The Harris Files: Book One
Chapter 4
Before I could follow up my uncle yelled, "Alexander stop... he is a friend."
I looked first at my uncle and then at the blond man who tried to catch his breath again. "A friend and why is he trying to kidnap you?"
"He wasn't he just got me out of the hospital, because they need our help again."
I looked a bit confused at my uncle and asked him, "Our help?"
He just nodded and then replied, "Yes mine and that of my bodyguard."
Even more confused I looked, with a big question mark on my face, at my uncle again. "Bodyguard?"
"Yes, Lurk here decided yesterday I would need him as a bodyguard and look there comes Faceman again and gets me out of the hospital. Maybe I should ask Lurk for the next lottery numbers?"
My uncle looked at the air beside him and said, "What? You knew I needed a bodyguard, but you don't know the answer to such a simple question? Shame on you and..."
A laughing Faith came over to us and helped the guy, my uncle called Faceman, up. He struggled a bit to stay on his feet, but sent Faith a bedazzling smile as a thank you and then he asked my uncle, "Murdock who is this and we need to hurry. B.A. and the Colonel are waiting."
"Ahhhh Face this is the black sheep of my family...or the white sheep?" he looked a bit confused at me for a moment, before he continued. "My nephew Alexander Harris, the one and only wizard the Murdock family has."
Face looked at me and at Murdock. "Wizard, you are a street magician?"
Before I could reply Faith broke out in laughter. "Street magician? That's good, I like him."
Xander looked at the waitress again and ordered a water for himself. After he got it and he took a sip he looked at the man at his table again. "This is how Faith and I first met the famous A-Team. We spent a while with them and we helped them out with several jobs they took, in those I got the chance to show Face that I'm not a mere street magician. We got a lot of training from them and we learned how a real team works together, that was quite a learning experience."
Xander paused for a moment and then started again. "B.A. took quite the liking to Faith and now she is the second best mechanic I know. Together they fixed my car up, never had any problems with it since then. It was quite funny for me, to watch how Face tried to hook up with Faith. Finally after a longer 'discussion' those two had, he gave up at that and I was astonished how easily he could get to other women. Sadly after a while they had to disappear for a while and so Faith and I continued our trip."
He paused here and seemed to stare through the young man, before he shook his head and smiled. "Sorry just remembering something, what happened next is a somewhat confusing time for myself and Faith, as the person we met next... well, lets just say in another time and another place we could have had something," he said.
"We headed to San Francisco and for the first couple of days everything was normal. We had fun, enjoyed a bit of sightseeing and didn't run into any trouble, until the day we heard a scream from an alley and of course we had to help, so we hurried to check it out," he explained.
We ran into the alley and found a rather large demon attacking a young woman, who seemed to be holding her own. When she raised her arm and let loose a powerful magical attack it soon became clear as to why she was able to hold out. She was a witch and I could easily tell that she was a powerful one. Actually more powerful than I had ever felt from a witch before. I quickly moved to help and Faith charged head long into the fight. Only to be flung into a near by fence, clearly the demon was very strong.
Ducking a rather powerful lightening attack from the demon, which demonstrated its own magical ability, I quickly fired back with a fuego, but I ensured to control how the fire, it created, would travel, as I did not want to hit Faith or the witch, we were trying to help.
The demon was wounded, but it released a second magical attack, which almost had hit me, if not for Faith. She charged me from the side and knocked us closer to the witch, who again unleashed her own gift and knocked the demon backwards.
"This thing is tough," Faith said, as she jumped back to her feet, alongside the witch who seemed a bit weary of us.
"Not really surprising Faith. It feels like a very high level demon," I replied, as I also got back to my feet. "Its power is impressive," I added. "Hey, nice to meet you. I'm Xander and this is Faith, we're here to help," he said, while turning to the witch, as she knocked the demon back again.
"Prue Halliwell," the witch responded, after a good minute of thinking it over. She was clearly weary of trusting us, but I think we had proved we were on the same side.
The roar of the demon brought us back to the problem at hand and I quickly was forced to move out of the demon's next attack. I quickly responded with arctis. Hoping to freeze the demon in its tracks and was thankful that it seemed to work to a degree.
Faith quickly pulled her spare stake and charged the demon again. She jumped into flip and embedded the stake in the demon's chest. This caused the demon to roar in pain and agony.
Faith quickly moved back to my side, as I whispered something to Prue and then I unleashed pyrofuego, my most destructive fire spell, at the same time as Prue unleashed her own power again. As I thought, combined it was enough to kill the demon, which roared in pain before slumping to the ground and then vanished in a burst of flame.
Silence descended for a few seconds, before Prue turned to question us. This led us to go to the club, her sister owned, called P3. We had a rather nice conversation with Prue and her sister Piper and even met their whitelighter Leo, finally we decided to hang around for a bit and help out.
He paused here again, as he drank a bit. He smiled and then continued. "We spent at least a few months in San Francisco and formed a great friendship with the Charmed Ones, which I was surprised to find were Prue and her sisters. As I said Faith and I got close to Prue, but we refused to do anything, as we could not stay," he added with a bitter smile.
"Prue understood and I think she knew in her heart it wouldn't last either. Our worlds and lives were quite similar, but we were in different areas and as I said we would leave again soon," he explained to the young man. "It was a painful parting, but it was for the best. Just before we left, we helped save Prue's life from a very deadly demon, as well as reunite her and her sisters with a, until then, unknown half sister. We then headed to our next port of call in nearby Richmond which is another story because it really started to look like that 'Trouble' was very fond of me. Damn that stupid Chinese takeout guy, but I will have to tell you this one another time. It's getting laid and Faith is waiting," he finished and then got up."See you next week then," he said before he left the bar.
After Xander left the bar, the young man thought a bit about what he had heard this evening.
'I had to say that I really could understand that the bitter look did not immediately leave Xander's face, as he told me about this encounter. I also had my own lost chances with certain women, which I regret deeply. However considering his reasons for not getting involved with this Prue I had to agree with them. Having seen Faith, I do not think I would want to risk losing her either. Also having to move on, sort of, really sealed the deal.'
He ordered a new beer from the waitress, took a drink from the bottle and then continue to think about Xander a bit. 'It seemed to me that Xander and Faith had been through a hell of a lot of adventures and met some truly impressive people, as well as some very nasty enemies. However they still seemed to have a very upbeat look on life, which surprised me'. The young man leaned back in his chair and downed his own drink, wondering what they had encountered in Richmond. Sadly he had to wait for another week to hear this story. He then stood up and left the bar also.
AN: Thanks to Razial. He joined me in this chapter and came up with most of the stuff regarding the San Fran part.
AN2: I actually have a rouge idea who they could meet in Richmond, but I also could use that idea later. So if you have an idea or a wish about who they could meet there, feel free to leave it in a review and we might use them.