Rising Phoenix

[prue]

This is really good. Please update soon.

[DarkPhoenix]

"I don't think you know what you are asking?" Carmine said, leaning back from Desiree's bed.

" I know what I am asking. Hell, you know the situation I am in." Desiree studied Carmine for a moment, "From that answer, I see you do. Which is good, I want the person responsible for my parents death found...and then brought to me."

Carmine shook his head, while rubbing his temple. "Desiree...the mafia is not a place for a girl like you. Just let the police handle this."

"A girl like me? Please...," Desiree rolled her eyes and sighed. "It's not like I am asking you to go out and do it yourself or anything. I just want you...to help me..." Desiree put her head down and looked up at Carmine with innocent eyes. "You're niece."

Carmine looked at her and frowned, "That look is not going to win you any points with me. But..." he got up from the bed. "I'll put in a call to a person I know...who knows a person...and see what they can do for me..." He put an arm around Desiree, and embraced her in a hug. "Go ahead and throw on some clothes. You're dad..." Carmine paused, not knowing if he should have said dad. "wants to talk to you downstairs about what is going on." Carmine ran down the stairs.
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"The charmed ones are involved, this is definitely magical. Damn, I can't believe we didn't see this happening." Tony said, pacing in the living room.

"I know, I'll call Morgan. Put out an emergency meeting to the coven. Perhaps we can scry for this. But...I'm worried..it wasn't a demon that attacked her in the bathroom." Sara said, while watching her husband pace back and forth. This was definitely serious.

Tony stopped pacing and thought about that for a moment. "That is true, great. I didn't even get to see the guy either. Although I could draw a sketch from what the police were thinking." Tony frowned recalling the details he got from one of the policemen that covered up the body. Desiree had slit her attacker's throat wide open.

"Should we tell her that she is a witch?" Sara asked, thinking probably that it might be in Desiree's best interest to know what she is up against and how to protect herself better.

"We just got here, I don't want to freak her out." Tony said.

"Freaking out, is what she was doing up stairs." Carmine said, as he walked into the room. Tony watched his younger brother walk into the room. He envied and was a bit angry with his brother, that he was talking to his 'own' daughter instead of him. It didn't make him feel like a very good father at the moment.

"How is she doing?" Sara asked, watching Carmine plop right down next to her.

"She wants me to...use some mafia connections...to find out who killed her parents." Carmine said, leaning back into the couch.

"What?! You told her no right." Tony said, staring at his brother incredulously.

"How does she know about these mafia connections of yours?" Sara asked, looking at Carmine with annyoance.

"Jade and Desiree's dad," Carmine looked up at Tony. "her other dad. Are--were...extremely, what's a good nice word to say," Carmine thought a moment. "Hell, they were vicious in the business world. You screwed with them and they would go after you, until you were finished. They had plenty of dealings with the mafia."

"Yeah but how does Desiree know about you being in the mafia?" Sara asked.

"Oh...there was an incident...that happened a while back." Carmine said, not really wanting to go into it.

"But you told her no right?" Tony asked, looking at his brother intently.

"Well," Carmine looked away from them. "Her parents were good people, a little harsh. But good people. They didn't deserve to die like this."

"She's coming." Tony said, as he heard the door to the attic close.
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(I'm so glad people are reading my story. I plan on bringing more frequent updates. )

[DarkPhoenix]

"What the F**k do you mean the guy's body is missing?" Desiree screamed at Inspector Woodward. "This better be a muthaf**kin' joke. A bad one. But that's what it better be."

"Desiree your language." Tony said, although it was hard seeing how he wanted to use the same kind of words at the moment. "What exactly happened inspector?" Inspector Woodward stared at Desiree in a bit of shock from that emotional outburst.

Desiree restrained herself from yelling at him to speak, perhaps she was being a bit of a b!tch. But given the situation it was called for.

"I'm not exactly sure what happened." Inspector Woodward moved away from Desiree and toward the middle of the living room. "But the M.E. reported the body was missing."

"Do you know how long he was at the morgue?" Sara asked, trying to put together a list of details for the research she would be doing later. Desiree frowned at Sara's question.

Inspector Woodward rubbed his neck and exhaled. "It was there a couple of minutes. Most likely someone must have snuck in there and took the body as soon as it was left alone."

"Well obviously." Desiree said, and noticed a look that passed between Carmine, Sara and Tony. "It's not like he got up and walked out of the morgue. Especially after..." Desiree paused, remembering the blood squirting from the wound.

The inspector noticed Desiree's sudden unease and took that as a cue. "I just came by to give you this bit of information. We have a patrol car outside, right now they will just follow Desiree from here to school and wherever else she decides to go." he said to Tony.

"That sounds..." Tony didn't like the fact that the humans were so close to their daily life, their was a high risk of exposure. Perhaps he could work a spell later tonight that could keep the humans from seeing anything magical. His daughter was in danger and he could protect her, but he couldn't really give her true protection unless she knew the truth about herself and everything that was going on. He was going to have to tell her...soon. "like a plan." Tony faked a smile at the Inspector.

[Assassin Witch]

I missed three updates, but I'm back!

Chris...Chris...Chris...He always knows something!

And Desiree..nice..I like her more and more. Tough b!tch and isn't afraid to show it!

I can't wait for her reaction to being a witch. That will be so funny, I can just imagine.

The story just keeps on getting better, DP. Keep it up!

[DarkPhoenix]

"Mother," Desmona spoke soflty, as she walked into her mother's royal chamber. She stopped right behind her mother. "What do you mean you don't know who the heir to the throne is?"

"Simple. I don't know." Ce'lina said, while brushing her hair, and looking into the mirror.

"Perhaps you have forgotten, in wake of father's death. It'll probably just take some ti--" Desmona began.

"His death, has not affected me...much." Ce'lina said, glancing up at her daughter.

Desmona frowned, not understanding her mother. "Surely you and father must have discussed this, in case either of you were..." Desmona trailed off, unknowing how to finish the sentence.

Ce'lina eyed her daughter for a moment, "Desmona, the reason as to why I have no idea of the heir is because we thought our first born would be it. " Desmona looked down at that moment, the first born would have been her brother Markis. He died in battle...against Jade. "When Jade killed Markis, she had secured herself the right of the throne. Now that she is gone, even if she had a child then that child would be our heir."

Desmona blinked a moment, thinking that she would have to make sure Desiree was gone. She tried to remember what her father saying something about Jade not being able to rule. "What do you think should happen?"

"I'm not exactly sure what we should do. There is mention of going back to the old ways. The rivaling houses have always wanted to rule. With your father gone, they might try to assassinate me." Ce'lina turned around and smiled at her daughter. "Let them come, and they will see the feel the wrath of a weeping widow."

Desmona smiled back at her mother, " Is there anything I can do to help you?" she asked, sweetly.

[DarkPhoenix]

"She doesn't feel like eating?" Sara asked, watching Tony come back into the room.

"I probably wouldn't either." Daniella said, reaching for rice.

"I'd be freaking out right now." Terry said, taking a sip of her lemonade.

"I just want to know, how she killed the guy." Matt said, making everybody look at him.

"Why would you say something like that?" Terry asked, frowning at Matt. Then she looked to her parents. "But since he brought it up..."

"I really don't want to go over it that, at the dinner table." Sara said, giving both Matt and Terry a stern glare.

"Who did she kill?" Adam spoke up, making Sara glare at Matt.

"Honey, a...uh---bad man. Very bad man. Who was trying to hurt her." Sara said, glancing at her husband. Who seemed to be more interested in his piece of chicken then the dinner conversation.

"So I heard there was blood all over the place and her?" Terry asked, staring at Sara.

"Oh, where did you hear that?" Tony asked, looking at his daughter with interest.

"I questioned one of the police officers. Very helpful. And let's talk about the Halliwell angle, while we are on the subject." Terry said.

"Lois Lane is on the case." Matt commented, while taking a bite out of a biscuit.

"Here let me help you with that honey," Sara said to Adam, as she cut off some of the meat from his chicken.

"How did you get the police detective to tell you that? What else did he tell you?" Tony asked, interested.

"I told him I might be writing an article for the school newspaper on the event that took place in school." Terry said, eating a forkful of rice.

"Are you?" Daniella asked.

"No, but I gave them to the newspaper editor, Aide." Terry said, then turned her attention to her parents. "Now back to the questions."

"We aren't sure. Desiree said, she kinda blacked out or something. Then she said she..." Sara trailed off looking down at Adam.

"So she did, K-I-L-L him." Daniella said, with interest. "But...he was human."

"What did you spell?" Adam asked, looking over at Daniella.

"Nothing. We don't think he was human, after his body disappeared from the morgue."

"What's a morgue?" Adam asked, trying to understand what they were talking about, while playing with his food.

" A place where you should never go." Matt said, causing Tony and Sara to smile at him.

"Yea, do we have any leads at the moment? Or perhaps a spell?" Terry asked.

"There is no spell..." Tony paused thinking for a moment. "You know what there might be at the shop."

"In the book of Anubis." Sara said, catching on to what Tony was thinking.

"Anubis...egyptian god of the dead. What are you guys planning on doing?" Matt asked confused.

"Raising the dead?" Daniella asked confused.

"No, you can't. Well...you aren't supposed to anyway. Personal gain."
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Desiree was upstairs looking at her mother's books a little more closely. What the hell was going on with her lately? What the heck was she and what did her mother and father do to get themselves killed?

She had so many questions, to many questions. And right now she didn't feel like answering any of them. What she felt like was drowning her sorrows...and what better way to do that then was to get some alcohol.

Desiree looked through her wallet and pulled out the fake I.D. which said that she was 21. She grabbed some make-up and applied it, trying to make herself look older.

Twenty minutes later, Desiree was speeding down the street to the first club that she saw. She squinted as she read the the sign. "P 3 " she said.

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"In the book of Anubis, there is a spell. Umm...I'm not sure what it is called but I know it tracks down a killer of a victim." Sara said, thinking on it a moment.

"If we can find the killer, we can find the people trying to kill Desiree and put an end to them." Tony said, getting up from the table. "I'll go pick up the book and any of the ingredients we might need." He said, grabbing for his keys.

"Ok, I'll clean up and then we can work on the spell once you get back." Sara said, rising from the table and putting up some dishes. "Hopefully we can solve this by tonight."

"If its demons you guys will need back-up." Matt said, hoping to kick some demon butt.

"Yea! That's right." Daniella said enthusiastically.

"God, the person that we are going after killed two people and most likely more. Is sending people to kill our--our new family member. And you two can only think about fighting demons." Terry said, rolling her eyes at the both of them.

Before anybody could say anything else, the doorbell rang. Sara and Tony both glanced at the clock, it was about 9:12. Tony and Sara looked at eachother. "Anybody dropping by?" Sara asked, while wakling into the livingroom followed by Tony.

"Probably Carmine, although he has a key. Kind of late for visitors." Tony said, and stopped a little behind Sara as she opened the door to reveal Phoebe and Paige Halliwell.

"Hello I am so sorry it is late. But I was hoping we could come in and talk. Oh this is my sister Paige." Phoebe said, and Paige smiled.

"Sure come on in." Sara was a bit speechless and exchanged a glance with Tony. He shook his head. "How about we go into the living room."

"Again I'm sorry. It took me a while to track you down." Phoebe said, glancing at Paige who merely nodded.

"Umm...we have reason to believe that your daughter." Phoebe paused, thinking of how to say this. She hadn't really figured out what she was going to say. "might be attacked again." Paige glanced over to see Daniella, Terry and Matt peeking in from the kitchen.

Tony and Sara shared another look, and then back at Paige and Phoebe. "We know this already." Tony said. Phoebe and Paige nodded.

"Ok," Phoebe said, noticing the kids. "Is there somewhere else we might be able to go to talk? There is something else you might not know." Tony looked down and smiled, then back at his kids.

"The Charmed Ones where?!" Adam shouted from the other room. "I want to see!"

Phoebe and Paige both turned in shock at the kitchen, as Daniella tried to grab Adam and pull him back. They both turned in unison to look at Sara and Tony. "How about you sit down?" Sara smiled at the both of them.

"This conversation is going to go a lot more smoothly." Paige smiled.
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"Give me another bartender!" Desiree shouted, looking at her empty glass of Hyptonique.

"Hey, baby. You're hot and I'm hot. How about we go back to my place and get...sweaty." A guy said, coming up to her.

Desiree shook her head and smiled. " This day keeps getting worse." she murmured. "Listen buddy. I'm hot. But I'm too hot for you. So why don't you go over to that girl over there. The brunette, she looks easy." Desiree pointed out another girl. The guy looked at her smirked and then made his way toward the girl she picked out. "A$$hole." she rolled her eyes. "Bartender!"

"Hi, honey. Let me see that I.D. of yours." A woman said, Desiree eyeballed her for a second. Attractive brunette. Mid to late twenties. Definitely didn't look like the help.

"Sure," Desiree took the I.D. out of her Prada bag and handed to the woman.

"Hmmm...Desiree." She held it up in the light of the bar, making Desiree smile. It was made with the best equipment, no way was anybody going to figure out that she was under 21. The lady handed it back to her, and refilled her glass. "Sorry, about that. You just look so young. How many have you had?"

"Listen Miss..." Desiree trailed off waiting for the lady to give her the name.

"Go ahead and call me Piper." The lady smiled.

"Piper, I have been having a horrible day. Hell, week. My parents died, I have been attacked not once but twice and I found out that the man I thought was my father isn't, and that I now have to stay with the man and his family that actually is. So I'm going to be need a lot of these." Desiree pointed at the glass. Piper's eyes widened realizing that this was the girl they had been looking for. She raised her hands and froze the entire club, except for her and Desiree...and two demons.

"Oh crap." Piper muttered, shaking her head and rubbing her temple.

[Assassin Witch]

Oh, this is great, DP.

I love the dinner convo, spelling things out so the little one doesn't understand. And then when Phoebe and Paige came. They didn't know the family was magical? That was funny. And, the end. Piper's famous lines..."Oh Crap." This will be fun!

[prue]

finally! an update! hooray! please update again soon!

[DarkPhoenix]

Piper had to think fast, the fact that they didn’t freeze worried her. If they were immune to that power, there was a chance that blowing them up wouldn’t work either. Beside the fact that someone could walk in the club at any moment.

“Who turned off the music?” Desiree asked, looking around the club. Piper waved her hands unfreezing the club, but the demons had already spotted her. Damn it, she thought. And more than likely they had seen Desiree as well.

The demons smiled and started moving toward Piper, she shook her head and looked at Desiree. “Hey, how about you come with me?”

“Sorry, I am not into that.” Desiree said, taking the last sip of her drink.

“Look, I know you are underage. Come to the back with me so I can call someone to come pick you up or the police.” Piper said, while keeping her eyes focused on the demons that were slowly making there way over toward her. Piper glanced at Desiree who seemed to be thinking about it. “Let’s go.” Piper said, looking back up at the demons.

Desiree slid out of her stool and Piper walked with her. “I’ll be right back ok.”

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“She’s not upstairs.” Sara said, running downstairs.

“What?!” Tony said, jumping up from the chair that he was sitting in. Paige and Phoebe both looked concerned.

“You think the people who were after her got her?” Matt questioned, glancing at Phoebe and Paige.

“No.” Terry answered, making Tony and Sara look at her. She was looking out the living room window. “She ran away.”
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Piper looked down the hall, and saw Desiree ambling after her. She eyed behind her, and saw no one. She opened her office doors, and let Desiree come inside. She quickly closed the door behind her, the demons would be here any minute. The only option she could think of was to call Chris and have them orbed away. Then she would go home grab some potions and off these two demons.

“Hey, you ok?” Piper asked, noticing that Desiree was rubbing her head. Piper reached out toward Desiree, but she instantly grabbed Piper’s wrist with surprising speed. Piper gasped in shock, looking at Desiree’s eyes suddenly she heard something from behind and saw the two demons. She raised her hand and felt her power rush out of her, suddenly and both burst instantly and then she saw darkness.

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“ So tell me again what happened?” Carmine asked, glancing from Tony and Sara to back up at the attic. Terry and Matt walked by in a hurry, they were going to have to drop off Danielle at school first and then go.

“Bye kids. Love you.” Sara called after them, the kids waved back and ran down the stairs. She shook her head in dismay.

“She broke out of here and then made her way to P3.” Tony said, staring at his brother.

“P3?” Carmine asked, looking at Sara.

“The club.” Tony said, and still Carmine looked confused. “The club owned by one of the Charmed Ones. By the way, two of the three came by last night. The other one was at the club.”

“Ok, I still don’t understand what happened.” Carmine said.

“We aren’t to sure either, that is why we wanted you here before we started to question her.” Sara said, while looking between Tony and Carmine.

“ Question her for what? What happened?”

“Well, like we said she went to P3 got drunk and passed out right alongside with Piper Halliwell. But unlike Piper Halliwell Desiree can still wake up.”

“The Charmed One is dead?” Carmine asked, in shock.

“No! Thank god.” Sara said, “But she is in the hospital. Unconscious. Maybe even a coma. There was evidence of a vanquish in the room.”

“So I am not sure what that has to do with Desiree?” He glanced at his brother, “Is she ok? Nothing happened to her did it?”

“No, we just want to see what she knows. Because if Piper Halliwell vanquished two demons right in front of her, then perhaps she knows about…magic. Which could ease us into telling her that she is a witch.” Tony said.

“Oh, sounds like a plan.” Carmine turned to run up the stairs.

“She has a hangover.” Sara said.

“Good.” Carmine said, banging on the attic door really loudly. “GOOD MORNING! DESIREE ARE YOU UP?!” Tony suppressed a smile, while Sara stared up at Carmine with shock. There was a muffled answer on the other side of the door. “I CAN’T HEAR YOU!! SPEAK UP! CAN WE COME IN?!”

“Come in!” Desiree’s voice came from the other room. Carmine opened the door and walked in followed by Sara and Tony. Desiree was laying down, while rubbing her head. “I hate you.” she said to Carmine.

“I love you too.” Carmine said, smiling while hopping onto her bed, leaving Tony and Sara standing with their arms crossed. “You look messed up.”

“We need to talk about last night.” Tony said, trying to get right down to business. “There are certain rules in this house that I think we need to discuss. For instance, you don’t run out without telling us. I am not even sure how you got out the front door.”

“She climbed out the window.” Carmine said, earning him a punch in the arm from Desiree.

“Oh.” Tony said, glancing at the window and then back at Sara. They were three stories up. “Well, I guess you should know that we don’t climb out windows without informing us first.”

“And we don’t go drinking when we are underage. I am a little shocked that you have a fake I.D.” Sara interjected, shaking her head.

“But we must talk about what happened last night.” Tony said, making Desiree look up at Tony. “ You went to P3 and got…uh…inebriated…”

“Inebriated?” Carmine asked, frowning.

“Drunk.” Desiree answered quickly, biting on her lip. Trying to recall what exactly happened the night before, because now she couldn’t remember anything.

“Yeah, and you ended up knocked out in the office of Piper Halliwell. Do you remember how that happened?” Tony asked.

“Umm…” Desiree sighed, trying to think of the events of last night. “ I remember having a couple of drinks and then I remember talking to someone. The music stopped for a moment. I walked with someone somewhere and then I remember you brining me home.” she said, looking at Tony.

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Phoebe stood at his sister’s side, looking down at her. She frowned she didn’t like this at all. This was a magical condition, but Leo was unable to save her. Which made it very confusing as to what happened.

“I just don’t understand how this happened.” Paige said, pacing behind Phoebe. Right along with Leo who was holding Wyatt.

“It doesn’t make any sense.” Phoebe said, shaking her head while looking down at Piper.

“You couldn’t get a vision of what happened?” Chris asked, from the back starting to become impatient with the whole thing. He had not remembered any of this in the history books, which was partly a good thing. It might have been so insignificant that it didn’t need to be listed or there was a possibility that this was a different outcome that he hadn’t expected on encountering. Changing time was something different.

“I have tried, and I got nothing.” Phoebe said, while holding Piper’s hand.

“There has got to be something we can do. I mean it doesn’t make any sense, for this to happen. It has to be magical right? I mean she is healthy.”

“The elders don’t what has happened to her? They are just as confused as we are.” Leo said, while glancing down at his son. He was glad Wyatt didn’t know what was going on.

“Maybe…” Phoebe thought about the last time this type of thing had happened to Piper. No Leo healed her completely so that couldn’t be it. They could try the Awakening spell that had worked last time, although there had been the personal gain drawback.

“Maybe what?” Chris asked, trying to think. “Can you feel anything from her right now?”

“What?” Phoebe asked, looking back at him. Paige and Leo both looked at her as well.

“Do you feel anything from her? Like pain, or happiness?” Chris asked, thinking to himself how he could help the situation.

“Oh…” Phoebe paused a minute, and closed her eyes. “No.”

“What about the girl? What does she know?” Paige asked, she was getting tired of standing there and doing nothing.

“She was drunk when we found her. I’ll call her parents and see if…” Phoebe paused, looking down at Piper. She could have sworn she saw movement behind her eyelids. “Piper?” Phoebe’s eyes narrowed, looking down at her sister.

“What is it?” Leo said, coming forth holding Wyatt in his hands. Wyatt looked down at his mom. The little boy raised his hand.

“Momma.” he whispered, a golden light came from him and into Piper.

“What just happened?” Paige asked from behind.

“I think he just woke his mother up.” Leo said, staring down at his ex-wife. For a moment, Piper still laid still. Everyone in the room watched silently for a moment, thinking that whatever Wyatt did might not have worked. Then Piper’s eyes popped open, causing everybody in the room to breathe in relief. Piper blinked a couple of times breathing hard, then she looked up at everybody.

“What?” Phoebe and Paige jumped on her smothering her with hugs, and Leo put Wyatt down on the bed. She grabbed her son. “What happened? Why am I here?”

“We were hoping you could tell us.” Chris answered said, relieved to see his mother awake. But still had to pretend that she was just his charge.

Piper smiled down at Wyatt, and then looked up at them. “I don’t…” she was interrupted by the door opening. A nurse came in bringing a tray of food in.

“Hi, oh I see that you were are awake. Good I can tell the doctor, he can come in and give you a check up.” she said smiling at Piper. Paige and Phoebe moved off the bed.

“How long will she have to be here?” Paige asked.

“Oh not that long.” the nurse said, while checking Piper’s vital signs. She reached over to grab Piper’s paperwork and accidentally hit the pitcher of water that was upon the little tray. Piper instinctively went to freeze but nothing came out, and the water spilled all over the tray. “Oh I am so sorry.” the nurse quickly took the tray back out of the room. “I’ll bring you another one.” She saw the shocked expression on Piper’s face. “I’ll put on a piece of cake on it as well.” The nurse said, trying to rectify the mistake she had just done.

Once she left and closed the door, Piper turned to Leo. “My powers.” he nodded.

“What about your powers?” Chris asked.

“They are gone.” Piper said,

[prue]

cool! really excited about this story. it really flows well. keep up the good work! look forward to reading more!

[Assassin Witch]

Poor Desiree. Gotta love that screaming during a hangover.

And yet, she still knows NOTHING! What luck.

Piper..Piper...Piper...losing her powers..what happened at the club?

And Chris..Oh, I love him. Worried about what was going on and his mother.

And of course, Wyatt. Healing his "Momma".

Great job, DP!