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billie jenkins is the god damn ultimate power (billiejen) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2009-07-01 11:35:00

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chris halliwell

Who: Billie Jenkins and Chris Halliwell
What: "So how's that ward working out?"
When: Lunch time, during Billie's break
Where: A simple cafe not far from where she works.
Rating: PGish, maybe at the most
Status: In progress

When it was time for her lunch break, Billie through the large empty book she had just purchased with her employee discount into her purse, made sure everything else was in there, and then headed out the door, calling behind her that she would be back in a bit. She might be late, but hell, who cared? It wasn't like it had been busy. Ever. And lunch was looking good. Lunch with Chris would be interesting. Billie hadn't hung out with him yet, and it would be kind of cool to be able to have a conversation with the guy she was use to babysitting.

It didn't take her too long to reach the cafe she said she was going to meet him at, though she was a few minutes early. Oh well? It was a nice day out, so she grabbed them a table outside, under one of the umbrellas that kept the sun from beating down on them too much. Soon the waiter was coming over, and Billie asked for two of everything. He looked at her skeptically for a moment, before she gave him a 'I will hurt you' sort of look. It was like he thought she was waiting for a date that probably wasn't going to come.

Ew. Hurl.

Leaning forward, she opened up the menu, while ordering a glass of sprite to start with for a drink. Maybe by the time Chris had arrived, she'd actually have something picked out.

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notunreasonable
2009-07-01 04:40 pm UTC (link)

"Hey," Chris said as he sat across Billie, easily sliding into the chair against her. "You're early." He said with a slight smile. He'd shown a good fifteen minutes after her. Coming back from another job interview that just hadn't felt right and having to go change. "Sorry, I took so long. People traffic." He said. Hoping that his meaning was clear (he'd orbed into an alley and there had been too many people who would have noticed him coming out). In the future she would have understood what he meant, at least his future. But this was a younger version of Billie, the woman who'd become a very important part of his extended family. It would have been strange, if Chris hadn't gotten used to this kind of thing in the year he'd spent in his past. If he could deal with a younger version of his brother and being around his mother pregnant with him, he could deal with an aunt Billie who was younger than he was.

"Thanks for ordering." The less Chris saw of menu's the better. You would think being able to cook himself, and having a mother who had studied and graduated as a chef he'd be able to understand half the stuff on them (Whether French or not). But he always found them to be more complicated than necessary (whether French or not) and Chris tended to be a critque. Especially when he was hungry.

He smiled slightly at the fact that somethings never changed. Or, well, ... were the same in the past. Or,... Chris pushed that headache waiting to happen aside. Billie always ordered two of everything when they had lunch, in his future. Before everything went .. south because of Wyatt.

Chris frowned, just a bit as he began to dig in. But it was barely noticable, after he'd learned long ago how to keep things under wraps. "So, how's the job working out?"

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billiejen
2009-07-02 01:30 pm UTC (link)

The food was delivered juts as Chris arrived, and she looked up at him with a smile. "Hey." she responded. It was still kind of weird, seeing the kid you were use to looking after all grown up. Older than she was even. But still, she could see the younger Chris she knew in the features of the older one. Being called 'aunt' was still weird. She was never supposed to be anyones aunt. Not unless she got married some day.

"No problem. Hopefully it's actually as good as I've heard it was." she'd heard some people talking about it as the browsed the shop, or walked by it. With any luck it was as good as they were making it out to be. It seemed nice, so far. Nothing to fancy, just comfortable.

Taking a sip of her sprite, she shrugged. "Pretty good. I'm pretty sure the owner knows nothing about magic. But they guy I work with seems to have some idea." he seemed nice enough, but she knew they didn't study the same kind of magic. "He's pretty nerdy, kind of gay." she mused. "But nice." with any luck they'd get along.

Starting on her own food, she paused after the first bite. "Oh, right, how's that ward of yours? Anyone interesting?" it was strange to think of him as someones whitelighter. Paige had only been hers for two years and Billie was always learning more from the sisters. The one here didn't even know her, which was just awkward as hell.

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notunreasonable
2009-07-02 02:08 pm UTC (link)

"Seems good so far. Not like mom's, but it's better than aunt Phoebe's." Chris said with a small grin, as he reached for what he was pretty sure was guacamole. God, he hoped it was. He hated when things turned out being what they weren't and he ended up looking like an idiot as he sprayed it all out in surprise. Okay, so that'd had happened only five times in his entire lifetime, but still. Once was more than enough.

"What do you expect? It's like they're the Stillman Sisters but with less brain cells. Except instead of actually thinking they can take over the Charmed Ones, they walk around as if they've been programmed or something." A thoughtful expression came over Chris' features. Golems, maybe? He pushed that aside, as he gave Billie, a 'what the hell' look, that crossed with mild amusement and curiosity. "What makes you say he's gay?" Chris regretted the question as soon as he asked it. That proved he'd spent way too much time trying to save Wyatt, that he'd forgotten just how rambly his aunt Billie could get.

"Ward? Is he Annie now?" When did they start calling them wards? Though the bit of time he'd spent with the guy, Annie probably wouldn't be so far off. Though Annie was more optimistic, Chris was sure, something about the guy just screamed ... naive. "He's going to be more trouble than he's worth. Just you watch. Name's Peter Petrelli. Name ring any bells?" Chris asked, wondering if Billie had heard anything that he might have missed around this place and on the boards.

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billiejen
2009-07-02 04:50 pm UTC (link)

The day someone actually managed to top Piper's cooking, is the day Billie's jaw hit the floor. She was a starving student, and the only reason she hadn't really starved is because she got to raid the kitchen in the Manor. "I'd say not many people are capable of topping your moms cooking." and on the flip side, many, many people could probably top Phoebe's at times.

She'd never met the Stillman Sisters, but she had heard of them, and as far as Billie was concerned, they sounded like idiots. It was people like them that gave blonds a bad name. They could stay locked up for life, and the world would be better for it. "At least the Stillman Sisters managed magic. I'm pretty sure my boss doesn't know what half the things in the store do." she said with a shrug, which was fine, because Billie could find all sorts of useful things for most of them. "Just the way he talks." she said with a shrug. "Little things, but I could be wrong. Maybe he's not at all." But she was pretty sure he was. He sounded more like a girl than she did at times.

"Well, I could call him 'what's his face' or 'that guy buzzing in your head' or stick with 'charge' but really it's a term until I knew his name." she said with another shrug. She thought back to the boards, trying to remember if she'd ever talked to a Petrelli, but nothing was really ringing a bell. "Don't think I've ever heard of him." she said, with a slight shake of her head. "Why's he going to be trouble?" trouble in a bad way, trouble in a way that he was too optomistic? How many times had she heard that one about herself? Did he have an magic or abilities?

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notunreasonable
2009-07-02 05:14 pm UTC (link)

"That's true." Chris said with a small quirk of his lips, that could easily be called pride. His mom was the best all around, but her cooking ... man. He'd gotten spoiled lately by it. And it was a surprise that he wasn't the size of a house, especially after she became pregnant with him (still very weird) and found out his true identity but before he spoke to Grandpa about the reasons he'd been avoiding his mother. It had been like she'd been trying to compensate, by stuffing him with food whenever she managed to get him in her presence for more than three seconds. Which had been, and still was ridiculous. In Chris' opinion his mother was wonderful just the way she was. Though she probably could do with recieving less ... joy in embarassing him.

"Huh." Chris said, as he went on to the next plate of food. Chris could go days without food. He'd learned how to, and he'd been too busy trying to figure this place out, avoiding the aunts, dealing the charge, and attempting to find a way out. Food hadn't been a priority. "Maybe he's just a stand in. Forever's really pulling the strings." Which really made Chris think more about golems. They really didn't have to be intelligent or good at anything, just had to be able to do as they were told. How much personality they managed to pull off was up to their creator. There was a way to figuring out if they really were, but Chris had no inclination to run around asking people to lift up their shirts so he could see if they had any belly-buttons. It would serve no puprose-at least not yet anyway ...-but he did keep the thought in the back of his mind. Chris 'what the hell' look, turned into amusement. And the look on his face was very much like his mother's, with a touch of smirk. "Right. The way he talks. Profiling Billie?"

"What's his face could work." Chris shrugged, to show how much he didn't want this and didn't want to care. The only reason he wasn't flaking was because, well Chris didn't flake from responsiblities. Plus he could just see the look Aunt Paige would give him. And his father's voice in his head. Aunt Paige had taught him the most about his powers, because his dad hadn't been around. And now having a much closer relationship with Leo, well disappointing the man would suck. Even if he wouldn't know about it, because that's the kind of person his dad was. He just made you want to be better. Chris was starting to see what his aunts Phoebe and Paige had meant when they had insisted they'd needed his dad around when they'd turned into Greek gods. It had served as an irritation and a reminder of how his dad had been there for everyone but him, at the time. But now, knowing Leo better, he sorta got it. Still didn't make it any less irritating. "I don't know. There's just something about him that screams 'likes to save puppies'. I can see him getting himself way over his head when I'm supposed to be sleeping, just because he can't profile a demon or a human with bad intentions. It's like I'm going to be the hunter, running around to save red riding hood." Clearly Chris had missed the memo that Red Riding Hood could save her(him?)self. Or at least Red when she was his mother.

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billiejen
2009-07-02 10:54 pm UTC (link)

"Hey, you meet him and then tell me I'm wrong." she said, arching an eyebrow for a moment. She was sure she was right, that or he was just really, really flamboyant. The guy could talk your ear off once you got going. "You just don't have a sense for these things." she informed him, before turning back to her salad. Men were so the last to realize these things, but it became pretty obvious that her co-worker was chalked full of character, at the very least. And he was a total nerd, that she really minded. Though she couldn't follow half of the things she said because of it.

Rolling her eyes, she shook her head. "He's supposed to trust you, and calling him 'what's his face' is so not going to help you there. Trust me." she didn't want to trust Paige first either, until the woman had tracked her down to when Billie was least expecting it. Mostly she just hadn't been interested in dealing with a Whitelighter, because she sure hadn't sent out that call on purpose.

"What's wrong with saving puppies?" she said with a slight grin. Still, she knew exactly what Chris was talking about, because Billie had been the same way only a little less than two years ago. She'd discovered her powers, did a little research and all she wanted to do was save everyone she could, her sister included. "Does he have power? Maybe he's fairly new to his ability? You might of grown up with your powers, Chris, but for those of us who randomly got them later, some us wanted to do all the good we could with them." she said gently, because she'd been there, done that. Convinced she could take on the world. Sometimes you could, with a little help.

"All I wanted to do the first few months was kick as much demon ass as possible, find my sister and make the world right. It's not a bad thing, you just need...a little more prospective." her eyes glazed over for a moment, thinking back to just a year ago, it had honestly been the worst times of her life. It was about that time she had received a massive reality check, her ambitions weren't exactly quite as high as they once where when she first found out she was a witch.

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notunreasonable
2009-07-03 05:12 pm UTC (link)

"Okay." Chris gave a small smirk. "I'll take your word on that one."

"Maybe I don't want him to trust me." Chris said stubbornly, and perhaps there was a hint of petulance in his tone. God, he just wanted to get out of this place. And go ... well, wherever the hell it was that people from the future who died in the past went. He didn't want to be connecting with some guy he barely knew. It was bad enough he was having lunch with Billie (why had he agreed to that again?). It was bad enough he was letting aunt Paige break him down. They were family. This guy? Was a charge, he probably wouldn't ever had if it wasn't for this stupid place! "Empathic mimicry." Was what Chris said, as much as he didn't want Peter as a charge and as much as he trusted Billie, he wasn't telling her the guys life story. Call it Chris being secretive ...or maybe, unknowingly, protective of his charge. Or just being respectful, whatever it was, the only thing he added was, "He's had for a while. He was pretty good with using my telekinesis."

Chris sighed, knowing she had a point. "I didn't mean it like that, aunt Billie. You ended up, and you do end up, doing a lot of good with your powers. And not just helping the sisters. I'm not knocking people with new abilities. You've been a part of our family long enough for me to know better than that." Chris said in a tone, that was only reserved for family and people as good as. The rest of the world he was non-stop brusque and even his family saw that sharp sarcasm, but there were moments when he just wanted to comfort them. His family meant everything to him, extended included. Grandpa, aunt Billie, Darryl and his wife and kids. They ... Chris pushed the thoughts aside. "I just meant, he'd probably literally start climbing trees to start saving some animals. Like something out of a children's movie or something."

Though Chris didn't mention his suspicions that he was worried about what his charge would have done if he'd had the existance of demons in his worlds. Human monsters were bad enough ... and sometimes much more unpredictable. Chris knew well enough, especially when said human monsters were your family. There was an unwilling, grudging respect for his charge and his ability, or refusal, not let it all affect him.

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