Summary: With Zoey and her friends 8th Grade year starting, they're all very excited. But then a strange new girl comes to PCA. She seems nice enough, but the secrets she harbors and the burdens she carries is enough to make their 8th Grade year more interesting than the last.

Disclaimer: I don't own Zoey 101 or Charmed. The only thing I own are the characters you don't recognize. These include Porter MatthewsHaliwell, Maradeth, and Patience MatthewsHaliwell. But that's about it….OH! And the plot! I own the plot, so don't take it.

"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart,"-Anne Frank

Chapter One:

The New Girl

Zoey started to unpack her clothes, chatting idly with her roommate, Nicole. Zoey looked up, to study her roommate. She had straight light brown hair and was wearing a jean skirt that ruffled at the bottom in a nice flowery print. The print was blue and green, and she was wearing a short sleeved shirt that matched. Zoey looked back down at her own clothes. She was dressed in a simple pair of ripped jeans and a pink tank top. They had both 'developed' nicely, (as Logan had been so quick to point out the minute he had seen them) and were now young woman.

Zoey brushed her blonde hair out of her eyes as Dana, her other roommate came bouncing into the room, her curly brown hair flying behind her as she dashed to them. Dana was already unpack, and had gone to the office to get the girls' class schedule and any other papers they would need.

"You guys," Dana said slightly breathless as she clutched a stack of papers. "We have a new roommate." Nicole and Zoey glanced at each other, both very surprised.

"Are you for serious?" Zoey asked. Dana nodded and pointed to the papers. The girls crowded around and looked at the paper. They were just reading it over when there was a knock on the door. They all turned around to see a girl standing with her luggage in the doorway. She had straight dark brown hair and green eyes. She eyes were red and puffy and the reminisce of tears were on her cheeks. She gave them a brave smile though and said,

"Hello, I'm Patience…Haliwell." She paused between her first and last name. Zoey smiled warmly at her and said,

"I'm Zoey, and this is Nicole, and that's Dana. Are you our new roommate?" Patience nodded and Dana narrowed her eyes at her and said,

"The paper said your name is Matthews." Patience forced a smile and said,

"Yeah, I know. It's complicated. My father was given up at birth along with his twin sister. So they were adopted by the Matthews but he's actually a Haliwell. But he died last month." There was a moment of silence before Patience continued. "And now I'm living with my mother and her evil new husband. They decided to send me to boarding school, because it's so much easy to dump their problems on other people. They're business people, after all." She said the last part with bitter resentment, and sat down on Zoey bed, looking at her fingers. Zoey sat down and draped an arm around her shoulders. She leaned her head against Patience's and said,

"I understand. I'm here if you need to talk, ok?" Patience smiled up at her new friends as they nodded in agreement.

"Thanks guys. So, where can I put my stuff, and wear do I sleep and…" they all laughed, and there was another knock on the door. Patience jumped a foot in the air as Zoey, Nicole and Dana turned around to see Chase, Michael and Logan. Logan leaned up against the doorway, his arms crossed, looking extremely cocky.

"Hello girls…or should I say, ladies?" the four roommates looked at each other with raised eyebrows.

"Hey, uh…?" started Patience.

"Logan. But you, sweet thing, can call me Lo." The girl and Chase and Michael stifled back laughter and Patience said,

Hey, Lo, I was just wondering about your, um…?" she trailed off, pointing to his shirt. It was almost completely see though and very very tight. Logan smiled cockily again and said,

"Oh, you mean my hot bod? My abs? My six pack?" the group once again stifled back laughter and Patience said,

"Well, actually, I was going to ask if your shirt was cutting off your circulation. And, you know, if you are going to wear shirts like that, I would suggest you lose some of that baby fat." The group o0oh-ed and ahh-ed. Dana gave her a high five as Logan glared at her and said,

"I guess that means no movies this Friday night?" Patience raised an eyebrow and said,

"In your dreams. Only in your dreams." Logan stomped out of the room, leaving the others to laugh at Patience's wit.

"That-was awesome." Said Dana between laughter. Chase smiled and said,

"That's a huge compliment coming from the Dana, the Queen of Insults. I'm Chase by the way, and that's Michael."

Patience smiled at the boys. She watched curiously as Chase eyed Zoey. Immediately she felt a wave of shyness, and it hit her like a ton of bricks. Chase likes Zoey. Patience looked over at Zoey next, and sighed inwardly. Zoey wasn't even tuned in to Planet Chase. She was completely oblivious to the looks Chase was sending her. Chase seemed to realize this, and excused himself. Feeling his disappointment, Patience claimed she was going to look around and followed him. She found him sitting on a bench just outside the Pacific Coast Academy sign. She sat next to him and said,

"You really like her don't you?" Chase had been so engrossed in his own thoughts he jumped nearly a foot in the air. He eyed her, blushing and said,

"Who? I don't know what you're talking about." Patience sighed, smiling and said,

"It's radiating off you like body heat. You like Zoey. And I would bet anything that you have for a long time." Chase eyed her. "I won't tell anybody, your secret's safe with me." Patience stood up to leave, but Chase grabbed her arm and said,

"Wait!" Patience sat down next to him again and said,

"It's true, isn't it?" Chase nodded, not meeting her eyes. She nudged him playfully and he said,

"It's my deepest, darkest, secret. I mean, I've only told Michael, my best friend. How did you know? I mean, how did you get it out of me?" Patience shifted uncomfortably. This was the hard part. Telling them about her 'gifts', her 'powers'. Chase noticed it and said,

"Hey, you keep my secret, I keep yours." Patience looked into the trusting blue eyes of this boy she barely knew, and sighing, stuck out her hand.

"Promise?" Chase shook it and said,

"Promise." Taking a deep breath Patience said,

"You have to promise me that you'll believe me. Who am I kidding, you'll never believe me." Chase shook his head and said,

"Try me." Eyeing him, still slightly unconvinced and taking another deep breath Patience started:

"My family line, the Haliwell line, goes back 300 years. And my family, well, we're witches." she paused. "We're known as the Warren witches, cause that's when the line started. When Melinda Warren was burned at the stake for being a witch, she put a spell on the family, stating that each generation of Warren witches would be more powerful than the last, until the arrival of three sisters, 'the Charmed Ones'. There's a complication in that, but that's another story for another sunset. See, everybody in my family has a power. My aunts are the supposed 'Charmed One'. My Aunt Piper has the ability to freeze time, and make things combust with a flick of her hands. My Aunt Phoebe has the powers of premonitions, or to see the future. She can also levitate, and the power of empathy. I'll explain that in a minute. And my Aunt Paige, my father's twin sister, can orb, more about that later, and call. Again, later. I have powers too. This is where empathy comes in." she paused again. "Empathy is the ability to sense other people's feelings. And, I have empathy. I sensed your feelings of Zoey." Chase had been unexpectantly quiet through this whole thing. And now he spoke.

"So empathy is your only power?" Patience shook her head.

"I have a lot of other powers. Why, I don't know. I also have telekinesis, premonitions, astral projections, I can orb and I can form energy balls." The sun had set a long time ago, and they sat in the dark. He was silent, and Patience had a feeling he didn't believe her. Sighing, she stood up and said,

"So that's it. Even if you don't believe me, which you probably don't, don't tell anyone, ok? No one's suppose to know." With that she trudged back to her dorm. Entering, she was surprised to see Logan had returned, and Michael was still there. She kicked off her socks and shoes and with a loud sigh and a thump flung herself onto Zoey's bed. The group looked up from the computer where they had been looking at summer pictures. Concerned, Zoey said,

"What's up Patience? Have you seen Chase around?" Sitting up Patience nodded and said,

"Yeah, I was just with him."

"Oh. What's up?" Patience shook her head and said,

"Oh, nothing big." there was a knock on the door and Chase stuck his head in the room.

"Hey everybody." he said, waving to the group on the couch. They waved back and Chase said,

"Hey Patience, can you meet me at that place we just were? So we can talk about...that thing?" Patience nodded and said,

"Yeah, I just have to put some shoes and socks on." Chase nodded ok and closed the door. Patience immediately dove to her socks and sneakers. She yanked them on as the other watched her curiously.

"What's that about Patience?" Patience looked at them as if she had completely forgotten they were there, which she had.

"Nothing!" she chorused and dashed out the door. She sat down on the bench, warily eyeing Chase. Turning to her he met her gaze and asked,

"Can you show me?" grinning Patience nodded and said,

"Yeah." She conjured an energy balls, and held it gently in her hands, allowing Chase to google at it. He reach forward and poked it with his finger. He drew back immediately with a yelped. He shook out his hand, where at the top of his finger, was a tiny burn. Patience chuckled and said,

"If I was to throw this at somebody, and it hit them in the chest, it would kill them. Otherwise it would just make something blow up or it was burn them severely." Chase stared at the ball of energy and then said,

"What about orring? Can I see that?" Patience looked him confused before saying,

"O0o0o0o0o0oh, orbing yeah sure." glancing around to make sure no one was around, she took Chase's hand and they dissolved into a swirl of blue and white lights.

The duo appeared at the bottom of the hill, just inches from where the tide was rolling, in and out.

"Whoa." said Chase. Patience bit her bottom lip as he put out an arm to steady himself and said,

"Yeah, it can make you kinda dizzy the first few times." Shooting her a glance he muttered,

"No kidding." Patience smiled meekly at him and said,

"And calling, is just like orbing only I say something and it orbs into my hand. Watch, Watch!" She held her hand out as Chase's watch orbed off his wrist and magically appeared in her hand in a swirl of blue and white orbs.

"Whoa!" he said, looking at his wrist and then the watch in Patience's outstretched hand. "Patience-" he trailed off, amazed.

"Call me Pay." she smiled and he said,

"Pay, this is so0o awesome! Show me telekinesis!"

After successfully showing Chase all her powers, (or what she could as far as premonitions went) they sat in silence on the beach, watching as the waves came and went.

"I've never known a witch before." said Chase with a laugh. Patience smiled and said,

"Yea, must people haven't. I think we should get back to our dorms though, it's gotta be like, 11." Chase looked at his watch, which glowed, and said,

"10:49, yeah. Can you, orb me back to my place?" Patience laughed and said,

"Well, I'd have to orb you into a closet, cause I can't be seen." taking his hand she orbed away.

zxxbsmsgirl3148-Ok, thank you so0o much, I hate it when I don't get reviews because then i get nervous and abandon the fic :( But it means so0o much to me that you reviewed!

So, what do you guys think? Do you think I made Patience and Chase trust each other too soon? There's a reason for that but...i don't know what do you think?

Lexa