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Chapter 4: Primal Fear
Tim knocked on the side door of the manor before letting himself in. He couldn't say that he was surprised to see all four of the Halliwell sisters and his ex-wife who just so happened to be his current lover sitting there. The only thing he knew for sure was that his only daughter had called him and he had come running.
"Timmy, what are you doing here?" Nicole asked him nervously. It was rare that she saw him any place outside of the bedroom in his apartment and she didn't know how to act around him with Cole there.
"Lizzie called, she said that Troy needed me and here I am." Tim replied.
"What the fuck is going on in the dining room?" Piper asked. She wasn't sure that she wanted to know what was going on if it involved Tim.
"I can honestly say that I don't know, I just come when my kids call me." Tim replied.
"Troy Timothy, Elizabeth Ashley, and Chord Isaiah, get your asses in the kitchen right now." Nicole called out to her three children.
"Was there something that you needed, mother?" Liz asked when she and her two brothers walked into the kitchen.
"I would like to know why you three thought it was necessary to call your father." Nicole told her.
"Troy thinks that he might have had a vision and the only person I know that can help him with that is dad." Liz informed her.
"Troy, what did you have a vision of? As far as I know you don't get visions." Tim asked his oldest child.
"I'm not really sure, I think that I might have seen Dodge, but I really can't be positive. I don't get visions, I leave that up to Lizzie and Chord." Troy replied.
"You're going to have to give me your hands, son." Tim told him.
Troy held out his hands an allowed his father to take them. "You better not do anything fruity." He warned him.
"First of all I don't swing that way if you don't believe me you can ask your mother. Second of all you are my son." Tim said shaking his head at him.
"Timothy, watch what you say." Nicole warned him. She sent him a glare. She wasn't quite sure that he was talking about the affair that they were having but she couldn't be too careful.
"Is your head supposed to hurt so much from these damn things?" Troy asked his father.
"Troy, I know that this is hard for you, but I need you to be quiet for just a minute." Tim said. He had his eyes closed and he was looking through Troy's mind.
"Dad, you might want to be careful messing around up there. I'm really not sure what you'll find." Liz cautioned her father.
"Ok, that didn't look good at all." Tim commented when he saw what he needed to see.
Troy was as white as a sheet and his mouth had gone dry. "Not good doesn't even begin to classify what that was."
"What did you see, Troy?" Nicole asked her son.
"Uhm, Dodge and he is in trouble. I mean huge trouble, Christie has him and she is torturing him and Val is going to kill me for letting this happen." Troy replied.
"Roy Boy, is there anything that I can do to help?" Tim asked him.
"You already helped more than you know, dad." Troy replied offering him a smile. Tim grinned from ear to ear when he heard Troy call him dad.
"This means we're going to have to suit up and go on one of our fun filled demon hunts." Chord said rolling his eyes.
"Son, it is the hand that you have been dealt, you have no choice but to play it." Tim told his youngest child.
"Don't call me son." Chord said glaring at him coldly.
"Ok, we have more important things to deal with at the moment than your daddy issues. I think that we need to go in the other room and tell the others what is going on so that we can do something about it." Liz suggested. Really she just wanted to avoid her little brother and her dad having words. They didn't have time for those two to get into it at the moment.
"I warn you that Chris isn't going to be pleased about this at all. He is already pissed off that Gideon has been to see Greg today. I think that this little piece of information might push him over the edge." Chord warned his sister.
"Honey, Chris is a Halliwell he was born over the edge, so you don't have to worry about pushing him over it." Piper informed him. The three young people didn't say anything in reply to that they just went back to the dining room.
"This can't be happening right now. I swear to God, I thought that I had put everything that happened with Christie behind me and now it is coming back to bite those kids in the ass." Billie stressed.
"Baby girl, none of this is your fault. You just did what you had to do to protect your aunts. You didn't do a damn thing wrong and I don't want you to think that you did." Prue told her daughter seriously.
"I know that I didn't do anything wrong, but it just seems like it's my fault that they are having to go through all of this." Billie replied.
"Billie, it's not your fault. All of this was predestined. I know that it doesn't make it any easier to deal with, but that is the way it is." Andy offered up trying to be helpful.
"Daddy, I just feel like I didn't do enough the first time to stop this from happening." Billie tried reasoning with him.
"Billie, you did everything that you could. I was there and I remember quite clearly what you did." Paige tried talking some sense into her niece.
"Yeah, that was after I had tried killing you guys." Billie said rolling her eyes.
"Billie, you aren't a Halliwell until you try killing another Halliwell." Phoebe said gently.
"At the time we didn't even know that I was a Halliwell." Billie pointed out to her.
"It doesn't matter you were a Halliwell then and you always have been. I think that is why Paige was assigned as your whitelighter. The elders knew that you were going to have a hard time adjusting to being in the family." Piper said. Even Billie knew better than to argue with her oldest aunt.
"Fine, I give up trying to argue with you people. There is no way in hell that I can win." Billie huffed crossing her arms over her chest. She didn't stop to take into account that that was something her mother would do.
"Billie, I thought that you had learned in this length of time that there is no way you can argue with the Halliwell sisters when they think they're right." Derek joked trying to make her feel better.
"That's not exactly true, I have won an argument with Phoebe before, but that was only because I was right." Billie replied.
"Hey, I take offense to the fact that Piper is Aunt Piper, but I'm just Phoebe." Phoebe protested.
"Aunt Piper is more aunt like than you are." Billie pointed out to her.
"Billie, don't give them one more thing to fight about it won't end well at all." Henry chuckled.
"Gideon, I would really like it if you could grace me with your presence." Greg called out. He was in the living room of the home that his Uncle Greg had left to him. He really didn't think of it as his anymore and if the truth be told he never had. "It figures that the one time that I need the pain in the ass he doesn't come running."
"Gideon, I'm not fucking playing. If you know what's good for you, you will get your ass to my house now." Greg yelled at the top of his lungs. He found that the former elder listened to him better when he lost his temper.
Gideon flamed in a moment later. "Yes, my liege?"
"I want to know exactly what it was that you had to tell me earlier." Greg said getting right to the point. He didn't want to spend more time with him than he had to.
"Dodge, the demon that you were getting close to before the Halliwells vanquished you isn't actually a demon." Gideon reported.
"What do you mean?" Greg asked playing dumb.
"I mean that he is a Halliwell too, to be specific I believe that he is part witch and part cupid." Gideon replied.
"That is interesting that would make him very closely related to me." Greg mused thoughtfully.
"If I'm right that would make him your nephew. I'm not sure which one of your sisters he belongs to so far Christie hasn't been able to get that out of him." Gideon replied.
"Where does she have him now?" Greg asked.
"She has him down in the dungeons." Gideon informed him. "Did you wish to see him?" he asked.
"No, right now I would like it if you would leave me to think about what to do about this." Greg replied like he had put a lot of thought into it.
"So you don't want him killed?" Gideon asked a bit of disappointment shining in his voice.
"No, not right now anyway, as I said I need you to go so I can think." Greg retorted.
"As you wish." Gideon said before flaming out again.
"I hope you heard that, because I am not going to replay that entire conversation for you." Greg said to what appeared to be thin air.
Chris materialized out of nowhere or that is what it looked like. In reality he had been using his power of invisibility. "I heard it and I heard what I needed to know. You did really good, Grego." He said clapping his cousin on the back.
"I don't know how many times I am going to have to ask you people not to call me Grego." Greg whined.
"Get used to it little brother, everyone of us have nicknames that we rather not go by." Prue said putting her arm around him.
"I wish I could do more to help you guys." Greg said.
"Greg, the best way for you to help us right now is to pretend that you're still evil." Henry told him patiently.
"I know that you don't like doing this anymore than we like you doing it, but at the moment we have no other choice. We have to buy a little bit of time so we can get Dodge back." Bianca told him.
"Val is really going to kill me for losing our son." Troy stressed.
"Val isn't going to kill you, because with a little bit of luck we will have Dodge back before she can find out that he's missing." Roman said.
Wyatt consulted his watch. "We really need to get a move on. You guys know that the aunts gave us a time table and if we're not back on time they will come after us." He reminded them.
"I guess we better get going then." Chris replied.
"Are you guys going to be ok?" Greg asked them.
"We'll be fine, we've been doing this for a long time now." Rachel answered him with a smile.
"Hey, you could go spend some time with Donnie while we're all running around like chickens with our heads cut off." Oriana pointed out to him brightly.
"I'm pretty sure that I don't want your mom to kill me so I'll just go back to the manor like I'm supposed to." Greg replied. He knew that he really didn't want to get on Lyn's bad side.
"My mom wouldn't kill you she would just beat you to within an inch of your life and that is only if you did something to hurt her baby sister." Bianca assured him.
"I'm pretty sure that she has a good reason to hate me, I mean I am the one who gave the order to have Oriana killed." Greg reasoned with her. "Oriana, I'm sorry about that one by the way." He apologized.
"Greg, you were just playing that hand that you were dealt. No one blames you for that because you're not that guy anymore." Oriana replied. "And don't be guilty of calling me Oriana again or you will have something to be sorry for."
"Greg, don't listen to her no one takes her threats credibly anyway." Henry advised his cousin.
"I think you guys should go before I have to explain to our mothers why you're taking so long." Greg told them.
"Alright, we'll see you later." Wyatt said winking at him before they all teleported out.
"This is another fine mess that you have gotten yourself into, Cody my boy." Greg scoffed shaking his head before he shimmered out.
"I still don't think that it was a very good idea to just let them leave like that." Piper said. Of course she had been against them rushing into the underworld like they were the Calvary.
"Piper, they had to go there is no telling how long that Dodge has left before they kill him. I know that if it were Paige down there you would want them to move as quickly as possible." Phoebe pointed out to her sister.
"Paige wouldn't have gotten herself into a mess like that and if she did someone would have known that she was in trouble." Piper was just stating facts she wasn't trying to be a bitch.
"Piper, this is our granddaughter we're talking about. That girl can get herself into just as many messes as her parents are capable of." Lyn felt the need to throw out there.
"Lyn, don't you talk about my Frank the third like that." Frank scolded his wife playfully.
"For the last time I am begging you not to refer to that girl in those terms it is bad enough that she is just like Piper when she wants to be. We don't need her acting like you too." Leo said rolling his eyes.
"Leo, you're going to think that it's really funny when you're sleeping on the couch." Piper glared at her husband.
"Jack crashes with Paige a lot I'll just sleep in his room." Leo replied with a smirk.
"I'm sure that Jeremiah will love sharing a bed with you." Piper couldn't stay mad at him even if she tried.
"He sleeps just like Wyatt, that little boy is all over the bed at night." Leo laughed. He wouldn't sleep with his grandson if he could avoid it.
"How worried should I be that my children didn't act like this was a big deal?" Tim asked. He wasn't leaving as long as his three kids were in trouble.
"This is a walk in the park for them, they have been through a lot worse than this before." Nicole assured him. She wasn't really thrilled that Tim was still there, but they were his kids too.
"I just hope that they didn't walk into a trap." Paige sighed.
"There would be no reason for the Triad to set a trap for the older kids. They are not the ones that are supposed to defeat them." Henry assured his wife.
"We can only hope that Henry is right on that one. I'm not really sure that they were prepared enough to go down there." Lyn said. She couldn't help being worried every time that Oriana went out after demons.
"Babe, you know that Frank Jr. isn't going to let anything happen to Lyn Jr." Frank promised his wife.
"I'm more worried about those two fighting with each other than I am about what demons will do to them. I know that I don't have to worry about B with Hank right there he would die before he let anything happen to her." Lyn replied.
"I think that I should probably go up to the attic and make sure that my granddaughter hasn't lost her ever loving mind. She was not happy at all about Dodge getting captured." Piper said. Paige had pretty much flipped her shit when she found out about the mess that her cousin had gotten into.
"I think that it would be best to leave her alone right now with the mood that she was in." Derek advised her.
"Piper, the boys know how to handle her I think that we should leave it to them." Phoebe told her sister.
"I think Phoebe might be right, anything that any of us could have to say is only going to make things worse right now." Coop agreed with his wife.
"I just hope that they can get Dodge back without us having to tell Val that he is missing." Eva said.
"I have complete faith in them, but they are working on a time table and they don't do that very well." Prue threw out there.
"They have strict instructions to call me if they get into trouble. I don't know if they will actually do it for a change, but it's worth a try." Andy reminded his wife.
"Andy, I'm thinking that hell has a better chance of freezing over than you have of those kids listening to you." Jimmy felt the need to throw out there.
"I know and that is part of what scares the hell out of me." Andy admitted.
"They probably had some crazy ass master plan that we don't know about. Chris and Hank put their heads together and you guys all know how well that pans out for them sometimes." Piper said rolling her eyes.
"They decide to go after the source and then we have to go bail their asses out." Paige quipped. Those kids were never going to live that one down it ranked right up there with the Mexico incident.
"Do you ever plan on letting those kids live that one down?" Henry asked his wife.
"The only people who get a pass on that one are Troy, Parker, Roman, and Calleigh. Since they were pretty much the only four not involved in that little stunt." Phoebe supplied for her brother-in-law.
"Speaking of my daughter, have you guys seen her?" Eric asked coming in the side door.
"Eric, she was here, but then she left because they had something that they needed to take care of. They have like two hours to get back and if they're not we're going to go look for them." Prue answered his question.
"She always has something to do that is magic related and I can't say that I'm at all surprised. I just wish that she would give me a little head's up. I know that she raised me, but she is still my little girl." Eric complained.
"Eric, I'm begging you not to get Piper started right now. She is always going off on the same tirade that you are on right now." Paige begged him.
"Say no more, I will get started on another topic." Eric said quickly. The last thing that he wanted to do was get Piper started on one of her rants.
Donnie wished that the pounding on the front door would stop because it was doing nothing to help the pounding in her head. "Whoever is on the other side of that door better be dying." She groaned as she threw the door open. She was really in no mood to have to deal with people, but her sister and Frank were both gone so that didn't leave her much of a choice.
"If it makes you feel any better, I feel like I'm dying." Greg said with a charming smile.
"Greg, hi," Donnie said blushing. She smoothed her clothes unconsciously. She was dressed in nothing but a pair of sweatpants and an old ratty t-shirt. She was in no way presentable enough to be entertaining the man that she had just slept with. She didn't stop to take into account that it didn't matter what she had on because he had seen her in nothing.
"I was in the neighborhood and I thought that I would stop by to say hi." Greg replied.
"What that really means is you were bored and you figured that you would come see what I was doing." Donnie corrected his statement.
"There is that too." Greg agreed with a slight chuckle.
"Don't look so bashful all of a sudden, I'm actually glad that you stopped by." Donnie replied.
"You are?" Greg asked her.
"Of course I am. I'm really not the type of woman to be satisfied with just one roll in the hay." Donnie told him bluntly.
"Before this thing goes any further I think that you should know that until a couple months ago I was the source." Greg said laying his cards down on the table.
"I know, your cousin felt the need to tell me. He wasn't doing it to be a jerk though." Donnie replied.
"I thought that you should hear it from me just in case no one told you." Greg said. He wasn't going to lie to her about the man that he had been.
"I don't care about the things that you did wrong in the past. I'm no angel either and I can assure you that I have done my share of bad things." Donnie said giving him a soft smile.
"I've done things that I'm not proud of and I just wanted you to know what you're getting into." Greg replied he was smiling too.
"Greg, are you going to stand out on the front porch all day or are you going to come in?" Donnie asked taking his hand.
"I don't know that this is such a good idea, I mean I wouldn't want your sister to walk in on us or anything like that." Greg said lamely as he allowed her to guide him into the house.
"My sister isn't home right now and she won't be home for awhile." Donnie said pressing her lips to his to get him to shut up.
"I'll remind you that you said that when I'm being held at gunpoint." Greg joked with her before kissing her again.
"Just for the record, the whole shotgun thing isn't Lyn's style." Donnie assured him before wrapping her legs around his waist.
"This is bad, as a matter of fact this is worse than bad. I don't know how much worse it can get than this." Paige ranted and raved as she paced the attic.
"He could be dead, I'm pretty sure that that is the only way that this situation could get any worse." Savannah supplied helpfully.
"The only way that this situation could be any worse is if he tells them everything that he knows." Paige replied shaking her head.
"Paige, that is my nephew you're talking about that way." Dom reminded her.
"He's my cousin and I love him, but I hope he doesn't tell them shit." Paige sighed running a hand through her hair.
"Paige, I'm sure that everything is going to be ok. Dodge won't tell them anything because he hates them just as much as we do." Jack assured her.
"He would let them kill him before he told him anything that would help him. They are responsible for Val getting killed in the future and you know how that boy feels about his mother." Brady backed Jack up.
"Paige, I think we should be less worried about what he could tell them and more worried about how they found out that he is a Halliwell." Alan pointed out to his niece.
"He must have done something to make them suspicious of him that or they were having him followed just for the hell of it." Paige mused to herself more than to anyone else.
"What could he have possibly done to make them follow him?" Savannah just threw out there. That statement right there was proof enough that she could never be evil because she really didn't have sense enough to know not to trust demons.
"There was that day last week when he was here and that is probably what did it." Paige answered automatically. She knew that it had been a bad idea for him to just to pop in like that.
"Hey, with him you never know what he might have slipped and said while he was down there. With everything that has been going on lately we tend to forget that he is only fifteen." Jack reasoned with her.
"The idiot looks twenty-five with that beard he is sporting right now." Brady chuckled.
"You have to remember that he is like that because his dad is so hairy." Dom reminded his best friend.
"He's going to come through this alright isn't he?" Savannah asked.
"He's a Halliwell, of course he is going to come through this alright." Alan assured her putting his arm around her shoulders.
"He's not going to be alright when I get my hands on him for being stupid enough to get caught. Victor damn well knew that he should have sent Charlie to do this." Paige grumbled. In her own way she was worried about her cousin she just didn't show it the way that a normal person would.
"I hate to ask this, but do we know where we're going right now?" Rachel asked as the wandered around the underworld.
"That is a good question, but I don't really have an answer for you right now." Chris answered his girlfriend. They had come down here without much of a plan and they were just going to wing it.
"In other words we don't know where the fuck we're going right now and we don't have a plan either." Bianca told her cousin rolling her eyes.
"The hell we don't know where we're going. We're actually working our way into the source's dungeon; we're just coming in the backdoor instead of the front door. If at all possible I don't want them to know that we are here until it's too late to do anything about it." Henry informed his wife sounding just a tad bit indignant. She knew him well enough to know that he always had a plan.
"B, honestly, you should know that that husband of yours always has a plan no matter how unorganized he may seem." Liz joked with the younger woman.
"Either that or he pulls shit out of his ass as he goes." Oriana chuckled.
"I don't need your help on this one, Oriana." Henry said glaring at her.
"Ok, what does this plan entail?" Wyatt asked his younger cousin.
"This plan entails us splitting up right about now." Henry replied.
"How are we splitting up?" Chris asked him. He wasn't surprised by anything that his cousin did.
"In four groups of four." Henry answered like it was no big deal.
"You, me, B, and Rach?" Chris asked with an arched eyebrow.
"Sounds good, that means Prue, Chuck, Wyatt, and Liz are in one group. O, Cal, Park, and Chord can be in another group. That leaves Troy, Roman, Lilly, and Coop in the last group." Henry broke it down quickly. He had made them into groups so many times that he didn't even have to stop to think anymore.
"And there just so happen to be four tunnels here. We'll take the one that goes west; Wy's group can take the one that goes east, Park you guys have the one that goes south. Troy that leaves your group with the tunnel that goes north." Henry said it was important that they did this as quickly as possible or there was no telling what kind of trouble that they would run into.
"If anyone runs into any trouble just shoot out a telepathic message." Chris ordered.
"Chris, is it wise to be breaking the power of three up?" Prue asked her cousin.
"No, I don't think it is such a hot idea given what we're up against. I'll go with Chuck, Wy, and Lizzie. Prue, you can go with your boys." Bianca said. The last thing she wanted to see was one of them get hurt because she had insisted on being in a group with her husband.
"Be careful," Henry said simply. He knew that he wouldn't be able to talk her out of going with Wyatt's group and it was actually pretty good thinking on her part.
"Ditto," Bianca replied locking eyes with him for just a moment.
"Alright, if there are no more last minute adjustments to be made, I think that it is safe to say we're ready to go." Chris said he could think of nothing else that they could change but he was giving them a chance to bitch before they got on with this.
"Huh, that is a first, I would have thought for sure that someone had something to bitch about." Lilly mused.
Prue raised her hand shyly. "My feet hurt." She whined.
"Shut up, Prue." The fifteen other people in her group hissed at her.
"You need me you call and I will be right there." Chuck told his wife looking her in the eyes.
"I'll be fine." Prue said pecking him on the lips quickly.
"Let's roll," Chris announced and they all headed off in their assigned directions.
The tunnels in the underworld looked like something out of a horror movie. Torches lit the way and believe it or not there were rats scurrying about. Prue of course had had a death grip on Chris since they entered the tunnel. Now however she could feel that something was slightly off. Suddenly, almost too suddenly the world had gone dark and she was alone.
Her hands flew out from her sides frantically searching for something to tell her where she was or a light of some sort. She had established that she had room to move around so that part was a good thing. She ran her hands along what felt like concrete walls and soon she hit a light switch.
At first she had to squint her eyes against the harsh glare of the light. It had been completely dark so now she had to let her eyes adjust to the light filtering into the room. As soon as the black dots stopped dancing in front of her eyes she was able to make out little details about where she was.
She was in a very small room that was in all reality even smaller than her closet. There didn't appear to be a door handle or a door anywhere. There were no windows and the only way light got into the room was by the bare bulb that hung down from the ceiling.
"You've got to be kidding me right now." Prue said pulling on the collar of her t-shirt. This wasn't funny in the least little bit. The only way this could have been any worse was if she were on a submarine or something like that.
Prue found that she was having trouble breathing and the more she panicked she got the harder it became for her to breathe. She had never gotten over her claustrophobia and this definitely wasn't making things any better.
She was really at a loss for what to do. The only thing she knew was that she was going to have to get the hell out of here. There was no way that she could stay without losing her mind or dying of a heart attack. Her heart rate was already going through the roof and her palms were sweating.
"Ok, Prue, keep it together. There is nothing here that is going to hurt you." Prue coached herself, but it wasn't really working. The only thing it was doing was freaking her out more.
"This is one of those times that it would be helpful to be able to heart, but no I don't have that fucking power." Prue bitched. She was getting even more agitated by the second.
She didn't know what to do to get out of this fucking mess. She literally felt like she was dying at the moment. She was pretty sure that it wasn't normal for your heart to feel like it was beating out of your chest. What was more was she was getting light headed and she felt like she was going to pass out.
She knew that she was getting more than enough oxygen, but for some reason she was hyperventilating. She couldn't get enough air into her lungs no matter how fast she forced herself to breathe.
"Chip, baby, you said to call you if I needed you and you would come running. Well, I need you right now and it's really important that you get here." Prue called out to her husband. Surely he wouldn't leave her in the lurch when she needed him as badly as she needed him at the moment. "Fine, Charles, I'm going to remember this." She called out with venom in her voice.
Prue decided to call one of her cousins those boys would never let her down. "Chrissy, I really need you right now, I'm kinda going out of my mind here and you promised me that you would always be there to help me." she yelled out to her cousin. It wasn't likely that Chris would let her down because he was so protective of her. She could see that he wasn't going to come though.
"Hank, you big bastard, I know that you won't abandon me right now. You were even there for me when you were an alcoholic." Prue called out. She didn't stop to consider that the way she was calling him wasn't the best way to get him to come.
"Aunt Paige, you're the cool one here. I know that you're not going to leave me hanging." Prue tried calling her aunt.
"Aunt Prue, come on this is you, you are where Wyatt gets his protective streak from. I really need you to come get me right now." Prue called to her oldest aunt.
Prue could see the walls of the already small room closing in on her. "Daddy, I really need you right now. I know I don't get home as often as I should and I'm sorry. I promise if you come get me right now I will come home everyday." She bargained with her father.
When she saw that no one was going to come she sat down in the middle of the floor, pulled her knees up to her chest and started bawling her eyes out.
Chuck didn't know how he got out of the underworld and he wasn't going to question it at the moment. The only thing he knew was that he was standing outside of his parents' house. Shrugging his shoulders he decided to just walk in the front door.
What he saw when he stepped inside the house shocked the hell out of him. The thing that had given birth to him was sitting there conversing with his mother and father like they were all old friends.
"Mom, dad, what the fuck is she doing here?" Chuck demanded. He didn't like that looks of this at all.
"Chuck, I'm glad you're here, we were just getting ready to call you." Eva said smiling at her son.
"You didn't answer my question, what is that bitch doing here?" Chuck asked pointing at Vanessa.
"Charles, that is no way to talk about your mother." Derek scolded his son.
"That is not my mother, my mother is the woman you're married to." Chuck tried reasoning with his dad.
"Chuck, I love you like you're my own son, but I'll never be able to help you with your powers or understand you the way that Vanessa can." Eva explained to him like he was dense.
"Dad?" Chuck asked with a questioning look on his face.
"Chuck, I've been thinking that maybe I did the wrong thing by keeping you away from your mother's side of the family. I denied you the right to know half of who you are." Derek replied.
"Dad, I don't need to get in touch with that half of myself. That is the half that I have to try so hard to suppress so that I don't go evil." Chuck said with an incredulous look on his face.
"Jellybean, I can't do this anymore." Derek said heaving a great sigh.
"What do you mean?" Chuck asked him. He really didn't like where his father was going with this at all.
"I mean, since you were a baby I've had to worry about not only keeping you with me, but about keeping you good." Derek explained to him.
"I'm sorry that I've been such a hassle for you." Chuck said letting the hurt he felt ooze out in his words.
"Don't get me wrong, I love you and I always will." Derek replied.
"But?" Chuck asked he knew that there was a but in there somewhere.
"But, it's not fair to you, your brothers, your sisters, your mom, or me that we have all always have to worry about you turning evil." Derek went on.
"Dad, I've never even had a lapse in judgment when it comes to my demon half there is no reason for you to be doing this now." Chuck stated, but it sounded like he was pleading with his father.
"Chuck, the possibility is still there though. That is the reason that I gave your brother my name and not you. I didn't want you to become my mini-me when there was the possibility that I wouldn't be able to hold onto you." Derek pointed out to him.
"That didn't doesn't explain to me what Vanessa is doing here." Chuck replied he tried his best not to let the hurt show on his face, but he failed miserably. At the moment he wore the look of a wounded animal on his face.
"Vanessa is going to take you down to the underworld and explain your heritage to you so that you know all of your options." Eva said finally answering his question.
"You people didn't stop to take into consideration how I would feel about this. I don't want to go down there with her, I have everything that I want and I need up here. I don't want to rule the underworld. The only thing I want to do is know that I have the love of my family." Chuck said passionately.
"Chuck, I'm sorry that it's come to this, but after this thing with Greg it made me realize that it's fair to ask you to suppress that half of who you are when it's not as easy as it seems." Derek replied.
Chuck had tears welling up in his eyes. "I get it, I'm more like the seventh wheel around here. You can accept Lilly and Roman because they are totally good and then Ricky, Em, Dam, and Gabby are all yours and you know for a fact that they're good. If you didn't want me around all you had to do was say. I'll just go now and you don't have to worry about me coming back." He said before he walked out the door.
He managed to hold his tears in until he made it out the door. The minute that he was outside the dam that had been holding his tears back broke and he cried like his heart was breaking.
Chord didn't see anything wrong with the fact that he was standing outside of his house. He whistled happily as he opened the front door and walked inside. The first thing he noticed was a bunch of moving boxes, but he didn't think much of it.
"Mom, I'm home, are you here?" Chord called out to Nicole.
Nicole came walking into the room a moment later followed by Tim. "Hey, Chord." She greeted her son.
"What's with all the boxes?" Chord asked out of curiosity.
"They're yours," Nicole answered him.
"What do you mean, they're mine?" Chord asked he was clearly confused. His mother had told him that he could live at home as long as he wanted to.
"Chord, your mom and I talked and we decided that it might be better for everyone if you came to stay with me for a little while." Tim explained to his youngest son.
"Why?" Chord asked clearly at a loss for what to say at the moment.
"Because, I just can't have you living here right now." Nicole told him.
"Did I do something wrong?" Chord asked. He knew that he had the tendency to come home late at night drunk and making a lot of noise.
"It's not anything that you did wrong, this has to do with me." Nicole explained to him.
"Do you not love me anymore?" Chord asked sounding like a lost little boy.
"It's not the I don't love you, it's just that I don't how to act now knowing that you're my son." Nicole answered her son.
"Oh, I know that it is a lot to get used to." Chord replied lamely.
"I just don't feel the connection to you that I have with my older two. I know that you're mine, but it's like there is a disconnect or something when it comes to my feelings." Nicole hoped that she was explaining herself to him right. With her being a lawyer it wasn't often that she had trouble with her words.
"I guess that I can understand that, I know that it was a lot for me to wrap my mind around." Chord said he didn't really know what else to say.
"I figured that this might be a good opportunity for you and I to get to know each other." Tim said giving him a smile.
"I don't really have much of a choice on that one it's not like I have a job. I don't really have the money to get a place of my own." Chord mused more to himself than to either of his parents.
"Chord, in my head I know that you're mine, but I can't get my heart to understand that right now. I guess somewhere in the back of my mind I can't help wondering if the elders are lying about this too. They lied about you being mine once, I don't put it past them to do it again." Nicole tried explaining what she was feeling to him.
"You don't have to explain yourself, it's really not a big deal." Chord said giving her what he hoped was a reassuring grin.
"Look on the bright side at least this way you will get a little bit of a chance to get to know your daddy better." Nicole said smiling back at him.
"I don't want you to think that you have to call me dad right away, I just want the chance to make things right with you." Tim explained to him.
"Sure, whatever you want." Chord replied lamely.
"How about you help me get your stuff loaded in the car?" Tim suggested to him.
"Of course," Chord said. He went over and picked a box up. He made damn sure that his parents couldn't see that he had tears making their way down his face.
Troy found himself outside the one place that he wouldn't go if his life depended on it. He was standing outside the door to Tim's apartment and under normal circumstances he wouldn't come here willingly if he had to. He raised his fist and knocked on the door though, he figured that these weren't normal circumstances since the last thing he remembered was being in the underworld.
Tim answered the door with a smile on his face. "Roy Boy, I'm glad to see you." he greeted his son enthusiastically.
Troy walked in the door and he couldn't help noticing the suitcases that were sitting in the middle of the floor. "Are you going somewhere?" he asked.
"I got a job offer that is going to take me away for the next six months and I figured that I might as well get a jump on packing." Tim answered him.
"I thought that you were going to stick around here for a little while." Troy stated, but it was more of a question.
"I've been around here for the better part of a year now and I thought that you kids wouldn't mind if I took off for a little bit." Tim replied.
"Is this just for six months or are you going to stay gone for another couple of decades?" Troy asked him sarcastically.
"Damn it, Troy Timothy, I've said I was sorry for walking off I don't know how many times I don't know how many more you want me to say it." Tim fumed.
"Well, that isn't the type of thing that you can just get over like that." Troy said snapping his fingers to illustrate his point.
"I don't expect you to get over it quickly. I promise you that I'm not walking out on you again. I just have to do my job right now." Tim replied reasonably.
"Bullshit, you could have taken another job that would have kept you here. Instead you accepted a job that was going to take you away from home. You are obviously where I get my love of adventure from." Troy spit out at him with venom in his voice.
"So, that's what this is about. You have realized that you're more like me than you would like to admit." Tim said giving a light chuckle.
"I'm nothing like you, I wouldn't do to anyone what you did to mom, Lizzie, Chord, and me." Troy protested.
"You are like me and that scares that hell out of you. Trust me though, you don't have it in you to walk away that way that I did and that isn't a bad thing. How about you tell me why you're really mad at me?" Tim replied.
"Because, you're leaving again just like you always do. The one thing I've always been able to count on you to do is leave." Troy yelled at him.
"I promise you that I'm coming back." Tim swore to him.
"Like I believe that, you'll probably figure that we're better off without you and stay gone again. Don't make me promises that you have no intention of keeping." Troy said bitterly.
"Troy, I'm taking the job, but I promise you that I will be back as soon as it is over." Tim assured him.
"Whatever, this time I'm the one walking out on you." Troy said heading to the door, he didn't look over his shoulder for fear that his father would see the tears in his eyes. His greatest fear was that his father would leave again just when he was starting to get closer to him.
Henry found himself in the middle of a living room. It looked a lot like the house that he had grown up in the only difference was that it looked more modern. He looked at the mantle and he saw his wedding picture sitting there and he couldn't help smiling to himself.
"There you are I was wondering when you were going to come home." Bianca said walking over to him and kissing him on the mouth. She looked to be a couple of years older than she was now and she was obviously pregnant.
Henry got a confused look on his face he couldn't imagine that he would have left her alone for long periods of time with her being pregnant. "Now, why would I leave you alone when it is obvious that you are getting ready to pop any day?" he asked her good-naturedly.
"You are so lucky that I'm in a good mood today and I don't mind the fact that you're playing dumb right now." Bianca said sitting down on the couch.
Henry sat down next to her and pulled the sandal off of her foot so he could rub it. "What am I playing dumb about this time?" he asked in an amused sounding tone.
"You would be playing dumb about the fact that you're drinking again." Bianca stated bluntly.
Henry didn't stop kneading her foot with his fingers, but he looked at her with a shocked expression on his face. "B, this is me we're talking about I wouldn't start drinking again because I can clearly remember how hard it was for me to quit the first time."
"Trust me, I know very well how hard it was for you to quit the first time. I was right there with you every step of the way. I was the one who had to change your clothes and put you in the shower when you had puked all over yourself." Bianca reminded him.
"Then, you're going to have to trust the fact that I'm not stupid enough to let myself get into that state again." Henry replied reasonably.
"Hank, I've given you the benefit of the doubt about it for I don't know how long now. I was perfectly willing to keep doing that until you came home the other night smelling like a bar with bloodshot eyes." Bianca informed him.
Realization dawned on Henry and his eyes went cold at that moment. "That's the reasoned you kissed me when you walked in here. You wanted to know if I'd been drinking, but you didn't want to ask me." he accused her.
"Of course I didn't want to ask you, I knew that we would just end up fighting." Bianca said her eyes flashed dangerously in his direction.
"That's not your style at all, B, normally if you want to know something you just ask me." Henry retorted coolly.
"I just don't have it in me to fight with you all the time anymore." Bianca sighed.
"Damn it, Bianca Lyn, you should know better than anyone why I would never start drinking again. I have a whole week of my life that I can't remember because of my drinking." Henry said his voice was progressively getting louder.
"Keep your fucking voice down, Henry," Bianca told him through gritted teeth.
"I won't keep my voice down, not when you're accusing me of just about the only thing that I wouldn't do to you." Henry yelled back at her. Just then he heard the sound of little feet hitting the floor.
"I asked you to keep your voice down for a reason." Bianca said with a sigh.
Henry was almost bowled over by the little boy who went running into his arms. He only looked to be about two "Hi, daddy, I missed you while you were at work." He said hugging him around the neck.
"I missed you too, buddy." Henry said hugging the boy closer to him.
Bianca went and pried the boy off of his father. "Victor, tell your daddy that you love him and then go back to your room. Mommy and daddy need to talk." She told him.
"I don't want to." Victor said shaking his head.
"Come here, pal," Henry said taking his son back. "I'm going to take you back to your room and tuck you in. Mommy was right her and daddy do need to talk."
Bianca was leaning up against the mantle when Henry came back into the room. "Thank you for that, I really don't like fighting in front of him."
"B, I don't know what you want me to do here." Henry said sounding helpless.
"Hank, until I'm sure that you're telling the truth or I'm sure that you're clean again I can't have you here. It's not fair to Victor, the baby, or me. I need you to go." Bianca told him.
Henry felt his eyes fill with tears. "I love you too much to leave." he muttered.
"If you love me, you'll go so that I can have some peace of mind." Bianca said slipping her wedding ring off and placing it in his hand.
"You don't want to do this anymore?" Henry asked her tears shinning in his eyes.
Bianca had tears pooling in her eyes as well. "It's not that, I just need you to have that so you know what you're giving up every time you take a drink. I can't pull you out of that particular black hole this time, you're going to have to do it yourself." She stood up on her tiptoes and kissed him passionately. "I still love you, I just need you to go for now. Your bag is packed and sitting by the door. I'm going upstairs now and I want you out by the time that I get back."
Henry watched her walk away and then he did the only thing he could do he sat down on the couch, buried his head in his hands, and cried. His greatest fear was his wife would never be able to get over the things that he had done and said while he was coming down off the booze.
Bianca had just appeared in the middle of her childhood home. She had no idea how she had gotten there, nor did she really care at the moment. It was quite apparent that something big had gone down there. The couch and living room chairs were overturned along with the coffee table. She was going to go upstairs and investigate more when she heard a low groaning coming from somewhere.
She stepped around the overturned couch to find her baby sister laying in the middle of the floor with a huge bloody wound that covered most of her abdomen.
Bianca was on her knees at Oriana's side instantly. "O, what happened? Where are mom and dad?" she asked her.
"Mom and dad aren't here right now and a demon attacked. I really should have listened to you, B, you were right when you said that I'm not the best demon hunter in the entire world." Oriana said giving a low chuckle.
Bianca took her hand and pressed a kiss to it. "You wouldn't be you if you listened to anything that anyone had to say." She replied.
"But still, if I listened just every now and then I wouldn't get into half the trouble that I manage to get in." Oriana argued even though she was bleeding to death she could still find the strength to argue with her older sister.
"You might be a mess, but you're my mess and I love you." Bianca said her eyes filling with tears. There was no way in hell that this could be happening again. She had already lost her baby sister once she was in no way ready to lose her again.
"I love you too, B. I know that I don't say it or show it as much as I should." Oriana replied.
"You're a brat I know that and I always have, but I know that you love me." Bianca assured her.
"Still, you're a great big sister, and I don't tell you that enough." Oriana said her voice was getting weaker by the moment.
"You don't have to tell me, I know that I'm pretty badass." Bianca joked with her.
"I think you have been around that husband of yours too long. Hank can't be serious even when he should." Oriana replied and she started coughing. She pulled her hand away from her mouth and it was wet with blood.
"O, I should really get somebody here to help you." Bianca said looking down at her with concern etched in her face.
"B, I don't think that there is any help for me right now." Oriana replied weakly.
"Don't talk like that, of course there is." Bianca scolded her. She didn't need her baby sister giving up on her, not after she had just gotten her back.
"I just don't know how much longer I can hold on." Oriana reasoned with her.
"Damn it, Oriana, I want you to promise me that you will try your best to hold on." Bianca demanded of her.
"I promise," Oriana swore to her sister knowing that she was fighting a losing battle.
"Hank, please come to my mom's house I need you." Bianca called out to her husband knowing that he wouldn't let her down in her time of need.
Henry showed up a moment later in a shower of orbs. "What do you need?" he asked.
"Heal her," Bianca replied pointing to her sister.
Henry got down on his knees beside Oriana and put his hands out over her wound. The golden glow that accompanied his healing power came right away, but it didn't seem to be working. "Girl, I swear I don't know how you get yourself in these messes." He said trying to make light of the situation.
"Hank?" Bianca asked her husband. Henry shook his head meaning that his healing power wasn't working.
"It's not working is it?" Oriana asked she wasn't stupid.
"No, baby girl it's not." Bianca admitted to her.
"B, promise me that you won't lose yourself like you did last time." Oriana needed that assurance from her sister before she could allow herself to let go.
"I promise," Bianca said with tears rolling down her face.
"I love you and I'll always be with you." Oriana said those were the last words she spoke before her body went limp and her breathing stopped.
Henry took his wife into his arms. Bianca buried her face in his chest and cried like her heart was breaking. Her greatest fear was losing her sister again.
Oriana was in the middle of an apartment that she had never seen before in her life. She looked around to get better in tune with her surroundings. On the wall there was a picture of her and Chord together. There was a rather large engagement ring on her finger. Next to that picture was there wedding photo and they looked happy.
She looked down at the floor and she couldn't help noticing the suitcases that were there. She didn't have time to wonder what they were for before Chord came walking into the room.
Chord looked to be a few years older than he was now, but he still looked damn good. "O, I didn't think that you would be home this soon." He said by way of greeting.
"What's with the suitcases?" Oriana asked him pointing to the items on the floor.
"I'm moving out at least for a little while." Chord told her in a conversational tone.
"Why? Did I do something wrong?" Oriana asked.
"I always thought that my love would be enough to make you get over Henry, but obviously I was wrong." Chord replied.
"I don't even know what you're talking about right now. Whatever I had with Hank is long over now. He is married to my sister." Oriana reasoned with him.
"I wish that you could remember that all the time." Chord scoffed shaking his head.
"Chord, I wish you would tell me what is going on here." Oriana begged him. She didn't like being out of the loop.
"I'll tell you what's going on here. What's going on is no matter what I do you can't seem to get Henry out of your heart or your head." Chord informed her icily.
"What are you talking about?" Oriana asked him. She wasn't going to deny that a part of her would always love Henry, but that was over now she had Chord to make her happy.
"I'm talking about that fact that after we finished making love last night it wasn't my name that you called out it was Henry's." Chord told her glaring at her.
"Don't be ridiculous I wouldn't do something like that to you." Oriana replied snorting.
"Don't be so sure about that, because you did. I'm sure that you didn't even realize that you did it because you were almost asleep. But, it stung pretty bad, it made me realize that I can't do this anymore if you're not in it." Chord explained to her.
"Chord, I love you and I don't want you to leave." Oriana pleaded with him.
"You sure have a damn funny way of showing it. I thought that with time you would be able to forget about Henry and be totally in love with me, I guess I was wrong." Chord said shaking his head sadly.
"I do love you." Oriana protested with tears in her eyes.
"And I love you, I sometimes think that I love you too much. It's just that I can't keep fighting with a memory for your love. It's not fair to either one of us." Chord replied reasonably.
"Chord, please don't go." Oriana begged him.
Chord slipped his wedding ring off of his finger and sat it down on the coffee table. "I'm leaving this here with you to remind you of what you're giving up by doing this to us. When you figure out what you want you can give me a call, I'll be waiting for it." With that he picked up his two suitcases and walked out the door.
Oriana at a loss for what to do did the only thing that she could do at the moment she sat down and let the sobs overtake her.
Jake was a little surprised when he walked into his apartment and a little girl of about two came bounding into his arms.
"Hi, daddy." She greeted him brightly. She had his dark blonde hair and bright blue eyes.
"Hi, baby," Jake, said kissing her on the cheek and sitting her down on the ground.
"Jake, I was hoping that you would make it home early today." Lilly greeted him with a kiss. There wasn't much passion behind it and Jake could tell that there was something wrong with her.
"What's wrong, baby?" Jake asked looking at her with concern shining in his eyes.
"Sammy, you need to go to your room, baby. Mommy has to have an adult talk with daddy." Lilly told her daughter and she went bouncing off to her room happily.
"Now, what's going on?" Jake asked her seriously.
"Sam's powers manifested today and I had to use the fire extinguisher to put the damn fire out on the couch." Lilly answered him.
Jake turned his head for the first time he noticed the scorch mark on the couch. "I guess she inherited the fireball thing from me." he chuckled.
"Jake, it's not funny. That little girl is packing some serious power." Lilly reasoned with him.
"Lilly, we knew that it was bound to happen we are both very powerful witches." Jake reminded her.
"It wouldn't be so much of a problem if her witch powers were the ones that were manifesting, but these are her demonic powers." Lilly pointed out to him.
"It's part of who she is, I don't like it anymore than you do. But, you know as well as I do that powers aren't good or evil, what matters is how you use them." Jake replied not knowing what else to say.
"I'm just saying that it would be easier for me to help her if her witch powers were out of control." Lilly retorted.
"Lilly, what are you saying right now? You knew who I was when you married me." Jake asked he didn't like the turn this conversation was taking.
"I'm saying that I don't know if I can do this anymore." Lilly informed him.
"You always told me it didn't matter to you that I'm half demon." Jake replied.
"It didn't at first, I don't think I grasped what you being half demon meant until today. Jake, it's already enough that I have to deal with you constantly worrying about turning evil, I don't think I can deal with it from my daughter too." Lilly laid out there for him.
Jake felt the air leave his lungs it was like someone had punched him in the gut and drove a knife through his heart at the same time. "I can't change who I am no matter how much I would like to. And Sammy can't help any of this, she didn't ask to be born."
"Jakie, I just can't do this anymore. As much as I love both of you, I don't think I can take much more of this." Lilly admitted.
"You're saying that you want a divorce?" Jake asked.
"I think that's what I want I just don't know at the moment. Right now what I really need is a little bit of time to myself." Lilly replied.
"So you're leaving?" Jake asked to be sure.
"Jake, I don't see how I can stay." Lilly told him.
"I understand you wanting to be done with me, but you can't just walk off and leave our daughter." Jake reasoned with her.
"Jake, I have to do what's right for me. At the moment that means I have to go." Lilly responded.
"You told me that you would always love me no matter what, I can see now that that was a lie. Go if you must just don't expect me to wait around for you." Jake replied tearing up.
Lilly kissed him one last time before she walked out. Jake with the absence of anything better to do leaned up against the wall and buried his face in his hands while he cried. His greatest fear was that his wife wouldn't be able to live with the fact that he was half demon.
Chris thought nothing of it when he appeared in the hallway right outside of the attic. And he really didn't think anything of the fact that he could hear voices coming from the attic, that was nothing unusual at all, one of them was always up there doing something.
Chris got the shock of his life when he walked into the attic and found Wyatt standing there talking to a demon. "What the fuck is going on, Wy?" he asked he was clearly confused.
"There is nothing for you to be concerned with, Christopher." Not only did this Wyatt have the speech patterns of Lord Wyatt, but he also had his long hair pulled up into a ponytail like him as well. The demon that he had been talking to shimmered away the minute Wyatt turned his sights to his little brother.
"The hell there isn't, you were just talking to a demon. You know that we don't deal with evil." Chris shot back at his brother.
Wyatt shook his head and gave his little brother a dry chuckle. "You're not understanding, little brother, good and evil don't matter it's all about power."
"Wyatt, you should listen to yourself right now. This is not the man that mom and dad raised you to be." Chris scoffed at his brother.
"I'm doing this for mom and dad. I figure if I build a strong enough power base then we won't have to worry about being attacked all of the time." Wyatt replied in his mind that was a totally reasonable statement.
"Wy, how are you doing this for mom and dad?" Chris asked him clearly confused by his brother's reasoning.
"Mom always complains that she doesn't get to have a normal life. I thought that if I organized everyone then she wouldn't have to worry about being attacked and then she and dad would have more time for each other." Wyatt explained himself.
"Did you ever stop to consider what this would do to Mel and Jackie?" Chris asked him with an arched eyebrow.
"They are really the ones that I am doing this for. Magic has already done enough to Mel and I don't want Jackie to ever have to deal with the demon hunts and things the way that we do." Wyatt retorted.
"Wyatt, this is who we are, it is our destiny to fight demons." Chris reasoned with him.
"Chris, this is bullshit, that is all this is. We have had to put our lives on hold I don't know how many times so that we can fight the elders' battles for them." Wyatt pointed out to him logically.
"Wyatt, this is complete insanity on your part." Chris yelled at his brother.
"You won't be saying that when we don't have to worry about demon attacks anymore, Christopher." Wyatt replied sounding very smug.
"Wy, this is not the way to go about doing things. This isn't you at all. I'm pretty sure that this isn't what Lizzie signed on for when she said I do." Chris tried one last time to make his older brother see reason. He had hoped that by talking about his wife he would be able to bring his brother back to reality.
"Don't you dare bring my wife into this I'm doing this more for her than anyone. She might not like it at first, but she will come to understand why this has to be done." Wyatt retorted through clenched teeth. His voice was icy and his voice cold as he spoke.
"I wouldn't have to bring Liz into this if you would pull your head out of your ass and see that this isn't the thing for you to be doing." Chris spit back at him.
Wyatt formed his hand into a fist and lifted his brother off of the ground using his telekinesis. "It doesn't have to be this way, Christopher. I would really like for you to join me and rule by my side."
"You know that I can't do that, Wy." Chris said shaking his head sadly. Without warning he unleashed his elder bolts on his older brother causing him to lose the grip that he had on him and he went tumbling to the floor.
"You're only other option is to die then." Wyatt informed him.
"Wyatt, mark my words if I can't save you I will kill you." Chris told him deathly serious before he waved his hand and orbed his brother out of the manor.
Chris sank to his knees and started crying his eyes out. His greatest fear was that he hadn't really stopped Wyatt from turning evil.
Liz stepped into a house that looked a little bit like that manor the only difference was there were pictures of her and Wyatt plastered on almost every surface.
Not seeing anyone or anything around Liz decided to make the climb up the stairs to check things out. She stopped in front of one of the bedroom doors when she heard noises coming from it. She got the shock of her life when she opened the door and found her husband in bed with another woman.
The blood ran cold in her veins and for a moment she couldn't believe what her own eyes were telling her. But, sure enough her husband was having sex with another woman in their bed.
Liz didn't know what to say to him, so she cleared her throat.
Wyatt's head turned to the side and he jumped out of bed like he had been shot. He quickly found his boxers and put them on. "Lizzie, this isn't what it looks like I swear."
"You better start fucking explaining then, because I have to tell you that this looks pretty fucking bad. I'll be downstairs waiting for you to get some clothes on and for you to get rid of your bimbo." Liz told him before stalking back down the steps.
It wasn't five minutes later that Wyatt joined her in the living room. He had a pair of jeans and a shirt on now, his hands were tucked into his pockets and he had a sheepish look on his face.
"Lizzie, I can explain." Wyatt said after an uncomfortable silence. That was something silences with them were never uncomfortable.
"Don't you dare call me Lizzie right now, you bastard," Liz fired back at him.
"It was a moment of weakness, I promise that it won't ever happen again." Wyatt replied lamely.
"What happened to I'm right here and I always will be?" Liz asked him with an arched eyebrow. She had a million different emotions swirling around her head at the moment; the most prominent of the two were rage and grief.
"Liz, that still stands, I'm not going anywhere." Wyatt swore to her.
"Wy, you might not have gone anywhere on me physically, but you sure the shit aren't here with me mentally. If you were you would have never found the need to cheat on me." Liz argued with him.
"Liz, it's just that we have been together so long that I felt the need to try something new, that being said she wasn't you." Wyatt said he had a pleading tone to his voice.
"Wyatt, I should be more than enough for you, you shouldn't have had the need to try something new. If there was something that you wanted to try in bed all you had to do was ask me." Liz yelled at him.
"Lizzie, I really wish you would keep your voice down, I don't want the kids to hear you." Wyatt said trying to calm her down.
"You really are a bastard, it is bad enough that you cheated on me, but you had balls enough to do it with our kids in the house." Liz said gazing at him with an incredulous look on her face.
"Liz, I don't know what to say right now." Wyatt replied shrugging his shoulders helplessly.
"Wyatt, I want you out. As much as it pains me to say it, I need you to leave." Liz said with tears streaming down her face.
"Lizzie, please," Wyatt begged her.
"Wyatt, as much as I want you to stay, I need you to go right now." Liz replied.
"Fine, I can see that you need some time to think. I'll be back later." Wyatt said kissing her on top of her head before he orbed out.
Liz threw herself back on the couch and proceeded to bawl like her world had been crumbled. In all actuality it had, because Wyatt was her everything. Her greatest fear was that Wyatt was going to leave her just like every other man in her life had.
Calleigh was confused as hell to be in her apartment, so she figured that she would just go with it when she heard a knock on her door. She opened the door to find the last person that she expected to see standing there.
"Mike, what the fuck are you doing here?" Calleigh demanded of her ex. He was really the last person in the world that she wanted to see.
"Listen, Cal, I just want to talk to you." Mike replied putting his hands up in a sign that said he meant her no harm.
"I don't want to talk to you, Mike. I've seen your version of talking, I wound up in the hospital the last time that I talked to you." Calleigh spit out at him with venom dripping from her words.
"Just let me come in for a minute and I swear I can explain everything to you." Mike pleaded with her.
"No, I don't want you in here. I don't trust you anymore and I want you to leave right now." Calleigh seethed at him. She didn't know how dense this guy was.
"I think that you really need to hear what I have to say." Mike said grabbing her arm.
"Michael, it would be in your best interests to let go of me right now." Calleigh hissed through clenched teeth.
"What are you going to do if I don't? Use your powers on me?" Mike asked her with an amused look on his face.
"Maybe, I wouldn't test me if I were you." Calleigh said narrowing her eyes at him.
"Like I believe that, you had every chance to in the past and let's face it you were too damn chicken to go through with it." Mike taunted her.
"I've grown a lot as a person since then. Losing a child that you didn't even know about will do that to you." Calleigh retorted.
"Any kid we had would have been a worthless piece of shit just like you." Mike said his green eyes hardening.
Calleigh didn't know what came over her, but she hauled off and punched him in the face as hard as she could. "I'm not to weak or useless to that." She spit out at him.
Mike let go of her arm and brought his hand up to his lip. His fingers came away sticky with blood. "You are going to pay for that bitch." He pushed his way past her and into her apartment. He made damn sure to slam the door shut behind him.
"There is nothing that you can do to me that is worse than what you have already done." Calleigh had pretty much just issued a challenge to him.
"Oh, we'll see about that." Mike said glaring at her. He brought up his hand and smacked her as hard as he could across the face with the back of it.
Calleigh was staggered, but that didn't stop her from punching him in the face again. "I told you, I've picked up a few things since the last time that we did this."
Mike backhanded her across the face again. "You haven't learned enough to be able to dodge that though." He smirked to himself.
He hit her again and the next thing that Calleigh knew she was lying on the floor while he beat the living shit out of her. This was just like old times when she would let him beat on her on a daily basis and she didn't like the memories that feeling this way brought up.
Finally Mike grew tired of beating her and he got up leaving her a bloody mess lying on the floor. "I told you not to mess with me, princess, maybe one of these days you'll learn." He leaned down and kissed her roughly before walking out of the apartment. He never once stopped to take notice of the tears that were silently making their way down her cheeks.
Calleigh couldn't move without throbbing pain coursing through her body. With a great effort she curled up into the fetal position and cried her heart out. Her greatest fear was that Mike would get his hands on her and beat her again just for old times' sake.
Roman didn't have to be transported any further than the tunnels of the underworld to be put into his own personal hell.
He was wandering around the tunnel he had been assigned to investigate with his flashlight bouncing off of the dirt walls. All of a sudden he felt something crawling up the back of his neck. With great trepidation he reached his hand behind him and pulled whatever it was off of him.
He wasn't ashamed of the fact that he screamed just like a little schoolgirl when he saw that a spider had been crawling on him. His heart automatically started beating faster and he broke out in a cold sweat.
Roman Nicolae wasn't scared of much as a matter of fact he could stare down most demons without blinking an eye. He was not at all ashamed of the fact that spiders ranked number one on his list of things that scared him.
Once he got his wits about him again he stomped the spider under his boot heel. "There, you won't be bothering me anymore, you fucker." He said and then he spit on the dead spider to ass insult to injury.
His girlfriend pretty much had a field day with the fact that he seeing a spider turned him into a crying little girl. He didn't find it funny at all because he was fucking terrified of the damn thing.
Roman tried to put the spider out of his mind as he walked further into the tunnel. He did find it funny that none of his group was with him, but this was the underworld pretty much anything could happen.
As he walked along he heard what sounded like little feet scurrying. He just figured it was some more rats or something running around and he didn't think anything of it. He shone his flashlight on the ground so that he wouldn't trip over anything, since he had a pretty horrible sense of direction.
"You have got to be fucking kidding me." Roman exclaimed when he saw what lay before him.
On the ground directly in the path that he had to walk in were thousands of spiders scurrying around.
"Fuck me, this is not fucking happening right now." Roman muttered. What he really wanted to do was run, but he couldn't manage to make his legs work at the moment. It was like he was glued to the spot where he was standing.
With every breath that he took it seemed like the spiders were getting closer and closer to touching him. He knew that he would die of a heart attack on the spot if they got any closer to him much less touched him.
"Uh, Chuck, I know that you're busy right now, but I could really use some help." Roman called out to his older brother. He wasn't too proud to ask for help if he needed it and right now he needed it.
He waited until he knew that his brother wasn't going to come and then he called his friend. "Listen, Wy, I really need right now and I'm not kidding. Trust me I wouldn't kid about this."
Roman went through in his mind everyone that he could call and he tried them without much success. He could his breathing starting to get irregular and that really wasn't a good thing. His mother was a doctor so he knew these things.
He had one last person that he could call and he only wanted to do this as a last resort, but he didn't have much of a choice at the moment. "B, I hate calling you like this I know that you're going to laugh, but I need you to come get me because of all the spiders that are here." Roman yelled out. He hadn't wanted to call Bianca because he knew that she would make fun of him.
When he could see that no one was coming for him, he pushed himself up against the dirt wall as close as he could get and he started crying like a baby.
Rachel turned up in the middle of P3 the place was pretty crowded. She didn't know what was going on so she thought it would be best to try to find someone that she knew. That wouldn't really be a hard task beings that she knew ninety-five percent of the people that worked in the club.
She fought her way through a sea of bodies just to make it to the bar. What she saw when she got there made her wish that she hadn't come looking at all. There sitting next to her boyfriend on a barstool was a blonde headed young woman. There was no question in her mind that the woman was Julie, Chris's ex-girlfriend.
The two were talking and laughing, it appeared that they were having a good time. Rachel couldn't believe that he was with her after everything that she had done to him.
"Chris, what are you doing?" Rachel asked him with her hands on her hips.
"Rach, I didn't expect to see you here." Chris said by way of greeting.
"I think that much is pretty fucking obvious." Rachel spat back at him.
"Rach, maybe we should go into my mom's office so we can talk." Chris suggested to her. The last thing he wanted was for her to beat his ass in front of witnesses.
"I think that that might be a damn good idea." Rachel agreed an icy tone in her voice and her hands on her hips. She didn't say another word as she followed Chris back to Piper's office.
"Rach, I know that this looks bad." Chris said to start things off.
"You're damn right, this does look bad. I have no clue what you're doing with her when she is the one who shattered your heart and I had to work hard to put it back together." Rachel wasn't going to allow him to make a fool out of her if she could help it.
"I promise you that I have never cheated on you if that helps matters any." Chris offered trying to make her feel better about the whole situation.
"You don't have to cheat with your body, you are able to cheat with your mind as well, and from where I stand that is what you have been doing." Rachel pointed out to him.
"Rach, I didn't set out trying to break your heart, if you believe nothing else I say I need you to believe that." Chris tried talking some sense to her.
"Clearly something has changed now and you want out of this." Rachel said calling him on his bullshit.
"Rachel, Julie wants to give this thing between us one more try and I owe it to myself to see how it works out." Chris explained to her.
"Don't you love me anymore?" Rachel asked him.
"I do love you, the problem is that I love her more. I won't be any good to you if I'm always wondering in the back of my mind if I could have had something with her." Chris replied.
"That is a really nice thing for you to say to me, Chris. I'm the one who put your heart back together after she broke it." Rachel seethed at him.
"I know and I will always be grateful to you for doing that. But, I think it's time that you and I face facts, what we have together is nothing more than a rebound thing and we need to accept that before we get anymore into it than we already are." Chris reasoned with her.
"Just get out of my sight, go be with your whore if that is what you want." Rachel said she was trying hard to keep the tears at bay. She would not give him the satisfaction of knowing that he had made her cry.
"For what it's worth I did love you." Chris said kissing her on the head before he walked back out into the club.
After he had gone Rachel took a deep shuddering breath and let the sadness she was feeling overtake her. She started crying like she hoped to make a river out of her tears.
Wyatt wasn't feeling nervous at all as he walked into his apartment. Though he found it strange that there wasn't a lot of noise coming from it given the amount of people that lived in there. He was even more surprised to see that his wife was sitting on the couch by herself looking like she had lost her best friend. She had tears running down her face and she looked like she hadn't been getting much sleep.
Wyatt was instantly at her side and he took her into his arms. "What's wrong, Lizzie?" he asked the concern was apparent in his voice and in his eyes.
"Wy, you really shouldn't be here right now, but I'm happy to see you. I should have known that you would find me hiding out here." Liz replied burying her face into his chest.
"If you don't tell me what's wrong then I won't be able to help you." Wyatt tried getting through to her.
"The only thing that matters is that you're here now and you make me feel better just by being here." Liz replied.
"Baby, I'm really glad that being with me makes you feel better, but I need to know what's wrong." Wyatt was damn near pleading with her to tell him what was going on. He hated seeing his wife in this much pain and not being able to do anything about it.
"Wyatt, there is nothing that you can do right now unless you can perform miracles." Liz told him bluntly.
"Who needs a miracle?" Wyatt asked her.
"You do," Liz stated simply.
"Why would I need a miracle?" Wyatt asked her, she really knew better than to say things that would confuse him.
"Because, you're evil now." Liz said talking to him like he was a backwards child.
"Lizzie, that is not possible, the only thing that I can't be is evil." Wyatt swore to her.
"I wouldn't have believe it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. You used your powers on Chris. If I had just me to consider then maybe I could still be with you, but I have to think about our kids in this too." Liz informed him seriously.
"Lizzie, you have to know that I love you and our kids, I would never do anything to hurt you." Wyatt promised her. He knew that there was no way that he could ever hurt his wife or his children for that matter.
"Wuvey Bear, you have to understand that there is no way that I can take that chance with my babies' safety." Liz reasoned with him.
"They are my babies too, and you have to understand that there is no way in this world that I could ever hurt them or you." Wyatt replied adamantly.
"You say that now, but I don't know that you'll be singing that tune if you keep going any further on the path you're on right now." Liz argued with him.
"Liz, I am incapable of hurting you or those kids." Wyatt said trying to get her to listen to reason.
"And I always thought that you were incapable of hurting your little brother, but that obviously isn't the case anymore." Liz spit back at him. He was starting to piss her off now.
"I honestly don't know how I let things get to this point." Wyatt said holding onto her like his life depended on it.
"According to you there is no such thing as good and evil only power." Liz scoffed at the notion.
"Tell me what I have to do to make this right." Wyatt begged her.
"I honestly don't know that you can. Because even if by some miracle you manage to turn good again, I don't know that I'll be able to forgive for breaking your promise to me." Liz replied with a shrug.
"What promise was that?" Wyatt asked her. Surely she couldn't be talking about the one promise he knew that he would never break.
"You know what promise I'm talking about don't act like you're dumb. I know that you may have your moments sometimes, but you are anything but stupid. You left me for the sake of gathering more power. You promised that you would always be there for me and you lied to me." Liz told him with more tears falling from her eyes.
"Lizzie, I am so fucking sorry." Wyatt said as he started to tear up.
"It's a little late for sorry now." Liz replied.
"For right now, just let me hold you and we can pretend like everything is right in the world." Wyatt begged her.
"Ok, but know that if I can't find a way to save you I will stop you." Liz relented.
Wyatt held onto her like he was never going to get to hold her again. He rested his chin on her head and let the tears roll down his face. He was living two fears at the moment. He was afraid of turning into Lord Wyatt and he was afraid that somehow he would end up hurting his wife. "I'm right here, and I always will be." He whispered softly before kissing her on top of her head.
Parker groaned when he saw what he found himself in the middle of. Honestly he rather face the Triad alone then deal with what he was dealing with right now. Of course him being afraid of clowns he had managed to wind up in the one place that he was sure to run into one, the rodeo.
"Of all the things for me to have to be scared of it just had to be fucking clowns." Parker muttered to himself bitterly.
He had to admit that the rodeo was totally cool; the only problem was that he couldn't enjoy it fully because there were at least two clowns present. He got that they were there to help keep the bull riders safe, but that didn't do anything to calm his irrational fear.
Just looking at the clowns made him break out in a cold sweat all over his body. His hands were clammy so he put them in his pockets.
He had hoped at some point that he would get over his fear of clowns, but it seemed the older he got the more they terrified him and that just wasn't something that he wanted being spread around.
"Keep it together, Park, everything is going to be just fine." Parker coached himself. Yeah, you're not so good with the pep talks you should really leave those to your whitelighter relatives they know what they're doing when it comes to that. He thought to himself.
He took a deep breath to steady his frayed nerves. It was really a shame to be scared of something so harmless. He had to remind himself yet again that this fear was in no way his fault. He wasn't even really sure when it had started. The only thing he knew was he couldn't see a clown without wanting to piss his pants.
"You doin' alright, young fella?" a deep male voiced asked from beside him.
Parker turned to see a leather skinned old cowboy standing next to him. "I'll be fine, it's just that I'm terrified of clowns." He admitted to the man.
"That ain't nothing to be ashamed of, I rode the circuit for twenty years and I never did get over my fear of clowns." The man replied.
Parker really hoped this wasn't an attempt to make him feel better, because it just was not working. "I have more of a phobia when it comes to clowns." He informed him.
"There ain't no shame in that either, you can't help what you're scared of." The man told him.
"I just really wish that I could get over it, there is really no sense in being scared of something that is meant for a child's amusement." Parker reasoned with him.
"You'll be just fine." The man said patting him on the back before he walked away.
Parker pulled at the neck of his shirt because he found that he was suddenly having trouble breathing. There was really no sense in that because those clowns weren't even close to him at the moment.
"Parker, act like you have some balls, man. If Hank and Chris were here right now they would be laughing their asses off at you because you sir are acting like a little bitch." Parker berated himself.
Parker felt what could only be described as a sense of abject terror when he saw that one of the clowns was steadily getting closer to him by the second. He wanted to run, but it seemed like some unseen force was gluing his feet to the ground.
He did his very best not to scream like a little bitch when he saw that the clown was standing right next to him. It was only with great effort that he didn't pass out. He could feel his heart thumping the bass line to a rock song in his chest.
"Could you please get away from me?" Parker asked the clown his voice sounding small. It came out as more of a squeak. He had basically been reduced to a small child trapped inside a grown man's body.
The clown didn't reply it just stood there looking at him with that painted on grin. Parker didn't feel ashamed in the least bit when he felt the first hot tear make its way down his face.
Lilly walked into her bedroom to find her husband hurriedly stuffing clothes into a duffel bag that he held open in his hand. She didn't know what the hell was going on with him, but she didn't like the looks of it.
"Jakie, what are you doing?" Lilly asked him.
Jake looked up at her with what appeared to be regret shining in his blue eyes, she cold also see a little bit of pain there. "I was actually hoping that I could be done with this before you got home. Obviously I didn't have much luck in that department." He replied.
"Why are you packing a bag?" Lilly asked she was confused. To the best of her knowledge everything between them had been running smoothly.
"Because, I've decided that it is not fair for you to have to put up with my half demon bullshit anymore. You clearly have no way of knowing when or if I'm going to turn evil on you." Jake informed her.
"Jakie, that is not your decision to make. It is up to me whether or not I want to put up with you and the risk that come along with you being half demon. It's not fair for you to take that decision out of my hands. I had the chance to back out of this and I didn't take it. I said I do knowing that I would rather have you the way that you are than not have you at all." Lilly was speaking to him from the heart and she meant every word that had come out of her mouth.
"Lilly, it is clear that you made the wrong decision and I am trying to spare us both a lot of heartache down the road." Jake might as well have been talking to a brick wall when it came that subject. Lilly was head over heels in love with him and nothing he could say would change that.
"I didn't make the wrong decision, I am with you because I love you and I don't want to spend the rest of my life with anyone else." Lilly stated firmly.
"Lilly, you're still young, you'll find love again with someone who comes with a hell of a lot less baggage than I do." Jake reasoned with her.
"We all have baggage, Cooper, and it just some happens that your baggage fits perfectly with mine." Lilly retorted. She wasn't just going to let him walk away from her without putting up a fight first.
"Well, my baggage is very likely to get you hurt or worse. I'm doing this because I love and I couldn't live with knowing that you got hurt just because you're married to me." Jake replied with a shrug his mind was made up and she wasn't going to change it.
"Fine, go if that is what you think you have to do. Just know that if you change your mind I'll still be here." Lilly said pressing a passionate kiss to his lips. Without another word on the matter Jake was gone.
Lilly waited until she knew for sure that he wasn't coming back right then to crawl into the bed and cried like she had never cried before.
The eleven were sitting around the living room of the manor. There wasn't really much that they could do at the moment given the fact that their older siblings were all running around doing God only knew what.
Mel was the only one of the younger kids that knew about Dodge being captured and she planned to keep it that way for as long as possible. There was no sense making Val worry more than she already was about the Triad.
"I can't believe the older kids call a mandatory meeting and then they don't even bother to show up for it." Carly bitched. Of course she was going to bitch about anything that kept her from spending what little free time she had with Jason.
"You know them, something important probably came up that they couldn't put off until later." Val agreed with her best friend while rolling her eyes.
"You two aren't being fair right now, you know as well as I do that what the older kids do is important." Hailey said shaking her head at the way those two chose to behave all of the time.
"They did make a pretty big deal out of us all being here, but whatever came up was probably pretty important." Emily said. She could see both sides of the argument, but she knew that Hailey was more likely to be right than Carly and Val were.
"Hell, for all we know they got sent on another one of their little trips and that is always fun for us to have to get them out of those messes." Penny commented dryly.
"You would think that as many times as they got sent on their little trips that they would know better than to get trapped into something like that." Ricky threw out there for the sake of making conversation.
"My youngest sister happens to run around with that group, so they probably have to devote a lot of their time to making sure that she doesn't cause herself any harm." Chase was not going to pass up the chance to get in a dig at Oriana even if she wasn't in the room to hear it.
"Not to mention that they have to explain things to Wyatt at least twice so he doesn't get confused." Billy had to put his two cents in on the matter as well.
"Billy, it isn't very nice for you to talk about your cousin that way." Mia teased him. She wasn't really sure where things stood between them at the moment, but she was sure that she really liked kissing him earlier.
"I can tell you all for a fact that they didn't go on one of their trips. They just had to go to the underworld to dig around in something." Mel informed them trying to be a vague as possible so they didn't get suspicious.
"They didn't tell you what they were going to do?" Patty asked her cousin.
"Charlie, you know as well as I do that they don't let us in on their plans." Mel reminded her. It wasn't like any of them needed to be reminded of how protective the older kids were of them.
"Jesus Christ, if we did half the shit that they do they would have our asses for sure." Ricky commented shaking his head. He didn't know when his older brothers and his older sister were going to get it through their heads that he was an adult now.
"I can hear Prue now. She would throw a fucking fit if Penny and I thought about doing half of the shit that she does." Val said scoffing. She loved her sister for wanting to keep her safe, but at some point she was going to have to start fighting her own battles.
"Hey, nobody else has to deal with Wyatt and Chris like have to. They are Prue and Piper Halliwell Jr. Wyatt gets his overprotective bullshit from Aunt Prue and Chris is just like mom." Mel bitched.
"I can honestly say that Hank isn't that bad. I can tell my brother things without him going through the roof on me." Patty said she had gotten it pretty easy when it came to having an older sibling.
"He is only that easy going with you. He tends to lecture me from time to time." Carly retorted. She didn't stop to take into account that he needed to lecture her or she would get into more trouble than she already did if that was at all possible.
"Oh, please, I don't want to hear you people bitch and moan until you have to deal with having B as an older sister. With her it is do as I say and not as I do. I pulled one job for Uncle Mickey and I thought that she was going to fucking kill me. She didn't stop to consider the fact that she has done countless jobs for him over the years." Chase complained. Bianca was his favorite sister, but she could be a bitch when she wanted to be.
"Chase, she only keeps you from pulling jobs because she knows how badly that can turn out." Mel reasoned with him.
"I think that maybe the spell that B used may have fixed you a little too well. Don't get me wrong I'm glad that you're not walking around here like a zombie anymore. But, I think that you might be more annoying than you were before." Carly could pass up the chance to get some good-natured teasing in on her cousin.
"Carly, call a spade a spade, I was fucking crazy before. As a matter of fact I was one step out of the nut house. Now I'm just as sane as any Halliwell can be." Mel corrected her.
"That means you're only about two steps out of the nut house." Billy cracked.
"Billy, why must we always remind you that you are a Halliwell too?" Patty asked her cousin.
"Like I told you earlier, I know that I'm a Halliwell, I just like making those comments to piss you off." Billy replied not sounding repentant in the least bit.
"Billy, I would watch myself if I were you, Charlie will kick your ass into the middle of next week." Mia advised him.
"Good, then I won't have to deal with this thing with the Triad, I'm not really seeing a down side here." Billy couldn't help laughing at himself that was a pretty good one.
"Billy, just shut the fuck up while you're still ahead." Val told him. She honestly didn't know how she was related to him sometimes.
"Billy doesn't know the meaning of the word ahead." Ricky said rolling his eyes at his friend.
"Ok, guys, stop picking on Billy." Hailey told them. The guy got on her nerves but they were starting to take it to the extreme.
"Holy shit, Tinker Bell has spoken, it might be wise to listen to her for a change." Chase cracked. He then had to put his arms up to defend against the blows that Hailey proceeded to rain down on him with surprising force.
"Hoyt, I will fucking kick your ass and send you home crying to your mommy if you fuck with me again." Hailey was dead serious that couldn't even be considered a threat because it had sounded more like a promise.
"Hails, go easy on his already fragile ego, he has a hard enough time living with the fact that his middle sister could kick his ass with one hand tied behind his back." Emily told her.
"Hey, girl, don't you talk about my sister-in-law like that." Patty scolded her playfully.
"Honestly, you and Mel are the only two people I know besides Junior who can get along with B." Carly muttered more to herself than to anyone else in the room.
"Carly, don't call him Junior you know that he doesn't like it. It will only lead to you two getting into a fight." Penny begged her older cousin. She was just tired of all the bullshit.
"Pens, you know that Carly wouldn't be Carly if she didn't say something that was likely to piss one of the older kids off." Huck pointed out to his girlfriend. He had been pretty quiet up until that point. It's just that with Mike going to visit his dad he had a lot on his mind. Getting thrown out of the army would be worth getting to kick the son of a bitch's ass again. But, both his dad and his sister would have a fit if he did something like that.
"Penny, I used to like your boyfriend until he talked to my best friend like that." Val told her sister in a conversational tone.
"You were sleeping with my boyfriend until three months before we got together." Penny reminded her.
"Honey, you would be hard pressed to find a guy that your sister or her partner in crime haven't slept with. I mean you saw Carly's little black book." Mel pointed out to her.
"Speaking of my little black book I haven't seen that thing in almost a year." Carly said with a thoughtful look on her face. "I've kinda been wondering what happened to it."
"I'm sure that Hank managed to get his hands on it and burn it." Patty informed her twin.
"You had a little black book? I thought that was only something that guys did." Mia said with a questioning look on her face.
"Mia, Carly has had so many men that she had to have a way to keep track of them all. It's not like she could put all of them on the contacts' on her phone." Emily joked.
"No shit, my phone would have had so many numbers that people would have thought I was a hooker." Carly said like she was proud of that little fact.
"Carly, you and Val are basically hookers." Mel couldn't pass up the chance to call those two hookers; hell they were proud of it.
"I will have you know that I would have sex without getting paid for it. Let's face it I'm kinda kinky." Val stated and everyone but Carly either groaned or rolled their eyes in Mel's case she did both.
"Val, we are not even going to get into how not right that statement was right now." Huck said laughing at her.
"And to think you had sex with her willingly." Penny said. It didn't really bother her that Huck had slept with her sister, but she liked giving them both shit about it.
"Penny, I really wish you wouldn't remind the rest of us that your boyfriend and your sister used to be fuck buddies, if it's not weird for you it is for me." Ricky said doing a full body shake he tried to keep that fact out of his mind as much as possible.
"Only in this family would something like that happen. I swear we should have our own reality show." Chase chortled.
"The first episode can be all about how Hank has been married to sisters." Carly felt the need to remind everyone of that every chance that she got.
"First of all, if I were you I wouldn't let Hank or B hear me say that. Second of all it would take at least three episodes for them to get us all introduced because there are so many of us." Mel joked with her.
"Damn, Mel, it is really good to hear you joking again." Patty said smiling at her best friend.
"It is really good to find things to laugh about again." Mel replied returning her smile.
Chase started rubbing his chest like he was in pain. "Did any of you guys feel that?" he asked.
"I didn't feel anything." Carly answered him.
"What did you feel?" Mel asked him going flipping the switch and going back into leader mode.
"It's my sisters it feels like they are in trouble." Chase answered rubbing the spot on his chest again.
"Now that you mention it I just picked up a weird vibe from Hank." Patty said making a face.
"Ok, that's it something is up, I'm getting something that feels like fear from Wyatt and Chris." Mel said.
"Fuck, it has to be Barbas." Ricky cussed.
"Yeah, their fun time is over we are going to the parents with this right now." Mel announced.
"I really wish I knew what was taking those damn kids so long. They should have been back by now." Piper said. Predictably she was pacing around the kitchen in hopes of burning off some nervous energy.
"Piper, you need to relax they still have a little bit of time left." Prue tried calming her younger sister.
"They have half an hour, that really isn't that much time for them to get things taken care of." Piper replied in a snippy tone.
"Ok, if it makes you feel any better we can always tack on an extra thirty minutes. You know as well as I do that that group of people does not work well on a time table at all." Paige said coming to what she thought was a reasonable compromise.
"No, we can't give them any more time. If we go down there and it turns out that they don't need us that is fine, but if we give them more time then they could be in trouble and we would have no way of knowing it." Piper shot that idea down pretty quickly.
"I really like to know where the younger of my twin boys is right now." Phoebe said both because she was trying to get her sister on another topic and because she was really worried about Greg.
"I'm sure that you have nothing to worry about with him. As a matter of fact he is most likely knocking boots with my baby sister right now." Lyn offered helpfully.
"Don't be so crass, Lynette Anastasia, I know that you don't kiss your mother with that mouth." Frank joked with his wife.
"First of all I wasn't aware that you knew how to use big words like crass, Francis Xavier. Second of all you didn't mind me doing things to you that would make my mother have a stoke last night." Lyn zinged him pretty good on that one.
"Ew, note to self start knocking before you shimmer in you never know what you're going to hear." Greg said shaking his head from side to side to get rid of the mental picture that Lyn had just given him.
"Cody Gregory, where have you been? Your mother was worried sick about you." Coop asked his son. It wasn't hard to think of him as his son now. There was no doubting that he loved the boy as much as if he had raised him from birth.
"I was unavoidably detained." Greg replied putting it the most diplomatic means possible.
"And I'm sure your warden just so happens to answer to the name Donnie." Lyn snorted.
Piper high fived her friend, "That was a good one, Lyn."
"You know me, I do what I can." Lyn replied like it was no big deal.
"What about your brother and sister?" Phoebe asked him.
"Prue and Coop went with the others just like planned. The thing of it is it took them a second to get going. You know how they are they had to have a five minute argument before they could go." Greg retorted.
"Where exactly did they go?" Henry asked him.
"They might have went down to the source's dungeon, because that is where Gideon said they were holding him." Greg said looking down at the floor as he spoke. He knew that he was going to be in trouble for not coming to tell them that sooner.
"Cody Gregory, I'm thinking that that is information it would have been useful to have hours ago." Piper scolded her nephew.
"Sorry, Aunt Piper, as I said before I got detained." Greg replied with a charming smile.
"Cody, you are so grounded that it isn't funny." Phoebe told her son.
"Mom, you can't ground me since I don't live with you." Greg pointed out to her.
"She has never let something like that stop her before. Two summers ago she grounded Chuck to her condo and I must say that I was impressed as hell." Derek said bringing him into the loop.
Greg gulped and a bit of fear flashed in his blue eyes. "I'm sorry, mommy." He said trying to charm his way out of trouble.
"Damn you, Greg, you know that there is no way for me to stay mad at you if you play the mommy card." Phoebe cussed.
At that moment the younger kids came walking into the room.
"Mom, we've got a little bit of a problem. There is something wrong with the older kids." Mel announced.
"Piper, we better get the future kids down here we are going to need their help for this." Prue told her little sister.
"Bumblebee, I have something to tell you and I'm giving you fair warning you're not going to like it." Phoebe informed her daughter with a grim look on her face.
Dodge was in such an excruciating amount of pain that the nerve endings in his body had long ago went numb to keep from adding anymore pain to his already overloaded system. There was not a spot on his body that wasn't marred with a mark of some sort. Blood was flowing freely from his face, his chest, and his abdomen. His long hair was plastered to his face by a sheen of blood, sweat, and tears. To his credit though he hadn't made a sound throughout his whole ordeal. That was probably why Christie had decided to be so rough with him. If he didn't cry out in pain then she didn't get her happy feeling.
He wished for what he knew had to be the thousandth time that his cousin had sent someone else back to do this. Any one of his cousin would have been able to pull this off without getting caught, but no like the damn ass he was he had walked right into a trap that he had ignored all the warning signs for.
His only consolation was that if he didn't live through this the others would have time enough to mount an offensive against the Triad and then they wouldn't be a menace to the future anymore, but more important than that was the fact that they wouldn't be around to kill his mother. He was such a momma's boy that it was not funny, and it hurt to breathe knowing that she was laying in the ground somewhere at the moment and this was the only way he cold find to bring her back. That was the only thing that kept him from saying fuck it I quit some days.
He had to hold out hope that his family would get him out of this alive. They had never let him down in the past and he didn't expect them to do something new and start now. He just had to hold on for a little while longer. By now someone surely knew that something wasn't right with him. Yeah, right, who am I kidding? They don't even know where I am right now because I make it a habit to run off and not tell anyone where I'm going.
Dodge was pulled out of his thoughts when he felt a piece of white hot metal being pressed to his skin. He gritted his teeth to keep from yelling out, but the truth was it was getting harder and harder for him to remind silent. 'Just a little while longer, Dodge, hold out just long enough for them to get some things figured out and then you can give up if you want to.' He told himself.
He looked at Christie with extreme hatred burning bright in his eyes. 'Fuck that shit, I'm going to live just to piss this bitch on.' "Bring it on bitch, I know that's not the best that you've got." Dodge challenged her just to prove that he wasn't giving up anytime soon.
A/N: Here is the next chapter I hope you guys enjoyed it, I'm sorry for the wait. We really got into the meat of things this chapter. It looks like the older kids are all being forced to live out their greatest fears and for some it isn't what you'd think that they would be afraid. I really had a lot of fun writing this chapter so I hope that you guys liked it. I know I normally do a long chapter at the end of every episode, but I figured that I would throw two long chapters in this time. Val is not going to be pleased at all when she finds out that everyone else knew that Dodge was in trouble and they didn't bother to tell her. Poor Troy seems to always have to deal with his daddy issues when they are forced to face their fears. You really have to feel for Chuck with the things that he was seeing, he knows that his dad loves him, but that is not what his head is telling him at the moment. I think that I like Greg and Donnie together as a couple they seem to have some pretty good chemistry. Only Paige would be more worried about her cousin spilling the beans than about him getting killed. Until next time please review.