Okay so its been a hell of a long time since you heard from me like six months or something im really ashamed but thats what i get for having other fanfics a hectic lifestyle and other life dramas! Anyway its here now so I hope you enjoy it
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Don-Amy: Thanx for the review and pointing out that i needed to update coz it was ur favourite fic! So here is the chapter all for you and i promise that chapter seven will not take this long promise promise hugsxxx
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Without anything further to say here is chapter six!
Charmed And Cursed
Chapter Six: Preparing For A Fight
Myrenna looked between the sisters. "I want to tell you." Leo appeared again and she snarled. Leo didn't look fazed in the slightest. Seeing her look he laughed. "What just because you attack me you think that you scare me?" Myrenna looked affronted but nodded.
Leo scoffed, "Sorry Myrenna but you'll have to do better than that." She nodded and then froze. Leo nodded. "I know your name and I think I know who you are. More importantly I'm beginning to know who he is." Myrenna felt her jaw drop.
"If you can prove to me that you will not hurt him and that you care for him as much as you claim I may let you see him." She nodded. "That seems fair." Phoebe stepped forward then. "Leo seems to understand you better than we do but let me make this clear you hurt him again and we're out of here and you'll never see your guy again understand?"
"You wouldn't dare!" Myrenna snarled. "You have no idea what I am, who I am or who he is to me."
"Then let me give you one piece of advice." Piper said frowning. "Leo is his life line the only stable influence he has ever had. He's like a father and a brother mixed into one. If you want him to respect you, to listen to you, to come to you then do not hurt Leo." Piper stopped and smirked.
"He wants to let you know that regardless of what you say, you hurt Leo and he's out of here. He doesn't care what you have to say. You'll never see him again. Is that understood?"
Myrenna felt like she couldn't breathe. John had chosen the Elder over her. But then Leo had protected him. She had to give him that. It had never occurred to her that while the Elders had hidden him they would also take care of him, protect him like of their other charges.
She always assumed that he would be treated with neglect because of who he was. But John's reaction to her hostility against Leo proved otherwise. Everything she had ever lived for, mainly the downfall of the Elders would have to be re-evaluated.
She could not hurt Leo if she wanted to ever see John again. He obviously cared about Leo and the obvious hostility, and maybe even hate he had for her cut through her like a knife but then again it could hardly be helped after the way she had acted. Not if he loved Leo as much as the Sisters claimed he did.
And besides his actions spoke for themselves. It was time to give Leo a break, as much as she hated it and perhaps it was time to think that there was a good Elder, a good white lighter after all.
What was the world coming too?
Elders and White Lighters were not meant to be good. They were meant to interfering prats that knew too much but this one seemed to have the respect of his charges and more than that he had Piper's love.
Piper.
Now there was someone who was dangerous to cross. Myrenna realised again the mistake she had made in crossing Piper. Piper loved Leo; Myrenna could see that now, possibly as much as Myrenna herself love John. Could she really hate Piper then, for protecting Leo at all costs?
No she couldn't.
Because for John she had done exactly the same thing before he was taken from her. So no she couldn't hate Piper for loving Leo. And more importantly she could see that she couldn't really hate Leo for keeping John from her. She could try but really it wasn't fair.
Of course that didn't mean she wasn't going to try to hate him. She couldn't just give up her animosity she had hated the Elders for too long to just forget all the anger and all the pain they had caused her but she would try and remember that Leo had protected John despite keeping him from her.
Jake watched the woman that seemed to be willing to do anything to see him and couldn't help thinking that he had seen her somewhere before. He had this funny feeling in his chest that he knew her. But that was ridiculous. She was a vampire and he was a half-werewolf if there was anyone that the werewolves hated more than anyone it was the vampires. But he couldn't shake the feeling that he had seen her before.
Something in his chest was telling he not only knew her but he had been close to her. He could see her somewhere else. He shook his head. He was being stupid. He was staring off into space when he realised that Leo was speaking to him. "Jake?" He asked gently.
"Jake?" He asked again. Jake looked at his mentor. "Leo?" He asked quietly. "Are you alright?" Leo asked looking intently at his charge. "Erm…" He paused and shrugged deciding that the truth was possibly the best way to go. "I'm not sure I feel strange." Leo looked at him. "You didn't get Bitten did you?"
Jake gave Leo an offended look. "As if I would let that happen!" He said affronted. "Jake I'm only asking you know another bite and you would be turned fully." Jake sighed. "I know. And I know it's stupid to take the risk but I hate them so much I just want them gone." Leo nodded. "Well now it looks like we have another problem to deal with first little one."
Jake nodded. "She's really going to offer to flush out the vampires?" Leo nodded. "So it would seem." "But it's that going against her own code of honour?" He asked perplexed. "You did the same thing and whether you like it or not nothing can change the fact that you are part werewolf."
Jake grinned. "Yeah with none of their weaknesses. It's brilliant." Leo rolled his eyes but was secretly pleased. It had taken him along time to get Jake to see it that way and for Jake to be admitting freely like this was a victory that Leo couldn't deny.
Jake looked at Leo seriously after a moment. "Look Leo are you okay working with this vamp? I mean she seems to take an interest in killing you at every opportunity."
Leo smiled. "She may want to but we both know that unless she gets hold of Dark Lighter poison I'll be fine. And I think there's more too it than that. She seems to have a grudge against the Elders in general and since I'm the one on closest contact with her I'm getting the brunt of her attacks. She's angry and in pain and if she wants to take that anger and pain out on me then fine."
Jake shook his head. "I don't know how you do it at times. You're always so calm even if you're life is in danger you don't worry about yourself. Leo I can't loose you you're the most constant thing I've ever had in my life."
Leo smiled his eyes lighting up at Jake's confession. "I know but you don't need to worry honestly." Jake shook his head. "No Jake you don't need to worry." He looked round to see Piper in the doorway. "I do enough of that for the both of us."
He laughed and then looked at her. "So what's going on then?" "Myrenna has agreed to lead us to the vampires so Phoebe and Paige are looking in the Book of Shadows now to read up and I'm making as many vanquishing potions as I can."
"What can I do to help?" Jake asked eager to impress his guardian's wife and eager to prove he wasn't just an innocent that needed saving. "You can help Leo plan how we are going to get in and get back out again." Piper said not missing the look on his face but eager to keep him out of Myrenna's way.
"I don't need protecting Piper." He said proving that he knew what she was doing. "I never said you did." Piper said. "It's just you've already proven that you work with Leo so now I need your help and if it keeps you out of Myrenna's way all the better." She shrugged.
Piper regarded Jake. She wasn't about to lie to him he had lived enough to know better but she wasn't about to let him be near Myrenna either and he needed to know that.
Jake nodded respecting Piper for telling him the truth. Besides until he could work out exactly what was going on with him he didn't think he wanted to be anywhere near Myrenna so that was fine with him.
Piper nodded and then turned and left the two boys to speculate and form an escape route. Piper herself went up into the attic to check on her sisters and to see what they had found out.
She opened the door to the attic and found Phoebe and Paige gathered round the Book Of Shadows and Myrenna lounging on one of the old sofas at the other side of the room.
"You know for someone who is about to take on their own Clan you're remarkably relaxed." She observed coolly. Myrenna looked up and an emotion flashed through her eyes but before Piper could identify it, it was gone and Myrenna simply shrugged and said,
"They haven't been my Clan for a long time I maybe a vampire but I work alone now. I will stand by my end of the bargain if Leo intends to keep his." "Leo will keep his end of the bargain." Piper snapped.
"It should be me you're worried about try and hurt him again and make no mistake Myrenna I will find a way to vanquish you."
They glared at each other for a moment before Paige came round the front of the book and glared at them both. "All right! This is going to be hard enough for us all as it is without you two wanting to blow each other up."
Phoebe looked at them both. "Myrenna Leo has promised that you can see Jake if you keep up your end of the bargain make no mistake that he would never go back on his word. He maybe what you hate but he is the only thing that links you to him and if you want to see him I suggest you take Piper's advice and not hurt Leo."
She looked at them both. "I don't know why he means so much to you though it's not hard to guess but until you've proved that you are trustworthy and have no intention of hurting him we aren't going to let you come anywhere near him."
Then she looked at her sister.
"And Piper you may not like her, you may want to hurt her and we wouldn't blame you but she's here for the foreseeable future and more than that we need her help so you're gonna have to put your differences aside." She looked at Myrenna "Both of you."
Piper and Myrenna continued to stare at one another before they both signed and nodded slightly. They didn't like it but they could see the logic.
Piper turned, "Ok so what have you got?"
Phoebe was scanning the page. "That these vampires, the Sacred Clan are different from those that we've dealt with before." "The vampires you vanquished four years ago where cast out by the King for not following the rules and trying to overthrow the King in favour of trying to take over the Underworld." Myrenna said inspecting her nails.
"They were stripped of many of their titles meaning their power was reduced." "They were still powerful." Paige said rubbing her neck thinking of when she had been bitten.
"I'm not disputing that." Myrenna said. "I had a few run ins with them myself what I'm saying is that they will seem like child's play when you go up against Thoran."
"It looks like it." Phoebe said scanning the page.
"It says here that Thoran was the first of the Vampires. Not wanting to die he made a pact with the Goddess Isis in which he became immortal if only to drink another person's blood. Of course the goddess tricked him, as sliver and wood are still lethal to vampires. He started to share blood with others creating the first Made vampires and then he fell in love and married Meave."
"Yes. She was a witch and a powerful one at that. Being with Thoran give her prolonged life." Myrenna said standing up and coming round to look at the page in the Book Of Shadows."
"It says here that she gave him nine children before she died in childbirth with the last." "Yes nine children." Myrenna said looking at the drawing hoping to hell it didn't mention names the last thing she needed was for the Charmed Ones to know who she was.
"Myra, Hunter, Reanna, Tasmin, Helena, Quinn, Alexander, Anette, Stefan and Damon." Myrenna reeled off the names easily and at their looks she shrugs. "They are the royal family everyone knows them."
Piper blew out her breath. "Meave must have been a super mom I feel drained looking after two!" Myrenna grinned. "She was, I was there when she was crowned. She was an amazing Queen besides Reanna and Tasmin are twins as are Anette and Stefan."
Myrenna realised something then, "Where are your children Piper?" Piper looked up from where she had been studying the book trying to work out what would be needed to make the potions lethal.
"The boys?" Myrenna nodded. "They're staying with my dad. He came and picked them up earlier. I have a feeling this won't be as simple as before and I don't want Wyatt to get ideas if he came face to face with a vampire."
Myrenna couldn't help it she laughed. Piper allowed herself a smile. "You have no idea. He wouldn't think to be scared. He'd just end up causing even more mayhem than there would be already and Chris would just follow his brother's example."
"They sound like a handful." Myrenna said thinking of her younger brothers and sisters they could be the same at times. "They are." Piper said but her eyes were twinkling all the same. "Having supernatural children isn't easy." "No I'd guess it wouldn't be." Both Myrenna and Piper then realised at the same time that they were indeed capable of having a conversation without ripping each other's throat out.
"So you can do it." A voice said at the doorway. Myrenna looked round and looked at Leo. "Do you have a Death Wish?" She asked exasperated. Why couldn't he just leave her alone? He had John did he have to taunt her with the knowledge by just being there?
"No." Leo said calmly. "I'm just not afraid of you. I have no reason to be." Myrenna fought hard not to react. "I've proven that I'm quite capable of ripping your throat out." Leo shrugged. "And I've proved I really don't care." "Besides you have a bargain to keep I said if you keep up your end I would let you see my charge and I will hold to that…" he quirked an eyebrow at this. "Unless you prove that your going to endanger him."
"I would never do that." Myrenna said outraged. "Then be sensible instead of being the Ice Bitch you want everyone to believe you are." Leo said. With that he smirked at the girls who were still stood at the book trying to hide their smiles and walked out the room.
Piper coughed to clear the giggle that was still in her throat and gathered a list together of all the different potions they were going to need before she gave each of her sisters directions and then turned to Myrenna.
"We're about to hunt a hunter I hope you know what I'm doing." Myrenna scoffed. "I know what I'm doing I just pray that you know what you're doing." They stared at each other before turning away
One began to prepare for a fight with yet another demon in the Underworld and one prepared to kill the father she hadn't seen in over five hundred years.
Myrenna didn't show it, but she was terrified she knew what was expected of her but this was her family and she may hate her father more than life itself but she didn't know if she had it in her to kill him.
Then she thought of John.
John the last time she had seen him and her father's face when he had killed him and then again when he had gone to Elders and asked them to cloak him and it steeled her resolve.
Oh she was prepared all right.
For John she was prepared for anything.