Princess Pinky: I'm so glad you liked the previous chapter. I hope you love this one. (hehehe, just kidding, I know it's full of angst) Thanks for reviewing...I loved your essay and your kind words.
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Peanut2lbs: Sorry peanut, but you and I know how squeamish Piper can be when it comes to splattering blood and all that...and there's also the "Consequence" stuff she always talks about. So, no, I don't think she'll be blowing any of them, at least not for now...LOL -Thanks for reviewing kiddo!
Faith Kingsley: It's ok dude, I know you read my story whether you review or not. I'm sorry you had to go through that non.fun time in Oxford. Stay cool.
C.C. McKenna
Inexperienced Love
Chapter Twenty-Three
"What the hell are you doing in my house?" Piper shouted, slowly approaching the uninvited prowlers.
"Well helloooo…Piper, sorry to drop in unannounced" Kevin sarcastically bowed his head and turned his back on her. "I needed to settle some unfinished business with your sister, and, I've decided now is the right time to do it" He blatantly walked to the living room and sat down, raising both feet on the futon. He leaned back and turned the TV on, while Piper, in shock, followed all of his movements.
Rachel smiled and followed Kevin to the living room. "Let the party begin!" She shouted, turning the center table upside down and plunging herself on the sofa, next to Kevin.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Piper spat with anger and walked hastily towards the living room. "I want you both out of my house immediately! or…"
"Or what?!" Kevin replied gazing up at Piper; he looked at her straight in the eyes and slowly pulled out a gun. and pointed it at her.
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Phoebe opened her eyes again to the astounding sound of the shattering table, she quickly sat up and tossed the sheets aside; she jumped out of bed, barefooted, and without her robe ran to Piper's room; The first thing she noticed was the opened door, she turned the lights on and saw the empty bed, while a chilling sensation started running down her spine.
"Ok, I need a little composure right here" Phoebe said to herself. "She must be in the bathroom…or getting some milk…or something, yeah, that's it" She repeated herself over and over again on her way to Prue's room.
"Prue…sweetie…" Phoebe softly tapped her sister's shoulder. "Prue…" She whispered again.
"Y-yeah…what is it?" Prue opened her eyes and blinked a couple of times to clear her sight. "Phoebe… what's going on?" She tried to sit up but the wound in her stomach did not allow it; she carefully placed a hand on her abdomen to ease a sudden sting and worriedly turned her eyes to Lexie. "Is it Lexie?…is she ok?"
"Yeah, she's fine" Phoebe brushed away a few hair strands from her sister's face and bent down to kiss her.
"Phoebe…you could have waited till morning to do that" Prue smiled weakly.
"Listen… I heard a noise downstairs and I'm going to go to find out what was it" Phoebe ran her fingers through Prue's ruffled hair and gave her a sweet smile. "I want you to stay here… promise me you won't go downstairs"
"Phoebe… I can't, I need to go with you" Prue hissed.
"No, I don't want you get hurt, I don't want that gash bleeding again, you're going to stay here and take care of Lexie" Phoebe knew too well that her big sister was not, by any chance, going to stay in bed, that's why she mentioned Lexie, knowing perfectly well that Prue was going to do whatever necessary to keep her baby sister safe. "Now… promise me" Phoebe urged.
"Ok.." Came the soft reply.
"Thank you" Phoebe smiled and kissed her sister's forehead. "I'll be right back"
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"Oh K, all right…listen Kevin, take it easy, put that gun away please, or you're going to end up hurting someone"
Kevin stood up, not taking the gun away from Piper's face and walked menacing towards her. "I don't know if you're stupid or if you just love playing dumb" He unexpectedly backhanded her with such force that made her fly against the TV, bringing everything to the floor. Rachel laughed and walked to the fallen Halliwell; she picked her up by the hair and tossed her against the sofa. "You are going to watch how we beat the crap out of …"
"Yeah…yeah!" Piper rolled her eyes and annoyingly raised both hands to freeze her assailants, "Shut up!" she hissed, realizing that it had taken her quite a lot to put an end to that awkward situation; feeling immediate relief when she saw the immobile figure of Rachel in front of her. She slowly leaned back, exhaling deeply and trying desperately to get a hold of herself. Suddenly, a shuddering, chilling sensation overcame her when she saw Kevin walking towards her.
"What the hell?" Piper asked as she sprung up.
"Yeah, that's what I'd like to know" Kevin added, also in shock. "What happened to Rachel? Why is she frozen stiff? Why is she not moving?" He walked beside Rachel and quizzically, and very cautiously stared at her.
Piper smiled with nervousness, not believing what her own eyes were seeing. "Why aren't you…I mean, how come you didn't…"
"So it is true" Kevin's expression changed all of the sudden. "Lexie was not lying" He chuckled as he pulled Lexie's charm out of his pocket. "This thing really works!" He laughed and turned to Piper, swaying the triquetra in front of his face. "Will I'll be damned!" He chuckled again, carefully hiding his lucky charm to keep it from Piper's reach.
"Are you ok Piper?" Phoebe entered the living room and stood still in front of Kevin, nervously staring at the gun in his hand. "What are you doing?" She asked with a strong perceptible sign of anger in her voice.
Kevin grabbed Phoebe's arm and pulled her to his chest, "I came here to kill your sister, but now I'm going to have to kill all of you" He spoke on Phoebe's ear, kissing her cheek and pressing his gun against her temple. Phoebe started breathing raggedly and her forehead quickly began showing the tiny sparkles of fear.
"Leave her alone!" Piper jumped on her feet and startled when Kevin turned his gaze towards her; he had a look in his eyes that immediately disturbed her, they held a frightening glint of brilliance and madness; the expression he wore made her slowly go back to her seat.
"That's more like it" He mocked. "I want you and your sister to take me to Alexia's room" He violently hurled Phoebe over Piper and pointed the gun at them. "Now!!"
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Prue slowly pushed aside the blankets and quietly stood up; she glanced at her sleeping sister while she cautiously picked up the nightgown from the bed and carefully wrapped it around her trembling body.
"Where are you going?" Lexie asked without even opening her eyes. "You're not supposed to get out of bed"
"I uh…I need a glass of water… you stay here and I'll go get it myself" Prue gently tucked her sister and smiled to hide her tenseness.
Lexie opened her eyes and shook her head. "No way…you stay in bed, and I'll go get it for you" Lexie carefully got out of bed and quickly found her slippers.
"No, Lexie, please, go back to bed and …" Prue suddenly bent her body to the piercing pain inside her sore abdomen and her knees quickly gave way.
"Prue!" Lexie moved quickly to her sister's side and single handedly tried to lift her sister's weak body. "You are definitely not going anywhere!" Lexie hissed while her shoulder also screamed in pain, so she slowly let go of Prue and took a deep breath. "I need to go get Piper… wait here…don't move" She knelt beside her sister and softly squeezed her shoulder. "You'll be ok… you'll be fine" She gave her a kiss and slowly stood up. "Be right back"
"No" Prue insisted. "You mustn't go downstairs," She whispered and softly shifted her body.
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"Piper… are you out of your mind? Why don't you just freeze him?" Phoebe whispered while she landed awkwardly on top of her sister.
"Because I can't!," Piper muttered through clenched teeth and frenziedly flicking her wrists.
"What?!" Phoebe stood in front of her sister. "What do you mean 'you can't'"
"She means that I'm holding the pan by its handle now" Kevin slid the gun on Phoebe's back and shoved it against her ribs. "Now, both of you… get moving!"
"Ok…ok…just, please, take the gun away from my sister" Piper asked with a tremulous voice. "Please Kevin, be reasonable"
"You're in no position to demand anything!" Kevin re-aimed his gun towards Piper. "Do something about Rachel, and I don't want to see her like that again or one of you will suffer the consequences"
"What's going on?" Phoebe turned to Piper, frowning and noticing Rachel's stillness for the first time.
"Ask Lexie!" Piper snapped. "This bastard has the 'charm' we gave her… oh I am so not talking to her…FOREVER!"
Kevin backhanded Piper and immediately drew some blood from her nose. "I'm not a bastard!" He put the gun on her forehead; right in the middle of her eyebrows. "Are you going to unfreeze Rachel… or do I have to 'freeze' you?" He smiled and slowly moved his thumb, pulling back the hammer of his shiny, chromed Beretta. Piper stood fearless, unblinking, looking defiantly into Kevin's eyes.
"Piper please" Phoebe swallowed nervously. "Just do what he says"
"No… he's going to kill us anyway!"
"Please, Piper…if not because of him…will you do it for me?" Phoebe insisted; this time with tears in her eyes.
"Oh all right" Piper replied without gazing away from Kevin's eyes; She budged away from Him and twirled her fingers in front of Rachel's face. "There!" She annoyingly turned to face Kevin. Arms crossed; plucky attitude. "Now what?!"
"…Lexie and Prue" Rachel finished her sentence. Of course she did not even notice she had been a human statue for a couple of minutes.
"Now I've had it with you!!" Kevin furiously pressed the gun against Piper's chest.
Rachel frowned and looked around the room, trying to figure out the whole situation. "Did I miss anything?"
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Lexie frowned and slowly went back to her knees, finding her sister's blue eyes and suspiciously looking deep inside them. "I don't know what's all these about Prue, but I'm sure something serious must be going on… and I think you don't want me to find out… so are you going to tell me, or do I have to find out by myself?" She wrapped her arm around her sister's waist and gently pulled her up. "Jesus Christ!" Lexie mumbled to herself as a sharp pain invaded her body. She bit her lower lip and gently placed her sister back in bed. "There." Lexie said softly and carefully helped Prue to stretch out her legs. "Is this better?"
Prue's eyes were closed tightly. "Yeah"
"Cool… now let me go get the girls 'cause I'm actually hurting a little… I think my shoulder has started bleeding again" Lexie walked to the door and tried to open it, but she quickly shut it back when she heard a gunshot, she locked eyes with Prue and nervously leaned back against the door. Shuddering.
Prue sprung up, ignoring her sore abdomen and pulled Lexie into a tight embrace. "Ok, now I am not asking… I'm ordering!" Prue said sternly. "You stay here and don't move until I say you can move… do you understand?"
Lexie nodded; Eyes wide open and completely in shock.
"Good. Now, lock the door" Prue kissed her sister's forehead and took a deep breath.
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"PIPER!" Phoebe shouted and ran to her wounded sister. Piper was on the sofa; she had fallen on her back and was uncontrollably shaking. She could not believe what Kevin had just done; but she could feel the burning bullet inside her chest. "It's ok, sweetie, it's ok, I've got you" Phoebe put some pressure on her sister's bleeding wound and stroke away the suddenly ruffled hair from her face.
"Are you crazy?!" Phoebe looked at Kevin. "Why did you do it?" She looked back to Piper and swallowed with difficulty, trying to keep her coolness. "Piper… stay awake…please, try to stay awake…for me …sweetie…Piper!" Phoebe was having trouble breathing, and she was scared.
"On your feet!" Kevin shouted pointing his gun to Phoebe's temple. "Your sister will be dead in a couple of minutes… so why waste your time on her" Kevin chuckled, pulling Rachel into a tight hug; Phoebe remained on the floor, stopping her sister's bleeding flow with both hands.
"See baby? You don't have to worry about being a 'statue' anymore" Kevin smirked and kissed Rachel's forehead. "I've taken care of that problem" He turned his gaze to the sofa. "Nothing personal Piper" He stared into her wet, still astounded eyes and smiled. "But you were beingquite annoying"
"A statue?" Rachel shrugged.
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It took quite a while for Prue to descend the stairs, she'd been walking slow but steady, and when she was finally about to enter the living room, Phoebe unexpectedly was violently hurled towards her; Prue startled and shrunk back a little to instinctively protect her throbbing gash but immediately reached forward and steadied her sister.
"Where's Piper…Phoebe, where's Piper?!" Prue shouted, holding her sister's shoulders
Phoebe eagerly wrapped her arms around her sister. "He shot her Prue, Kevin shot Piper!"
"What?!" Prue let go of her sister and turned to the living room, determined to do something for her younger sister.
Phoebe tried to block her sister's way by standing nervously in front of her, but Prue shoved her aside. "No, Prue, he's got a gun… please…" Phoebe insisted.
"That's right Prue…I've got a gun", Kevin mocked. "And I've got your sister too" He walked out of the living room with Piper on his shoulders and a silver gun menacingly pointed at them. "Now, let's all go upstairs… I want to see Lexie 'cause we are going to have some real good fun"
"You heard him!" Rachel walked to Prue and pushed her harshly towards the stairs. "You too, Halliwell!" Rachel turned to Phoebe and chuckled with sarcasm.
Prue stumbled a little but immediately turned around and waved her hand, sending Rachel flying harshly against the wall. The latter fell awkwardly on the floor, unconscious, while Prue drew a satisfaction grin on her face. Kevin, enraged, fired the gun as a warning, hitting the chandelier and bringing out some multi-colored sparks.
TBC