A Different Kind of Teen Charmed Fic
a/n: I will try and make this chapter a bit longer. The word for this chapter is fear. Enjoy! :)
Chapter 7
Piper woke up in the hospital with a start. She seen her family surrounding her and got a lingering sense of de ja vu. "What happened?" She asked putting her hand up to her head, which had been bandaged.
"Well you fell out of your wheelchair and hit your head. The doctor thinks you have a concussion." She put her hand down.
"I'm not ever going to get better am I?" She asked him. He looked at her and smiled unsure at what she meant.
"Piper sweetheart it is just a con-
"No Leo not the concussion. My legs, I am never going to be able to walk again am I?" He now looked sympathetic. He leant down and kissed her. Suddenly it was like nobody else was in the room.
"I fell in love with you after that accident. Not before." He whispered. He felt somebody tap his shoulder. It was Victor.
"Can I have a few moments with my daughter please?" He ordered. Leo stepped aside letting him get closer. "I meant in private." The others in the room all left.
Victor got closer to Piper. "Piper can you tell me why Leo's dad thinks that this is intentional?" Piper looked at him confused.
"Dad I don't know what happened. I can't remember." She said getting a little confused. The monitors attached to Piper started beeping loudly. It wasn't that she was afraid of her dad. She was having difficulty breathing and her heart rate had increased. She laid back against her pillow and tried to close her eyes. Victor shook her. "Can we get a little help in here." Victor yelled.
A few nurses and a doctor ran into the room. Piper had closed her eyes and still wasn't breathing properly. Prue, Paige, Phoebe and Leo ran in. "What exactly were you talking about?" The doctor asked.
"Just what happened before she hit her head. She told me that couldn't remember before the monitors went crazy." The nurses moved him to the side of Leo and Paige came over to him and sank her head in his stomach.
"Dad is Piper going to be okay?" She asked, her voice slightly muffled.
"I don't know baby." He answered. A nurse walked over to them.
"We are going to take her down to the cat scan. There might be internal bleeding from the fall. If there is then there is the possibility of brain damage, though the fact that she has woke up could eliminate that possibility." You could see a tear escape Victor's eyes and run down his cheek. "You do whatever you can to save my daughter, do you hear me." The nurse nodded sympathetically at him and walked away. He put his hands on Leo's shoulder and they all left the room.
An hour later they were still waiting on somebody telling them something. "I'm going to see if I can find anything out." Leo said standing up.
"Leo why don't you go home, I cannot let you stay here all night." Victor told him. Leo looked up at him
"I am staying here, not because you are allowing me to, because I want to for Piper. I will stay awake all night if I have to." There was a hard determination to his voice.
He walked over to the nearby nurses station. He banged on the desk with his fist. "Hello nurse, nurse. Could you give me any information on Piper Halliwell?" He asked. The nurse typed something into her computer.
"Piper Halliwell went down for a Cat Scan in her brain, I will page in her doctor and see if I can find out anything else. Please take a seat in the waiting area." The nurse smiled at him and turned away holding several charts belonging to several different patients. He smiled back uncertainly and stalked off again.
It took another three hours for Piper to be returned to her room and wake up again. "Hi." She said quietly to them. Once again her hand moved toward her head. "My head really hurts." She said. This time it was just Leo in the room with her. "Honey it will be okay. You will get better I promise baby." He told her kissing her. She was still connected to a heart monitor so it started bleeping as her heart rate increased again.
In the underworld Barbus the demon was planning something malevolent for the upcoming Friday thirteenth. He took the pen he was holding out of his mouth and put it on the paper. He was busy brainstorming for something brilliant. "I know I will attack the Charmed Ones." He said to himself, remembering what the demon of illusion had told him only a few hours before. 'How to attack the Charmed Ones' He wrote.
Plan A- wait until they are alone and then take their powers one by one.
Plan B- Attack them all together and take all their powers at once.
Plan C- Get at least two of them at a time and take their powers
Plan D- Wait until Friday and kill another nine witches in the process of stealing the Charmed Ones powers using one of plans A-C.
"I am a genius." He yelled into thin air. He shimmered out in attempt to practice his powers on some unsuspecting humans before he was able to reek havoc in the magical world at the end of the week. The good news was he had twenty four hours to play on Friday, the bad news was he only had twenty four hours where he could actually kill witches with his powers. Before Friday 13th his powers weren't strong enough. But he could give some sleeping humans really bad nightmares, maybe even get a few kills in before Friday.
At the hospital that Friday Piper was coming home. "Come on honey you can sleep in the car on the way home." Victor told Piper as she was brought outside to the car.
"Can't I sleep now Dad? It's not like I am walking home or anything." She said aloud. 'Or anywhere else' She thought to herself as Victor picked her up and placed her in the car. Piper was happy to be going home, for a sixteen year old girl she had seen enough of hospitals to last her a lifetime. "Can I have next week off? As it is the last week before summer and I have a bad concussion and will not be able to concentrate. I have already sat my exams." She asked. Victor told her that she could if she behaved this weekend and then he would get a doctors letter. "Thanks dad." She said and they drove home.
Later Victor was making lunch and Piper was alone in the living room. Barbus shimmered in. "Hello witch." He said. He held his hand up and pointed a finger from the other at her before she could scream. "Why don't we see what your worst fears are." He smiled when he realised that this would be easier than he thought. "You are living your worst fear. You are afraid that you will have to depend on your family for the rest of your life, as you will never walk again." He smiled, showing his yellow teeth to the young witch. Piper started crying as her worst fear came to life.
Prue was sitting across from her. "I'm sorry Piper." She cried. "I just can't do this any more. I cannot waste the rest of my life taking care of you. You need to go, get out of my house." Prue held up her hand still crying. "You are the reason Dad had to come back Piper. You are completely useless as a witch." Phoebe told her. Her face was serious and ready for fighting against her own sister.
"Piper, I'm sorry but they are right. We would have been fine without Dad if you weren't stuck in a wheelchair unable to move." Paige said, her face emotionless.
"Should I keep going." He asked the teenager who had started crying at the pain of witnessing this. He raised his hand again.
Leo walked through the front door. "Piper I am sorry, but I want to break up with you. I want a girl who I can walk along the beach with. I want the kind of girl who is independent and free, not trapped the second she is on the couch." This made Piper worse.
Victor came into the room and Barbus swore before leaving manor and the her to cry in her fathers arms. He decided to pay a visit to one of her sisters in stead.
Prudence was sitting by the fountain on her lunch break at college. Barbus astral projected to her from behind a nearby tree. Again he felt it easy, even though the witch was in a public place. He raised his hand. "How fitting that you sitting by fountain. You're greatest fear is drowning, just like your mother did when you were a kid." He said to himself, as though addressing her. Prue let a tear escape through her eyes as she thought of her mother. "Aww the little witch misses her mommy." Barbus said. "Another one of your greatest fears is losing a sister. Wouldn't it be a shame if you lost one of them now, when they are all still children." He looked once again at his palm. "And while Piper is weak and helpless, it would be such a pity if she was hurt again wouldn't it?" He asked.
"You bastard. If you hurt her, I will." Barbus laughed
"Do what. You cannot vanquish me. I am fear and fear never leaves." He shimmered away.
That night Paige was getting ready for bed when barbus approached her. "You are afraid of performing for your school show. That is so sweet and childish." Paige spun around in her pyjamas.
"Who are you?" She asked, looking him up and down. "You are so old and ugly." Barbus didn't like that comment.
"I am fear, in name and in occupation." He told her. He scared the hell out of her.
"DADDY. There is an old guy in my bedroom." She yelled.
"A stupid mortal like your father will never be able to fight off me. I am your worst nightmare come to life." There was banging on the door. It suddenly burst open and Victor stood there watching his daughter and this ugly demon standing there.
"Get away from my daughter and out of this house before I-"
"Before you what. You are nothing but a mere mortal." Hearing the commotion Prue and Phoebe ran through to see what was happening.
"Girls go back downstairs, I got this."
"No dad, just go and get Piper. I think she went out with Leo." Prue told her father. Realising that the girls needed their sister Victor left the house in a hurry. He went to the Wyatt household.
After the demon was vanquished everybody was in bed, Victor sat on the phone to his friend. "I just don't know how to tell Paige that she isn't really my daughter. As far as she knows I am her father. But it was that guy that slept with Patty after we split up, what was his name again?" He clicked his finger as if it would help him to remember. "Yeah Sam. Sorry what were we talking about?" Victor didn't realise that Paige had been coming down the stairs as he was talking on the phone, and that she had heard every word that was being said.
a/n: Sorry it took so long for me to update this.
