Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 14:13:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Decade <femtoka2@yahoo.com> Subject: Charming the Halliwells 36 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. please do not plagiarize or anything. LOVE YA Chapter 36: Charming the Drake I sat in the bathroom, waiting to see what color the stick turned. It was ood, I felt odd. Waiting on a stick that should tell a woman that she was pregnant...I wasn't a woman. Therefore...it was odd. There were so many thoughts swirling through my head and all this could end up making me or breaking me. "Is it done yet?" Wyatt asked, obviously waiting at the door. I'd wager that the whole family was outside that door, waiting to see if there was what color the stick was. "NO!' I shouted, sitting on the toilet, my head between my hands. What am I going to do with a baby? And in this house, with what we do? Piper did it. So, I'm not Piper...right? "Is it ready yet?" Wyatt bugged me. "No...oh, wait." I said, looking at it. It was shining with blue orbs and I looked at it. Negative. I stood and stared at the door, " Whew." I said, that was close. I didn't want to be pregnant anyways. Nope. Cause who needs a baby. Not me. I don't want one...No...I don't. I stood at the door, not wanting to open it. Suddenly, I opened it, not sure what to say. - - - - - - - - - - I went downstairs to the kitchen and immediately smelled food. I walked into the kitchen and saw Piper cooking. I made a clatter so that she wouldn't be startled and she turned and smiled before turning back to the food. I tok a seat at the table, " Hey, Piper, what are you doing?" I asked. "Well, everybody else went to work and since Chris works at P3 and the resturaunt is doing great, I decided to cook you something." Piper smiled. "And this wouldn't have anything to do with me not being pregnant, would it?" I asked sneakily. Piper was silent, " It's okay, I'm not sad." "You're not?" Piper asked sarcastically. "Ok, I sort of am, but don't tell Wyatt." I said quickly. "Why not?" Piper inquired. "He's all down in the dumps and I don't want him to think that he has to hide it or anything." I smiled weakly, " LAtely, I've been thinking more about it. It being a family. With Wyatt and it's what I want." "So, why're you fighting it?" Piper asked. "I'm young and I'm gonna make mistakes and I've made too many Wyatt-oriented mistakes." I said realistically. Piper smirked, then looked away, " You just need to take the risk." "Maybe, but I do not want to be the reason we break up. I want Wyatt and I'm not sure if he could..." Before I could finish, there was a loud crash and Piper and I ran into the living room to see someone had crashed through the table. We immediately went to help. "Are you alright?" Piper asked, helping the guy up. "Yeah, I think you moved that table though." Kyle said, dusting off. I was shocked, " Kyle?" I asked. "Yeah, sorry about that." Kyle smiled. "Are you okay?" Kyle smiled. "Great." he said. "Where have you been, I thought you were our whitelighter!" I asked. "Well, I am, but you broke the Power, so I had to be a whitelighter from afar." Kyle said, dusting off. "Right, so you're our whitelighter again?" I asked. Kyle shrugged, " That's why I'm here. I've kind of been guiding you, but..." before he could say anything else, there was a swirl of orbs and a woman stood before us. I could immediately tell she was a fellow whitelighter. She wore very dressy clothes, almost too formal to wear anywhere else but the board room. "Pahras, I'd like to introduce you to Vera." Kyle said, gesturing to her, " Vera, this is Pahras and Piper." "Hello Pahras, Piper." Vera nodded sweetly. "Hello." We both said. "Ummm, Kyle, why are you here?" Piper asked. "He is their whitelighter." Vera said quickly, " and as of lately, they haven't been 'Charmed'." "What do you mean by that?" I asked. "I just mean that The Source..." "The Source?" Piper said quickly, " There's a new source?!" "Evil has been rebuilding. The former Charmed Ones had pretty well destroyed and caused Chaos to the Underworld, but they are beginning to reform under new leadership." Vera explained. "What about all the demons coming after us lately, that's what that is?" I asked. "Yes." Vera nodded. "And you're here to what?" I asked. "Oh no." Piper chuckled, " This isn't what I think it is, is it?" she glanced at Kyle who avoided her gaze, " It is." I looked between them, " What is it?" I asked. "You remember the story of Natalie?" Piper asked. I looked at her wide-eyed, " Yeah." she laughed. "Yes, she was a brilliant whitelighter and a pillar of good." Vera smiled. "Sounded like a pain in the ass to me." I said candidly. "That too," Piper said, " But a great whitelighter." "Where are the rest of the Charmed Ones?" Vera asked. "They went to work." I said quickly. "You don't work?" Vera asked. "I do, I just...ummm, I don't take my work as seriously. I've been doing it so long and..." I stopped, " I love my work, but I've been sick lately, so I took a sabbatical." "I didn't know that." Piper said. "Yeah, Wyatt doesn't know either." I smiled. Sunddenly, the doors burst open, followed by a knock as Phoebe and Tal...Warren walked in. "Hey guys, what..." Phoebe said, " What's going on?" "Phoebe, where've you been?" Piper asked. "I took Warren shopping." Phoebe smiled, " He needed clothes." "This early? It's barely nine-thirty." Piper chuckled. "Yes, and no lines." Phoebe smirked, " so, what's going on here?" "This is one of the Charmed Ones?" Vera asked. "No...well, yeah. This is Warren Talik Turner-Halliwell. Phoebe and Cole's son." I said, introducing them. "Hi. I just got dressed by my baby sisters." Warren said, shaking Vera's hand, " I have to tell you that, they made me promise." "Awww." I said quickly. "Bonding. There's nothing like it." Warren smiled. "Yes, well, quite, can we please get back to the matters at hand?" Vera asked. "What's the what?" I asked. "I'd prefer that the other to be here." Vera said. "Right." I smiled, looking up, " CHRIS! WYATT!" I shouted into the air. Two swirls of orbs appeared, one carrying Wyatt, the other carrying Chris. "Hey, babe, what's up?" Wyatt asked. I looked him up and down and noticed that he was wearing robes, " Where were you?" I asked. "Magic School. Dad needed help and I'm on Standby at the hospital." Wyatt said. Then I looked at Chris, " What he asked. His shirt was ripped and his belt was halfway removed. "I don't want to know." I said quickly, " This is Vera and..." "What's Kyle doing here?" Wyatt asked. "Well, there's a whitelighter crisis and since we are the Charmed Ones, it's up to us to do what we can." I smirked, " That and the world is doomed...again." "Doomed? Really?" Wyatt perked up. "Settle down, boy." I said quickly. "I am very sorry about the intrusion." Vera said sincerely. "No, it's a normal day at Casa De Halliwell." I said quickly. "What' the big emergency?" Chris asked impatiently. "Umm, The Source." I said casually, " Anybody want cookies?" "The Source?" Wyatt chuckled, " There hasn't been a source for like Twenty years or so." "Yeah, the last Source was..." Chris looked at Phoebe and Warren, then down at the floor, " So, what's he doing and do we know who he is?" "No and he's building up to a big finish." Kyle said. "Finish?" Chris asked. "Yeah, he's attempting to do something only one demons' done before." Vera said dramatically, " Reach the Heavens." "Wait, he is?" Wyatt asked. "Not really him, a demon who works for him." Vera explained. "Don't they all work for him?" Wyatt asked. "Doesn't matter, look, we need to do what we always do, and kick some demon ass." Chris said quickly. "Christopher Perry Halliwell." Piper said, appauled. "Sorry, mom." Chris apologized. "I am here to train you." Vera said. "Train us?" I asked. "You've been without a whitelighter for far too long and I need to gauge your skills with your powers." Vera said, " How are they progressing?" "We are...um...good?" I said. "We need grate. I suspect that we should start immediately." Vera said, " Is there a place where we could practice?" "I think i know a place." Piper smiled. - - - - - - - - - - As we lined up in an alley outside of P3, I got a sinking sensation that told me that this wasn't going to be as easy as I thought it was. Vera stood in front of us with a clipboard and I felt myself trembling. "I will test you one at a time." Vera said. "Wait..." I protested. "You're first." Vera smiled, causing Wyatt and Chris to walk back into the club, " You are the non-relative, am I correct?" "Depends on what you mean." I said nervously. "You are not part of the immediately family, are you? You are Charmed through soul...ahem, I mean transfusion, is that correct?" Vera asked. "Well, I guess, but I..." I said quickly. "Well then, you are the one that can freeze time?" Vera asked. "Among other things..." "The prophecy says that the first sister will move objects, the second will freeze time, and the third will have preminitions." Vera said calmly. "Yeah, but that was the first Charmed Ones. We're a bit diffrent." I said. "How is that?" Vera asked. "I inherited the time freeze, the blow-up thingy, and the preminitions...oh and..." I said slowly. "That is preposturous. How can that be?" she asked. "What?" I asked. "That a non-member of the family would get so much power?" Vera asked. "Look, I'm not a non-member. Stop saying that." I said angrily. Before either of us could say anything else, there was a sound, just one sound. The sound of something fast and before I could look around, Vera fell to the ground. I looked around to see a guy standing in the middle of the alley. He shot another arrow and I threw my hand up, thinking, " Arrow!" and the arrow disappeared in orbs and appeared going the other way! "Are you kidding me?" The darklighter shouted into the dark alley. "Nope." I smiled, waving my hand at him, causing him to blow up, " Vera, are you alright?" I asked, bending down to her. "Don't touch it, you're not immuned to Darklighter poison." She said. "What? Yeah I am." I said, reaching for the arrow, but before I could touch it, it disappeared in orbs and flew away, " What was that?" I asked. "Stress..." she panted. "Or something you're not sayin..." I said, trying to put pressure on the wound. As I touched her, there was a vision...A baby and I. I looked happy, then I flew back into reality, " Chris! Wyatt!" "What happenedd?" Wyatt asked. "Don't get too close, she got hit with whitelighter poison." I explained, " Can you orb her back to the Manor?" "Sure." he said, waving his hand and causing her to orb away, " Hey, Chris, go and make sure she's okay, we'll be there in a minute." I watched Chris wink, then orb away, " What's going on?" I asked. "Well, I've been thinking...and I think we should get married." Wyatt smiled. I stared at him for a second, " Married?" I asked. "Yeah." Wyatt smiled, " Look, we already live together and I think it's time." "I do too, I just...marriage?" I asked. "Drake..." "Wyatt." I said, " I think we need more time." "I understand." Wyatt said angrily. "No, you don't." I said, " And I'm sorry, I really..." "We should get going, sweetie." Wyatt smiled weakly, grabbing my arm and orbing us back to the Manor. As we orbed into the kitchen at the Manor, Chris was already making a potion and he turned and noticed the looks on our faces and looked away back to his potion. "So, this potion should heal Vera, since we can't really get close to her. I can't heal anyways." Chris said, putting something different in the potion. "I'd better go and get some Phlanx root from Aunt Paige." Wyatt said, orbing out. "We don't even need that." Chris chuckled, " That must mean you said no." "He's asked me more than once and everytime, it's the same question...AND ANSWER!" I said impatiently, " And, I commit, I don't have problems committing, but last time I committed to him, he left. And what if we have a baby?" "A baby? so, you do want a kid?" Chris asked. "Yeah." I smiled, " But, big evil is a-comin' and I want to be ready and not distracted." "Distracted?" Chris asked. "Baby. Wyatt...Distraction." I said softly. "Look, if you think I'll be weird for me to see, you're kind of right, but I like you and wyatt and I'm in love with Bianca. I can't wait to see my nephew. You're like my brother...that I slept with once." Chris said and we both laughed, " Look, we are best friends and Wyatt will never let anything hurt you." "Shax." I said. "Dead demons for 500?" Chris asked. "He was dead before." I said. "But..." Chris stammered. "Drake's right." Kyle said, walking into the room, " Shax could be a threat." "A threat? He killed me." I said angrily. "I understan, but this new source isn't entirely original, he's taking after the old source." Kyel said, " Back to the days of the Triad." "Impossible, the Triad is gone, are you saying that the Triad is resurrected?" Chris asked. "Nope." I said. "How would you know?" Chris asked. "There is an entirely new Triad. Three powerful demons that can rule the Underworld." I said quickly, " It was on the news, Tristan, Cole, and...Eric." I said. "What are you talking about?" Chris asked. "On the news, the formation of the Triad, three evils...Looks like the source is rebuilding everything." I said. "You think he's rebuilding with new demons?" Chris asked. "Sounds plausible." Kyle said, " It would fit, but your brother, is he magical?" "I never thought so." I said, " But then again, he was a late bloomer." "So, Shax? Any word on the demon?' Chris asked. "Umm, no. Actually, everyone's going on a guess." Kyle said, " Everybody's so insidious these days." "You're telling me, it took some digging to get this from Aunt Paige." Wyatt chuckled, entering the room. "Can I have that?" CHris asked, getting the ingredients from Wyatt, " Thanks, bro. Potion done. I'll take this up to her." "Good, cause she's a shark." I joked. "I'll go too." Kyle said, leaving with him. "Leaving..us." I said slowly. "Well, I've gotta go..." "No, Wyatt." I said, grabbing his arm, " I don't want you to be mad, and I know you are. It's really not you. We've waited so long, and I don't want to rush us!" "That's the thing, we're not rushing." Wyatt growled, " You're just afraid and I only want to protect you...forever!' "Forever?" I asked, " Can you promise me that?' "Yes. Forever." He said, " I want to protect you forever." There was a crash upstairs. "Duty calls." I said, running out of the rom. I ran up the stairs, feeling a bit nauseated and dizzy, and I stopped at the door and astral projected behind a demon, " Hey." I said, tapping on the demon's shoulder and punching him. I jumped into the air, floating there, kicking the demon in the face and he fell again. I waved my hand and blew him up. "You can levitate now?" Chris asked, sending a demon flying. "I'm astral." I said quickly. Just then, Warren shimmered in beside me, " Hey, is every..." he dodge an oncoming fire ball and threw energy balls back at the demons, causing the demon to disappear! "I'm gonna try something." I said, freezing the whole room, " Whew, I need to sit down." "You alright?" Warren asked. "No." I said, going back to my body. "Where'd he go?" Warren asked them. "I'm right here." I said, jogging up to them, " Chris." Chris raised his hand and a chain of lightning ran through the demons, vanquishing them one by one. "Very good." Vera smiled, " You have passed." "What would have happened if we would have failed?" I asked. "Death." Vera joked. We all stopped and looked at her, " I'm just kidding, of course." she smiled. - - - - - - - - - - "Wyatt, where are we going?" I asked, as he pulled me downstairs, " We just realized some pretty big news and we're going to need to know the Book inside and out if we're..." I stopped when I saw the dining room. The big table had been moved there was a smaller table that had room for two. The table was decorated beautifully and with a wave of his hand, Wyatt made food appear on it. Above it, on the chandelier, there were orbs and fairies flying around, " It's beautiful." I gasped. "You like it?" he smiled, looking around with me. "I love it." I smiled, " Where's..." "At Bianca's." Wyatt said quickly. I smirked and sat at the table, " Wyatt, I have something to tell you." Wyatt kneeled before me, " Look, I love you and I will do anything, whatever it takes to get you to marry me. To show yo, I love youand if that means waking up everday for the next 500 years." he smiled, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a box. My heart dropped, " Will you please marry me?" he asked, flashing his beautiful smile and an equally beautiful ring, " It was my mom's." "I..." I stammered." I was going to tell you..." "Drake." Wyatt sighed. "Let me finish." I said quickly, " I love you and the thought of me living without you for the rest of my life is so scary. Yes." I said, taking the ring, " I love you." I said, kissing him. We stopped when we heard applause and I chuckled when I saw the family standing in the living room, " At Bianca's, huh?" I smiled, kissing him again. - - - - - - - - - - Hope you enjoyed, remember, feedback is always appreciated.