Powers
Chapter Two: Some Things Never Change
Disclaimer: See Chapter One
Date: September 3, 2032
The Saturday morning sun shone through the windows of Pru and Cole Turner's bedroom. Pru groaned as she rolled over on her back, and looked at the ceiling. She could hear Cole breathing steadily, and tiredly. He had a long night running from Bounty Hunters after his head. She rolled out of her warm comforter, and grabbed her robe and placed it around her shoulders. Her eyes caught the green neon lights of the clock, 7:15. What a ghastly hour to wake up on a Saturday, workless morning.
She exited her room, and began her descent down the stairs leading to the first floor. She looked at the informal living room, and her mind remembered when Cole, Sander and Greg built a room there for Warren, but do to a demon attack three days after the exposure it had to be removed, and Warren was bunking in with the girls, but when the teenage years came about, they would have to do something. She kept the spell to add an extra room hidden in her spell box in her room.
A loud blaring sound crept into her ears, which she recognized a cartoon on the television. She walked over to the living room, and saw the three kids sitting next to each other on the sofa watching the television.
"Good morning Mommy." Warren said, not taking his eyes off the television.
"Morning sweetie. I'll go make breakfast." she said absent mindedly, and headed towards the kitchen to make something for breakfast. She noticed that a shopping list was started and abandoned on the sideboard next to the fax machine. She hated food shopping, she had to shop for eight people, and two of them had allergies. Sander and his maple syrup products which included anything maple, and Halli has an allergy to tree nuts.
"Let's see, how about eggs." she said to herself as she pulled a carton of eggs from the fridge, and got the rest of the materials out she needed.
At around seven forty-five, Pru was half-way done with breakfast, and Sander entered the kitchen. His eyes half closed from fatigue. He was wearing a muscle shirt, and shorts.
"Morning." he said as he poured himself a cup of coffee.
"Hey, get enough sleep?" she teased, Sander was very into his sleep.
"That's not funny. You try sleeping next to the snore machine." he bitched, as he looked around the fax machine.
"What you looking for?" she asked distractedly.
"My glasses. I left them here because Mike orbed me upstairs so I didn't have to climb the stairs." he was getting impatient.
"Over there, by the flour canister." Pru pointed to the counter nearest the fridge. Sander nodded his thanks and placed his glasses on his face.
"Yum, this looks good." he said as he sampled an omelette.
"Touch that again, I will hurt you." she threatened.
"With what a premonition?" he taunted.
"Geez, Someone's a bastard in the morning." she bitched.
Sander laughed as he went to go watch cartoons with the kids. He was still a kid at heart.
Greg awoke in his empty bed, missing Emma's body curled up next to him. He missed her smell, her care, and her love. He needed her, but she made it clear at their meeting that she didn't need him.
"Do you wish for my client to pay alimony?" Cole asked Emma's lawyer. Greg had asked his brother in law to represent him.
"No," the lawyer said, "my client has more than enough money to support herself."
Greg ran his fingers through his hair, and got up. He wanted to spend the day with Halli, just a father-daughter bonding day. He pulled a hoodie over his bare chest, and pulled pants on over his boxers, and he headed downstairs.
He saw his brother sitting on the floor with the kids watching some cartoon Greg didn't recognize, and he thought to himself, 'What ever happened to Dexter's Lab?'. He went into the kitchen to see Pru, and Cole, who had just woken up, setting the kitchen table for breakfast.
"Morning." Greg said dismally, as he grabbed a cup for his coffee.
"You look like crap." Cole said, as he placed plates on the table.
"Well, I feel like it." he moaned, as he took a long sip of coffee, the scalding liquid didn't phase him.
Sander walked into the kitchen giggling like a prepubescent girl.
"Sander, you should like Halli when she laughs." Greg pointed out to his slightly younger brother.
"Well, that cartoon was funny, and shut up." he smirked as he did a come here motion with his fingers and his coffee cup moved towards him.
"That was so personal gain." Pru said, "If a demon attacks today, I blame you."
Sander shrugged, "It would be nice to kill something, it's been a couple weeks." the last demon attack was in July when Halli accidently read a summoning spell from the Book of Shadows.
"Greg, get the kids for breakfast." Pru said, as she and Cole put dishes of food on the table. He nodded and headed towards the living room.
Greg came back in carrying Halli, and Warren and Mely closely followed.
"Okay, why don't we sit down." Greg said, as she placed Halli in her usual spot between Greg and Cole.
"Okay, what are we doing today?" Pru asked as she placed half a cheese omelette on each plate.
"Zoo!" Mely screamed excitedly.
"Uhm, honey not today." Cole said to his daughter.
"I want to see the tiger!" she said angrily, as orbs enveloped the room. Everyone expected to see Mike, but instead it was a tiger.
'Holy shit!" Greg said, as he placed his hands up, and it froze in place.
"Where the hell did that come from?" Sander asked confused.
"Melinda Phoebe Turner! Did you orb that here!" Pru asked sternly, and Mely sank in her chair, she knew when her mother pulled out the full name problems would ensue.
"Maybe." she said quietly, barely audible.
"You will orb him back right now, or I will bind your powers, and don't tempt me young lady, you have been using your powers constantly."
Mely looked like she was going to cry, "Tiger go home." she said, as the frozen tiger orbed back to its home...not the San Francisco Zoo, but India.
"Thank you." Pru said, as she went to the fridge to get ketchup.
After breakfast, the three kids went to watch more cartoons, and the witches and demon were in the kitchen talking.
"She is out of control, she is taking her orbing telekinesis to a whole new level." Pru said to her brothers.
"She's only eight, and she doesn't understand the full extent of her powers yet." Sander said as he shoveled left over toast in his mouth.
"She needs to learn that not only does her power work with vocal command but mental thought." Greg said, 'We need to talk to Dad, maybe he can help us."
The subject of Leo was a topic no one liked to bring up. The witches felt abandoned by their father, he went to be an Elder and they barely saw him.
"Well, let's talk to Mely first, then we can –" Pru started before being cut off by a small explosion. "Kids!" Pru yelled as got up from her seat and ran as fast as her legs would let her. Everyone followed.
In the living room, there was a demon. He was dressed in all black, and looked very evil. He shot an energy ball at Greg, who felt his body pull itself upwards. He levitated. The ball hit the grandfather clock.
Pru orbed out, then orbed back in next to the kids, then orbed out with them. Sander stepped forward and used his telekinesis, which barely phased the demon. The demon mimicked the attack, and Sander flew and hit Cole, who also fell over.
Greg flicked his wrists, and the room froze, the demon included.
"That's not fair, your power works but not mine." Sander bitched as Pru orbed back in.
" Let's Po3 this bastard." Pru said. Po3 meant Power of Three, or Pru's way of saying vanquish.
"What entered our house, must now leave. We vanquish you with the power of three." Pru said, as she held onto her brother's hands. The freeze wore off, and the demon exploded into a sweet oblivion.
"Nice spell, you just come up with it?" Sander asked.
"Yeah, I did." Pru smiled, as she bent over to heal the clock, which surprisingly worked.
"Some things never change. This damn clock keeps getting its ass kicked. I thought we said eleven years ago that if it kept happening we would put it in storage." Sander said, as he rubbed his arm, which hurt from being propelled into Cole.
"Cole, shimmer it upstairs, and tell the kids they can come down now." Pru said, as she headed back into the kitchen. Cole nodded and him and the clock were gone.
"Now, back to Mely's powers, what do we do?" Pru asked her brothers.
"Dad." Greg said, "He might know something about raising a half whitelighter child with a power similar to hers."
"I somehow doubt there are other half whitelighters like us." Sander said.
"True, Mom and Dad went through a lot to get married and stuff."
"Fine, this afternoon, we call Dad. Right now, I'm taking a shower then taking the kids to that new place thingy down on Madison Corner." Pru said.
"You mean Playland?" Sander said excitedly.
"Yes." Pru said, 'Why you want to come?"
"You bet I do!" Sander said excitedly again.
"And to think I thought you were more mature than Greg." she said with a laugh, which got a glare from Greg.
That's chapter two. Don't worry, there will be full explanations to certain things that happened in Frozen In Time, such as the witch hunt and exposure. The time will come for all that. I'm glad some liked the Paige thing, there might be more of her, but I'm not sure yet. Review!!