The Power of Three [Twilight/Charmed]

Part One - Chapter Five: An Innocent

Nearly a week after Amelia’s run in with the two vampires, the trio had learnt quite a bit about the area in which they now lived in.

The Elders had been able to tell the siblings was that there was a tribe of shape-shifters leaving on the reservation, however they had insisted that they weren’t a threat to the witches; though there was clearly something being kept from them.

The other piece of information that the Elders had given them was that there was also a large coven of seven vampires living in Forks, instead of just the two that the siblings had first thought about.

These two facts alone made the siblings uneasy, they had come to Forks to relax away from supernatural threats; now it seemed that Forks was a hot-pan for supernatural activity.

The Elders hadn’t been able to tell them anything about what was going on, something that only set the three witches on edge especially since they knew something was happening.

The only thing that the Elders had done was to tell them to watch the news, there was nothing that they could tell them but that.

Amelia sighed climbing out of the Audi A4, she didn't know what it was but she was a little upset that the Elders were keeping something from them again; they’d done this when they had faced Balthazar and it had taken three attempts to vanquish him because of that.

Amelia flashed a smile to Mrs. Cooper as she walked into the library, the elderly woman nodded at her tiredly before asking Amelia to man the reception desk for a while.

Settling herself down behind the desk, the brunette prepared herself for the day since she knew not much would be happening.

The library was generally a quiet one and since there were only three thousand five hundred forty-five people living in the city; there wasn’t much for Amelia to do most days.

“I’d like to return some cookery books,” said a woman making Amelia nod looking up at her; she schooled her face as noticed three deep scars that ran along the right side of the woman’s face that distort her features, pulling down the corner of her eye and her mouth.

“Of course, I can do that for you,” Amelia asked politely as the woman sat the books onto the desk, Amelia moved carefully to check them back into the system while the woman waited patiently.

Once they had been returned, the woman flashed Amelia a smile before she slipped away into the library in search of more books.

As soon as she was gone Mrs Stanley approached Amelia to gossip. In the short time that Amelia had worked in the library, she had come to know that the older woman was a gossip and Amelia had heard from Alicia that her daughter was as well something that the two women shared.

“That’s Emily Young, poor girl was mauled by a bear you know, that’s what caused those scars. From what I hear, she stole her cousin’s fiancé and is now engaged to him herself,” Mrs. Stanley gossiped making Amelia roll her eyes, she hated how much the woman tried to gossip about things that had nothing to do with her.

***

“Good morning,” Aiden greeted approaching Leah after he had locked his Audi Q7, he had just dropped off Alicia at high school; he had to admit that he was pleased that she was making friends easily.

“Morning,” Leah greeted making her way towards him, it had become an occurrence since the two had met a week before that they’d greet each other in the morning; Leah always seemed happy to see him when she saw him in the morning and when she picked Claire up from school.

“So I was thinking… would you may be like to have dinner with me sometime?” Aiden asked making Leah look at him surprised, she hadn’t told anyone about her imprinting; though people had noticed that her bitterness had been replaced recently and that she was a lot easier to be around.

“I would love too,” Leah said making Aiden nod before he fished a piece of paper out of his pocket and handed it to her so that she would have his number to call him later.

“Great, why don’t you give me a call later and we could work something out,” Aiden said hopefully making Leah nod as she made sure that the number was placed in her pocket.

Aiden flashed Leah another smile before he headed inside to prepare for a day of work with children; Claire looked at her aunt who had a smile set on her face as she led her to class.

“I’ll pick you up at three,” Leah murmured making the little girl nod before she hurried inside, she couldn't believe that things had finally changed for the better for her since Aiden had walked into her life.

Leah was slowly starting to repair her relationship with Emily after the whole Sam imprinting on her thing; she knew that her mother was thrilled to see her happy again along with Seth, her younger brother.

Leah headed outside and frowned as she spotted Paul leaning against her car, she licked her lips knowing he had seen her with Aiden; he’d been pleased to hear that Amelia was living in Forks from Embry but he hadn’t been able to run into her yet.

“So you imprinted,” Paul teased making Leah nod nervously, the two of them had never gotten along before and she was worried what he would do with this sort of news.

Leah looked at Paul for a moment wondering if he was just saying that because one day she was going to be related to him via marriage if things went well.

“Congrats, you deserve to be happy Leah,” Paul said honestly making her look at him and nod, she was surprised to see how much calmer the older wolf was since he’d imprinted on Amelia.

***

When Emily returned to the desk with a couple of new cookery books, Amelia smiled at her as she moved to check them out for her.

“You must love to cook,” Amelia mused making Emily laugh and nod her head in agreement as she handed the books to Amelia who moved to check them out.

“I do, I want to open my own café one day,” Emily said making the brunette smile at her as she continued to sign the books out, she glanced over at Mrs Stanley who was pretending not to listen in on their conversation.

“Well I wish you all the best with that; maybe one day I’ll be eating at Café Emily,” Amelia said sliding Emily’s books back to her, the woman smiled at her as she collected the books allowing her hand to brush against Amelia’s triggering a vision.

Amelia swallowed hard as her mind came back from her vision; she forced a smile at Emily as she looked back at Amelia after putting the books into her bag and smiled at her.

“I’ll see you soon, have a nice day,” Emily said politely not realising that something had just happened, Amelia took a deep breath as she sunk into her seat and reached for her mobile phone; she was suddenly glad that Mrs Cooper couldn't see her right now.

Dialling a number into her phone, Amelia took a deep breath to calm herself when she realised that she was shaking slightly.

“Aiden… I’ve just had a vision, I think we have trouble heading our way,” Amelia whispered softly so that no one could hear her, she heard her brother curse and bit her lip; she didn't know what it was but protecting Emily Young was going to be difficult, they didn't have any of the resources that they’d had back in San Francisco.