Post by StoryGirl83 on Aug 27, 2008 23:09:30 GMT -5
Chapter Eleven – Getting Ready
Several minutes later, Wyatt was still scrying. The crystal circled round and round the map, but nothing definite seemed to show up.
Chris was writing on a notepad. He had finished the third potion, bottled all three, and was trying to come up with a spell that might help.
Despite that fact that Chris was no longer working on the potion, Beth was still watching him fascinated. She had seen her mom do very little with magic in the last couple weeks and this was new. She was soaking it up. With her brother and whitelighter no longer in the room, she was surrounded by strangers, but strangers she was quickly learning to trust.
Kali was once more standing at Chris shoulder, but this time she trying read over his shoulder. Something he wrote caught her eye and she frowned. “He’s not a demon, Chris. That won’t work.”
To her left, Mark entered the room through an arch that lead into his living room. He turned left to the opposite end of the table, where Beth sat and walked over to his sister. He whispered something in her ear and she got up and followed him out of the room.
Chris turned his head to look at Kali, minor annoyance in his green eyes. “Who is the spell writer here?”
Kali gave him a speculative look. “You? Since when?”
“Yes,” Chris sighed, “Kali, I write spells. Can you trust me to do this right?”
“Sorry,” Kali told him, taking a step back. “I’m just worried.”
Chris nodded, sympathetically, “Considering this is your boyfriend, you’re entitled to be worried, but please, just let me write.”
As he said that, the scrying crystal in Wyatt’s hand hit the map. “Kali, I have a location.”
Kali circled the table, until she was at his side. She looked down at the map, her eyes widening as she realized what she was looking at. “That’s his dorm.”
Wyatt looked at her in surprise. He would have thought the guy would have fled campus or been stalking then or something besides just hanging out in his dorm room. “Wonder what he is doing there.”
“I don’t know,” Kali admitted. “Rethinking this plan, plotting something new, resting. Who knows.”
All sounded like reasonable explanations, so Wyatt turned to his brother. “How is that spell coming?”
To their left, Mark and Beth returned to the room carrying snacks. Beth had a bowl of popcorn and some pretzel sticks.
At his brother’s voice, Chris stopped writing and looked up. “I think it will work.”
“How’s it going?” Mark wanted to know as he set down the stuff in his arms.
“We found Gary,” Wyatt informed him, pointing to where the crystal had settled. “Now, we are going to go have a talk with him.”
At the end of the table Chris picked up two of the bottled potions. He left the third one on the table.
“Thank you for helping,” Mark breathed. I’m glad these two are on my side. I’ve only seen them do this much and already I know that.
“Mark,” Chris said, turning his attention to the young man, his voice drawing Mark out of his thoughts, “the potion I left on the table is an explosive. It will help if a demon attacks.”
“We make pretty pathetic witches,” Beth admitted, “don’t we?”
Chris shook his head. “Not too good yet, but not pathetic and you are learning or I imagine you would already be dead.” He nodded at his brother. “I’m ready.”
Wyatt acknowledged his brother with a grin, “Okay.” He looked at the Trudeau siblings. “We need Kali with us, since she knows Gary, so stick together and call Mikelle back if you need her. She can get us if needed.”
Beth’s only response was a nod of her head.
“Let’s just hope we don’t need to,” Mark added with a slightly worried expression.
“Agreed,” Wyatt acknowledged. “See you later.” Without waiting for a response Wyatt headed out of the room followed by Chris and Kali.
As the other three left the room, Beth turned to her brother. “We can do this, right?”
Mark smiled a little. “I think we can. We can learn a lot from those two.”
Beth nodded. “Yeah, we can.” She picked up the potion vial and turned it in her hand. “Think Mom can do this?”
Mark picked up the hand written notes and potion recipes Chris had left on the table. He looked at them for a moment before putting them down. “When we get out of this mess, I think we should see what else she has to teach us. Considering they live in San Francisco, I kind of doubt we will be seeing a lot of those two.”
“San Francisco isn’t that far.”
Mark shrugged. “Far enough, but imagine if we really needed it, like now, they’d come help.”
Beth nodded as she sat down at the table in front of Chris’ papers. Picking them up she started reading. “I guess for now, let’s see what we can learn from this.”
Mark pulled over a chair and sat down next to his sister. He picked up a second paper and started to read.