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Chapter 4: Visits with family
Lor raced up the stairs, jammed her key into the door to her apartment and hurriedly closed the door behind her. She threw her books on the nearest chair and went to a small coffee table. She carefully lifted the top layer of the table and flipped it over to reveal a mirror. Lor then sat on the couch behind the table and began to trace symbols across the mirror. As she traced, she chanted:
"Powers of the mystic side,
As I call to those who have now died,
Come to the one who summons thee,
So I have said, so mote it be."
Small white orbs swirled across the mirror's surface and a transparent image of Lor's sister, Kayla, appeared.
"Took you long enough to summon me." Lor rolled her eyes at her sister and took out a brick red leather bound book from a series of six, several packages and bottles.
"Alright, today we are doing a 'transmorphing' potion, from the sixth book," Lor said flipping to the page.
"Sixth book? Ha, there are some sorcerers beginning their eighth book by now."
"Well, I also missed out on the first sixteen years of my magic life," Lor said making a face at Kayla. "Anyways, the social worker is coming, and you already knew that, but…my history partner is coming too. For a project."
"A classmate too? You think we should continue today?"
"Why not. I mean, yeah, my social worker will get a huge shock, but I think both will survive." Lor smiled broadly because she knew how irritated her older sister was about her jumping around the subject. "Oh, did I tell you my partner's name? No…Wyatt Halliwell."
"Halliwell!"
"Yep, but don't worry they don't come until six or later. So, we have plenty of time." Kayla looked at her younger sibling skeptical, but sighed at her cheerful mood.
"Okay, for this potion the proportions must be exactly right. For every mint leaf, two peppercorns…"
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Wyatt darted up to his room, when suddenly everything seemed in slow motion and his mother in fast motion. Piper stopped in front of his door, smirked and flicked her hands at him. Wyatt's slow motion stopped as abruptly as it started. The son looked at his mother puzzled.
"I call it 'selective freezing'," Piper said with a grin, "it seems my powers are growing, and now I can freeze even the tiniest badness or 'evil' in anyone."
"But your powers aren't supposed to work on good witches."
"Ah, but you are still human and mortal and therefore still have 'bad' in you. Or course as you experienced, I can only slow down good witches instead of freezing them entirely."
"And you wanted to test it on me. How do you know all this?"
"Your father told me." Wyatt nodded his head in response and went into his room. He unpacked his backpack and repacked some books into it. "What are you doing?" she asked.
"I am going to a friend's house to work on a project. Oh yeah, Chris is still at school. He said his science teacher isn't really fond of 'things moving on their own'."
"I take it, she thought he somehow rigged something. I promise I'll bind your brother's powers if he doesn't stop."
"Or, you can send him to magic school, where anything he dishes out he gets back," a peppery voice said at Wyatt's door. Paige appeared holding a book.
"I just might do that, but Paige don't you have an evening class to teach at magic school?" Piper asked her red-headed sister.
"Yes, but I am getting your husband to sub for me tonight, because I have a client to see."
"Hey Aunt Paige, is that my mythology book?" Paige handed the book over to Wyatt.
"I made some corrections in it, you know things that most people don't know."
"Thanks, I'm sure my friend will like it. She thought it was interesting tat you guys knew so much about the ancient Greeks." Wyatt shot a glance at his mother and aunt realizing his mistake.
"She?" Piper inquired as an eyebrow shot up. Wyatt rolled his eyes.
"Yes, she. Lor is a senior and is my history partner. I am going to her place to work on it."
"Oh, why not bring her here?"
"Because Mother, we have too many uninvited guests around here. And you talk about me and Chris exposing ourselves."
"Chris and I. And wait, Lor, you mean Lorae Swift?" Paige asked.
"Yeah, so?"
"So, she's my client. Hmm…well I'll give you a ride over then orb back so you can drive yourself. Come on."
"Hey, it's only four we don't have to be there until six."
"I know. I call it surprise inspection!"
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CHAPTER 4!! I am getting better at keeping this updated, I hope. Anyways, a little explanation in need. Since the latest episode of 'Charmed' I have found that Chris is Wyatt's little bro, so, in my story the Future Chris has to be on a low profile, but don't worry you will see more of Future Chris. So it doesn't get really confusing everyone will probably refer to Present Chris as Christopher.