Melinda
Power of One
Episode 11
A new enemy!
10-01-2026
Dear Diary,
Life has been good the last two weeks. After our encounter with the Source on Christmas en right after that with Nathan de cop, it has been pretty quit.
I never felt a loss like I felt with Christmas, when the Source had killed my whole family. I have still nightmares about it, where I keep seeing them lying on the floor scattered all over the Great Hall at Magic School. I haven't told my family this and they think that all is fine.
On the other hand I never felt as powerful as I did. I have felt all my ancestors in me and felt their care and love for this family. It was awesome. My aunts keep sending me presents, with thank you notes about saving their families. So sweet.
I have to say, that all this has made me and my brothers come closer to each other. There was a time, which I really felt alone and so not as a Charmed One, but now I do. They have now more respect for me, as they know that I'm not the little girl they want me to be, but that I'm a powerful witch and a grown up sister.
I'm totally freaking out about Nathan. He scares me more than the Source does. By the Source we can use magic and vanquish his sorry ass, but with Nathan we can't go and vanquish the guy. Even it would solve our problem, but that is not the way. We have to be very careful of what we do and how we do it. He is keeping an eye on us, the bastard. I don't understand, what he thinks to gain with this, but we will find out eventually. We always do and we will get through this, like we always do!
Melinda: I'm done writing! Let's do something fun, she said to Jake.
Jake: What had you in mind?
Melinda: I don't know? As long as we do it outside, surrounded with lots of normal people?
Jake: This Nathan guy has really scared you, didn't he?
Melinda: Well no and yes. All I know is that it is important to show him that we do normal things.
I don't want him to knock on my door and ask all kind of questions, that I cannot answer. So if we do normal things, then there is nothing to suspect right?
Jake: Ok, but you cannot keep doing this. Sooner or later there will be a demon attack or an innocent need's your help.
The doorbell rings at that moment.
Melinda: Thanks! She said annoyed.
Jake: What did I do? He asked confused.
Melinda: You jinxed it! If that is a demon, I'm telling them that you are the one they need to attack, she said as she walked out of the room with Jake behind her.
Jake didn't say anything, as he had learned with Melinda, when it was wise to say nothing at all. They opened the door, to see a bleeding young girl standing in front of the door.
Girl: Are you the Charmed Ones, she asked with pain in her voice?
Melinda: Who are you and what happened to you?
Girl: My name is Janice and I'm a witch and I got shot!
Melinda: Come in quickly, she said and let Janice in and looked around outside if she would see Nathan watching them from a hiding place. There was no sign of Nathan. She closed the door en walked to the living room, where Jake was helping Janice to sit down.
Janice: I was walking on the street, minding my own business and suddenly I hear a gunshot and I look around where it came from. I started to feel weird and looked down at my stomach and saw all the blood coming from me. Then a guy came to me and said he bring me to the hospital and dumped me in front of this house and drove away.
Melinda: What did this guy look like?
Janice: He had a strong nose and black hair. He had a very sexy voice and was middle aged I think. AAUW, she yelled as she moved her body on the couch to lie down.
Jake: You need to call your brothers, so they can heal her.
Melinda: I'm not sure. She said hesitating.
Jake: What do you mean? She is bleeding Melinda. We need to do something!
Melinda: I know Jake, but don't you think that it is strange, that a witch gets shot and then helped by a guy, who drops her in front of our house instead in front of a hospital. If we heal her now and Nathan is watching us with a camera, then what? He will see a bleeding girl come in and leave minutes later, without a scratch.
Jake: Yeah, you've got a point. So now what?
Melinda: Now, we take mom's car and bring her to the hospital!
Janice: I'm sorry if i am costing any problems, but thank you for helping me!
Melinda: Don't you worry about it. Let's get you fixed up.
Melinda smiled at Janice and they got up and walked slowly to the car and got in and drove off to the hospital. Nathan had been hiding across the street in the house of the neighbors. He had been there for a week now as the neighbors were on holiday and had he been taping the Halliwell Manor 24/7.
He saw them coming out of the house and hurrying to the car and knew that his bait didn't work.
Nathan: Damn you Melinda! So you think you are smart and want to act all normal? Let's see how that is going to work out for you? He said with an evil grin.
Underworld, John's Lair
John was lying down in his lair and he was very weak. Two alchemists were working on him non-stop.
Even he was vanquished for less than an hour. In that hour a lot had happened to him in the Wasteland. When he arrived in the Wasteland, he almost immediately lost his powers to a power sucking snake, because he landed on one, when he fell from the skies. He could just get away to save himself. Then not long after that, he noticed that he was not alone there and wanted to summon the demons he saw walking, but didn't know that some of them still had their powers and had escaped the snake, so he was surprised when they suddenly starting to attack him, angry that because of him they were there. He was just about to get hit, when he disappeared and was back in the cave where the Hole was. At this moment only his guards and the alchemists knew that he had lost most of his powers and that nobody would call him the Source anymore. When they would figure out, they would kill him and take his place. Every time a Demon needed to speak with him, he quickly got dressed and sat down and acted like he was still the scary and evil Source, but it was all an act. He hoped that he had just enough time to get back to his full power! Otherwise, he would be dead!
Memorial Hospital
Melinda and Jake helped Janice out of the car and helped her to the emergency room. When they walked in a doctor walked up to them and saw Janice and started to shout stuff to the staff and they all started to surround Janice and let her sit and brought her to one of the free rooms. Melinda and Jake followed them.
Doctor: What happened? He asked to Janice.
Janice: I was walking on the street and got shot!
Doctor: Ok. Well you are bleeding pretty badly and I can't see at this moment where the bullet has hit you. We need to take you to surgery right now!
Melinda: Is she going to be ok? She asked worried.
Doctor: We will do whatever we can, to help your friend. You two can wait in the waiting room down the hall.
Melinda and Jake nodded and they walked towards the waiting room, when Nathan came around the corner and bumped into them. Melinda instantly backed away from him and looked at him angry.
Melinda: I hope you are happy with yourself? You almost killed that poor girl, she said getting pissed, just at the sight of Nathan.
Nathan: What are you talking about?
Melinda: You know well what I'm talking about. Well it is not going to work, no matter what you do!
Jake whispering: Melinda, be careful what you say to him.
Melinda: So this is how you want to play it, huh? Shoot people and drop them in front of our house, to see what we are going to do? What you've expect? Me walking down with my magic staff and say abracadabra and she would be fine. You need to stop this witch hunt of yours, because it is stupid and pointless and people are getting hurt!
Nathan: Really? Fascinating and why should I stop? Am I getting close to the truth?
Melinda: No, because of this crazy idea that you have, someone is now hurt!
Nathan: Funny. When my mother died on the hand of a magical being, nobody cared! Now you want me to feel sorry for some lame witch that got hit by a bullet? You are a funny girl Melinda. I can't wait to see your face, when I expose your ass! He said with an icy voice and came closer to the face of Melinda.
Jake suddenly moved between Melinda and Nathan and looked straight up to the eyes of Nathan.
Jake: I'm a witch. So I have told you. Now what? Are you going to lock me up? Burn me on a stake? what? I guess that you have only big talk, but that's it. So now you know. You can follow me and take pictures, like a care, but there is nothing you can do to stop me!
Nathan came standing closer to Jake and looked him heated straight in his eyes and Jake did the same back and there they stood. In the end Nathan backed away and laughed.
Nathan: Nice try. But you are not the kind of witch I'm looking for. Don't you think that you are not watched? You hang out with the old women and have your circles with them in the woods? I know everything about you Jake Devlon! You on the other hand are a mystery for me and I still believe that you have real magical powers Melinda!
Melinda: What if I had real powers, so what. If I would use them to do good and help people with it, what would you care?
Nathan: People have the right to know that there are people with abilities.
Melinda: Then what? Let's say I have powers and I'm using them to help people and do good, how would I be able to help anyone else, if my front porch is full with people, who want also powers or just a piece of me.
Nathan: You are talking about it, if you have been through this before? He asked intrigued.
Melinda: Uurgh. You are impossible to talk too! Let's go Jake. I can stand to be around this disgusting person.
Nathan stared at them, while they walked over to the waiting room and turned around smiling brightly while he walked up to the desk to ask how long the operation would take of Janice. Melinda and Jake had reached the waiting room and Jake just got out of the room to get some soda.
Melinda could see through the window that Nathan was watching her and she turned around so she wouldn't see him anymore. What could she do to stop this madness? She could do a spell, but if it backfired on her, then there was a possibility that they would be exposed. Maybe she could make him see the magic world and maybe then he would understand what it really meant and let go of the idea to expose them.
She quickly looked at Nathan, who was now flirting with the desk nurse and he didn't notice that she took a picture of him with her phone. She quickly looked around to see if someone was watching her and she knew that Jake would be coming back soon, so she had to hurry.
She sat down on the ground and stared at the picture of Nathan she just had taken. She closed her eyes, to focus on her energy and then said a very simple but effective spell:
'On this day, on this hour.
I call upon the ancient power.
To end his confusion and
Make the mortal see
How the magic world can be
By three time three
So mote it be'
She looked up and saw Nathan shake his head and looking confused around him. He looked at the waiting room to Melinda. Melinda looked back at him and then turned around to sit down. The moment she sat down, Jake came in and had some soda with him.
Jake: Are you ok? He asked when Melinda didn't look up at him when he came in with the drinks.
Melinda: What? Oh yeah, sorry. Got a bit distracted.
Jake followed her eyes and saw that she was staring at Nathan and nodded with his head and sat down next to her.
Jake: Don't worry too much. In the end all will be fine, he said trying to sound reassuring.
Melinda kept watching him to see if there was any change in his behavior yet, but didn't see one and thought that her spell didn't work. Maybe she needed the power of three? She thought to herself.
Nathan was still talking to the nurse and it seemed that they were exchanging phone numbers with each other. He said goodbye to her and turned around and he stood there as a statue and turned completely white. He looked at a woman who was standing in front of him. She looked normal, but somehow she scared the crap out of him. He backed away from her till he hit the desk with his back.
Melinda got up and got closer to the window to have a better look.
Nathan: How is this possible? He whispered. Get away from me! He shouted and the woman came closer to him and he backed away more from her.
For a split second he turned his head towards Melinda and Jake and saw that they were watching and he wanted to get a hold of himself, but he screamed out when suddenly the woman called his name. He started to run to the exit of the ER and the woman stared at him and then she suddenly looked straight at Melinda, which made her back away from the window and then disappeared into thin air.
Jake: what is going on? Melinda what happened?
Melinda: I think I just found his weakness. A ghost that is haunting him, she said smiling.
Jake: How did you find out?
Melinda: She was standing behind him, watching him and when he turned around he saw her and freaked out, as you could see.
Jake: Well I didn't see a ghost, but I saw him freak out for sure. Still the questions remains, how is it possible that he suddenly could see her, while he was minutes ago, changing phone numbers with the nurse and having a good time?
Melinda: Beats me, she said not looking at Jake.
Melinda saw the nurse coming, who had taken Janice. She walked up to her and checked with the nurse, how Janice was doing. It seemed that she was doing fine and that the operation was going fine.
She advised Melinda to go home and come back in a few hours, till Janice would come out of the operation and wake up from the narcosis.
Melinda was driving back home and she looked a few times to Jake, but he was in his own thoughts and he looked out of the window. He seemed upset about something. And silently she had a feeling of why he was upset. He knew something was up, but she couldn't bear to tell him that she cast a spell on Nathan. She needed her brothers and she needed Aunt Phoebe, like now!
Melinda: Jake. I have some things I have to discuss with my brothers and look into. Can you meet up later on and do some fun stuff?
Jake: Sure. He said without looking at her.
Melinda: Ok, I can't take this anymore! She said frustrated.
She pulled the car over and turned to face Jake. He did the same and she could feel the anger coming from him in waves.
Melinda: What is your problem? She asked rude.
Jake: My problem! What is yours? Do you think I am stupid Melinda? Don't you think that I don't know that you have used magic against him?
Melinda: Why would I do something like that? She asked angry, but in her she felt terribly guilty to lie to him.
Jake: I don't know, but sometimes I have the feeling that I have no clue who you are or what you capable of.
Melinda: What is that supposed to mean?
Jake: You are so powerful. Who doesn't say that you are able to do stuff with simply thinking about it? Don't you think it is weird what just happened to Nathan?
Melinda: Of course I do, but…
Jake: Melinda, you may be the strongest witch that walks the earth, but you are not a Goddess and indestructible. Everything you do will come back at you three times! You know this and still you did something to Nathan and now you are also a liar too. Who or what is your next victim. Me?
Melinda: Is that how you see me? She whispered and backed away till she couldn't anymore and she felt tears rising, and tried her best to hold them back.
Jake: No that is not what I wanted to say. It came out all wrong!
Melinda: No Jake. I think it came out exactly the way it supposed to come out. At least the truth is said now. I want you to get out.
Jake: Melinda? Come on. I really didn't mean it.
Melinda: Don't lie to me Jake. Get out of the car.
Jake: But you are the one who is lying here about Nathan and now I'm the blamed?
Melinda: NOW Jake! Before I unleash my almighty powers on you or manipulate you to be with me!
Jake: Don't be ridiculous Melinda! You are really overreacting! I think the guilt is eating you up about what you have done to Nathan and now it is coming back at you.
Melinda: Jake, just get out of the car. I have things to do.
Jake looked at her and she looked back at him pissed as ever. More at herself then at Jake, but she couldn't let him know that. Jake looked one more time at her and she turned her head to the other side and Jake got out of the car and the door was just closed, when she drove away in a hurry.
On her way home, she cried all the way. How stupid could she be? Why couldn't she tell Jake, what kind of spell she had cast on him and why? She ran into the Manor and run up to her room and let herself fall on her bed and cried.
Rock Creek Park
Nathan walked in the park, like he always did when he had to think about stuff. He was so freaked out to see his ex-wife right in front of him, who died a year ago. It was just not possible. How was it possible that he saw her? He thought he was going mad. It was chill outside as it was winter and he sat down on one of the benches and looked around into the park. There was no one around and he sat there taking some deep cold air in his lungs. Suddenly he saw some movement behind some trees.
It looked like a woman, not wearing a lot of clothes. He got up and walked up to her.
Nathan: Hi there. Is everything alright? He asked concerned.
Woman turned around and looked shocked at him.
Woman: Can you see me? She asked.
Nathan: Of course I can see you, why wouldn't I be? Aren't you cold in those clothes?
Woman laughed and run away from him into the bushes and disappeared and she appeared behind him again.
Woman: How is it that you can see me? Humans don't suppose to see us, she asked intrigued?
Nathan: Humans? What are you then? He asked more intrigued then she probably was.
Woman: A nymph of course. Me and my sisters, we take care of all the trees and plants and make sure that they stay alive. She walked to a flower, which was sleeping through the winter and she touched it lightly and the flower bloomed up complete and became a full beautiful flower.
Nathan couldn't believe his eyes and he looked up to ask her more questions, but she was gone. He looked around, but she was gone. He walked through the whole park, but couldn't find her anywhere.
He decided that he needed to go home. Something strange was happening. Maybe he was spelled, he thought to himself. Bit scared he walked quickly out of the park and he walked to the subway and took it till he arrived at his destination. From there he had to walk a little bit to his apartment.
He lived not far from the cemetery and as he passed it, he turned his head and looked at the graves.
He almost screamed in fear. He didn't see just the graves anymore. He saw all over the place ghosts and dark figures passing by and walking around. He backed away and run quickly to his house.
This was crazy and needed to stop immediately! He got home and sat down on the couch and he was shaking and he didn't feel fine. He was creaped out till the bone.
Manor
Melinda had fallen asleep, because when she woke up it was midnight. She got up and felt hungry.
She got downstairs and walked to the kitchen. She made herself a sandwich and had a huge glass of milk and walked to the dinner table and sat down. She was just about to take a bite, when blue orbs appeared in front of her. She looked up to see Wyatt with another elder in front of her.
Melinda: Well you look like if someone has died? What's up?
Wyatt: Melinda, it has come to our attention that you have done something that you shouldn't have.
Melinda: Like what? She asked and took a huge bite of her sandwich.
Elder Cathal: You have used a spell against a human, without him knowing it and the worst part is that you have opened his eyes, so now he is able to see our world. Everything! Ghosts, nymphs, demons, us, name it. Everything! That is unacceptable!
Melinda: Well I had to do something, as it seems that I am the only who cares about this problem.
Elder Cathal: We are well aware of the danger of what Nathan can do and how he can expose you guys?
Melinda: No you don't! She said anger rising in her! He just has to go to a newspaper and give them some files with our names in it, and make it bigger than it is and some idiot will write the article and then what? Then we will get what happened to Aunt Prue. Do you remember her? The one who died because we were exposed?
Elder Cathal: Of course I remember what happened to Prue! But she never did some stupid spell like you did now, to make sure we all get exposed!
Wyatt: Melinda, listen to me…
Melinda got up and faced her brother and the Elder and tears welled up in her eyes and she let them fall as anger took over her.
Melinda: NO Wyatt! Don't you dare to say anything! Funny that I wrote this morning in my diary, how you guys and I were getting more close to each other and that I felt for the first time since a long time truly as the Charmed Ones and not a Charmed One, but I guess I was wrong. At Christmas Nathan showed up and we are now half January and this is the first time that you even speak about him, after I tried to solve the problem…but didn't do it correctly in your eyes.
Wyatt: Melinda..i…
Melinda: NO! I'm not finished yet, dammit! While you and Chris are up and save, I have to deal with this guy. I have to be careful not to use my powers or make sure that when I do, it is not seen. Today a witch almost died because of him. He shot a witch and dropped her here, so I could save her.
Wyatt: Why didn't you call for us, we could have healed her.
Melinda: Well there you go!
Wyatt: What do you mean by that? He asked getting annoyed with his sister.
Melinda: So you would have healed her and then send her home, right? Wyatt nodded. Did you think for a second that Nathan is staking us out? Nearby! Don't you think that he has shot this girl and dropped her in front our house instead of the hospital a few blocks away from here. So he could see that an injured girl comes in and minutes or hour later, she leaves and all is fine with her. No injury, no blood, nothing!
Wyatt: Is she alright? He asked ashamed of the words his sister has just spoken.
Melinda: Yes, she is fine. But you guys have to understand, that this guys is not a Demon, but human. He will not give up and do everything to expose us and he will play more dirty then the Demons do.
Now he is getting a glimpse of the world he wants to expose that badly. Hopefully, enough to scare the crap out of him! So he will stop this crazy mission of his and we all can move on with our lives.
Elder Cathal: I still think you should reverse the spell!
Melinda: Because he has seen stuff. So what?
Elder Cathal: That is the thing. He has seen ghosts and a nymph till now, but god knows what he will see more and after the spell is worked out. He will remember.
Melinda: Indeed. He will and he will try to prove what he has seen and people think that he has lost his mind and maybe his boss let him take a break or something…I don't know. I just want this guy gone. I have a bad feeling about him and I don't like it, but who cares right….as long as you almighty Elders are not exposed….!
Before Wyatt or Cathal could react, she run quickly upstairs to her room and slammed the door hard, so the men could hear it downstairs. She was so angry! How dare they? She would prove that they were wrong. She would use a spell to check how Nathan was, as he is right now. But she had nothing of him. While she was thinking about this and looking around, she thought suddenly that she still has his card. She started to search for it in one of her drawers. She found in the back of her drawer. The moment she took it in her hand she was sucked in a vision:
She saw a little boy being sick and brought to the hospital by his mother. She saw how he met her Aunt Phoebe. She saw how she asked for the doll and what happened after that with her mother. She was cured again. She was shocked to see Aunt Prue for real. She had seen pictures of her, but this was amazing. She saw Nathan, really believing that his ninja doll had cured him and that Phoebe was the cause of it. Melinda sees how the magic on the doll backfires and how the doll starts making others sick too. Also his mother and Nathan is scared that his mother will not survive it. Then she sees, how her Aunts, reverse the spell and because of that, all the people were getting better, also the mother of Nathan, but her Mother died herself and Melinda saw how she was saved by her father. The only thing she didn't get was, who the guy with the long hair was, who was also standing at the bed of her mothers and was crying too.
Then images changes and Melinda sees an obsessed Nathan, trying some magic tricks and only reading books about magic. She saw him anticipating in witch circles, like Jake's! She also sees a closet, full with pictures of Phoebe. He had been following all her moves. He kept files, with everything on it, what he could find about her. She noticed also all the newspapers, where the Halliwell's were mentioned a lot, been witnesses again of a crime. So somehow he must have connected everything with each other and came to the conclusion that Phoebe must be a witch.
Images changes again and we see a ghost following him. A ghost that he was able to see, because of the spell Melinda had created. She saw him going mad and losing his job and house over it. She sees that he becomes more determined to expose them and succeeds and Melinda saw a lot of witches being burned by the stake, like the old ways.
With a shock Melinda was back in her room. She had to hold on to her desk, otherwise she would fell.
This wasn't good! This wasn't good at all! She needed to reverse the spell immediately.
Quickly she walked to the attic to find a reverse spell, when Cathal orbed in.
Cathal: Ah, I see you have changed your mind and you are going to undo the spell?
Melinda: Yes I am. Not because of the reasons you told me. Because of the premonition I just got.
Cathal: Due tell?
Melinda: I have no time for chitchat, so if you don't mind, can you orb away? She asked without even looking at him.
Cathal: You know, you are just like your mother. Always have a catchy come back, he said with irritation in his voice, which he tried to hide, but not succeeded.
Melinda: Listen. I don't have time right now for you, ok? So just go and take your smartass responses with you!
She looked up at the Elder and kept staring at him, till he orbed out, shaking his head. She was about to say something else, when she heard a voice in her head which she had heard before, warning her. 'Someone is in the house. Hide the book. Quickly, quickly!
Quickly she walked up to the door of the attic and heard footsteps coming up her way and she hold our her hands to freeze the scene. After she froze everything, she quickly looked around the corner to see Nathan standing there frozen. She ran back to the attic and took the Book of Shadows from his place and hides it and she did the same with the potions and the map and crystal. Quickly she threw herself on the couch with a book in her hand and unfroze the scene with a movement of her fingers.
Not long after that Nathan was standing in the attic. Melinda looked up and sat up straight immediately.
Melinda: What the hell are you doing here and more important, how the hell did you get in?
Nathan: Well the front door was not locked, so I could just walk in and I came to see you. Then I heard you talking upstairs to someone. I thought I heard also a man's voice?
Melinda: Well not that it concerns you or anything, but as you can see, I am alone and reading. So say what you need to say and go away. I have nothing to say to you.
Nathan: You know you almost had me there!
Melinda: Of what are you accusing me now off? What am I today?
Nathan: Oh, nothing really. I mean I already know that you are a witch. I just have to prove it.
But what you have done to me was very smooth. Showing the magic world to me!
Melinda: What? Listen. I have told you this before and I am telling you one more time. I am not a witch and I don't have powers. Got it? So whatever happened to you, it is not my fault and I don't want you coming here every time something weird happens to you. If you come here one more time, without any proof, then I will get a restraining order on your ass. One of my family members is a high chief at the police. He won't mind arranging it for me!
Nathan quickly walked over to Melinda and stood right in front of her. She could feel his breath.
He looked down at her, as he was taller than her. And he didn't look to happy.
Nathan: Listen to me carefully. Thanks to you, my ex-wife is haunting me. I keep seeing the strangest creatures. At the office they think I am losing it. So whatever you did to me, undo it NOW!
Melinda: Get out of my house, NOW! GET OUT! GET OUT! GET OUT! She started to scream loudly.
Chris and Wyatt run in the attic together. Looking from Melinda at Nathan!
Wyatt: What the hell is going on here? He asked sharply!
Nathan looked back at Wyatt and backed away slowly from Melinda. Who was shaking all over!
Melinda: He keeps bothering me and he doesn't want to leave! He just came in the house, without a warrant, nothing! She knew that she sounded like a little girl, but she didn't care.
Wyatt came standing right in front of Nathan, like Nathan did with Melinda earlier. They were the same height, so they could look at each other straight in the eyes.
Wyatt: You heard my sister. Get out and don't you ever dare to put one step in this house, without a warrant or I am forced to defend my family and that will not be pretty for you!
Nathan: Is that a threat?
Wyatt: Yes it is. What you going to do? Arrest me? If you do, then make sure that you have an explanation about what the hell you were doing in our house, all the way in the attic without any warrant. So get out, now!
Nathan looked at all three of them, pissed and humiliated!
Nathan: Damn you three! I know that you are witches and I will expose you, even it is the last thing I do!
He walked out of the attic and Chris walked behind him, to make sure that he would leave and locked the front door. Quickly he walked to the attic again. He heard Wyatt and Melinda arguing.
Wyatt: I have told you earlier Melinda. You should never cast that spell on him!
Melinda: Are you that blind? It doesn't matter what I do. He thinks we are witches and there is nothing we can do to change that. He is going to find a way to expose us.
Chris: How? We have been able to cover our tracks for many years. We are experts in it.
Melinda: Can be anything. You guys orbing in and that he has some camera hanging somewhere. It can be me, freezing or blowing up a demon? Name it.
Wyatt: ok there is one more thing we have to do up there. Will take about an hour or so! After that we will be home and stay home and hang out. If they are watching then they will see three teenagers hang out. In meantime we have to discuss some ground rules to make sure, that we don't get exposed.
Melinda and Chris nodded and both brothers orbed out, leaving Melinda alone. Melinda quickly took the Book of Shadows and after a half hour or so she had found the reverse spells and used it to make Nathan normal again. Then she looked through the book and decided to make the alarm system of the house sharper. She created a spell that only a true Halliwell can open any door they want in this house.
If they weren't a Halliwell, they could try whatever they wanted, but the door would never ever open for them. After she had casted the spell, she went downstairs, to prepare for a movie night.
Underworld, John's Lair
John was lying down. While the alchemist was working on him! He was trying to get his full powers back. A tracker shimmered in.
Tracker: My Liege?
John: I hope you have some good news for me, because not having my full strength is tiring me!
Tracker: I think I do my Liege. I have a human, who desperately wants to expose the Charmed Ones.
John: A human? Why would a human try something like that? Does he know that they are the Charmed Ones?
Tracker: No sir. He doesn't. He just knows that they are witches, but has not any proof.
John: This is good! If he can expose them, then they will be vulnerable. If they are vulnerable then the connection is weakened also, which would mean, that I can finally get my hands on the Book of Shadows and I can finally get their powers.
John smiled brightly but evil. He liked this plan of his! He didn't want to wait a second.
John: Get this human here! Now!
Tracker shimmered out and a few seconds later, he shimmered back in with a struggling Nathan.
Nathan: What the hell? Where am i? How did I get here?
John: Welcome to my Lair. You are in the Underworld! My name is John. I am the Source of all Evil.
Nathan: What? You are what? What did you call this place?
John: You are asking the wrong questions. Where you are and how you got here, doesn't matter. You should be asking yourself, why you are here?
Nathan: Ok. Why am I brought here? What do you want from me?
John: I want the Charmed Ones exposed, as much as you do!
Nathan: Charmed who?
John: I'm sorry. You know them of course by different names! Melinda, Wyatt and Chris! They are witches. Witches with real power! They call themselves the Charmed Ones.
Nathan: I knew it! But how do you know that?
John created a fireball in his hand and threw it against the wall. Nathan looked surprised at John and then at the wall.
John: How did you do that? He asked intrigued?
John: Magic! He said smiling.
Nathan: Who are you?
John: I can be your worst nightmare or the best friend you will ever have.
Nathan: Why do you want them exposed?
John: Through the years, they have killed many of my Demons. It is time that they are ended, so we can start ruling the human world.
Nathan: Ok? How are we going to expose them?
John: We both have our share of work that has to be done.
Nathan: And what is mine?
John: You are a cop. You have probably friends at a news station. I want you to let your friend run a story about the Charmed Ones and let the world know that witches exist and that the Halliwells are witches. Make sure that their pictures are on the front page. I have a shape-shifter who can help you out, if it is needed.
Nathan: Shape-shifter?
John: Yes. He can shift into any human that walks the earth. He cannot change into any magical being.
So if he needs to change to the boss of this friend of yours, then that will be no problem.
Nathan: And what is your part? What are you going to do?
John: I am going to wait till you did your part and that the Charmed Ones are surrounded with news people and attack them when they are at their most vulnerable point. The last time this happened. The old Source turned the time back and then only one Charmed One, died. This time, I am planning to kill all three of them.
Nathan: Why they are called the Charmed Ones?
John: That name is foreseen by the first witch of their line. She possessed all their powers in one body. When she was burned by the stake, her magic carried on in her daughter and so on and on. So the teenagers you are dealing with have generations of witch blood in them and they are really powerful.
Nathan: unbelievable. Melinda is so small. I have a feeling if I push her once, she would break.
John: Well I can tell you, that you must be careful for her. She is the one, who is the strongest of them all. She is actually the strongest witch that walks the earth at this moment and I want her powers.
I don't care what happens to her or her family. I just want their powers.
Nathan: Ok. I will make sure that tomorrow morning everybody knows who they are and what they are capable of. Do you have also any information of what their abilities are?
Time lapse and we see Nathan with a shape-shifter arriving at the news station and making sure that his friend will publish this story. First the guy is reluctant and he wants prove, but after the shape-shifter showed him his powers, he didn't need any prove anymore and started to write the article, with Nathan watching every move he made, to make sure things go well.
At the Manor we see a happy Melinda hanging up. She walks to her brothers in the living room and tells them that she had made up with Jake and that he was coming the next day to spend time with her.
The Charmed Ones watch a movie and eat some popcorn and they all go happy and cheerful to bed.
Next morning Manor
The doorbell rings and rings again, till finally the Charmed Ones wake up and they walk all three of them to the door to see what the commotion is. Melinda opens the door to see a smiling Nathan standing in front of the door.
Melinda: Do you have a warrant? If not, go away! I am not in the mood for you at this time at the morning.
Nathan: A warrant? Nooooo that is so boring Melinda. I have something much better for you.
Melinda: Really? Well enlightenment me then?
Nathan holds the newspaper in front of Melinda, so all three could see it clearly and he had a huge smile on his face. Melinda looked at the newspaper and was shocked to see her picture and her brothers on the front page saying: WITCHES EXIST! THIS THREE PEOPLE HAVE REAL POWERS!
Melinda looks at Nathan, who was still smiling and then to her brothers and then back at the newspaper. This couldn't be! This was some kind of joke.
Melinda: What kind of sick game is this? She said still not believing it was true.
Nathan: Look for yourself I have delivered the newspaper to all your neighbors, look.
Melinda looked at the street and there were some people passing, but pointing at the Manor and passing quickly by. This can't be happening? This is just not true, she thought to herself.
Nathan: Well I wish I had a camera, just to take a picture of your face. It is priceless! Have a good day, now!
Melinda closed the door behind her quickly and looked at her brothers, who looked very worried.
Chris: What are we going to do? He said trying not to panic
Wyatt: There is nothing we can do. We are exposed! He said irritated
Melinda: With other words, we are screwed!
