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Charmed And Cursed

Chapter Two: Sparring for a Charge

Myrenna paced her magically enforced cage like a caged animal. Higher-level demons surrounded her outside the boundary of the cage. They were all hooded and kept their gaze averted.

Myrenna was pissed off. She hated the things before her on principal but now she hated them even more. They had stopped her from getting to John.

That meant war. She paced the cage and every so often killed a demon that came too close through the bars of her cage. Then she turned her powers on the cage looking for away out.

One hooded figure stepped forward seemingly unafraid of Myrenna and what she could do. "We have a deal for you." The speaker said.

Myrenna stopped her onslaught on the cage and smiled at the speaker. "Sorry I don't so deals with demons." "Yes but this an unusually fair offer. We want you to kill and Elder for us."

Myrenna stopped and stared. "Elder's don't come out into the open." She said. She should know. She'd walked the earth long enough to know the habits of the Elders.

Damn she herself had hunted for them long enough but to no avail. Now the foulest creatures on the planet were offering her chance to get her revenge.

She listened.

"This one does." The Speaker said smiling under his hood knowing he had her attention. "He's been causing a bit of problem in our ranks. Many of us have lost our life to him. We want him destroyed." Myrenna stared.

Now she had a problem. On the one hand she had the unbearable hate she had for demons and on the other she had the ice-cold fury she had let fester for the Elders.

This offered her an unmissable chance to strike back at the Elders for what they had done to her.

"He seems to be my job well." Myrenna shrugged blowing up another few demons. "Besides what's in it for me?" Even though she knew that killing an Elder would be enough.

"We can pay you." One hissed. Myrenna laughed, "I've been around enough to accumulate more wealth than I can possibly spend." Then a thought occurred to her.

He eyes grew huge and then she narrowed them. She smiled slyly. "Ok I'll kill the Elder" there were applause and yelling. She blew up another demon that came too close. She yelled above the noise to make herself heard "If you can get me the power to Orbe."

The cheering stopped abruptly and an uneasy silence fell. "My Lady," One demon came forward. "What you are asking cannot be done. You know we cannot get you what you ask."

Myrenna shrugged. "Those are my terms. Get me the power to Orbe or the deal is off." She threw her hands up and in a blast of gold was gone.

There was uproar in the Demon Ranks. They had no idea how to do as she asked. How could they manage this? It was impossible.

At the back of the hall three hooded figures stand unnoticed. They look like any other demon in the hall and watched the proceedings without moving although one of their number had been close to committing serious murder.

The other two managed to keep her fury in check so not to give themselves away even though they were cloaked and invisible to the demon eye.

Phoebe leant forward and whispered to her sisters. "This is serious. They are going to kill an Elder!" "No!" Piper said her fury apparent "They want to kill Leo! He's the only Elder on earth. I won't let her. I'll kill her first!"

"Shhh!" Paige warned as a demon stalked out into the hall. "Paige," Piper said her anger barely in check "they can't see us!" "But they can hear us." Paige hissed as another demon strides past.

"I don't care!" Piper hissed back. "We have to get to Leo." Phoebe and Paige had never seen Piper this agitated for a long time and Paige smirked, as she knew that it proved Piper still loved Leo.

She was going to get them back together if it killed her. "We had better go. She could be anywhere now." Silently they called for Leo and under the noses of hundreds of demons the Charmed Ones were pulled out.

"They want to kill you." Piper said to Leo. Leo didn't seem to be shocked by this news. He shrugged "I've been doing some damage to the demon ranks. It stands to reason they would want me out the way."

"They are not going to kill you!" A voice said they turned and Jake walked into the room. "I won't let them. Your all I have left I can't lose you too." "Jake, nothing will happen to me." Leo said soothingly.

Piper was pacing. "Leo you don't know that! What if…" She stopped as Leo appeared in front of her. He made her look him in the eye. I'm not going anywhere Piper. I promise!"

Then he went silent. Piper had seen that look often enough to know he had thought of something. "What?" She said, "I have an idea." He said quietly. "What is it?"

"We need to find her before the demons do. We need to make a deal with her to see our side. We need her here. We need to find out what she knows."

Piper objected straight away. "No way on this planet am I going to be civil with her!" She said with venom her sisters had never heard her use before. "Piper honey it has to be done."

"Not at the expense of your life it doesn't!" Piper shot back. "Piper, there are bigger things at stake than me here. If she gets the power to Orbe then all the White Lighters and the Elders are in danger. That's more important than just me." "Not to me it isn't." Piper said sullenly.

"Nor me!" Jake said coming into the room his eyes burning. "It's the only way." Leo said looking between them both. "There are more lives at stake here. Besides she seems to be walking the line between good and evil. If we can get he to see our point of view she might not be such a threat after all."

Piper knew Leo's thinking was the best way to combat the new threat that had surfaced but to do so meant that she would have to put Leo in danger and she just couldn't lose him. She just couldn't. And as much as she knew Leo was capable of taking care of himself, he had more power than most but he still was in danger.

And a lot of it.

Piper shook her head "I can't lose you Leo. I need you." Leo looked at his wife and his eyes burned with emotions the people watching in the room couldn't name but he stood his ground.

"We can search for her and I can offer her a deal and you three can come with me as back up." He turned to Jake and before he even said anything "No. Don't even think about it." "Aww Leo. No way am I staying here when you're in danger after everything you've done for me I am not sitting here doing nothing when I might be able to help."

"And I'm not letting you expose yourself not when I know that the danger I have guarded you from has resurfaced. No, you are to stay here and wait. I'll be fine." He turned to Phoebe. "Phoebe can you find her? We need to find her fast."

Myrenna paced the empty rooftop furious. Damn the demons and their call. Now she couldn't sense him and panic flooded her. Had the werewolves managed to hurt him?

She would never forgive herself if that were the case. But she knew it couldn't be if John had been killed or hurt she'd know. Just because he was cloaked from her, just because she couldn't see him didn't mean she didn't feel his pain. She knew he had been hurt before she had felt the pain blaze through him and she had flew into a rage because she couldn't be there for him.

But this wasn't like then. It was just frustration that he was so close yet so far. He could be stood behind her and she wouldn't know any different. It infuriated her.

Her old hate of her father and the Elders resurfaced and she had to breathe to keep it under control.

Breathe…

She forced herself to breathe. Not to think about it just to get back under control. They couldn't keep him from her forever. She would find him. Now she knew he was here somewhere she was determined that it would be this time he was reunited with her.

She lent on the rail running round the top of the roof and let the breeze caress her face. She needed to think. At least she knew he was here somewhere, that was more than she had known in centuries.

She would find him. She would.

She had to.

She didn't think she was able to live another lifetime without him. Not this time. She didn't think she'd survive.

Just then she heard a noise behind her and spun round.

There were three witches and a…

She blinked. She couldn't believe it. If she wasn't mistaken that was an Elder. Stood right there in front of her.

The rage came back. But this time it was ice-cold hate. Now they'd know what they'd done to her.

She watched them approach growing more and more cold with every step. Just one wrong move and they'd see all the fury of the Ice Maiden. She was walking the edge and she was more than ready to choose which side to fall…

Piper was still wholeheartedly against this idea. It was the worse idea her sisters and her husband had ever had. And the only reason she was coming along was because she refused to let anything happen to him.

They'd be nothing left of her if anything happened to him. She'd tried to fight it, but now there was just no point. She might as well admit to herself. She had. She was totally in love with Leo. As much as she had been before he became an Elder. As much as she had been when they first got together.

Even more so. She needed him. She wasn't going to let anything happen to him. Not now.

She regarded the figure across the expanse of roof just as the figure was regarded them. Everything about this told Piper it was wrong. The woman whoever she was had stepped over the evil side of the line too much to be trusted in her opinion.

But her opinion apparently didn't matter. She watched the figure approach and Leo stepped out to meet her. "Hi." Leo said, "My name is Leo Wyatt."

Myrenna saw red.

Leo Wyatt. The name echoed through her head. It had haunted her for years. He was the White Lighter that had cloaked John from her this time. She had found that out at least. She had been searching for so long she had managed to find out who the White Lighter was that was cloaking John in this lifetime.

The ways and means weren't exactly legit but when it came to John she never cared.

Now she was facing this White Lighter turned Elder. He was the only thing standing in her way. He was blocking her from John. He was keeping John from her.

So he was the Elder the demons were after. She knew now that she would have no qualms about killing him.

She bent and got ready to lunge at Leo. Straight at his throat. Screw the bounty. If Leo was dead then John's cloak would drop.

That would be worth everything. It wasn't something she was going to let pass up.

She screamed and lunged.

Piper saw the women's eyes narrow and that was all the warning they got before she was on top of Leo, her fangs extended aiming for his throat.

Piper screamed and she Phoebe and Paige scrambled to help Leo. Piper couldn't get a clean shot at her because she and Leo were struggling on the deck. "Leo! Orbe away!" Paige yelled.

But Myrenna was one step ahead of them. She knew Elders hated conflict and so she grabbed his orbes as he tried to orbe away and threw him across the rooftop and diving at him again.

"Leo!" one of the witches yelled. Leo, Myrenna discovered was not like most Elders he fought back and with a ferocity that surprised her. He had control over lightening and used it. He got a clear shot at her and she felt the bolt burn her and then she regenerated and lunged again.

Myrenna had never lost control like this for centuries but it was a back log of things, things she'd forced herself to remain hidden and now faced with the one person who had the power to keep the one thing she loved away from her she let all her fury free.

One of the witches managed to get a shot in and her arm exploded in pain. It smoked from the impact but it wasn't enough to stop her completely not at all.

She was about to go in for the kill when something rammed into her and threw her to the very end of the roof top as far away from Leo Wyatt as was possible. She tried to get back to him but now the witches had a handle on her and there was something blocking him.

Piper watched horrified as Jake sped across the roof top faster than anything she had ever seen and threw the vampire, because that was what she was, across the roof top. When she tried to get to Leo again Jake stopped her from getting any closer.

He was one of the best fighters Piper had ever seen but it wasn't that that was making it hard for her to concentrate it was the fact that it was blatantly obvious that the female vampire could not see him.

Then Piper realised that this was the "demon" that Leo had worked so hard to guard Jake from and she yelled, "GET HIM THE HELL OUT OF HERE NOW!" Paige didn't hesitate she ran at him and orbed him out.

Something gave way and that gave Myrenna a clean shot at Leo but the witch ran in her way and said "Don't kill him I love him!" That stopped Myrenna cold.

Looking between them she had finally realised who they were. The witches were he Charmed Ones and Leo was the eldest Piper's husband. She looked between them once more and then fell to her knees and screamed.

The scream echoed round the rooftop and Piper thought that if the whole of San Francisco hadn't heard it then it would be a miracle.

Then she looked at them her Ocean Blue eyes were filled with fury but more profound was than that was the pain.

"How can you do it?" She screamed. "How can you do the exact same thing as me and then deny me what you have?"

She looked at them and instead of seeing guilt and relish on their faces they saw only confusion.

Her fury was leaving now. Where it had been was a massive empty black hole. She had regained her head enough to look at things rationally. She stood hating them more than she had before but she realised that they had no idea what she was talking about.

"Who are you?" Piper asked still shielding Leo. "My name is of no matter," Myrenna said shortly. As soon as she said it she knew it had been the wrong thing to say but she didn't care.

The Charmed Ones maybe powerful but she was a half witch half vampire hybrid and had had thousands of years to master the power she could wield. She had more control than they ever would.

"Okay," Piper said gritting her teeth "If your not going to give a name you can tell us why the hell you just tried to kill Leo." Myrenna suddenly found herself respecting the Eldest Charmed Sister she had guts.

Myrenna could respect that.

Myrenna turned at looked at them. She realised they truly didn't know. That had her thinking. Did they believe that if Leo knew the true nature of his charge he might not be so willing to shield him…

She stopped herself mid thought. None of that mattered. He was still an elder and he was still the one person that was shielding John from her.

"We meant you no disrespect." Leo said. Myrenna looked at him he was healing quickly despite the beating she had given him. "We wanted your help." She scoffed "What on Earth would you want my help for?"

"We thought we could give you a better bargain than the demons." Piper spat the sentence so venomously that Myrenna took an involuntary step back. "But obviously you don't have to have the power to Orbe to murder to him so maybe we'll just leave and I'll kill you the next time you come for him."

Myrenna believed if there was a way to kill her then Piper Halliwell could find it. Myrenna discovered that she had made a huge mistake in touching something that obviously belonged to Piper and knew that her best chance of reaching John now was not through violence but acceptance that Leo had no idea what he had kept from her.

She was almost positive of this now. She flipped her hair away from her face and Leo's eyes focused on her collar bone. "Which clan are you?" Damn!

They were good. "None. I don't have a Clan, not anymore." She turned away to cuff away the tears that had leaked through her barrier and then she turned back. "Look I hate Elders as much as I hate demons but I'm willing to do something for you since you have something I want."

"Oh really?" Piper said, "What's that?" "You're cloaking a Charge. He'll be about eighteen now. I want him."

Jake…

It occurred to Leo the same time as Piper and they knew without a doubt that it was Jake. Piper had seen for herself that the Vampire hadn't seen him. The only question that remained now was

Why?

"Why do you want him?" Leo said his eyes narrowing if there was one thing he would willingly fight about it was his charges and the Vampire had gave them no reason to trust her just every reason not too.

"That doesn't matter-" Myrenna started to say when Piper cut across her "Hey, you might not want to give your name Lady but that Charge is under our protection for a reason. We want a damn good reason why we can trust you with him before we let him anywhere near you."

Myrenna stopped cold. No one ever said No to her. No one that just made her respect of Leo Wyatt and Piper Halliwell go up another notch. Okay so if she couldn't get him that way then…

"What if I did something to make you trust me?" She asked "Like…" Piper said

"Like help you get rid of the leaders of the Vampires. I know its something the Elders would want."

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