Chapter 2
Last time::
The girls however were very surprised. "WHAT?!"
"I gotta go before he tracks me down-"And without further explanation Aramati orbed out, in purple and silver light.
Chris didn't know how, but it felt like a blanket over his memories had been temporarily lifted. The creature didn't look like anyone he'd ever known. So had it been manipulating his mind without him knowing about it?
"What the -?"
"So now what do we do?" Paige said turning to her sisters.
"Well I'm certainly not going to just trust some creature out to kill Elders," Piper muttered.
"Well, Some of it's good advice, I for one wouldn't suggest revealing who Chris is. For Wyatts sake. If whatever it is that's trying to turn Wyatt evil found out he had a brother, he'd be in danger too I'd think." Phoebe said.
"I would be wary, It's like that thing had mind control!" Chris said disturbed.
"Ah, a vigilante that makes Elders admit to crimes they didn't do and then punish them." Piper reasoned.
Meanwhile in the time stream Aramati cursed. They hadn't believed her. Their safety was one of her objectives… There had to be another way. Unlike her predecessor this mission was very personal. She had been a young child in this time, and in the far future a few years after Piper had died, Wyatt had killed her. If he hadn't she would have remained just a chosen witch, however if the Charmed Ones found that out, they would never trust her. She had been an Eyrie candidate, and had looked a lot different. It was obvious in retrospect that her family had been drawn to San Fransisco because of what her mission would someday be. She had been drawn to Prue, Phoebe's daughter because of their similar powers. Destiny had made her care for the Halliwell family so she would do whatever it took to save them, and save the rest of the magical world in the process, even if it cost her her life. Her parents had warned her against gaining an attachment to anyone in this world, especially to those connected to whitelighters, as someday it would be her duty to prosecute them.
But she had been drawn to Chris, and his loyalty to his family and the pain of knowing the world had it out for you. She had fallen for him. So she'd kept testing Wyatt to see if his anger would kill her. Because she knew that she was getting too close to letting her emotions rule her powers. And she could never do that, she couldn't do wrong, she just couldn't. She would have done anything for Chris. She'd have rather died than let him know that. She could never do anything about her feelings anyway. He loved Bianca and it would be wrong to ever even admit her feelings to him. But when she found out about his plans to go into the past, she'd done what she could, leave a spell in the right spot. She'd justified it by telling herself that he was trying to right a wrong selflessly.
If her predecessors, those voices with her now, found out that secret about her, they would mark her as weak…As it was they were keeping a close watch on her, erasing what they disagreed with.
~Patience young one, trust destiny to support you.~
Yeah sure easy for them to say, the whole fate of Magic wasn't on their shoulders.
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"Piper I really think that you need to go to this gathering." Phoebe advised.
"The Magic school is sponsoring a get together for parents of magical children this week, and I think with everything that's going on, you should go. After all wasn't it you who said that Wyatt needed to play with kids like him?" Paige said. It was her idea, she'd been keeping in contact with the teachers at the Magic School.
Piper sighed. They were right. "This isn't some Magical parents Annoynmus support group is it?"
"No, although, if I hear of one I'll let you know." Paige said cheerfully.
"Thanks." Piper said sarcastically.
"No problem." Paige said just as cheerfully.
As Piper left with Wyatt, Phoebe gave Paige a look. Piper had been hiding at home too long, dwelling on losing Leo, and the responsibility of being Chris's mother. They had to get her mind off of it.
The building seemed pretty normal except for the rather large crystal statues surrounding it. No doubt for protection. Wyatt seemed happy in his stroller, and pointed at all the parents and kids going in.
Inside were several long lines based on what kind of magic you had. Shamans, Witches, Beings of light, and Creatures.
She was in the line for witches, too bad there wasn't one for whitelighter children she thought smiling.
Most of the kids seemed hard to handle, a lot of the moms were ordering their kids not to use magic.
"Jerimiah! Don't you dare even think about becoming invisible again!" screamed one tired looking mom of 5. Five children, with magic! Piper was glad not to be her. Her husband came back with another child in his arms. Wasn't their a magical version of birth control?
Gee it would be nice to have Leo here. Father first, yeah right.
In front of her another seemingly single mom was carrying a three year old girl on her back. The little girl tilted her head back, barely holding onto her mom. She had almond shaped grey eyes and very light strawberry blonde hair.
"'lo" She said solemnly.
Piper had to try hard not to laugh.
"Hi there." Piper said waving.
The little girl glanced down at Wyatt.
"blue, you're very bright blue.. and purple. Swirly, I've never seen a swirly before." She said curiously.
"Aura!" Her mom finally admonished turning around.
"Sorry about that, my daughter's very- talkative." Marilyn said wincing.
"This is her first time at a gathering." She said putting her child down and wincing, rubbing her right arm.
"Mommy?" Aura tilted her head.
"I'm alright." Marilyn insisted
"What does she mean… swirly?" Piper asked looking at Wyatt carefully
"oh.., well it's her power, like mine, to see into people's Aura's tell if they're good or evil, stuff like that." Marilyn explained.
Piper got a little nervous. "Blue purple swirly.. what does that mean?"
"Baby, what did you mean?" Marilyn asked her daughter.
The little girls eyes widened as she looked back at Wyatt in apprehension, which didn't soothe Piper's fears about Wyatt turning evil.
"he's a witch- purple and a -whitelighter." Aura said grabbing her mother's leg.
Marilyn looked at Piper to confirm whether that was right or not.
"Insightful little girl aren't you?" Piper said trying to calm the little girl down. "Why does she look upset?"
Marilyn winced "She's… afraid of whitelighters."
Piper paused for a second. "You've got to be kidding me. Whitelighters? But they're guardian angels for crying out loud. What is there to be afraid of?"
"We can't have our whitelighter in the same room as her, I don't know why, but she gets bad visions whenever she's around one… As you can imagine it's very inconvenient."
Piper was searching for an answer to that when Marilyn was asked to fill out the registration form. She soon found herself also filling out the dumb form.
She was then directed to another room where a bunch of toddlers were playing, many were tossing around balls and building castles out of blocks, but unlike a normal nursery the kids were using magic to do it. Parents were standing off to the side talking. Aura, who had been avoiding a ball which some boy had thought would be fun to play dodgeball with. She made a beeline for Piper and the adults around her. "Pretty light." Aura said looking all around Piper. It was a bit disconcerting to have a three year old speak like an adult.
Piper decided to humor her. "Yeah? What do you see around me?"
"You're two peoples, purple and bright gold, and-" Aura seemed at a loss for words, but pointed at Piper's stomach.
"Aura! Leave the nice lady alone." Marilyn said trotting behind.
"Sorry mama." Aura responded automatically. She walked back towards the bookshelf, and found some rendition of a fairy tale. Wyatt squirmed, wanted to play with the other kids. "'lay" He orbed into the center of one group surprising the children.
"Hey! Where'd learn orb?" A two year old asked.
"Kids can't orb, only old dead people." A four ½ year old exclaimed.
Piper and the other Adults looked
on.
"you're kid's part whitelighter?" one asked.
"You must be a Charmed One then." Another said in awe, another distain. Some traditionalists didn't believe that whitelighters and Witches should mix as it was unfair to the whitelighters other charges.
"They break all kinds of rules for you don't they?" A plump witch added looking Piper up and down.
Piper didn't know what to say, she hadn't known that there were those in the good magical community that resented her.
"Some rules should never have been made." Marilyn said defending her. "After all how many of you wish that your whitelighter could heal non-magically inflicted wounds? It would sure save money on health insurance." Marilyn grinned. It was contagious and many conceded that point to her.
"Who are you?" Piper asked realizing this was the second conversation she'd had with the woman and still didn't know her name.
"Marilyn Harman."(( all you N.W. fans are laughing now yes? :P ))
"Piper Halliwell. Nice to meet you, again."
Wyatt went over to Aura to look at her book, scared of the rejection he was feeling. He made the mistake however of orbing over. As soon as Aura saw the blue lights, her lungs seemed to freeze up. She couldn't stop the images from running through her head. It wasn't the usual visions of whitelighters dying. This time it was of Wyatt, a whitelighter killing-her!
Her screams could be heard by everyone in the room.
Several adults rushed over.
"What did he do to you?" one of Piper's enemies asked.
Piper and Marilyn ran over.
"Are you ok?" Marilyn asked, her daughter nodded looking very distressed.
Marilyn looked over to Piper. "You see why we never have whitelighters around?"
To the other parents. "He didn't do anything, my daughter is just afraid of whitelighters."
"He must of done something." Another parent argued.
"Where's Wyatt?" Piper asked panicking, she had just realized that Wyatt was gone.
Aura looked down to the floor and then suddenly was gone in a wash of purple orbs.
Piper looked to Marilyn incredulous. "She can orb?"
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Outside the building Wyatt was wandering towards the street. He was still trying to get the hang of orbing to places instead of to people.
He saw purple light and the little girl who had been so scared of him was out in the street. She fell to the ground. She looked around dazed, it looked like he wasn't the only one getting used to orbing. She saw him and stood up.
An energy ball came flying down towards her(behind her) at about the same time that their moms ran out of the building. His mom was about to panic and try to freeze the energy ball when Wyatt himself redirected it into a parking meter.
"Sorry." She said to him. He couldn't be evil, that vision had to be wrong- he just saved her life!
"Wyatt!" Piper called. " Good boy, saving people good." She hugged her son. "Orbing without telling your mom-bad." She wagged her finger at him.
Marilyn was out of breath, and clutching her right arm. Her little girl ran up to her. "Mommy? See doctor now?"
"Doctor?" Piper asked.
"Yeah, Biopsy, some sort of cancer, in my arm is spreading. Now you see why I wish Whitelighters would heal regular wounds." Marilyn tried to keep a smile on her face.
"oh! Well are you going to be ok?"
"Yeah, they just have to take it out before it stops being a benign growth." Marilyn said waving her off. "We live in a small town without any surgeons, so I had to make an appointment here in 'Frisco."
Piper nodded. "Well then who's going to look after your daughter while you're there? Where's her daddy?"
"He's out of town on business, couldn't be helped." Marilyn said wincing.
"Sounds like Wyatt's daddy." Piper said looking down at him.
"I hadn't expected demons to be after her." Marilyn said concerned.
"Haven't been to 'Frisco much have you?" Piper commented. "Well, I could take care of her, while you're in the hospital. She couldn't be safer, my sisters and I are very familiar with the San Fransisco variety of demons."
Marilyn looked torn between wanting to watch over her daughter constantly and realizing the safety a charmed one.
"Could you? Could you really? I swear she's a complete angel. And she really needs to get over this irrational fear of whitelighters." Marilyn said looking from Piper to Aura.
"Come on, I'll take you to the hospital." Piper said walking out to her car in innocent saving mode. Another innocent another day.
"You sure? I mean you just got here."
"Yeah, like I want to be the same room as those- witchy women." Piper said flippantly. How could they hate her son for being part whitelighter?
"Oh don't mind them, they're probably all jealous of your powers." Marilyn said putting on Aura's safety belt.
"Why aren't you? And how did your daughter get outside, in the first place she's not a whitelighter."
"She uh, she's special- chosen." Marilyn said trying to drop the subject.
Next time at the Manor… Adventures in Babysitting. Should be pretty funny.
J What do you think? Is this getting too mary sue ish? I hope not. If anyone wants to beta for me.- I'm sure the chapters would be better. (Long chapter yes?)
It may be a week before I do Future Imperfect Ch.6 as I'm in the middle of finals and moving around.
_ uh.. someone asked
LunaMoon7
2004-04-13
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What's a Oedipus complex?
It is a psychological thing, which comes from a greek play about a guy who is raised by another family and later ends up marrying his mother, having kids with her, and when he finds out he gorges out his eyes. (Chris doesn't have this,- but does that make sense now?