Kapitel 14: Love and other Powers
Paulina Gren
A week after the funeral had things started to go back to normal in the Halliwell Manor. Kat and little Henry had moved back home and the black veil had lifted a little. Everyone was still in mourning but she and Chris had decided to go to their first parenting class at magic school anyway.
There were three magical couples that sat in one of the classrooms when Paulina and Chris entered. "Paulina, Chris. Great, now we're all here." Said Maria and smiled when they sat down on the floor.
"Okay guys, I want us to go round and say our names and how far pregnant you are. Minnie, will you start?" "Okay, I'm Minnie Marks. This is my husband Forrester and we are expecting our second baby. I've been pregnant for 30 weeks." Then the word got sent forward to Cleo and Paul and to Samara and Wylla.
"Okay, I'm Paulina. Our due date is June 3rd and this is Chris." "Thanks guys, I want to start with just some regular breathing exercises." Paulina had never felt weirder than when she sat in a room with nine people who all tried to breath in the same way. She knew that if she even looked at Chris they would both start laughing.
After the class knocked Minnie on her shoulder. "Hi, I just thought I should tell you that I'm Lacey's mum, the girl you played with at the preschool. She has been talking so much of this Paulina that had a similar belly to mommy, so I figured that must have been you." "Yeah, that's right. The orbing girl, you guys have a beautiful daughter." "Thank you and it's okay to laugh at parenting class if you want to, I promise." Paulina looked confused. "Oh, sorry I forgot you didn't know, I read minds sometimes. I'm trying to shut it out but sometimes I get too curious. I hope it is okay with you." "Yeah, I guess so."
"Paulie, we need to get back. I'm not done with the history paper yet." Yelled Chris from outside the classroom. "I'm sorry, but I have to go. See you next time?" said Paulina and Minnie smiled and nodded.
Melinda Halliwell
Melinda was sitting at her desk she had gotten as a birthday present from her grandpa when she turned five. After a day like this when school had been rough and she had been arguing with both her mum and brother all day it was only one thing she could do. Draw.
Drawing was her number one stress relief, just like reading always had been her cousin Henry's. She did not really have any artistic ambitions with her drawings, she did not want to change the world or make marionettes of her own vagina, like she had seen at the local art institute. Portraits were more of her thing.
But today she felt like she had to draw something really bad, a monster, or a demon maybe. Sometimes she wished that she was Wyatt or Aunt Paige so that she would actually be able to blow off some steam kicking demon-ass for real. Combat class at Magic School was so not the same thing.
When she stared down at her painting angry, all of sudden the same monster appeared in front of her, and kicked her to the ground. She screamed loud and orbed down to the kitchen.
"Melinda Prudence Halliwell, what are you doing?" asked her mother when she orbed down and landed on the table, something she had not done since she was around five. "Mum, it's a monster in my room. I think… I think I conjured him from my drawing."
Her mother ran up through the stairs and Melinda got off the table and ran after her. "Where's the drawing?" asked her mum after she had blown up the monster that had trashed Melinda's room during the time she was downstairs. Before he had time to reconstitute she picked up the drawing that lay on Melinda's desk and ripped it apart, which caused the monster to disappear.
"What did just happen?" asked Chris who had heard the noise and orbed over to her room to see what had happened. "Your sister just got a new power." Said their mother and hugged Melinda. "I got?" asked she. "Yes, my sweet daughter. You now possess the very rare power of Thought Projection. I must go downstairs and call your father."
"What happened?" asked Chris. "I was drawing, just like I normally do and then I got jealous of you guys that get to fight demons so I wished, just for a second that he would be true, and the next second he was real and kicked me to the ground."
"Oh, my sweet little idiot to sister. Couldn't you have been drawing kittens or something?" Melinda laughed. "Yeah, because that's something I normally do? Draw kittens. I think you live in some sort of past, ten years or so. I'm not a little girl." "I know you're not, it's just easier for me if you are. Baby Mel must always be Baby Mel." "I am, look how cute I am." Said Melinda and squished her own chins.
"But we need to talk about Bianca." Said she and decided to go serious. "Can't it wait? You just got a new power. We should be celebrating." "No, it can't wait. I'm worried about you, and sometimes it's the little sister's job to worry about her brothers. You know as well as I who Bianca really is, that she has been loyal to evil her entire life. It's easy to find out what happens if you get to close to evil, you can just check our own family history. Aunt Phoebe went from being a powerful force of good, a Charmed One to becoming the Queen of All Evil."
"She was possessed by a demonic fetus." Interrupted Chris and Melinda sighed. "Sometimes you're so annoying. You know as well as I that it was not that simple. I just want you to be careful. Being who we are is dangerous enough, especially right now with the baby." "I know Melinda, but isn't it important to follow your heart too? I love Bianca, I feel it in my entire heart. I even managed to heal her, so strong is my love."
"You're such a hypocrite!" yelled Melinda. "You're warning me about someone you think is dangerous for giving me alcohol and then you team up with evil." "Please sweetheart, we've already had this discussion." "I know, but you don't seem to understand." "If you truly love Mike it was wrong of me to break you guys up, I'm sorry. But I don't think you do, I'm just trying to help you out here." "Well, it's my life so you should have let me find that out on my own." "I know, I'm sorry Melinda. Do you forgive me?"
Melinda sighed and sat down on her bed. "Can I even be mad at you for longer than a few minutes. You're my brother and I care about you so much. I just want you to think this through." "I will, and congratulations to your new power sis."
Chris Halliwell
"Your little sister? Thought Projection? That's amazing. It's a very coveted power, extremely rare." Chris laid with his head leaned between Bianca's breasts. He had orbed over there when everyone had finally went to bed after their celebration dinner last night.
"I know, I'm very happy for her, but is it wrong to be a little jealous that her active power is cooler than mine. I mean telekinesis is okay but it's nothing against thought projection." "Chris, look at me." Said Bianca and Chris rolled so that he would lie next to her instead. "You are an extremely talented and powerful witch, as well as an excellent brother. It's nothing wrong with being a little jealous from time to time, and I think your sister has probably been jealous of you for years now when she hasn't had an active power, and when you healed me…" Said she and kissed him, slowly and careful. "You showed that you had yet another power."
"Wanna know what my best power is?" said Chris and started kissing her neck. "Yeah, I would love to." "Okay, just relax and I'll show you." Said Chris and started to taking of his pants. "Oh, that power. I actually have a pretty good version of it too." Said she and took of her shirt.
Wyatt Halliwell
"Should you really be drinking Miss Maloney?" Wyatt had spotted Kayla directly when he walked into the bar. "First, I don't have a problem with alcohol. Second, this is alcohol free beer. I promised the doctor that I would stay of all drugs for a while." "Good girl." Said Wyatt and sat down next to her.
"You know I can be a really good girl." Whispered Kayla in his ear. "As tempted as I am. You know I am. I don't think that is a good idea." "Okay, as you please. So what are you doing here tonight? Stalking me?" said she and laughed. "No, unfortunately not. I just needed a drink."
"I know the feeling. Just be careful." "I'm always careful Kayla. With everything. Why do I always have to be so damn careful? So damn perfect. I'm sick of always being responsible and looking out for everyone. Sometimes I just want to have fun and be a normal 20 year old. Even my birthday two weeks ago ended up being all about my brother and his baby and my cousins and their lost father. I get it, I feel for them. If I had lost one of my parents I would be devastated but it's just not fair."
"I feel like you need a break. The things that's going on in your life… I couldn't even imagine dealing all of that. Let's make tonight Wyatt night, it's the least I could do after all that you've done for me. What do you want to do?" "I want to eat Milkshakes and dance. Is that silly?" "No, not at all. First milkshakes, then I'll find you a place where you can shake that ass."
"You're a really good dancer." Said Wyatt when he stood close to Kayla on the dance floor. "I know, I've got many talents you know." "I bet that." Said he and without even thinking he had kissed her. "Oops Mr. Halliwell are you trying to seduce me?" "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that, I just…" started Wyatt but got interrupted when Kayla kissed him again. "Come home with me, I now you want to." "But I shouldn't, you're vulnerable…"
"Shut up all this gentleman-crap. We're both adults. I want you, you want me. I feel that. Just let me finish this Wyatt-night correctly." Said she and took his arm and led him out of the club. "It's okay to be bad." Whispered she in his ear and he decided to come with her.
Paulina Gren
"Paulie, look at this!" Melinda sat in her room and tested her new power. These last couple of weeks had been very exhausting from everyone around Mel while she tried drawing everything possible. This time was it a perfect baby blue rose that she handed over to Paulina.
"It is beautiful sweetheart, but I'm so tired. Charlie is keeping me up at night because I have to go pee like 20 times a day and now she has decided to put her head up by my ribs, so I'm in constant pain. Add that to the cramps and the mountain I've become. I'm not really up for playing."
"Excuse me, but I'm not playing. I'm testing my new power." "I know. I'm sorry. I barely know what I say nowadays." "It's okay. I'll go annoy Chris instead." Said she and laughed.
"Charlie, my sweet little baby. I need you to stop banging your head against mommy's ribs. Okay? I need to finish this book report so that I can get an education and we will have somewhere to live when you're older. Okay baby?" and right there she got a huge contraction.
"Please don't say that you want to come out now baby, you're way too early. Listen to mommy." She lay down on her bed for ten minutes, just like she had learnt at parental class. If the contractions had not come back by then they were false. The contractions did not come back but when she tried to get up again she felt like there was someone putting knives in her back and screamed.
"Paulie, are you okay?" Chris had orbed in to her. "No, but it's no demons, it's this little thing we call our daughter." "Okay sweetheart, what's the problem?" "Don't call me sweetheart. I'm everything but sweet right now. I'm mad. I'm in constant pain, and now I can't even move because my back hurts so much."
"I'm sorry, but it will be over soon." "Can't you just tell your daughter to not play Olympic gymnast? That would make my life so much easier." Chris laughed. "This isn't funny Chris. But I'm okay, you can leave. Please, I don't feel like talking right now." "Okay, I'll leave."
"Okay Charlie, just let mommy get up now. I will give you candy if you just let me get up and finish my book report."
Wyatt Halliwell
Wyatt had not seen Kayla in the two weeks that had passed since they slept with each other. He was still feeling guilty for having slept with a charge, and she did not even know that she was his charge. After his parents it was not against the rules anymore but it was not really desirable. So when he met Kayla outside the library he had no idea what to say.
"Hi, I'm Kayla and you're uncomfortable." Said she and Wyatt looked at her confused. "I just thought we should address the elephant in the room." "You are way too sweet Kayla." "No, just obvious." Said she and laughed. "We said no commitments so if you're worried that I would be mad… I'm not, not at all. I get it."
"No, I don't think you do. I don't do things like this." "Oh, you didn't seem like a virgin." Said she and Wyatt hid his face in his hands. "No, I didn't mean sex. I've had sex before, just don't with someone who…" "Someone who what? Wyatt come on, stop being so freaking good all the time! If you want to sleep with someone, just do it. We're young."
"Kayla! It's crowded here. I can't have this discussion with you here. You've already told half the building that I'm too good by yelling like that." "Okay, you annoy me. I'm gonna go now. Call me later if you can stop being so right all the time."
Melinda Halliwell
"Melinda! What are you doing here?" said Mike when he opened the door. "I thought it was about time I came to visit." "How did you even know where I live?" "Ever heard of something called google? It's easy finding out something if you really want to." "Why didn't you just call me?" "Because on the phone I can't do something like this." Said she and kissed him.
"Melinda!" "What?" "You can't just ignore me for months and then come here and kiss me." "I just did." Said she and leaned forward to give him another kiss, but Mike put his hands on her shoulders and slowly pushed her backwards.
"I really want to kiss you, but you can't do this to me. You can't just come here and expect me to be okay with you treating me like this." "Okay, I'm sorry. I'll stay away from you, I promise." He grabbed her hand when she turned around.
"Melinda, you know that's not what I meant. Come here and give me a hug instead." He petted her head like she was a little girl and in some situations it was actually nice to be treated that way. Like a princess.
"Something isn't right, I know I don't know you so well but I know you well enough to spot that." "I can barely stand being at home right now. Mum and dad are busy with their work. My best friend and cousin recently lost her father. Paulina has become more of a monster than the sweet girl she was before because of her pain and Chris… Well, if Chris isn't busy with the baby, school, work or Bianca. Than he's yelling at me and treating me like a baby."
"I get it. Life is tough for you. You feel left out and you want attention. You're a super sweet girl, you deserve to be treated like a princess. But I don't think I can be that person for you." Said he and stroked her chin. "I had so strong feelings for you, but we lost our chance. I'm going off to college in a little more than three months, and you've got a lot of things to work through."
"Can I get another kiss at least?" asked Melinda and Mike held her neck gently while he brought her so close that their lips touched. He pulled her hair behind her ears and kissed her with so much energy that Melinda thought she was going to faint.
"Good idea, we needed a real kiss. Not a drunken one or a rushed one. A real one." "I think we need two." Said Melinda and bit his lip. "Yeah, three is some sort of holy number right?" said he and held her in his arms sitting on his lap while they kissed, for a long time.
"Melinda, you drive me crazy." Whispered he in to her ear before she kissed him goodbye and left. When she walked behind some bushes where she could orb away from she started to cry and did not finish until she had fallen asleep later that night.
Chris Halliwell
"Chris, you must come here and talk to Charlie." "Okay sure, but why?" Paulina had just gotten stranger and stranger the last couple of weeks, but if anyone disagreed with her she got very whiny. "So that she gets more used to your voice of course. She hears me all day long, but you haven't talked to her a lot lately. It's important for children to have close relationships to their fathers."
"Okay, but what do you talk to a baby about?" "I don't know. It's your daughter too. You must have something to say to her." Chris leaned down to Paulina's belly.
"Hi little baby. Mommy thought it was time for you and me to talk more to each other. I think it feels kind of awkward but I guess we'll be even when you're older and thinks daddy is old and embarrassing. I've read that you're able to dream now, that must be exciting. I mean, it's not so much entertainment in there. Other than to listen to mommy being cranky."
"Ey! I'm still here you know." Said Paulina. "I know, it's called teasing." "But, I don't want her to hear us be mean to each other." "Wake up Paulina. Sure the baby can hear us but it's not like she understand us, and that wasn't mean." "Okay, I'm just so tired. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing and the other part I'm mean to you and your family."
"We're okay with it. We get it, it's worse than normal pregnancies because she's stronger than you and your body isn't built for handling all this power. But I have something I need to talk to you about, without yelling at each other."
"Okay, is it something about the baby?" asked Paulina. "No, it's actually something about me. Do you remember Bianca?" "The bounty hunter you helped finding her little sister, sure." "I love her and she loves me. We haven't been able to tell anyone yet, partly because I thought you had the right to be the first to know. Melinda knows too, but that's only because she saw me heal her."
"Can you heal now?" "I don't know if I'll be able to do it again, but maybe." "Okay, but this Bianca doesn't she like work for evil?" "Not anymore. She wants to be good for me." "Have she killed people?" "Yes, but that's only because her mother has forced her too. She has never wanted. She's not a demon, just a witch that has been raised different than I."
"Okay, we're not a couple so I guess you have the right to do whatever you want but I don't want her to be close to Charlie when she has been born. Not for any jealousy reason, but because Evil is going to be after her and I don't trust evil witches." "But don't you get it. She's good." "She has a lot to prove to me before I believe that. When are you going to tell your family?"
"As soon as I dare to. It will be tough. You see, before I was born I came back here from an alternative future, sort of like Charlie did. In this dark future were Bianca and I a couple, engaged."
"So, do you love her or do you just think that you guys are destined to be together?" "I love her, I really do. So much. The fact that I was able to heal her is only yet another proof of that."
"Then I'll support you. I love you too, but in a platonic way, and if being with Bianca is what makes you happy, then you should be with her."
"Thank you Paulina. I'm so grateful for having you, and soon Charlie in my life."