Okay, bear with me if Parker becomes a little pissy in this story because I had just updated my Harry Potter fic called The New Girl and some guy bashed it so I'm a little pissed and as you know our characters are tied to our emotions so things could get a little rocky until I calm down... (Takes huge breath) And if you feel like letting me know if the guy is right, because I trust you guys more than I trust some idiot reviewer that I've never met, then please feel free to read the story and let me know.
Prince Halliwell- Thanks! Everyone's gotta have a badass side, right?
The-Cheese-Fairy- Yeah, I didn't want him to have a strenuous relationship with Piper, but I wanted to show that he was still pretty timid and looking for approval. Haha! When I first wrote the part about him kissing Patience I thought it was funny, but afterwards I was like... eww... Ah! You just gave me a great story plot. Thanks very much. I'll give you a hint; it involves the exploration of Parker and Paige's relationship. Well, there was a little tension between Preston and Percy, but it's more the sibling rivalry tension than anything else. It's nothing too serious, just that they're both a little bull headed at times just like Phoebe and Paige. Haha! Well you can think of Parker while you're belting out notes. I'm an alto personally so I don't think I could do it. You know, I find it mildly hilarious that we're having side note P.S. conversations about tennis and Scottish weather.
s.halliwell- Yeah, like I said it was a little weird after I wrote it. Angelina did kiss her brother at some awards show after she won the award. I didn't look for it, but I'm a VH1 junkie so it was on all of the All Access Awesomely Bad something or other.
The one thing about humans that I find fascinating is that no matter what you may have, you always want what someone else has got. This is no different with witches of course, as we are still human. Take the Charmed Ones for example. They're all blessed with so much, but they all want something else.
Aunt Prue wishes that she would never have to worry about her family walking into danger. Mom still wishes that she could have a normal life. Aunt Phoebe wishes that everyone around her could just be happy (and for a power that doesn't suck), and Aunt Paige wishes that she could have an 'all magic all the time' life. Chances are, none of them will ever get that though.
As for me, I wish that I could switch powers with Percy. Her power is so awesome. She can create and control fire whenever she wants. It's just cool. But like out moms, my wish will probably never come true either... at least not with any strings attached. Our powers are tied not only to our emotions, but to our personalities as well. Patience has hydrokenisis. She's clear and refreshing, but also forceful when she needs to be. I have the ability to control wind. I'm calm and relaxing, but I can kick some butt if you aggravate me. Preston has the ability to control the earth. He may seem a little... well, Phoebe like, but in that sense he's very grounded and he's always a mystery. You never know what's going to come out of that boy's mouth. If you make mad though, watch out. Percy has pyrokenisis. She's warm and cheerful, but definitely fiery with a mind all her own. If set lose in the wrong places, she could destroy more than any of us. All of our powers are unique to us; the way they should be.
"Parker. Parker!" Ms. Neitz snapped. I looked up, startled.
"Huh?" I asked. Now, I'm normally not the kind to space off. I'm usually very tentative, but today I had other things on my mind. The upcoming Homecoming to be exact.
"I asked you if you could tell me the name of the battle that was the turning point in the Civil War," Ms. Neitz said angrily.
"Oh, um Gettysburg," I replied, blushing slightly.
"Thank you. Now maybe you'd like to pay attention for the rest of the class," Ms. Neitz suggested, only it was more of an order rather than a suggestion. I nodded, keeping my eyes glued on her for the rest of the period. When it was over, I went very quickly to my Algebra II lesson to meet Kelsey. I was going to ask her to Homecoming, but the bell rang before I got a chance to. So I wrote her a note instead.
Homecoming's coming and I was wondering if you would go with me.
I quickly scrawled down the note, but then remembered that its destination was the whole way across the room. Then a bright idea popped into my head. I very discretely orbed the note over to Kelsey underneath her desk. She looked at it, confused, then she looked at me and I winked. She rolled her eyes and read the note. A few seconds later she looked at me with a grin and nodded. Thank god! Now I could concentrate.
That night was lesson night. Aunt Paige had decided that we had done enough solo training and could take a break to learn how to work together better. What we did when patience had been possessed by that demon was cool, but we had absolutely no idea how we did it. So, for the past month or so, we had now been working as a group.
"All right guys, I need you to all hold hands and close your eyes," Paige said.
"Oh come on Aunt Paige! We'll have plenty of time to do Kumbaya after our lesson," Preston said. Paige glared and he shut up. The four of us stood in a circle, Patience on my left, Preston on my right, and Percy across from me. We all closed our eyes.
"Okay, now I need you to imagine that you're all connected to one another. Reach out with your essence and get inside each other. Become one," Paige instructed. I relaxed into the back of my mind and reached out to my cousins both mentally and spiritually. After a few minutes, I could feel the others reaching out as well. We were melting into each other. We were becoming one. I could actually almost read their thoughts, but then Paige stopped us. I slowly opened my eyes to find myself starting at... myself? What?
"Holy shit!" Patience yelled, jumping back. I looked down to see myself wearing Percy's clothes... and Percy's chest. Ew, what was going on? I looked up at my body.
"Percy?" I asked. She nodded, looking horrified. I looked over at Preston, who was now holding up a mirror and staring blankly at himself.
"There is no fricking way this is happening," Patience said. She was starting to panic, only I had a feeling that it wasn't really her. It was Preston.
"What is wrong with you guys?" Paige asked.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? Do you not see this? I am in a man's body! I'm in Parker's body! What the hell do you think is wrong?" Percy yelled.
"Wait, you're... all of you?" Paige asked. We all nodded. "Oh hell," was all Paige could manage. I took Preston, or Patience's mirror I guess, and saw Percy staring back at me. This was all too much.
"This is insane," I said, a little taken aback when Percy's voice came out. "I just asked Kelsey to Homecoming and there's no way I'm going wearing a dress."
"What? We've all switched bodies and you're worried about having to go to Homecoming in a dress? What about me? I have to go in a tux! Kyle is not going to be pleased," Patience/Preston said.
"Okay, don't freak you guys. This is nothing a little spell can't fix. Oh! Okay, I've got it. One time I made a potion and Phoebe and I got our bodies switched. Maybe it can switch you back," Paige said. Paige and Percy/Me orbed to the manor, but Preston/Patience and Patience/Preston just stood there.
"I don't know how to shimmer," Patience/Preston said. (A/N: Okay, I know that has to be as annoying to read as it is to write, so from now on I'll just use the names of the people that are inside the bodies, not the names of the bodies that they're inside of.)
"And I can't shimmer," Preston said.
"Well tell her how to do it and she can get you both there. We're going to have to learn how to use each other's powers until we can get this fixed," I said. Preston sighed.
"Okay, you have to think of the place that you want to be really hard and then you'll be there," he said. Patience nodded and grabbed his hand. She closed her eyes and concentrated and the two of them disappeared. I was luck enough to have gotten someone that can orb because I at least knew how to do that. I followed the others to the manor to find Paige flipping through the Book of Shadows.
"Okay, here it is," Paige said. About half an hour later the potion was made and the four of us downed it. Nothing happened though. "Are you guys back?" Paige asked.
"No, I'm still in this, this... man body," Patience said disgustedly.
"Hey! There's nothing wrong with my... man body," Preston said defensively.
"Really?" Patience asked, looking down at her pants.
"Whoa! That's a private area thanks!" Preston said, his eyes going wide. Patience grinned malevolently. Percy, Paige, and I stifled laughs.
"Are we going to tell our parents?" I asked suddenly. Paige cringed at the thought of her sisters finding out that she had some part in the switching of their children's bodies.
"I think we should keep it quiet," she said.
"That means that we'll have to learn how to talk, walk, and act like the person whose body we're in," Percy said. Paige nodded.
"You'll also have to learn how to use each other's powers in case a demon should attack, because they always manage to do that when these sort of things happen," Paige said.
"Great, this is going to be fricking wonderful," Preston said. I was too busy realizing that I had finally gotten my wish to notice that this was going to be really hard. I finally got the chance to know what it was like to have Percy's power. This was going to be awesome.
Then of course I realized that I was going to have to stay in Percy's house... with Percy's mom. Like I said, I don't hate Paige I just... I don't know. It's hard to explain. But Frisco was okay so I wouldn't mind too much. (A/N: Ah, more tension with Paige. Can you tell this is going to be important?)
I gagged as I walked into Percy's room and looked at the bed that I had to sleep on. It was so bright and colorful. Even I couldn't stand it. I went over to the dresser to find some pajamas and accidentally opened the wrong drawer, revealing something I didn't want to see. I quickly closed it and was lucky enough to find the pajamas on my second try. I pulled out the most un-girly pair I could find and tried to put them on with my eyes closed. It proved more difficult than I had imagined. I ended up falling over while I was trying to put the pants on and then I realized that they were on backwards.
"Oh screw it," I mumbled, flopping back on the bed. I gave an appreciative groan as I sank into the feather mattress. It may be girly but it was crazy comfy. I suddenly let out a laugh as I thought of what Preston must be thinking in Patience's room right then and I was sure that Patience was having a fit in Preston's room. I wasn't sure how Percy would be doing and I didn't have time to contemplate it because I was soon asleep.
I opened my eyes in a dark alley and looked around to see my cousins. I saw myself, so I figured that we were still in different bodies. The others looked alert like we were looking for something, but I couldn't tell what. I looked ahead to see a big vortex. I looked at my cousins again.
"We're not going in there are we?" I asked. Patience nodded.
"He says it'll change us back," she said.
"He? Who's he?" I asked.
"The man. He says it'll put us back in our bodies," Percy said. I had a strange feeling that the big sucking vortex wouldn't do exactly what 'the man' said it would.
"You guys, we can't go in there. It's going to kill us," I said.
"Don't be ridiculous, Parker. The man said it will. The man never tells lies," Patience said. I frowned. They all had blank looks on their faces like they had been hypnotized or something. Suddenly a man came out from the shadows. He was tall and thin and creepy looking. As we got closer, I realized that it was our principle, Mr. Miller.
"Now, be good little children and go in there so that this can be right again," Mr. Miller said. The others nodded but I just looked at him.
"You've got to be kidding me! You guys don't actually believe this guy do you?" I asked.
"Oh they believe me because I told them to," Mr. Miller said with a grin. The vortex began making a very annoying beeping noise.
I snapped awake at the sound of my alarm clock. I looked around, blurry eyed and confused. Where the hell was I? I looked down at myself and realization whipped into my brain. I groaned. I was still in Percy's body. This sucked. Then I remembered the dream.
"Mr. Miller!" I gasped. I quickly got dressed, still being careful not to look as I did so. Then I ran downstairs to find Frisco up, but Paige nowhere to be seen. "Where's Pa- Mom?" I asked Frisco, catching myself in mid-sentence.
"Um, she's still sleeping. She's going in late. Why, what's wrong?" Frisco asked.
"Nothing, thanks!" I said. I was about to run out, but then I thought about what I was doing and ran back over to give him a kiss on the cheek. I didn't know if Percy actually did that, but then again I knew nothing about girls. I ran upstairs and into Paige's room. "Paige, get up!"
"Ugh..." Paige moaned.
"Paige, we have a problem! Get the hell up!" I yelled. Paige opened her eyes sleepily.
"What's wrong, Percy?" she asked.
"Hello. Hi. Yeah, not Percy. Do we not remember the mishaps of yesterday? I'm still Parker," I said. Paige's eyes opened up.
"Oh shit! What's wrong?" she asked, sitting up.
"Oh now you're concerned? Whatever, we have a problem," I said. I explained the whole thing to her.
"Okay, well you guys just need to go to school and if anything happens get out of there as fast as you can. You cannot give him the chance to hypnotize you or you'll be dead. I'll look in the book for anything that can help," Paige said. I nodded.
"Okay, I have to get Percy's ass to school. I'll see you later," I said. I went down and got into Patience's car and told them the deal.
"I knew he was a demon!" Patience exclaimed.
"He's so creepy and gross. I hate him," Percy said.
"Well, not to change the subject but we're going to need each other's schedules and where we sit in the classes and everything," Preston said.
"Oh hell, this is just ridiculous. We really need a way to fix this... vortex free," Patience said. When we got to school I went to Percy's locker and then realized that I didn't know the combination.
"34-24-30," Atli said, coming up to me. Oh crap!
"Uh, thanks. I went temporarily brain dead, but I'm okay now," I said. He grinned and leaned down to kiss me. My eyes went wide and I leaned back. He looked confused.
"What?" he asked.
"Oh, I uh, um, I forgot to brush my teeth this morning. You know, can't kiss a guy with bad breath," I said, making up the lamest excuse ever. He seemed to buy it though.
The rest of the day went along about as smoothly as something like this could ever go. I didn't screw up too bad, save the time when I almost went in the guy's bathroom. Thankfully Patience was there and she pulled me out and showed me to the girl's room. I won't even go into that unpleasant experience. I was sitting in Percy's eighth period, taking very good notes for once, when the guidance counselor came in.
"We need Persephone Halliwell in the principal's office," she said to the teacher. My heart stopped for a minute as I realized what she had just said. I slowly got up and followed her down to Mr. Miller's office, each step bringing me more and more fear. This was how he did it. He called us down to the office one by one to try to hypnotize us. For all I knew, the others could already be gone.
"Ah, Ms. Halliwell," Mr. Miller said happily as I came in.
"Hi," I said nervously.
"Have a seat Persephone," he instructed. I sat down, keeping my eyes peeled for any sign of movement. We sat there for a few minutes in silence.
"So, um, you wanted to talk to me," I said. Mr. Miller smiled.
"Actually, no," he said. My eyes went wide. This was it.
But in a split second I had an idea. He pulled out some kind of wand type thing and pointed it at me. I didn't move, but quickly uttered a protection spell under my breath so that it wouldn't hit me. The spell absorbed the blast, just like I had hoped. I then sat still and tried to look like I was hypnotized.
"You're the last one down. Now, you will act perfectly normal around your family and friends, but tonight at midnight you will come with your cousins to the corner of Cherry and Pine. We'll see if we can't get your bodies switched back," Mr. Miller said. I nodded blankly and went back to my class. At the end of the day when I met up with my cousins, I could tell that they had been hypnotized. Their eyes gave it away. Patience's eyes were usually crystal clear blue with a hard-set determination in them, but they were cloudy and lifeless now. Preston's were usually dark and rich with a glint of humor in them, but they were now dull. And my eyes, well I didn't know how they usually were but they definitely weren't right.
"So did anything happen today?" Paige asked as soon as I walked in. For a minute I contemplated telling her, but I decided that I should keep everyone else out of this.
"No, he didn't make his move today," I said. Paige stared at me.
"How do I know you're not really hypnotized? What's my middle name?" she asked suspiciously.
"Idiot," I replied. Paige grinned.
"Yep, that's Parker alright," she said.
"What's Parker?" Frisco asked, orbing in.
"Uh, nothing honey. Just something that Percy was telling me about school today," Paige said quickly. I nodded.
"Well, I'm gonna, um... go call Atli! Yeah, I promised I would call him after school. See ya!" I said cheerfully, going up to Percy's room. I flopped down on the bed. Now all I had to do was wait. Before I knew it, Paige was shaking me away for dinner.
"I'm not hungry," I mumbled.
"Well just come down anyways," Paige said. I sighed and got up. I really was starving, I just didn't feel like getting up to go get food. After dinner I went back upstairs to wait. I didn't fall asleep this time so that I didn't miss the time when I had to go down to the alley. I remembered that this was Percy's week for the Army of Witches, so I reread it to pass the time. I was just at the part where my mom was blowing up Elders when I looked up to see that it was five to midnight. I sighed and put the book down, orbing to my destination. A few minutes later the others met me and we started our journey down the alley. Soon enough the vortex and Mr. Miller came into sight.
"Okay, now I need you to be good little children and go into the vortex. It'll switch your bodies back," he said.
"I don't think so," I said, stepping up.
"What?" he asked.
"Your little parlor trick didn't work on me. Your plan's going down the drain," I said.
"Very good, Parker. I didn't expect this, but we can fix it. Attack him," Mr. Miller instructed. My cousins turned towards me. They tried to use their powers, but nothing happened. They didn't know the triggers. I smirked.
"You just keep getting dumber and dumber," I said. I tried to use Percy's power, but it didn't work either. I tried again and again, but nothing would happen. I was starting to get mad. "Dammit!" I yelled and without warning fire shot out of my hands. I looked down at them. Anger was the key and the more I looked at that idiot, the angrier I got. I shot a huge stream of fire at him and watched as he disappeared.
"What the hell am I doing here?" Patience asked. I sighed.
"You got hypnotized, dumbass," I said. Patience glared.
"Is that stupid git dead?" Preston asked. I nodded.
"Wow, how'd you find the trigger?" Percy asked.
"It's anger. I was getting pissed that I couldn't use your power and then I used it," I said. Percy grinned.
"Well, I'm tired so I think I'll go spend another night in your bed and then we'll try to reverse this in the morning. I think I have a good idea how to do it," she said. I nodded and orbed to her house.
The next morning, the four of us assembled in Percy's backyard where this whole thing started. We stood in a circle and held hands, just as we had done before and then we concentrated very hard. Finally we opened our eyes and I found myself staring at Percy. I looked down to see my own body again.
"Oh thank god!" Preston said. Patience felt her chest to make sure that it was really her, then she smiled.
"Why didn't we think of this sooner?" Percy asked. I shrugged.
"Who cares? I'm just glad it's over and I have my own body back," I said.
"Oh my god we have to get ready for Homecoming!" Patience shrieked. She and Percy ran into the house.
"Guess we should get ready too," Preston said. I nodded and we orbed and shimmered to our houses to get ready. I arrived at Kelsey's house in my tux, ready to go to the dance. She opened the door.
"Ready to go?" I asked with a grin.
"Well I would be if it hadn't been cancelled," Kelsey replied. I raised my eyebrow.
"Huh?" I asked.
"They cancelled Homecoming because Mr. Miller went missing," Kelsey said. I sighed. Then I smiled.
"Come on," I said, grabbing her hand. I orbed her to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge.
"Whoa! What are we doing up here?" Kelsey asked, looking over the edge.
"We're having our very own Homecoming," I said. Kelsey grinned and came over. I took her hand and we danced for a while, her head on my shoulder.
"This was better then any Homecoming could ever be," Kelsey whispered. I just smiled, perfectly happy to be me.
Haha! That was fun. It was pretty cool to write. That would be torturous to have to be in a man's body, but I somehow think it would be worse to be a guy in a woman's body. I could see someone trying to put on clothes with their eyes closed and fall over. Anyways, I know what the next chapter is, but I'll keep you guessing. Till next time...
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