Piperfairy – LOL! Is your sister still practising? If she is then you must have a big headache! You've only got 4 chapters until Connor is born! And Emma's secret is in this chapter! And the only reason I give them hot guys is because the show never gives them any decent love interests! (Leslie, Richard) so these guy know how t great a Halliwell!
Pyrena – Yeah, everyone's pairing off! And Shal will definitely be in the finale and maybe chapter 36! And Grant and Emma's relationship will be slow; I think I went too fast with Paige and Aidan so I'm going slowly this time.
Wyatt halliwell – Thanks! And I did have a chapter where Piper becomes an Elemental until they can find the real one, but I scrapped it.
Princess Pinky – Yeah, Pam's my crowning achievement! I love her! You'll love one of her lines! It's after Piper asks how she's feeling. And Mel and Emma are going to be saving their cousins asses A LOT! I have a story planned where they're all grown up! How could they be not nice to Pam? Who else would teach them how to be sarcastic and witty? And watch Aidan carefully, his secrets could be his downfall…
The Truth Revealed
Paige and Emma walked down a busy San Francisco street while sharing a large bag of cookies that they had purchased. Paige had intended them to last until they walked back to her building, but when Emma grabbed the bag off her, she groaned as she only saw a couple of measly crumbs at the bottom of the bag.
'Ugh… How can you eat so much dry food in this heat?' she panted, taking a swig from the bottle of water in her hand and shielding her eyes from the sun after throwing the bag in a nearby waste basket on the sidewalk.
'Oh… I'm just so special,' Paige said mystically, before laughing as they turned the corner to her building. They stopped walking when they saw that the entrance was blocked off by police tape, and cop cars littered the area.
'What's going here?' Emma walked towards the curious tenants that were waiting to be allowed back in.
'Hmm… I hope this cuts down on rent costs,' Paige replied, before receiving a disapproving look from her friend, 'Sorry,'
'Hey, look! It's Piper and Pamela,' Emma pointed in the direction of the two, who were sitting on the hood of a car. Emma could sense that whatever had happened, it had shocked Pamela to the bone, not to mention the fact Piper had her arm around her niece's shoulders.
'Hey, what brings you guys here?' Paige asked
Piper looked at Emma and nodded towards Pamela, signalling that she needed comfort. The two witches switched places and the Halliwell sisters began to talk.
'She had a premonition this morning, of an young woman being attacked by a floating knife and… we didn't get here in time,'
Paige, finally understanding, 'Oh… Her first loss of an innocent,' she could relate, as she felt the same way after her first loss, a golem named Fin.
'Yeah… I figure we're dealing with a ghost since the woman couldn't see him and we could,'
'Hold on! She actually witnessed the death?' Piper nodded, 'Ugh… God, poor girl,'
Pam watched the black body bag on a stretcher being carted into an ambulance, a lone tear stinging her cheek, 'I've never seen a person die before,' she whispered, 'Demons, yeah, they just either blow up or turn to dust. But this…'
Emma nodded sympathetically, 'I know… And I also know that we're gonna get this guy like we always do,'
Pamela looked on the other side of the ambulance, where the woman's husband and little girl stood with each other. The father was trying to stay strong for his daughter as she watched her mother being zipped up into the bag and wheeled into the back of the ambulance.
'You're wrong…' she stood up from the hood, 'I'm gonna get this guy,' she stormed off down the street.
'Beloved unknown spirit, I call to thee
Cross over now, so mote it be,'
Pamela watched the stardust the middle of the circle spin around, as she didn't know the identity of the woman that had been killed, she hoped that this spell would call out to the slain woman.
There was a burst of light and the stardust vanished, leaving the transparent apparition of the woman that the ghost had killed in Paige's apartment.
'Uh… Hi!' Pamela hadn't been expecting the spell to work, 'I know this is going to sound really insensitive, but… were you killed this morning?'
The woman squinted her eyes, 'Are you a witch?'
'Yeah, are… were you one too?' Pamela smiled nervously, hoping to cover up her mistake; she was never good with tenses.
'No,' the woman bowed her head, 'My husband and daughter are though, please! You have to help them!'
'Don't worry! That's why I summoned you! Do you anything about the force that… um…'
'Killed me?'
Pamela laughed, 'Sorry, I'm not used to the whole 'I see dead people' thing,'
The woman smiled, 'It's alright, and I don't know about the killer, but I think it may have something to do with my husband's power,'
'His power? What is it?'
'I don't know, but he told me that it is one of the only powers that occurs on both our plane and the spiritual plane,'
'The spiritual plane…' Pam looked at the Book Of Shadows, 'I read something like that…' she flipped through the pages, until the pages began to move by themselves and landed on the page she was looking for.
'Whoa!' she looked at the page, 'Ah ha! I knew it! Plasmakinesis,' she smiled at the ghost in front of her.
'Yes! That sounds familiar!' the woman responded enthusiastically
Pamela kept her hands on her crossed legs as she read aloud, 'Plasmakinesis is the ability to shoot plasma from one's hands… No kidding,' she said sarcastically before continuing, 'Plasmakinesis is one of the only Wicca powers that can break through the boundaries of life and death, making it a feared power among many undead forces of evil.' She looked up, 'That's explains why there's a ghost after him, but it must be demonic, since I don't think a mortal ghost would be wanting to kill him, as they know squat about magic! Oh… Sorry,' she winced at her lack of tact again.
The woman hadn't seemed to notice, 'Please help my family!' she pleaded.
'Don't worry! There's a spell in here that will…' she touched the page and stopped talking as she wassucked into a premonition.
'C'mon Sweetie! Run!' the husband of the recently deceased woman urged his daughter, 'Get to somewhere safe!' he pushed her in the opposite direction.
'But Daddy!' the little girl protested. There was a whooshing sound and the demonic ghost appeared.
'If I take you out, I'll be revered in the ghostly community!' he grinned savagely, before releasing a lightning bolt………
The vision ended and Pamela gasped and clutched her chest, once again flipping through the book, and looking for the spell to vanquish a ghost.
'Aunt Piper!' Pamela jumped down the stairs, 'Aunt Paige! We have trouble!' she ran into the kitchen, where her aunts where sitting at the table, probably talking about her.
'I had a premonition, the dead woman's husband is going to die!'
'What? How do you…' Piper began
Pamela waved her arms at her, signalling her to be quiet, 'We don't have much time! I have the spell, so we…'
'What spell?' Paige asked, knowing that there was only one
'This one,' she thrust the paper into her aunt's hand, Paige quickly skimmed it over before shaking her head.
'Only a dead witch can use this spell,' she informed her niece, who looked devastated
'But! We can still protect this guy!' Piper chipped in, not wanting Pamela to lose hope; 'We'll orb him out and deal with the ghost later,'
'What's going on?' Emma walked into the kitchen, 'I heard Pamela shouting down the stairs and I thought the ceiling was going to come down on us!'
'Crappy jokes later, innocent saving now,' Piper said, huddling with Paige and Pamela, 'Well? Come on!' she urged the redhead. Emma sighed and joined in the huddle, letting Paige's orbs carry them to the innocent.
'C'mon Sweetie! Run!' the husband of the recently deceased woman urged his daughter, 'Get to somewhere safe!' he pushed her in the opposite direction.
'But Daddy!' the little girl protested. There was a whooshing sound and the demonic ghost appeared.
'If I take you out, I'll be revered in the ghostly community!' he grinned savagely, before releasing a lightning bolt…
Which was deflected into the wall by a telekinetic force that flew from Pamela's outstretched hand.
'Witches…' the ghost growled under his breath, before releasing a lightning bolt at the four of them. Emma rolled out of the way and fired a mental attack at him before checking on her friends. Piper and Paige were beginning to get up but Pam seemed to be knocked out for the count. The psionic mutant checked her student and saw that she had a piece of paper crumpled up in her hand. She quickly removed it and began to read the spell that was written on it.
'Ashes to ashes,
Spirit to spirit
Take his soul,
Banish this evil!'
The ghost screamed in pain. Emma didn't have the power to vanquish him completely, so he just faded out, still alive. Piper and Paige gaped at what their friend had just did as they helped the man and child to their feet. Emma turned round and raised her eyebrows,
'What?'
'She used the spell?' Leo repeated in disbelief
Piper stopped pacing the attic and sighed in exasperation, 'How many times do I need to say this? She said spell, ghost went bye bye,' Piper said in a patronising voice.
They all jumped as lightning crashed outside. It had been scorching sun earlier in the day, but now a terrible storm raged outside, Aidan had explained that the wacky weather would continue for about a week more even after the Elementals had been reconstituted. It was like the aftershock of an earthquake.
Piper continued to pace the attic as Paige looked through the book. Pamela and Emma were downstairs keeping an eye on the innocents that they had managed to save from the demon ghost.
'Damn…' Paige closed the book and leaned her elbows on the cover, holding up her head with her hands.
'Find anything?' her big sister asked with folded arms
'Nothing… If she found a way to cast that spell, she didn't find it in this,' she tapped the Book Of Shadows.
'Of course, there's another possibility,' Leo stood up from the sofa,
'What's that?' Paige raised her head
'That she's…'
'Hey!' Emma walked into the attic, 'Okay, Pamela is with the guy and his daughter, although they're seriously shaken up,' she looked around the room and continued to explain when she got no response, 'So… Maybe if we combine our powers and use that spell…'
'We can't use that spell,' Piper cut in flatly
'What are you talking about? I used it and it seemed to repel the ghost,'
'No… Paige and I can't use the spell, as only a dead witch can say it and make it work,'
Emma's face went chalk white and her jaw hit the floor.
Busted…
Emma looked around the judgemental faces that stared at her. She couldn't let her secret get out, not now, she wasn't ready to tell them. That left her with only one choice. Quick on the draw, a psionic blast flew from her head, it was only supposed to wipe Paige's memory, but she saw this as an attack and went into full fighting mode.
She orbed out, still reluctant to fight her best friend as she reappeared behind her. But Emma had expected this, and hit her with a powerful psychokinetic blast just as she orbed in, throwing her into a pile of old furniture on the other side of the room.
Knowing that Piper would immediately go on the offensive now that Emma had shown hostile actions, she quickly channelled the eldest Halliwell's powers through her empathy and blasted Piper back with her own power before she could raise her hands properly. This left Leo, probably the most dangerous of them all, since he was an Elder,
'Emma… why?' he breathed
She looked at him with genuine sorrow in her eyes, 'I'm sorry Leo, but I have to do this,' she was about to fire a mental charge of wipe his memory, when a recently awoken Piper, threw out her hands and sent Emma flying by blowing up a chunk of the floor. Emma dusted off her pants, and fired a psionic blast that went straight for Piper.
'What the hell is going on in here!' Pamela ran in, not seeing the psionic blast, and was hit, knocking her out and sending into the wall.
Emma recoiled as she realised what she had done, all she could do was stand on the same spot as Piper helped up her niece.
'Get out…' Piper growled
'Piper, I…'
'GET OUT!' she bellowed, her powers activating and making the house shake slightly. Emma took this as a big enough warning and run out the attic, tears streaming from her face.
Emma slowly walked along the street, the rain pounding both the sidewalk and her. She watched people put their jackets over their heads and run for cover as she pulled her ankle long cardigan closer to her body. Not that it mattered though, it wouldn't make her any warmer as every inch of her body was soaked and she needed to pull her fringe off of her forehead as it was plastered to her skin as a result of the rain.
'Hey hot stuff, how about you come to me and get warm?' a man standing in a doorframe asked her, while wiggling his brows suggestively
Emma rolled her eyes, although he couldn't say as the nearest streetlight was about ten feet away, 'Uh… No thanks,' she began to walk again, but he grabbed her arm.
'People don't say no to me,' he began to pull her into the door.
'Hey! Get your hands off her!' a voice said
Emma turned round to see who it was and let out a sigh of relief, it was Grant! The Earth Elemental!
'Let her go now,' he snarled, yanking the mans hand off Emma's arm
'This doesn't concern you!' the man shouted, before taking a drunken swing at Grant, who dodged easily and hit the guy himself, he slumped into the door way and fell unconscious.
'Thanks!' Emma shouted over the noise of rain battering a nearby canope
'Your welcome!' he shouted back, 'What are you doing in this part of town?'
'It's a long story!' she pulled him into the door way so they could hear each other better, 'Long story short, I got kicked out and I've wondering around in the rain for the past couple of hours,'
'What? You're going to catch pneumonia or something! You're lucky I was here, since you didn't seem to be using your powers on that guy,' he nodded to the knocked out man,
'Yeah, thanks, Gotta go,' she began to walk away when he grabbed her arm gently
'I don't think so, you're coming back to my place,'
'Excuse me?' she raised her eyebrows
'I mean…' she could see he blushing in the dim light, 'You can get a change of clothes, dry off, get a shower… and I'll share my soggy dinner with you!' he held up a bag of soaking Chinese food.
She smiled, 'You sure know how to charm a girl, don't you?' she laughed, 'Alright,' she walked back to him,
'Wait a minute, hold this,' he handed her a wet brown bag and took off his coat, putting it round her shoulders and taking back the bag.
'What about you?' she snuggled into the warmth and smell of his jacket
He shook his head, 'Don't worry, my apartment is only a couple of blocks away,' he took the collar of his jacket and pulled it closed, before leading the way.
'Um… I'm just going to change my t-shirt,' Grant as they walked into his apartment, he took the bottom of his shirt and wrung it out over the sink in the kitchen. Emma looked around; it looked a lot like Paige's apartment, spacious, a skylight…
He went over to the food he brought with him 'There's a towel in the bathroom, so go and have a shower while I heat this…' he looked in the bag and grimaced, 'While I order pizza,' he finished his sentence with a grin. Emma smiled and made her way over to the bathroom, it would feel good to get out of her wringing clothes. She closed the door and began to think, Paige and Piper would probably come after soon, and she didn't blame them! After the way she had left, they would want to vanquish her. She put her hands on the side of the sink and looked in the mirror, glaring at her reflection, she looked like a drowned rat! No wonder that guy had thought she was a hooker. Making up a quick spell, she said it aloud and protected herself,
'Hide me from the Power Of Three
Impossible to find, make me be,'
'Found her yet?' Piper asked coldly as she paced the attic for the second time tonight.
'Hmm… I felt the crystal pulling a second ago, but it's not anymore,' Paige replied
Leo was downstairs with the innocents as the three Halliwell witches discussed what had happened a couple of hours ago.
Pamela took the bag of frozen peas off her head and rubbed the bump, groaning in the process,
'How do you feel?'
'Ugh… Like of been trampled by a mob of fat middle aged men…' she winced and pulled her hand away from her bump, Piper smirked at her niece's colourful metaphor, 'You know, something about all this is bothering me,'
'The fact that you've got a mountain on your head?' Paige offered, receiving a non-amused look from Pamela.
'No…' she glared at her aunt, 'If Emma really did want to kill us, then how am I still alive after being hit with her power?'
Piper and Paige looked at each other, they had known Emma for long enough to know that no one survived her psionic blast unless she wanted them to and if she had wanted to kill them, why hadn't she did it already? They had all lived together for the better part of a year before Paige had moved out, why hadn't she just killed them in their sleep?
The eldest Halliwell hesitated before answering, 'Okay… maybe you're right, but it still doesn't explain why she lied to us and why she reacted the way she did!'
Leo walked in with Paul and Louise, the innocents, after deciding that they would be safer up in the attic and it was also a reason to try and find out what was going on.
'Maybe…' Leo began, after hearing the end of the conversation when he climbed the stairs, 'She didn't tell because she saw how you reacted when you lost Prue for a second time and she didn't want to remind you of 'second chances','
Paige sighed and dropped the crystal, 'It's no use, she's hiding herself from us, we've tried scrying, summoning… maybe we should just go out and look for her?' Paige suggested, shrugging her shoulders.
'Oh c'mon Paige! With her powers, she could be on a plane to Timbuktu without even a dollar in her pocket! That won't work!'
The youngest Charmed One stood up, challenging her big sister, 'At least I'm trying! All you're doing is walking in circles and second guessing everyone!'
'That's enough,' Leo interrupted, the pacifist Elder in him taking over, 'We'll deal with Emma later, but we've still got other problems…'
'The demon?' Pamela sat up a bit more
'Yeah,' Paul answered, hoisting his daughter onto his hip, 'I'm one of the only witches that is a threat to him, so no doubt he'll be back…'
'Then we better find Emma,' Piper said reluctantly
'What!' Paige and Pamela said together
'Look, I wanna know what her story is and we need her to vanquish this guys, since your powers didn't seem to work last time,' she nodded to Paul.
Little did they know that the demonic ghost was sitting in the wall, waiting to strike.
Emma finished off the last slice of pizza, after fighting Grant for it, who was now preparing some dessert. She looked up and through the skylight, the rain pounding on the glass; she gasped a large bolt of purple lightning forked across the sky.
'Here you go,' he sat down next to her on the sofa, 'It's the best I could rustle up,' he handed her a bowl
'Oh my God! Ice cream with fudge sauce! I haven't had this stuff ever since I was a kid!' she beamed and thrust her spoon into the ice cream.
Grant laughed, 'Wow, you're an easy girl to please,'
'Hmm…' she smirked at him, 'Not all the time… Sex for instance,' she watched him blush and smiled before rubbing the smooth fabric of his t-shirt, 'Thanks for letting me borrow this, and the pants,' she signalled to her legs, pointing out the thin pyjama bottoms that were at least three sizes too big for her.
'Keep them, the pants were an unwanted Christmas present, I meant to take them to a charity drive, but if you can get some use out them, take them,'
She rubbed the fabric of the pants, 'Thanks, when you say unwanted… Do you mean you already had a pair or…' Emma smirked; they had been doing this all night, seeing who could embarrass the other the most.
'No…' he smirked back, 'I just sleep in my underwear… only that,' now it was Emma's turn to go scarlet, and get slightly turned on.
Grant checked his watch, 'Wow, it's 2am! I didn't realise that we had talked for so long!' he smiled
Emma grinned, 'What can I say? We're just compatible!' she patted his knee, 'C'mon, I'll help you with the clean up!' she stood up and walked over to the kitchen with the Earth Elemental closely behind.
Grant went to the sink with the empty bowls while Emma put the ice cream tub back in the freezer. They both turned round to help each other at the same time and Emma's face was met with the wall that was his chest. Both went red, but neither moved. Emma looked up and leaned in, Grant doing the same. Their lips were about to meet when Emma suddenly was overcome with a feeling of dread and sadness… something terrible was happening.
She pulled back immediately, leaving Grant completely humiliated and crestfallen
'Uh… I'm sorry,' he said, trying to be a gentleman, although he wasn't the least bit sorry.
'What? Oh… no, it wasn't that! That, I want to try again, but my friends are in trouble,' she said urgently
'How do you know?'
'I can feel it…' she looked up to him with wide eyes, 'Can you use your Earth powers yet?'
'Eh… some of them,'
'Good!' she held his hand, 'Just go, I'll guide you,' still looking a bit hesitant, Grant squeezed his eyes closed and they disappeared in a tower of sand.
Everyone was cowering behind a large dresser as the demon advanced, the Charmed One's powers were useless on the ghost and Paul's weren't strong enough to take him out.
'You can't there, witches!' he gloated, sending a red bolt of lightning at the dresser, blowing it up.
'Alright, divide and conquer!' Piper said, she went to the right with Paige and the innocents, while Pamela and Leo went to the left. The ghost smirked and went towards Paul, but he stopped and began to writhe in the air. Echoes of Emma's voice filled the air as she appeared in the room within a pillar of sand; she was chanting the vanquishing spell!
'Ashes to ashes,
Spirit to spirit,
Take his soul,
Banish this evil!'
She recited the spell three times, the ghost still not dying, she didn't have enough power! Suddenly, Louise, the little girl, ran out and threw up her hands, an amazing amount of plasma shot forth and hit the transparent being, burning him like acid. The combined power of the plasma and the spell vanquished the ghost, making him silently fade away.
Emma looked at the Halliwell sisters, she knew that it would be a long time before they trusted her again, she knew that they would want some answers, and she knew that they would make it.
She also knew that she had A LOT of explaining to do.
YAY! Emma's secret is out! What did you think?
NEXT TIME: After a group of darklighters almost kill her nephews, Paige uses a potion to disguise her powers in evil so she can infiltrate the group and bring them down. But after coming to blows with her counterpart in the underworld, the two switch bodies and cause chaos for both sides! Emma refuses to tell the sisters about her first death and Pamela continues to help innocents by herself………
Okay, I haven't got a title for this one, but PRINCE HALLIWELL, as my 100th reviewer, I'm asking you to make a title for it!
