Ash

Ash
Flora Winters

I do not own Smallville or Charmed.

Summary: After the Charmed Ones defeat the Source of all evil (again) they discover that they have a baby brother named Phoenix who is Paige’s twin. Looks like Mom and Grams have been keeping secrets (again). Phoenix is dating a reporter for the Daily Planet who is really the demon Phyre who has plans for the half witch/half whitelighter. Will Phoenix be able to choose between his family and a love that burns hotter and darker than the very flames of the Underworld? M/M, Language, OC, Crossover, Character Death

Chapter Twelve

Phoenix was curled up on his bed in tears. He refused to leave the room and became violent to the point of nuclear detonation if someone so much as breathed the wrong way when he was around. The only two beings in the world that were allowed to be in his presence at any time were Kal and Spider. Anyone else was fair game and Phyre knew it.

How could she leave him like that? Why didn’t his family come when he called? How could this happen? His mother and father were dead, and now Chloe had left him to. Her funeral service had been beautiful. He had a very hard time remembering what had happened after the funeral. All he did know was that the entire garden out back looked like Smallville after the meteor shower.

Anger, wrath, and fury were consuming him by the hour. Only Phyre was able to soothe him. He had saved his sisters from a surprise demon attack and this is how they repay him. If they had not been his blood he would have unleashed every legion in the Underworld to reign down his wrath upon their doomed heads.

He remembered how Lois had completely broken down and collapsed in his arms. Lana had even flown in on Jason’s private jet all the way from Paris for the funeral. All three of them sat throughout the whole service together. Lois had just kissed him bye and said that she was going to fight real hard to live up to Chloe’s name. She was going to become a great journalist for her cousin.

Lana had held him and sang some of the songs she used to sing him to sleep with when she babysat him long ago. Phyre had sat next to them and held Phe’s hand the entire time. Lana had stayed the day and then had to head back to Paris because Jason missed her terribly. As the old saying goes, “Life goes on.”

Phoenix refused to sleep until Kal had promised him that he would never ever leave him. He had even made Kal spit on his hand and pinky swore to it.

Spider nuzzled in next to him and whined a little. Phoenix rolled over and pulled his demon friend close to him. He told Spider over and over that it was not his fault. He had protected Phoenix and killed the bastard that was responsible for taking the life of his best friend.

Spider licked his cheek and Phoenix scratched behind his ears which now made his legs kick out. He thought it was the most adorable thing in the world. Spider laid his head on his master’s chest and whimpered when he saw tears in his master’s eyes once more.

The bedroom door opened and Phoenix’s eyes flamed red as a huge ass fireball appeared in his palm only to look up to see Phyre step in and quickly close the door behind him. The red slowly faded from his eyes and the fireball winked out, “Hi.”

Phyre looked over at his depressed love, “How are you feeling beloved.”
Phoenix looked to the side and Phyre remembered how his biological father had said, “Human life is fragile my son.”

Phyre had liked Chloe. She was the one normal person in the world that made his beloved feel normal, and now she was gone. Phoenix just needed some time to heal and then he will move on. Eventually the pain would lessen and finally heal.

He walked over and laid down next to Phoenix who took him in his arms, “I never got to tell her Kal.”

Phyre kissed his hand, “To tell her what beloved?”

“About me,” he whispered.

He smiled warmly at him and Phoenix trembled, “I miss her so much.”

Phyre watched his beautiful face fall, “How could they do this,” he roared, “I called them!”

Phyre rolled over and rested his head against his chest, “I don’t know love.”

“How could they,” he said, “Leo could have saved her!”

“I know,” Phyre said.

“He healed that dickless son of bitch,” he cried, “And would not come when I called to heal an innocent!”

He took a deep breath, “How can they be so cruel?”

Phyre looked at him sadly, “It’s human nature,” he said, “To destroy and condemn the ones they do not understand.”

Phoenix looked at him and the heat in his eyes dried the tears, “Whatever hope they ever had of getting me back is lost,” he said, “I will never return to them.”

Phyre hid his sigh of relief and nodded pulling him close, “You’ll heal Phe, it just takes time.”

“I know,” he whispered, “I loved her so much.”

Phyre kissed his cheek, “I know beloved.”
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Paige was sitting on the sofa watching Piper cook up some more potions. She let out a sigh, “I really think we should have gone to him.”

“Why,” Piper asked while throwing in some mandrake, “So we could walk into a trap?”

Paige frowned, “Leo said that he sounded so desperate Piper.”

She turned around from the potion to look at her sister, “He’s evil now Paige,” she said while throwing in some unicorn root, “You saw what the book did.”

Paige looked out the window at the moon, “You made him cry Piper.”

Piper put the vial of dragon’s blood down and suppressed her anger, “He made a choice Paige,” she said, “During the window.”

“What are you saying,” Paige asked, “That he can’t change?”

“And I don’t think he ever will,” Leo said orbing in.

“You got that right,” Piper said.

“No,” Leo said sadly, “His best friend got shot. She died in the hospital.”

Paige got to her feet and Piper dropped the dragon’s blood to the floor where it spilt, “Are you saying?”

“That’s why he was crying out to us,” Leo told them, “He really needed us and we failed him.”

Paige was looking down at the spilled blood, “An innocent.”

“How do you know,” Piper asked, “That it was not some elaborate trap to kill us?”

“We should have gone,” Leo said.

“I was not willing to take that risk,” Piper hissed, “I have done lost two sisters!”

“And a brother,” Leo shouted back, “If he was ever going to turn around and look back it’s gone now!”

“You got that right,” Phoenix hissed imitating Piper’s voice as he appeared in a violent roar of flames. Before anyone could react he threw an athame at Piper.
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One hours ago

Phoenix held his cell phone in his hand looking down at the name on the screen. A tear slid down his cheek as he read the number one last time. He took a deep breath and pushed ok for delete. The river in which we call denial dried up when the screen told him that the number was now deleted. Chloe really was gone and her name would never again pop up on his cell phone. He would never hear her voice, see her face, or hold his best friend in his arms again.

The second he flipped his phone shut wrath took over. He was going to make them pay. He knew they were not the ones who pulled the trigger but they might as well have. They held the power of healing and would not even come when he so desperately needed them. Oh, was he ever going to make them pay.

He threw wide the doors of his bedroom and stormed down the hallway in a billow of hissing silk. Demons shimmered the minute they saw him stalking from the room. He was out for blood and they knew he did not care whose. He was not going to kill his sisters because he was not a murderer. He was just going to take what he felt they treasured the most and he knew exactly how.

One does not simply become consort to the Underworld and not pick up a few sneaky, underhanded, back stabbing tricks. He stormed into the Seer’s room and she looked up from her book, “My lord?”

His eyes glowed red, “I need your help.”

She slowly got to her feet, “I am here to serve you my lord.”

“I know,” he snapped, “I need a potion,” and he whispered what kind in her ear.

The seer looked at him, “Whatever for?”

Phoenix glared maliciously, “That is for me to know.”
She quickly walked over to a cabinet and opened a glass door to fumble around for a bit and then pulled out an exquisite bottle with an amber liquid inside. She turned around and told him, “You will need a single drop of blood.”

He took it from her, “I know,” and walked over and picked up an athame from the dresser and looked it over, “This will do nicely.”

He flamed away leaving her very confused. She narrowed her eyes and went back to her book wondering what the hell he was up to. It had been weeks since she had received any visions of any kind. Maybe she needed to retire.
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Present

The athame struck Piper in the shoulder and sent her screaming to the floor.

“Piper,” Paige shouted.

Leo ran at Phoenix only to be blasted across the room into wall by his fire beams. He slid to the ground unconscious.

Paige went to cast a spell and he threw a sparkling dust onto the both of them which rendered their magic useless against him. He held out his hand and the athame slid out of Piper’s shoulder and flew to his hand.

The wound sealed itself up and she threw her hands out at him and nothing happened, “What the hell did you do?”

“I’m not really sure,” he said holding the tip of the bloody athame to the potion, “And I don’t really care.”

They moved to jump him but he blasted them to the floor with his eyes, “Don’t move!”

A single drop of blood fell into the amber liquid with a sizzling hiss and the potion turned clear as crystal. He held it up to his lip and downed it in one gulp.

“What are you doing,” Piper hissed from the floor.

“She was so defenseless,” Phoenix whispered, “I called to you and you never came.”

“How were we to know it wasn’t a trap,” Piper yelled.

“I saved your lives,” he cried, “That should have been good enough!”

Paige lifted her head up by her elbow, “We didn’t know.”

“It doesn’t matter now,” he hissed, “She’s dead, and now you to shall be defenseless.”

They knew they were too weak to stop him and without their powers they were as good as dead.

He smiled darkly, “You know,” he told them softly, “I had Kal swear to me that he would never send demons after you again.”

He stepped in front of the book, “I know you didn’t pull the trigger to the gun that killed her,” he whispered, “But you might as well have.”

They watched in horror as he was somehow able to lay his hands upon the book of shadows. He laughed, “I was so angry,” he cooed, “I was going to send every demon in the underworld after you myself.”

“Why didn’t you,” Piper asked getting to her feet slowly.

He looked at her sadly which took her aback, “Because I loved you.”

She noted the use of the past tense and she moved to tackle him only for her leg to give out. She fell on her right knee hard and hissed, “I’m sorry.”

“It’s too late,” he said, “You failed me.”

Swirls of bright white lights filled the attic and Patty and Grams stood in front of him making him hiss, “Stay back!”

Patty looked so sad, “Phoenix you need to step away from the book.”

He let out a wild laugh that bordered on insanity, “Why,” he asked, “Or you’ll haunt me for the rest of eternity? Stand in line mommy dearest.”

Grams seethed, “Step away from that book right this minute young man!”

“Or you’ll what old woman, “he asked, “Yell at me some more?”

They suddenly became caporal and he plunged his hands into the pages of the book. He did not know how he was able to do this but he did. A light erupted from the book and his head was suddenly thrown back while his hair whipped around his face like fire. The words from the book swirled along under the surface of his pale skin and begin to spread all across his body. His hair burned like a torch in a violent wind while his eyes slowly bled to black fire.

All four women screamed and fell back to the floor as they watched a centuries worth of magic being drained from the book into Phoenix. The light exploded outwards and Phoenix stood with silk billowing all around him.

They looked into his black eyes as he said in a very deep voice, “Now you’re just as helpless as Chloe was,” and in a violent roar of flames that shook dust from the rafters he was gone.

Grams struggled to her feet and ran over to the book as Patty helped her daughters. Leo moaned and blinked open his eyes several times, “What happened?”

All four of them looked up when Grams said as she flipped through the book, “It’s been completely wiped clean.”


TBC…