Post by StoryGirl83 on Sept 20, 2008 19:17:48 GMT -5
Chapter Twelve – Unwanted Interruptions
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“I finally get to meet him,” Vicki said excitedly to no one in particular.
Prue smiled as she reentered the room. “Yes, you finally get to meet him.” She walked over to where Andy was sitting.
Pat’s head turned toward the door at the sound of more footsteps. As Piper and Victor entered the room a big grin danced on her lips. Turning to look at her mom she asked, “That’s Grandpa, isn’t it.”
Prue smiled back. “Yes, that is.”
Pat pushed back her chair. She froze as she noticed her hands. In her excitement she had forgotten about them, but now they were worse. Her wrists and about an inch of her arms had been added to her transparent hands. Her eyes widening, she looked at Piper. “Aunt Piper, did you warn him?”
Piper frowned and turned to Victor. “Remember I told you that unless we figured out something we’ll lose them, well this morning they noticed that they had started to fade from view.”
Victor frowned and looked at the unfamiliar people in the room, the granddaughters he had never met. “They look fine to me.”
Reluctantly, Pat held up her hands, showing to everyone what she had already noticed, that she was faded even more.
Victor stared. He didn’t know what he expected, but her transparent hands weren’t it.
Alanna frowned. “They’re worse.”
Pat nodded, miserable.
Seeing Pat’s hands once more brought to Chris’ mind memories of a day he’d rather forget, the day he almost didn’t exist. Mumbling to himself, he said, “Just like when I almost didn’t exist because Mom and Dad almost didn’t conceive me.”
“Excuse me?” Melinda asked, surprised.
Paige’s eyebrows rose as she too remembered that day. “That was an interesting day. We almost lost all three of you in one swoop.”
Realizing that he needed to make some sort of comment Chris tried to make it sound like it was amusing as he gave his aunt a lazy grin. “There’s nothing much creepier than trying to get your parents to conceive you.”
Melinda turned to Wyatt, realizing she wasn’t going to get much of an understandable answer from Chris. “What on earth?”
Unfortunately for her, Wyatt didn’t know so he just shrugged. “I’m going with, I don’t know and I don’t think I want to.”
Melinda laughed as did several other people in the room, the ones who didn’t know what Chris and Paige were talking about.
Despite being successful in making it sound amusing, Chris scowled, disliking anything about his travels to the past being center stage. “How about we get back to work on finding a solution to our problem?”
A demon with scars on both cheeks, the same one Steve had talked to earlier, shimmered into the room behind Pat and Vicki. At first no one noticed, but then Prue saw the demon as it snuck behind her daughters. Her first instinct was to protect her daughters, so without thinking she yelled, “Stay away from my daughters!” Her head jerked a little as she automatically reacted, sending the demon across the room with her eyes. Then, seeing that is worked she blinked, a stunned expression on her face. Her powers were working, again!