Chapter 2: Deaths

We sipped our cocoa while chatting.

It was awkward at first but I could feel a bridge forming. Mom told dad how she felt strange around him after the baby was born, as if they couldn't connect anymore which lead her into leaving and taking me with her. Charlie said how when Renee put me to sleep and went to bed herself, he took the picture of their baby boy before burying it in the yard under the only bush he has ever taken care off.

A bed of tulips.

Prue was talking about her three younger sisters. Suddenly she gasped suddenly and fell to her knees. Andy was by her side in a minute as she whispered

"They're gone, they're all gone"

She leaned across the table and gripped my arm. I felt something pulling and stretching me and for a moment, all i could see was stars. When the stars cleared and my vision was back I saw ruins and debris all around us.

I wasn't in Forks anymore. I was in the middle of what used to be a living room as sun bristled in from broken windows.

"Prue? Where are we?"

"Help me"

I asked but Prue was too busy digging at the debris and broken furniture and pieces of the ceiling. Rolling my eyes I padded to her and helped her out.

I saw a tattooed arm, still attached to a shoulder. I started digging it out and Prue screamed as she saw the face of a woman in her mid-thirties. She was obviously dead. Then she screamed again as she spot one more woman in long straight black hair buried except for her head and shoulders, the head lolling at a strange angle. I saw the tattooed back of a third body and pulled it out and dragged it near Prue and her fallen sisters.

Soon we had dug up five bodies, three brunettes and two blondes. Prue was bawling and screaming over the brunette bodies rocking them, kissing their closed eyes making promises to them. I sat a few feet away near the blondes feeling out of place.

"No!"

Then she looked at me and wiped her cheeks.

"The brunette ones are my sisters. Your aunts. The blonds are the bad guys.. gals...whatever"

"I'm so sorry"

I hugged her awkwardly over the bodies. Honestly, she doesn't seem the kind of woman to welcome hugs. she reminds me of G.. A few moments later she pulled back regaining her composure.

"Andy!"

She shouted

A flash of tiny lights lit up a corner of the destroyed room and Andy appeared when they went off. Andy ran to Prue hugging her close, comforting her.

"Bella duck"

"Behind you"

Prue and Andy shouted just as a ball of fire passed right to me. My instincts got the better of me and I ducked right behind what used to be a couch. I couldn't resist temptation and peeked.

Prue was waving her hands around and fallen debris was flying around. Andy was leaning over the bodies of the brunette girls holding his hands above them, a strange white light coming of off the palms of his hands and onto the bodies.

a fireball hot Prue straight to the chest and she screamed as she fell.

"I'm sorry"

She whispered to me before her eyes closed. Andy locked eyes with me.

"Get the Book"

"What book?"

I asked but as soon as the word 'book' left my lips a very large, about the size of a dictionary or encyclopedia volume moved from under a broken table and flew straight to my arms. It was bound in green leather and the front cover had a symbol. The same symbol that I wore on my neck as long as I can remember. On a second thought the same symbol was worn around Prue's neck and on her sisters'. It was an interlocking triquetra and circle on it. Andy was hiding behind everything he could from a dark haired woman in black clothes holding a crossbow taking the attention away from me.

"Never mind, found it... or rather it found me"

"Read the first page incantation"

He shouted and ran around a corner. I opened the book gingerly.

The incantation changed in front of my eyes but I didn't pay attention to it and started reading out loud.

" Hear now the words of the witch.

The secrets are hidden in the night.

The oldest of Gods are invoked here.

The great work of magic is sought.

In this night and in this hour. "

I let a scream as an arrow hit me on my right shoulder.

"You okay?"

"Yeah"

"Keep reading"

Andy said from somewhere behind me. I obeyed

"I call upon the Ancient Power.

Bring your powers to the daughter me!

I want the power.

Give me the power."

I finished and was bathed in soft, warm, light particles. Andy jumped in front of me and was hit by an arrow. He looked at me

"Think of your grandmother, my daughter"

He whispered and his head fell to the side, his eyes open and glassy unseeing. The woman with the crossbow was right in front of me. I clutched the book close to my chest and whispered right as an arrow was fired for me

"Grams"