Oh, and did anyone else get the season 1 DVD? I just got it, and I am watching an episode as I am writing this... oh, God, I so freakin' can't wait 'til April!
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It seemed as if time has just frozen. Not a sound was made, not an action was performed, all the world just seemed... silent. It was a deafening silence, if there ever was such a thing. It seemed to tear at the very souls of all in the world. It was the worst silence in history, in all of time itself. The whole universe seemed to be focusing it's attention on the living room of the old pinkish-red house at 1329 Prescott Street. It was the cause of the unbearable silence. Who knew that six simple words could change the world, the universe, forever? No one, but it had just happened. Those six three- or four-letter words had just changed... everything.
"We're, we're..." Prue finally stuttered, the bravest of all in the room. She didn't quite know how to explain to her friend that her and her sisters were witches, and they had to save the fifteen-year-old from a demon that wanted to do who-knew-what with her. Piper, barely paying attention to her eldest friend's stammers, gently stood up from the couch and wandered over to one of the beautifully crafted, stained-glass windows that filled the Manor.
"Don't worry, I'm not scared of you." Piper spoke quietly after a moment of just staring out of the window. It had just begun raining. Prue, Phoebe, Paige, and Leo had to strain their ears to hear her relieving statement. After processing her words, they felt as if a huge weight had been lifted off of their shoulders. They felt as if one of the biggest fears had been proven false, and that it could never come true. Prue was opening her mouth when Piper decided to speak again.
"I-I know that I should be, but I'm just... not. I guess I'm just too, um... confused to have any room for another emotion. I mean, I don't exactly know what's going on. Everyone was just moving in the blink of an eye, Daniel was throwing these blue balls that seemed to be filled with electricity, and then the air was just distorted and he appeared out of thin air. Everything was moving so fast, and it was just so impossible. It seemed, well, it was just like..." Piper turned around to face her friends again. "Magic."
The four on the couches exchanged stunned looks. They would not expect her to come to that conclusion so quickly. But, since she had figured it out...
"It was." Phoebe replied, her first time speaking since the attack. "Excuse me?" Piper asked incredulously. She had not actually expected to be right. "It was magic. We're witches." Prue said bluntly. She decided that was the best approach, as it wouldn't make any sense to beat around the bush. Piper had witnessed the events, and come to the correct conclusion. She didn't need a five minute speech.
But, nevertheless, Piper's mouth dropped wide open. It didn't last for long, though. She soon closed her mouth, and a confused smile formed on her face. "Wait a minute, you're joking, right?" she asked, laughing nervously. The solemn looks on the other's faces was enough of an answer. "Oh my God, you're not joking." Piper said, and slowly sank down into the nearest chair, covering her face with her hands. It took all of Leo's might not to run over to her and comfort her. He didn't know how she would react.
After a moment, she looked up at all of them. Her face wasn't full of tears as they had expected. In fact, they couldn't really read her face. There was such a fury of emotions that one was hard to distinguish from another. "Witches?" she asked finally, looking around at them all. "I thought they were supposed to have warts on their noses and wear pointy black hats, flying around on broomsticks and cackling." "I've cackled once." Phoebe piped up. "And I've riden a broomstick."
"Wait... are you scared of us?" Paige asked the question they had all been dying to ask, although she had sort of answered it earlier. She hadn't really known they were magic then, though. "Well... yeah, a little bit. But, what do I have to lose?" Piper asked. "And besides, you saved my life, the least I owe you guys is a little time for an explanation." "And we're giving it to you." Phoebe said before anyone else could protest. She couldn't take lying to her friend anymore. "Agreed." Leo said. "So, um... who's gonna start?" Paige asked. "How about Pheebs here." What Prue had said wasn't a question, it was a command. "Fine, fine." Phoebe said, and began their little story.
"Prue, Paige, and I are witches, the Charmed Ones, in fact. Well, not really, since we don't have all three powers, but we're still three pretty damn powerful witches. Prue here has the power of telekinesis, so she can move objects with her mind. Paige has the power of orbing, which is basically a way of teleporting from place to place just by thinking about it. I have the power of premonition, so I can see the future. But, it has grown a little bit into seeing the present and past as well. That's how we found out about you. I began having these really weird dreams, in which I would basically be a visitor in a girl's body. In every dream, I was abused by Daniel. In the first dream, he had broken 'my' wrist, but I didn't tell anyone else about it. Prue, Paige, and Leo here found out about it the night you got, well, whipped. I had gotten your wounds on MY back. So, we spent a while searching for you, and then in the bathroom I had another premonition about that same night, and I finally saw your face. That's how I finally figured out it was you. And, well, you know the rest about that."
"Oh." Piper said, after a moment. She was still trying to take all that Phoebe had said about her and her sisters when she turned to Leo. "So, they're witches, what are you?" "I'm, um, well, uh... I'm a whitelighter." Leo said, stuttering, and finishing with that last word like it would explain everything. "A... whitelighter?" Piper asked. She had no clue what that was. "It's like... a guardian angel." Leo explained further. "Right... an angel." Piper said, looking a bit amused. She stood up, and walked over to the window again. The rain was pouring down even harder than it was before. "Is there something about you and angels that we don't know about?" Paige asked, and Prue and Phoebe both nudged her in the ribs. Piper shook her head.
"I don't know, it's just... I've always had this stupid fantasy that someday angels would come and rescue me from the hell of a life that I live. I always dreamed that maybe, just maybe, there might actually someone in the world that truly cared about me. Someone that truly loved me for all that I am; for my past, present, and future. I dreamed that one day... I might actually have a real family, and real friends, never having to see Daniel again. But, that's what they were, just... dreams. And I learned a long time ago that my dreams never come true."
Paige, the youngest, the baby of the bunch, couldn't take it anymore. Her whitelighter instincts were telling her that her friend, one of her best friends, was so filled with pain that not even years of therapy could take it away. She jumped up from the couch, and ran over to her friend. Paige stood in front of Piper for a moment, the little one's light brown eyes filled with unshed tears met the teenager's chocolate eyes with tears spilling over. Paige then surprised everyone by wrapping her arms around Piper's neck, and hugging her with all her might.
"You're wrong." Paige whispered. "You're wrong. We're here to save you."
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AN: I think it's kind of short, but oh well. I had a bit of writer's block on the middle, so I just shortened it from what I would have originally had it. This chapter was basically just an explanation, and all the fighting stuff will come back soon. It won't be too long now until the big secret is revealed... Please, review!