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Chapter Two
"Who are you?" Chris asked, warily.
"I'm Mel... Melissa, you can just call me Mel," she explained. "And it seems like you need help." Chris just stared at her, scrutinising her with his intense green eyes until she started to fidget.
"How do I know that you're on my side?" Chris asked. Wyatt could've sent her to retrieve him, again.
"Well, you're still alive aren't you?" She retorted before walking away. Chris rushed after her, not trusting her at all. She could jeopardise everything!
However, Melissa just walked into the first room that she saw was occupied. She froze for a moment, standing there and gaping at the baby in front of her.
"This is so weird." She whispered, staring at Wyatt in awe.
"Who're you?" Leo asked, immediately standing in front of baby Wyatt.
"Me? I'm from the future." Melissa answered. Leo just let out an audible sigh.
"A friend of yours Chris?" Leo muttered to him. Chris just shook his head and glared at Melissa.
"I don't even know her. Not to mention she's from my future," he told Leo, referring to the fact that she might be untrustworthy.
"Speaking of the future, what's so awful that happened to Wyatt?" Leo asked while Melissa just leaned against the wall, watching the father-son exchange.
"You know I can't tell you that." Chris replied.
"Come on, I'm an Elder." Leo reminded Chris but Chris just shrugged.
"Excuse me," Penny interrupted, annoyed. "Back on point. Er, the slime. I'm taking suggestions."
"We could orb it to an ice drift." Leo said, looking at Penny and then Chris. Chris shook his head, as did Melissa.
"Nah that's bad." Chris answered.
"It's not bad," Penny added. "It's awful. You can't orb that thing, it feeds on magic."
"So what's your great idea?" Chris half exclaimed, losing his cool.
"Are you giving me lip?" Penny rebutted.
"No. No!" Chris declared as Wyatt orbed his bottle to him. Melissa straightened up in shock as the slime demon broke through the walls. Chris ran down the stairs immediately, followed by Penny. Leo spared Melissa a second glance before grabbing Wyatt and running out. Melissa however, noticed the demon getting electrocuted by the lamb and retreating. She displayed a small smirk before running down the stairs to join the others.
"Get Wyatt out of the house. If it tries to follow I'll fire off an orb or two to distract it," Chris instructed. He turned to Penny before asking. "You okay with that?"
"Yeah, just what I had in mind." Penny shrugged, obviously not admitting the fact that the 'newbie' whitelighter could come up with such a strategic plan. Melissa just shook her head. Penny Halliwell will never change.
As Leo took Wyatt to the door, Melissa approached Chris, who was keeping an eye out for Leo and Wyatt.
"I'll help you." She told him.
"Go," he told her.
"Look. Whether you believe it or not, I'm here to help."
"Well, I don't need your help."
Just as Melissa was about to retort, Chris's eyes widened slightly and he headed towards the kitchen. Melissa turned to see the door of the Manor covered with the green slime. They were trapped.
"Hurry!" She urged Leo on, tilting his head to the direction of the kitchen. Leo just nodded and ran there, covering the baby's eyes so that he was not exposed to the horror surrounding him. Melissa followed Leo, making sure that he got Wyatt to the kitchen safely.
"What did it do? Split in half?" Leo asked Chris, perplexed, as he removed his hand from Wyatt's eyes.
"How do we get out?" Chris asked no one in particular.
"I don't know." Leo said.
"Orb?" Melissa suggested.
"The last time I orbed that thing almost swallowed me whole." Chris answered, clearly disagreeing with her idea.
"What do you think Penny?" Leo turned around to face the Halliwell Witch, as did Chris and Melissa. You can only imagine their shock when they saw a flower-child Penny instead of the demon-hunting witch.
"I think love conquers all," she drawled. "I think we should take the demon into out arms and make it feel safe."
Chris and Leo gave each other a look of annoyance and desperation before looking back at Penny while Melissa just facepalmed.
Chris seemed to snap out of his shock first before turning to Leo.
"Leo can I talk to you for a second please?" Chris asked, more like told, Leo.
"Do you mind holding him for a second?" Leo asked, offering Wyatt to Penny.
"Ooh come here moonbeam." Penny cooed. Melissa rolled her eyes and wandered off to the kitchen cabinets, finding for as many electrical appliances as possible.
"But this thing's trying to back us into a corner," Melissa heard Chris say as he stared at the now slime covered door. Melissa hurried her search as Chris told Leo to take Wyatt and Penny to the conservatory. She handed him the blender, toaster and just about every electrical appliance she could get her hands on and he piled them up on the table near where the others were.
"Why isn't it attacking?" Leo asked after the witchlighter and future girl piled up the electrical appliances, rather efficiently. Chris looked like he was thinking really hard about something. "It's like it cornered us and now it's just waiting."
"I think we need the toaster oven." Chris randomly blurted out. Leo obediently carried it and placed it on the table.
"You know that's a disaster waiting to happen." Penny piped in.
"That's the idea. You saw how the slime reacted to electricity. Well if we can get it to attack this... pile, maybe we can get it to zap it." Chris told Penny. Melissa nodded as she continued fussing over the positions of the appliances.
"Yeah when it got electrocuted just now, it retreated immediately." She added in.
"I can find a place to plug it in." Leo said.
"No offense, but you know, my dear Allen would've taken the path of peaceful resistance." Penny informed them. "Have you tried talking to the slime?" Leo just let out a short laugh.
"Now that," Melissa said, motioning to Penny's suggestion. "is a disaster waiting to happen."
"No. I haven't. And you shouldn't either." Leo advised her. "But if you're up for light conversation, maybe you can tell me what happens to Wyatt in the future." He directed the statement at Chris and Melissa.
"Ah. Nice try." They replied in unison. They stared at each other for a second before Melissa looked down hastily, mentally chastising herself.
"Got it." Leo plugged in the switch and the Manor was immediately plunged into darkness. Chris let out a rather high-pitched sigh of exasperation and Melissa let out a well disguised cough to hide the snicker when she heard him shriek, shaking her head for trying to find humour in a situation like this.
"Damn it!" Leo exclaimed.
"I told you boys. Violence is not the answer to anything." Penny said.
"So," Melissa started off. "Where's the fuse box?"
"It's in the basement." Leo replied and Chris just nodded.
"The day keeps getting better and better." He muttered.
"You'll find a flashlight in the laundry room." Leo said. Chris got the flashlight and walked into the basement before Melissa could object.
"LEO!" They heard him exclaim. Melissa and Leo exchanged worried glances before rushing to Chris.
"What is it? What is it?" Leo asked, worried.
"The slime… In the basement… Feeding on the nexus…." He panted out.
"How big is it?" Leo asked and Chris just handed him the torchlight. Melissa just stared at Chris. Judging by Chris's reaction, things were bad, and it was better if she didn't know. As expected, Leo closed the door within milliseconds.
"Big." Was all Leo could say.
"Yeah, big." Chris agreed.
Penny gave Wyatt back to Leo, muttering something about a candle and Chris walked to the back to the table, pulliing out a few wires on his way. Melissa looked at Chris, realising his brilliant idea. She grinned: She always knew Chris was smart.
"The demon comes at us and I'll try to hold it off with this." Chris said. Meanwhile, Penny carried a newly lit candle and opened the basement door, unnoticed.
"Don't be afraid of us, we won't hurt you." She tried to reason with the Demon-with-no-name.
"Penny get back!" Leo tried to warn her but it was too late The Demon-with-no-name grabbed her and pulled her into the basement.
"Well shit." Melissa muttered as Chris just stared open-mouthed at the basement. That was when the demon decided to stop being on hiatus. Chris and Melissa looked at each other before pulling the door back so that the demon could not escape.
"Take Wyatt and go!" Melissa yelled. Leo picked up Wyatt and left the room. Chris looked at her again, wondering for the hundredth time about her intentions; her real intentions.
"Wyatt's secured at the living room. There's no sign of the demon at the rest of the house." Leo said as he joined Chris and Melissa in their effort to contain the slime in the basement.
"I think it didn't strike before so that it could feed on the nexus." Chris told Leo.
"What about Penny? Is she..."
"I don't know."
Then, Chris grabbed the wires and electrocuted the slime that escaped through the small gap below the door. And he repeated that action again and again.
"i can't keep up with it we gotta get out." Chris told Leo.
"No we have to keep fighting," Leo argued. "It is what Penny would've wanted us to do." And so Chris continued electrocuting the slime that slipped through the door. After a while, the demon realised its attempts were futile so it stopped escaping through the cracks of the door and doubled its pressure on the door.
"Chris!" Melissa shouted for help. That shout made him immediately joined Leo and Melissa in pushing the door to contain the demon.
"Get out of here, go." Leo told Chris and Melissa as the demon continued to increase its effort to break through.
"No. Not without you." Chris told Leo and Melissa nodded, agreeing with Chris.
"It is gonna swallow you whole," Leo told him.
"Most likely." Chris agreed.
Just then, the Charmed Ones materialised.
"Stand back fellows." Piper said. The three people pushing against the door thanked their lucky stars.
"Drawing on the Power of Three, destroy this demon entity." Paige said. The Demon-with-no-name was vanquished and the impact of it caused Leo, Chris and Melissa to stumble backwards a few feet.
"Where's Wyatt?" Piper immediately asked.
"He's in the living room." Chris answered.
"What about Grams?" Phoebe asked. Chris, Leo and Melissa paused for a while,
"Er she didn't make it," Melissa told the Charmed Ones.
"Who are you?" Paige asked.
Before Melissa could answer, the basement door opened to reveal a coughing and choking Grams.
"Nonsense. You can't damage an old warhorse like me. I'm already dead!" Penny told them between coughs. Everyone grinned widely at Penny Halliwell.
"Yay Grams! So glad that you are back!" Phoebe said, running for a hug. Piper rushed to attend to a crying Wyatt before walking back, now bouncing Wyatt on her hips, while Paige approached Leo.
"Hey there Sun God." Paige muttered to Leo.
'Sun God?' Melissa and Chris mouthed at each other confused before Melissa rolled her eyes and Chris shook his head.
"That was a long time ago. Lets just keep it between us okay?" Leo said, pointing to Paige and himself. Paige just formed her mouth into and 'o' shape and stared at Leo.
"Hey. I wanna thank you three for not giving up the fight," Grams told Leo, Chris and Melissa. "I'm really proud of you guys. You did good." She said, patting Chris and Melissa's shoulders and they grinned at her while Leo smiled.
"So who are you again?" Paige asked Melissa.
"I'm Melissa, from the future." She explained.
"Ah. So you know Chris." Phoebe said, wagging her eyebrows. Melissa looked disgusted with what she was implying.
"Not-" Chris tried to say but he was cut off by Piper.
"I'm not dealing with her," Piper said, her shoulders slightly slumped. She was obviously tired with all the action on that day. "You deal with her." She pointed at Chris and trudged up the stairs.
"No. Melissa is not staying with me. P3's too small!"
"I'm sure you'll make it work." Phoebe nodded, before following Piper. Chris just sighed, knowing he lost the battle, and orbed out.
Paige felt sorry for the girl and gave her a gentle smile. "You can bunk in my room?" She offered but Melissa shook her head, for she wanted to keep an eye on a certain neurotic witchlighter.
"Thanks, but it's fine. Would you give me a lift?" Paige simply waved her hand, muttering 'p3'. Melissa felt the familiar sensation of orbs surrounding her and she found herself in p3 just two seconds later.
"Real nice of you to leave me there!" She chirped, her tone sarcastic.
"Listen, Melissa-" Chris started off.
"Its Mel." She interrupted.
"Well, can you just make a spell to conjure a bed or something Melissa?"
"Does personal gain not mean anything to you?"
"Fine, I'll do it myself." He said with a sigh. Screw personal gain.
"It's dark and there is only one bed,
stop her from climbing onto my head,
send another bed to me,
magic, Christopher summons thee.'
A bed appeared, cramped into the small office of p3.
"It worked!" Melissa exclaimed, surprised. She did not expect that to work at all. In fact, she was already ready to run out of the door for she wouldn't be surprised if a bed flew across the room. Chris was more of a potions guy. When he cast spells, things often went flying, literally.
"Well Melissa, please get into bed. I'm an early riser just so you know." Chris said. Melissa knew he woke up early to research on demons and all, but didn't comment on that.
"Mel. Would it kill you to call me Mel?" She asked as she laid on her bed. Chris laid down on the too small couch in the room, which went unnoticed by her since she was already dozing off, and turned to face the wall so that Melissa couldn't see his glazed over eyes. Memories rushed through his head, one after another, and his heart throbbed as he thought of her.
Mel.