Hey there! Hope you liked the MX Chapter, in my defence I wasn't feeling well at the time so it might not have been my best work.
This chapter begins straight after Chapter 9. Enjoy!
Sibling Rivalry'What?'
'Are you saying 'what' because you didn't hear me, or because you're really shocked?'
'Door number 2,'
'Thought so,' Phoebe trailed off.
She guessed by the stormy look on his face that he wasn't pleased with the news.
'A Charmed One… you mean the whole 'power of three' thing and the prophecy of you being the most powerful witches of all time?'
'Yeah,' she felt that was all she could stay.
'And the reason that the ghost that possessed Shalimar was after you, it's because you're a Charmed One?'
Phoebe could only nod her head.
'And the reason why all those demons were after you and Lexa at the diner, it's because you're a Charmed One?'
Phoebe nodded her head again. There was a long silence.
'So… what do you think?'
'What do I think? Hmmmmmm… let's see, so far, because of your magical identity, you've had one of my friends possessed, and put another in mortal danger, you're the telepath, Phoebe, why don't you tell me?' his voiced was raised now.
'You don't need to be an empath or a telepath to know you're pretty pissed,' Phoebe retorted.
'Well can you blame me? You are a Charmed One! Evils will be coming after you soon, evils that you probably won't be able to fight off without your sisters! You've put everyone in this cave in serious danger!'
This angered Phoebe, she stood up as best she could with a sprained ankle.
'Uh… excuse me? You guys put yourselves in danger by living in this cave and trying to take out the bad guys! If anything I've saved your butts!'
'That's different! We have the power to take out the human bad guys, not the demonic ones! Jesse and Lexa have only fought a couple of demons in their lifetime, but you and I have fought a lot more than that, and I'm guessing you've killed more demons than me!'
'Yeah I probably have! Which means I know how to deal with the odd demon that will come after me! What do you think made me such a powerful witch, huh? Maybe it's because of the massive amount of experience I've had!'
'Which is exactly my point,' Brennan began as he went to the door 'I hope that that experience is enough to fight off the dangers that you've brought to this team!' he left, slamming the door behind him, and leaving a raging Phoebe inside.
3 days later
Phoebe was in the dojo, her ankle had healed up and she was using her health to her best advantage by beating the crap out of a punching bag. She was still angry at Brennan's reaction, how could he of acted in such I pigheaded way? Every time she though about it, it just made her even more annoyed.
Lexa entered the room, just in time to see Phoebe levitate and forcefully kick the punching bag, making it fall off the ceiling and land a few feet away.
'Uh… Pheebs, are you OK? It's just that, that's the second punching bag you've separated from the ceiling, and it's usually not like you to be so… violent,'
'I'm fine Lexa…' Phoebe answered as she pressed a button on the wall to make another punching bag appear from the ceiling.
'OK, well, if you get tired of wailing on a piece of leather and foam, you now where to find me,'
This comment was completely ignored, so Lexa decided to leave, but not without one last look at her teammate.
Lexa found Brennan at the computers, he was looking at Phoebe's file, it had everything in it, her background, her job, her family, anything you wanted to know about Phoebe Haliwell, you would find it in here.
'What are you doing?' Lexa asked
'I'm updating the powers section on Phoebe's file,'
'I think we have everything, let's see, levitation, telepathy, empathy, and the ability to create and use a psionic blast, what do you think we're missing?'
'Telekinesis, Temporal Stasis or Clairvoyance, she has one of these powers, I'm just trying to figure out what one,'
'What makes you think she has one of them?'
Brennan looked at her; he looked as if he was going to tell her something, but then stopped 'Nothing, never mind…' he shut down the program and walked away. This left Lexa even more confused, something had happened between her two teammates, something big.
'Alright guys! I got something!' Jesse said over the comlinks, and in seconds, the four of them were around the computers.
'We have a magical flamethrower on our hands,' he began to type furiously on the keyboard 'The police released his mug shot an hour ago, here he is,' a picture appeared on the screen; Brennan's face went completely white.
'Wow, if he wasn't going around frying people to death, I'd definitely consider him,' Lexa quipped. Phoebe laughed dryly at her friend's comment.
'So what do you say Lex? Me and you taking this hunky killer on?' Phoebe asked.
'No,'
They turned round to see Brennan standing with his arms crossed and a stern look on his face.
'I'm going, alone,'
He walked away from the others and made his way to the garage. Phoebe was still angry with him, he had shouted at her for being a Charmed One, and now he was trying to take on fire throwing killers all by himself! She wasn't going let him get away with it. She ran after him.
'Uh… where does it say that what you say goes?' Phoebe asked him sarcastically.
He didn't even turn round to look at her. 'Just stay out of it, Phoebe,' from what she could see, he was doing something with his hands, and he then dropped his comlink on the ground and walked off………
'Are you sure we should be doing this?' Lexa asked, after Brennan's leaving, Phoebe had jumped into the Helix to follow him, but then she remembered that she wasn't a very skilled pilot, so Lexa had come along to help incase so lost control.
'Yes, if he's going to get himself killed, he needs me to be there so I can say 'I told you so','
'Are you sure you're not doing this because you're worried about him?'
'Well… yeah, of course, but mostly I just want to prove I'm right!' Phoebe said triumphantly
'God, you're made for each other, both stubborn as hell…' Lexa whispered under her breath.
'I heard that! Hey, look! His car's stopped,' Phoebe looked at the screen, they had been tracking Brennan's car in the Helix 'Okay. Time to land,'
'You want me to take over?'
'No thanks, I need to learn how to do this,' Phoebe replied kindly.
Lexa and Phoebe walked down to the bottom of the building that they had landed on, they saw Brennan's car on the other side of the road and walked over, only find it empty.
'Argh! He knew we'd try and track him!' Lexa hit Brennan's precious 78' Camaro on the hood in frustration.
'Calm down, I came prepared in the likely event that he gave us the slip,' Phoebe pulled out a map of the city and a crystal on a string.
'You call a map and a rock being prepared?' Lexa mocked
Phoebe looked at her 'Remind me when this is all over to teach you and Jesse about witchcraft, just because you can't cast spells it doesn't mean that you can't do other things,'
'Example?'
'Scrying is what I'm doing right now, do you have Brennan's comring?'
'Uh… yeah, here you go,' she pulled out the silver ring and handed it over. Phoebe tied the ring on to the string that was on the crystal; she then started spinning the crystal over the map.
'You can use scrying to find anyone, all you need is a map, a magic crystal, a piece of string, and a belonging of the person you're looking for. Now, personally, I use an amethyst crystal, as I think they're more accurate, but a normal crystal works too,'
'Hmmm… looks like I just had my first lesson in Witchcraft 101,'
Phoebe looked down at the map as the crystal tugged down and landed on a spot on the map.
'Got'm,'
A woman running along dark deserted street, she looked behind her, looking for any sign of her chaser. Her apartment was just one block away, just decided to go through an alleyway for a shortcut, that was a big mistake.
'Miss me?' her assailant jumped from the building, she hoped that the impact would kill him, but he put out his hand, it was if he had some sort of rocket booster attached to his hand because smoke began to emit from his hand as he lowered down to trap his victim.
'How do you wanna be done? Medium, or rare?' he smirked as fire began to fly from his hand. The girl screamed, but before the flames could reach her, someone tackled her from behind and knocked her to the ground, out of harms way.
'Get out of here!' the man shouted, it was Brennan.
The girl stumbled as she got up, but away as fast as she could.
'Well, well, well, I knew if I killed enough people I'd get your attention,' the man said.
'What are you doing Ryan!? Why are you killing people who aren't even involved?' Brennan shouted.
'It's my nature, and it's also because of my nature that I've spent 20 years locked in a magical seal!'
'Why are you even here? Shouldn't you be skulking about with your old demon friends!?'
'First of all, I lurk, I don't skulk and second of all, I'm here for revenge! It's because of you that my soul has been separate from my body for the last two decades!'
Brennan laughed 'You call what you have a soul? I think a more accurate term for it is a black hole where all your humanity was destroyed,'
Ryan growled 'Enough of this!' he shot fire from both hands, which was met in the middle by Brennan's electricity. This caused a small explosion, which sent both men back a few feet. Brennan began to charge up his power of jet propulsion, he would take this battle into the air. Ryan did this also, with his rocket booster power; they both lifted off and prepared to fight.
Phoebe and Lexa were walking along the street, they had just saw a girl who was running in the other direction, looking very scared, but after they saw the explosion, they knew exactly where Brennan was.
The fight raged on, both had ran out of the energy needed to stay in the air, so they reduced to shooting random blasts of fire and electricity and each other. Ryan fired a flame just as Brennan was coming out of his hiding place, and it hit his left shoulder, leaving him weakened and burned. The girls ran round the corner, only to see Brennan slouched against a wall, with the killer standing over him, ready to flame him.
'Hey!' Phoebe grabbed his attention and shot him with a powerful psi-blast, which made him fly back into a nearby pile of garbage. Lexa slowly walked up to the man
'Nighty, night,' she prepared to fire her lasers and finish off the target
'No!' Brennan screamed, he fired a bolt of electricity, which made Lexa crash into the wall. Ryan took full advantage of this; he stood up and brought a potion out from his pocket, and threw it at Phoebe. It seemed to be a sleeping potion or a potion to knock someone out because Phoebe hit the ground as soon as the potion hit her.
Ryan ran over to her limp body, slung her over his shoulder and ran off. As a last ditch attempt, Brennan threw a lightning bolt at his attacker, but Ryan put up his hand and a wall of fire blocked the electricity from breaking through.
When the wall disappeared, Ryan was gone, along with Phoebe, and Lexa was lying on the ground unconscious, that was all Brennan remembered before he blacked out.
Brennan woke up, he could feel a sting on his left shoulder and he had a splitting headache. He opened his eyes and could see Jesse and Lexa looking at him.
'Can I kick his ass now?' Lexa asked Jesse, she obviously furious.
'Sorry, not until we get the full story,' Lexa pouted at his answer 'Although if you keep up with that cute little pout, I might change my mind,'
Lexa's glared at him, and her face went back to being stone. Jesse laughed at her reaction.
'Ugh… Jess? Where am I?'
'You're home buddy!'
'What happened? …' he suddenly remembered and shot up from the chair in the lab 'Phoebe! Where is she!?'
His comrades exchanged dark looks with each other 'Man, the killer took her, she might be…'
'No, trust me, she isn't, have you tried-,'
'Uh… Hello! Did you forget what you did back there Sparky?'
'Yeah Bren, why did you shoot her? Were you just off target because of the shoulder?'
'No, I meant to hit her,'
Both of them were stunned at this answer 'Why?' Jesse pleaded
'I couldn't let you kill him Lex,' Brennan replied 'My plan was to just separate his body and soul again,'
'Again? What do you mean?'
'I did it once before when I was 11, and the reason I did this alone is because… Ryan's my brother,'.
Phoebe slowly came to, she immediately tried to move, but she couldn't, as she opened her eyes she saw that she was being held in place by chains. There was a piece of tape over her mouth also. A figure approached her, at first she thought it was Brennan, but she was sorely mistaken.
'Enjoy your nap?'
'He's your brother?' Lexa said slowly, hoping that she had not heard him correctly.
'Yeah, he's the oldest in my family, he's 3 years older than me,'
'How… Why… Why is he here?' Jesse asked.
'I'll you guys the full story, but first, what are you doing to find Phoebe?'
The surprised duo came back to their senses 'Oh! We've got the computers scanning everywhere, we've got all lines of communication open and the computer is collecting a list of likely places where he might be holding her, so, tell us the truth. Now,' Jesse said.
Brennan got up from the chair and sighed as he began 'I've got a big family, I'm the second oldest out of 5, we're a big target for demons, but my Mom keeps the place cloaked, it's out in the country. We also take in magical orphans, Mom looks after them until it's time for them to go to Magic School,'
'Sounds like a nice place,' Lexa thought out loud.
'It is, me and my sisters loved it there, we all worked on the farm, so we could keep living in that beautiful place, we may have been working but it was fun,' he eyes glazed over and he began to smile 'we used to have horse races, we each had our favourite at the ranch,' he smiled again, but then stopped 'Sorry, getting caught up in better days… anyway, as you guys know, ever since my oldest ancestor, Brendan Stewart, my family's powers have come from the elements, you know, wind, water, ice, earth-,'
'Electricity,' Jesse added with a smile.
Brennan laughed 'Yeah, well, in the entire 300 year life of my line, no one has ever had powers that came from fire, until my big brother,' he walked over to a nearby table 'We never knew why, but his powers slowly corrupted him, turned him evil, until the day he chose his side, he revealed our home to demons,'
Lexa gasped and Jesse looked up from his shoes when their friend said this.
'My Dad, he was a mortal, he couldn't defend himself when the demons attacked, and he was killed,' Brennan's voice was shaky, this obviously was hard to say 'After my three sisters and I helped my Mom defeat the demons, she was able to use a special potion to split Ryan into two parts, my sisters and I opened a portal with our combined powers and sent his body through, when it was gone, I used my powers to trap his consciousness in an electrical field and seal him away…,' Brennan trailed off, he was done sharing, they had get back to business, his friends sensed his desire to do this and started off
'Alright, well somehow, he's broke free and he's got our friend, so lets go kick some ass,' Lexa proclaimed.
'But we need to find Phoebe first, she's our main priority,' Jesse said
'Ryan will be with her, so we find Phoebe, we find Ryan,' Brennan stated
'Well, the computers are coming up with nothing so I don't how we're gonna… wait,' Lexa suddenly smiled 'Jess? Can you get me a map, a crystal and something belongs to Phoebe?'.
Why am I always the one getting hurt? Phoebe thought, this guy had been channelling heat though his hands, and was burning every part of her clothing, along with her top layer of skin, he had also taken a liking to cutting her with a rusty knife, the cuts were shallow and bled freely, if her friends didn't come through that door soon, she wouldn't last much longer. It had went on for hours, he kept burning her, and just when she thought it was over, he would do something else, like lick her burnt flesh and begin again.
'Hmmmm… I can see why my little brother's into you, you're sexy and you're not a screamer, but I bet you look even better with you top off!'
Phoebe's eyes widened, she closed her eyes in horror as he started to unbutton the burnt remains of her blouse, she felt so vulnerable in just her bra. She had given up on screaming half an hour ago, she was only wasting her breath as the piece of tape over her mouth prevented her from saying anything. She felt his hand on her stomach, it was like having an iron pressed against her, he removed the tape from her mouth and kissed her forcefully.
'Don't die yet baby, I can't wait to see what you look like without those jeans,' he whispered in her ear, he ran his tongue across her ear and began to pull down her jeans. For the first time since this had started, Phoebe began to cry, she was going to be raped and killed and there nothing she could do about it.
Just as she thought that, the door burst open and there was a flash of bright light. After the light had faded she only saw it for a few seconds, she saw Lexa cutting the chains around her wrist with her powers, and Jesse was phasing her feet so that the chains on her ankles fell off. She then saw Brennan, filled with anger, blasting Ryan with more electricity than she'd ever seen him create. Ryan landed on the floor, crumpled and dead, still smoking from the unbelievable voltage that had killed him.
The last thing Phoebe remembered was Brennan gently picking her up in his arms and him saying to her
'It's gonna be okay, I have you now, I'm so sorry,' he sounded like he was crying, that was all she remembered, before she blacked out.
It was a dark atmosphere in Sanctuary that night, the healing machines had been working for hours, slowly repairing cut skin and burnt flesh. Brennan hadn't left Phoebe's side at all, a concerned Jesse had told him to go to bed a couple of times but he had said that he was fine and that he didn't want to leave her alone, in case she woke up.
He suddenly felt so guilty, three days ago, he had yelled at her for bringing dangers to the team, but it turned out that he had been the one to bring the danger, Phoebe had ended up here, fighting for her life, because of him.
I didn't intend on writing something like that! But there you go. I have a plan for Phoebe's story but I need some time to pass at MX for it to work, so… I'm going back to Piper and Paige!
Chapter 11 'Explosion Erosion' will be up soon!
