This is my story that I made up about the TV Programme Charmed. I am in now way connected to Charmed and some of the characters belong to Charmed.
Birds Of A Feather Flock Together
Piper opened the door of the Halliwell manor to find a young girl at the door. The girl was about 5'2, had long brown hair and she wore glasses. She was dressed casually in jeans and a t-shirt.
"Hiya, I was looking for Leo, he said that he lived here," the girl said.
"erm…yeah he does … come in and I'll get him for you," replied Piper confused. She wasn't sure who this young girl was asking for Leo, who did Leo get to meet apart from elders and his charges? Piper led the girl to the living room and told her to take a seat while she got Leo.
"Leo!" Piper called quietly from the kitchen hoping the girl wouldn't hear. "Leo!" Two seconds later a swirl of blue orbs appeared.
"Hey, what's up?" Leo asked.
"You have a visitor" Piper replied.
"I do?"
"Yep and she's waiting for you just in there" Piper said nodding towards the living room.
"She? Who is it?" Leo questioned.
"I don't know, a young girl," Piper told him.
Leo followed Piper into the living room.
"Leo!" the girl shouted running up to Leo and hugging him.
"Hiya, how are you?" Leo said hugging her back "what are you doing here?"
"Well I'm back in San Francisco and I didn't know where to go so…"
"you're here"
"yep!"
"So would you like to introduce me to your friend?" Piper asked wondering who this 'friend' was.
"Piper this is Pia, Pia this is Piper" Leo smiled.
"Hi" both girls said together shaking hands.
"So how do you know Leo?" Piper questioned.
"erm…he…"
"It's okay she knows" Leo said looking at Piper's confused face.
"Oh…he's my whitelighter," Pia said looking embarrassed.
"She's new to all this," Leo explained "she only found out she was a witch a month ago."
Just as Piper was about to reply the front door of the manor opened and then slammed shut. A voice shouted "only me!" and a moment later Phoebe entered the living room with bags full of shopping.
"You should see what I bought…" Phoebe stopped mid-sentence to take a look at the visitor. "Hiya I'm Phoebe."
"Hi, I'm Pia" Pia said looking shy.
"She's a witch," Leo explained "but she is still getting used to the idea – she only found out a month ago."
"Know how you feel!" Phoebe smiled.
"Can I get you a drink or…" Piper was cut off by Paige along with Chris and Wyatt orbing in. "Mummy we're home!" Paige called.
"As I can see!" smiled Piper picking up Wyatt and giving him a hug "How are my little boys!"
"They had great fun with their Auntie Paige, didn't you Chris!" said Paige in her baby voice as Chris smiled and kicked his legs. "Pia! What are you doing here?"
Everyone turned to look at Paige.
"Wait… you know her?" Piper asked.
"yep, I know the people who are fostering her. I've met up with Pia a couple of times, you know, to talk, since I was in the same position as her," Paige turned to Pia "but how did you know I lived here?"
"I didn't. I came to see Leo." Pia answered.
"You know Leo?"
"I'm her whitelighter," Leo cut in "and I'm sorry but I better get her home. I'll be back soon and we'll talk."
"And now you know where to find me come anytime" Paige told Pia.
"Thanks Paige" Pia said hugging her.
Leo grabbed Pia's hand and they disappeared in a swirl of bright orbs.
"So Paige, I didn't know you went to visit a young witch about her problems," Piper said turning towards her.
"First of all I didn't know she was a witch and it's not just Pia I visit, it's all the children there. Pia is the oldest and the newest but there's also Paris, Katie, Ben, Monica and Daniel" Paige said ticking them off on her fingers.
"Finished?" Piper replied.
"awww it's sweet," Phoebe smiled
"Yeah, cute," Piper said sarcastically "but are any more of them witches?"
"No … I mean I don't think so. Pia was different, she actually wanted to speak to me, the rest didn't seem bothered so I have now stopped bothering with them. I was supposed to be seeing Pia tomorrow." Paige explained.
"So Pia is the only one you visit," Piper said.
"Technically…yes," Paige replied as Leo orbed in beside the three witches.
"So, Leo, explain," Piper said immediately.
"Well there's not much I can explain. Pia is one of my charges. She lived in England but she moved back over here a month ago." Leo answered.
"So she used to live here?" asked Phoebe.
"Well she was born here but she was moved to England when she was only a week old and she was stripped of her powers."
"Why?"
"To protect her, her family were giving her up for adoption and didn't think she'd be able to cope with powers."
"But why give her them now?" asked Piper.
"Well she's just turned 17 and the elders thought it was the right time for her."
"yeh but why did she get sent to England and then sent back here?" asked Paige.
"Well, the family wanted to get the child as far away as possible." Leo tried to explain.
"Yeh but she is now back in San Francisco. Why? It's not like you couldn't orb to England. I mean when we switched powers I orbed to Paris for crying out loud." Piper said wanting to know more.
" Well the elders have a reason for their actions but only a few elders know the truth." Leo told them.
"And are you one of the select few?" asked Piper fixing her eyes on Leo.
"Erm…well…yes…She is my charge," Leo said trying to avoid Piper's gaze.
"So…spill," Piper said still concentrating her gaze on Leo hoping to get as much out of him as she could.
"Piper you should know that I cannot do that. I have to respect her confidentiality and she doesn't actually know everything yet" Leo said trying to get Piper to understand "but you will get to know more when the time is right. I think you need to spend some time with Pia and help her with her powers as she is struggling. You know how hard it was when you first received your powers."
"Well I'm meeting her tomorrow" Paige chipped in.
"Good, she really enjoys your visits Paige," Leo said hoping he would have Paige's support without having to tell her Pia's life story.
"Flattery will get you everywhere, Leo!" Paige said smiling.
"Could I tag along?" Phoebe asked.
"Yeh sure, Piper?" Paige turned to face Piper.
"I'm busy tomorrow, I'm going to P3." Piper said turning and walking out of the room "and there's just something about her, I don't know what it is but there's something."
The next morning Pia was sat at a table at the café she had arranged to meet Paige. She sat there anxiously sipping her coke and checking her watch. Paige was ten minutes late already. Eventually Paige appeared along with Phoebe by her side. They both slipped into the seats opposite Pia.
"I am so sorry we are late somebody took about three hours getting ready," Paige explained.
"Well I couldn't decide what top to wear and three hours is such an exaggeration," Phoebe said.
"It's okay. Good choice though!" Pia said indicating towards the top.
"Thanks I got it yesterday from" Phoebe paused as she noticed Paige's stare "So I'm Phoebe, Paige's sister, it's nice to meet you... again"
Pia laughed. "It's nice to meet you again! Paige has told me all about you and Piper."
"Really?" Phoebe said looking at Paige "Come on tell me what she said!"
"Well she just told me it was great to have a family again." Pia answered.
"So how are you doing? Coping okay?" Paige questioned.
"Erm…yeah. It's a bit different being here and not knowing my way around but I'll get used to it." Pia smiled.
"How are you getting on at home?"
"Well, my foster parents, they are nice but a bit too nice. It's a bit creepy – they want to see me all the time and be with me all the time. They never usually let me go out apart from when I come to see you. The other kids are still the same, always getting into trouble, I just try to stay away from them."
"They probably just enjoy having you around. You've only been there a couple of weeks, they'll soon start to give you some space. Maybe we could meet you more often to give you some more freedom."
"Yeh that'd be great Paige."
Meanwhile Piper was at P3 doing a stock check. Wyatt and Chris were in a playpen in the middle of the empty dance floor. P3 wasn't due to open for hours. Piper was struggling to open a cardboard box that contained packets of crisps when she heard footsteps behind her. She span round quickly to find a girl aged about fifteen behind her. She was quite small with short hair that was blonde and she had a smile on her face.
"Erm…sorry you're not allowed to be in here," Piper shouted over to her.
"I'm looking for Piper Halliwell," the girl replied.
"Yeh you've found her," Piper said wondering why a fifteen-year-old teenager was looking for her.
"My mum said to give you this," the girl replied not taking her eyes off Piper.
"erm what?" Piper said anxiously, she didn't recognise the girl and wondered who had sent her. She glanced at Wyatt and Chris in the playpen who seemed fine.
"This" the girl said winking. Piper flew backwards into a table and chairs while the girl ran off giggling. Piper immediately looked over at Wyatt who had has force field up around him and his brother. When she looked towards the stairs of P3 the girl had gone. Piper walked over to Wyatt in his playpen and his force filed came down.
"You are a good boy aren't you, protecting your brother!" Piper smiled.
When Piper got back to the manor she found Paige and Phoebe in the sunroom looking at the book of shadows.
"Hey, what you doing? Did you get attacked too?" Piper asked.
"Attacked? Us? No. We were looking for a simple spell for Pia to try out because she's never done one before." Phoebe replied.
"Oh well I did, by a child!" Piper's voice rose.
"By a child?" Paige said laughing.
"Yes at P3, she winked at me and I went flying back!" Piper said loudly.
"Where's the ice cream van when you need it," Phoebe said.
"The ice cream van?" Paige said looking confused.
"Yeh, a while ago me and Prue were sucked into this ice cream van by accident and saved some innocents. Except they weren't innocents they were demonic children. The ice cream van plays a tune which the demonic children are drawn to – the ice cream van sucks them up and they are never seen again!" Phoebe explained quickly. "Do you wanna see if there's anything in the book?"
Five cups of tea later they were no closer to knowing anything about the child that had attacked Piper. There wasn't really much to go off. Piper headed off to P3, which was due to open while Paige and Phoebe looked after Wyatt and Chris.
"Do you want anything to eat?" Paige asked getting up and walking towards the kitchen.
"No thanks I'm not hungry," Phoebe said looking up from her laptop where she was trying to work. Phoebe continued to type her latest Ask Phoebe article, that was until the screen went blank.
"Wh-wh-what the…" Phoebe glanced up from the black screen to find a boy aged about 10. He was stood there with an evil grin on his face, one hand holding the plug to Phoebe's laptop. His long floppy hair made his eyes barely visible.
"Paige!" Phoebe shouted running towards the boy. The boy clapped his hands and Phoebe flew backwards onto the couch. With another clap of his hands the boy had gone. Paige ran in with a pan in one hand a spoon in the other.
"I missed it didn't I?" she said.
"You sure did," Phoebe replied.
Piper flopped onto the couch at the manor, her night at P3 cut short because of the second attack.
"They don't seem to want to seriously hurt us," Phoebe said "Yeh okay they sent us flying but they never stay long to attempt to finish us off. It's like they're playing games. The demon boy seemed to find it funny he'd pulled out the plug to my laptop but his joke didn't work cause I'd saved it about five minutes before he did it."
The room was silent while they thought about this. The silence was broken my the sound of a child's laughter. As all the Charmed ones looked up they noticed the pair of keys floating. Paige attempted to grab the keys but the keys moved out of the way just in time. Then a girl appeared in the middle of the room holding the keys.
"Katie!" Paige exclaimed.
The girl smiled and waved "Hi Paige." She started to giggle. She dropped the keys and disappeared. The sound of footsteps could be heard walking out of the room. Piper used her power to freeze the room.
"How do we know if I froze her if we can't see her?" asked Piper.
They all started to walk around the room waving the arms crazily to see if they could feel anybody.
"So who's Katie?" asked Phoebe still waving her arms in front of her to see if she was there.
"She's... erm at the same foster home as Pia," Paige replied.
"Really?" Piper said pausing her waving arms a second. "What about a girl about 15, small with short blonde hair?"
"That sounds like Paris." Paige replied.
"A boy about 10 with long floppy hair?" Phoebe asked.
"And that sounds like Ben yeh yeh they all go to same foster home but…"
"I knew there was something strange about that Pia, the elders not knowing who she was…" Piper started.
"Wait that doesn't mean Pia is one of them, some of the elders know who she is." Paige said trying to defend Pia.
"Oh come on Paige the rest of them have been to see us, it's just time until Pia does!"
"Piper you've been wrong before, remember Cole, you thought he was good!"
"That doesn't mean your always right though Paige!"
"She's not evil!"
"She is!"
They both turned to Phoebe. "Phoebe?" they both said at the same time looking for support.
"I'm not quite sure," Phoebe said not wanting to be in the middle of this argument "I mean Paige she does seem very nice but if the rest of the kids are demons then…I'm not quite sure."
The next morning the Charmed Ones had a plan. They had found what they were looking for in the book of shadows. The Flock as they were known was a group of demonic children who were guided by one or two lower level demons. The lower level demons used the children to do "errands" for them and in return they looked after them and protected them. There were many different flocks and there was an unnamed upper level demon that was in charge of them all. He left most of the duties up to the lower level demons though and this is where the Charmed Ones where going to attack. By vanquishing the lower level demons it also vanquished the rest of the flock.
This suited Paige as well as Piper because Pia would only be vanquished if she wasn't a demon. They had spent most of the night making the potion and they each had a little jar full. Two should have been enough – one for the "foster mother" and one for the "foster father" but they had an extra one just in case. The spell was written on a piece of paper and the Charmed Ones were ready.
Paige took a deep breath and knocked on the door. The women who opened the door looked perfectly normal, she had brown wavy hair that was just past her shoulders. She smiled as she saw the Charmed Ones stood at her door.
"Hiya, I've brought my sisters to meet Pia," Paige smiled sweetly acting as normal as possible.
"Come on in," the women opened the door to let the three women through. "Just go into the front room and I'll call Pia." She nodded towards the front room "PIA!"
The Charmed Ones entered the front room to find a man reading the newspaper. He looked up as he saw the Charmed Ones enter, he grinned but tried to hide it behind his newspaper. The women came in and said, "This is my husband." Not wanting to miss this opportunity Piper yelled "Now!" and Paige and Phoebe threw their potion bottles at the astonished peoples feet. Meanwhile Piper got the spell out of her pocket. The Charmed Ones read:
Our aim is to clear,
All the evil which dwells here,
We will stand strong and fight
Until wrong has been changed to right.
With that the two demons blew up and could no longer be seen. Immediately Paige started shouting for Pia. She stood at the bottom of the stairs shouting for her but no-one answered. Paige returned to her sisters.
"Paige I'm really sorry, I know you wanted to help her," Piper sympathised.
"I really thought she was good," Paige said upset. Piper hugged her while Phoebe stoked her head to comfort her.
"You just vanquished my foster parents," a voice said from behind. They all turned around to find Pia staring at them.
"Pia!" Paige shouted running over to her and giving her a hug "I'm really sorry but we had to vanquish them – they were demons."
"I was living with demons?"
"Yep plus the kids were demons as well,"
"Well that's just great!" Pia said smiling.
The next morning the Charmed Ones and Leo were discussing Pia in the car.
"They will find another nice home for her soon," Leo said hoping to cheer up Paige "At least you helped an innocent, who knows what would have happened if you hadn't been there. I'm sure it will be close and you will be able to see her as often as possible."
They all got out of the car and made their way to the monastery where Prue's plaque was. Piper was holding a bunch of flowers to leave there in Prue's memory. As they entered a girl who was at Prue's plaque spun around, it was Pia.
"What do you think you're doing?" Piper said angrily.
"I'm leaving some flowers for my mum," she replied.
