The Story of Piper Halliwell and Justin Harper
a/n: This chapter is based on season 1 of Charmed and follows the story line similarly but not exactly so try to bare with me. Charmed is my favourite television show. Even though I never started watching it until after they stopped filming it. Enjoy! :)
Chapter 2
Phoebe had returned to San Fransisco and some freaky things started happening since then. A guy named Jeremy who claimed to be a reporter that was doing a report on heart disease had started talking to me. But the weirdest thing was we are witches and that guy Jeremy turned out to be a warlock. Some good things have happened since then too. Like having the three of us under the same roof, it's just what grams wanted. I got a job as a chef in a reseraunt. Okay it is a bit far fetched being blind and managing to cook. The girls get their own room that Phoebe will not enter, she hates the basement, because of the woogie man
I learned to cook before I went blind, then I had the twins and decided to teach myself how to familiarise myself with different ingredients around the kitchen, and before I knew it I was cooking for friends and family alike. I came home from vanquishing the Grimlocks with my sisters and the twins came over to me. "Mom, our teacher wants to know if you can come into school and show everybody how you can cook without being able to see." I told them that I would ask my boss if I could get one morning off, to demonstrate my skills for their class.
At the school, Rachel took my arm and Robin pushed my back. Miss Howardson their teacher came up to us in heels and told them to sit down, which they did because I no longer knew where they were. "Mrs Halliwell. I have set up a wheeled oven at the front of the room. Do you need any help finding it?" I said I did and she helped find all the oven and help me find what was was what. The bell rang and there was a bustle around the classroom. I felt a tug at my dress. "Are you Rachel and Robins' Mom, 'cause they said that you are blind and that you can cook and that's not true." I was taken aback by what this young boy had just said to me. He had just said to me that my children were lyieing to everybody. When everybody was sat down I heard the clicking of Miss Howardson's shoes against the floor. "Class this is Rachel and Robin's Mom, and she is here to demonstrate how to cook when you cannot see. Yes Sophie." A little girl in the class wanted to ask a question.
"How long have you been blind for. And why don't you burn yourself when you cook if you cannot see the stove thingies."
"Well, I've been blind for nine years, since before I had the twins. And I trained myself to be able to cook using only my sense of touch, smell and sometimes taste." I was already standing behind the oven. I was nervous I had to admit, although I had cooked for a tougher crowd than a classroom full of eight year-olds. I made something that always kept the kids smiling. Chocolate chip cookies. "Before I start does anybody have any allergies that they want to tell me about." After I never got an answer I told them just to shout out any allergies they might have. Nobody was allergic to nuts or was lactose intolerant. So I baked. I never had to freeze the classroom, which was a good thing. At the end of the lesson, my twins ran up to me and hugged me hard. "That was great Mom, can we get another cookie?" Rachel asked, she had a nasty habit of pushing her luck. "No you will ruin your appetite and I gave you toffee sauce and apple bites for snack. Now give me another hug I need to go to work. Your dad is waiting for me." We quickly embraced and I left the classroom and found my way out of the school. Justin picked me up and he dropped me off at work.
I remember the couple of days that magic brought our dad back into our lives. To be honest it actually started with a party that we were invited to. It was the people who moved in across the street, into the house that Justin grew up in. The girls were invited to the party, they had fun Justin even showed them all the best places to hide. He knew them all from when we played hide and seek as kids. It turned out that they were warlocks that had come to try and steal our book of shadows out of our house. Dad comes into this because he showed up at Prue's office and she was mega pissed off at that. In the end she warmed to him and he took off again. Only he left a video tape of us as kids. I remember every word of that tape, I have to be honest it made me cry.
Another good thing that magic brought us was a new shot at having a good relationship with each other. Magic actually brought Phoebe, Prue and myself closer together, we have improved our relationship drastically and it is a change that I am willing to welcome. One time we proved how close we are and how far we had come was when Justin and I took the three kids to Hawaii for the weekend. We all had a blast. I had never smelt such exotic flowers. When I got home my sisters were putting away the groceries and they had actually said that they went the weekend alone without arguing. I was so proud of them. I was always the person who has to be the peace keeper in the family.
Although magic does take us away from our everyday lives, and sends all kinds of evil through the door at all hours of the day and night. It does have it's advantages, it gave us a new lease of life and brought us closer together. And it gave us one last chance to see our mother. We had to travel back in time to the 70's to when she was barley pregnant with Phoebe. We had to stop her from making a pact with a warlock named Nicholas who wanted our powers, all of them. It gave our lives a sense of purpose and adventure. And honestly now that magic is a part of my life I don't know what I would do without it.
a/n: Every scenario that I mentioned happened in season 1. I think you can tell which one never happened in the actual T.V series. The grimlocks were mentioned but I never went into detail about them. The part in the school was made up, and I think I mentioned the Woogie man and the one where Piper leaves Phoebe and Prue alone in the manner and they have vanquish the ghost. I also mentioned the episode where the neighbours try to kill them and when they went to the 1970's. And I vaguely mentioned the first episode.