Chapter 5 – Lies my sister told me

A/N: Hey guys. I'm glad you like the story so far, I love writing it. Anyway, I'm gonna skip the episode Used Karma 'cause Chris isn't in it and I'd figure it would be kind of boring to re-write, lol. So, this 'episode' is pretty much all about Jamie. Everything that happens in Used Karma already happened, k? lol. Enjoy!

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Jamie and Chris are walking down the street. They had just seen and movie and now they were headed to P3.

"You were." Chris says.

"No, I wasn't." She denies.

"Jamie, you totally were." She looked at him.

"Okay, so maybe I was crying."

"Told you."

"But, it was sad. I don't see why they had to die. They could have just said 'and they lived happily ever after.' And then ended the movie."

"Baby, they were old."

"They were in love."

"Yes, but they were old." She laughed at him. He put his arm around her.

"It was still sad." He chuckled. They walked into P3. He looked around.

"Are you sure they're not gonna be here tonight?" He asked.

"I don't know. Paige is supposed to be with Richard, Piper is with Wyatt, so I don't know how she would be here. And Phoebe hasn't really been in a partying mood since Jason broke up with her."

"Well, then we should be able to make it to the back room. Right?"

"Right." He smiled as they started walking through the crowd. They make it to the door of the back room when they hear Phoebe's voice.

"Hey guys!" Chris sighs as they turn around. Phoebe is standing next to them. Jamie smiles at her.

"Hey, Phoebe." She says.

"Watcha doing?" Chris stares at Phoebe.

"Are you drunk?" He asks.

"What? No." She says. "Are you drunk?" She points at Chris. Jamie looks at him, then back to Phoebe.

"Pheebs, how many drinks have you had?" She asks.

"Just a few."

"And, how many, exactly, is a few?"

"Well, I had a couple beers at home, then I decided to come here and Party!"

"Uh-huh." She nods. "So, how many more drinks did you have?"

"I don't know four or five." Jamie stares at her.

"Four or five!"

"Maybe six." Jamie turns to Chris.

"I have to get her home." She says. "Can you orb us?" He sighs.

"Yeah." He says. "Sure." He orbed them to the living room. Piper was sitting on the couch. She stands up.

"What's wrong?" She asks. "I thought you guys were on a date."

"We were. We went to the club and found this." Jamie looks at Phoebe.

"Hi Piper!" Phoebe says. She runs over and hugs her sister. Piper looks at Jamie and Chris.

"She's drunk." She says.

"Yeah. We know." Jamie says. "Can you help me get her upstairs?" Piper nods and Jamie walks over to them. She puts Phoebe's arm over her shoulder, Piper did the same. They start to walk up the stairs. Jamie turns to Chris. "I'll be right back."

"Okay." He says. They walk up the stairs. "I guess I'll wait here."

Piper and Jamie carry Phoebe into her room. They lay her down on the bed.

"So, you just found her like this?" Piper asks.

"Yeah, me and Chris were at the club and she came up to us." Jamie says.

"You were at the club? I thought you were going to the movies."

"We did. We went after."

"They were going into his room." Phoebe tells Piper. Piper looks at Jamie.

"His room, huh. And, uh, what were you planing on doing there?" Jamie starts to say something, but Phoebe cuts her off.

"Well, they weren't going in there to have a conversation, that's for damn sure!"

"Okay." Jamie says. "I think it's time for you to get some sleep." She turns off the light. "Good night, Phoebe." Piper and Jamie walk out of the room and Jamie walks down the stairs. Chris was sitting in a chair. He stands up.

"Everything okay?" He asks as he stands up.

"Yeah." Jamie walks over to him. "Sorry about tonight." Chris laughs.

"It's okay." They kiss. "I guess I should get going." Jamie sighs.

"I guess so." They smile. "I'll see you tomorrow?"

"Definitely." She smiles. They kiss once more before he orbs out. Piper walks down the stairs.

"Did Chris leave?" She asks.

"Yeah." Jamie nods. Piper sits back down on the couch. "Well, I guess I'm gonna go to bed." Jamie heads towards the stairs. "Night."

"Good night." Jamie goes into the room that she was, once again, sharing with Phoebe. She gets into her bed and goes to sleep.

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The next morning, Jamie walks into the kitchen to find Phoebe sitting at the table. She had her robe on and her head down on the table. Jamie smirks. She walks up to Phoebe. "Good morning!" She says, louder than usual. Phoebe groans.

"To loud." Jamie laughs.

"Yeah, well, now were even from last night." Phoebe looks at her.

"Last night?" She asks.

"You don't remember?" Jamie walks over and pours herself a cup of coffee. And sits down next to Phoebe.

"I remember beer, then a Long Island Iced tea, a rum and coke, then more beer… and that's pretty much it." Jamie laughs. 'Why? What did I do last night?"

"Nothing much. Me and Chris were about to go into his room at P3 when you came up to us."

"Oh." She says. "Sorry."

"Oh, no. That's not the thing you did."

"Oh boy."

"We orbed you home, Piper helped me take you upstairs, then you proceeded to tell her that Chris and I were about to have sex." Phoebe stares at her.

"No I didn't."

"Your exact words were, 'they weren't going in there to have a conversation, that's for damn sure."

"Oh, Jamie. I'm so sorry."

"It's okay." Phoebe took a drink of her coffee.

"Have you guys?" Jamie looks at her.

"What?" Phoebe stares at her. "Had sex?" Phoebe nods. "No."

"What? Why?" Jamie sighs.

"I don't know. It just hasn't been the right time."

"Jamie, you're nineteen, you're not a virgin and you guys are dating. There's nothing wrong with you guys having sex."

"I know, I just…" She cut off by the phone ringing. She stands up. "I don't know." She answers the phone. "Hello?" She frowns when she hears the voice on the other end. "Hi." Phoebe looks at her. "You what?" She continues talking to the person on the other end. "When?… I'll be there… Yeah… Bye." She hangs up the phone.

"Who was that?" She looks at Phoebe.

"Rachel."

"Your sister?" Jamie nods and sits down. "Wow."

"Yeah." Paige walks in. She looks at them.

"Hey guys, what's going on."

"Jamie's sister just called." Phoebe tells Paige.

"Rachel?" Phoebe nods. "Wow. I thought she was in jail."

"She just got out. I, uh, I have to pick her up at one." She turns to Phoebe. "Can I borrow your car?"

"Sure." Phoebe nods.

"Thanks." Jamie stares into space for a few seconds. Paige and Phoebe look at each other.

'Say something.' Phoebe mouths to Paige. Paige shakes her head.

'No, you say something.' Phoebe shakes her head. Paige sighs.

"Hey, James?" She says. Jamie looks at her.

"Yeah?"

"You, uh, want something to eat or something?" She shakes her head.

"No, thanks though." She stands. "I'm gonna go take a shower." She stands up and walks out of the kitchen. She walks upstairs and gets her stuff then goes into the bathroom. She stares into the mirror as she thinks about the last time she saw her sister.

Jamie was thirteen years old. She and her mother were at the grocery store when Jamie saw her sister.

"Rachel?" Her eighteen-year-old sister turned around. Jamie smiled as she ran to her.

"Jamie, hey." Jamie hugged her.

"I haven't seen you in so long."

"Yeah, sorry about that. I've been tied up with stuff, ya know." Their mother walked over.

"For two and a half years?" She asked. "You must've really busy."

"Yeah." She said. Jamie stared at her sister.

"Are you doing anything now?" She asked. "Can you hang out for a little while? We could go get something to eat, or maybe we could-"

"Woah, woah. Hold it there kid. I can't really hang right now. But sometime soon, sure." Rachel said. Jamie stared at her.

"Promise?"

"Hey Rachel!" Some guy yelled from across the store. "Come on!" Rachel looked at him, then back at Jamie.

"Yeah, sure. Whatever." She said, not really paying attention. "Listen, I gotta run. I'll get in touch soon." With that, she ran off with the guy.

Within the next year, Jamie had lost her mother and didn't hear from her sister until she called to try to get money to get out of jail. Jamie sighed as she got into the shower.

OOO

She must've changed her outfit twenty times. Jamie hadn't seen her sister in six years. She knew that what she wore was the last of her problems. She sighs as she grabs another shirt. What was she gonna say? How was she going to talk to her? She hears a knock on the door. She quickly pulls the shirt on and walks over to the door and opens it. Chris smiles at her.

"Hey."

"Hi." She replies.

"Paige said that you weren't eating,." He holds up a bag. "So, I, uh, brought you some breakfast." She smiles.

"Thanks." He walks in and sits down on the bed and starts taking stuff out of the bag. She sits down next to him. "So I assume they told you about Rachel."

"Yeah, they said that you have to go pick her up?" She nods.

"Yeah, I have to pick her up and an hour and a half."

"Do you, uh, want me to go with?" She smiles.

'That's sweet. But I think I should go alone." He nods.

"Okay." He says. "But, if you change your mind-" She kisses him.

"Thanks." He smiles.

OOO

Jamie sighs as she pulls into the police station parking lot.

"Okay, Jamie." She tells herself. "It's gonna be fine. She's your sister, even though she's been in jail for three and a half years. She's still Rachel, right?" Jamie sighs and gets out of the car. She walks into the police station. She walks up to the front desk.

"Can I help you?" The man asks.

"I'm here to pick up Rachel Granger." The man looks at the papers on his desk and nods.

"Take a seat. She'll be out in a minute." Jamie nods.

"Thanks." Jamie sighs as she takes a seat. She starts looking around. I should've had Chris come with me. She thinks to herself.

"Jamie?" She turned when she heard her name. Darryl was standing in front of her.

"Darryl, hi." He stares at her.

"What are you doing here?" She stares at him, realizing that he thinks that she did something her eyes get big.

"Oh, no." She says. "I'm picking up my sister."

"Oh." He says. "Okay." She smirks as Darryl goes back to his job. After waiting for a few minutes, the door opened. Jamie stares as her sister walks out. She stands up. Rachel had the same brown hair she always had, she had bags under her dark brown eyes. They both stare at each other. Rachel walks over.

"Hi." She says.

"Hi." Jamie stares in shock at her sister. Rachel smiles and hugs Jamie.

"It's been way too long, lil' sis." Jamie smiles.

"C'mon, lets get outta here." They walk out and Rachel sees the car.

"Nice car." She looks at Jamie. "Yours?"

"God, no." She laughs. "Phoebe's." They get into the car. They sit in silence for a few minutes.

"So…" Jamie says "How have you been?" Jamie sighs as she says this. "Sorry, stupid question."

"No." Rachel says. "It's fine. It's been okay, I mean, besides having to share a cell with Frankie, and no, it wasn't a man." Jamie laughs.

"Um, Rachel, if you don't mind me asking. Why were you… I mean, how come they…" She sighs. "What were you in jail for?"

"They thought I killed a guy." Jamie's eyes got big. "Don't worry. I didn't."

"Well, why did they think you did?"

"My dick-of-an-ex-boyfriend framed me." She says. "But luckily dad got me a good lawyer and got me out." Jamie stares at her sister.

"So, you've talked to dad lately, then."

"Yeah, I saw him the other day. He's out of town, or else he would've come and gotten me."

"Oh." They pull into the Halliwell's driveway. They get out of the car and go inside. Rachel looks around.

"Wow, sis, you really moved up in the world." She says. Jamie laughs.

"Yeah." They walk into the next room, Piper is sitting with Wyatt. "Piper." Jamie says. "Hey, you remember my sister, Rachel."

"Yeah, you were a lot younger the last time I saw you." She says. "You grew up."

"Yeah, kids tend to do that." Rachel says. She looks at Wyatt. "I see you got one of your own now." Piper nods.

"Yeah, that's Wyatt." Jamie says.

"He cute." Rachel turns around. "And speaking of cute, who's this hottie?" Jamie looked up to see Chris walk into the room. He smiles at her.

"I thought I heard you." Jamie smiles.

"Hey." Jamie looks at him, then at Rachel. "Oh, Rache, this is Chris, by boyfriend. Chris, this is Rachel. My sister." Rachel stares at her sister.

"Boyfriend?" Jamie nods. "Wow, things sure have changed." Jamie laughs.

"So." Piper says. "Where are you staying, Rachel?"

"Um, I'm not really sure. I was supposed to be staying with this guy I know, but he blew me off."

"Well, you can stay here, if you like." Piper offered. "If you don't mind sleeping on the couch."

"Really?" Piper nods. "Thanks."

OOO

Later that night Chris, Jamie, and Rachel were walking home from P3. Rachel and Jamie were talking about everything. Chris noticed that Jamie seemed really happy to be with her sister right now.

"Remember that weekend we spent with mom at the beach?" Jamie says. "God, I was like nine. You were, what, fourteen?"

"Yep." Rachel says.

"I remember you wanted to go to the beach alone, but mom made you take me."

"I remember that."

"God, you hated me so much that weekend."

"I didn't hate you, I was just… annoyed." Jamie laughs.

"Yeah, whatever."

"Well, you were just a kid. Plus, there was a really hot-" Rachel was cut off by a demon appearing in front of them. He created a fireball in his hand and aimed it at Jamie.

"Jamie!" Chris pushes her out of the way, they both fall to the ground. Jamie looks up at her sister.

"Rachel watch-"

"Relax." Rachel says. "I got this." Jamie stares in shock as Rachel puts up her hands and vanquishes the demon, much like Piper does. Rachel bent down to help her sister up.

"How…"

"What, mom didn't tell you?" Rachel says. "Jamie, we're half-witch." Jamie's world went black as she fainted. The last thing she saw before falling to the ground was Rachel.

OOO

Chris carries Jamie into the living room and lays her down on the couch. He sends Phoebe and Rachel into the kitchen to get a washcloth.

"Jamie, honey." He says. "Come on, baby, wake up."

"Chris?" Jamie says weakly. Chris smiles.

"Yeah, it's me. I'm here." She opens her eye and smiles at him. She tries to sit up, but grabs her head and groans. She lays back down.

"What the hell happened?"

"Well, you fainted."

"The last thing I remember was Rachel telling me that…"

"You're a witch." Rachel says as she walks in. She hands Jamie a glass a water. Jamie sits up, slowly.

"But, how is that even possible?"

"Dad's a warlock. A really powerful one."

"But, why didn't mom tell me?"

"Well, from what dad tells me, she was supposed to tell you when you turned sixteen- but I guess she kicked before that." Jamie sighs.

"I can't even comprehend-" Jamie looked at Rachel. "How long have you known?"

"Since I was fourteen."

"Fourteen! You've known for ten years?" Jamie felt light-headed again.

"Jamie, sweetie, you should lay back down." Phoebe tells her.

"Yeah." Chris says. "Baby, it's been a long day. Maybe you should go get some sleep."

"Yeah." Jamie sighs.

"We'll figure this whole thing out tomorrow." Phoebe tells her.

"C'mon, I'll take you up to your room." Jamie nods at Chris.

"Okay." They walk upstairs and go into Jamie and Phoebe's room. Jamie sighs as she pulls out the pullout sofa. She sits down and puts her head into her hands and starts crying. Chris sits down next to her.

"It's gonna be okay." Jamie shakes her head.

"I just can't believe it. I mean, my entire life I've been around witches. I never thought I was one." He puts his arm around her.

"Well, look on the bright side." She looks at him. "At least you don't have to worry about if your friends are gonna except it or not." She chuckled. He smirked. "I knew I could smile." He stands. "Now, you need to get some sleep." She nods. He leans down and kisses her.

"I'll call you in the morning." He nods.

"Okay." They kiss again. "I love you." They both look at each other, shocked.

"What?" She asks.

"I- Uh…" He looks at her. "I love you, Jamie." She just stares at him. "Now would be a great time to say something." She came out of the apparent trance she was in.

"I love you too!" She says quickly. He laughs. "I love you too, Chris." She says a little slower this time. They kiss.

"Good night." He walks to the door.

"Night." She says as he closes the door.

OOO

The next morning Jamie was sitting in the kitchen, trying every possible thing she could to figure out her power. Phoebe walks in. She laughs as she looks at Jamie.

"Jamie," Jamie looks at her. "What are you doing?"

"I'm trying to figure out how to work my powers." Phoebe sits down.

'Well, what's your power?"

"That's my problem." Jamie sighs. "I don't know yet." Jamie keeps trying. Phoebe stops her.

"Okay, let me help." Phoebe closed her eyes, trying to think. "Uh, Hear my call, Hear my message. Help me find what powers, that Jamie possesses." Jamie stares at Phoebe as she says the spell.

"Nice spell."

"Shut up."

"Well, it didn't work" Jamie sighs. "I'm never gonna figure out my powers!" Jamie throws up her arms and a cup that was sitting on the counter blows up. Jamie and Phoebe both stare in shock. Paige orbs in, she looks at the two of them.

"What happened?" She asks. She looks at where they were looking at.

"Jamie just blew up a cup." Phoebe tells her. Paige stares at her.

"I just waved my arms!" She says. "I didn't mean to blow up the coffee cup!" A different cup flew into her hands. She stares at it.

"Looks like you just found another one of your powers." Phoebe says.

"Yeah." Jamie sighs.

OOO

After apologizing to Rachel, Jamie walks up to her room to get dressed. She closes the door and Chris orbs in.

"Jeez!" Jamie says. She laughs. "You scared me."

"Sorry." He says. "You're in a better mood."

"I am." She smiles as they kiss. "Oh! Look what I can do." She looks around her room. "Uh…" She holds out her hand. "Brush." The brush moves to her hand. Chris stares.

"Wow."

"Yeah, I can also blow things up, but I really don't wanna do that again." She laughs. He looks at her.

"You're in your pajamas." She looks down and blushes. She had forgotten that she still had her pajamas on.

"Yeah, let me go change really fast." She grabs her clothes and runs into the other room and changes. She walks back into the room. "Better?"

"I don't know, you looked pretty cute in those pajama bottoms." She blushes.

"Anyway… What did you come here for?" He looks at her.

"Didn't we have this conversation before?" She smirks. "Well, I was wondering if that was the same demon that attacked you before. At your house." She thought about this for a second.

"I don't know. Do you think they could be connected?"

"Well, he was aiming at you." She sits down.

"I didn't even think of that." She looks at him. "Why would demons be after me?"

"I don't know." He shook his head. "But we'd better go tell the sisters." Jamie nods.

OOO

A little while later, Jamie was looking through the Book of Shadows with Chris and the sisters. The demon that attacked wasn't in the book. Rachel walks into the room.

"Hey, Jamie, I was wondering if you wanted to go for a walk with me." She says.

"A walk?" Jamie asks.

"Yeah, ya know, to clear your head."

"Uh, sure." She looks at Chris. "I'll be back in a few."

"Okay." They kiss. "Love you." All three sisters and Rachel stare at this. Jamie smiles.

"Love you too." She walks out with Rachel. They walk out the door.

"So," Rachel says. "You love him, huh?" Jamie blushes.

"Yeah, I do." Rachel smiles at her sister.

"Yeah, well don't fall too hard. Okay?" Jamie looks at Rachel.

"What do you mean?"

"Guys can be great, James. They can be amazing, at times. But, they can also be heartless."

"I don't think Chris is like that."

"Yeah, I didn't think my boyfriend was like that either." They continue walking for a little while. Rachel stops and looks at her sister. "You know, I'm really glad I got to spend some time with you."

"Yeah." Jamie smiles. "I'm glad we got a second chance."

"Yeah, about that…" Rachel stabs Jamie in the neck with a needle. Jamie falls to the ground unconscious. "Sorry, sis. Had to do it." Rachel drags Jamie and put her into a nearby van. She hot-wires it and drives off.

OOO

It had been two hours since Jamie and Rachel left. Chris was pacing back and forth as Paige tried to scry for them. Leo orbs in, Chris looks at him.

"Anything?" Leo sighs and shakes his head. Chris groans. "I never should've let her go out alone."

"I'm sure she's fine, Chris." Leo says. "She's a tough girl." Phoebe and Piper walk in.

"Anything yet?" Phoebe asks. Leo shook his head. Chris sits down and puts his head in his hands. Phoebe looks at him. "Chris, she's gonna be okay. It's Jamie, you know she can handle herself in a fight. She's really-" The scrying crystal dropped down. Paige looked at it.

"I got her!" They all ran over and looked at the map.

OOO

Jamie was chained to a wall in a cave somewhere. She looks around as she regains consciousness.

"God, I thought you were never gonna wake up." Rachel walks into the cave.

"Rachel?" Jamie stares at her sister in disbelief. "Why?"

"See, that's your problem, James. Always has been. You ask too many questions." Rachel stands in front of Jamie. "You see, I made a deal with a group of demons. I get out of jail. They get your powers. The demons were planing on taking your powers the day you came home, but, of course, you called the Charmed ones. If it wasn't for those damn sisters we wouldn't be here right now.""

"I thought you said dad got you out."

"Yeah, well… Dad's pretty useless, if you haven't noticed." Rachel sits down.

"Why would you do this?" Jamie asks.

"I told you- I wanted out of jail."

"But, you said you were framed."

"Oh, I was. My ex-boyfriend killed a guy and tried to pin it on me." Rachel smiled. "But, that wasn't the guy I was in jail for killing."

"You mean…"

"I killed my boyfriend." Jamie felt sick. She couldn't believe this.

"Now," Rachel stands up. "About your powers. You see, I figured since you didn't even know you had them, you wouldn't mind me taking them." Rachel pulled out a knife. "This knife is magic, I'm sure you've seen something like it. It takes the powers of whatever it stabs. I'm not sure if it'll kill you, but I know it'll hurt." Rachel has an evil smile on her face as she walks towards her sister.

"Chris!" Jamie screamed. "Leo! Someone! Help!" Rachel laughs.

"They can't hear you. Whitelighters can't hear people call from in here."

"No," Paige says as the sisters orb in. "But we can scry for her, you moron." Phoebe kicked Rachel, knocking her down. Leo and Chris orb in and help Jamie out of the chains she was in. Jamie watches as her sister makes her way over to them. Chris punches her. Rachel laughs.

"Aw, how sweet. Romeo comes to save the day." Rachel lifts up the knife. "Let's see how powerful Romeo is without his powers." Rachel starts to bring the knife down.

"No!" Jamie screams. She put her hands up and everyone stared in shock as she vanquished her sister. Jamie fell to the ground in disbelief. What had she done? She just killed her sister. Chris ran over to her and held her in his arms, she started sobbing. "God, what have I done?" She screamed through her tears.

"It's okay." Chris shushed her. "It's gonna be okay." The sisters and Leo all looked at the couple on the ground.

OOO

The next day, Jamie was sitting in her room looking at a picture of her and Rachel when Chris knocked on the door.

"Jamie? Can I come in?" He asks.

"Yeah." He walks in and looks at her. He knew she had been crying.

"I didn't know where you went." He tells her.

"Sorry, I just needed to get away from everyone. Clear my head."

"Oh, well I can leave-"

"No." She looks at him. "Stay." He sits down next to her and takes the picture out of her hands and looks at it.

"How old are you here?"

"Nine. That was the trip to the beach I was talking about the other night."

"Oh." She stares at the picture.

"God, she really did hate me that weekend." She says. "She tried everything to get out of taking me to the beach." Jamie sighs. Chris looks at her.

"You wanna get out of here?"

"What?"

"C'mon, let me take you somewhere." He held out his hand.

"Where?"

"Don't you trust me?"

"Well, yeah. But-"

"Just come with me." She looks into his eyes and stands up. She grabs his hand. He orbs them to the Golden Gate Bridge.

"Geez!" She clings to him. "I wasn't expecting this." He laughs. She glances at him. "Oh, good. I'm glad you think me being terrified is funny."

"Jamie, I'm not gonna let you fall." He helped her sit down.

"Why do you like it up here so much?"

"I don't know." He says. "I guess I just think it's a good place to think." Jamie nods and looks around.

"Yeah, I guess it is." She sighs.

"What?" He asks.

"Nothing, I was just thinking."

"About Rachel?" She nods.

"I'm just really gonna miss her."

"I know." He put his arm around her.

"I am glad that you're okay though."

"Yeah?" He looks at her.

"Yeah." He smirks.

"Me too." He hugs her and they continue to just sit and look at the world around them.

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A/N: Hey guys! Geez, that was really hard to write. Lol. I hope I did an okay job. Please let me know! Thanks, ttyl!