Chapter 3
Perry left the bathroom to the sounds of someone down the stairs. Not knowing who it was Perry got out of her bed looking at the clock. It was six am. And that was to late for Peyton, Paige and Piper were staying at Piper's dorm room and Phoebe should still be asleep. Perry snuck out of her room and walked down the stairs to see who was in her house. She walked into the kitchen and relaxed when she noticed that it was in fact Phoebe.
"Your up early." Perry commented as she walked into the kitchen startling the teenager as she turned around to see who it was. Perry shrugged an apology to her little sister as she went to grab some coffee. She looked at the pot to find it hafe empty but there was still enough.
"I never went to sleep." Phoebe told her big sister as she stayed sitting on her seat with her mug of coffee looking at a giant book. Perry looked at the book to find it was the book of Shadows. She sat down beside her sister and looked at her.
"Don't tell me you put on a conical hat and spent the night on a broomstick." Perry asked her little sister with humour. As she took a sip of her coffee. Phoebe smiled at her big sister as she looked at her with a smile. She liked Perry a lot more than she liked Peyton. Perry was more of a sister to her.
"The only broom I've ever had was kept in a closet beside a mop." Phoebe told Perry as she used her own form of humour. Unlike Peyton, Perry could also be a major laugh. She was great. Perry smiled at the humour Phoebe was showing.
"So what were you doing?" Perry asked her little sister with curiosity and added a slight but of humour into her tone as well. She loved it when she talked with her little sister. Even if some of it was not her stile.
"Reading. Is Peyton still around?" Phoebe asked her sister in curiosity as she looked at her in a need to know. Despite the fighting that seemed to go on between the two of them. Peyton was her sister and she was involved in this as well. They all were.
"She went to class early. She has a project to do. Reading aloud?" Perry asked her sister with added humour. She loved being able to be the annoying big sister were Phoebe was concerned. She wasn't usually as protective as Peyton was to her.
"No. but according to the Book Of Shadows one of our ancestors was a witch named Melinda Warren." Phoebe spoke to her sister as she memorized what the book had said. Perry looked at her sister. Humour clearly shown in her eyes. Phoebe knew that Piper thought that this whole thing was ridiculous. But she could still try.
"And we have a cousin that's a bitch, a Cousin that's manic and a dad that's invisible." Perry told her sister with a laugh. Phoebe laughed along with her big sister. She knew that what she was saying was ridiculous but still she knew that it was true and she had to try to convince her.
"I'm serious. she practised powers. three powers. she could move object with her mind, see the future and stop time." Phoebe told her as she waited for Perry to digest everything that she had said. Perry gave her sister a slightly wavered look. She sometimes didn't understand her little sister. Phoebe could just be difficult sometimes.
"Before Melinda was burned at the Stake she vowed that each Generation of Warren witches would become stronger and stronger culminating on the arrival of three sisters. Now these sisters would be the most powerful witches the world has ever known. They are good witches and I think we're those sisters." Phoebe continued to her sister in total belief of what she was saying. She believed the whole witch thing while Perry and Peyton didn't believe any of it. Perry looked at her; now serious about everything.
"Look I know what happened last night was weird and unexplainable but we are not witches. And we do not have special powers. Besides Mom wasn't a witch and as far as we no neither is Piper and Paige. So take that Nancy Drew." Perry said with a more humoured tone as she tried to lighten the mood. Perry gently kissed her sister on the head before she finished her coffee and walked out of the room to get to class.
"We are the Protectors of the innocents. We're known as the Charmed Ones." Phoebe called out as she followed her sister carrying her mug of coffee with her. Perry smiled as she walked over to the door while Phoebe followed her out the door.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get to school, Phoebe." Perry told her sister as she gave her another kiss on the head, gave her a hug and left her sister to get ready for school. Phoebe took a sip of her coffee as Perry drove away in her car. Phoebe smiled as she looked around her before going back inside to get ready for school.
Peyton walked across the walkway to get to the study hall when she fell into someone. The person managed to grab her before she fell as he pulled her up to look at him.
"Oh thank you… Dan, what are you doing here?" Peyton asked as she noticed that the man was her ex-boyfriend. Dan smiled lightly to the young woman with a slight ease to her as he nodded his head to her books.
"You going to the study hall. I'll come with you." Dan asked as he grabbed Peyton's books and went to go away. Peyton glared at him gob smacked as she stormed over to Dan in anger. Dan was not just going to walk back into her life. Not now, not ever.
"No, Dan I can go myself. Now what are you doing here? You graduated two years ago." Peyton yelled at him as Dan stopped to look at the woman as she grabbed her books away from him. Dan smiled at her with his cocky grin. And Peyton had to stop herself from hitting him in the face.
"Yeah well a lot of things keep me here Peyt." Dan told her as he took a step closer to the young woman. Peyton growled at him in anger as he stepped closer to her. She didn't want the son of a bitch anywhere near her. She hated him so much.
"It's Peyton. You know I hate being called Peyt. Now what are you doing here, Dan?" Peyton yelled at him in barely contained anger as she looked at him. Dan smirked at her; he knew exactly how to push Peyton Halliwell's buttons. She glared at him.
"I work here. I'm Mr Bridges' new teaching assistant. Sorry Peyt, but your out." Dan told the girl as Peyton glared at him her anger going further and further out of control. She hated how this man acted as if he wasn't even bothered about how he had ruined her life.
"Are you kidding me? I worked my ass off, for that full year. You can't do this Dan." Peyton yelled at him in pissed off anger as Dan walked away. Peyton stormed after the man not willing to let him go. Dan smirked at her.
"Yes, I can. I can do whatever I want Peyton and you best remember that. Cause I'll be in charge of your grades for your Chem. Class." Dan told her with a laughable laugh. As Peyton glared at him darkly. No way on hell was this guy going to threaten her like that and get away with it. If this had been three weeks ago then she would have let it go. Not now.
"Don't you dare threaten me, Dan." Peyton yelled at the man with the harshest voice that she could come up with. She couldn't deal with his crap one minute longer than she already had. Dan smirked at her.
"Oh come on, Peyt would I ever do that to you." Dan said to the blonde with glee. It was just too easy to annoy Peyton these days. Ever since they had broke up she had been more submissive and it was probably worse with her mother and Aunts dead.
"Just get lost Dan, I can't deal with you right now." Peyton told him in a more quite and tired voice. She wished that she could still fight but she couldn't do it anymore. It was too hard. Dan didn't lighten up in his happy mood.
"Oh, come on, what's good for me is definitely good for you. Right Ms Halliwell?" Dan told her as he stopped walking and looked to her in the face. Peyton hesitated. Not knowing when he had stopped calling her Peyton or even Peyt. Dan smirked at the falter. While Peyton found a comment to say to him.
"Ms Halliwell? Since when were we stop being on a first name basis. When we stopped sleeping with together or when I moved out, Dan?" Peyton asked her ex with her on smirk knowing that she could piss him off just as much as he could. Dan faltered as he looked at her thinking of how he could turn this back on her.
"I didn't realise the two were mutually exclusive. Although I certainly enjoyed one more than the other." Dan said with a sickening smirk. He knew exactly how to rattle Peyton Halliwell. She was really easy. Too easy. Peyton always took things to heart. Peyton's glare darkened as she looked at him sickly. He was so twisted.
"You bastard." Peyton spoke as she stormed away from her ex in crippling anger. Dan thought for a moment before running after the young Halliwell. He grabbed her arm to stop her from going any further. Peyton ripped her hand out of Dan's grasp.
"Peyton, wait. I think I should day something. If only to avoid a lawsuit." Dan told her with sincerity as she glared at him with a slight squint of her eyes. Peyton stormed away from the man in pissed off anger. Dan was about to go after her when a pile of books smashed into his head, making him fall to the ground. Peyton walked away unaware. Peyton walked into the study hall to find her cousin and sister. Peyton walked over to the two in anger.
"Dan Taylor is a total dick. I swear to god he is getting on my last nerves." Peyton growled as she sat down at the table. Perry and Piper looked up at her as Perry sighed. She let her head rest on the table before looking up at her.
"What has Dan done now Peyton?" Perry asked in a tired like voice as she rested her head back down on the table. She knew that she should probably be more understanding but she just to tired. Her mother and Aunts were dead, she was up past twelve last night trying to find Phoebe and she had been working on her study none stop.
"He is my Chem. Teacher's assistant. Which means that he…?" Peyton began to say when Perry interrupted her as she pulled her head up to look at Peyton in the eyes in slight shock.
"Is in charge of your grades." Perry finished for her with shock as she looked up to see Peyton nodding her head. Piper smirked slightly at the how the sisters could finish each others sentences even without their powers. It was all down to them knowing each other.
"Yeah. But that's not even the hafe of it because do you want to know what else he did? He called me Ms Halliwell and I said since when did you call me Ms Halliwell, when I moved or when I stopped sleeping with you. He said he enjoyed one more than the other." Peyton told the two in disgust as she looked at the two in slight frustration. Perry and Piper looked up in disgust at hearing this. That was horrible.
"No way. Oh my god how sick is that? I am so happy that you broke up with him Peyton. He does not deserve you sweetie." Piper told her big cousin in anger. She couldn't believe that Dan could go so far. It wasn't fair on Peyton. She was in love with him and he goes and says things like that to her after her life had been destroyed just the other day.
"Peyton the guy was just a major pain. Let it go sis, you don't need him. And if Phoebe was here what do you think she would say." Perry told her sister in a knowing way. Peyton nodded her head to her knowing how right she was about this. Phoebe had always hated Dan. Actually her and Phoebe had a fight over Dan before they broke up. And it was bad. Perry was about to say something when her cell went off.
"Hello, Perry Halliwell speaking." Perry spoke as she answered the phone. Peyton and Piper gave her a quizzical look as Perry listened to the man on the other line. Both girls looked at Perry as she walked away from the table.
"Are you kidding me? I am up to my eyeballs in work here." Perry told whoever was on the other end of the phone with a high pitched tone. Peyton and Piper looked at her in slight concern for the younger girl. Perry glared slightly at her phone in anger.
"Yeah I want the job and everything but I really can't do anything right now." Perry spoke in desperation but the man didn't seem to like that answer cause Perry pulled the phone away from her ear slightly before putting it back to listen to the man. She sighed.
"No, Don't give my job away please. I'll be down there as soon as I can. I promise I will. Thank you Mr Jacobs." Perry said down the phone sincerely as the person on the other end hung up the phone. Perry looked at her cousin and sister apologetically as she went back over to them and grabbed her bag.
"Guys I am so sorry, my new boss phoned. He needs me to get down there now. I'm sorry. Piper and you and Paige going to be at the house later or are you still staying at the dorm." Perry asked her cousin with a quizzical look. Piper looked up at Perry and shook her head. Peyton and Perry looked at her
"Eh, we're going to stay at the dorm for another week or two. Just to have some sister, sister time. You guys should do the same." Piper told her cousin as Perry nodded and gave the two a quick hug before walking away from them and leaving the place to got to work. Perry walked out of the study hall as she placed her cell back into her bag and walked across the walk when someone bumped into her. Perry looked at him startled.
"Oh, god, I'm so sorry." Perry spoke as she looked at the man. He smiled at her innocently as she smiled nervously. Perry blushed slightly as the man put his hand out to the young woman.
"It's okay, I just wish that a pretty girl like you would bump into me more often. I'm Nathan by the way. Nathan Baxter. Now what's your name?" the man - Nathan told her as Perry smiled to him innocently until he had asked her name. Perry hesitated a little bit startled by what he had asked. She went to answer him and stuttered.
"My name? I… I'm Perry…. I mean Persephone…. No I mean. oh my god this sounded so much better in my head. I'm Perry. Perry Halliwell. It's nice to meet you Nathan." Perry stuttered out as she hit her head in embarrassment. Nathan laughed slightly as Perry's face grew red. She couldn't believe that she had embarrassed her self like that. It was unbelievable.
"You too Perry. So, do you go to school here?" Nathan asked as he changed the subject, Perry gave him a thankful look as she tried to wipe away the embarrassment that she was feeling. Nathan smiled at her bashful face.
"Yeah, I go to school here. What about you? Do you go to school here too?" Perry told him as she and Nathan walked across the lakeside. Although they were taking the short way to Perry's work it was still nice to just relax with a guy like Nathan.
"No, my job doesn't really allow me to go to school. But it's my calling, so that doesn't bother me." Nathan told the girl as he tried to find away to talk about his job. He knew that he had to keep his life a secret. Perry looked at him with an even brighter smile.
"Oh really, what's do you work as?" Perry asked him clearly showing an interest. Nathan's smile grew as he looked at the girl. He had only met her and yet he felt something strange towards her. Perry smiled too.
"Eh? I help people. I kind of work for a higher power as bad as that sounds. That's what I do." Nathan told her as he cocked his head to the side slightly realising how insane he seemed to be. Perry just laughed slightly and smiled at him. She gently put her hand on his arm.
"It doesn't sound bad. It sounds nice. You should be proud of yourself. At least your doing something you love. That's gotta count for something. Right?" Perry told him in sincerity as they walked towards the restaurant that she worked at. Nathan smiled at what she had said. She was right. It was something he loved doing. It was in his nature.
"Right. And what may I ask is your calling Perry?" Nathan asked her with a seductive voice. Perry blushed as she smiled at the man. Nathan just seemed to have a weird effect on her. Not that it was such a bad thing.
"My calling is work. So I gotta love you and then leave you. Goodbye Nathan." Perry spoke as she walked away from the man and into the restaurant. As soon as she got in a plate was put in her hands as she looked up at the guy before serving the plate. Perry then walked into the kitchen and started to cook. One of the waitress' grabbed an unfinished plate.
"No Demi, wait." Perry yelled as she flicked her wrists at the waitress. The waitress suddenly stopped everything that she was doing as Perry looked at her in surprise. She didn't think that Demi would have stopped. She walked up to her to see her looking straight ahead of herself.
"Demi. Demi!" Perry called out to the older girl as she waved her hand in front of her. But Demi didn't react to her. Perry then thought about what Phoebe had said earlier about that witch that had those powers. And one of those powers was to stop time. Perry ran over to get the final ingredient of the food on the plate and put it on. A second later and Demi unfroze and walked out of the kitchen. Perry walked out of the kitchen as the other guy came in. She needed to make a call to someone. Perry walked out and grabbed her cell phone from her bag ringing Phoebe's number.
"Come on, Phoebe, answer the phone. Answer the phone." Perry begged to the cell phone as it continued to ring beyond her control. Perry looked at the cell phone in pissed off anger. She really hates the way this was working. She walked out of the room and fell into some guy. She looked up at him and smiled.
"Oh hey, Perry, I thought that I would come to see my favourite girl." the guy spoke as he looked at Perry. Perry smiled at her boyfriend as she gave him a hug and a kiss. He brought her up into her arms with a smile.
"Oh my god, Riley. What are you doing here? I told you not to come." Perry said as she kissed her boyfriend again. Riley laughed at her slightly. He pulled her closer to him. Perry took a breath as she put her thoughts away from the inconvenience and towards her boyfriend.
"Yeah well I just thought that I would come here and surprise you." Riley said as he finally let go off Perry and pulled out a large bottle of wine. Perry smiled at him as she kissed him again. She would talk to Phoebe later.
Phoebe rode to on her bike across town. She had just gotten out of class and was looking forward to just having some Phoebe time. It was what she looked forward too. Phoebe smiled to herself as she felt something weird at the back off her mind.
A car was going five mile an hour down the road; the driver not really giving a damn as they were on the phone. The driver didn't stop as it came near to a young mother taking her baby across the road. The driver didn't see the woman as the car drove right into the woman. Knocking into the woman and her baby killing. Killing the baby as the mother tried to hold on.
Phoebe waved the image out of her head as she continued to cycle on. She nearly froze when she saw a car move forward and a mother and baby at the bottom of the road. Phoebe speeded up.
"Wait. No Ms wait." Phoebe yelled but the woman didn't stop. Phoebe sped up as she crashed her bike into the car. Phoebe went flying landing heavily on her right arm. As she heard a sickening crack. The woman ran over to her as did the man in the car. Phoebe looked up unaware as she slipped into unconsciousness.