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Chapter 6

Whitelighter

The blue and white orbs swirled, glowing strong before dissipating altogether. And when the air cleared from all whitelighter magic, only a man remained. A man who clearly was not Wyatt's father.

The man looked young, perhaps mid-twenties if one were to warrant a guess. His green eyes gazed seriously from Wyatt, to Chris, to Melinda. Without a word, he knelt down quickly and began to heal her.

Not a word was spoken as a magical golden light emanated from this unfamiliar whitelighter's hands, spreading from Mel's heart and all through her body. All of a sudden, the colour returned to her skin and her eyes opened slowly.

"Mel, you're okay!" Chris exclaimed, hugging his sister tightly, almost suffocating her.

"Chris." Mel mumbled from beneath his hold, struggling to breathe. He let go, looking apologetic.

"Who are you?" Wyatt asked the whitelighter with a wary look on his face.

"My name is Myles," said the whitelighter, his eyes then landing on Melinda. "And I'm your new whitelighter."

"What?" Both Chris and Wyatt exclaimed, wearing very similar frowns.

"The Elders found out that Melinda wanted to practice witchcraft again," Myles said. "So they sent me down to guide her."

"But I don't need a whitelighter." Mel said automatically. "I've been raised a witch and I've got in-house-healers."

"Well, yes that's true." Myles pressed his lips together. "Well, the Elders wanted to reconnect with the Halliwell family. For a long time you've been cut off from them. You see, the Elders have so much knowledge about magic and sometimes they know when demons are attacking before you do, or even when you don't realize it altogether."

Chris narrowed his eyes. "Is that some sort of jab at our powers?"

"What? No!" Myles said, taken aback. "No, it's just that the Elders have that whole 'all seeing' thing going on for them. That and if you guys have any problems, then you've got someone to ask."

Mel nodded. It made sense, but Chris and Wyatt didn't seem very receptive to the new whitelighter.

"And if the Elders need some little witches to do their dirty work, they'll call on us?" Chris said childishly with his hazel eyes narrowed.

"Dirty work?" Myles raised his eyebrows. "What dirty work?"

Chris opened his mouth to argue but Wyatt spoke over him. "What, like the Elders are totally and completely sin-free? Please!"

"Whoa! Hey!" Mel yelled. She knew how competitive and argumentative her brothers could be and this conflict could go on for hours. "Okay, calm down there guys. Look, we've got a new whitelighter, that can only be good for us. Also, we were just attacked by a roomful of upper level demons. Doesn't that strike anyone as odd considering only a week ago, a whole bunch of other demons attacked us in this very same room? We've got work to do."

For a moment the room was silent. No one said a word. The peace was then broken by orbing. Aunt Paige and Petra orbed into the manor foyer.

"What happened?" Paige asked immediately.

"Demons." Prue reported. "But Chris got them all. And Mel got a whitelighter."

Paige's eyebrows raised as her jaw dropped. "Whitelighter." She stated, glancing suspiciously at Myles. "Well…considering everything seems to be in order, I better be off. I've got a couple charges to take care of. If anything else comes up, feel free to call." Mel nodded and her aunt orbed away.

"Actually I have to go, too." Petra said, looking apologetic. "I was in the middle of class." Petra nodded her goodbyes and orbed away quickly.

"Oh crap." Wyatt deadpanned as he glanced as his watch. "I had an interview today. I'm gonna be late." Quickly, Wyatt orbed upstairs to get changed.

"Did he not hear me on the whole upper level demons thing?" Melinda asked.

"Mel, he's got a job interview," Chris said. "Look, we can look up these demons ourselves. We don't need Wyatt to do everything."

"Are you guys sticking around?" Mel asked, looking to her cousins.

"Of course." Prue nodded with a serious expression on her face. "We've got demons to face." She went upstairs, followed by Penny and Patty.

Mel turned to Chris. His hazel eyes gazed blankly at a spot on the floor of the hallway. Mel's eyes followed his gaze and felt a pang when she herself was staring at the very place where her mother had died.

"Chris," Mel caught his arm and attempted to pull him upstairs. He didn't budge; a menacing look on his face. His jaw clenched and his Adam's apple jumped. "Chris, come on." Tears formed in his eyes and he continued to stare. "Chris." Mel stepped into his line of sight and snapped him out of it. "I know how hard this is. I know that it's hard for us to move on and continue all of this demon battling when Mom's gone. But we have to. Mom spent most of her life helping people and ridding the world of evil to make sure we would live in a safe world. By not helping her, we're disrespecting her."

Chris swallowed again. "How do they expect us to keep on doing this?"

"It doesn't matter what they want," Melinda said fiercely. "What matters is what we want and what Mom wanted. She would have wanted us to keep fighting to protective ourselves and the family. And then to protect our own children when it comes to that."

Chris finally turned to Melinda. "It's too hard."

Mel nodded. "I know. But you still have me, and you still have Wyatt. And we all have the rest of the family. We can do this."

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