Somewhere
"Ughh, I feel like crap," Savvy muttered.
"Savvy, where are we?" Logan asked as he looked around.
"San Francisco, you dumbass, where else?" she responded as she rolled onto her stomach.
"But, we're on the sidewalk," he retorted. She lifted her head and looked around. She was speechless. "Maybe it's a dream," she suggested. Logan reached over and grabbed her ass. Savvy yelped and smacked his hand away as she sat up. "What the hell was that?" she yelled at him. He shrugged. "If it was a dream, you would have let me go on." He explained. She scowled and leaned over to rub her butt as Logan stood up and dusted himself off. He held his hand out to her and she stared at it suspiciously. He sighed.
"It won't bite," he said. She took his hand and used it as leverage to get up. Logan kept her hand in his grasp as they started down the street, ignoring her struggles and protests that she wasn't a child.
"We should ask to use someone's phone so we can call home," Logan voiced.
"Logan, if you don't let go of my hand right now," she warned, "I will personally castrate you…with a spoon." He gulped, but held onto her hand for a few more defiant seconds, then dropped it. They continued down the neighborhood, wondering if they should stop at a house with no cars in the driveway or not. Finally, they came upon a house with an SUV in the driveway.
"It's pink," Logan snickered as they walked up the driveway. They rang the doorbell and they heard shouting from inside before the knob turned. Savvy was openly staring as she came face to face with Phoebe Haliwell from Charmed. Her mouth was opening and closing, but no words came out. Logan having only seen the show once or twice, didn't know why Savvy was staring.
"Hi, I'm sorry to bother you, but could we borrow your phone?" Logan inquired. Before Phoebe could respond, Savvy interjected.
"You, you're Phoebe Haliwell," she managed to get out.
"Yea," she said, frowning. "I guess you know me from my column."
"Yea and because of the Charmed Ones, duh. OK, this has to be a dream. I mean, you don't exist, not really, so," Savvy babbled. "Can you tell me what demon you just fought?"
Phoebe's eyes were wide as she grabbed them and dragged them into the house, calling for Piper, Leo and Paige as she went.
"Oooh, I get to meet Leo," Savvy gushed. "I always thought he was hott, even when he betrayed Piper to save Wyatt from Gideon. Oh wait, have you gotten to that part in the plot yet? 'Cus I don't know what to base this off of."
By now the three others had gotten into the room and demanded to know what was going on.
"These two know about the Charmed ones," Phoebe whispered at the trio.
"What!" Piper yelped. "How?" Leo looked skywards, and then glanced towards his wife.
"It's okay, it's okay. Maybe it will be about these two," she said, glaring at Logan and Savvy.
"Was that the Elders? Because I didn't hear the jingle and I've…"Savvy couldn't finish because Logan clamped a hand over her mouth to prevent her from doing any more damage.
"Ow!" Savvy cried as she pried Logan's hand away. "Airway passage, not just a myth!"
"Just shut up then. Before we get into any more trouble," he hissed at her.
Meanwhile, Up "There"
"Leo, your job is to protect those two at all costs. Treat them like one of your charges," an elder explained.
"But, I don't understand," he admitted.
"In time you will," the elder responded. "They know almost everything about you and the Charmed Ones and they are necessary when fighting this new evil that looms on the horizon.
Down Below
Leo returned in a swirl of blue and white lights and asked to talk to the sisters in private.
"What do you think they're talking about?" Savvy wondered. Logan gave her an incredulous look. "You're joking, right?" he asked. "Because all you've done since we hot got here is talk about them, and hmmm, I don't know, they're probably freaked out!"
Before Savvy could say just how he would act if they were thrown into one of his favorite T.V. shows, Leo and the girls walked over.
"So, what'd the elders say?" Savvy chirped.
"They said we should trust you, but I don't know, it's risky," Piper said.
"I think we should give them a chance," Phoebe chimed in. "Just to be fair. They didn't do anything yet."
"I guess so," sighed Paige.
"OK, we should hear your story before the boys wake up," Piper voiced. As if cued, cries were heard from the upstairs bedroom.
"Uhh," Piper sighed. "They won't go to sleep." Piper trudged up the stairs to get the boys while Paige was staring at Logan intently.
"See something you like?" he asked as he smiled suggestively. Savvy snorted and Phoebe chuckled.
"Wow, he lasted five minutes without hitting on someone," Savvy commented. "I think that's a personal best."
"What?" he exclaimed. "Can I help it if I'm surrounded by 3 beautiful women? I'm obligated to hit on all of them at least once, maybe twice."
"Hey wait, you said 3, and there's 4," Savvy complained.
"Yea I also said girls," Logan teased.
"Oooh," Savvy groaned as she hit his arm.
"You two have obviously known each other for a while," Paige noted. "You seem pretty close."
"Oh yeah," Savvy said sarcastically. "Inseparable." Piper chose that moment to come down the stairs with the boys but no matter what she did, they wouldn't stop crying.
"Paige, you take Chris," Piper commanded.
"I can't, I promised I'd meet up with Henry," she apologized as she headed towards the front door.
"Pheebs?" Piper begged.
'I have work to do," she admitted. "But I promise I'll be back soon. I only have a little bit of the column."
"Leo?" Piper practically whimpered.
"Sure, hon," he answered, much to her relief. Leo and Piper tried rocking them, feeding them and changing them, but nothing they did could lessen the boy's wailing.
"May I try?" Savvy inquired. Leo looked at Piper, who shrugged.
"Ahh, might as well," she said. Leo handed Chris over to Savvy and she gently began to do the airplane. Chris's cries lessened considerably but Wyatt's were still going strong.
"Put him here," Savvy instructed, indication the couch cushion next to her.
"Wyatt. Hey Wyatt!" Savvy cooed. "Do you want to hear a story?" Wyatt stopped crying long enough to nod his head.
"Great, but you have to be quiet so you can hear, Ok?" Savvy asked. Again Wyatt nodded, this time wiping his tears.
"Now, once there was a pirate. One of the best. His name was Captain Jack Sparrow…" Savvy started. "…and the curse was broken forever," she finished. Wyatt was staring wide-eyed at Savvy.
"'nother, 'nother," he begged.
"Not today, Wyatt," Savvy consoled. "Chris is already asleep and it's time you took a nap too." Savvy started up the stairs, Chris in one arm and Wyatt's hand in hers. On the way up they met Paige, who looked surprised. Piper just shrugged.
"Don't ask me, it was all her," she said.
"Hey, how about I sing you guys a song?" Savvy's voice floated from upstairs.
Spend all your time waiting for that second chance In the arms of an Angel, fly away from here So tired of the straight line, and everywhere you turn In the arms of an Angel, far away from here
For the break that will make it ok
There's always some reason to feel not good enough
And it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction, oh beautiful release
Memories seep from my veins
They may be empty and weightless, and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight
From this dark, cold hotel room, and the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of an Angel; may you find some comfort here
There's vultures and thieves at your back
The storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lies
That you make up for all that you lack
It don't make no difference, escaping one last time
It's easier to believe
In this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness
That brings me to my knees
From this dark, cold hotel room, and the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie
In the arms of an Angel; may you find some comfort here
Underground
Damon sat up abruptly from his slime bath.
"No," he commanded, waving the attendants away. 'That noise' he thought. 'That's the voice I've been waiting for.'
"Sir," an attendant interrupted nervously, his hands twitching. "Madam Gulra wants to see you. Immediately." He squeaked when saying the last part, looking for a sign of anger in Damon. Damon smiled and the attendant relaxed visibly.
"RWARRR!" he yelled.
"Ahh!" the attendant screamed in an extremely girlish voice. Damon chuckled evilly.
"Don't worry boy, I've already eaten today," he boasted. "Besides, you wouldn't be much." He cackled as he walked away.
Haliwell Manor
Savvy descended the stairs. "The boys are asleep," she informed them.
"That's quite a voice you've got their," Paige declared. "Did you take singing lessons, or is that all you?" Savvy looked bashful as she said, "I didn't know you could hear." Logan rolled his eyes.
"She's too embarrassed to sing in front of anyone. What a baby," he jeered.
"It's not like you sing in front of people," she shot back.
"I do too," he protested. "I'm in a band."
Piper whistled as loud as she could. "Enough," she demanded. "Break it up you two. I don't even know who you are, where you're from or what you're doing here and I am already pissed at you." (Backstreet boys flashback anyone?)
"I think that's a record," Leo whispered to Paige who giggled.
Piper glared at them before continuing, "Can you please tell us everything?"
"Right," Savvy smiled. "I'm Savannah Contez and this is me sort-of-friend, Logan Greer."
"We come in peace," Logan quipped lamely before Savvy could continue.
"As I was saying…", and she preceded to tell them their story.
"Wow," Paige remarked as the front door slammed shut. "Any idea why you're here?"
"I'm home!" Phoebe yelled from the entryway.
"In here," Paige called back.
Paige briefed Phoebe on their story while Piper and Leo went to get dinner ready.
Madam Gulra's
Damon strolled through the mold infested walls of Madam Gulra's palace. He stopped in front of a particularly nasty piece of wall and mumbled a few words in Old Thak, a dead language.
"Enter," croaked a voice.
Damon bowed low to the creature inside before stepping over the threshold.
"You have heard the call, I presume?" Madam Gulra rasped as she hobbled out from behind her desk. Scattered all over were her "pets", once humans, but tricked into her service and now serve her for all eternity in dog form.
"Yes, Madam," he answered as he walked forward, his feet crunching the skulls that were littered underfoot. "Do you have a job for me to do?"
"Yes, we cannot fail as we have done over the past few years," she informed him. "Instead of killing them, we will seduce her to our side instead. You now know that she has the power to go either bad or good and it is your job to make sure it's in our favor. You failed once with this girl, killing her father, but not her. Don't do it again."
He bowed again and backed out of the room. 'Now to find some soldier's stupid enough to come with me' he thought. 'I will capture her and show her the pleasures of being bad.'