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The Ghost Of Darkness Past

'That has to be the worst movie I've seen this year!'

'Really? I thought it was okay,'

'Yeah, that's because you're a girl! If you guys weren't constantly hitting me I would have fell asleep.'

'Oh, c'mon Zach, you loved it! Just admit it!'

Pamela, Jenna and Zach walked out of the movies. The summer had now properly begun since the wacky weather was over and the three teens could see the sunset just behind the Golden Gate Bridge. Late nights, warm days, this was Pamela's favourite time of year. Mainly because when she was living with her last foster parents, the late nights were an excuse for her to stay out late instead of going home.

'The next time we go to he movies, I'm picking what we're seeing,' Zach proclaimed

'Oh really?' Pamela looked at Jenna with a smirk on her face,

'Well, if we didn't like it you'd be sitting alone! That would be pretty sad, Lockhart!' Jenna teased.

'Ugh… I'm so outnumbered,' he gave a deflated response.

Pamela laughed, but then her face grew dark, 'And so is she!' Jenna and Zach looked down the direction that Pamela was pointing in and saw a young woman being dragged into an alley by an unknown force, 'C'mon!' the three of them ran along the sidewalk and bolted into the alley to find the woman about to be slaughtered by two demons with large axes! They had red skin and tribal markings covered their faces.

'Hey!' Zack caught their attention by firing a telepathic blast at one while Pamela threw the other into the wall with her telekinesis.

'Jenna! C'mon!' Pamela urged, but Jenna just stood on the spot shaking her head vigorously, 'Jenna?' but she kept shaking her head and then she ran off back to the street, 'Jenna!' Pamela shouted after her.

'Uh… Pam? A little help here please!' Pamela turned around to see Zach and the innocent being cornered by the demons. With an aggressive wave of her arm, she sent the two demons flying in different direction. Wisely, the two evil beings shimmered out. Zack fired a telepathic blast at the woman and took away her memory of the last few moments.

'What happened to Jenna?'

Pamela looked down the direction her friend had run in, 'I don't know,'


Piper yawned as she walked down the stairs, squinting her eyes against the sunlight that was streaming in all the windows of the ground floor in the Halliwell Manor. She shuffled into the dining room and headed for the kitchen, until she saw her niece sitting at the table with the Book Of Shadows and a large axe.

'Pam?'

'That's me,'

'Why is there a three foot axe with an eye on my dining room table?'

Pamela looked up from her reading material, 'Oh, my night out was interrupted by saving an innocent last night,' she went back to writing on a pad.

'What? What kind of demon?'

'One that isn't in the book. Is Emma up yet?'

'Uh… She said she had to take care of something this morning, why?'

'Oh, it's not important… It's just that Jenna froze when we were fighting last night and maybe Emma could find out why,'

'With a psychic breaking and entering?' Piper smirked, 'Freeze? As in… my kind of freeze?'

Pamela gave her a dry smile, 'No, I mean it was if she was afraid to do anything. I've never seen her seize up like that,'

Piper nodded sympathetically, 'Have you eaten yet?'

Pamela shook her head, 'No. What you cookin, average lookin?'

'Cute,' she replied sarcastically as she walked into the kitchen.

Pamela gave the axe a strange look and moved her hand towards it, but she instantly pulled her hand back when the eye on the handle blinked. She grimaced in disgust and tried to touch it again, but when she touched the blade, she was pulled into a premonition.

A little girl, probably around six years old probably, was standing at the edge of police tape. Lights from various ambulances and cop cars were flashing, impairing Pamela's vision of the scene. The little girl stood with a teddy bear in her bloodstained hands, having no idea of what was going on.

The scene switched to the police who were conferring over something,

'We found the girl's fingerprints on the murder weapon,'

'Really? What's going to happen?'

The man sighed, 'I think an asylum's the only place for a five year old that would kill her parents and brother.

The other man nodded solemnly and went to talk to the little girl…

The vision ended and Pamela was even more confused than before! What had that premonition meant?

'Okay, grub's up!' Piper walked in with two plates of pancakes, noticing the look on her niece's face, she questioned her, 'You okay?'

'Uh… I don't know. I had a premonition when I touched that axe, but I think it was of the past.'

'What did you see?'

'A little girl… murder… blood, it's all pretty jumbled up,'

'What were you thinking of when you had it?'

Pamela quickly retraced her mental steps and gasped in horror, 'Jenna…'


Emma sat in the coffee shop that Pamela worked in, knowing that she didn't start her Saturday shift until two o'clock; she knew that she had plenty of time with Shalimar.

Sure enough, Emma saw the back of a blonde haired woman looking around at the entrance. The psionic smirked at the sight of her friend before waving her over/

'Hey!' Shalimar said enthusiastically

'Hi, it's your favourite time of year again!' Emma responded with a smirk

The feral grimaced at the sun that was already up at seven thirty in the morning, 'Ugh! Long days… short nights, not exactly the most favourite time of cats,'

Emma laughed at her friend, 'So how have you been?'

Shal grinned, 'Are you kidding? I'm great! Travelling the word is an amazing release for my more than wild side. How about you? How's your life?' she smiled

Emma rolled her eyes, 'It's been hectic lately, they found out that I'm a reborn spirit, my best friend slept with another guy so her relationship with boyfriend isn't going too well, and I met the middle sister called Phoebe,'

Shalimar put on a serious face, 'Wait a minute, you're living with the Charmed Ones?'

'Yeah, why?'

'Because the middle sister that you met is the same girl that's with our team at Sanctuary!'

'What? You mean… Brennan's the father of the baby she's carrying?'

Shalimar nodded slowly, but then smiled, 'She's really changed him for the better! I'm gonna go up there and help them,'

'To protect the baby?'

'Partially,' she said, 'But I also wanna be there for when they take down Ashlocke,'


Paige was sitting in her office, she was supposed to be signing the finalization on an adoption form, but she just wasn't up to it. She kept thinking about the pain she had seen in Aidan's eyes before he had splashed out. She felt like summoning him and give him an earful for thinking that she would cheat on him in a sane mind, but she knew that she had hurt him, and whether she liked it or not, it had been her when she had slept with the darklighter, an evil her though.

She suddenly took a strop and threw her pen at the door, breathing heavily as she began to weep loudly into her hands. She looked up when she saw light appearing out of the corner of her eye. It was a swirl of lights, and when they disappeared, Phoebe stood in their place!

'Ph- Phoebe?' Paige said shakily

Phoebe shuffled over to her, 'Can we sit on the sofa?' she pointed to the couch that was on the right wall, 'It's sort of hard for me to kneel down these days,' the glanced at her large stomach.

'How long?' Paige asked with a sniff,

Phoebe patted her stomach lovingly, 'Any day now!'

Paige put on a strained smile, 'That's so…' she didn't get a chance to finish her sentence as the grief got the better of her and she burst into tears. The middle Halliwell walked over to her baby sister, guided her to the couch and handed her a box of tissues.

'C'mon… Tell your big sister what's wrong,'


In another part of town, more crying was taking place, but this time it was Jenna who had turned on the waterworks. She cried into Pamela's shoulder while Piper, Leo and Zach looked on with pitiful eyes in the Manor living room.

Jenna stopped crying and sniffed, she was ready to talk, 'I was… Uh…. Five when it happened. My parents were illusionist witches, we moved from town to town, putting on shows for money… Life was hard, but we had a lot of fun,' she smiled at the memory, 'Anyway, after a while of travelling, my parents decided that me and my little brother Ron should grow up in a normal place. They had saved enough money to buy a nice little house in San Francisco. It wasn't a fancy place, just enough room for the four of us.' Her voice went into a whisper, 'The night we moved in, demons attacked us. The rest of my family was slaughtered but I survived somehow, a neighbour heard the commotion, saw me with bloodstained hands holding an axe, and the rest you saw,' she looked at her friend.

'What happened after that?' Piper asked, receiving a glare from her niece.

'I was… but in a mental asylum for three years. When I tried to tell the doctors what really happened, they would just sedate me and say I was delusional. It was pretty hard to believe that a magical force had killed my parents, it was easier just to blame me and shut the case,' Jenna fidgeted with her hands before continuing, 'One night, when they came to sedate me, I was ready. It produced the fruits of a week of meditating and conjured the most powerful illusions I had ever created. I ran that night and that's when Principal Wyatt found me,'

Piper turned to her husband, 'You knew?' she shrieked

'Hey! It wasn't important and it was before you were a witch! Besides, it's Jenna's decision if she tells someone or not.' He glanced at Jenna when he said this.

'I still don't know why I survived… Some days I'm glad I'm still here, other days I wish that I had died with them,'

Pamela let her friend lean on her shoulder, 'Uncle Leo, isn't there anything we can do?'

'Well… We could get Clyde, but I'm not sure if he'll take us without a fee,'

'I'm home!' Emma closed the Manor door behind her and looked at the scene in the living room, 'Wow, who died?' she got no answer, 'Oh my god, who died?'

'Perfect timing Emma!' Piper smirked, an idea forming in her head.


'Alright Leo! Do your worst!' Piper beamed,

'What is he gonna do?' Pamela asked, wanting to know why Piper was smiling,

'He's gonna summon Clyde,'

'Clyde! Get you transparent butt down here, you afterlife lowlife! It's time for you to crawl yourself out of that pathetic existence and move your ass!'

Something came down from the roof, spinning and creating a light wind in the attic and blew the lighter objects in the room in a lot of different directions. A scruffy man appeared with a scowl on his face, staring at Leo with anger in his eyes.

'Leo! What the hell do you want?' he shouted.

'I need you to take Jenna back to the day her family died,' he said calmly, glancing at the teen.

'A job? Alright!' He rubbed his hands together, 'But no free rides this time!'

'Actually…' Leo trailed off.

'Oh no you don't! I want money this time!'

'How about keeping your life instead?' Piper spoke up. Clyde gave her a strange look.

'See her?' Piper glanced in Emma's direction, 'She's dead, which means she can vanquish you with a spell, so we will kill you if you don't help us,' The leading witch responded calmly.

'You know it's true,' Emma said, while making her forehead glow, 'I can sense your fear,' she smirked when she saw her freak out was working.

'Alright…' he growled, clicking his fingers and making a door appear out of nowhere,

'Keep an eye on that!' Piper warned, 'I don't want Bonnie and frickin Clyde coming through that door again!'

'Bonnie and Clyde?' Pamela asked her uncle.

'Don't ask…' he responded

Clyde clicked his fingers again and the door opened, 'You ready?' he growled.

Jenna nodded slowly and walked into the dark hole with Leo closely behind her. Suddenly, Pam grabbed Zach's hand and ran towards the door, ignoring the shouts from her aunt and jumping in after her friend.


Paige blew her nose into another tissue, 'How did you know I was like this?' she asked her sister.

Phoebe propped up her elbow on the back of the sofa, 'I stay in contact with all of you empathically. I felt your pain and I couldn't ignore it!' she smiled, 'You are my little sister after all. So, what's wrong?'

They sat there for half an hour, Paige explained to her about her entire history with Aidan, ending with how he had left her life.

Her big sister sighed, 'Oh… Sweetie,' Phoebe leaned over as far as she could and hugged her sister, 'I've missed so much!' she pulled back and stroked Paige's hair, 'I'm gonna be home soon, okay?' Paige nodded in response, 'And… regarding Aidan,' she turned distant, using her empathy to track down the grieving elemental. She was almost blasted back into the wall when she didn't expect what she was going to feel. The only time she had ever felt something this was when she had first met Brennan and when she was close to Piper and Leo. Warmth, happiness, safety, passion… Very few empaths got to feel this emotion in their lifetime, and if they did, it would only be once… This, was true love.

'Phoebe? What's wrong?' Paige asked cautiously, seeing that her sister's eyes were watering.

'Paige…' she whispered, before releasing her sight on Aidan's emotions,

'Are you okay?'

She sighed, 'I'm better than okay! Paige I felt it! He loves you! He loves you more than anything in the world!'

'What?'

She suddenly grabbed her sister's hands, 'Paige, don't you dare let him walk out of your life! You hear me!'

'But I don't think…' Paige looked down,

The middle Halliwell looked into her little sister's eyes, 'Don't think, just feel…' Phoebe fired a psionic blast, not at her head, but at her heart. Paige's eyes began to water just like Phoebe's had did as she experienced the feelings that her sister had projected into her heart. She squeezed her eyes shut and let the wave of emotions take her.

'Aidan…' she breathed, on the verge of tears.

Phoebe lifted her chin up, 'I think you know what you have to do,' and with that, she disappeared in a swirl of white lights.


'I'm surprised she remembers the way,'

'Why? Her parents and brother died here, I think that's something that might stay in your memory,' Pamela replied to Zach in hushed whispers.

Leo had been angry when he found out that his niece and her friend had slipped along for the ride, as this was a very important journey for the grief stricken teen that was walking ahead of them and Leo thought that having her friends there might disrupt it. But then again, he thought that having her friends there might help, so he hadn't said another word and decided to let them tag along.

Jenna stopped at the next bend, taking a deep breath and pointing to the small bungalow across the street, 'That's the one…' she said with a raspy voice.

Leo came up behind her, 'I know this is hard… But not only will this answer your questions, but it'll clear the guilt that you've been carrying around all these years,'

She nodded slowly in response and walk across the street with everyone else close behind her.


Emma let her head hit the table in the library with a dull thud, 'I believe this! Centuries of magical knowledge and no one has ever came across an evil counterpart?'

Piper slowly walked down from the ladder that she had been up while searching the bookshelves. She was carrying a pile of reading material, 'I know! It's ridiculous! But we need more information so I thought we could go through all of these books,' she plopped them down on the desk.

Emma read the spine of one of them, 'One Hundred And One Funny Potion Mishaps?' she raised an eyebrow.

'Hey, you never know what might help,' Piper responded with a smirk.

She was about to pick the first book off the pile and start reading, when they're was a noise that sounded like an explosion and it was followed by Wyatt's whining, 'Chris! Not again!' Piper rolled her eyes, thinking about what her youngest son could have blown up now, 'Excuse me,' she went off towards the nursery, but she had hit the tower of books by accident and they all tumbled to the floor.

'Don't worry! I'll get them!' Emma shouted sarcastically down the hall. She got down onto the floor and began to pick up the books. Something glittered out of the corner of her eye; Emma turned round and saw a book with a yin yang symbol on the front. She made a face, surely that would have something to do with evil counterparts. She began flicking through the book, but her heart fell when all the pages were blank, this made Emma even more confused.

'Okay, it was just a little hole in the wall, quick spell took care of it,' Piper said as she entered the room, not seeing Emma's bemused expression.

'Hey, do you think a revealing spell would work on this?' she stood up and showed all the blank pages to Piper.

'What makes you think there's anything in it?' Piper scanned the pages as she flipped them.

'I dunno, let's just try,' the redhead replied, quickly thinking of a spell,

'Hidden words lie, within this tome,

Reveal them now, make them shown,'

A faint glow coursed through the book, it flew out of Piper's hands and landed on the table, flipping its pages at an incredible speed, just like Book Of Shadows. After it reached the end, it closed with a snap and returned to Piper.

'Well?'

'Well what?'

'Open it!' Emma urged.

'Okay, okay! Jeez!' she opened the cover and began to read with Emma. They had finally found something.


Jenna, Leo, Pamela and Zach were standing outside of the house, looking in through the window and watching the family move about, putting things in place. As they were ghosts right now, they could stand right in front of the window and nobody could see them.

Jenna looked at the clock that stood on the mantelpiece, 'Okay, only a couple of minutes left,'

'How do you know?' Pamela asked bluntly,

'Because I remember looking at that clock right before the demons appeared,'

A couple of moments past and Jenna began to shake even more, rubbing her hands together and her eyes beginning to water.

'I've changed my mind you guys… I can't do this,' she began to walk away but Leo grabbed her arm.

'You can't! We can't go back until you see what you're supposed to see! That's part of coming back here,'

Jenna tried to get away, but Pamela put an arm around her shoulders, 'Sweetie, I know you can do this! you have to do this…'

She looked at the young Halliwell and nodded slowly, before walking back to the window. She watched the second hand on the clock on the mantelpiece tick towards the top, about five seconds before it reached twelve, she spoke.

'It's time…'

They could see little Jenna staring at the clock just as the demons shimmered in, swinging their axes and bringing it down on Jenna's dad's chest, killing him instantly. Jenna fought back the urge to close her eyes as she saw her mom trying to get her little brother to safety, but they were both slaughtered. Grief stricken, little Jenna went over to silent mothers body, tears streaming from her face. Suddenly, there was a glow in her eyes and little Jenna's form began to change! After the light had gone, a humongous dragon stood couched in the living room.

'What?' Jenna breathed as she watched the scene from the window. The dragon breathed out a fireball, blasting one of the demons into a wall and making him drop his axe. The other demon fought desperately, cutting the scaly arm of the creature, but it retaliated by swinging its arm and throwing him into the fireplace. After that, both demons shimmered out, one without his axe. The dragon changed back into Jenna and went over to the axe, picking it up, just in time for a neighbour to come through the door and scream.

'I… I shapeshifted… myself?' Jenna looked to Leo, 'How is that even possible? That's not my power!'

Leo cleared his throat, obviously affected by what he had just seen; he sniffed, 'You grief and anger must have given you a temporary power advancement,'

She looked back into the window, seeing the neighbour back away from little Jenna and run out the house, probably away to call the police, 'But I don't remember… How would I not remember turning into something like that?' she was hysterical now, but Pamela and Zach comforted her by pulling her into a tight hug. A grey portal opened up, it was howling, it was also the way out.

'Let's go…' Leo whispered, and they slowly walked through the vortex.


Paige orbed to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, she wrapped her ankle length cardigan around her tightly as the wind blew around her, it may have been the summer, but the wind was still strong and cold when you were up this high. She smiled when she noticed Aidan sitting at the edge of the red metal, looking out towards the Bay. Her shoes clanging against the metal as she walked, Aidan turned around to see who it was, he sighed deeply and turned back to the river.

'Sorting out your thoughts?' Paige smiled, referring to the first time they had met.

'Could say that. How'd you find me? I made myself immune to summons and scrying,'

Paige looked down and put her hands behind her back, 'Call it… Lover's Intuition,'

'I'm surprised you can say that with a straight face…' he muttered.

'Look… I'm sorry,' she pleaded.

'Is that you, or the evil you?' he retorted.

'Well, I…'

'Or maybe you wanna just go and revive your darklighter buddy, huh?'

'Look! Would just stop for a minute and listen to me? God… If you're going to be like this, I can see I've wasted my time…' she began to orb out.

'Paige! Wait! Look… I'm sor- GOD!' he boomed, 'How the hell have you just made ME feel guilty when YOU were the one screwing another guy!'

'I said I'm sorry! What do want me to do? Plead evil? I love you more anything in my entire life, Aidan. I can't do anything to prove that to you except from eighteen months of love, of passion, of living together, of being together! And… If that isn't enough for you… Then I guess we're finished,' she said in a whisper.

He looked at his feet, and shook his head, he sighed again and made an outburst, 'Dammit Paige! I love you! But… how do I know this isn't going to happen again?'

'Because…' she moved towards him and put her hands on his chest, 'The next time I turn evil, I'll just kill you, I won't cheat on you,' she smirked.

'Next time?' he snorted, but he smiled with her,

'I would never hurt you on purpose, I promise.' She looked down after putting her arms around his neck, 'I don't know what I'd without you, Aidan.'

He stroked her cheek and put a piece of her hair behind ear and kissed her softly, as the sun set on the horizon.


Hey! Did you like that? You should know I wouldn't break up my homemade couple lol! Anyway, the next chapter is the one you've ALL been waiting for!

NEXT TIME: Vicious storms ravish area and city around Sanctuary, it leaves a mutant with the power of deflection in danger, which means a job for Mutant X. Phoebe's baby is due to be born any day, and with the return of an old friend, things get explosive in this chapter before the end!

Chapter 36 'I Scream The Baby Electric' will be up soon!