Charmed: The Return

Disclaimer: See Chapter One

Chapter Five: Unbroken

Cause this is the day that everything changes
And the world stops turning, running straight,
Into the break lights, you've come to nothing
This is the day that everything changes and your worlds collide
You know in time you'll wake to find you're a little unbroken
 Missy Higgins, "Unbroken"; Charmed Book of Shadows Soundtrack

Rachel Dean and Chris Halliwell walked through the door of their home. Both extremely aggravated and tired. Rachel threw her purse and keys on the foyer table and Chris hung up their coats and discarded his keys into one of his pockets. The two sighed and walked into the kitchen, in complete silence.

Sam was sitting at the kitchen table with the Book of Shadows and a pile of crumpled papers. Ali was standing over the stove stirring something a big pot.

"How did the spell come out?" Chris asked as he opened the fridge and pulled out a beer and popped open the tab.

"Good. We finally got it after a million rewrites." Sam smiled proudly, winking at Ali.

"Great. What's that? Another potion?" Rachel asked Ali as she too popped open a beer.

"No, it's dinner. I made macaroni and cheese. We were waiting for you two to get home then we would eat and enjoy ourselves, then summon the demon and either kick ass and get the flesh or die with full stomachs. Either way this could be your last meal." Ali said as she turned off the burner.

"Leave it to you to be so optimistic." Rachel said as she took a swig of her beer.

"Okay, let's eat. Does anyone know when Rose is coming home?" Chris asked as he got out bowls from a cabinet, while Sam cleaned the table and placed the Book of Shadows into the dining room. Rachel, who was pulling out place mats, answered him. "No. I think she had a jammed schedule today."

"It would've been nice if everyone was here to help with this. Wyatt is off with that girl, and Rose is probably in surgery or something important. I mean there is four of us here, that should be enough." Chris said as Ali placed the bowl of macaroni and cheese on the table.

"Everything will be fine." Sam said and they sat down and ate in silence.

Rose Dean, M.D. sighed in relief as she placed her last patient chart into its proper location and pulled her white lab coat off and placed it on the desk near her. She glanced at the clock, it was quarter after seven, she was finished fifteen minutes ago. She walked down the hospital corridor and into the surgeon's lounge and opened her locker. She put the coat in and pulled on her North Fleece jacket and grabbed her purse and briefcase and headed out.

She walked on the street heading towards the parking garage when someone came creeping up behind her and placed his hand on her shoulder, which caused her jump and pursue a martial arts stance as she stared at the man. The man was slightly shorter than her and was completely dirty and smelled really bad. "What the hell do you want?" she asked angrily.

"Jekyll will walk amongst the humans once more and destruction will lie in his wake. No one can stop him. In the end the Charmed line will fall and with it, so will the world." his eyes were wide and in a trance. Rose stared at him in shock, anger and disbelief. The man stared at her, before shaking his head and looking at her confused. "I'm sorry, I don't know why I did that, ma'am." He looked at her and walked away, glancing over his shoulder at her as he fell out of sight.

Rose stood rooted in her spot for what seemed a lifetime before finally blinking and turned on her heel and did a sprint to her car.

Chris was checking his voicemails on the phone in the kitchen, while Ali and Rachel loaded the dishwasher. Sam was in the dining room going over the plans for the summoning. At quarter to eight, Rose bursted through the door, her breath slowly catching up to her. "Rose?" Rachel asked worried as she saw her sister.

"We need to talk. All of us." Rose said in an urgent tone. Her face was visibly shaken. Chris looked up from where he was sitting and clicked the phone off, his interest peaked. Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at Rose, egging her on to begin. She took a deep breath, and told of the events in the street.

"A street prophet maybe?" Ali asked, breaking the silence.

"I don't know. Right after he said it, he acted as if he didn't know he said it. Like he was under a spell."

"Who would cast a spell on him and cause him to warn us? The elders?" Sam asked as he sat atop the island.

"I'm not sure. It was so weird though. What he said was scary."

"Hold on, I'm still on the part where we die and the world ends." Rachel said confused and hung up.

"He didn't say we would die, Rachel." Rose corrected her.

"The Charmed line will fall? What else does that mean?" Rachel said with annoyance.

"Maybe we fail?" Ali spoke.

"The only time, we ever fail, is if we're dead." Chris said as he shifted in his seat.

"Look, I'm all for stopping him, but I'm not going to die. I'm too young." Rachel said.

"Like we aren't?" Ali said annoyed at her cousin's stupidity.

"We need Wyatt." Rachel suggested. Sam looked up at her, his face etched with concern and fear.

"Well, no one can reach him. His phone's off." Chris said, noticing Sam's face.

"You, you know something." Chris said, pointing at the time freezing witch. He looked down at his boots.

"Sam, if you know something, tell us. Where is he?" Ali said.

"There's no girlfriend is there?" Chris said, his voice rising.

"Look, I was sworn to secrecy, but I'll go get him." Sam said without taking his eyes off of his boots. Chris opened his mouth to talk, but Sam swirled out in a blur of white and blue lights.

"What is going on with those two?" Rose asked as she sat down and collected her thoughts.

"Who the hell knows anymore." Ali said under her breath as she stared out the window over the sink overlooking the driveway and neighbor's house. "Who the hells knows."

Sam appeared in a swirl of blue lights in a deserted alley behind a building in downtown San Francisco. Sam took a deep breath and walked through the alley, where many a vanquishes have taken place and headed towards a white building across the busy street. The Downtown San Francisco Community Center, a center where meetings are held for various 'societies' including Sam's AA meetings. He pulled open the door and saw a tall blonde working the front desk. Her name was Carla and always seemed to be working. "Hey, Sam, there's no AA today." she smiled at the time freezing witchlighter. He just smiled at her kindly, "I'm here to pick someone up." and with that he was on his way. "I thought AA was supposed to be anonymous." he muttered to himself as he walked down a white hallway with bulletin boards filled with colorful drawings and fliers.

He got to room 201 and saw a group of young men and women sitting in a circle talking. Though he couldn't make out was said, he could tell it must be powerful, for the woman talking was crying. Sam felt bad. He scanned the room and saw Wyatt sitting there in his black suit, white shirt and pale pink tie. His blonde hair perfect and he had his eyes focused on the woman. Sam opened the door quietly and made a wave with his hand and the movement stopped. Wyatt, startled at first looked around and finally saw his cousin in the doorway, who was now in the room.

"Why did you do that?" Wyatt asked nervously with a slight pang of anger.

"We need you home. Big time vanquish about to go down and we need the power of six."

"Can't it wait? I didn't go yet."

"Wyatt, this demon has gone to great lengths to get our attention, I know this meeting is important to you, I understand that more than anything. But you need to come home now, our future is in the balance not to mention, they're suspicious of you."

"Y-Y-You didn't tell them right?" again with the nervousness.

"No, but they know I know something, and it's going to cause problems. Now wrap this up and I'll be in the hall. We'll orb."

"My car?" Wyatt asked.

"You can get it later. Now come on." Sam said as he went out of the door and stuck his hand back in and made another waving gesture and movement resumed. He shut the door quietly and watched Wyatt tell the group he had to go, and he grabbed his coat and walked out, waving, and promising to be at the next meeting. Once in the hallway, he grabbed Sam's hand and the two swirled out in a plethora of blue and white light.

There's chapter five. I hope you enjoyed, and please review! Thanks, Damien455.