The eldest sister had woken up from an oddly passionate dream, she had no recollection of what occurred but she could just tell it was something good.
Usually the second her eyes opened Prue would head down stairs and start her day but Piper had managed to trap her.
Great, the older sister thought to herself. If Piper wasn't already irritated with her and had a date later today, she would have gotten up and she almost did anyway until she looked down at her peacefully sleeping sister, not at all phased or aware of the intimate position they seemed to be in, it was just her scardey cat sister after all much to Coop's dismay.
He grew irritated pondering how long it would take for them to realize. He wasn't used to dealing with this sort of thing. Usually a spark was as clear as day, but for the sisters it had yet to be discovered.
Cupid wondered what he could do to help them find it with out causing an odd rift between the sisters.
Now was as good a time as any since Piper was asleep and couldn't actually be held responsible for her actions, he surmised but before he could even decide what to do, Piper started to wake much to Prue's relief.
"Hey there chicken, you never told me what time your date was."
Piper sprung up and grabbed her watch from the nightstand, luckily she had two hours.
Phoebe entered the house just in time to see Piper leave slightly dressed up rather than in her usual casual attire.
"What's with Piper?" Phoebe asked Prue whilst closing the door behind Piper.
"She has a date." There was a hint of disdain in Prue's voice. "I swear if this guy gets in the way of us fixing the book, I'll wink his wink off."
Phoebe rolled her eyes. "Piper hasn't been on a date in a while, you know she's more of the slow and steady type anyway. I'm sure we will hav-"
Phoebe's sentence was cut off by a premonition.
It seemed as if she was at a formal party. Next thing she knew, she was practically in bed with a man. It was almost as though she could feel everything the woman her her vision felt. The lust and heat was over powering.
Suddenly, her premonition changed to the disgusting murder of the man while he was in bed with a woman or at least that appeared to be a woman before it fed on him.
She was completely in shock once she came to, it had been a while since she had a premonition that dealt with anything dangerous and it was the first time one had felt so real.
Prue looked at Phoebe expectantly wondering why her younger sister was hesitating to divulge what she had seen.
"Prue, there's a monster eating men. I saw a party and there was this guy and boy was it hot.. Well until it wasn't." The youngest sister started fanning herself.
Phoebe ignored the look of disgust on her sisters face and tried to ignore her worry. She had never felt so apart of a premonition before.
"I'm gonna go see Darryl. I doubt this is the first time a man has disappeared due to this... thing."
Prue waved her sister off and decided to head upstairs to get some work done.
Coop wondered what the thing could be. He hoped it was a lower level demon that Piper could blow up.
For the slightest second the Cupid wished that the sisters wouldn't meddle in situations that involved them but he knew that was a selfish wish.
He knew the sisters were destined to do good for anyone who needed it and that inspired him even more so to help them reach that goal though he couldn't help but worry.
If the girls caught the attention of that thing and needed a specific spell or potion to protect themselves, the elders would have his tush.
Phoebe in the alternate future was excellent with making spells on the fly, he could only hope that the thing required a spell and that Phoebe from now would be able to make a suitable one.
He was distracted from his thoughts by a vibration in his pocket. Ah, Leo's cell phone, he smiled to himself when he saw Piper's text.
*You didn't forget about me did ya? :) -Piper*
Coop thought it would be best that he didn't respond, that way her hopes would be tarnished but her future friendship with Leo would be free of resentment.
Another hour or so had passed. Piper was furious, embarrassed, and upset.
Waiting outside of the manor teary eyed for a while seemed like the best.. only thing she could do about the situation.
She wanted to walk in, shrug it off to Prue and Phoebe. It was no big deal that she got stood up and ignored.
Who was she kidding?! It was a big deal. He was cute, kind, and she had gotten her hopes up. It had been a while since she'd been on a date after all.
Piper rested her forehead against the steering wheel and pondered what could be so wrong with her.
Fifteen minutes of purely negative tear inducing thoughts had gone by, she was about to lose it again when a tap on her window caught her attention.
Reluctantly she looked up, only to see Prue staring at her with concern clear on her face.
Piper exhaled slowly trying to collect herself before she got out of the car.
"Piper, what's wrong?" Prue asked as she opened the door to the manor. She was going to head to the auction house but saw Piper rather upset in her car so that was just going to have to wait.
"He stood me up. No call. No text. No explanation. Nothing." Piper wasn't about to cry in front of Prue over a guy she just met, it was more than that to her. "Why am I so unwanted?.. It's been so long but even then I was afraid to bring a guy home. What if he saw Phoebe or you and decided I wasn't good enough?"
Prue hugged Piper close. "You are extraordinary. Guys these days are chasing after dumb girls who can't do anything for them self because they can't handle a woman like you. You're strong willed, an excellent sister, and an excellent cook. The right guy will come along for you, I promise."
Piper felt a little bit better at her sisters words and decided to change the subject. "Where's Phoebe? I saw her heading in as I was leaving earlier."
Prue wanted to keep the situation away from Piper, she didn't need more stress but she knew that wasn't the right thing to do.
"She had a premonition of a man eating creature at some party so she decided to go down to the precinct to see if she could get any hints."
Piper cringed internally. She really hoped this had nothing to do with the men who were disappearing time to time over at Fine Romance. Piper rather regretted signing up for the dating service as it was expensive and got her no where.
A knock on the door distracted her from her thoughts.
"I'll get it." Prue stated as she got up and opened the door.
"Hey Prue, are your sisters around? I could use some help with a case." Darryl was obviously a bit reluctant to have to resort to the sisters but he had no other choice.
"What am I not good enough for you?" Prue joked as she stepped aside so he could come in.
"Hey Piper." Darryl was completely oblivious to Piper's dreary demeanor.
Piper wore a fake smile and ignored the look of concern on Prue's face. "What do you have for us?"
Darryl placed the an open case file on table before them. There were pictures of men, familiar men much to Piper's dismay.
"These guys have been turning up every couple of weeks. Not just dead but completely drained of their testosterone almost like some succubus thing got em."
Prue looked at Darryl surprised he was aware of such a thing.
"And how do you know what a succubus is?"
Darryl rolled his eyes. "I watch TV, that's not some unknown mythical monster. I was certain they were made up by us regular people but then I remembered when I thought witches were too. So I figured maybe you'd have something in that book of yours to take care of it?"
Prue looked over at Piper who was avoiding eye contact with her not wanting to handle the situation.
"Well I don't remember seeing anything about a succubus in the book. I've been studying it lately," Prue lied. "So maybe that means Piper can blow it up?"
Piper groaned. One, she didn't want to go to Fine Romance in fear of being recognized by someone in front of her sisters and two, she was fairly certain that blowing it up would not be an option.
"And how are we supposed to find the succubus? It's not like we have any warlock man bait and using Darryl is out of the question because he can't protect himself from her." Piper quipped.
"Phoebe can write a tracker spell." Prue stated as if it was fact hoping the hope in her voice wasn't noticed.
"I hope she can write a killer spell too because I doubt we can blow up a succubus. It feeds which means it has to be strong."
Darryl didn't know if he felt any better now that he brought the case to the sisters. They didn't seem to know what they were doing. Perhaps the book didn't have everything in it.
"I'm going to leave this case file with you." He was about to open the door when Phoebe walked in.
"Will you learn how to check your phone? I went down to the precinct looking for you. There's a man eating lady on the loose!"
"Yeah, we know. I've already told your sisters." He lowered his voice. "I really hope you can do something about it because to be honest, they seem clueless."
On that note he left the house and the case with the sisters.
***Note: Things are going to start picking up :D also how are you guys liking the 1000+ word chapters? Also I might be doing a chapter from Piper's perspective soon, what do you think? Reviews are welcome!