Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed, Ghost Whisperer or it's characters.
I read some where that Jennifer Love Hewitt could've possibly played Paige and I thought she would fit right in and be really interesting on the show. I love Paige and Rose McGowan and what was brought to the show with her on but I decided to do a fanfic where Melinda Gordon is the new young sister instead. Hope you all enjoy.
Charmed Again
It was four o'clock in the morning and Piper was in the attic at the Book of Shadows calling for Prue, calling for a lost witch etc... trying spell after spell to try and bring her back to her but nothing happened. Phoebe came in to check on her older sister. Piper took Prue's death the hardest and Phoebe was trying to hold it together for her. Phoebe convinced Piper to get some sleep and they left the attic together. After they left, the Book of Shadows opened to the 'To Call a Lost Witch Spell.'
-v-
Melinda Gordon had just opened up her antique shop in Grandview, New York a couple months ago. She was really proud of her accomplishment. Her best friend Andrea worked for her at the shop and she had just come in for the morning. Melinda had turned around to put an item on the shelf. When she turned back around there was a newspaper on the counter.
"Where did this come from?" Melinda wondered. "Did you put this here?" She asked Andrea.
Andrea looked at that the paper Melinda was holding. "No." Andrea replied.
Melinda looked at the paper and saw that there would be a funeral for Prudence Halliwell in San Francisco, California.
"This paper is from San Francisco." Melinda said.
"Why would a paper be here from San Francisco?" Andrea asked.
"I don't know." Melinda said and then thought to herself, "But I'm sure there's a reason." Melinda glanced around the room quickly.
Melinda has always been able to see ghost. When most kids were losing their innocent gift, she still had it and never lost it. She knew that made her different. She told her mother about it as a child but her mother never wanted to hear that kind of talk Melinda's grandmother on the other hand was more understanding and open. She believed her. Her grandmother was special because she could vaguely remember being able to talk to ghosts as a child. The whole thing was very interesting to her. She was the one who told Melinda to embrace her gift and not be ashamed of it. Her grandmother passed away a long time ago and she never had the best relationship with her mother. She hasn't even seen her father since she was a little didn't see any ghosts around but she thought one had something to do with the newspaper. How else would it get there?
Later that night, Melinda was hanging out with her close friend Jim while going through a folder she took from her mom's house with her name on it. She never went through it. It just sat in a box. She didn't even know if she was supposed to take it but she saw her name and just grabbed it. Once, she started going through the papers she knew she hadn't seen any of it and started to think that maybe her mother was keeping it from her. Suddenly, she came across a paper that confirmed her suspicion. They were adoption papers. Melinda was stunned. She had no idea.
Jim saw the look on her face and became concerned. "Is everything alright?" Jim asked.
"I'm adopted." Melinda said in a breathy tone.
Melinda was conflicted. She really didn't know how to feel. She's never had a great relationship with her mother but she did love her. She was questioning her entire life. There were so many lies. Where did she come from? Who did she come from?
That newspaper appeared again, this time it was next to her on the kitchen table. Jim didn't notice. He didn't know about Melinda's gift so that was a good thing. Melinda picked up the newspaper and wondered what this ghost was trying to tell talking to Jim about how she felt for a while he asked her a question.
"Are you going to try and find your biological family?"
"I wouldn't even know where to start. There's no original last name. It says, Melinda Samantha. No last name, its blank... You know I always wondered why my mother wasn't like me."
"What do you mean?" Jim asked.
"...Nothing."
Melinda called her mother and confronted her about the new found information. Her mother never expected her to find out but after a half hour of explaining why she did what she did, her mother finally told her that she and her father wanted a child and her father was in San Francisco visiting a couple of friends. He and his friends always went to this Catholic church every time he was in town and one time he learned that a baby girl was waiting to be adopted. He called her excitedly and she flew out there to meet this little angel. Before they left they had a beautiful little girl who seemed to be so didn't feel angry but she did feel lied to and thought if her mother went through so much to get her why couldn't they have a great relationship? Her mother gave her the address to the church and Melinda decided to fly out there to visit the church and Jim was happy to go with her so that she didn't have to deal with it Melinda got off the phone she looked at the address and then went back over to the newspaper.
"Same city, same church. Maybe this is what that ghost is trying to tell me. Maybe for once a ghost is helping me instead of me help them and help their own loved ones. I really have to go to this church." Melinda thought.
She booked a flight to San Francisco for herself and Jim and asked Andrea to run the shop for her for a few days and got her some help.
-v-
The day after Prue's funeral, Phoebe started going through photo albums and things that held memories for the entire family, even some of the ancestors. She came across her mom's old love letters, to and from her former lover Sam. The letters triggered a premonition of a young woman getting attacked by Shax in a hotel room.
"What did you see?" Cole asked, sitting next to her.
"A girl in a hotel room being attacked by Shax." Phoebe replied.
"Was there any indication of what hotel it could have been?"
"I saw a symbol." Phoebe got a piece of paper and pencil and drew it.
"That may help us find the hotel but then we have to find what room."
"Maybe we can catch her in the lounge or something."
"Or be too late. Why would those letters trigger that premonition anyway?"
"I don't know, all I know is I can't let the same demon that killed Prue kill this girl."
"What are you two talking about?" Piper asked, entering the living room with Leo.
"The demon that killed Prue is out to kill another girl."
"And you're going to go after him and get yourself killed too?" Piper asked angrily.
"Piper." Leo said.
"No, Leo! Don't Piper me! I'm not doing this anymore! Tell the elders, their precious Charmed Ones don't exist anymore!" Piper yelled and then ascended the stairs.
Leo started to follow.
"No, leave her be she needs to be alone." Phoebe said.
"I'm going to try and find more information on this hotel and go from there. Cole, are you coming?" Phoebe asked.
"Yeah, it beats hanging around here, waiting for bounty hunters." Cole said and then the two of them left.
Meanwhile Piper was in the attic and she had tried to summon Prue again but got Grams instead.
"...Everything happens for a reason and even this happened for a reason too. Your destiny still awaits you... Blessed be." Grams finished and then ascended back up to the heavens.
-v-
Melinda arrived at the hotel with Jim. She booked a double bed room the night before. They went and got settled in the room and then talked for a few minutes.
"Are you nervous?" Jim asked.
"Yeah! I don't know what I'm going to find and I'm still a bit in shock. I'm just so curious to know. I wonder why she gave me up?"
They suddenly felt a harsh wind and that followed by the door being blown open and a huge, muscular, gray man with long gray hair appeared.
"That's no ghost." Melinda thought.
Just seconds later Cole and Phoebe ran in. Shax attacked Melinda and she suddenly orbed. She hadn't even realized and Phoebe and Cole were shocked. Melinda quickly tried to hide under the bed while Cole threw energy balls and Phoebe said the vanquishing spell. It got rid of him for now.
"Are you ok?" Phoebe asked Melinda and Jim.
"...Yeah." Melinda replied, shaken up. "Jim?" Melinda wanted to know if he was ok but he didn't respond. She looked at him and he had passed out on the floor but she checked his pulse, making sure that that was all. He was fine.
"You orbed." Phoebe said.
"Orbed? I don't know what you're talking about." Melinda said.
Phoebe and Cole looked at each other a bit confused. "That thing will probably come after you again. We can protect you if you would come with us. I know you don't know us but we just saved your life."
"That's ok. We'll just get another room. We no longer have a door for this one anyway." Melinda said.
"It'll find you wherever you are." Phoebe said.
"How did you fight him off?" Melinda asked, curiously since she had her head to the floor while they were fighting him off. She was so frightened.
"We've had some practice... I really think you should come back with us." Phoebe insisted.
"No." Melinda wanted to say yes but didn't.
"Are you crazy?" Cole exploded.
"Cole." Phoebe said letting him know to calm down. "What's your name?" Phoebe asked.
"Melinda."
The name was very familiar to Phoebe and after hearing it, she had to know her last name. "Melinda?"
"Yeah. Melinda Gordon."
"Oh." Phoebe relaxed after hearing her last name. "Listen, if you're ever in danger, just yell out the name Leo."
"Why would I do that?" Melinda asked.
"Alarm." Phoebe answered and then went back to the manor with Cole.
"I can't believe she orbed." Phoebe said.
"She orbed? Are you sure?" Leo asked.
"Yeah, she was gone and then there were white lights, then she was back again. The crazy part is, she didn't even know she had done it." Phoebe explained.
"That doesn't make any sense." Leo said.
"Could you just go see if the elders know anything?" Phoebe asked.
"I'll check the underworld. Don't worry, I'll come back." Cole said then shimmered away and Leo orbed.
Phoebe went up to Piper's room to see how she was doing. When she got there Piper was sitting on her bed quietly. Phoebe joined her and hugged her.
"I just miss her, Phoebe." Piper said.
"Me too but we're going to get through this." Phoebe said and they turned on an episode of Bewitched and watched until Leo and Cole came back.
"Did either of you find anything?"
"The elders don't know who she is." Leo said.
"Apparently, the source thinks... she's another Charmed One." Cole informed.
"Wait! Who are you all talking about?" Piper asked.
"That girl from my vision." Phoebe said.
"You've got to be kidding me." Piper said and started heading up to the attic and they all followed. "Your destiny awaits you Grams says. There's a reason for everything she says. She needs to get her transparent ass back down here right now!" She called Grams down and couldn't get anything out of her. She said she was sworn to secrecy and then their mom, Patty came down.
"...We were afraid you girls would be denied your destiny and your powers. We didn't know what would happen to us or the baby so we kept the pregnancy a secret. After she was born, we took her to a church and told the nun to give her a good home. We wanted to keep her badly but the consequences could be too great. We named her Melinda, after our ancestor and Samantha after Sam but left the last name open. We didn't want her to be linked to us so that everyone else could find out." Patty went on explaining.
-v-
Melinda and Jim got another room once he came to. They still had two beds but they slept in the same bed because Melinda was too shaken to even sleep in the bed alone. For someone who sees ghosts all the time you wouldn't think she scares as easily as she does but this was extremely out of the ordinary and she had never been this frightened before. Jim held her through the night. Of course he was afraid too but he passed out so he didn't remember much anyway.
Later that day, Melinda finally eased her nerves enough to go to the church which was why she came to San Francisco in the first place. She and Jim met the nun that was responsible for her adoption and she told her what had happened. Then she gave her what was left to her by her biological parents and left her and Jim and Phoebe entered the church and went over to her.
"We hoped we'd find you here?" Phoebe said.
"How did you find me?" Melinda asked.
"We went to your hotel first and since you weren't there I hoped you were here and if you're here you must be looking for answers about where you came from." Phoebe said.
"How did you know? Who are you?" Melinda asked.
"I'm sorry, I'm Phoebe Halliwell and this is my sister Piper."
"Halliwell. You're the one who's sister's funeral was in the newspaper." Melinda put it together.
"Yeah." Phoebe said.
"I'm sorry for your lost." Melinda said.
"Thank you. That thing, from earlier today is what killed her and its trying to do the same to you." Phoebe said.
"Why?" Melinda inquired.
"This is going to be hard but... you're our sister and that thing's boss doesn't want three of us to be alive at the same time." Phoebe explained.
"This is too much." Melinda said.
"I know but it's true. Those things in that box, our mother gave it to you. Some of it was even ours first." Phoebe noticed a small bear in the box and picked it up. "Hey! I remember this!"
"Phoebe, focus." Piper commanded.
"Oh yeah." Phoebe said, getting back to the task at hand.
"I'll give you three some time alone." Jim said and went into the next room.
"You're a witch!" Phoebe blurted out. "A good witch and so are we."
"Whoa! A witch?"
"Good witch." Piper inserted.
"We know it sounds crazy but the only way to keep that thing which is actually called a demon from killing you or anyone else is if we defeat it, the three of us together." Phoebe explained.
Melinda thought they sounded bananas but they were so serious and she just knew this was what people thought of her when she told them she could see ghosts, oh and by the way she had a message so maybe she shouldn't just write them off but the demon on the other hand was a different story.
"I don't know, that demon seems pretty powerful." Being as she could talk to ghosts, demon wasn't the craziest word she heard all day... witch was.
"The three of us can defeat it." Phoebe said.
"But it killed your sister." Melinda said.
"We weren't prepared for him that time. This time we will be." Piper said.
Jim went back to the hotel and Melinda went along with Phoebe and Piper because if he was going to keep coming after her, they needed to defeat him if they even could. The three of them walked in holding hands and the living room chandelier began to glow.
"What the hell was that about?" Melinda asked.
"I think that means you're supposed to be here... sister. We better hurry to the attic before Shax gets here."
They felt a harsh wind.
"Run! He's coming!" Phoebe yelled and the three of them quickly ran to the attic. "Hurry! Find the spell!"
Piper quickly flipped through the pages and found the spell just in time. Shax broke threw the door.
"Say these words with us!" Piper exclaimed quickly.
The three of them read the spell aloud and watched as the demon was vanquished for good.
"Is it over?" Melinda asked.
"He's gone." Piper said.
"This certainly isn't the day I planned out. I almost got killed twice, I learn that I'm apparently a witch, I have sisters and I killed a demon. This is a lot to take in, in two days. I need to sit down." Melinda got over to the old sofa as quickly as possible to sit.
"Are you ok?" Phoebe asked.
"I will be... eventually. If I think about it. It all finally makes sense now." Melinda said.
"What do you mean?" Piper asked.
"I've always been able to see ghosts, no one else could. I have this unexplainable gift and now I know why."
"Ohhhhh." Piper and Phoebe said in unison.
"That explains a lot because you handled this witch thing even better than we did, well better than Piper anyway. I was excited." Phoebe said.
"You didn't always know?" Melinda asked.
"No. We found out three years ago." Phoebe replied. "But you should get some rest and digest all this. Hopefully we can get together soon?"
"Uh... yeah." Melinda said.
"How about tomorrow at P3?" Phoebe asked.
"P3?"Melinda asked.
"It's a club." Phoebe said.
"I'll google it. Tomorrow then." Melinda said before leaving.
The next night at P3 Piper, Leo, Phoebe and Cole were at their favorite table when Melinda finally showed up with Jim and introduced him. Then Phoebe introduced Melinda to Leo and officially to Cole and then Melinda and Jim joined them."
"Guys, why don't we give the ladies a little time alone." Leo said, then he Cole and Jim went over the bar.
"This is a great club." Melinda said.
"Thanks, I own it." Piper said.
"Cool, I own an antique shop where I live." Melinda said.
"Where is that?" Piper asked.
"Grandview, New York." Melinda informed.
That, the sisters did not expect. She lives on the other side of the country.
"It's interesting you own an antique shop. Prue was interested in antiques, old artifacts, art and photography." Phoebe said.
"Wow." Melinda was surprised she and the sister she never knew had so much in common.
"Looks like I'm still the only jobless sister." Phoebe said.
"Do you think I have more powers other than just seeing ghosts?" Melinda asked.
"Yeah. Seeing ghosts is just something that comes alng with being a witch. For some reason you can just see the all the time." Phoebe said.