10. Protective Powers.
All four sisters turned to the sound of the intrusive voice. Stood in the room was a demon that seemed to be dribbling a greeny-white goo. From appearances it looked useless in a fight but the stench and ugliness would make it's opponents reconsider getting close.
"Urgh, that's disgusting! Your drooling on the carpet." Piper stated in utter revulsion.
Prue sent her hand up, making the demon go flying into the wall. This gave the girls a chance to stand up and ready themselves to confront the demon.
"Karma." Paige murmured to her oldest sister, watching as the thing got up from the floor. Prue however just rolled her eyes.
"You shouldn't have done that, witch." he growled.
It amazed her how they assumed that was an insult. "Oh, what are you going to do? Throw a dribble ball at me."
What Prue wasn't expecting was just that. A ball of green slime came heading towards her but vanished within inches of her face.
A gasp came from Piper, who was stood beside Prue. Held in Piper's hand was a blue, electrical light that disappeared.
"Did I just do that?" she asked, looking at Prue. Both were wondering if the baby would have her powers this early on.
"Deflection. Your new power is deflection." Phoebe jumped into their unspoken conversation.
Paige squealed. "Cool!"
The demon seeing the lack of concentration amongst the Charmed Ones, threw another ball. Paige, however, caught it out of the corner of her eye and lifted her hand ready to call it. At the same time a blue-purple force field appeared, protecting them from the threat.
Once the ball had rebounded of the shield, Paige looked down at her hand with a look of awe. As she did it disappeared.
"This is too cool." she stated, looking up towards her sisters.
"That's enough of snot boy." Piper lifted her hands up, blowing the demon into tiny little pieces.
Phoebe scrunched her nose up, surveying the remains of the demon. "Is it me or are the demons getting uglier and more repulsive?"
"It's not just you. That thing was vile." Prue agreed, "So…um…who gets cleanup?" she asked facing her three sisters.
"Are two forgetting, me and Piper got our powers. This is way more important." Paige waved her hand as if to see if the rest were asleep. She wanted them to be as excited as she was.
"If we don't clean it up it'll stain." Prue stated, eyeing the left over demon. I really don't want to see that every time I walk in the room, she thought. "After that, then we'll celebrate."
"Fine." Paige sulked.
"Okay….rock, paper, scissors?" Phoebe suggested.
"Sure. You and Paige. Me and Prue. The two losers get to clean the greeny, dribble, snot stuff." Piper nodded to her own instructions.
Paige and Phoebe completed their game, resulting in Paige with scissors and Phoebe with rock.
"Ha, I win!" the oldest gloated.
"Ah, no fair." Paige crossed her arms in annoyance. "Two out of three." Phoebe shook her head, with a smirk.
They both turned to their older sisters, who hadn't managed to determine a winner.
"Don't copy me." Prue raised her hands.
"I haven't, maybe you copied me." Piper shot back. They attempted their second game, which ended with both using paper.
"Wow, that's quite scary." Phoebe commented, a little amused.
"Yeah…you two haven't been using the reading thoughts spell again, have you?" Paige asked sceptically.
"No!" they both responded, then looked at each other.
Prue sighed. "Okay we're going to end up doing this all day."
"Like when Grams wanted us to clean out the garden shed." Piper said with a knowing grin. They hadn't actually spent the day playing the game, but had quickly lost interest.
"Yeah, we never did do that." Prue grinned back, remembering that day.
"No, I did." Phoebe sulked.
Prue looked away sheepishly, spotting the green goo. "I'll do the left over dribble stuff with Paige." she noticed Piper's look of relieve, smiled and turned to Phoebe. "Sorry about the shed, Pheebs." she kissed her cheek then ran of to the kitchen.
"I'm sorry too." Piper added kissing Phoebe's other cheek. "But thanks for doing it." she called also going into the kitchen.
Phoebe laughed, shaking her head at their behaviour.
Paige, however, stood to the side of Phoebe, feeling a little left out. She loved her sisters more than anything, but when the past was brought up, she would suddenly feel resentment that mixes with a sadness of longing. It hurt not to have shared the past with them.
Although she had great adoptive parents, at times she felt as if she would have benefited more being brought up with them. Prue protecting her through high school, Piper helping with her essays and Phoebe…….would probably have helped me sneak out, she thought.
After hearing the stories of her youngest older sister, she would have imagined that they would have got on well. Not that they didn't now, it would just be different. Maybe stronger, she mused, getting lost in the ifs of her life.
"Okay, I have demon-goo-be-gone. You got your bucket for when you want to barf?" Prue quipped cheerfully, snapping Paige straight back to reality.
A/N: Sorry if you thought it was going to be some big bad, 'fraid not. Just a smelly demon.
Annonymous reviewer d; We have powers. Two down, two to go.
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