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K-8
"She's drunk." Maya scoffed.
Jackson turned around to face his cousin, remaining protectively in front of his sister his blue eyes locked onto Mayas brown ones as she scoffed, "Come on Jackson, who are you going to believe?"
Jackson took a deep inhale, his cousin seemed so convincing, and she was right, Jayda didn't have a great track record; his little sister did have a thing for the bottle and making up stories…He glanced back, than again, he had never seen her like this.
"We just need your help." Brooke who had been silent all but whispered tearing all eyes to her.
Maya's eyes flashed, "Shut up Brooke."
Brooke took a step back from her cousin and Jackson took a step forward, Jayda still clinging to his arm.
"Kids?" Phoebe called from the landing, "Is everything okay?"
Maya gave Jackson a pointed look, reluctantly he cleared his throat, "Everything's fine Aunt Phoebe, just, cleaning up." He eyed the broken remains of the Jack Daniels bottle on the floor.
Jackson looked back up to his cousins, "What do you mean you need our help?"
Piper slipped from the gate carefully as she muttered a quick spell under her breath that repaired the damaged lock and video camera.
Leo strode towards her, "They're not in there." Piper informed him quickly as she glanced at the guard and then back at her husband, "Come on, get back in position."she ushered as she returned to the place she had stood when she had frozen the guard earlier.
Leo growled under his breath but obeyed his wife nonetheless.
With a flick of her wrist, the guard unfroze looking slightly dazed, he blinked, "What just happened."
"You refused to let us into the cemetery." Piper snapped as she tugged Leo's arm towards the car.
The guard looked from them back to the locked gate.
"Thanks for nothing." Piper quipped as she slammed the car door behind her and threw the jeep into drive, speeding out of the parking lot. "Now what?" she breathed, "Should we use the 'To Call A Lost Witch' spell?"
"Piper"
"Should we summon them?"
"Piper"
"Go home and scry?" she continued her rant ignoring Leo.
"Piper!"
Finally her head snapped around to her husbands, "What?" her voice was icy.
Leo sighed, "I called Caddie's cell phone. They were walking home. I told them to go into Mel's Dinner on Young Street to wait for us to pick them up there." Leo told her calmly.
Piper let out a sigh of relief before giving Leo an apologetic look, "I'm sorry, it's just, if anything happens to them…" she shook her head.
"I know." Leo nodded understanding his wifes turmoil. "Lets just find them and get home." He glanced up at the dark swirling clouds above them that had absolutely nothing to do with the weather, "It looks like a storms coming."
"I can't believe you're actually going to listen to them." Jayda stood at one end of the room with her arms crossed protectively over her chest.
Jackson sat on a chair as he stared expectantly at Maya and Brooke, "Show me."
Maya rolled her eyes, "Just hear me out-"
"Show. Me." Jackson's voice was dangerously low.
Maya let out a frustrated sigh as she flicked her thumb up and the end ignited with a small flame.
Jackson kept his eyes on the flame. "It's...not possible…" he muttered, "I mean, we're not magical."
"Oh it's possible." Maya deadpanned.
"I told you!" Jayda pointed a shaky finger, "She's a freak."
"Do you think I asked for this?" Maya shot back her eyes flashing dangerously as she retracted her thumb into her fist.
"So when you said you needed our help…"
"Just forget it." Maya grumbled, looking away.
"Maya" Brooke pushed but Maya said nothing and Brooke sighed, "She thinks that maybe her dad is still alive. That they're keeping him in one of those… facilities…"
"Brooke!" Maya yelled at her cousin.
"What?" Brooke shot back, "You said you needed their help."
"Why?" Jackson questioned, "Why would you need our help?"
"Because we're family." Brooke replied, "Which means we're all connected."
Piper rushed into the 90's style dinner and immediately embraced the younger of the two girls. "I was so worried." She couldn't help the tears that formed in the corners of her eyes.
"It's okay Grams." Zoey patted her grandmothers back gently.
"Are you alright?" Leo asked Cadence seriously.
Cadence shrugged.
"It's not okay." Piper stressed as she released her, "I know you girls are used to more freedom than this" Piper shook, "But please don't go wandering around by yourself at night. It's too dangerous."
"Jackson shouldn't have left." Leo added gently.
"It wasn't his fault Grandpa." Zoey said quietly refusing to meet their eyes as she scuffed her converse shoes against the floor. "We told him to go."
"We're not five years old. We're fully capable of walking a few blocks back to the manor." Cadence scoffed.
"Not when you can't protect yourself you're not." Piper told her trying to be firm but gentle at the same time.
"Isn't that what the guards on every corner are for?" Cadence argued.
"Cadence you have no idea what's out there" Piper inhaled a shaky breath before continuing, "and if someone or something really wanted to hurt you those guards would not be able to protect you."
"Oh and you could?" Cadence shot back.
Leo looked at his wife and Piper exhaled a breath, "Yes, I think I could."
"How?" Cadence countered. "How will you protect us when you're not magical!"
Piper glanced around at the stares that were starting to accumulate from the other restaurant patrons. "Cadence now is not the time nor the place to-"
"You didn't protect Mom!" Cadence yelled and the words pierced through Piper's heart but she remained strong.
"Cadence!" Zoey hissed angrily at her sister.
"What? It's true." Cadence snapped shooting an angry glance at Piper.
"Don't talk to your grandmother like that." Leo reprimanded.
"No it's okay Leo." Piper placed a hand on his forearm, "She's right." She locked eyes with Cadence, "But your mother wasn't here and you are so-"
"That's bullshit!" Cadence spat.
"Look, I should have been there and I wasn't. I will regret that every day for the rest of my life, but trust me when I say that I am not going to make the same mistake twice." Piper took another deep unsteady breath, "Now go get in the car this discussion is over."
Cadence glared at her grandmother before storming towards the exit, throwing open the door of the dinner, the bell ringing frantically as the door clattered against the wall outside. Zoey, looked between her grandparents with a dishevelled type gleam in her eye before slinking towards the door after her sister.
Piper sighed, running a hand through her hair as she too began moving towards the door when Leo caught her arm, she looked up at him, his blue eyes were serious and filled with concern, "Piper." he swallowed the lump in his throat, "What happened tonight," he shook his head, "it can't happen again."
Piper pulled her arm from him, "I know." she replied.
"No. No! No! NO! NO!"
"Jayda will you be quiet" Jackson hissed at his sister who was pacing the room, pulling at her long raven hair.
"This is not happening." Jayda muttered to herself.
"We don't know what's happening yet." Jackson replied "So just calm down." Jayda sunk into a chair as far away from Maya and Brooke as possible.
"All we know is-" he swallowed the lump in his throat, "Maya has powers."
"She could kill us." Jayda hugged her knees and rocked back and forth.
"But I'm not going to!" Maya shouted, but then added under her breath, "Unless you keep this up."
"How do you know magic comes from our side of the family and not your mom's?" Jackson asked.
"Dads body was never found. Moms was. I saw it." Maya shrugged.
"That doesn't mean it comes from our side." Jackson argued.
"I know what it means." Maya snapped.
Jackson turned to Brooke, "Do you have powers?"
Brooke hesitated, "No…but sometimes when I'm asleep I feel like I'm having an out of body experience or something…it feels really real and…"
Jackson shook his head, "That's not magic, it's just you dreaming."
"We should go to the police." Jayda spoke up suddenly, her voice no longer shaking.
All three young people rounded on her all speaking at the same time.
-"Are you crazy?"
-"They'll burn her! Or dissect her!"
-"I'm going to kill you!"
"We're not going to the police." Jackson looked between the girls, holding out his hands in an attempt to keep them at bay, "And no one is going to kill anyone. We're family."
Jayda snorted, "Barely."
Jackson gave her a firm look, "And family sticks together." He turned to lock eyes with Brooke and then Maya giving her a nod, "No matter what."
