Angelically Charmed: Daddy's Little Demon
"Daddy's little demon is starting to piss me off!" Piper swore as she dove over the back of the couch with Paige to avoid being struck by Alyeia's flaming ball of emotion.
"She only wants to see Andy" Paige returned peeking ever so carefully over the top of the sofa so that her brown eyes were exposed. "She's only a year she doesn't understand"
"It's been a week, I think she'd get the hint that he isn't available right now and that we aren't the bad guys!" Piper countered Ayleia's emotional blast with one of her own, creating a small explosion over Gram's favorite throw run.
"Well maybe if you hadn't insisted that we leave the tomb so soon we could have created a way for her to connect with the sarcophagus, this wouldn't be happening!"
"A sarcophagus?" Piper's brows knitted as she popped her head up curling her fingers on the top of the sofa. "You are starting to sound like Prue…no wonder Ayleia can't stand you!"
"Can't stand me?" Paige waved her hand created a circle of orbs, and sent a glowing force field to surround her half-niece, suspending her in mid-air. Both witches then pulled to their full height and trekked over the scotched rug where Piper stood with her hands on her hips.
"Look here little Missy, you may be my niece by marriage, but I'll be damned if I'm going to let reek havoc in my house! Explosive temper tantrums are not allowed in the living room! Someday you are going to pay for my rug!"
With a wave of her hand, Paige ordered the force field to the floor and dissolved the shield so that Ayleia was now standing on the hardwood. "I'm telling you this isn't the way to go about it" Paige added as the little demoness turned herself into a flurry of ash and bolted for the nursery.
"Then what do you suggest we do?" Piper knelt to her knees and started picking up small pieces of a vase, which had become victim to the blast. "Alyeia is making our lives miserable"
"Oh I don't know" Paige stuck her bottom lip, "she seems to be getting along famously with the girls" Although the young demoness wasn't so sure about her new found sisters and cousins the quads seemed to be on neutral ground, with Ayleia especially bonding to her angelic counterpart, Austin.
"That's because her powers don't seem to work on them" Piper stood upright and walked the broken shards of porcelain over to a small wastebasket near the desk, "Unlike us"
"At least you and I don't have it as bad as Prue. Poor girl has inherited a demonic step-daughter not to mention she still has Jeric on her hands" A heavy sigh escaped passed Paige's ruby lips as she rested her forearms on the edge of the desk. "Speaking of the witch…" Bright starburst appeared transcending into Prue. In her hands she held a five-by-seven framed picture, which she held close to her chest.
"Hey" Piper said flatly.
"Hey…uh what happened here?" the strongest of the Charmed Ones replied gazing about the shattered burned living room.
"Do you really have to ask?"
Prue's teeth sank in her bottom lip. "Ayleia…right"
"What you got there?" Piper asked eyeing the frame as her sister's forehead bristled.
"Oh this? Nothing…it's just, something I thought might help us with Ayleia"
"Well it better help quick or I'm taking out a second mortgage to pay the window repairman"
Prue let out a small hiss following Piper's eyes as they roamed the destruction throughout the living room.
The new step-witch then quietly made her way up the stairs to the nursery; remaining silent Prue watched in the doorway. The three youngest girls were sitting at small table hosting a tea party; Melinda, Glenda and Austin were all dressed in articles of adult clothing that had come Phoebe's closet. Piper's cosmetic bag was sitting on the floor slipped open from where girls had called open season on Maybellene giving a new name to the term "Cover Girl" Bright pink lipstick covered their mouths along with an earth tone colored rogue for their cheeks.
Unconsciously Prue let out a silent giggle until her eyes fell upon Alyeia. The little demoness was standing behind Austin's chair glancing onward at her step-sister and cousins, a wall of anger surrounding her heart. Her shifted towards the cosmetic bag on the floor and Prue quickly made her move.
"Hey" Smiling Prue dropped her knees and carfully tucked the picture frame under one arm before picking up the tube of rose petal pink lipstick. "Would you like to put some of this on?" she asked showing the little demonic/tracer the waxy looking tube.
Alyeia stared coldly before adverting her eyes to her half siblings.
"Here" Prue said extending her hand ever-so-slowly. Hesitant, she carefully painted Alyeia's rose-colored lips. "There, ever the princess of darkness has to look beautiful"
Ayleia cautiously smacked her lips examining the new texture. Prue then shifted the picture frame from underarm and pushed it towards, her half-daughter. Carefully she watched Ayleia's head cock as she noticed the famed portrait was her father. It was actually a picture that Prue had taken of Andy shortly after he'd received his masking powers so it was still relatively new.
Alyeia stretched her tiny hand forward but as soon as she touched the frame, Prue was jolted across the room by a telekinetic vision, the same vision that she and Andy had seen right before Ayleia's birth.
In the center of Phoebe's old bedroom was a beautiful looking girl of Asian decedent. The girl had long silky hair that was pulled up into a bun. Her facial features has a strong resemblance to Dantalian along with blue sparkling eyes that were unmistakably Andy's Alyeia was sitting on the floor with her legs crisscrossed before a set of glowing candles.
"Call of the demons rise course as seen across the skies, bring to me and settle the here, the mother I lost to the witches fear!"
A cold wind swept through the room causing Alyeia to hug her upper arms for warm. A swarm of black dust slowly began to unfold in the center of the candle circle transforming into an older looking women.
Datalian smiled, "My daughter, at last we meet"
Tears brimmed Ayleia's eyes as she rose to her feet. "Mother, I have waited so long to be with you"
Dantalian opened her arms to the girl and the two embraced. "You are beautiful" Dantalian beamed as a young adult, Amanda and a teenage Austin orbed into the room, interrupted them.
"Demon!" Amanda shouted releasing Austin's hand.
Mother and daughter, broke a part "At last, the angelic ones" Dantalian grinned wickedly flinging her hands out at Amanda. Large sparks flew from her fingertips striking the oldest of the witches, blowing her up instantly.
Skillfully without saying a word, Austin focused on the explosive blast and used her psychokinetic power to throw the flames back at the high priestess causing a counter action by Ayleia.
"Athame!" The tracer's athame appeared in the young tracer/demon's hand and before Austin could react, Ayleia flung the blade at her half-sister vanquishing her instantly.
"Nicely done" Dantalian congratulated. "I am very proud". The demon Priestess then took a hold of Alyeia's hand and together they blinked out
"No" Prue shook her head as she recovered from the force of the vision. The future she'd seen with Andy had yet to change. The vision had been Ayleia's way of letting Prue know she was still in control it wasn't that her powers didn't work the angelic ones, it was that Ayleia wasn't choosing to use them. For the split second, Prue made eye contact with her tiny foe and glared. Bringing Alyeia to the manor wasn't the action that would free Andy from his fate…it was finding a way to make peace.
"I take it Ayleia didn't like the picture?" Paige looked down at her oldest sister for a moment before offering Prue hand up.
"No" Prue hissed holding her hip, "She liked it just fine, I've decided it's her sisters or their goodness that she doesn't like" the older witch sidestepped Paige and started for the hall.
Paige looked over at the tiny table where Ayleia had now taken the fourth seat and was enjoying the moment as Melinda passed her a plastic teacup and saucer.
"What? Prue?" Paige started down the hall where Prue stopped at the base of the attic stairs.
"When I handed Alyeia Andy's picture she passed me a vision. A vision that Andy and I had seen before"
The one where she and Datalian, kill Amanda and Austin?" Paige replied knowingly watching her big sister trot up the stairs.
"Exactly which means if I don't find a way to make peace, my family is going to be destroyed and I'm never going to get Andy back"
"Andy right…" a thought occurred to Paige, she had promised Andy she would travel back to the past and retrieve a letter he'd written for Prue. "Do you happen to know where Ally is right now?"
Prue paused on the steps looking back "She's at Lacey Kellers, why?"
"Uh…no reason" Paige made a sour face before stomping her foot. "Shoot!"
"Anything I can help with?"
A pleasant smile crossed Paige's face as she saw Drake step out from the bathroom, "I don't know can you time travel?"
Returning the smiling Drake waltzed up to her and offered his arm, "just tell me where'd you like to go"
"Baker High School, May 25th 1988"