Visions of Love
AN: Sorry it took so long. School is about to start and I have to get some stuff together. Okay, I'm going on with the next chapter. Thanks for the reviews and hope you enjoy this chapter. It might be a little confusing.
Chapter Six: A Minor Set Back
A small groan slipped passed the lips of the blonde figure. She stretched her arms out and barely opened her eyes. Her vision was hazy for some time, before she started blinking. There was a shadowy figure moving about and Serena could tell who it was. The figure moved closer to her as she tried to sit up. It's hands gently pushed her back down onto the soft, cushioned surface she was laying on.
"Don't get up just yet." Came the figure's voice.
Confused she blinked a few more times and her vison cleared. She saw Chris sitting on her right side. Serena laid on her back in a bed. She realized that she had to ease up on her breathing, because every time she moved it hurt. Her head felt swollen and clammy. She raised a hand to her forehead and felt a wet cloth folded neatly on it. Serena closed her eyes again, trying to stop the dizzy feeling that was now overwhelming her. Chris took the wet rag off and placed it in a bowl of ice water. He dipped it and squeezed out the old hot water, then placed it back on the blonde's head.
"I almost lost you." He said in a distant sad tone. Serena had recognized it from the time when Piper had died. She reached up her hand again and placed it on top of his, before he could remove it from her head. Chris looked down at Serena with a frown, but didn't take away his head from hers. It felt nice to be near her again and he didn't want to let go just yet. He wanted to say so much to her and yet he didn't want to open up to her. To let her know how he really felt. Instead he decided to go against his heart once more and act like a whitelighter.
"What happened back there?" He asked in a firm voice, trying to hide his worry.
"I was attacked." She said plainly. Chris' heart leaped at the sentence and leaned in. He didn't like the fact that she went out there without him. Without someone to protect her. She was fragile and too easily broken. For goodness sake she almost died!
"Who attacked you, Serena?" He asked, his voice wavering.
"Mercury." She said weakly, licking her lips, obviously thirsty. Chris saw this, focusing on her lips as they moved. He noted that she needed water, of course she would, she was running a high fever. Chris stood and released let go of her hand. He was about to turn and leave, but Serena's hand caught him. The man turned back around to look down at her, surprised by her action. He loosened up and leaned over the blonde.
"I'm just going to get some water. I promise I'll be right back." He said in a hushed voice and hesitantly leaned further to kiss her nose. As he did that, her nose wrinkled up cutely and made him smile. Chris peeled her hand off of his and laid it at her side. When he turned around for the second time, Phoebe was at the door, leaning against the frame. She wore a simple white v-neck top and jeans. Her lips curled into a grin and Chris rolled his eyes.
"Don't start, Aunt Phoebe." He said with a growl under his breath. All traces of concern and happiness vanishing from his face. He walked passed the witch as she smiled after him. When he was gone, she walked in fully. She could sense that Serena was in a lot of pain. Even though she was able to heal quicker than any human, there was still a lot of damage.
The witch removed the rag for the blonde's head and dipped it in the cool water. She remembered Chris feeling a sharp pain in his head about the same time Serena was being attacked. Why he would feel something, was beyond her knowledge. Maybe the two were closer than she thought. She also remembered that two hours ago Chris had orbed in the manor with the young woman in his arms. There was something in his face, then, that she hadn't recognized. At least not until now when she had walked in on him off guard. This emotion was so huge that she could barely walk into the room without suffocating in it's atmosphere. The fear of losing someone...you love. She had seen it before. She had felt it before. The expression in his eyes was a bit of a shock for a while. Then the witch looked back at the young girl and could almost see what Chris sees in her. She was beautiful, brash, impulsive, sarcastic, lively, and most of all, good hearted. Phoebe could see that in this girl was a wonderful person who cared more about others than herself. She had risked her life coming back in time to save her husband. Even though she was in love with someone else. Phoebe smiled as she looked down at the now sleeping blonde. She squeezed out the water from the rag and placed it back on Serena's head. The witch began to caress the girl's cheek and stroke her sweaty hair back.
So are you going to tell me what I want to know...
She asked to herself, searching for a vision, of some sort, to tell her what was going on. Apparently she wasn't going to get anything from Chris, and she bet Serena was just as stubborn. Phoebe didn't hear Chris come back in and wasn't aware of anything else around her until he sat the glass of water on the night stand. Phoebe instantly drawled back from the girl with a small jump. Chris looked down at his aunt and raised his eye brow. She smiled up at him innocently and grabbed the bowl of water.
"I'll just go and pour more water for her." She said exculpatory and rushed off as fast as she could with a bowl of water.
Chris just shook his head and sat down on the bed. He held her hand again. She had fallen asleep, but if she woke up he would be there for her. He placed his hand on her forehead and pushed back some of her hair.
While the couple stayed upstairs, Phoebe was in the kitchen with her other two sisters. Paige and Piper sat at the table with a cup of coffee in their hands. They watched as Phoebe tried to get a premonition for the bowl. They smiled and shook their heads.
"Phoebe," started Piper as she placed a strand of hair behind her ear. "why are you doing this?"
"Yeah Pheebz?" Paige asked taking a sip of her coffee. "Can't you just leave the kids alone?"
Phoebe sat the bowl down on the island. She let out a loud frustrating breath. She walked over the table and took a seat, placing head in both her hands.
"Don't you want to know what's going on between the two? I mean come on...First, Chris comes back to set Wyatt straight...who apparently has Serena for a wife. Second, Chris and Serena have major feelings for each other, but he was engaged to Bianca. If those two are obviously in love, why aren't they together? What didn't THEY get engaged and married?"
The other two sisters noted that she had good reasoning. They all wanted to know what was going on. But sometimes it was just not right. The two needed their space and time to figure out their next move. If this so called Beryl was sending someone after Serena, she must be a key factor in all this mess. Piper and Paige wanted to know just as much as Phoebe, but they would rather wait. Whatever happened in the future, happened for a reason, and the Charmed Ones needed to understand that.
"Just give them time, Phoebe." Piper said in a firm, mature voice. Being the oldest was hard, especially when she had so much practice at being the middle child. She had to stay in control of the situation.
"Do we know who attacked her yet?" She asked Phoebe.
"Yeah. Apparently she woke up a bit to tell Chris that is was...uhh...Mercury? I think that's what she said?" She informed her sisters, still a bit confused at what the girl was talking about. Paige gave Phoebe a face, that wanted to know how she had found that out. Phoebe smiled and gave her sisters that same innocent face she gave Chris upstairs. She had eavesdropped. The girls sighed and rolled their eyes. Piper shook her head and took a drink of her coffee.
"Mercury? Hmm, didn't she say that was one of her team members? A uhh..guardian of the princess?" She asked her sisters, glancing at each to get their input. After a moment of thought, the others confirmed the information as fact.
"She was the first, from what I got from Chris. Serena got her powers as leader; Sailor Moon. Then she found Mercury...then Mars...then Jupiter...and finally Venus." Paige said. " Evidently, there is a 'scout' for each planet in the Milky Way Galaxy. These 'scouts' are princesses of kingdoms that once ruled. They were part of the Silver Alliance." She finished.
"So why is there a 'Sailor Moon'?" Phoebe asked. "The moon isn't a planet...and what about Earth? Where is our scout?"
"Earth doesn't have a scout because it was ruled by Endymion and the Golden Kingdom. It wasn't part of the Silver Alliance and didn't have a princess. So there was no need. Although there is nothing that I could get out of Chris..or the books at Magic School...to tell me why Serena is Sailor Moon." Paige continued.
"The question is what do we do now? With Serena out, its going to be pretty hard to get any real answers." Piper spoke up. "Should we continue to look for other pens?" She asked.
"Yeah..." the other two said together.
"That would be the only thing we CAN do." Paige said.
The girls were starting to get up when Phoebe thought of something. She froze for a
second as her sisters stood completely. When they realized she didn't move, they looked back at her. Piper leaned in, as did Paige.
"Phoebe what's wrong?" Piper asked.
Phoebe blinked and then stood straight. She glanced back at her sisters. Still silent, she finished her train of thought.
"Serena told us before that Wyatt had her team put to death. Then how could someone dead, be running around San Francisco 2004, attacking her?" She asked. Her sisters stood there before their eyes went wide with realization.