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And I'm not gonna go into the explanation of Binxs anymore cause frankly 10 chapters if you still don't understand the whole Chosen One thing, I'm sorry but I cant help you. Heh kidding…
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The dream that Binxs experienced that night, where more elaborate versions of the ones he had experienced at the hospital. Once again he was at the cemetery, watching as the older version of himself sat next too the girl her arm around his shoulders comforting him. He leaned closer too her hesitantly then reached into his pocket and brought out that orb thing. He held it in his hand both him and the girl staring at it. She poked it and then looked at him shrugging her shoulders. He nodded and slipped it back into his pocket
"I know what I've gotta do, I've known it all along I was just afraid too face it." He said too the girl. He stood up and stared at one of the markers on the wall, "forgive me, all of you forgive me," he knelt down near the girl and kissed her cheek. "I love you," and with that he disappeared in the blue lights.
"Binxs!" the girl said loudly standing up quickly "no, no don't you even!" she shouted before she too disappeared.
The dream shifted too a small kitchen, there he was as a baby, sitting in a highchair, his mom sitting next too him a spoon in hand ready and poised. It was like he was watching this on TV.
"Ok, this is Dan's first attempt at solid food, brought too you by Gerber and Brawny Paper Towels, video recording done by yours truly the proud father Max Burmen." A man's voice said, suddenly his dad moved into the picture. He stood nearby the highchair, with a video camera poised. "And there's the proud determined mother Pam," Max moved the camera a little "and here we have the main man, Daniel Burmen himself!" Binxs saw himself grin widely and reach for the camera. The light in the room began too fade and soon Binxs wasn't looking at his parents in the bright kitchen, but in back in the hospital it dark and scary looking and a shadowy figure at the end of the hall and that was the last thing Binxs would remember that night.
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The feeling of something on his chest was what Binxs awoke to the next morning. Slowly he opened his eyes and came face to face with a Siamese cat. The cat's eyes where closed and it was contently lying on his chest paws folded underneath its body.
"Hi kitty," Binxs said quietly gently petting her head. The cat's eyes opened, she looked at him and mewed softly. He scratched her ears and she began purring loudly rubbing her head under his hand. Binxs rubbed his hand over her back and her back arched. His hand touched a collar, Binxs lifted the charm attached to the collar; it had the same symbol that was on the book. "Wow, this magic stuff's getting weird. We have a cat? You're not a magic cat are you?" The cat moved off of him as Binxs sat up and climbed down the ladder. "Good thing you're not a black cat, then I'd be really creeped out." He said thinking of the books he had read and the movies he had seen that always portrayed a black cat with witches. At the home some of the girls would watch a TV show called 'the Worst Witch' all the cats in there where black cats.
The cat mewed again and stretched her paw out at him. Hesitating for a moment Binxs reached up and lifted the cat up. She purred louder and rubbed her head again cheek he held her as she needed his tee-shirt. Binxs walked out of his room and down the stairs, he smelt coffee coming from the kitchen and headed there. Piper was standing near a coffee maker and Phoebe was sitting at the table reading. She looked up and saw him,
"Morning,"
"Morning," Binxs replied Phoebe noticed the cat in Binxs's arms
"Hey would you look at that,"
"What?" Piper said turning around
"Looks like Kit's found a friend,"
"Kit?" Binxs asked looking at the cat "so that's your name."
"She's not exactly a people cat," Binxs looked at Piper curiously
"Really?" she nodded
"But she really seems to like you," Phoebe said "was she in the hall?" Binxs shook his head
"Nope, woke up and she was laying on top of me,"
"Really?" Binxs nodded "interesting, I think that's the fastest she's ever bonded with someone, so what would you like for breakfast?" Piper asked, he shrugged Piper smiled and shook her head. She walked over to him and hugged him "well what do you usually have?"
"Cereal," he said 'its usually just cereal cause we where on a special program at school, we got there and they gave us breakfast and lunch for free, the state paid for it. We only ate dinner at the home on weekdays, 'cept on weekends, then Nan made stuff like eggs, pancakes, and French toast." Piper's smile got wider
"Now we're getting somewhere, eggs or French toast?"
"Scrambled eggs please,"
"Order of scrambled eggs coming up," Piper said pulling out eggs and milk from the fridge, she walked over to the stove and began making the scrambled eggs. Binxs looked around; he set Kit down on the floor, she walked to her dish of food and began eating.
"Where's Prue?" He asked sitting at the table
"Work," Phoebe said
"Oh,"
"After you eat, go get dressed, brush your teeth, then come back down here and I'll give you your inhalator and we'll head to the mall." Binxs nodded, Piper set a plate of scrambled eggs and toast in front of him. "You want milk or juice?"
"Juice please," Piper nodded, she walked over to the fridge
"Orange ok?" Binxs grinned and nodded
"Ya!" he said, she poured him a glass of orange juice and put it on the table. Binxs took a bite "this is really good,"
"I'm glad you like it," Binxs put his fork down and sighed a little
"What's wrong?" he shrugged Piper hugged his shoulder "come on,"
"Dunno just, I guess I kinda miss my friends."
"That's understandable" she said
"I mean I was so happy to leave, but I still feel sad they were like my family." He looked at Piper "but I'm glad to be here!" he said grinning
"Glad to hear it," Piper said and kissed him on the head, his ears went red. He started eating again and looked around the kitchen taking in the room. A door in the corner caught his attention.
"What's that door go to?" he asked Piper looked at him then looked where Binxs was pointing.
"That's the door to the basement,"
"Oh," he said quietly, he was curious to see what was down there exactly but the more he stared at it the more a feeling of foreboding racked his brain and suddenly he didn't want to go near there at all.
After he finished, Binxs put his plate in the sink and ran upstairs to his room. He changed into jeans and a tee shirt from his backpack. He sat at the desk and pulled a pair of socks and his sneakers on. Binxs hoped he could get some new clothes and new sneakers at the mall, his old stuff was either hand-me-downs, or donated stuff. He took his night clothes and tossed them into the hamper.
Looking around, Binxs climbed up the ladder and made his bed. It was expected of the kids to always keep their beds neat and the rooms clean back at the home, so this was just habit for Binxs. When he was done, he walked into the bathroom, at the sink he found a blue cup with the name 'Dan' printed on it, sticking out of the cup was a comb, a toothbrush, and a tube of toothpaste. He grinned wide seeing his name on the cup, and began brushing his teeth. When he finished, he rinsed his mouth out, picked up the comb and brushed his short dark brown hair splashing a little water on it to get his bangs which stuck up in all directions to calm. A soft mew from the door caught his attention
"Hi Kit," Binxs said squatting down in front of the cat "what's up?" the cat mewed again and rubbed up against his leg, before turning and walking into his room. Binxs followed her curious, she gracefully leapt onto his bureau and climbed onto his bed. Blinking, Binxs climbed the ladder and watched as Kit needed his blanket before curling up between his wolf stuffed animal and the bear. "You're a weird cat, but that's ok. I'm glad you like me," He said petting the cat, she purred loudly, rubbed her head against his hand and lay back down.
"Binxs you all set to go?" Piper's voice called from downstairs
"Coming!" he answered, giving Kit one last pet, Binxs climbed down the ladder and ran downstairs.
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Driving through San Francisco, Binxs couldn't help, but stare in amazement, it was just like in the pictures he had seen only better it was finally starting to click, this was his home now not LA, San Francisco. They pulled into the large parking lot of a mall called 'Bay View Mall' the outside alone was huge, Binxs couldn't wait to see the inside. They parked the car and holding Piper's hand, Binxs followed them inside. He was right the inside was a real eye opener. Three levels of stores, new sights, new smells, new sounds, all foreign too Binxs, the smell of food wafted past his nose and despite having had breakfast only a little while before, Binxs felt his stomach growl with anticipation that maybe he'd get some of the food he smelt. Phoebe promised too meet them at the food court for lunch and walked off towards the other end of the mall. Piper looked down at Binxs, who was still in awe over the store.
"Well lets get you some new clothes what do you say?"
"Ok,"
"And after that we'll meet Phoebe at the food court, get some lunch, and you can pick some stores you want to go into for yourself and your room, sound good?" Binxs nodded
"Yup," he exclaimed grinning and followed Piper through the crowd towards the stores lined up.
The first store they walked into was called J C Penny's (A/N: Don't know if there's J C Penny's in SF, like I have stated, I've never been too SF….never been too CA for that matter, anyways if there aren't…then I'm sorry but in this there are, cause I don't know what other stores there might be, I hate clothes shopping there for don't make it a habit of knowing what clothing stores are where, I can usually be found at the electronics or book store, you ask me what state has a Best Buy or Borders and we may have a conversation going on.) it was filled with all types off clothes, they walked down the aisle between the clothes and reached an entire section of boys clothes. Binxs grinned, no more hand-me-downs!
Piper walked over to a rack filled with jeans, she pulled a few off and held them against Binxs; the first couple were to way too big for the boy. Even though Binxs was incredibly bored he finally starting too realize that he was with his family, he now had people who loved him and wanted him with them and the boredom didn't bother him as much anymore. At least for a little while it didn't, the boredom came back very quickly and more so then earlier. Binxs was tired, hungry, and very, very bored.
While Piper checked out the shirts, Binxs's eyes wandered around the store; then down the aisle they had come down, he slowly walked down the walkway and peeked outside the store; where the crowds rushed past with their shopping bags. Binxs looked back at Piper who was still gathering tee-shirts and jeans from the racks, he knew he probably should stay with her and he might worry her if he wandered off, or he might get in trouble like the time he had wandered off when his 2nd grade class was at the Natural History Museum, he had wanted too see the Egyptian sarcophagus, but the class was there too see the dinosaur bones. Curiosity was getting the better of him, he wanted too explore the mall a little, he cautiously stepped out of the store planning on just looking around from that position, but the small nine year old was quickly swept up in the crowd and soon found himself, not in front of the store he had been in with Piper, but in front of another store.
"Uh oh," Binxs said quietly, "this isn't good," as he looked around trying to figure out what he should do; something happened, something that Binxs had never experienced before. The people around him slowed down moving in slow motion, like someone had pressed the slowmo button on a remote, they turned grey like an old movie, Binxs looked down at his own body, while the people around him where grey, he was normal. Quickly Binxs looked around; he rubbed his eyes and kept looking praying he was just seeing things, when suddenly he caught sight of something that turned his blood cold, two men in dark suits wearing dark sunglasses, standing side by side on the second floor looking down at him. The terror he had felt when he had been shot echoed through his memory.
One of the suites pointed a finger at Binxs and gestured for him too come. Binxs swallowed his fear and took off running through the slow moving crowd, dodging the people, darting in and out of them, every other step, looking behind him and quickening his pace when he'd see the two suits walking calmly towards him the older looking one, still gesturing too him too come. Binxs suddenly couldn't breath very well, it was taking a lot of effort too allow air into his lungs; he tripped over one of the people sitting on a bench stretching her legs out slowly. Binxs hit the tile floor hard landing on his knees and sliding across the slick floor. He coughed more sliding on his rear trying desperately too get away from the demons. He closed his eyes as he starting feeling dizzy from the lack of oxygen, and when he opened them, everything was back too normal and the demons where gone.
"Binxs?!" he heard Phoebe's voice exclaim; suddenly she was at his side helping him too his feet. "What happened? Are you all right?"
"Their here," Binxs managed too gasp out, before he felt himself thrown into a convulsion of coughs and gasps as it become near impossible too get air. Phoebe nearly panicked for a moment, before picking him up "did Piper take you too J C Penny's?" she asked he nodded, "she's got your inhaler lets go find her, just try and breath slowly, I know its hard, but you need too try and relax your breathing." Binxs tried too do as she asked, it was hard. Phoebe carried him through the mall pushing people out of the way, saying quick excuse me's and running faster. She spotted Piper at the customer service counter just outside of J C Penny's talking hurriedly with a young man behind the counter, "Piper!" Phoebe said loudly, she set Binxs down
"Phoebe? Binxs!" she exclaimed "thank god," she paused and stared at Binxs "what's wrong?!"
"Quick I need the inhalator with the red cap," Piper dug through her purse and handed it too Phoebe, who put the nozzle in Binxs's mouth "Ok I'm going to count too three, when I hit three, take as deep of a breath as you can and I'm going to spray this in your mouth, ready?" Binxs's body was shaking as he made heaving noises trying too get the air in "One, two, three," she pressed the button on the top and Binxs felt the spray enter his mouth and travel down his windpipe unblocking it. Cool air rushed into his lungs and Binxs sighed with relief.
"Tha…thank you," he said softly
"Binxs why did you wander off? I was scared too death that something had happened too you," Piper said kneeling down too his level looking at him a mixture of disappointment and fear on her face.
"I'm sorry," he said putting his head down,
"Why don't we go get some lunch and you can tell us what happened ok?" Binxs nodded somberly, how could he have worried them so much, he should've stayed put and not gone exploring. They took the escalator upstairs too the food court. Piper told him he could pick out what he wanted and Binxs said he wanted a cheese pizza and a water. While Piper went off too go buy the food for the three of them, Binxs followed Phoebe too the tables near the window and they sat down. Binxs looked out the window watching the people down below scurrying about too their cars or into the mall. When Piper came back over with the food, Binxs first took a sip of water trying to get the awful taste of the spray in his mouth out.
"Ok, Binxs do you want too tell us what happened?" Binxs nodded
"I didn't mean too wander off, I really didn't, I just peeked out of the store too see what else there was, all the people like swept me up, I didn't mean too go far, it was an accident"
"I understand, it happens, you still should have stayed with me but it was an accident that you got away from the store."
"Binxs when I found you, you said their here, who where you talking about?" hr took a bite of his pizza, chewed, then swallowed before looking at his aunts.
"Those demons I told you guys about. They're here, they where comin after me. I got scared and started running away from them, I don't know how but they turned all the people grey makin them move in slow motion, 'cept me. What do they want?" he said quietly staring at his food. "I don't wanna go with them," Piper leaned over and hugged him tightly while Phoebe gave his hand a gentle squeeze.
"Sweetie did you get a good look at them?" she asked, he nodded
"A pretty good look,"
"When we get home, the three of us will look in the book and see if we can find them in there ok?" Binxs nodded again grinning a little "and don't worry; their not going to get you, we wont let them near you."
After they finished eating, the three of them walked back too J.C. Penny's and Piper found the clothes she had abandoned when Binxs wandered off, had him try them on, and paid for them. Then they walked to the Vans store where Binxs tried on different sneakers and found the pair he liked the most.
After that they walked around the mall as Binxs looked in each and every store picking things out for his room. In one store, he picked out a few posters one of wolves howling at a moon, one of Dale Earnheart Jr. and his Budweiser number eight car, and a good size map of the world. The next store, a bookstore; Binxs chose a few books too add to his collection. "Johnny Tremain", "The Giver", "Holes", and a few Boxcar children's, along with a sketchbook and a complete art set. In the electronics store, Binxs picked out a few movies and Piper bought him a gameboy with two games, Poke'mon red and a baseball game. While Piper went to go get more sheets, blankets, and curtains for his room, Binxs and Phoebe went to the toy store. The first thing that caught Binxs's eyes was the legos, so at the toy store he bought a few lego sets, a few toy cars and trucks, and Phoebe picked out some bored games.
Weighed down by all the stuff they had bought, the family walked out of the mall towards the car. Inside Binxs sat in the back seat reading one of the books he had picked out. As they where pulling out of the parking spot Binxs leaned between the seats,
"Thank you guys, for all the stuff," Phoebe turned around and ruffled his hair.
"Anytime Binxs," Piper paused at a stoplight and also turned around to look at him.
"I think this takes care of all the birthdays and Christmas's we've missed together wouldn't you say?" she said "now we just need to worry about your birthday this year. Its coming up isn't it?" Binxs nodded, Phoebe put her hands to her temples
"I'm sensing its, October 31st" she looked at him "am I correct?" Binxs grinned and started laughing.
"Yup,"
"Halloween birthday, if that's not the best time to have a birthday I don't know what is." Binxs leaned into the seat and looking out the window he sighed and went back to reading his new book.
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Bwhahahahaha….once again…the girl in the beginning, Sharpie-chan no own. So ya…ok lets see, hope you all enjoyed the fic, you see why it took me so long to update? I couldn't end the damn thing…I'm having the feelin that I've had that problem before…hm….anyways….Ya so review please…no flames but constructive criticism is always welcome…
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