Author's Note: I'm very honored to have this story included on the Pern and Friends Reading Recommendations C2. I hope I can keep this story worthy of that acknowledgement. And because of that, I'm going to do a quick update.
Slytherin-Angel44: Here's the chapter you've been waiting for, Tommy's reaction to the news that his wife is a witch.
TheSilentShogun: I'm glad you like the crossover. I'll work on writing longer chapters. Tommy won't meet up the with Halliwell clan just yet, that'll most likely happen in the next chapter.
HarryPassionFan: I love writing cliffhangers. It leaves you readers wanting more.
"Tommy, I'm a witch," Nikki blurted out.
"Oh Nikki, if this is about what my mother said about me not knowing you and you marrying me even when you had doubts, just forget it, I love you and I'm not going to let my mom or anyone make me think that this marriage was a mistake," Tommy replied.
"No Tommy, you don't get it, I'm not calling myself a witch because of what your mother said, I AM a witch," Nikki told him.
"What does that mean exactly that you're a witch?" Tommy questioned.
"You remember the show Bewitched right?" Nikki asked.
"Yeah but what does that have to do with you being a witch," Tommy responded.
"Well you know the whole unsuspecting mortal falls in love and gets married only to learn that his new wife is a witch, guess what you're the unsuspecting mortal," Nikki explained.
"But that was just a TV show," Tommy commented.
"This isn't, this is real, I am a witch with magical powers and all that," Nikki replied.
"So you practice witchcraft, that's not so terrible I guess, I mean there are lots of people who are into that kind of stuff these days," Tommy told her.
"Yeah but the difference between me and those kind of witches is that most of them aren't real witches, Wicca is just something they've chosen to explore, I was born into this Tommy, my family line was started centuries ago and my mother, my aunts, their mother, their grandmother and all the women before them were born as witches," Nikki informed him.
"Next thing your going to tell me is that you cast spells and fly on broomsticks," Tommy joked.
"We do cast spells but that whole flying on a broom thing is just a myth, though from a story that Aunt Phoebe told me that whole myth was probably her fault but that's not really important now," Nikki replied.
"I'm sorry but this is just a little hard to believe," Tommy told her.
"Maybe it would help if I showed you my power," Nikki said.
"Ok," Tommy told her.
"Purse," she said as her purse disappeared from the coffee table in a flash of tiny blue lights and reappeared in her hands.
"How did you do that?" Tommy questioned.
"I have the power of telekinesis, well in my case it's known as telekinetic orbing because of my whitelighter abilities, all I have to do is call for something and it appears, I can also use it to transport myself from one place to another," Nikki informed him.
"What's whitelighter?" Tommy asked.
"Basically it's like a guardian angel for witches," Nikki said.
"Wait, so not only are you a witch but you're also an angel?" Tommy inquired.
"No, I'm not an angel, I'm only a half whitelighter, most whitelighters are people who died but were basically good people and then their given the choice to move on to the afterlife or become a whitelighter who are given witches as charges to protect, in my case the power was inherited because my mother was born as a half-witch, half-whitelighter, actually now that I think about it the only half-whitelighters in existence are all in my family but I guess we really shouldn't get into all of that just yet," she explained.
"Nikki, how can you be a witch, you're not evil, and I thought witches were evil," Tommy said.
"That's just how all the fairytales portray us, I'm not saying their aren't evil witches out there but my family and I aren't like that, we're good witches, in fact, we've been charged with keeping this world safe by fighting evil and saving the innocent," she told him.
"Why is your family so special and exactly what do you mean by fighting evil?" Tommy asked.
"Our family name is Halliwell and long ago it was prophesized that the three most powerful witches in the universe would come from our line and be known as the Charmed Ones, those three turned out to be my aunts Prue, Piper and Phoebe and when Prue died they learned that there was a fourth sister, my mother Paige, a product of their mom a witch and Sam her whitelighter, thus the whole half-witch, half-whitelighter thing, my mother and my aunts fought for years against the demons and creatures of the underworld protecting witches and other innocent people using the powers they had been born with, they fought for years before they defeated the demons long enough to have some peace and start families of their own, but now the demons are back and stronger than ever and the fight's been taken up by my cousins and me," Nikki told him.
"Did you just say your family fights demons?" Tommy questioned.
"Yes, despite what people think about that only being stuff in movies, demons are real and they've been fighting my family for centuries and they'd like nothing better than to rid the world of my entire family, which is why I should have told you all of this before we got married because it's only a matter of time before the underworld learns of my marriage and they won't hesitate to come after you to get to me," Nikki replied.
"There are demons after me," he stated.
"It's a definite possibility but don't worry I won't let them hurt you, I can protect you," she told him.
"You say that you're a good witch but how do I know that you didn't cast a spell on me to make me fall in love with you, maybe your plan all along was to trick some guy into marrying you," Tommy replied.
"I would never do that, in fact that's the one thing a witch can't do, we can't force anyone to fall in love with us, it wasn't a spell that made us fall in love, it happened naturally," she said as she reached over to take his hand but he jerked it away from her.
"You should have told me what I was getting myself into," Tommy said as he got up and started pacing around the room.
"I know you're right and I'm sorry, I mean for the first time in my life, I was happy and I didn't plan on meeting anyone much less someone that I'd end up falling in love with so when you asked me to marry you at first I thought it was crazy but then I looked inside my heart and I just decided to take a chance and I pushed all my doubts aside and didn't think about the consequences of my actions," she told him.
"I can only imagine what mom's going to say when she learns this," Tommy stated.
"Tommy, you can't tell your mom, you can't tell anyone who would expose me or my family as witches, it would put us all in terrible danger and it would interfere with all the good work that we're doing," Nikki replied.
"But you just told me, how do you think your family's going to feel when they learn that you married a mortal and have told him your secret?" Tommy questioned.
"They already know, in fact they were the ones who suggested that I tell you the truth and soon," she responded.
"Wait, you told your family the truth without me," Tommy said.
"I didn't really have a choice, when you came down here to make breakfast, they summoned me home, that's why I didn't hear the doorbell when your parents arrived, and then Sami saw my ring and I had no choice to admit that I was married and as for that whole mortal thing, it's not that big of a deal in my family because my dad's a mortal," she answered.
"And your dad's fine with your mom being a witch?" he asked.
"He was scared by it at first until he saw firsthand all the good work she and her sisters were doing and he wasn't too happy when he learned that my sister, brother and I took up the fighting but he understands that it's our destiny but it doesn't make him worry any less about us," she told him.
"I need some time to process all of this," Tommy said.
"Take all the time you need, if you have more questions I can explain everything," Nikki replied.
"I want you to be alone," he said.
"Ok, I guess I'll wait upstairs," she said as she got up.
"No, I need to think about all this and I can't do that with you here," he stated.
"I don't want to leave you alone," she said.
"You don't have a choice, you should just go back to San Francisco," he told her.
"Ok, I'll go but when you're ready to talk all you have to do is call out my name and I'll hear you and I'll come back," she said as she orbed her luggage down to her and disappeared right before his eyes.
"Nikki, what are you doing here?" Priscilla asked when Nikki appeared in their apartment.
"He asked me to leave," she said as tears started to fall down her cheeks.
"So I guess that means you told him the truth about being a witch," Priscilla responded.
"This is my fault Prissy, I never should have married him in the first place," Nikki said as she continued to cry.
"Hey, everything's going to be fine, he just needs some time, I'm sure once he's had a chance to process the news he'll be more open to the idea," Pricilla said as she pulled Nikki into a hug and let her cry on her shoulder.