CHAPTER 30:

2003, somewhere in San Francisco.

The higher men had done what the master obeyed them to do and suddenly found themselves in the middle of San Francisco in the year 2003. They searched the entire city for young witch girls who looked like the description they had gotten from the master. But each and every time they found a girl they knew it wasn't the right one and they killed her only for fun.

One day the leader sensed another young witch girl, and he felt something about her was different than all the others before her. They went to the place he last sensed her and saw the kids playing basketball. 'Bingo', he thought, remembering how the master told them the girl played basketball. He saw the oldest girl matching the description and he waited for her to be alone.

When the other kids went home the higher men made their way to the Halliwell girl, still invisible. All of a sudden the leader made himself visible and grabbed her. But before they could go away with her or find out if she was the right one the Charmed ones appeared and attacked. Gredam was positive they would save the girl and he transported himself out before they could kill him.

He went to a place in the underworld he knew no-one could be in this time. There he waited. He had been close enough to Joey to catch a glimpse of her and he used his own powers he still had to sense where she was. It was very weak, but he thought he felt it and followed her trace. He knew he had to wait for the right chance and he had to know for sure if it was the right girl.

The next day at the basketball game he thought he had an opportunity to find out. He watched the girl and saw she was supporting the team that was losing. The moment one of the team members made a shot that would make them win Gredam slowly moved his head and the ball made a slight turn and almost missed the basket. Gredam watched the girl very carefully now and saw what he expected. He saw her moving her hand and with that the ball did fall through the basket. 'Gotcha', he thought smiling.

He saw the girl was distracted and made her way out of the stadium and he quickly followed her. When they were far away from all the other people he grabbed her and took her to his secret place. There he pushed her in a cage and tried to think of what to do next. He needed to get the girl to Nëomie; she would know what to do.

But before he got the change to take her to the future she began to annoy him and distracted him. He walked to the cage and said to her she had to stop talking and threatened her even though he knew he couldn't harm her. All of a sudden the charmed ones were back, apparently to save the girl. Gredam cursed as he tried to avoid all the attacks and he managed to get away before they could kill him.

2008, somewhere in the underworld.

Gredam now knew how the watch worked and he managed to push the right buttons to get to the underworld. He sneaked into the room with the triquetra and threw a vial to it to get him to the future. When the portal opened he quickly ran towards it. At the other side he pressed the buttons on the watch again to get to Nëomie. He couldn't believe he had so many troubles with it before; it was actually pretty easy to work with.

H sighed of relief when he saw himself appear in the lair of Nëomie and the other hidden ones. He called for her and she appeared, looking very worried. "You don't have the girl", she just said. "Glad to see you to girl", Gredam smiled as he took her arm. He laid her hand on his face and said "Turn me back".

"I can't", she said as she stepped away from him. "You have got to get the girl first." "Nëomie", Gredam said sighing. "She's safe. I even went to the past to get her and the past Halliwells have found her. I can't do anything more." "How do you know she's safe then? I mean they don't know about our future." "Nope but there's someone with them, who does know. Another Halliwell, one from the future too. When he got close to me I sensed it was the one that was in the house a few days ago, only then it was just a little kid."

"So it is true?", Nëomie said relieved. Gredam saw a smile coming over her face which made her look even more beautiful. "There was another prophecy Gredam, one the master doesn't know about and from which was doubted it was true. But it was, it prophesised that someone close to the girl would come from the future and save us all."

Nëomie was so happy she quickly walked to Gredam and laid her hand on his face. He felt the ache going through his body again but this time he was prepared. When she was done he opened his eyes and looked as himself. He saw his well-known clothes and green taint and felt relieved he didn't look like the higher men again.

He hugged Nëomie and kissed her on the mouth. "Thank you", he whispered. Suddenly he thought of something. "Where are the others?" "They are not here Gredam", Nëomie replied. "It's not like we all live here together they were waiting for you, because of the big role you had to fulfil." "So we are all alone?" Gredam asked again as he looked around. "Yes", she replied. "Good", he said as he kissed her again.