Together We're United Part 1
In Grandview, Melinda had just finished some setting up in her antique shop while Andrea was on register. She was walking passed the front door when she heard it open so she looked to see who was entering and to her surprise it was her sisters Piper and Phoebe along with her new brother-in-law Leo.
"Phoebe, Piper, Leo! What are you doing here?" Melinda asked.
"Well, it's been weeks since we've seen you and we hadn't seen where you lived or anything so we thought, what the hey." Phoebe said.
"It's nice seeing you all. Andrea, these are my long lost sisters I was telling you about, Phoebe and Piper and this is Piper's husband, Leo. Everyone this is my best friend Andrea." Melinda introduced them.
"Nice to meet you all. I can definitely see the family resemblance." Andrea said.
"I'm going to be closing in a little bit. I can show you around and then we can go check out my apartment."
Melinda showed them around her store.
"Prue would've loved this." Piper said.
"I wish I could have met her." Melinda said.
Later, the four of them went back to Melinda's apartment and hung out but it was soon time to get back to San Francisco for Piper, Phoebe and Leo.
"It was nice seeing what her life is like." Phoebe said.
"It's a quiet little town." Piper said. "You know we're going to need her to move in with us."
"It's a little soon or maybe even a little much, don't you think?" Phoebe asked.
"Under normal circumstances I would say yes but we can't keep fighting demons off on our own, Phoebe." Piper replied.
"Yeah but we can't just ask her to live with us just for that reason. She has a whole life in Grandview and we're all still getting to know each other." Phoebe said.
"What better way to get to know each other if we're under the same roof? It'd be safer too, safer for all three of us. She can orb to Grandview whenever she wants." Piper said.
"She can orb here whenever she wants." Phoebe said.
"It's not the same." Piper said and just then a demon appeared.
-v-
Days later...
For the past few days Melinda had been having these feelings which felt like memories occur. It was strange, she couldn't understand it. It would come to her out of nowhere. It almost felt like a daydream and it'd always stop her in her tracks. Melinda was in the storage room of her shop when it happened this time.
"Melinda!" She heard her name called which snapped her out of it. She looked up to see that it was Leo.
"Leo." Melinda wondered why he was there.
"Your sisters need your help back at the manor." Leo said.
"...Ok. I'll be there in a minute. I have to tell Andrea I'm leaving and ask her to close." Melinda explained and then he orbed away. Melinda then went into the front of the store. "Andrea, can you handle this place for the rest of the day? I have to go. It's really important."
"Sure." Andrea replied.
"And I won't be taking my car. I'm walking." Melinda grabbed her keys and purse then went into the back alley and orbed to the manner. When she got there, Piper and Phoebe were having a difficult time fighting a really huge demon. Piper had been thrown across the floor and Phoebe was in mid-air trying to kick him. The demon had just lit up an enormous high voltage fireball.
"Uh... fireball!" Melinda called to her hand and then killed the demon with its own power. "That was kind of cool."
Leo finally had the chance to run over and heal Piper.
"Is it over?" Piper asked.
"Yeah." Leo replied.
"Thanks to little sis saving the day." Phoebe praised.
"We cannot keep doing this!" Piper exclaimed.
Phoebe knew Piper was going to bring up the fact that Melinda really needed to move in with them so she wanted to jump in and talk about something else first.
"So how are you today, Melinda?" Phoebe asked.
"Ok... I'm sorry I couldn't get here faster but I couldn't just disappear in my storage room and never come back." Melinda explained.
"Well-" Piper started before Phoebe cut her off.
"We're just glad you made it. We really needed you. This is just so much easier when we're all together under the same roof, you know. Now that you're here, we may as well spend some time together. What's up?" Phoebe asked after trying to be subliminal about Melinda moving in.
"...I guess if anyone would understand this it would be you guys. Ok. Lately I've been getting these strange feelings, they're kind of like daydreams." Melinda explained.
"You mean like a premonition because I don't think you're supposed to get those. One of Melinda's powers per sister, that's how it works. It so won't be fair if you have my power too. Your powers are already way cooler." Phoebe said as Piper and Leo laughed.
"No, it's definitely not a premonition. It actually feels like a memory, only it never happened. It's just bits and pieces but it's weird. It's almost like the visions that ghosts send to me when they want me to know how they died only it isn't clear and it isn't from a ghost." Melinda explained.
"I'm not sure but it seems like it could be a past life." Leo said.
"Really?" Melinda asked not expecting that to be anywhere close to an answer. She always talked to ghosts so she was familiar with past lives she just never thought about her own now she may actually be remembering hers. Why? "Why would I be remembering that?"
"Maybe there's some significance to what time it is or maybe something parallels, maybe your past life is trying to warn you. There's a lot of reason why it could be happening." Leo explained.
"Then we should look into it because when my past life became known to me there was a very good reason." Phoebe said.
"Phoebe was evil in her past life." Piper said.
"I didn't start out that way. I was influenced by a demon." Phoebe defended.
"Yeah, she and the demon fell in love which kind of explains her thing for bad boys in this life." Piper said.
"It might explain why you married Leo too since he was your lover in YOUR past life... You know, Halliwell/Warren women are always falling for men we're not supposed to be with. Maybe that's why we can never keep a man." Phoebe said.
"Maybe but I got it right this time." Piper said and then smiled at Leo.
"Back to Melinda." Leo got them to focus.
"Tell us all about these 'daydreams.'" Piper said.
"There isn't much to tell except I feel really angry and hot. The name Ph-Phyre keeps coming to mind... and also the name... Penny.
"Penny?" Piper and Phoebe asked in unison.
"Yeah. You know a Penny?" Melinda asked.
"Yes. She's our grandmother." Piper said.
"Oh. Then who's Phyre?" Melinda asked.
"I don't know. Leo?" Piper asked.
"I don't know who that is." Leo replied.
"Maybe there's something in the book." Phoebe said and they all went to the attic. The three sisters stood in front of the book as Phoebe turned the pages. "There's nothing in the book."
"Maybe I can write a spell." Phoebe said.
"You think?" Melinda asked.
"Yeah. It shouldn't be too hard but if it is a past life situation we don't want it to be like when I went into my past life's body. It's kind of dangerous you know." Phoebe said.
"But we're not positive if this actually is a past life." Leo said.
"I'll come up with something."Phoebe said.
"While you figure this out I just want to orb back to the shop so that I can take my car home. I'll be back in about a half hour, ok?" Melinda said and then orbed back to the alleyway near her shop and then moved her car home then she went up to her apartment to change her clothes from her stylish outfit to something more comfortable, like sneakers and sweats." As soon as she tied the last shoe string on her sneaker and stood up a demon appeared. "Ahhhh!" Melinda orbed over to her purse, grabbed it and then orbed back to the manor. "Demon! He probably followed me."
Seconds later the demon appeared. Piper blew him up and it was over.
"I was not prepared for all the demons." Melinda said.
"Yeah, it's easier when we all live here." Piper said.
"I have the spell. Hopefully this will help." Phoebe said. "We are going to light these candles, then we're going to hold hands while you say the spell. I don't know how it'll work but it should work."
The sisters lit the candles and then sat in front of them. Phoebe passed Melinda the spell.
"Are you ready?" Phoebe asked Melinda.
"I guess. I'm just ready to know what's going on." Melinda replied. "Here goes nothing... Feelings and memories appear to me,
Vague, I'm unsure, I can not see, Reveal to me, What it all means."
Suddenly Melinda and Piper "fell asleep."
"I understand why Melinda is knocked out but why is Piper?" Phoebe questioned.
-v-
Melinda was suddenly in a bed wearing nothing but sheets. She looked around nervously.
"Angry and hot." She thought realizing how she felt. Though Melinda was aware she soon realized she couldn't control what her body did or what she said.
A buffed sexy man then walked in the room.
"Phyre, are you ready for the big day?" The man asked.
"More than you know, Xipil" Phyre aka Melinda's past life replied.
Xipil kissed Phyre and then disappeared in black smoke.
"Phyre got up with the sheets still around her and glanced into the mirror as she passed her vanity and then went over to her closet where there was a forties wardrobe hanging.
-v-
Piper came to in the middle of baking a pie. A dinner was all prepared and was just waiting to take the pie out of the oven for dessert. The timer rung and she took the pie out of the oven. She was wearing a fashionable conservative outfit from the late forties, her hair was shorter and the furniture and appliances in sight were from the forties. Piper also felt a bit older.
"Mom, dinner smells delicious." A red headed woman in her early twenties said walking into the kitchen.
"I'm glad you think so, Penny because dinner is ready. Gordon, Phoebe, Allen, dinner!" She called.
"I don't understand why we're having this dinner tonight when we know Phyre is going to attack tonight." Penny said.
"We can't let evil stop us from living. If we did... we'd be dead before we even died. The little witch is as evil as her mother was."
"Mom, how did Cousin Pearl die?" Penny asked.
"... Phoebe and I... we killed her. We had to or she would have killed us. It's not something I'm proud of... Help me set the table. After dinner, we'll get Allen and Gordon out of here so that we can deal with...Phyre."
The two of them took the food to the dining room. The spread was beautiful. Gordon, Allen and Phoebe entered the dining room. Gordon looked like Piper's ex, Dan and Phoebe looked like Prue but older, at least to Piper they did because she recognized their souls.
"Dinner looks amazing, Patricia." Phoebe said as they all sat at the table.
-v-
Phoebe and Leo were waiting for Melinda and Piper to awake.
"Do you think they're ok?" Phoebe asked.
"They look ok." Leo said then suddenly they both awoke. "You two ok?" Leo asked.
"Yeah! Phoebe, can you explain to me how I got wrapped up into this!" Piper exclaimed.
"I don't know! But you know, everything happens for a reason. It may not work the way we think it will but it always works the way it should. So who is Phyre?" Phoebe asked.
"I am." Melinda replied. "Leo was right, she's my past life and I was bad, real bad."
"Ok. What does Phyre have to do with Grams?" Phoebe asked.
"Apparently, Phyre was going to attack the family on the night that we went back to." Piper said.
"Why?" Leo asked.
"Because Phyre is the daughter of Pearl Russell or as it says on the family tree, P. Russell who we know to be..." Piper started explaining.
"My past life." Phoebe finished. "How is that possible?"
"I have no idea. I didn't get that far." Piper replied.
"Why isn't she mentioned at all on the family tree or the Book of Shadows?" Phoebe asked.
"Why would she want to attack the family if she is family?" Leo asked.
"Revenge maybe, because Phoebe, the cousin Phoebe I mean, not you or your past life, Prue's past life... anyway Phoebe and Patricia killed her mother. I knew this but I never really thought about the fact that I was our great-grandmother. That was my past life. That's so weird... One good thing came out of this trip to the past, I got to see Prue's face again. It wasn't really her but it looked like her to me... She wasn't all I saw either, I saw Grams and grandpa, and our great-grandfather?" Piper said.
"Why do you think my past has been 'haunting me' in a sense?" Melinda asked.
"Right now it seems like it wanted you and the rest of us to know some left out family history." Piper said.
"Hopefully you weren't cursed like I was when you attacked them." Phoebe said.
"I think we should call Grams." Piper said.
To Be Continued...