Phoebe could hardly believe what she was seeing, she felt like her world was crashing altogether in one piece and there was nothing that she could do to prevent it. She crept slowly to her sister's body and bent down next to her, trying to believe that this was a cruel joke being played on her. She moved the hair out of her face, and place her fingers on her neck to see if she could find a pulse. With luck she was able to find one, but, it was weak, and she was running out of time. She knew that she had to do something, she couldn't let another one of her sisters died, she would never let that happen again. Her eyes moved over to her wound and noticed that it was still bleeding, but not entirely bad. She grabbed the nearest piece of clothing that she could and pressed it against the wound in her stomach to prevent any more flood of blood that was leaking out of her body. Tears were rolling down her cheeks like a waterfall, she was in shock and horror. She didn't know how this could have happened in the space of a few minutes. But what she did not understand was why her sister was standing by the bed not moving, not helping, not showing any remote signs of emotion. It was like she did not even care that her big sister was slowly dying after an attack on her. She wiped the tears from her face and called from Paige to help, but she just stood there without a care, like nothing had happened. Like Piper was not lying on the floor dying, but was another piece of the carpet.
"Paige! Wha-what are you doing just standing there!?" Phoebe couldn't control the volume of her voice, she knew that she would most likely wake up the boys and worry them but what was worrying her now was the carelessness of her younger sister. "You have to heal Piper! She's going to die!" She clutched onto her dying sister with her arm around her shoulders so she was raised a little higher than before, hopefully so Paige could see that her sister needed attention.
"Oh, I'm sorry, but I can't help you" This was the first thing that she had said before Phoebe had found her outside Chris' room and she could not believe what she was saying to her.
"What!? You need to heal her or she is going to die!" She chocked from crying for hard. Gently, she placed Piper onto the floor of her bedroom and placed her hand on the bed so she could support herself back up since she was so horrified with her sister. "What has gotten into you!? You can't just let your sister die!!" Phoebe was face to face with her sister now and staring madly into her eyes, she wanted to shake her and wake her up for her confused state but she just stood there, staring back at Phoebe without a care in the world. But as she waited for an answer for her, she saw a smile form in her face. "What are smiling for!! Save our sister, NOW!" She watched her sister move closer towards her, without saying a word to her and then out of nowhere, Paige raised her hand to her and slapped her across the face. She had hit her so hard then that she crashed into the table side cabinet that was by the window. She hit her head against the ground and felt the pain surged though her head and work its way throughout the rest of her body, like a spell had been placed upon her that parlyzed her entire body.
She could hardly breath, she was in pain, in shock that her sister had stuck her and she did not even see it coming, and more to the point she didn't know why she would want to her. "Paige…wh-what have you…gotten…yourself into!" She exclaimed to her. Paige didn't say anything to her, but moved forward over to her sister lying helplessly on the floor, she crouched down in front of her and said quietly to her, so only she could hear her, "Because…" she placed her hand in front of Phoebe and a blade magically appear in the palm of her hand. Phoebe gasped, she looked up at her sister and felt an urge of panic. This wasn't her sister anymore, but who was it? Who want to kill her and her sisters more than anything in the world? "…you killed me first!" She clicked her fingers and what she thought was her sister disappeared right before her eyes, and the person that was now crouching before her was no longer her sister, but Christy.
"CHRISTY!?" Phoebe screamed as loud as she could, hoping that she could get Wyatt to orb her and his mummy out of here. She tried to move out of the way before she ended up like her sister too, but because of the spell that had been casted on her, her body was not allowing her too move. "Please don't do this!!" She looked up at Christy and saw the differences in her face from when she was alive. She could see the skeleton appearing in her face when the skin was showing disappearing from her face, and loosely detaching itself from Christy. Her hair was a dull colour of brown and there was not much of it left now. Her hands were the same as her face and there was a repulsive smell coming from her entire body that made Phoebe want to pass out. If it wasn't from the way that she spoke to Phoebe and how everything made sense, she was hardly recognisable.
"No actually I want to do this. I'm going to get my sister back and finish what we started. And that's by killing you and the Power of Three!!!" She raised the knife above her head, ready to thrust the knife straight into the one that she wished more than ever to kill. Phoebe let out a piercing scream as she watched the whole of her life flash before her eyes. She closed her eyes tightly and wished that someone would come to her aid. She was terrified for her life, but who was going to save her? Piper was already down and out, the boys would not be able to hear her and she couldn't make them do such a thing and Paige…where was she? Was she even alive…it didn't bare thinking. She didn't want too.
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Nothing. Phoebe continue to wait for the knife to reach her trembling body, but there was nothing. She slightly opened one eye, and, saw nothing. She opened both of her eyes and tried to see where Christy had vanished to, she slowly turned her head, ignoring the pain that she felt and saw that she had been knocked over by the head with a lamp shade. But who was her saviour, she peered around the room the best that she could and saw Piper's body had been moved also, she tried to speak out aloud but no words were coming out. She was panicking now, had her sister's spirit moved on already? But, would her body have really disappeared? She continue to lay there on the floor, aching everywhere, with all different thoughts going through her head. Only this morning she was going to be with the man that she loved, and now she was once again, she and her sisters were stopping the Ultimate Power, their was no day off for them.
"Phoebe?" She heard a soft voice come through the door, she looked towards the door and saw Piper standing by the door holding on the frame of the door to support herself up. She looked as pale as a ghost and looked terrible.
"Pi-Piper!? Yo-you're okay?" She exclaimed to her sister, with tears softly rolling down her cheeks with absolute relief that her sister was staying, very much alive.
"Yes…well as much as one can be…" She moved slowly towards her sister that was trying to pick her self back up again. She reached an arm out towards her, which Phoebe accepted gratefully, and was pulled slowly back up. Once she had found her feet, she stepped over the unconscious Christy that laid on the floor and made her way to the bed where she could sit down and let Piper explain what was happening.
"How did you get stabbed? What happened? Who healed you? Did Paige heal you? Is she okay" she rambled to her big sister.
"Well, it was all kind of a big blur really, I thought it was you coming to get me when I was in my room. I was looking for Wyatt's teddy bear, and when I turned around Christy just-just stabbed me. I didn't have a clue how she got here and I didn't have a chance to bow her up. And then as I was lying on the ground, I saw her change into Paige and made her way to you." Piper had moved over to sit next to her sister, not being too careful not the step over Christy. "Then I felt like I was moving on, dying. But I opened my eyes and Wyatt had healed me, and I looked over to the corner of the room and saw Billie wandering out of the room with the genie's bottle in her hand."
"Billie, and the bottle!?"
"Yes Billie, and the bottle. She obviously done better than what I thought she would. And from looking down at…this… I was wrong about her joining forces with her Christy." Phoebe followed Piper's eyes down to the body that laid on the floor, and saw she cottoned on.
"Billie did…this!" Pointing at Christy.
"Yes… and then got me into Wyatt's room to heal me. I was pretty amazed and like I said before. Shocked." Piper said quietly to her sister.
"I'm glad we didn't cut her off completely…" Phoebe replied back to her, being as quiet as possible so Billie could not hear her.
"Well, after what has happened now…I won't ever doubt her again…" She stated as she looked up and smiled at her sister. As Phoebe listened to what Piper was saying to her, she felt all the pain and anger that she felt when Billie had betrayed them just disappear, like it had never happened. The fact that she had risked her life to save them, to heal her sister and put things right, showed her and her other sister that she could be forgiven. That maybe they could continue teaching Billie without thinking that she was being used.
"Hey guys…" Both Piper and Phoebe turned their heads round to the door to see Billie standing their patiently. "We have a problem. The genie, he's gone"
Billie and Phoebe both decided that it was better if the boys stay in one room for the time being and that Piper should not worry about the Wyatt or Chris since they Wyatt's force field would protect both of them. They were now all in the attic, trying to come up with a plan of action about the once again missing genie that they needed to find desperately to end all this madness. Phoebe was scrying madly for the genie but was having no luck finding the location of him. Piper was reading out different spells that might work to summon the genie to them but so far nothing was working.
"Nothing…Juno as you said his name was, must have put protection spells on his location. Have you found him in the book yet Billie?" Piper asked as she glanced round to the pale looking Billie.
"Nope, not yet. But he has to be an upper level demon, right?"
"Not exactly" Phoebe piped up, "he could be working for someone else, or just trying to move up in the underworld…the same old stuff…" she went back to focusing on scrying for the genie, but still not forgetting that they had to be looking for someone else also. "Paige!" She leaped from her seat, causing Billie to nearly rip a page out of a book and Piper to blow up the cabinet in front of her.
"Oh no…" Piper placed her hand against her mouth, in the whole rush and panic about the genie they had forgot about their youngest sister.
"Don't 'oh no' me! We need to find her Piper!" Phoebe cried, she was shaking head to toe. She couldn't believe that she could have forgot that her little sister could been hurt or worse…
"Maybe Paige is in Magic School with Leo? Maybe she couldn't hear you call her or something…" Billie suggested to her.
"But, how? I called her several times before"
"Maybe the demon intercepted your calls to her, so he could get Christy to come and get us" Piper told her. "Maybe you should try calling her again"
Phoebe looked at her sister and Billie and nodded her head in approval and braced herself in hoping that her sister that would come back to them from being Magic School and not dead.
"PAIGE?" Phoebe said very loudly and very clearly. She looked at her older sister and waited patiently. She stared around the attic trying to look for her sister to orb back into the manor, and so they could tell her everything that had happened. But, as the seconds went on, and on, she glanced at her sister, who noticed that tears were rolling down, her pale cheek. Maybe something had happened to her? It didn't dare thinking about, she wasn't dead…she couldn't be…
"You don't have to shout!" Phoebe turned around with her mouth hanging wide open with shock and excitement on her face, Piper had to wipe the tears that were flowing rapidly down her face and Billie ran up to hug her in a big embrace to so how enlightened that she was safe and sound. "Wow, okay" Paige said with a huge amount of confusion on her face and patted Billie gently on the back as to say, "okay, please get off me now".
"Sorry" Billie said meekly, "It's just that…" she looked to Piper and Phoebe as she let her hold off of Paige.
"Well, Christy attacked" Phoebe said to her as she walked slowly towards her as she waited for her reaction.
"What?!" Paige shouted looking alarmed, "are you okay? What happened? Where is she now?"
"Don't worry, Billie, knocked her out from behind. But the point is, with her the genie's bottle now, but what we don't have is the genie." She explained to her sister, as she gestured her hand towards the sofa where he had originally been seated for his own safety.
"Oh…"
"Yes, 'oh'. What we need to do now is find him again, but I think Juno, the demon Paige, has placed protection all over his cave, so we can't get into there." She said with a sad sigh at the end, showing her disappointment that this day was not going to end on a high note if they didn't do something now and fast.
"Okay, well, I could sense him and orb us into the cave with potions that we have made" Paige suggested.
"No, remember you hadn't been able to make a full connection with the genie to be able to sense him, and plus you probably wouldn't be able to get into the cave." Phoebe pointed out to her sister.
"Right, well then we write spell that will send us to the genie." She retorted back to her.
"Have you been listening? Paige, the place is protected, how on earth are we going to get in there?" Phoebe said slightly annoyed, since she was coming up with silly ideas that would lead them nowhere.
"Well I am open to suggestions, if you have any" Paige snapped back at her.
"Wait!" Both Phoebe and Paige turned around to see that their sister had raised her head to signal that their would be no fighting about silly ideas. There was no need for it. But that was not the only reason that Piper was silencing both of her younger sisters, she had an idea, that might be able to help them. "I have an idea. And now is not the time to start the bickering." She moved over to Billie and look at her in the face, showing to her that she needed her attention with all costs. "Billie I have an idea, and only you can do it for us."
"Okay what is it then?" Billie asked, puzzled.
"Phoebe, Paige, could you start making potions, the strongest that you could make. We don't know much about this guy and if he is not in the book, then we need to double up. Got that?"
"Yes but-"
"No buts. Just start." She signalled to Billie for her to follow. Looking confused and not aware about what help she could possibly do, other than hit her dead sister again if she attacked, she made her way over to the exit of the attic and back downstairs to start her work.
