Disclaimer: Charmed is not, and will never, be mine… like ever!
It didn't take long to orb to where Bianca was, or where we thought she was. We materialised in the middle of a near-by woods, the rain drizzling down slowly. Even though I was supposed to be concentrating on looking for, and effectively killing Bianca my thoughts strayed to Jade and how hurt and broken and livid she looked. I knew she hated being wrapped in cotton wool; she was very independent and hated people molly coddling her but I just couldn't help but do it. Molly coddle her. I just had too – and by me doing that it caused us to have a full blown argument. Great.
"Chris, do you hear that?" phoebe asked quietly and I refocused on the mission at hand. Straining my ears I did catch the distance sound of humming, though it was too far off to pinpoint exactly what it was.
"Yeah" I replied back quietly, fingering the bottles of potions in my hand just in case something unexpected popped up. And it did. Six burly looking, dog like demons appeared out of nowhere and sent me flying backwards into a tree trunk. Dazed, my head swam as I tried to refocus. Dammit Chris, what the hell, I chastised. When I was flying through the air I had conveniently dropped the bottles of potions which left me nearly defenceless against the demons –but I still had my powers.
I TK'd one and it disappeared through the trees and just as I was about to stand up and fight my way through a rope was being tugged around my neck so I couldn't breathe. That, in turn, sent me off balance so I tumbled to the ground, clawing desperately at the rope.
Bianca was looking down at me, an ugly look on her face.
"You didn't think it would really be that easy, did you?" She laughed, the rope tightening around my neck before everything went black.
Peeling my eyes open was a tough task but I managed it. I looked around, gingerly lifting my neck that was no doubt littered in bruises. Phoebe and Paige were tied up, dangling from the tree branches but looked otherwise unharmed. I was sitting down with my back against the tree, my hands tied behind my back which was then tied to the tree. I tried orbing but I couldn't move an inch. What? That shouldn't be happening.
A crisp laugh brought my attention to Bianca, strutting forward, the demons hot on her trail.
"anti-orbing spell Chris, you're going nowhere" she said gleefully, ignoring Phoebe and Paige's furious looks and squatted in front of me.
"I want revenge Chris, for everything you and your whore of a girlfriend have done to me – and you conveniently have played right into my plan" She said, running her hands through my hair. I jerked away from her grip, trembling with anger.
"What plan would that be?" I snarled back, wiggling my hands to try and get free.
"To kill you" She said bluntly, producing a different knife from her back pocket, "But that would be too easy, I want you to feel pain first, to feel what you made me feel" She snarled, "You killed my family, so I thought I would repay the favour" and with that she stood up and I got an awful feeling in the pit of my stomach though I just prayed I was wrong.
"You shouldn't have left her alone Chris, accidents can happen" And with that she smiled devilishly before shimmering away. No, no, no, no. I knew what she was going to do – she was going to go after Jade and out baby and I had left her there, unprotected and alone.
"Bianca, Bianca" I shouted to the open air and I met my aunts' gaze. They were both looking at me in shock as well as a frenzied panic. This could not be happening. Jade's panic soon filled my head, like full blown red alert panic along with the feeling of intense pain before it abruptly disappeared.
"Bianca – WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?" I screamed desperately, thrashing about uselessly like a fish out of water.
I felt bad for shrugging Chris off like that, knowing that he was only doing it to protect us. And he was, he was looking out for his family, not wanting a crazy, phoenix witch to kill us right? Ughhh, why did everything have to be complicated? We saved Wyatt, everything was supposed to fall into place after that, not get a hundred times more complicated.
Hell yeah I was still mad, furious actually, that he would treat me differently just because I'm pregnant, I mean… I'm not useless; I could still kick some demon ass. Then the more I thought about that the worse I felt about being mad. Stupid hormones. A long while had passed bit I was too caught up in my thoughts to care.
Rolling over, the door to the bedroom was closed even though I hoped that maybe, just maybe, Chris would come back. But he didn't, the door stayed closed and some people may call this dramatic but it made my heart feel empty. It was always Chris and I against the world, starting off as neighbours, then friends, then well… together, fighting Wyatt and demons but now I felt like I had screwed everything up royally.
Standing up made me feel dizzy, like head spinning dizzy, so I grabbed the bedside table to stop from face planting the ground. What the holy hell? That had never happened before, maybe it was just stress – Bianca herself was enough for anyone to want to keel over.
Blowing out a breath, the feeling went away – like it wasn't even there in the first place. Weird. Though that made my thoughts return to Chris. Should I call him? Or wait for him to get home? If I called out for him then maybe that would distract him from whatever fights he was sure to be in so I decided to leave it – we could sort it out later, I didn't want him to get hurt, or worse… killed, I thought with a shudder. Best to just leave it.
Walking out of our bedroom and through the manor felt eerily like I was home. Although I never lived here, it was like a second home to me – sneaking over to Chris' bedroom in the middle of the night just to talk or play video games. It was like a lifetime ago all that happened.
Upstairs there was a loud creaking noise and the sound of pots clattering the floor and a loud curse. Okay… that was definitely not Chris or the others, they had left and Piper was at magic school so that meant… demons. Fan frigging fabulous, the only time I was here, by myself, there was an attack. Luck was definitely not on my side.
Slowly, making my way up the stairs, I was careful not to make a noise as that could land me in some serious hot water. I had a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach as the sound came from the attic where the book of shadows was. Oh god… what if there was loads of demons, what if Bianca was a distraction so everyone was out of the house, what if…. Jeez Jade, shut up, I thought fiercely, reaching the top step.
Then, to my complete and utter surprise, Bianca shimmered in right in front of me, an evil smirk plastered on her cocky face. That was definitely not what I was expecting – I thought Chris and that was going after her, they were scrying and going to kill her… obviously not. She had probably out smarted them, it was no surprise she was one sneaky bitch.
"Jade, pleasure again" She snarled, her top lip curling as she kicked my legs out from under me. I had nothing to grab a hold of as I fell on my back, tumbling down the flight of stairs backwards and landing awkwardly on the landing. Shooting pains ran up my torso, making me wince at even the slightest movement. Oh god, oh god no, I thought worriedly, wrapping my arm around my stomach protectively. No, this could not be happening; I wasn't going to let her hurt my baby anymore. But just as I thought that Bianca stood over me and a splitting ache rocketed through my skull, making me pass out cold.
A bit shorter than I'd like but I had to leave it on a cliff-hanger! Ha-ha! Exams are almost done so expect more updates really soon – please please please review – it means quicker updates!