Hi! Thanks for all your reviews! I'll went back to Phoebe in this chapter, but more Piper and Paige chapters will come along.
Curiosity Nearly Killed The CatIt was beginning to darken over the busy street, but there had been one car had hadn't moved all day, neither had it's inhabitants.
Lexa and Phoebe had been sitting in the car for five hours; they had been watching this guy all day and were not about to let him escape again. Their mark, Rod Jamison, had apparently been smuggling dangerous drugs into the country, drugs that were not dangerous to humans, but to mutants and witches, they were lethal.
Phoebe sat in the driving seat, leaning her elbow on the window so that her hand could prop up her head, she looked out, watching the rain fall and water droplets trickle down the glass. Lexa had her feet up on the dashboard, she was popping bubblegum and had her arms crossed. Phoebe broke the long silence between them
'Lexa stop being so impatient!'
Her teammate was surprised by this random comment 'But I didn't say anything!'
Phoebe turned to look at her 'Yeah, I know, but I can sense your impatience and it's driving me crazy!'
There was another short silence, and then Lexa spoke.
'Well, now that you mention it, what's taking so long? How can someone spend five hours in some deadbeat bar?'
'I don't know but he's still there, I can sense him,' Phoebe glared at the bar; Lexa assumed that her partner was using her powers to find their guy.
Suddenly, one of the back doors swung open, letting in the rain and the cold, but the door was quickly closed after Brennan had got inside.
'Alright ladies, I got food!' he said with triumph. Both girls turned round and glared at him.
'Phoebe and I have been sitting in this car for five hours, our legs have went to sleep, you tell us that it's imperative for you to leave the car, and you come back with food!?'
'She's right Brennan, what if our guy had left the bar while you where away satisfying your never ending hunger?'
Brennan's eyes widened 'Wow! You guys really don't like being cooped up now do you?' he said as he brought a sub out of the bag.
Phoebe looked at the bag curiously 'You wouldn't happen to have a cracker in there would you?'
Brennan smiled at her and reached into the bag, but Lexa interrupted
'Feeding time's over you guys, there's our man,'
Jamison was a short, balding man he was accompanied by two burly looking guys; they left the bar and began walking into an adjoining alley.
'Alright Jess, we're on the move,' Phoebe spoke into the comlink ring that Jesse had given her, all of Mutant X had one, and as long as she was wearing it, all four of them would always be in contact.
'It's about time,' Jesse's voice echoed in her head 'Be careful you guys,'
'Aren't we always?' Lexa said sarcastically.
The three of them left the car, and ran across to the other side of the road to follow their target.
They saw Jamison and his bodyguards at the end of the alley; they were getting into a car when Phoebe, Lexa and Brennan stopped him.
'Wanna play?' Lexa said to the bodyguards as lasers ignited from the tips of her fingers. Something then happened that surprised them, one of the guards threw out his arm, sending Lexa and Phoebe into a puddle.
'Alright, it's my turn,' Brennan said, he was about to use his power, but then realised that the rain had soaked him, and if he were to use his power he would get shocked too.
Instead, he ran towards them, but the other guard came at him in incredible speed, and punched him in the gut as quick as lightning. The speed of this punch sent Brennan flying into Lexa and Phoebe, who fell into the puddle again after Brennan's body pushed them down.
The members of Mutant X lay in the puddle, slightly stunned by these mutants, but they got an even bigger surprise, when someone jumped down as if they came from the sky and started to lay into the bodyguards.
After this happened, the car sped away, with their mark in it.
The person came up to them, it was a woman, and she addressed them.
'I leave you guys alone for two seconds and look what happens,' she laughed looking at the pathetic bundle of people in the puddle, she put out her hand and pulled Lexa up, who wore a shocked look on her face.
'Shal…'
Jesse looked at his drenched comrades chuckled 'Get caught in the rain did you?'
'More like got thrown into a puddle… twice!' Phoebe answered
'Yeah Jess, why didn't you tell us this guy had mutant bodyguards?' Lexa demanded.
He wore a surprised look 'I didn't know, what were they're powers?' he began typing.
'One was telekinetic and the other had super speed,' Brennan informed him.
'Yeah if it hadn't been for Shalimar, we'd be finished right now,' Lexa said.
The team had returned to Sanctuary, they were soaked to the skin and in a bad mood, you could hear the thunder and lightning, even from inside the rock, the three of them walked off to their rooms, leaving trails of water in their wake.
After Phoebe had had a shower and changed, she came out of her room and saw Jesse and Shalimar laughing with each other, Phoebe looked at them intriguingly, she saw Brennan training in the dojo, and decided to join him.
She made her entrance 'Hey,'
He turned to look at her and smiled 'Hey,'
Knowing that Brennan would see right through her, she just decided to ask her question.
'So, what's the deal with Shalimar?'
'No deal, she used to be a part of Mutant X, she's an old friend,'
'Why did she leave?'
'She's a feline feral, so basically she got bored of being in a cave, so she went to find adventure,'
'I saw her with Jesse, have those two ever… you know…' She trailed off.
'Hooked up?' Brennan finished.
'Well… yeah, for lack of a better term,'
'No way, Shal and Jess are like brother and sister, they've known each other for most of their lives,'
'Oh, what about you?'
'What? Me and Shalimar?'
'Yeah,'
'Mmmmm… nah, we're just friends, although we flirt with each other, just for fun,'
'Oh! Okay,' Phoebe felt a wave of relieve go through her, although she wasn't sure why, was she jealous?
Brennan stopped punching the bag and looked at her with his eyes narrowed, he then smirked at her 'Are we getting a little bit of the green eyed witch, Phoebe?'
'What!?' she looked down at her feet, with the blood rushing to her face 'Of course not! Why would you even think!?… I gotta go!' she jogged out of the dojo, leaving Brennan to chuckle to himself and continue to hit and punching bag………
Phoebe was sitting in her room in front of the computer screen, it was late, she was typing up her column, as it still had to be done. There was a knock at her door, she told whoever it was to come in.
Shalimar's head peered round the door 'Mind if we talk for a minute?'
'Not at all, come in,' she offered, the blond entered and leaned against the desk.
'So, how long have you been her?'
'Around three months,'
'Cool, well I just came in to say this!'
Shalimar slammed her hand down on Phoebe's wrist, thanks to her powers; she was able to almost crush what was under her hand. Phoebe was gasping in pain; the blond brought her face closer and whispered
'You either leave of your own free will, or you won't leave alive, you understand me?'
Phoebe couldn't even speak, the pain on her wrist was unbearable, she managed to fire a psionic blast at her attacker. Shalimar recoiled, the blast had unexpected results, the coldness that had been in her eyes was gone and was replaced by regret
'Help…me…' she cried out, which left Phoebe even more confused, then she saw a spirit rise out of her body, but only for a brief second, it returned, along with Shalimar's evil attitude.
Shalimar's eyes flashed a golden colour; she was about to pounce when Jesse, Lexa and Brennan came rushing through the door.
'We heard screaming, what's going on?' Jesse asked calmly
'Jesse!' Shalimar had put on a hurt voice, she ran towards him 'She attacked me! I came in here to talk and she hit me with her psychic powers!'
'What!?' Phoebe exclaimed 'You're the one who came in here and tried to break my wrist! What I did was in self defence!'
'Pheebs, tell us the truth,' Lexa ordered
'I am! She's the one who's lying!'
Lexa and Jesse gave her disapproving looks, but Brennan jumped to her defence.
'C'mon you guys, we all know that Shal can more than take care of herself, and we all know that Phoebe isn't the sort of person to attack someone for no good reason,'
'Brennan I can't believe you're siding with her on this! After all we've been through!' Shalimar walked out of the room with Jesse and Lexa not far behind.
'Brennan… you believe me… don't you?' pleaded Phoebe
Brennan sighed 'I'm not taking anyone's side until I have the facts,' he answered before taking his leave.
Phoebe stood in the middle of her room, she was now determined to stop Shalimar, or whatever was possessing her, she couldn't write, thanks to her injured wrist, so she sat down at her computer and started typing a dispossessing spell………
Phoebe tried to get some sleep, but every time she was about to nod off, she would see the gold glint that Shalimar had had in her eyes. She turned over in her bed again, she heard a creak, probably just the wind she thought, but then it hit her, how could she hear the wind when she was inside a mountain?
She heard the creaking noise again, it sounded as if it was closer, this couldn't be a coincidence, and she decided that if she heard again, she would investigate. But she didn't hear it again, but she saw two golden orbs looking at her in the dark!
Phoebe screamed and quickly turned the light on, she heard running footsteps and saw that her door was swinging, as if someone had opened it in a hurry.
Her partners came running in again after hearing the scream, they saw Phoebe sitting up in bed with the light on, and her hand was clutching her chest.
'What happened this time?' Lexa said in between a yawn.
'You guys, I swear, she was in here, I turned on the light and I heard someone running and my door was open, I think she's after me!'
'What's going on?'
Shalimar appeared at the door, looking as if she had just woken up. She stood in the doorway rubbing her eyes, the others looked at Phoebe with a disapproving look.
'So you're saying that Shalimar managed to run back to her room before we got here?' a very tired Jesse asked.
Phoebe nodded her head frantically
'Phoebe, either your imagination is playing tricks on you, or you're just trying to get back at Shal,' Jesse answered
Phoebe looked at her friends with her mouth wide open, how could they sell her out so easily? Tears began to run down her face as everyone left her room. As a last attempt, she grabbed Brennan's arm.
'Brennan you have to believe me! She's trying to kill me,' she said in a whisper.
Brennan bent down and kissed her on the forehead, 'Just try and get some sleep,' he told her. Shalimar was still standing in the doorway after everyone left, she smirked and her eyes glowed again before she walked off, leaving Phoebe feeling betrayed and abandoned………
It was morning. Phoebe sighed gratefully, she had made it through the night, after her second encounter, she had locked her bedroom door, just so if Shalimar tried to attack her in the dark again, she could say to her team mates that she had locked the door and that it must've been tampered with.
Speaking of her teammates, she came out of her room, and wasn't exactly given a warm welcome, Lexa and Jesse didn't even register her existence and Brennan was avoiding her gaze.
She had the dispossessing spell in the back pocket of her jeans, her plan was to cure Shalimar, and prove them all wrong.
Phoebe found her target in the dojo, ruthlessly hitting a punching bag; she saw Phoebe and smirked 'Like my little visit last night?'
Phoebe sneered 'I knew it,'
Shalimar stopped punching 'So, when are you leaving?'
Phoebe laughed 'You think I'm gonna be driven out of here by a possessed cat?' she fired a powerful psionic blast at Shalimar, hoping it would give her enough time to say the spell. The blond fell to the ground and the spirit rose up, Phoebe quickly brought out the spell, and she had used it before, so she knew it worked
'Host's soul,
Reject the poison essence,
Let loves light,
End this-,'
She didn't have enough time finish the spell, and spirit went back into Shalimar and called out for the others. They swarmed around Shalimar and helped her up.
'Alright Phoebe, you can't lie you way out of this one! You standing with a spell in your hand is pretty suspicious!' Lexa said
'Uh… Shal? Why don't you go out for a while so we can talk to Phoebe?'
Shalimar nodded and smirked as she passed Phoebe on her way to the garage.
'We need to talk…'………
'What!?' Phoebe shrieked
'We're just saying that maybe you should take a while to sort yourself out,' Jesse replied calmly.
'The hell you are! You're just trying to make 'we're kicking you out' sound nicer!'
She walked over to the chair, picked up her brown suede coat and stormed off to the garage, Brennan went after her.
'Phoebe…'
'Just don't Brennan! I just hope you realise that I'm right before it's too late, because even though you're doing this to me, I still consider you guys my friends!' she ran to the garage sobbing………
After hours of wondering around Phoebe didn't even realise where she was, she didn't even care, she had nowhere to go, her friends hated her and she was lost. The middle Charmed One came to her senses and looked at her surroundings, she was in an alleyway, and there were a lot of cats. Phoebe thought this was strange, but was suddenly overwhelmed by her feeling of dread as she turned around.
'Looks like you left after all,'………
Brennan was sitting at the computers; he had just made a breakthrough and was instantly worried about Phoebe.
'Oh my God! Jess! Lex! Get the hell in here now!' he shouted
'What is it?' Lexa asked as she walked in with Jesse
'Take a look at this!' he pointed towards and screen and his teammates watched in horror.
It was security camera footage from Phoebe's room, they heard Shalimar's initial threat, and saw her crush Phoebe's wrist,but Brennan had done more digging, he had the footage from the previous night, it was in infa-red so that they could see clearly that Shalimar was prowling around Phoebe's bed and they also saw her rush out when the light was switched on.
'Oh God…' Lexa said breathlessly
'Phoebe was telling the truth…' Jesse said to himself
'Look, I know you guys feel guilty, but we don't have time! If Shal is after Phoebe, then we have to find her now!'………
I can't winPhoebe was currently levitating high enough so that Shalimar couldn't reach her, but she knew that it was only a matter of time before the feral climbed up the building and caught her. She was right, Shalimar began jumping from one wall to opposite, slowly getting higher and higher. Phoebe wasn't prepared for the speed that the blond woman came at her; they both fell from the air, but slowed their descent with their respective powers. The feral came at Phoebe again; all she could do was block the seemingly unlimited punches and kicks that were coming at her. She was caught by surprise when Shalimar got a hard punch to her face and swept her legs that she fell
'Time to end this…' Shalimar whispered at she brandished an atheme in Phoebe's face.
That's it, Phoebe thought, she fired a psionic blast which sent her attacker flying into a dumpster. She flipped up from the ground, used her levitating power to run up the wall, and kick a shocked Shalimar hard in the face, knocking her out.
Jesse, Lexa and Brennan ran round the corner at that time, they saw Phoebe standing over an unconscious Shal. All three of them began to think that it was Phoebe who was trying to kill Shalimar, until they saw the spirit rise up from the body. Phoebe hurriedly tried to remember the spell so she could kill it, she remembered half of it, but she needed more time. The spirit began to go back into the body when a laser and a lightning bolt hit it, Phoebe looked behind her to see her friends helping her, and she remembered the rest of the spell.
'Host's soul,
Reject the poison essence,
Let loves light,
End this cruel possession,'
The spirit began to writhe and try to escape, put held in place by Brennan and Lexa. It finally blew up, leaving Phoebe standing shakily, looking at her team; Lexa walked forward and hugged her.
'I'm sorry,'………
Phoebe was once again, sitting in her room while the others talked to Shalimar, she was telling them she remembered, Phoebe had decided to stay out of the conversation as she didn't really know Shal, and she hadn't technically met her! Besides, it's not as if she could get up, she had ended up with a sprained ankle because of her final move in the fight and not to mention a big ugly black eye, which she had an icepack on at the moment.
There a knock at the door, she was hesitant to invite the person in, even though she was guilty to admit it, she was angry with her friends. She knew that she would have done the same thing though, if she had the choice of trusting her sisters or someone she'd known for three months, she knew who she would choose.
She sighed 'Come in,'
The door opened, it was Shalimar, Phoebe took a deep breath,
'Can we talk for a minute?'
'Sure, as long as you don't try to kill me this time,' Phoebe retorted, but then she stopped 'Sorry, that was a bit unfair,'
'No, no, it's alright, I deserve it,' There was a silence between them, Phoebe then asked her a question
'How did you end up possessed?'
Shalimar looked surprised 'Wow! You don't waste anytime, do you? I was checking out some cave, I had been travelling a lot and I had stopped at a little village in the mountains,' Shalimar looked distant, she was obviously remembering this village 'Anyway, there had been reports of something dangerous in the cave, being an ex-Mutant X member, I couldn't let these people live in fear, so I went to check it out…'
'And?'
'When I told this story to the guys, I left a bit out, I thought you should be the one to tell them, all I told them was that the spirit in the cave possessed me, that was it,'
'What did you leave out?'
'I left out what the spirit said to me, he told me that the new member to Mutant X was a Charmed One,' Phoebe's heart skipped a beat 'and that his mission was to get rid of her and make her leave, and I'm guessing by the look on your face that you haven't told the others about your true magical identity?'
Phoebe avoided her gaze, she had been found out, she knew that Shal was waiting on an answer so she gave her one.
'I haven't told them, I didn't want it to change things,' she answered guiltily.
'Yeah well, I suggest you tell them soon, because they're getting suspicious of you power and I think it's better they hear it from you than finding out themselves,'
Phoebe smiled 'I think I'll take your advice,'
Shalimar began walking out of the room, but she stopped and smiled.
By the way, you have my blessing to stay here,'
'Really?'
'Yeah! Anyone who can beat me in a fight, is worthy!' she answered and then left the room………
It was quite late now, Phoebe was just e-mailing her column and there was a creak at the door. She turned round to see Lexa, Jesse and Brennan standing in the doorway with guilt written all over their faces.
'You here to apologise?' she asked coldly
Jesse and Lexa shared a look 'Yes, we are sorry, all of us, are gonna forgive us or make us grovel?' Lexa asked
Phoebe maintained her stony glare, but then it softened as she laughed.
'Of course! As long as you guys are okay with me sticking around,'
Jesse laughed 'Fine, we'll put up with you,'
After fives minutes of laughing and apologies, Jesse and Lexa left the room, but Brennan stayed behind.
'Let me have a look at your injuries,'
Phoebe laughed 'What are you, a doctor?'
'Actually, yes,' she gave him a strange look 'What? I gotta have something to fall back on if saving the world gets boring!'
He took her cheeks in his hands and manoeuvred her head for better light 'Hmmm, the swelling around your eye seems to have stopped, although it's gonna be a shiner in the morning, let's look at your ankle,'
Phoebe decided to tell him, he would probably be the one to understand the most, so she began
'Brennan? You know how you were asking about my powers and my family?'
'Uh huh,' he knelt down to undo the bandage on her ankle.
'Well… the reason I'm so strong is that… well… I'm a Charmed One.
He stopped unwrapping the bandage and looked at her.
'What?'………
Okay! That was the first MX chapter in a while, I hoped to liked it!
Chapter 10 'Sibling Rivalry' will be up soon!
