Well this has changed a lot since I started so I'm going to have to do a new summary. This is not just a ploy to waste space, it is honestly important at this point to explain where things are going.

Title: 'Charlie's BOS' or 'The Difference Between Us and Them', I am going to eventually change the title but at the moment I think it'd just confuse me.

Author: Stargazing Maiden.
Genre: Romance (cause this is Charlie and Alisa we're talking about.
Summary: Charlie's BOS when he meets Alisa and his thoughts about her and Wicca. Then what comes after, leading on eventually to his marriage to Alisa and when their first child is born.
Setting: the first few chapters are from Gloucester, but after that they're more from Widowsvale for reasons that will be explained in the next few chapters.
Disclaimer: Well like I say every chapter these characters do not belong to me and I've accepted that. It took a while but I have.

THIS FIC IS HALF WAY THROUGH!

I decided last night that this is going to be the middle chapter of this fic and so a long one, there will be sixteen chapters in the completed version of this and depending on requests there may be a sequel but I don't know. It takes place two weeks after the last entry, and is about the wedding between Hillary and Alisa's dad and the reaction between everyone who is there.

Thanks to Wiccan-Girl who was the first person to review me. i actually write everything at home and move it around on a floppy disk, just doing a quick edit when i get in, but yea, itsucks. luckily i have some friends who are teachers here and they don't mind when i use the computers. Yay.
This starts with Charlie.

CHAPTER EIGHT:

Monday:

Wow, yesterday was so amazing. It was Alisa's families wedding and it was great. I mean, I don't exactly agree with the whole 'church' thing but for a Christian wedding it wasn't so bad. And Alisa is right, her baby sisters are adorable, and Akasha is radiant with power. It comes flying off her when you open the door of their room and you can literally feel her casting her senses. It's strange though, because non-Wiccan's aren't supposed to have power, and she has more power than I've ever seen in anyone…even Morgan Rowlands or Alisa.

Alisa wasn't lying. That Morgan one has got serious power, she's amazing, and it's even cooler that she's so much like Alisa. She didn't know she was a witch until she became a member of Wicca and found out she was adopted. Her mother was, and I found this nearly impossible to believe even though Alisa has told me about in on numerous occasions, the Mauve of Belwicket.

The wedding took place at mid-day, at the local church where most of Alisa's coven is forced to attend because of family things. Reminds me of the dark ages in a way, you have to go to a Christian church or you get prosecuted. I don't think they really mind though, because most of them came from Christian backgrounds anyway. There are only four blood Wiccans among them, Alisa, Morgan Rowlands, Hunter Niall and Sky Eventide, but they are four of the strongest I've ever seen. Morgan's little sister stood up and made a speech for the bride and groom to be, she was so beautiful the way she spoke. Though I expected her to look very different, like a younger Morgan, there was nothing alike there. It was like they weren't even related, but I had to remind myself that they actually weren't. Morgan was Mauve's only child, though her father has others. One of them was down at the wedding too. He seemed interesting enough; if not a little disrespectful towards the power he was blessed with. He seemed to think it was funny to show of with what he could do and had no respect what-so-ever for what other people might think about him. He didn't even seem to care that this was a Christian wedding, and that not many of the people had any liking for Wicca. I even heard one person remark loudly that 'that new fad the teenagers have got into is a load of bullshit, but at least they're not out drinking'. I didn't bother to mention that by the look of it many of the people involved in Wicca around here were out drinking, it didn't seem to be a good idea and I've always been proud of how sensible I can be…sometimes.

Even Bridget said it was worth coming, and it was. It was great fun, and everyone down here are as sound as it's possible to get. I really learned something from some of them, especially Hunter. We've exchanged numbers so we can stay in contact, maybe he can teach me some of what he knows? It would Definitely be worth it, because being a member of the council he's learned many things I couldn't even hope to learn from my books. He knows loads about magick and all to do with it, but he's still only eighteen years old, only a year or so between us.

It's been great being here with the family of Sarah and Evelyn, but in a way I feel like I was imposing. Its not that I wasn't welcome, but this was such a family time that I felt like I was just starting to feel a bit overwhelmed. Alisa made it all seem right for me though, and I was so grateful to her. She was so sweet and made sure I was involved in everything that was going on that I hardly felt like an outsider after the first half hour. Her dad was lovely too, he seemed really shocked to see what a large family Sarah had. Turns out he didn't even know she had a brother, she had always refused to talk about it. The first thing he'd known about us was when Alisa rang him from the bus-stop on the way up to stay with Sam. I guess it must have come as a bit of a shock to find out that your dead wife had a whole family you never knew existed, and now he has a huge development of his family with a new wife. I think he's a bit scared about how quick it all went, but he's happy at the same time. he kept going over to whoever was holding the twins and looking down at them like he couldn't believe that they were his.

Those twins though, they're brilliant. I know I've said this before but they are. Even though they're only two weeks old they have their personalities down to a tee. Saoirse, the younger of the two, is blond and cuddly, with giant blue eyes which just scream a love for all living creatures. Meanwhile her sister, Akasha, is dark and slim, with a thin face and the look and feel of someone who will be amazingly powerful when she's given the right guidance. Hunter Niall told me in secret that he is talking to Alisa and Morgan about giving her some private guidance with Wicca so that she knows how to control her power. I pointed out that Saoirse appears to have power too, but of a different quality, and he agreed with me. From what I can gather they are already planning to teach both sisters what Wicca means. I still can't get over the fact that two children with no Wiccan background and no Wiccan background save a half sister could be so filled with Magick, but I suppose things with Alisa have never really been normal.

Last night was nearly better than the wedding, because it was just me and Alisa and a few of her friends, at the local power sink. It was amazing, I never realised how many other sides to Wicca there was, but then when you're running a coven with only four blood witches I suppose you have to widen your boundaries a bit. most of the magick done by Kithic is simple stuff based around the use of simple spells and conducting power, though they seem to work with the beautiful side of Wicca more than the practical side as well. we had a circle last night and they showed me some of the spells they do on a regular basis, all to do with raising power and turning it into something beautiful, choosing what you want the energy you've raised to do. Hunter and Sky (who lead their coven) are very focused on teaching their members how to create good energy and ward of evil. I suppose with people like Morgan Rowlands involved they don't really have much of a chose. If I had someone like Morgan in my coven I'd do a lot to make things safer too. there are some people there who, although they have no Wiccan background, have a really good grasp on how to guide energy to where you want it to go, and they all take turns to cast the circle and suggest spells for them to try. According to Hunter they learn a lot about each other by what spells they're interested in, and then there are the spells they do to do with fixing their fears which are important to them. It's amazing all the stuff I've learned about Wicca from Alisa's friends. When I get home I'm going to try some of the simpler spells that I've always thought were a bit too simple to bother with, from what I saw last night I can see that they have better effects than some of the more complicated ones. Goddess Bless all my family and coven, and my new extended family and coven here in Widowsvale, Glátherbrein.

The wedding was amazing, so full of power and all my family get on so well. Dad even got on great with Evelyn, and I thought those two might have problems with each other. The twins were so good too, they were practically silent throughout the whole ceremony, which was something we hadn't been daring to hope for. Well, they were silent except for the running conversation Akasha had going with me in my mind the whole time. I haven't told anyone else about this but we've been talking loads since she's been born. It's like I've got a new best friend who no-body else can talk to. Actually, that's nearly what's happened. She's great fun, she's got a really innocent sense of humour which is a relieve after the sick minds of everyone else around here.

It was great seeing Charlie again, he's even more amazing than he was up in Gloucester. He's so sound too, he was amazingly nice to all my family, checking that everyone was okay and running around getting drinks for people. Hillary said she couldn't have managed without all the help he gave her, whether it was holding Akasha who he developed a special liking too or sweeping up the endless amounts of party food which were naturally getting scattered all over the floor. He seemed to love the way we run our circles too, because we had a special circle for him…though he didn't know that was why we were having it. Hunter went against all his morals about lying and told him we were doing it to celebrate the wedding of 'the family of one of our more prominent members' (his words not mine). It was Morgan's idea though. she decided we would do something special for Charlie to 'thank him for looking after our baby while she was getting some stuff sorted out' (again, her words not mine). I don't know how he would have reacted if he had known the real reason why we were doing it, but he's not going to find out…at least not for a while anyway. For now it's a secret within our coven, the first of the many coven secrets to come.

Hillary's sister came for the wedding too, all the way from 'sunny' Ireland. She's really sound and I'm even starting to think that maybe life with her might not be so bad…or maybe it will…I don't know. I've always hated Hillary for taking moms place but now I'm starting to think that maybe she wasn't. I mean, she spoke to me after I'd named the girls and explained that she understood where the name Saoirse came from. She is definitely Saoirse now, because although Sarah was my mothers name it just seemed too much. And anyway, the name Saoirse is a lot more her. I know my mothers Irish name was Sorcha but I don't know, even that was too close to being a copy of the one and only. They might look alike but I think I'd prefer it if my mother was the only Sarah from our family. It just feels better for her memory.

Even Hillary's brother Derrick is sound, him and Clare (the sister I mentioned) are twins and I think they knew that Hillary was going to have twins even if we didn't. Derrick said it was just something you knew when you'd already gone through the hell of being a twin. You could tell when your sisters were pregnant with them too. He said it was more of a curse than anything else though, because it turns out they have four other sisters, one of which has had two sets of twins, two have had one set and the last is pregnant with triplets. I take it twins run in the family then, and they have one hell of a family. From what I could be bothered to work out that's nearly thirteen grandchildren for the poor elders, but then apparently Cassandra and Mary, one of two sets of twins from the oldest daughter Louise, are twenty-five now so hardly small girls themselves. I dread to think what's going to happen when they start to have kids!

Okay, long chapter like I promised. I'll get the next one up as soon as possible but it could take a few days because I already had half of this done coming home tonight so only really had to tweak about a thousand words. Anyway, please Read and Review as always, Love and Peace, Stargazing Maiden xxx.