A/N: I wanted to do a story where it introduces Victoria from the other story I'm doing, called "Rise to Power". This is her and Leo's story. This is my take on what happens to Leo after becoming a Whitelighter. Not much action, as a warning, but I hope I can do the characters justice. Also, this is based on a dream I had one night, actually just the scene in this chapter with the shootout between the opposing sides and the house scene after that.
Disclaimer: I will say this only in this chapter. I do not own anything in the series Charmed, and I am not making money off of this story. This story is for mine and the reader's enjoyment.
Chapter 1
After Leonardo Wyatt died, he had visited his wife, Lillian, after he had become a Whitelighter. He thought she deserved a proper goodbye and Leo wanted her to move on with her life. The year was 1942, and Leo had died in November of that year by an explosion near his medical tent. After he died, Leo was visited by the Elders, who had offered him immortality and the ability to continue healing people in need. Leo being the brave medic he was, agreed to their offer, and he eventually found himself in Europe, where he met a descendant of the American witch known as Melinda Warren. Caroline was her name, and Leo found her to be gorgeous, with her shoulder-length mane of chestnut hair and aqua blue eyes. They married in December of 1942, which Leo thought nothing of. Seeing as she was not his charge, Leo thought it was perfectly fine for them to get married, and eventually they had a daughter named Victoria. As their daughter grew up, the war between the allies and axis powers continued to wage on, and Leo wanted nothing more than to orb his family out of danger, however, Caroline hadn't wanted to leave her homeland.
One day, a skirmish between the powers waged, and Leo and his family were out in the field at the time. It had been getting dark by then, and under the cover of darkness, each side had wanted to take advantage of the setting sun. A long row of soldiers from each side had boxed the family in, and they had to run down the dirt road, to their house. Leo wanted nothing more than to orb his family to safety, however, with the risk of exposing magic to mortals, he thought better of it. Hope willing, the Elders would protect his family some how. Miraculously, his family came out of the skirmish unharmed. Leo didn't know if the Elders had anything to do with it, however, he offered a silent thanks up to the sky.
Once they had gotten into their house, Leo and Caroline made their way upstairs to lessen the risk of getting shot, which was a possibility if they had stayed on the first floor. "What are we going to do?" Caroline asked as she threw her arm out to the side and to her horror, a stream of flame caught the dishtowels by the sink on fire. She flicked her hands at the fire and a stream of ice put the fire out. "I'm sorry," she looked down at the floor.
Leo wrapped her protectively in his arms. "Shh, it's okay. Everything is going to be okay."
"But...how will it ever be okay?" Caroline asked. "We are in the middle of a war zone! What about our daughter?"
"We'll get through this together," Leo promised. "We just have to stick together, and remember, just because I'm not your Whitelighter, doesn't mean I cannot heal you or Victoria. And, I'm immortal, so I cannot die by bullet or bomb fire."
"But, what about Victoria? What will happen if one of those bullets hit her?"
"I won't let that happen," Leo told his wife. "I think we should try to get out of here as soon as possible," when she was about to interrupt, he continued, "I know this is your homeland, but it is too dangerous right now. We can always come back once the war is over. We do not need to take a ship or train to get here quickly. We can orb."
Caroline took a couple of minutes to think about what her husband said. It would be in Victoria's best interest to leave the country to keep her safe. She finally nodded to Leo to let him know that she agreed with him. There was no use putting their daughter in unnecessary danger, when they could live wherever they wanted, at least temporarily. The couple quickly packed everything they could into travel bags, mostly clothes, expensive items to keep them from being stolen, and most importantly, Caroline's Book of Shadows. Caroline's book had the same story about Melinda Warren and the Charmed Ones as the book Melinda herself had passed down to another group of her descendants. Caroline, being the first sister in a three daughter household had thought all her life that she would become one of the Charmed Ones, however, so far nothing has happened to let her know if she was or not. Being the oldest though, made her more powerful than her sisters. Included in her powers was the power to shoot a stream of flames, which was normally reserved for evil beings, and the power to freeze by encasing the demon or item in a block of ice.
In becoming a Whitelighter, Leo was able to view all of his past lives to get a perspective on how he came to be where he currently was in the karmic scheme of things. He remembered that in his previous life back in the 1920's he was the lover of Priscilla Baxter, who was able to slow down evil beings and items, and her cousin Phoebe Bowen was able to use Cyrokinesis, or the power to manipulate ice. Caroline's freezing power seemed to have been a combination of the two. Leo could tell that Caroline was a Warren witch, with her fierce determination and fighting spirit.
"Let's go to San Francisco, in America," Leo suggested. He had desperately wanted to see Priscilla again, if even if it was as friends. He knew she may recognize his soul, being that they had once been lovers. "You have family there, cousins." He wanted Caroline to meet the cousins he had known at one time, and with her Book of Shadows with Melinda Warren's information in it, would allow the cousins to know that she was really a relative of theirs.
Leo had also wanted the chance to see his siblings again. He had three younger brothers and three younger sisters, and Leo was the firstborn out of the seven (Charmed novel, House of Shards). Caroline gave a nod at that and decided that they could go to America. "What if I want to see my family?"
"We can always orb," was Leo's reply. "Or, maybe they can come with us and we can buy one of those townhomes? Those are big enough for a large family."
"We could do that?" she asked.
"Yeah. I can ask the Elders if they could make it so that we wouldn't have to go through customs for your paperwork. That could take a long time to sort out and by the time something goes through, all of you may have been deported by then."
Caroline gave a nod before giving Leo a peck on the lips, "I would like that."
"I'll take you over to your sister's house...you'll be safer there while I'm gone," Leo told her before he held on to Caroline's waist and Victoria's hand and orbed away.
