Pri and Chris had been making out for an hour on his couch and were now just laying there, Pri with her head on his chest, Chris with his arm around her shoulders. "Chris, are you sure cousins are allowed to do what we're doing?" Pri lifted her head and looked up at him.
"Pri, I told you it's okay." He gently pulled his fingers through her hair. "There are people like us all over. It's just that…most people don't accept it. It's never happened in out family before, we're lucky that they are happy for us."
"Well I should get home to Paris before Mom and the aunts realize that I left her at home alone. She is sixteen after all." Pri gave him a quick kiss and orbed to her room in the Manor.
"Hey Pri. Mom came home from P3 but I covered for you. I was wondering if we could see a movie. Please?" Paris looked up from her YM Magazine and put on a puppy dog pout.
"Hey, wipe that look off your face. Of course I'll take you. Let's see Hellboy." Pri smiled and took the magazine. "Next time you read my stuff without asking I won't be so nice." Pri held out her hand to help Paris up from her lying down position on the floor. "Is Hellboy alright for you?"
"Yeah, I've seen it on TV in the future but it would be cool to see it on the big screen." Paris's eyes lit up because she had never been to a movie theater.
They both went downstairs and found Piper in the living room with Wyatt. "Hey Mom, Pri is taking me to see a movie." Paris started to walk past the doorway to the living room to the front door.
"Hold it!" Paris walked back into the living room where Pri was glancing nervously at the ceiling. "What movie are you planning on seeing?" Piper asked.
"Hellboy. I've seen it on TV in the future but never on the big screen. And it's PG-13 so I'm allowed to see it," Paris smiled, hoping that Piper wouldn't ask anything else. "I'll…um…wait in the car." She added when she got the feeling that Piper wanted to talk to Pri alone.
"Did you have fun with Chris?" Piper asked smiling with an eyebrow raised, indicating to Pri that Piper knew that Paris was left alone, and was slightly annoyed.
"Yes…I mean…um…no. I mean we didn't have fun…but…we had…um…good safe normal fun, watching TV. Sorry I left Paris alone but she's sixteen. I figured she could handle being home alone and I was right. And to make up for not spending time with her, I offered to take her to a movie." Pri nervously replied.
"It's okay, I'm not mad. I just think it's strange that the two of you suddenly can't stay away from each other. It seems supernatural…but if Cupid is involved somehow he would not do it so suddenly. He would gradually bring out your feelings and let you do the rest. Besides…Paris says that you and Chris hate each other's asses in the future. Cupid only brings together people who already have hidden feelings for each other. According to Paris, that counts you two out." Piper let her eyebrow down and her smile went away. "This may be an evil spell or something to make your feelings interfere with your goals. Especially if those goals are against evil." A look of concern shone in Piper's eyes.
"Aunt Piper, lemme worry about the possibility that evil is toying with my love life some other time. I owe this to Paris." Pri walked away and as she walked away she smiled and added. "I can handle it."
Pri got to the car and saw Paris in the passenger seat. "Don't you want to drive?"
"I-I don't have a license yet! You know that." Paris had a look of shock on her face, eyes wide with surprise.
Pri smiled. "In this time if you have a permit you can drive with a licensed driver. You have your permit…I just got my license. I know that you have been dying to drive."
"I may have a permit, but if we are stopped by the police I don't think they would accept a permit from 2022. Isn't there a place near the theater that is safe to orb to?" Paris didn't have to ask twice, for the pleading in her eyes did the asking for her.
"There is an alley next to the theater…I can sense to see if it is empty. If it is…then we will orb." Pri took five minutes, although it was empty when she first attempted to sense it, she wanted to be sure that it stayed that way long enough for them to arrive there safely. "Ok. Let's go."
When they arrived in the alley a man all in black looked up. "Um, Pri? I thought you said that this alley was empty of human life." Paris looked scared and considered running away. Strangely enough the man showed no signs of surprise at seeing two young women appear out of nowhere. "He is human…isn't he?"
"I have seen you on TV." Pri stepped toward the man. "You play Angel, the vampire with a soul. What's a rich and famous actor like you doing in a run down alley like this?"
"It's not very often that my kind come across yours. Whitelighters …witches …your kind of demons all being evil. Not one of your demons has a single ounce of good in them, isn't that peculiar? And vamps that turn into bats? That's not natural or supernatural…it's called radioactive mutation. Normal vamps don't fly; they jump extremely high, move really fast, have extraordinary hearing, but definitely can't fly. We do not burst into flame the moment we set foot into sunlight…we slowly begin to burn and then we burst into flame. We do not disintegrate the instant holy water or crosses or whatever touches us. We slowly burn, smoke rising from us and then we disintegrate. It's a very painful experience. And demons that can create fire and electricity just by holding out their hands. I've heard stories but I'm starting to believe." The man looked from the spot on the wall that he had been facing while staring off into space and giving that long talk of what seemed like nothing but babble to the girls, to Pri. He then looked to Paris who looked like she was about to run. "Oh yeah…you asked me a question didn't you? Well what else is a vampire to do? Trapped in an alley by the surrounding sunlight. Stupid prophecies, I wish there was something in them about the vampire with a soul being immune to sunlight. Then I wouldn't be here talking to you."
"Whoa my head is spinning. So all of that stuff on TV is real? Angel nodded and Pri glanced at Paris. "You aren't going anywhere Paris. This guy's on our side. Let's get you some place safe. Actually, Paris you can see the movie; have some fun." Pri handed Paris fifty bucks. "Go get yourself an expensive dinner or something." Before Angel could stop her Pri took his hand and orbed him away. Paris ran into the theater to see the movie.
They arrived in the attic and Angel doubled over. "God how can you stand to do that a million times a day? Or is it just us who aren't used to it that get queasy at the end of the ride?" He was finally able to stand up straight.
"Don't worry you'll get used to it eventually." Pri walked him over to the couch. "Stay here, I need to get Piper-I mean Aunt Piper." She orbed downstairs.
Paige walked into the living room in time to see Pri orb in front of Piper. "Oh good, Piper, you're here." Paige sees the worried look on Piper's face. "What's wrong?"
"I don't know. I was about to ask your daughter the same thing. Either Hellboy is the shortest movie in history or you never left the empty alley." Piper looked around. "Where is your cousin?"
"Oh I told her to stay and watch the movie." Pri smiled and then got serious. "We have a real Hellboy upstairs that needs our help…do we have any blood in the fridge or do we have to buy more?"
"Wait, blood? That means there's a vampire upstairs on our couch and instead of killing it we are feeding it?" Pri nodded her head and both Piper and Paige looked confused. "This is wrong."
"Don't worry, it's Angel. You know…the vampire with a soul." Pri continued to explain. "Paris was terrified so I gave her some cash and told her to go watch the movie. Then I orbed Angel here. He can tell us where to take him and we can orb him there."
Piper relaxed and called Leo who came and took Wyatt "Up There". "Honey, we need to keep Wyatt up there a little longer than planned."
"Why, something wrong?" Leo said, concerned.
"Maybe, maybe not. We just need to do some investigating. I'll call you if we need you." Piper half-smiled as Leo nodded his head, a sullen expression on his face, and orbed back "Up There". "Well let's do this thing and get it over with."
They all orbed up to the attic and Angel jumped. "Geeze don't scare me like that. I guess you're gonna orb me to my place. You know where it is if you watch the show. Just bring me to the lobby, that's probably where Fred, Gunn, Cordy, and the others are waiting, hoping I'm okay. Wes is probably out checking all of the alleys. Lorne would want to read you so you might want to get out of there as soon as you arrive."
"Wow. You're just as smart as you are on TV…oh wait of course you are." Paige smiled. "So is Cordy really pregnant with Connor's child?"
"Not a good time Paige. Let's go" Piper turned to Angel. "Don't worry, orbing is easier on the stomach after the first time."
Once again Angel was grabbed before he can say anything and they were all orbed to the old hotel that was now Angel's headquarters. When they arrived, the people in the lobby soon surround them. Fred was wielding a hand axe, Wesley had a crossbow, Gunn had a sword, and the others had their hands ready for a martial arts attack.
Pri stepped forward and they grew tense. Wesley raised his crossbow to eye level and she stepped back. "Angel, you were right. We should have left as soon as we dropped you off. You're Wesley right? Well we found Angel in an empty alley and brought him to our place. He regained some strength so we decided to bring him here. See he's fine now."
Wesley looked past Pri and saw Angel doubled over and throwing up on the floor. "Dear god…what did you do to him?"
Fred spoke up. "I say we kill them." She threw her axe at Piper who was facing away from her.
"Piper, look out!" Paige shouted.
Piper turned in time to see the axe two feet from her head and putting her hands up she blew it up. "Now that's not nice. We save Angel from hours of waiting until sundown and this is what we get? What did we ever do to you?"
Gunn walked forward and took Fred's hand. He then looked Angel who was now sitting on the floor against the front desk. "If you saved him then why is he half dead?"
"It was the orbing, he's not used to it. And we would have fed him except there was no more blood in our fridge. Well there was some rabbit's blood but we weren't sure if vampires drank that." Paige looked down.
Angel stood up and walked over to Wesley. "You've heard of whitelighters. Paige and Pri over there are both whitelighters. They're good people."
"Ok but last time I checked whitelighters don't blow things up with a wave of their hands. Who is the other one-or what is she" Wesley's eyes were narrowed down to slits as he raised his guard once more.
Piper froze everyone who was freezable and unfroze just their heads. "Now why didn't I think of that before?" Wesley, Gunn, Fred, Lorne, and Connor were all speechless.
"Good job Aunt Piper." Pri turned to face the frozen ones. "We're witches. Good ones. And what my aunt did to that axe is called molecular combustion…it's a very painful experience. If you still don't believe us that we're good, at least believe that if you make one wrong move we can-and will-kill you, like that." She snapped her fingers once to indicate how fast they would be killed.
"Sorry, my daughter can get carried away sometimes. What she means to say is that if you can believe us and learn to trust us, then you will have gained powerful allies and good friends." Paige smiled. "Piper, unfreeze them."
Piper raised her hands and they unfroze. "So is it a deal? You don't kill us and we help you with demon problems."
"Sounds good to me." Fred looked down at her feet. "Sorry about the axe. I'm not usually like that."
Piper smiled. "Don't even bother mentioning it. In fact, I'll buy you a new one."
"No need to. There's probably ten more stashed away somewhere." Lorne's face grew serious. "Now how about letting me read-"
"Actually I think they have stuff to do." Angel cut him off. "Isn't that right…Paris should be back from the movie. You wouldn't want her to worry that something happened to you."
"Yes let's go. I think Mom has something to tell us." Pri took Piper's hand.
"Yeah…I do…" Paige orbed out and Pri followed with Piper.
"Wait a second." Gunn's eyes widened. "Pri said her mom had something to say…and-and-and t-then Paige…and…but…"
Angel remained calm. "Paige is Pri's mother."
"But-h-how is that…they're both…" Gunn looked around at everyone, anxiousness and confusion showing in his eyes.
"Both in their twenties. I know. It's all very strange." Angel turned and walked to his room.