Authors Note:
Sorry about the wait everyone! Shieza, Supernaturally Charmed has 229 views! Hot damn! THANK YOU so much to everyone who has read, reviewed and favorite this story so far! I'm trying to break up the dialogue a bit more in this chapter that way it hopefully reads better. Also this chapter may be a bit boring but it's just getting out information and setting up stuff for later.
~CHAPTER THREE: INTRODUCTIONS~
"Names Dean."
Before Dean can open his mouth again Piper freezes the room. The demon is in mid motion of reloading his crossbow, Sam is halfway up, and Phoebe is still trapped under a smirking Dean.
Paige orbs herself off of the wall; she crumbles to the floor as Piper rushes to her aid. Phoebe is unable to wrestle herself from underneath Dean but she manages to move her right leg in between Dean's.
"This will work." She mutters to herself.
"Are you alright? Paige!" Piper gently helps Paige up as the she nods her head. Paige clutches her shoulder, pressing her hand into the wound to try to stop the bleeding.
"Are you okay Paige?" Phoebe shouts from underneath Dean.
"I'm fine just bleeding. Nothing I can't handle. Although I will say I'd much rather be in your position."
Phoebe rolls her eyes, "Yep, you're definitely okay."
Just as Piper is about to call for Leo, the demon breaks through Piper's powers and finishes reloading his crossbow. Piper shoves Paige out of the way and barely manages to freeze the miniature spear in time.
She unfreezes the boys and Phoebe doesn't hesitate to bring her knee up and into Dean's groin. He tumbles over in pain as Phoebe rushes to help Paige.
"How did that happen?" Dean gruffs as he rolls onto his stomach, trying to catch his breath.
Phoebe kneels down beside Paige. She puts her hand on top of Paige's and applies more pressure. Paige winces in pain. "Sorry" Phoebe squeaks.
Sam aims his gun, he fires hitting the demon in the chest but it doesn't do anything except piss it off more. This time the demon fires at Sam who barely manages to dodge the attack unscathed. He unloads more rounds into the demon as it advances towards him.
Piper uses the opportunity; she blows the creature to bits. Most of those bits landing on the Winchesters. Sam groans as he wipes a bloody chunk off of his shirt. "This sucks" Dean says still recovering from Phoebe's hit. Paige looks at the gun in Sam's hand and the one near Dean.
"Guns" Paige commands, her palm facing up, as the pile of white and blue orbs grow Paige faces the palm of her hand beside her and Phoebe.
Sam tries to grab the glowing spheres but it's no use. Dean just stares in both shock and annoyance as the guns leave his possession. Once the orbs settle, the sisters see just how much heat the Winchesters were packing.
"That seems a bit excessive don't you think?" Paige meekly nods in response; she's losing a lot of blood and her skin is already more pale.
"Leo!" Piper calls and seconds later her husband is by her side and already going over to Paige. Piper spins on her heels and looks at the brothers. She freezes them.
"I'll deal with you in a minute." Piper turns her attention back to Paige as Leo heels her.
The color quickly returns to Paige as the wound closes up. Paige sighs in relief as Leo moves his hands away "Thanks Leo."
"No problem" Leo stands up, he looks over at the once again frozen Winchesters. "Who are they?" he asks.
Piper shrugs "working on it.". Phoebe helps Paige to her feet. "The hot scruffy ones name is Dean."
"Really Phoebe?" Piper asks. Phoebe just shrugs.
A little later…
Paige has the last crystal for her cage in hand she takes a small dagger from Piper and slides it over Sam and Dean's forearms. After she's done she puts the final crystal in place and the light blue cage forms over the boys. Paige pulls out a small white silk bag, which contains a finite powder that sends a painful zap to whoever it's thrown at.
"I really don't think any zapping will be necessary Paige, after all one of them was shooting at the demon remember?" Phoebe says, "Not to mention that the other did kill that guy." Phoebe points to the body of the demon Dean killed.
"Why is the body still here? What if he wasn't a demon?" Piper points out. Phoebe fumbles ever so slightly, "Well that doesn't mean he wasn't bad." The three sisters stand in front of the still frozen men.
Paige shrugs, "Anyway, we have no idea if they are going to talk. " Piper nods, "Paige is right. Besides it's better to be safe than sorry." Leo strolls down the stairs carrying baby Wyatt, who is sleeping peaceful in his car seat. Leo grabs the diaper bag by the bottom of the stairs before giving Piper a chaste kiss.
"I'll be back in a few hours, call me if you need anything." With that Leo leaves the Charmed ones alone with the Winchesters. "Alright let's get this over with." Piper unfreezes the boys.
"Ow!" Sam covers his now bleeding forearm. "What the-" Dean looks at his arm then over to the sisters. "Well at least we know they are human." Piper smirks a little. Dean practically growls, "and what are you? Demons?"
Paige huffs "Excuse me, do we look like demons to you?" Dean searches for a gun but then sees the pile of them several feet away. "Dammit."
Sam reaches over and touches one of the crystals only to have small electric volts sent into his body, he spasms as his back hits the floor. "Sammy!" Dean doesn't know what to do "What'd you do to him!" He demands.
"I didn't do anything, he's the one who touched the crystal. Now tell us who you are." Paige says. She crosses her arms and stares at Dean who glares in return. "I'm fine Dean" Sam says, he sits up "We're looking for three hunters."
"Hunters?" Piper asks "I think you boys are a little lost, this is San Francisco not the forest." Dean rolls his eyes. "Not those kinds of hunters. Hunters. You know, family business type of stuff." The sisters' wait for further explanation Dean shakes his head. "Were the Winchesters. I'm Dean, this is Sam."
"Never heard of ya" Phoebe chips in. Sam and Dean share a look. "That's a first" Sam says, Dean nods in agreement. He glances over at Phoebe before locking eyes with Piper "What the hell are you?"
"They are the charmed ones. Powerful, legendary witches." The sisters all yelp and spin around to see Castiel. Piper immediately tries freezing him but it has no effect on the angel. "Uh, Paige!" Piper exclaims. Paige throws down her purple concoction but Castiel catches it. "Uh, that's not good."
"I assure you, I will not harm you." Castiel states, Piper is still trying to freeze him "That will not work on me Piper. "
"Dammit Cas you sent us after WITCHES!" Dean stands up followed by Sam.
"I thought you said they were hunters." Sam asks.
Castiel nods, he briefly looks over to Piper before locking eyes with Dean. "Yes, I am sorry I lied to you but I feared if you knew they were witches you would not come. Also, Dean, I did not send you 'after' them, I asked you to help them."
"Witches Cas! Freaking witches! They are not hunters!" Dean glares.
"HI, witches, STILL HERE. And can someone please explain what the hell is going on!" Phoebe throws her hands up in exasperation.
Paige pivots to face the trench-coated man "Also I'd like to know how you know us." She asks.
"I will explain as much as I can but I do not have much time. There is a demon on the verge of regaining his full power. He is unlike any demon any of you have ever faced before. This is why I asked Sam and Dean to come" Castiel looks at Piper "As this is not something the Charmed Ones nor the Winchesters can defeat alone."
"Yeah see, you still haven't told us who you are. So how are we supposed to trust anything you say?" Piper asks.
"My name is Castiel, I am an angel." Castiel states, he looks at the sisters, all of them have a dumbfounded look on their face.
Phoebe snaps out of it first. "I'm sorry, what?" She asks. Phoebe looks over to Piper and Paige "Did he just say 'angel' or am I hearing things?" Before either of her sisters can reply, Dean cuts in.
"Yeah, angels are real. Not all of 'em are pretty either." Dean says.
"Wait, do you mean a white-lighter?" Paige takes a step foreword, addressing the so-called 'angel'. Castiel shakes his head
"No, white-lighters are guardians, angel-like and angelic but not angels. I know this must be confusing but I must press the issue at hand. There is an evil coming that you five will need to work together for. Dean, the sisters may not be the same hunters you and Sam are but they have killed just as many Demons and saved just as many innocent lives. They are good. And they deserve your trust. "
Castiel pivots to face Piper again "Just as Sam and Dean deserve yours."
Piper huffs she opens her mouth to talk when Castiel is suddenly gone. "Where'd he go?" Phoebe moves next to Piper.
"He does that." Sam says, he looks at the crystal formation again, his curiosity getting the better of him. He looks over to Paige. "Are these crystal hexed? I've never seen anything like this." Sam kneels closer to the white stone, he reaches out to touch it but retracts his hand before his fingers make contact.
Paige ignores Sam's question, looking to Piper who freezes the boys again.
"Piper you can't keep freezing them." Phoebe points out. Piper shrugs
"Why not? It's not like it's hurting them or anything. Besides, we need to figure out whether or we believe Mr. Angel guy."
"That's if he was really an Angel, I have a very hard time in believing that." Paige says while resting her hands on her hips.
"Yeah, I mean I've never heard of anything… biblical being real before. And we've seen a lot. He could have been a demon." Phoebe says, her eyes wonder over to Dean and linger just long enough for Paige to notice.
Paige smacks Phoebe's arm "You're staring." Phoebe pouts for a moment before standing straight again.
"Well we might as well ask them" Phoebe says gesturing to the Winchester brothers. "I mean angel guy and them seemed to know each other so it looks like they are our best bet at getting some answers. You know, without having to read the Bible. I think."
"And what, are we just supposed trust them to? They are obviously not very fond of witches." Paige protests.
"Well what choice do we have? There's not going to be anything in the book of shadows about angels and unless one of you has a Bible laying around I think that's our only option." Piper counters.
"Besides we will keep them in the cage until we figure out whether or not they're going to try to kill us. " Phoebe chimes in.
Paige smirks "How very comforting"
Piper ignores her sister, "Let's just get this over with. The longer we wait, the less time we have to figure out a plan against the tribecca demons and possibly whatever demon was talking about. Okay?" Paige and Phoebe nod and Piper unfreezes the boys for the third time that day.
Dean whips his head around, taking in his surroundings. He notices the sisters are now in front of him and Sam. He groans. I'm getting real sick of this. Dean thinks.
"Really? We're still in here?" Dean directs his question to Piper who merely offers him a smirk in response Well she's just peachy.
"Don't know if we can trust you yet." Paige says.
Dean glares at Paige before locking eyes with Phoebe, her hair all messy and undeniably sexy "likewise." He huffs out.
Piper clears her throat; Dean looks back at her and cocks an eyebrow. "Well? Are you just gonna leave us in here all day?"
"Don't tempt me." Piper replies curtly. Sam stands up, finally joining the conversation.
"Look, we only came here as a favor to our friend. He didn't exactly give us all of the details so you can imagine why we are a little unprepared." He says.
"What's with the 'hunters' thing? Phoebe asks. Dean shares a look with his brother; they both look back toward the sisters. "It's what we are. What we do." Sam explains.
"Saving people, hunting things. It's a family business." Dean finishes.
"What exactly do you hunt?" Piper takes a step towards them, watching their reactions closely.
"All sorts of evil crap. Demons, ghosts, werewolves, djinns, witches." Dean says, he scans the sisters, a smug look plastered on his face.
"You see it's stuff like that that makes me want to keep you in there for a really, really long time." Paige says, she points to her crystal cage for emphasis. "And believe me, I have no problem doing just that."
Sam shoots a warning look at Dean who merely shrugs it off. "What he meant was that we hunt the monsters that hurt people. Also, the only… witches we've ever come across have been, well, not good." Sam explains.
Piper crosses her arm, "We've never come across 'hunters' before." Piper looks over to Paige, "Will you check the Book of Shadows, see if it mentions anything?" Piper asks.
"Sure, here, incase they need any zapping." Paige says as she hands Piper her favorite 'zapping' powder.
"So you're just gonna keep us in here? Whatever the hell this is." Dean asks, he starts to pace but can't due to the itty bitty space him and Sam have in the crystal cage. "Seriously!" he exclaims.
"At least tell us your names." Sam proposes.
Piper looks over to Phoebe, both sisters share a silent agreement. Phoebe points to herself, "I'm Phoebe."
"Piper" Piper says blatantly. "The red head is our sister, Paige. You said you two are brothers, right?"
Sam nods, "we are."
"Hence the 'family business' line." Dean interjects, earning him yet another warning glance from Sam.
Paige heads down the stairwell, Book Of Shadows in hand. Piper and Phoebe eye her curiously. "I figured, the best way to tell if they are good is to have them try to open the Book Of Shadows." Paige explains. She hops off the last step and walks over next to Piper. "Good idea, right?" She asks.
Piper shrugs, honestly it couldn't hurt. "Sure." She says. Phoebe nods her head in agreement. Piper locks eyes with Dean. "But if you guys try anything I'll freeze you again. Got it?"
"Fine. What are we doing exactly?" Sam asks. He eyes the green leather book, curious how it would tell the sisters if they are good or evil.
Paige holds up the book so Sam and Dean have a better view of the red triquetra symbol on the front. "This is our Book Of Shadows, only the good can touch it. Therefore if you two are good you'll be able to open the book. If not, then we'll vanquish you. Or interrogate you. Or both. Whichever." Paige finishes with a shrug.
"So we just have to touch that thing?" Dean asks, not believing the simplicity of the situation.
"Yep. Got it?" Phoebe chirps.
Dean looks over to Sam who just shrugs in response, he huffs; "Fine."
Paige hands the Book Of Shadows over to Piper who walks forward and gently places it on the floor in front of Sam and Dean's cage. She walks back over to her sisters, keeping a close eye on the boys.
Paige holds open her right hand, "Crystal." She commands and in a flurry of mini blue orbs one of the stones orbs into Paige's hands, freeing the boys of their predicament.
Dean's eyes immediately go to his gun but Phoebe takes a step in front of the pile. He redirects his attention to the old book on the floor before him. He look over to Sam. "Ladies first." Dean smirks.
Sam huffs and shakes his head. He takes a step forward and slowly begins to kneel down. The sisters, except Phoebe, all watch him and the book closely. Phoebe still has her eyes on Dean who is shifting his gaze between her and his brother.
Sam's fingers trace along the hard cover of the Book Of Shadows, he doesn't notice that Piper and Paige have already relaxed, as he opens up the book to a random page.
Piper nods, satisfied, she looks over to Dean. "You're next."
"Wait, so that's it?" Sam asks standing up.
"Yeah, it really is that simple." Paige says. She looks over to Dean expectantly.
Dean rolls his eyes; he swoops down and picks the book up and then looks at Piper. "Satisfied?"
"Very."
"So what now? We make friendship bracelets and tell each other about our dreams?" Dean asks sarcastically.
Sam's shoulders slump, he turns to his brother "Really Dean?"
Dean shrugs. "What? I'm just saying. They're witches Sam, they got to test us, how the hell are we supposed to trust them? I mean they got powers and spells and a frigging book-"
Dean glances down "Wow that is an ugly son of a bitch." Dean says, staring at the page. He turns the book around so everyone can see the page he's on, it's Balthazar's.
Phoebe eyes shoot daggers into Dean; she storms over and yanks the book of Dean's hands. "Okay well they're good so that's enough of this." She says.
"What'd I do?" Dean asks, he looks over to Sam who shakes his head and shrugs.
Piper quickly changes the subject for her sister's sake. "So, the trench coat guy, is he really an angel?" she asks Dean.
Dean turns to Piper, he nods. "Oh yeah. He's the real deal. He's a real pain in the ass the too. "
"Okay so what now? Do you trust us?" Sam asks, attempting to figure out just what the hell is actually going on.
"Not sure yet. We at least know you're not evil. That's a start." Paige says.
"Yeah, and what about you three? How do we know you're not just like any of the other witches we met?" Dean challenges.
"You're angel said you should trust us, didn't he?" Paige states, smirking ever so slightly.
Dean frowns. Witches. He thinks, he walks just a little closer the Charmed Ones. "Still, you had your test, only seems fair that we get one as well. Wouldn't you agree?" Dean says.
Piper crosses her arms; she straightens her back, not intimated at all by the hunter. "What did you have in mind?"
Dean smiles devilishly. Just you wait.
Sorry to leave off on another cliffhanger! I just really wanted to get this chapter up tonight and it's already late and I still have to work out (sad face).
Hope you guys enjoyed it at least! I promise I will start writing longer chapters as soon as my schedule calms down. In all honesty, my schedule is so hectic and stressful lately that writing and reading fanfiction has been one of the few things that I love about my week.
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