Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:43:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Decade <femtoka2@yahoo.com> Subject: Charming the Halliwells 11 All rights to the Halliwells and Charmed go to The Wb and Aaron Spelling. This is a spin-off of his creation, of which we're all thankful for. Chapter 11: The Charmed Life "Incoming!" Chris shouted, orbing in as I was finishing up the potion! After Chris orbed in, three demons followed and I froze the room. "Ok, here." I said, handing the potions to Chris. We threw the potions at the demons and two of them vanquished the demons, but the last one unfroze and sent an energy ball flying at us! I raised my hand and blew it up before it reached us, but the energy wave it sent knocked Chris and I back, but it vanquished the last demon! Chris and I flew back and I landed on top of Chris. I looked at Chris nervously and rolled off him, " Thank you, Wyatt." I said angrily. ======================================================================================================================== Chris and I were cleaning up the mess when Wyatt orbed in. He looked around and immediately sensed our agitation. "This place has gone downhill since I was last here." Wyatt joked, walking to us, " Guess that wasn't a good joke. I'm so sorry you guys, I..." "Um, Chris, can you take care of the rest? I have to pick up supplies for school, finish up my internship with Phoebe, see if Paige needs any help with a charge, and go to work at the resturaunt. Plus I have to go to Magic School and work as a T.A. for some teacher." I said, already exhausted. "How is the job going?" Wyatt asked. "Later, Chris." I said, leaving. "Later." Chris said, hiding his laughter, " Well, welcome home bro." Chris said, hugging Wyatt. Wyatt looked taken aback, " What's his problem?" he asked angrily. Chris walked to the mess on the table, " It has been about two months since you've so much as given him a call." Chris said, " You know what happened the day you left, his mother fell deeper and his father left. Then you left. Ever since, he's been really busy." he said, tidying. "Why are you so happy?" Wyatt asked. "Because he's not mad at me." Chris smiled, " That and I've got a date with Bianca and I'm on the honor roll." he chirped. "So that's why you you're all lusty. For a minute there, I thought you and Drake were...and it's not funny!" Wyatt said, sitting on the couch, " I've just been busy. Fitting in, going to class, writing papers, and doing homework...it's fun sometimes, but really hard." he said with despair. "Are you okay?" Chris asked. "Yeah, it's just that I don't want Drake to be mad at me. I don't want to be an AWOL Charmed One." Wyatt groaned. Chris hugged him, " It's okay bro. you know Drake is still dealing with abandonment issues." Chris frowned, " Let the object of objection become but a dream as I cause the scene to be unseen." he muttered. When he finished, everything went back to its place. Wyatt smashed his hand against his head, " how could I be so stupid? Not talking to him for months after we..." Wyatt mused. "Maybe you should say hi to mom and dad while you're here. They're having a hard time with Melinda." Chris chuckled. "What is it? The senior from last year?" Wyatt asked. Chris shook his head, " More like the senior from Magic School." he smirked, walking to the door. "Where are you going?" Wyatt asked. "I told you I have a date with Bianca." Chris said, hurrying from the room. Wyatt shook his head and went downstairs. ======================================================================================================================== I had done everything except go to the resturaunt and be the T.A. and I was passed tired. When Wyatt showed up, I wanted to blow his ass up, but I didn't because our powers are tied through our emotions and our bond itself. Our powers had been off lately, to be honest. By blowing him up, I could have severed the Power of Three. Without the power of three, we could be dead in a matter of hours. I didn't have the time to die. I had been busy ever since. Wyatt left and seeing him made me want to committ to more stuff. School had been in session for months now...it was the new year and everything was blurred. Chris was dating Bianca, Melinda was dating some kid from Magic School, and I was dating... "Kyle, what are we doing here?" I asked. Kyle looked at me oddly, " Well, you wanted to be a T.A. so Leo arranged it so that you could be a T.A. in a class where you actually know how to do what they teach." he said with a 'Duh' tone. " This class would be?" I asked. "Astral Projection." Kyle smiled. "Right, astral projection. Who teaches it?" I asked. "I was getting to that., this is Professor Michaels." Kyle said, introducing Professor Daniel Michaels. He was a twenty-eight year old, 6'2 tanned blonde with a killer smile, " Drake Summers, this is Daniel Michaels, Mr. Michaels, this is Drake Summers." he said. "Hi." I said, extending my hand. Daniel grabbed it and shook it, " Drake Summers, I've heard of you. Charmed, right?" he smiled. I was dazed for a few seconds, then I snapped out of it, " yeah, I live the Charmed Life." I joked. He and Kyle laughed and a kid materialized in front of us, " Hello." I said, startled. He was younger than me, maybe a year or two and he was a red-head. Cute red-head. Definitely cute, " Hi. Um, Professor Michaels, the room is on fire!" the boy said urgently. We all immediately looked at each other and I felt myself escape my body and appear inside the room. It was a standard Magic School room, lovely in every way. I looked at the fire and concentrated really hard, then I made the fire freeze! "Anyone control fire?" I asked, recieving no response, " Fine. Um, In this time and in this hour, I call upon the ancient power, extinguish this flame and make it tame!" I said and the flame flickered and died. "Wow." Daniel said from the door. I turned to see Daniel, Kyle, and Leo, " I think he's...he'll be perfect." He smiled. ======================================================================================================================== Wyatt walked downstairs and was immediately hugged by Piper! She, along with Melinda, Phoebe, and Paige, were in the kitchen. Wyatt was shocked, but hugged back. "Long time no see!" Piper said happily, " I'm happy you're home. Wait, why are you home? What's wrong?" she asked. "No mom." Wyatt smiled, " It's alright. I'm just here to visit. I was supposed to come to help with a vanquish, but I was a little late." "Better not let Drake see you." Phoebe smirked, sipping her drink. "Already have." Wyatt smirked angrily, " I wish someone would have warned me how cold it would be, I'd have worn a parka." "Well, you haven't called him in about two months." Melinda snapped, " Not even an e-mail." Wyatt sighed, " Well, I've been busy." he said righteously. Phoebe stopped, " You have, but that's not the reason, is it? You're scared." she said. They all looked at her. Phoebe shrugged, " What? I'm an empath." she said, standing, " You're scared that if you see him again and all the feelings are there, then you won't be able to go back poor baby." Phoebe said, hugging him. Wyatt looked down at her angrily, " Thanks, didn't really want everyone to know that." he said angrily leaving. "Way to go, Pheebs." Paige said from the table. "Well!" Phoebe said, sounding like Samantha from Bewitched, " The truth is what it is." "Things around here are going to get interesting." Piper said, putting her cup in the sink, " Come on, ladies, we're moving this get together to the resturaunt." she said, grabbing her keys and her coat and leaving with them. ====================================================================================================================== Kyle and I orbed back into the Manor so I could get ready to go to work. Chris sat in the attic and he seemed to be down. I walked to him slowly and sat beside him on the couch. "Chris, why so blue?" I asked quietly. "Nothing." Chris said quickly. I looked up at Kyle and he nodded, " I've gotta go. Other charges and stuff." he said, orbing away. "Okay, now that whitelighter guy is gone, what's the problem?" I asked. chris chuckled, " You sure you're not gonna be late for anything? I mean, don't you have to tutor sick freshmen? Or take care of anemic puppies?" he asked. "Whaddya mean?" I asked. "Let's not pretend that you're doing all this out of the goodness of your heart." I stared at him angrily, " Not that your heart's not in it, it's just that you're trying to hide things." Chris said. I sighed, " I'm transparent. I get that, but it's hard." I said, leaning back onto the couch. "You know, since Wyatt left, I haven't seen you cry or tear up or anything." Chris said with a quiet realization, " Did you use a spell?" "Doesn't matter." I said quickly. Chris just stared for a minute, then reach over and grabbed my hand, " You should, you know, let it out." he said. "Maybe. Only after you spill your guts." I chuckled, " I don't want to rush you, but you've got about five minutes." I said, looking at my cellphone. Chris sighed, " I think Bianca's a demon." he said simply. "Is she a good demon, or a bad demon?" I asked, " Cause I've been saying that for years." "I just get this vibe." Chris groaned, " Plus, there is somebody else." "Really? Do I get a name?" I asked. "Can't give you that. You'll just have to figure it out." Chris smiled. I smiled too, " Well, I'll help you when I'm done with the 'work' thing." I said happily. " Any idea when that would be?" he asked. I thought for a minute, " Soon. I'm waiting until Piper can hire someone else. That deadbeat Riser quit. It should take a day or...three." I said hopefully. "Thanks." he smiled. ' yeah, so it's been about six months...and I'm late. Gotta go." I said, running to the door, but I stopped as I got there. Wyatt appeared in the doorway just as I was about to go. For a minute, we stared each other down. "Can we talk?" wyatt asked. I looked down, " You can talk, I'm not listening." I said angrily. I passed him and walked to me and Chris' room. I took off my shirt and pants and looked ack, noticing Wyatt at the doorway, " Can you not watch me undress." I asked impatiently. "Not to be rude, but I have seen it all before." Wyatt smiled. My face went blank, " I'm surprised you remember." I said quickly. "How could I forget." Wyatt asked. "I mean, you didn't remember to write, to call, or even to visit." I snapped. Wyatt sighed, " I was wondering when you'd bring this all up. I'm sorry that I left so soon after we...and I've been busy. Too busy too...I've been an idiot." he said, giving in. "Yeah. You're an 'orb' away, right?" I said, looking down at my shoes, " I'm not sure you know how I feel...I let you go without so much as a 'please don't go'. I wanted you to go and be happy, but I wanted you to at least call." I said angrily, " But you...think I don't understand! I do, it's fun and you're busy, but I'm here. Always here. I'm stuck and I can't seem to understand fully how you can just ignore me. You said that you loved me, but you didn't mean it, did you?" Wyatt stared at me in frustration, then sat on my bed, " How can you think that? I love you as much as...I'd give my life for you. Whenever I come back, despite this time, I don't want to leave. It's hard. College is hard, but it is so much harder to be here with you and my family. Turns out you were right, leaving you after we...it was the hardest thing I ever had to do." he said, tearing up. I looked at him through tears, " You should have called or wrote or e-mailed or orbed, or god, send a smoke signal! I would have made you go back because I want you to have it." I said softly. We both stopped at the sound of crashing coming from the attic! We immediately jumped off the bed and ran to the attic to see Chris get thrown by a muscled demon. The demon brought with him a few more demons, smaller, but more muscled too. I wondered immeduately was it wrong to look this hard at demons. I raised my hands and combusted one of the four smaller demons and everything stopped. "GET THEM!" the bigger demon wailed. "Wyatt, orb me to the bed!" I whispered, raising my hand again. He did as I asked and orbed me out of the room, but I astral projected back into the room as I was being orbed and blasted two more! Wyatt created a blast that knocked the big demon away from Chris, who fried him with electricity. I froze the remaining demons and Wyatt created a giant force field and Chris shot electricity into it and Wyatt hurled it at the last three, disentrating them! "That was fun." Wyatt said excitedly. "Yeah, right." Chris said, flashing a winner's smile. "Shouldn't you get back to finish your paper?" I asked, " It's getting late...and apparently I'm late." I said, looking at my watch and walking to the door. "Right." Wyatt said, dejectedly. I stopped him and smiled at him, " So, come back later and we'll all celebrate your A." I said, continuing out of the room.