A/n: Hello! Goodness! Have I been busy? This is literally this first time I've been on my computer since the last time I posted! I had 44 emails. Oops. Lol. Anyways, thank-you katbaby and hopemaster. I think the most popular character searches are Cole, Prue, and Chris, but I can only have two characters in the search thingy. So it's really helpful to know (katbaby! Thanks for telling me!) I feel like there was something else important that I should be telling you, but I can't remember. Lol. pauses for a moment OK, well, it couldn't have been that important if I can't remember it. Besides if all else fails I'll just post an author's note. See you guys next week! -bunn
Chap 54
Past
2001
Nervously Kellman gave her an amulet. Kat briefly looked at it, "It's fake. Where's my real amulet? Or should I just kill you and look for it myself?" She said in a threateningly calm tone as she flicked green demon goo off herself.
Kellman flinched. The Source hadn't anticipated this. The Source had set a trap for her. He expected the girl to at least touch it and have it bring her to the Source's layer. What should I do now? Kellman wondered.
"I can to do worse than kill you if it properly motivates you to get me my amulet."
He led her to a small gymnasium with some trophies in cases among the walls. "Here. I must warn you that an Elder seeks the same amulet. If he kills you, then he gets it." Kellman secretly hoped that the Elder did kill her and then that way he'd be in less trouble.
Kat didn't even throw a sideways glance at his words. "What do I care if I'm dead?" As he draped the amulet around her neck, she felt the power surge flow through her body.
He slipped a small piece of paper into her hands, "Say this to call your army. Memorized it, and then dispose of it. If you don't others will steal them from you," he whispered before he left.
Gideon revealed himself. "Didn't we vanquish you?" She asked bored.
"In the future? Yes. Now? No," he replied.
She rolled her eyes. "So what do you plan to do? Kill me and steal my army?"
"No, steal your army and a copy of your amulet that way I can trick your family into thinking that I have the original."
"They'll vanquish you."
"I know. I'm a very observant Elder, Katherine. I'm just as familiar with the future as you are."
She shrugged. That idea didn't faze her as much as the part about her army did. "OK…but you can't have my army. It's mine."
"No, Katherine it's mine because you can't fight what you can't see." Suddenly he vanished and so did the paper in her hands. She raised her shield so that Gideon wouldn't be able to steal anything else. She too became invisible. Gideon must have left. Following his lead, she left to find out when exactly she was and what exactly was going on.
Chap 55
Invisibly strolling toward the elevator, Kat stumbled upon Prue, Piper, and Phoebe. Kat only vaguely remembered the unfolding events. The longer these memories were the default set the more she forgot things that went with the other time line. That meant that she must not have premonitions in the new timeline.
Before she could wonder why, two demonic lackeys almost ran into her as she entered a crowd of frozen demons.
"Uh…Prue there's one more thing," Phoebe squirmed apprehensively.
""Now? Now is your perfect moment?" Piper panicked.
"Piper, we might die in there."
"That doesn't mean you should tell her now," Piper replied harshly.
"Okay, tell me what?" Prue asked
"Cole is alive. I never really vanquished him."
"WHAT?"
Kat brushed past them as the continued to argue. It shouldn't have fazed her, she knew this, but she just couldn't remember it. Now she was confused more than she was before. Her parents never told her that she vanquished him or even pretended to. Of course, that may be because she never gave them a chance her being evil and all, but it was still weird. Kat knew the dangers of spending any more time in the past and decided that she needed to get out of there as soon as possible. Therefore, Kat sensed for Leo.
She found herself in what she assumed to be Kellman's office where Leo was tearing up the place.
Leo suddenly turned around to dig through another pile, but then he saw a girl. She looked remarkably like Cole and some one else familiar; however, he couldn't place it. "Who are you?"
"That doesn't concern you," she replied annoyed. "What concerns you is this." She felt a slight loss of power took the amulet off from around her neck to show him. It glittered in the fluorescent lighting. "I have a feeling you'll need this. Keep it safe, and tell no one of this not even the sisters or the Elders." She lightly tossed it to him and felt all the power leave her.
The feeling of immense power hit him as he caught it. It didn't seem to have an evil or consuming effect on him. Leo was always good even when he did a few terrible things in a future several timelines ago. Kat remembered in a déjà vu kind of way. He was suspicious, she could tell. "It's the original Schermo da Luce. Don't tell a soul or it's very possible that you will get killed."
"Why should I believe you?" He asked probing for an answer.
"Well, that's simple. Because-" her body glowed brightly once again, it cut her off as she tried to explain. Only this time, it pushed her forward.
Leo hesitantly put the amulet in his pocket. Different problem, different day, he mentally reminded himself as he moved toward another pile of information. He needed to find the girls and fast.
The elevator doors opened as Prue and Phoebe quickly carried Piper. "Leo!" Phoebe cried.
"What happened?"
