Spoilers: Up to the Charmed Season 2 Finale
Author's Note: Thought I'd continue the idea of stories with titles based on ship portmanteaus! This is gonna be a little odd though since the ship is now canon - but I guess that's a good challenge.
Hacy - Chapter 1
by Taygeta
Maggie stared at Harry, unsure if what she heard remotely made any sense. They were sitting in the dining room now with cups of tea at her suggestion.
She squinted, "So Harry, what exactly are you asking of me?"
"I need you to help me keep my feelings for Macy...in control."
"I don't think I can do that. I mean, not in the magical sense, but in the 'no way is this a good idea' sense. Why would you want me to change how you feel about Macy?"
"I don't want you to erase them...just subdue them. I know you can."
The youngest Charmed One didn't deny the range of her new power, but she questioned the reason, "But why?"
"Maggie, I lost control back at SafeSpace. I almost ruined everything - put us all in danger - because all I could think about was taking care of Macy. I got distracted and I almost failed you guys."
"Almost," Maggie emphasized. "You didn't actually fail - we got Jimmy."
"But what about next time?"
"What about all the times?"
"What do you mean?"
"Harry, this isn't the first - or the last - time you're going to let your emotions cloud your judgment. And I don't mean just Macy - I mean...that's just who you are. Sometimes you're better at it and sometimes it escapes you, but you're just like all of us. We've all made those same mistakes and we learn from them."
"I don't quite think you understand the gravity of…" Harry paused trying to find the right words, "...of my feelings for your sister."
Maggie let out a laugh.
"This isn't funny," he said. "I realize that you're an empath and have probably figured most of this out, but…"
"Harry, that's not why I'm laughing."
"Then what is it?"
"Yes - I've known for a while, but it's not because I can read feelings. You don't have to be an empath to see how much you care about her." She felt compelled to add, "And how much she cares about you."
She watched his fingers tapping the tea cup in his hands absent-mindedly, her hand reached over to try to ease whatever must be running through his mind.
But by touching his hand and the teacup, Maggie found herself swept up in a vision.
*Vision*
She was at the doorway of the house and then suddenly inside. Things looked mostly familiar, but also different.
A little girl and a little boy rush to greet her. They must have been maybe five years old.
"Titi Maggie!" they shouted.
"How many times do we have to tell you two to be careful who is at the door?" she heard Harry's familiar voice say in the distance.
As she hugged the little boy and girl, she heard Macy's voice, "Oh it's Maggie! Maggie - it's so good to see you."
She found herself hugging Macy and, in the midst of the warm embrace, her sister's voice saying worriedly in her ear, "What are you doing back here? Are you okay? Is it safe?"
She rushed back into the present day, wondering how she could have seen so far into the future.
He was no longer across the table from her, but next to her. His hand resting on her shoulder and peering at her for any sign of injury. "Maggie, are you all right? What is it? What did you see?"
It turns out that rather than comforting him, he was now trying to comfort her.
"I - I don't think I should tell you," she said honestly.
"Why not?"
She confessed, "I've...I've never seen that far into the future."
Elder Celeste walked in at that moment. She looked tired, having spent the last several hours with Mel working on incantations and potions to make sure Jimmy remained put .
Maggie knew her sisters had stronger opinions about Celeste, but at the moment, she wasn't sure what she thought about the sort-of-former Elder except that she seemed to have impeccable timing.
"Your instincts are correct, Maggie. You can't talk about things too far ahead - it might change things that should be."
"How do I know?"
"You know," said Celeste, in a voice of confidence the Charmed Ones had yet to hear from her. "Your mother had this gift too, and it was strong. She wasn't a Charmed One, but she knew the things to come, and I'm sensing you will too."
End of Chapter One! Feedback?