Blood Bonds by Princessia
Disclaimer: Although I truly wish I could lay claim to these lovely characters… I am not Constance M. Burge. I do not claim any of these as my own except Ellie and Lilly. I tried to follow canon where possible but did take some artistic license. It's a mixture of season six cannon and possible nasty future… bare with me.
Summary: When Chris goes to the past, there is only one person he regretted leaving behind... and it's not Bianca. Set after ChrisCrossed. Eventually a revelation fic.
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Chapter Seven: Witchstock; Part Three.
The sixties was like the worst fashion era. Hello! Bad clothing, bad hair, and extremely questionable personal hygiene.
— Paige Matthews. Witchstock (Ep. 6.11), Charmed.
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Author's Note; Please remember that Lilly is from around circa. 2027, and some of the words said during the '60's are strange to her. There is a 60 year gap between 1967, (when Allen dies,) to 2027, (the year Lilly left to join Chris in the past).
Previously,
Okay, go, get dressed. You are going to the summer of love.
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January 1967,
A beautiful park, people are sitting around on the grass. Some are playing drums while others are playing invisible drums while Allen is standing in the middle.
"Hear the drums, liquid beats, crashing down upon parched shores," Allen recites, "hounding like the feet of ten thousand soldiers, whispering whys. Why!"
"Right on!" cheers Paige as she stands up and everyone claps. "Sorry, I just got a little carried away."
"Don't be sorry," says Allen, "that was gone."
"Gone. That's right, that's exactly what I should be, gone," says Paige, "Because I'm actually starting to dig th… like this."
"It's kind of huge for me, everybody being so free," says Lilly as she stands next to Paige, admiring the unspoiled surroundings.
"Robyn, come here!" a voice from across the circle.
"You girls are exactly what we're all about," says Penny, "You wanna hear my dream? I dream of a crusade to rid the world of evil. Not through fighting or the inner anger that makes us want to fight, but through the magic power of love."
"Are you sure you're Penny Halliwell?" Paige asks, "How long have you felt this way?"
"Ever since I met Allen," Penny answers.
"With a philosophy like that, no wonder he was killed," Lilly mutters to herself as she turns away from Penny and Allen, plagued by memories of being in her future, where there is no such thing as peace and happiness.
"Must be so great to share this together," says Paige, noticing how uncomfortable Lilly was becoming with the situation.
"Your old man's not into magic?" Allen asks Paige.
"He's not so old but, uh, nah, not so into it either." Paige answers as Lilly starts to walk toward the big oak tree nearby.
Suddenly, Piper and Phoebe appear beside them, wearing sixties clothes. "Hey, groovy girls," says Piper, "We've been looking for you."
"Welcome. I'm Penny. Any friends of Paige and Lilly's are friends of ours." Penny greets them, "But you shouldn't use magic so openly," she admonishes.
"That's Grams," Phoebe whispers, excited to be in the past.
"Shhh," Piper shushes her quietly.
"I'm Allen," he says, "Peace and love."
"Oh, yes, love. Lots and lots of love," Phoebe gushes, "I have so much love for you, man, you have no idea."
"You here for the happening at the manor tonight?" Penny asks.
"No, we were just looking for our friends Paige and Lilly, actually," says Piper, as she grabbed Paige and Lilly's arms, "Excuse us," she said as they moved away.
"I'm so glad you guys found us," says Paige.
"We need to get out of here." Piper tells them.
"Chris insisted we give you this," says Phoebe as she passed a crumpled piece of paper to Lilly.
"What does it say?" asks Paige as she sees it slightly glow when Lilly's fingers grasped it tightly.
"It just says to relax, and that we'll all manage to get home," she says as she put it in her pocket, thankful for her twin's enchanted message.
Piper found it strange that Lilly didn't look at it, "but you never looked at it," she says incredulously.
"It's enchanted," she answers, "only the person it's meant for can read the real message," she says as she handed the note to Piper who read what was written to herself.
Something to help for later,
Chris
To Erase A Memory
Thoughts, Beliefs,
Ideas, Truths, Images
All of these you hold onto tightly,
What I now mention, You will not remember.
Police car sirens are heard as Piper puts the note away, and a couple pull up, "It's the pigs." Allen shouts as the police get out of their cars.
"Okay, everybody, let's break it up," an Officer says through a megaphone. "Let's go, everybody out. Move it!"
"This is a park, man," a guy objects, "You can't control god's green earth."
"It's tax payers green dollars that pay for this park, and you're loitering," says the officer, "So move it."
"Hell no, we won't go! Hell no, we won't go!" the crowd shouts, "Hell no, we won't go!"
Lilly is clearly starting to get nervous at these turn of events and slowly edges away from the crowd, memories of cops and demons dragging her back to the source plaguing her thoughts.
"They have no right, they have no power, turn their hate sticks, into flowers," chants Penny as the cops' batons turn into a bunch of flowers.
"Let's jam," says Robyn, "If the cops catch us we'll miss tonight."
"Piper, freeze them." says Phoebe as Lilly reaches the edge of the crowd, furthest from the cops.
"I can't." says Piper, as Lilly manages, in her anxiety, to completely forget that she's in the past and that the Charmed Ones were with her.
The cops handcuff Piper and Phoebe as Penny grasps Paige's arm, "Paige, come on."
Lilly, seeing Piper and Phoebe being handcuffed as she looked back began to run, her mind still plagued by dark memories, not wanting to go back into the dungeons. Lilly ran, not seeing her beautiful surroundings, everything turning grey to her, she had no destination in mind, she just ran, as fast and as far as she could.