It had been two days and the Charmed Ones were still with the Young Three. They still had no ideas or leads on the demon that was the threat this time, and Lynn's dream had not come.
"Phoebe! Hurry up! I've got to meet my friends! It's only a football game for Pete's sake!" Lynn yelled up the stairs.
"I'm coming! I'm just getting ready!" Phoebe yelled back.
"For an hour?" Lynn said to herself as she checked her watch. It was already 6:30pm and Lynn told her friends that she would meet them at 6:45-ish.
Lynn walked into the kitchen.
"Where is Phoebe?" Piper asked putting on a coat that she borrowed from Nicole.
"She's still upstairs." Lynn replied getting her own coat.
"Honestly. Just leave it to a professional." Prue said after she put on a coat she borrowed from Hallie, then went upstairs.
After a few minutes, and a couple thuds, Prue had Phoebe by the ear and was leading her down the stairs.
"Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Okay, okay. Jeez. I'm ready, let's go." Phoebe said as she picked up a coat. "Oh, I'm gonna borrow this too." Phoebe told Lynn.
Lynn just nodded and pushed Phoebe out the door.
**
When they got to the game, they all stared around.
"I haven't been to a game in years." Phoebe squealed, then ran over to the small snack shack.
"Yeah, it's kind of good she hasn't been to a game in years. The last one she went to, she hit on all the players." Prue laughed.
"I heard that!" Phoebe said joining the group again. "And they were all my age, so it was cool. Of course, I wouldn't dream of doing that now."
"Sure Pheebs, whatever you say." Piper said sarcastically.
"Hey guys, can we spare the tiff? Let's just go grab a bleacher bench and relax." Jess said.
After they were all seated and were looking at the field, Prue asked, "Okay, so who are we cheering on?"
"The Chargers. They're the red and blue...well, their uniforms have a lot of white, but just yell 'Go Chargers' or something." Lynn said.
"Go Chargers!" Phoebe screamed.
"Phoebe, maybe you should wait until the game actually starts." Prue said.
"Oh, I see Ashley!" Jess said pointing.
Lynn looked and waved. Ashley looked, saw Lynn, waved back, and made her way toward them.
Ashley sat down and said, "Hey guys."
Everyone nodded or smiled or gave a 'hello.'
After the game had started, Lynn thought she saw the shadow. Without taking her eyes off the shadow, she grabbed who was ever next to her, which happened to be Phoebe, and whispered, "Shadow."
Lynn and Phoebe quickly got up and made their way across to the shadow. It would have been easier to cut through the field, but since there was a game going on, they had to walk around.
"You came from the Charger side. Go back, go back, go, go, go." An annoying blonde cheerleader said trying to start a cheer, but it didn't work. The cheerleader just look discouraged and went over to her friends.
"If Lisa wasn't a cheerleader I would really say something stereotypically mean right now." Lynn said going under the bleachers.
"Okay, so where is it?" Phoebe asked walking behind Lynn.
"I saw over there...hey! There it goes! Come on!" Lynn practically yelled and they dashed off after the shadow.
The shadow led them onto the pitchers mound of the baseball field and vanished.
"Where'd it go?" Phoebe asked looking around.
"I don't know." Lynn replied.
They looked around for a little bit, then they heard a wave of cheers from the Charger fans, so they headed back.
"We are the Wildcats! The mighty, mighty Wildcats!" The cheerleaders screamed as Phoebe and Lynn passed them.
After they made it back to their seats, they explained what happened.
"Too weird." Prue said.
"Well, I don't see what you can do about it now." Ashley said.
"Yeah. I mean I really do want to beat this thing and get home, but there's nothing we can do now. I say we just enjoy the game and when we know, we know." Piper said.
They all knew she was talking about Lynns dream that would be coming soon.
"So, who's up for some popcorn or something?" Nicole asked.
Everyone said 'yes' in various different ways, but they all said it.
"Okay, so popcorns and sodas? Alright." Nicole said.
"I'll help carry." Ashley said and then Nicole and Ashley went to get the popcorn and soda.
"Oh, oh...Go Chargers! Yay!" Prue yelled.
"All this spirit is getting to her." Piper said.
"At least I've got spirit. You're just moping. We're at a game, be happy." Prue said and then cheered again.
"Okay, who are you and what have you done with my real sister?" Piper joked.
"You're so funny Piper. You should go into stand-up." Prue replied.
Phoebe shuddered.
"Something wrong?" Piper asked.
"No," Phoebe told them. "It's just that I've heard that comeback before. Nine years from now..."
Everyone laughed a little.
"Oh relax. That was a while ago...or is it a while from now? Future stuff still confuses me. Hey...who is that?" Piper asked looking at a football player.
"Oh, so you guys make fun of me for hitting on the players!" Phoebe said.
"No...he seems weird." Piper said not taking her eyes away from the boy.
"That...oh, ick. That's Rick Nolan. He thinks he's hot stuff, but he's just a jerk. Even though he thinks he's all that, he really isn't. He's got like no friends and he's dumb as anything." Lynn said and sighed, annoyed.
"Oh. He just seems...weird." Piper said.
"Maybe that's because he's a warlock." A voice said.
Piper practically jumped off the bleachers.
"Oh my gosh! Who is that?" Piper asked.
"Sorry if I scared you there. You must be Piper. And this must be Prue and...Phoebe." The boy said.
"Yeah...but who are you?" Prue asked.
"Oh that's just Duncan. He's Hallie's boyfriend." Jess said, then added in a whisper, "He's a good male witch too."
"Yep. I sure am. And I've heard all about you...well, stories. Hallie filled in the rest. Your lives are so amusing. Hey, why can't my life be exciting?" Duncan said and sat down.
"Because you live in Pennsylvania." Lynn replied not taking her eyes away from the game.
"Right. That little fact has ruined it all. Oh well, at least I've got something not many of these jokers do." Duncan said and formed a small red light in his hand.
"Duncan!" Hallie said.
"Sorry. The whole not using powers in public. Sorry." Duncan apologized.
"Hey, you said that Rick was a warlock." Phoebe said.
"Yes I did." Duncan replied looking at the field.
"Duncan, don't do this..." Jess pleaded.
"Well, you see," Duncan said ignoring Jess, "I have a theory that he's a warlock. He's showing all the signs. The many absences, weird stuff happening around him, and you know all the classic stuff. I was thinking of exposing him the one day with the dust, but Hallie wouldn't let me."
"You wanted to expose him in the middle of math class!" Hallie exclaimed.
"So?" Duncan said.
"For one," Hallie said, "You broke into the highschool and it wasn't even our math class! You were supposed to be at the college writing a report!"
"Minor deatils." Duncan said.
Nicole and Ashley came back with the popcorn and sodas. After everyone got one, Ashley said, "Oh Duncan. You came a little late. We don't have anything for you."
Duncan smiled and said, "Oh that's alright. I'm not really hungry anyway." Duncan looked at the game and yelled, "You suck!" Then he chuckled a little evily.
"Duncan!" Hallie exclaimed.
"What? I was just criticizing them...giving them something to work on." Duncan said and took a handful of Hallie's popcorn.
Prue watched as Rick talked to his friends and left the field. He was heading toward the baseball field.
"Hey, what's he doing?" Prue asked.
"Huh? Oh Rick...I'll go see." Duncan said, then before anyone could say anything, he disappeared in a small red light.
"Wow...he's certainly very...." Piper stared, but couldn't find the words.
"Indescribable, isn't he?" Lynn said.
"Yeah." Piper sort of mumbled.
"Do you think he'll be alright?" Phoebe asked.
Jess chuckled a little.
"Him? He'll be fine. He thinks he can handle anything. I mean, he can handle a lot of stuff, but we have had to bail him out a few times. But Rick...he can handle Rick." Jess said.
After a few minutes, Duncan came back in a small mass of red lights.
"Nothing. He wasn't over there. I dunno...he could've gone to get a piece of equipment or something, but I think he was gone to summon something evil." Duncan said.
Hallie just rolled her eyes.
**
The game lasted for about an hour. After it was done, everyone walked back to the house, Lynn only lived a stone throw away.
"That was exciting." Prue said taking off her coat.
"Yeah. I can't believe that we actually won." Lynn said.
"It's about nine isn't it? Uh-oh. I was supposed to be home a half hour ago...oh well. I don't even think the parentals are home yet anyway." Duncan said and sat down at the small kitchen table.
"Hey, I would like to hop back to the demon or warlock subject for just a second here. Duncan, you said that Rick might be summoning? Summoning what?" Phoebe asked.
"Well, assuming that he is a warlock, which I believe he is, he would try to summon a very powerful, legendary demon. It's not like he would go summon the Tooth Fairy or something. He would need someone really strong." Duncan replied.
"But he probably isn't a warlock, so you can forget that." Jess said.
Duncan was about to say something, when Cole shimmered in.
"Ahhhhh!" Duncan squealed and dashed behind Hallie.
Jess held back her laughter.
"Something you need?" Prue asked.
"Uh...kinda." Cole said looking at Duncan like he was crazy.
"Well? Are you going to tell us or stand there all night?" Prue asked.
"Right. Anyway, I was curious about something...and worried about another." Cole said.
"Oh, gag." Jess said and walked into the living room.
"Oh, I second that." Lynn said and followed Jess.
"Third it." Prue said and she too walked into the living room.
"Fourth." Piper said and left.
"Fifth." Hallie and joined the others in the living room. Duncan didn't say anything, he just followed Hallie.
Everyone in the living room could hear voices from the kitchen.
"They've been chatting for a while now...who wants to go in?" Prue asked.
"I vote for Duncan the Brave." Jess joked.
Duncan looked at Jess and gave her a sarcastic laugh.
"Well, since they probably won't be done talking for a while...what's been up with school?" Piper asked.
"I'm taking Spanish. It seems to be going...well." Hallie replied.
"Oh, what can you say?" Prue asked.
"No quiero dormir." Hallie replied.
"I don't want to sleep. Gripping, isn't it?" Lynn said and faked the chills.
Everyone chuckled a little and Phoebe came into the living room.
"We weren't expecting you so soon. We've got nothing prepared." Jess joked.
Phoebe just smiled weakly and sat down on the already crowded couch.
"You know..." Phoebe started, but Jess broke in.
"If this has something to do with evil, I don't even want to hear it. It's going to ruin the perfectly good, happy mood."
Phoebe said, "Sorry, but it is. Guys, a woman was murdered yesterday. She might have been a witch, but they're not sure."
Lynn didn't want to hear that. It just put more stress on her.
"Phoebe! Hurry up! I've got to meet my friends! It's only a football game for Pete's sake!" Lynn yelled up the stairs.
"I'm coming! I'm just getting ready!" Phoebe yelled back.
"For an hour?" Lynn said to herself as she checked her watch. It was already 6:30pm and Lynn told her friends that she would meet them at 6:45-ish.
Lynn walked into the kitchen.
"Where is Phoebe?" Piper asked putting on a coat that she borrowed from Nicole.
"She's still upstairs." Lynn replied getting her own coat.
"Honestly. Just leave it to a professional." Prue said after she put on a coat she borrowed from Hallie, then went upstairs.
After a few minutes, and a couple thuds, Prue had Phoebe by the ear and was leading her down the stairs.
"Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Okay, okay. Jeez. I'm ready, let's go." Phoebe said as she picked up a coat. "Oh, I'm gonna borrow this too." Phoebe told Lynn.
Lynn just nodded and pushed Phoebe out the door.
**
When they got to the game, they all stared around.
"I haven't been to a game in years." Phoebe squealed, then ran over to the small snack shack.
"Yeah, it's kind of good she hasn't been to a game in years. The last one she went to, she hit on all the players." Prue laughed.
"I heard that!" Phoebe said joining the group again. "And they were all my age, so it was cool. Of course, I wouldn't dream of doing that now."
"Sure Pheebs, whatever you say." Piper said sarcastically.
"Hey guys, can we spare the tiff? Let's just go grab a bleacher bench and relax." Jess said.
After they were all seated and were looking at the field, Prue asked, "Okay, so who are we cheering on?"
"The Chargers. They're the red and blue...well, their uniforms have a lot of white, but just yell 'Go Chargers' or something." Lynn said.
"Go Chargers!" Phoebe screamed.
"Phoebe, maybe you should wait until the game actually starts." Prue said.
"Oh, I see Ashley!" Jess said pointing.
Lynn looked and waved. Ashley looked, saw Lynn, waved back, and made her way toward them.
Ashley sat down and said, "Hey guys."
Everyone nodded or smiled or gave a 'hello.'
After the game had started, Lynn thought she saw the shadow. Without taking her eyes off the shadow, she grabbed who was ever next to her, which happened to be Phoebe, and whispered, "Shadow."
Lynn and Phoebe quickly got up and made their way across to the shadow. It would have been easier to cut through the field, but since there was a game going on, they had to walk around.
"You came from the Charger side. Go back, go back, go, go, go." An annoying blonde cheerleader said trying to start a cheer, but it didn't work. The cheerleader just look discouraged and went over to her friends.
"If Lisa wasn't a cheerleader I would really say something stereotypically mean right now." Lynn said going under the bleachers.
"Okay, so where is it?" Phoebe asked walking behind Lynn.
"I saw over there...hey! There it goes! Come on!" Lynn practically yelled and they dashed off after the shadow.
The shadow led them onto the pitchers mound of the baseball field and vanished.
"Where'd it go?" Phoebe asked looking around.
"I don't know." Lynn replied.
They looked around for a little bit, then they heard a wave of cheers from the Charger fans, so they headed back.
"We are the Wildcats! The mighty, mighty Wildcats!" The cheerleaders screamed as Phoebe and Lynn passed them.
After they made it back to their seats, they explained what happened.
"Too weird." Prue said.
"Well, I don't see what you can do about it now." Ashley said.
"Yeah. I mean I really do want to beat this thing and get home, but there's nothing we can do now. I say we just enjoy the game and when we know, we know." Piper said.
They all knew she was talking about Lynns dream that would be coming soon.
"So, who's up for some popcorn or something?" Nicole asked.
Everyone said 'yes' in various different ways, but they all said it.
"Okay, so popcorns and sodas? Alright." Nicole said.
"I'll help carry." Ashley said and then Nicole and Ashley went to get the popcorn and soda.
"Oh, oh...Go Chargers! Yay!" Prue yelled.
"All this spirit is getting to her." Piper said.
"At least I've got spirit. You're just moping. We're at a game, be happy." Prue said and then cheered again.
"Okay, who are you and what have you done with my real sister?" Piper joked.
"You're so funny Piper. You should go into stand-up." Prue replied.
Phoebe shuddered.
"Something wrong?" Piper asked.
"No," Phoebe told them. "It's just that I've heard that comeback before. Nine years from now..."
Everyone laughed a little.
"Oh relax. That was a while ago...or is it a while from now? Future stuff still confuses me. Hey...who is that?" Piper asked looking at a football player.
"Oh, so you guys make fun of me for hitting on the players!" Phoebe said.
"No...he seems weird." Piper said not taking her eyes away from the boy.
"That...oh, ick. That's Rick Nolan. He thinks he's hot stuff, but he's just a jerk. Even though he thinks he's all that, he really isn't. He's got like no friends and he's dumb as anything." Lynn said and sighed, annoyed.
"Oh. He just seems...weird." Piper said.
"Maybe that's because he's a warlock." A voice said.
Piper practically jumped off the bleachers.
"Oh my gosh! Who is that?" Piper asked.
"Sorry if I scared you there. You must be Piper. And this must be Prue and...Phoebe." The boy said.
"Yeah...but who are you?" Prue asked.
"Oh that's just Duncan. He's Hallie's boyfriend." Jess said, then added in a whisper, "He's a good male witch too."
"Yep. I sure am. And I've heard all about you...well, stories. Hallie filled in the rest. Your lives are so amusing. Hey, why can't my life be exciting?" Duncan said and sat down.
"Because you live in Pennsylvania." Lynn replied not taking her eyes away from the game.
"Right. That little fact has ruined it all. Oh well, at least I've got something not many of these jokers do." Duncan said and formed a small red light in his hand.
"Duncan!" Hallie said.
"Sorry. The whole not using powers in public. Sorry." Duncan apologized.
"Hey, you said that Rick was a warlock." Phoebe said.
"Yes I did." Duncan replied looking at the field.
"Duncan, don't do this..." Jess pleaded.
"Well, you see," Duncan said ignoring Jess, "I have a theory that he's a warlock. He's showing all the signs. The many absences, weird stuff happening around him, and you know all the classic stuff. I was thinking of exposing him the one day with the dust, but Hallie wouldn't let me."
"You wanted to expose him in the middle of math class!" Hallie exclaimed.
"So?" Duncan said.
"For one," Hallie said, "You broke into the highschool and it wasn't even our math class! You were supposed to be at the college writing a report!"
"Minor deatils." Duncan said.
Nicole and Ashley came back with the popcorn and sodas. After everyone got one, Ashley said, "Oh Duncan. You came a little late. We don't have anything for you."
Duncan smiled and said, "Oh that's alright. I'm not really hungry anyway." Duncan looked at the game and yelled, "You suck!" Then he chuckled a little evily.
"Duncan!" Hallie exclaimed.
"What? I was just criticizing them...giving them something to work on." Duncan said and took a handful of Hallie's popcorn.
Prue watched as Rick talked to his friends and left the field. He was heading toward the baseball field.
"Hey, what's he doing?" Prue asked.
"Huh? Oh Rick...I'll go see." Duncan said, then before anyone could say anything, he disappeared in a small red light.
"Wow...he's certainly very...." Piper stared, but couldn't find the words.
"Indescribable, isn't he?" Lynn said.
"Yeah." Piper sort of mumbled.
"Do you think he'll be alright?" Phoebe asked.
Jess chuckled a little.
"Him? He'll be fine. He thinks he can handle anything. I mean, he can handle a lot of stuff, but we have had to bail him out a few times. But Rick...he can handle Rick." Jess said.
After a few minutes, Duncan came back in a small mass of red lights.
"Nothing. He wasn't over there. I dunno...he could've gone to get a piece of equipment or something, but I think he was gone to summon something evil." Duncan said.
Hallie just rolled her eyes.
**
The game lasted for about an hour. After it was done, everyone walked back to the house, Lynn only lived a stone throw away.
"That was exciting." Prue said taking off her coat.
"Yeah. I can't believe that we actually won." Lynn said.
"It's about nine isn't it? Uh-oh. I was supposed to be home a half hour ago...oh well. I don't even think the parentals are home yet anyway." Duncan said and sat down at the small kitchen table.
"Hey, I would like to hop back to the demon or warlock subject for just a second here. Duncan, you said that Rick might be summoning? Summoning what?" Phoebe asked.
"Well, assuming that he is a warlock, which I believe he is, he would try to summon a very powerful, legendary demon. It's not like he would go summon the Tooth Fairy or something. He would need someone really strong." Duncan replied.
"But he probably isn't a warlock, so you can forget that." Jess said.
Duncan was about to say something, when Cole shimmered in.
"Ahhhhh!" Duncan squealed and dashed behind Hallie.
Jess held back her laughter.
"Something you need?" Prue asked.
"Uh...kinda." Cole said looking at Duncan like he was crazy.
"Well? Are you going to tell us or stand there all night?" Prue asked.
"Right. Anyway, I was curious about something...and worried about another." Cole said.
"Oh, gag." Jess said and walked into the living room.
"Oh, I second that." Lynn said and followed Jess.
"Third it." Prue said and she too walked into the living room.
"Fourth." Piper said and left.
"Fifth." Hallie and joined the others in the living room. Duncan didn't say anything, he just followed Hallie.
Everyone in the living room could hear voices from the kitchen.
"They've been chatting for a while now...who wants to go in?" Prue asked.
"I vote for Duncan the Brave." Jess joked.
Duncan looked at Jess and gave her a sarcastic laugh.
"Well, since they probably won't be done talking for a while...what's been up with school?" Piper asked.
"I'm taking Spanish. It seems to be going...well." Hallie replied.
"Oh, what can you say?" Prue asked.
"No quiero dormir." Hallie replied.
"I don't want to sleep. Gripping, isn't it?" Lynn said and faked the chills.
Everyone chuckled a little and Phoebe came into the living room.
"We weren't expecting you so soon. We've got nothing prepared." Jess joked.
Phoebe just smiled weakly and sat down on the already crowded couch.
"You know..." Phoebe started, but Jess broke in.
"If this has something to do with evil, I don't even want to hear it. It's going to ruin the perfectly good, happy mood."
Phoebe said, "Sorry, but it is. Guys, a woman was murdered yesterday. She might have been a witch, but they're not sure."
Lynn didn't want to hear that. It just put more stress on her.
