Friday, October 22nd

A teenage boy began to awaken from his unconsciousness with a red liquid slowly dripping out of his mouth. He was in an empty bedroom, the walls were bare and the only things left in the room were a few boxes. His body was crashed awkwardly against a brown moving box. His eyes began to flutter before they opened wearily. He let out a grunt as his hands grasped his back. He looked around the room for a moment before his eyes went wide with fear and he began to breathe heavily. He quickly shot up into a standing position and his eyes darted around every inch of the room. He swallowed hard as he ran over to one of the windows, looking outside. His eyes darted from the slightly ajar door and the window repeatedly. He opened the window as quietly as he could, then stuck his head out the window. He reached out to one of the branches on a huge tree directly out the window making sure it was sturdy. He pushed on it with his arm a few times, then brought his top half back through the window. He once again glanced at the door and lifted his leg over the window sill. He bent his upper torso to get the top half of his body out the window when he heard a shrill, terrifying scream. He jumped at the sound, almost falling out the second story window. He quickly regained his balance and turned toward the door. With much hesitation, he climbed back through into the bedroom and briskly made his way towards the door. He took a deep breath as he slowly peeked out the opening in the door. He glanced back at the open window one final time before slowly opening the door and walking down the hallway towards the sound. The screams continued as he walked towards the door at the end of the hallway. He placed his hand on the door then threw it open with a force. He quickly took in the scene of a teenage girl, probably the same age as him, on a bed with only a sheet covering her body and her hands tied to the bedposts. Directly across from the bed was a video camera that's red light signaled it was recording. The boy ran quickly toward the girl, untying her restraints, barely acknowledging her ramblings between sobs. As he was working on the second restraint when they heard the sound of loud footsteps coming up the stairs. The two teens looked at each other before the boy continued to pull at the rope, ignoring the girl's request to leave her and escape. The footsteps grew louder and the boys' hands began to shake and his jaw began to tremble. A man appeared at the doorway with a handgun, and looking at the two youths, the man didn't hesitate before aiming the gun at the boy whose back was turned to him and pulled the trigger, letting off a loud BANG.

Warren Halliwell's head shot up from his desk when he was awakened from his vision. He looked around the biology classroom and luckily no one noticed him since they were watching a movie about plants, so everyone was off in their own little worlds. Unfortunately, his lab partner whom he shared a long table with did notice.

Haley Tyler giggled at Warren's abrupt awakening " I totally knew you were going to make yourself look stupid during class today."

Warren blushed slightly "Well I'm here to please."

"Then I guess I should say thank you." Both Haley and Warren laughed quietly. "So what were you dreaming about?"

Warren wracked his brain for a good excuse, but couldn't think of anything so just said " I don't remember."

Haley seemed satisfied with this answer and turned her attention back to doodling in her notebook. Warren then took the opportunity to write down every detail he could remember from his vision in his notebook.

Patty watched the clock impatiently waiting for the final bell of the day to ring. She turned her attention back to her teacher who was discussing the Halloween dance next weekend.

"Remember, keep your costumes appropriate, no fake blood or weapons, or-." Her statement was interrupted by the dismissal bell and the students quickly filed out of the door.

"Hey Patty, wait up" Patty heard from behind her. She turned around to see Lucas Standifer walking towards her.

Patty smiled at him "Hey"

"Hey, so I was wondering if you were planning on going to the dance on Friday."

"Um, I haven't really though about it. Are you gonna go?"

"Yeah, if I can find a date."

Patty knew where this was leading but decided to play along a little longer "I'm sure you won't have any trouble finding one."

"Well if you decided you wanted to go, maybe you could be my date."

Patty smiled at him "I'll have to talk to my mom about it, but yeah, we could go together. It'd be fun."

"Great. I'll talk to you later" Lucas said as he walked away from Patty, who waved in response.

Rose and Warren were talking about Warren's vision while they were waiting for Patty.

"Did you recognize the people?" Rose asked

"No, that's the weird thing, it was blurry so I couldn't make out their faces."

"That's weird. How do the cosmos expect you to help them when you can't tell who they are?" Rose said as Patty walked up to them.

"What are you guys talking about?" Patty asked

"Warren got a vision today about these two kids who were kidnapped by this guy, but he couldn't see their faces." Rose said as they all got in the car.

"Well whatever it is, I'm not going demon hunting over it. My back still hurts from last Sunday."

Rose and Warren exchanged glances before he said "It wasn't that bad", putting emphasis on the word 'that'.

Patty snorted, "You weren't the ones who got thrown around like a rag-doll."

"Oh come on, the Book of Shadows didn't say anything about him having super strength, it wasn't our fault." Rose said as she started the car.

Patty rolled her eyes and said "Whatever."

"I think the real problem is that we still haven't found the guy who saw us using magic." Warren said from the backseat.

"He probably just thought he was seeing things, I don't think we need to stress about it." Rose said.

Patty looked at her sister "He saw a demon frozen in mid-air, and I'm pretty sure he was watching for a good couple minutes before we noticed him. But I think it was too dark for him to see our faces, so I think we're fine."

Warren shifted in his seat, still unconvinced as they pulled up in front of the middle school. Henry Jr. was the first one to the car, folding the seat down and climbing back to the third row seating.

Patty turned around in her seat to look at her younger brother, "Hey, how was your day?"

Henry Jr. sighed, "Fine."

Rose looked at him in the rear-view mirror and said "Doesn't seem like you're fine."

Henry shot a look back at his sisters and said, "Can we just drop it."

Rose and Patty exchanged glances as Penny climbed in the SUV. "Hi." She stated, sounding even more chipper than usual.

Warren was the only one to reciprocate her greeting since Henry was in his pissy mood, and the twins were silently talking to each other, trying to figure out what got him angry.

"Where the hell's Astrid? I want to leave" Henry snapped.

Patty turned around in her seat and said angrily, "What's your problem? I've never heard you say a curse word before."

"None of your damn business. I'm gonna go find Astrid." Henry said as he orbed out of the car.

"What was that?" Rose asked out loud.

"I dunno, but if he orbed he could've ended up in a hallway full of kids." Warren said, looking out the window for any sight of his cousins.

Patty looked back at her cousin and said, "Maybe you should go talk to him, he's probably waiting by Astrid's locker."

"If you think it will help" Warren said as he got out of the car.

They watched Warren walk in the building then Rose turned to her younger cousin and said "Hey Pen, do you know why he's mad? Did something happen in school or something.?"

"Well, I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure that I felt all Henry's anger being directed towards all three of you. So he's probably mad at you guys for something."

Astrid and Henry were talking in front of Astrid's locker as Warren walked up to them. "Hey what's your problem?"

Henry and Astrid gave each other a look before Henry said, "You are.", then they started walking away from Warren.

Warren looked confused for a second before jogging to catch up with them. "What are you talking about? What did I do?"

Henry just rolled his eyes, but Astrid replied "You haven't talked to us in weeks. You didn't even acknowledge us at dinner last week. You're spending all your time with the twins and you don't hang out with us anymore."

Warren was slightly taken aback. He hadn't even noticed that they hadn't really talked anymore. "I didn't notice…"

Henry finally spoke up and said "And since when did you start going demon hunting with them?"

"How did you know we went demon hunting?" Warren asked.

"Is that really what you're focusing on right now" Astrid asked.

"Yes it is. How did you guys know we went demon hunting?"

Astrid and Henry looked at each other before Astrid replied, "We knew you guys were up to something so when you guys left after dinner, we used a crystal ball to see what you guys were doing."

"That is a total invasion of privacy. It wasn't any of your guys' business what we were doing."

Henry's mood changed from slightly ashamed back to pissed off. "It's none of our business? You have to be kidding me! Ya know what, I'm done with this. Astrid heart us home." Before Warren could object Astrid grabbed Henry's arm and teleported away.

Warren sighed and rolled his eyes as he started walking out of the school, towards the car.

As soon as Warren climbed in the car Patty asked "Where's Henry? What happened?"

Warren took a deep breath before saying "Their mad because we went demon hunting last week. And apparently I don't talk to them anymore. I think their more mad that they didn't get invited than they are about me not hanging out with them."

Rose turned in her seat to face her cousin, "Why would we invite them? They know their too young."

Warren sighed, "Well apparently they forgot because they are livid."

"Ugh, I'm too old for these games. If they want to be mad let them. I'm not going to apologize to them for not having them come with us." Rose said with annoyance in her voice.

Warren looked at his cousin and said "I agree, they'll get over it."

"You don't think they'll rat us out do you?" Patty asked.

Warren thought for a second, "I hope not"

TO BE CONTINUED….

Authors Notes: I would love some feedback so review if you want! I know Wyatt, Chris, and Prue have been noticeably absent from the story, but I'm still working on their storylines and stuff, but I'll try to work them into the next chapter. Thanks for reading!