Chapter 6: Revelations and Exposures:

Piper and Paige were crowded around the Book of Shadows reviewing the spell that Pearl had cast.

"The spell," gasped Paige. "It was worded wrong."

"This is not working," sighed Piper angrily slamming the Book of Shadows closed. "There has to be a way." Suddenly, the Book flipped to the same spell it had before, To Unbind a Bond.

"Well," said Phoebe from her perch near the other Wiccan books they had. "Pearl didn't exactly give us something useful."

"Why don't we summon Grams and mom?" asked Paige. She had been quiet since she was held responsible for urging Pearl to cast the spell.

"That could work," said Leo. "They might know something about the spell they had Pearl cast earlier." Piper started flipping till she reached the page with the spell to summon a spirit.

"Hear these words,

Hear our cries

Spirits from the other side

Come to me, I summon thee

Two figures started to materialize in front of the five of them. In a second, Penny and Patty Halliwell were floating in the room.

"It's about time," said Penny with reprimanding tone. "What are you thinking? You let her cast that spell that no one has ever cast for 100 years-" Phoebe cut her off.

"Well, you flipped the page," said Phoebe. They both looked at her with weirded out faces.

"Honey," said Patty. "We would never flip to a spell like that."

"Then why-" Phoebe didn't get a chance to finish as a voice from nowhere cut her off.

"I can answer that," said a male voice from the atmosphere. A swirl of bright white and blue lights appeared and conversed to form a body of a man. Someone was orbing. The lights faded and a man with golden hair that was cropped appeared. He was lean and somewhat muscular. Wearing jeans and faded white t-shirt, he should have looked normal, but he didn't. There was something about his stance, the way he looked, everything, that screamed warrior.

"Who the hell are you?" asked Piper coming to stand next to her sisters Cole and Leo.

"My name is Patroclus, and I-" Cole had cut him off.

"Patroclus?" he questioned eyes wide. "As in the Patroclus? Cousin of Achilles? Warrior of Warriors? Fought in the Trojan War, Patroclus?" Everyone stared wide eyed, even Leo, at this.

"Pretty much," said Patroclus shrugging.

"What?" asked Paige. Patroclus smirked.

"After dying to protect the Greeks and my country, the Elders decided to make me a Whitelighter. They never made my cousin one seeing as though they said he had a greater purpose to play a role in."

"Cousin?" asked Penny. "As in Achilles?" Patroclus nodded.

"Your cousin is in his time," he said.

"We've sort of got that part figured out," said Phoebe. "What we really need help on is how to get her back."

"I know," said Patroclus. "And you need to get her back soon. She's not just stuck in his time; she's stuck during the fall of Troy." A vase suddenly burst and everyone turned to Piper, who stood there about to explode.

"You mean she's stuck during the Trojan War?" asked Piper screaming. Patroclus nodded. "You couldn't have picked another time period to send her to?"

"I'm afraid not," he said. "I can see a few of the things she does if they involve me since they are actually new memories being created for me."

"That's good, right?" asked Phoebe looking over at her mom.

"Yes," answered Patty. She turned to Patroclus. "Are you the one who flipped the page to that spell?" Patroclus nodded.

"Why?" asked Piper.

"I needed my cousin to find the one thing needed in his life, the one thing he never noticed was missing."

"A slave?" supplied Phoebe. She felt her blood boil at the mention of him sending her cousin to the past so his cousin could have a slave.

"Of course not," scoffed Patroclus immediately defending his cousin. "My cousin is nothing like that. I wanted him to discover the one he loved."

"Huh?" asked Paige, mouth agape.

"My cousin loved or loves yours as does she to mine," he answered her question. They were all speechless.

"We have to get her back," said Paige.

"And Achilles with her," finished Piper.

"What? Why?" asked Phoebe quickly. Piper turned to look at her sister.

"You heard the wise guy," she indicated Patroclus, who glared at her. "They're in love." The sisters were about to protest, but Leo jumped in.

"Pushing that aside," said Leo attempting to calm the tension in the room. "I think we should worry about how we're going to get Pearl back before the full moon."

"Oh," said Patroclus jumping into the conversation again. "You don't need to wait for the full moon. That was just put in to fool the Elders and any witch or demon that comes across. All you need is a witch, Whitelighter, and demon to cast the spell and make it strong enough to transport the person that far into the past."

"How would you know this if the Elders didn't?" asked Penny narrowing her eyes.

"Mom!" exclaimed Patty. Patroclus smirked.

"I've been around for about 3,200 years," he said. "This is enough time to pick up a few things."

"You must work with Cole to find her," instructed Patty.

"If Paige and I cast the spell with Leo and Cole," started Phoebe. "Piper you can go into the portal and get Pearl. That should give us enough power to fuel the spell."

"The spell will give you an hour at most," said Patroclus. "After that it will become too strong to maintain and end. Then you will truly have to wait until the next new moon."

"So it's settled," said Patty. She and Penny looked at each other and smiled at their descendants.

"Since you already have everything figured out," said Penny. "We'll be going now." With that, she and Patty disappeared.

"I'll go too," said Patroclus.

"Aren't you gonna help us?" asked Paige. Patroclus smiled.

"I already have," he said. "The information I gave you is more than what should have been given. But if you want to guarantee that the spell will work, cast it on the Winter Solstice. I wish you the best of luck." With that said, he orbed out leaving the five of them as they were before.

"What's the Winter Solstice?" asked Paige.

"The Winter Solstice is well, basically, Halloween," explained Leo. "That is the day when all Wiccan powers are magnified-"

"It's All Hallows Eve," said Phoebe remembering their trip to the past with Prue.

"It's in three days," said Piper. "Can we wait that long?"

"If we want the spell to be at its strongest," said Paige. "We have to."

"Well," said Phoebe scanning the Book for the ingredients required for the spell. "It's probably gonna take us three years to gather these ingredients." She turned the Book around and everyone groaned at the way everything looked.

"Great," sighed Paige. "Another wild goose chase."

Pearl and Achilles broke away from each other and started grinning. Pearl had never kissed anyone before him and it was new to her, so she loved the felling. For Achilles it was incredible. He had always kissed girls in an attempt to drown out his misery, but never with love. It was an entirely new experience for both of them.

"That was…" began Pearl.

"Unbelievable," finished Achilles for her. "Tell me more about yourself." He commanded.

"Well," said Pearl. "My mother and father died when I was a child, so I live with my grandmother from my father's side. I have four cousins, one of which died protecting an innocent from a demon. The other three are like sisters to me. Actually they were or are all like sisters to me."

"This is it?" asked Achilles raising an eyebrow. Pearl nodded. Achilles then picked up a tray of fruit and set it in front of her. "Eat," he instructed in a stern voice. Pearl picked up an apple and bit it. She hadn't had a proper meal since she arrived here. To her, the apple tasted delicious.

"Thank you," she said gratefully and sincerely. He smiled at her. "Tell me about you."

"Why should I?" he asked her. She smiled.

"If we're going to be spending time together," she said. "I'd rather know something about you besides your name."

"Why do you think we will be spending time together?" he challenged playfully. "I might be deceiving you until I suddenly kill you." Pearl grinned at him.

"But you won't," she said confidently.

"What makes you say that?" he asked. "Your powers?" She shook her head at his suggestion.

"Let's just say I've got a sixth sense," she smiled. Achilles nodded. "So tell me."

"My father's name is Peleus and my mother's name is Thetis," he began. "I've trained my whole life and became known as the greatest warrior in Greece."

"Any others?" she asked.

"I have a cousin named Patroclus," he said.

"I've met him," said Pearl.

"And you probably will again since he has the tendency to walk in here uninvited."

"Is it true that you were plunged into the River Styx by your mother and that made you invincible?" she asked. He looked at her with a skeptical expression.

"Where did you hear that?" he asked her.

"It's in my history book," she answered truthfully. "We are studying you and this war."

"My name is remembered?" he asked with a shocked face. She nodded. He smiled and kissed her on the forehead. "Thank you."

"So you mean your mother isn't a goddess?" she asked. He chuckled.

"No," he said. "We are all very mush human." She nodded.

"You don't like Agamemnon do you?" she asked.

"I swore that before my time was up, that I would look down on his corpse and smile," he answered.

"Rough," she commented. Achilles seemed to remember something.

"Can you show me one of your powers?" he asked. "If it's not too much strain on you." He gestured towards her wound. Pearl had forgotten it since it had numbed to the point in which she couldn't feel it.

"My real powers don't work," she said. "My power to have visions does, but I can't get a vision whenever I want to. I did use a power I never knew I possessed here. I can try it." She closed her eyes and started thinking of appearing on the other side of tent. Her head went down in a catatonic state and she could see her body slumped over.

Achilles started shaking her. "Pearl! Pearl, are you alright?"

"Over here," she said. Achilles turned around and gasped. Pearl was standing behind him. "Hi."

"Hello," he said getting up and moving towards her. "This is what you meant by being in two places at once." She nodded at his statement.

"It's called Astral Projection," she said. Her form faded in a red light and she reappeared in her body. Pearl looked up and smiled at Achilles who came and sat down next to her.

"You should sleep," said Achilles putting a pillow under her head and covering her with a sheet. In a few moments, she was in a deep sleep.

After one last glance at her sleeping form, Achilles exited the tent and made his way towards Patroclus.

"Care to tell me what happened today?" he asked. Patroclus nodded.

"Hector destroyed us," he said. "We would have stood a chance if the Myrmidons were fighting."

"I told you," said Achilles. "We will not fight until Hector groans to have Achilles back."

"But…" began Patroclus. Achilles raised a hand to silence him.

"Just go," he said. "And leave some fruit in my chambers for when Pearl awakens." Patroclus groaned in frustration and took a plate of fruit from a table and went towards Achilles' tent.

Upon hearing someone in the tent, Pearl woke. She had only been asleep for a few minutes so she was extremely tired. She looked up and saw Patroclus leaving a plate of fruit near her bed. She grumbled and got up, her shoulder still sore. Patroclus turned towards her and smiled.

"I'm sorry," he said. "I didn't mean to wake you."

"That's alright," she said sitting upright. She wrapped the blanket around her body careful not to let any of her clothes show. He came and sat on the bed next to her.

"I brought you some food," he said gesturing to the plate on the table. She smiled at him.

"Thank you," she said.

"I'm sorry you had to be taken to Agamemnon," he said.

"It's okay," she assured him. "Aside from not eating at all and no water, it wasn't bad. At the very least he didn't approach me and neither did his men."

"Here, you're safe," he said. "My cousin is probably giving the men orders now not to go anywhere near you." Pearl chuckled a little.

"I bet he is," she said.

"How can it be?" he said suddenly. She looked at him questioningly.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"No other woman has had this effect on my cousin before," he answered. "You seem to have a calming effect on him."

"I suppose it's a good thing," she said. They sat in silence for a few minutes.

"He loves you," said Patroclus breaking the silence.

"Huh?" said Pearl.

"Achilles, he loves you," clarified Patroclus. Pearl just stared at him too shocked to speak. "And from the look in your eyes, I can tell that you love him."

"How?" asked Pearl. There was no way in the universe, she thought. He can't love me. There has to be a mistake.

"When you were with Agamemnon," began Patroclus. "He ordered the Myrmidons to stand down. He didn't want to fight, he didn't see anyone, and he stayed in his chambers all the time and he barely ate or slept. No one I have ever met has ever had this effect on him. You are special to him Pearl. You hold a dear place in his heart. He loves you and you love him." Patroclus got up and made his way to the exit.

"Think about it," he said before exiting. Pearl just sat there dumbfounded.

Patroclus walked out and heard the Myrmidons say that Achilles ordered them to load the ships and set sail in the morning. He can't order us to go home, he thought furiously. Patroclus stalked towards where Achilles was sitting.

"We're leaving?" he asked. Achilles nodded. Patroclus raised his voice.

"You'd betray everything just to see Agamemnon fall,"

"It's not that simple," replied Achilles in the same tone.

"These are our country men and they need us,"

"If it's the war you want," said Achilles through clenched teeth. "There will be others."

"I'd rather die a thousand times than have your black heart," said Patroclus storming off.

"We set sail in the morning," yelled Achilles walking in the other direction.

Pearl who had been inside the tent, heard the whole exchange. Oh boy, she thought. I hope he doesn't do something stupid. Little did she know that she was right.

"Okay," said Piper looking at her sisters, Leo, and Cole. "Cole, you'll go to the underworld and try to get this sulthitad herb. Leo, you have to go to the Elders and convince them to give you two of these power restoring jewels. Phoebe, Paige, and I will go around town gathering the other herbs for the spell."

"Got it," said Cole. "You're going to have to work fast." he said pacing around the attic before shimmering out. Leo nodded and orbed to the Elders.

"Let's go," said Phoebe getting off of the chair and walking out of the attic followed by Paige and Piper, who had the list of ingredients and herbs they needed.