Here's the next chapter, please read and review. The action will soon be getting going now as the plot thickens so on with the story…
Chapter 2
Sometime later they found themselves camped out in the disabled toilet in Homebase.
"I still think this is a bad idea," Lana moaned, hanging up and passing her mobile over to Alexis.
"Well what's your bright idea then?" she shot back, typing in her dad's number.
"I've already told you I don't have one, but seriously, this?"
"Shh!" Alexis snapped. "Oh damn, voicemail…um, er, hi dad," she said, trying to ignore the sounds of Jamie and Lana quarrelling in the background. "I'm staying at Lana's house tonight. Sorry about the short notice and stuff, be home tomorrow!" Hopefully. "Bye then," she pressed the red button. "I'm grounded for a month!" she said brightly.
"…Look, he can't find us in here," argued Jamie. "The only reason we met him earlier is because we were almost outside our house,"
Oh, now that would make a lot more sense. Alexis thought, she had been worried that Jamie had a tracking device on him and had wondered how he had seemed to appear from nowhere. He'd probably just walked out of his front door.
"Just one question," she asked. "If you weren't going to the doctors' or anything, why were you outside?"
"I was hungry," he explained. "Come to think of it I still am," Jamie shrugged.
"Right," Alexis said, dropping Lana's mobile into her bag and bringing out her purse.
"Where are you going?" Jamie exclaimed.
"Especially with my purse!" Lana complained.
"Sorry, I don't have any money left. Besides, it's not exactly likely he'll be looking for us in Homebase is it?" she rolled her eyes and unlocked the door, peeping cautiously out before walking off down the corridor.
"Reckless idiot," Jamie groaned, locking the door behind her.
"Oh please, we'll have to leave soon anyway, pretty soon the shop will be closing and the cleaners will come, who will be able to unlock the door from the outside!"
"Calm down Lilly, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Besides, we're hardly going to be able to think of a plan with you complaining all the time." Lana blinked, temporarily forgetting that's what she'd told him her name was. "It's a public place so we can scream our heads off if we do get into trouble plus we have a door that locks. We're fine for now."
"Yeah, for the next two hours!" she said, absolutely frustrated. "Look, I'm sorry okay! It's just that there is a crazy person chasing us right, and I just can't deal with this right now. I like adventure, On TV, but in real life it's damn well scary, and I don't want to cope with the fact that I might die."
Jamie sighed. "Go home then, I'm sure me and Alice will be fine and-"
"No way am I leaving you!" Lana said stubbornly.
Jamie raised his eyebrows at this sudden change of mood but decided not to comment.
There was a pattern of knocks and Alexis's voice came through the door. "Open up it's me!" she hissed.
"Okay," Lana said uncertainly and went to open the door.
"Whoa!" Jamie exclaimed and Alexis grinned at him, holding about ten bags of sweets that she had bought from the tills. She dropped the packets on the floor and closed the door behind her.
"What's with the knocks?" asked Lana.
"Oh, it's a code thing," Alexis explained. "I figured that we'd need some kind of knock to prove it's only us if we decide to leave. If you here a voice and no knock it means that Marc is holding a knife at one of our throats."
"Okay what are the knocks then?" Jamie enquired, already halfway through the first bag.
Alexis picked up a sour cherry absentmindedly and said. "Oh, I hope you don't mind, the bags were about two pounds each so…"
Lana shot her a look to kill.
"Right you know Morse code?" Alexis asked but never got to finish her description. "Well it's just basically-"
Marc shimmered in in front of them.
They all shrieked in surprise.
"He has real magic…he has real…" Lana stammered.
"Yep, we know," Alexis cut across her, staring at Marc as if she'd seen a ghost. He had the same power that some demons did in Charmed.
"I have you now," Marc smirked, but this time he wasn't looking at Jamie.
Oh dear, this had to happen didn't it, Alexis mused. Especially when we are nowhere near the door, how to I escape now?
"Alexis?" Lana asked hesitantly.
"Yeah, I gathered," she answered.
"Wait, what did you just-" Jamie started but was cut off by Marc.
"Now did you really think you could hide from me Lexisa990?" he taunted. Alexis was speechless, she hadn't expected him to work it out so quickly. More to the point, a psychopathic guy with a few athames and some lethal concoctions she had just about convinced herself she could handle, someone with magical powers who was possibly, no probably, a demon was another story.
He clicked his fingers and a fireball appeared in his hand. "Cooperate and I will make sure this is virtually painless," Marc promised as the three of them shrank back into a corner.
He took a step forward and reached out to grab her with his free hand.
He's a demon, from Charmed, was the last thing Alexis thought before she was plunged into the weirdest sensation ever. Her body was so light yet so heavy at the same time and it tingled as she moved through the endless expanse of multicolour swirls.
All too soon it was over and the three of them landed hard on the floor. Their eyes widened as they looked around, unprepared for the sight of a large, comfortable looking front room.
"What the hell!" Lana screeched, jumping up and away from Alexis.
This isn't that bad a place to end up in, Jamie thought before starting to yell at Alexis. "Why didn't you tell me who you were, it would have been so much easier? We wasted all that time for nothing, when you could have gone to the police to get them to give you protection or something. Why did you tag along with me? Because…you thought that you'd get a good shot at killing him?"
"No! It's not, quit rambling and making stuff up," Alexis argued. "I was helping you Jamie, for god's sake, why would I risk my life helping you when I could have run off into hiding myself, it would have been a heck of a lot safer. I just didn't trust you a hundred-percent yet, that's all, which was understandable seeing as your psychotic demonic brother was trying to kill me!" she broke off as she saw four people standing in the doorway.
"Oh what the hell did you do Alexis?" Lana asked. "Did you have to move us in time too; we're already halfway around the world!"
"I did not!" she exclaimed. "Anyway, it was probably Jamie not me, he has the demon brother with the freaky magical powers!"
"You're forgetting why he's trying to find you – your magic." Jamie pointed out. She glared at him.
"What is wrong with you people?" Piper screamed, glancing angrily at Chris, as if it were all his fault. "Popping back from the future anytime you want. Well we have problems and lives too you know…"
"Wait," Alexis interrupted as her phone began to ring. "Wait, I have signal?" she said, confused, and picked it up.
Everyone waited in silence for a few moments.
"I didn't do anything to anyone," she said calmly. "If you don't believe me check my signal, I'm in America not England," Not to mention 2004, she added silently. "You were right, they did call the police." she told Jamie after she'd hung up. "Trust me; if I do have powers and are still alive at the end of this, I am going to kill them!"
"Sorry about Piper," Paige apologised for the woman who had left the room to brew a potion. "She's been like that since Leo left,"
"She needs to calm down," Chris agreed. "It's 2013, only the start of her problems-"
"Wait, what did you say?" Alexis asked.
"Well basically he's a whitelighter…" Phoebe explained.
"Yeah, we know all that." Alexis said impatiently, ignoring the surprised looks that everyone gave her, including Jamie, who had never watched Charmed. To him, for someone who didn't know she had magic and didn't used to believe in it, she knew an awful lot about it.
"If it's 2013 we haven't time-travelled at all!" Lana smiled, relieved.
Alexis and Lana looked at Paige, Phoebe and Chris for a minute, wondering how the story had somehow slipped forward about nine years.
"So what year did you think you'd travelled to?" Chris asked, feeling very puzzled.
"What's happening?" Jamie yelled, worried suddenly, but Alexis and Lana thought he was talking about the magic/possible time-travel situation before they felt it too.
"Uh, I don't know!" replied Lana, shaking in terror as she felt her body getting heavier and heavier like someone was trying to pull her into the ground.
"Help!" Alexis screamed at the three of them before they dematerialised again, swirling around in oppressive darkness, before they slammed hard into the floor for a second time, but this one wasn't nearly as comfortable.
So what's happened to them, how's the next chapter going to turn out? Take a guess and please review, I don't care if it's only a few words, come on people, don't let me down…
