Halliwell Destinies
Chapter 8
Leo was at her side when she looked up, he grabbed her hand. They orbed then, into the sitting room of the house.
"I orbed!" Pierce cried desperately.
Leo smiled and put his hand over her wounds. Healing them instantly. He touched her stomach and smiled then nodded at her.
"Jason saved my life." Pierce said lying on the floor.
"Killers can be hero's." Cole said with a smile.
Chris lifted her off of the floor and onto the sofa. He kissed her forehead and he smiled. She smiled back at him.
"I couldn't orb and so I ran." Pierce said with a smile.
Everyone laughed in the room except Piper. She looked totally shaken up.
"Piper?" Leo said.
"Yeah..." She said.
"Are you okay?" He asked her leaning towards her.
"I'm fine. I'm just glad Pierce is okay." Piper said with a smile.
"Pierce is fine." Pierce said in the third person as she sat up.
Piper smiled.
"I felt like one of those dumb girls in the horror movies. You know the ones that run up the stairs instead of out the front door." Pierce said.
"We had thought that you just orbed somewhere else so we waited and when I could feel you were hurt I orbed to you." Leo said.
"Well I'm fine aren't I?" Pierce said looking at Piper.
"You are." Chris said winking at her.
"Oh shut up." Pierce said but she blushed.
Pierce went into work the next day knowing that she was probably in for a lot of trouble. She was in her office for nearly half of the day before Darryl came in absolutely furious.
"Pierce, I have got a bunch of dead people, four terrified witnesses and one freaked out camp counselor. What are you going to do about it?" Darryl said.
"Darryl those guys are gone. We blew them up." Pierce said.
"Yes see if I went and said that my partner blew them up I think that would sound a little weird. Don't you think so, Pierce?"
"Yes, it would. So what do you want me to do? Bring them back?"
"No, but what are we suppose to do?"
"I don't know. Leave it to rest. Let them think you're on it then don't do anything with it." Pierce suggested.
"How about I think of something on my own?" Darryl said leaving.
"Fine." She said and sat back down at her desk.
They had left the phone call making up to her Benny down the hall. Benny had given her half of the list, the half with the Missouri sisters on it. She picked up the phone and dialed the number.
"Missouri residence." A bored voice said across the line.
"Jennifer or James Missouri please." Pierce said nervously.
"Who may I say is calling?" the maid said.
"Detective Pierce." Pierce said leaving out her last name on purpose.
Darryl came in while she was on hold and she wrote on a piece of paper that she was calling Jennifer Wilder Missouri. He nodded and took a seat in front of her desk.
"This is Jennifer Missouri." A soft gentle voice said over the line.
"Mrs. Missouri, this is Detective Halliwell. I was calling to request your presence at the San Francisco Police department." Pierce said wincing.
"Halliwell?" She said slowly. "What for?"
"To identify the," she took a deep breath. "Bodies of your daughters."
The woman gasped. She heard something drop.
"When, Detective?" she asked.
"As soon as possible Mrs. Missouri." Pierce said.
"Thank you, I can be down there this afternoon." She said shakily.
The rest of the day ticked past until her door opened and Darryl told her that the Missouri woman was here to see her. Pierce dusted off her black shirt and her jeans, which was her basic uniform for work. She rubbed her tummy which was very noticeable because of the shirt even though she was hardly pushing 6 months.
"How's my little god baby?" Darryl asked her.
She shot Darryl a look as they walked out of the office.
"I heard something." Darryl said eyeing her.
"What did you hear?" Pierce asked.
"That not only is a certain someone going to be hearing the pitter patter of little feet but the sound of dum dum du dum." Darryl said with a smile.
"No way! Who told you that?" Pierce asked very surprised.
"I heard it. Are you going to invite me to your wedding?" Darryl joked.
"Shut up." She said as they approached the front desk.
"Hey Jenny. Mrs. Missouri here to see Pierce?" Darryl asked the receptionist.
"Missouri? Oh you mean Wilder? The mother of the Missouri girls?" Jenny answered.
"Yeah." Pierce said looking at her.
"Ms. Wilder." Jenny said.
A woman with thick long dark brown hair stood up. She was dressed in a multi colored poncho much like the one that Pierce had had since as long as she could remember. She slept with it sometimes because it smelled like her Dad's home. She was thin and short and looked remarkably like Paige.
"Ms. Wilder. I'm detective Pierce Halliwell." Pierce forced the words out, she was stunned at the beauty of this woman.
"I brought my brother. He was called this morning about his daughter Susan." Jennifer Wilder said as an older man who looked weathered stepped up.
This was Paige's father, Pierce thought, the man she had thought was her father. He didn't look so much like Paige but his eyes, they were Paige's eyes. Pierce smiled and turned to walk down the hallway to the back of the building with Darryl leading. They walked through a large hall and into another building. The San Francisco Morgue. It was over flowing with people who were supposed to come identify their loved ones. It made Pierce hurt to think about the day that she opened those files to see the stone cold body of her favorite person.
"I lost my eldest daughter." The woman said behind her.
"I heard, I'm very sorry for your numerous losses Ms. Wilder." Pierce said without looking at her, it hurt too much.
"I'm very sorry of yours as well." She said, Pierce expected she had known who she was.
"Did you know my father?" Pierce said, knowing that the woman wouldn't catch her sarcasm.
"I knew him." She said, she knew that Pierce knew what she meant.
"My father was a great man." Pierce said as they checked in at the front desk.
"That he definitely was." She said mournfully.
They walked quietly behind the coroner. He led them to a room filled with bodies. It made Pierce sick despite the amount of time she had spent with the dead.
"Yes." Jennifer Wilder nodded tear running down her face as the coroner uncovered the two girls.
It hurt Pierce to see her mother hurting. She touched her arm and nodded. The coroner took Sam to his daughter and Sam also nodded solemnly. Darryl put his hand on his shoulder and led him out of the area that reeked of the dead. They walked the two back to Pierce's office so she could record that the three girls had been identified.
"Pierce, I never would have thought you to become a detective." Jennifer said with a small smile.
"It seems to be my calling to uncover the truth and save lives." Pierce said looking at her mother.
"Well said. I am glad you have found your path as a charmed one. You are a sister witch by your fathers blood." Her mother said.
Pierce nodded.
"How is Paige?" Sam asked.
"She is doing good. She is comfortable in her skin and that is the important part right?" Pierce said looking back down at the file.
"Can I see her?" he said shakily.
He seemed like such a large strong man all on his own. Pierce nodded. She wasn't sure why she had decided to let this man see the daughter he had abandoned but she agreed.
Pierce opened the door. Sam and Jennifer Wilder behind her and Darryl behind them. She walked them into the solarium where everyone was sitting playing with baby Chris and Wyatt. Chris got up off of the floor the moment she came in, he hugged her then looked behind her to see her mother, Paige's father and Darryl who smiled.
"Is this the father?" Her mother asked.
"Yes, this is Chris Perry Wyatt Halliwell." Pierce introduced Chris he shook her hand then Sam's.
"Hi Sam." Paige said.
"Paige." Sam said he smiled at her.
Everyone in the family was introduced to Jennifer Wilder but everyone else already seemed to know Sam except for Cole. Pierce's mother and Paige's father stayed for dinner that night and left with the promise of seeing both of their children soon.
"I'm sorry for bringing them so unexpectedly but they had just both lost children and I didn't know how to say no to them and I really want to know my mom." Pierce said looking at the ground.
"Pierce, she was a lovely lady." Leo said with a smile.
Pierce groaned as she grabbed a cup of coffee she didn't want to go to work today but she knew she had to. She had decided on wearing another black shirt and jeans but she didn't mind seeing that everyone else wore suits. She was walking through the kitchen and into the dinning room to go out the front door when the cup she held in her hand suddenly exploded, pieces of it cut her. She looked up to see Bryan staring her down.
"Hi, honey. Thought you go rid of me did you?" he said his voice crawled with death and his teeth were an ugly yellow color.
"What..." Pierce was cut off when he sent a fireball, she ducked it.
"You went and got knocked up did you? That couldn't possibly be my child since you killed me almost a year ago! Maybe you didn't kill me so much as your royal bodyguard did! Can you do anything without your whitelighter's? Well I guess you can't get pregnant without him!" Another fireball that whizzed by her ear.
"Get out of here you sick freak." Pierce hissed.
"Finally found the power to stand up to me? Is it because you think that any minute the charmed ones will come down here and save you? Or Leo? Or Chris that filthy whitelighter?" Bryan laughed. "They don't care about you. You are just another fragment to their twisted puzzle."
"Bryan are you actually calling them twisted?" Pierce said, she couldn't hide her amazement.
"I should be the one getting credit for this! And I should be the one who put the bun in that oven! Not that damn whitelighter!" Bryan shot another one at her, this was grazing her shoulder.
The burn made Pierce scream. It stung like you wouldn't believe. She decided enough was enough and sent out a energy ball the moment he sent another fireball out aiming for her stomach. She orbed and it went right past through where she was but it hit one of Piper's favorite vases. The energy ball hit Bryan off guard and got him right in the stomach. The blue light that swirled around where his body should have been confused Pierce but she clomped up the stairs to change.
"What the hell happened down here?" She heard Leo said as she came back down the stairs.
"Bryan showed up and I had to do a little damage control. If Piper can wait long enough I will clean it up when I come home but I am late for work." Pierce said going out the front door.
"Pierce! Your shoulder!" Leo said following her out of the front door.
Pierce's mother had come that morning and asked her to have lunch. Pierce agreed and at noon she met her mother at the restaurant down the street where she and Darryl sometimes ate lunch and he would tell her about his old partner Andy. It was always interesting but this was more so.
"Hello, how are you?" After seeing her mother two times in a row in clothes that showed similar to Pierce's and Piper's closest she came to the conclusion that they were a bit more a like then she would admit.
"I have been better. And yourself?" Pierce asked her.
"Always better." She answered taking her seat.
"That's good." Pierce said awkwardly.
"I should just get right down to the point. I know you want to know things that if you don't know them could interfere in us having any sort of relationship." Her mother said bluntly.
"That's probably true." Pierce said knowing it was absolutely true.
"I loved your father and he loved me. Your father and your Aunt Patty were always close in the beginning and the birth of all of her children made it more so. With her death brought a man I didn't know. He married and I had to come to his door and tell him that I was pregnant with his child. He said that was impossible that I was dead and then he thought back on the birth of Paige and knew it was true. So we decided it was in the best interest of the child to be thought of as Patty and Victors daughter. To keep the elders at bay. For some strange reason Patrick didn't want you to be raised with the girls and he didn't want you to know them. He tried to bind tour powers when you where young but by the time you were 15 you had broken through his binding power." Her mother looked at her seeing if she should go on.
"So, I could have possibly been raised around a bunch of girls that were close to my age then being raised with brothers and sisters that weren't very fond of me?" Pierce said looking at her mother.
"I told Patrick that you should be raised around children like you instead of around his wives children. Well since I knew there was no hope for a normal life with me around a wondered around in search of a charge or charges when I met James. We have three beautiful daughters but he later divorced me and moved in with his twenty year old secretary. The girls lived with him and he found it infuriating when they called me to identify them... After your battle with what was killing people you became legendary."
"Me? Legendary? I screamed and ran like a baby." Pierce said laughing.
"Your sisters were already quite known for their powers and that was your chance to prove yourself, by the elders." She said.
"So the elders were testing me to see how fast I could run?" Pierce said.
"Testing you to see what you could do without magic." She corrected her daughter.
"I can run without magic. And I can fall without magic and I can sit on the ground and get stabbed in the arm without magic. Is that why I couldn't orb?" Pierce annoyed.
"Yes, they didn't create the killers but they had the power to kill them all instantly. They just thought you deserved a shot."
"Are you an elder lover too?" Pierce asked her.
"Hardly." She said, her eyes wandered to the ceiling.
Pierce's cell phone rang shrilly and she turned to answer it. It was Phoebe.
"Pierce, we need you home, pronto! It really is a matter of life and death."
Chapter 8
Leo was at her side when she looked up, he grabbed her hand. They orbed then, into the sitting room of the house.
"I orbed!" Pierce cried desperately.
Leo smiled and put his hand over her wounds. Healing them instantly. He touched her stomach and smiled then nodded at her.
"Jason saved my life." Pierce said lying on the floor.
"Killers can be hero's." Cole said with a smile.
Chris lifted her off of the floor and onto the sofa. He kissed her forehead and he smiled. She smiled back at him.
"I couldn't orb and so I ran." Pierce said with a smile.
Everyone laughed in the room except Piper. She looked totally shaken up.
"Piper?" Leo said.
"Yeah..." She said.
"Are you okay?" He asked her leaning towards her.
"I'm fine. I'm just glad Pierce is okay." Piper said with a smile.
"Pierce is fine." Pierce said in the third person as she sat up.
Piper smiled.
"I felt like one of those dumb girls in the horror movies. You know the ones that run up the stairs instead of out the front door." Pierce said.
"We had thought that you just orbed somewhere else so we waited and when I could feel you were hurt I orbed to you." Leo said.
"Well I'm fine aren't I?" Pierce said looking at Piper.
"You are." Chris said winking at her.
"Oh shut up." Pierce said but she blushed.
Pierce went into work the next day knowing that she was probably in for a lot of trouble. She was in her office for nearly half of the day before Darryl came in absolutely furious.
"Pierce, I have got a bunch of dead people, four terrified witnesses and one freaked out camp counselor. What are you going to do about it?" Darryl said.
"Darryl those guys are gone. We blew them up." Pierce said.
"Yes see if I went and said that my partner blew them up I think that would sound a little weird. Don't you think so, Pierce?"
"Yes, it would. So what do you want me to do? Bring them back?"
"No, but what are we suppose to do?"
"I don't know. Leave it to rest. Let them think you're on it then don't do anything with it." Pierce suggested.
"How about I think of something on my own?" Darryl said leaving.
"Fine." She said and sat back down at her desk.
They had left the phone call making up to her Benny down the hall. Benny had given her half of the list, the half with the Missouri sisters on it. She picked up the phone and dialed the number.
"Missouri residence." A bored voice said across the line.
"Jennifer or James Missouri please." Pierce said nervously.
"Who may I say is calling?" the maid said.
"Detective Pierce." Pierce said leaving out her last name on purpose.
Darryl came in while she was on hold and she wrote on a piece of paper that she was calling Jennifer Wilder Missouri. He nodded and took a seat in front of her desk.
"This is Jennifer Missouri." A soft gentle voice said over the line.
"Mrs. Missouri, this is Detective Halliwell. I was calling to request your presence at the San Francisco Police department." Pierce said wincing.
"Halliwell?" She said slowly. "What for?"
"To identify the," she took a deep breath. "Bodies of your daughters."
The woman gasped. She heard something drop.
"When, Detective?" she asked.
"As soon as possible Mrs. Missouri." Pierce said.
"Thank you, I can be down there this afternoon." She said shakily.
The rest of the day ticked past until her door opened and Darryl told her that the Missouri woman was here to see her. Pierce dusted off her black shirt and her jeans, which was her basic uniform for work. She rubbed her tummy which was very noticeable because of the shirt even though she was hardly pushing 6 months.
"How's my little god baby?" Darryl asked her.
She shot Darryl a look as they walked out of the office.
"I heard something." Darryl said eyeing her.
"What did you hear?" Pierce asked.
"That not only is a certain someone going to be hearing the pitter patter of little feet but the sound of dum dum du dum." Darryl said with a smile.
"No way! Who told you that?" Pierce asked very surprised.
"I heard it. Are you going to invite me to your wedding?" Darryl joked.
"Shut up." She said as they approached the front desk.
"Hey Jenny. Mrs. Missouri here to see Pierce?" Darryl asked the receptionist.
"Missouri? Oh you mean Wilder? The mother of the Missouri girls?" Jenny answered.
"Yeah." Pierce said looking at her.
"Ms. Wilder." Jenny said.
A woman with thick long dark brown hair stood up. She was dressed in a multi colored poncho much like the one that Pierce had had since as long as she could remember. She slept with it sometimes because it smelled like her Dad's home. She was thin and short and looked remarkably like Paige.
"Ms. Wilder. I'm detective Pierce Halliwell." Pierce forced the words out, she was stunned at the beauty of this woman.
"I brought my brother. He was called this morning about his daughter Susan." Jennifer Wilder said as an older man who looked weathered stepped up.
This was Paige's father, Pierce thought, the man she had thought was her father. He didn't look so much like Paige but his eyes, they were Paige's eyes. Pierce smiled and turned to walk down the hallway to the back of the building with Darryl leading. They walked through a large hall and into another building. The San Francisco Morgue. It was over flowing with people who were supposed to come identify their loved ones. It made Pierce hurt to think about the day that she opened those files to see the stone cold body of her favorite person.
"I lost my eldest daughter." The woman said behind her.
"I heard, I'm very sorry for your numerous losses Ms. Wilder." Pierce said without looking at her, it hurt too much.
"I'm very sorry of yours as well." She said, Pierce expected she had known who she was.
"Did you know my father?" Pierce said, knowing that the woman wouldn't catch her sarcasm.
"I knew him." She said, she knew that Pierce knew what she meant.
"My father was a great man." Pierce said as they checked in at the front desk.
"That he definitely was." She said mournfully.
They walked quietly behind the coroner. He led them to a room filled with bodies. It made Pierce sick despite the amount of time she had spent with the dead.
"Yes." Jennifer Wilder nodded tear running down her face as the coroner uncovered the two girls.
It hurt Pierce to see her mother hurting. She touched her arm and nodded. The coroner took Sam to his daughter and Sam also nodded solemnly. Darryl put his hand on his shoulder and led him out of the area that reeked of the dead. They walked the two back to Pierce's office so she could record that the three girls had been identified.
"Pierce, I never would have thought you to become a detective." Jennifer said with a small smile.
"It seems to be my calling to uncover the truth and save lives." Pierce said looking at her mother.
"Well said. I am glad you have found your path as a charmed one. You are a sister witch by your fathers blood." Her mother said.
Pierce nodded.
"How is Paige?" Sam asked.
"She is doing good. She is comfortable in her skin and that is the important part right?" Pierce said looking back down at the file.
"Can I see her?" he said shakily.
He seemed like such a large strong man all on his own. Pierce nodded. She wasn't sure why she had decided to let this man see the daughter he had abandoned but she agreed.
Pierce opened the door. Sam and Jennifer Wilder behind her and Darryl behind them. She walked them into the solarium where everyone was sitting playing with baby Chris and Wyatt. Chris got up off of the floor the moment she came in, he hugged her then looked behind her to see her mother, Paige's father and Darryl who smiled.
"Is this the father?" Her mother asked.
"Yes, this is Chris Perry Wyatt Halliwell." Pierce introduced Chris he shook her hand then Sam's.
"Hi Sam." Paige said.
"Paige." Sam said he smiled at her.
Everyone in the family was introduced to Jennifer Wilder but everyone else already seemed to know Sam except for Cole. Pierce's mother and Paige's father stayed for dinner that night and left with the promise of seeing both of their children soon.
"I'm sorry for bringing them so unexpectedly but they had just both lost children and I didn't know how to say no to them and I really want to know my mom." Pierce said looking at the ground.
"Pierce, she was a lovely lady." Leo said with a smile.
Pierce groaned as she grabbed a cup of coffee she didn't want to go to work today but she knew she had to. She had decided on wearing another black shirt and jeans but she didn't mind seeing that everyone else wore suits. She was walking through the kitchen and into the dinning room to go out the front door when the cup she held in her hand suddenly exploded, pieces of it cut her. She looked up to see Bryan staring her down.
"Hi, honey. Thought you go rid of me did you?" he said his voice crawled with death and his teeth were an ugly yellow color.
"What..." Pierce was cut off when he sent a fireball, she ducked it.
"You went and got knocked up did you? That couldn't possibly be my child since you killed me almost a year ago! Maybe you didn't kill me so much as your royal bodyguard did! Can you do anything without your whitelighter's? Well I guess you can't get pregnant without him!" Another fireball that whizzed by her ear.
"Get out of here you sick freak." Pierce hissed.
"Finally found the power to stand up to me? Is it because you think that any minute the charmed ones will come down here and save you? Or Leo? Or Chris that filthy whitelighter?" Bryan laughed. "They don't care about you. You are just another fragment to their twisted puzzle."
"Bryan are you actually calling them twisted?" Pierce said, she couldn't hide her amazement.
"I should be the one getting credit for this! And I should be the one who put the bun in that oven! Not that damn whitelighter!" Bryan shot another one at her, this was grazing her shoulder.
The burn made Pierce scream. It stung like you wouldn't believe. She decided enough was enough and sent out a energy ball the moment he sent another fireball out aiming for her stomach. She orbed and it went right past through where she was but it hit one of Piper's favorite vases. The energy ball hit Bryan off guard and got him right in the stomach. The blue light that swirled around where his body should have been confused Pierce but she clomped up the stairs to change.
"What the hell happened down here?" She heard Leo said as she came back down the stairs.
"Bryan showed up and I had to do a little damage control. If Piper can wait long enough I will clean it up when I come home but I am late for work." Pierce said going out the front door.
"Pierce! Your shoulder!" Leo said following her out of the front door.
Pierce's mother had come that morning and asked her to have lunch. Pierce agreed and at noon she met her mother at the restaurant down the street where she and Darryl sometimes ate lunch and he would tell her about his old partner Andy. It was always interesting but this was more so.
"Hello, how are you?" After seeing her mother two times in a row in clothes that showed similar to Pierce's and Piper's closest she came to the conclusion that they were a bit more a like then she would admit.
"I have been better. And yourself?" Pierce asked her.
"Always better." She answered taking her seat.
"That's good." Pierce said awkwardly.
"I should just get right down to the point. I know you want to know things that if you don't know them could interfere in us having any sort of relationship." Her mother said bluntly.
"That's probably true." Pierce said knowing it was absolutely true.
"I loved your father and he loved me. Your father and your Aunt Patty were always close in the beginning and the birth of all of her children made it more so. With her death brought a man I didn't know. He married and I had to come to his door and tell him that I was pregnant with his child. He said that was impossible that I was dead and then he thought back on the birth of Paige and knew it was true. So we decided it was in the best interest of the child to be thought of as Patty and Victors daughter. To keep the elders at bay. For some strange reason Patrick didn't want you to be raised with the girls and he didn't want you to know them. He tried to bind tour powers when you where young but by the time you were 15 you had broken through his binding power." Her mother looked at her seeing if she should go on.
"So, I could have possibly been raised around a bunch of girls that were close to my age then being raised with brothers and sisters that weren't very fond of me?" Pierce said looking at her mother.
"I told Patrick that you should be raised around children like you instead of around his wives children. Well since I knew there was no hope for a normal life with me around a wondered around in search of a charge or charges when I met James. We have three beautiful daughters but he later divorced me and moved in with his twenty year old secretary. The girls lived with him and he found it infuriating when they called me to identify them... After your battle with what was killing people you became legendary."
"Me? Legendary? I screamed and ran like a baby." Pierce said laughing.
"Your sisters were already quite known for their powers and that was your chance to prove yourself, by the elders." She said.
"So the elders were testing me to see how fast I could run?" Pierce said.
"Testing you to see what you could do without magic." She corrected her daughter.
"I can run without magic. And I can fall without magic and I can sit on the ground and get stabbed in the arm without magic. Is that why I couldn't orb?" Pierce annoyed.
"Yes, they didn't create the killers but they had the power to kill them all instantly. They just thought you deserved a shot."
"Are you an elder lover too?" Pierce asked her.
"Hardly." She said, her eyes wandered to the ceiling.
Pierce's cell phone rang shrilly and she turned to answer it. It was Phoebe.
"Pierce, we need you home, pronto! It really is a matter of life and death."