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Coping With Two Homes:
Chapter 9: Undercover Lover
Eric walked up to Brian and smirked. "Have you see your friend Charleson lately, newbie?" he asked, staring dangerously at Brian.
"No, I haven't, Eric," Brian said, walking around him and starting to go to his locker. He would've made it, too, if Eric hadn't pulled him back.
"He hasn't been at school for the past week. Now that I think about it, neither have you. What, did you two go on a vacation together?"
"You could say that," Brian said, pulling his arm from Eric's grip.
"So where is he now?" Eric asked suspiciously.
"Why do you even care, Eric?" Brian asked, sighing.
"Because Chad was part of my group, and I'm sure that you did something to him . . . witch." At that, Eric glared at Brian one last time and then walked off.
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Stacey walked into the opposite side of the school as Brian and sighed.
She didn't know this school. She didn't know which teachers to avoid, what people to hang out with. What people to avoid. She didn't know where all her classes were. And, most importantly, she didn't have Brian with her to help her and show her the ropes.
Stacey's thoughts were interrupted when she ran into an older boy while mindlessly walking around.
The boy smiled down at her. "Hi. I'm Eric. I'm the quarterback for the football team. What's your name, sweet thang?" Eric asked.
Stacey tried to think back to what Brian and Bianca had told her.
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"Stacey, just remember, your new. You don't know anyone there. That means you don't know Brian," Bianca said, preparing breakfast for the two that morning.
"And . . ." Brian sighed and looked down at the floor. "And that means that you're single."
Stacey put her arms around Brian's shoulder from behind and hugged him closely. "But I'll still always love you. No matter what. Promise."
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Stacey smiled at Eric seductively as she saw Brian round the corner. "I'm Stacey."
From behind Eric, Stacey could see Brian mouthing five words:
'He's one of the warlocks'.
Stacey glanced at Brian then looked back at Eric quickly. "So, what're you doing after school today?"
"Actually, I'm hanging out with some friends from the football team," Eric said, pulling Stacey close.
"Can I come?" Stacey asked, her face growing within inches to Eric's.
Eric leaned down to kiss her saying, "Sure, baby. Anything for you."
Stacey pulled away quickly and smiled. "Great." She opened her note book and wrote down her aunt and uncle's house address, handing it to Eric. "Pick me up a half hour before. I'll be ready." And at that, she gave Eric a kiss on the cheek and walked down the hall towards Brian, winking at him as she passed him.
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"How do you think they're doing?" Leo asked an hour later as Chris2 looked up from his breakfast (An: Remember, there's a three hour difference between California and Florida. Oh, and Brian's school in Florida starts at 8:30am, and the one in Cali starts at 8:00am).
"I'm sure they're okay. I mean, we would know if they weren't, right?" Piper asked, setting down her glass of milk.
"I don't think we would 'know' know, but I think we would have this gut feeling, ya know?" Wyatt2 asked, grabbing a pancake from the center plate.
Chris1 nodded and looked down at his plate, not picking up his fork.
Leo looked over at him with a concerned expression on his face. "Chris, what's wrong? You haven't touched your breakfast, and your mom called us down fifteen minutes ago."
"I'm just worried about Brian. That's all. I don't like he should've gone back to Florida. I think he's safer here. With The Charmed Ones here and all, no one could touch him," Chris1 said, sighing.
"I know that you're worried, sweetie, but I'm sure Bianca's taking great care of him," Phoebe said, passing the milk jug to her daughter Prue.
"Mom, can we move to Florida?" Prue asked, pouring the milk into her glass.
Phoebe smiled and chuckled. "No, honey. If we just got up and left, what would happen to The Charmed Ones?"
Prue sighed. "I guess you're right. But a girl can dream, can't she?"
"Um, Wyatt and I are moving out," Chris2 said, causing everyone to stare at him, except Wyatt2, of course.
"What?!" Piper screeched, her eyes wide.
"Orange Juice?" Chris asked hopefully, picking up the jug.
Leo smiled. "You're so much like your mother."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Piper asked, her attention now on her husband.
"Remember? A few weeks after we got married, you told Phoebe and Prue that we were moving out, and you tried to cover it up by offering Prue the milk," Leo said, raising his eyebrows (An: I'm sorry! I just saw that episode today and I had to make Chris do that and Leo make that comment!).
"Whatever," Piper said quickly, looking back at Chris2 and Wyatt2.
"Why are you guys moving out?" Phoebe said, setting down her fork.
"Well, we're a little old to be living with our parents and out aunts, aren't we? I mean, the only reason I'm living here is because of mine and Bianca's divorce, and the only reason Wyatt's still here is because he just got here a couple months ago and he doesn't have any money," Chris2 said, shrugging. "I've been living here for five years now. No, six. I've been living here since Bianca and I had been having problems a year before we got divorced."
"And we like you here!" Paige said, putting a hand on his shoulder. "You guys shouldn't move out."
"We're too old to be staying here!" Chris2 nearly yelled.
"No you are not! You two are only fifteen and seventeen," Piper yelled. Then her eyes went wide. "I mean . . ."
Chris2 and Wyatt2 sighed and looked down at the table in unison.
"Excuse me," Piper said, getting out of her seat and leaving the kitchen.
"Well, that was unexpected," Paige said, watching her leave the kitchen.
"I'm gonna go talk to her," Phoebe said, starting to get out of her seat until Leo put a hand on her arm.
"No. I'll go," he said, getting out of his seat and following Piper.
"I'm suddenly not so hungry anymore," Chris2 said, orbing out of the room.
"Didn't even bother to say 'excuse me'," Paige commented. Then she looked at her watch. "Wow. It's already a quarter to seven. I got to go get ready," she added, orbing out.
"Well look who's talking," Phoebe said, rolling her eyes.
"Mom, I'm going to go get ready for school now," Prue said, getting out of her chair.
Phoebe smiled. "Okay, sweetie," she said as Prue left the room. She looked back at Wyatt2, Chris, and Wyatt1. "Well, it looks like it's just us, guys."
"Correction," Wyatt1 said, getting up and pulling Chris with him. "It's just you and future me. Chris and I have to go get ready for school," he finished, dragging Chris out of the kitchen.
"Well, it's just you and me, Wyatt," Phoebe said, smiling.
"Actually, I'm gonna go check on Chris," Wyatt said, orbing out.
"Okay. It's just me," Phoebe said sighing, digging into her pancakes again. "It's so quiet. I can handle that." She picked up her fork. "Oh, screw it," she said, heading out of the kitchen.
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About an hour after school had ended, Eric swung by Stacey's aunt and uncle's house to pick her up, and they were on their way to Eric's best friend Tony's house.
"So, what is there to do around here, anyway?" Stacey asked, leaning back in the passenger seat of Eric's spyder.
"You can always come to my place, baby, and we can do some fun stuff there," Eric said, smirking seductively.
Stacey looked over at him and matched his expression. "I'm down with that."
"Great. We'll do a little somethin somethin tonight after we get back from Tony's," Eric said, pulling into a driveway.
As soon as Eric had turned off the engine, six people ran out.
Eric opened Stacey's door for her and walked her over to the guys.
"Stacey, this is Tony, his little brother Tommy, Luke, Mark, Chuck, and Guy. I dude named Chad would be here, but no one's seen him or heard from him for a couple weeks now. Chad's Chuck's little brother, but don't tell anybody that. Word might spread to the newbie, and nobody wants that. The newbie thinks he's tight with Chad and Tommy, and he thinks we all like bullying Chad and Tommy around," Eric said, leading Stacey into the house.
Tony walked over to Eric and whispered in his ear, "Is she a witch?"
Eric smiled devilishly. "She is. I did my research after I met her today. But, careful. She doesn't know it yet. And you'll never believe who her secret whitelighter is."
"Who?" Tony asked, smirking.
"Newbie's father," Eric said, glancing over at Stacey.
"Do you think newbie knows?" Tony asked, also glancing over at Stacey.
"I know he knows. I could tell by the way he was looking at her during classes today," Eric said, looking Stacey up and down, taking in her sexy body. "But I don't think she knows newbie. She didn't even act like she even acknowledged his existence today."
"Maybe she's putting on an act," Tony said, glancing over at Tommy.
"She could be. But I don't think so. I do know how is putting on an act, though," Eric said, facing Tony again.
"And who is that? Someone in our group?" Tony asked, looking around at the other five.
"Yeah. Your brother," Eric said, glaring over at Tommy.
Tony chuckled. "That's crazy. Tommy's totally on our side. You just haven't gave him the chance to prove himself."
"We've gave him enough chances, Tony. You're my best friend and I respect that Tommy's your little brother and you love him, but he's a traitor and he needs to be killed," Eric said, walking away from Tony and over to Stacey.
Stacey looked Eric up and down. "How 'bout we ditch these losers and go back to your place now, huh? Get our action on there."
Eric smiled. "Sounds good to me, babe. You'll just have to hang on one second," he said, running towards Tommy and punching him in the face, sending Tommy into the wall behind him.
"Eric, stop it!" Tony yelled, running over to Tommy and helping him up.
"He's a traitor, Tony! You and I both know it! He was supposed to take over Chad's job once Chad went missing, but I haven't seen the newbie injured in anyway!" Eric yelled, picking up Tony and throwing him at Guy. Then he picked up Tommy by his neck and started choking him.
"That's it!" Tony yelled, throwing a fireball at Eric's back. "He's my fuckin brother, you maniac! You can't kill him! He's the only family I have left!"
Eric let go of Tommy and fell to the floor, no longer breathing.
Tony rushed over to Tommy and helped him up. "Are you okay?"
Tommy rubbed his neck and nodded. "I think so."
Luke, Mark, Chuck and Guy were all staring at Tony with wide eyes.
"What?! Tommy's my brother! Traitor or not, I'm wasn't gonna let Eric kill him!" Tony screamed at them.
Stacey stared around at everyone with fear etched into her face. Then she fainted.
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"Mom, she should've called by now," Brian complained, pacing around in the living room two hours later.
"I know, honey," Bianca said, sighing. "Maybe we should call your father. He is her whitelighter."
Brian nodded. "Dad!"
Chris orbed in instantly.
"It's been about three hours since school has been let out and about two hours since Eric should've picked up Stacey, and still no word from her," Brian said quickly, all in one breath.
"She's okay, Brian. I promise. I would sense if there was something wrong with her. Okay?" Chris said, looking Brian in the eyes.
Brian sighed and nodded.
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"Stacey? Stacey, wake up," came Tommy's voice, pulling her back into consciousness.
Stacey opened her eyes slowly and looked around. "Wh-Where am I?"
Tommy smiled. "You're in my room. You're Brian's girlfriend, right?"
"I, uh . . . Well, I . . ." Stacey trailed off.
Tommy smirked. "It's okay. I'm a witch, not a warlock. I'm also a traitor to the company everyone in the living room works for. Once their boss finds out, he'll probably kill me. Well, he'll try to. Tony won't let him. To Tony, family comes before anything else. Expecially since our parents died a few years back."
Stacey looked around. "Uh . . . Uh . . . Brian!"
Brian orbed in and looked around. "Oh. Hey, Tommy."
"I thought you were also part whitelighter. Why didn't you tell me when we were talking today?" Tommy asked, looking confused.
"I guess it just slipped my mind," Brain said, shrugging.
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"Okay, so where did Chris go?" Piper asked herself, looking around the downstairs hallway.
Leo walked out of the living room. "Chris? Chris went to Florida when Brian called him."
"And how do you know this and I don't?" Piper asked, putting her hands on her hips.
"I was there when Brian called him," Leo said, shrugging.
(An: I'll just going to give you guys a little heads up right now. If you guys have read my authors note on chapter four for 'The Third Son', you would know about what time it is right now, and I am very tired. For anyone who hasn't, it's about a quarter after 2am. So, I am sorry if the rest of this chapter doesn't make much sense, and if I have some grammar and spelling errors. Just work with me here. I'm doing this so I can update everyday now. Please, tell me if you have objections to this in a review.)
Piper sighed and looked down at the floor, her hands still on her hips. "Right," she said, walking into the living room.
"Piper, what's wrong?" Leo asked, looking concerned and following her.
Piper turned around and faced him. "Nothing is wrong, Leo. What would make you think that?"
"Piper, do you have a problem with me hanging out with Chris so much?" Leo asked, knitting his brow.
Piper gasped. "No! Why would you think that?! Boys and their fathers are supposed to be able to get alone well! The same goes for girls and their mothers! So why shouldn't you hang out with all our children?! They're all boys! They should be able to talk to you and not me! Why, you ask?! Because you're the father and I'm the mother without a daughter to be friends with!" Piper yelled, storming up the stairs.
"Piper -"
Piper turned and faced Leo. "No, Leo! It's okay! I'm happy for you! Really!" she half yelled before continuing to storm up the steps.
Leo sighed and put his head in his hand.
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Bianca was sitting in the living room on the couch, stirring the coffee that she had made Chris and herself while Chris was sitting on the other couch across the room, looking around.
"So . . ." she trailed off for the fifth time since Brian had orbed out fifteen minutes ago.
"Nice place you got here," Chris said, trying to make conversation.
Bianca nodded. "Yeah. I mean, thanks. Thank you very much," she said quickly.
Chris smiled and looked over at Bianca. "I really don't see why we're sitting so far away from each other," he said, getting up and sitting down extremely close to his ex.
Bianca smiled. "And I don't see why we're still talking," she said, taking his coffee from him and setting both the cups down on her side table.
Bianca pushed Chris down so he was lying on the couch and crawled on top of him.
"I love it when you're this way," Chris said, smiling seductively and pulling her towards himself, kissing her deeply.
They had been kissing for five minutes when Leo decided to orb in.
"Chris, you need to - Woah!" he said, turning away quickly.
"Uh . . ." Chris said, getting up quickly and fixing his hair.
Bianca quickly got off Chris and stood up. "Um, coffee, Leo?"
Leo turned back around. "N-No thank you, Bianca. I'm just here to talk to Chris for a second. Th-Then you guys can go back to what you were doing before."
"Right," Bianca said, turning back to Chris. "Are you going to stay for dinner?"
"Sure, why not?" Chris said, smiling at her.
Bianca smiled. "Great." Then she turned back to Leo. "What about you, Leo? Surely you haven't forgotten what my meatloaf tastes like?" she asked, raising her eyebrows.
Leo smiled. "No, I haven't. And I would love to stay, but Piper would probably be mad if I did."
Bianca nodded. "Right," she said, heading into the kitchen.
Leo turned back to Chris.
"So, what's up, Dad?" Chris asked, standing up.
"Chris, I think you should hang out with your mother a lot more," Leo said, making Chris sit back down and sitting down next to him himself.
"Why? Did Mom say something to you about it?" Chris asked, looking confused.
"Well, sort of," Leo said, looking down at the ground. He looked back up at Chris. "She just misses her sons. When you guys were little, you used to play with her and hang out with her all the time. I mean, she would start to get in the car to go shopping, and there you and Wyatt were, already in the backseat."
"Only because you helped us back there," Chris said, smiling.
"Only because you and Wyatt would whine and complain until I did. Anyway, my point is, your mother wants you guys to see more of her, and less of me. Try splitting up your time, so you can hang out with everybody, okay?" Leo asked, looking hopeful.
Chris smiled slightly and nodded. "I'll do that, Dad."
Leo smiled. "Good," he said before orbing out.
Bianca walked back out into the living room. "Hey, Chris, um . . ." she trailed off, looking down at the floor.
"Yeah?" Chris asked, raising his eyebrows and standing up.
Bianca looked up at him and smiled. "Do you want to help me make dinner?"
"Like old times?" Chris asked, smiling and walking over to her.
"Yeah. Like old times," Bianca said, taking Chris's hands in her own.
"I'd love to," Chris whispered, leaning down and kissing Bianca deeply.
"I hoped you'd say that," Bianca whispered back, kissing him deeply back.
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Okay, and that's where I'm going to end this chapter! Please review and tell me what you think about everything, because personally, I think this chapter revealed a lot and opened up a lot of windows. So, until next time!
Oh, and if you haven't already, check out my newest story entitled: Together Forever. It's a cute little Piper/Leo Romance/Mystery fic! Check it out and tell me what you think of it! Ciao!
Hannah