Chapter 1
"Mom!" Chris yells as he walks through the front door, coming home from school, " Mom!" He walks in the living room trying to find her. Just wait till I tell her what the precious "twice-blessed" child did, he thinks to himself.
Pheobe walks into the living room still in her p.j's with a box of tissues in one hand and a coffee mug in the other. " Hey hunny, she went to the grocery store. Do you need her or is it something I can help you with?" she says, sounding all congested.
Chris mumbles under his breath. Pheobe asks him what he said when she was interruputed by a screaming Sadie running down the stairs in nothing but a pair of underwear, with Paige closely behind.
" Sadie Ann Mitchell! You better get your little wiccan butt back here!" Sadie turns around and looks at her mom and raises her hands. A jet of water emerges from them, and then freezes into a wall between Paige and Sadie. Paige stands with her hands on her hips and taps her toe impatiently. " You better put that down right now young lady. Or I am going to tell your father." Sadie's eyes get wide and she clapped her hands making the ice wall disappear. She shakes her head.
" No tell daddy, Sadie good girl, pwomise mommy." Paige tilts her head and raises one eyebrow.
" So no more running away from mommy when it is time to go to daycare?" Sadie runs over to her, jumps in her arms and gives her a kiss. Paige smiles and looks over at Pheobe and Chris who are staring at her. " Oh hi Chris, how was school?" Chris shrugs his shoulders and throws his backpack on the chair.
" It was ok I guess, just a regular day at school." Paige was trying to listen, but was too busy with a wiggling Sadie in her arms.
" Thats nice dear, well I have to go get munchkin over here some clothes." She looks over at Pheobe. " Are you going into work today? If you are I can take Peter for you." Pheobe shakes her head.
" No its ok Paige, Cole took him for the day. Thanks for the offer though." Pheobe says then goes into a sneezing fit.
" Aw, honey did you take those pills I got for you." Pheobe nods her head.
" Yeah, but I just can't seem to shake it."
Paige nods her head, " I'm sorry if you need anything, just call and I will orb it to you." When Pheobe promises she will Paige turns around and walks back up the stairs.
Pheobe looks back over at Chris. "So what happened at school that makes you have that look on your face?" Chris looks at her and smiles.
" I'll tell you later, I'm going to go get mom." With that he orbs out of the room. Pheobe sits there and shakes her head, and picks up a book off the coffee table. At least she can get some reading in.
Chris orbs into the men's restroom. Sensing noone was in there he knew it would be safe. He walks out the of the bathroom, and tries to sense where Piper was, but he didn't need to. He could see her in poultry section, looking at some chicken. That was always a good thing about having a mom for a chef, you never went hungry.
Chris walks up behind her and pokes her in the sides. Piper jumps and has her hands in the air ready to freeze or blow up whatever demon was after her now. When she sees it is Chris she relaxes a bit, but still looking annoyed. She stares up at him with her hands on her hips. Her small 5'2 framing barelying even reaching his shoulders of 6'1 frame, but not backing down either way.
" What are you doing here?" She looks at her watch. " Didn't you just get out of school?" Chris looks the opposite direction, knowing he has been caught. He wasn't supposed to orb unless it was an emergency, even though Aunt Paige and dad could do if for anything. " Christopher, did you orb here?" She asked with a quetioning voice. Chris smiled at her with the biggest smile he could muster. That smile as been getting him out of trouble for longer than he could remember. Piper rolled her eyes and turned back to the chicken. Chris picked up a chicken and started tossing it back and forth from hand to hand.
" I did come here for a purpose mom. I promise it is a life and death situation. My life and Wyatt's death." Piper laughed a little herself. She found the chicken she needed and put it in the cart.
" Why don't you tell me what he did now, but walk and talk. I have to get home in time to get dinner started. Then I have to go to the club later." She crosses chicken off her list and starts to push her cart down the aisle. Chris keeps instep with his mom and begins to tell her what Wyatt did.
" Mom, you remember Jade right?" Piper stops at the fuits and starts putting some apples in a bag.
" She is the firestarter right? Didn't we just help her and her family out?" She puts the apples in the cart and starts pushing the cart again, Chris nods his head.
" Yeah, thats her. Well Wyatt orbed out with her today." Piper stops and looks up at Chris.
" He did what?" Chris smiles to himself knowing that he did it.
" Yep, he orbed her out with him. I think I remember him saying something about Italy." Piper stands there for a second, and then shrugs her shoulders and keeps pushing the cart. Chris stands there, that was not the reaction he was hoping for. " Mom, did you hear me? He orbed her out...to Italy! That is not an emergency, magical or not." A couple walks by and gives him a weird look. Chris blushes a little, realizing he said that kinda loud.
Piper takes a deep breath and very calmly says. " Now Chris, your brother is 18 there is very little I can to him anymore, and anyway. I am sure he was careful, and she knows. It is nice for him to have someone he can share his secret with, and you mister. You are 17, why aren't you dating anyone? I mean there are tons of girls that call the house for you. Or your cell-phone, but you have only gone out with a few of them. Maybe you should think about going out on a date once in awhile too. It relieves the stress of magical duty." Chris raises his eyebrow at her, and his shoulders droop.
" Yeah, but none of them were my innocence, and we aren't supposed to date innocents." Piper rolls her eyes, but doesn't say anything else.
They walk for a bit longer when Piper yells out." Oh my god! I almost forgot. Patience is bringing home her boyfriend, for dinner." Patience who was two years younger than Chris, got some of her fathers demonic powers. Like throwing fire, but she can also can control the weather, and she is an empath. Which in other words means you don't want to get her upset.
Chris sighs, " Honestly mom, does he have to come tonight? Especially with Aunt Pheobe sick and all." Piper turns back to get some more chicken.
"Now Chris, be a good sport. This really means alot to your cousin, and with her dad being one of the most feared demon's of all time who might I add is very protective. She is going to be nervous already, and she looks up to you. She doesn't need you judging too." Chris started to feel kinda bad. He always has liked Patience, and she was having problems getting her powers under control lately.
"Ok, I promise I will come. I will get Wyatt too." Piper smiled and patted him on the arm.
" Thankyou very much for not arguing." Chris just sighed and picked up a bag of chips and threw it in the cart.
Meanwhile in the underworld...
" Do you think you are ready?" The hooded figured says to the beautiful girl standing infront of him. With hair as dark as the night sky, and eyes such a piercing blue, against her tan skin. She was hard not to notice.
" Never been more ready in my life." She smiled a sexy but sweet smile. The hooded figure laughed.
" Good, now remember this is the biggest thing you have ever done. You must get him to trust you. You must get him to let you into his life. Don't fail me Fayre. Our exsistence depends on this. We need him."
" I understand." she nods her head and is suddenly envolped in swarm of flames, and then disappears.
Back at the grocery store...
Piper and Chris are in the check-out line behind two other people. The person at the line though is having problems with the credit card machine. Piper lets out a sigh and taps her foot impatiently looking at her watch every 5 seconds. Chris had picked up a car magazine and was flipping through it when he heard his name.
" Chris I need you bring Piper!" It was Aunt Pheobe's voice, Chris tapped Piper.
"Mom, we need to go." Piper's eyes get wide, and looks infront of her to see that they had gottent the machine fixed and the line was starting to move again.
"Now?" Chris looked at her with the irriated look she had given him already.
" Unless you want Aunt Pheobe to die." He says with crossed arms. She rolls her eyes and grabs her purse.
" Fine but this better be an emergency." She gets out of line and they b-line for the bathroom. Leaving a bunch of angry people behind them in line.
They orb into the living room. Just in time to see Pheobe being thrown across the room by a big, large guy with a bald head and pale skin. Piper sticks up her hands and freezes the room, while Chris runs over to Pheobe who was picking herself up off the ground.
" Took you guys long enough?" Chris opens his mouth but Piper interrupts.
" Yeah, we got caught up, sorry." She looks at Chris with a warning not to tell her. Chris closes his mouth and nods his head. All three of them look over at the demon who standing there,frozen, from Piper's power. Pheobe walks up to him, and does a roundhouse kick into his gut which knocks out the freeze, and sends the demon flying through the room. She turns around to Chris and Piper with a big smile on her face. Piper smiles and back, and when the demon comes running back after them she blows him up. She nods her head, and looks at Chris.
" Oh, Oh, can you please orb me back?" Chris nods his head.
" Grocery store." and with a wave of his hand Piper leaves in a circle of blue orbs. Pheobe walks back over to the couch, and Chris follows plopping himself down in the chair.
" Mom is all flipped out about the dinner tonight." Pheobe props her feet back on the couch and asks in a confused voice.
" What dinner?" Chris looks at her like she is nuts.
" Aunt Pheobe, Patience's boyfriend is coming over tonight.