Bad news. I just found out that I am losing the internet within a week. I don't know when I will be able to update my stories or even when we'll get a different internet hookup.. So, I won't be able to update a lot.
I have the internet for another week. So, I will try to update at least one chapter for every story before I lose it completely. I'll still be updating it. However, now I can only do it from campus when I have time and there is already the tricky business of spring break.
Green clumps and neon green blood oozed down the blue-and-white wall papered wall as Chris quickly sat up from where he had landed. In the impact of the bloody clumps of demon he had been thrown straight onto his butt in the center of the hallway. Chris quickly brushed off as much bloody clingy green goo off of his body as he could and looked around at his family as he did so.
His mother was a few feet behind him. She was groaning as she tried to slowly get herself up off the ground where she had landed hard beside the kitchen island. His Aunt Phoebe was in the sitting room somewhere. He hadn't been able to see how badly she had been hurt because she had been thrown into a whole different room.
Aunt Paige was passed out on the floor. She had somehow fallen in a half sitting half lying position. The grandfather clock behind her was demolished. The only thing left in its wake were a few small jagged pieces of wood and glass scattered all over the floor as well as his aunt.
Chris's eyes instantly fell back onto Jade. She was in the corner. Her chest was heaving as she looked up from her cowering stance in the corner. Her dark eyes flitted to her bleeding hands as she pulled them down fro her eyes to see the chaotic state of the room.
He knew what she saw without knowing what to say to her to make it all better. There was no way she was going to be able to see the world the same way again. As much as he had tried to protect her from this very thing, she had still ended up seeing it. He had failed.
The hallway before her was demolished. The walls were caked in green blood as well as she was now. A few bloody pieces of demon were around her but more were spread out over the hardwood floor. His Aunt Paige was on the ground a few feet away from her caked with wood chips and glass. There was no one in the room left standing beside himself.
He had a feeling he looked just as bad. By looking down on himself, he saw the green bloody goo all over his clothes that had once been clean. He could even feel some of the goo in his now wet hair that was caked to his forehead.
"Uh.." he said. "Surprise?"
What do you say? She had no idea what she had walked in on. She had just been attacked by a demon. She had lived through it too. Something she had not been able to accomplish last time they had met. Last time..
Chris's throat closed up as he tried to swallowed hard. He couldn't think about that now. He had to figure out what to do. He had to make sure she was okay and he had to make sure she wasn't going to overreact to this.
She hadn't really done that the first time.
Before the mirage of memories could take his sanity over he heard the familiar sound of orbing. Instantly, he flinched at the sound. The last thing he needed was his own father to be arrive and blaming him for Jade being there. The last thing he needed was another talking to about his identity being exposed when it hadn't been his choice in the first place for her to be there.
He didn't want to lie to his father about his real relationship with Jade. Of course, he really didn't want to tell his father that he had just messed with time and the natural order of things to save one girl's life. His father had broken the rules for his own mother, but he doubted he would take too lightly to Chris doing the same thing. Especially, when his father had never really believed that what Chris and Jade had was more then puppy love.
Chris opened his mouth instantly to proclaim his innocence to his own father to find that instead of his father standing before him it was Wyatt. Wyatt stood there before him with a worried expression written over his face. His grayish-blue eyes met Chris's before he looked over the scene and found their mother slowly coming to her own shaky feet. He instantly ran to her and made sure she was steady on her feet.
"What the hell happened?" he asked angrily as his dark navy eyes turned to Chris for an explanation as if it were all his fault.
"What do you think Wyatt? What always happens here?" Chris asked in annoyance. "None other then a demon attack that I warned mom about, but she conveniently decided to ignore me about it and invite Jade over for dinner."
"Jade?" Wyatt asked him with his eyebrows joining in confusion at the unfamiliar name.
Instantly, both their eyes moved to look over at Jade who had taken a step out from the corner she had once been cowering behind. Then, she offered them a small unsure smile as she looked around herself. She had to be thinking that she was going crazy. There was no other explanation to it for her then that.
"Uh.. Hi," she answered as she took another unsure step from the wall and tried to avoid any mass piles of bloody demon bits. "Can someone explain to me what I just saw? I mean I am open minded I think. Well, I thought that until I just witnessed what happened. Did I just witness that?"
Wyatt gave Chris a sideways glance. Chris sighed, "Sorry about this."
"For what?" She asked in an even more confusion as her forehead wrinkled.
"This!" he told her and flicked his wrists in her general direction. In a moment, she was frozen in place where she stood. He instantly turned back to his brother and his mother.
"Aunt Paige!" Wyatt cried out as his gaze fell to her and instantly went to heal her. He left Chris standing beside his mother as he did so.
"You have a lot of explaining to do young man." Piper informed him as she rubbed her elbow.
"What?" Chris asked as his emerald eyes stayed tuned on Jade's frozen solid face. He knew very well what his mother was saying.
He'd caught on earlier when she had been in his room with him. She'd thought he had regained a new power and that that was the power of premonition, but he hadn't. He had just lived this part of his life before. Now, he had just vanquished a demon on his own that the Power of Three hadn't even been able to touch and now he had a lot of explaining to do.
No one got two powers at once. Not even a twice blessed son.
