Just let me die
Chapter 8 – New place new faces
A/N: Yeah, the chapter title dilemma is still haunting me. The chapter's not going to be very long, not very eventful, but be glad I'm even writing something for this because it would probably be better if I worked on my other story because I have now planned that one through till the end, which isn't very far away, so it would be better if I wrote that now, instead of leaving all my fics open.
But I'm not really sure if I'm going to split the end of the other in two chapters or just one, and I already know what I write this chapter, so I'll get this chapter done and then I'll finish my other story.
Disclaimer: You know now matter how creative you write something like this no one really reads it, but it needs to be written anyway so no one is pissed off by me writing this fanfic, so please note, that I do not own Charmed or any of the characters or any of the actors or any of the people who wrote it… but you probably know that feeling.
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Jennifer walked straight on and didn't seem to care about any of her prisoners. Piper had a feeling if they ran away the girl probably wouldn't even notice. But she did not want to risk it any try. She was quite certain that they would be caught if they only made one wrong move and she was afraid that this could have severe consequences.
Some of the passing demons eyed them curiously. It didn't seem to be too ordinary having her walking around with prisoners. Well, her reaction to this assignment hadn't been to positive so she was probably annoyed by having to do this now.
Phoebe found the silence unnerving. So she decided to say something. "You don't like this 'Eduardo' demon a lot, do you?", she asked Jennifer.
Jennifer turned her head and replied coolly, "I don't like any demons."
"How come?", Paige asked. It didn't make a lot of sense to her that someone who worked with demons didn't like them.
"Because they are slimy, arrogant, don't expect any rules, never realize the limits of their own abilities and because their favorite hobby is senseless slaughter of innocents", she explained without seeming to mind about the nature of the questions a bit.
"And that's none of your hobbies?", Piper asked. If this girl didn't like the doings of demons there could be a little chance she would help them to get out. She knew the odds weren't high, but who could blame a girl for trying? Their current situation was bad and she didn't have the feeling it would get any worse. Well, she knew when someone thought that it usually did get worse, but she didn't really care. She only wanted to leave this place and get back to her time and then do something about all this mess.
"No it's not", Jennifer simply replied.
"Then why do you work here?", Phoebe asked while she was desperately trying to get a read of her emotions.
"Don't bother trying, I have blocked myself from any telepathic assaults a very long time ago and that protection is working very well", she stated in a casual voice that sounded as if she was reading out the weather report.
Phoebe was startled by this. "How did you know?", she asked surprised.
Jennifer shot another look over her shoulder. "I have a feeling for that", she answered. She didn't give any further explanation, and even though Phoebe would have loved to find out how she felt it, she stayed quiet. A girl's ability to know when she was being scanned was definitely not one of their pressing problems. They had to worry about what became of them a lot more than about anything else.
Chris stayed silent during the whole exchange. Many things confused him. They weren't going where they should have gone and it was worrying him to no end. He didn't want to return to the torture chambers, because they really deserved their name and he had spent the most horrible times of his live there, but at least it was a place he knew, but going somewhere else could only mean Wyatt was planning something even worse than he could ever imagine.
Another weird thing was that he had been asked to accompany the others. It made absolutely no sense to him, why would Wyatt want him to be with them? It would have been way more logical than taking him with them, since he had been a prisoner for so long.
But this girl… she seemed familiar, too, just like her sister had. Something in her voice, the way she talked, the way she moved reminded him of someone of something but no matter how hard he concentrated he just couldn't pinpoint what it was. And it always frustrated him to know he knew something but not remembering it.
His thoughts were interrupted by them entering a small cave, that looked just like any, but apparently there was something special to it, since Jennifer came to a halt and looked around as if she was waiting for something to happen.
She seemed a little nervous to him, even though she hardly showed any signs of it, but still he couldn't shake that impression off.
She looked on her watch whose existence had gone unnoticed up till now by everyone in the room except for her.
She waited some seconds and Paige was about to ask what it was she was waiting for, but before she could open her mouth the air in front of Jennifer flared, and it seemed as if someone was orbing in. The only difference to normal orbing was that the surroundings of the white orbs that were usually blue were light green.
The person appearing was Jennifer's twin sister who the others remembered to be called "Jessica"
"Hi Jen", she said, and waved at her sister.
"Finally, where have you been?", Jennifer replied in an annoyed tone.
"Oh have you been waiting?", Jessica asked and looked as if she was feeling guilty about it.
"No, I'm late, we just arrived", Jessica said matter-of-factly.
"Oh, good, so why are you so angry?", Jessica asked relieved she wasn't the only one who had not made it on the scheduled point in time.
"Well I was just going to make a big apology for being late, and what do I find? You weren't there", Jennifer exclaimed and put her hands on her hips.
"So it's alright if you come late but not me?", Jessica asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, well I'm supposed to be the evil twin", Jennifer explained.
"You're not evil", her sister immediately disagreed.
"But I'm no angel either", Jennifer pointed out.
"Well me neither"
"Yeah you are"
"you think?", Jessica asked surprised.
"Uh, sorry, um, we you going to do something now?", Paige interrupted. She found this exchange very weird and would rather know what was going on instead of waiting.
Both girls immediately turned to her and their gestures seemed so much alike that they now looked more the same than ever. They might've different attitudes, but somewhere inside them they were pretty much the same girl.
"Right", Jessica said prolonging the word uneccesarily.
"You know if you hadn't said anything we would've forgotten about you guys", Jennifer said thoughtfully.
"Ok, well, let's go", Jessica said and held out her hands to the group who had absolutely no idea what that gesture was supposed to mean.
"I assume none of you can orb out of here?", Jennifer half-stated half-asked.
Leo concentrated shortly, but then realized it didn't work and he shook his head. But he was more confused by these girls' behavior than the fact that he couldn't orb.
"Well then each of you grab one of our hands", Jessica instructed and held them up again.
"Why?", Piper asked warily. She didn't know if they could trust these girls but she was not in the mood to take any chances.
"well, if you prefer we can say there's been an organizational mistake, which happens quite often by the way, take you back to your cell until one of Wyatt's demons picks you up and takes you to be tortured to death. Or we can go ahead with what we wanted to do and get you out of here before anyone notices. If you want the second option you need to take our hands because then we can orb you out of here and we would need to do that quickly because it won't be long until it will be noticed you're gone", Jennifer told them in a speed that made it very hard to follow her thoughts for everyone. She realized all of them, including her sister were staring at her totally not understanding what she wanted.
She sighed and, "Oh just grab a hand for god's sake"
The Charmed Ones, Leo and Chris reluctantly agreed and took a hand of one of the girls each, but in one case two of them had to share a hand, because of course they were five and none of the girl had an extra arm to fit that special situation.
As soon as they had finally a grip of everyone, both of them orbed out. Jessica still had the greenish orb from before, but Jennifer's orbing was different. The insides of her orbs were yellow instead of the basics white and black, while the outside was red instead of blue. It all looked a lot like flaming, but not quite.
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The place they orbed into looked pretty much like an ordinary hallway of an ordinary apartment building after an ordinary bomb crash. Through the windows they could see the jetblack sky and the city where there were some burning houses shattered in a random pattern over the landscape.
There were scorch marks on floor and walls and the paint was peeled off at most places. It didn't look to homely.
Jennifer let go of the others hands who were a little surprised that both girls had some weird way of orbing. She walked over to the closest door, one with a huge number 7 on it, and knocked.
Almost immediately the door was kicked open so hard it crashed into Jennifer's face.
"OW", she exclaimed and rubbed her nose as soon as she got back up.
The cause of the opening door looked at her surprised. It was a girl, maybe two years older than the twins, with similar hair color, except for the fact that it was a little darker and a face that resembled those of the twins. But it was evident she was not a twin of them. She seemed to be related to them anyhow.
She wore olive army pants, a yellow tank-top, some black leather boots and a headband matching her pants' color, that was doing a lousy job holding her long hair out of her face.
"Oh 'I thought it was a demon", she said and looked at both her younger sisters.
"Great, thanks!", Jennifer replied sarcastically and glared at her older sister who was totally oblivious to that.
"So why are you guys here, and why did you bring visitors?", the older girl asked curiously. Jennifer had a look on her face as if she was going to strangle her sister very soon, so Jessica jumped in and said, "Well, these are the Charmed Ones from 2004 accompanied by Leo from 2004 and the guy is Chris from now. Guys, this is our older sister Beverly"
"Pleasure", Beverly said smiling and shook everyone's hands much to their surprise.
"So, why exactly did you bring them here?", she asked Jessica curiously.
"Uh, because they were Wyatt's prisoners and we believe he would not have been too nice to them if they had stayed", Jessica tried to explain.
"ok, great", Beverly said. She seemed as if nothing of all this caused her any worries whatsoever. And she did a very good job at ignoring her other sister's hostile glare. And she didn't attempt to apologize for kicking the door into the younger girl's face either.
This behavior seemed very odd to everyone except for the three future girls, but no one thought about this as much as Chris did. Something about this girl, too, rang a bell inside his head that was getting ever louder. He knew he was very close to the solution of this all. Three sisters, one hostile and sarcastic, one cowardly and friendly, one happy and careless. This had to mean something and not getting the point was bugging Chris to no end.
"So can we come in?", Jessica asked after a short period of time where Beverly was just smiling at them as if she was waiting for something.
"Uh, actually, no", she answered. Then she started to close the door.
"Hey", Jennifer shouted and put her foot on the doorstep so the door didn't close. "What's that supposed to mean, no? You can't just leave us standing here."
"Um, well, yeah, I know, but I have summoned mom's spirit and she's in the kitchen right now and it would probably be best if she wasn't there when these guys came in, you know what I mean?", Beverly explained and had a guilty look on her face.
"What did you summon her spirit for?", Jennifer asked without comprehension.
"Well, you know, I'm always so alone round here, not many people to talk to and stuff, I mean, you guys can talk to each other, or some demons, but I'm quite lonely here so I thought I'd get mom's company."
"How long has this been going on?", Jessica asked with an inquisitive look on her face.
"Three months", Beverly said and blushed a little.
"Three months?", Jennifer repeated loudly and stared at her older sister in utter disbelief. "Are you crazy? You can't keep a spirit around for such a long time, it's totally against all rules. What were you thinking?", Jessica exclaimed loudly.
Beverly held up her hands and walked some steps backward. It always gave her the creeps when her two sisters who couldn't be more different from each other talked and acted in the exact same way.
"Relax, girls, no one's been hurt and I just wanted some company, it's not like anyone noticed", she said in the hope they would take that.
"Whatever", Jennifer shrugged. "Now let us in", she demanded.
"But, future consequences", Beverly said and pointed to the persons from the past.
"Screw them, tell mom to stay in the kitchen, and we'll be fine", Jennifer said in a tone that didn't accept any argument.
"Well, ok", Beverly hesitantly said but she sensed disaster. Their mother had become a little crazy over the years and she sometimes just didn't know when not to do something. She was nice and stuff and most of the time she would do what she should, but Beverly was pretty sure if she knew the past Charmed Ones and past Leo and Chris were there she was not very likely to stay in the kitchen.
But of course there was no other option.
Beverly turned around, went into the apartment and shouted, "mom, please stay in the kitchen, we got visitors and they shouldn't see you." Secretly she was praying to whatever good force was still left out there that her mom would resist the urge to check what was going on.
"So come in", Jennifer said and waved towards the door.
Everyone entered the apartment and were amazed that it was actually clean and quite tidy and looking a lot better than the hallway had.
"So, what's going on here?", Piper asked as soon as they were all in and Jessica had closed the door behind them.
"Uh, well, it's", Jessica just started but right that instant everyone turned their heads to see someone who was standing behind her. She turned around and saw that her mother had just like Beverly predicted not kept to what her daughters had suggested her and looked at the visitors intrigued.
The Charmed Ones, Leo and Chris found themselves looking into a very familiar face…
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A/N: the A on my keyboard is fading away, even though I never thought I used that letter that often, but apparently I was wrong with that assumption.
Nemesis Arrow: well I'm glad you liked the last chapter and the way I took your advice, but to be honest I didn't work hard on that last one at all, I was just thinking how I could give Wyatt more depth and to continue with the story so I wrote it without really thinking. I did however work a little harder on this one than usual. Hope you like it.
Teal-lover: No I wouldn't leave you all in the dark, even I am not that mean. Oh I think they're going to find out about Chris in the next chapter probably, but I haven't planned that through yet. But they're definitely going to find out.
Phoebe-x15: Danke für deinen Kommentar. Du hattest recht, wirklich in die Freiheit, im nächsten kapitel kommt auch raus wer diese mädchen eigentlich sind. Obwohl ich's wahrscheinlich schon recht offensichtlich gemacht habe.
Also thanks to everyone else who reviewed, please keep doing that so I keep on writing.