Hey guys sorry I didn't write anything for an intro in the first chapter, but I was having a dumb moment and uploaded the chapter before editing it on the site. I know stupid mistake. Anyway so here is my intro. I am happy to announce that the Halliwell children are back after the wonderous fiasco that was Halloween. This is a Wyatt, Chris, Mel fic, but my other characters make brief appearances as well. This story focuses alot on ancient Roman culture and I tried to explain most of the stuff in the story, but if you get confused about something please tell me so I can try and explain it. This Chapter has the guys getting Wiccan supplies, so I will warn you that I am not a Wiccan practitioner, but I tried to read up on it to try and get things accurate the thing with the silver candles and bay leaves is actually a way to boost psycic abilities, BUT THE POTION IS MADE UP! The other supplies and candles were just thrown in there to build the story. Also I describe the kids' vehicles in this chapter and yes, I am aware that this is in the future and the particular vehicles that they are driving may not be around in the future, but I am unaware of future cars, trucks, and SUVs, so there. Sorry if this intro got long but I felt the need to tell you all this. Please review as I love to read them. As always, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not owned Charmed, I only own what you are not familiar with.
After breakfast the three young Halliwells were in the kitchen cleaning up. Wyatt was washing the dishes, Chris was drying them, and Mel was cleaning the counter tops.
"Do you guys have any big plans today?" Mel asked her brothers.
"No not really, I mean its Saturday and we don't have to work at P3 tonight, so plans may come up" Chris said.
"Well, since mom and dad are gone until next week I need to run some errands, plus I need to get the club ready for tonight and check what needs to be ordered on Monday" Mel told her brothers. "It would be great if you guys could help me."
"Sure Mellie what do you need?" Wyatt asked.
"Well if you guys would go to the grocery store for me that would be a big help. I have a list for you and everything" Mel said handing them a piece of paper. "Oh and we need some candles and potion supplies too, you should be able to get everything at The Witching Hour, but if you can't, go see Mr. Xi in Chinatown." She said handing them another list. Mel usually did the Wiccan supply shopping; she knew just about every place in town to go for the ingredients. "Alright guys, I'm going to go get dressed and then head to the club" she said leaving the kitchen.
"Yea we better get ready too, if we want to have free time today" Wyatt said as he and Chris also left the kitchen.
Mel was in her room doing her hair. She defiantly inherited Piper's hair, long and brown with a slight wave to it. Once Mel was done straightening it, she pulled some of it back and fastened the pieces with a clip, letting a few pieces fall to the front creating a frame around her face. She quickly put on some make-up and started looking at her clothes. Mel's closet was over flowing with clothes most of which she made herself. Mel's dream was to be a fashion designer; she was in school at the San Francisco School for Art and Design in an attempt to achieve that dream.
"What do I want to look like today?" Mel asked herself. "Let's see setting up the club, so defiantly jeans" she said as she rifled through her clothes finding a pair of white washed jeans that still had denim blue edges. She put the jeans on that sat snugly at her hips. Then she pulled out a pink tank top and pulled it over her head. The tank top fell just at her bellybutton, leaving a bit of her stomach showing. She then dug through her closet and pulled out some blue and pink Rocket Dog sneakers and headed down stairs. She saw Wyatt and Chris in the foyer grabbing their jackets. Chris had on a faded black leather jacket, and Wyatt tossed on his grey suede jacket as Mel came down the stairs.
"See you later guys" She said as she reached into the closet to grab her own jacket.
"Mel, do you really always have to wear half a shirt?" Wyatt asked as he saw what she was wearing.
"Wyatt, we have been over this. Of the three of us here, who is in charge of my body" Mel repeated her common statement. "Plus I'm young and won't be able to wear clothes like this forever. As long as I keep it tasteful there is nothing wrong with how I dress. Not to mention I hardly think showing an inch of my stomach qualifies as half a shirt" Mel said as she pulled out a black jacket. She put the jacket on and headed out the door pulling her long hair out the top. Before the door closed she yelled "Call if you need anything."
"Come on let's go. Your car or mine?" Chris asked.
"Let's take yours, my truck is almost out of gas" Wyatt replied.
Mel walked out to her silver Honda CR-V as her brothers walked over to Chris' yellow Mitsubishi Eclipse. The two vehicles pulled away from the Manor, leaving behind Wyatt's black Toyota Tacoma.
Mel arrived at P3. It was always weird to see the building in the daytime with no cars in the parking lot or illuminated signs. She unlocked the door found the light switch and descended down the stairs. She walked back to her mom's office and unlocked the door.
"Alright if I was an event's calendar where would I be?" she asked out loud. "Ah here it is." She found the large calendar board posted on the wall. "Let's see Saturday" she said as she moved her finger along the dates. "Hmm, 'All Roads Lead to Rome' interesting band name, wonder what they play" Mel wondered out loud. As she stared at the band name, Mel felt a tugging in the back of her mind, like she was supposed to know something. "Huh, weird" Mel said as she walked away to start setting up for the band.
Chris and Wyatt drove down the streets of San Francisco until they pulled up to a row of stores. One store was painted navy blue and the sign above it said The Witching Hour in yellow writing, with crescent moons on either side of the words. Chris found a spot in front of the store and the two brothers got out of the car. As they walked into the building a small bell rang signaling to the worker that customers were in the store.
"Blessed be" a young woman said from behind the counter as she turned to look at Chris and Wyatt.
"Or um, I guess you two aren't sister witches" the girl said with an embarrassing smile.
"What you have to be girls to be witches" Chris said with a smile on his face.
"Well, I guess not really, I just have never met, or even heard of male witches before" she replied.
"We are shopping for a friend" Wyatt said as he glared at Chris.
"Ah that explains it. What are you looking for" she asked.
"We need 10 white candles, 3 red candles, 3 blue candles, toadstools, sage bundles, comfrey leaves, and dandelion milk" Wyatt said reading off the list Mel wrote.
"Your friend hasn't gone shopping in a while, has she?" the shop worker asked as she went over to get the candles.
"Well, we… er um, she goes through a lot of stuff, and she just buys all at once" Chris replied.
"I see, you said 3 blue candles right?" she asked.
"Um yea, 10 white, 3 red and 3 blue" Wyatt replied. "Chris will you go find the herbs on the list."
Chris walked over to where the herbs were kept. He looked over the piece of paper. He found a jar of toadstools, and a jar of dandelion milk, then grabbed 5 sage bundles. "Comfrey leaves, where are you" he said to himself and he searched along the shelves. "Ah ha, there you are" he said as he grabbed a bag full of the leaves. As he turned around to walk towards Wyatt his cell phone rang. Looking at the caller ID, he saw it was Mel.
"Yea Mel what's up?" Chris asked.
"Hey are you and Wyatt at the herb shop still?" Mel asked.
"Yea we are just getting ready to leave why?" he questioned.
"Well could you also get a silver candle, and some bay leaves" she asked Chris.
"Silver candle and bay leaves, wait; are you going to do what I think you're going to do?" Chris asked.
"Not until I'm with you guys, but yes I am, I have to it's a feeling" Mel told her brother.
"Alright, alright. I'll get the stuff. Talk to you later" he said as he hung up the phone.
"Was that Mel?" Wyatt asked.
"Yea, hey can we also get one silver candle" he said as he walked to the shelf with the bay leaves.
"Sure" the worker said as she grabbed another candle. "A silver candle and bay leaves huh?" she asked as Chris put down the herbs he had picked up. "You're friend sure knows her stuff."
"Yea, I guess" Chris responded.
"Oh hey, just out of curiosity, do you have anything for bad dreams?" Wyatt asked the girl.
"Wyatt! What are you doing you can't exactly tell her that we telepathically share dreams with our sister" Chris said through his telepathic link.
"That's why I asked her for something for bad dreams" Wyatt responded the same way.
"Yea I think we do" the girl said as she walked over to the herbs."Here, morning glory blossoms. Tell your friend to put them under her pillow to keep the bad dreams away."
"Thanks" Wyatt said as he put the morning glory blossoms with the rest of the stuff.
"That will be $75.84" the girl said when she finished ringing up the order.
Chris pulled out a blue debit card. The siblings had opened up a special checking account specifically for Wiccan supplies so nobody got stuck with the bill every time. Every pay check each person got, 10% went into the account. It was something all three sets of cousins had done in an effort to eliminate the money drama. "Damn, that's a lot" Chris said as he got his card back.
"Yea, that's what everybody says, but I don't make the prices" the worker said while she bagged up the supplies and handed them to Wyatt.
"Well, thanks for your help" Wyatt replied as him and Chris walked out.
Back at the club Mel couldn't shake the feeling she had gotten when she was looking at the events board. It was starting to give her a head ache. She had called Chris to pick up some extra things at the herb shop. Although she wasn't sure what was giving her this feeling, she had an idea. Because Mel was able to use all of her family's powers she had a telepathic link with everyone in the family. This link couldn't be completely shut down, but it could be put in 'sleep mode' as Mel liked to call it. Because Mel had felt something pulling at her, she though that a premonition was trying to come to her, but because her telepathic link with her cousin and aunt was in 'sleep mode' she didn't see the premonition and now it was trying to get her to see it.
"Uh that's it, I can't take this anymore" Mel said as she rubbed her eyes. "I think I wrote down everything that will need to be ordered on Monday anyway." Mel dug out her cell phone and called Chris again.
"What do you need Mel?" Chris asked.
"Are you guys done at the grocery store?" Mel asked with stress in her voice.
"Yea, just loading them into the car, why?" Chris asked.
"Nothing really, I just have a head ache and if it is a premonition that is trying to be seen I need to do it now before this get's worse." Mel replied.
"Alright, do you want us to meet you at the club, we can put the perishables in the cooler there so you can do this" Chris told his sister.
"Yea, that'd be great, hurry" Mel said as pain shot through her head.
"Hey Wy, we need to go over to the club Mel needs to…" he paused as he looked around "call a premonition" he whispered to his brother.
"Ah man, we were doing so well all week" Wyatt said disappointed.
"She can't help it Wy, she wouldn't be doing this if she wasn't getting a headache from it being stuck" Chris chastised his brother.
"Fine, come on let's get going" Wyatt said as he climbed into the passengers seat.
The yellow car pulled up to the night club. The two boys walked down the stairs with some bags in their arms. Wyatt walked over to the cooler and put the bags in there to keep the groceries cold. Chris was carrying a paper bag and walked back to their mom's office.
"Mel" Chris yelled through the empty club.
"Damn it Chris, do you really have to yell?" Mel asked her brother as she held the side of her head.
"Sorry Mel just didn't know where you were" Chris said as he dug into the bag. "Silver candle and bay leaves.
"Thanks, will you orb home and get the mortar and pestle. I also need some nutmeg. The rest of the stuff should be here" Mel told her brother. Chris nodded and orbed out.
"What can I get you Mel?" Wyatt asked he hated seeing his baby sister in pain.
"I'm going to need some honey, salt, water and a lighter" Mel replied.
Wyatt went around the bar and found the stuff Mel asked for. When Chris orbed back in, Wyatt had just found a lighter in the drawer behind the bar.
"Where are you going to do this at?" Chris asked Mel.
"This all started in the office so in there" Mel said as her brothers followed her to the office.
Mel put some bay leaves, nutmeg, and salt in the mortar and crushed them together with the pestle until they became a powder. Once she had done that she added the water and honey to the mix. She stirred the ingredients together and poured the liquid back into the glass the water was in. She lit the silver candle and started reciting a spell that she had used before for this task.
"In an attempt to cure this condition, I wish to get a premonition" Mel chanted, and then drank the mixture of ingredients. She made a funny face at the taste but swallowed anyway. She went over to the events calendar and touched today's date, the one that had started it all. Within a moment Mel gasped and shut her eyes, as her body went rigid.
