Corncerning Elders and Eyries
chapter Six
Chris took the opportunity to change the subject. "There's the innocent." He motioned wildly at her with his hands, accidentally TKing Phoebe and Aura back a few feet. Leo, Piper and Paige looked at him, surprised and none too pleased.
"Oops." Chris said apologetically.
"What was that for?" Phoebe asked from the ground, lifting Aura off of her.
Gideon closed the door to his office. However, his relief at escaping more questions was quickly replaced as he saw someone sitting at his desk, cold grey eyes calculating.
"You!"
"I don't know exactly what you're up to here, but the rest of the Elders won't be fooled," Noor said, arms crossed.
"Noor, what a pleasant surprise, visiting me all the way down here at Magic School! Although I must say I'm puzzled as to why," Gideon said as smoothly as possible.
Noor stood up. "I don't just believe whatever I'm told like some of the others, Gideon. I know who the Eyries work for." Noor said, not allowing her face to give away any emotions. "What I don't understand is WHY you lure an Eyrie to the Heavens to kill her, especially considering our already strained relationship with the Angels right now. For which we are suffering for."
Gideon's face betrayed some of his fear but he said nothing, as Noor was too
old to be deceived straight out. He had no explanation.
"Did she tell you something you didn't want to hear? Didn't want US to hear about? I'm warning you Gideon the others will not be pleased when they hear about this. Most especially considering your 'interest' in the charmed one's son." Noor said raising herself to her full height. She was older than him; she'd been an Elder since before mankind had discovered fire. Noor was one of the now few elders who was anywhere as powerful as him. If she suspected his
hand in the Titans' release, he wouldn't remain an Elder long.
"I don't know what to say. I mean we can't let the Angels of Time rule our every action. Some things must be handled no matter how it upsets other groups. We have a job to do in protecting all the good in the world." Gideon said, not answering the more dangerous questions.
"You hand in this is deeper than you let on. What else have you manipulated? Who's to say that having the Angels of Time uncooperative, thus blinding heaven isn't part of your plan in the first place?" Noor said allowing a bit of her anger to come though in her voice.
"Come on now, you're letting your imagination get the better of you I think. Paranoia is a dangerous thing." Gideon warned calmly acting as if Noor was being a silly student of his. Inwardly he was cursing Noor's incredible insight. If only she'd been Up There when the Titans had attacked. However regrettable, if she continued to be this much of a threat, he would have to see to it that she was eliminated...all in the name of the greater good, of course.
"Do not worry, if it is only my imagination you have nothing to fear, but if it is not...Well, I'm sure your imagination can fill in the rest." Noor threatened, orbing out.
Gideon threw one of his many paperweights against the wall and yelled ineffectually. He didn't have much time. Not anymore. Blast the Eyries! Blast them to the same hell he had in mind for Wyatt!
"Chris, you really need to learn to control your emotions ok?" Phoebe
said, irritated since she couldn't read Chris's emotions or she would have known better. Piper winced and put a hand protectively on her belly. Leo soon became helpfully distracted by their innocent.
"This, she's your innocent with the whole connection to the Angels of Time," Leo said disbelievingly. After all the little kid was a toddler. Aura scrunched up her nose and looked just as disbelievingly at Leo.
"So does she have visions? Can she divine stuff?" Leo asked.
"Um, yeah, you could say that. Why don't you ask her what she thinks of you?" Chris said 'helpfully'.
"Ok." Leo said, and knelt down to be at the same level as Aura. "What's your name, little girl?" Leo said in his most condescending child friendly voice.
"Aurelia Harman, but everybody calls me Aura." Aura said uneasily, looking around.
"Well Aura, I was wondering if you could use your powers to tell me what
you see about me," Leo said very slowly, hoping the toddler would be able to understand what he was saying.
"Oh that's a whole can of worms you're opening there, Leo..." Phoebe warned.
"Yeeaah, I don't think you want to do that," Piper said, looking upward.
"Nonsense. I'm just testing her powers, seeing if she's powerful enough to be helpful," Leo said completely unaware of what he was doing. (You know the Elder overconfidence thing.)
"Stupid Stuuuupid Elder!" Aura said derisively.
Leo blinked. "Stupid?"
"And you're a dead beat Dad you jerk! You're going to leave your sons without a Dad-"
"Sons?" Leo said stupidly. "She must not be that good at it if she says that. I only have one child- Wyatt. That's all there ever is going to be," Leo added defensively.
"Uhhhhhh. About that..." Phoebe started.
"Phoebe!" Piper warned sharply. She wasn't dragging Leo into this. It would only make life harder on him if he knew about Chris- that he was leaving two sons behind and not just one. She only belatedly realized that she stood up to protest. Chris opened his mouth in shock. "Crap." And closed his eyes.
"And you shouldn't even BE an Elder. Family first. That's in the HIGH laws! But nooo...the Elders decide to be stupid. Stupid STUPID!" Aura was panting/ranting. However, somewhere between 'Phoebe' and 'crap', Leo had completely lost all higher communication and listening skills. He wasn't listening. In the little world that Leo lived in there was only one thing: Piper. There's something about Piper. His brain didn't want to think exactly what or how. But seemed to be agreeing with Chris. Crap. It took several seconds for Leo's brain to reboot. So that's why Phoebe was acting stranger than usual.
It seemed at that moment that Aura realized that perhaps she'd said something she wasn't supposed to. The Pretty One, gold and purple swirly seemed very distressed, and that wasn't a good sign. Yep with those reddish sharp lines coming off of people...that was a bad sign.
Leo stuttered nonsense words. ' You're pregnant' seemed a little too obvious to voice. She looked about 6 months pregnant, which, from the looks from the sisters, and Chris not wanting him to visit, would suggest that Elders could still have children. Oh my ! If I'm the father... I just got my semi-ex wife Pregnant and left. Which lead to- Why didn't she tell me?!" Leo stumbled over into a chair. He appeared stricken.
"Did I? Did We? Why didn't...?" Leo covered his mouth.
"He's your son Leo," Piper said sympathetically. She sounded very tired.
" You. You already know it's going to be a boy?" Leo said gripping onto that knowledge.
Paige winced. "Uh yeah. We're pretty sure it's going to be a boy."
"Pretty sure?" Chris complained, justifiably upset. Piper snorted.
"This is where I should fess up to using Aphrodisiacs on you two at Wyatt's birthday party, But at least we didn't use the love potion like Paige was going to if you'd been around." Phoebe said, raising her hand. Both Leo and Piper gave Phoebe a betrayed look and Chris looked like he wanted to hit his Aunt. He laughed nervously.
"Phoebe!" Paige said not wanting to take the blame.
"You...you knew!" Leo said, outraged.
"Well Chris told us." Phoebe said in a 'duh' voice.
"And how, exactly did Chris know." Leo said.
"Hello- from the FUUUture." Chris said quickly before Phoebe could spill the most interesting part. "Well actually-" Phoebe began.
"Phoebe, shut up!" Chris, Paige and Piper chorused.
"There's something else. I know you're hiding something else." Leo said.
"Maybe you should leave Chris. This is a family Situation."
Phoebe laughs while Paige and Piper winced.
Chris took a deep breath and sighed. How exactly was he supposed to say this?
" To be more correct, it is MY situation Leo. You've always wanted to know what it was I was hiding right? To figure out what the big secret was? Well guess what? I AM family- 'Dad'" Chris said being as much of a smartalic as possible. At least he could enjoy Leo's shock. It's not like his Dad had done much to earn that title in the Past (future) or since he'd arrived in the past. Leo didn't disappoint him. Shock and confusion waged a war on the already befuddled man.
"You-" Leo saw the resemblance. Why hadn't he noticed before? Chris looked like the male version of Piper...and good lord the boy had HIS green eyes. Was he really that blind? Leo's eyes widened in horror. Had he really said some of those rotten things to his own son?!
"You're my son?!" Leo said horror evident.
Misinterpreting Leo's horror, "Trust me, I wish I wasn't either." Chris said very bitterly, nodded once to his mom and orbed out.
"Wa- Wait!" Leo said too late.
"Stupid Elder." Aura muttered. Sniff. The stupid Elder had made The Pretty One leave. This time Leo didn't argue.
A/N: I know some of you rabid fangirls agree with "The Pretty One" assessment
of Chris. ;) Next chapter- Gideon digs himself a deeper hole and with
Aura's help they find an Eyrie summoning spell. Kinda convenient that she
happens to know one eh? 3 guesses why and the first two don't count. Chris
and Leo must learn to deal with their issues, Piper has to deal with Leo's
questions...and perhaps Leo will ask Aura what "the event" is. Which you
know as a Seer she's going to know.. Should prove a nice shock for him! Love
Piper while you can mister cause she won't be around forever! A big thank you to 'Sindel' for beta-ing for me again. :D Thank you Bluley for the Review! I looove reviews. They are so modivating!
chapter Six
Chris took the opportunity to change the subject. "There's the innocent." He motioned wildly at her with his hands, accidentally TKing Phoebe and Aura back a few feet. Leo, Piper and Paige looked at him, surprised and none too pleased.
"Oops." Chris said apologetically.
"What was that for?" Phoebe asked from the ground, lifting Aura off of her.
Gideon closed the door to his office. However, his relief at escaping more questions was quickly replaced as he saw someone sitting at his desk, cold grey eyes calculating.
"You!"
"I don't know exactly what you're up to here, but the rest of the Elders won't be fooled," Noor said, arms crossed.
"Noor, what a pleasant surprise, visiting me all the way down here at Magic School! Although I must say I'm puzzled as to why," Gideon said as smoothly as possible.
Noor stood up. "I don't just believe whatever I'm told like some of the others, Gideon. I know who the Eyries work for." Noor said, not allowing her face to give away any emotions. "What I don't understand is WHY you lure an Eyrie to the Heavens to kill her, especially considering our already strained relationship with the Angels right now. For which we are suffering for."
Gideon's face betrayed some of his fear but he said nothing, as Noor was too
old to be deceived straight out. He had no explanation.
"Did she tell you something you didn't want to hear? Didn't want US to hear about? I'm warning you Gideon the others will not be pleased when they hear about this. Most especially considering your 'interest' in the charmed one's son." Noor said raising herself to her full height. She was older than him; she'd been an Elder since before mankind had discovered fire. Noor was one of the now few elders who was anywhere as powerful as him. If she suspected his
hand in the Titans' release, he wouldn't remain an Elder long.
"I don't know what to say. I mean we can't let the Angels of Time rule our every action. Some things must be handled no matter how it upsets other groups. We have a job to do in protecting all the good in the world." Gideon said, not answering the more dangerous questions.
"You hand in this is deeper than you let on. What else have you manipulated? Who's to say that having the Angels of Time uncooperative, thus blinding heaven isn't part of your plan in the first place?" Noor said allowing a bit of her anger to come though in her voice.
"Come on now, you're letting your imagination get the better of you I think. Paranoia is a dangerous thing." Gideon warned calmly acting as if Noor was being a silly student of his. Inwardly he was cursing Noor's incredible insight. If only she'd been Up There when the Titans had attacked. However regrettable, if she continued to be this much of a threat, he would have to see to it that she was eliminated...all in the name of the greater good, of course.
"Do not worry, if it is only my imagination you have nothing to fear, but if it is not...Well, I'm sure your imagination can fill in the rest." Noor threatened, orbing out.
Gideon threw one of his many paperweights against the wall and yelled ineffectually. He didn't have much time. Not anymore. Blast the Eyries! Blast them to the same hell he had in mind for Wyatt!
"Chris, you really need to learn to control your emotions ok?" Phoebe
said, irritated since she couldn't read Chris's emotions or she would have known better. Piper winced and put a hand protectively on her belly. Leo soon became helpfully distracted by their innocent.
"This, she's your innocent with the whole connection to the Angels of Time," Leo said disbelievingly. After all the little kid was a toddler. Aura scrunched up her nose and looked just as disbelievingly at Leo.
"So does she have visions? Can she divine stuff?" Leo asked.
"Um, yeah, you could say that. Why don't you ask her what she thinks of you?" Chris said 'helpfully'.
"Ok." Leo said, and knelt down to be at the same level as Aura. "What's your name, little girl?" Leo said in his most condescending child friendly voice.
"Aurelia Harman, but everybody calls me Aura." Aura said uneasily, looking around.
"Well Aura, I was wondering if you could use your powers to tell me what
you see about me," Leo said very slowly, hoping the toddler would be able to understand what he was saying.
"Oh that's a whole can of worms you're opening there, Leo..." Phoebe warned.
"Yeeaah, I don't think you want to do that," Piper said, looking upward.
"Nonsense. I'm just testing her powers, seeing if she's powerful enough to be helpful," Leo said completely unaware of what he was doing. (You know the Elder overconfidence thing.)
"Stupid Stuuuupid Elder!" Aura said derisively.
Leo blinked. "Stupid?"
"And you're a dead beat Dad you jerk! You're going to leave your sons without a Dad-"
"Sons?" Leo said stupidly. "She must not be that good at it if she says that. I only have one child- Wyatt. That's all there ever is going to be," Leo added defensively.
"Uhhhhhh. About that..." Phoebe started.
"Phoebe!" Piper warned sharply. She wasn't dragging Leo into this. It would only make life harder on him if he knew about Chris- that he was leaving two sons behind and not just one. She only belatedly realized that she stood up to protest. Chris opened his mouth in shock. "Crap." And closed his eyes.
"And you shouldn't even BE an Elder. Family first. That's in the HIGH laws! But nooo...the Elders decide to be stupid. Stupid STUPID!" Aura was panting/ranting. However, somewhere between 'Phoebe' and 'crap', Leo had completely lost all higher communication and listening skills. He wasn't listening. In the little world that Leo lived in there was only one thing: Piper. There's something about Piper. His brain didn't want to think exactly what or how. But seemed to be agreeing with Chris. Crap. It took several seconds for Leo's brain to reboot. So that's why Phoebe was acting stranger than usual.
It seemed at that moment that Aura realized that perhaps she'd said something she wasn't supposed to. The Pretty One, gold and purple swirly seemed very distressed, and that wasn't a good sign. Yep with those reddish sharp lines coming off of people...that was a bad sign.
Leo stuttered nonsense words. ' You're pregnant' seemed a little too obvious to voice. She looked about 6 months pregnant, which, from the looks from the sisters, and Chris not wanting him to visit, would suggest that Elders could still have children. Oh my ! If I'm the father... I just got my semi-ex wife Pregnant and left. Which lead to- Why didn't she tell me?!" Leo stumbled over into a chair. He appeared stricken.
"Did I? Did We? Why didn't...?" Leo covered his mouth.
"He's your son Leo," Piper said sympathetically. She sounded very tired.
" You. You already know it's going to be a boy?" Leo said gripping onto that knowledge.
Paige winced. "Uh yeah. We're pretty sure it's going to be a boy."
"Pretty sure?" Chris complained, justifiably upset. Piper snorted.
"This is where I should fess up to using Aphrodisiacs on you two at Wyatt's birthday party, But at least we didn't use the love potion like Paige was going to if you'd been around." Phoebe said, raising her hand. Both Leo and Piper gave Phoebe a betrayed look and Chris looked like he wanted to hit his Aunt. He laughed nervously.
"Phoebe!" Paige said not wanting to take the blame.
"You...you knew!" Leo said, outraged.
"Well Chris told us." Phoebe said in a 'duh' voice.
"And how, exactly did Chris know." Leo said.
"Hello- from the FUUUture." Chris said quickly before Phoebe could spill the most interesting part. "Well actually-" Phoebe began.
"Phoebe, shut up!" Chris, Paige and Piper chorused.
"There's something else. I know you're hiding something else." Leo said.
"Maybe you should leave Chris. This is a family Situation."
Phoebe laughs while Paige and Piper winced.
Chris took a deep breath and sighed. How exactly was he supposed to say this?
" To be more correct, it is MY situation Leo. You've always wanted to know what it was I was hiding right? To figure out what the big secret was? Well guess what? I AM family- 'Dad'" Chris said being as much of a smartalic as possible. At least he could enjoy Leo's shock. It's not like his Dad had done much to earn that title in the Past (future) or since he'd arrived in the past. Leo didn't disappoint him. Shock and confusion waged a war on the already befuddled man.
"You-" Leo saw the resemblance. Why hadn't he noticed before? Chris looked like the male version of Piper...and good lord the boy had HIS green eyes. Was he really that blind? Leo's eyes widened in horror. Had he really said some of those rotten things to his own son?!
"You're my son?!" Leo said horror evident.
Misinterpreting Leo's horror, "Trust me, I wish I wasn't either." Chris said very bitterly, nodded once to his mom and orbed out.
"Wa- Wait!" Leo said too late.
"Stupid Elder." Aura muttered. Sniff. The stupid Elder had made The Pretty One leave. This time Leo didn't argue.
A/N: I know some of you rabid fangirls agree with "The Pretty One" assessment
of Chris. ;) Next chapter- Gideon digs himself a deeper hole and with
Aura's help they find an Eyrie summoning spell. Kinda convenient that she
happens to know one eh? 3 guesses why and the first two don't count. Chris
and Leo must learn to deal with their issues, Piper has to deal with Leo's
questions...and perhaps Leo will ask Aura what "the event" is. Which you
know as a Seer she's going to know.. Should prove a nice shock for him! Love
Piper while you can mister cause she won't be around forever! A big thank you to 'Sindel' for beta-ing for me again. :D Thank you Bluley for the Review! I looove reviews. They are so modivating!