Headache hell or demonic Bombshell?
It had been almost two weeks since that day. No one had heard anything on the whole Sean matter and it seemed everyone was treading carefully around each other, scared to off balance them and cause a full scale argument, something Halliwell manor needed least.
Things with the security around the manor was becoming routine. The sisters were beginning to get use to the patrol cars outside their house all day, ringing the doorbell at 7 in the morning to check if they were all okay. Although it was nice to feel protected by the security, the sisters, particularly Phoebe felt it was an invasion of their privacy. That and the fact that they were the Charmed Ones and had the possibility of having to vanquish demons, which meant having the patrol car out side the house was not a particularly good idea.
Prue was still working on Anna and Marcus, trying to see if they could at least cut the hours of patrolling down. Though it sounded good at first, that they would still be getting regular checks, Marcus was very unsure of the decision.
*Flashback*
"Look Prue, I know you just want to get life back to how it was and I know cutting down the patrolling hours seems a good idea at first sight," He paused.
"But?" Prue prompted.
"But you have to remember that Sean is still out there and wants Phoebe. He could be stalking your house for all you know!"
Prue shuddered at the thought. "Okay okay, I get your point. But what happens if you never find him? We can't have guys watching over us for the rest of our lives."
Marcus seemed slightly insulted by her almost accusation that his team would not find Sean. "We will find him, Prue. I promise you." He said before turning on his heal and walking away.
Prue sighed.
*End of flashback*
The decision was made to leave things as they were for the time being, just until something came up.
There were some other issues on the line at the moment as well as the security, though not quite so voiced, more seen. Prue's and Phoebe's relationship had looked to have take a turn for the better since the day of Sean's escape. It was like when Phoebe was tiny, she would always run to Prue. She would lay in her arms and just listen to Prue's steady heart beat whenever she got scared. But as she got older, she started to go to Piper instead of Prue on the ground that Prue was more like a mother than a sister, and she'd prefer to share her problems with a sister.
Piper had a feeling she knew how Prue must have felt, now that Phoebe was leaving her protection and going back to her eldest sister, Piper was becoming a little, no scratch that, a lot jealous of how close they were becoming. She was trying to be very supportive oh her baby sister. But she couldn't help that horrible nagging feeling inside her. 'Phoebe needs Prue right now. It's not the time to get jealous Piper' she told herself over and over again. But she was. She was jealous of how close the two of them had become.
Piper knew that Phoebe needed her support right now, as well as Prue's, so she pushed these thoughts to the back of her mind, hoping they would go away. To take her mind off them, she decided to clean. It was only Wednesday, and the manor looked spotless. Even the basement floor looked almost good enough to eat off.
"Morning Piper." Phoebe said coming down the stairs that morning in her pajamas.
"Hey sweetie. Sleep well?" She asked.
"Yeah, I suppose. Is Prue about?" Phoebe questioned. There we go again, Piper thought inwardly.
"Erm, no she's not. She had to go out this morning. You're stuck with me." Piper said thinking her sister was going to be off about it.
"Oh, cool." Phoebe giggled. She smiled, for two reasons. The first being that she was very pleased to hear Phoebe giggle again; it had been a while since she had. And the second being that she had the comfort Phoebe still wanted to be around her.
At that moment Prue came through the door.
"Hey everyone." Prue said as she dumped her stuff by the door.
"Hey Prue, I thought you said you would be out all morning today?" Piper questioned.
"Yeah, I know. But I, um, I had a bit of D.E.M.O."
"Prue, I can spell. I'm not 3 any more." Phoebe interrupted.
"Really?" Prue said with a smirk. "Okay so I had to DEMON trouble," She emphasized the word at Phoebe. "so thought we should check it out." Prue said.
"Prue, I thought we were going to avoid demon trouble, for Phoebe's sake." Piper said as if Phoebe weren't there.
"Yes I know Piper, but we are still witches aren't we? We shouldn't just abandon our Charmed duties because one of our sisters is pregnant."
"News flash Prue, Murdering ex on the loose too!"
"Hello. Hi remember me? Hellllloooo!" said Phoebe loudly waving her arms slightly.
Prue and Piper ignore Phoebe and carry on their conversation.
"That's what the police are there for!" Prue said loudly and slowly as if Piper were a small child.
"So? We shouldn't go looking for trouble, Prue!"
"I'm not looking for trouble, Piper! It found its way to me, yet again!" Prue yelled.
Phoebe suddenly became very dizzy. She sat down on the stairs trying to grasp the wall to steady herself as she lowered to the floor, to no avail. Prue and Piper were so busy arguing they didn't see Phoebe pretty much fall.
Throbbing pains in her head. Banging. Every sound her sisters made shot through her head like bullets. She grasped her head with both sides. "make it stop make it stop." She mumbled.
"Oh yeah? What kind of trouble!" Piper yelled back at Prue.
"I don't know yet." Prue said.
"Then what's the point of dragging us into it!!" Piper shouted so hard Phoebe almost fell unconscious with the pain.
"Will you guys cut it out!" Phoebe screamed as hard as she could manage whilst clutching her head and rocking herself forward and backward to ease the throbbing. The pain was so intense, she was practically begging to fall unconscious. She just wished her sisters would shut up.
Prue and Piper finally stopped arguing when they heard Phoebe yell and looked over at her. The sisters were by her side in a shot when they saw her gentle rocking and holding of the head.
"Phoebe!!" Prue shouted as she ran over to her.
Once again a pain sliced its way through Phoebe's head. She clutched her head tighter, hoping to block out the sound, but with no success.
"Pheebs, honey, what's the matter?" Piper said as she ran over to her, concern dripping from her voice.
"Nothing. Just. Please. Be. quiet." She said weakly between breaths.
"You think we should get her to a doctor?" Piper asked Prue, her anger with her sister dispersed by her concern for the other.
"I'm not sure." Prue said, with increasing worry for the situation and her baby sister. What the hell was this?
"I'm fine!" Phoebe interrupted.
"You sure?!" Prue asked totally unconvinced by her sister's answer.
"Yes, I'm sure I'm fine, Prue. Just don't argue. It hurts my head."
"You sure?" Prue asked for the second time.
"Prue." Phoebe said, "I'm fine."
"You sure, your sure that your sure your fine?" Prue enquired for the third time.
"Don't go there, Prue. I swear, I'll scream if you ask me that one more time."
"Like I said, she's fine. Seriously now, Piper go and find some aspirin for Pheebs, I'll get her upstairs."
"Okay." Piper agreed as she ran down the stairs. She was worried for Phoebe, but also frightened. Why had this happened so suddenly? What the hell was going on?
"Come on." Prue said to Phoebe, helping her to her feet and up off the staircase.
Phoebe responded and did her part as Prue helped her up. She was grateful her sisters had stopped arguing. But her head was still pounding.
"Um, Pheebs?" Prue asked spontaneously.
"Uh huh?" She responded, quietly.
"Have you had these headaches before?" She enquired carefully.
"No, I don't think so." She paused. "Why did you guys have to fight?" She sounded so innocent.
"We are just worried about you." Prue smiled. "But it makes a change, doesn't it? Its usually you and me at the center of the Halliwell arguments."
Phoebe smiled but argued back. "Not true." she said stubbornly.
Prue just giggled and continued to help Phoebe up the stairs.
"Your head still hurting?" She asked as they reached Phoebe's room.
"Yeah, but not so much. I think its cos I don't have to screechy sisters yelling in my ear holes anymore,"
"Oh, we are sorry Pheebs."
Piper walks into the room, being careful not to spill the ice-cold water she had brought up along with the aspirin so Phoebe had something to wash the pills down with.
"Here you go!"
"Thanks." Phoebe says taking the aspirin and ice-cold water from Piper's shaking hands. Phoebe noticed this, but pushed the thought to the back of her mind, ignoring what she saw.
There was almost a silence whilst the two elder sisters watched their baby sister take the pills. The only sound was the few gulps Phoebe made when downing the pills.
Prue was the first to break the silence.
"Hey, um, I'm gonna go check the, uh, book of Shadows about this."
"Why?" Phoebe asked looking up. "It was headaches. It was probably just something to do with." She paused. "You know, the pregnancy." It was still a little weird for Phoebe to involve herself and pregnancy in the same sentence.
"Yeah, I know, Pheebs. But I can't just sit here and do nothing?" Prue reasoned. That wasn't the reason she needed to check the book.
Phoebe just shrugged at her comment, admitting defeat. At that Prue left the room, followed by Piper.
Prue didn't know why, but she felt something was wrong. Phoebe was having severe freaky headaches just because they were arguing? She had never had them before and the originality of them was frightening for Prue.
"Prue, the book of Shadows? We should be calling a doctor not spirits." Piper commented as she followed Prue up the second flight of stairs leading to the attic.
"I know, I know. I just had this, you know, this feeling. Something is not right, Piper, and I don't think it has anything to do with mortal stuff."
"Right, uh huh. So what do you think is happening then?" Piper asked with a trace of bitterness in her voice.
"I think somebody wants Phoebe's baby." She stated without emotion.
" Give the girl a prize. Of course someone is after Phoebe's baby, Sean, remember him? Yeah, he wants her baby." Piper's sarcasm didn't go unnoticed by Prue.
"No, it's something else, someone else. They want her baby and I'm not going to let them have it. We aren't going to let them have it, Piper."
"Prue, we don't know what is going on here, okay. Lets just figure it out before we start panicking here, okay."
Prue turned towards her sister with nothing but determination in her eyes. She was going to find the ass hole that was doing this, but for now she had to stay calm.
"I guess your right." She said.
Upon reaching the attic, Piper went across and looked out of the window while Prue walked over to the book of Shadows and started flipping its pages, just looking for anything that might help them.
Prue turned to a page and froze at what she saw.
"Piper, why is Sean in the book of Shadows?"
It had been almost two weeks since that day. No one had heard anything on the whole Sean matter and it seemed everyone was treading carefully around each other, scared to off balance them and cause a full scale argument, something Halliwell manor needed least.
Things with the security around the manor was becoming routine. The sisters were beginning to get use to the patrol cars outside their house all day, ringing the doorbell at 7 in the morning to check if they were all okay. Although it was nice to feel protected by the security, the sisters, particularly Phoebe felt it was an invasion of their privacy. That and the fact that they were the Charmed Ones and had the possibility of having to vanquish demons, which meant having the patrol car out side the house was not a particularly good idea.
Prue was still working on Anna and Marcus, trying to see if they could at least cut the hours of patrolling down. Though it sounded good at first, that they would still be getting regular checks, Marcus was very unsure of the decision.
*Flashback*
"Look Prue, I know you just want to get life back to how it was and I know cutting down the patrolling hours seems a good idea at first sight," He paused.
"But?" Prue prompted.
"But you have to remember that Sean is still out there and wants Phoebe. He could be stalking your house for all you know!"
Prue shuddered at the thought. "Okay okay, I get your point. But what happens if you never find him? We can't have guys watching over us for the rest of our lives."
Marcus seemed slightly insulted by her almost accusation that his team would not find Sean. "We will find him, Prue. I promise you." He said before turning on his heal and walking away.
Prue sighed.
*End of flashback*
The decision was made to leave things as they were for the time being, just until something came up.
There were some other issues on the line at the moment as well as the security, though not quite so voiced, more seen. Prue's and Phoebe's relationship had looked to have take a turn for the better since the day of Sean's escape. It was like when Phoebe was tiny, she would always run to Prue. She would lay in her arms and just listen to Prue's steady heart beat whenever she got scared. But as she got older, she started to go to Piper instead of Prue on the ground that Prue was more like a mother than a sister, and she'd prefer to share her problems with a sister.
Piper had a feeling she knew how Prue must have felt, now that Phoebe was leaving her protection and going back to her eldest sister, Piper was becoming a little, no scratch that, a lot jealous of how close they were becoming. She was trying to be very supportive oh her baby sister. But she couldn't help that horrible nagging feeling inside her. 'Phoebe needs Prue right now. It's not the time to get jealous Piper' she told herself over and over again. But she was. She was jealous of how close the two of them had become.
Piper knew that Phoebe needed her support right now, as well as Prue's, so she pushed these thoughts to the back of her mind, hoping they would go away. To take her mind off them, she decided to clean. It was only Wednesday, and the manor looked spotless. Even the basement floor looked almost good enough to eat off.
"Morning Piper." Phoebe said coming down the stairs that morning in her pajamas.
"Hey sweetie. Sleep well?" She asked.
"Yeah, I suppose. Is Prue about?" Phoebe questioned. There we go again, Piper thought inwardly.
"Erm, no she's not. She had to go out this morning. You're stuck with me." Piper said thinking her sister was going to be off about it.
"Oh, cool." Phoebe giggled. She smiled, for two reasons. The first being that she was very pleased to hear Phoebe giggle again; it had been a while since she had. And the second being that she had the comfort Phoebe still wanted to be around her.
At that moment Prue came through the door.
"Hey everyone." Prue said as she dumped her stuff by the door.
"Hey Prue, I thought you said you would be out all morning today?" Piper questioned.
"Yeah, I know. But I, um, I had a bit of D.E.M.O."
"Prue, I can spell. I'm not 3 any more." Phoebe interrupted.
"Really?" Prue said with a smirk. "Okay so I had to DEMON trouble," She emphasized the word at Phoebe. "so thought we should check it out." Prue said.
"Prue, I thought we were going to avoid demon trouble, for Phoebe's sake." Piper said as if Phoebe weren't there.
"Yes I know Piper, but we are still witches aren't we? We shouldn't just abandon our Charmed duties because one of our sisters is pregnant."
"News flash Prue, Murdering ex on the loose too!"
"Hello. Hi remember me? Hellllloooo!" said Phoebe loudly waving her arms slightly.
Prue and Piper ignore Phoebe and carry on their conversation.
"That's what the police are there for!" Prue said loudly and slowly as if Piper were a small child.
"So? We shouldn't go looking for trouble, Prue!"
"I'm not looking for trouble, Piper! It found its way to me, yet again!" Prue yelled.
Phoebe suddenly became very dizzy. She sat down on the stairs trying to grasp the wall to steady herself as she lowered to the floor, to no avail. Prue and Piper were so busy arguing they didn't see Phoebe pretty much fall.
Throbbing pains in her head. Banging. Every sound her sisters made shot through her head like bullets. She grasped her head with both sides. "make it stop make it stop." She mumbled.
"Oh yeah? What kind of trouble!" Piper yelled back at Prue.
"I don't know yet." Prue said.
"Then what's the point of dragging us into it!!" Piper shouted so hard Phoebe almost fell unconscious with the pain.
"Will you guys cut it out!" Phoebe screamed as hard as she could manage whilst clutching her head and rocking herself forward and backward to ease the throbbing. The pain was so intense, she was practically begging to fall unconscious. She just wished her sisters would shut up.
Prue and Piper finally stopped arguing when they heard Phoebe yell and looked over at her. The sisters were by her side in a shot when they saw her gentle rocking and holding of the head.
"Phoebe!!" Prue shouted as she ran over to her.
Once again a pain sliced its way through Phoebe's head. She clutched her head tighter, hoping to block out the sound, but with no success.
"Pheebs, honey, what's the matter?" Piper said as she ran over to her, concern dripping from her voice.
"Nothing. Just. Please. Be. quiet." She said weakly between breaths.
"You think we should get her to a doctor?" Piper asked Prue, her anger with her sister dispersed by her concern for the other.
"I'm not sure." Prue said, with increasing worry for the situation and her baby sister. What the hell was this?
"I'm fine!" Phoebe interrupted.
"You sure?!" Prue asked totally unconvinced by her sister's answer.
"Yes, I'm sure I'm fine, Prue. Just don't argue. It hurts my head."
"You sure?" Prue asked for the second time.
"Prue." Phoebe said, "I'm fine."
"You sure, your sure that your sure your fine?" Prue enquired for the third time.
"Don't go there, Prue. I swear, I'll scream if you ask me that one more time."
"Like I said, she's fine. Seriously now, Piper go and find some aspirin for Pheebs, I'll get her upstairs."
"Okay." Piper agreed as she ran down the stairs. She was worried for Phoebe, but also frightened. Why had this happened so suddenly? What the hell was going on?
"Come on." Prue said to Phoebe, helping her to her feet and up off the staircase.
Phoebe responded and did her part as Prue helped her up. She was grateful her sisters had stopped arguing. But her head was still pounding.
"Um, Pheebs?" Prue asked spontaneously.
"Uh huh?" She responded, quietly.
"Have you had these headaches before?" She enquired carefully.
"No, I don't think so." She paused. "Why did you guys have to fight?" She sounded so innocent.
"We are just worried about you." Prue smiled. "But it makes a change, doesn't it? Its usually you and me at the center of the Halliwell arguments."
Phoebe smiled but argued back. "Not true." she said stubbornly.
Prue just giggled and continued to help Phoebe up the stairs.
"Your head still hurting?" She asked as they reached Phoebe's room.
"Yeah, but not so much. I think its cos I don't have to screechy sisters yelling in my ear holes anymore,"
"Oh, we are sorry Pheebs."
Piper walks into the room, being careful not to spill the ice-cold water she had brought up along with the aspirin so Phoebe had something to wash the pills down with.
"Here you go!"
"Thanks." Phoebe says taking the aspirin and ice-cold water from Piper's shaking hands. Phoebe noticed this, but pushed the thought to the back of her mind, ignoring what she saw.
There was almost a silence whilst the two elder sisters watched their baby sister take the pills. The only sound was the few gulps Phoebe made when downing the pills.
Prue was the first to break the silence.
"Hey, um, I'm gonna go check the, uh, book of Shadows about this."
"Why?" Phoebe asked looking up. "It was headaches. It was probably just something to do with." She paused. "You know, the pregnancy." It was still a little weird for Phoebe to involve herself and pregnancy in the same sentence.
"Yeah, I know, Pheebs. But I can't just sit here and do nothing?" Prue reasoned. That wasn't the reason she needed to check the book.
Phoebe just shrugged at her comment, admitting defeat. At that Prue left the room, followed by Piper.
Prue didn't know why, but she felt something was wrong. Phoebe was having severe freaky headaches just because they were arguing? She had never had them before and the originality of them was frightening for Prue.
"Prue, the book of Shadows? We should be calling a doctor not spirits." Piper commented as she followed Prue up the second flight of stairs leading to the attic.
"I know, I know. I just had this, you know, this feeling. Something is not right, Piper, and I don't think it has anything to do with mortal stuff."
"Right, uh huh. So what do you think is happening then?" Piper asked with a trace of bitterness in her voice.
"I think somebody wants Phoebe's baby." She stated without emotion.
" Give the girl a prize. Of course someone is after Phoebe's baby, Sean, remember him? Yeah, he wants her baby." Piper's sarcasm didn't go unnoticed by Prue.
"No, it's something else, someone else. They want her baby and I'm not going to let them have it. We aren't going to let them have it, Piper."
"Prue, we don't know what is going on here, okay. Lets just figure it out before we start panicking here, okay."
Prue turned towards her sister with nothing but determination in her eyes. She was going to find the ass hole that was doing this, but for now she had to stay calm.
"I guess your right." She said.
Upon reaching the attic, Piper went across and looked out of the window while Prue walked over to the book of Shadows and started flipping its pages, just looking for anything that might help them.
Prue turned to a page and froze at what she saw.
"Piper, why is Sean in the book of Shadows?"