Chapter 38 - How To Save A Life
Hey everyone, thanks for all the reviews! I like who you all had in mind for Parker :)
So what's Cole up to and what does the potion do?
Well read on and find out.
Oh Parker's new memories will be in italics.
Enjoy !
Previously - Parker's right hand caressed it's way down from Brooke's cheek, all the way down her to her hips, her hand slipped in between their bodies and she felt her whitelighters breath halt instantly, the blondes hands gripping Parker's back tightly and Brooke placed her head in the crook of Parker's neck, biting a little more harder than she had originally planned, causing slight discomfort to the brunette but Parker didn't say anything.
Phoebe basked in the feel of Billie's arms wrapped tightly around her and her hand stroking her back, calming her a little. The words whispered in her ear, were filled with so much love, Phoebe thought she was going to glow from it all. "I'll always be here Pheebs, i promise." Billie whispered before placing kisses on her girlfriends neck, quickly sending Phoebe into a calm and love filled state.
Phoebe woke up to find herself wrapped in Billie's arms and both of them cocooned in the bed covers that was creating their little ball of warmth. The charmed one didn't want to move from her position, she didn't want to go outside of this room, outside of this ball, outside of Billie's arms, she just wanted to pretend that it was just her and her girlfriend.
The empath felt Billie start to wake and then stretch, making their naked bodies push together even closer, Phoebe had to surpress a moan. "Hey." Billie said quietly as she turned onto her side to see her girlfriend looking at her. "Hey." Phoebe replied just as quietly, Billie placed her head on Phoebe's chest, one of her arms unwrapping from the brunettes waist and coming to rest on her chest, her fingers tracing small designs on Phoebe's bare skin. "You ok?" Billie asked softly as she remembered back to last night, Phoebe encircled her arms around the young blonde. "I should be asking you that." Phoebe murmered as she felt the scratches she had made on the younger girls back, her fingertips lightly running over them causing Billie to flinch a little from the sting that made. "I'm fine, now what about you?" Billie asked once more and felt Phoebe sigh. "Last night.....i just couldn't stop thinking about........when you......." Phoebe trailed off as her breathing became uneven, even now thinking about it brought Phoebe to panic. "Shh, it's ok Pheebs like i said last night i'm gunna stay with you forever." Billie said before placing light kisses on Phoebe's chest, instantly calming the brunette witch. "I'm sorry." Phoebe said making Billie stop the kisses and lift her head, looking into her girlfriends eyes, "Never say your sorry, you have nothing to be sorry for, i would be exactly the same way if it was you." The ultimate power explained, shuddering at even the thought of her girlfriend dying.
Phoebe smiled as her answer, one of her hands coming up from Billie's back to run through her long, soft blonde hair. "Now we could stay here all day and believe me i am really tempted to but we have the matter of our daughter gaining new memories and Cole." Billie said making Phoebe groan, "Do we have to get up right away? Can we not stay in bed for oh i dunno another hour, it is really early after all." Phoebe said smirking as her hand that was on Billie's back came around inbetween their bodies and travelled south, coming to rest on the blonde's left hip, dangerously low. Billie's breath caught in her throat as her body reacted to her girlfriends touch, heating up, he heart started to beat so fast, Billie was sure Phoebe could feel it. "I...i suppose......another hour wouldn't hurt." Billie managed to stutter out before burying her head in Phoebe's breasts as Phoebe's hand slipped even lower.
"Another hour she said, more like three." Billie muttered quietly to herself as she pulled a t-shirt over her head, arms slipped around her waist and pulled her backwards towards a soft and warm body. "I didn't hear any complaints from you." Phoebe murmered against Billie's neck, placing a soft kiss on her skin before letting her go and backing up, allowing Billie to turn to face her. "I wasn't complaining, just merely stating a point." Billie said smiling as she grabbed Phoebe's hand and tugged her towards her, planting a sweet kiss on the brunettes lips, "Do you think we should check on Parker and Brooke?" Billie asked when they had parted, Phoebe looked thoughtful for a minute before saying, "If there not up then i think we should, i mean it is pretty late now so they should be up." And with that said the two women walked out of their bedroom and into the living room. "Looks like it's the bedroom then." Billie stated as they saw no sign of their daughter or her fiancee. Phoebe just nodded in reply before making her way to Parker's bedroom, coming to a stop right in front of door, Billie right behind her.
Phoebe hesitated before knocking softly, a quiet 'Come in' Was heard making Phoebe push the bedroom door open slowly, stepping into the door frame with Billie right beside her now, they didn't need to go in all the way. The sight they were met with was heartwarming. Brooke was sat up against the head board, dressed in an over-sized dark blue t-shirt, with her arms wrapped around a sleeping Parker who had on a tight black t-shirt, who's arms were around Brooke's waist and her head on Brooke's chest, snoring softly, the bed covers were in a mess around their lower halfs, "I forgot she liked to kick the covers off her." Brooke whispered to Parker's parents, who were looking at their daughter with happiness in their eyes. "She was always up before you wasn't she?" Brooke said, although she didn't need to ask, Parker could never get more than the maximum of five hours sleep before she woke up because of her nightmares. "Yeah, she was always up and about before everyone, sometimes even out of the house before we we're even up." Billie said, her gaze turning to Brooke, who looked at her with understanding.
"She loves you, you know." The whitelighter said softly, Phoebe and Billie looked at her in confusion. "Parker is a very specific girl, she probably hasn't said she loves you and you may not realise it but deep down it's hurting you, i just thought i'd let you know that she does love you.....she just has a hard time expressing what she feels, especially if it's love or any good emotion, it's just the way she is.....heck it took her ages to say it to me, so i guess i'm just saying be patient." Brooke explained causing Phoebe and Billie to realise that they had been waiting for Parker to say she loved them and it did hurt that she hadn't.
"Thanks but how did you know when we didn't even know ourselves?" Billie asked making Brooke smile at them, "In the new future we're really close." The whitelighter said as an explanation giving them a small smile which grew when they returned it, "Maybe we need to move this talk into the living room, i don't want to wake Parks when she's getting the best sleep she has had in years." Brooke said softly before gently lifting her fiancee off her torso and slipping out from underneath her, letting Phoebe and Billie see the grey sweat pants she had on her lower half.
She didn't say anything as she leant back down and kissed Parker's forehead before making her way out of the bedroom behind her fiancee's parents, the women who she considered were her own parents.
"From what we've seen and heard Parker really loves you, we just want to know that your going to look after her." Phoebe said as they sat on the couch with Brooke in middle who had to surpress a smirk, she was wondering how long it would take them to give her the parent talk. "If i could go back, i would never of gone on that false rescue mission, i was always watching over Parker and i saw how dark and angry she became, she became more like a demon and that only intensified when Patience died, her and Chris were becoming further and futher apart, the whole resistance noticed but they never did. The rsistance was slowly falling because Parker just couldn't physically do it anymore, hell she can't even physically do it now, i know you can see the spark that she has, that is so uniquely her, dying out, the light in her eyes, god your lucky if you even see a flash of that anymore. So in answer to your question, yes i'm going to do everything in my power to look after her, she deserves a rest, with everything she's been through." The blonde whitelighter said honestly, leaning back against the couch and crossing her arms.
"What do you mean, she just couldn't physically do it anymore?" Billie asked confused. "She's got magical exhaustion, you probably did a test of some kind which she passed but i know Parks, i can tell and she can't physically do anymore magic at least not a lot of it, if she does she could burn out, she's needs rest and i think that's why she slep so well last night, we just need to keep an eye on her and when she goes to use magic, we have to do it instead." Brooke said, she knew as soon as she stepped through the portal and saw her fiancee that she was magically exhausted, the message came of Parker in waves.
"You know your a very bright girl." Phoebe commented softly making Brooke turn her head and look at her with red cheeks, "Uhh thanks." The young girl muttered embarressed. Phoebe and Billie chuckled at Brooke's reaction but before anything else could be discussed they heard the bedroom door open behind them and turned their heads to see a sleepy Parker coming out of her bedroom, running a hand through her very messy hair which was sticking up in werid directions, making her look slightly deranged, she still had on the tight black t-shirt and on her lower half were some black shorts and she finished off the look with some big grey socks, that made her slip on the wooden floor every now and then.
"H...hi." Parker said through a yawn, running her hand through her hair once more as she made her way to the chair opposite the couch and plonked herself in it. Billie thought her daughter had never looked more innocent, actually scratch that her daughter didn't look innocent because of her hair, she had sex hair, Brooke who was also looking at Parker had to smother a laugh as she took in her fiancee appearance, her very rough appearance and her hair, Brooke's laughter died in her throat as she saw her fiancee neck, where a very big love bite was clearly visible. Brooke's eyes widened, she hoped Phoebe and Billie didn't see that.
"Nice love bite Parker." Phoebe said to her daughter, who looked horrified at her ma before grabbing her t-shirt and bringing it up and around her neck succesfully covering the bite mark Brooke had given her last night, unfortunately it made her t-shirt ride up and show her stomach, which Brooke's eyes immediately zeroed in on, her lust growing quickly for the girl in front of her, which Parker felt, making her eyes go wide and her hands letting go of her t-shirt, allowing it to go back over her stomach but let the bite mark become visable again.
"Oh your so gunna get it from Paige." Billie said and watched as Parker groaned and placed her head in her hands, while she mumbled, "Why did she have to bite me......dammit forgot she was so fiesty......maybe i could wear a scarf.....no then Aunt Paige would immediately know.....maybe a polo neck.....no since when i have i ever worn.......maybe i could get Brooke to glamour it.........oooooooo i'm so gunna get her back for this............i guess i'll just have to deal.....i do have some things i could use against her." Unfortunately for Parker, her mumbling was quite loud giving Brooke and her parents full access to hear what she was saying, which made Brooke go bright red and Phoebe and Billie chuckle. "Fiesty, you don't look that fiesty to me." Phoebe said to her future daughter-in-law who looked like she could just crawl into a hole and never come out, Parker look up from her hands with wide eyes, "Ummm how much....did....did you hear?" The firestarter stuttered out but her parents didn't need to say anything, the look on their faces said it all, "Oh god." Parker said quietly, as she sunk lower into the chair. "Uhhhhh so manor?" Brooke asked, not quite sure what she was asking but needing an excuse to get away from this very akward situation for the young girls.
"Go and get dressed then we'll go." Billie said wanting to save her daughter and future daughter-in-law from further embarressment, the two girls got up and quietly made their way to the bedroom, as soon as they heard the door shut Phoebe and Billie both burst out laughing.
"Uhhh." Brooke grunted as she found the breath knocked out of her as Parker tackled her to the bed as soon as she had shut the door, straddling her waist and pinning her arms above her head. "Parks, what are you doing?" Brooke asked in a little fear as she saw the mischievious light in her fiancee's eyes. "I said i was going to get you back." Parker answered before quickly ripping Brooke's t-shirt off and attaching her mouth to her fiancee's collarbone, her hands still pinning Brooke's above her head.
After a couple of minutes Parker's lips left Brooke's neck and she nodded her head, "I figured if i have one, you should have one too." Parker said simply and Brooke's eyes widened at what Parker had just done before she smirked, "And you say i'm the fiesty one." Brooke muttered causing Parker to chuckle as she got off her fiancee and went to the closet to find something to wear of her mom's, "Ok maybe not fiesty....would you prefere wild?" Parker said before quickly ducking into the closet, laughing as a pillow was senting her way. "Don't fight the truth babe." Parker said from inside the closet as she found some black skinny jeans and a black fitted shirt to wear, before finding some jeans and a white t-shirt was a blue pattern on it for Brooke.
She quickly stripped off her t-shirt and shorts and put on the clothes she had found for herself before walking out of the closet and chucking Brooke her clothes for the day, while doing up the buttons on her shirt, her head was starting to hurt again.
The girls made their way out of the bedroom to find Phoebe and Billie at the kitchen counter talking quietly. "You all ready to go? I figured we could have breakfast or probably lunch now at the manor." Phoebe said and got a nod from Parker before her daughter grimaced in pain but Brooke didn't even answer she was too busy watching her fiancee. "Parker you ok?" Billie asked as she saw her daughter give a quiet groan of pain. "I....i think i'm get...getting another..." Parker managed to get out before her eyes rolled into the back of her head and she started to fall to the floor but Brooke caught her before she hit it and lowered herself and her fiancee gently to the ground instead, Parker's head cradled protectively in Brooke's lap. "She'll be fine." Brooke said looking up at her firstarters parents to see them looking at their daughter with worry. Phoebe bent down and picked Parker up off the floor, Brooke opened her mouth to protest but saw that Phoebe wanted to place her daughter on the couch so instead shut her mouth and allowed Parker to be taken from her hold.
Phoebe placed her daughter on the couch, with her head in Brooke's lap before Billie pulled her girlfriend away and made her sit on her lap in the chair opposite, now they just had to wait for Parker to wake up.
"Parker come on, finish you homework later, i just wanna go on a vanquish, i mean we haven't even been on one in two weeks, i need to let out some frustration." A fifteen year old Chris moaned to a just turned fourteen Parker, who was sat at the dining room table of the manor with science books and pieces of paper surrounding her. Parker sighed as she put her pen down, "Chris, i gotta finish this paper, i mean it counts for like thirty percent of my grade, i need to make it really good, we can go after but.......aren't you grounded Christopher?" Parker asked smirking as her favourite cousin looked away from her. "Noooo." Chris said unconvincingly making his favourite cousin chuckle, "Liar, you know Aunt Piper will kill you if she found out you went to the underworld, especially if your grounded." Parker said sounding mature for a fourteen year old, Chris stuck his tounge out at his cousin who once again chuckled before going back to her paper but Chris wouldn't give up.
"Come on Parks, you can do that later, i really want to go and i know you do too, i can see how frustrated you are, you need a good vanquish, please, please, please, please, pretty please." Chris begged, getting down on his knees in front of his cousin and clasping his hands. Parker sighed, yes she needed a good vanquish, like Chris said she hadn't been on a good vanquish for two weeks and all this homework was taking it's toll on her. "Fine, fine, i'll come." Parker said watching as her cousins head snapped up as he looked up at her with a smile that stretched across his whole face. "Yeah?" Chris asked just to make sure she wasn't joking around, "Yeah." Parker replied grinning, "Really!" Chris said jumping up, "Chris if you ask me once more, i'm gunna change my mind." Parker said laughing at how childish her cousin could be. "Ok, ok....allow me to escort you to the underworld firestarter." Chris said offering her his arm like a gentleman making Parker burst into laughter but she took his arm anyway, "Lead the way you neurotic whitelighter, lead the way." Parker said, Chris turned his head so he was looking directly at his cousin, "Challenge?" He asked simply, "Of course." Parker replied before they were engulfed in bright white and blue lights, Parker's homework forgotten.
"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING!" Piper Halliwell shouted at the two teenagers standing in front of her, both of them covered in a green slime and both of them trying to smother their laughter, their parents and siblings standing in front of them with angry and amused looks on their faces. "We..... errrrr.....Parks?" Chris managed to get out without laughing as he turned to his cousin, who looked red in the face from containing her laughter, "Well it's simple aunt Piper, i was doing my homework, when Chris persuaded me to take a break, so we went to the mall to get some slushies." Parker explained as the idea formed in her mind, her whole body shaking with laughter, Chris appeared to of caught onto Parker's idea, "Yeah and we challenged each other to see who could kill i mean drink their slushy the fastest." Chris added as he caught Parker eye and had to quickly turn away barely containing his laughter. "Uh huh so what happened?" Phoebe asked, her tone light but Parker could tell she was angry with her but at that precise moment she couldn't give a flying monkeys, she was too busy trying not to laugh.
"Well, i was winning..." Parker started to say but Chris cut her off, "Hey i think we can establish that i was winning thank you very much." "Oh no, i was winning, my demo....i mean my slushy was half gone!" Parker shot back thinking back to how her demon only had one arm and one leg left while Chris had only gotten rid of little bits of his. "Anyway like i was saying before i was rudely interrupted,' Parker continued as Chris stuck his tounge at her, their younger and older siblings looked at them in amusement, their was never a dull moment with Chris and Parker around, 'I was winning when the demo.....the slushy machine blew up!" Parker exclaimed exagerrating what she said with her hands, "And cause we were so near it, we got slushy all over us!" Chris finished for his cousin loudly, Parker nodded her head in agreement before looking away, tears in her eyes as the laughter she was containing nearly burst from her lips.
The parents and siblings stood their waiting and Chris couldn't contain it any longer, he burst into laughter, with Parker right behind him, their eyes filled with tears as they bent over with their hands on their knees and laughed.
"Oh god....a slushy machine....well they certainly were.......filled with a lovely.......sweet like slushy substance." Chris manged to say through his laughter, sending Parker to the floor as her laughter increased as she remembered her cousins words after they had vanquished the demons they had found, 'Parker, is there such a thing as a pinyata demon?' Chris had asked her after they had vanquished the demons they had found, he had said they reminded him of a pinyata he had for his sixth birthday and she had proclaimed that these demons were now called pinyata demons.
"Pinyata demons!" Parker exclaimed before her laughing fit over took her once more, Chris had now joined her on the floor in their laughing fit.
"ARE YOU QUITE FINISHED!" Piper Halliwell shouted over her son and nieces laughter, who stopped laughing, looked at her, then looked at each other before bursting into laughter once more. "This isn't funny you two, you could of been badly hurt, what have we told you about going to the underworld?" Billie asked her daughter and nephew, who quietened their laughter and stood on shakey legs to look at their parents and siblings, who were trying to hide their laughter. "We shouldn't go to the underworld, it's dangerous, especially since we haven't gotten control of all of our powers yet, we can go when we're older but for now we should leave the demon vanquishes to you." Parker and Chris spoke in perfect unison, they had heard this speech a million times and knew it off by heart. "Your grounded for two weeks Chris, we're adding this onto the grounding you've already got." Piper said forcefully as Leo nodded his head in agreement with his wife, Chris just nodded his head, he didn't trust himself to open his mouth, he was sure if he did he would start laughing once more. "Your grounded for two weeks as well Parker, starting now." Phoebe spoke forcefully, with Bille nodding her head in agreement with Phoebe, Parker didn't say anything, she too just nodded not trusting herself to open her mouth.
All four adults left the room, they were expecting Paige's family any minute. The siblings stayed, looking at their older/younger brother and sister. Parker and Chris looked at their siblings then looked at each other, "So worth it." They said at the same time before bursting into laughter, their siblings joining in.
Parker shot up into a sitting position and immediately started to laugh, "Parker, honey are you ok?" Phoebe asked her daughter, who's laughter quietened down but she had to take few deep breaths before answering, "Oh yeah i'm brilliant." Parker exclaimed standing up, chuckling quietly.
"Care to tell us what you saw?" Phoebe asked but Parker shook her head, "Nope your going to have to wait about fourteen years, i don't want to ruin it for ya.....slushy machine, i'm gunna have to remember that." Parker said to her ma before speaking to herself, her parents not having a clue what she was going on about but Brooke did and started to laugh. "Oh it was that memory." Brooke said making Parker look at her in confusion, "You and Chris told me about it, you couldn't stop laughing when you told me, it took me a good five times of you explaining through your laughter before i got the full story.' The whitelighter explained to her witch, who gave her a dazzling grin.
"Ok if your not going to tell us, shall we get going to the manor?" Billie asked and was rewarded with Parker pulling Brooke off the sofa. "To the manor Spence!" Parker shouted to her fiancee, like they were going to save the world, she was still reeling from the memory she had seen and the emotions she had felt and was majorly hyper. "Are you gunna pay me, cause if i'm gunna be a taxi service i want paying." Brooke said to her firestarter and was rewarded with Parker looking at her silently for a moment before lunging forward, wrapping her arms around Brooke's waist, dipping her and sealing their lips in a passionate kiss that left Brooke's head spinning. Parker stood them both back upright and let go of her fiancee, "That enough payment for ya Spence?" Parker asked givig her a cheeky grin. Brooke couldn't speak, the kiss had left her feeling dizzy but it was a good dizzy, "Yeah...that's enough...payment." Brooke mumbled out as she grabbed Parker's hand and looked around for Phoebe and Billie, only to find them watching the scene in front of them in amusement.
"Are we gunna go?" Parker asked impatiently bouncing on the balls of her feet, that memory had sure given her a massive boost in energy.
"Yeah Parks, we're going now stop bouncing before you wear a hole through the floor." Billie said to her daughter, chuckling when Parker adamently shook her head in refusal. "Nope." Parker replied popping the 'p'. Phoebe and Billie chuckled while Brooke just shook her head, their were quite a few times in the new future that Parker got hyper, they usually just had to let it play out, 'Although,' Brooke thought, "This shouldn't be as bad, cause Chris isn't here with her.'
"Ok so to the manor?" Brooke asked and received a nod of the head from her fiancee's parents, while her fiancee just kept bouncing on her feet.
the whitelighter gave an exasperated sigh before taking Billie's outstretched hand and orbing them to the manor.
"Ok Parks you sit." Brooke said to her firestarter after they orbed into the living room of the manor, to see Piper and Paige playing with the boys, Leo and Kyle were up there.
Parker gave her fiancee a dissappointed look, she had no idea why she was feeling so hyper, sure she had felt the emotions from the memory but they should of dissappeared by now, she had never felt like this, all she wanted to do was mess around, it was kind of scaring her.
"I don't want to sit Spence." Parker said as Brooke forceably pushed her onto the couch. "Ma, mom a little help." Parker asked her parents as she went to get back up but was pushed back down by her fiancee, her parents shook their heads while chuckling. "Aunt Paige, Aunt Piper?" Parker said nearly begging, she wanted to get up, she wanted to do something not sit here.
"Sorry kiddo, i'm not going up against your fiancee, she's seems to mean business." Paige said to her niece as she saw Brooke give her a smile and a wink. "Aww come on is everyone against me? Hey Wy?" Parker called to her older cousin, well at the moment he was her little cousin but still, Wyatt looked at Parker as he heard her call his name. "Parker!" He exclaimed happily, waving around the toys he had in his hands. "Hey Wy, will you come here for a sec?" Parker asked as a idea formed in her mind, she had never had this mischievious, playful side in her before but she was rolling with it. Wyatt stood up from his position on the carpet next to Chris and walked to Parker, Piper went to stop him but knew Parker wouldn't hurt her cousin so let him make his way over to her future niece. "Hey Parker, look doggy." Wyatt said to the firestarter as Parker lifted him onto her lap, showing her the toy dog he had in his hand that he had just been playing with. "Wow Wy, can he bark? Parker asked and watched as her cousin look confused for a second before his eyes lit up excitedly and he nodded. "He can, that's cool!" Parker exclaimed giving her cousin a big grin which he returned.
The firestarter ruffled the twice-blessed hair before leaning in and whispering into his ear, "Hey Wy can you do something for me?' Wyatt looked at Parker for a moment so she decided to add something, 'I'll give you a cookie.' Parker said which got the response she was looking for, Wyatt nodded his head enthusiastically making Parker laugh. The others watched the interaction with cautious eyes, what was Parker doing?
"So when i give you a nod, can you orb us to the kitchen?" Parker asked quietly, wondering if he would understand what she was asking him to do and to her surprise he nodded straight away. "Brilliant!" Parker shouted bouncing up and down in her seat, causing Wyatt to giggle as he was sitting on Parker's lap. "Parker what are you and my son planning?" Piper asked a little fearfully but her niece merely gave her a cheeky grin. "Parks, what did you whisper to Wyatt?" Brooke asked, she knew Parker had something planned, you could see it in her eyes. "I can't tell you that Spence, it's a surprise....now can i get up?" Parker said teasingly, she saw her cousin was watching her closely waiting for her to nod to him, he was a smart kid. "No, not until you tell me what you told Wyatt to do." Brooke said forcefully, in the future Parker and Wyatt were almost as bad as Chris and Parker, almost.
Parker sighed as she looked around the adults in the room, to see them all watching her closely. "Wy?" Parker asked, "Now?" He asked her to which Parker nodded and with a little wave from Parker and a cheeky grin to the adults and Brooke which her cousin copied, Wyatt orbed them out of the living room.
"Where did they go!" Piper asked immediately as soon as Parker and her son had dissappeared into blue and white orbs, her question was answered as they heard Parker and Wyatt's laughter coming from the kitchen.
Opening the kitchen door, they were met with the sight of Wyatt and Parker giving each other a high five and Wyatt with a cookie in his other hand as they sat at the kitchen counter. "Wy that was brill!" Parker exclaimed to her cousin who looked pleased with himself at the praise Parker was giving him.
Someone clearing their throat brought Parker's attention to the kitchen door and the grin slipped off her face like butter as she saw her parents, her aunt Piper and her aunt Paige who was holding Chris and her fiancee all stood their with not to pleased expressions on their faces. "Umm, please don't blow me up." Parker said before giving them a nervous smile. "Parker, why did you make my son orb you to the kitchen?" Piper asked calmly but Parker could tell she was controlling her temper, she was afraid for her body right now, she didn't want to get blown up by her aunt, she wasn't a whitelighter or Bianca, she wouldn't
re-form. "Uhhh i....well i....you see.....the thing is......umm....i plead the fifth?" Parker said nervously, shifting Wyatt so her was in front of her as a shield. Piper looked at her future niece for a minute before laughing, "Wait! Your not angry?" Parker asked in disblief, Piper shook her head as she came forward and took her son out of Parker's arms.
The firestarters eyes swept over her parents and aunts who were chuckling to themselves to rest on her fiancee who was desperately trying to control her laughter. "Oh so you think this is funny do you?" Parker asked Brooke as a smirk crept onto her face making Brooke stop laughing, "N...now Parks....i was only." Brooke said before bolting out of the kitchen door, with Parker a second behind her, intending on pinning her down and making her beg for mercy.
They both stopped in the living room suddenly as they saw they weren't alone. "Cole." Parker growled out as she came to stand next to her fiancee, her playful mood straightaway vanishing. Cole didn't say anything as he quickly took his hands from behind his back and flung one arm forward, letting go the vial containing the potion he had collected yesterday. Without delay Parker pushed Brooke out of the way of the incoming vial but didn't have enough time to get out of the way herself and it impacted with her chest with a mighty crunch sending her to the floor.
Cole didn't need to stay any longer and promptly shimmered out. "PARKER!" Brooke shouted as she picked herself up off the floor before running towards her fiancee, who was sprawled on the floor, not moving, the adults having heard the commotion came running in after sending the boys upstairs to their room.
Parker felt dizzy and was barely aware of her the black substance entering her nose and mouth, her chest hurt so badly. Her hand clumsily made it's way to her chest where she felt a wet sticky substance which she concluded to either be the potion or her blood soaking her hand but that wasn't what caught her attention the most, no it was the massive bit of glass sticking in her chest.
"Parker, don't touch it, just relax." She heard a voice tell her before feeling a warm hand enclose on her own hand, pull it away from her chest and hold it by her side, as another warm hand enclosed upon her other hand and held it by her other left side.
She blinked harshly as she tried to get rid of the bluriness in her vision, it took her a couple of times before she saw clearly and was met with the sight she wanted to see the most.
"Spence?" Parker said as Brooke hovered over her fiancee, her hands making their way to the glass sticking in Parker's chest, intending on pulling it out and then healing her but stopped when Parker called her name. "Yeah Parks?" Brooke asked as her hands continued their journey up Parker's stomach, trying to give her fiancee a comfortable feeling before the pain that was about to follow. "You ok, yeah?" Her firestarter asked, her words slurring a bit. 'Yeah i'm fine, you pushed me out of the way, now hold still." Brooke murmered softly, bending over her fiancee a bit more, so she could look Parker directly in the eye, as her hands stopped gliding up Parker's body as they had reached the bit of glass, it was embedded in just to the side and a little above Parker's left breast, dangerously close to her heart. "You ready?" Brooke asked gently, to which Parker replied with a confused look, "What are you talking about....FUCK!" Parker started to say before shouting as Brooke ripped the piece of glass out of her chest, she certainly wasn't expecting that and was lucky her arms were being held down other wise Brooke would have been flung away from her as soon as the glass had been taken out.
Brooke chucked the piece of glass to the side of her, silently thanking Phoebe and Billie for holding their daughters arms down by her sides before she placed her hands on her fiancee's chest, the all too familiar golden glow emmitting from her hands as she healed Parker's wound.
When the glow stopped, Brooke took her hands away and took a deep breath in. " A little warning would of been nice you know." Parker said as she slowly sat up, resting on her hands, noticing that Brooke was now straddling her waist and that her parents and aunts were around them but she didn't care. "Spence?" Parker asked as she saw tears come in her whitelighters eyes.
The reality of what just happened, had caught up to Brooke and without a word she flung herself forward, wrapping her arms around Parker's neck and burying her face in her fiancee's shoulder, letting the tears fall.
"I thought....i thought i was...." Brooke said between her sobs before the words failed her and she clutched onto Parker tighter.
Parker looked at her ma confused for a moment to see her ma looking back at her and Brooke with concern, it suddenly hit her and her eyes widened, as she sat up a bit more and encircled her arms around Brooke's waist, drawing her fiancee even closer, "Shh Spence, it's alright, i'm ok." Parker said softly to her whitelighter unconciously tightening her arms around Brooke's waist.
Brooke felt Parker's strong, warm arms wrap around her waist and instantly started to feel better, "Shh Spence, it's alright, i'm ok." She heard her fiancee say softly to her and felt Parker's arms tighten around her waist and immediately felt safe and calm. "I'm sorry, i just.....i just got you back......i don't want to lose you again." Brooke mumbled against Parker's shoulder before drawing her head back and looking her fiancee in the eye, to see so much love and concern being directed at her from those eyes.
Parker took one hand and gently wiped away the tears that were still dripping down Brooke's face, giving her a small smile in the process, which Brooke returned with a weak one of her own.
"I'm not going anywhere, i promise.' Parker said quietly so her parents and aunts wouldn't hear, Brooke nodded her head slowly, 'Now can i get up, i mean i love you sitting on my lap and everything but the floor is a bit uncomfortable." The young brunette said making Brooke laugh before slowly getting up but not before she had pressed her hips towards the ground, causing Parker's breathing to hitch and Brooke to smirk.
As soon as Parker was standing, Phoebe was checking her over, "Ma, i'm fine, trust me Spence did an excellent job." Parker reassured her ma, while her mom stood behind them watching her daughter closely and noted that she was swaying and sweating a little.
"Ok, so do you care to explain what happened?" Piper asked as they all sat down on the couches and chairs in the living room, with Brooke on Parker's lap on the couch with Phoebe and Billie next to them on the couch, while Paige and Piper took the chairs. "Cole." Parker said with distasted, her head falling onto Brooke's chest as her fiancee played with her hair.
"Cole was here!" Phoebe exclaimed angrily, making to stand up but didn't get far as Billie wrapped her arms around her girlfriend and forceably pulled her into her side. "Calm down, let's listen first." Billie said calmly to her lover before nodding her head at her daughter to continue, "Yeah Cole, he didn't say anything but he..." Parker said before trailing off as she remembered the vial hitting her squarely in the chest, that hurt.
"But he?" Paige asked her niece when she didn't say anymore. Brooke looked at her fiancee and saw she was far away so decided to continue the explanation, "He threw a vial at us, Parker pushed me out of the way but didn't have enough time to get out of the way herself and it....hit...her." Brooke said and watched as all the adults eyes went to the person who's lap she sat in but Parker seemed oblivious.
"What was in the vial?" Piper asked but Brooke shook her head, "I don't know, i didn't get a chance to look at it before Parks pushed me out of the way and she got hit." The whitelighter said sadly and a little fearfully.
"Parker? Parker can you tell us what was in the vial?" Phoebe asked her daughter who appeared not to of heard her ma. "Parks?" Brooke murmered softly as she saw the far away look in her fiancees eyes clear and her head turn upwards towards Brooke's.
"Yeah Spence?" Parker asked innocently, she could feel something spreading through her body, it felt ice cold, like she had been thrown in a ice bath, it wasn't a pleasant feeling, she felt her body temperature dropping rapidly.
"Parker your burning up." Brooke stated as she felt Parker's forehead with the back of her hand, it felt like Parker was on fire and her forehead and arms were alight with a sheen of sweat. Parker frowned, "Really cause i feel really, really cold, freezing in fact." Parker said as she felt her body temperature drop once more and her heart start to pound against her ribs.
The blonde whiteligher's eyes widened, Parker's body felt like an infurnace to her. "Parker what was in the vial?" Phoebe asked her daughter as she and Billie got up, along with Paige and Piper and went to stand in front of Parker as Brooke got off her fiancee's lap and instead sat by the side of her. "In the vial? I dunno, i remember feeling something enter my nose and mouth, at least i think something did, my chest hurt pretty bad and most of my attention was on that." Parker replied, her mind was starting to become a little fuzzy, it was like a darkness was spreading across her mind, blacking everything out. "Parks, what colour was it?' Brooke asked and became more alarmed as she saw her fiancee's eyelids flutter shut before quickly opening again, 'PARKER! Don't fall asleep, tell me what colour it was!" Brooke said loudly as she took Parker's face in her hands and made her fiancee look directly at her.
Parker looked confused as she tried to make sense of what Brooke had just said, her mind was becoming darker by the minute, "B...black..i...th...think." Parker managed to get out before she felt something make it's way up her throat and wrap around her vocal cords, preventing her from speaking, making her choke as she tried to call out to Brooke's for help.
Brooke was in a panic, a black like substance that went in through your nose and mouth, Parker's body temperature felt like she was on fire to Brooke but Parker said she felt cold, freezing, there was only one potion that did this. "Vezeum." Brooke whispered. Parker started to shake and the whitelighter sprang into action, she jumped from the couch and layed Parker down on it instead before straddling her fiancee and grabbing her upper arms, pinning the younger girls body to the couch tightly with her arms and legs.
"What's happening!" Phoebe asked as she saw her daughter shake even more underneath Brooke.
'The potion Cole hit her with is called Vezeum, it's a very powerful, very dangerous potion that when it enters a person it freezes there insides, slowly, call Leo and Kyle!" Brooke said shakily as Parker started to fight her hold making her use more pressure.
"LEO! KYLE!" Piper shouted to the ceiling, out of the corner of her eye she saw Phoebe sit on Parker's legs and hold them down, while Billie kneeled down by Parker's head, leaned over and pinned Parker's shoulders to the couch.
Seconds later Leo and Kyle orbed in, "What happened?" Leo asked as he saw Parker being held down by her parents and Brooke. "Cole hit her with Vezeum!" Brooke all but shouted to Leo as Parker eyes closed and she started to struggle even more. Leo was stunned into silence, "Leo you have to go and get the ingredients, snap out of it Leo!" Brooke screamed in a panic, she didn't know where to find the ingredients, when they had encountered this potion in the future, Leo had taken Wyatt, Chris and Parker with him and showed them where to get the ingredients and since her fiancee wasn't in condition to go, Leo would have to, she just prayed that he could get them in time. "The ingredients right, Kyle, Paige you have to come with me." Leo said as he stretched out his hand to his fellow whitelighter and his sister-in-law, who immediately took them and without another word orbed them out.
"Piper got and heat a saucepan of water you need to put all the ingredients to make the antidote, it's a sort of drink, if you can call it that." Brooke said as calmly as she could, which wasn't very calm seening as her fiancee's life was hanging in the balance of getting the antidote before.....
"Brooke what happens if Parker doesn't get the antidote in time?" Billie asked, she already knew the answer but she needed to hear it said outloud. "She'll....she'll.....disappear....she'll die." The young blonde whispered but Phoebe and Billie heard her. "They need to hurry getting those ingredients, she....she doesn't have much time left." Brooke said quietly, making Billie look at her daughter with worry. "Tell me more about this potion, tell me everything you know." Phoebe demanded to her future daughter-in-law, Brooke didn't turn her head away from Parker, who was now breathing deeply and grimacing in pain.
"Vezeum is a potion that as you know hits a person and enters their system through their nose and mouth, it only works on magical beings, particularly witches and warlocks, it doesn't work on whitelighters cause we're already dead, as soon as it enters your system you have to get the antidote as quickly as possible, it fights your magic, drains it and your energy until you can barely fight and then spreads through your system, through your veins, freezing you from the inside, turning your insides, your organs cold, the stronger your magic, the more chance you have of surviving but even then you don't have a lot of time, it comes alive inside of you. It's painful, you can feel every individual part of your body, every single organ freezing slowly, can feel you blood turning to ice, your mind starts to become darker and darker until you can't think anything, it blocks out your sense of hearing and sight, makes you feel like your alone, that's when people usually give up." Brooke said getting the explanation out all in one go as she felt Parker go tense under her, her body becoming ridged, her arms locking to her sides and her breathing becoming small, quiet gasps, they needed to hurry with the antidote.
"But Parker's really powerful, it shouldn't be acting so quickly if she's so powerful." Phoebe said, she felt Parker's legs tense underneath her and wondered what was happening. "Remember when i said she's magically exhausted....it means her magic was probably easily drained, it probably didn't need much draining to begin with." Brooke explained quietly, in the future they had given stages to the potion, or poison as many of the second generation liked to call it, they had given it five stages and Parker was in stage three but Brooke felt that stage four was only moments away and she was right, when a couple of minutes later the firestarter made choking noises in the back of her throat and she started to fight the hold her parents and fiancee had her under once more. "What's happening to her!" Billie cried as she heard the noises her daughter was making but Parker still hadn't opened her eyes. "Stage four,' Brooke whispered to herself horrified, 'Her....her blood....it's....it's starting to....to freeze." The whiteligher stuttered out her explanation, she didn't want to see what was going to happen next. "What does that mean, why is she making those noises?" Phoebe asked as she went back to pinning her daughters legs to the sofa, feeling the muscles on Parker's legs protest the action, her question was answered as Parker made a spitting noise and blood suddenly spewed from her mouth but it wasn't red, it was black and the veins in her arms turned black and stood out against her skin.
Brooke had tears slowly slipping down her cheeks as she leaned closer to her fiancee's face, "Parks? Parks can you hear me?" She asked, praying the answer was yes, if Parker could still hear her, then she was only at the beginning of stage four. "Parks, open you eyes for me please....Parker please." Brooke begged her firestarter and was rewarded with Parker's eyes fluttering open before shutting tightly again as more blood spurted out of her mouth and dribbled down her chin and onto her chest.
"Parker open you eyes!" Brooke demanded to her fiancee and this time Parker's eyes opened and stayed open but they were unfocused. "Billie have you got a good grip on her arms?" Brooke asked, briefly turning her head to Parker's mom, to see her nod her head sadly before turning to look back at her fiancee.
Grabing Parker's face so they were looking directly at each other, Brooke spoke softly, "Parks, focus on me, you need to fight, come on Parks it's me, it's Spence, please see me." Her voice showing her desperation. Parker's eyes focused slightly on Brooke, "Spence." Parker managed to say but it came out sounding like a gargle because of the blood in her mouth, which she immediately coughed out. "Yeah Parks, just stay focused on me, Cole hit you with Vezeum, you need to keep you eyes open and on me.....Kyle, Paige and Leo have gone to get the ingredients, we'll get you the antidote soon, you just need to keep looking at me." Brooke said forcefully not even blinking as she stared into Parker's slightly blackened eyes. "I'm...soo..co...ld...Sp...en....ce" Parker gargled out, she vaguely felt Brooke's hands tighten on her head but she was nearly numb to everything except the pain she felt inside her body. "Shh it's going to be ok, we're gunna get you the antidote, please just keep looking at me!" Brooke said loudly, grabbing Parker's hair with one of her hands and giving a not so gentle tug, when she saw her fiancee's eyes start to close. The viens on her neck were now black and stood out against her skin, like her arms and Brooke could see the veins were slowly starting to stand out on her face as well, the potion was making its way across Parker's body. "Spen...ce...it....it hurts...mak.....make it....s....stop." Parker said, her voice pleading, making more tears come to Brooke's eyes, as well as Phoebe and Billie's as they heard how much pain their daughter was in. "I'll make it go away soon, as soon as i've got the antidote, the pain will go away, i promise." Brooke said brokenly as Parker shook her head, she didn't need to say anything Brooke knew what she wanted, "I won't do it Parker, just hold on, i'll have the antidote for you soon, please just stay with me!" The whitelighter said confidently but she was feeling anything but confident, she heard Phoebe fall off the couch and saw Billie out of the corner of her eye let go of Parker's arms and rush to Phoebe, "Tell her to turn her empathy off, she can do it in the future!" Brooke shouted to Billie but didn't take her eyes off of her firestarter, who was now groaning in pain.
Phoebe felt all the pain her daughter was feeling intensify and couldn't take it anymore, she felt herself fall off the couch and onto the floor and not much later was being cradled in a pair of warm and slim but strong arms. "Billie." Phoebe moaned as she felt Parker's pain increase even more and Brooke and Billie's panic. "Shh Pheebs, it's going to be ok, just shut it off, you can do it, Brooke says you can do it in the future, so do it now.' Billie murmered softly to her girlfriend as she held her tightly in her arms, she felt Phoebe shaking and knew that she was feeling their daughters pain. "I...i can't Billie....it's too....hard." Phoebe replied through gritted teeth, "Yes you can, Phoebe Halliwell look at me." Billie commanded and was relieved when Phoebe opened her big brown eyes and locked them with Billie's hazel ones. The ultimate power sent a huge wave of love, all the love she held for her girlfriend in her direction and knew it worked when Phoebe gasped and gave a small smile, Billie's love was over throwing Parker's pain. "Come one Pheebs, you can do it, just find the power within yourself and shut it off, think of it as a light all you have to do is flip the switch.' Billie said gently as one of her hands ran through her charmed one's smooth brunette locks.
Phoebe took a deep shaky breath and searched within herself for her empathy power, never once breaking her gaze with Billie. She finally found it, the power she used to help people, her empathy power, it was like a hundred different emotions all rolled into one and they were in a open container and each emotion lit up as it was felt, as the power detected someone elses emotions. Phoebe imagined a light switch and flicked it off and instantly her empathy power was shut off, the box was closed letting no more emotions light up.
"I did it." Phoebe murmered softly to her girlfriend who gave her a small smile, "See i told you, you could do it." Billie said but before anything else could be said bright white and blue lights filled the air, quickly materialising into Leo, Paige and Kyle all of who had handfuls of what looked like different coloured plants and fruits. "Piper's got the water ready, quickly she hasn't got much time!" Brooke shouted over her shoulder, Leo, Paige and Kyle were gone in a flash to the kitchen.
Billie and Phoebe rose from their places on the floor and quickly got back into their positions on and by the couch. "Spence....pl....please....ma.....ma...make....it...s..s...sssstop." Parker managed to say before a strangled cry escaped from her lips and her back arched off the couch, or tried to at least as Brooke pushed down with her hips onto her fiancee's stomach, preventing her from coming off the couch. Parker's veins were now completely black and they were all stood out, along her neck, her arms, her stomach, her legs and her face, her lips were completely black, the only veins that weren't black were the area around her eyes and her eyes themselves.
"Parks, they got the ingredients...just hold on a little longer....please just hold on......you said you weren't going anywhere....you...p...promised....you have to stay awake.....keep your eyes open.....please." Brooke said through her tears, she was vaguely aware of Phoebe and Billie crying softly, she only had eyes and ears for her fiancee though, who was looking at her with such saddness, love and pain, Brooke thought she was gunna puke. "I....i'm....s...s......s..........s...ssss.....................sorry." Parker got out before her eyes closed and her shaking started once more, only this time it was much worse and blood started to run out of her nose and dribble out of her mouth before instantly freezing against her skin.
"NO! PARKS OPEN YOUR EYES! PARKER OPEN YOUR EYES! PARKER!" Brooke shouted to her fiancee as she used all her strength to pin the younger girl to the couch but didn't get any response, Parker had gone into the fifth and final stage, her breathing was slowly but the blood coming out of her nose and dribbling out of her mouth weren't slowing, she had forgotten this could happen.
"Here, here Brooke take it!" Leo said as he came running in with a glass full of a slimey and white liquid, thrusting it quickly into Brooke's trembling hands. Brooke took the glass and tilted Parker's head back, bringing the glass to her cold, black lips, Brooke tipped the glass forward, pouring the contents into her fiancee's mouth, who began to choke but Brooke didn't stop pouring the antidote down Parker's throat, suddenly Parker went still. Once the glass was empty, Brooke handed it back to Leo and then they all waited. "Why isn't it working!" Paige exclaimed, she, Piper and Kyle had run in straight after Leo, they had brought another glass of antidote just incase. "We....we....we can't of been.....too late." The young blonde whitelighter said as she noted the stillness of her fiancee below her, Parker wasn't even breathing, "No we couldn't of been to late, if we were she would of disappeared by now." Brooke said softly as one of her hands traced Parker's facial features, her eyes, her nose, her lips, the small nearly invisable scar she had above her right eye from a fight in sixth grade, she traced everything she had commited to memory a thousand times over, willing Parker to open her gorgeous eyes and look at her.
Brooke felt Parker's stomach muscles tense and her eyes widened as she watched for any other sign of life from her fiancee. Phoebe and Billie stood watching from in front of the couch, Phoebe having just got up from her position on her daughters legs, waiting for the antidote to kick in and work, it had to work, Billie's arms were wrapped around Phoebe's waist and she was holding her girlfriend tightly, so tightly it was almost painful but right at that moment it didn't matter. Piper and Leo were stood next to each other, with Piper gripping Leo's hand for dear life, looking down at their future niece from behind the couch in silence, while Paige and Kyle were stood at the end of the couch, next to Parker's head, their hands barely touching as they waited for their niece to show them some sign that the antidote had worked.
Brooke's eyes never left Parker's face and she saw it before the others did, the little twitch of Parker's lips, then the small scrunch of her nose, the slight frown of her eyebrows. "Parks?" Brooke asked softly, making everyone lean in just a little closer.
Parker's eyes shot open as she took a massive gasp of oxygen into her lungs before having a coughing fit. "PARKER!" Brooke shouted as she lifted herself off her fiancee so she wasn't constricting her airways as Parker got much needed oxygen into her lungs. "Your ok." Brooke murmered as her firestarters gaze locked with hers, "That.....hurt." Parker wheezed out, Brooke laughed as tears spilled from her eyes before she leaned down and pressed her lips to Parker's in a much needed kiss but Parker broke away from it quickly, "As much as i would love to give you a much longer kiss, i just almost died, need a little more oxygen." Parker breathed out as she tried to sit up but failed, she was weak, so weak, she felt drained, mentally, physically and emotionally, she could taste the vile antidote and her blood in her mouth and wanted to get rid of the taste but couldn't even make a move to sit up, let alone stand and walk to the kitchen.
"Parker." She heard someone say with relief and turned her head to see her parents looking at her with tears in their eyes, "Ma, mom, i'm ok now." Parker said quietly but knew what her parents needed and turned her head back to look at her fiancee, "A little help?" Parker asked softly, Brooke didn't reply but got off her fiancee and held out her hands, allowing Parker to take them and gave her firestarter a gentle tug upwards, bringing Parker into a sitting position. Parker gave herself a few moments for the dizziness to pass before standing slowly on shaky legs. She took one small step forward before falling into her parents waiting arms. "You scared us." Phoebe muttered quietly in her daughters ear as her and Billie's arms wrapped around their daughters frame and kept her from falling to the ground. "Don't ever do that again." Billie said with a wobbly voice, showing just how much this had shaken her. Parker didn't say anything but buried her head deeper into her parents shoulders and breathed deeply.
One thought was going strongly through her head, when she had a bit more energy she was going to hunt down Cole and vanquishing him nice and slowly.
Well that's the end of chapter 38.
What did you think?
Did you like Parker's memory? I wanted to give you one but i didn't want it to be sad, depressing or you know generally bad, so i thought we could have Parker and Chris get into a little trouble, which is bad but not the evil, destruction, sadness we're use to from her.
Now i know i said just a few chapters left and i think i'm going to give you a rough estimate of how many more i think i'm going to do.
The answer is 4 that's right 4 more chapter, i haven't decided if that is going to include the epilogue or not yet. YES i am doing an epilogue.
So anyway review and tell me what you think :)
The next chapter should be up next weekend, although you never know i might post one up in the week, depends on how i'm feeling and how many reviews i get :P
The chapter title was How To Save A Life by The Fray
Until next time!