she said.
"Well Trica, you're going to go with Leo and I am going to go back home so that no one will think that I helped you to get away." Rocco answered.
"Fine then." Trica said, then she turned to Leo, "let's go!"
The elder gave him a look of sympathy before saying "Good luck, to both of you."
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Leo orbed Trica and himself to the manor to see if the girls were back yet. When they arrived Trica took one look around and said "What the hell?"
"What is it?" Leo asked her.
"Uhhhh..... it's nothing" Trica said.
"O.K. then, stay right here, I'm going to see if they're back yet." Leo told her.
"You bet" Trica said more to herself then o Leo. "You know I think that I'm just gunna sit right in this couch while I wait." Trica said yawning.
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Leo walked up the stairs softly "Piper, Prue Phoebe" he called softly. There was no answer, so he looked down at his watch, it was almost 4:30 in the morning. "They should be home, I guess that I'm just going to have to wake them up." he said to himself. He walked over to his and Piper's bedroom and walked in, and there she was sleeping in the bed, he watched her for a moment, not wanting to wake her, but realizing that he had to. "Piper wake up" he said to her.
"Humph....." she mumbled and rolled over.
"Come on Piper wake up." he said again shaking her lightly.
"Leo?" she said quietly.
"Yeah Piper it's me. I need you to go wake up Phoebe and Prue." he said.
"What? Why? Leo it's 4:30 in the morning." she asked.
"Piper it's important, and I would rather only have to explain it once." Leo said to her.
"Oh, fine but they are going to kill me. I hope you know that." Piper said as she sleepily got out of bed and walked towards the door.
A couple of minuets later Piper and a very sleepy Prue and Phoebe came into the room. "What's this all about Leo?" asked Prue.
"Let's see where to begin.." started Leo.
"How about at the beginning, and make it fast!" interrupted Phoebe.
"Phoebe!" both Piper and Prue scolded.
"What?! I can't help it, I'm grumpy when I don't have enough sleep." she answered.
"Anyway," Leo said, and then he proceeded to tell the girls about Trica.
"Wow" said Phoebe, who was more awake now, "kinda makes you happy that we didn't get our powers until our twenties doesn't it."
"What do you know about her" asked Prue.
"Not much, except that her name is Trica, she's a witch, and her family was turned."
"Where is she?" asked Piper.
"She's downstairs." answered Leo.
"Well lets go talk to her." said Piper who felt sorry for the girl.
They walked down the stairs without saying a word, each lost in their own thoughts. When they got into the parlor they found Trica fast asleep on the couch. Phoebe got an extra blanket to cover her. "Why don't we talk to her in the morning, lets let her sleep." she said. The all agreed and went up to back up to their rooms to go to sleep.
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The next morning Trica woke up early and decided that she would cook breakfast for Leo, Piper, Prue and Phoebe. "They are letting me stay here and they don't even know me. I should do something nice for them." she said to herself. She walked into the kitchen and debated over making omelets or pancakes. "Hmmmm..... I think that I'm gunna make omelets." Trica said aloud. She then proceeded to get out the bowl, frying pan, whisk, eggs, milk, butter, and cheese. She was almost finished when Piper, Leo, and Prue came into the kitchen. "Oh, good you guys are up, I hope that you don't mind, but I decided to make omelets for everyone. Sit down they're almost ready." Trica said.
"Oh wait, we don't want to eat without Phoebe, let me go wake her up." replied Prue.
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"Phoebe come on get up." Prue said trying to wake her little sister.
"Prue, I don't want to. It's early and it's Sunday, I want to sleep!" Phoebe answered groggily.
"Phoebe, come on Trica made everyone breakfast." said Prue.
"Breakfast? What did she make?" asked Phoebe.
"Omelets." replied Prue.
"Ohhh..... I love omelets! There better be coffee or I'm going to be cranky all day." Phoebe said.
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"Listen Leo I just wanted to say that I'm sorry how I acted yesterday. Rocco woke me up in the middle of the night and I was really tiered." Trica said.
"Don't worry about it." Leo said to her.
"Worry about what?" Prue asked walking into the kitchen with a very sleepy Phoebe.
"Nothing, it's not important." Leo told her.
Prue just shrugged her shoulders and asked "So when do we get to try this breakfast you've been cooking for us?"
"Sit down I'll bring it out." Trica replied.
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"Wow Trica that was really good!" said Phoebe.
"Yeah, Piper might have some competition on her hands" joked Prue.
Piper smiled she liked this girl that had come to stay with her and her sisters. "So" Piper said "we have a couple of questions that we want to ask you."
"I thought that you might." replied Trica "So, who wants to ask the first question?"
"I do." answered Prue. "What can you tell us about yourself?" she asked.
"Well they told me not to say to much to anyone about me or my family. But I will say that my family is and always has been very close. I've only met one of my grandparents, my mom's dad, all the rest died either before I was born or when I was very little. My parents are the kind of people you can talk to about anything. My mom's a doctor and my is a lawyer." Trica said.
"Wow, that's pretty cool, I would have loved to grow up in a house like that. Our dad left when we were all very little, and our mom died before I could even remember her." Phoebe started.
"I'm sorry." Trica said sadly, not looking at any of the charmed ones.
"Thank you, but we got over that a long time ago. Anyway we were raised by our grandmother who died just a couple of years ago. After that all we had was each other so we grew close to one another, because we definitely weren't close growing up!" Phoebe finished with a slight smile.
"OK what about you, you talked about your family so now tell us about you." Piper said.
"Ummmmm, let's see I'm sixteen. I'm in eleventh grade, and that's all there really is about me. Oh yeah, I love to ride horses, I've done it ever since I was a little kid."
"Yeah, me too! I used to go all the time when I was little." Said Prue. Trica said nothing, but smiled at her politely.
"Can you tell us anything else?" Phoebe asked.
"I don't think that I'm allowed to. My family can either be a powerful force of good or evil, and I think that they want to protect me as much as possible. And that they are afraid that one of you will slip and say the wrong thing to the wrong person." Trica replied sadly when she came to the part about her family being evil.
"Fair enough." said Piper "but what are we going to do with you all day? I mean I don't think that you want to spend everyday, all day in the manor. I know that I wouldn't." she continued.
"You're right, while you guys have a really nice house I would definitely get bored after a while." Trica answered. Then tentatively she said "I was thinking last night before I fell asleep, maybe I could go to school or something. I mean I know school isn't my most favorite place in the world, but it would keep my mind off of things."
"That's a good idea, except that how are we going to register you? WE don't even know your last name, and not to mention how we are going to explain why you're living with us." stated Prue.
"I think that I have an idea!" said Trica excitedly.
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"Mr. Anderson will see you girls now." an old woman with gray hair said warmly.
"Thank you." Prue and Trica said simultaneously. They walked into a small, but ncaely decorated office. Trica saw the man sitting behind the desk and instantly disliked him. He was in his late twenties with dark brown hair, and eyes so brown they were almost black, he also had a jagged scar across his forehead.
"What can I do for you ladies today?" he asked.
"Well, I would like to register my cousin here in Baker High." Prue said. "Her parents are moving to London and want Trica to finish school up here in the U.S." she continued smiling.
"Of course. I'm going to need to see your transcript Trica, so we know what classses to put you in." Mr. Anderson said to her.
"Sure, here it is." Trica replied handing Mr. Anderson a folder.
"Now let's see. Patrica Halliwell, age sixteen, grade eleven. Now let me see if I can get into the scheduling program. You know" he said "I hate tjis thing, it's so slow." he finished guesturing towards the computer. "OK, here we go. Hmmmmm.... Trica you seem to be a very smart young lady."
"Thank you." she said plastering a fake smile on her face. What is it about him that bothers me she wondered.
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"That was easy enough." Prue said "That was a really good idea that you had. But what'll happen if tey decide to look into the papers? Wont they see that they are fakes?" she asked.
"No, acctually I went on Phoebe's laptop, scrambled the signal, and created a Patrica Halliwell, as well as a mother, Andrea Halliwell, and a father, Richard McConnell. I thought that they might want to look into the papers because my parents weren't there to sign me up, so I decided to take care of it before it became a problem." Trica said.
"How in the world did you learn to do all that kind of stuff?" Prue asked incredulously.
"My mom is really good with computers," Trica said laughing "she taught me just about everything I know."
"Huh, well it's 11:30 and we're supposed to meet Piper and Phoebe at the club for lunch." Prue told Trica.
"What club?" Trica asked.
"The one that Piper owns." Prue answered. Seeing the confused look on Trica's face she said, "Come on I'll tell you about it on the way."
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