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Chapter 4
Renesmee
I couldn't sleep.
It was about 3 o'clock in the morning and I was too wired to sleep. I had the dream again, with the beautiful girl who I would never catch. After Piper had sent us all away to talk to Mel, I went up to the attic to look at the book. And Lily followed me up there.
"Why do you need to look at the book?"
"I'm hoping it might have some answers."
"Answers for what?"
I sighed before I answered.
"For these dreams I've been having."
I walked up to her and showed her what I had showed Paige this morning.
"Is that your mother?" Lily asked
"Yes", I answered with a small smile.
"She's beautiful", she told me.
"I know", I smiled. "I don't remember much of her but I remember her beauty. I always wanted to be just as pretty as her when I was little."
"You are", she said with a smile and a role of her eyes. Her smile faded then and she said, "At least you remember something about her."
I nodded and looked down, remembering Lily's struggle with not knowing who she was.
"Well at least let me help you look", she said changing the subject and walking over to the book.
We looked for about an hour through the book but found nothing on magical dreams.
I thought about asking my parents, Leo especially has extensive knowledge of the magical world. But I didn't want to worry them. And honestly I didn't want to hurt them by telling them I was trying to figure out more about my birth family.
Part of me felt like it was worthless, I know my family is dead. They were killed a year after I was born and that's why the Elders brought me to the sisters. So what could I possibly find if I went looking for them, or for information about them?
As I was laying there compensating about my birth family, I heard Melinda's breathing change across the room.
Are you awake? I thought to her.
"Yeah", she said softly.
She must be thinking about what happened earlier. Lily, Chris, and Wyatt didn't know anything, but I heard the whole thing. After Melinda blew up the blender she ran upstairs to our room, while Piper and Leo remained in the kitchen. Piper seemed very confused about why Melinda could now blow things up as well, but Leo seemed to just shrug it off and said that her powers must be growing. He said she's getting older and being able to blow things up is an extension to the power to freeze. But then Piper pointed out that the reason her and her sisters' powers extended beyond the original three Warren powers was because they were the Charmed Ones. Technically Melinda is just a Warren witch so her powers shouldn't go beyond that.
I'm so relieved that Mel didn't hear Piper say that though. All of her confidence problems with magic stem from the fact that her power is limited compared to the other Halliwell children. Piper and Leo then went on to discuss that no matter how it happened, Melinda has to learn to control this extremely dangerous power. Mel must be freaking out right now.
Just as I was about to say something to console my sister, I heard something from my brothers room. It was the familiar sound only I could hear when a demon shimmered.
I sat straight upright in bed and then rushed to the door. Before Mel could ask what was wrong I said, "Demons."
"Mom!" I shouted as I ran down the hall to my brothers' room.
As I busted open the door I saw two demons standing there and one fired an energy ball at Chris.
"No!"' I screamed as I held my arm out to Chris and the next thing I knew, the energy ball changed course and smashed into the dresser.
Everything happened so fast after that.
I could hear two people running over and as they got closer I could smell that it was Piper and Melinda. Just as they made it to the door one of the demons threw an energy ball in our direction. I ducked quickly out of the way, pulling Piper who had appeared next to me down with me. As I looked up I saw the strangest thing. The energy ball went right at Melinda but as it got closer she orbed and it hit the wall behind her.
She orbed.
Melinda orbed.
Piper then took her focus toward the demons and blew up one with the wave of her hand but before she could get the other one, he shimmered out.
"Everybody okay?" she asked as the two of us got up.
"I'm not sure", said Melinda who was staring down at her hands.
"Mom", she said as she looked up at Piper with tears in her eyes, "What's wrong with me?"
"I don't know honey but you're going to be fine, okay?" Piper assured her as she walked up to put her arms around her.
"Wyatt, Chris, go get Phoebe and Billie. Now!" she told her sons. They both nodded and orbed out.
"Come on you two, up to the attic", she said to us.
Once we were upstairs I took Mel by the hand and led her to the couch, Piper went straight to the book.
"Paige! PAIGE!" she called to nowhere in particular.
A second later Paige stood in front of us.
"What is it?" she asked with concern.
"I'm not sure yet", said Piper.
Before Paige could say anything else Chris orbed in with Phoebe, Wyatt was a half a second behind him with Billi.
"What happened?" asked Phoebe.
"Well", Piper started, "Melinda just orbed. Chris go wake your father, tell him what happened."
"She what?" questioned Billie.
"But how is that possible? She's not part whitelighter", said Paige.
"I know, I have no idea", answered Piper.
Just then Melinda sniffled.
"Aw sweetie don't cry, you're going to be fine. We just have to figure out what's going on with your powers", Phoebe said as she walked over to sit on the old couch and attempted to comfort her shaken niece.
"Did anything else happen today?" Phoebe asked as she gently put Mel's hair behind her ear.
"Um, yeah", Melinda said as she looked up at Piper, "I blew up the blender."
"So then are her powers just expanding?" asked Billie.
"I don't think so", said Leo as he entered the attic with Chris. "Those were my thoughts this evening but I think you may be right, Piper. Mel's powers shouldn't naturally go beyond one of the three original Warren powers. And it's not possible for her to be half whitelighter, trust me."
"Well what about Renesmee?" asked Chris.
"What about her, Chris?" responded Piper.
Yeah, what about me?
"Well, she used telekinesis. When the demon attacked me, she threw the energy ball out of the way."
"I did?" I asked with wide eyes.
"Yeah, you didn't know?" he asked me.
"No, I just thought that was you", I told him.
"No, it wasn't me Nes. That was all you."
"Maybe I should go ask the Elders what's going on", suggested Paige.
"Yeah maybe you should", said Piper not taking her eyes off of me and Mel on the couch.
Paige nodded but before she could orb out Lily was in the door way with a frightened look on her face.
"Sweetie what's wrong?" asked Billie.
But before Lily could answer, four demons shimmered in behind Piper.
"Look out!" warned Lily.
I grabbed Mel and ducked behind the couch.
As I peeked around the couch I saw Piper blow up one of them, while Phoebe threw a knife and hit another one. The other two managed to hit Chris and Leo with energy balls and the two flew back and landed on the floor. Then the demons threw two energy balls at Billi and Wyatt while they ran over to Leo and Chris but Paige stopped them.
"Energy balls!" she called and threw the energy balls back at the demons.
Wyatt then immediately started to heal his brother and father.
Phoebe came over to make sure Mel and I were okay, while Piper went over to Lily, who looked like she had just seen a ghost.
"I saw that", she whispered.
"What?" Piper asked.
"I foresaw that Mum. In my dream, then I woke up and ran up here to make sure everyone was okay."
Piper then looked over to Paige and said, "Go get the Elders. Now."