Post by babylove on Apr 11, 2006 7:38:22 GMT -5
Authors note: This story take’s place 22 years after the Series Finale. Bianca has been de-aged to being almost a year younger than Chris. Also this will be the only chapter that is from the POV of one character.
Prologue
Chris’s POV
The year is 2028, and I am Chris Halliwell. I am a child of the legendary Charmed Ones, and as you’ve probably guessed, 24 years old. I now live in LA with my cousins, and my girlfriend. We form a coven called Triquetra. We named our coven after the symbol Triquetra which is a very special symbol for my family. It symbolized the Power of Three, of which my mother and aunts formed.
It will relieve you to know that the Charmed Ones are still very much alive and well, though they have now officially retired from the demon fighting business, not that there has been that much of it in more recent times. My Mom and Dad still live in the Manor in San Francisco were they always lived. My Mom still owns and runs P3, while Dad works as a councillor at a local youth centre. Aunt Paige and her husband Henry live in the house across the street. Paige eventually returned to being a Social Worker, which had always been her passion. And Phoebe, when she’s not off travelling the world with her husband, lives in a Penthouse downtown. She still has her advice column, “Ask Phoebe” in the Bay Mirror. Who is Phoebe’s husband you ask. Well not long after the Big Battle, she met up with her old flame, Jason Dean for the first time in a couple of years. And they hit it off straight away. Jason was now more accepting of the fact that she was a witch, and within a year they were married and had twins.
Now that you know what happened to the Charmed Ones, I guess you want to know who we are. Well I suppose I had better start with the oldest, my big brother Wyatt. He’s 25 now and an Assistant District Attorney here in LA. He’s still the twice blessed child, though he no longer has all his powers. After the Big Battle, The Powers That Be, whoever they are, decided that it was unfair for a child so young to be burdened with such powers, so they suppressed them until they felt he could handle them. Right now, he has all his whitelighter powers back; he can sense, orb and heal. He still has the only power that wasn’t suppressed, his Forcefield Generation. And he can telekinetically orb things like Aunt Paige. None of his other powers have returned yet. Wyatt was the only one of us to have had powers as a child. The rest of us didn’t start developing them until our teens. Wyatt is quiet, except in the courtroom, and he can be a bit of a loner, except when he is with his family.
Then there’s me. I know all about the visit from my future self 24 years ago. My parents told me all about it, though it’s hard to get my head around. I have a few powers. I have what is known as witch orbing, or coloured orbing. It is a power bestowed on only the most powerful of witches. My mother and Aunt Phoebe got it after the Big Battle. My orbing colours are Blue. I also have aunt Prue’s power of telekinesis. I also have my mothers powers of Temporal Stasis and Molecular Combustion My Dad told me I had those two powers as like a reward from the cosmos for what my future self did in saving Wyatt and the rest of the world. Like Mom, I am also in the nightclub business. I own a nightclub in LA, which I started 3 years ago and it is doing really well.
When I was about six, my parents had their third child, my little sister Prudence Melinda Halliwell. She’s 18 now and is about to move out to LA to live with us so she can go to college at UCLA. She looks almost exactly like Mom did at the same age. She also has some kick ass powers, if you don’t mind me saying. She has Electrokinesis, the ability to shoot electricity out of her hands. My parents suspect this may have come from Dad seeing as how he was once an elder. Prue also has Wind Manipulation and she has witch orbing like me, though her colour is Pink. Like her namesake, she loves photography and is about to start a Photo Journalism course at College.
As I’ve already mentioned, Aunt Phoebe had twins about twelve months after the Big Battle, making them three years younger than me. She had a boy and a girl who she named Joshua and Peyton. Joshua is still in college and is studying to become a Phys Ed. teacher. His powers at the moment are Telepathy, Cryokinesis or the ability to emit cold energy from his hands and he can also Astral Project himself. His sister, Peyton, who is a couple of minutes younger than Josh, is a police officer and has just been made an Inspector. She is also a Telepath, meaning she and Josh can have private conversations when they don’t want anyone else to know what they are talking about which can be really frustrating. She also inherited her mother’s power of Premonition, and she has Pyrokinesis or the ability to create fire or emit hot energy from her hands.
Paige also has a daughter, Belle, short for Belinda named after Paige’s adopted mother. Belle is also 18 years old, though is a couple of months older than Prue. No one knows what Belle’s powers are because she has totally rejected everything to do with witchcraft. Six years ago the Charmed Ones were attacked by yet another demon, which by this time had become so rare it almost never happened anymore. Paige was almost killed if her father her father Sam, who is also their whitelighter, hadn’t healed her. Belle had walked in on it and had freaked out at what she had seen. This incident had lead to some major problems between Paige and Henry and they had separated for a while. Since that time, Belle has had a rocky relationship with her mother and turned her back on magic. The only member of the family she has a solid relationship with is her best friend, Prue, though they disagree on the issue. It is only because of Prue that Belle is also going to live with us when she comes out here for College. She is also going to go to UCLA where she is going to study to become a Social Worker like her mother.
The last member of our coven is my girlfriend Bianca. She’s 23 and she owns an occult shop which she started around the same time I started my nightclub. She is also a Phoenix Witch. Phoenix Witches are elite assassins, though like any witch they can choose whether to be good, evil or neutral. Bianca’s family are good witches and so is she. Bianca currently has four powers. She can Ash, which is like orbing, except she teleports with ash not orbs. She can also contain other’s powers, she can conjur weapons like an athame or crossbow and she can reconstitute herself. To go with this she is an expert in multiple forms of martial arts.
We all live in a big house in LA which backs right onto the beach in Malibu. The house we bought isn’t a mansion, but it is pretty big. It has four levels. It has a basement, of course. The ground floor consists of a kitchen, dining room, a big living room and a big conservatory as well as a laundry and foyer area around the front door. Upstairs consists of 10 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, plenty big enough for seven of us. And then there is the attic, which is enormous. When we moved in we built doors and walls up here to create several rooms. This is our Wicca domain, where we practice magic and rituals. It’s were we keep the Book of Shadows, which my Mom and Aunts gave us when they retired, and any other magic books we have. It’s were we keep our Wiccan artefacts and the history of our family. We even put in a kitchen for making potions so that we can keep the ingredients up there. We included Prue and Belle’s name on the deed so all seven of us own the house. How did all this come about you ask? Well, we had all ended up moving out to LA for one reason or another. Josh, Bianca and me for college and Peyton and Wyatt got jobs out here. And about two years ago we realised if wee pooled our money we would be able to buy a pretty decent house. You see Wyatt was an ADA and making pretty good money. Both Bianca and I had successful businesses. Peyton was working as a cop and both she and Josh had large bank accounts thanks to being kids of a media mogul. We had to take out a small loan, but between the five of us, it’s all paid off now and we own it outright.
The outside world knows that we are Wiccan. But they don’t know about the magic we have that makes us Witches. That’s our secret. So now you know who we are. You know our secrets. And now you can see our story.
Prologue
Chris’s POV
The year is 2028, and I am Chris Halliwell. I am a child of the legendary Charmed Ones, and as you’ve probably guessed, 24 years old. I now live in LA with my cousins, and my girlfriend. We form a coven called Triquetra. We named our coven after the symbol Triquetra which is a very special symbol for my family. It symbolized the Power of Three, of which my mother and aunts formed.
It will relieve you to know that the Charmed Ones are still very much alive and well, though they have now officially retired from the demon fighting business, not that there has been that much of it in more recent times. My Mom and Dad still live in the Manor in San Francisco were they always lived. My Mom still owns and runs P3, while Dad works as a councillor at a local youth centre. Aunt Paige and her husband Henry live in the house across the street. Paige eventually returned to being a Social Worker, which had always been her passion. And Phoebe, when she’s not off travelling the world with her husband, lives in a Penthouse downtown. She still has her advice column, “Ask Phoebe” in the Bay Mirror. Who is Phoebe’s husband you ask. Well not long after the Big Battle, she met up with her old flame, Jason Dean for the first time in a couple of years. And they hit it off straight away. Jason was now more accepting of the fact that she was a witch, and within a year they were married and had twins.
Now that you know what happened to the Charmed Ones, I guess you want to know who we are. Well I suppose I had better start with the oldest, my big brother Wyatt. He’s 25 now and an Assistant District Attorney here in LA. He’s still the twice blessed child, though he no longer has all his powers. After the Big Battle, The Powers That Be, whoever they are, decided that it was unfair for a child so young to be burdened with such powers, so they suppressed them until they felt he could handle them. Right now, he has all his whitelighter powers back; he can sense, orb and heal. He still has the only power that wasn’t suppressed, his Forcefield Generation. And he can telekinetically orb things like Aunt Paige. None of his other powers have returned yet. Wyatt was the only one of us to have had powers as a child. The rest of us didn’t start developing them until our teens. Wyatt is quiet, except in the courtroom, and he can be a bit of a loner, except when he is with his family.
Then there’s me. I know all about the visit from my future self 24 years ago. My parents told me all about it, though it’s hard to get my head around. I have a few powers. I have what is known as witch orbing, or coloured orbing. It is a power bestowed on only the most powerful of witches. My mother and Aunt Phoebe got it after the Big Battle. My orbing colours are Blue. I also have aunt Prue’s power of telekinesis. I also have my mothers powers of Temporal Stasis and Molecular Combustion My Dad told me I had those two powers as like a reward from the cosmos for what my future self did in saving Wyatt and the rest of the world. Like Mom, I am also in the nightclub business. I own a nightclub in LA, which I started 3 years ago and it is doing really well.
When I was about six, my parents had their third child, my little sister Prudence Melinda Halliwell. She’s 18 now and is about to move out to LA to live with us so she can go to college at UCLA. She looks almost exactly like Mom did at the same age. She also has some kick ass powers, if you don’t mind me saying. She has Electrokinesis, the ability to shoot electricity out of her hands. My parents suspect this may have come from Dad seeing as how he was once an elder. Prue also has Wind Manipulation and she has witch orbing like me, though her colour is Pink. Like her namesake, she loves photography and is about to start a Photo Journalism course at College.
As I’ve already mentioned, Aunt Phoebe had twins about twelve months after the Big Battle, making them three years younger than me. She had a boy and a girl who she named Joshua and Peyton. Joshua is still in college and is studying to become a Phys Ed. teacher. His powers at the moment are Telepathy, Cryokinesis or the ability to emit cold energy from his hands and he can also Astral Project himself. His sister, Peyton, who is a couple of minutes younger than Josh, is a police officer and has just been made an Inspector. She is also a Telepath, meaning she and Josh can have private conversations when they don’t want anyone else to know what they are talking about which can be really frustrating. She also inherited her mother’s power of Premonition, and she has Pyrokinesis or the ability to create fire or emit hot energy from her hands.
Paige also has a daughter, Belle, short for Belinda named after Paige’s adopted mother. Belle is also 18 years old, though is a couple of months older than Prue. No one knows what Belle’s powers are because she has totally rejected everything to do with witchcraft. Six years ago the Charmed Ones were attacked by yet another demon, which by this time had become so rare it almost never happened anymore. Paige was almost killed if her father her father Sam, who is also their whitelighter, hadn’t healed her. Belle had walked in on it and had freaked out at what she had seen. This incident had lead to some major problems between Paige and Henry and they had separated for a while. Since that time, Belle has had a rocky relationship with her mother and turned her back on magic. The only member of the family she has a solid relationship with is her best friend, Prue, though they disagree on the issue. It is only because of Prue that Belle is also going to live with us when she comes out here for College. She is also going to go to UCLA where she is going to study to become a Social Worker like her mother.
The last member of our coven is my girlfriend Bianca. She’s 23 and she owns an occult shop which she started around the same time I started my nightclub. She is also a Phoenix Witch. Phoenix Witches are elite assassins, though like any witch they can choose whether to be good, evil or neutral. Bianca’s family are good witches and so is she. Bianca currently has four powers. She can Ash, which is like orbing, except she teleports with ash not orbs. She can also contain other’s powers, she can conjur weapons like an athame or crossbow and she can reconstitute herself. To go with this she is an expert in multiple forms of martial arts.
We all live in a big house in LA which backs right onto the beach in Malibu. The house we bought isn’t a mansion, but it is pretty big. It has four levels. It has a basement, of course. The ground floor consists of a kitchen, dining room, a big living room and a big conservatory as well as a laundry and foyer area around the front door. Upstairs consists of 10 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, plenty big enough for seven of us. And then there is the attic, which is enormous. When we moved in we built doors and walls up here to create several rooms. This is our Wicca domain, where we practice magic and rituals. It’s were we keep the Book of Shadows, which my Mom and Aunts gave us when they retired, and any other magic books we have. It’s were we keep our Wiccan artefacts and the history of our family. We even put in a kitchen for making potions so that we can keep the ingredients up there. We included Prue and Belle’s name on the deed so all seven of us own the house. How did all this come about you ask? Well, we had all ended up moving out to LA for one reason or another. Josh, Bianca and me for college and Peyton and Wyatt got jobs out here. And about two years ago we realised if wee pooled our money we would be able to buy a pretty decent house. You see Wyatt was an ADA and making pretty good money. Both Bianca and I had successful businesses. Peyton was working as a cop and both she and Josh had large bank accounts thanks to being kids of a media mogul. We had to take out a small loan, but between the five of us, it’s all paid off now and we own it outright.
The outside world knows that we are Wiccan. But they don’t know about the magic we have that makes us Witches. That’s our secret. So now you know who we are. You know our secrets. And now you can see our story.