<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/0/07/Charmed_helen_b.png)</div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">H</span><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">ELEN</span> <span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">B</span><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">RIANNE</span> <span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">M</span><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">ITCHELL</span> <span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;"><br/>          it is in you to carry on      |      it is in you to lay down fears that hold      |     it is in you to find your way home          </span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;"><em>not happy with the magical interruption.</em><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">   » bianca . </span></span><br/><hr/><br/>As if having a complete stranger claiming to be someone she had hired show up at the door to the manor wasn't enough, the worst possible thing that could happen at that moment<em>did</em>happen.<br/><br/>Brie was positioned at the best possible angle to see Bianca, Chris' fiancée, shimmer into the room, right into the middle already-tense gathering. Before anyone else could so much as take a breath, she froze Mr. Fording instinctively. Her heart, which had already been thumping a little uncomfortably loud at the revelation that someone had found her here of all places, jumped and skipped a few beats before it settled back into its normal rhythm.<br/><br/><strong><em>"Hey everyone. Sorry I'm late..."</em></strong><br/><br/>She waited for someone to notice that Mr. Fording was not freaking out at their unexpected visitor before turning to face the other woman with an abnormally bright smile.<br/><br/><strong>"Look, Bianca, you're always welcome here at the manor... but if you didn't notice, you <em>just</em> shimmered into the room in front of someone who could expose us, if he doesn't know who we are already."</strong>She took a deep breath and ran a frustrated hand through her hair, wondering what kind of explanation she would have to come up with to explain to Mr. Fording the "flicker" of a person becoming visible, then invisible right in front of his eyes.<strong>"Do you think you can go to the kitchen and hang out with Tray for a bit while Chris, Melinda, and I handle this guy here? Wyatt made dinner for all of us, if you're hungry. Or you can go to the front door and knock and make a non-magical entrance, but it would be hard to explain to a mortal how someone can suddenly show up in the room out of thin air."</strong><br/><br/>Maybe play dumb.<em>What person?</em>If there were any questions, they could always pretend that nothing had happened, and Mr. Fording would walk away thinking it was just his imagination. Of course, he still had to answer<em>her</em>questions, but Brie was confident that between the three of them, they wouldn't have a problem handling the situation if things got dangerous.