The title for this chapter is a play on 'fire and ice'. This is two months after the last chapter.
Desire and Ice:
Piper continued to stir her cake mixture, pausing for a few seconds to wipe some flour off her jeans and yellow vest-top, she turned around to wash her hands and, when she turned back, accidentally knocked off the mixing bowl. She threw out her hands to freeze it a sharp piece of ice shot from her palm instead, hitting the bowl and causing it to shatter into thousands of tiny pieces,
"interesting new power," she said, looking at her hands.
"It definitely is," Leo told her, orbing in,
"where does it come from?" she asked,
"the Elders said that when you had Patrice she left behind something, a tiny freckle of her magic, which has mixed with your molecular acceleration power to create a new one, cryokinetic destruction," he replied,
"I hate learning how to control new powers," she said. Suddenly, the doorbell rang causing Piper to jump, activating her new power and shooting an explosive ice shard at Leo, striking him in the stomach and causing to erupt into orbs,
"ow," he groaned, as he reformed. Piper apologised before going to answer the door, she put on a fake smile when she saw Gabrielle standing there with Victor,
"hey there Piper," Victor said, Gabrielle just looking at the molecular witch.
About half an hour later,
"I can't believe Phoebe just left with no warning," Victor said,
"I think her sadness and rage over not being able to conceive was enough warning," Gabrielle commented,
"I thought we agreed you would try harder to get on with my daughters and Paige?" Victor asked,
"we did," Gabrielle replied, grabbing her blue handbag and putting on her navy jacket, "I'm going to the house," she told her husband,
"I'll come too," he said,
"bye dad, I'm glad you had a good time on your honeymoon," Piper said, giving her father a quick hug.
At Kyle's apartment, Paige and Karis orbed in to find him waiting for them,
"hi, you ready to go?" he asked,
"Karis is, but I can't, there's any emergency at school," Paige told him, quickly orbing out before her husband or daughter could say a thing,
"your mommy's a bad liar," Kyle said,
"she is," Karis agreed.
"You still wanna go the park?" he asked,
"wiv just you?" she asked, he nodded, "can we have ice cweam?"
"sure," he replied,
"me like ice cweam," she beamed, "I can orb us," she held onto his leg and they dissolved into blue-white lights.
Meanwhile, Gabrielle walked down the corridor to Cole's apartment, though Victor thought she was going shopping, she knocked on the door,
"it's open," his voice called, she turned the handle and walked in.
"What d'you want?" he asked, seeing who it was,
"that's not a very nice way to treat a guest," she said, a wicked smile plastered across her face, he just looked at her, "I came to give you some company," she told him, waltzing over to where he sat.
"Seriously, what do you want?" he questioned, not believing what she had said,
"I came to give you some company, to comfort you," she replied, slowly removing her jacket,
"I'm not interested," he told her, realising she was flirting with him,
"oh I think you are," she said seductively, brushing her hand against his cheek and rolling her tongue across his lips.
"Get out," Cole ordered, pushing her off him,
"you don't want that," Gabrielle said, leaning forward and pressing a kiss ,so forceful that it made him topple over in his chair, to his mouth. This time, before he could throw her off him, she stood by herself and walked towards the door,
"bye, bye," she said, flirtatiously, with a wave, leaving the apartment.
Back at the manor, Piper was practicing her powers with Leo in the basement,
"I'm gonna shoot some low-voltage lightening bolts at you and I want you to try and freeze them," he said, she nodded and made a gesture when he released the first bolt, but instead of freezing it she blew it up.
"I don't see why getting this new power has messed up my other ones anyway," she said, giving up and sitting down on the cold floor,
"because it has, so you're just gonna have to find the trigger for it," he explained,
"well I think the trigger's shock," she said, "because that would make sense why it worked when the doorbell made me jump."
"Okay, so all you need to do is think of things that make you jumpy," he stated, creating a harmless light ball in his hand, throwing it towards her, she closed her eyes and stretched out her hand, releasing a combustive icicle and destroying the light ball.
"I did it!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands in excitement and accidentally blowing up Leo, luckily he reappeared, unharmed, out of orbs,
"I think I'm just going to keep my hands still," she said,
"I think that's best," he nodded.
In Golden Gate Park, Kyle and Karis were sitting on a bench eating ice cream,
"so, what's your favourite flavour?" he asked,
"choccy," she replied, pointing to the brown scoop in her cone,
"mine too," he said, she smiled,
"I didn't like you," she began, "but now I do." The federal agent felt a rush of happiness wash over him,
"I like you too," he said, suddenly, she reached up and splattered her ice cream on the tip of his nose, bursting into a fit of giggles and orbing off the bench, he also laughed and chased her down the path. Paige orbed in on the bench where they had just sat, a big smile spread across her face at the sight of Kyle and Karis together.
To be continued….
A/N. Okay, so that was just a nice little chapter, and only the beginning of Gabrielle's plan.
Next chapter- Following Charlotte's wiccaning, the charmed ones crash Cleo's blessing by Hades. Cole baby-sits the kids and Gabrielle turns up, making sure they see him kiss her. Phobia resurrects her father in hopes of draining his powers, but will he get hers first?
'Crashed the Blessing' should be up tomorrow.