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Charmed And Cursed
Chapter four: Unseen Hate
Myrenna stared at Piper and Leo expecting there to be a joke in there somewhere there had to be. An Elder willing to hold up their end of the deal? Impossible. Yet Leo seemed quite willing.
But that was Leo. It was different. He obviously had no idea of the real reason he was cloaking John because Myrenna suspected now she was calm enough to analyse it properly that the cloak would have probably been dropped long ago.
She noticed that the other two sisters were missing from the room. She frowned Myrenna had heard that the Charmed Ones dealt with threats together but here Piper was stood alone with Leo Wyatt the one thing keeping her and John apart.
The temptation to rip Leo limb from limb was almost too much to take but she reasoned then that at the blink of an eye Piper would give the word and John would be taken from her altogether.
Yes, Myrenna decided, Piper Halliwell would be a formidable ally but if you pissed her off as Myrenna had then you made one hell of an enemy. Leo seemed to have forgotten that episode in the roof.
For the moment anyway. He seemed to be willing to make the deal. And Myrenna reasoned it had been a good one but now that left her in a rather difficult position. Whichever way she looked at it she was going to loose someone she loved.
To get to her soulmate, her other half she would have to kill the king of the vampires, and that of course meant, being who she was, she would have to kill her own father.
But if she didn't then the deal would be off and Leo would never release John from his cloak believing him to be in danger from her.
Now the only question was, whom did she choose? No matter how angry she was at her father she still did love him and if she killed him she would have to become head of the clan herself.
But then at least if she did that then she could prove to the Charmed Ones that the vampires would not be a threat anymore and that John would be safe.
John. For centuries he had been the only being in her thoughts. The only reason she had not given up and died. Now she was being presented an opportunity to see him again.
It came at such a high price that it made her hesitate. But then she remembered he was her life.
"I'll do it." She said.
And with those three words she signed her fate. She was going to have to kill the most powerful of all the vampires. Her father. She just hoped The Ice Maiden name didn't fail her when she needed it most.
Piper watched the vampire closely. They knew next to nothing about her other than she wanted Jake and she was willing to kill one of her own kind to get him. This didn't make sense.
Piper felt sure there was something she was missing, something she wasn't been told. It all came back to the Elders. Leo had almost told her that there was something they were keeping from him.
Piper rolled her eyes. She just knew it. Despite the fact they were on the same side it felt like they were not. The Elders were just as bad as the Underworld sometimes.
They got more information from the demons they managed to capture than they did from the Elders and to be blunt, it pissed her off. It was almost like they were fighting for the other side and not the side of good.
Had they not learned that even though Leo and Piper were involved and now had two children to think of that they could work effectively and take out the bad guys and what was more they made a good team.
So they bent the rules slightly and yes, they had broken them by marrying in the first place but the Elders had given their blessing in the end so why did it still feel like they were running up against a brick wall.
Now Leo had took matters into his own hands and by offering the female vampire a way to get what she wanted they could learn more about her. It was obvious she walked a fine line between good and evil occasionally crossing into one or another and everything pointed to the fact it had something to do with Jake.
Thinking of this Piper spun round and saw Jake watching with narrowed eyes from the corner of the dining room. He caught Piper's eye and she shook her head. "No." She mouthed "Stay there." Piper chanced a look at Leo and his eyes had glazed over it was obvious, at least to her, that he was having a heated discussion with Jake.
At that moment thankfully Paige and Phoebe appeared and pulled him forcefully from the room.
She turned back to the vampire. "Okay listen and listen closely." Myrenna looked at Piper. Usually witches were weary of vampires but Piper seemed unfazed and her hatred and distrust of Myrenna was evident from here. This was really going to be difficult.
Way to go! Myrenna snarled to herself another consequence of acting before you think now the one person that could actually help you hates your guts. Well done.
"If we are going to this we want to know why you want to wipe out your own race for the sake of one charge. Seems a bit extreme." Myrenna knew it would probably be best to tell Piper what she wanted to know, but she couldn't not yet. She didn't want to make herself believe she could have John back and then loose him again if everything went wrong.
She didn't want to face the fact she might loose him. She knew that the Charmed Ones would need to know the story soon enough but right now she was content to let them make their own conclusions.
Piper watched the vampire's face carefully and knew right away that they were going to get nothing out of her. She either was unwilling to share her story or wasn't stable enough yet to tell it. That only heightened Piper's suspicions that there was more to this than people were letting on.
Leo said, "Give her a chance." His voice was so low that Piper nearly missed it and Myrenna certainly had caught in her thoughts.
Piper just shrugged she did not like her and nothing would change that. But she was willing to give her the chance if Leo was. "Okay if you don't want to tell us that tell us your name."
Myrenna looked up and blinked. That wouldn't hurt would it? She looked at Leo. The only problem was Leo had been a White Lighter a long time he might know…
Oh hell…what would it matter? They would all know soon enough. "Myrenna." She said quietly. She studied their faces. They remained blank. Okay maybe that hadn't been as bigger risk as she thought.
If she had said Theoran's daughter then she was sure Leo would have known but she could bet that the Elders hadn't told him anything about her since he was cloaking John and seemed to have no idea about the real reasons why.
So the Elders screwed their own as well? Well didn't that just make sense? Myrenna suddenly found that she had more and more respect for the couple in front of her despite her best efforts to do no such thing.
Not that she would tell them that of course. No, that would never do. No. She might respect Leo Wyatt but that didn't mean that if she got the chance she wouldn't blow him up.
Despite herself she couldn't stop herself from feeling hate. Hate she knew was no longer earned but it was a hard habit to kick and it was better to have someone to blame other than you.
The hate came over her in a cloud and before she knew she had sent an energy ball at Leo. Leo exploded but she knew then she had made a grave mistake because at that moment Piper exploded and Myrenna saw a wave of power coming at her.
The wave hit her with the pressure of a tonne of bricks and she was slammed into the wall opposite and before she could gather her breath she felt something else slam into her.
The power of that force knocked her unconscious and she swore she felt John in the room.
As she was knocked out she heard Paige and Phoebe shout, "NO!" And then everything went black.