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Post by StoryGirl83 on May 21, 2008 19:34:47 GMT -4
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TITLE: A Mother Knows
AUTHOR: StoryGirl83
TYPE: Series (Charmed: Heritage 1X03)
RATING: T
LEAD CHARACTERS: Wyatt and Chris with Piper and Leo
ORIGINAL CHARACTERS: Drinka Deguilio, Steve Kessler (unnamed warlock), David Vandemark, and various demons (including Spy Demons and Marchez the Merchant)
SHORT SUMMARY: Mon, Jan 11, 2027 – Piper blows up a demon who is spying on her and Leo. Leo calls Wyatt at his day job, the museum Prue worked at in “Something Wicca this Way Comes”, to let him know what’s going on. Wyatt comes over as soon as he gets off work, not knowing that he too is being spied on. Chris is caught at work trying to figure out why magic stopped working for Witches, Warlocks, and Demons for twenty years and why only for them. A warlock out for revenge over the death of his dead Darklighter friend, is uniting the underworld and gets some lower level demons to use an anti-orbing gel on the brothers causing them not to be able to use their orbing powers.
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters from Charmed, in this case Piper, Leo, Wyatt, and Chris (and Prue and Roger who are mentioned). Any characters not originally from Charmed, any name you don't recognize, is my character.
There are some things a mother just knows. There are other things that it just seems like she knows, simply because she knows you so well.
Leo Wyatt was waiting patiently in the entry hall of his wife’s restaurant. He had been busy all morning, but there had been enough time before coming over to change into some clean clothes and take a shower. His wife, Piper Halliwell, was standing nearby, putting on her jacket. The maitrê d, Drinka Deguilio, was standing at the greeting booth, more or less bored. She had a piece of scratch paper that was doodling on to keep her occupied until the next customer arrived.
“Drinka, are you sure you guys will be all right?” Piper asked, ever worried about everything. “We can stay.”
This caused Drinka to look up from her doodling. “Don’t worry, Mrs. Halliwell. Everything will be fine.”
“You’re supposed to say you can’t do without me,” Piper grumbled.
“You deserve a break, Mrs. Halliwell,” Drinka told her with a smile. The large loops in her ears swayed as Drinka’s head moved. The bangles on her arm caught the light and spread rainbows about. “Callie’s no you, but she’s a good cook. We’ll do fine for one afternoon. Enjoy your time with your husband.”
“Come on, Piper,” Leo urged finally speaking. “As much as you wish it was not true, your restaurant can survive without you for a little while.”
Piper looked at her husband with a smile. “You win. Let’s go.”
Drinka looked at Leo and mouthed, “Thank you.”
Leo just smiled as Piper grabbed her purse and looked at him.
“All right, I’m ready.” Piper looked back at Drinka. “Call me if there’s trouble, Drinka.”
“We’ll be fine,” Drinka assured her. “Now, go.”
Piper didn’t here here Drinka. A feeling of being watched sent a shiver up and down her spine. She shivered slightly as she turned around. She looked around, but seeing nothing she turned back around after a moment.
“Piper?” Leo asked, concerned. “Is something wrong?”
Piper shook it off. “I’m fine. Let’s go.” Piper walked out the door.
Leo looked at Drinka confused. Then, he sighed and followed Piper out the door. He caught up with Piper a few feet outside the door of her restaurant.
As they walked, Piper looked at her husband, at her side. “So are you going to tell me where we are going?”
“You’ll see,” Leo told her with a smile.
Piper had the feeling of being watched, again. She turned around, frowning. She saw nothing, but this time, she didn’t ignore it. “Leo, do you feel that?”
Leo turned around to face where she was looking. “Feel what? What is wrong, Piper?”
Piper turned back toward the parking lot.
Leo lingered a moment, trying to figure out what she might have been seeing. Still seeing nothing, he turned back around as well. “I’m sorry I didn’t see anything unusual.”
Piper sighed. “Maybe it was nothing.”
Leo shook his head. “No, I trust your instincts. I just can’t see it.”
“I can’t see anything strange either,” Piper admitted.
“You felt something in the restaurant, too, didn’t you.” Leo commented, recalling her strange actions a few moments before.
Piper nodded and started walking toward their car.
“Piper?” Leo asked questioningly, wondering why his wife was ignoring him.
Piper took a few more steps and then without warning she turned around, hands raised and moved them down. Everything around her froze, including Leo. Every person within view was stopped. Cars on the road had stopped moving. There was a flock of birds in the air who had quit moving. Piper waved her hand in front of Leo and looked around at the frozen scene around her.
Leo noticed that Piper had moved. “Piper? What just happened?” He began to take in the fact that he and Piper where the only ones moving. “Did you just . . .”
“I froze everything,” Piper said, awed, as she looked around trying to find something that was moving. “Powers don’t usually advance randomly like that, especially after years of no use. Do they?”
Leo shakes his head. “No, they don’t. There must be a reason . . . but why did you freeze everything?”
Piper shrugged at that. “The invisible are still tangible right? If you run into them, then you can feel them right?”
“You think someone’s watching us?” Leo asked, contemplating the possibility.
Piper nods.
“They wouldn’t just stand out in the open,” Leo reminded her. “They’d be somewhere where people won’t run into them.”
“They weren’t expecting me to freeze things either,” Piper reasoned, “but I see your point.” With a look of concentration she began to chant. “Show me the one whose eyes I feel, so my nerves I may heal.”
A distortion formed between them and the restaurant near the front wall. Then, it formed into a demon leaning against the wall, with dark baggy clothes, messy hair, and skin tinted green.
Piper looked at Leo. “Any idea what it is?”
Leo shook his head. “If it weren’t for the skin tone, I’d say Lazarus demon or Scabber, but that’s not normal skin for either.” Leo looked around. “Any idea how long your freeze will last?”
“I don’t know. It’s never done . . .” Piper trailed off and looked around. A memory came to mind of events that had happened twenty-eight years previous. She had traveled ten year into the future with her two sisters Prue and Phoebe to try and save Phoebe from a future death at the stake. While there all three sisters had found stunning advancements in their powers. Prue had telekinetically pushed a hole in the attic. Phoebe had apparently used some sort of electric power to kill a man in revenge for the murder of a friend, the reason for her imprisonment and death in the first place. And Piper. Piper looked around as déjà vu filled her. In that future which never happened, Piper had frozen everything within view, even the birds flying in the sky.
“Piper?” Leo said in a questioning voice, bringing Piper back to the present.
“It’s nothing,” Piper told him, trying to shake the memory. “It never happened. I’m going to try and explode him. If it doesn’t work prepare to run.” Leo nods as Piper raises her hand and frowns. “What if I blow up more than I want?”
“It should still only blow up your target,” Leo reassured her. “There might be a little backlash, but your aim has always been good.”
Piper waved her hand in front of the demon and his head unfroze.
The demon tried to move and realized he could not.
“Who sent you?” Piper asked annoyed.
“Let me go,” The demon ordered, eyeing her wearily.
Piper gave him a disbelieving look. Did he take her for a fool? “Now, why should I go and do a thing like that? Why were you spying on me?”
“Let me go,” The demon ordered, again. Then, he tried appealing to her. “I didn’t attack you. I’d be stupid to do that.”
Piper smiled at that. “Finally the underworld starts to notice. Wish you’d noticed thirty years ago. It would have made things a lot easier.”
“Let me go,” the demon said, trying again. He was beginning to sound like a broken record.
Piper turned to Leo. “I guess he’s not going to answer me.”
“I guess not,” Leo agreed, somewhat amused.
“No point in keeping him around then,” Piper pointed out.
“Let me go,” the demon repeated, this time pleading. “I didn’t do anything.”
Piper looked at him. There was a look of annoyance on her face. “See that’s where you are wrong. I don’t exactly know what all you did, but I do know you spied on us. I don’t know what kind of info you got and I can’t trust you to tell me, so bye.” Piper flicked a closed hand at the demon and opened it.
Two things happened at once. The demon exploded and the time resumed as normal.
Piper stared at the spot where the demon had been. A look of sadness, mixed with annoyance passed over her face. Then she turned to Leo with a wry look. “And I was so enjoying the lack of demons.”
TITLE: A Mother Knows
AUTHOR: StoryGirl83
TYPE: Series (Charmed: Heritage 1X03)
RATING: T
LEAD CHARACTERS: Wyatt and Chris with Piper and Leo
ORIGINAL CHARACTERS: Drinka Deguilio, Steve Kessler (unnamed warlock), David Vandemark, and various demons (including Spy Demons and Marchez the Merchant)
SHORT SUMMARY: Mon, Jan 11, 2027 – Piper blows up a demon who is spying on her and Leo. Leo calls Wyatt at his day job, the museum Prue worked at in “Something Wicca this Way Comes”, to let him know what’s going on. Wyatt comes over as soon as he gets off work, not knowing that he too is being spied on. Chris is caught at work trying to figure out why magic stopped working for Witches, Warlocks, and Demons for twenty years and why only for them. A warlock out for revenge over the death of his dead Darklighter friend, is uniting the underworld and gets some lower level demons to use an anti-orbing gel on the brothers causing them not to be able to use their orbing powers.
A Mother Knows
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters from Charmed, in this case Piper, Leo, Wyatt, and Chris (and Prue and Roger who are mentioned). Any characters not originally from Charmed, any name you don't recognize, is my character.
Chapter One – Don’t Mess With Piper
There are some things a mother just knows. There are other things that it just seems like she knows, simply because she knows you so well.
Leo Wyatt was waiting patiently in the entry hall of his wife’s restaurant. He had been busy all morning, but there had been enough time before coming over to change into some clean clothes and take a shower. His wife, Piper Halliwell, was standing nearby, putting on her jacket. The maitrê d, Drinka Deguilio, was standing at the greeting booth, more or less bored. She had a piece of scratch paper that was doodling on to keep her occupied until the next customer arrived.
“Drinka, are you sure you guys will be all right?” Piper asked, ever worried about everything. “We can stay.”
This caused Drinka to look up from her doodling. “Don’t worry, Mrs. Halliwell. Everything will be fine.”
“You’re supposed to say you can’t do without me,” Piper grumbled.
“You deserve a break, Mrs. Halliwell,” Drinka told her with a smile. The large loops in her ears swayed as Drinka’s head moved. The bangles on her arm caught the light and spread rainbows about. “Callie’s no you, but she’s a good cook. We’ll do fine for one afternoon. Enjoy your time with your husband.”
“Come on, Piper,” Leo urged finally speaking. “As much as you wish it was not true, your restaurant can survive without you for a little while.”
Piper looked at her husband with a smile. “You win. Let’s go.”
Drinka looked at Leo and mouthed, “Thank you.”
Leo just smiled as Piper grabbed her purse and looked at him.
“All right, I’m ready.” Piper looked back at Drinka. “Call me if there’s trouble, Drinka.”
“We’ll be fine,” Drinka assured her. “Now, go.”
Piper didn’t here here Drinka. A feeling of being watched sent a shiver up and down her spine. She shivered slightly as she turned around. She looked around, but seeing nothing she turned back around after a moment.
“Piper?” Leo asked, concerned. “Is something wrong?”
Piper shook it off. “I’m fine. Let’s go.” Piper walked out the door.
Leo looked at Drinka confused. Then, he sighed and followed Piper out the door. He caught up with Piper a few feet outside the door of her restaurant.
As they walked, Piper looked at her husband, at her side. “So are you going to tell me where we are going?”
“You’ll see,” Leo told her with a smile.
Piper had the feeling of being watched, again. She turned around, frowning. She saw nothing, but this time, she didn’t ignore it. “Leo, do you feel that?”
Leo turned around to face where she was looking. “Feel what? What is wrong, Piper?”
Piper turned back toward the parking lot.
Leo lingered a moment, trying to figure out what she might have been seeing. Still seeing nothing, he turned back around as well. “I’m sorry I didn’t see anything unusual.”
Piper sighed. “Maybe it was nothing.”
Leo shook his head. “No, I trust your instincts. I just can’t see it.”
“I can’t see anything strange either,” Piper admitted.
“You felt something in the restaurant, too, didn’t you.” Leo commented, recalling her strange actions a few moments before.
Piper nodded and started walking toward their car.
“Piper?” Leo asked questioningly, wondering why his wife was ignoring him.
Piper took a few more steps and then without warning she turned around, hands raised and moved them down. Everything around her froze, including Leo. Every person within view was stopped. Cars on the road had stopped moving. There was a flock of birds in the air who had quit moving. Piper waved her hand in front of Leo and looked around at the frozen scene around her.
Leo noticed that Piper had moved. “Piper? What just happened?” He began to take in the fact that he and Piper where the only ones moving. “Did you just . . .”
“I froze everything,” Piper said, awed, as she looked around trying to find something that was moving. “Powers don’t usually advance randomly like that, especially after years of no use. Do they?”
Leo shakes his head. “No, they don’t. There must be a reason . . . but why did you freeze everything?”
Piper shrugged at that. “The invisible are still tangible right? If you run into them, then you can feel them right?”
“You think someone’s watching us?” Leo asked, contemplating the possibility.
Piper nods.
“They wouldn’t just stand out in the open,” Leo reminded her. “They’d be somewhere where people won’t run into them.”
“They weren’t expecting me to freeze things either,” Piper reasoned, “but I see your point.” With a look of concentration she began to chant. “Show me the one whose eyes I feel, so my nerves I may heal.”
A distortion formed between them and the restaurant near the front wall. Then, it formed into a demon leaning against the wall, with dark baggy clothes, messy hair, and skin tinted green.
Piper looked at Leo. “Any idea what it is?”
Leo shook his head. “If it weren’t for the skin tone, I’d say Lazarus demon or Scabber, but that’s not normal skin for either.” Leo looked around. “Any idea how long your freeze will last?”
“I don’t know. It’s never done . . .” Piper trailed off and looked around. A memory came to mind of events that had happened twenty-eight years previous. She had traveled ten year into the future with her two sisters Prue and Phoebe to try and save Phoebe from a future death at the stake. While there all three sisters had found stunning advancements in their powers. Prue had telekinetically pushed a hole in the attic. Phoebe had apparently used some sort of electric power to kill a man in revenge for the murder of a friend, the reason for her imprisonment and death in the first place. And Piper. Piper looked around as déjà vu filled her. In that future which never happened, Piper had frozen everything within view, even the birds flying in the sky.
“Piper?” Leo said in a questioning voice, bringing Piper back to the present.
“It’s nothing,” Piper told him, trying to shake the memory. “It never happened. I’m going to try and explode him. If it doesn’t work prepare to run.” Leo nods as Piper raises her hand and frowns. “What if I blow up more than I want?”
“It should still only blow up your target,” Leo reassured her. “There might be a little backlash, but your aim has always been good.”
Piper waved her hand in front of the demon and his head unfroze.
The demon tried to move and realized he could not.
“Who sent you?” Piper asked annoyed.
“Let me go,” The demon ordered, eyeing her wearily.
Piper gave him a disbelieving look. Did he take her for a fool? “Now, why should I go and do a thing like that? Why were you spying on me?”
“Let me go,” The demon ordered, again. Then, he tried appealing to her. “I didn’t attack you. I’d be stupid to do that.”
Piper smiled at that. “Finally the underworld starts to notice. Wish you’d noticed thirty years ago. It would have made things a lot easier.”
“Let me go,” the demon said, trying again. He was beginning to sound like a broken record.
Piper turned to Leo. “I guess he’s not going to answer me.”
“I guess not,” Leo agreed, somewhat amused.
“No point in keeping him around then,” Piper pointed out.
“Let me go,” the demon repeated, this time pleading. “I didn’t do anything.”
Piper looked at him. There was a look of annoyance on her face. “See that’s where you are wrong. I don’t exactly know what all you did, but I do know you spied on us. I don’t know what kind of info you got and I can’t trust you to tell me, so bye.” Piper flicked a closed hand at the demon and opened it.
Two things happened at once. The demon exploded and the time resumed as normal.
Piper stared at the spot where the demon had been. A look of sadness, mixed with annoyance passed over her face. Then she turned to Leo with a wry look. “And I was so enjoying the lack of demons.”
