Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed or any of its characters; my story is fan fiction and no breach of copyright is intended.
Background information: Ben Williams (Turner) is 15 years old; he has the power to shimmer and has premonitions. Melinda Cottle (Halliwell-Wyatt) is 18 years old and can freeze time (+ she can orb which she currently is unaware of).
You might want to re-read chapter 4 I changed it very slightly.
This chapter is dedicated to goldstranger because your review made me stop being lazy and made me get the next chapter up. (Has it really been 6 months!!)
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After the 'demons' had shimmered out Piper and Leo orbed back to the manor to check on the children, whilst Cole went to find Paige to update her on the recent events.
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At the manor:
"Phoebe" yelled Piper as soon as she appeared in the Manor. They couldn't see or hear any demonic activity but that didn't always mean anything.
Phoebe had just managed to get Ben to go to sleep when she heard Piper yell and being a bit jumpy with the recent demon attack knocked a cup off the table, which smashed, across the floor. Ben's yells followed in quick succession. Sighing Phoebe picked Ben back up and quickly went to find Piper.
"What's all the yelling for?" yawned Phoebe from the doorway of the attic, checking around to see if it was safe to bring Ben in with her. "I'd just managed to get him to go to sleep," moaned Phoebe when she couldn't see any immediate danger, she was feeling sleepy herself because of all the broken nights. Ben still didn't have the hang of sleeping through the night. "You're so lucky that Melinda was sleeping through the night by 6 weeks"
"Sorry, but we saw the two demons again, I think they were following us. We were worried something might have happened to the little ones since the demons have approached them once already." answered Leo calmly, trying not to worry Phoebe more than necessary.
"Leo I really don't like this, can you go check again with the elders, see if they've discovered anything new" Piper was getting more and more worried about the children "the demons have been following us about, we've seen them twice now."
As Leo orbed out, Cole and Paige appeared in the attic. "Paige and I discussed what happened today and we think I ought to go down to the Underworld, to see if I can discover any plots involving Melinda and Ben" Cole was watching his wife to see what she thought.
Phoebe's first reaction was to tell Cole that he couldn't risk it, she didn't want to lose him, but one look at her child wriggling in her arms (quiet again after Phoebe had picked him back up) and she knew why Cole was ready to risk his life. "Be careful" Phoebe pleaded with Cole
"Always for you. I'll be back as soon as I can." Cole said comfortingly. "See you shortly son" Cole said as he laid a kiss on his son's forehead and shimmered away.
"Let's check through the book and see if we can find anything that we missed the first time, just to be on the safe side," decide Paige as she walked over to the book of shadows and began flipping through the pages.
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Short while later, at the manor:
Phoebe was pacing nervously around the living room, when Cole shimmered back into the manor. "What took so long? Did you find anything out? Are you okay? Was there...."
"Take a deep breath," commanded Cole because Phoebe was beginning to hyperventilate. When she seemed a bit calmer he told her about how there didn't seem to be anything going on in the underworld. At least not anything to different to the normal everyday occurrences and absolutely nothing involving Ben and Melinda.
Phoebe was unsure whether they should take this as good news or bad. "We didn't manage to find anything new in the book either"
"Leo didn't find anything new either" said Piper as she entered the living room followed by Leo and Paige "Nothings changed according to the elders!"
"Maybe we should consider luring the demons out somewhere, but away from the house so that the children are safe. Set a trap then get them to talk, it works sometimes" Paige suggested.
"I think we should just try and kill them," stated Cole
"And what if that brings more, or they can absorb your powers or something. We know absolutely nothing about them. Paige is right, a trap is the safest thing to try." Leo advised them all.
Together they decided to try and lure them demons, then decide where the best place to set a trap was according to how they tried to follow them. Cole, Phoebe, Piper and Paige decided to try and lure the demons, whilst Leo stayed at the manor to watch the children and be ready to orb them away at the slightest problem.
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In a quiet back alley:
When they caught sight of Melinda and Ben for the third time, Cole lost his temper and decided to take matters into his own hands, ignoring the fact that they knew nothing about the 'demons'. Cole sent a fireball spinning in the direction of 'the demons'
Melinda turned around just in time to see a fireball in front of her, shock swept through her like a tornado. Ben, who was still holding Melinda because he'd just shimmered them to the area, felt Melinda stiffen suddenly then the world disappeared into a bright snowstorm and appeared again. Melinda had orbed for the first time in her life.
Once they were back and the world seemed solid again, Ben shimmered them away. Both thinking they had to be the worst people ever at following anyone without getting seen.
"Cole don't " Phoebe yelled, but too late too do anything. They watched the progress of the fireball, worried the repercussions it could have and yet hoping it would sort everything out once and for all and put everything to rest.
Just before it reached the pair of them, they orbed and the fireball safely passed them by. As they appeared again the pair shimmered away and they were left speechless to what had just happened.
"They orbed. Did you see that, they orbed" exclaimed Phoebe; sounding very much like the night they had found Paige.
"They can't be demons then. Demons can't orb. Can they?" Paige asked Cole
"No, not unless they had somehow killed a whitelighter and taken the ability to orb and I doubt that because like the time we found you Paige, they didn't look like they knew they could orb"
"Soooo.." Piper drew out trying to sort out this puzzle. "One of them is part whitelighter but doesn't know it."
"I guess. But it must be the girl because the boy conjured the fireball, he must be a demon" Phoebe added
"Why would a demon be working with a part Whitelighter trying to kill us?" Cole questioned baffled by it all.
As Phoebe leant against the alley wall trying to sort all the information through her head, she was hit by a premonition.
"What did you see" Cole asked when Phoebe opened her eyes again.
"Someone being killed in this alley by something. We need to check the book of shadows"
"Wait a minute it wasn't the teenagers then" asked Paige
"No it was something else. Another problem to add to our troubles" Phoebe replied wearily.
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This chapter is written without italics and I was wondering whether you preferred it with or without the italics in it?
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