Chapter 3

All through dinner that night Amy kept as silent as possible thinking about the event that occurred at the Halliwell manor that afternoon.

"What's wrong honey you haven't eaten anything?" her mum asked

"I'm fine can I look at the family tree?" Amy asked standing up.

"Yeah it in the cupboard top shelf" her mum said as Amy walked away.

"Thanks mum" Amy called over her shoulder as she left the kitchen.

Once she approached the cupboard door she paused a moment.

'Do I want to know?' she asked herself then deciding that she did she opened the cupboard door and grabbed the family tree of the top shelf. She took it to her bedroom and locked the door.

Laying the tree out on her overly clean desk she noticed that all her relatives seemed to die at an young age it seemed the oldest ones where her parents at 34 and 35 everyone else died in their twenties.

"Maybe if I used a spell to contact them" She said to herself grabbing out a pocketknife. And reading a spell from a notepad she had her own spells and some spells from the book of shadows she had written down. And reciting:

Here these words here my cry,

Spirit from the other side,

Come to me I summon thee,

Cross now the great divide.

The room filled with light and a young woman who looked about 27 appeared.

"Whoa. Who are you" Amy said jumping back

"Natasha Hughs," the women said stepping out of the candles she had set out on the floor " why are you so jumpy"

"I'm so jumpy because this is the first proper spell I've used and that I used a spell to summon a family member to find out if any of them are witch's" Amy said standing so her desk chair was between her and the strange women.

"Well guess what, I'm a witch," she said "And I'm your mothers, mother. Your grandmother"

"Well Hughs that's my mums maiden name so I guess so. Is my mum a witch?" Amy asked.

"She was. She was stripped of her powers when I died. By her father he thought it was too dangerous for her to have powers when they killed me" Natasha said sadly.

"Really so why didn't I get my powers until last year" Amy asked curiously.

"Your parents thought it was best to bind them when you were born so no demons would attack because they couldn't protect you." She explained.

"Great job now I'm supposed to take over from the charmed ones along with Chris and Wyatt" Amy muttered more to herself than Natasha.

"Really but your not even from the Halliwell family line" Natasha said a surprised look on her face.

"I know put that doesn't matter I turned it down anyway," Amy told her.

"You did what. You can't turn it down if you do than all of good magic is doomed," Natasha shouted.

"You make it sound so dramatic, look I don't want my whole life to exist around being attacked and hunting demons. And what do you care your already dead its not like it effects you anyway" Amy said

"I know you don't but if you don't help those innocents and kill those demons who will you along with this Chris and Wyatt need to protect the world from evil magic or it will consume it. Do you want that" Natasha said looking directly into her granddaughter's blue eyes.

"Look I'm 16 I'm not mature enough for this why cant the elders just find someone else. I want to be normal I want a normal life where the only problems are a zit on my first date or my favorite top getting a stain on it. Not worrying that if I'm not careful I could be dead tomorrow or that someone I care about could be dead tomorrow." Amy said looking away.

"Amy are you ok who are you talking to" her mum called through the locked door.

"Grandma" Amy called back unlocking the door and stepping back to her desk.

"What" her mum screeched practically falling in the room "mum, how"

"I summoned her mum" Amy said coldly

"How I never unbound your powers" he mums said still looking unbelievably at the women who was her dead mother.

"I guess magic didn't agree with you so it did it for you" Amy said just as coldly.

"Don't talk to your mother like that," Natasha said frowning.

"Why not she lied to me for sixteen years" Amy said not dropping the cold voice.

"I did it for your own good, to keep you safe" mum pleaded

"Great job on that one mum now more warlocks and demons are after me and I'm supposed to spend my life saving the world, so I guess your little lie might actually rebound on you" Amy snapped.

"What are you talking about" mum asked almost in tears.

"Some very powerful demons are after me now and I have no idea how to fight them because I don't have enough experience" Amy snapped again but this time even angrier than before.

"Look the fact that your mother lied to you for sixteen years doesn't matter anymore you have to accept your destiny you are a charmed one and nothing is going to change that. So you better get used to it," Natasha said

"Well we could always bind her powers again" mums suggested

"No way then she will be vulnerable and could easily be killed" Natasha said "look I have to go but you need to think about this. But please I'm begging you don't turn your back on the world"

And with that little guilt trip she disappeared in white lights, dramatic hey.

"Mum I need to think about this alone. Ill talk to you later when I'm ready" Amy said trying not to sound too rude.

"Of course honey" mum said walking out of the room and closing the door behind her.

For the rest of the night Amy lay with the lights off pretending to be asleep but really thinking about everything that had happened that night. Eventually but about one o'clock in the morning she managed to drift into a peaceful sleep finally deciding what to do.