*The morning*
Charli awoke to the delicious smell of bacon and eggs wafting through the house. She smiled and got up, then frowned, remembering that they had no clothes with them. "Damn."
Waltzing into the kitchen she stopped for a second. It was crowded, with half-asleep beings with dripping wet hair (from the shower), toast in mouths and some carrying plates of food that...
"Oh damn Kirsten. You spilt scrambled eggs on my foot." She moaned. Piper was there in a clinch with a cloth and she was ordered up to the shower, and to borrow clothes from Phoebe. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get the idea, and yes I do know here it is, I lived here my entire life."
Prue looked up from reading her paper, 'she must got that morning attitude from me', she thought, allowing herself a small smile. Then remembering Phoebe she frowned. Would the hurt ever go away?
Breakfast was finished and all showers were taken and all the Warren descendants began to clean up the house. "Whoa there Laura, gonna spill the milk." Prue pointed out, getting up and helping her sit upright in the chair. The little girl smiled at her, grasping her hand. Suddenly she shuddered, much like Phoebe did when she had a premonition. The whole kitchen stopped what they were doing and looked at her, Melinda rushed over and wrapped her arms around the tiny shoulders.
"What is it darling?" She cooed, stroking her cheeks. "What did you see?"
"Mummy, and Aunty Prue and Phoebe." She answered. "They was getting hurt again."
As she tried to explain it to the girls, Piper ran up stairs and yelled at the members of the Halliwell family all to hurry up, they were going out. On an impulse, she rushed into the attic, found the un-binding spell, wrote it down quickly and rushed back down the stairs to meet up with the odd assembly of girls, one boy and her two sisters (still not speaking to one another), rushing out the door to get to this place to stop the premonition from happening.
They got into the cars. Piper driving hers with Phoebe in the front seat, and Kirsten, Melinda and Laura in the back. Prue drove her car with Patti in the front, Andy, Charli and Jasmin in the back. Piper went in front with the little girl telling her where to go. After a few wrong turns, they made it to the dark alleyway (oh how americanish) where they saw the small lightning shots coming from the alley opening.
"Okay then, this looks like the place." Phoebe said, getting out of the car. All ten witches piled out of the car and strode confidently towards the entrance. As they went in, both Piper and Patti raised their hands at the same time and froze it.
"Whoa." Piper said, staring at her. "You have my power."
"Yeah." Patti replied. "I think we may have left that part out."
All three Halliwells nodded and they all strode into the alley. In the centre of the alley were three little men, all with their frozen little hands with their frozen little lightning bolts pointed at a frozen little girl in the middle of the three. Instantly Prue and Melinda raised their hands and one little man went flying. They both smiled until three more little men blinked in.
"Smallest warlocks I've ever seen." Phoebe remarked, just as Kirsten conjured an energy ball the size of a tennis ball and threw it at another of the little men, whilst Andy set one alight, just looking at it. Instantly it went up in flames, screaming.
Subconsciously, the seven young witches started to form a semicircle, Charli and Laura in the middle. They stood behind the Charmed Ones, linking hands.
The little men started to retaliate by getting more and more of their number, but Andy kept burning them, Melinda and Prue would throw them against walls, impale them on things, Piper and Patti would freeze them to give them more time, Kirsten would continue to throw energy balls at them, Patti would Astral project, Melinda would orb and Jasmin would shimmer to confuse them, and after a while so did Prue. Suddenly, they were all gone.
The seven young witches dropped their hands and looked up at the expectant eyes of their mothers.
"What?" Melinda asked, grabbing Laura's hand again. "Hey, where'd that little girl go?"
No one noticed the little girl slipping through the shadows; her eyes glinted a strange green for a second then back to normal brown. She vanished.
"Prue. I have the un-binding spell right here. If we do it now, we can find out what Charli's powers are and then help her with them?" Piper said, pulling the paper out of her pocket. Prue took it and looked at it. Then looking up into the expectant eyes of her daughter.
"Mum, Prue, you saw how useless I was; all I could do was channel my ability to help them. Please." Prue nodded and recited the spell.
Authors note: I am terribly sorry but I don't know if they ever showed the binding or un-binding spell. But if they did, I don't want to ruin it. Thanx.
Charli smiled and flinched. "Whoa. I think I may be an Empath. I can feel all your emotions."
She shook her head and the Charmed Ones and the other six spent the next hour finding out what her power was and how to use it.
She was an Empath, probably inherited from Prue's few hours of being one and she had Metamorphing. She could change one thing into another. But she was given rules, like the original object and the one she was going to turn it into had to be relatively the same weight.
After she had finally gotten grips on it both Phoebe and Laura had another premonition.
"Oh, you all need to go back, now." Phoebe told them all, referring to the premonition and what it was of. "Go, go, go."
Smiling at her three gorgeous children, Phoebe hugged them. Piper hugged her two and kissed them both. Prue walked over to her tow and hugged them also.
"We love you Prue. Remember that okay?" The seven young witches took a step back, re-forming the previous semi-circle. They started chanting, mist forming around their feet.
"A time for every thing,
A time for us,
Return what has been taken,
Through love and grace."
The three Charmed ones watched as the mist claimed the seven witches and they vanished. They smiled and turned around, bumping into Leo.
"Leo, where have you been?" Piper asked, leaning up on her tippy-toes to kiss him. "Did you see them?"
"Yes I did." He answered. "But unfortunately the Elders didn't want you remembering this experience. I'm sorry."
They all closed their eyes and when they opened them again...
"What are we doing her?" Piper asked. "Leo?"
"You came to vanquish some little leprechauns that sold their souls. They were teasing a little girl." He answered, taking Piper's arm and leading them all back to the cars. "Phoebe, remember you had that premonition."
They all just nodded dumbly and got in the car.
"We love you." Whispered through the alley.
