NEW YORK, NEW YORK

By PrinceCharmed

Author's note: This is a Charmed/Tru Calling crossover. This story takes place between the Tru Calling episodes "Rear Window" and "Two Weddings and a Funeral", and before the Charmed episode "Crimes and Witch Demeanors".

DISCLAIMER: "Tru Calling" and all of its characters are the property of FOX/Jon Harmon Feldman. "Charmed" and all of its characters are property of Constance M. Burge/Aaron Spelling/Brad Kern/The WB. This is a work of my imagination, is for entertainment purposes only, and is not intended in any way shape or form for profit.

CHAPTER FOUR

Jack of All Trades

"Wait, we met this guy yesterday?" Paige asked in confusion after Phoebe explained her premonition to them.

"Yeah. I seem to be the only one that remembers yesterday." Phoebe said.

"You think we're in some kind of time loop again?" Piper asked Phoebe.

"Yeah, I do. And I think those demons may have something to do with it."

At the house…

Jack raised his arm, preparing to knock on the front door, but before he could, it opened, and a young man was standing before him, bleached blonde hair and brown eyes.

"Um, hi… look, I was just leaving"-

"Could I please use your telephone?" Jack asked him. "Normally I don't ask strangers of these kinds of favors, but I seem to be lost." Jack told him.

The man considered Jack's request for a moment.

"Sure. But like I said, I'm leaving soon, so make it quick. The phone is in the kitchen." He told him.

"Thanks, um… what's your name?" Jack asked.

"Michael." The man answered.

"Thanks Michael." Jack said before entering the house and going for the phone. Michael headed for his car.

Jack picked up the phone and went through its memory database. There, he found the name Lisa Tillson and hit the speed dial button.

"Hey, Lisa? Yeah, it's Michael. Listen, I know we were supposed to meet later, but something's come up and I can't meet later. Can you come over now? You can? Great! I'll see you then. Bye now."

Jack hung up the phone and let a smile cross his face.

Back on the road…

"This better be quick. The wedding is soon." Piper told her sisters.

"We can't go to the wedding. We have to save Jack… no matter the cost." Phoebe said.

"This is your best friend's wedding we're taking about, Phoebe." Paige said.

"Yeah, I know, and it sucks, but our job is to protect the innocent – that comes first."

"God, it seems like we can't enjoy anything anymore without some sort of supernatural intervention." Piper said with frustration.

The tingling feeling returned to Phoebe's body as another feeling of Déjà vu washed over her.

"You said that yesterday," Phoebe remembered.

"Did I? Well, maybe it bore repeating."

"But… it wasn't here." Phoebe said, confused.

"What do you mean?" Piper questioned.

"When you said that yesterday, we weren't in the Jeep, like we are now. Now that I think of it – I had the wrong premonition today." Phoebe told her.

"Huh?" Paige let out, obviously dumbfounded.

"Jack isn't the innocent we are supposed to be saving today," Phoebe continued, "That woman is. I had a different premonition yesterday and there was a different innocent to save. I don't understand it."

"Well, circumstances can change things." Piper told her.

It was then that it dawned on Phoebe.

"That's it!" she practically yelled out.

"What's it?" Paige asked.

"Yesterday. Yesterday, when we were in the mall, I never ran into Jack. I met him at the Morgue later that night."

"And your point is…?" Paige trailed off.

"My point is that something happened today that never happened "yesterday". By bumping into him, we've changed who we're supposed to save today."

"Okay, well we can't follow him anymore with this Jeep… looks like we lost him." Piper told her. "Maybe we should orb from here."

"Good idea." Paige said.

Piper pulled her Jeep over on the side of the road and Paige orbed the sisters to Jack.

They rematerialized in front of an old house with a stone walk.

"Is this the right place?" Paige asked Phoebe.

"I don't know until we go inside." Phoebe responded

"It's the right place all right!" Piper yelled as two demons, looking identical to one another, shimmered in.

"Witches!" One of them declared, and threw an energy ball at the trio, but Piper managed to freeze him and the ball before it made contact.

Phoebe's body started to get the tingling feeling again and then she remembered the entry in the Book of Xavier, Kain, and Trent – The demonic Brothers of Destruction.

"Oh my god!" She yelled. "One of them is in there with Jack!"

"There's another one?!" Paige said disbelievingly.

"You guys hold off these two, I'm gonna go get Jack!" Phoebe said as she went running into the house. It was then that the freeze wore of and the energy ball resumed its course of death.

"Energy Ball!" Paige called, sending the ball in reverse direction and crashing into one of the demons. He went down, but didn't stay down.

In the house…

"Michael! I'm here!" Lisa Tillson called out as she entered the house through the back door. She stopped when she saw Jack.

"Who are you?" She asked.

Suddenly, a ball of blue energy shot out from the left of Lisa and hit her, incinerating her body, and her remains crumpled to the floor.

Jack looked around, but didn't see the creature anywhere. Out of nowhere, it materialized. and stared down at the corpse of Lisa Tillson.

Seeing that his job was done, Jack went to make a quick exit, but the demon looked up and snarled.

"What are you? Another witch?"

"I'm only here to make sure you got who you're supposed to get "-

"Witch!" The thing yelled, and shot an energy ball at Jack.

"NO!" Phoebe yelled as she ran in and tackled Jack to the floor, saving him from certain death. Refusing to get up, Phoebe held Jack down to protect him.

The demon growled and fired another energy ball at Phoebe, but she held up her arm and channeled the demon's power using her empathic ability, sending it back towards him. The energy ball hit the demon and sent him crashing through the wall behind him.

Phoebe then looked to Jack.

"Are you okay?" She asked.

"Yeah. You saved me." Jack answered with a smile.

It was only at that point that Phoebe realized she was straddling Jack. She looked down at him, embarrassed. He brought his head towards her, and gently pressed his lips against hers.

"I've wanted to do that ever since I first saw you." He told her.

Feeling all of Jack's emotion as well as her own, Phoebe gave in and wrapped her arm around Jack, kissing him passionately.

Neither Phoebe nor Jack noticed Piper and Paige walk into the house.

"What the hell?!" Piper cried out in shock.