Prince Halliwell – Lol, it was my attempt at a pun. It was a play on the film Final Destination. And you're sort of right with the power thing, you'll have to read and find out!
Ravenix – Yeah, Evan will be driving a wedge between them. And I'm working on finding someone for Jenna, just let me get my thoughts working lol! Oh yes… warped Phoebe is going to pretty scary, this subplot is going to last until around chapter 20!
Pangea – I know, they really should use Melinda more often. Paige's new power is revealed in this chapter!
Unique deflection – Your favourite? Thanks! And I'm glad you liked it!
Charmed-Greek – LOL! I hope you like this one!
Andy20 – Cool, my computer's being a pain in the ass right now. I'm glad you liked it!
Phoebe turner – Lol, you never know, Aidan could be closer than you think!
Piperfairy – Your questions will all be answered eventually!
Anianka – Oh, trust me, you're going to like this spat if you're not a Brennan fan! And Evan is definitely going to be a problem! I'm glad you like the names; did you notice the little tribute to Aidan?
Kendallpaigecharity – Lol, more twin cuteness coming up!
Final Destiny
Emma stormed into the kitchen from the back garden while Piper and Leo prepared dinner. She pulled a bar stool out with a groan as she sat down, scowling and folding her arms. Piper smirked as she recognized her friend's reaction, "Pamela beat you again?"
The psionic slammed her hand down on the counter, "The girl is a monster! She even let me use my powers this time!"
"Oh…" Pamela walked in, wearing a band with a skip around her head and counting a fistful of dollar bills, "Don't be a sore loser, DeLauro. Nobody's ever beaten me at Poker,"
"Where did you learn to play like that?" Emma exclaimed.
"Well… a couple of years ago in my time in Russia…" She began.
"Wait!" Piper suddenly put her hand up in protest, "You were in Russia?"
She frowned, "I never told you? Hmm… I'm sure I had a reason for not telling. Anyway, I worked with these con artists-,"
"Con artists!" Piper gaped.
"Oh… I just remembered the reason," The teen cringed, "Anyway, in that line of business, you have to know how to bluff. It was a pretty good deal until one of them got a little handsy, then I left him with no hands!" She giggled and went into the dining room, still counting her money.
"Why do I feel as if she's lived a fuller life than me?" Emma asked.
Piper laughed, "Yeah! And you're on your second!"
The psionic glared at her, "Hey! Coming from the person who's died countless times! Your lives must be dwindling honey,"
"Oh… Touché." The eldest Halliwell smirked, "It's all fun and games until someone loses a life!"
Phoebe couldn't help but let out a giggle when her little sister answered the door wearing big sunglasses and her hair in a tangled mess. Paige groaned as she raked a hand through the jungle that was her hair, "What do you want?"
"Hello to you to…" Phoebe said sarcastically as she entered. Connor, who was balanced on her hip, raised a finger and let out a little laugh at Paige's appearance. She smiled and tickled her nephews chin.
"I can tell he's going to be a charmer," She smiled.
"I'm surprised Sandy didn't start barking when I rang the doorbell," The middle sister stated. The witchlighter could only gesture to the dog basket at the window, where the golden Labrador, now growing at an amazing rate, lay snoozing, "Like owner, like dog," she muttered, "Paige, take the damn glasses off. I can't take you seriously,"
Paige raised a finger to her lips, "Be quiet!" She hissed, "The twins have been sleeping for… what time is it?"
"A little after eight,"
"Then they've been sleeping for a whole two hours, I've been using the down time wisely,"
"Sleeping?"
She frowned, "How'd you guess?"
Phoebe smiled at her, "Because this little guy…" She jiggled Connor a little, "Was the exact same! Anyway, take the glasses off,"
"No," She held onto the sides firmly, "My eyes feel better with them on," She suddenly winced in pain and scrunched up her eyes.
"Sweetie, are you okay?" Phoebe laid Connor down on the sofa and put a hand on her sister's shoulder.
"Yeah, I'm… so not fine!" She exclaimed, whipping the glasses off and looking around wildly. Everything had suddenly gone foggy. White mist lapping at her feet and all around her, it was all she could see.
"Paige, what's wrong?" Phoebe's voice echoed. Paige looked forward and gasped when a light shone in front of her; it was where Phoebe's voice was coming from. She looked down to the side, where her couch should be and saw a smaller globe of light which she assumed to be Connor. Slowly, the mist around her began to recede and the vision of her apartment came back to her, along with Phoebe and Connor, "What happened? Paige, you're eyes were glowing," Paige squinted slightly and realized the pain in her eyes was gone, "Paige? Are you listening?"
She took a breath, "No…"
The next morning, Emma sat in the solarium with her hair still in a towel. She sipped on her coffee while looking out the window. A call from the Elders made her roll her eyes, she gestured to her coffee, "I haven't even had my fuel yet! This is what you should expect if you give me a charge in Australia!"
Pamela came in with a yawn, "Who the hell are you talking to?"
"The Elders, damn charges…" She scowled.
The teen's brow furrowed, "Charges? What is it, you've died so many times and they've just decided to make you a whitelighter?"
"No, I'm an empath. Jeez, Pam. You really need to get up to speed on things; it's been three weeks for crying out loud,"
The two of them squinted their eyes as bright orbs began to take the shape of Leo and Paige. The witchlighter was feeling about her surroundings with her arms jutting out and stumbling slightly as she walked.
"Wow… where did you find her? Sleeping in the gutter with a bottle of Scotch rolling out of her hand?" Pamela smirked. Paige turned to where her niece was sitting.
"You know, if you weren't just a ball of light to me right now, I would hit you!" She turned to where Leo was standing, still stumbling as she turned, "Did you find anything out, Leo?"
"Find what out?" Piper came in wearing her dressing gown. She was surprised to see Emma up and dressed already, "Charge?" She asked. The psionic nodded wearily in response before looking at Paige move her hands in front of Leo.
"I'm not touching you, am I? Because things just got really awkward if I am,"
"Uh… no," Leo leaned back to avoid his sister in law's grabbing hands.
"Someone want to tell me why my sister is attempting to grope my husband?" Piper grinned and put her hands on her hips. She wanted an answer.
"I'm blind!" Her youngest sibling suddenly exclaimed.
Leo tried to calm her down, "No, you're not. From what you told me, you're seeing onto the astral plane, where our spirits represent our forms,"
Paige gestured wildly and Emma helped her towards the couch, "Great!" She responded sarcastically, "Get me some contact lenses and make it go away!"
The Elder raised his eyebrows, "Go away? Paige, this is your new power! Multi Dimensional Sight!"
"What the hell is that?" Piper asked him.
He was about to explain but Emma jumped in, "Very rare power. I'm not surprised it spawned in a Charmed One. You see, there are eleven planes of existence; witches with the power of multi-dimensional sight have the ability to cast their eyes over each of the planes. Of course, no witch has ever survived long for their powers to advance and let them see all eleven planes,"
"Fascinating, Emma…" Paige glared at the floating ball of light beside her, "I'd love to read up on it, oh… wait, I can't!" She spat before folding her arms and her nostrils flaring.
"C'mon! This is the sixth power you've been wanting for ages! And with it, evil won't be able to conceal itself from you ever again. Look, why don't we go for a coffee? Maybe it'll go away when you're in a public place,"
"But what about the twins?"
It was Leo's turn, "I've already taken them to Magic School. Speaking of which…" He shot a look at Pamela, who rolled her eyes.
"Alright, don't worry. I'm getting ready now," She droned before climbing the stairs.
"Um… Honey?" Emma moved a piece of hair from Paige's face, "Where are those sunglasses of yours? I think we may need them,"
The witchlighter frowned and felt around for her pocket. She pulled out a pair of shades, "There you go, why do we need them?"
"Because your eyes glow every time you use your new power. And they'll probably help you get your normal sight back,"
"Okay…" She put them on and prepared to orb out when Emma stopped her.
"I'll do the orbing. We don't want you landing off target and exposing us now, do we?"
Paige gave her best friend a roll of her glowing eyes before linking arms with the empath and letting her orb them both out. The witchlighter scowled when she realized she couldn't see Emma's pink orbing ability with her new power activated…
Brennan put Melinda down in the playpen of the Magic School nursery. The mutant sighed and smiled, hoping that this little nightmare was over. His euphoria didn't last long, when Emma, who was wriggling around in the other playpen, disappeared in a splash of water and reappeared the same way next to Melinda. Brennan let out a grunt of annoyance. His two nieces were completely inseparable! If you moved Emma, Melinda would ob to her and vice versa. It was times like this he was thankful that his eight month old son hadn't inherited a transportation power.
Connor was sitting in the floor waving a furry brown bear around in his tiny hand. He didn't really know how to play properly with toys as of yet, so he would just wave them about or throw him. Brennan could tell that he was going to be a naturally energetic child.
"Trouble wrangling the girls?" a voice said behind him. Leo walked in with Wyatt walking next to him, in almost the same manner.
Brennan blew air out of his mouth and ran a hand through his hair, "Just tell me when they hit their teens and can't stand each other,"
The headmaster laughed, "Yeah, Paige and Emma seen to be the only ones who can them content without being together,"
Brennan smiled and knelt down to face his nephew, "Hey buddy, what are you doing here? I thought you said only little kids came here,"
Wyatt held his head high before smiling mischievously, "Can I see Connor?"
He grinned, "Sure, he's just over there playing with the bear that you gave him,"
A couple of minutes later, the two boys were sitting with each other. Even with the four year age gap, Wyatt still found Connor to be good company. It was probably because he was a prophesized child like himself and felt a connection; it could have also been that Connor and Wyatt were pretty silent children. Even Mrs. Winterbourne had given up trying to separate the twins and the two girls were now sleeping soundly next to each other in a bassinet. Brennan and Leo sat in the large comfortable arm chairs of the room, talking about basically everything that was going on in their lives while stopping to let the din of playing children die down, this was a nursery after all.
"Do you think you'd ever have another?" Brennan gestured to Wyatt, who was now sitting with some toys since it was after school.
Leo rubbed his chin in thought, "I don't know. I mean, if it was to happen by accident then sure, I would give it all the love I've given Wyatt and Chris. But by choice…"
The mutant witch nodded in agreement, "I know what you mean. Three kids seems like a handful,"
Leo glanced at Connor, who was chewing the ear of the bear in his hands, "What about you? Is my only nephew going to be having a sibling anytime soon?" He smirked.
Brennan shook his head in confusion and sighed, "I don't know man. I'm happy with just the one right now, but when I look at Phoebe sometimes, I just… can't imagine her not having a little girl of her own. And then there's the look…"
"What look?"
He sat in silence for a moment, "The look I get when she's holding Connor, playing with him, or putting him down for the night. She looks at me with so much happiness in her eyes…" Brennan smiled at the mental picture, "But there's a sort of… yearning behind that, something that gives the happiness a little feeling of hollowness I guess,"
"You think she's unhappy?" Leo frowned.
"No, it's… like she wants more. But hey, we'll work things out. All we need is a little faith,"
"Pam, I'm not really sure we should be doing this," Zack looked around the dark filing room with a telepathic starlight hanging over his forehead, showing the way through the shadows.
Pamela turned to him with a sigh, the blonde in her hair flashing in the weak light, "Look, I have to make up for three months of absence. Jenna's grandmother has just died and we were planning on this for weeks! If we pull this off, it'll be something to cheer her up. Her grandmother meant a lot to her," Pamela folded her arms and rubbed them in silence before grinning, "Besides, if we can get some dirt on Loretta, we might be able to use it at the later date!" She grinned before turning back to the filing cabinet.
Zach sighed in agreement and opened up a drawer, "I doubt we'll find anything in Loretta's record. You don't find any big secrets in school files," He said with distain.
"Well, we'll take anything we can get," the Halliwell replied as she sifted through the paper folders, "Aha… found it," She said with a smirk as she pulled out a file. Zach grinned and walked across to her, casting the orange glow on the page and making it easier to read.
"Let's see…" Zach said in a low voice filled with excitement. Pamela turned to him and smiled.
"See? That sexy voice is proof that you've got a wild side,"
He seemed to be taken aback by this comment but grinned at her, "Thanks…" He said.
They looked in the file before there were noises coming from the hallway. They watched as a person shaped shadow moved around at the blurry window of the door. They were going to get caught!
"What are we gonna do?" Pamela hissed.
"Hide," Zach replied instantly as he looked around, seeing that all the filing cabinets were lined up against the wall and the centre of the room was black, there was nowhere to hide.
"I have an idea," Pam suddenly blurted out. She pulled Zach by the collar towards a filing cabinet and pushed his back up against it. She moved even closer to him so their noses were almost touching, "Kiss me,"
"What?" He exclaimed.
"Kiss me!" She urged. The sound of jingling keys could be heard on the other side of the door; they didn't have time to argue. Pamela suddenly wrapped her arms tightly around his neck and kissed him passionately, moving up against him more. Zach finally caught on to her plan and placed his hands just above her hips, returning the kiss with the same passion Pamela was giving it. The two of them got so wrapped up in the intensity that they didn't even break apart when the door opened and flooded the room with light. The janitor gave him a wide eyed look and gaped, "What are you doing in here?"
Pamela finally broke away before a heated and exposed look with Zach, "Sorry, we were looking for somewhere and this place was open, so…"
"This is where permanent records are kept!" The balding man explained, "You can't just break in to stick your tongues down each others throats! Get out!" He pointed to the hall.
Pamela pursed her lips as her face reddened with genuine embarrassment. Zach kept up the act and slung an arm around her shoulder,
"C'mon baby, let's get out of here," He said to her huskily as they left, both avoiding the looks that the janitor was giving them.
After they were out of the janitor's earshot, the two teens burst out laughing in the corridor. Teachers who were on their way home gave them strange looks as they passed by. Zach managed to catch his breath and spoke, "Did you get the file?"
"Yup!" Pamela said enthusiastically. She pulled the front of her top forwards slightly and pulled out a folder, "Am I resourceful or what?"
He smiled at her, "You're fantastic…" he whispered.
Pamela walked towards him slowly, "Fantastic as a friend? Or… fantastic as the way we were in the filing room?"
Zach smirked at her, "I don't know. Maybe we should try it again, just so I'm sure,"
She rolled her eyes and smiled, "Okay, just make to sure…" She put her arms around his neck again and went to kiss him, but this time Zach took control and pushed her up against the wall. He kissed her passionately as her hands roamed through his hair and his hands stayed positioned on her sides, moving up and down now and again. Pamela giggled as they broke the lip lock and quickly planted a quick kiss on his lips,
"I gotta go…" She whispered.
"Yeah… me too," He replied.
But they didn't move…
Paige sat on a bench at the side of the lake at Golden Gate Park. The twins lay sleeping in the double stroller while Sandy sat protectively at her owner's side, panting slightly from the walk. The witchlighter was enjoying the sight at this moment. Although her sister's didn't know, here and under her three were the places she came to when she wanted to think.
She was basking in the break her new power was giving her until she heard a low growl at her feet and she saw Sandy growling at a group of people on the other side of the lake. Paige look perplexed, as they didn't look violent, they just looked like a group of normal people. A stinging in her eyes made Paige wince and when she reopened them, she saw the astral plane. The group of white lights in the distance must have been the group, but what confused the witch the most was the black cloud of gas that floated behind them. Her normal sigh came back and she could see nothing behind the people.
"Emma!" She called out to her best friend, who appeared to next to her on the bench in pink orbs.
"What's wrong? You okay?" She laid a hand on Paige's leg. She always assumed the worst.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Listen, could you look after the kids and Sandy for a second? I need to check something out," The witchlighter explained as she pulled a potion vial out of her purse.
"Um… Okay, are you sure? If it's a demon…"
"You won't be able to stop it if you can't see it," Paige cut in, "Just stay here and only call my sisters if necessary," Before the empath could object again, she stood up and began to run around the lake to the other side…
Phoebe squinted at the sunset that was being shown from her bedroom window. She continued to push the vacuum cleaner around cream carpet; this had become part of stress relieving, as Leo had found out nothing on her powers. It just didn't make sense. If a demon had taken them, then it probably would have attacked by now. If a demon had had broken the Power of Three, then her sisters wouldn't have any powers either and Phoebe knew for definite they had them, what was she missing?
She shook her head and sighed, thinking that she wouldn't be able to figure this out just by cleaning. But her chain of thought was broken by the vacuum cleaner hitting something solid when she pushed it under bed. Phoebe frowned; they didn't keep anything under the bed to her knowledge, so she turned off the vacuum and knelt down to investigate.
"Wha…?" She muttered as she reached under the bed, grabbing for the object wildly until she grasped it. It was cold and seemed to be glass. Phoebe began to pull it out and she heard a rustle of paper as she dragged the item across the floor. She dug another hand in and grabbed the paper, pulling them out and to her eyes, but when she saw what they were, she was horrified.
The item had been a jar of some sorts; the lid was a metal lock and swirling white lights bounced off the sides, trying to get out. Phoebe unfolded the piece of paper and almost had a melt down when she saw what was there, it was the spell to call for a witches powers!
"Phoebe!" Brennan's voice came from along the hall, "Dinner's ready if you want to…" He stopped when he saw his wife's discovery.
Phoebe looked at the expression and put two and two together, shaking her head and not wanting to admit it, "Brennan, please tell me you didn't…" She trailed off.
Knowing he was caught, he began to explain himself, "You don't understand, it was for your own good!"
But she stopped listening to him; the look on his face had explained everything instantly. She looked at him with tear filled eyes and anger before opening the jar roughly and watching the white lights stream out and flow back into her. The jar dropped from Phoebe's hand and her head whipped back as all the powers entered her raged filled body once again. But as they returned, the white lights began to darken and soon, Phoebe was being filled with little black spheres of magical energy.
The darkness stopped its flow and Brennan stood in silence and fear, "Phoebe?" He uttered quietly, waiting to see what she would say.
But no words came; instead, she pulled her head back to its usual position and opened her eyes, to reveal that they had gone completely back. Phoebe stood up from her kneeling stance, the air and objects around beginning to distort with the sheer power emitting from her person.
"It's time to take want you took from me…" She growled in a cold angry voice before releasing a black shadowy stream from her forehead. The blast hit Brennan in the chest and threw him back into the wall. She walked over to him confidently as he struggled to get up. The Halliwell knelt down, and, as if by magic, thrust her hand into his chest. A glow coming from her arm as Brennan's powers were slowly taken from him. After the process was complete, her husband slumped to the ground, "This is gonna be fun…" She smirked, before all the lights in the house flickered on and off, and when they came back on, she was gone…
Paige caught up to the group just in time, as whatever was attacking seemed to have knocked them all unconscious somehow. She ran through the leafy ground, bending down and checking the pulse of a woman before looking around, "Alright… show yourself!" She shouted, clutching the potion in hand.
A malevolent giggle tore through the air. Paige felt a presence fly around her and wished that her useless power would activate with impeccable timing. She wasn't so lucky however, as something dove from above and ripped the side of shirt, drawing blood from her arm in the process and making her fall to the ground. It was at that time Paige saw it, a stray beam of light from the setting sun illuminated it briefly. She got back up and stomped with rage, not believing what she was seeing, "You're an imp? I'm getting beaten by an invisible imp?"
She smirked as a familiar sting came to her eyes and the astral plane came into her view. Paige watched the black cloud of evil fly around her through the fog and shook her head; this was going to be too easy. She reached out her arm, seeing a trail of light represent the limb on this plane; the witchlighter activated her power and threw her arm towards the ground. Paige marveled at the streak of purple light that flew from her arm and constricted the black cloud, bringing it down forcefully to the floor. The normally invisible telekinetic energy flew back into Paige's arm. She was about to throw the potion when her normal sight came back and she couldn't see the imp. But there was a space on the ground where the leaves had been moved around, they formed the imprint of a tiny unconscious creature with a pointy tail. "So long," She said, before dropping the potion in the imprint and hearing the screams of being and seeing the flames of its vanquish. There was a small explosion and a squeak of defiance before only a scorch mark remained.
The people around her began to come to and as she looked at what she had done, Paige couldn't help but feel proud that it was her new power that had saved the day.
From an imp…
"Goodnight… sweet dreams," Piper whispered as she closed the door of her children's room. She decided that she was just going to go downstairs and watch TV for a while before going to bed, as she had had a letter from Social Services and she needed to talk about it with Leo. The eldest Charmed One stopped dead in her tracks when all the lights in the house suddenly fizzled out before turning back on, she looked around with a confused expression and decided to check the circuit box in the basement.
"Hi Piper,"
Piper jumped and turned around, "Phoebe? Wow… you startled me,"
The middle sister let a thin smile show through on her face, "Oh… I'm sorry; I'll try not to do that in the future,"
Piper raised an eyebrow, something wasn't right, "Phoebe, are you feeling okay?"
Phoebe cocked her head, "Never better," She smiled before narrowing her eyes, "You've got something on your face,"
"Really? Where?" The Charmed One began to feel at her face.
"Come here, I'll get it for you," She gestured for her older sister to come closer, which she did.
Emma opened the door of her room and walked out into the hall, she wanted to know what had caused the temporary power cut of the all the lights. The psionic had heard Piper's voice coming from the top of the stairs, so she decided to investigate.
"Hey Piper, what happened with the-," She stopped dead. Emma was suddenly hit with each a dark feeling that she knew that something was wrong. Piper turned her head to address her friend, that was when Emma realized and could only shout out a warning,"Piper, get away from Phoebe!"
But it was too late, Phoebe's eyes turned to black and her hand glowed as she shoved it into Piper's chest. The eldest witch gave her little sister a look of such pain as she fell to her knees. Phoebe's face had contorted into one of pleasure as Piper's powers flowed into her. She finally pulled her hand out and left her older sister slumped on the ground.
"C'mon Emma, do we need to do this the slow way, or the fast way?"
"You choose. You're going to be the one in pain," She growled, making her eyes go black for a brief moment as she fired a shockwave of fear at her former friend. Phoebe's soulless eyes widened and she stumbled back as the black wave hit her, even with her enhanced power of intuition, she could never have expected such power to erupt from Emma.
"Wow… that explains how you were able to my place while I was gone. But those times are over," She narrowed her eyes and Emma went flying into a chest of drawers at the wall, she was knocked out by a heavy ornament that fell from the top.
The lights flickered again and Phoebe was gone. She wasn't interested in draining Emma at this moment in time; she had other plans for the only person that came close to her power. She calmly climbed the stairs towards the attic, seeing the Book of Shadows standing on its podium. The tome glowed and closed itself as soon as Phoebe began to walk towards it. She smirked as she stood in front of it, it didn't matter if it was rejecting her. The witch held her hands over the closed book and they began to glow. The book seemed to be fighting against it, but in the end, Phoebe won out and it opened. The pages began to glow blood red and the light shot into Phoebe's hands, the pages began to flip rapidly and as they did, all the words, pictures, diagrams were torn from their pages and were absorbed by Phoebe. The book reached the end and it closed itself.
"Phoebe… what did you do?" Piper's voice came from the door. It was shaky, as was her stance.
She only grinned in response, "I'll be back," she growled, before the lights in the attic flickered and when they came back, Phoebe Halliwell had left the building…
NEXT TIME: Emma puts Brennan in his place about what he did to Phoebe. Paige instructs Leo to take all the children "Up There" as Phoebe will be coming after them for their powers. Piper wraps herself in a defensive cocoon and Pamela is drained of her powers when she takes on her aunt directly.
Chapter 18 "When Good Sisters Go Bad" will be up soon!
Just incase people are stumped about Paige's new power, it's to see onto the planes of existence E.G. Astral plane, ghostly plane… etc. She can only onto the astral plane right now, but her power will grow and her sight will become more advanced.
MDS – Multi-Dimensional Sight
