The Charmed Seven Family Past Series Disclaimers: Charmed and The Magnificent 7 weren't created by and aren't owned by me, and I only use them in fanfiction for fun without any money-making involved.
Author's Note: An early scene in this was inspired by the gypsy episode of Charmed "The Eyes Have It". Main Characters: Maude Standish, Devlin (named after a warlock in the "Muse to my Ears" episode of "Charmed", but in this AU he's a demon.), Ezra Series Note: Follows Part 4: The Third (Unofficial) Son, although some of this story happens before Chris first met Maude and baby Ezra in Part 3: The Second Son.
Acknowledgments: Thanks to Jessie Jane for her input which has helped me improve this story.
Closed AU until this whole series has been posted Warnings: Mention of a boy inflicting a very minor wound on himself to draw a small amount of blood to help find his mother.
Spoilers: Mentions an event from Part 3: The Second Son
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One dark night in a dimly lit street, a young woman with long blonde hair hurried home from her night job at a fast-food restaurant. She hated the job, but needed the money for her future - she had received a free fortune-telling from an old gypsy woman after helping the woman and her family escape some demons...
Maude raised her hand at each demon and blew them up with her magic power - she was relieved that she had been the one in her family to receive that power; with it she could either freeze the motion of objects and living things, or blow them up.
She had come to the gypsy camp with her younger brother, Mark, to rescue their innocent: a gypsy girl whom Mark had seen in his last premonition. The surroundings Mark had seen in the premonition had led them to the gypsy encampment, just outside of their town. The two siblings had hurried there, as Mark's premonitions were usually not very long before the events happened, and they'd arrived just after the demons had.
Maude immediately began to blow up each one with her power, while Mark quickly rescued all the gypsies and helped them move to safety.
After all the demons had been destroyed, Maude hurried to the agreed place where Mark said he was taking the gypsies. Once there, old Madame Zelda had thanked Maude several times, grateful that her family-line hadn't been destroyed (like Mark's previous vision had shown). The future was very changeable, so witches could change the future once they'd received the relevant premonitions.
The two Standish witches accompanied the gypsies back to their camp and were invited to stay for a celebration that involved eating, drinking, dancing and singing. After a while, Madame Zelda decided to give Maude and Mark a free fortune-telling each.
Maude was first, so she joined the old woman in the gypsy caravan and sat down while the woman looked into her crystal ball. Madame Zelda frowned, puzzled by what she saw. "I see darkness in your future. I also see a forbidden love...and a forbidden child."
Maude was startled and angry; "I will never love - love is evil and a waste of time."
"You will though - you will meet a man of darkness...but it seems that he may now be in the light. I cannot see any further than a child...it is shrouded in mist."
To be continued...