Prompt: Can I request #9 from the 390 prompts list? Preferably a humor thing, if that's alright?
( 390 Prompts | 9. "At what point did you think that was a good idea?" )
Prompted by: thegirlwiththedragonheart
Characters: Chris Halliwell, Parker Halliwell, PJ Halliwell
Originally published 08 June 2018.
Chris stopped dead in the doorway, looked over the destruction in the Manor's living room, and let out a long-suffering sigh.
Parker and PJ, his cousins, instantly stopped whatever it was they were doing and looked over at him with deer-caught-in-headlights expressions.
"Do I even want to know?" Chris asked.
"Well…" Parker began, only to be cut off by PJ slapping her hand over her mouth. Parker recoiled, shook her head, and shot her sister a cross look. "Anyway," she continued pointedly, "PJ and I wanted to try out some different ideas for potions we had. Well. . . and we wanted to see who was better at making vanquishing potions. Testing them out got a little… uh…"
Chris sighed. "Were you using your active powers, too?"
The two girls exchanged quick glances; PJ just looked sheepish while Parker nodded and folded her arms with a "What's the problem?" look on her face.
"Great," Chris muttered. He rolled his eyes. "At what point did you think that was a good idea?"
"Uh…"
Parker shrugged. "It's good practice?" she suggested hopefully.
The brunet witchlighter tilted his head back and pinched the bridge of his nose, groaned softly. "Just clean it up before Mom or Aunt Phoebe get back and see this mess, okay? Anyone asks, I didn't see anything."
Just before he shifted completely into a stream of light, he heard his cousins reciting their Aunt Paige's favorite spell in unison: "Let the object of objection become but a dream…"
Reappearing in his old room, Chris smiled and shook his head in dry amusement. Were they going to learn from this? He doubted it.
Did they care? Not likely.