Chapter Nine: Aria's First Demon/Rosewood's Picture Perfect

Since Aria left, things have been different. Besides the obvious, being a witch, she's still getting used to being away from her friends and family. She felt sorry for erasing their memories; she wanted them to know she was a witch but her mother and aunts told her no one could know, so she used her manipulation/mind control power and took that moment away. It's hard for her, living in California living an A free life, while her friends are in Rosewood trying to figure out who's A and why. But she's coming up with plans on making everybody's lives better.

She's laying on her bed, talking to her mother, "Can you please come visit me? I want to see you and Mike," she's begging her mother who recently told her she moved out of the house again. "I don't know, Aria, I can't just leave, I have work," Ella tells her daughter. "Mom, your a witch, just bippity boppity boo yourself here, please," she adds. "That's not how things work, Aria. But I'll see what I can do, I do want to see how you're doing with the craft," Ella says trying to get out of the conversation. She didn't want to come to California because she doesn't know how she'll handle the 'Leo' situation. Aria's phone beeps. "That's Bret, I gotta go, mom, I'll talk to you later, ok," Aria says ending the conversation. "Alright, baby, I love you," Ella says. "I love you, too," they hang up. Wyatt walks into her room; he's almost nine years old now, and he is missing his mother. Aria knows that his mother died in battle with a demon a couple of years ago but doesn't know the whole story, she feels like her aunts are keeping something from them. Her mother has three sisters, Phoebe, Prue, and Paige; she didn't get to meet Piper because of her untimely passing a couple of years ago, but she is enjoying the time she gets to know her other aunts. She also likes spending time with her cousins. "Were you talking to your mommy?" he asks, she knows he was over listening to her conversation. "Yeah," she looks at him, making the motion for him to sit down next to her on the bed, he does. "I'm sorry to hear about your mommy, but if you want, I can share mine," she tells him trying to make him feel better. "You look like her," he tells her. "What does she look like?" she asks him, he walks to the closet of his bedroom that Aria's using and he brings out a shoebox with mementos from his mother. He sits on the bed next to her and opens it up; he looks at the wedding picture and hands it to her, as Aria pulls the image closer she realizes this is her mother.

Emily Fields and her older brother, Eric have been slowly moving into an apartment he found near the high school. She likes that he's back in town and getting to spend more time with him. They've been unpacking everything from the moving truck into their new home; they got Hanna and Spencer to help out. "Thanks for helping guys, pizza's on the way," Eric announces as he walks in with the last box. "Thanks," Spencer tells him, she looks at her friends. "This place is nice, enough space for the two of you," she adds. Emily walks into the living room from the kitchen, "It's perfect for us," she smiles. "So, how's school going?" he asks them, Hanna looks around, not wanting to answer that question. "Pretty good, I'm trying to get my GPA at 4.0 and juggle field hockey, yearbook committee and..." she stops herself from talking about how they were accused of murdering Alison. "Just being a teenager," she finishes up, Emily then speaks up. "Just school and the swim team for me," she tells him. They all look at Hanna who is distracted with filing her nails. "Han," Spencer says. "Oh me," she looks at them, now knowing what to say. "Oh, I'm just trying to graduate without dying," she says not joking. She was in the hospital not that long ago from a car accident. The doorbell rings, Eric walks to the door and opens it, it's the pizza delivery guy, he pays for the pizza and brings it into the kitchen. "So the furniture isn't arriving until tomorrow but I have some air mattresses for us to sleep on," he tells Emily. "That sounds fine," she tells him. "I can't stay long, I have some studying to do," Spencer tells them while grabbing a slice, Eric looks at Hanna. "Can I talk to you for a second?" he asks her. "Sure," he guides her into the other room away from the girls.

He stops walking by the entrance way to his bedroom and looks at Hanna. "I want to ask you about your mother," he begins the conversation. "Or what I want to know if you would be ok if I asked her out," he comes out and asks her. She looks at him a little confused; she thought that he was flirting with her the other night. She thinks about it, doesn't know if she should just say yes or say something about her feelings for him, which she can't admit to, she's in a relationship. She smiles at him, "That would be ok," she tells him. He smiles, "Thanks, I wanted your approval first, to make sure you understand the conversation we had the other night was nothing but," he informs her of his feelings of the other night, which kind of hurt Hanna's heart a little. She then watches as he walks away and tries to erase all her impure thoughts of Eric, as of now, he's just Emily's older brother and a possibly her mother's new boyfriend.

"I think my mom's lying to me," Aria tells Bret as they are walking to the ice cream shop after dinner. "Again," she emphasizes on the again part because this definitely wouldn't be the first time Ella has lied to Aria. "What about?" he asks her, wanting to know so he can help her out in any way possible. "What do you know about the Halliwell witches?" she asks him, he looks at her. "Just the basics," he begins to tell her. "They are the Charmed ones; there was Prue, Piper, and Phoebe. They grew up together in the Manor, powerless, when their grandmother died, and Phoebe came home, she did the incantation spell that gave them their magic back. Prue was killed in battle three years after and they found their half-sister/half white lighter sister, Paige and became the power of three again," he tells her everything she learned on the first day in the manor from Leo, but she also felt he left something out. "Wait... Who's Piper?" she then realizes, Leo never mentioned the Piper part, who was Piper Halliwell? She looks at Bret, as they stop in front of the ice cream shop. "Piper was the middle sister, Leo's wife," he tells her. "She died..." he doesn't want to go on, and Aria kind of knows the rest of the story but from Wyatt showed her today, she is coming up with a theory herself. "Did you know Piper?" she wants to investigate this situation further. "Let's get some ice cream, and then finish this conversation," he tells her, she smiles and walks in when he holds the door open for her. "Thanks," she says as she walks up to the counter.

After an hour of splitting a banana split with Bret and talking about the Halliwells, Aria is almost convinced that Piper is Ella, her mother, which would make Wyatt and Chris her half-brothers, but the math doesn't add up because she doesn't remember her mother leaving around the time that they were born. She doesn't understand it all, but she does know that she needs to convince her mother to move to California and become a family again with Leo. She's even convinced herself life is better for herself here, not only does she have magic and a real family, she has Bret, who's been a great boyfriend. He's walking her home, as they walk pass an alley they hear a struggle, then a muffled scream. They stop and start to walk down the alley; they see a big strong demon attacking a person. "Let 'em go," she says getting his attention away from the person he was attacking when he looks at Aria and Bret, his eyes glow red, this demon almost looks human like, except his eye color. "And who are you to stop me?" he asks her, she looks at him. "I'm a Halliwell," she states, he looks at her wanting to laugh. "And that's supposed to scare me?" he asks as he walks closer to them, the person he was attacking running free. "Maybe this will," she throws her hand up and uses her power heat to vanquish him, but it's barely working. Bret walks up close to her and throws up his right hand, "You silly children, you can't destroy me," he taunts them. Bret grabs Aria's right hand with his left, they share a glance and then together, they use their stronger heat power and kill him. "We, we did it," he tells her. "We're perfect together," she tells him. He grabs her closer and kisses her passionately.

As Aria walked into the Manor, she couldn't keep the smile off her face; Leo was standing in the hallway waiting for her. "Hi, I'm not late, am I?" she looks at her phone, she was on time. "It's not that," he begins to say, she looks at him, wanting to tell him what happened tonight. "I killed a demon, with Bret, it was..." as she begins to talk, her mother walks into the hallway. "Mom, your here," she says running into her arms, Ella's hugging her back. "Where's Mike?" she asks about her brother, Ella looks at her. "Your brother's dead... There was an attack at home, that's why I'm moving back," when she admits that her daughter she tears up a little, Aria gets emotional but a little happy at the same time. "What? What happened?" she asks her, wanting to know what exactly happened to him. "Come sit," Aria walks with them into the living room and sits down with them on the couch, as she looks at her mother she almost felt like this was her destiny; she was supposed to bring her mother back to her other family. The family she was supposed to have. "Aria, it's time I tell you everything, the complete truth..." she tells her.


SORRY IF IT'S TAKING SO LONG FOR ME TO UPDATE BUT IT'S HARD FOR ME TO WORK ON ALL MY STORIES AND SCHOOL AND JUST LIFE GOING ON... I'M NOW A GOD MOTHER, SO I'M ENJOYING MY LITTLE GOD SON WHENEVER I CAN.

SO... WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE CHAPTER? HOPE YOU LOVE IT... AS I WAS WRITING THE LAST LINE, I REALIZED I'M GOING TO MAKE THE NEXT CHPATER A FLASH BACK, YOU'LL SEE EVERYTHING THAT "PIPER"/"ELLA" IS GOING TO TELL HER.

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