The Witching Hour

Crossover with Charmed. Cameron is a witch, a powerful one. Cousin to the Charmed Ones, she has shied away from that part of her life. What will happen when her cousins need her help? HouseCam.

Chapter Three: Cameron's Calling

"Paige, do your thing." Piper said, once she had Chris safely nestled in her arms and Wyatt was holding Phoebe's hand.

Paige rolled her eyes. "It might help if I actually knew where we were going."

Piper readjusted Chris in her arms and pulled a scrap of paper from her pocket. "Here," she handed Paige the address. Seeing the look on her sister's face, she filled her in. "It's in Princeton, New Jersey."

Paige rolled her eyes. "That's halfway across the country."

Phoebe shook her head. "Did you skip Geography at school, Paige? It's all-way across the country."

"You skipped English, all-way my arse." Paige said, putting her hand on Piper's shoulder and grabbing Phoebe's spare hand. They vanished in a flurry of blue light.

Allison jumped back as a torrent of lights appeared in her kitchen and formed five people.

"Hi."

"Hello," she replied, blinking. "What on earth was that?"

"That," Piper stated. "Was orbing. Paige here has the ability."

"So do Wyatt and Chris." Phoebe interrupted.

"They are hardly old enough to transport us that far," Piper shot back.

"Stop it!" Allison said. "Please, explain! I'm sorry, Paige, but who on earth are you? Where on earth is Prue? What in the name of everything holy is going on?"

The sisters stopped their bickering, and turned to Allison. "You might want to sit down," Paige advised.

Sighing, Allison wiggled her finger at a chair, which came flying across the room and settled behind her, allowing her to sit down. Piper and Phoebe looked at her strangely.

Catching their gaze, Allison tilted her head questioningly. "Sorry," Piper began. "It's just that we never really saw you use your powers, and you used them for personal gain."

Allison waved a hand in the air. "Aliyah and Annalise did some kind of weird spell that allowed us to use magic for certain levels of personal gain." She smiled sadly. "Just me left to enjoy the effects now,"

"What I wouldn't give to know what that spell is," Paige blurted. The other three looked at her, blinking.

Eventually, they settled and all was explained to a thoroughly confused Allison.

"So!" said Piper, clapping her hands to draw their attention. "Lets start research."

Allison groaned and banged her head repeatedly on the table. "I HATE the research part of vanquishing demons," she informed them vehemently.

Phoebe smiled at her sympathetically. "Don't we all?"

Summoning the Charmed Ones Book of Shadows, and Allison's own book of shadows, they researched well into the night, falling asleep on their books and other resources.

Allison woke up the next morning with a headache and a sore neck. Automatically diagnosing herself with rare and deadly diseases, she checked herself. She was doing it again. There was a wail from the lounge room and she sat up straight, looking around. She swore, seeing her three cousins sleeping on her kitchen table. Or, more accurately, Piper and Phoebe were sleeping on the kitchen table, she corrected as Paige let out a snore and fell to the floor. There was another wail. "Right, the wailing," she muttered, going out the back. The brown haired baby was screaming, getting increasingly louder. The blonde toddler, Wyatt if she remembered correctly, was glaring at his little brother.

"Kiss dirty." Wyatt stated, as Allison lifted Chris out of the play pen, which Paige had conveniently fetched halfway through the night. Allison frowned at him, confused.

"Kiss kwiss kiss! Durdy dirty durdy!" he chanted, jumping up and down. Allison looked that the baby in her arms and then at Wyatt.

"Chris is dirty?" she asked.

Wyatt nodded, hitting the side of the play pen.

Allison groaned. This was going to stink. Literally.

Half an hour later, Allison was using her powers to entertain and feed Chris while trying to coax Wyatt into trusting her. Apparently he'd only let his shield down so that she could take Chris from him. She sighed in frustration, after being blasted by some weird power of Wyatt's for the fifth time. "I give up!" she exclaimed, defeated, and turned to Chris. He was much easier to look after.

Piper groaned and her head rolled. "What did I have to drink last night?"

Allison smiled. "Good, you're awake, Pippa," she handed Chris to Piper and explained about the problem with Wyatt. Packing up the stack of magical books that Piper had been sleeping on, Allison put them back in her cupboard, and with a flick of her hand, it went rolling to where Piper couldn't see.

"Would you like me to wake them up?" Piper blinked, stunned at the sudden efficiency in her cousin as she indicated her sisters.

Not waiting for an answer, Piper belted each of them over the head with the closest book. They both sat up like they had been shot, Paige scrambling off the floor with a flourish as if she thought the others wouldn't notice. Allison smiled and, without moving, made the books pack themselves away. "Okay," she began, military style, and led them into a concealed library, indicating a bookshelf that was collecting dust.

"Today we are going to go through the top shelf, one book at a time. They are books on coven demons. Then, once we find out which demon it is, and the properties, we can move down three shelves and look at the complicated vanquish potions, and one further down, the complicated vanquish spells."

She handed each of them a book, and went out quickly to collect their breakfast. "Allison?" Piper enquired.

"Mm?"

"Why do you have so many magical books?"

Allison gave a light shrug. "Inheritance, Pippa. Some of them are from my mother's family, she was a witch too, you know. Some are from Jason's parents. Some are ones that you would have gotten, but they didn't want to take them away from me."

After eating their breakfast, Allison pulled a book onto her lap and started reading. Paige made an exclamation. "I think I found it!"

They all dropped their books and crowded around the youngest female Haliwell. "Well?" Phoebe demanded.

Paige cleared her throat. "Plura Duo," she snickered. "At least we know where that name came from. Latin, isn't it? Some demons have the weirdest names,"

Catching Allison's glare, she shut her mouth abruptly, before beginning to read again.

Plura Duo is a level 1 Inner demon. Technically not a coven demon, the Plura Duo specialises in Illusion Magicks.

The article went on to explain what they already knew: the letters, the Charmed with a difference. It also explained that although it appeared that there were more and more demons each time, all they had to do was vanquish the one that wasn't an illusion with the proper vanquish potion. Then it referred them to another book in which the corresponding vanquish could be found. Allison went off, and when she returned, she was dragging a trunk.

"That book is in here," she exclaimed with one last pant. "Pippa, Phoebe, I need your help to open it."

Piper frowned. "Why do you need our help?"

"We put a spell on it. When we were all alive, Me, you, Annalise, Aliyah and Prue did a spell when we were young, so that it could only be opened if there were three or more of us present."

Piper nodded, and Phoebe piped up. "What do we do?"

"Just put a finger on the lock."

The trunk clicked and flew open. Allison started coughing and waved away the dust, pulling out a woollen blanket and handing it to Piper. Several more things got removed, like dolls and finally, Allison uncovered a few books.

Pulling one of the heavy tomes onto the floor, she began to flip through the pages. "Stop, there," Paige said, and they all stared at the page.

"Well? What are you waiting for?" Allison said with an air of professionalism. "We start with the revealing potion. Room temperature ingredients are in that trunk, cold ingredients in that one, and hot in that one. "

Fumbling with the locks on each of the trunks, and running around collecting supplies, the three sisters decided that their cousin, strangely, wasn't so bad.

After some bonding while making several vanquish potions (a total of fifteen) and writing several new spells (seven), they were finally ready for the attack. With a day to spare.

"So…" Piper began.

"So what?" the others asked.

"Love life!" Piper exclaimed. "That's as good a topic as any. How's your love life, Ally?"

Allison shrivelled back under the sudden scrutiny of her sisters. "Funny you should ask," she muttered under her breath. "Absolutely terrible, and lets leave it at that."

Piper and Phoebe gave her puppy dog faces. She sighed and prepared to elaborate.

"I'm in love with my boss."

Paige nodded. "The old 'I want someone I can't have.' Seems to be a curse on our family."

"Except Piper," Phoebe amended. "She got who she can't have."

Piper nodded empathically. "So there is no reason why you can't 'get' your boss. Unless he's already married or something," she added quickly, quirking her head to look at Allison.

Allison shook her head. "Nothing like that. He just doesn't like me, that's all."

The three girls frowned sadly. Allison stood up. "An speaking of work, I'd better go."

Piper looked at her watch. "Shouldn't it be like, five o'clock in the afternoon?"

Allison shook her head. "I put a spell on the room. It's like, freezing the rest of the world while I'm in here."

"That's one hell of a powerful spell," Piper mumbled.

Allison nodded. "Yeah, it is. But the thing is, it's been renewed by every witch on my Mum's side of the family for years. It's portable, see. It follows the heir to wherever they live. Otherwise I'd be rid of it by now." And with that, she stepped out, and left ten minutes later.

"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Phoebe asked Piper and Paige.

They both nodded. "Let's play…"

"Matchmaker!"

Authors Notes:

Okay! Hello again, sorry about the lack of updates! Here's the next instalment in this stunning little narrative.

I must repeat, that this will never be my main project, however, I may be prompted to write faster if I get reviews. Hint, Hint. I feel very flattered that people would like for it to be my main project, anyway. I've finished the writing process of Belonging to Time, so I will be able to focus on this a bit more.

I'm thinking that I will write two or three more chapters. One with lots of action and demons, one with the matchmaking and romance, and maybe an epilogue. So, my wonderful little readers, drop me a line and I promise I'll update soon. Maybe even by Christmas if I'm fast enough. If not, Merry Christmas anyway.