Disclaimer: It's mine, all mine. -Evil Laugh- Oh wait, that was a dream. Darn, I guess I don't own Twilight after all.

Here it is guys: Chp. 2

In a matter of seconds, we were in the Manor. The Manor is a Victorian-style, two-story house. My sisters and their fiancés live there. It was bequeathed to us by our grandmother when she died. The Manor is in San Francisco. I can be found there almost every single day, especially now. It's more my home than almost any other place in the world because almost everyone I can't live without is there, with the exception of E-

Of no one. Of no one. I kept trying to convince myself. I shook my head of any potentially painful thoughts and wrapped my arms around myself. Sean noticed and his expression turned to a grimace. He pulled me gently towards the living room. There, I found my sisters.

The first thing I noticed was their expressions. Alyssa looked nervous, almost panicked which is unusual for her, seeing as she's always ridiculously bubbly and happy. It was Piper's expression that almost made my heart stop, though. She was always so cool and collected, rarely expressing her feelings to anyone (me being the exception). Today, she had a heart-breaking expression.

Her pain radiated through every inch of her body. It hurt me to even look at her. The thing I didn't understand was that in her eyes there was also a sort of pained joy. At least I knew no one had died. But whatever it was, it was very close to Death. I started to hyperventilate.

"What aren't you guys telling me?" I yelled.

Utter silence. You could hear a pin drop.

"Please, Piper, what's going on?" I whispered.

My sister, the mother who raised and looked after me, looked at me with her beautiful hazel eyes and said, "We have a problem."

"...Someone was attacked by a demon or warlock," she continued.

"That's it?" I asked semi-relieved.

"Not exactly," she replied, anxiously.

"Alright, then what happened?" I said slowly, as if speaking with a child.

She seemed to regain some control over her emotions and replied,

"Someone... was attacked by... something, and we need to find out what before it comes back. They'll have to be watched and it's-"

"Wait, it's more than one person?" I asked.

"Possibly."

"Will you people please stop with the cryptic messages; you're like an episode from The Twilight Zone or something!" I blurted, exasperated.

Again utter silence. I threw my hands up in defeat.

"Ok, I don't know why I can't go demon hunting instead, but fine let's go babysit," I continued. I never watched over people. Demon hunting proves a most distracting pastime and I get focused when I do it instead of sitting around with way too much time on my hands. I decided not to argue, though. I was too curious at the moment. I figured I could just ask these innocent people/innocents what'd happened or something as soon as I got there.

Alyssa looked sorrowful, Piper looked pained, and Sean was even angrier if that was even possible. Different emotions, yet there was an emotion the three shared equally: indecision. I stayed quiet. Whatever it was had to with me, or they wouldn't be hiding it so badly. I didn't like what they were doing. It felt like they were omitting something or lying in some way. This reminded me of someone else who'd lied to me. Someone else who'd given me a glimpse of heaven. Someone who I thought had felt the same way. I felt a tearing pain, deep in my heart.

Piper's expression (thankfully) brought me out of my reverie. I could tell she knew who, -wince-, I was thinking about. She appeared to then reach her decision and her face was transformed into fierce determination.

"Let's go," she commanded.

She grabbed my hand and muttered a spell to take us to these innocents. I only saw a glimpse of Sean taking Alyssa's hand and we were off.

On the way, I asked Piper, "Leo's babysitting 'til I get there, right?"

"How did you know?"

I rolled my eyes. "The only time Leo's not by your side is when he's working; besides, you two are like gum and a shoe."

Piper raised her eyebrow inquisitively.

"You know," I explained, "one of you is the gum which sticks to the shoe and the other's the shoe which in its own way sticks to the gum by not letting it go."

She stared at me for a minute, before laughing and rolling her eyes.

"I never said I was any good at this analogy stuff," I muttered.

At least, some of the pain was gone from her eyes.

"So, these people aren't completely human, right?" I inquired.

She looked shocked, then smoothed out her emotions.

"How did you know?" she demanded, her voice nonchalant, yet tense.

"Well, you said Leo's watching them; they were attacked which means they probably saw their attacker; and it'll be hard to provide them with an explanation as to why I'm watching them; unless, I don't have to hide in the bushes or anything, will I?" I finished, warily.

She seemed relieved about something.

"Nope, you won't have to hide in the bushes, but when today is over I wouldn't blame you if you did," she muttered.

"What ar-?"

"We're here," she told me, mock-cheerfully.

"Finally," I replied.

It was strange. My sister wasn't a novice at being a witch so why did a spell that got you somewhere in about a minute, take five? It was almost like my sister didn't want us to get to our destination...

We were suddenly in front of a white, four-story mansion. It was beautiful and the forest nearby looked threatening, yet peaceful. The mansion appeared to be extremely luxurious, like wealthy people lived here. I could only imagine what it looked like on the inside.

Piper walked up to the front door and went in, all the while pulling me along.

Suddenly, there was a voice screaming in my head; telling me that I was missing something obvious; telling me that I should turn back; telling me to do anything but go into that house...

I hadn't taken more than a few steps into the house when three things hit me. One: There was a sweet smell, like a wondrous perfume. It smelled amazing. Two: Realization. I started to connect the dots or more accurately the emotions. This was why my family had acted the way they did, why they'd looked pained and angry. But this was impossible. I had to be dreaming. Yes, of course that was it. I was dreaming and any minute Charlie would come to tell me to get ready for school or something. This sent me spiraling into a pool of depression. I closed my eyes vacillating over whether to wake up or continue this dream for as long as possible, knowing fully well the misery would kill me when I awoke, when suddenly I was attacked.

All I saw was a blurry, pale figure as it pounced on me and my entire world went black...

AN: Thanks so much to everyone who reviewed and I'm sorry I haven't been able to thank some of you through a pm or something but I was busy writing this chapter. I decided to make it a little longer so chapters will take a bit longer than usual. I hope you guys liked this one.

BTW: Innocent is exactly what it sounds like: innocent people. They use this term in Charmed when talking about good people.

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