Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Charmed. But I do own Aurora, Haley, Charisma, and any other characters you don't recognize.
"What the hell do you mean she ran away?" Haley yelled at her sister.
"I mean I went to my room and there was a note on the bed, saying she was taking off." Aurora replied.
"That doesn't sound like something Charisma would do though." Haley stated. "Where's dad?"
"Probably in bed, you know how he likes to go to bed early." Aurora replied. "We gotta go find her."
"I'm sure she couldn't of gotten far." Haley sighed, grabbing her coat and putting it on. "The question is where would she of gone, and why?"
"Why? I don't know. She's was all cheerful when you and Wyatt left for your dinner, and she started watching the movie with me and Chris before she took off upstairs to go on her computer. The only place that I think she could of gone is Phoebe's but Phoebe would of called or something, wouldn't she?" Aurora looked at the phone when it started ringing, and decided to let the machine pick it up, knowing Haley was thinking the same.
"I don't know." Haley replied to her sister's question."I'm going to go over there and ask, all go to Piper's and Paige's place to, you never know she could of gone there too. Once I'm done with that I'm going to drive around and see if I can find her. You check parks around here, and any where else you can think of, just quickly write up a note for dad."
Aurora nodded as she put on her coat and shoes, and walked into the kitchen to leave her father a note. Haley watched Aurora walk away, and turned to open the door. "Going some where?" Wyatt questioned as she opened the door.
"What are you doing here I thought you went home." Haley stated smiling weakly at her boyfriend.
"I did, but I came to check on you and Aurora. Aurora seemed kind of out of it after I left. And you guys didn't answer when Chris called here a couple minutes ago."
"Oh."
"You ok Haley?"
"Was Charisma at your house?"
"What?"
"Was Charisma at your house?" Haley repeated.
"No. Why would she be there?" Wyatt questioned.
"She ran away. Left a note in Aurora's room. God why would she do this to us? Why would she just run away? And what happens if we can't find her? It's not like we're in some small town where you don't need to worry about things. Anything could happen to her." Haley rambled on before letting the tears escape her eyes.
Wyatt wrapped his arms around his girlfriend, and rubbed her back. "Shh, we'll find her Haley. It'll all be ok. Nothing will happen to her. I promise you.
"She's never done anything like this Wyatt. I don't understand why she'd do this." Haley whispered pulling away and wiping at her eyes.
"Does your dad know she's gone?" Wyatt questioned. Haley shook her head. "You got to tell him."
"No. He's probably sleeping. I don't want to wake him, and get him all worked up unless I have to." Haley replied.
"You want me to help you look for her?" Wyatt asked next, Haley nodded as Aurora walked out of the kitchen.
"Notes written. I'll call your cell if I find her." Aurora said, before walking out the open door, not even noticing Wyatt standing there.
Haley walked out closing the door, and Wyatt followed her to her car. "While I go see if she's at your aunt Phoebe's do you think you can see if she's at your aunt Paige's?" She questioned sitting in the drivers seat.
"Sure thing. Do you want me to double check with my mom? Just in case she showed up there after I left?" Wyatt questioned sitting in the passenger's seat. Haley nodded pulling down the driveway. When Haley pulled into Phoebe's driveway Wyatt said, "Meet back here in five minutes."
Haley nodded and got out of the car heading to Phoebe's front door, as Wyatt got out of the car and headed a few houses down the street to his aunt Paige's house. As he got closer he pulled out his cell phone, and dialed his home phone number. "Hello?"
"Chris let me talk to mom." Wyatt stated knocking on his aunts door.
"Why?"
"Just let me."
"Ok. One sec." Chris said.
Wyatt smiled at Kyle when the door opened, and as it opened his mom came on the phone. "What's wrong Wyatt?"
"I think aunt Phoebe's premonition from Charisma's birthday party's coming true."
"What do you mean?" Piper questioned her son.
"I mean Charisma ran away. And Aurora took off to look for her. So one can only guess where she's going to go look." Wyatt replied.
"Where are you right now?"
"I'm at aunt Paige's place. Promised Haley I'd see if Charisma was here, and that I'd check with you just in case she's there."
"Tell Paige to orb to Phoebe's and get her on her way here. You help Haley look for Charisma, and we'll find Aurora to prevent the premonition from coming true."
"Kay. See you later mom."
"Bye hun."
Wyatt hung up his cell phone and looked at Kyle. "Think you can give Paige the 411?"
"I still need to be filled in Wyatt. I did only hear one side of the conversation." Kyle commented.
"Right. Aunt Phoebe's premonition is slowly coming true. And my mom wants Paige to orb to Phoebe's and pick her up before orbing to our place." Wyatt replied quickly.
"Kay. I'll tell her."
"Thanks Kyle."
"Any time Wyatt." Kyle replied as Wyatt headed down the driveway and back to Phoebe's where Haley was waiting by the car.
"Any luck?" She questioned as he walked up to her.
Wyatt shook his head, "Do you have any idea where she might be?"
"The park, school. I don't know." Haley muttered.
Aurora scanned the streets, all she could see were cars and the odd person walking out or into a building. As she walked down the street, a feeling that it was her fault Charisma ran away came over her. "I was the one who use to run away in the family." Aurora mused out loud to herself. "She's probably trying to do the same thing I did when I was her age. What a role model I turned out to be. If I was her trying to be me, where would I go?"
After a couple minutes Aurora came up with an answer to her question. "Somewhere dark and secluded." She muttered. That was when she started to look down dark alleyways.
Looking down at her watch she noticed the time. Eleven. She had been looking for her younger sister for about forty minutes. She was beginning to get desperate now, and started to run down the streets looking in any alley she passed.
She was slowly running out of breath from running for so long, but at the moment she didn't care, she wanted to find her younger sister. Turning down an alley she yelled, "Charisma! Charisma where are you?" Aurora could feel the tears burning at her eyes, but she tried not to cry.
Piper watched as the blue and white light formed two figures she knew very well. "About time the two of you got here."
"My fault." Phoebe stated. "Porter wouldn't go to bed."
Piper shook her head, "Do we have any idea where we're going to look for Aurora?"
"Dark alleys." Paige suggested.
Rolling her eyes Piper said, "Yea but which one is the question."
"Mom can I come with you guys?" Chris questioned walking into the room.
"Sure hun. She is your friend after all." Piper replied, smiling at her middle child.
"I think I might know where she is." He informed her next.
"Really? How?" Phoebe questioned her nephew.
"Every once in awhile I can sense her, like I can anyone in this family." Chris replied. "And well... right now is one of those times."
"Then what are we waiting for? Lets go kick some demon butt." Paige smiled. With that the four orbed out of the house, to help Aurora.
Wyatt looked over at his girlfriend, "Want me to drive?" he questioned.
"No, I'm fine." Haley replied, scanning the streets for any sign of her baby sister.
"Are you sure? It might be easier if I'm driving. You won't have to concentrate on two things at once."
"You got a point there." Haley sighed, stopping the car and getting out to switch spots with Wyatt. When they switched spots and the car was once again driving along Haley said, "I'm sorry to drag you into our problems."
"You didn't drag me into anything." Wyatt replied. "I asked to help you Haley, you didn't ask me to help you. Now, can you think of anywhere she could of gone other then places we've looked already?"
"No where she could of gotten to walking. If she hitchhiked she could be at the Golden Gate Bridge."
"Kay then lets look there, call your house see if she ended up going back there." Wyatt said, as he headed for the Golden Gate Bridge.
Haley nodded and pulled out her cell phone, dialing her home phone number, only to get the answering machine. The hopes Haley had of finding Charisma, were slowly dying.
Aurora closed her eyes and counted to five, she needed to calm down if she hoped to find Charisma. Opening her eyes again, she turned around only to be face to face with a hideous looking creature. She saw a ball form in one of his hands, and as he threw it at her, she managed to duck. "What the hell do you want?" she questioned.
"You dead." The demon replied throwing another energy ball at Aurora, which she again managed to dodge.
"Don't you guys ever have any other way to respond to that question? I swear I've heard it a million times now." Aurora growled, flicking her wrist to the left, slamming into the wall that stood there.
She grinned as the demon slid down the wall, and then flicked her wrist to the right, and watched as the demon flew in front of her to hit the wall on the other side of the alley. "So now we're even. You threw two energy balls at me, I threw you into two walls. Now tell me why you're really here. 'Cause I know its not to kill me, otherwise you wouldn't of chit chatted with me."
"Charisma" Was the only word the demon got out before he found himself hanging in mid-air being choked.
"Where the hell is she?" Aurora growled, her right arm extended, and her right hand clenched into a fist.
"I'll never tell you." The demon got out as he choked.
"Oh I think you will." Aurora replied, clenching her fist even tighter. She could feel her nails cutting into her hand, but she ignored the small bit of pain, she had bigger matters on her hands right now.
"Where the hell is she?" Piper, Phoebe, Paige, and Chris heard as they orbed into the alleyway. They looked ahead of themselves where Aurora stood with her right arm extended, and fist clenched. A demon hanging in mid air.
"I'll never tell you." They heard the demon reply.
"Oh I think you will." Aurora replied, and they watched as she clenched her fist even tighter.
They watched as the demon's face began to turn blue, "I take it she's a witch." Paige whispered.
"Well that wasn't obvious at all." Phoebe whispered back.
"Now tell me where the hell my sister is." Aurora growled, slowly relaxing her fist. The demon just looked at her in response. "Fine then we'll take it the hard way." Aurora let her arm drop fast, but before the demon had a chance to hit the ground she spun her right index finger around once and flicked it towards the left wall. She laughed as the demon spun around her and into the wall, just above the Haillwell's heads.
Aurora gasped at the sight of them, but before she said anything to them she turned to the demon. 'Get the answers you need from the demon and then ask them what the hell their doing there.' Aurora could see the demon's fear of death in his eyes, and she could sense it in the air. "Why are you a demon if you're afraid of death?" She questioned.
The demon said nothing in response. Shaking her head Aurora said, "If you tell me...well show me... where my sister is... I'll let you live. If you don't you'll be a pile of dust that rat's play in. Hurry up and decide I don't have all night."
"She's at the same place you watched your mother die." The demon sneered. Aurora felt sick to her stomach, where her mother died? Did her sister now have the same fate as their mother, or would she be able to get there before it was to late? Aurora could feel the anger begin to boil inside of her, and if looks could kill the demon would be dead by now.
Aurora quickly glanced around the alley for a weapon that would do her good, and then she saw it, a jagged piece of pipe lying on the ground not to far away from her. She extended her hand towards it, and it flew into her hand, she looked at it lying in her open hand and then towards the demon who looked about ready to shimmer away. Without having to make a gesture the pipe flew at the demon with extreme speed, stabbing him in the chest. She nodded her head in satisfaction as the demon burst into flames, and disappeared.
Looking over at Piper, Phoebe, Paige and Chris, she asked, "What are you guys doing here?"
"Could ask you the same thing." Was Piper's response.
Aurora swallowed the lump in her throat and said, "If you don't mind I've got places to go and a sister to save. I'd also really appreciate it if you didn't tell anyone about what you saw here. I'd really hate to have to erase your memories."
"We can help you." Phoebe stated.
"Look, I don't mean to sound rude or anything. But I highly doubt you can help me." Aurora replied rather impatiently.
"Just let us help you." Phoebe said. "Do you know where Charisma is?"
Aurora looked at them warily, "How could I ever forget the place I watched my mother die?" Shaking her head Aurora added, "If you really want to help you better tell me how right now, because I highly doubt Charisma has much time."
Haley stared out the window, watching for her baby sister. She jumped at the sound of her cell phone ringing. Flipping it open she said, "Hello?"
"Any sign of her?" She heard her father question.
"No. Not yet." Haley whispered her response.
"I'm going to go check a few places you haven't yet."
"No dad, don't we're heading back that way. Stay home, just incase she shows up there. K?"
There was silence on the other end before her father said, "OK."
"I'm going to get off the phone, just in case Aurora's trying to call me. I'll call you once I know something." Haley sighed.
"I'll talk to you later." Her father said before hanging up.
As soon as Haley put her cell phone down it rang again. "Hello?" she said picking it up.
"Haley."
"Aurora?" Wyatt glanced at Haley as he drove, she smiled at him.
"Yea Haley its me."
"Did you find Charisma?"
"No...but I know where she is."
"And that is..."
There was silence on the other end, before Haley heard Aurora's soft reply. "I ran into a demon in an alley way." Aurora was silent for a few seconds before she continued. "He told me she's at the same place mom died. And to top it all off someone saw me."
"What do you mean Aurora?"
"Chris, his mom, and aunts saw me." Aurora sighed. "They say they can help me, well us. And told me to tell you to get Wyatt to orb you where we need to be to save Charisma. I'll talk to you in a few." Aurora hung up before Haley could say anything else.
Haley bit her lip and turned to her boyfriend, knowing full well he had heard the entire conversation. Her voice a mere whisper Haley said, "I need you to orb me to the underworld, and after that we're going to have a long talk."
Wyatt nodded, "Anywhere specific?"
"Just orb me there and I'll take care of the rest." Haley replied.
"Ok." Wyatt said as he pulled the car over to the side of the road.
Aurora felt a tear roll down her cheek as she looked around. She remembered this place way to well, it was the place that had haunted her dreams ever since she was a little girl. She felt a hand on her shoulder, and smiled at Chris, before closing her eyes. Fear. She could feel a strong sensation of fear.
Opening her eyes Aurora saw a demon shimmer in, and felt someone pull her behind a rock. "Like that's going to hide us from him." Aurora mumbled.
"You never know." Chris whispered in her ear. "These guys can be pretty stupid sometimes."
"What do you want with me?" They group heard Charisma question the demon.
"Nothing." The demon replied. "It's your sister that I want."
"Which one?"
"The powerful one."
"But they're both powerful." Charisma replied.
"Do you not know your family history? The middle child is always the most powerful."
Aurora could feel four sets of eyes staring at her, as she walked out of her hiding spot. She felt someone pull her back and then her oldest sister say, "Where do you think you're going?"
"He wants me he's going to get me." Aurora replied.
"I don't think so." Haley stated.
"I know what I'm doing." Aurora snapped, shaking the hand off her arm and walking forward. "Are you going to let my baby sister go?"
The demon whipped around to look at Aurora and she gasped when she came face to face with the demon who killed her mother. "But we... you should be..." Aurora was at a loss of words.
"Glad you could join us." The demon grinned at her. Aurora had thought that it was the demon who killed her mother, but she could now tell that it wasn't. Something about the way he was told her that.
Shaking her head Aurora said with much authority, "Let my baby sister go."
The demon ignored her and said, "You've grown up a lot since the last time you were down here. How old were you? Right eight. Such a pity for an eight year old to see her mother die."
Aurora swallowed the lump in her throat before repeating, "Let my baby sister go."
"Why?"
"It's me that you want isn't it? You let my sister go, and you can have me. No strings attached."
"No strings attached?" The demon questioned. Aurora nodded, and watched as the demon snapped his fingers, and the cage around Charisma disappeared. Charisma immediately ran to Aurora, and attached herself to her.
"Go to Haley. I'll get rid of him quickly." Aurora whispered in her sisters ear. "Now what do you want from me?"Aurora questioned the demon as Charisma ran off.
"Oh you know."
"My powers?"
The demon nodded. "I know the history of your family like the back of my hand, I won't make the same mistake my brother made with your mother. Because unlike your mother, you have no children. Meaning you can't pass on your powers." The demon ranted.
Shaking her head Aurora shot her hand out, sending the demon flying into a wall. "You talk to much."
"You said no strings attached." the demon growled standing up.
"A girl is allowed to lie every once in awhile." Aurora replied. The demon threw an energy ball at Aurora, and she watched as it froze in midair a mere centimeter before her. She looked over her shoulder to see Piper standing there, and grinned.
Aurora lightly blew on the energy ball, and watched as it went flying for the demon, hitting him in the shoulder. "Now its time to say goodbye." Aurora said, before reciting something she remember reading in one of her mom's books.
"I call upon my ancestors
To help rid me of this face
That has done my family wrong
And send him to his rightful place
His dream to steal the family power
Will not be granted
The seed of his death
Will be forever planted"
Aurora watched as the demon went up in flames. "Now lets hope this time he'll stay gone." Aurora whispered before turning to the group.
"Guess you didn't need our help." Paige commented.
"Piper did help me." Aurora pointed out. "And I thank you for that Piper. Now can we get out of here?"
No one said anything in reply, instead those who could orbed themselves and others back to the manor. There they just looked at each other, unsure of what to say. Aurora was the one to break the ice. "Thanks for the help you guys gave us. But we better getting going. Charisma needs some sleep, I have a socials project I need to work on, and Haley has work in the morning. I promise I'll give you the 411 on everything tomorrow night."
"Sounds good to me." Piper sighed. "If you don't I'll hunt you down to get the answers I want out of you."
"I wouldn't put it against you." Aurora smiled, as she pulled her younger sister closer to her.
"Wyatt do you think you could...uh... orb me to my car?" Haley questioned.
"Sure," Wyatt sighed. "Do you want me to orb your sisters home?"
"That would be nice." Haley smiled.
"Home." Wyatt said, gesturing his hand towards Aurora and Charisma.
"You know that's pretty cool." Haley mused as her sisters disappeared in a swirl of blue and white lights.
"I'm never going to get use to that." Aurora mused, once she could feel the ground beneath her feet. She looked down at her sister and said, "You think you can tell me what happened?"
Charisma bit her lip, and Aurora made a mental note that she must of picked that up from Haley. "Well I was in my room after saying goodnight to dad, and getting a picture of you and Chris asleep on the couch, and the demon shimmered in. He forced me to write a note saying I ran away and leave it in your room. He said if I didn't he was going to kill you, Haley, and daddy, and I didn't want that to happen. Then he grabbed hold of my arm, and I found myself in that cage. I was so scared Aurora."
"I know you were hun." Aurora said, bending down and hugging her sister. "You did a very brave thing."
"Thank god Charisma you're back." Their father's voice was heard from behind them. Aurora stood up, and moved out of her fathers way allowing him to hug his youngest daughter. "Don't' you ever run away again. You scared me."
"Dad I didn't run away." Charisma stated hugging her father back.
Donald looked at his middle child for the answers he wanted. "Charisma go up to bed." Aurora sighed, "I need to talk to dad, I'll be up in a bit to say goodnight. K?"
Charisma nodded, and kissed her father on the cheek. "Night daddy."
"Night baby." Donald said as his youngest run up the stairs. Turning to his middle child he asked, "What happened?"
"A demon took Charisma. He wanted me so he took her. God dad she could of died because of me." Aurora said, feeling the tears leave her eyes. "We were in the same place mom died dad, now I can't get that memory out of my head, and instead of mom, I see Charisma. First grandma, then mom, then Gina and Robert. Before I know it you, Haley, and Charisma will be dead because of me. I'm poison daddy."
Donald's heart broke, how could his daughter think she was poison? That wasn't right. He pulled his middle child into a hug. "You're not poison Aurora." He whispered in her ear. "Your grandma and mom didn't die because of you. And it was Gina and Roberts time to go. I promise you I'll be here for a long time. I plan on sticking around until all the of you have married and have kids of your own." Pulling away he looked at her. "You look tired, why don't you go to bed."
Aurora shook her head. "I can't I have homework to do."
"No. Go to bed. I'll call the school in the morning and tell them you won't be there." Aurora opened her mouth to protest. "Go to bed or I'll ground you."
"Night dad." Aurora whispered giving her father a hug goodnight, before heading upstairs to say goodnight to her younger sister, and go to bed.
AN: Wow this turned out to be a long chapter. Hope you enjoy! Don't forget to leave a review.
DrewFullerFanLife: I'm glad you liked it, and there's the answer to why Charisma left. Hope it made sense.
melissa-p: Thank you for reviewing my story. :) Nope Halliwells weren't responsible for Aurora's mom's death. Feel free to jump into my story and smack them upside the head. lol
lostnumb: Sorry had to end it there. lol .I'm glad you're loving it :D
actress19: I'm glad you liked it. Was it that obvious Haley and Wyatt would end up together?lol