Post by StoryGirl83 on Aug 27, 2008 23:31:41 GMT -5
Chapter Four – Cilly
A couple of hours later Wyatt was still in the science room, having left Chris in the science fiction room, hours earlier. He was leaning up against a bookcase surrounded by open books. A frustrated sigh escaped his lips.
A few feet from him hearts began to form into a person. The person was a young woman in her late teens with straight brown hair. She had head phone over her ears and what appeared to be a walkman clipped to her belt. She was bopping around to unheard music.
Wyatt stared at her wide eyed. “Cilly!”
Pricilla Venus Halliwell, better known to all as Cilly, stopped moving mid bop. She grinned as she paused her cassette and hung her headphones around her neck.
Chris entered silently from the scifi room.
“Hey, Wyatt,” Cilly replied with a grin.
Wyatt looked around concerned. “Please tell me you didn’t just transport in here not knowing who was or wasn’t here.”
“Don’t be ridiculous,” his cousin scolded. “I checked first.”
“How are you doing, Cilly?” Chris asked, from his position in the doorway between the rooms.
Cilly turned around and grinned at him. “Great. Dad and Mom are going on some sort of an anniversary trip in a few days, so it’s just us girls. Though anniversary of what I’m not sure. It sure isn’t of their wedding. That’s months off.”
“So what brings you here?” Wyatt asked, trying to bring her back on topic.
Cilly didn’t hear him. She was frowning at Chris. “You’re blocked. How come?”
“I took a blocking potion when I was in the past,” Chris replied, trying to make it sound like old news. “Can we move on?”
“I heard about that,” she admitted, not getting the hint, “how you have his memories now, too.”
“My memories, Cil,” Chris protested. “They’re all my memories.”
“No me in your other life was there.” It wasn’t a question.
Chris shook his head, smiling at his cousin’s exuberance.
“I figured as much,” Cilly admitted easily. “What about Dad and Mom?”
Chris eyes took on weary look as memories filtered through his mind. “I think I would prefer to discuss something else.”
“Sure,” his cousin shrugged. “How about the fact that something weird is going on in Golden Gate Park?”
Wyatt’s attention is completely on her as he ordered, “Define weird.”
“I don’t know,” Cilly hedged teasingly. “How does streaks of light bouncing off an invisible shield that no one can see of feel and falling to the ground while turning into human beings sound?”
Wyatt eyes widened. “Definitely weird. Chris, you up for a break?”
Chris nodded. “We will find a way to fix this, but apparently not today.”
“Fix what?” Cilly asked curious.
Chris glanced at their cousin. “You haven’t heard? Wy and I can’t orb any more.”
Cilly gave them an incredulous look. “You want me to get you there then?”
“Na,” Wyatt shook his head. “My car’s in the lot.”
“Okay then,” Cilly agreed with a nod. “I’ll see you later.” She disappeared in a flash of hearts.