Hey y'all! I'm back as soon as possible. I've been a little swamped with school though. I'm trying to knock these diaries out of here so I can get working on Carry On the Heritage with Laur (if she ever has time cause god knows she can't even get her own story done!). Quite honestly, I'm ready to be done with all of this Army of Witches stuff and get onto something new and fresh because this is getting kind of old, don't you think? I'm excited to do It's A Bad, Bad World. I think that one's just gonna be way too fun!
TVCrazed- Haha! Off the hook. I love it! Thanks!
s.halliwell24- Uh oh… is that compassion for Heather I'm seeing? Lol! I knew I'd get you to say something good about her! Haha! Thanks!
Prince Halliwell- Oh see now you guys all say something good about Heather that she's dead! Lol! I told you I wouldn't leave you hanging in the Cole department! Losing his powers is what caused all the trouble on the show in the first place. I couldn't do that to him again. Thanks!
fanmania- Thanks! I liked Preston too. He was cool. I would totally have him as my boyfriend if he were real.
The-Cheese-Fairy- Chocolate chip cookies? Well if they make you that hyper, then I am officially cutting you off! Lol! Aw, I love when I make you like Phoebe! Haha! I was afraid that I wasn't going to do Preston justice, because before I started writing this I didn't even know what he was like. But I've grown to love him, as I have all of the Archers so far! Okay, so I'm going to quote you just to show you why you can't have anymore chocolate chip cookies. "He is just so… incredibly fantastically amazingly awesome!" Haha! You always come up with the best descriptions. I am definitely not one of the best authors on this site, but as long as you want to say it I have no complaints! Lol! I hope Word gets fixed soon. Then we can have an update from the real best author on this site!
Bloomin Daisy- Haha! That's actually a good question. I'll see if I can do the dictionary thing. You pronounce it: Per- sef- oh- nee. Lol! Hey, a late start is better than no start at all! Thanks!
clegs- Aw, don't worry. It's only over for Preston and you'll still get to see him. We've still got one more cousin to go. Thanks!
Confessions of a Halliwell: The Diary of Persephone
Chapter One: The Mind's Ear
Hi! How's it going? My name, for those of you very depraved people that don't know, is Persephone Autum Halliwell. You can call me Percy, though. Or Fireball. That's what my family calls me. I was named after my dead aunt, Autum O'Reilly. She's really cool, so I'm all good with it. My parents are Paige Natasha Halliwell and Frisco James O'Reilly. They're cool too. They're the youngest and they understand what it's like to be a kid. You should also know that I'm a witch, but if you don't I guess I'll forgive you… for now. I'm part Whitelighter, too. I love being a witch. The demons constantly coming in and screwing with our lives kind of sucks, but other than that it's great! I'm not sure if my family would agree with me though…
Patience Marie Halliwell, my cousin and Aunt Prue and Uncle Andy's daughter, is my best friend in the whole world. We tell each other literally everything. The guys hate us for it, but who cares? Parker is really nice and so loveable. He totally didn't deserve to have his girlfriend shot by his future son. I liked Kelsey too. She was sweet. As for Preston, well, he's kind of hard to describe. He seems like a real bastard when you first meet him, but if you get to know him he's a big softie. He and Leah had some trouble a while back and he decided to hook up with Heather Graham even though he promised that he would stay away from her. I hate that girl. I guess it is kind of sad that she died though.
As for my boyfriend, that would be Atli Williams. He's so hot and I love him more than anyone could ever imagine. He's the nicest guy I've ever met. He'd do just about anything for me. He's captain of the soccer team and you should see those muscles! Oh, I guess that's a little off topic. Anyways, he doesn't know that I'm a witch yet. I just haven't found the right time to tell him! I mean, how exactly do you slip that into the conversation? He did find out once when Alex came back from the future, but I used a memory spell on him. It was just not the right time and definitely not the right way for him to find out. Okay, I guess you're probably a little bored now, so let's get onto the important stuff!
It was the end of our Junior year and I was stressing like crazy over finals. I had done really good all year, but I hate tests. I don't test well. Tests are bad. Parker wasn't it at all because he's super smart. Patience tests well anyways and Preston cheats to no end. But me, I'm always stuck with big fat F! It's not fair.
"You'll do fine!" Parker assured me as I ranted about the upcoming math final.
"Easy for you to say, you'll probably get a hundred and three percent!" I said.
"Oh come on, that's impossible. There's no extra credit on finals," Parker said.
"You're Parker Halliwell, the smartest kid in San Francisco Valley High. They'll give you extra credit just for putting your name down," I said angrily.
"Well then that counts for something since you're related," he said with a grin.
"Parker," I said, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Huh?" he asked. "Ow!" he yelled as my hand started to heat up. I grinned and kept walking. "I don't understand what you're freaking out about. You did really well this year," he pointed out, catching back up to me.
"Yeah, I do well with class work, notes, and homework. I do not do well with tests, especially when they cover everything that we did this year. I have to wrack my brain for the information, I can't use notes, and I'm constantly looking at the clock watching the seconds tick by thinking 'Oh my god, any minute now they're going to make us stop and I'm only on question five!'" I exclaimed in one breath.
"Calm down, FB. You'll do fine," Preston said as he came up with Patience, Kyle, and LC.
"FB? What the hell is that?" I asked.
"Short for Fireball," Patience explained.
"Well you know what would make me feel better? If I could find Atli," I said.
"I'm here!" he said, jogging up to us. "Sorry I'm late, I got caught up in the English final. That one's a killer." My eyes went wide as he said that and I groaned. "I'm kidding, babe. I haven't even taken the English final yet. It's tomorrow, remember?"
"You suck," I said flatly. He laughed and gave me a kiss.
"You've got the talent, just use it," he whispered. I looked at him, confused, but the bell rang and we all had to run in and sit down to take the final. As I sat there, looking at the hundred-question test, I could feel my brain start to go crazy.
"If only I could be as smart as Parker," I thought. Then it hit me like a four inch Stiletto. Use my talents. "Thanks, baby!"
"Let me know what I desire.
Soothe my mind's inner fire.
Keep me from going to the brink.
Let me hear what others think," I whispered as quietly as I could. I didn't feel anything happen. I looked around, but I didn't hear anything. I sighed and looked over at Patience to see how she was doing.
"Oh my god! Why can I not remember this?" she said in frustration. I looked around to see if anyone had heard, but they all seemed to be wrapped up in their own tests. I looked over at Parker.
"Let's see, number 62 is… 83," he said, but his lips never moved. My eyes went wide as I realized what was happening. The spell worked. I was hearing people's thoughts!
"What the hell? Parker's on 62 already?" I asked myself. "Oh well, I'll just wait until he checks his answers. He always does." I didn't have to wait very long. Within five minutes, he was done and zipping through his answers like crazy. I wrote them down as fast as I could and sighed in relief as I wrote down the last one. "Thanks Tory, I owe you big time."
"Thank god that's over!" I exclaimed as we walked down to lunch.
"How do you think you did?" Parker asked. I grinned.
"Great!" I said happily.
"Yeah right, if she did great on that final then Kelsey's going to walk through that door right now," Parker thought. I raised my eyebrow at him.
"What?" he asked.
"You don't think I did good?" I asked.
"I didn't say that," he said quickly. "I have every confidence in you."
"Yeah right, you moot," I said.
"That test sucked ass. I could not for the life of me remember half of that stuff," Patience said.
"Yeah, I know," I said. She gave me a confused look. "I just mean that you looked a little stressed."
"Well no shit, Sherlock. I hate tests as much as you," she thought. "And why does it seem like she's hiding something from me? Does she really think that after seventeen years of being best friends I don't know her by now? Something weird is going on."
"Um, so we have the rest of the day off after lunch. What are we gonna do?" I asked, trying to take her mind off of me.
"I'll be true, I'll be faithful, I'll be cavalier. I'll be yours, my dear and I'll be-long to you," Preston sang in his head. I gave him a funny look.
"Do you like Dashboard Confessional?" I asked.
"Kind of. I just got their CD and I can't get 'As Lovers Go' out of my head. It's starting to get annoying," he said.
"Aw, I love that song!" Leah exclaimed. "He is so damn sexy I could just jump his bones right now."
"Oh my god!" I yelled, giving LC a disgusted look.
"What?" Patience asked.
"Uh, I forgot money today," I lied.
"Don't worry about it, I got it," Atli offered.
"No, that's okay baby," I said. He gave me a stern look.
"I'm buying you lunch," he insisted. I sighed.
"Fine," I said, feeling bad because I really did have money. As I sat through lunch, I tried my best to ignore the thoughts from everyone. It was a little hectic because the cafeteria was so full.
"Are you okay?" Patience asked, looking over at me. I had my head in my hands rubbing my temples.
"Yeah," I said quietly. "I just have a headache and it's really noisy in here."
"Well we can go," she offered.
"No it's fine. Finish your lunch," I said.
"Why don't you go wait in the car? We'll be done in a minute," Patience insisted. I nodded and gave Atli a kiss before walking out. I was relieved when I settled into the car and the only thoughts I could hear were my own.
"I have got to reverse this spell or I'm gonna go insane!" I thought.
"You've given me what I desire.
Soothed my mind's inner fire.
Return this gift from whence it came.
So that may hear only my thoughts again," I said quickly. "Oh you dumbass! How am I supposed to know if it worked or not?" I asked myself.
"If what worked?" Atli asked, coming up to the car.
"Oh, nothing," I lied.
"Yeah right. It was probably a spell," he thought. I looked at him in disbelief.
"What?" he asked.
"Did you just think what I think you thought?" I asked, completely disregarding the fact that I could expose myself, not to mention my whole family.
"What are talking about?" Atli asked in confusion. "It must have been a spell. She knows what I'm thinking. Wonder why she did that. Ah, shut up! She's reading your thoughts right now you idiot!"
"Oh my god, you did!" I exclaimed, jumping out of the car.
"Okay kiddies, let's get the hell out of here," Patience said, getting in the driver's seat. "What's up, Percy?"
"I… nothing, let's go," I said, getting in. She nodded as Parker and Preston got in the car and we drove off.
"Okay, spill," Patience demanded, pinning me up against the wall as we walked into her house.
"What do you mean? Spill what?" I asked.
"Oh come on, Persephone! We've been best friends forever. Do you really think I can't tell when something's going on with you? You've been weird ever since the math final and you've got personal gain spell written all over your forehead," she said.
"I do?" I asked, wiping furiously at my forehead. Patience grabbed my hand.
"It's a figure of speech dumbass, and don't change the subject. What did you do?"
"I sort of cast a spell to hear people's thoughts," I explained.
"You what?" Patience asked, her eyes wide.
"I didn't want to bomb the test and I knew that Parker would know all the answers, so I cast a spell so I could read his mind," I explained.
"I knew it! There's no way she could have passed that test without help," Patience thought.
"Hey! I heard that!" I exclaimed.
"I love you," Patience grinned.
"Bite me," I growled.
"So why didn't you use a spell to get rid of it?" Patience asked.
"Let me tell you a story," I said bitterly. "Once upon a time, there was a young witch who was very pretty and very popular. Her ex-boyfriend was jealous of her new boyfriend, so he dumped a bunch of water on her. This made her very angry, so she said a spell to make herself invisible so that she could get revenge. When she tried to turn back though, she found it impossible because of a little thing called personal gain. The end," I said. Patience rolled her eyes.
"You suck at storytelling, but I get the picture. Well you've got to do something. My mom almost went crazy one time because she could hear everyone's thoughts," she said.
"Yeah, I know. I'm just not sure how to turn it off. I mean for god sakes, Principal Snyder had 'Walk Like An Egyptian' stuck in her head. I don't want to have to listen to that shit for the rest of my life," I said. Patience giggled.
"That's just so wrong. What else were people thinking?" she asked.
"Well when I told Parker that I did great on the final, he thought 'yeah right, if she did great then Kelsey's going to walk through that door any minute now,' and LC was thinking that she could jump Preston's bones," I explained.
"Oh, is that why you flipped out?" Patience asked. I nodded. "Was there anything else?" I paused, wondering if I should tell her about Atli.
"No, not much. Just the usual stupid crap," I lied.
"Well, we'll get you fixed up as soon as we can," Patience assured me. I nodded. The next day we had English and science finals. I could still read minds, so I was pretty sure that I passed them both, but constantly hearing people's thoughts was annoying. For some reason though, I couldn't read Atli's. It was like he had found a way to block me out of his mind. It made me even more suspicious than I was before.
"Are you okay, Fireball?" Preston asked as we watched TV later that day. I ignored him, trying my best to block out the thoughts. I could now hear not only my cousins', but all the people on the street too. "What's wrong with her?"
"She cast a spell yesterday to hear people's thoughts, but because of personal gain she can't get rid of it. It's making her crazy, literally," Patience explained.
"Well why the hell did she do that?" Parker asked.
"Think about it honey, it's not that hard," Patience said.
"Yeah Tory, who's brain would she want to get into more than anyone's on the day of the math final?" Preston asked. Parker contemplated.
"Oh! Hey!" he said angrily.
"Oh shut up, finals are over and it's too late to do anything about it now. We have to focus on helping her get back to normal. She's gonna go insane if we don't," Patience warned.
"That's the last one," Preston announced as I downed a disgusting metallic blue potion a few hours later.
"Did it work?" Patience asked. I shook my head, regretting it as it pounded even more furiously. She sighed. "I don't know what to do sweetie. I'm sorry. We're gonna have to tell our parents. Maybe they can fix this." I was too weak to protest, so I just sat there and tried to block out the thoughts. Preston shimmered me up to her bedroom so that I could lie down until my parents got home. Meanwhile, the spell got stronger.
After what seemed like hours, my mom and dad came quietly into the room. I was huddled in a corner, curled up as tightly as possible. I could hear the whole city's thoughts and I backed up as my parents' hit me like a wave of thunder.
"Hey Percy," my mom said gently. I didn't answer. I just sat there as the tears rolled down my face and I rocked back and forth slowly. "Hey," Mom said again, squatting next to me. She put a hand on my knee and I whimpered, pulling away from her.
"Come on, honey. You have to get up so we can fix this," my dad urged.
"Please, just go away. It hurts for you to be here," I pleaded quietly.
"It's not going to do any good. You'll still hear everyone else. Here, drink this," Prue instructed. I shook my head.
"It won't work," I whispered.
"The hell it won't! It was made by a demon that specializes in these things. Takes a hell of a long time to make, too. Drink it. It's an empathy blocking potion, but it should work for you too," she said. I slowly took the vial and downed the potion. After a few seconds, all of the noise stopped. I looked up.
"It worked," I said.
"I told you it would," Prue said with a grin.
"Where'd you get that from?" Mom asked curiously.
"Like I said, from a demon. After I got that empathic boost from that demon, I went looking for something that would cure it should it ever happen again. I'd advise you to never cast that spell again though, because I don't have anymore," Prue warned. I nodded.
"What were you thinking, anyways?" my dad asked.
"Frisco, leave her alone. I think she's learned her lesson. She doesn't need a lecture from us," Mom said. He nodded and they walked out, leaving me, finally, to my own thoughts.
"So what all did you hear while you had your little power?" Patience asked a few days later as we took a walk.
"Lots of stuff. I did hear something that I didn't like though," I said.
"What's that?" she asked.
"I think Atli is a demon," I said.
"What? How do you know?" Patience asked in surprise.
"When I tried a spell to get rid of my power, I said out loud that I didn't know if it had worked. He had just happened to come up to the car at that time and he asked me what I wanted to know worked and of course I said nothing, but he thought that it was probably a spell that I was doing. He knows I'm a witch, Patience. I don't know how, but the only thing I can guess is that he's a demon. I love him. I don't know what I'll do if he is," I said sadly. Patience smiled warmly.
"Only what you have to."
So there is the first chapter of Percy. How'd you guys like it? Sorry it took so long, but like I said I've been swamped with school. Well, let me know what you thought. Till next time…
.:.Aut.:.