It's been awhile. I had another idea sparked after watching the cowboy beebop movie. that should come out soon....

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"Okay, on that note." Piper said in the silence with a look at her husband. "Phoebe, Paige, in the kitchen. We need to have a little pow wow. Leo you need to talk to your son. Brooke, you stay out here and try not to get into any trouble."

Piper still couldn't believe that the girl standing before her had been the sweet, incredibly shy girl Wyatt had been in love with before. She used to be so shy and now.. Well, now she was evil and stolen okay 'borrowed' people's powers in Brooke's terminology without any care in the world.

She was still human too. She had a power humans weren't supposed to even posses and a power that the Elders didn't even know how it was created.

And to top it off, Piper herself had been the tie breaker into changing her evil. How wonderful was it to have that on your conscience! Especially, when her son had never gotten over the girl in the first place.

Brooke watched Piper as she drilled the family into the motions and looked around with a brief smile. She had to give Piper the benefit of the doubt. She sure had seemed surprised to find out she was responsible for who Brooke had become. Of course, she didn't blame Piper for it at all. She liked herself better this way. No longer was she some naÀ5?Àve pushover. Now, she had the power to do whatever she wanted whenever she wanted. Hell, she could take care of herself in the supernatural world, too.

Brooke looked at Piper with raised eyebrows and smiled as she replied to Piper's little quip. "Me? Trouble? Never."

Piper quickly pulled her two younger sisters into the warm house and shut the door to the solarium behind her. The finality of the situation broke home over Leo as he turned to his son and nodded for him to follow him away from Brooke and the safety of the backyard. Wyatt slowly followed his father as Leo walked down towards the front yard and down the stone steps while Chris laid behind in the shadows.

Brooke just looked down and sighed as she felt the day come back to her. She was shivering badly now. The cold wind was becoming more harsh and her body was still going through the process of keeping her alive after her last little stunt with death. She had a feeling she was feeling the results of her brush with death through hypothermia too. She took a moment and then sat on the white patio lounge chair in order to give herself a little break.

Chris stayed outside in the yard with her. He was still drawn between going into the house and seeing what his mother was really saying in there in private, or staying outside with her. The fact that he lived with his mother and knew her well enough to know she was going through her full blown circuit of paranoia inside while the girl who had stolen Wyatt's heart as well as most of his livelihood if that was even the right term for it was outside and he was just a little too curious about her.

It had been years and now here Brooke was sitting right there in front of him. He had never admitted it to anyone in the family but he had had a small crush on her once before So, now he couldn't help but feel it slowly come back over him again as he looked at her.

She had been so nice to him. Wyatt's other friends never even gave him the time of day, but she had. He had always been the pesky, annoying little brother that tagged along to Wyatt's other friends but Brooke had gladly accepted him.

Brooke had been nice to him. She had hung out with him. She had made him dozens of c.d.'s just for the hell of it. He had to like her for being nice to him. It had been nice for once to be recognized as actually existing.

She had changed though. Hell, he may not even have thought it was her if he had saw her on the street. Her chestnut brown hair was longer now and it was full of unruly curls that she had never had before. She had always had straight short hair that had made her look like a chic china doll. Now, she looked like one of the Victoria Secret models or something with the long hair.

Her eyes which had always been a light topaz that had been filled with kindness were now smoky and filled with secrets. Hell, even the way she carried herself now. She had used to always have a nervous energy when it came to her hands, and now she had stood before some of the most powerful beings of good on the earth and she had looked straight in their eyes with more confidence then he had ever seen out of her. She had changed a lot in the small amount of time she had been away.

And it all had been because of his own mother. It was just a little too weird to know that fact. He could just feel a headache coming on as he watched her.

Even what she was wearing now seemed different. Instead of her regular jeans and a tank top, she wore a long black skirt that had small dark blood red designs of fire on the bottom hem of it along with her red tank top that was now almost a maroon color from the evident brush with water that she'd had. Her clothes were even plastered to her body from whatever water incident that she and Wyatt had been apart of.

Chris didn't understand how she had gotten so wet. He wanted to know though. It didn't make any sense at all. It hadn't rained all day. Not here anyway. But here she was completely drenched and shaking in the cold.

Why hadn't Wyatt saw she was cold? Why hadn't he given her some clothes?

Of course, there was the other question. Wyatt had left the house fully clothed and came back shirtless and with a drenched girl.

"Brooke?" he called out to her in the dark as his voice cracked a bit.

She was on her feet in a second. She hadn't seen him in the dark. He had to admit he felt stupid as she searched for him. He finally came out of the dark shadows that had been hiding him from sight in order to stop her search for the voice.

Brooke looked at him for a moment and then she gave a small squeal that seemed so like her from the olden days and not at all like something an evil demonic force would give.

She instantly ran over to him and gave him a big bear hug that developed him. Then she leaned back and look at him. "Chris! I can't believe that's you. You've changed so much."

Chris blushed in embarrassment and looked around with a small smile.

"Oh, don't even get all embarrassed on me. You're hot!" she told him as she broke away from the hug and beamed at him.

He always wanted to hear that from her. This was almost a perfect moment in time. The girl he had had the hots for a few years was back in his life looking like a model and telling him- the younger brother of the almighty twice-blessed- that he was hot. He could die happily now. Instead, he decided to keep his cool.

"I.. Uh.. You too." he said stupidly then after wanting to bang his head into a tree about a thousand times before he dug himself a grave.

"Thanks. Wow. Time changes everybody doesn't.. wow." she repeated and smiled and then she ruffled his brown hair as if on impulse.

As always, this whole hair ruffling thing bothered him slightly. A hot girl should not ruffle a guys hair. It just wasn't right. Again, he was being put in his place as the younger brother.

Chris decided to pick a burial plot now as his shoulders shrank a little in shame. He had almost believed that he was finally getting somewhere with a girl that was beyond awesome. Now, here he was back at square one.

"Have you missed me?" she asked him as she wrapped an arm around his shrinking shoulders and leaned her head on his chest warmly since he was so tall now and she could do that.

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you. And Wyatt...."he said as he broke off.

He had saw the flicker of interest. It was still there. She still cared about Wyatt no matter what act she may drudge up. That was why she was here and if his own parents couldn't see it then he could.

There still was a little bit of the old Brooke in her. If only they could save it in a bottle and bring her back fully.

"And Wyatt?" she asked, curiously as her topaz eyes darkened to a gold.

"Well, he took it the worst when you left. I mean come on. Who has their parents restrict you from the love of your life because they are going to become evil in the near future?" Chris spouted out. "Well, besides out family anyways."

Brooke stiffened beside him at the mention of her destiny. He felt stupid after he had spoke and bit his lip as he watched her. It only took a second for her to pull away from him after he had drudged up the past and now she looked over the yard with an expressionless mask over her face.

"I guess we all have the privilege of living that double life." she said, cryptically and finally turned her deep golden eyes towards his.