Chapter 10 Busted.
Piper couldn't sleep, she would drift off but wake up five or sometimes twenty minutes later. Something bugged her and she didn't know why it bugged her so much. Blood of a witch wasn't a very common potion ingredient and why were the boys so close? To warrant Chris wanting to follow Allen into the past. It couldn't just be because Chris was his Whitelighter the Elders hate the concept of a witch being close to their Whitelighter. They wanted the witch to trust their Whitelighter but not be emotionally attached to one another. Knowing she wouldn't be getting any more sleep tonight. Piper got out of the chair; she chose to sleep on. Staring at the massive block of ice which is covered in a potion that resembles black paint. What Piper notices is that the block of ice has decreased in size a little bit.
Piper looked back at her sisters who seem to be sound asleep, on two other chairs. While Allen is asleep on a couch that used to reside in Paige and Prue's old bedroom before Prue passed. The boy appeared to fidget in his sleep. She approached him and sighed, the only time the boy seemed to be more manageable is when asleep. The brown fleece, she gave him is tangled all around him, shaking her head. Piper being careful untangles the fleece and lays it back over Allen. She then notices Allen is drooling a little bit onto the pillow his head is resting on. The first thing, Piper thinks to herself how cute the sight was then second, she thought how under normal circumstances, she would have cringed if she saw any other person drooled in their sleep. Maybe it was a mother thing that they were blind to somethings that would normally disgust them. But if their child did it whatever it was became suddenly cute. She then thought to herself when Allen finally, woke up, she would have to sterilise that pillow.
Piper returned to the kitchen and found Allen's potion book where he had left it on a counter. Before returning to the kitchen, she returned to her own room where she found some old dictionaries, she acquired a few years ago before the sisters had discovered their powers. She once dreamed of travelling the world to learn other cultures in depth more especially, their food. Luckily, Piper told herself, she had bought a book on the Irish (Gaelic) language. She picked up a notepad and pencil also. She wasn't sure how easy this was going to be. Sadly, she never collected a German dictionary plus, she realised that Germany had two languages a formal one and an informal one.
Sitting in the kitchen at the breakfast table with the potion book opened on the two pages. Piper remembered it being opened on only a few hours ago. With her notepad beside her and pencil and mug of herbal tea. She had no idea where her obsession with herbal tea came about. She detested it when she was pregnant with Wyatt and she wasn't fond of it before he was born neither. Translating the Irish parts of the potions wasn't easy she must have gone over the entry fifty times. Each time growing more confident that she got the translation perfect.
"The blood or hair of a relation/relations to the victim. But blood is preferred," Piper reads out loud. Allen's blood was used. Oh my god, Piper wanted to scream; Chris wasn't just Allen's Whitelighter but brother there was no mention of the blood needed being that of a powerful witch. The entry specifically mentioned The blood or hair of a relation/relations to the victim. Everything started to piece together little things which should have been so easy to recognise. Chris had Whitelighter abilities sure he had admitted being in his twenties, so he had to have been born around now or in the next or last few years. Yes, Allen wasn't half Whitelighter, but Wyatt was. Chris also must be Leo's child; Piper wouldn't make the same mistake twice falling for another Whitelighter the heartache with Leo was more than enough. So, each was hers it was just Allen that had another father. Chris, he also displayed telekinesis yes, a common power among magical beings but it was one of three abilities mostly associated with the Warren witches. Chris had the Halliwell traits Stubbornness, smarts, the sarcasm. Again, he knew the house like the back of his hand up until the revelation about Allen, she had assumed he just visited the place a lot. Piper realised how similar they both looked him and her the only real difference being beside their genders was that Chris' eyes were different they were Leo's.
It also explained, how they both got back to this time. The mere act of opening a portal to travel through time wasn't easy very few could do it. The Elders only sent the sisters back to the day of Melinda Warren's birth and back to the present which Leo later revealed in private took up most of their power for quite some time. Due to them not wanting to risk the extinction of the Warren bloodline. Other than the Elders only the sisters were successful in having enough magic to travel through time. The first time was to go back to the time to undo a pact made by their mother to save their lives, the second to go back to their own time. Patty and their Grams tried to send them back to the present themselves, but they could only move them through time barely twenty seconds. They had to use little Prue, Piper and unborn Phoebe to return the girls. Paige and her past life the Evil Enchantress could open portals through time.
Many time travel potions have been created none reported to be successful. She didn't mean to criticise Allen's power or skill, she understood magic evolved overtime but if her mother and grandmother could only send the sisters twenty seconds into the future. She doubted Allen would have the power to open a portal through time over twenty years. The Warren line was supposed to grow in power with every new generation until three sisters were born. Once the Charmed Ones were born the generations after that their power wouldn't grow further the future generations induvial power and collective power would be less than the Charmed Ones' collective power and induvial power. However, that didn't mean a future generation couldn't be a stronger witch than a witch born before Piper and her sisters. Two Halliwell witches magic especially that of Piper's blood might have been able to perform a successful time travel spell together. Very few people would care so much that evil hurt a baby to travel back through time.
It explained why Allen and Chris were so close because they grew up together. They shared blood siblings lookout and protect one another. Why would Chris have his baby brother go down to the Underworld by himself is he insane. She didn't want and couldn't imagine any of her children down in the Underworld never mind wanting to go down to the Underworld. Oh my, Piper told herself she and her sisters were cruel to Chris. Yes, Chris had his faults often he was so vague, she wanted to slap him. But upon their arrival, she threatened to blast him all the way back to the future. Half Whitelighters don't have all the abilities a regular Whitelighter had such as immortality. If she did blow up Chris, he wouldn't come back he would die! How exactly did evil hurt, Wyatt? Her little angel and in what way? Hell, why wasn't she able to protect him from evil? She is a Charmed One for god sake. Well, there were three things sorted now, one in the morning, she would free Chris, second she was going to give both boys one massive piece of her mind for hiding this big secret and third she was going to find out what exactly they mean by evil hurting Wyatt. And she wasn't buying into that 'Future Consequences' rubbish excuse for another second.
End of chapter 10.
