Hi, sorry for the delay, I so wanted to update daily this week, but I'm gonna post two chapters on Saturday.
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Money Makes me smile: Glad you liked it! YAY! I'm on ur favourite author's list! I'll take teleportation into consideration!
Fanmania: Glad you liked it! Glad you like the Paige/Kyle!
Prue and Andy: Glad you liked it!
Peanut2lb: Glad you liked it! Yep, Victor did know, but that doesn't stop him from hating Sam! Gabby isn't gonna be like Doris, though she does have a few skeletons in the closet, though I'm not telling if they're demonic skeletons! You're one of the only true neutrals I know when it comes to Paige's boyfriends, a lot of people are Paige/Glenn shippers! Actually no, I picked Rome because it is a very romantic city, well according to quite a lot of people!
RJF: Glad you liked it! Thanks, but I never really thought of romance as my strong point! No, of course I won't think you copied! I didn't realise there were so many people who liked Will and Grace, and we all write charmed fics; there's me, The-Cheese-Fairy, you and Princess Pinky!
Psychokitty3: Glad you liked it! I'll take all your power ideas into consideration, and I'm toying with a power which is a mixture of ice shards (like you said) and molecular combustion!
The-Cheesy-Fairy: Glad you liked it! Yep, you're too blame for my rambling last chapter lol! Oh my god, I'm magic, you think Phoebe rocked…again! My favourite part of your fic…hum…I'll have to get back to you!
Power ideas for Piper are still welcome (and sorta needed) and so are you views on the best part of Simply Charmed.
The Four Letter Word:
Prue sat in the kitchen playing solitaire on her laptop, even though she was supposed to be researching Hades,
"find anything?" Paige asked, walking in and getting a bottle of water from the fridge
"no," Prue replied, quickly closing the computer.
"I can't believe it's Valentines Day tomorrow, I have so much to do at the club and not enough time," Piper said, as she entered the room with Patrice crawling behind her,
"I ca help if you want," Paige told her,
"thanks, Leo and Cole are already over there putting the decorations up, you can sort out the sound check and make sure there's enough of everything," Piper explained, sitting down. When Paige had offered to help she thought Piper would say everything was under control and there was no need, like she did a lot, and was quite shocked that the middle charmed one had handed over responsibility and had already thought of what she could do,
"I'll get right on it," Paige said with a fake smile, orbing out.
Meanwhile, Phoebe sat at her computer in her office, running her fingers across the ruffled neckline of her pastel green top,
"Phoebe, your sister Prue's on the phone," her assistant, Kennedy, said, popping her head round the door,
"okay, thanks," Phoebe said, as Kennedy went back to her desk and put Prue through to the phone in Phoebe's office.
"Hey Pheebs, I was just wondering what you're doing this afternoon?" Prue asked,
"nothing, why?" Phoebe replied,
"because my powers are kinda outta control and I think I could do with some empathic therapy," the eldest sister said,
"sure, I'll be at the manor in about an hour," Phoebe told her, putting the phone down. The Angelic Seer walked over and closed the blinds on her door and windows, before sitting back down at her computer and shooting a globe of electricity and psionic energy from her forehead at the screen, it began to flicker at about a thousand miles an hour before stopping on one web page,
"ha, I'm a magical hacker," she smirked. She began to read through what she had just found,
"Gabrielle Chastity Watts," she read, "wait, this is a hospital report," she stated, seeing the 'Bay General' logo at the top of the page, she continued to read it in her head, "oh my god, she's not the victim she's the one who did it, she pushed a man off a building," she said to herself, "I can't let my father marry her." The second to youngest Halliwell sister moved the mouse to the corner of the screen and clicked on print, standing up and opening her yellow-cream handbag, folding up the printed document and popping it in her bag. As she walked into the main part of the paper, Victor walked in,
"Phoebe, I'm so glad I caught you, I have some excellent news," he said,
"be quick," Phoebe told him,
"well maybe Gabrielle should be here to tell you with me," he looked around, trying to find his fiancé,
"she's in the editing room, and I need to go, so hurry up," Phoebe said,
"well, we've moved the wedding forward, we're getting married on Saturday," Victor told her,
"but that's only three days away, not including today," Phoebe stated,
"I know, at first I wasn't sure but Gabrielle managed to persuade me," he explained,
"of course she did," Phoebe muttered, giving her father a quick hug and leaving.
At Magic School, Paige orbed in to find Phobia waiting for her in her office,
"wow, you're back," Paige said,
"six months of trying to find out more about where I come from, mainly about my father, and all I found is this," Phobia told her, putting a medium-sized notebook on the desk,
"so, where exactly have you been?" Paige asked, picking the notebook up,
"Africa, Egypt, Greece, I even went to Hawaii," she replied, standing up and readjusting her bag,
"that's a lot of aeroplanes," Paige stated,
"that's a lot of orbs," Phobia corrected with a smile, "anyway, I was wondering if you could look over the stuff I found, see if there's anything demonically interesting or something like that in there?" she asked,
"sure," Paige agreed, watching the demon-warlighter travel to her lesson in red orbs.
The following day, Piper awoke to find her bed covered in red rose petals, orbs dematerialising in the air,
"aw, Leo," she giggled, beginning to hold handfuls of the petals to her noise, the sweet aroma tickling her sense of smell.
In Prue's bedroom, she woke up to find a bouquet of white lilies on the pillow next to her,
"how lovely," she said, smelling the flowers.
In Phoebe's and Cole's apartment, the Angelic Seer woke up in bed to find a big teddy bear at the bottom of her bed,
"aw, how cute," she cooed.
In Paige's bedroom, the witchlighter lay in bed,
"this day is definitely the one I'm gonna hate forever," she groaned,
"even with me?" a voice asked, she turned to see Kyle standing next to her open window, holding a heart-shaped box of chocolates, he walked over to the bed and sat next to her, taking the lid of the box,
"nothing says romance like chocolates," she said, popping a caramel one in her mouth.
"You're beautiful when you eat," he stated,
"enough with the compliments," the whitelighter-witch said, beginning to blush,
"no, I'm serious Paige, I love you," he told her, her eyes widened in shock and her jaw dropped, revealing the partly chewed chocolate on her tongue.
That afternoon, Prue sat in the attic, looking through some old boxes,
"hey Prue, is Paige home?" Phobia asked, orbing in,
"urm no, she's helping Piper again at P3, but is there anything I can do?" Prue replied, the teenager shook her head,
"I just wanted to know if she'd read what I'd found," she said,
"well, I don't think she has, but I did sneak a peek, and I was wondering if it'd be okay for me to copy some of the stuff you found out about Barbas into the book?" Prue asked,
"sure, but can you get it back to me as soon as possible?" Phobia told her, Prue nodded.
"Phobia, are you okay?" Prue asked, concerned at how blank and lifeless Phobia's face looked,
"I'm fine," Phobia replied, orbing out mid-sentence, leaving Prue to gaze at where she had once stood,
"something's wrong with her," she whispered, walking over to the Book of Shadows with Phobia's notebook.
Downstairs, Paige and Phoebe stood in the kitchen, sipping at their cups of coffee,
"have you told your dad?" Paige asked, they were discussing what Phoebe had discovered about Gabrielle,
"yep, but he said it must have been something else, he's in love, and love makes you blind," Phoebe replied, sitting on one of the wooden chairs which surrounded the table,
"speaking of love, Kyle said the four letter word to me this morning, along with the words 'I' and 'you'," Paige told her, also sitting down.
"Wow, did you say it back?" Phoebe asked,
"I couldn't, I can't, it would feel wrong to tell him before I know myself, but one thing I don't understand is why I don't know, I mean I'm over Glenn," Paige said,
"are you?" the second to youngest sister asked, doubting her sister's words, Paige looked into the air, before opening her mouth,
"no," she said.
To be continued…
Next chapter- The day of dread arrives, Victor's and Gabrielle's wedding. Piper's due date is just a week away. Prue asks Andy and Leo to see if the Elders have any idea what happened to Phobia during her journey. Glenn returns at the worst possible moment.
'The Stepmonster' should be up soon.
Ps. Some of you might be confused for the title of the next chapter, but it's a play on 'stepmother', and it's something Piper will say in the next chapter.