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 5: Summers Lovin
I sprinted through the warehouse, around boxes and dodged fireballs! I tripped, but stayed steady. I finally saw the end of the warehouse, but the door was sealed shut. I never slowed down, I just jumped on a crate and hopped across crate after crate until I got to the end and I dove through the window! When I landed outside, Wyatt and Chris were waiting for me.
" Are you okay?" Wyatt asked, checking me out.
I looked down at my jeans and shirt, which were cut up and blood stained, " Yeah, just a few mortal wounds," I joked, " but they're coming and I couldn't flip the switch!"
Chris chuckled, " So, we're screwed?" he asked in disbelief.
" No, maybe Wyatt could blow them up from out here." I said hopefully.
Wyatt scrunched his face, " From here?" he asked.
" Might actually work, try it." Chris said quickly.
Wyatt closed his eyes, concentrating on the magical bomb we planted in the building. He imagined it blowing up. He sighed and I patted his back, " You can do it. Look, I know you can. Try again." I whispered in his ear. He closed his eyes again and envisioned it and suddenly there was a rustle of glass and the door started to wobble.
" They're coming!" Chris shouted.
He scrunched his face and soon he opened his eyes in shock, then Chris and I saw and heard the gigantic explosion and Chris grabbed my hand and we orbed away. When we appeared in the attic, the sister and Billie were there. They immediately rose.
" So, how'd it go?" Phoebe asked.
" Ok, but I'm having trouble with my powers." Wyatt said stoically.
I tried to raise my hand, " Owww! Me too...that levitating stuff is hard!" I said quickly.
The sisters looked at my hands, " Oh my gosh!" Paige said, running over to heal me, " What happened?"
" Glass." I said, flinching at the pain.
Piper was deep in thought," Maybe Your powers are off. We didn't have a good chance with the demons interrupting us. We could try again. You're already Charmed, it's just a power thing." she said calmly, " Chris are you having problems with your powers?"
Chris shook his head.
" Ok, then let's do this." Paige said, watching Piper get the book.
We stood in the triquetra and repeated the spell and everything and as we finished, swirls of light came from Wyatt and I. Wyatt's orbs flew into me and mine into him! I looked at him frantically.
" Feel any different?" Billie asked.
" Nah." I said, raising my hand blowing up a nearby lamp, " Ok, maybe." I said, watching my hands.
The next day....
It was a clear day, no rain, no clouds, just a beautiful day. While that day was going on, I was in the attic, concentrating on the glass and suddenly it exploded!
" Wow." Piper said from the door, " I couldn't even blow things up until I was 3 or 4 years in." she said walking over to me.
" Well, I can't move my hand without blowing stuff up, so I need to find a way to do it without having to raise my hand." I said,looking down at my hands," I don't even knof if I can freeze things...how'd you deal with these powers." I finished.
" Leo." she said pointint at a potion bottle, which blew up, " and time. You just need time." she said quickly, " Well I'm off to the club, then the resturaunt...the busy life of Piper Halliwell." she smiled, leaving the room.
I nodded and looked down at the potion bottle, " I guess you want me to clean that up?" I joked, walking over and cleaning it up. I was wiping up the glass when I remebered that I had taken the broom and pan down to the kitchen. I felt and intense desire to be there and not have to walk and in an instant I was there! I looked around frantically, then Piper walked in.
She gasped, " How did you get down here?! you wree just upstairs, right?" she asked, hands ready to blow me up.
I nodded, " Apparently, I'm...a teleporter? Can anyone in your family teleport?" I asked. She smiled at me, " That's not a whitelighter!" I finished, feeling a bit dumb.
" No. Not that I've heard. Wait, are you sure you're a teleporter? Maybe the part of Prue you got was astral projection." Piper said, thinking aloud.
" Piper." I said once. " Piper." I said again. " PIPER! Okay, how do I get back to my body?" I asked carefully moving my hand through the toaster.
" Just want to be back in your body. Gosh, I can't believe this. Prue didn't get this power until we were years into being a witch. Maybe you should summon her." Piper said, grabbing her keys off the counter.
" Can I do that?" I asked.
Piper chuckled, " You're Charmed, so yeah. Just don't get too crazy with the spell, personal gain is always there. Besides, the book is yours too now, and this is an emergency." she said, walking out the door.
" So you're not gonna help me!" I shouted.
She opened the door, " Wyatt's here, Chris is at school with Melinda and Leo. And if there's any problem, there's always my sisters. Oh, and Billie is coming over to get a book. She's a bit nervous about her engagement, but I'm late, gotta go." she said, finally leaving. I huffed and thought about my body. I yearned to be back in my body and to be laying in my bed with Wyatt. I felt a tingling and suddenly I was standing over my body. I grimaced when I saw that I had fell backwards. I had missed the glass, but I had most likely hit my head.
" Oh crap!" came a voice behind me, prompting me to turn around. I saw Wyatt's worried face and I walked over to him.
" Wyatt, I'm not hurt or anything, it's my new power. I can astral project." I said quickly.
He stared at me for a second, then nodded, " Right, why is there glass on the floor?' he asked.
" Me and Piper were practicing our powers." I half smiled.
Wyatt nodded again, " Okay. I just came to see if you were alright." he said.
I nodded and walked over to my body. I thought hard about being in it and suddenly I felt my eyes open and I looked up at Wyatt. He reached down and pulled me up and I immediately sat on the couch. I patted the seat beside me, " Wyatt. Sit please." I asked, watching him sit beside me, " I think we need to talk. (He nodded) I know what we saw in the future was great, but what if by seeing that, we messed it up?" I asked.
He sighed and looked at me, " Because I feel about you tonight the way I've always felt. I love you and I don't see that going away. Besides, with normal people, it's make things move faster." he joked.
" I feel the same way. I just can't believe we feel the exact same way about each other, but it's hard to grasp that concept." I smiled, " Then there's the fact that you're leaving to go to college."
He moved closer, " I'm an orb away. Especially with us being the Charmed Ones." he said, so close I could feel his body heat on me.
" You can't promise that. What about when you have a paper to write? What if you meet new friends and you want to hang out with them and you don't because you feel like you should be with me? What if I hold you back?" I said, trying to be as honest as possible.
"Then that's something we'll have to deal with. We're not on a tv show, this isn't " 7th Heaven". We're going to have problems that we;ll have to deal with and they may take some time, but we'll deal." he said, trying to convince me.
" Just one more problem." I said, leaning back.
He groaned, " What?! What now?' he asked impatiently.
" Talik." I said grimly.
Wyatt looked at me with an understanding face, " You could always vanquish him." he joked, causing me to gasp.
I smiled and imagined telling Talik about us, " There could be explosions and fireballs fore everyone." I thought. My love life was...crazy. The only thing I could think was, " There's nothing like a little Summers Lovin.". I smiled Wyatt, then leaned into him and kissed him.
" See, that wasn't so hard, was it?" he said cheerfully.
" No, actually it wasn't." I said, beginning to feel cheerful too.
Leo, melind and Chris were at "Charmed", Piper's resturaunt. It was packed and Leo walked through the middle of the room, trying to get to the kitchen, but bumped into Piper.
" Hey, where've you guys been?" Piper asked.
" Well, I took the kids to Magic School. Grading, searching...there's nothing on 'Talik', do you think there could be another name?" Leo asked.
Piper shrugged, " I don't know, but guess who just got another power?" she said. Leo looked at her and she nodded, " Astral Projection."
" So, where is he now?" Leo asked, following her to the kitchen.
" At home with Wyatt." Piper said, avoiding Leo's gaze.
Leo stepped in front of Piper, " Piper, you said that you were going to let them handle things theirself." he said, visibly angry.
" Why shouldn't I help them? I mean look at how hard it was for us. I just don't wanna see them go through that." she said, stirring a pot of soup.
" That's just it, Piper, we appreciate each other so much more because of what we went through." Leo argued.
Piper looked somber, " Okay, but I don't like it. I'll stay out of it." she smiled.
Leo kissed her forehead, " Thank you. Besides, they're just kids and they have their whole lives to be with each other. Even you needed to date Dan before we finally got together." Leo said slyly.
" I wonder where he is." Piper joked. Leo put his arms around her waist and pulled her in, " I bet you do." he laughed, kissing her neck.
" Cole Turner?" I said, flipping through the pages in the Book of Shadows, " He was hot...and obviously in love with Phoebe." I said quickly.
Wyatt looked confused, " Why would you say that?" he said walking to the book.
" About him in love with..." I started, but Wyatt interrupted, " No, about him being hot? But since we're on it, why would you say he was in love with Aunt Phoebe." he asked.
" Because he kept trying even after she gave him no chance. He saved her and the sisters, even when he tried to kill them. Plus, he changed the past to be with her." I said patiently, " If he wasn't in love with her, he would have been vanquished a long time before he was. Or kill the sisters." I added.
Wyatt smiled, " That's one way of looking at it." he said, grabbing my waist. He turned me around and kissed me for a minute, then smiled again, " This is..." he started, but I interrupted, " Surreal?" I smirked.
" Talik!" I blurted.
Wyat's face became a pissed one, " HUH?" he asked angrily.
I sighed, " No, I just need to tell him about us...before something crazy happens." I said, feeling guilty.
" You're right. Do you want me to be there?" he asked.
" So I could see Smackdown 2007 in here? No, it wouldn't help. Then I'd have to dodge energy balls and energy blasts and I'm not feeling so spry." I said quickly.
He nodded, " So, you should do it here...potions, people...Book of Shadows." he said, trying to mask his happiness.
" Good idea." I said calmly.
" Good. So, should I summon him, or are you going to do it?" he asked, still trying to hide his happiness.
I chuckled, " No, I'll do it. That means not you! And until then, I'm gonna need you not to seduce me." I lectured, walking away from him.
" Where are you going?" Wyatt asked, looking at the book.
" Home." I said simply, leaving the room.
Two cloaked figures strode down a quiet hall in the Underworld and stopped at a book. Much like the Book of Shadows, the Grimoire contained the magic of the Underworld. The two figures came to a stop at the sight of two other cloaked figures. They exchanged nods and the two new cloaked figures touched the book.
The cloacked woman held the book out and the cloaked man said, " This is the pledge to become Source. After the last few sources, we have decided to become less lenient." he said quietly.
" You have to kill the Charmed Ones to become the Source. It should be easy, they are new." the woman commented.
" Should be easy." said the taller figure, putting his hand on the grimoire.
" We do require that you kidnap one of them. Kill the Halliwells, bring back the Summers child." the woman said patiently.
The cloaked figure with his hand on the grimoire pulled back his hood, revealing himself to be Talik, " Done. As long as I don't have to kill him." he said. The other figure put his hand on Talik's shoulder, " Fallin in love with a Charmed One, big mistake...must run in the family." the other figure said, pulling back his hood to reveal himself as Cole Turner. They both smiled.
" Well, if this your destiny, then it shall be so. Do be careful, Drake can tear off a switch." the cloaked man said quickly, disappearing along with the woman and the Grimoire. Two demons took their place, " I need you to bring me one of the new Charmed Ones. Pahras Drake Summers." Talik commanded. They both smiled and blinked out.
" You're doing great," Cole said hugging Talik, " Son."
I locked the door behind me, feeling very "watched". I was about to check the flashing answering machine, but I continued into the dining room and felt my way to the light switch. As it click on, i noticed that I wasn't alone and jumped around to see two big guys in leather coats watching me.
" How did you get into my house!" I asked loudly. They didn't say a word, they just blinked out, " OH!" I said, running in the opposite direction. I got as far as the hallway before one of the guys blinked in front of me! I held up my hand and froze him quickly. I focused my eyes on him and concentrated hard on the other and he blew up! I whirled around and headed to the kitchen where I found a comfy spot to hide (under the sink). I waited for a minute and climbed out in an attempt to flee the house, but when I got to the door again, the frozen demon was gone and I felt a hand on the back of my neck! I felt myself hit the wall with force and hit the floor! I rolled over and saw one coming after me, so I raised my hand quickly and blew him up! I rolled over and tried to crawl to the door, but I didn't make it. Another hand grabbed me and threw me backwards into the mirro in the dining room. I felt the pain shoot up my back as I saw the shards of glass fall from the broken frame and I wondered "Was this the end?". I was fading fast and before I knew it I was about to black out. Before I blacked out, a cloaked figure stepped in my view...it stared down at me, then decided to take off it's hood. My eyes immediately went to his face! Wyatt wasn't lying about Talik, he was really the source! With my last breath, I whispered, " Help!" and finally faded away. I'm not sure how long I was out, it couldn't have been long. Maybe minutes, but I felt someone's hand on my back and I felt as if I was being healed. I awoke to a face that I had never seen, though a hot face, not one I had seen. I knew him from somewhere...someone had described him to me before...
" Thanks." I said, slowly dusting myself off, " Now who the hell are you?"
He helped me dust off a bit, " Hi. I heard some commotion from the street and..." he said, trying to pull off the incredible lie.
I chuckled, " No you didn't. I can tell a whitelighter from a mile away." I said surveying the room. I gasped at the mess all over the place and cringed.
He looked around too, then extended his hand, " I'm your new whitelighter, Kyle. Kyle Brody." he said carefully.
As he said his name, my eyes darted to him, " Paige's Kyle?!" I asked.
He sucked his tooth, " No, Paige has Henry. I'm just Kyle Brody, guardian angel. So, are you okay?" he asked, now surveying the room too.
" Yeah. Guardian Angel...that's all I need, another guardian angel. I could really use a good house cleaner. Wait, I already have a guardian angel, or whitelighter." I said in shock. I made my way to the living room, trying to surmise how the 'rents would take this if they knew. I picked up a broom and started to sweep the living room roughly.
Kyle followed right behind me, " Yes, but the Charmed Ones need a whitelighter who isn't...Charmed. Someone outside the circle. Wyatt and you are just connected." he explained, " And now that you're Charmed, the elders thought that you should have a definite whitelighter." he said.
A definite whitelighter? When did the world become so unpredictable? I guess it was always predictable, but this is ridiculous. Then there was the Elders. Piper and Leo told me they had to go through to be together and how the sisters had to take all kinds of abuse from them. I wasn't too keen on them already, but Kyle Brody? He seemed alright,a s far as Paige's exes went, but my mind wandered back to Talik...something had happened...I was about to pass out when...OMG! He was the source!
" Is he the source?" I asked, throwing the broom down.
Kyle looked confused, " There is no source." he said confidently.
I sighed and picked up the dustpan, " No! You don't get it...He will be if he's not already. There's something suspicious about this whole thing. Why the big song and dance?" I said to myself. He looked at me as if he didn't understand and I understood that, but I had the wheels in my mind working, " Something isn't right." I said finally.
Talik and Cole marched hurriedly down the dark corridor. They stopped at the same cloaked figures.
" This is not going be easy! Why didn't you tell me they alreay had a whitelighter." Talik vented.
" We didn't know, and didn't we say not to hurt Drake? Besides, didn't my husband say that our son was going to cut a switch?" the woman said, pulling off her hood to reveal Caly Summers.
The other figure pulled off his hood to reveal himself as Peter Summers, " It's a good thing mommy and Daddy are going home." he smirked.