Raw Emotions
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A/n: I know! You don't hear anything from me in weeks and then bam! 5 new chapters. I had these written for a while I just didn't know when to upload them so... now sounds good to me. *runs from the angry mob* Well, enjoy!
"What do you mean a demon took him?" Piper questioned her husband for the fifteenth time. She was hyperventallating with panic and Piper was pacing furiosly, unable to comprehend this. "A demon didn't take him Leo." Piper insisted again. "Because you... you were there. And you would've stopped him." Piper said again, hysterical.
"Piper this isn't helping. We need to save him." Leo snapped at her. He felt bad for being so impatient with her, but they had already wasted a good ten minuets arguing over whether or not the demon actually took Chris and Leo was starting to get seriously irritated. Leo had been a little panicky himself at first, but Piper was getting a little to hysterical. "You need to calm down and take a deep..." Leo started.
"PAIGE!" Piper screamed, interrupting Leo with an angry wave of her hand. Leo stepped back, trying not to feel hurt at her obvious dismissal of him. "GET DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW OR... I'LL SUMMON YOUR ASS." Piper screamed as loudly as she could. Leo covered his ears with his hands and felt very lucky that the glass around them hadn't broken yet.
"Piper?" Paige asked with confusion and worry as she orbed in. Paige hadn't heard Piper that pissed since... actually Paige had never heard Piper that pissed and that scared her more then anything. "What is it?" Paige questioned again, hoping it wasn't something she had done. It was bad enough to get Pipers wrath when she was in a normal mood, but while Piper was pregnant you really wanted to stay out of her way.
"Shush." Piper told Paige quickly, dialing Phoebe's number at the Bay Veiw Mirror.
"Do you want to tell me what's going on?" Paige asked Leo with confusion. Paige looked around and her eyebrows narrowed. "Weres Chris?" She asked in confusion. Now that they knew who he was Paige figured he'd be the first that Piper would call. Piper turned towards Paige and gave Paige her best death glare. Paige's eyes widened and she looked at Leo for confirmation. Leo nodded grimly and Paige wisely shut her mouth, immediatly understanding the seriousness of the situation.
"Hi, Phoebe." Piper started, her voice hollow and upset. Paige winced, knowing that Phoebe had better agree to come home right away or else. "I need you to come home right away." Piper said gently, trying to be sympathetic to Phoebe's situation. Phoebe started complaining about how backed up in her work she was and Pipers eyes darkened dangerously. "Phoebe, I know how important..." Piper started, getting cut off. Piper eyes narrowed after a few moments and she finally screamed, "YOUR NEPHEW HAS BEEN CAPTURED!" Immediately Phoebe started apologizing and saying that she would be home right away. Piper hung up and looked towards her husband and sister with eyes that promised death.
"Piper, honey, maybe you should try to calm down a little." Leo said gently, knowing that Pipers focus would be a little off if she was in a hysterical state. Piper glared at Leo with eyes that basically told him were to shove it and Leo immediately backed off, knowing that this wasn't the time to upset Piper even further.
"Leo, I want you to go to the underworld and see what you can figure out." Piper started, glaring at Leo until he nodded hurridedly and orbed out. "Paige," Piper started and Paige jumped at the furious tone. "You are going to try some summoning spells while I scry for him." Piper said quickly, and Paige started running up the stairs. Piper quickly followed after her, but first she stopped off in Wyatt's room and grabbed the baby monitor.
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Phoebe sat in her office with a small smile. She had just gotten off of the phone with Paige who informed her that Piper and Leo were getting back together. Phoebe couldn't stop smiling. She had always felt like it was wrong for Piper and Leo to split up. There love has always been true, real and epic. Phoebe knew that one day Piper and Leo would get back together.
Phoebe was ecstatic about this. She loved Leo like a brother and was pretty upset when he became an elder, but Phoebe knew it was nothing to what Piper had went through. Piper and Leo were made for each other, plain and simple.
Then, just when Phoebe thought things couldn't get any better, she got a phone call from a hysterical Piper. Phoebe was shocked that Chris had been taken, he had been through too much already. "I'll be right there, I promise." Phoebe said seriously, already gathering up her things. Phoebe ran out of her office door and, just when she thought she was free, she ran into Elise.
"Phoebe?" Elise asked in surprise, backing up a few steps. "Just were do you think your going?" Elise asked, raising her eyebrows.
"I'm so sorry Elise, but I've got a family emergency." Phoebe said hurridedly, trying to side step her, but Elise moved her steps to match Phoebes.
"It's always some emergency with you Phoebe." Elise said shaking her head. Phoebe closed her eyes impatiently and quickly tried counting to ten.
"I know Elise and I'm so sorry." Phoebe said sincerely, looking at her watch and groaning. If she wasn't home in two minuets, Piper was going to kill her. "But I do really need to go." Phoebe told Elise seriously. "Please." Phoebe added for god measure.
"Fine." Elise said, tight lipped. She didn't like how Phoebe was always running off, but there was really nothing she could do about it.
"Thank you so much." Phoebe called over her shoulder, already running out of the building. Elise sighed and stomped over to her office, slamming the door.
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Piper and Paige were in the attic with anxious faces. Piper was scrying rather violently and muttering to herself. Piper just couldn't believe Chris's luck. He was always the one getting the short end of the stick and Piper wished that she could just scream at destiny to leave her baby the hell alone. Piper was the oldest Charmed One, the protector of good, and she couldn't even stop her own son from turning evil, or for capturing and torturing her other son. And, speaking of her youngest son, she couldn't even keep him safe from demons and his brother. Piper sighed in frustration and slammed the crystal down to go get another map, she was getting nowhere.
Paige wasn't having any more luck then Piper was. Paige had already known before she started that this was a lost cause, but this was just getting depressing. She had tried three different spells, added potions to each one to make them stronger and was getting majorly bummed. The only spell left to try was the blood-to-blood spell, but Paige already knew that wasn't going to work. She just wasn't going to say that around Piper.
"Anything?" Piper asked, digging through several maps they had and flinging one out.
"Nope." Paige said, adding her blood to the potion. Just as she was about to start chanted two demons orbed in with malicious grins on their faces. "Demons!" Paige cried, orbing them into the wall in hopes of knocking them out. Paige didn't have any such luck however as the demons stood right back up and each one threw an energy ball at Piper and Paige.
Piper froze the energy balls and looked towards Paige. "Energy Balls!" She screamed, sending the energy balls back towards their owners. Demon 1 ducked out of the way and Demon 1 threw an energy ball at the retreating energy ball, causing an explosion that knocked Paige on her ass.
"Son of a..." Piper started, cutting herself off and trying to blow up one of the demons. Both of them dodged the attack and opened their mouths to say something, or chant something, when Paige shouted out.
"Freeze them." Paige said quickly, trying to stop Piper before she ruined their possible lead. Piper flicked her wrists and froze the demons, looking at Paige with a death glare. "They could know something about Chris." Paige said, nodding her head at Pipers furious look. Piper turned towards the demons and unfroze their heads.
"You have two seconds to tell me were my son is before I blast you into oblivion." Piper said in her most furious and commanding voice. The demons looked at each other, smiled, and looked back at Piper with evil twin grins.
"With these words we now destroy
The memories of Pipers little boy
Christopher Halliwell we now erase
Because they will never again see his face"
"What did you do?" Piper exclaimed in fury, immediately forgetting everything about Chris. Paige looked at the demons threateningly, also wondering what the spell had done. Although, now she thought about it, she couldn't even remember the spell.
"Nothing you'll ever find out about... witch!" One of the demons exclaimed, sealing their fate. Piper immediately flicked her wrists and destroyed both demons.
"What the hell was that about?" Piper asked, looking around at the mess the fight with the demons had made and once again cursing the no magic for personal gain rule.
"I have no idea." Paige answered, looking at her watch and gasping at the time. "Oh my god!" Paige exclaimed, looking at Piper apologetically. "I've got to get to my temp. job." Paige exclaimed, orbing out.
"Paige!" Piper called, aggrivated. "You are not leaving me with the demon clean up, again!" Piper called again, sighing in aggravation when she got no response.
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Phoebe burst through the manor doors with a sense of urgency and confusion. Phoebe looked around anxiously, wondering why she felt as though she felt like she needed to be here. There must've been a demon attack or a threat against Wyatt or something. Phoebe looked around in worry when she didn't see anyone. "Piper!" Phoebe tried. "Paige, is anyone home?" Phoebe called a bit louder.
"Up here." Came a muffled shout from the attic. Phoebe hurried up the stairs, wondering if she would have to kick some demon ass once she got there.
"What happened?" Phoebe asked tiredly, looking around at the mess and reaching down to help Piper.
"Not much." Piper said, wiping some dust off of her hands. "Some warlocks attacked. Well I thought they were demons at first, but then they started chanting so they must've been warlocks." Piper explained absentmindedly. Phoebe looked around in worry.
"Is Paige alright?" She asked, figuring that Paige had probably been at her temp job, but worried about her all the same.
"She's fine." Piper said with a hint of annoyance in her voice. "She orbed out right afterward and stuck me with the clean up." Piper told Phoebe, venting about her youngest sister. Piper then looked at her sister with amusement. "Don't you have an interview in about," Piper looked at her watch. "In about five minuets."
"Crap." Phoebe shouted, smacking herself in the forehead and rushing back out of the house, mumbling to herself about demonic distractions in her life. Piper grinned to herself and nodded in agreement, getting back to the mess at hand.
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Chris looked around his cage with depression and sighed. This was getting ridiculous. He was always the one getting captured and tortured, why him? Chris knew about this part of the underworld. It was one of the more depressing spots, mainly because this was were all of the ritual sacrifices were done, and this knowledge did nothing to calm Chris down.
The walls of the cave Chris was surrounded by were covered in dirt, blood, and demon ashes. Instead of a nice sandy floor like some parts of the underworld, this floor was disgusting. Not only was it uneven due to the rocks, but it was also smeared with things that Chris really didn't want to think about considering his current situation. Unfortunately, his curiosity got the better of him and Chris took a careful look before gagging, recognizing it as human blood.
Chris was controlling his fear with ease, making his expression one of boredom rather then panic. Chris was surrounded by every demon he had ever threatened or forced into helping him and that terrified him. These demons were capable of some pretty nasty things and Chris didn't even want to imagine what was about to happen to him.
Chris discretely tried to use his powers to escape. Chris tried telekinesis, astral projection, and his orbing, but each attempt failed. Chris looked around at all of the jeering faces and gulped, this was not good. Chris just wished that he knew what they wanted from him. The typical things demons wanted from Halliwells were their powers, their blood or their book, but Chris didn't think they knew who he really was so he had no idea what to expect.
Chris watched with suspicious eyes as two demons separated from the main group and left. The remaining demons stared back at him with cold, calculating eyes, some going as far as to snarl. Chris merely smirked at them, arrogant on the outside and scared on the inside as always. "Alright." Chris said, finally having enough of the silence. All of the remaining demons immediately looked at him with predatory like eyes.
"My little friends?" A demon snarled menacingly, stepping forward. Chris smirked inwardly, and out. He wasn't afraid of this demon and Chris made a point of that. "They went to pay your family a visit." The demon informed him, grinning widely and showing his sharp, pointed teeth. Chris's face immediately paled and he dropped his smirk, looking at the demon with wide eyes. "Aww..." The demon began in a mock baby voice, laughing. "Is Chris scared?" He asked, now laughing fully, all of the other demons joining in. "Did you really think your rampage through the underworld would go unpunished?" He asked with amusement, watching Chris with laughing eyes.
Chris immediately slapped his emotionless mask on once more. He couldn't let these demons see how scared he was or else he might not be able to get out and save his family. Chris was positive that the demons wouldn't be able to kill them, they are the charmed ones after all, but they could still do other things. Kill their friends, Victor, or somehow distract them.
Chris had an idea of were this was going and it scared him. Normally Chris wouldn't be this afraid of being tortured by these demons, but after what Wyatt had put him through Chris was still a little shaky. Chris closed his eyes briefly and held his breath just as a demon snarled and threw a potion at Chris's feet. Chris's eyes widened in unimaginable pain and all of his breath came out in a frantic sigh. Chris felt as though electricity was flowing threw his body, and- since humans are made up of 80% water and electricity the only thing that separates water molecules-, Chris felt as though his entire body was being ripped apart slowly and painfully. Chris felt as though tiny bits of skin, hair, eyes, toes, nails, lips, tongue, ect was being violently ripped from his body and Chris wanted to scream. He wanted to beg for mercy, but Chris would never allow himself to do that.
Chris was vaguely aware that he had been sent to his knees and Chris fell, allowing his head to fall and his hair to cover his misted over eyes. Tears were gathering in his eyes and Chris forced himself not to blink, to not release the tears from their prison. Chris felt pain like nothing he had before experienced, besides Wyatt's torture, run through his body and Chris fell to the floor completely. He laid there, twitching in agony.
Finally Chris regained control over himself as the pain slowly went away. Shakily, Chris stood up and his hands gripped the bars of his cage tightly, holding him up each time his knees threatened to buckle. The demons watched him anxiously, waiting for a scream or for the tears they had been denied. Finally Chris put a smirk in place and raised his head, smirking at the demons.
"That's it?" Chris scoffed. "I've been tortured worse by warlocks." Chris mocked them, knowing that warlocks were the lowest on the demonic hierarchy. He sucseded in pissing them off because their looks changed from smug to pure anger and another potion vial was immediately thrown. Chris's smirk was wiped off his face and he tried his hardest not to scream, never giving up.