***FYI: I didn't realize that what I had typed in italics wasn't uploading.
So, I've added *asterisks* around what are thoughts so you can tell the
difference. In chs. 1-4 thoughts are in 'single quotes' like that. That
should help with some of the storyline that I think was being missed. I'm
glad you're enjoying the story! I'm enjoying writing it! Thanks so much
for the reviews, compliments, and support! ~abs
"I didn't know that would happen, Chris," Chloe tries to smooth the tension that has developed between them.
He looks at her from the pot of potion ingredients, "I don't see why you wouldn't."
"Hey, I didn't even know what powers I would have back here. Phoebe doesn't have her powers right now, how would I know she would get premonitions from me? And speaking of, how do you have powers with little you downstairs?" Chloe turns the interrogation back on Chris.
"Part of the spell Bianca and I worked out," he explains with a small explosion from the cauldron, "Could you get me some of the violet leaves from the shelf over there?" Chloe turns to motion towards the vial of violet leaves behind her, but Chris stops her, "Not that way. Try to keep your powers a little more secret, please." Chloe squints at Chris in anger and walks to the shelf, "Just, whatever you do, don't touch Phoebe."
"I haven't yet, have I? You're infuriating, you know that?" she asks handing him the violet, "What are you making anyway? Batterak is invincible, remember? Even to the Power of Three."
"We can still hurt him, maybe trail him if we have to. The violet tags him, a mystical low-jack if you will."
"You know your herbs," Chloe notes, tinkering with the mortar and pestle on the table... crushing the ginger root Phoebe and Paige had picked up in China Town.
"I learned from the best," he smiles looking up at the picture of the three sisters on a side table next to the sofa in the attic.
"Yeah, I guess you got that chance," Chloe followed his gaze.
*Shhh...* Chris thought and said out loud, "Can you find some potion vials?"
*What is it? What's going on?* Chloe thought and followed with, "Where do I look? I've never made potions up here before," staring Chris in the eyes.
*Leo, he's up here. He's invisible. Watching us*' "Um, check that cabinet over there, behind the book," he directed out loud to Chloe who approached the cabinet. "That's it," he answered and followed with the thought, *He's in the door. While you're over there pick up some powdered mushrooms and an extra pot. We'll flush him out.*
"Got it," Chloe answers, "do you want me to bring this pot with me? So we can start another potion while that one is cooling? Maybe we can injure him... buy us some time to figure all this out."
*Good cover up!*
Chloe smiled, *Thanks, I try* and brought the pot to Chris with an athame hidden in her sleeve. She set the new pot over the fire and started adding ingredients. She and Chris had made this potion many times before to reveal Wyatt during games of hide and seek when they were younger. Wyatt would invariably be invisible standing in the room with them, but this potion revealed him. It was habit making the potion. She didn't even need to think about the ingredients as Chris finished the mystical low-jack potion. As the new potion simmered, Chloe pulled out her athame, and slid it secretly back up her sleeve. "Help me with this?" she asks winking.
"Sure," Chris returned.
Then the two chanted together, "Ees tonnac ew tahw su ot laever. Yretsym siht em wohs. Yalp ew tahw si kees dna edih. Yad siht su ot thgis htrof gnirb," as Chloe pricked Chris's finger with her athame.
"What the hell?" Leo asks stunned as he became visible.
"Neat little potion isn't it?" Chris smirks, "Spying doesn't imply trust, Leo." Chloe nodded her head in agreement as she bottled the other potion.
"How'd you?" Leo tries to illicit an answer from his son.
"Not answering," Chris responds pushing past Leo and out the door. He descended the stairs in haste.
"He loves you, he just doesn't know it yet," Chloe tries to assuage Leo as she follows Chris out the door.
Leo lets a small grin form on his face, "Thanks," he manages to say as Chloe looks at him sympathetically over her shoulder. Then turns at the top of the stairs to face him, "I mean it," Leo finishes.
"I know. I wish I had the opportunity to know my dad. He disappeared when I was five. I'm on your side, Leo," she assures him, "It was really nice to finally meet you." Chris called to her from the bottom of the stairs, "Gotta go," she finished hurrying off.
Leo smiles at her as she left, noticing the ring on her finger... and how familiar it looked. Then an answer hit him, "I'm starting to figure you two out. I know how you did it." And he walked back into the attic, picked up the small pot of potion that Chris and Chloe had been working on, and orbed it downstairs.
Leo joined the three sisters, Chris, and Chloe in the kitchen carrying the pot of potion and set it on the counter. Chris and Chloe were explaining the new potion.
"It's like a what?" Paige asks confused.
"A supernatural low-jack," Chris answers.
"Low-jack?" Paige is still confused.
"A low-jack is something they put on cars, so if they get stolen you can track them," Piper explains to Paige.
"So, if the demon gets stolen, we can find him," Paige winks at Chris. Chloe laughs.
"No, but it will tag him, so we can find him... and somehow vanquish his sorry ass," Chris nods. Piper raises her eyes to Chris, "Oops, sorry, mom."
"Chris, what's going on with little you? Mmm, indigestion's a little worse today," Piper asks, rubbing her belly, "Leo, what's in the pot?"
"Sorry, mom," Chris apologizes, "wish I could help you, really I do."
"Well, maybe you can help me?" Leo states approaching Chris with the pot, then tripping over the rug, spills the potion on the floor.
"Chris, get out of the way!" Chloe directs too late. The potion slides across the floor and over Chris's shoe, immediately turning him invisible. "Oh boy," she sighed.
"Leo!" Chris screams, "Man, why did you do that?"
"I was wondering how you made me visible, and now you're invisible how about that? Why did that happen?" Leo asks, leaning against the counter knowing the answer.
"Issues, issues," Chloe shook her head, *Busted* she thought.
"You're telling me," Chris answers from his spot in the room, pulling out a chair at the table.
"Leo, you turned my baby invisible!" Piper bellows.
"It's ok, mom, it's easily fixed."
"I can't help but laugh at this situation," Chloe remarked taking the seat next to Chris. There was thump on the table like a hand hitting the table and then the fruit bowl fell throw the table onto Chloe's foot. "Sorry, touchy," Chloe rubs her foot.
"How'd that happen?" Piper asks approaching the chair Chris was supposedly sitting in.
"Ooo, they don't know," Chloe looks to Chris's chair, "Aren't you just the mystery?" Chloe said rising from her chair, "On that happy note," she shimmers out.
"What is it with you two leaving in the middle of a thought? Do you not have any home training?" Paige comments, "Oh yeah, sorry Piper," she winces under Piper's look.
"I didn't know that would happen, Chris," Chloe tries to smooth the tension that has developed between them.
He looks at her from the pot of potion ingredients, "I don't see why you wouldn't."
"Hey, I didn't even know what powers I would have back here. Phoebe doesn't have her powers right now, how would I know she would get premonitions from me? And speaking of, how do you have powers with little you downstairs?" Chloe turns the interrogation back on Chris.
"Part of the spell Bianca and I worked out," he explains with a small explosion from the cauldron, "Could you get me some of the violet leaves from the shelf over there?" Chloe turns to motion towards the vial of violet leaves behind her, but Chris stops her, "Not that way. Try to keep your powers a little more secret, please." Chloe squints at Chris in anger and walks to the shelf, "Just, whatever you do, don't touch Phoebe."
"I haven't yet, have I? You're infuriating, you know that?" she asks handing him the violet, "What are you making anyway? Batterak is invincible, remember? Even to the Power of Three."
"We can still hurt him, maybe trail him if we have to. The violet tags him, a mystical low-jack if you will."
"You know your herbs," Chloe notes, tinkering with the mortar and pestle on the table... crushing the ginger root Phoebe and Paige had picked up in China Town.
"I learned from the best," he smiles looking up at the picture of the three sisters on a side table next to the sofa in the attic.
"Yeah, I guess you got that chance," Chloe followed his gaze.
*Shhh...* Chris thought and said out loud, "Can you find some potion vials?"
*What is it? What's going on?* Chloe thought and followed with, "Where do I look? I've never made potions up here before," staring Chris in the eyes.
*Leo, he's up here. He's invisible. Watching us*' "Um, check that cabinet over there, behind the book," he directed out loud to Chloe who approached the cabinet. "That's it," he answered and followed with the thought, *He's in the door. While you're over there pick up some powdered mushrooms and an extra pot. We'll flush him out.*
"Got it," Chloe answers, "do you want me to bring this pot with me? So we can start another potion while that one is cooling? Maybe we can injure him... buy us some time to figure all this out."
*Good cover up!*
Chloe smiled, *Thanks, I try* and brought the pot to Chris with an athame hidden in her sleeve. She set the new pot over the fire and started adding ingredients. She and Chris had made this potion many times before to reveal Wyatt during games of hide and seek when they were younger. Wyatt would invariably be invisible standing in the room with them, but this potion revealed him. It was habit making the potion. She didn't even need to think about the ingredients as Chris finished the mystical low-jack potion. As the new potion simmered, Chloe pulled out her athame, and slid it secretly back up her sleeve. "Help me with this?" she asks winking.
"Sure," Chris returned.
Then the two chanted together, "Ees tonnac ew tahw su ot laever. Yretsym siht em wohs. Yalp ew tahw si kees dna edih. Yad siht su ot thgis htrof gnirb," as Chloe pricked Chris's finger with her athame.
"What the hell?" Leo asks stunned as he became visible.
"Neat little potion isn't it?" Chris smirks, "Spying doesn't imply trust, Leo." Chloe nodded her head in agreement as she bottled the other potion.
"How'd you?" Leo tries to illicit an answer from his son.
"Not answering," Chris responds pushing past Leo and out the door. He descended the stairs in haste.
"He loves you, he just doesn't know it yet," Chloe tries to assuage Leo as she follows Chris out the door.
Leo lets a small grin form on his face, "Thanks," he manages to say as Chloe looks at him sympathetically over her shoulder. Then turns at the top of the stairs to face him, "I mean it," Leo finishes.
"I know. I wish I had the opportunity to know my dad. He disappeared when I was five. I'm on your side, Leo," she assures him, "It was really nice to finally meet you." Chris called to her from the bottom of the stairs, "Gotta go," she finished hurrying off.
Leo smiles at her as she left, noticing the ring on her finger... and how familiar it looked. Then an answer hit him, "I'm starting to figure you two out. I know how you did it." And he walked back into the attic, picked up the small pot of potion that Chris and Chloe had been working on, and orbed it downstairs.
Leo joined the three sisters, Chris, and Chloe in the kitchen carrying the pot of potion and set it on the counter. Chris and Chloe were explaining the new potion.
"It's like a what?" Paige asks confused.
"A supernatural low-jack," Chris answers.
"Low-jack?" Paige is still confused.
"A low-jack is something they put on cars, so if they get stolen you can track them," Piper explains to Paige.
"So, if the demon gets stolen, we can find him," Paige winks at Chris. Chloe laughs.
"No, but it will tag him, so we can find him... and somehow vanquish his sorry ass," Chris nods. Piper raises her eyes to Chris, "Oops, sorry, mom."
"Chris, what's going on with little you? Mmm, indigestion's a little worse today," Piper asks, rubbing her belly, "Leo, what's in the pot?"
"Sorry, mom," Chris apologizes, "wish I could help you, really I do."
"Well, maybe you can help me?" Leo states approaching Chris with the pot, then tripping over the rug, spills the potion on the floor.
"Chris, get out of the way!" Chloe directs too late. The potion slides across the floor and over Chris's shoe, immediately turning him invisible. "Oh boy," she sighed.
"Leo!" Chris screams, "Man, why did you do that?"
"I was wondering how you made me visible, and now you're invisible how about that? Why did that happen?" Leo asks, leaning against the counter knowing the answer.
"Issues, issues," Chloe shook her head, *Busted* she thought.
"You're telling me," Chris answers from his spot in the room, pulling out a chair at the table.
"Leo, you turned my baby invisible!" Piper bellows.
"It's ok, mom, it's easily fixed."
"I can't help but laugh at this situation," Chloe remarked taking the seat next to Chris. There was thump on the table like a hand hitting the table and then the fruit bowl fell throw the table onto Chloe's foot. "Sorry, touchy," Chloe rubs her foot.
"How'd that happen?" Piper asks approaching the chair Chris was supposedly sitting in.
"Ooo, they don't know," Chloe looks to Chris's chair, "Aren't you just the mystery?" Chloe said rising from her chair, "On that happy note," she shimmers out.
"What is it with you two leaving in the middle of a thought? Do you not have any home training?" Paige comments, "Oh yeah, sorry Piper," she winces under Piper's look.