I am so sorry for abandoning this story for like ever...I just wasn't feeling it and when I went back over and read it I realized my writing sucked so I decided to redo it. Everything is basically the same I just added more tid bits of detail and dialogue to try to make it better. I don't know if it will actually be any better but hopefully you guys will enjoy it more than the first draft. Let me know your thoughts and how you think it compares! Again I am sorry it has taken me so long to update this story.

So the major changes in this story which aren't really too major: Melinda and Chris start school near the end of the year in May. Eric has been with the Cullen's for half a century and is a 100 years old turned when he was 19. As to why Edward can't hear Eric's thoughts, well there is no plausible explanation for that. I guess I just like to see Edward squirm a little bit. I feel that sometimes he has a little to much access to peoples thoughts and since Eric is my original character I didn't want him to feel mind-raped all the time by Edward.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything Charmed or Twilight except Eric.

A/N: For this story to work well I changed the timeline around a little: Bella met Edward when she was a sophomore and now she is a junior so they have been together a year. The Cullen's have another "brother" named Eric in their coven. Eric is a vegetarian and is 100 years old turned when he was 19 but is playing an 17 year old Junior and he has been with the Cullen's for 50 years now. He has no special power but for some reason Edward can't read his mind. Takes place during Eclipse. Alice, Edward and Eric are all juniors while Emmett, Rosalie, and Jasper are seniors.

Thank you to those who reviewed! It really made me get my butt in gear and update this story. Granted it took me a really long time and for that I apologize immensely. I have a general direction of where this story is heading and already have it sort of mapped out but if you have any thoughts or ideas please PM me I'm always looking for insight and new ideas! The next chapter is halfway done so I will post it within the next week or so.

Past Stories and Past Demons

Mel got out of the shower feeling refreshed. She dressed in a pair of skinny jeans and a loose fitting green shirt. She was towel drying her hair when she opened the door and found Eric leaning against the wall. He looked so sexy standing there with his arms crossed casually leaning on the wall. Her heart rate sped up and she smiled at him.

"Hey," she whispered.

"Hi. You look beautiful." She looked cute with her hair all wet and mussed up. He walked towards her and engulfed her into a hug. She blushed and laughed at his comment.

"Thank you." Her voice was muffled by his shirt and he kissed her head. Mel pulled away to look at him.

"Come on. I want to show you something." Eric abruptly grabbed her hand and pulled her down the hall to a room, which she figured was his. He opened the door and she gasped.

The lights were off but the light from the moons glow bestowed a dim light over the room and made it look enchanting and beautiful. Mel walked over to the window which took place to where a wall would have been and stared out it. She was right their house did have a beautiful view. The sky looked as though a black piece of fabric had been laid over it and sprinkled with shinning diamonds. Mel watched in fascination as the leaves rustled with the wind. Mel was so engrossed in the sight she didn't even realize Eric was behind her until he wrapped his arms around her waist and rested his chin on her shoulder. She jumped slightly in surprise but settled down and leaned back into Eric, securing his arms with her own.

"Beautiful isn't it." Eric stated more than asked. Mel nodded.

"Absolutely and more," she turned around in Eric's arms and looped her arms around his neck.

Mel pulled his head down and sealed his lips with hers. Eric hesitated but only for a second before his instincts took over and he kissed her back. He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her close molding his body with hers. Mel lightly bit his bottom lip, Eric groaned deep in his throat and parted his lips willingly. Mel slipped her tongue in and their tongues danced. She deepened the kiss further but whimpered when Eric pulled away. Mel was lost in her mind, her head dizzy, her vision slightly off focus, and her heart beating 100 miles a minute. What Eric did to her no other guy had ever done and she loved it, she loved him. She knew she shouldn't be letting herself get so involved with him but she couldn't find it in herself to care. Somehow in less than one day she had fallen in love, it must have been fate. She was in love with Eric and she didn't want to fight it.

Eric rested his forehead against Mel's and held her close. Mel sighed in content but when she tried to kiss him again he pulled away and smirked at her.

"Well what do you think?" Eric asked as he pointed around the room, showing it off.

Mel took a second to look it over, not having noticed when she first walked in to engrossed in the view.

He didn't have a bed, obviously but he had two identical black couches placed in the middle of the room. One faced the window while the other faced the wall adjacent to the window, which had a flat screen TV, and a huge entertainment system. She noticed that the entertainment system also carried a stereo and upon closer inspection a cabinet for CD's and another for DVD s. Of which he had a lot of. The wall opposite of the window which held the door to the hallway had a cherry wood desk with a laptop on it. Next to the desk was a huge bookshelf covered in books.

Mel went over and saw it was covered in books from all different decades and countries. "Pretty impressive," Mel smiled at him.

Eric grabbed her hand and led her over to the couch. Mel sat down and Eric sat next to her and put his arm around her. They sat in silence just watching the night sky for a while. Mel sighed in content and thought about Eric and how he became a vampire.

"Eric?" Mel asked quietly and he looked over at her and waited for her to finish her question. "How did you..." She paused, not knowing how to ask her next question. "How did you become a vampire?"

Eric sighed and looked out the window and then back at Mel with sadness. "I was turned when I was 19 about a hundred years ago. My family and I were walking back from a picnic when were attacked out of nowhere. They drained and killed my family right then but decided to turn me. At the time I didn't know what was happening to me- there was a fire spreading through my body, the worst pain I ever knew and I ran off before the pain became to much when I collapsed in the middle of a field."

"Eric I'm sorry," Mel said quietly and moved over to kiss his cheek. His arm tightened around her and he gave her a thankful squeeze. "What happened when you woke up?"

"I woke up and everything was different. I could see every spec in the air clearly as it floated by, hear the heartbeat of an elk about a mile off, smell the food from a restaurant down the road. I was stronger, faster and nothing could pierce my skin." Eric stopped not really wanting to go on about the gory parts. For awhile he let the monster inside consume him. "Mel, there's one thing you have to understand. Not everything in my past is pretty. I was a monster for decades before I found a better way to live."

Mel smiled sadly up at him. "Eric I don't care who you were. I care who you are, the person you are today. We all do things we aren't proud of but it's not the strengths you have it's how you use them."

"Mel, you should care what I was. I was a monster, I am a monster. Always craving blood, thirst never being sedated. Vampires kill people, we are murderers."

Mel shook her head vigorously, sitting up she pulled out of his arms so she could better see him. "That's not true. There are monsters in all of us. Humans murder people all the time, so does that make me a murderer because I am a human." Eric was about to interject but Mel continued on. "You want to know what I think. I think that good people like you and your family are made into your kind so that the world can see good can conquer over evil, even in the worst of conditions. So that you can show people that even though there might be that monster in you just waiting to burst free you can overcome it and be good. Be better than the rest of your kind." Mel said with determination in her tone. Eric looked at her admiration in his eyes. He pulled her back to him and kissed her deeply.

"Thank you for believing in me, in us." Mel nodded at him.

"Like I said I care about who you are today." She told him wanting to hear the rest of his story.

Eric nodded and continued with his story. "When I woke up there was this constant burning in my throat and I was hungry, so hungry. So I made my way over to the restaurant for food when I realized it wasn't human food I wanted, but rather human blood. I was almost into town when I smelled the most amazing scent and before I knew it I was standing in front of a woman. I heard the blood pumping in her veins, saw her chest move up and down. Venom pooled in my mouth and before I knew it I attacked. I went on for years killing humans and drinking their blood when I heard of another way, animal blood. I had been practicing control for about ten years when I met the Cullen's and I decided to stay with them. So here I am fifty years later."

Mel looked up at him tears in her eyes. "Thank you for telling me Eric. It means a lot." He looked down at her and smiled before giving her lips a quick kiss and then a deeper one. And for then next half hour they talked. They talked about everything and nothing, from their favorite color to what they did as children. Eric talked about all the places he traveled and Mel listened intently interested in how he spent his years on Earth.

Mel was so calm and peaceful that she felt her eyelids getting heavy and they fluttered closed of their own accord. She felt so safe and content in Eric's arm she never wanted to leave.

"I wish I could just bottle up the world and bring it in this very room with us..." She mumbled and Eric laughed softly feeling exactly the same. Mel was just about in a deep peaceful sleep tucked into Eric's side one hand on his chest the other draped around his arm as he held held her protectively when they heard a loud crash coming from downstairs.

"Shit..." An all to familiar voice swore- a voice Mel thought she would never hear again.

Piper swore as she kicked at the bars that were between them and their escape. She had exhausted every one of her ideas as Paige and Phoebe looked on. They had been waiting impatiently for the guards to leave, as they usually do at the same time each night, so they could talk and formulate a plan. Finally after hours of waiting they left for the night closing and locking the main door into the cave. Piper sighed and spun around to face Paige and Phoebe who were sitting on the ground spent.

"Finally..." Paige mumbled.

"Ok, first of all, I might have a way to get a message to Wy, Chris and Mel—" Piper started.

Phoebe so happy and proud of her sister, interrupted "I knew you would have a plan! Yay." She felt hope raising in her.

"Well I don't know if its gonna work but after you guys were ki-taken, we wanted to have a plan where I could send them a message if I was also captured. Which was obviously inevitable." Piper declared.

Paige who was being a downer pointed out the obvious "Well we can't say a spell or anything, because well ermm... I don't know maybe magic doesn't work in here!" She yelled sarcasm dripping in her voice. She was getting frustrated, she had been there the longest and had tried spells, orbing anything that could get her out of there.

Piper just glared at her while Phoebe sighed, sometimes she really hated being the middle sister.

"She's right Piper, nothing will work..." Phoebe defeated felt the hope she had just felt leaving her and she sunk to the ground.

"Well what if we put it outside the bars, I mean you said that magic can't work only inside the bars right?"

"Explain," Phoebe and Paige said at the same time.

"Well we were looking through the book of shadows and we tweaked a couple of spells and enchantments from it. We incorporated a blood to blood enchantment and the to call a lost witch spell. Long story short we enchanted this piece of paper." Piper explained pulling it from her back pocket and un crumpling it before showing them. "The only problem is it can only be one word long. Well anyway we write the message on this piece of paper in my blood. We don't need to say a spell because we already enchanted the paper and my blood will carry the message to theirs or something of the other. The book said 'Blood will carry the message when blood is the strongest.'"

"Cryptic enough?" Paige asked exasperated.

Phoebe only laughed. "It means when all your blood is together. So when Wyatt, Chris and Mel are together."

Piper nodded. "Yes."

"Will it work?"

"Only one way to find out." Piper responded with enthusiasm. She was usually the negative one but she saw how spent and hopeless Paige and Phoebe looked. She knew she had to keep their spirits up or they would never get out of here. "Its all we got, so lets go for it, right?"

Phoebe saw what Piper was trying to do and was grateful for it. "Yeah your right, we have to at least try."

"Alrighty then, first things first what do we write." Piper said.

Phoebe and Piper just laughed. "Ok then, I think we should write Triad on the sheet." Phoebe stated.

"Wait that brings me to my second question, I thought we got rid of the Triad for good with Billie and Kristie." Piper stated.

"That's what I thought at first to when I heard them mention them, but remember what Leo said- that the Triad is an evil incarnation and evil doesn't die. So we might be able to vanquish them, but they will always come back and the past proved that. I just didn't think it would be so soon." Phoebe stated.

"Yes ok, but that doesn't explain why they didn't just kill us. I mean we killed them, sort of, wouldn't they want revenge, but they are keeping us alive. It doesn't make any sense..." Piper kept babbling on and on until Phoebe told her to 'shut up, please'.

Paige just laughed at them glad that some things didn't change. "Alrighty lets just get this done. Piper cut yourself already." Piper glared at her before looking to find a sharp rock. Phoebe and Paige looked around for one as well. Phoebe smiled in triumph as she held one up, it was a little dull but she rubbed it against the metal to sharpen it. Piper laid the paper out on the ground and held her hand out to Phoebe.

"This will only hurt a little." Phoebe said.

Paige rolled her eyes, "The last time you said that to me you dug a knife into my hand and it hurt a lot actually."

Phoebe laughed and used the rock to cut Pipers hand dragging it deep across her skin quickly before Piper could pull her hand back.

"Ouch Pheebs!" Piper cried as she pulled her hand away quickly to inspect the damage. Blood was pooling quickly in her hand and she dipped the fingers from her right hand into the blood before using it as ink to write triad on the paper. She made sure the lines were solid before folding it up the way the book said to into a very tiny triangle. At the last fold there was a loud popping sound.

"Do you think it worked...?" Paige asked as she and Phoebe hovered over Piper's shoulders.

"I certainly hope so..." Piper replied.

Melinda shot straight up and out of Eric's arms when she heard the voice. No it couldn't be. Could it? She couldn't believe the voice she just heard. That bastard. She thought as she ran out of Eric's room and down the stairs two by two. Eric was on Melinda's heels as she ran into the living room concerned as to why she was acting this way. The person definitely wasn't Wyatt he could smell it.

Mel stopped at the entrance to the room just in time to see Chris holding Jason by the throat in the middle of what used to be the glass coffee table. Glass was strewn over the floor and Jason and Chris were standing in the middle of it- well that was obviously the crash they heard. By now everyone was in the family room watching the scene as well. When Mel saw Jason she was furious. Jason was saying something to Chris and Chris tensed.

"Do not test me." Chris responded gravely. Jason flinched in pain as Chris's power radiated through his hand and onto Jason's neck. Chris had the power of deviation, which was taking a demons power and turning it against him. In this case he was turning Jason's ability to burn people with his hands against him. Chris did the same thing to Eric in the kitchen but used the burning fire of his venom against him in Eric's case. "We didn't kill you before because your half human but don't think we won't if we have to." Jason looked over Chris's shoulder and smiled at Mel, well smiled as much as he could with the pain he was in.

Mel's blood boiled as she flew out her hand sending Jason flying from Chris's grip and into the wall. Melinda was still furious at what Jason did to Haley and her family, and hated Jason with a passion. Chris turned his attention to his little sister as she stalked forward to Jason.

"What the hell are you doing here?" She ground out menacingly.

Jason smiled up at her smug. "Nice choice of words." He said as he stood up stiffly and wiped the plaster off his pants.

Mel advanced toward him and snapped her hand back to punch. But when she threw her fist forward- aiming for his jaw- at the last second Jason shimmered out and Mel's fist connected to the wall with a loud crack. Mel had thrown some telekinesis behind it and when her fist connected to the wall she felt, as well as heard the crack her bones made as they broke. She immediately cradled her hand to her chest face scrunched up in pain.

"Fuck..." She hissed in pain and immediately Eric was at her side. Chris rounded on Jason and held him still using his telekinesis. Carlisle had come over to Eric and Mel, who was shaking her hand furiously and jumping around slightly in pain. "Ouch...Ow. Ow. Ow." Carlisle tried to get a good look at it when she whirled suddenly around and faced Jason. "You son of a bitch." She said as she walked over to him ready to attack.

He threw his hands up in surrender, "Wait, wait, wait. Wyatt sent me. I can help you." Mel's gaze snapped to his and she glared at him.

"Wyatt sent you? Oh no no no. There is no was in hell we're trusting you again. How do we know your not lying?" Jason's face fell as she reminded him of what he did. But before he could speak up Wyatt spoke.

"He's not." Wyatt spoke after just having orbed in a couple seconds ago.

"Wyatt!" Mel forgot everything and ran and hugged Wyatt tight just so grateful that he was alive and ok. "Thank God your ok." She winced when she pulled away as her hand smacked his shoulder.

Wyatt grabbed her hand and frowned as he saw the bones looking abnormal. He healed her hand and she smiled gratefully at him.

"Wy, you know we can't trust Jason." Chris broke her out of her relief stage and she glared at Wyatt agreeing with Chris.

"Yeah what exactly were you thinking? Huh? Remember last time?"

"I hate this as much as you guys do. But we are kind of out of options right now. I couldn't find anything down there. We need his help."

Mel knew Wyatt hated it just as much as she did so she relented, for now. But one wrong move and she was sending his ass back were he belonged. She sighed and turned toward Jason who had a smug smirk on his face. She couldn't stand how smug he looked and she froze him.

Mel walked over to him and executed a perfect roundhouse kick to his jaw. He unfroze as he flew backward into the couch. He moaned as he fell to the floor in pain. "That was for breaking my hand." She hissed at him. He nodded slowly as he stood up and was about to say something when their was a loud pop in the room.

A small ball of light floated up from the floor and floated in between Wyatt, Chris and Mel. It erupted into flames with an audible sizzle and pop before flaming out leaving a piece of paper that fell to the floor. Mel instantly knew what it was as Wyatt picked it. Mel and Chris gathered on either side of Wyatt's shoulders as he unfolded the note. Mel recognized this as the paper they enchanted before Piper and Leo were taken. They gasped as Wyatt opened it up to reveal one word was written in big red letters. Some of it was smeared but there was no mistaking what it said.

TRIAD