Ongoing Path – The Charmed Universe
By Stargatesg1fan1
Disclaimer: I own nothing of any recognized characters or universes within.
Females bonded to Harry Potter in this universe
Meta is played by Lisa Thornhill
Phoebe Halliwell is played by Alyssa Milano
Freyja is played by Melissa George
Prudence 'Prue' Halliwell is played by Shannon Doherty
Piper Halliwell is played by Holly Marie Combs
Patty Halliwell is played by Finola Hughes
Lady Godiva is played by Kristen Miller
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September 26th 2004
"Hey," Phoebe greeted Harry after opening the door.
She stepped forward and gave him a quick peck on the lips.
"What's up?" Harry asked his girlfriend as he followed her into the house.
"Piper is a bit on the war-path because she didn't want to do a wickening for Daniel. But Paige summoned Grams to do one anyway. Then we found a demon attacked Wyatt. He's ok. But Piper is upset," Phoebe explained.
Harry pulled Phoebe into a hug and felt her tense for a moment before relaxing into his embrace.
"Just breathe…it will all work out," Harry assured.
"I know. I just feel better having you here. Even though you don't intervene too often we always know you have our backs," Phoebe explained.
"Perfectly understandable," Harry said as he rubbed her back soothingly. "Where is Piper?"
"I think she is upstairs. We just got home a moment ago," Phoebe answered.
Phoebe took Harry's hand and led him upstairs. The couple found Piper talking to Grams.
"Harry," Piper said as she came closer.
Harry pulled Piper into a hug.
"Hi Harry," Grams said which earned a nod from Harry. "Piper, I just don't understand why you are being so stubborn about this wickening. A wickening is the best way to ward off demon attacks."
"Yeah…like that worked so well for us in the long term," Piper pointed out. "I just want to find out what demon is after my son."
Piper had begun looking through the Book of Shadows. A few minutes later a call came through and Piper answered it.
"Don't be mad but I was wondering if Daniel was with you," Paige said over the phone.
Just then the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it," Phoebe said.
Harry transported himself and Phoebe down to the front door. Phoebe opened the door to reveal Victor holding baby Daniel.
"I was just walking up on the porch and the little guy just flew into my arms," Victor explained.
"There he is," Phoebe said as she took Daniel from Victor.
"Yeah…Wyatt orbed him from magic school," Phoebe explained. "Wyatt is having a hard time adjusting to another child in the house."
Penny and Piper had come down from the attic to see what was going on.
"Victor, I swear…you show up more now that the girls are grown than you ever did when they were children," Penny said.
"And a big hello to you too Penny," Victor said sarcastically.
"Play nice," Piper warned.
"I was invited for the wickening," Victor said. "Hello Harry."
"Victor," Harry greeted with a nod.
"Wickenings are only for magical family members," Penny tried.
"I said play nice," Piper said louder. "I need to figure out how to stop Daniel and Wyatt from fighting with magic."
"I have a solution. It's in a little black book in the attic. Help me look," Penny urged.
Everyone followed her up to the attic.
"So what exactly does this book have in it?" Piper asked as she handed Penny the book she had located.
"Spells I used to use on you girls when you were younger. Here it is…a spell to resolve sibling rivalry," Penny said.
"I can't believe you used spells on my daughters when they were younger," Victor said.
"Hey…enough of that, both of you," Phoebe said while pointing to both Victor and Penny because Penny had been about to respond.
"Alright…we just need the boys and Paige here," Penny said.
"I'll call her," Piper replied.
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"Ok…we need to make this quick because I have four very angry parents waiting for me in the office," Paige said. "Hi Victor."
"Hello Paige," Victor greeted.
Paige was very appreciative of the fact that Victor never treated her poorly despite the fact that she was proof his wife had moved on after him.
"Come here, Wyatt," Grams said. "Please stand next to Daniel here."
"I just hope you know what you are doing," Victor muttered.
"Pass your petty jealousies to darkest night," Penny began chanting. "Let these feuding siblings no longer fight."
Two glowing blue clouds of energy flew up out of Daniel and Wyatt hovering over the boys.
"Shouldn't those be dissipating?" Paige said after several long moments.
Then the clouds flew into the sisters.
"Piper, Phoebe, and Harry sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G," Paige began chanting.
"Stop it," Phoebe called in a childish voice.
"Yeah…stop it," Piper added.
The sisters all sounded childish as they fought. Just then a masked demon materialized behind Wyatt and tried grabbing the blonde child. But Wyatt's shield threw the demon back. The sisters screeched in fright and ran. Harry summoned his sword into his hand and stepped in front of Wyatt. The masked demon sent a bolt of lightning at Harry but Harry caught the lightning on his blade and dissipated the energy. Seeing this defense caused the demon to shimmer away.
"I'd say that didn't work out so well," Victor said.
The group went after the sisters.
"Where is Paige?" Grams asked.
"She orbed away," Piper answered.
Phoebe and Piper both came up to Harry on either side and started running their hands over him.
"He's so handsome…like a prince," Phoebe announced.
"This is good. Harry, keep them distracted while I figure out a reversal spell," Grams said.
Harry led the sisters over to the couch. Obviously the sisters weren't stuck at the same regressed age as Chris and Wyatt. Their emotional age had progressed a bit to preteen years. He mostly just let the sisters feel him up and occasionally kiss him. Meanwhile he sensed Leo was in the underworld trying to track the demon threatening Wyatt. Leo was currently visiting a very powerful demonic seer. From the sensor feeds Harry found himself very curious about this particular demon.
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The Underworld in Kyra the Seer Demon's Lair…
"Hello," Kyra said as she sensed she had a visitor before turning from her viewing pool to examine her guest. Kyra was surprised when she sensed absolutely nothing about possible futures for the man before her. He was definitely attractive. Kyra had never met anybody she couldn't sense a future for before. Of course there were varying degrees to which she could sense a probable future. Sometimes she could sense a person's entire life and sometimes she could sense very little. But never before had she been unable to sense anything. "Aren't you a curious one."
Harry ran his eyes over the demon dressed in a belly shirt and a thin outfit. She was absolutely gorgeous.
"Hi," Harry replied. "Do you know why I am here?"
"You want to know about your future," Kyra said.
And instantly Harry had his question answered. He was here to find out if Kyra could sense anything about his future, not to learn of that future. It was obvious from her response that Kyra couldn't sense his future.
"Not quite," Harry replied.
And then Kyra knew that he knew that she didn't know anything.
"Well played," Kyra said. Several moments of silence ensued. Harry didn't leave. Kyra tilted her head and looked at Harry curiously. "Why are you still here?"
"I find you intriguing," Harry admitted.
"In what way? I admit I am not like other demons," Kyra said.
Kyra didn't actually want to be a demon. She sensed a possible future coming very soon where she might have the chance to stop being a demon.
"In many ways…physically you are among the most attractive females I have ever met," Harry said. "Your outlook on the universe is also much different than most."
"Considering the company you keep I'll take the assessment of my appearance to be a huge compliment. I also find you very interesting. But where do we go from here?" Kyra asked. "I don't even know what you are."
"How about we chat and see if we can't find common ground," Harry suggested.
"Ok," Kyra agreed. "Follow me to someplace more comfortable."
Kyra shimmered out and Harry followed her.
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"What is it?" Harry asked Kyra when she looked off into the distance.
Kyra and Harry were sitting in a forest clearing within one of the larger Canadian forests. They had been talking for quite some time.
"I need to return to my lair. Your white-lighter friend is returning. He wants more information about that masked demon. Oh…it looks like that eventuality occurred. The masked demon attacked at your house looking for Wyatt," Kyra announced.
"Shite," Harry said as he reached out and tapped into the communications feature of his wards. "Huh…the wards detected no threat against Wyatt. The attacking entity did try to attack Prue but the wards didn't even have to intervene because the attack would have missed Prue. I am able to penetrate through the mask using my ward sensors. What the bloody hell?"
"What is it?" Kyra asked.
"The entity was wearing Leo's form," Harry mused. "I think this is some kind of magical construct."
"How do you mean?" Kyra asked.
"I need to do some research. I've enjoyed our conversation. We can chat further later," Harry said.
"Agreed," Kyra replied.
Harry vanished and Kyra was only moments behind in shimmering away from the clearing.
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Halliwell Manor's Attic an Hour Later…
"What's up Victor? Your text said it was urgent," Harry said after he had materialized in the attic of the manor.
"It is. Penny doesn't think we should reverse the spell on the girls because Piper will be devastated to find out Leo tried harming their son," Victor explained. "I wanted to know what you thought."
"First of all," Harry said turning to Penny. "It wasn't Leo that attacked in my house. I'm not sure what is going on completely yet. I'm still analyzing the being that was in my house. It's a complex process to break down the illusory magic that was used into constituent units." Turning back to Victor he said, "I don't think you need to worry about reversing what is going on with the sisters. They are a lot more powerful than they used to be before I met them. They are shrugging off the effects of the sibling rivalry spell as we speak."
"Huh," Victor said. "So both of our points are or soon will be moot."
"Yes," Harry confirmed. "Where is Leo? I'm surprised he isn't involved in this discussion."
Penny cleared her throat and said, "I may have chased him off by accusing him of subconsciously agreeing with Gideon in that Wyatt doesn't belong on this Earth."
"Wow…you kind of really stuck your foot in it that time," Harry mused.
"Yeah…I did," Penny agreed. "I think he went to try to find the demon responsible if it wasn't him."
"Harry, there is something I have been wondering," Victor said. "From what I have heard your wards are very impressive. Aren't they supposed to be demon-proof?"
"I hesitate to use that term. There may be demons I have not encountered that might be capable of getting through my wards. But my current theory is that this creature wasn't a demon and was something else. Like I said…I'm still working on it. I'll let you know once I know," Harry said.
"Don't let us distract you any further," Penny said.
Harry nodded and left.
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Harry sat down next to Wyatt in the play-room Harry had created for the children when Patty and Prue started watching the two youngest Halliwells.
"What's up, Harry?" Prue asked from where she was holding Daniel.
Prue had been reading her nephew a story.
"That strange demonic version of Leo that attacked…it was created by Wyatt here," Harry said. "Though I don't know that he realized he created Imaginary-Leo at first."
Prue's eyebrows had climbed pretty high at this news. Wyatt looked down at his hands hearing this.
"But why?" Prue questioned.
"Because he is blaming himself for his parents' split," Patty said as she stepped into the room while looking kindly at her grandson. Patty came over and sat down next to Harry. She pulled Wyatt into her lap. "Your mommy used to do the same thing. She had terrible nightmares."
Harry had cast a modification to the spell which kept the identities of Prue and Patty secret which allowed Daniel and Wyatt to realize who the two truly were.
"I never knew that," Prue admitted.
"You were all really young then," Patty said. To Wyatt she said, "It isn't your fault Wyatt. Sometimes mommies and daddies don't stay together. But that doesn't mean they love you any less. Your mommy and daddy both love you very much."
Harry reached over and brushed a few fingers across Wyatt's forehead which deposited a few nanites onto Wyatt. The nanites quickly entered Wyatt's brain harmlessly.
"Now that I know Wyatt was manifesting Imaginary-Leo I can counter that particular manifestation. My technology is already making sure that manifestation doesn't come about again," Harry explained.
"Do you have anything to counter Wyatt's anxiety?" Prue questioned.
Harry reached out with his will into the high tech systems built into his house and caused a nanite construct to build itself up out of the nanites stored in the floor. A rainbow colored cat materialized equipped with a limited A.I. matrix. The cat which Harry decided to call Rainbow purred happily and walked up into Wyatt's lap. Wyatt hugged the furry critter and began to pet it softly.
"That may not completely do the trick but it certainly helps him. Wyatt has himself a new pet in Rainbow. And the best part is there is no litter-box to clean," Harry sent to his girlfriends present in the room.
It was at that moment that Piper and her sisters shrugged off the effects of the botched sibling-rivalry spell.
"Harry, what is going on?" Piper sent which was echoed by Phoebe.
"I'll be right over to explain," Harry replied.
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Penny, Victor, Leo, and the sisters were waiting for Harry when he appeared with Daniel and Wyatt in the living room.
"What do you have there, little man?" Piper asked as she picked up Wyatt who was still holding Rainbow.
"His name is Rainbow. I'll fill you in on the details later," Harry said.
"Were you able to track down the demon?" Penny questioned.
"It wasn't a demon," Harry replied before bringing everyone up to date. Harry cast a muffliato at Wyatt and added, "Wyatt can't hear us momentarily. I think he will be ok based off of the talk Prue, Patty, and I had with him. Just keep an eye on him. Imaginary-Leo won't be making any appearances anytime soon."
"Thank you, Harry," Piper said.
"Well then we can proceed with the wickening," Penny suggested.
Piper nodded her agreement with that idea.
"I'll help you set it up, Grams," Paige volunteered.
Harry was able to participate in his first wickening. He hadn't been present at the last one (or at least for all of it and in the house). He found it to be an interesting experience.
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Smut Scene Redacted (See Hpfanficarchive for Erotic Version)
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October 10th 2004
"Hiya beautiful," Harry greeted Prue as he came into their operations room and sat next to her.
"Hey, Harry," Prue said as she gave Harry a quick kiss before turning her attention back to the hologram showing two of her sisters on a case.
Piper and Paige were out trying to protect an innocent while Phoebe was at home performing some research. The operations room had been created to be able to more easily monitor the lives of the Charmed Ones and provide them backup in case of a threat the sisters were unable to handle themselves. Harry, Prue, Patty, and Allen took turns staffing the operations room. Allen had been let in on some of the greater secret of just who his daughter's boyfriend was.
"How are things going with the sisters?" Harry asked.
"Alright…Piper and Paige have been staking out things to try to stop that demon Sirk they've been dealing with," Prue explained. "I just learned Paige cast a protection spell on the innocent."
Harry winced. Prue and Patty had brought him up to speed on the magics native to this universe. Protections spells had a tendency to backfire which is why they weren't often used. Harry and Prue paid attention to the screen as the action started. Piper and Paige entered the church just as their innocent Arthur Casey, the military Chaplain, was struck by an energy ball from Sirk. Piper immediately blasted Sirk in the back using her magic.
"Ouch," Sirk said as he turned and returned magically to his feet. "That really stings," He mocked.
Sirk was a human-demon-hybrid that was trying to become fully demon. As a result his face was half covered in green scales. He gestured with his right hand and sent a blast of dark lightning towards the sisters. Falling back on their training the sisters each spun to opposite sides of the attack, just enough to avoid the strike without wasting a lot of motion. Piper immediately retaliated with another blast of magic that took Sirk off his feet. Sirk tried a fireball but Paige orbed the fireball back at Sirk. Sirk blinked away.
"How many different abilities does this guy have?" Piper asked rhetorically.
Arthur stood up to reveal a massive gaping hole in his torso about 6" in diameter. Arthur should have been dead.
"I see what you meant about the protection spell," Paige said.
"Who are you people?" Arthur asked as the sisters came closer to him.
"We are witches. You need to come with us," Paige replied as she took Arthur's hand. "I'll orb him back. You drive the car."
Paige and Arthur disappeared via orbs while Piper got the car. By the time Piper arrived home she found that Phoebe and Paige had explained the basics to Arthur.
"Ok…I get what you've said," Arthur said after Piper had rejoined the group. Chris was also present. "But what I would like to know is if I am alive or dead."
"We don't really know," Chris said.
"But I do," A new voice said.
The group spun to find a blond man in a black body-length coat present.
"And who would you be?" Phoebe prompted.
"I'm the Angel of Death," The blonde man replied. "But some people just call me Simon."
Phoebe hit her panic button with a squeak and Harry appeared beside her instantly. Arthur feinted.
"Do you kill people?" Paige asked.
"No, Paige. I do not kill. All I do is claim the souls of those who have already died," Simon replied. "I am here for Arthur. The issue we have here is that I am unable to claim his soul yet. But he is dead. I have never had this problem before."
"Performance issues get the best of all of us," Harry said as he stepped forward around Phoebe.
Simon looked at Harry intently and seemed confused.
"I do not know your name. The only beings whose names I don't instantly know are those without mortal souls. But you don't seem like a demon. Even the so called immortals who are biologically immortal but not invulnerable I know the names of. What are you?" Simon asked.
"That isn't important," Paige said. "What is important was that I cast a protection spell on Arthur to protect him. I didn't realize it would do this."
"Trapping a soul with a spell," Simon said while obviously abhorrent of such an act. "Reverse it now."
"If we give you Arthur then the demon Sirk gets what he wants and we won't be able to stop the demon. He is already powerful enough," Piper pointed out.
"You don't understand," Simon said while making a piece of parchment appear in his hand. "People have to die in order according to my list. Otherwise the cosmic balance is thrown off."
"We aren't saying we won't give you Arthur. We just need time to figure out what to do about the demon first," Phoebe suggested diplomatically.
"The demon is not my concern," Simon replied. "I am a neutral entity in the cosmic fight. All I am concerned with is maintaining the grand design. In order to do that, I must claim the soul of the chaplain soon. I'll be back."
Simon disappeared.
"I felt so much better having you in the room," Phoebe told Harry as she held his arm.
"I agree," Piper added while taking his other arm.
"I need to figure out a reversal to the protection spell. I obtained the spell from one of my senior students," Paige said before orbing out.
"I will let the Elders know what is going on," Chris added before orbing out.
"We need to keep Arthur out of trouble," Piper said as she turned to find Arthur gone.
"That could be a problem," Phoebe said after she also turned and saw the same thing.
"Crap," Piper muttered.
"Think about this logically. If you were facing death where would you go?" Harry put forth.
"To my loved ones," Phoebe suggested.
"His wife," Piper realized.
"We can just track him down and make sure he stays out of trouble," Harry said.
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Harry pulled up to where he had tracked the cell phone of Arthur's wife Harriet. Harriet was standing in front of her doctor's office. Sure enough Arthur was present.
"You were right," Phoebe told her boyfriend.
"It's good that they can have a goodbye," Piper added.
"She's pregnant," Harry informed his girlfriends after scanning Harriet Casey.
"Damn…that's harsh," Phoebe said. "Do we really have to give Arthur up to Simon?"
"I don't see how he could go on. Even if we didn't take off the protection spell he can't exactly function well with that huge hole in him," Piper said. "Let's not talk about that. Darryl just sent me a text. He said Sheridan has disappeared and he suspected foul play on Agent Brody's part. Darryl confronted Brody and Brody just said she had been transferred."
Sheridan had been close to figuring out something magical was up with the sisters the previous week. Brody had been an FBI agent who had stepped in and used a tranquilizer gun on Sheridan before Harry could modify Sheridan's memory.
"I know you said he isn't a threat to any of us so you didn't modify his memory. But that sounds fairly ominous," Phoebe told Harry.
"I don't know everything," Harry admitted. "But Brody's target isn't you three. He has a lot of suspicions but no evidence. He saw his parents die in front of him when he was a small child. The circumstances were mysterious."
"Uh oh…look," Piper interrupted as she noticed Simon appear across the street in front of Arthur.
Simon beckoned Arthur to follow into an empty construction area for a nearby building.
"Let's go," Phoebe said.
The trio got out of the car and hurried over to the construction site. They stepped through the temporary gate to find Simon in the process of reversing the protection spell.
"Wait," Harry called in a tone of voice that was commanding.
Simon paused and said, "What is it you want, Stranger?"
Harry stepped up to Arthur and pulled the chaplain back from the angel of death. Harry didn't answer Simon but instead took a scan of Arthur's DNA structure. Nanites flowed out of Harry's body as Harry twisted reality to permanently conjure the necessary materials for the nanites to work with. Tissue quickly began to form from the raw materials thanks to the efforts of the nanites, human bio-tissue. A section of human torso matching that which Arthur was missing was quickly constructed and Harry floated it into place within Arthur's abdomen. Harry then laid his hand on the section of new tissue and a powerful white glow started coming from Arthur's torso around the edges of the hole. The glow became a brilliant light until even Simon had to look away.
When the light faded Arthur was whole again.
"Even if you repaired the damage his name is still on my list," Simon said as he once more caused his list to appear. Simon looked down at the list and found that Arthur's name wasn't present. "That is impossible! Once a name appears on the list in the Dead column then that named being is dead. Their name doesn't vanish until I have taken their soul. What are you?"
"Someone you shouldn't piss off," Harry assured.
"Why were you going to reverse the spell and help the demon?" Piper asked.
"I was unable to collect any other souls," Simon explained. "There is a back-log of souls needing to be collected."
Simon then looked at Piper more intently and decided to try something. Simon gestured at Piper and she felt a tugging sensation. She stumbled forward towards Simon and Harry caught her.
"What are you doing?" Phoebe demanded.
"Her soul isn't coming free," Simon said with a grunt of effort.
Harry sent a blast of concentrated arcane energy at the angel of death that sent Simon hurdling back into the construction site against a concrete wall with a loud crash.
"That wasn't wise," Harry said as Simon slowly got up.
"I need help collecting souls. I was merely going to borrow Piper's soul to assist me," Simon said.
"You ask for something like that. You don't simply take," Harry said.
Piper put a hand on her boyfriend's arm and asked, "What is involved in helping?"
"Your soul would leave your body for a time. It would be returned," Simon explained.
"I could keep your body safe at my house," Harry added.
"I…I'll do it," Piper volunteered.
"But he can't pull your soul free anyway," Phoebe pointed out.
"He will be able to do so if Piper allows it," Harry explained. "Piper is a lot more powerful than she used to be."
Both sisters knew their boyfriend was referring to various incidents involving him and Greek deities. Piper's soul came free of her body and she was dressed like Simon. Harry caught Piper's body. It was in a form of magical stasis. A second Harry appeared surprising Simon.
"I'll be going with her," Harry assured.
"You have souls to collect," Simon said. "Let your new instincts guide you."
After Simon vanished, Phoebe said, "We'll focus on stopping Sirk."
"He's going after relatives so he can become fully demon. Now that Arthur isn't dead he'll still be going after Arthur. Your wife is pregnant Arthur. The child is also in danger," Harry said. "We'll need to protect her."
Everyone left the scene to go about their business.
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Cordelia's Lair…
Cordelia's consciousness swam to awareness with a sudden jolt. She immediately assessed her surroundings for any threats and found none.
"Are you alright, my Lady?" Prometheus asked as he shifted shape into a chair for Cordelia to sit upon.
Cordelia gratefully sat upon her chair-shaped replicat.
"Thank you, Prom," Cordelia replied. "Yes…I'm alright. It just felt icky in here for a moment. My divine essence had to dilute the demonic essence of a counter-part. I can't believe I am a demon…and on the first universe I come to on my own."
"But you are an exceptionally attractive demon, my Lady," Prometheus suggested.
"That I am," Cordelia agreed. Then she inspected her lair. "I will have to do something about the décor in this place. It is positively terrible."
"You are about to have a visitor, my Lady," Prometheus advised his mistress.
It was then that the goddess also sensed the imminent arrival. Then he was there. This Harry Potter was different than her husband in several ways including build, the amount of muscle they generally carried, and their auras. Although she was as strong as any reality-bound goddess Cordelia was not Ascended. She wasn't sure if she was more powerful than this Harry. And she wasn't planning on finding out anytime soon either. That would ruin her fun. Cordelia had come to this universe to experience living in a counter-part just like her husband often did. But she had wanted it to be a universe where there was a version of her husband present. Her replicat had led her to this universe.
"Hello Kyra," Harry greeted. He paused and looked more intently at her. "There is something different about you today. What is it?"
"I did something with my hair," Cordelia answered flippantly. "I have also decided to go by a different name today, Cordelia."
Harry grinned at this response and asked, "What made you decide on that name and to even go by a different name?"
"I was bored and that is a name that suits me…don't you think?" Cordelia queried.
"Oh, yes. It does suit you," Harry agreed as he conjured a chair and sat across from her.
Cordelia felt relieved at her cover. She was more grateful than ever for the presence of her replicat companion. Prometheus was the culmination of a repository of knowledge that had been compiled from many different universes throughout the multi-verse. As far as she could tell this Harry was only of two universes. While he might possess some unique technologies a quick scan from Prometheus had revealed that he wasn't going to detect her tech anytime soon.
"So is today a talking-only day or did you come on special business?" Cordy questioned after accessing her counter-parts memories.
"A little bit of both. I want to have our regular chat of course but I was also wondering if you have been interacting with a half-demon named Sirk," Harry explained.
Cordy's nose wrinkled in disgust at the memories that flashed through her mind at the mention of Sirk. A vision of Cordy standing on top a mountain of demonic corpses and wielding a fire-whip to bend the survivors to her will momentarily flashed through her mind. Cordy was sure she could do it. She just didn't think she wanted to go through the hassle of ruling the underworld realm her lair was within.
"Yes. He has been coming to me for advice about how to become fully demon. I told him a way…but the future suggests he will most probably get himself killed," Cordy explained.
"I see," Harry said as he debated with himself if he wanted to ask about the fact that the method she had given Sirk had resulted in the deaths of several humans already.
This may not have been her Harry (yet) but she could certainly tell what he was debating about. She could tell he was into her. It pained him to know she had contributed to an evil act. Her counter-part had been a mixture of darkness and light. Unusually good for a demon Cordelia may have been. But she had still been a demon. That nature of Cordelia had been what Cordy had found distasteful about the merger of essences. Cordelia's essence was merged with that of a Between-god. No reality-bound demon would cause her to lose herself with her Harry as her anchor.
"I dispense information. How it is used is not my choice," Cordelia suggested. "But that doesn't mean I like how it is used. If it makes you feel any better I feel like something is about to happen which will mean I won't have to help demons anymore."
"Oh…do you have anything concrete or is that just a feeling?" Harry queried.
It figures she would know why he was feeling internally torn given her seer abilities.
"Just a hunch," Cordy replied.
"Ok…let's move onto our normal chat," Harry suggested.
Cordy found getting to know this Harry to be quite enjoyable. Cordy was able to hold a better conversation than Cordelia had been able to given all she knew of the multi-verse through her own experiences and the experiences of her Ascended husband. It was an enjoyable time.
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An Alley, San Francisco…
"You said you wanted to discuss a truce, Sirk," Phoebe said. "So talk."
Sirk looked up from where he had been sitting. He had heard Phoebe and Piper arrive but hadn't immediately reacted.
"Where is your other sister and your boyfriend?" Sirk asked.
"They had other business to attend to," Piper replied. "We can't all be bothered at once to deal with a minor demon wannabe such as yourself."
Sirk glared hatefully at the sisters.
"It's nice to see your time spent as death's bitch hasn't made your disposition any different," Sirk taunted.
"You had better start talking or I'll make with the blasting," Piper threatened.
Sirk smirked and said, "You wouldn't be trying to pull a fast one on me by sneaking up on me would you?"
As he finished speaking, Sirk spun and sent a blast of dark lightning at Paige who was standing five feet back behind him. What Sirk thought was Paige was actually an illusion generated by the real Paige who was beneath a cloaking spell. The lightning spell passed through the illusion. Paige started teleporting objects at Sirk using her orbing ability. This served as the perfect distraction for the cloaked Phoebe who stabbed Sirk in the side of the neck with her special dagger. Sirk let out a gurgle and clutched at his neck. He tried to stumble away to the side but Phoebe stayed with Sirk. The demon hit against the alley wall and used it for support.
A look of intense concentration was upon Phoebe's features as she focused on ending Sirk.
"Ummm…why isn't he disintegrated yet?" Paige asked.
"A little help here," Phoebe said. "Sirk is much stronger than Dyson was."
Piper stepped up and hit Sirk with her blasting power. Still Sirk didn't die.
"Aim for something less substantial," Harry sent to Piper in suggestion.
Piper redirected her next blast at Sirk's hand which had been attempting to grab Phoebe's wrist holding her dagger. Sirk's hand disintegrated. Piper began working her way up Sirk's arm blasting bits off.
"Potion," Paige called causing a vanquishing potion vial to orb into Sirk's mouth followed by a punch to the jaw that saw the demon biting down.
Sirk screamed as a fiery torrent of magic stole away his demonic half. He died within seconds as a human. The sisters saw Simon appear and claim Sirk's soul.
"I've got it from here," Simon said before the angel of death vanished with Sirk's soul.
"That guy was tough," Phoebe said as she wiped sweat off her brow.
Harry pulled Phoebe into a hug and channeled a cleaning spell over her skin.
"But you all did quite well," Harry complimented.
"Damn straight…we triple teamed him," Paige declared. After several moments she said, "That so did not come out right."
"Let's just go home," Piper suggested.
The group vanished. A hovering and invisible Cordelia had watched the entire scene unfold with interest.
"He's training them quite well," Cordelia told her replicat.
"Very well," Prometheus agreed. "The Master will love them."
"Yes…Harry will," Cordelia agreed before she too left the scene.
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Rev 0 Posted 8/13/2016
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