Disclaimer : I don't own the main characters, but I create some originals one for the story !
Despite it being only a portrait in the Book of Shadows, Keira gasped when she saw Crowley's drawn face. Chills ran down her spine and she almost fainted but Wyatt, who hadn't left the girl, held her up. Instinctively, she clung to the sleeve of his sweater.
"Take your time, Keira." Paige told him.
"I…I can't stay. I have to go." Keira retorted, wriggling out of Wyatt's embrace.
"Hold on !" the latter restrained her.
She stopped and faced the young witch.
"What ?" she asked.
"If you ever leave this house, he'll find you, that's for sure." Wyatt replied.
"He'll find me anyway, no matter what I do. I hid for two years, and he finally found me. I don't want to run the risk of him going after any of you." she explained, not taking her eyes off Wyatt.
"You can't run away all your life." Chris replied.
"I do not have a choice. I no longer have anyone." she says.
"Use your powers to defeat Crowley." Paige encouraged her.
"No way, and anyway, only a potion can defeat him, and I don't know it." Keira countered.
"We do !" Phoebe said.
She had bent over the Book of Shadows.
"It's a rather complicated potion, but we'll manage to make it. The only problem is that we need a few drops of the demon's blood." Phoebe observed.
"We have the knife he used on Keira, so it will be a breeze to locate him." Chris said.
"Oh, and what are you going to do afterwards to get his blood ?" Piper asked her son.
Chris just looked at Bianca, who smiled back.
"Bianca, will you be able to approach him without getting killed ?" Piper asked skeptically.
"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine." Bianca affirmed.
"No !" Keira said.
All heads turned to her.
"No one should take any risk for me. The only solution for me is to leave San Francisco as soon as possible." Keira hammered as she walked back to the front door.
Wyatt didn't hear her that way and stopped her in her tracks by grabbing her arm.
"Keira, don't go !" he implored her.
Coop's ring began to sparkle again, intriguing Piper and Paige.
"Wyatt, please let me go !" she begged him.
"I can't do this Keira, especially since my Aunt Paige is your Whitelighter. She'll protect you from Crowley, but stay with us." Wyatt told her. "Please !"
"You will only risk being killed." she sighed.
"That's our problem. Danger is part of our family. You'll be taken to safety at the Magic School." Chris explained to her. "Trust us !"
Kira was struggling not to cry in front of everyone, but she was more than determined not to let other people die in her place. She gently wriggled out of Wyatt's embrace, who did nothing to hold her arm any longer. She looked at Paige and said :
"I know you have to protect me, and I appreciate the Elders thinking about my safety. I also know that with one of the Halliwell sisters as my protector, I risk nothing, but I have seen all my loved ones die because of me, and I don't want anything to happen to your family through my mistake."
"You shouldn't feel guilty for your family, it wasn't your fault." Piper added.
"And what do you know about it ? You weren't there when they died !" Keira fumed.
"What are you talking about ?" arched Leo.
"Crowley killed my parents, as well as my nine-year-old brother. He wanted to force my mother to tell him where I was but when she refused, he killed my little brother in front of her eyes, then my father, then her. This is what I found when I got home that day : my family dead, all because of me and my damn powers !" Keira cried, her face streaked with tears.
Having more and more trouble breathing, she almost collapsed but Wyatt pulled her into his arms and she let herself be rocked for a few minutes, under the bewildered gaze of the Halliwell siblings.
"It's okay, I won't let him near you." Wyatt whispered to her.
Keira quieted her crying, but didn't pull away from Wyatt's embrace.
"Alright, uh, Billie, pick up Melinda from school please, but don't tell her about Keira just yet." Piper said. "And be careful !"
"Got it !" Billie nodded before exiting the Manor.
"Chris and Bianca, go to Keira's apartment and get her things, but be careful." Piper suggested to them.
"We will." Chris said.
He took Bianca's hand in his but Keira stopped them.
"What is it ?" Chris asked.
"In the bedroom, under the bed, there is a box with several objects that I care about. Take it but, don't try to open it." Keira replied.
"We will be careful." Bianca affirmed.
Chris orbed with Bianca. Piper turned to her eldest son, who still had Keira in his arms, and said :
"Wyatt, you should show Keira the bathroom, and lend her some clothes until your brother comes back with her stuff."
"Okay !"
Instead of heading for the stairs, Wyatt hugged Keira closer, and orbed upstairs, leaving the adults between them.
"Poor girl, she wasn't spared." Phoebe sighed.
"Sandra says Keira protects herself, so it has to be magic, but why does she refuse to use hers to beat Crowley ?" Piper wondered.
"You read the Book of Shadows as well as I did, only a potion can defeat that demon." Phoebe said.
"She can at least use her gifts to defend herself." said Henry.
"We'll try to find out, in the meantime, can you try to get information on the death of Keira's parents ? There must be a trace in the police archives." Piper asked her brother-in-law.
"I'll go back to the office and call you as soon as I have anything." Henry agreed.
He kissed his wife and left the Manor.
"Coop ?" Piper called.
"Yes ?" said the latter.
"Why did your ring start to sparkle like that ?" Piper asked.
"I'm going to have to talk to the Elders about it to get to the bottom of it beforehand." replied Coop.
"On what ?" Piper urged him.
Coop hesitated to talk about what he had seen and felt emanating from Wyatt and Keira.
"Tell us !" encouraged his wife.
"The last time my ring shine so brightly was for Chris and Bianca." confessed Coop.
"You mean, that Wyatt and Keira…" Leo started.
"Are soulmates !" Coop finished. "It's a certainty."
"It's more than love at first sight." Paige smiled.
"Now that you mention it, it's true that I felt love from them." Phoebe informed.
"How powerful ?" Piper asked, curious about Wyatt and Keira's love for each other.
"My empathy is not a barometer of love, Piper." Phoebe laughed.
"In any case, what they feel when they have only known each other for a few hours is very intense." confirmed Coop. "It's quite confusing."
"Great, we're going to end up with another teenage couple at home." Piper quipped.
"You weren't so retractive with Chris and Bianca, so why would you be with Keira ?" Paige asked.
"Because for Bianca, we knew she and Chris had to be together after what happened fifteen years ago." Piper retorted.
"You are going to stop playing mother hens and let our son be happy." Leo told him.
"In the meantime, we need to focus on protecting Keira. Here she is safe, but in high school it will be different." Phoebe explained.
"As long as she stays with Wyatt, nothing will happen to her." Paige said.
Bianca materialized in front of them, a big box in her arms.
"Where's Chris ?" Leo asked.
Chris arrived just then, and he was overwhelmed with five large suitcases. He put them down, and glared at his girlfriend.
"You could have helped me." he growled.
"My mother always told me that it was men who had to carry a woman's luggage." Bianca said smiling.
Chris looked to his mother and aunts for support, but they just laughed.
"Even my own mother agrees with my girlfriend." Chris lamented.
"With time you will get used to it." his father assured him.
Chris hurriedly sent the suitcases and cardboard into his brother's bedroom with his magic.
"THANKS CHRIS !" Wyatt shouted at him from upstairs.
"YOU'RE WELCOME !" replied Chris.
"What are we doing for Keira ?" Bianca asked the three sisters.
"You'll have to stay with her in high school. She will feel less alone and safe." Piper explained.
"Wouldn't it be better to send her to the Magic School ?" Chris pointed out.
"Maybe, but that's up to her. I don't think she'll want to stay apart from Wyatt." Phoebe said.
"We'll watch over her." Bianca assured.
The front door of the Manor opened on the fly, and closed immediately. Billie came into the living room with Melinda, her face serious.
"What ?" Piper hurried.
"He was there, at Melinda's school." Billie informed.
"He knows we protect her." Phoebe said.
"What ? Who knows you're protecting who?" Melinda muddled.
She was brought up to date on every detail as upstairs in Wyatt's room, the young witches became dangerously close.
