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Secrets Bestowed

Ok, this is REALLY long, so please enjoy. I put a lot of work into it, but wait till the next chapter, It may make some confusing parts of this chapter no longer confusing.

ENJOY!(sorry about before, I was having technical difficulties)

Chapter 5: The Column

Ask Phoebe

Dear Phoebe,

I may be a bit young for this advise column, but I heard that you are the best, and I had a strange feeling that you may understand. Don't wonder why, I just have a good sense of reading how people are depending on what I know about them. In your case I know by how you put so much time into all the letters I've seen in the paper. Anyway, to the problem. I have lets just say this problem, which makes me feel all possible emotions at once. I can't take it anymore. I think I need to see someone, but I don't know who. There is this new councilor I could go to, but I don't know if she would understand, I mean she doesn't even have a degree that I know of. What should I do, without telling you the details of the problem.

-A confused teen

Dear Confused,

I think you should go to this councilor. The person must of got the job for a reason. Everything happens for a reason. Trust me, you have asked the right person, and if the councilor doesn't help, send me another letter and I will try to help you, and I will even meet with you, instead of posting it in the paper.

-Phoebe

"Piper, look at the letter I received for work, look at this. A teenager who feels all possible emotions at once." Piper stopped

"Sounds like when you just became an empath." Phoebe thinks for a second

"Yeah, I thought that. This girl must either have serious problems or just be feeling what everyone else is feeling. Maybe I can help!"

"Woah partner, you don't even know who this girl is. How are you possible going to help her." Piper says.

"Well I said in the answer that if her counselor can't help, I will meet up with her and try my best."

"Whatever, oh yeah and Phoebe how was your volunteer job today and yesterday, I forgot to ask."

"Good, hey wait how do you know." Phoebe asks accusingly

"Oh, I saw you leave with Paige both times, and I may of heard you talking."

"Excuse me, were you eavesdropping?"

"A bit."

"Paige, I'm gonna go help out Janice today, ok?" Paige looks relieved

"Sure, I am only going to be sitting around, waiting for a knock on the door."

"Ok, se ya later sis."

About five minutes after Phoebe left, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in" Paige says

"Are you alone?"

"Yes, why?"

"No reason"Pam says while cautiously walking into the room .

"Go ahead, sit down."

"You might wanna sit down to" Pam say as she takes a seat in one of the couches.

"Ok...well...it's Pam right?" Phoebe sits down in the opposite chair.

"Yeah, well anyway I got a problem and I was told that I should give you a chance."

"Who?'"

"Nobody."

"Ok...well what's the problem?" Paige asks hiding the worry in her voice.

"You swear that this is confidential? There are no hidden cameras are there." Pam says while looking around the room.

"No of course not, begin, this is kept confidential."

"Good, well do you believe in the supernatural?"

Paige is surprised to hear those words out of a kids mouth."Supernatural...well yes...it depends though, why what's the problem."

"Well remember yesterday when you asked me how I knew what you were going to say, well it has to do with that." Phoebe nods. "I...um...well lets just say that I know what people are feeling and thinking."Pam cautiously says.

"Really, interesting, how long have you been experiencing this?'

"Well it started about a week ago. I was in science class when I heard the teacher say that were going to have a pop quiz tomorrow, and she said all the questions and answers. Well of course I knew that it was a bit odd for a teacher to do that, especially when they are ict as my science teacher...Oh sorryI'm rambling aren't I."

"thats ok, just keep going."

"Well I asked her the next day after we had the pop quiz and asked her why and she said that she never told us, but that I got a hundred on it. After that I have been able to feel what others feel and know what others are thinking, but I can't explain it or make it stop."

"Pam do you believe in witches?" Pam looks at Paige like she is crazy

"Ok Phoebe you are done for now, why don't you take a lunch break or something."

"Thanks Janice that would be great."

Phoebe walks down the hallway with all the rooms the kids live in, when she has a premonition after brushing against toe doorknob of room 20G.

A girl, about the age of 13 walks through the doors of room 20G.

"Hey, I'm Katie, I guess you're my new roomie, what's your name.?

"Um...I'm Pam."

"Cool, nice to meet you."

A flash and then the same girl, Pam was writing a letter. It is hard to read but the words "Confused Teen" stuck out like a sore thumb.

Another flash and the girl is walking into a door with the nameplate Paige Matthews Halliwell. "Are you alone."

Phoebe then comes back to realize that the girl named Katie is walking to her room. "Can I help you?"

"No that's ok I was just thinking for a second."

"You're Phoebe aren't you."

"Yeah, the sister of Paige."

"Yup, well I got to go, bye."

"Bye" Katie says in an enthusiastic voice.

That girl feels pain, so much that she thinks that every things ok.

"Remember, if you ever need to talk, just stop by and visit my sister."

"Whatever." She will , Phoebe can feel it.

Phoebe nicely knock on Paige's door."it's me, Phoebe.

"Yeah Phoebe, I was hoping that you would come, I would like you to meet someone."

"Hi, I'm Pam, hey your Phoebe, as in Ask Phoebe."

"Yup, and you are...Confused Teen." Pam looks amazed.

"Phoebe, I think that she's an empath."

"A what!" A confused Pam asks. "You think I'm crazy, don't you. That's just a diagnosis isn't is..."

"No, no, it's a power, a gift, Phoebe has it to."

"What, you can tell what people are feeling and thinking to?"

"Well..yes"

"How can you stand it, this curse..."

"It is not a curse, it is a gift, you will realize it when you are able to control it, unless you want us to bind your powers, then you won't have to deal with it and you can have it back whenever you want."

"All of my powers..." Pam covers her mouth.

"What, you have more, what else, don't worry, we won't tell anyone, but you must promise never to repeat anything that we tell you." Paige says, while Phoebe nods.

"I promise."

"We are witches known as the Charmed ones. We each have powers. I can orb, morph, and I have a strange telekinetic power which is affected bu the white lighter in me..." Paige starts.

"White lighter?"

"Well in short, it is a person who died and has been granted to be something like.. an angel." Paige says while orbing behind Pam.

"Woah, you got my attention."

"And I am an empath, like you. I can also levitate, and I get premonitions to where I can see the past, present and future." Phoebe continues."While our other sister Piper can freeze things..."

"And," Paige finishes "blow things up."

"Cool, well, I can move objects with my mind."

"Show us"

Pam squints her eyes and opens the refrigerator and brings a coke to her.

"And I have little premonitions, I can freeze time, and I can to this." Pam's head then droops and she seems unconscious when she appears by the window.

"Astral Projection" Phoebe says "like Prue, anything else."

"Well there is one more but I prefer not to say...now."

"Ok well..thats alot for anyone let alone a teen, well anywayhow would you like to stay at our house tonight, and maybe tomorrow night and well for a while, you know to take a break, and then maybe we can explain a bit more to you."

"Sure."

"Well I have a little bit more work, but it won't take too long, so Phoebe can you please get permission to take her home."

"Yes sir" Phoebe salutes "Just please don't tickle me sir."

About 10 minutes later there is a knock on the door.

"Come in, oh hi Katie how are you."

"Not so good, I need help, I'm scared."

"What's wrong, well..." Katie confesses about thinking that conflict is bad when inside she knows that it is needed, and that she was asked to join the Avatars, when she was deserted when they deleted her parents because of conflict, and messed up and were unable to bring them back. She, because the avatars were going to do the same with her because they believed that she was too young to join them, but the powers could not be taken away. They told her not to use them ever. Then when the world was put back into order, Warlocks have wanted to kill me for these powers. Do you believe me, please believe me." Katie pleaded as if she was having a breakdown.

"I believe you, I have powers to." She then realizes that this is the second person today she has told about hr powers, she then decides not to tell her about her sisters. "Yeah, and I prevented the Avatars from keeping the world like that.

"Wow, you must be a witch, a very powerful one to if you were important enough to stop the avatars. God, I hate them and my parents. Why them hy not someone else."

"I know how hard it is to loose someone..." Paige begins.

"No you don't understand, the conflict they caused had to do with telling me that I was adopted. I lied about loosing them when I was four, I was just lying to myself." Katie tries not to cry. "Wait, if you are as powerful as you say you are, you can take away my powers."

"I am having another girl named Pam, staying at our house but it will only take a few hours at the most to bind your powers, so would you like to get this straightened out."

"Yes, of course."

At the halliwell manor Paige is making the binding potion, while Phoebe is talking to the girls and explaining that they can tell nobody about them.

"All finished, you ready."

"To get my life back, of course!" Katie says

"Pam are you sure you don't want to do this as well?"

"Positive."

"I'm home!" Piper yells

"Um, what are we going to tell Piper?" Paige says.

"We don't, everyone run. Paige take Katie into your room, hide her and pretend that you are occupied, Pam, come with me, ok one, two, three, RUN."

They all run upstairs but Piper hears the footsteps and yells "Hy, where are you two going and why did I hear the foot steps of more than two people." Piper says while waking into Phoebe's room.

"Oh, well Paige and I had a race, we didn't hear you come in, sorry."

"Where is Paige anyway?"

"In her room."

Suddenly, Pam sneezes.

"What was that." Piper says while quickly looking under the bed. "Who is this!"

"Well Piper, meet Pam she will be staying with us for a few nights."

"Paige! The gig is up get in here! Piper yells as Paige walks in with a blond teenager. "Phoebe, who is that?"

"Well that is Katie, we were just about to bind her avatar powers."

"What?

"Well she was an avatar but they said that she was too young. They erased her parents because of conflict, but were unable to bring them back."

"Watch out!" Kyle says while orbing into the room when three demons shimmered in.

"What is that?" Pam yells.

"Demons, after my powers." Katie says.

Piper blew up one of them, and tries to blow up the others but they just came back together. Phoebe then levitated into the air and knocked one of them to the ground, while Paige orbed a pole into its chest. It came up in flames, and about 10 other warlocks either blink or shimmer in.

"Let me try." Pam says while she moves her arm and makes the warlock fly into the wall, while freezing him. Paige orbs the pole into that warlocks chest and he to goes up in flames. Katie shoots lighting bolts into two demons and they burn, but three upperclass demons appear along with two more warlocks. All in Phoebe's bedroom.

"Paige is then knocked out, and Phoebe is hit with a fireball and sent to the ground. Katie got hit in the head, and is also passed out. Piper and Pam were the only ones left.

"Kyle orbs over Paige and heals her, heals Katie, but can't heal Phoebe. She is dead."

"I can bring back the dead but she will only be back for a while, she must be healed immediately."

"Ok, go."

"I can only do this once, so be fast."

"Go!"

Just then, a warlock knocks Kyle out and Phoebe is breathing again but very heavly.

"Phoebe, please don't go, don't." Piper says in tears, while Paige is throwing back fireballs from demons and making them burn up in flames.

"Well, you guys wanted to know what my other power was." Just then, Pam morphed into a Siberian tiger and walked up to Phoebe. "Stand back Piper"Pam tells Piper in her mind. Piper backed up unwillingly but surprised that this large beast is Pam, and that she could communicate with her through her mind.

A white light engulfs Pam which sends a white beam towards Phoebe and a little tear falls from the massive tiger's eye and Phoebe is up like nothing happened. "What is that?" Phoebe tiredly asks.

"That's Pam."

"So that's her other Power."

The tiger then growls and half of the warlocks go up in flames, Pam communicates with Phoebe, Paige, Piper, Katie, and slightly with Kyle. Piper asks 'Why didn't you just do this before'

'You'll see'

' How can we communicate like this?'

'I have no idea'

'Phoebe, please do me a favor'

'What'

'When I return to normal, I'm fine, just a bad side affect Piper will explain, she just doesn't know what I mean...yet.'

'Why are you asking me.'

'Well for one I can for some reason communicate this was longer with you, probably since we are both empaths, and two, because they both love you, I can sense it, don't you.'

'I can't, I had a potion so now I can't read them, you know privacy'

'I know'

'Well I need to concentrate now, so if you guys can, please back me up'

The tiger lunges fora Warlock when a pole is stuck intoher chest. The pole spat back at the warlock and he is engulfed into flames. Pam raises her paw to show a symbol and the leader of the warlocks and demons yells "it's the Ancient, the lone Charm, Numero 4, get out!"

The paw shoots the charmed symbol at the lead warlock and he his burned in black flames. 'Paige, orb the ashes into a cemetery'

'Ok'

The tiger morphs back into Pam and she passes out into a lump on the carpet.

"She told me to tell you not to worry, she is ok, and she told me you will explain Piper."

"Well I asked her why she didn't do this in the first place, and she said that I'll see, I think that took a lot of energy out of her."

They then put Pam in Piper's bed, while phoebe cleaned her room, Paige called Social Services saying that Katie is going to stay a few more days and that she will be out of work a few days to get to know them, and Piper attempted to bind Katie's powers only to find that something went wrong.

"You guys, I have a feeling that avatar powers cannot be bound."

"They can but when a witch with avatar powers tries to bind her powers, she only gets rid of the avatar powers, not the witch ones. She is and always will be a witch, but she now is not powerful enough to be bothered by demons. Let me just say that Katie is somehow related to you, and someone else, but I have already said too much" An avatar says and then leaves without a hello or good bye.

"Woah, that was weird, so Katie is related to us."

"I guess so, and he said someone else. Lets find out how."

"How?" Katie asks

"Our Mom" Piper, Paige, and Phoebe all say together.

To be continued