Post by StoryGirl83 on May 13, 2009 22:40:14 GMT -5
Chapter Twenty-One – Discussion and Annoyance
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Chris entered the kitchen and smirked at the sight of what looked like his dad pouring a liquid into a potion bottle. Even know that this was really his mom, he couldn’t help but find the image funny.
He must have made a sound, because both Piper and Paige looked up. Piper stopped pouring and scrutinized him. “Chris?”
He nodded.
“You’re early.”
He nodded, again. “I got attacked by a demon at Wyatt’s work, so Dad got out of work and brought me here.”
“Attacked!” Piper looked him over worried.
“I’m okay,” Chris assured her. “It’s thanks to your powers, Mom.”
“My powers? Oh, you got them?”
“Yeah. I was able to freeze the demon who attacked me and I used your exploding power to make him back off.”
“Back off only?” Paige asked grabbing a new potion bottle.
Chris nodded. “He was flinching, but didn’t explode.”
“Did you try looking him up?”
“I haven’t been to the manor, so no.”
Paige smiled a little. “No. I made a copy of the Book over the years, so my kids could access it.”
Chris stared at her. “You copied the Book?”
Paige nodded.
“Are you nuts?! What if demons got a handle on the copy? Wouldn’t that be just as bad as getting the original? It is safe? Is it . . ?”
“Wyatt, I mean, Chris, calm down,” Piper commanded.
“How can I calm down?” Chris asked, not even noticing the mistake as he stared at his mom and aunt. “Do you have any idea what could has that ever happened? And if not can you at least imagine the catastrophe?”
Piper frowned as a memory filtered through her mind.
“Do you realize how serious this is?” Leo asked, warning in his voice.
Piper frowned and looked at him, confused.
“You’re blinking,” Leo reminded them. “The Book is changing.”
“Maybe we’re blinking because of the Book,” Piper suggested as Phoebe looked at him with a grin.
Phoebe looked at Leo eagerly for an answer.
“The Book is changing because of you,” Leo argued. “It is an extension of you.”
As Phoebe turned back to look at Piper for an answer Piper considered this. “Huh. I should care about that, but I don’t.” And then they walked away not caring about what Leo was trying to tell them.
They hadn’t had the Book. They’d had Prue, but changing Prue had changed both them and the Book. The Book was connected to them.
“I put a spell on it so it could only be read when a member of our family line was touching it,” Paige informed him, defensively.
“That’s something at least,” Chris agreed grudgingly. “But you can’t keep something like that. It’s dangerous in the wrong hands,” he glared at her, “even if they can’t read it.”
“Are you saying that mine are the wrong hands?” Paige asked a little indignant.
Chris groaned. “No. I just meant it’s hard enough to protect one Book let alone two. Or three. Does Aunt Phoebe have one, too?”
“Just a few spells,” Paige informed him.
Chris groaned. “There is a reason there is only one Book and that Book is in the manor.”
Piper shook her head. “Chris, there is not only one Book. Other Books may have different spells, may have diverged at various points, because they were written by different people, but there is not only one Book of Shadows. I grant you most of them don’t copy the entire original Book,” Piper gave Paige an amused look before continuing. “Each Book is connected to those who used it and that is what makes Paige’s book really different from the one we have at the manor. Our Book is connected to my mom, to Grams, to Melinda Warren, and to everyone in between. Paige’s book is only connected to her and her family. And one day her book will have spells that aren’t in ours and ours will do the same.”
Chris was silent for several seconds before he sighed. “I still don’t like it.”
A crash from another room stopped anyone from responding.
Flashback from "Bride and Gloom".