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It was later that day, when Emily had finished packing out her things, when Wyatt stopped by her room.
„Have you settled in?"
„You can say so." Emily was spacing up and down in the room, with small things in her hands. „Only a few things are left."
Wyatt stepped in the room, closing the door behind him.
„Are you up for a story?"
Emily immediately sat down on the bed and was waiting for Wyatt to do the same.
„They've met a year ago, after a demon hunt. She was chasing the same one, and our only advantage was that she was alone. Later on, we ran into her more and more often. Chris got fed up, when we noticed her at P3, so he confronted her about she spying on us. It was a huge argument in the backroom, with broken glasses and chairs.
I didn't dare to open the door until much more later. By then they were already cleaning up together, laughing and, obviously, something was definitely sparking between them. It was a week later, when Chris asked Bianca out, and everything seemed okay for the time being. But three months ago, news came about Bianca, in bars, always with different man. After a while, we didn't count it, how many rumors we've heard. But Chris decided to ask her about this. He went to her apartment, but his timing was entirely bad. Or good. it depends on the point of view.
Anyway, he had found her with a man on the couch, half naked. Not needing any more explanation, he didn't say anything, he only put down his key on the table, and left without a word. And he hadn't seen Bianca since then. Until today."
Emily just sat there, silently, still trying to digest the story Wyatt told him just now.
Honestly, she couldn't understand, why on Earth would any woman cheat on a man like Chris Halliwell. But it must not be her concern.
'Chris Halliwell is way above my league.' – she thought bitterly, while not daring to face Wyatt, but the Twice Blessed noticed the emotions on her face anyway.
„And you are telling me this, so detailed, is because…?" Emily let the end of the question to slip away.
Many things could be told about Wyatt, but he was not as dumb as he seemed to be. Sure, Chris was the one, who inherited the brains from their mother. But Wyatt had his fair share too, as Chris had gotten looks as well. So when Emily was looking away, he had easily guessed, what was going on in her head. And he decided to take a long shot.
„Well, it is because I'd like to ask something from you. But I don't know how to say it."
„It's okay, don't dance around the topic, just say it out loud and straight." Emily told him, not knowing what was going on in his head.
„I'd like to ask you to flirt with Chris." Wyatt looked at her, with honesty in his eyes. „He still needs a bit of ego boost, and you look like someone, who could help him in this."
Emily blinked a few, 'cause she couldn't believe her ears.
„Excuse me. You want me to do what?!"
„I want you to flirt with him. Nothing serious, just a little innocent flirt." Wyatt shrugged casually, like nothing was wrong with his request, as he was repeating himself.
„You're insane!" Emily looked bewildered. „It's not like my cupid half would let me doing things like that, if I'm not honest about it."
„Okay, I'm sorry. Forget it, please." Wyatt raised his hands, like he was surrendering.
„You can bet, that I will forget it." Emily let out a little laugh, as she stood up from the bed, to continue where she stopped in packing out.
Wyatt took this as his cue to leave, as he closed the door quietly behind himself.
That night light was shimmering under the door of Emily's room. Quiet music could be heard, calming everybody's mind who could hear it.
Chris was standing in the hallway for a good half an hour now, just listening to th music. Somehow it felt good for him, standing there, and listening to Emily's voice blending with the music, if she was singing along with the lyrics.
Her voice seemed more and more alive with every passing moment, and it was drawing Chris closer and closer to her door.
This was how Wyatt have found him, sneaking closer to Emily's door, step by step. Of course the Twice-Blessed couldn't resist to make a bit of fun out of his little brother.
„I can see you have gained interest in our little cupid." Somehow he managed to sneak upon Chris, without him noticing, and now he was scaring the living soul out of him.
„Oh my god, Wyatt! Are you out of your damn mind?!" trying to resist the urge of shouting his dear brother's head off, Chris turned his back to Emily's door.
„Quite something, isn't she?" Wyatt decided to tease him, since the blush on Chris' face was clearly visible, even in the dim light of the hallway.
„And how should that concern me?"
„Oh, I don't know." Wyatt's grin was even wider. „Surely nothing, as it is the most common thing for you to sneak upon the door of every new lady friend of ours."
„Oh, just get lost." Chris waved his brother off, and closed his own rooms door behind his back.
The next morning, Emily wandered down the stairs rather sleepily to the kitchen, only to find Piper there.
„Am I too late or too early for breakfast?" she managed to mumble between two yawns.
Piper just laughed at the girl's drowsy face, how she was fighting to keep her eyes open, and started to make a coffee for her.
„No, sweetheart. You're right on time. My best guess is, the boys were up until an ungodly hour again, so we won't see them until noon."
Emily could only nod, since she wasn't very talkative before her first coffee in the morning.
„So," sat Piper down next to Emily, with the girl's coffee in her hand. „while we are waiting for them, how about you tell me how Chris earned the „Mr. Charmed" title?"
When Wyatt stumbled down the stairs, with Chris in tow, Emily was wide awake and laughing with Piper.
„And I had to convince Chris it was his brother who had scared the living lights out of him, and not some vampire who had come for him.
Emily doubled over laughing and she became even more hysterical, when the once-vampire and his prey walked in the kitchen.
„Mom, please don't tell me, you told her that old story." Chris was walking practically blind as he was walking to the counter to find coffee for himself.
„Why? It is a sweet story to tell." Piper protested, while Wyatt turned to Emily, and snarled to show his fangs, making the girl laugh even more.
„I don't even want to know what are you doing now." Chris sighed, his back still turned to the others in the kitchen.
„You better not." Piper tried to gather her breath before turning to more serious topics. „So, boys, how will today's schedule be?"
„We're not really sure yet." Wyatt shrugged, as he was waiting for Christ to pass the coffee pot. „You told me, Emily needs training in combat. We should find out about her powers first, so we can set up a proper training schedule for her."
Chris just shook his head, still amazed, as every time, how his brother managed to utter whole, detailed sentences before his first coffee. Chris himself was, whoever, useless until the first sip of the dark liquid.
Emily just smiled at Wyatt, how he was all business at the first mention of training. She closed her eyes, held out her hand, and remotely beamed the Twiced-Blessed's morning coffee into her hand, right before Wyatt had a chance to take a gulp.
„Hey, my coffee!"
Piper laughed at her son, and how he was out-witted by the petite witch first thing in the morning.
Emily stood up, handing back Wyatt his coffee.
„Is that enough for you, as a demonstration of my powers?" she asked smiling.
„Almost." Wyatt smiled gratefully, as he got back his coffee mug from the girl. „Anything else you want to show us, and does not include my coffee taken from me?"
Emily grinned slyly and reached out for Chris's mug. His eyes got twice as big as they were, as Emily took his „Don't stand between me and my first morning coffee!" titled mug from him, and just disappeared into thin air.
„Where did she go?" he asked, not really believing his eyes.
„Oh, I'm right here, just like before." all of them could hear her voice, but could not locate her body anywhere in the kitchen.
„Okay, Emily, that was very impressive." Wyatt had that big, goofy grin on his face, the one that was saying „Oh, she's got you, lil' bro.".
Emily appeared right next to Chris, handing him back his mug, and heading back to the table, where she left Piper.
The mother of the two most amazing boys, that the magical community had seen, was watching her amusedly, glad at the fact that Emily was able to handle her boys, quite well.
A few hours later Chris, Wyatt and Emily were standing in the basement of the manor, that has been remodeled over the years.
Surely, with three children to raise, Piper would have needed the extra space to store their extra things, but as the boys were growing, they needed a place where they could train, without raising suspicion amongst the neighbors.
The basement now looked like more than a gym, with boxing bags, a ring for fight, and all the stuff that the boys needed for training.
Swords of every kind and size were hanged up the wall, sharp and shiny, waiting to be used by one of them.
„So, this is it. Where we are training." Wyatt said after he showed around Emily in about half a minute. Chris on the other hand, had started to get ready to get some workout.
They were discussing the topic of training Emily that morning, and they came up with the solution, that Chris should hold the first session, and find out how much she knows about self-defense and combat in general.
„Well, today we were thinking, that we should find out what kind of knowledge do you have about fighting, so we can fill in the gaps and prepare you to kick some demon asses." Wyatt looked at the hazel eyed girl, while he was watching Chris to climb in the ring, already prepared and warmed up.
„Chris will help you to try yourself out. Just give in everything you have. He will not hurt you, this is only just to find out how skilled you are."
Just before lunch, Piper was sitting in the kitchen, preparing food, when the door of the basement opened. Wyatt came up, with a grin on his face, telling: „I'm the cat, that ate the canary.".
„So, how was the training?" Piper asked the question she knew Wyatt wanted to hear.
„Oh, she gave Chris a run for his money. But ask them, they are coming up after me."
Chris and Emily appeared in the doorway, almost the same time. Chris, being his gentleman self, let Emily go first. Both of them had very telling bruises from the previous training. Plus, Chris had been limping a bit, indicating that he had been kicked pretty hard.
"Is she any good?" Piper looked at Chris curiously. "Or will you two have hard work with her?"
"Oh, she is good." Chris muttered as he sat down on a chair, wincing a bit. "She needs just a little bit of polishing. Who knew she learned kung-fu for over a decade now. She just kicked me, right in the…"
"Okay now, no need for a report this detailed." Piper raised her hand, silencing her son before he could finish the sentence. "Anyone hungry?"
"No, mom, thanks." Wyatt refused the offer of lunch, which made his family members look at him surprised. "What? I have a lunch date with Hailey."
Chris laughed out loud, while Piper shook her head smiling and Emily didn't understand a thing.
"Anyway, I'll go shower first, I need to get ready real fast. See you guys later" he orbed out of the kitchen, and half a minute later they could hear the shower running.
"How late is he?" Piper chuckled, while getting plates out of the cupboard, and putting them before Emily and Chris.
"Well, he will be okay, if he can get ready, like ten minutes ago." Chris smiled, already picturing what Wyatt will get when he finally gets to meet Hailey.
Emily looked back and forth between them, until finally Piper showed mercy and filled her in.
"Wyatt usually forgets time when they are training and today he has a lunch date with his girlfriend. As nice and kind Hailey is, she is not that forgiving when it comes for him being late and her waiting for Wyatt. We take it he will get an earful of her, when he arrives."
Emily smiled at them, and moved a bit when Chris winced and put up his leg on the chair next to her.
"Piper, may we get some ice? I really have managed to kick Chris quite badly." Emily blushed as she tried to avoid looking at either of them.
Piper just raised her eyebrow, but walked to the fridge without a question, filling a plastic bag with ice and handing it to her son.
Chris just sighed relieved, when he placed it on his inner thigh, the coolness already easing his pain.
"How have you managed to kick him there?" there was a little laugh in Piper's voice while she was absorbing the two of them.
"Well, that was …"
"She was just lucky." Chris tried to save some of his reputation in front of his mother.
Emily's eyes lit up with anger, when she heard his excuse of the injury.
"Lucky? You think I was lucky? Well, for your information, when the next time you throw a girl on the floor, make sure, she is not able to kick you just like I did. And you can consider yourself lucky! If I had aimed just a few centimeters to the right, you wouldn't be able to stand back up, for a long time."
Chris watched her amusedly while she was giving him an earful because of his hubris. Her words made him laugh, which got even worst when he heard her warning for future situations.
"You've got to be kidding me. As if you could hurt me like that. You're not that good, Emily."
Piper was having the time of her life, while she was watching Emily and Chris arguing about the events of the training, while she was making lunch for them. She had her suspicions about Emily turning up at their place, just a few weeks after Chris breaking up with Bianca, but she needed to consult with Leo and Coop, just to confirm her suspicions.
In the meantime, Chris and Emily sat at the table, shooting irritated glances at one another, not aware of the events, that were set into motion around them.
