A.N.- Bold Italics represents spells, Italics represent text messages, and Underlined words are all part of premonitions.

July 13, 2025

Melinda

I was on my way to celebrate my new job with my friends at Halliwell's. I basically ate free there, considering my family owned it. I had just gotten off the phone with my best friend Mariana when I stopped at a four-way.

This jerk behind me felt the need to lie on his horn. I looked back to see an Audi that made you figure that this guy was seriously over compensating for something, idled behind me. The man who was driving was in a suit and he constantly glared at his watch. There was a flow of traffic and the man was very much impatient.

I sat and watched as the man backed up, narrowly missing the front bumper of a car behind him, and speed up ahead of me. I thought he was going to make it through a break in the cars but a red SUV slammed into the poor Audi, causing it to flip sideways. Once, twice, three times it flipped before settling on its top. I heard someone scream. It took me a while to realize that it was me who was screaming. I probably just watched someone die.

The SUV was spinning out of control… toward me. I sat frozen, all but my hands, which were trying desperately to undo the buckle that held me prisoner. It's funny because in the movies, everything slows down when something cataclysmic is about to happen but at this moment in time, everything around me was moving so fast, but I could see every detail perfectly. I saw the screaming mother as she tried, without success to stop her car from careening into mine. I saw her three children, two of them somewhere less than ten years of age, the third one probably about fifteen and in the front. He was praying.

I suddenly remembered that I could Orb. But I wanted to help them. I had about half a second to get out of there. I closed my eyes to Orb, but the lights didn't come, and I said goodbye to my mother. I opened my eyes what seemed like an hour later. I saw the SUV an inch away from my front bumper.

I found purchase on my seatbelt strap and catapulted from the car. I had no idea what happened. Based on my limited long forgotten knowledge of ninth grade physics, I knew that an object that big wouldn't stop that quickly without some huge impetus. But inertia out of my head, I had to get these people out of the car.

The front was smashed in. There was a puddle of fluid leaking from under the car and I saw small tufts of fire coming from under the hood. I realized that the SUV was too close to my car for the door to open on the driver's side so I ran over to the boy's side. He was crying and trying to wake his mother up. She must've hit her head on the window when… something… stopped the car.

I tried to open the door with no avail. It was jammed from the impact. This thing was about to explode and I had no way to help. Or maybe I did. I thought of the chair earlier and the car now. I have no idea how Orbing evolves to Telekinesis, but hell, it did. And I had to help this family. I thought back to the stories my mom told me about her and her sisters coming into their powers. Prue, my telekinetic auntie, first channeled her power through her eyes and then her hands. Instinctively, I went straight for the eye thing. I squeezed my eyes shut and pictured the door unhinging itself. I opened my eyes to a sharp pain to find the door had jumped from the frame and fell to the ground. It fell on my toe, but I didn't have time to worry about it.

"What's your name?" I asked the teenaged boy.

"Jonas," the crying boy said. He shook his mom and I feared she was dead. My cell phone was in my car but I didn't have time to go get it. Jonas got his sisters from the back and I pulled them over to the side as Jonas comforted them.

By this time people had pooled from their cars and I heard an ambulance in the distance. Too far away!

"Help me!" I yelled at no one in particular. Three men ran up to me.

"We need to get her out! The car is going to explode!" I yelled. I didn't realize I was crying until now.

I felt I could no longer help. The ambulance had converged on the scene and went directly to the asshole in the Audi. He was conscious and he looked barely scratched. They insisted that they let him put him on the stretcher but he said no. He could walk. I was pissed. This woman probably had a concussion if not brain damage and he escaped without injury, not to mention the kids involved. I was angry. I wanted him to break, something. I stared holes into his head. He stared at me and we made eye contact. He tripped and gripped his leg.

I broke eye contact with him and stared down at the kids in front of me. Their mother was being wheeled off into the ambulance, right in front of the kids. Jonas ran after the gurney. Mary and Elizabeth tried to go after their brother but I thought it best they wait on the police to walk over here. I rubbed their heads and waited.

The cops took my statement and took the girls to their mother who was en route to St. Francis's. I made sure the cops knew the douche had pulled out into traffic and I tried my best to push my new power development far back into my subconscious. I walked over to my car, after vehemently refusing medical attention from a paramedic. I sat in the driver's seat and breathed for the first time in what seemed years. My phone was beeping and I had thirteen missed calls. The first seven were from PJ and the next six were from my mother. I called mom back first.

"Prudence Melinda Halliwell! I thought you were… What happened your cousin told me SheHadAPremonitionAndSheSaid SheSawYouDieAnd," she continued, my mom wasn't one to freak out.

"Mom! MOM!" I yelled, "I'm coming to the Manor now. I'm okay. I will explain it all when I get there," I said. I was going to regret it later but I hung up on her. I was already freaking the fuck out; I didn't need my mother in my ear too.

I had almost died, I had just saved three kids and their mother's lives and I think I had a new power. And on top of that I may have had a broken toe, but again that wasn't important when your brother could heal you. I couldn't suppress anything as I read PJ's messages.

They read: 'R U OK? Had a prmntion tht u wr in an accident! Call me!', 'CALL ME!', 'Im telling Piper!', 'R U Dead?', 'Prudence Halliwell!'. Oh that last one was from my mom. But either way, I had to get to the bottom of this.

I tried my best to get out of the bedlam that was an accident in San Francisco. I pulled my Jeep over to the side of the road. I quickly thought of a repelling spell: All those who try and take/ this prized possession as their own/ shall be blocked in its wake/ by the power of the Crone. I Orbed to the Manor, leaving my magically shielded Jeep on the side of Van Ness Avenue.

Shortly Before the Accident

PJ

I got off of my job soon after I had my premonition. I went to get a carton of lo Mein from the food court. As I was walking, led by the aromas of genuine Chinese food and Chic-Fil-A, I bumped into a middle aged Asian woman. When our skin made contact I was her as her husband died in her arms. I smelled the hospital and even the sickness on his breath. I felt the sadness in the room.

I couldn't see where I was going so I ended up walking into another woman, this one in her late teens. I was her opening a letter with Harvard's name on it. I saw 'we will not be accepting your application' and I felt a wave of new sadness. I felt the tears pool in my eyes.

At this point I was bumping into people left and right. I saw eviction notices, funerals, welfare lines, sex with men and women, graduations, and promotions. I was being bombarded with visions. I made my way over to a chair and sat. I had no idea what to think.

These premonitions advanced by themselves and now, of all times they were out of control. My ears rang loud; so much I barely heard my phone go off. I looked to see a text from Melinda. 'Got the job!' it said. I was going to text back how happy I was for her but when I started to text back I got another vision.

I was at the wheel. There were children talking behind me talking about school and a young man sat next to me. He was enthused about the pickup basketball game he and his friends had just won against a group of juniors. "Good Job, Jonas!" I praised. My voice was maternal. "Go Mom! The lights green," Jonas told me. I hit the gas and went forward. I looked to my left to see a sports car traveling too fast to stop. I hit my brakes just as we made contact and I felt the car spin. I looked to my left to find that I was spinning into a black Jeep Cherokee. A very familiar Jeep Cherokee. And in the drivers seat… was my cousin Melinda. I came back to reality to find that I had dropped my phone.

"Dammit!" I said a tad bit too loud as I discovered a crack in the screen. I had to tell Melinda about the accident. I texted her numerous times and when I got no text back, I called Piper.

"What!" she yelled over the phone. I was already in my car on the way to the Manor.

"I didn't see her die Piper, but I saw the car going to her Jeep. She probably Orbed out!" I assured the worried mother.

"Probably doesn't cut it, PJ!" she said, "I'll call her until she answers," she hung up.

"Dammit!" I yelled. I stopped at the red light and popped an extra strength Tylenol. I always kept a bottle in my glove compartment. My head ached after the constant visions at the mall.

I dialed my mom's number. "Hello," she answered. She sounded awake and alert so I assumed she was okay to talk.

"What do you do when your premonitions give you headaches?" I asked. I was pulling into the Manor now.

"I don't have headaches when I have my visions," she said tentatively, "Advil and chamomile tea will do the job though… your flashes have never given you headaches before," she stated as more of an open ended questions.

"I think my powers have advanced, mom," I explained how I actually was involved in things instead of getting general vague pictures and iffy feelings.

"It sounds like astral premonitions. I'll be over at the Manor soon. If you have another one, jot down what happens," she told me.

"Yeah, I will," I assured her.

I looked up from my phone to see Tam coming up the driveway.

"What's going on?" she asked.

Meanwhile

Tamora

We had finished packing up the house and I had closed the door. Kat and I stared at our window on the second story. The light was off and the blinds were gone. The house looked sad, in a way.

"Shit I'm gonna be late!" Kat said as she ran to her car.

"Late to where?" I asked

"Class, idiot," she said. She yelled out of the window of her Nissan.

"Why couldn't you just go to school in the fall like normal people?" I asked as she was backing out.

She gave me a stiff middle finger and whipped out of the driveway. I walked over to Hal. He was up on the trailer strapping stuff down.

"And are you leaving me too brother?" I asked in a mock sad voice. I quivered my lip and gave a puppy dogface pout.

"No… well, probably," he finally decided. His phone buzzed as he was strapping down an old wardrobe that my mom bought from an antique store. He leaned on it as he began texting.

A heavy vase was on top of the wardrobe and when Hal leaned on it, it tipped over.

"Henry!" I yelled as I held my hands out.

The whole truck froze. And so did Hal. And I had no idea how to unfreeze him.

I ran to my car and got my phone. I dialed a number I knew by heart and waited.

"Yes, Tammy?" I heard my Aunt Piper say.

"I froze Henry," I said, "And I need to unfreeze him… without unfreezing everything," I tried my best to explain.

"Oh," she said as she finally got the situation, "It's simple dear, just Orb him to you. You have been working on that power right?" she asked.

"Yeah, but I haven't Orbed anything that big before. Or that, you know, human."

"There's a first time for everything. And you might wanna hurry, there's no telling how long your freeze will last. Good luck, Tam," she said, "and oh, come to the Manor, we all need to talk."

"Okay, thanks auntie," I said.

I ran over to the U-Haul. I focused and raised my arms. I breathed deeply, "Henry!" I called.

Henry disappeared and reappeared into my arms in a swirl of light. I hoped to God no body saw me.

There was a crash in the U-Haul and I looked up to see that the vase had fallen. It cracked in numerous clay pieces but I was just happy that my brother wasn't under it.

"I think I owe you lunch," he said as he stood up.

"I think you do… tomorrow," I said as I looked at my watch, "I'm needed at the Manor."

"I'll drop the stuff off at the storage center," he said as he hopped, literally hopped into his jacked up F-250. He was 6'0 and his truck was about four feet off the ground.

"Kay, love you," I said as I hopped into my hybrid. I hated the gas-guzzler that my brother had and the Nissan had little legroom. I liked my hybrid just fine.

I drove up t the Manor just as I saw PJ go up the pathway to the Manor. She was on the phone and she looked shaken.

I hopped out of the car and ran up the pathway.

"What's going on?" I asked.