The premonition.

"So are we ready to go?" asked Aelithe when Piper en Paige stood to her sides. They had just made sure that Phoebe was comfortably seated on the sofa. After sharing some looks with each other Piper and Paige nodded. "We have to say the spell together, and remember: try to remember as much as possible." Without much delay the three women stood in front of Phoebe and said the short spell. Piper, Paige and Aelithe were sucked into Phoebe's head and soon found themselves flying over Las Vegas.

A thousand lights lit up the streets beneath them. Famous billboards soared past. The streetlights pointed them in the right direction. Paige, Piper and Aelithe noticed that they were getting closer to the streets. Finally they landed in a crowded street. They saw several police vehicles and different cars. Piper, Paige and Aelithe landed at the edge of a crowd of people gathered around yellow crime scene tape. "Okay, Piper you would check out the house, Paige the crowd and I will see if I can find something in the street. Hurry." Aelithe quickly walked off. Aelithe found the name of the street and several house numbers. Further there was not much that caught her attention. Paige walked threw the crowd, there were no faces that stood out. She then went to take a look at some of the police officers. Piper started to walk towards the house, she saw several people huddled together, an African-american man, an older woman with strawberry blond hair, an older man in a suit and a woman with brown hair. The last was not focussing on the group, but on a greying man that had just emerged from the house. Something send shiffers up Piper's spine about these people. Not waiting to further explore those feelings Piper moved up to the house. But as she opened the door she found a black hole. Quickly stepping back Piper turned around and watched the group again. Clearly there was nothing in the house they could find. Piper found herself still observing the brown haired woman and greying man who held each others gazes and just then she felt herself being pulled up and out.

Landing with a thud on the ground Piper, Paige and Aelithe flew out of Phoebe's head. Shuffling to get their footing back, Piper, Paige and Aelithe stood back up. Paige was the first to speak: "Well, that was different."

"Really? I didn't notice anything." Phoebe said, she had just gotten around and sat up on the couch.

"Everything went okay, Leo?"

"Yes, nothing out of the ordinary happened."

"Okay, let's see what we have learned from this." Aelithe sat down on a chair, while Piper and Paige did the same.

"I'll go first. I know in which neighbourhood this happened. I got the name of the street, but nothing else. Paige, how about you?"

"Well, there were no faces I recognized, but that wasn't much of a surprise. I did get the name of the detective. A detective James Brass. And I saw a newspaper, it was dated in 2004."

"That is three years ago. I had a premonition of the past? Why?"

"Maybe, we have to stop the murder from happening?"

"I don't think so, than we would have been sent back to time, besides I would have seen the actual murder. This was after the murder." Phoebe said.

"Piper, did you find something in the house?" Aelithe turned her attention to Piper.

"There was a big black hole at the other side of the door."

"Anything else catch your eye?"

"Well, there was a small group of people standing on the porch. And two people were looking at each other, I got a bit of a strange feeling with them, but I don't know what that meant."

"So we have a place and a person that has been there. That is not much to go on." Phoebe stroked her hair backwards and when she touched it she got another premonition.

She is standing on the side of a lecture hall, several students are getting up from their seats and putting their notebooks in their bags. A man with dark brown, curling hair, is clearing the table in front of the seats. The students fill out of the lecture hall, but one young woman with her brown hair in a ponytail is waiting for the man to finish clearing away his stuff. When the man turns he acknowledges her and they shake hands.

"What did you see?" Paige asked Phoebe. Phoebe recounted the premonition, after she tells what she has seen she elaborated: "I knew the lecture hall, it is in San Fransisco, but it has since been refurnished. I think this happened a couple of years before, quite a few at that, seven or ten years ago." When she is done, everybody looked at each other. Paige was the first to voice her confusion: "So, we are in San Fransisco and Phoebe gets a premonition about something that happened in Las Vegas four years ago. We come here and now Phoebe gets a premonition about something, a meeting, in San Fransisco, that happened what… 7 to 10 years ago? Do we go back to San Fransisco?"

"No, I have a feeling that we are in the right city." Phoebe quickly stated: "What do you think we should do, Aelithe?"

"I think that you should stay here, we figure out what happened four years ago in Las Vegas, talk to detective Brass and then decide on our next step. By the way, detective Brass knows me, he is the only one in the police force that knows my background and what I do. We have a very good clean up crew, but sometimes something falls through the cracks, in those cases I contact Brass and he helps me and vice versa to solve the problems. But I need something more, before we go to Brass. I suggest we check the papers from four years ago, to see if we can find a connection, a name or a crime."

"Do you have a library in the neighbourhood."

"No need, I have access to the archives of several newspapers. It helps a lot in these cases." Aelithe laughed, she then stood and turned on the computer that was standing on a desk in the far corner of the sitting room.

"Well I am going to check the Book Of Shadows, to see if one of the persons I saw was a demon or another magical creature, just to be on the save side." Paige turned to get the Book out of her bag. Piper stopped her: "Can you first take me and Leo to the street were it happened, maybe we can find something there."

"Sure, no problem. Phoebe why don't you start?" Paige, Piper and Leo vanished in a cloud of bleu lights.


While they were gone Phoebe turned to Aelithe: "Do you have an idea why I had the feeling that something obstructed the premonition?"

"You are worried about that, aren't you?"

"Yes, my power of premonition can sometimes do very odd things. I have learned that when it doesn't feel right, something usually isn't right."

"I do remember that it was extremely foggy when we were visiting the premonition. But I have no idea why. Maybe it was just the weather.'

"The premonition I had just now, was clear, but it only showed to people meeting. Usually a premonition shows more. It was extremely short."

"Phoebe, we don't have a lot of information, I think we just have to be careful. Other than that I wouldn't know what to say. How about we ask Paige to orb to the Elders and ask them."

"Ask Paige to do what?" Paige asked, emerging from the blue lights.

"Could you go to the Elders and ask whether or not they know anything about the obstruction I felt when I got the premonition?" Phoebe told Paige. Paige looked a bit apprehensive. "I think we should let Leo do that, he usually does that, I don't know how to get to the Elders."

"Okay, you are probably right. Well let's see whether the Book can tell us more."

For the next two hours Paige and Phoebe checked the Book and Aelithe was browsing through the Internet to find something related to the premonition. Piper and Leo were walking the street and talked to several people, and then returned, after that Leo went to visit the Elders. They were waiting for his return.

"So I have checked with the Elders, they don't know what may be obstructing the premonitions. There is nothing wrong with your power, Phoebe. They think that it may have to do with the fact that the people we are looking for are not aware of the fact that they are magical and do something to obstruct that or there is a spell on them. Exactly how or why the Elders don't know. It is the only explanation they can give." Leo told them when he was back.

"So we are still in the dark as to who we are looking for. Could it be those people I saw in the second premonition?" Phoebe said.

"Maybe, or they are the instrument to help us find our targets." Paige said: "Anyway, we couldn't find anything in the Book just yet. Maybe when we have more information."

"I found what happened here four years ago."

"We also found a name: Debbie Marlin was murdered, along with her boyfriend." Piper cut in.

"That is also what I found. I think it is time for us to talk to detective Jim Brass. What do you think?" Aelithe looked at Piper, Phoebe and Paige.

"Definitely. Let's go." Everybody got up and got their coats and so they were leaving to find the police station.


A hand touched her shoulder and she jumped up, holding a hand against her beating heart. "Jesus, don't scare me."

"I'm sorry. I thought you had heard me." The man with the salt and pepper hair looked, worried, in the brown eyes of the woman. "You are still jumpy." It wasn't a question, but an observation.

"Yes, I can't help it. I still feel like thousands eyes are looking at me. I told myself it is just my job and I can do it. There is nothing extra creepy this time, but I am still nervous."

"Relax. Are you done?"

"Yes." The brown haired woman still looked around, almost as if she is expecting to be jumped. "Can we go to the lab? I hope I can relax a bit more there."

"Yes, I will drive you there, then I have to go to the police station. Brass has found a suspect in yesterday's case. Come on, everything will be alright." The man quickly hugged the woman for a moment.

"let's go."