Practical Enchantment (AU, ADULT) Thread #8

[FaithfulAngel24]

*Maria*

Pushing my food around on my plate I find it hard to concentrate on silly things like eating when I am separated from my family and the love of my life for who knows how long. Isabel notices this and her brow narrows as she seemingly tries to figure out whats wrong with me. I wish I could just tell her the truth ,but I don't know what the repuccussions of that would be. Instead I'll just keep all these secrets locked up inside my heart.

"Rosa...let's go." The strong blonde places her hand on my arm and leads me outside. Following I notice how truly spectacular the countryside is. Everything looks so calm and yet exciting at the same time. It's a paradox in it's own terms. We wait for the hired hand to bring the horses around and during this quiet moment Iz takes this opportunity to quiz me on my rather odd behavior.

"What's on your mind?" she inquires sweetly and it hits me all at once that she really cares about me. I'm supposedly her best friend and I don't even know her. Am I just pure evil in my past life? I can't see this Isabel ever doing anything bad enough for me to justify those kind of actions. Lying through my teeth I give her what she needs to hear,

"I'm just thinking about how much I'm going to miss this after you are gone." Biting my bottum lip to keep it from quivering I gaze off into the gorgeous fields covered in wildflowers. "You are going to get married and leave me all alone." Okay, so maybe I'm drawing from a little bit of personal experience. I've always feared the day that Liz would meet 'The One' and move out of The Maynor to lead a normal life. One that didn't include her wacky always unemployed sister.

[KarenEvans]

Isabel

"I'm just thinking about how much I'm going to miss this after you are gone...You are going to get married and leave me all alone." she states sadly and I feel my eyes moisten

I hug her immediately,a tight hug,one that has always been reserved for her.
"Rosa...just because I am getting married doesn't mean that I am leaving you all alone.I know you miss your parents honey,but they'd want you to lead a happy life and not live in the past." I inform her pulling away

"Luckily Scott's family estate is only an hour away...not like it's across an ocean or anything.And seeing that you are my best friend you are more than welcome to visit me,stay for months at a time.You do know that." I say bending slightly to look in her eyes

"Scott also said you're welcome to come and stay any time...and this place here" I continue waving my hand out across my father's land and castle "is also your home."

[madroswellfan]

~~~~~LIZ~~~~~
One minute I'm falling for what seems eternity. I squeeze my eyes tightly shut...
And then I open my eyes quickly.
I'm lying in a bed. I look around the room. Its fairly bare.
But its...like I can't see anything. Everythings a blur. I can make out a table next to me. My old self must have needed glasses. I finally manage to feel a pair and put them on.
There's one other bed in the room. Hurriedly I cross over to it.
"Max?"
But its not Max. Its Tess. She's still asleep. And although she looks completely different...I would know Tess anywhere.
God where's Max? Where's Maria. I need them and I need them now!
"Tess...tess wake up" I tell her nudging her.
I look around and spot a mirror. I look into it to see the past me.
Oh dear God.
I have jet black hair and so pale skin that it looks like Im permantely frightened. My hair looks horrible! Its so long it comes down past my waist. Its full of knots and its wavy, but not pretty wavy, just a huge mess wavy. My nose is huge and my ears stick out. And my teeth! God I'm hideous!
And my glasses? There about an inch thick and black. Imagine the geekiest pair youve ever seen and double it!
I cry out in fear. Now I dont want Max to see me in fear of him leaving me in disgust.
I let a sob escape me. Oh God what am I going to do!

[madroswellfan]

~~~~~SEBASTIAN (PAST)~~~~~
I have managed to get a job as a footman at the castle. I can feel her powers inside. Rosalyn Demarco.
I will get closer to her and see what she is and if she can be of use to me.
I must admit, I have taken a shine to the fair Isabel. She would make a good trophy. I do not normally like those without powers, but yet...I can't help but think that I could convert her...bring her round to my way of thinking.
I know of the other two with powers. I shall watch closely. But I will focus my attentions on Rosalyn...I sense her power is very great, and any excuse to be near Isabel...
I grin as I think of my plans

[FaithfulAngel24]

*Maria*

Surprising me she draws me in for a tight and meaningful hug. I apt her back a tad awkwardly before I let my guard down and hug her back. Even though there has been alot of animosity between Isabel and me I kind of felt a sort of connection to her. I don't know quite how to descibe it. It's like two people can't hate each other with that much of a passion without there being something else there. Now I know what that thing was. True Friendship. That I threw away over some guy. Trying to hold back the disgust with myself I hold her tight and I try very unsuccessfully to keep from weeping for what I lost.

"Rosa...just because I am getting married doesn't mean that I am leaving you all alone.I know you miss your parents honey,but they'd want you to lead a happy life and not live in the past." She assures me before gently pulling away. Her eyes light up with an excited sparkle as she goes on to tell me about her future with the man that destroyed my future. (Does that make sense?) Does to me.

"Luckily Scott's family estate is only an hour away...not like it's across an ocean or anything.And seeing that you are my best friend you are more than welcome to visit me,stay for months at a time.You do know that." She leans over to examine my eyes as if to read my thoughts so I downcast my eyes afraid that she'll see right through me.
I don't know what to do! If I do this horrible thing all will go back to the way it was ,but if I don't Isabel will never meet Alex. Who if you ask me is the one that belongs with Iz. No man that sleeps with his fiances Best Friend is worth the pain Izzy's been through.

I just don't think I can do it. I don't think I can sleep with any man especially Iz's intended. Not when I'm so in love with Michael, and even if I could... he would never forgive me for it. Either way I'm going to have to betray someone. Wow, some days it really sucks to be me.

"Scott also said you're welcome to come and stay any time...and this place here" Trying to keep my sarcastic nature suppressed I have to stop myself from grunting 'I'll bet.' Of course the ass wants me to stay with them. Then he gets to have his metaphorical cake and eat it too.

She waves her hand towards the castle and bak over the very land we are standing on before contining, "is also your home." I try not to let the endearment choke me up. After all I have to break her heart soon. Taking a deep breath I manage a weak smile. "Thank you." I reply hoping that will do. What else can I do? I have to play along. If I told her that I'm actually from the future and that what I do now, even though it's wrong, will lead us back to the future in which we are all in the arms of the one we love.

"Um.. do you think that we will see any of our friends today?" Okay, just thought I'd throw that in there. Max, Liz, and Tess have to be around here somewhere. According to what I've read up on past lives, (which isn't alot. There was a Sex and the City marathon on that weekend I was supposed to be studying it.) The people you are you are extremely closed to... dare I say? Cosmically linked with? Well, they are usuually in your past lives. Not neccessarily in the positon they held in your new life. Thus the whole progessing through your lives theory. So... Isabel and I are mortal enemies in the future but we were Best Friends in the past. Liz and I are close sisters in the future so... Hmmm.

[KarenEvans]

Isabel

"Um.. do you think that we will see any of our friends today?" she asks me curiously which I find rather amusing considering we meet some friend or the other practically every other day

"Yes...I'm sure we'll bump in to someone or the other." I reply as I mount my horse "Maxwell should be around here.He went our riding pretty early this morning.I have no clue whether or not he back or still out somewhere on the estate."

My brother is a workaholic...crazy man!So many women are interested in him,it's not even funny anymore.Personally I think he's the best looking guy around,aside from Scott of course.

[aliensister]

*ZARIFA*

sitting in the kitchen drinking coke.the kitchen counter is cold beneth my legs

the girls are gone, gone into the past on their own with no idea what they're getting them selves into....

god if the source wanted to launch an attack now would be the time to do it....

"god please let them be safe" i whisper to myself

i can feel something is about to go down...

[maougha]

~Kyle~

And that’s it. They’re gone. One minute they are there the next the book of shadows is crashing to the floor. I don’t move to pick it up I just stand there staring at I don’t know for how long though. Just seeing the book there I know it means something I just don’t know what.

Dustin gives voice to my worries though from his place on the couch. “How do they get back without their book? Or is there a book of shadows in the past they went to?”

“I... I don’t know.” I walk over and pick up the book carefully half expecting it to disappear, to return to it’s mistresses where it is needed the most but it doesn’t. I look over at Dustin he shrugs the guy isn’t that used to these things yet he doesn’t seemed as freaked out as me.

“With the girls gone I’m sure the source will probably try and kill us all so... and then there is that visitor that Maria said was coming and the little problem of getting our friends back .” I place the book on it’s pedestal closed.

Dustin walks up beside me looking down at the book. “Why not send the spell that can bring them back to them?” he asks.

“Not that simple.” I say. “For one thing I don’t have any magic any spell like that requires someone with power. Or so says Liz anyway. Ad there is no way of knowing if it got back to them or not.”

“Man we could use some help here.” I’m not even finished speaking when a gust of wind picks up in the addict, which is quite weird really since the window is closed. The wind blows hard enough to open the book but nothing else seems to have moved. I glance down at the page. “Now what’s this?”


OOC-Yeah what is in the book of shadows? Anyone got any ideas? i wanted to ask first before i wrote anything.

[FaithfulAngel24]

*Maria*

"Yes...I'm sure we'll bump in to someone or the other." she assured me with a confidence I wish I obtained. To be honest I'm not sure of much anymore. Though who would be after traveling back in time to see what you were like in your past and you find out that your worst fears have come to past. I was a slut. That's not even the worst of it."Maxwell should be around here.He went our riding pretty early this morning.I have no clue whether or not he back or still out somewhere on the estate." she informs me as we ride along.

It takes me a minute to process the familarity of her words. Maxwell! Could she be speaking of Liz's Max. Our Whitelighter and protector. Our friend. No, they can't possibly be the same person. Surely Max would have told us about all this if he knew..He was acting rather weird when the council members brought up out past lives ,and he's always seemed warm around Izzy even though she was particularly cold to him. But why? Why wouldn't he tell us that The Ice Queen was his sister?! It just doesn't make sense.

"So.. Izzy. I'm sure you've told me a million times over ,but refresh my memory how did you meet Scott again?" I question hoping she doesn't find it conspicous. I need to find out as much as I possibly can about this man that wreaked all of our past lives leading up to our future ones if I can't stop it. Surely there has to be a reason why Isabel and I both fell for him. Maybe he has some kind of power over women. A spell perhaps? I know I'm reaching ,but I'm desperate. I have to find a way to change the event leading up to our demise without changing who we end up with in the future.

I miss Michael. I know it's only been hours since we parted but to me the mintutes seem to last for days. I have never been one of those musy girly girlys who have to have a man. In fact I have always prided myself in my independence. I was a Deluca and an all powerful Charmed One. I didn't need some man to complete me. Now that I met Michael Irealize how truly lonely I was back them. I couldn't see what was lacking in my life until it was before my very eyes...him. I just hope he feels the same. Does he even miss me? I wonder what he's doing right now.

[KarenEvans]

Isabel

We ride along in companionable silence which comes from years of knowing each other...often we've spent hours together in the same room not speaking.That is something I will miss a lot once I leave home and that is why I intend to have her stay with me for a few months at a time.

"So.. Izzy. I'm sure you've told me a million times over ,but refresh my memory how did you meet Scott again?" she asks me and I can't help but be surprised by the question.Why would she want to hear that story again and again?

"You know you're acting really strange this morning Rosa...but I'll humour you." I say lightly.Probably all that wine last night has had some weird side effect on her.Must check that batch when we get home.

"I had gone to attend my cousin's wedding,and I was staying there for two months...you must remember that because you kept writing to me saying how bored you were getting here without me around and that the other girls were getting on your nerves." I chuckle when I think back to her funny letters describing the picnics she had been on in my absence with our neighbours

"Anyway...the day of the ball my aunt introduced me to Lysander first and we were dancing.He's really very charming in his own way and a wonderful dancer.But then Scott came up and asked me to dance.After that he began to woo me until I relented.You know...he can be very persuasive when he wants to be."

Looking over at Rosa I say with mock sterness "And that...is the very last time time I am telling you that story.Come on...I'll race you till the brooke." With that I take off without looking back