WOO, chapter 25 already! Can you believe that? Lol. S&W is coming to an end soon. There's about five or six chapters left. :( But have no fear, there is a sequel coming! Anywho, here are the replies.
Fanmania: Glad you liked last chapter! Thanks for your review!
The-Cheese-Fairy: A Phoebe scene made you aw? Lol. Was that line foreshadowing you asked? Well, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. :P. I can't even believe I wrote chapter 24 with writer's block. HAHA, hore, hehe, that was some good times, wasn't it. Lol. Your review makes total sense, to me at least. Lol. Thanks for your review my funny French sentence buddy!
Prince Halliwell: I can't tell you who Alpha has found. :P. That's for me to know and you to find out. Lol. Glad you liked Dustin and Duncan working together and how the Pentacles worked with them. Thanks for your review!
BlueOrbs998: I always love reading your reviews. Haha, I seem to be making a lot of people like Phoebe. Lol. YAY, another Drake/Phoebe shipper. :D. P/K is my favourite couple so of course their child will be featured most…I hope. :P. If Kerr Smith doesn't come back for at least one episode and be with Paige, I'm also going to be one pissed of fan. :). I can tell you like the word 'rock'. Lol. I'm glad you like Duncan and Dustin. Thanks for your review and thanks for read/reviewing my two other Charmed stories.
Phoebe stared through the blue and white orbs created by Dustin and the Pentacles. Although she was trying to digest the information Jess had just given her, all the empathic witch could feel was betrayal. The person Phoebe thought was a witch was actually a Darklighter, who could have killed Leo or Paige at any given time. How would the Halliwell family be able to trust the Pentacles, especially the half witch, half Whitelighter known as Jessica Wilder. Maybe there was more that Jess and the Pentacles were hiding from them. It was time to find out what was really going on. Phoebe began to walk away from her family.
"Phoebe," Piper called after her, "where are you going?"
"I'm going to think." Phoebe marched down the stairs, followed by her fiancé, her sisters and their husbands.
"What do you need to think about? You're Phoebe, you don't think. This must be serious; I better go check with the Elders." Kyle jokingly teased. Paige hit the back of her husband's head lightly. "What?" he asked smiling. Paige playfully glared at him before returning a smile.
Phoebe stared at her sister and brother-in-law, "How can the two of you joke at a time like this?"
"A time like this?" Leo enquired, not quite sure what was going on.
"Duncan and Jess lied to us! Duncan is a Darklighter, not a witch!" explained Phoebe. Kyle stifled a laugh. "What are you laughing at Whitelighter?"
"You're over reacting. This isn't as bad as it seems." replied Kyle. His sister-in-law looked at him, shocked.
"It is as bad as it seems though Brody. The guy we thought was a witch is a freaking Darklighter!"
Kyle tried to hold back a snigger, but failed. "I'm sorry. It's just that this is funny to me because I knew this would backfire on him."
"You KNEW he was a Darklighter!"
"Well yeah, but see this is why Paige and I didn't tell you." Kyle stated.
Phoebe glanced wide-eyed at Paige, "You knew TOO!"
"What? We promised we won't tell anyone. Jeez Phoebs, out of anyone we thought you'd understand the best." Paige sympathized.
"Okay, stop with the arguing PLEASE!" Piper yelled. "Phoebe, stop over reacting. Obviously this situation isn't as bad as it seems if Jess, Vera and Andrew can trust Duncan. Now-" Piper was cut off by the phone ringing. No one budged to answer it. "Well don't everyone run to the phone. I'll get it." the oldest Halliwell sister said sarcastically as she walked into the kitchen and picked up the phone.
Leo and Kyle both looked upwards in harmony.
"Let me guess, the Elders." Paige said.
Kyle nodded, "We'll be right back." Leo and Kyle orbed up to the Heavenly Realm. Just as the two Whitelighters orbed out, the three Pentacles and the Tennor brother's orbed in. Once whole, Phoebe dragged Jess and Duncan into the empty conservatory.
"Uh oh." was all Jess said.
"Uh oh is right." Phoebe replied. "Why'd you two lie to me?" Phoebe asked, almost shouting.
"Duncan and his stupid brain weren't functioning when he said he was a witch. It wasn't my idea!"
"Jess is right, it wasn't her idea, it was mine. It was just spur of the moment. I wasn't in a mood to be vanquished." Duncan declared.
"How do you know I would have vanquished you? I would have understood if you had just told me the truth in the first place!"
"Please Phoebe, look how you're reacting right now. You're saying that you wouldn't act like this if Duncan had told you he was a Darklighter those two months ago?"
"Well, we will never know now." Duncan stated.
"Phoebe, tell us why this is such a big deal to you." said Jess.
"What do you mean? I've told you why this is a big deal to me."
"No, you haven't. Not the real reason why this is bugging you. Tell us Phoebe, please?" asked Duncan.
Tears began to fill the middle Halliwell sister's eyes. "I don't want you to be hurt like I was Jess."
"What are you talking about?" Jess questioned.
"I told you about Cole right?" Jess and Duncan both nodded. "Well, he was a powerful demon known as Balthazar. He told me many times that he wasn't a demon anymore, and I believed him. But he was vanquished and sent to the astral plane. Cole's human half survived, but he became more powerful by absorbing other demons powers. In the end though, I had to vanquish him because he was a threat. Jess, I just don't want you to go through what I did. Losing a love is painful, but having to kill them is unbearable."
"Wow." was all Duncan could say.
"Phoebe, I had no idea. If I had known…I'm so sorry."
Phoebe looked at the teenager. Jess was only eighteen years old and yet her fate was mostly set in stone. Jess, Vera and Andrew had a destiny, one which they couldn't decline. "Don't worry about it. Just, don't lie to us anymore."
"You got it. Since we're on the subject of lies, Vera, Andrew and I need to tell you, or everyone, something." As if on cue, Dustin, two Charmed Ones, two Pentacles and an ex-demon strode into the room.
"This can't be good if it involves all of us." Piper muttered, sitting down beside Phoebe.
"Listen, what we're going to tell you, we didn't lie about." Vera started.
"We just weren't allowed to tell you." Andrew finished.
Jess took a deep breath, "Our fathers were Elders."
Vera continued, "And when we first found out we were the Pentacles, we became Elders."
"But because we stood up against Odin and Darrius, two Elders, they stripped us of being Elders." Andrew ended. The Halliwell sisters and Drake were blown away by the information given.
"Anything else?" Piper finally said.
"Well, um, Kira and Blair were my kids with Duncan from the future." Jess said quietly.
"And Dustin," Duncan pointed to his brother, "is my older brother."
"Dustin is your brother? But he's a Whitelighter." Drake stated.
"We were brothers before death, and we are brothers after death. It's a long story." Dustin responded.
"I bet it is." Piper said.
Phoebe groaned, "This is so bad. Why is it every time we meet new people, there are always secrets involved?"
"Phoebe, stop thinking the worse. It's not that bad." Paige tried to talk reason into her sister.
"But it is bad. Can we not meet people who-" Phoebe stop complaining after being hit in the head with something. A yellow block to be exact. The middle Charmed One glared at her youngest sister. "PAIGE!" she yelled, picking up the block of cheese from the ground. "What was that for?"
"Well I had to make you shut up Aunt Phoebe. Sometimes you just go on, and on, and on." Paige replied. Jess and Vera held back their laughter, but unfortunately for Duncan, Dustin and Andrew, they could not.
"Wait a second; you just called me Aunt Phoebe. Laurie, is that you?" Phoebe asked.
"Well duh! Anything to do with cheese, it is obviously me." Laurie/Paige answered.
"Why did you switch places with your mother?" Piper wondered.
Laurie/Paige cleared her throat, "I need to see Wyatt."
"Why?"
"Because I've been told, from the Elders, to tell you to bring him down here so I can see him. Just do it, please Aunt Piper." Laurie/Paige pleaded.
"Alright!" Piper gave up. She went upstairs to Wyatt and Chris's room.
"How do the Elders tell you things?" Dustin asked the Divine Amity.
"Well, I hear these voices around me. And sometimes mom can hear them too." She replied.
Piper had just brought the blonde haired boy down from his room. "Now what?"
"Wyatt, can you come stand beside me, please?" Laurie/Paige asked the young Halliwell boy. Wyatt took hold of her hand, who is thought was his Aunt Paige's. "Good, now Aunt Phoebe, join hands with me." Phoebe did as told by her niece.
"So, why do you need me? And what's the point in this?" questioned Phoebe.
"First question, you're pregnant with the Holy Shaman and please don't ask about him now. Second question, you'll find out soon enough. Just relax and watch." Laurie/Paige commanded.
"Watch what?" Phoebe's question was soon answered. Duncan had turned into dark orbs while Dustin became white and blue orbs.
"What's going on?" Dustin's voice asked through the air. The two sets of orbs combined for a short moment, then separated and formed Duncan and Dustin.
"Okay, what the hell just happened?" Duncan asked, shocked.
"Hey, hey, hey, don't say that around the children!" Piper scolded.
"Sorry." Duncan apologised.
"You two brothers are the One." Laurie/Paige said. Before anyone could ask another question, the Divine Amity orbed out and back in again.
"What do you mean 'the One'?" Dustin questioned.
"The what now? What are we talking about?" Paige enquired. Vera looked Paige straight in the eyes.
"Paige?" she questioned.
"Vera?" Paige replied.
"It's her. It's Paige." Vera stated.
"Thanks Captain Obvious." Jess joked.
Vera smirked, "No problem Sidekick See A Lot."
"What'd I miss?" Paige asked.
"Apparently Duncan and I are 'The One'. Whatever that means." Dustin stated.
"And Phoebe is pregnant with the Holy Shaman." Drake said with a smile. He pulled Phoebe into a hug and twirled her around.
"Ha, you know what's funny?" asked Andrew.
Vera and Jess looked at him. "What?" they said together.
"We change topics really easily." He smirked. The two female Pentacles rolled their eyes and lightly punched Andrew's arms.
Righto, sorry that was a bit short. I've had major writers block, and that's why I wrote the two one-shot stories. Lol. I re-posted this chapter because there was a part that was bugging the hell out of me. lol.
Oh, anyone who hasn't checked out my two one-shots, Can't Smile Without You, and Never Let Go, feel free to do so. :) Until next chapter readers!
-3ms