The Hunter and The Wiccan
Lost and Bound
Piper walked over to Paige's desk, she started unpacking the little breakfast she had brought her, completely ignoring the questioning look Paige was sending her. She sat down and started nibbling on an apple slice, passing an egg sandwich to Paige, before opening a water bottle, taking a swig.
"As great as all this is, what's it for?" Paige asked, moaning slightly as she took a bite of her sandwich
"Well, you ran out so fast this morning, you didn't get a chance to eat breakfast, so I thought you might be hungry." Piper explained, popping a grape in her mouth
"Yeah I was, starving actually, thank you. I would have eaten at the house but there was a slight demon infestation." Paige told her, smiling bitterly, angrily ripping off a chunk of her sandwich
"So it was about Ruby. Oh, sweetie, you really like him, don't you?" Piper asked, feeling bad for her little sister as she nodded, glumly
"Yeah, I do, he's cute and funny and sweet… but it's just a crush, I'll get over it." Paige said, determined, she was Paige Matthews, damn it! She was a badass who definitely did not pine over guys… especially ones that had demon girlfriends. Piper nodded, happy to see the glumness fading slightly, and sensing that she didn't want to talk about it anymore, decided to change the topic.
"Who's the kid?" Piper questioned, jerking her head towards the boy sitting on the bench, talking to Paige's boss, as she grabbed the sandwich from her sister, taking a bite out of it.
"Oh, that's Tyler; police found him sleeping in an alley and brought him in. Looks like he's a runaway." Paige informed her as they watched the boy get angry
"I said I don't want to talk about it!" He suddenly shouted, angrily, making everybody jump and freak out as the trash can caught fire.
"Did you see that?" Paige asked, watching as Tyler panicked and ran out of the building. Piper shot up, hastily grabbing her jacket and purse before running after him, sandwich still in her hand, shouting a goodbye over her shoulder.
"But… my sandwich."
Dean walked into the living room, wiping the grease off his hands with a rag, hesitating when he saw the kid sitting on the couch playing with a game boy, rubbing the back of his neck, he sighed before walking over to the chair next to the couch, sitting down, he nodded at the kid in greeting.
"Hey, kid-"
"Tyler." He cut in, making Dean give him a confused look, "My name is Tyler, not kid." He gave him a bitch face that made Dean give him a wide eyed look before bursting out laughing. "Sammy is a chubby 12-year-old. It's Sam, okay?"
"You should meet my brother; I think you two would get along great. You're a lot alike." Dean told him, grinning as the kid raised a skeptical eyebrow, looking at him, doubtfully.
"Why? Does he start fires too?" Tyler asked, snarky, neither of them seeing Piper leaning against the doorway, watching them with a smile on her face and a hand on her stomach.
"Nah, he wishes he was that cool." Dean said, making Tyler smile slightly, "He just does the same thing you do. 'My name is Sam, not Sammy.'" He mimicked his brother, putting on a bitch face and using a prissy voice, hunching his shoulders, making Tyler laugh, and Piper let out a breathy chuckle, she had always enjoyed the brothers bickering, it was a never-ending source of amusement for her.
"You thought that was funny, huh? Well, I am pretty awesome." Dean stated, arrogantly, narrowing his eyes playfully when Tyler laughed even harder. "Not cool, dude, not cool."
"So, now that you're relaxed and less likely to bolt any second, you mind if I ask you something?" Dean asked, carefully, not wanting to spook the kid, and Tyler beckoned for him to continue. "Why'd you run? Not judging or anything, just curious."
"…I was scared. I had set fire to the living room couch. I didn't mean to but my foster mom was yelling at me that I was good for nothing and it made me so mad I just-" Tyler explained, getting angry as he recounted the events, and suddenly a chair in the corner caught fire, making them jump, but as suddenly as it started it stopped as the fire froze. Dean turned around to see Piper with her hand held out to freeze the flames, when she saw him looking she smiled at him before grabbing a blanket.
"And this is what I meant when I said I know what you're going through." Piper said, using the blanket to pat out the flames, throwing it over the slightly burnt chair when she was done.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!" Tyler apologized profusely, eyes wide, looking scared
"It's okay, sweetie, don't worry, it's no big deal. Trust me, the furniture in this house has been through much worse." Piper assured him, sitting down on the couch next to him, smiling warmly to ease his nerves.
Piper and Dean leaned against the doorway of the foyer, watching Phoebe converse with Tyler's foster parents, they quirked their eyebrows up, staring at them suspiciously. Dean leaned towards Piper, whispering in her ear, "Did you call them?" Turning to him, she shook her head and they shared a look before going back to staring at them, now with even more suspicion.
"How did you know he was here?" Piper asked, wary of them, her fingers already twitching, ready to blow them up at a moment's notice.
"Maternal instinct?" Tyler's foster mother put out there, questioningly, and, seeing their offensive positions, the male bounty hunter rushed at them, causing Piper to hold out her hands to blow him up, only instead of making him explode, a golden light erupted out of her hands, disintegrating him.
"Ooh, good baby." Piper complimented, looking down at her stomach, yelping when Dean pulled her towards him as the female demon shook off her shock and ran at them. Dean threw a knife at her, making her stumble back, crying out in pain when Piper managed to conjure a little explosion, blowing her arm up, the bounty hunter growled at them, throwing a energy ball at them which Piper was luckily able to freeze. Tyler ran into the hall, eyes widening at sight of his foster mother, knife embedded in her, arm missing, fighting his new friends, and he felt himself getting mad. These people had helped him, been there for him, and she was trying to hurt them!
"Leave them alone!" Tyler yelled, angrily, focusing on his foster mother, making her burst into flames, screaming as she was vanquished. Sighing in relief, Dean turned to Piper, checking her over for injuries, relaxing when he didn't find any, he turned to Tyler who looked a little shocked.
"Hey, kid, you okay?" Dean asked, crouching down next to him, and Tyler looked at him, slightly wide eyed, before nodding jerkily, wrinkling his nose when Dean ruffled his hair. They looked over at Piper who was staring at her hands, trying to figure it out.
"What the hell was that light thing?! That was downright angelic!" Dean said, thinking back to when Uriel killed that demon in the barn.
"No, actually, I think it was witch. I've read about this, it's called energy waves, it stems from Projection." Piper explained, still looking at her hands
"Okay, that's great, but since when do you have Projection?" Dean asked, still not getting it
"I don't but, uh, I think the baby does." Piper told him, putting her hand on her stomach, lips twitching as Dean's eyes went comically wide.
"… So… you're telling me… that our 2 month unborn child… just disintegrated a demon… from the womb?" Dean questioned, jerkily, wide eyes focused on Piper's stomach.
"Yes, basically. It's actually not that uncommon in my family." Piper informed him, casually, like she hadn't just told him that it was common for a child to vanquish a demon from the womb.
"… Awesome!"
Piper leant against the wall, smiling as she watched Tyler play on his game boy like a normal kid. Looking at the empty space next to Tyler, she could imagine a little girl with brown hair and green eyes sitting there, a bright smile on her face, those dimples looking so damn adorable, as she played with her dolls, or maybe a little boy with that smirk on his face as he tried to charm his way out of trouble. Snapping out of it, Piper looked back over to Tyler, smiling proudly as he forced himself to calm down, he was getting better at it.
"Looks like the kids learning to handle it." Dean noted, walking up next to her, leaning against the opposite wall.
"He wouldn't have been given it if he couldn't." Piper told him, still watching Tyler with a smile
"Is that what you think of you and your sisters?" He asked, curious
"I don't know, maybe. All I do know is that when we finally got our powers back, it felt like we were scrambling to catch up, like we were a hundred steps behind and every time we got close to catching up, we had the rug pulled out from underneath us. And I can't help but think if we had our powers from day one we would have been more prepared. Things would have turned out different." She admitted, looking up into his green eyes as he nodded in understanding. "But I'm not sure if they would have been different in a good way."
"What'd you mean?"
"I mean… if we had our powers from day one, I probably would have known what a Wendigo was and I would have known how to vanquish it and I wouldn't have gotten infected. We would have never met, you never would have stopped by to check on me and we wouldn't be here today." Piper explained, putting a hand on her stomach protectively, Dean's eyes following the movement, "Plus, Paige might not be here, she might still be in her tiny apartment, all alone, clueless about her powers, her sisters, the danger she could be in. Maybe Grams was right, maybe everything does happen for a reason."
Piper and Cole stood next to Tyler in Ludlow's office, watching as Tyler tried to get angry enough to start a fire but only succeeded in being scared and intimidated by the demon. Piper felt her hold on her temper start to break as Ludlow ranted about the Source, scaring Tyler.
"Yeah, okay, see, that's not helping." Piper told the demon, trying desperately to control her temper, Cole stood back, waiting to see if he would need to step in.
"Do it." Ludlow ordered, stepping closer to Tyler, making Piper tense
"He's just a kid." Piper said, her voice terse as her fingers twitched with the urge to blow him up but a warning look from Cole stopped her from trying and possibly blowing their cover and getting them all killed.
"Do it, boy!" Ludlow commanded, stepping even closer, breaking Piper's hold on her temper.
"I mean it, asshole, lay off of him!" Piper snapped, angrily, Dean's influence making her swear. Ludlow glared at her, furiously, hands curling.
"Insolent! How dare you!? You low level scum!" He shouted, conjuring a fireball to throw at her, making Cole tense, ready to stop him, and Piper raised her hands, getting ready to blow him up. Tyler clenched his fists, growing angry at how he was threatening Piper, stepping in front of her, he glared at the demon.
"No!" Tyler yelled, focusing his power like Piper had taught him, causing Ludlow to burst into flames only he didn't die like the bounty hunters had, the flames faded out to show Ludlow laughing. The demon clapped his hands before aiming one at the firestarter, shooting frost at him, knocking him unconscious and he slumped into the chair as Piper freaked out.
"Your bounty's outside." Ludlow told them, waving his arm, sending Piper and Cole flying outside, landing on the ground roughly, knocking the breath out of them. Letting out a grunt from the hard landing, Piper propped herself up on her elbows to glare at the gates, menacingly.
"Ooh, he is so dead!"
Piper walked over to the gate, touching it only to pull her hand back with a hiss as she was electrocuted, clenching her jaw, she glared angrily at the gate as if she could make it open by sheer willpower alone. Which, knowing the legendary Halliwell stubbornness, might actually work.
"Honey, maybe we should go back and check the Book of Shadows again?" Phoebe suggested, hesitantly, knowing the remark would not go over well with her hormonal, temperamental, maternal sister.
"I am not leaving Tyler here." Piper said, fiercely, glaring at her sister for even thinking about it, but also knowing they might not have much of a choice.
"No! Please don't hurt me! Piper, help me!" They heard Tyler yell from inside the building, making Piper clench her jaw again before stepping up to the gate, determined. She flicked her fingers, causing a minor explosion that didn't really damage the gate, taking a deep breath, she gathered all her power and thought of Tyler calling for her help, flicking her fingers again she caused a huge explosion that sent the gates flying about a mile back, she stalked inside, fury building in her, leaving her sisters standing there, shocked.
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"I'm back!" Piper stated, storming into the room, sounding like an old villain, flicking her fingers she sent Ludlow flying back but it didn't vanquish him. She looked down at her stomach, whispering, "Now would be a really good time to lend mommy some extra power, baby." Hoping for the best, Piper held out her hand, sighing in relief when a golden light erupted from her palm, disintegrating him. Piper rushed over to Tyler, pulling him toward her, she hugged him tightly, kissing the top of his head, maternally.
"Hey, you okay?" Piper asked, concerned and Tyler nodded, still clinging to her, "Good, now let's blow this joint."
Tyler sat at the kitchen table, going back and forth between reading more about firestarters and watching fascinated as Piper zipped around the kitchen, cooking something that smelled delicious and had Dean salivating, mumbling something about 'finally… can't believe… brownies… our thing' Whatever that meant. Piper walked over and set the pie on the table, putting slices on plates and handing them out, snatching back her hands quickly as Dean and Tyler practically devoured them, burping afterwards.
"Say 'excuse me'" Piper ordered, frowning at the lack of manners
"Excuse me." They said in unison, grinning at her as Dean got up to get a beer
"Ludlow was right, no one teaches manners nowadays." Piper sighed, shaking her head, clearing the dishes
"Did you just agree with a demon?" Dean asked, incredulously, as Tyler ran out of the room to go play video games.
"… Shut up." She uttered, making him chuckle before taking a swig of his beer
"So, I, uh, talked to Bobby earlier, told him about Tyler, and kind of, uh, asked if Tyler could live with him." He told her, making her look up at him shocked, "I just figured with the whole firestarter thing, that he would need a specific type of guardian, you know, one that wouldn't freak out when he set something on fire, and I, uh, just couldn't think of anyone better then Bobby."
"Huh, okay, well, what did he say?" Piper questioned, hefting herself into the counter
"Well, he bitched and grouched but ultimately said yes." Dean answered, walking over to her, placing himself between her legs, grinning at her when she wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Good, because I, uh, I want visitation rights." Piper commented, leaning in, fingers playing with the hair at the nape of his neck.
"Yeah?" He asked, leaning in to meet her, playing with the end of her shirt, fingers ghosting along the sliver of skin exposed, making her shiver slightly.
"Yeah." She breathed, before grasping his hair and pressing her lips against his, wrapping her legs around him when he lifted her off the counter and once again he carried her upstairs to their bedroom.
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