A/N: Another update! Go Me! Anyways, this picks up right where chapter three left off, so those of you who were confused, here is your salvation. I have some ideas for upcoming chapters, but I've found that I'm rapidly getting writer's block, so if you have any awesome ideas, PLEASE share! Let me know where you want this story to go…I'm happy to try and accommodate. Hell…tell me what you think of it so far. Good or bad, I don't care…just review PLEASE. Oh yea, most importantly…enjoy.
Chapter 4: Let's Talk about Sex
"What spell?" Chris demanded as he moved to the other side of the table as Kiara.
"We might have cast a little spell to help free some of Kiara's inhibitions, you know, to help her adjust," Phoebe smiled meekly at her nephew.
"I thought she was being awfully chatty for a while."
"So I'm guessing it worked?" Paige asked.
"Yeah, she was being good for a while, until she started trying to…yeah use your imagination."
"I take it that's how your shirt got…removed," Piper asked, smirking at her son and then glancing over to Kiara, who was watching Chris intently, licking her lips. "Well, it was worth a shot," Piper said before saying a reversal spell.
Guiding Spirits, hear our plea.
Annul this magick, let it be.
Kiara glowed brightly for a moment before fading back to her normal color. Her eyes widened as she realized what had happened, and her body froze in fear. Every natural instinct she had told her to run, but years of training wouldn't allow her to leave without permission, so she looked at the floor.
"Why don't you go and take a cold shower," Piper suggested to her son, knowing that the girl coming on to him had to have done something Chris. She smiled as he blushed and orbed out.
Kiara looked slightly relieved when he left, but refused to move her eyes from their position of shame.
"Come sit down," Piper told the girl gently, pulling out a chair.
Kiara sat down in the chair Piper had pulled out, and Piper, Phoebe, and Paige all sat around her.
"We're really sorry," Piper began.
"Yeah," Paige picked up. "We thought maybe it would help. It was only supposed to give you a little nudge to help you be able to talk more and express your feelings better."
"Apparently the 'loosening the tongue' bit got taken a bit too seriously by the powers that be." Phoebe added.
When Kiara didn't say anything, Piper spoke again, "You shouldn't be ashamed of anything that happened, or anything that you felt. It was all perfectly natural to feel and to want, and you probably would have been fine if we hadn't released your inhibitions. And don't worry about Chris either. He's an 18 year old male…I promise you he did not mind, and since he's my son I promise he won't bring it up again…unless you want it brought up." Piper smirked at the end of her tiny speech. For some reason the thought of Chris and Kiara getting together seemed so right to her.
"Are you okay?" Paige asked when the girl still said nothing. "Did something happen that we don't know about?"
Phoebe focused on the girl, using her empathy to probe gently into her mind. Kiara jerked her head in Phoebe's direction, glaring at her.
"I'm sorry," Phoebe told her. "I was trying to help you sort out your feelings. I thought maybe you didn't understand them."
"Next time please ask," Kiara said quietly, cringing involuntarily, expecting punishment. She knew the sisters told her it was okay, but she couldn't help it.
"What did you feel? What are you feeling now?" Phoebe asked her.
"I'm not sure. I really don't even understand what I was happening; something in me just told me to do it, so I did. And when he responded…with similar actions, I figured I was doing something right, so I just kept going. It just felt so good, especially when he wrapped his arms around me."
"Did you enjoy it?" Paige asked her.
"Paige!" Phoebe and Piper yelled together.
"Yes, I think so," Kiara replied to Paige before she could respond to her sisters. Paige fancied them with an evil look before smiling triumphantly.
Piper decided that if Paige could be blunt, so could she. "Did they ever give you the sex talk, or expose you to the idea of hormones or pleasure of any sort?"
Kiara looked at Piper with blatant confusion evident on her face. "What's sex? I have no idea what you are talking about."
"Ok. Paige, will you go finish dinner, please. Just mash the potatoes and set everything out. Phoebe, would you like to handle this explanation? You are the advice columnist. I'm going to go have a talk with the potentially control-challenged males that live in this household, just in case." Piper passed out the orders and clapped her hands to signify she was finished.
"Orb me up, Wyatt!" Piper called to her oldest, and smiled as she was engulfed in orbs. She had injured her knee in a battle a few weeks ago, and since then she often had trouble with stairs, as her knee was still in recovery. She loved having boys that could transport her without even having to be in the same room.
She reappeared in front of Chris and looked around confused. "I said Wyatt, not that it matters."
"Wyatt's in the shower. Didn't think you wanted to be orbed into that."
"I appreciate it, now sit."
"Mom, I swear it wasn't my fault."
"I didn't even say anything yet."
"Yeah, but I'm sure you're gonna blame me for something, so I figured I'd get a head start."
Piper rolled her eyes and called for her other two boys, only wanting to have this conversation once. Hayden orbed in from the attic, and a few minutes later Wyatt stepped out of the bathroom wearing only a pair of jeans, water still dripping his chest.
"You could have dried off. It wasn't an emergency."
"You called, I answered. I've learned in my 20 years not to ignore you."
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The next morning Piper came downstairs to see Kiara and Phoebe sitting on the couch watching TV. She looked closer to see that they were watching Sex and the City, and Piper had to wonder if that was the best show to help "educate" Kiara.
Piper grabbed a cup of coffee from the kitchen and joined the two in the living room.
"How's it going, Ladies?" she asked, sitting in the armchair.
"Good!" Phoebe answered, rather brightly for it being so early. "I've decided to take the day off tomorrow, and to let Pearl have the day off, too. I asked Kiara a whole lotta questions earlier, and…well, she's got a lot of life's lessons to learn, and the sooner the better."
"Why are you eager to make her learn them so quickly?" Piper asked suspiciously.
"Because the sooner she learns the sooner I can hook her up with Chris."
"Phoebe!"
Kiara rolled her eyes and looked at Piper. "I've been listening to this all morning,' she said sarcastically.
"Was that sarcasm in your voice?" Piper asked, impressed. Before Kiara could answer, she continued, "and why, Phoebe? Just why?"
"I can feel the desire dripping off of both of them." Phoebe said overdramatically. She jerked her head at Kiara, "This one has no idea what she's feeling, and Chris…well, he's 18 and hasn't been laid in months."
"What!"
"I overheard a conversation between him and Wyatt the other day. You should have seen their faces when they found out I overheard them. It was priceless."
"What else did they say?'
"Piper…I can't do that to them."
Piper grumbled and moved back to the kitchen. She knew that all her boys were 'active', but that didn't mean she liked to think about it. She just continued to hope they were being safe. She knew that wishing for their abstinence, even for her youngest, wasn't an option any more.
She was about to pour herself another cup of coffee when an energy ball hit her shoulder, causing the coffee pot to go crashing to the floor. Piper whipped around ready to freeze or blow-up the attacker, when a potion hit her, causing her to fall to the ground.
The demon walked over to Piper, grabbed her arm, and shimmered into the conservatory. He arrived right at the same time as several other demons. One of the demons had Piage's limp body, and another six had shimmered in with Wyatt and Chris. Phoebe was the last to arrive via demon transport, and their captors leaned the Halliwell's against the wall in a line.
The potion they were hit with rendered them completely motionless, yet still aware of their surroundings. They could see what was happening, but couldn't do anything about it; not even yell.
Another group of demon's shimmered in with Patience, Pearl, and Jordan. The girl's hadn't been hit with potions and were struggling greatly. Hayden was Up There with Leo in isolation for the day and thus wasn't present. Unfortunately neither the witchlighter nor Elder could hear the girls cry for help.
A demon stepped forward and threw potions at the children, stripping them of their powers. "Don't let them speak," he commanded to the others before facing the adult Halliwell's. "This is going to be fun," he sneered at them.
The demon flicked his wrist, causing the children to fall to their knees. He addressed the adults again, specifically Chris and Wyatt, "You recently killed many of my brothers in a raid you made on the Underworld a few weeks ago. Consider this your punishment. I'm going to kill your precious cousins slowly, making you watch. Then I'm going to torture your aunts, perhaps skinning them and enjoying a good meal right on your very table. Then on to your mother, you'll have to wait and see what I have in store for her. Of course, I'm sure first my minions will want to play…" the demon trailed off, smiling cruelly at the boys.
The demon's smile faded quickly when he felt himself thrown across the room, roughly hitting the wall next to the window. He jumped quickly to his feet and turned to face his attacker, laughing when he spotted an overly thin and entirely weak looking girl glaring at him from the doorway. "Who the hell do you think you are?" he asked her snidely.
Kiara didn't respond, just continued to glare. The demon began to come unnerved. He felt the girl wasn't looking at him, but rather past him.
"M….my…my Lord…" one of the minions stuttered trying to get his masters attention, pointing out the window. The demon turned and looked out the window and up at the quickly blackening sky. 'That's not right' he thought to himself. 'There weren't any clouds there earlier.' He turned back around to find the defiant girl standing directly in front of him.
Kiara stretched her hand out to the window and a bolt of lightening broke through the window and into her hand. Out stretching her other hand, she sent the lightening through her body and into the demon in front of her. The lightening quickly snaked from master to minion, until all of the demons in the rooms were being electrocuted by the stream. A few moments later and they simultaneously turned to ash, and Kiara lowered her hands.
Looking back out the window, Kiara willed the clouds away before turning to the family. She spoke a spell softly:
Let the effects of the potions no longer last,
As an effect of this undoing spell I have cast.
Paige and Phoebe rushed to their feet as soon as they could and ran to their girls. Piper just leaned into her closest son, Wyatt, and breathed in relief. After a few minutes of the sister's fussing and the family just generally rejoicing they had survived again (just because they hadn't lost yet didn't mean they couldn't), they finally remembered an important detail. All three sisters smothered Kiara, who had been standing silently looking at the family, at once, blessing her and thanking her greatly.
Kiara just smiled back and shrugged, silently glad that she had gotten a bit of normalcy back. Expressing emotions and opinions, talking out of line, doing what she wanted…it's not that she didn't like the concept; she just wasn't trained for it. Killing demons on the other hand…now that she was trained for.
A/N: I know...my spell writting sucks. Deal with it.