Truly Charmed (Part 3/3)

Chapter 45

ANNA'S POV

"That disgusting slimy rat! How could you let him come near me?!" I shouted at the elder Aria.

"Please Anna we didn't know that Jamie was corrupt. But it does however make sense now," she answered calmly.

"Makes sense? This? All of this mess, this makes sense to you?!" I raved.

"When Jamie was killed he had a family left behind. His young fiancée was pregnant with his child. He's always watched over them. His daughter, her daughter and her daughter. Even when his great granddaughter was attacked by a mountain lion. Jamie was there," Aria explained.

Another elder chipped in.

"He's obviously guilt ridden for what happened to her. So he must have enlisted the help of darklighters, demons and sorcerers to help her recover. But the attack left her scarred and she couldn't attract any male attention. So when we assigned him to you he saw Chris as the perfect choice for his granddaughter."

"Family guy or not he wouldn't have even chosen Chris if it wasn't for you guys," I bit back.

"What? Anna what are you talking about?" Wyatt asked me.

I stepped forward so I was face to face with Aria. She could feel me breathing on her. I leaned my head close to her ear.

"I remember," I snarled.

I stepped back and watched her expression drop with fear.

"Anna?" Wyatt asked again.

I kept my eyes focused on her. I bored holes into her chest. She knew that I remembered what she did to me and Chris.

"I remember everything," I said in a low malicious tone.

"Anna please understand, we had to do something, it wasn't your destin-"

"Don't you dare say destiny! You erased my memories! You erased everyone's memories so that they wouldn't remember that I love Chris!" I screamed at them.

Everyone in the attic gasped. Wyatt stared at me, unable to comprehend what I just said.

"You weren't supposed to choose him. You were meant to be with Wyatt. It always had to be Wyatt," Aria told me.

"Well newsflash! I'm not with Wyatt! I don't want to be with Wyatt, I want to be with Chris god damn it! And you won't let me! All because of some stupid written scroll in the clouds were you guys live! I choose my own destiny and who I want to be with! Not you, not anyone else! Me!" My whole body was shaking with rage.

I saw Wyatt try not to cry or shown any sign that he was about to. But I could see through him. I had tears rolling down my face with fury.

"You can't keep telling me what to do. And you certainly can't keep changing the world so that I will choose something I don't love. If Wyatt and I were truly meant to be together, then we would be. But we're not. I chose Chris because I completely, genuinely, deeply, to stars and back love him with every ounce of my mind, body and soul. And you can't change that. Ever," I said in a levelled voice.

There was silence in the attic. Nobody said anything.

Suddenly Melinda screamed. I looked up and she was pointing behind me. I spun around. The creeper demon was behind me.

Oh crap...

It grabbed ahold of my throat and threw me backwards. I crashed into one of the wooden cabinets. The elders and Wyatt rushed over to me. Piper stood up and threw her hands at the creeper demon. He exploded into a million pieces.

There was wood, glass and ornaments smashed around me and they pierced my skin. I felt hands try and lift me up but I swatted them away. I had glass sticking out of my skin and blood running from my arms.

I looked at the burn mark on the floor where the demon once was. I then looked around at everyone.

"Yeah I forgot to tell you about him. He's not very good at introductions,"

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The elders had healed all my cuts and grazes but nobody was able to heal Piper's cabinet.

"That thing has been on me since the moment my heart stopped ticking," I told everyone.

"Well now that we've killed one, they won't hesitate to send another. The only way to protect you is to kill the leader," Piper said.

"Great. Now I have to worry about being killed, again, by a demon that wants to suck me dry, finding Chris, kicking Jamie's ass and facing the fact that I have to go back to where I came from at midnight. Because I'm dead," I ranted.

Melinda broke a smile at the irony in my wit.

"I'll get started on the potion," Wyatt said in a low, quiet voice.

I watched Wyatt head to the back of the attic to get the ingredients. His expression was a blank canvas but in his eyes I saw a painting of hurt and sorrow.

"We need to figure out where Chris is," I said.

"Well if Jamie took him to be with his granddaughter then he must be in their home in San Francisco," Phoebe spoke up.

"No that's too easy," I said in thought.

I muddled it over and over in my head. I went through the book of shadows in my mind, the pages permanent imprinted in my brain.

"Jamie wants his granddaughter to attract a male...so he would've used a love a potion..." I thought aloud to myself.

"What is she talking about?" Melinda whispered to her mother.

"Love potion...marry her....bind...binding..binding ritual.." I pondered.

Everybody had moved their attention to my ramblings to myself, as I sat hunched over on the old tattered sofa, a finger pressing my chin.

Binding rituals....Priest...priestess...

"Jamie has taken Chris to binding ritual by a dark Priestess!" I suddenly shouted out.

"How did you get that conclusion?" Wyatt asked me, his tone a little insulting.

"It's one thing that we can eliminate if he's not there with them," I bit back.

"How are we going to find them though? Priestesses are all over the underworld," Piper asked.

I got up off the sofa and paced.

"If I remember all that's happened then Chris must do aswell. He remembers how he feels about me, So he wouldn't say yes to binding ritual willingly. My best guess is that they've given him a love potion," I told my theory to everyone.

"Okay add that to the never ending list of today's problems," Melinda huffed.

"How is that going to help find Chris?" Phoebe asked me.

"I'll cast the lost love spell. Technically he is lost so in theory it should work," I answered.

I didn't have time to debate. This was the best thing that we had right now, even if it did come from the top of my head. But I know Chris. I know that he's out there and something is telling me that this is going to work.

I walked over to the Book Of Shadows, hope driven into my system and turned to page to find a lost love..