Childish Power
Disclaimer: As always… I don't owe Charmed.
Summary: One thing he regretted. He regretted of having left behind… but Chris doesn't need to wait long… a four year old girl is coming from the future… but she has more secrets than she knows
A/N: This story happens before 6x12 Prince Charmed… the sisters know that Chris is a witch, but they don't know that Wyatt is evil…
I try to update my other stories as well… and I guess those who read them, can't expect another update till next thuesday… sorry.
I had this story in my mind for a long time…just didn't know how to start it… hope there is somebody who likes it… well: read and review (I still love reviews) :)
Chapter 1:
There was one thing he missed. One thing he regretted. He regretted of having left behind… he remembered her voice. "Daddy?" Chris missed her and he hoped so desperately that Wyatt hadn't found her yet. He wanted her to be safe… only safe.
It midnight. It was dark, quiet – not a noise... Everybody was sleeping in the Manor... after a long day of demon hunting.
Nobody saw a triquetra glowing on the wall and a portal open in the attic.
"No!" A frightened voice cried fearfully… and a loud thumb was heard from the attic, which awoke the Charmed Ones sweet sleep.
The sisters came running out of their rooms. Piper of course ran first into Wyatt's room, but was relieved that he still slept peacefully and the she followed her sisters up the stair to the attic.
Paige who had orbed up there immediately, after she was awoken so unpleasant saw with shock, that a little girl – not older then four – was lying on the floor, whining and three demons, cloaked in black, so you could actually see nothing of them, were surrounding her.
"Hey!" Paige said angrily… and then she saw that one of the demons created an energyball – the three demons simply ignored Paige.
"Energyball!" Paige immediately orbed the weapon to her and threw it on the next demon… Phoebe, who had arrived by now too, immediately started to attack with a kick. But both sisters were surprised, that from one second to the next the two demons they had attacked disappeared and Paige's energyball hit the wall, leaving a black mark.
Piper who came running in the attic, saw the last standing demon and used her powers to let the demon explode, but he too simply disappeared.
"Where is he?" Piper asked immediately and the three sisters looked into all directions, expecting the demons to come back and attack, but they didn't.
That was when they could focus on the little girl again, who was still whining…
"Hey…" Paige softly said and went slowly over to her and got to her knees, but just as she nearly reached the girl, the girl backed away, her face was red from her crying and the tears were still streaming. She was fast and went to the corner of the room, as far as possible away from the sisters.
"It's okay… the demons are gone…" Piper said. She got to her knees, but didn't move from her spot, not wanting to scare the little girl more.
"You are save here." Phoebe added and followed the example of her older sister.
"I want my mommy…" The CharmedOnes could hear the little girl saying in between her snobs.
"You know… my name is Paige… and I would like to help you to find your mommy… why don't you just tell me your name?" Paige tried to calm down the girl.
But the girl just began to cry more… and suddenly a lamp exploded.
"Ahh…" Piper said shocked…and the sisters all looked surprised to the lamp on the other side of the room, but the little girl didn't seem to have noticed.
"Did she do that?" Piper asked surprised.
"Well I am sensing a lot of fear from here, real fear… and exhaustion." Phoebe said.
"Well I could have told you that also without empathy powers." Paige said back…
"Okay… just a question, but why is she even on our attic?" Piper suddenly asked… while the girl didn't stop crying, although it seemed as if she tried to stop.
"Because we should save her?" Phoebe offered.
"Okay… sweetie… look what I can do." Paige again tried to talk to the girl, who actually had slowly calmed down a little.
"Wyatt's Teddy!" Paige orbed the Teddy, which Piper actually wanted to throw away, to her… and the girl really looked amazed as the Teddy appeared in blue and white light in Paige's hands…
The girl was suddenly very silent… Paige had her whole attention… "Teddy!" Paige whispered again and the Teddy landed between Paige and the girl on the floor.
"You can have it… take it." Paige said with a smile and the girl really slowly crawled over to the Teddy and softly took it into her arms.
The three sisters had to smile about the sweet picture.
"Mommy said I am not allowed to talk to strangers." The little girl whispered into the bear's ear, but the sisters could nevertheless hear her… The girl hold the bear to her ear, as if she expected that he would talk to her.
"You know… his name is… Todd." Paige fast invented a name.
"Todd?" Phoebe whispered skeptically… but her little sister just glared at her.
"Hello Todd… my name is Evelyn." Evelyn said to the bear and Paige gave Phoebe a wining smile.
"Evelyn… what do you think about going downstairs with me and we try to find your mommy?" Paige said after a few seconds.
"She is gone… they took her away." Evelyn whispered, but she finally looked in to Paige's eyes.
"You mean the demons?" Piper asked carefully.
"Mommy says demons don't exist…the men in black took her." Evelyn said and then she yawned.
"Evelyn… look it's very late now… don't you want to sleep a little?" Phoebe asked softly as she saw that. "I promise… everything is going to be fine." She added.
Eveyln looked at Phoebe and then she nodded slowly. Paige went over to Evelyn and took her into her arms, where Evelyn immediately felt asleep.
"Poor girl." Piper said.
"She can sleep in my room." Phoebe said.
Paige took the little girl in Phoebe's room, while Phoebe and Piper followed with the protection-crystals and they placed them all in Phoebe's room. Then the three sisters went upstairs again.
"Okay…since when do we have to work in the night too?" Paige asked now tiered and looked up to the ceiling.
"We should create a label with our opening hours." Phoebe joked as she was flipping through the Book of Shadows.
"I am serious… first we have a cruel demon-hunting loving Whitelighter, who sends us after every demon in the morning and now who ever sends us a demon attacked little girl in the night." Paige complains.
"But she is sweet and turn your anger towards her." Piper said.
"No… I never intended to… but as much as I love magic: We are human beings… I need sleep and I have to work tomorrow." Paige sighed and lay her head on Phoebe's shoulder.
"Hey little sister… don't fall asleep – when we found the demons and maybe vanquished them – then you can sleep very long." Phoebe teased her with a smile.
That was when blue-white orbs lightened the room.
"Oh, no… if it's this work- freak then…" Paige started as Chris appeared in the attic.
"Good that you are awake…" Chris immediately said.
"No…" Piper said tired too… "…we have our own demons… except if you sent us Evelyn and her three little friends."
And her sisters nodded.
"Evelyn?" Chris asked confused… but his face became pale as he had heard the name.
"A little girl, brown-blond hair, about four years old… she appeared about ten minutes ago in our attic - wherever she came from – surrounded by three in black cloaked demons – who we could…banish from our attic. She is sleeping in my room." Phoebe told him.
After Chris had heard the last words he immediately orbed in Phoebe's room.
"I guess he knows her?" Paige said and she and her sisters immediately followed Chris down the stairs, to Phoebe's room.
But as they wanted to enter, the door was locked… Paige immediately tried to orb in, but it didn't work either…
"Chris… open the door." Piper ordered… the sisters somehow feared that Chris could hurt Evelyn – they never knew what to think about their strange Whitelighter and the look he had as he had heard Phoebe's summary, wasn't salving either.
But Chris didn't even hear his mother's yelling, as he had orbed in, he had mumbled a spell, to be not disturbed.
He slowly went over to the bed, where he saw Evelyn sleeping…her small face – so peaceful… it was really her. Chris had to smile, but then he frowned: what was she doing here… something must have happened.
He slowly went over to Phoebe's bed and kneeled down in front of it. With one hand he stroked her hair and with the other hand he softly shook her.
"Evelyn… sweetheart… please wake up… just for a few minutes." He whispered and she finally opened her eyes. As she saw his face she immediately jumped up.
"Daddy? Daddy!" She said and jumped into Chris' arms and began to cry desperately.
"Shhh…it's okay. I am there." He soothed her. "It's okay."
And he let her cry…but after a few minutes – as his shirt was soaked from her tears he finally pushed her away a little, stroked her hair and wished away her last tears.
"Evelyn… what are you doing here?" He asked her calmly.
"Mommy said… I should jump … and I jumped." Evelyn explained.
"Okay…my little angel… I need you to tell me what happened, before you jumped. Can you do that?" Chris said.
Evelyn who had calmed down nodded and began to tell her story.
"Mommy, made a very big cake today… because my Teddy was ill… and then somebody knocked at the door. Mommy said I should hide in my room and I did… and then there were loud voices and crying… and boum…" Evelyn said and showed with her hands an explosion.
Chris didn't interrupt her talking, but what he was pale and he could imagine what had happened. And he nodded with a smile as Evelyn looked at him expectantly.
"… and mommy came running in my room and closed the door behind her… and she opened my wardrobe and … and she pulled all my dresses out and there was something on the wall. And mommy threw something against the wall and then the wall began to glow and then my door exploded and mommy took my hand she said that I should think of you and then I should jump and she pushed me in the wall and I saw how one of the men took her and she cried…" Evelyn ended her story and she started crying hysterically.
And Chris closed his eyes… this wasn't suppose to happen… he could only imagine what Evelyn's mother must be going through right now, or she was dead by now. He sighed. And he pulled Evelyn close to him.
"Evelyn… listen, okay. The women here… they are good. You can trust them. You will be good, okay. You will stay with them for a while. I visit you everyday. I promise…" he finally said.
But Evelyn looked up. "No… I wanna be with you?" She said with tears in her eyes and she gave him her sweetest look, which had always worked on Chris.
Chris had to smile and sighed. "Eveyln it's very important… it's to dangerous for you to stay with me… Please. Be a good girl. I promise. I will be there when you need me. Really." He said and touched her nose softly, so she had to giggle. But she nevertheless looked at him sadly. But she finally nodded… she knew her Daddy – especially when he promised something… he never lied.
"Okay Daddy." She said.
"Okay, that's my little angel." He said with a smile and she smiled even more. "There is another thing… don't call me Daddy, when we are not alone, okay." He said.
"Why?" She said curious.
He smiled. "It's a new game… you say Chris to me, okay and you won't say you full name, okay… say your name is Evelyn …" Chris tried to convince her.
"Burns? Mommy always plays the game with me. We never stopped playing it." She said and Chris smiled at her sadly.
"You promise me?" he asked.
"I proooomise… I like the game." Evelyn said with a grin.
"Okay… so what was my name?" Chris asked.
"Chris." Evelyn said bored and Chris saw, that she was tired again, so he gently pushed her back in her bed and covered her up.
"Sleep well…Evelyn Burns." He said and kissed her on her forehead. He waited a few seconds, till she felt asleep and orbed out.
The CharmedOnes were sitting in front of Phoebe's room, on the floor and the Book of Shadows in front of them as Chris orbed out of the room.
"What the hell was that?" Piper yelled angrily.
"Shh… I put the spell down… she can hear you." Chris calmed Piper down.
"Oh that's why you didn't answer to our yelling – a spell…well, let us first check if she is fine." Paige said and already wanted to open the door, but Chris hold her back.
"I wouldn't hurt her… she is a child… I really don't want to know what you all think of me." Chris said and then he pointed to the attic and they all went up there.
"So? You know her?" Phoebe asked.
"No…" Chris started, but then he saw the looks of his family – although they didn't know that. "Yes." He finally mumbled.
"Tell us… because we would really like to vanquish the demons and still have time to sleep a little, before we go to work." Paige said.
That was, as Chris got pale again. "Did you say… the demons were here?" he asked shocked and pointed to the floor.
"Didn't we say that already?" Piper asked nerved.
"Damn it… you can't kill them… if they are who I think they are." Chris said.
"And who are those who you think they are?" Phoebe asked.
"Powerful demons… to powerful for this time." Chris whispered in thoughts.
"Wait… for this time… do you mean they are from the future? Does that mean that Evelyn is from the future too?" Piper asked.
Chris flinched as he heard Piper saying Evelyn's name… he had never thought, that she would ever meet her, but now she did and he wasn't so sure if that was so good…But then he focused back on the question…
"Yes… I would say that's exactly the case." Chris said and sighed. He just hoped that Wyatt had trained his demons right and they wouldn't attack in this time, he didn't even want to imagine, what it could have for consequences… but as Chris knew his brother, he could imagine, that he would probably see it as a risk he could handle… Chris had to find the demons fast and he had to send them back… before innocents have to be suffer… again.
"Chris…Chris… what about Evelyn?" Phoebe asked and pulled Chris out of his thoughts.
"What?" he asked confused.
"Shouldn't we find a spell to send her back?" Phoebe asked again.
Chris looked at the CharmedOnes for a while… he had no other choice.
"I… We won't send her back… it's way to dangerous. Listen. She is the daughter of a friend of mine and her parents must have been desperate to send her here… I guess they are dead by now… I will take her back when I finished my mission here…till then. I really need you to protect her. I really have no time for her right now." Chris said, while he hoped that that they would buy his lie, which they did.
"Okay… I mean. As we have already Wyatt, it won't be so difficult to take care of two children, right." Piper tried to cheer Chris up, although she knew that it was very hard to handle two children… but Chris looked so desperate, that she somehow couldn't resist his request.
Chris looked at her thankfully. "Thanks. There for I will take care of the demon… alone." Chris said and he saw the surprised faces of the CharmedOnes.
"Cool." Paige said.
"Oh… another thing… she doesn't know about magic." Chris added, just as he wanted to orb out.
"But… she has powers, right?" Phoebe asked.
Chris looked at her surprised. "What?"
"Well… as she cried here on the attic… the lamp…" Piper explained and pointed to the damaged lamp. "exploded… and it was definitely not my work." She told Chris and he looked at her with a shocked expression.
"Oh no." Chris sighed. "Okay look. Her parents never told her about magic or that she had powers… actually they were bounded … I have no idea why they return now. Well, it was for her own safety. So… I would be thankful if you could avoid this topic from her as long as possible. And if you reveal it to her… call me." Chris said and orbed out.
"Well… good that I didn't tell him, that I used my powers in front of her already." Paige said.
"Say… it was a magical trick… well somehow it was, right?" Phoebe said and they all went to bed. Totally exhausted. Phoebe slept on the couch in the living tonight.
Chris could imagine, which demons he had send after Evelyn and her mother… her mother: Mary... god, he didn't want to think about her… the demon… he had to focus on the demon… "I like her… she is like me." He remembered Bianca saying that about Mary. Bianca was the only person besides him and Mary, who knew about Evelyn's secret… did she tell Wyatt about it, before she died… Chris wondered. He didn't even want to think about Bianca… but having Eveyn here, only caused a stream of memories… why could she use her powers… this was impossible. They had blocked them… maybe because of the timetravel or … or because she was ready… but she was just a child… his child… his child…
-to be continued -
A/N: I know Evelyn is probably acting older then she is ... I just don't now yet, how to write her childishness... give me some time to figure it out...