Meant To Be Chapter 20!
By: Matt91
Disclaimer: Penny, Patty, Prue, Piper, and Phoebe Halliwell don't belong to me, as do Andy Trudeau, Leo Wyatt, Darryl Morris, and any other characters that appear on the show. Quake also doesn't belong to me. The idea for this story belongs to me. Please e-mail me with any comments you may have at
Author's Note: Ok, so, here's the next chapter, which will continue explaining what the story that only Ryan, Leo, and Grams know is. I hope you guys enjoyed the first part of it, I thought it was the perfect way to start! I have so many great ideas and cannot wait to incorporate them into the story! Andy will be back soon (within a few chapters) and will be stirring up major trouble, but, hey, that's another part of the story entirely!
On with chapter 20, hope you enjoy it!
Flashback (Con't)
Penny Halliwell sits on a chair in the attic of the Halliwell Manor, shock and disbelief evident in her face. She's having a very hard time accepting the fact that she's going to die and leave her granddaughters to discover and learn how to use their powers on their own without any type of guidance or instruction. At first, her dreams were just feeling real, but she had cast the 'Question & Answer' spell and her suspicions have been confirmed.
She heads over to the Book of Shadows and opens up to the 'Foresight' spell. This spell allows the witch who casts it to look into the future and see what's to come. In order for the spell to work, Penny must drop a piece of paper and a white candle into a bowl. The piece of paper would tell what Penny wants to see. After she drops the items into the bowl, she would recite a spell and images would appear in the bowl, images of the future.
Penny quickly retrieves a piece of paper and writes something on it. It says, "Show me the events that take place right before my death and after my death." She drops the piece of paper and the white candle into the same bowl she used for the 'Question & Answer' spell.
Penny recites the following spell:
"Foresight is a handy tool,
Show me what I wish to see,
So I know what the future will be."
There is a flash of white light and images begin to form in the bowl. The images shown are ones taken from episodes of Charmed. The first image is the one where Penny falls down the stairs that lead to the attic, dying. The second image is one of Phoebe reading the incantation to unlock their powers. The third image is of Prue, Piper, and Phoebe vanquishing their first warlock, Jeremy. The next few images are countless scenes from Seasons 1, 2, and 3, including scenes of Piper opening P3, Prue with Bane and Jack, Piper with Leo and Dan, Phoebe going back to school, Phoebe with Cole, Prue, Piper, and Phoebe discovering Cole is a demon, Piper and Leo getting married, and of Prue, Piper, and Phoebe battling the forces of evil.
The next image is of the demon Shax killing Prue. The next few images are scenes taken from Prue's funeral, where you see how heartbroken Piper and Phoebe are. Then, images of Piper and Phoebe meeting Paige and reforming the Power of Three are being shown. Finally, the next few images are countless scenes taken from Season 4, 5, and 6, including Cole becoming the Source, Phoebe marrying him, Phoebe becoming evil and getting pregnant and then losing the baby to the Seer, Paige with Glenn and Richard, Phoebe with Jason, Cole dying in the Alternate Reality, Piper giving birth to Wyatt, Chris returning from the future, Leo becoming an Elder, Chris revealing that he is Piper and Leo's second son, Gideon trying to kill Wyatt, Leo killing Gideon, Piper giving birth to Chris, and of Piper, Phoebe, and Paige battling the forces of evil.
Penny stares into the bowl, as the images disappear. She is in absolute state of shock! She cannot believe that Prue's going to be killed by a demon, Paige is going to be discovered, Phoebe will become evil, and that Piper and Leo are going to get married and have 2 children.
Penny's determined to change the outcome of future and knows that in order to do that, she must reveal the truth to her granddaughters. Or is there another way?
Halliwell Manor-Living Room
Prue, Piper, Phoebe, Kelly, and Ryan are gathered in the living room. Leo orbed out because other charges were calling him.
Suddenly, the doorbell rings.
"Uh-oh! Prue, what's today's date?" asks Piper.
"April 12," answers Prue.
"And what time is it?" asks Piper.
"Noon," says Kelly.
"Prue, Phoebe, who comes every year on April 12 at noon with flowers for Grams?" Piper asks her sisters.
"Grams' friend!" answer Prue and Phoebe simultaneously.
The doorbell rings again.
"He doesn't know your grandmother died?" asks Ryan.
"No," says Piper, as she heads to the door. "I'll answer it, so at least when he drops the flowers I can freeze them."
She opens the front door and we see Nicholas, only he's the older Nicholas with the moustache.
"Please come in," says Piper, gesturing him into the house.
"Flowers for Penny Halliwell," says Nicholas, as he drops the flowers.
Piper quickly freezes him.
Prue and Phoebe get up and stand near the foyer.
"He is such a klutz. Every year he brings flowers and every year he drops them. At least this year I can freeze him, to spare myself the clean up," says Piper, as she grabs the flowers.
Nicholas unfreezes.
"5 chimes!" says Nicholas.
"Excuse me?" asks Prue, coming from the living room, with Phoebe.
"I only heard five chimes. It's noon. That means you froze me. Which means you have your powers at last," says Nicholas.
"Uh, I don't know what you're talking about Mister but thanks for the flowers, okay, bye," says Piper, as she puts the flowers on the table.
"Call me Nicholas. Your mother did," says Nicholas, as he puts on a ring and becomes younger. "I had to appear to age over the years otherwise you would of become suspicious."
"What?" asks Prue.
"You see, twenty-four years ago today, your mother and I made a pact to spare her life, she gave up your future powers to me. She blessed this ring, which gave me immunity to your powers,"
Piper tries to freeze him, but it doesn't work.
"Immunities so that I could kill you and take the powers on for my own. To become invincible," says Nicholas.
"Our mother would never give away our powers," says Prue, as she squints her eyes to try to use her telekinesis, but to no avail.
"She didn't have much of a choice. Your blood is boiling. Soon your lungs will sear," says Nicholas, as he points the ring at them and they double over in agony. "Your organs will over heat and death will come."
(A/N: I took some of what I just wrote from Season 1, Episode 17, "That Seventies Episode". So, it doesn't all belong to me!)
Kelly and Ryan see Prue, Piper, and Phoebe doubled over on the floor in agony and come running into the foyer.
"What the hell did you do to them?" asks Ryan, as he raises his hand and uses his telekinesis to send Nicholas into the wall.
Kelly grabs onto each of the sisters and teleports them out.
"Who the fuck do you think you are?" asks Ryan, as Nicholas gets up. "No one hurts the woman I love and her sisters."
Nicholas points the ring at Ryan but he puts up his deflection shield.
"That won't work on me," says Ryan, as he releases 5 consecutive fireballs at Nicholas, knocking him into the wall.
Kelly teleports in.
"Where are they?" Ryan asks her.
"Upstairs in the attic," Kelly whispers into his ear.
"I'll teleport this Nicholas guy out of here," says Ryan, as he concentrates and Nicholas disappears.
Kelly and Ryan teleport up to the attic.
When they appear in the attic, they find Prue, Piper, and Phoebe doing a Séance spell. They are all seated around a table and on the floor are 7 lit white candles in a circle. The Book of Shadows is in the middle of the table.
"What are guys doing?" asks Kelly.
"We're summoning our mother," says Prue.
"Where's Nicholas?" asks Phoebe.
"I teleported him away," says Ryan.
The sisters recite the following spell:
"Here these words,
Hear my cry, spirit from the other side,
Come to me, I summon thee,
Cross now the Great Divide."
In a swirl of white lights, Patty Halliwell, the mother of the Charmed Ones, appears.
"Oh, my darlings, what a wonderful surprise!" says Patty, stepping out of the circle of candles and becoming corporeal.
"Mom!" cry Prue, Piper, and Phoebe, as they run over and hug their mother.
They feel so safe and warm in her embrace. They've missed her so much!
Leo orbs in and sees the girls hugging their mother, so he goes over to where Ryan and Kelly are.
"Leo, you've missed a lot," says Kelly.
"It's ok, I know. The Elders filled me in," says Leo, as he sees the girls break the hug with their mother.
"Mom, we have a problem," says Piper.
"What is it?" asks Patty.
"Nicholas," says Prue.
"Oh God, not Nicholas," says Patty.
"He almost killed them," says Ryan, as he, Leo, and Kelly walk over to where Patty and her daughters are.
"I recognize Leo, but who are the other two?" asks Patty, eyeing Ryan and Kelly.
"Mom, this is Kelly, our friend and fellow witch," introduces Phoebe.
"And this is Ryan, my boy…" starts Prue. She could not get out the word boyfriend because she wasn't sure what he was to her anymore.
"He's also our friend and a fellow witch," says Piper, covering for Prue.
Ryan looks directly at Prue and their eyes meet. He feels horrible that Prue couldn't even call him her boyfriend; it's like a knife to his heart!
"Anyway, how did you get away from Nicholas?" asks Patty.
"Kelly and Ryan saw what he was doing to us and stopped him and then Kelly teleported us up here," explains Prue.
"Where's Nicholas now?" asks Patty, looking at Kelly and Ryan.
"I teleported him away," says Ryan.
"Mom, what is the deal with Nicholas?" asks Piper.
"When I was pregnant with Phoebe, I met Nicholas at a hotel, where I thought I was meeting your father, Victor. Nicholas used his ring and threatened to kill me unless I blessed the ring, giving him immunity to your powers. So, I did what I had to do," explains Patty.
"If he would've killed me, he would've killed you, too, Phoebe and the Charmed Ones would've never existed," says Patty, looking directly at Phoebe.
Phoebe smiles at her mother.
"How do we unbless the ring?" asks Kelly.
"The Elders gave me a spell. If you and your daughters cast it, it will unbless the ring," Leo tells Patty, as he hands her the spell.
"This is the spell?" Patty asks Leo. It was a very basic spell; she doesn't think it'll work.
"I don't it doesn't look like much, but it'll do the trick," says Leo. "Trust me!"
"Ok, but, now we need the ring," said Prue.
"I'll take care of that," said Kelly. She concentrates on the ring and it appears in her hand.
"Here you go," says Kelly, handing Patty the ring.
Patty sets the ring on the table and her daughters gather around her.
They recite the following spell:
"Spirits high, spirits low,
Help us unbless this ring from below."
The ring glows red, signifying that it worked.
They hear the front door to the Manor slam open and someone ascend the stairs.
"That must be Nicholas," says Leo.
"I have to go my darlings, this is your fight," says Patty, as she quickly pulls them into a hug and disappears in white lights.
Nicholas slams open the attic door.
"Where is my ring?" asks Nicholas, angry.
"You mean this?" asks Ryan, tossing it to him.
Nicholas puts it on, but Piper freezes him.
"Hey, it worked!" says Piper, happily.
"Let's see if there's a spell to vanquish him in the Book of Shadows," suggests Piper.
They skim through the pages.
"How about the Nicholas-Must-Die-Spell?" asks Phoebe.
"That wasn't in there before," says Piper.
"Well, maybe it's a present from Mom," says Prue.
The sisters grabs hands.
"Lavender, Mimosa, Holy thistle,
Cleanse this evil from our midst,
Scatter its cells throughout time,
Let this Nick no more exist," recite Prue, Piper, and Phoebe, aloud and in unison. Nicholas spins around very fast and turns into dust.
"Well, that was easy," says Leo, sarcastically.
Everyone smiles.
"Let's go put those flowers in some water," says Piper, as they all head downstairs.
Author's Note: Ok, well, here's chapter 20. I hope you enjoyed it! Wasn't that good? So many plot lines, so many twists, and so much drama! If you have any questions or are confused in anyway, please e-mail me! So, what's going to happen next? Who exactly is Kelly? How does she fit into all of this? What will happen with Prue and Andy; will they break up or remain together? What is going to happen with Andy? What is Prue and Ryan's real story, which not even her sisters know? What is the other part of the story, which only Ryan, Leo, and Grams know? How does Grams fit into all of this? With the trial period, will Piper and Leo be able to prove to the Elders that their relationship will not get in the way of their jobs? Answers coming soon! Stay tuned! Chapter 21, coming soon! In the meantime, please REVIEW!