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A/N: Reneey: So Akantha woke up today while watching Charmed with Lyn around 9 am.

Lyn: Therefore, a Charmed fic! Let us know what you think, folks!

Reneey: Hehe… we're like killing ourselves here with fanfics XD

Lyn: Hey, what's Russian Roulette without as many bullets as possible, eh? :P

Reneey: … Don't say that… I'm in a Lady GaGa mood and you're gonna get Bad Romance out of my head and Poker Face stuck in it instead.

Lyn: Then be quiet and write the fic!

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Chapter One – Who You Callin' a Witch?

Reneey whined as the sun shone through the car window and into the back seat. Her brown eyes opened slightly and she turned over, forgetting that she was in a car.

"Whoa!" She landed on the bottom with a thud. "Oww…"

"Sorry," Lyn mumbled from the front seat, sitting up with a yawn. "Once I find a job here, you'll only have to worry about falling out of bed."

"I'm 18, I can find a job too," Reneey grumbled as she got up.

"As of four days ago," Lyn said, rolling her eyes. "And I have a bachelor's degree, remember? I'm pretty sure I can make more money than you can."

"Well, I could get a job as a waitress."

"We'll see," was all Lyn said.

Reneey yawned and stretched her back until it cracked. "So, we have any food left?"

"Bunch of homegrown apples and a few pudding cups," Lyn said with a chuckle, throwing Reneey one of each. "Or if you're really desperate, we could spring for Chinese or something."

Reneey caught them. "How much do you have left?"

"Enough for a down payment on an apartment if I can find a job," Lyn said simply.

"Well, once you do that we can get a decent meal," Reneey grumbled s she took a bite of the apple.

"We'll figure something out," Lyn said with a shrug.

"So let's go look for a job?"

"Eat your food and give the places time to open up first."

"It's 9 am – most places are open already."

"Then be quiet and eat!" Lyn said, rolling her eyes.

"Well, you should eat too!"

"I will! Now be quiet before I have to turn the radio on and drown you out!"

Reneey pouted. "You wouldn't do that; you love me too much."

Lyn sighed. "Reneey, shut up and eat."

Lyn Elumo, 20 years old and a graduate of the University of Tennessee, had picked up Reneey Umbra, an 18-year-old junior in a Pennsylvania high school, the day of her birthday and the two had headed west. They had been friends for years and now they were making real their plans to head to California to escape from their families and Lyn's ex-boyfriend.

Meanwhile, in the small town of Pierce, Tennessee where Lyn had lived for the first 18 years of her life, her mother, Crystal, had reached the edge of her limits. Lyn was 20 years old now; they couldn't call the police and report her as a runaway. So she did the only thing a 38-year-old practicing wiccan could do: cast a spell of safe return.

Reneey frowned. "Hey, Lynni… I feel weird… like I'm being pulled."

Lyn shook her head. "I just got one heck of a migraine…"

"Well, my stomach is doing flips and I feel like someone is pulling something out of my chest… could I be sick…?"

Lyn grimaced and nodded slowly. "Maybe we should lie down…"

Reneey snorted. "I'm already lying down…"

Heaving a sigh, Lyn closed her eyes tightly, trying to block out the light. "… Hey, Rea? You hear something?"

"I hear whispers… and a ringing… Any chance there's people here just wearing invisible clothes…?"

"Maybe we're in Harry Potter," Lyn joked weakly.

Reneey let out a dry laugh. "My head is starting to kill me too… Did we bring any Tylenol with us or something?"

"Yeah," Lyn said, forcing herself to sit up so she could search for the pain medication in her backpack. Things span too much for her to see properly for a minute, and then she blinked twice before saying slowly, "Uh… Rea…? Can you… sit up…?"

"My limbs feel like blocks… I can't even wiggle my finger."

"… I think I'm hallucinating…"

"… I must be too…"

"No," Lyn said, staring around herself at the green landscape of a city park. "I mean I really think I'm hallucinating."

Reneey finally found her limbs and sat up, then froze as she felt… grass? "Um… Are you seeing what I'm seeing…? And feeling too…?"

"Dunno… You see a park…?"

"… Yeah… Do you feel wet grass…?"

"Yeah…"

Then, out of the blue, this thing materialized in the middle of the park. It looked like a man but with eyes that glowed yellow as no human's ever had. Its teeth were pointed and it growled low, those eyes fixed on Lyn.

"Okay, now I know I'm hallucinating," Lyn amended.

"… I think we're in Supernatural and not Harry Potter," Reneey contradicted.

"So then when are a couple of hot hunters gonna show up and save the day?"

"No one's coming to save you, witch," the yellow-eyed whatever growled. And then Lyn's eyes widened even further as a ball of energy sprang into life in his hand.

Reneey's breath shortened as she saw the blast headed for her friend.

"Lyn!" she shrieked and suddenly a zig zag of electricity sprang forth from the palms of her hands, mingled with then exploded the energy ball, and shocked the demon.

Lyn stared at her friend in disbelief as the demon roared its anger. It didn't seem to be more than angered though, not that Lyn was really paying attention.

"Reneey, what the freaking heck was that?!"

"… Uhh… Something yellowy and electric…?"

"Okay," Lyn said with a nervous laugh. "Of course. This all makes perfect sense. I've totally lost my mind!"

"No, you haven't – just get down!" another voice ordered. Lyn whirled to check where this new voice had come from and got a brief glimpse of a tall, dark-haired man with striking blue eyes before he tackled her to the ground just as another energy ball went flying over their heads.

"What the freaking heck is going on here?!" Lyn demanded as she tried to shove him off her.

"I'll tell you later – stay down!"

"Hey! Get the fuck off of her!" Reneey snapped. "Only I'm allowed to tackle hug her!" She twitched. "And who the fuck are you?!"

The man growled and his arm shot out – and then suddenly both the demon and Reneey went flying backward toward the trees. Reneey hit her head on a rock as she fell down from hitting the tree and was knocked out, bleeding and bruised.

"Reneey!" Lyn yelled and then she immediately stopped trying to push the guy off of her – and instead hit him in the face, hard.

"Ow! Okay, look, girl – I'm trying to save your life!"

"By attacking my best friend?!"

"Look, those are demons and – I said stay down!"

Another energy ball actually frayed a few hairs on top of Lyn's head as the man pushed her back down again. The fourth followed quickly but then bounced back as if it had hit an invisible barrier a few inches from his outstretched palm and struck the demon in the shoulder. It roared and disappeared as quickly as it had come.

The man sighed. "Okay – one down, one to go." He got up. "Stay down until I tell you to move," he old Lyn as he made his way to where the unconscious Reneey lay.

"Wait – what the heck are you doing?!" Lyn demanded, getting up despite his instructions and running after him.

"Protecting you," he said as with a wave of his hand, Reneey was lifted off the ground. In his other hand, he raised a potion, ready to throw it at her.

"From Reneey?! Are you insane?!" Lyn demanded, stepping between them so she was directly in his path. "She didn't do anything!"

"It's not what she's done, it's what she will do! Now get out of the way!"

"Or what, you'll go all Jedi on me, too?"

The man rolled his eyes. "Move or I'll make you move! You don't know what she is!"

"So I should believe some random guy who tackled me in a park over my best friend?" Lyn demanded. "Who the heck are you?!"

"My name is Chris Halliwell and I was sent to protect you, Lyn."

Lyn reflexively took a step back at that. "How do you know my name?"

"I'm a witch like you, only I'm also half whitelighter. Protector of witches. I was sent by the elders to protect you."

"… Witch," Lyn repeated slowly. "And whitelighter. Right. I've totally gone insane."

"No, you haven't. Now, listen to me. Your friend is a mistake of nature… She's half witch and half demon. She holds unspeakable power that has to be destroyed before it turns to evil."

"Even if I believe all this freaking crap, she hasn't even done anything!" Lyn objected.

"I told you, it's what she will do!" Chris snapped.

"Then when she does, I'll move!" Lyn snapped right back.

Reneey groaned as her eyes slowly opened, only they were a different color now – green, neon green. "… Lyn… I don't feel so good… My head hurts… and I feel hot… and cold…"

Chris's eyes widened. "She's coming into her powers – I have to end this now!"

Lyn growled. "Don't make me break your arms so you can't go all telekinetic or whatever the heck that was."

"Look, I'm trying to protect you and the world!"

"And I'm trying to protect my friend who you apparently want to crucify for something she hasn't even done yet!"

"Didn't you see what she did to that demon?"

Lyn glared. "As opposed to what you did to it?"

"I did it to protect you!"

"So did she!"

"How do you know that?"

"Gee, maybe because it was throwing one of those glowy blue things which apparently explode at me at the time? Great job of protecting me then, too, by the way."

Chris growled. "Just get out of the way!" He lifted her in the air and was just about to throw her to the side so he would have a clear shot at Reneey when suddenly something in Lyn's mind snapped. The next second, a torrent of flames appeared from nowhere, circling Reneey and Lyn and creeping threateningly closer to Chris. "Leave her alone!"

Chris's eyes widened. "How is this possible? You're not supposed to develop your powers until later on!"

Lyn stared. "I'm doing that?"

"The fire, around you and her… It's your power."

In typical Lyn fashion, when the shock started to wear off she recovered her sense of sarcasm first. "Well, that would explain why it wants to kill you."

Chris stepped back a little as the flames grew closer to him. If I throw it now, the flames will destroy it… I can't get close to her without getting burned alive!

"Alright," he said, putting the potion back in his pocket.

"If you're expecting me to know how to turn this off, you're kinda mistaken."

Chris sighed. "This is gonna take a while…"