A/N. The title for this chapter is a play on 'All's fair in love and war'. Also, here is what powers the baby has: levi-orbing and telepathic-orbs, but I might give her another one.
A/N. Check out the little cast list I made up for 'Simply Charmed'. Anyway, on with the replies-
Peanut2lb: Glad you liked it! You probably did review the chapter, the same thing happened with me and the last chapter of 'Charmed in the Afterlife'! Angel might be in Phoebe's title now, but that doesn't mean she is one lol! She could never be an angel! Glad you liked the reunion!
The-Cheese-Fairy: Glad you liked it! I'll keep the name as Charlotte then! You'll have to see about the magical rivalry, but I can say I'm playing with the idea of a Karis subplot! Glad you liked Piper's school play thing! Phoebe won't hurt Piper, she can hate her though and be really jealous!
Princess Pinky: Glad you liked it! Emma was my utter inspiration for telepathic-orbs! Glad you liked the 9th grade play! I could sorta imagine that as something Paige would do, orbing demons of cliffs lol!
All's Fair in Love and Warlighters:
Prue dodged the fire ball which was shooting towards her,
"damnit," she said, it had destroyed a vase which the contents of had spilled onto her head, she stood up, straightened out her jeans, and formed an orange bubble around each of her hands, shooting them at the attacking demon and bringing him to a fiery end.
"Hey," Paige said, orbing in, "what the hell happened here?" she asked, looking around at the mess the battle had created,
"a demon, powerful one at that, ever since I scared the Source off someone's been trying to take his place," Prue replied,
"yeah, well you only scared him off because you were super evil Prue, as soon as he hears that you're back to normal he'll come straight back," Paige stated.
"I'm not exactly back to normal," Prue said, making her eyes flicker from green, to red, and back to green again,
"very true," Paige grinned, beginning to clean up.
The following morning, Piper was standing in the kitchen,
"what's up?" Paige asked, seeing her older sister glancing around the room, looking almost lost,
"something's missing, the flowers Leo bought me," she replied.
"Yeah, Prue vanquished a demon last night," Paige said,
"I thought she wasn't using her demonic powers anymore?" Piper asked,
"maybe she vanquished him with something else, like a potion," the youngest sister said, grabbing a bagel and orbing out. Andy walked in,
"if you see Prue, tell her I'm out on warlighter business," he said, dissolving into red orbs,
"I wish I could orb," Piper quipped, not caring she was talking to herself.
Andy orbed in on the top of Golden Gate Bridge,
"hello Andrew," a woman greeted, on her left stood a man and on her right another woman,
"please, call me Andy," he told her. The woman who had spoken, Lisa, smiled,
"you never did like your full title," she said,
"how would you know? we only met when I became a warlighter," he stated,
"we're ones too, and all warlighters are partially connected," the other woman, Erica, said. Lance, the man, stepped forward and shook Andy's hand,
"hey man, these two take things so serious," he grinned, as did Andy, but the two female warlighters scowled,
"lets go," Lisa said, they all orbed out.
At the Bay Mirror, Phoebe sat in the boss' office, she was having an interview for a job as advice columnist,
"Miss Halliwell, in my opinion you seem perfect for the job, but we have a letter which we would like you to give advise on, just so we can see how you'd work with it," Elise, the boss, told Phoebe, handing a piece of paper.
The four warlighters orbed into a dark cove,
"are you sure Lora's here?" Andy asked,
"she's my twin sister, we can sense each other," Lisa replied.
"My, my, if it isn't little Lisa, what do you want?" a voice asked, then a woman, practically identical to Lisa, stepped out of the shadows,
"Lora, we can't let you kill Carson, we know he cheated on you, and broke your heart, but it's still not right, it's not what being a warlighter's about," Lisa said. Lora glared at the foursome, throwing them into the wall behind with a red beam,
"we need to restrain her," Erica stated, being a psionic warlighter, she had the ability to temporarily shut down Lora's mind, but it wouldn't kill her as she's already dead.
"I'll do it," Lance said, holding Lora on the ground with bands of light,
"nice power," the rogue warlighter said with an evil smile, orbing out of the bands and hitting Lance and Erica with another laser, then she faced Lisa and Andy.
"What we gonna do?" Andy asked,
"I'll distract her then you can knock her out from behind," Lisa replied, orbing directly in-front of her twin and forcing her to the ground with a stream of orbs, Andy ran over to Lora and when she stood up he hit her on the back of neck, making her drop unconscious.
"We'll take her back to the manor," Andy said,
"what's the manor?" Erica questioned,
"where I live," he replied, clutching Lora's arm and orbing out.
"I can't believe you brought a psycho warlighter in our house!" Prue exclaimed, as she stormed up the stairs,
"I had know other choice, she's trying to kill her ex," Andy told her,
"why?" she asked,
"because he cheated on her…" he began,
"like that's never happened to anybody else before," she interrupted,
"…with her cousin, then she got pregnant and he killed her, he was a warlock," he finished.
"Well then he deserves it warlocks are evil, they're meant to be vanquished, especially if they kill a woman and her unborn child," Prue said,
"he's not a warlock anymore, that was a long time ago, over three years, something's been stopping Lora from tracking him down, but she's close to breaking through it," Andy stated,
"well I'm gonna help her," Prue told him,
"it's Brendan Rowe," he said, Prue froze.
"You must be kidding me, he'd never do that, he's a priest," she denied,
"he wasn't four years ago, back then he was a pure warlock, just like his brothers," he told her, Prue felt horror plunge into her heart,
"we can't let him get away with this, but we can't let her kill him either," she said, walking up to the attic.
In the living room, Lance was watching Lora, just in case she regained consciousness, when she orbed out, without even opening her eyes or sitting up, he threw out his hands and trapped the orbs in a cage of light, before they could fully disappear.
"Me vanish baddie," Karis said, walking in and preparing to throw an electro-pyrokinetic bolt at the cage,
"no!" Erica yelled, raising a shield of psychic energy between Karis and the orbs, blocking the electro-pyrokinesis.
"Dat's a demon!" Karis exclaimed, pinning Erica to the wall using her electro-hydrokinesis,
"let her go, Lora isn't a demon, she's just a little bit lost," Lance told Karis, who gave in and released Erica, the little girl pulled a tongue at Lance and run into the kitchen, hoping to find her aunt Piper.
When she got in there she found Leo instead,
"hi," she said,
"hey there fire princess," he greeted, 'fire princess' was what the whole family called her, that or 'little mermaid', she got these nicknames from her abilities to shoot fire and water in the form of electric bolts.
"Uncie Leo, will I get a new power soon?" she asked, Karis was very good when it came to talking and could pronounce a lot of things properly, she could even say 'k' now,
"I don't know, you only got your other power a few months ago," she said, heaving her onto his lap, she scowled,
"I wanna new power!" she screamed, Leo held his hand to her stomach and she glowed for a few seconds, now that he was an Elder he had lots of powers, ones that could calm the kids down.
Up in the attic, Prue was trying scry for Brendan, with no luck, while Andy searched through the book for something that help,
"come quick," Lance told them, as he ran to the doorway, "Lora's gone mad," they all sprinted downstairs and found Lora shooting lasers at Erica and Lisa, who weren't very good at dodging them. Prue telekinetically lifted Lora into the air, before slamming her into the wall,
"you'll pay for that," the warlighter snarled, pulling an athame from her belt, Prue astral projected and jumped at Lora, pushing her to the floor,
"get off, astral bitch!" Lora exclaimed, as Prue tried to wrestle the athame from her. Piper and Paige left from their bedrooms, running downstairs,
"a little help here," Astral Prue said, Paige closed her eyes and Lora became blue-white orbs, which shot through the air and dissolved, then they heard a crash from upstairs, Paige blinked five times and the crackling of energy bounced against their ear drums as a crystal cage orbed around Lora. Astral Prue returned to her body and they jogged upstairs,
"let me go!" Lora yelled, trying to move one of the crystals away, but her telekinetic laser just rebounded and pushed her into one of the cage 'bars', giving her a powerful zap and knocking her out.
"We're gonna go the church where Brendan's a priest at," Prue said, joining hands with Andy,
"Brendan? as in Brendan Rowe? what's he got to do with it?" Piper asked,
"he's her ex," Andy replied,
"but Lance and Erica told us her ex was a warlock who killed her pregnant cousin, the one he was having an affair with," Paige said,
"that's who Brendan was a few years ago, but he's changed," Prue told them.
"He's still a killer," Paige argued,
"I'm not saying he isn't, but he's a priest now, and is part of the church to wipe out his sins," Prue said,
"we're talking about a murderer, not religion," Paige stated,
"lets go," Prue told Andy, he orbed them to the church.
"I can't believe she's going to help a warlock," Paige said,
"you may have forgotten but Prue's a killer too, I think that's the main reason she wants to protect him," Piper said,
"yeah, but that's different, it wasn't Prue, it was something messing with her, it was the woogy," Paige replied, "Brendan killed this woman because he was a warlock, it had nothing to do with being possessed or under a spell like she was."
Prue and Andy orbed into the back off the church,
"Brendan?" she called,
"Prue, is that you?" a voice asked, then Brendan Rowe walked from out of an alcove at the front,
"you need to come with us, someone called Lora Emerson is after you, d'you remember her? you killed her cousin," Andy said. Brendan looked to the floor,
"I could never be more sorry for what I did, I cheated on her with Annie and then I killed her, Lora tried to kill me there and then, but I escaped," he said,
"look, Brendan, we're here to help you," Prue told him, taking his hand and then her husband's, who orbed them all back to the manor.
"Let me outta here," Lora ordered, when she saw Brendan, "I need to get him,"
"Lora, we know he hurt you, we know he killed your cousin, but you need to calm down, he's not the warlock that did those things anymore," Andy said, crouching down next to the cage.
"Please, Andy, let me get my revenge," she begged, Andy was tempted to let her free, so she could do to Brendan what he deserved, but he knew he couldn't, not only because it would be killing an innocent but it would also upset Prue, as she had also killed in her past.
"I have an idea of how to help everyone, Piper can use her baby's power to create a telepathic link between Brendan and Lora, then she can find out just how sorry he is and hopefully move on," Paige told them her plan,
"wait a minute, I can't do that, I'm struggling to make this telepathy work between me and someone else, never mind two completely different people," Piper said, Prue and Paige just looked at her, "fine," she agreed. The middle charmed one concentrated hard, a ball of orbs appeared at her forehead,
"please let this work," she said, the orbs flew through the air and split in two, one part going to Brendan and another to Lora. I wish I hadn't cheated on her, then I wouldn't have ended up killing Annie and our unborn child Lora heard Brendan think, then he listened to her thoughts; I wanna kill him so much, but like they said, he's changed, deep down I just want to move on, then the link ended.
"I'm ready to let go," Lora said, Paige smiled and moved on of the crystals aside, watching as Lora glanced at Brendan, before orbing out,
"I'll take you back," the whitelighter-witch told the priest, taking hold of his hand and orbing to the church.
"This was good for me to, I think seeing how they coped had helped me realise I need to get over the whole 'evil' thing, and to do that I need to go on as normal, but I can't deny my demonic powers, especially considering I have one new permanent one," Prue said, an orange bubble appeared around her right hand,
"I think that's called a pyrokinetic sphere," Andy told her, "and I think you're right, besides, you only have two demonic powers usually, unless you go all demon-crazy and create dark shields."
"Plus, we'll know when you're evil cos you'll have a bad manicure," Piper joked, referring to the talons Prue had when she was in her Angel of Shadows form.
To be continued….
Next chapter- When Piper uses her baby's power in a battle, something happens and suddenly she can hear the thoughts of the entire city, except that's too much for even a charmed one to cope with. Things get worse when an ancient demon awakens. Cole and Andy hunt down the demons they all think are responsible for things turning to stone.
'Primrose Telepath' should be up soon.