A.N.: First of all, I would like to thank Allenterril, who was the first person to review this story. Even though her review was a question, I am glad that someone reviewed, because this means that people are reading my story. Thank you very much, to everyone who has read, even though they have not written reviews. If I didn't put a disclaimer in the first chapter, here it is. I do not own anything except for the plot and any original characters. You are more than welcome to post this story somewhere else if you like, but please get my approval first. Once again, I don't own Charmed or any of the characters that you recognize from the T.V. show, those belong to Constance M. Burge and the WB! The only things that I own are Gabriela, Karissa, Reese, Blaize, and other original characters. Raven is based off of my best friend, Tegan and Dysis are based off of two of my other best friends, and Xavier is based off of another friend.

Chapter Two:

Meeting the Halliwells

Before Gabriela's hand could reach the gorgeous solid copper brass griffin knocker that stood proudly on the mahogany door, it swung open. A young woman who looked to be the age of twenty-four or -five, with mid back dark brown hair, and the same chocolate brown eyes that we mirrored in Gabriela's face stood in the door way. She looked surprised, as well as shocked to see an almost spitting image of herself standing opposite her. The young woman seemed to take in every resemblance between herself and Gabriela.

"Can…, Can I help you in some way?" The young woman asked.

"Um…, my name is Gabriela Martinez, my dad was, is, David Martinez and I was told by the Miami General Hospital that Patricia Halliwell is my aunt. I flew in from Miami and someone was supposed to pick me up at the airport, but no-one was there, so I took a cab, and now here I am, rambling."

Piper looked at the young woman in front of her. She took in her dark reddish-brownish, almost black, hair, an her tanned skin, and then finally her caramel-chocolate eyes. Gabriela Martinez. Why did that name sound so familiar? It wasn't until her mother's name came out of the girl's mouth that she realize who she was.

"Oh, my god! Gabriela!. I didn't think that you were coming until tomorrow. We, I, am so sorry. Please, come in." Piper ushered the girl inside. "Prue is in the kitchen, Phoebe is in her room….I think, and Raven is in the conservatory. Girls, get your butts into the conservatory now!"

"Raven?" Gabriela asked confused. "I thought that I only had three new cousins."

It took Piper a second to realize that the doctor probably didn't know about Raven. "Raven is an orphan that Phoebe met while volunteering at the city's orphanage. We felt that she had a potential for ma- uh, I mean, stuff and that she wouldn't be able to meet it at the orphanage, so we went to court for custody of her and she has been living with us for about eight months now."

By the time that Piper finished, they had walked into the conservatory. On one of the couches, sat a young woman, who looked to be around the same age as Gabriela, if anything, a few months younger. She had straight raven black hair, and sharp, attentive green eyes. The girl was drawing a picture of what seemed to be a human turning into a wolf under the surreal glow of the full moon. The fleeting thought of Werewolf, flew across Gabriela's mind.

"Raven?" Piper said, interrupting Gabriela's thoughts, "This is Gabriela, my new cousin from Miami. Gabriela, this is Raven, who I was telling you about a couple minutes ago."

Raven had a confused look on her face as she said, "But, I thought that she wasn't coming until tomorrow." After Piper explained the date mix-up, Raven said, "Well Gabriela, welcome to San Francisco. It's no Miami, but it is nice." At that second, two other women came in, who Gabriela guessed to be Phoebe and Prue.

"What is it Piper?" The brunette woman who had just entered, asked her sister. She had the same eyes as Piper, though her hair was a slightly lighter shade. The other woman had crystal blue eyes, and jet black hair that went just a little past her shoulders.

"Guys, I want you to meet Gabriela. Gabriela, these are my sisters, Phoebe and Prue." Piper said, pointing first to the brunette woman, then to the black haired one. "I know that we thought that she wasn't coming until tomorrow, but I think that the doctor gave us the wrong day by accident. And since Gabriela is already here, lets make her feel welcome. Phoebe, why don't you take Gabriela up to her room." Addressing Gabriela, she asked, "Would you like something to eat or something to drink?"

Gabriela started to object, but seeing as they were making an effort to make her feel welcome, she said, "Tea would be great. Thank you."

Piper smiled warmly at her, while Prue said, "Welcome to San Francisco, Gabriela."

Gabriela smiled back and followed Phoebe up two flight of stairs. When they reached the top, they turned left and walked up to a gorgeous mahogany door. As soon as Phoebe opened the door, Gabriela was met with several relaxing hues of ocean blues, and greens, that as soon as she walked into the room, she could feel all her trouble and stress start to disappear. On the far end of the room, right in front of Gabriela, stood a pair of French doors, leading out to a balcony. Gabriela walked over to the doors and opened them. As she stepped outside, she noticed a beautiful little garden just outside of a small patio with multiple lawn chairs spread out on it.

"I see you are admiring Piper's garden." Phoebe said, coming outside to join her. "Sorry if the room is too, well too anything. When we inherited the house, this room was already like this."

Gabriela looked at the garden for another second, before turning to face Phoebe. "No, it's perfect. My room in Miami was white a pink. My mom wouldn't let me paint it, but if she had, it would have been in these colors."

Phoebe smiled. "I'm glad you like it. This used to be mom's room." She pointed to a CD player on top of the chest-of-draws. "There is a CD with sounds of the ocean in there, and next to it there are some other Cds with other calming sounds. We didn't know what you would prefer, so…" She trailed off.

Before Phoebe had a chance to reply, Gabriela interrupted. "No! It's perfect. I love it." At those words, Phoebe seemed to glow. "But, I was wondering. Do you happen to know anything on a Blaize Reeves? I met him while I was trying to get the courage up to go knock on the door." Gabriela explained.

Phoebe nodded in understanding. "Blaize moved here with his parents about nine and a half, ten months ago, when his dad got a better job here that in New York. Even thought Blaize is a couple, okay, about three years younger than me, he's a cool person to hang out with. He's not like your average seventeen year old male." She said while laughing with Gabriela.

Once the laughter died down, Gabriela asked, "What do his parents do? I mean you said that his dad got a better job here."

Phoebe looked thoughtful for a second before replying. "His dad coaches Soccer at the local university, and his mom is the actress, Sarah Reeves."

Gabriela almost chocked on her own saliva. "You mean the Emmy award winning actress Sarah Reeves? Wow! She is amazing. He must have girls falling at his feet all the time, huh."

Before Phoebe could respond, the door opened and Piper entered the room, with a tray with steaming cups of herbal tea, and a plate full of chocolate chip peanut butter cookies.

"Sorry if I'm interrupting anything," Piper said, "I'm just bringing up some cups of herbal tea and a plate of chocolate chip peanut butter cookies." Piper said, setting the tray down on the bed.

"You found my weak spot." Gabriela said, eyeing the cookies.

"Piper makes the best cookies in San Francisco." To Piper she said, "And don't worry, you weren't interrupting anything. We were just talking about Blaize and his family."

Piper nodded in understanding. "Well, I'll let you two girls go at it." She said as she got up.

"Why don't you join us." Gabriela invited. "I mean, I would like to get to know my new found cousins, since I'm gonna be living with them."

"Sure, why not." Piper decided. She grabbed a cookie from the plate, and started munching on it. "Why don't you tell us a little about yourself?"

"Well, there's not much to tell. Back in Miami, I was on the girls soccer and volleyball teams, but my passions were always singing, acting, and dancing. For one semester I was a cheerleader. I love to read and I am fluent in three languages. English, obviously, Spanish, and Italian. If you ever let me loose in a mall, I will most likely blow all my money on shoes."

At this the sisters laughed. "You are just like Phoebe." Piper said. "Is there anything else that we should know about you?"

Gabriela thought for a second before replying. "Well, I'm a movie addict, and I'm a sucker for horror movies. I am totally guy crazy." Once again the sisters laughed. "It always seemed that when I was in Miami, strange things would happen around me."

This caught the sisters attention. "What kinds of weird things?" Phoebe asked, glancing at Piper.

"Well, when I was mad, it seemed that something would overheat or catch on fire, causing the sprinklers to go on. And it seemed that every time I was sad it would start to rain." Gabriela told the sisters. "I don't know what to think. Is this something that I should worry about, or am I going crazy? I'm sorry. I'm venting all of my problems to you guys."

The sisters exchanged looks. "It's okay." Phoebe said. "We don't mind, and we have been told that we are extremely good listeners." Piper nodded in agreement. Phoebe reached over and grasped Gabriela's hand to show he support. As soon as Phoebe's skin touched Gabriela's, she was sucked into a time that wasn't her own. She could see Gabriela walking home from somewhere, when out of nowhere, a horned beast lunged out of the bushes just ahead of her. Gabriela's hands instinctively shot in the air, to cover her face from what ever was coming at it. As soon as her hands were in the air, the creature caught on fire and exploded. As quickly as the premonition had come, it was gone. Phoebe opened her eyes to see Gabriela and Piper looking down at her with worry in theirs.

"Phoebe, are you okay?" Gabriela asked concerned.

"Yeah, I'm sorry. I must have spaced for a couple of seconds there." She got up from the bed, and got a head rush. "I'm feeling a bit light headed," She said, "I think I'm gonna go lie down for a while."

"I'll help you." Piper said while helping Phoebe out the door. Once the two sisters were out of earshot, Phoebe turned to look at Piper.

"I think there's more to Gabriela than what meets the eye."

"What did you see?" Piper asked her younger sister. Phoebe took a deep breath before she told Piper about her premonition.

"I don't think she knows that she has powers, though. I mean she looked as surprised as I felt." Phoebe told her.

Piper looked lost in thought for a second. "I think it's time we find out some more on Miss Gabriela Martinez."

The two sisters walked into the attic and straight to the podium that held their family's sacred heir loom, 'The Book Of Shadows.'

Piper opened the massive volume and started flipping past all the pages containing information on demons and other supernatural creatures that the Charmed Ones had fought, and many others yet to come. Finally, she reached the page that she was looking for. The page that had the spell to summon a spirit. The two sisters looked at each other and started to recite the spell.

Hear my words,

Hear my cry,

Spirit from the other side.

Come to me, I summon thee,

Cross now the great divide.

When the sisters finished the spell, there was a glow in the center of the room. When the glow shimmered down Piper and Phoebe could see their grandmother standing in the middle of the room.

"Hello, my darlings."