The Lost Ones

Chapter fifteen: Long story

Ellie looked at Leo he wasn't the ten year old boy that she had left this was a grown man with his own life, his own responsibilities, she knew she owed him the truth the full truth she just didn't know how much she should tell him.

'What do I tell him he deserves the truth but how much is too much? Hell I don't even know the whole story how am I meant to explain it was confusing then and now it's even more confusing? I hate prophesies they are already in riddles and then the people who tell you about them are worse because they love to me mysterious Okay Ellie just answer the questions he wants answered. You can do that.'

Ellie carefully came round the counter top sitting next to Leo she asked,

"What do you want to know?"

"How is it your back from the dead? How come the elders never told me my own mother was a demon and that the former Source of all evil had been my uncle? And why did you have to die in the first place? You were good…you were good right? I mean I remember you were the one who taught me about honesty and stuff…"

Leo's out burst was an array of his varying emotions; he didn't know what to think the woman that once had represented all that was good and kind in the world had turned out to be a demon.

Ellie taking pity on the man next to her puts her hand on his shoulder and in a reassuring manner rubs small circles on his back.

Letting out a sigh,

"I'll start at the beginning and we'll go from there. Okay?"

He nodded his head. Turning away from him Ellie begins to draw imaginary swirls on the counter top.

"Um…it all started along time ago it was after my dad died…..

Ellie's flashback:

It was a dark night Ellie didn't understand what was going on she was setting on the grass with her older brother William he was wearing a brown tweed little boy's suit as was common in 1888 she was herself a very proud three year old in a pinafore white dress her dark curls in pig-tails her mother and father were shouting, her father was holding her big brother Cole, she saw her mother grab him out of his arms her mother was very angry, so angry her eyes flashed black, Ellie hid behind William when ever that happened nasty balls would come out of her hand, and just like every other time it did this time it hit her father.

Her mother stood their obviously on her face just like them she couldn't believe she had just done that. All thoughts were interrupted by the sound of an unnatural howl. They were coming.

Their mother came up to them and quickly took a hold of all her three children, she shimmered them out away from the park the lifeless body of Benjamin Colerige Turner the only testament to their being there.

Life after that had been hard they would shimmer from place to place, from one dimension to another never staying to long in one place. And then it happened what they fear would one day happen Ellie was six, her brother William seven and a half, and C.J. they eldest nine.

They had been taken by surprise the children tried their best to defend themselves and their sick mother against the ten tall demonic beings, their sick was impenetrable like a thick armor their glowing red eyes focused on the woman behind the children. The demons didn't hurt them instead three different demons grabbed a hold of the children the demons easily held the struggling children with one of their metal like hands. One of the demons came to stand in front of their mother its voice came out like mails on a chalk board.

"It's nice to see you again Calistzorninna did you really think you could stay hidden for long especially with your mutes?"

Their mother tried to stand up, beads of sweat running down her white forehead. She held a hand to her stomach trying to add pressure to the wound she had gotten after a narrow escape from a witch. After she struggled to get up she stood as tall and definitely as she could in her current state.

"As long as could."

Staggering a few steps forward she came and stood by the demon that held Cole and carefully brushing the hair away from his forehead she whispered,

"Take care of your brother and sister Belthezor no matter what the price?"

"Enough! Say good by to your mutes Calistzorninna this is the last you will see of them. They now belong to the Source just like every inch of your human loving self."

Sneered the demon that was obviously the leader. He roughly grabbed a hold of her shoulder and with the children they shimmered them out of the dark forest they had been in.

The children soon found themselves in the underworld, they were in what looked like a large court room of sorts it was hollowed stone and the far wall was incased in fire, to the length of each wall were openings that allowed for entrance into the room no one ever shimmered into this room without an explicit pass from the Source for here is were he held court.

"My liege we have found Calistzorninna and her must."

The leader said the children were unceremoniously dropped to the ground.

"So these are the children that are meant to cause such trouble for me in the near future? What were they called Malevant?"

"I believe the prophesy refers to them as the children as the three, three to bind, three to unite, three one of path dark, one of gray, one of light. Three for three magics unite gone be dark gone be light forever shall these brethren unite."

"Well seeing as one of the children is female I doubt this prophesy shall be a problem?"

"One can never be too sure my liege. I think it would be better to separate the children before they discover their destinies. They single handed could destroy the very world we live in."

"Wait a minute what prophesy the only prophesy that speaks of three in the one about the charmed ones if there was another both sides would have known about it and the Elders would never stop a prophesy from being for filled."

"Are you sure about that Leonardo both sides have done terrible things to insure the greater good or evil depending the side. If you knew what the elders did to insure the existence of your precious charmed ones…uh…never mind that's not important…any how you said you wanted to know what happened so this is what happened?"

"No mom correction I wanted to know how it is that you are now alive not dead. Not what life was life for you in the underworld. With the rest of your demonic family!"

"You self centered self serving son of a…..AHHH! This has everything to do with it and it you could get your unbelievable thick head out of the sand you would now why?"

"Why… why does this have anything to do with it?"

"Do you think the Source really cares that much about half-breeds for crying out load we're not the first and we won't be the last…Hell the Source even has a few half bread children running around. But they targeted us…they went after us…we were the threat…my father was murdered…"

"Yeah my mother dearest"

Disgust and sarcasm obvious in his voice and the scowl that marred his face.

"She never wanted to hurt him…believe it or not Leonardo but demons can love, and your grandmother is no exception."

Piper had been listening in the hallway didn't know whether or not she should intervene or if she would just make things worst. She had heard Ellie story until Leo had interrupted her and couldn't feel anything but sympathy for the Turner children they never had chosen the life they were in the more she heard the more convinced she was that the children had been abandoned, left to fend for themselves in the underworld. She shuddered at the thought at the thought she didn't like going to the underworld and she always knew she would leave after the necessary vanquish she didn't know what it must have been like for them.

"You want me to believe that wouldn't you that you loved me? That none of what happened after you left was your fault …everything that happens in life is a direct result of our actions."

"A direct result of our actions…a direct result of OUR actions…don't you dare give me the fucking whitelighter shit!"

Ellie said this through gritted teeth.

"Ah…Ellie I'm sure he didn't mean it like that?"

Piper said trying to intervene before the rift between the mother and son became too great to fix.

"Yes he did"

"Yes I did"

Both Leo and Ellie said at the same time. Ellie then turned her rage filled eyes to Leo.

"My actions I was three years old when my father died my actions…I'm to blame for that…so it's my fault that my brothers and eye saw our mothers torture and gang rape before they killed…THAT IS A DIRECT RESULT OF MY ACTION! AHHHH! Being sold into demonic slavery…MY ACTIONS! Being nothing more than a thing to be given away at the slightest whim MY ACTIONS! Being tortured, raped and worse for TWO YEARS! A DIRECT RESULT OF MY ACTIONS! I never have done anything to hurt anyone or anything how the hell to you say that everything that has happened to me is because of my fucking actions!"

Piper had her hand on her mouth she knew that life must have been hard for them, based just on what Chris had said about Cole not belonging in heaven or hell, that during their life time things couldn't have been mush better, being half-human they must have been hated, probably just as much if not more than they hated Cole for being half-demon. But she never dared to imagine that it had been like that, hearing it said out loud made it real a little too real.

Leo's face filled with shame as her heard the out burst from his mother, he had pushed her away afraid to admit that the elders were not as forthcoming as they should be. So instead he had attacked her, making her into the villain in this rather screwed up story only to find out that she had been the victim.

Ellie crossed her arms across her chest, there had been parts of her past she didn't want to divulge to with her son or his wife, it had always been between her herself, her brother, and then during a certain chapter in her life Grmin.

She cleared her throat and started to speak,

"It was 1927 you were ten years old,

Ellie flashback:

She was in her kitchen making a pie to go with the roast chicken that was cooking in the oven, it was a Sunday, the weather was wonderful both Christopher and Leonardo were outside playing a game of catch. Ellie couldn't help the smile that spread over her face this is what she always wanted.

As she carefully put the pie into the pie dish she heard a knock at the front door, wiping her hands on her apron, and making sure that no strands of hair were free from her bun, she went and answered the door.

When she opened she saw a man she had never seen before, cautiously Ellie placed the door some what between herself and the stranger.

"Can I help you?"

"Actually it more on how I can help."

"I'm sure what ever you're selling is a wonder, but I don't need it."

She moved to close the door on what she thought was a door to door salesman. But he quickly put his foot to stop her from closing the door.

"I'm not here to sell you anything I'm here about your son. I here to help you save him. Please listen my name is Michelle I'm a whitelighter."

"Michelle" Both Leo and Piper said simultaneously

They remembered the elder quit well being the only one that had encouraged their romance and latter marriage whole heartedly

"You know him?"

The there people were shocked the more they learnt this night it seemed the more lost they became.

To be continued…..