Chapter 3:
Melinda looked on as Julie started writing spells and potions and making plans. All of a sudden, she had a flashback to the time when she and Julie first met.
"HELP! Someone, Please help me!" Melinda heard the frantic voice calling from the ally
"Innocents and allies. Will they never learn?" Melinda thought to herself with a sigh, running to the ally that she heard the voice come from
Standing, backed against the wall, Melinda saw a young witch trying to fight off a darklighter that had popped up and surprised her. Apparently, the witch was trying to use her pocketbook as a shield.
"Hey! Darklighter! Over here! Look, I'm a whitelighter! Melinda called, trying to distract the darklighter to help the witch escape
"Grrr…" The darklighter growled
"Ooo, someone didn't take their happy pills this morning." Melinda teased
"You shouldn't have done that, whitelighter. I'm standing right behind you." A voice behind Melinda growled
"Damn." Melinda cursed under her breath. She turned around, and sure enough, there was the darklighter. Glancing back to the witch, the darklighter shot his deadly arrow, hitting Melinda squarely in the gut.
"Shit!" Melinda groaned, collapsing to the ground
"CHRIS!" The girl called, trying to get her whitelighter's attention, even though she knew it could be deadly "PLEASE COME!"
Chris Halliwell orbed into the ally. "MELINDA!" He yelled, spotting his younger sister laying on the ground with the arrow through her
"I can take care of the demon! You help her, now go!" His charge said
"But, Julie!" Chris sputtered, not sure whom he should protect
"No buts!" Julie replied, getting ready to fight
Chris sighed exasperatedly
"Come on, Mellie. You can do it, let's go." Chris said, putting his hands over his sister's wound, letting the light glow from them
Melinda gave a gulp of air "Innocent!" she gasped, thinking the innocent was dead
"No, Mellie, the "innocent" is fine. She just killed the darklighter with his own arrow." Chris explained to his sister, slightly bewildered that even after she almost died, his sister was still thinking of the innocent.
"Oh. Thank God." Melinda replied with a sigh of relief
"Thanks for saving my life." The charge said, coming over to them
"No problem. Thanks for saving mine. Hey, I don't even know your name. Mine's Melinda. I'm his sister." Melinda introduced
"My name's Julie." Julie replied "I'm his charge."
All of a sudden, a person teleported in. Julie looked at him and grinned
"Hey James." She said
"Julie! Thank god you're okay. I heard you calling but the connection went weird, like someone forgot to pay the phone bill." James said, panicked
"Don't worry about it. James, this is Melinda. Melinda, this is my brother, James. Another one of Chris's charges." Julie introduced
"Hey James. Nice to meet you." Melinda said "Hey, he's kinda cute." She thought
"Nice to meet you too." James replied
"Wait. What do you mean by connections?" Melinda asked suddenly
"Oh. James and I are twins. We have mental telepathy." Julie explained "Aw, James you like her don't you?" Julie thought to her twin
"No! Well, she is hot, I must say." James thought back
"Oh, don't be such a pig!" Julie replied in her head
"I'm not!"
All of a sudden, Wyatt orbed in. "Melinda, I've been looking for you everywhere. Mom's gonna flip if she finds you got killed again." He said
"Julie, James, this is my big brother Wyatt. Big brother Wyatt, this is Julie and James, Chris's charges. Julie just saved my life from a darklighter." Melinda explained
"Oh. Hi." Wyatt said, noticing for the first time that there where other people present
"Hey." Julie and James replied simultaneously
"Look who likes a Halliwell now." James thought smugly
"I do not!" Julie thought back
"Your face is turning red like a bright tomato."
"So. Do you guys want to come with me to help save me from getting blown up by my mother?" Melinda asked nervously.
"Um, who's your mom? Piper, right? The oldest Charmed One?" They asked
"Yeah." Melinda replied
"Then no thanks. We'd rather keep all our body parts." They said
"Damn." Melinda cursed
"Oh, it'll be fine." Chris said
"Says you. You don't have to face the wrath of mom." Melinda replied
Chris and Melinda kept on bickering as Chris finally decided to orb Melinda home.
"You too sure you don't want to come over? It might help my mom and the aunts to figure out the darklighter issue." Wyatt pleaded, wanting to see more of Julie
"Uhh.. I guess." They said uncertainly
"Thank god. I promise my mom won't bite your heads off. If anything, she'll thank you and bake you a batch of cookies." Wyatt promised
They orbed off to the Halliwell Manner.
"Melinda…Melinda…Hey, anyone in there?" Julies voice called, snapping Melinda out of her reverie.
"Huh?" Melinda asked, blinking her eyes
"Good. Now listen up. I've got a long list of stuff, and I'm gonna need you to pay attention." Julie instructed
Melinda sighed and gave a grin. Julie loved to take charge. She shook her head, and waited for her friend to start.