Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed and the characters. But I finally own Drew Fuller… (I'm just daydreaming, don't listen to me)
Authors Note: Sorry that I didn't put an update in in the last month or so. I hope you're all still interested in the story.
Chapter 15
Lindsay was shocked. Her father, the only man in the world she had thought who hated magic even more than she, was a demon. She couldn't believe it. For over five years she had lived with him and she had never noticed something.
"Surprised?" he asked evilly.
Lindsay didn't respond. Hell, she was surprised and confused. Suddenly a thought crossed her mind that made her feel very sick. If her father was a demon then she was also one. Well, half-demon, half-witch. But she had never discovered any demonic powers. "Then I'm a demon too?" she asked finally and was surprised how calm her voice sounded.
Her father seemed to think about it, then he answered "No you're not. And that's the problem."
Lindsay frowned. "What are you talking about?"
He smirked and sat down on a huge stone that was a few metres away from her. "Well where shall I start?" he asked retorically. "As I married your mother I didn't knew that she was a witch. But as you know she told me when she got pregnant with you. Of course I was totally shocked and wanted nothing else than to get away from this freak. But soon I realized that magic could be really helpful. I met with some… people who helped me become what I'm now."
"You mean a demonic bastard instead of a normal?" Lindsay snorted.
"Don't get too cocky. I can kill you on the spot" he threatened. As Lindsay didn't showed any sign of weakness or fear he added "Just like your useless mother." Pleased he watched the terriyfied expression on his daughters face.
His words echoed in Lindsays head and tears started to form in her eyes. All the time she had spent hunting demons in the hope that she would one day find the one who was responsible for her mothers death, she had never thought that her father had something to do with it. Suddenly she felt so angry and full of hatred that she forgot about her fear. "You son of a bitch!"
She stood up from the floor and streched out her hand. Immediately fire shoot out of it towards her father but he just hold up his own hand and absorbed her power. "Do you really think you can kill me?" he asked and laughed evilly.
"I will I promise!" Lindsay yelled.
Her father stopped laughing and stood up too. A small energyball appeared in his hand and before Lindsay could react he threw at her and hit her in her left leg. She fell to the ground again but managed to supress a scream. She wouldn't give her father, no the demon who killed her mother, this satisfaction.
"You know it's really hard to get you angry" he said suddenly. "I mean of course I tried my best to make you feel this way and you were angry but not in that way I wanted it."
Lindsay didn't saw any sense in what he said. "What do you mean?" she asked with a shaking voice.
"Since I'm a demon I always wanted you by my side. I tried to turn you when you were ten but your mother could cross my plan. So I decided to kill her and take you in. I knew you would be angry about what happened to you and hoped you would start to kill and turn but the only ones you hunted were demons" he explained. "But that doesn't matter anymore. You'll turn now."
"I will never turn evil!" Lindsay shouted.
The demon laughed again. "You have no choice. While you were sleeping I gave a poison that will turn you, no matter what. And once you have killed your first innocent or witch you'll be evil. I already picked your first victim. How was his name?" He made a face like he had to think about it deeply. Then he grined again. "Right, Chris."
Chris waited impatiently that Leo would open his eyes again. "And?" he asked.
Leo finally looked at him. "I can sense her, but just very slight."
"Doesn't matter. Orb!" Chris said and grabbed his arm.
Leo orbed them out and reappeared in an other part of the underworld. They looked around but no one was in sight. Chris sighed frustrated. "Where is she?"
Leo wanted to concentrate again as they heard a dark voice from somewhere behind them. "Don't worry I'll be back to enjoy your fight with him."
"I'll not fight him!" shouted another voice furiously. Chris recognized it immediately. Lindsay. Without any hesitation he ran over to where he had heard the voices from.
"Chris! Wait!" Leo yelled after him. "It could be a trap!"
But Chris didn't care. As soon as he entered the cave he saw Lindsay lying on the ground with a wound on her left leg. "Lin!" he said and looked around to find the source of the other voice they had heard. When he didn't saw anyone he walked over to Lindsay but stopped surprised as she backed away. "No stay there!"
"What?" he asked confused.
Leo came over to him curiously. "What's the matter?"
"I don't know" Chris answered and wanted to take another step towards Lindsay but she hold up her hands. "No Chris. Go away!"
Chris frowned. "Lindsay what's going on?"
"You have to go" Lindsay said pleadingly. "Please!"
"Listen I don't know what happened but we have to get outta here" Chris responded and went over to her. Again Lindsay backed away from him till her back hit the wall. "Please Chris, just go."
Before Chris could even think about of what to do next he heard Leo shouting his name. He turned around and saw a darklighter arrow rushing through the air in his direction. He knew it was too late to avoid it and closed his eyes in the expectation to feel the arrow cutting his skin in the next second but that never happened. Instead he heard a scream of pain and he quickly opened his eyes again. What he saw shocked him. Leo was lying on the ground with an arrow in his stomach, the arrow that was meant for him. Angrily he sent the next arrow that the darklighter shoot at him back and vanquished him with that.
"Leo!" Chris shouted with fear in his voice. He went over to him and knelt down. Out of instinct he wanted to pull the arrow out but Leo grabbed his hands. "No you can't touch it" Leo gasped.
Chris knew he was right and turned to Lindsay to ask her if she would do it but she wasn't there. "Damn it" he cursed. Suddenly Leo coughed heavily and Chris realized that he had to help him even though it meant he had to leave Lindsay behind. But he couldn't do anything for her now so he took Leos arm. "Don't worry. You'll gonna be fine" he said soothingly and orbed out to the manor.
"Piper! Phoebe! Paige!" Chris shouted once he reappeared with Leo in living room. As he looked down at him he saw that Leo was breathing heavily and the blood from his wound soaked slowly through his shirt.
"What's the big emergency?" Paige asked as she walked in before she saw Leo. "Oh god. Phoebe!"
Immediately her sister entered the room. "What?"
"You have to pull the arrow out" Chris explained and pointed on Leo.
"Oh no" Phoebe sighed and knelt in front of the couch. "At three okay?" she asked Leo and he nodded slightly. "One, two…" Quickly she pulled the arrow out and caused Leo to let out a scream.
"I'll orb you up there so someone can heal you" Chris said and quickly grabbed his fathers arm again. But before he could even start to orb Lindsay shimmered behind Phoebe and Paige. She hold up her hand and fire shoot out of it in the sisters direction.
"Watch out!" Chris yelled shocked. Paige quickly orbed out of the way but Phoebe couldn't avoid the flames. They hit her in the back and threw her across the room til she hit a wall and fell unconscious. "Lin! What the hell are you doing?" Chris shouted angrily.
For a moment she seemed unsecure but then Paige reappeared and Lindsay started to attack her with kicks. A few seconds later Paige was also lying on the floor and Lindsay took a step into Chris' direction. "I have to do this" she said and hold out her hand once again.
Completely stunned Chris orbed away before the flames could hit him. He reappeared behind her and hold up his hands in defense before he asked "What's happening here?"
Lindsay turned around to him and Chris was surprised that she looked at him with great hatred. Suddenly she took an athame out of her pocket and Chris prepared himself for an attack but she just shimmered away. He frowned confused. Why wasn't she fighting any longer?
"Chris! Behind you!" Leo suddenly shouted.
Chris turned around and immediately felt a sharp pain in his stomach where Lindsay had stabbed him with the athame. She quickly removed it when she saw the pain on his face and took several steps back. "Chris… I –"
Before she could say something else her father shimmered behind her. "Well done" he said when he saw Chris falling to his knees and clutching his stomach.
"I didn't wanted to…" Lindsay began but her father just grabbed her arm and shimmered away. Chris stared unbelievingly at the spot were they had disappeared while the pain in his stomach was growing steadily. As fast as Leo could because of his own wound he knelt beside him and tried to heal him only to see that it didn't work.
"Argh… what happened?" Paige moaned while she slowly got up from the floor. When she saw the two whitelighters in front of the couch she quickly walked over to them. "Why isn't it healing?" she asked when she saw that Leo didn't managed it to heal Chris.
"You have to orb up there so someone can heal you" Chris said to Leo.
"But…" Leo began to say but Chris cut him off. "No, please – for once – listen to me."
Leo nodded and turned to Paige "Watch over him. I'll be right back." With that he orbed away.
Paige wanted to kneel down beside Chris but then he suddenly asked "Where's Phoebe?"
Paiges eyes widened in shock and she turned around and saw Phoebe lying on the floor with burns over her whole body. Quickly she went over to her sister. "Phoebe! Can you hear me?" she asked frightened. But Phoebe remained unconscious.
A second later Leo came back and immediately knelt down beside Chris to heal him. Again it didn't work. "Why can't I heal you?" he asked worried but Chris didn't know what to say.
"Leo!" Paige shouted. "Phoebe is hurt!"
Quickly Leo went over to them and hold his hands over Phoebe. Immediately her wounds began to close and a moment later she sat up. "Was that Lindsay?" she asked confused.
Paige nodded. "Yeah I don't know what has gotten into her."
"We can worry about this later" Leo interrupted them. "I can't heal Chris."
Once again Leo walked over to him and the sisters followed. Worriedly they watched how Leo lay him on the couch and tried to heal him but again it didn't work. "We have to find Lindsay" Leo said grimly. "She's the one who stabbed him."
"Since when are you so worried about him?" Paige asked surprised.
"We don't have time for this now" Leo responded. "I'll go and get Piper. Phoebe go and scry for Lindsay. Paige, you watch over Chris. When I'm back with Piper we go to Lindsay and…"
"Hey, hey, hey!" Chris said suddenly. "I'm still here you know. And I don't think that this was really Lin."
"Chris I know you like her a lot…" Leo said.
"Yes I do" Chris admitted. "But that's not the point. She was different. I think that she's might under a spell."
Leo sighed but decided that now wasn't the time to quarrel about it. "Okay just take it easy til I'm back" he said while he tried to suppress the fear he was feeling. Finally he knew what Chris' big secret was and even if he didn't know how Chris was related to them he was still family and he couldn't let him die now. After a last glance at Chris' wound he orbed away to get his ex-wife. He just hoped that they wouldn't be too late.
TBC…
