I sat down at the breakfast table with my head lying down in front of my empty cereal bowl. My mom and dad had already left for the day and I was alone waiting for Toby to come over, and the wait was horrible. I got up and put my bowl in the dishwasher, then started up stairs to shower and change.
I went downstairs again and brought my song notebook with to work on what I had while I waited. My hair was still wet but in two braids now and music from Paramore was blasting from my speakers in the conservatory.
Time pasted slowly and I was moving from song to song on the stereo singing along and writing new ideas down. Finally there was a knock on the door and a Toby's voice shouted in.
"In the conservatory!" I yelled back as I turned the music down and Toby came walking in.
"So, how is the day going so far Mel?"
"Okay, but I woke up late and missed breakfast. But I had cereal that mom outlawed that I had hidden in my room! Anyway, what did you want to do?"
"I was thinking that we just hang out. Since it is just the two of us."
I looked at him and smiled, "well, I have something that I want to tell you, but I don't really know how I should bring it up."
"Well, you could just come out and say it, or wait until later and we could find something else to occupy our time," he said leaning over and kissing me.
It was a simple kiss, patient and polite, hands staying on shoulders and not moving anywhere, but still, when he pulled away, I was slightly breathless.
"I guess we could do some of that for a while."
"Oh, has the great Melinda Halliwell never been kissed before?"
"You know the answer to that. Never had a boyfriend before…"
"Cause you were waiting for me, right? Well, guess I should have acted sooner."
He moved his mouth to mine again and this time after a few moments moved his mouth open and I could feel his breathe on my face before he pulled away.
"You know that you are cocky Toby."
"Oh, I know that I am."
I smiled as he pulled me onto his lap and held onto my hips, his thumbs resting on the skin under my shirt.
"If you think that I am moving to fast Mel, tell me, I'll stop."
In response I lowered my lips to his and applied pressure, making sure that he understood that I liked the pace that everything was headed. But not even five minutes later a cough and a "MELINDA PRUDENCE HALLIWELL" interrupted us from my brothers that I jumped away and blushed while Toby chuckled before dropping his face into his hands.
"What, we weren't doing anything wrong, nothing that you are your old ex-girlfriends used to do!"
"Wow," Toby said looking up back at the front door, "didn't even hear the door open."
"No you probably didn't," I said sharply glaring at my brothers.
"Mel, we came in the back."
"Sure, you mind going, I am having a private time here, and I was going to be talking to him soon."
"Mom told you…"
"She isn't here is she, so bite me."
Wyatt and Chris stared at me before walking to the dinning room table and talking about something.
"You know, you should apologize to them."
"I could," I said walking the few steps back to Toby and sitting on him again, "Or I could have some more time with you."
"I think we have had enough time right now," he said moving me into the seat next to him, "what is it you told them you were going to be talking to me about?"
"Fine…"
I stared into the window reflecting the mirror behind us that was showing Chris and Wyatt sitting and listening to us.
"Remember how when you found out that Bianca was a witch and how I said that we were not witches like her, but okay with it?"
"Yes? Why?"
"Well, the thing is that we aren't witches like her, she is a phoenix witch, a bounty hunter type, my family, we are white witches…"
"Huh?"
"I told you that my family, that we are witches, just not the same as Bianca."
"I get that, but huh? Why are you telling me now?"
"Because I thought that you should know… remember the day that you weren't here?"
"You don't have to remind me, I can believe someone broke into the house, I was supposed to be here."
"You were…"
"No, Melinda, if I had been I would have done something to help you."
"You couldn't have… the demon froze time… hold on," I said seeing Chris and Wyatt in the reflections stop to pay closer attention. Under my breathe I muttered a small spell, "For the next five minutes, make them believe, that what they hear means nothing to them, after the limit, let them hear again, but forget whatever I had said. There that should do," I said looking back into the reflection and saw that they had gone back to talking to each other not paying attention to us.
"What did you do?"
"Spell. Listen, you don't remember that you were here because Wyatt and Chris gave you memory dust, something that they get once they start getting charges."
"Charges?"
"Wyatt, Chris, Aunt Paige, Penny, Pearl, and Henry Jr., they are what you call Whitelighter's. They are like Guardian Angels, they have a gift that allows them to travel in a way called orbbing. Then we have Prue, Pat and Pen who are half cupid, cause Uncle Coop is a cupid."
"Angels and Cupids?"
"Yup, and everyone is half witch, I was just left out, my dad used to be a Whitelighter and then an Elder Whitelighter type, but by the time that they had me, dad was mortal again, so I am just a witch… well half witch and half mortal. Cool huh?"
"So, what kind of witch are you exactly?"
"The good kind I think, you see this demo, goddess, she is trying to help me reach the powers that should be mine, and I think that if I told anyone they would freak out, cause demons are…"
"…Bad, then maybe you should listen to them."
"No, I am so tired of being normal and not with any powers. It isn't fair that Wyatt and Chris get all the powers. All I can do is minor damage anything with the explosive punch that a pack… it is the size of a baby's fist sometimes. But the martial arts Aunt Phoebe taught me come in handy sometimes."
"You can make things explode…?"
"Just like my mom. But when she got that power it was more powerful then mine. Look, we don't have much time left, do you want to meet her, the demon goddess?"
"I don't know, but I guess, as long as she is safe."
"You mean something to me, you are going to be safe or I wont work with her."
I pulled out my phone and started to dial Kaja's number when Chris came walking into the room.
"Hey guys, how did the talk go?"
"Okay," Toby said staring at Chris trying to see if there was anything different with him that he hadn't noticed before.
"Look behind you," Chris said pointing to the middle of the room where it was empty for a few minutes before Wyatt orbed in with a grin on his face and his arms crossed.
"Orbbing."
"Yup," Wyatt said before looking at his watch, "Crap, Chris our wives are waiting for us, you two going to be okay?"
"Yeah, Mel is inviting over a friend."
"Who?"
"Kaja," I said lifting my head away from the phone for a moment. "Yeah, ten minutes, okay, see you then."
"You two don't have any fun until Kaja gets here."
"Yes Wyatt."
As soon as both had orbed away and I waited a few minutes until I was sure they were not going to randomly come back before I called out, "Morana."
"Hello sweetie, oh boy toy, for me? No, fine. Hello Toby, pleasure to see you again."
"We haven't met before?"
"Right, you were frozen. Well my name is Morana, or Kaja to everyone else who doesn't know who I am."
"Frozen?"
"Melinda here and I had to talk before when you were over and it was a private chat, so I had to freeze you so that we could talk properly."
"Oh, okay."
Morana walked over and sat down between Toby and me, placing her hands on our upper legs.
Morana smiled, "you two are cute, the future you could have, beautiful."
"Could," Toby asked, not noticing the way that my body was reacting to her touch and the fact that I was leaning back into the couch and could barely breathe, but alive do to the magic that she was poring into me.
"Yes, could be. I am changing things at them moment, making them better you could put it. But to get you both there, Magic has to be made from energy and put into Melinda."
That was when Toby noticed me, the way that I was almost on fire and the fact that my breathing was so low and ragged now that it probably scared him.
"What are you doing to her?"
"Making her strong, with your help. And after this exchange is done you are going to have to help her up to her room, and possibly help her burn off any extra 'energy' that she has. And I would say no or protest, she wants this and you, and I know that you want her, so don't play smartly stupid and say no and push her away. You are the safest choice, after me of course, but you are probably the wiser choice at the moment. I would only hurt her mind more then I do to begun with."
"You're hurting her? How?"
She didn't answer Toby right away but stared at me, my chest rising and falling rapidly and my face flushed red.
She pulled her hand off of my leg and I lay on the couch not moving trying to understand what she was talking about.
"I make her weak at the moment, but as soon as I help her get her full powers, we are all going to worship her. But right now…"
Morana straddled Toby and placed her hands on his shoulders and placed her mouth on his. For a minute she kissed him until she pulled away and wiped her mouth on the back of her hand.
"That should be enough. You, take her upstairs, do what you must, I have plans for the two of you."
As Toby carried me upstairs Morana stood in the living room and closed her eyes and started singing.
It's a beautiful day
The sun's coming up
The sun's going down for you
It's a beautiful day
And everyone said the world's turning round for you
There's no need to be afraid
There is no need to deny
That everything is on this way
Life's going on in you mind
It's a beautiful day
The sun's coming up
The sun's going down for you
It's a beautiful day
And everyone said the world's turning round for you
As Morana fazed out of the house her voice echoed out,
Beautiful day
Beautiful day
And upstairs in the heat of magic and the moment, clothes spread across the room, Toby and I moved together, not knowing that magic was at play and that Morana had a deeper plan then anyone would know.
It's a beautiful day
The sun's coming up
The sun's going down for you
It's a beautiful day
And everyone said the world's turning round for you
Sorry for the wait everyone that is still reading this story. I was working on it but not liking anything that I was writing until last night. I needed a break from a paper, and this was created. But I also got the paper done so nothing was really lost.
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