Truly Charmed (Part 3/3)

Chapter 48

It looked around eleven in the morning when Chris and I got back to the manor. Piper, Wyatt, Melinda and the whole family greeted us back with a warm welcome. Chris was hugged and squeezed too many times by Piper. The elders were there and even congratulated me for my success.

It was a shame it would be all over soon. Wyatt saw my expression and I knew he was thinking the exact same thing.

"We're one family again," Piper smiled.

"Not really," I spoke up.

Everyone turned to face me. I pointed at the grandfather clock in the downstairs hallway.

"I only have half a day left with you guys. Then I'm gone again. Back over there," I told everyone with a sadness I had never experienced before.

"No. No no! No! I just got back you back for crying out loud! I'm not loosing you! Ever!" Chris shouted.

He came up to me and took hold of my shoulders.

"You are not leaving me. Not now. Not yet. There's too much that I want in my life with you," he admitted.

"Chris, I'm dead. My time expires at midnight. That's just the way it is," I said, accepting the inevitable.

"Please you have to do something," Melinda said to the elders.

Aria stepped forward.

"There's nothing that we can do. We don't have the power and its not the natural order."

There was a silence. A cold cutting silence. I had only heard this silence once before and that was when I died.

"The tribunal," Wyatt said.

Everybody turned to face him.

"The tribunal. They can bring people back right?" Wyatt asked Aria.

"Yes they conjure but they don't just do it for any reason," she told us.

"If we convince them that Anna is good enough to bring back then they will. It's worth a shot," Wyatt suggested.

There were weary glances being exchanged between everyone, until they all fell upon me.

"Do it,"

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Di!
Ecce hora!
Uxor mea me necabit!

Suddenly four giant heads appeared above us.

"Ah the Charmed Ones again. What do we owe the pleasure?" One of them said.

"We need your help," Wyatt spoke first.

"Our help with what?" Another head asked.

"To help bring back someone very special to us," Wyatt answered.

"And who is this is special person you speak of?" Another head asked.

Chris gently pushed me forward.

"Hi."

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"Please your honours, Anna is one of the most selfless, brave witches I know. She doesn't deserve to die, not at this age. It was her birthday yesterday, she turned twenty years old. How can you comprehend someone dying so young?" Aria urged with the Tribunal.

"Just because she's important to you doesn't make her important to us," one head argued back.

Well that was insulting...