Chapter 34, Piper visiting
The morning after Melinda had finally decided to life at the manor again Piper came by to make sure her daughter was having a good time.
Piper walked in the hallway when she heard her children making fun in the kitchen. When she came in she could see that Wyatt was embarrassed. And Chris and Melinda where making fun about it. Just like the old days she taught.
"What is going on?" she asked.
"Goodmorning mom," Chris said," where just having fun."
Wyatt thankfully looked at his brother, he sure didn't want his mother to know that he orbed into the bad room, when Melinda was only wearing a towel wrapped around her.
"I can see that your having fun." Then Piper looked at Melinda. "Did you sleep OK?"
"Yes Piper I did, have you seen my new room already. The boys have worked pretty hard to make it all nice for me."
Piper nodded, she was a little bit disappointed that Melinda didn't call her mom. But on the other hand, she could understand her Daughter.
"Lin, I have a question. Would you mind if I tracked down Bane, to ask him some questions about your kidnapping?"
Chris and Wyatt looked at their mother. They where surprised by her questions and they wondered how Melinda would react.
Melinda looked at her mother: "I'm OK with that. If I'm honest I would like to know more about what happened. There are so many things that I don't understand."
Piper smiled, then she looked up and said: "It's OK, Paige you can orb in now."
Paige came orbing in with Phoebe. They smiled and waved at there cousins.
"What is going on mom?" Chris asked suspicious.
"We have been awake a big part of the night, talking about losing the power of three, talking about how we could help you with receiving the power of three and talking about the story Melinda told us. We decided to start with Bane. We want to know what he did exactly."
Piper looked at her sons.
"So you want to start with Bane and what is the next step in your plan?" Chris didn't like the sound of this story at all. "You guys can't interfere with our lives forever you know?"
"We know that Chris, we just want to help." This time it was Phoebe who answered Chris question.
Wyatt who had been silent all the time then said "If I'm not mistaken you all ready tracked Bane down, didn't you?"
Paige and Phoebe nodded and Piper said: "You are right, we have, he is working as a designer in New York And our plan is to orb there and ask him some questions."
"OK, lets go then." Wyatt stood up and was ready to orb to New York.
"Wait a minute, your not coming, it's only the three of us." Piper pointed at her sisters and herself.
"No way, we are coming with you, I want to know what happened to and I'm pretty sure that Chris and Wyatt need to know that to. We need closer. I think that if we speak to Bane we can finally leave this whole kidnap thing behind us." Melinda looked pretty determined.
Piper looked at her sisters. They nodded. "OK then, we all go."
Then all of the Halliwells orbed out to meet Bane in New York.
They arrived in front off his office.
"Now what?" Chris asked. He hated it when there was no plan.
"We go in and ask for Mr. Jessup. Maybe it's a good idea when Melinda stays behind Wyatt. He doesn't have to know that we have her back." Piper said.
They all agreed with this and walked in the office. Piper asked for Mr. Bane and told his secretary that the family Halliwell would like to speak to Mr. Bane.
The secretary was just telling them to wait a few minutes, because Mr. Jessup was busy, when the door of Bane's office flew open and he came out. "Piper, Phoebe what are you doing here? Come in."
They walked in and Melinda tried to stay behind Wyatt. So he couldn't see her face. She wondered if he would even recognize her, but at the moment he was to busy with Piper and Phoebe to even see the other family members.
Bane sat on his desk and looked at the family member he had seen such a long time ago.
"Can I ask, why Prue isn't her?"
"She died a long time ago, Bane" Phoebe said.
Bane looked shocked: "She died, so that's the reason she never came by to visit me in jail."
Then he looked at Piper and said: "What happened to the power of three?"
Piper pointed at Paige: "It's none of your business but this is another sister. So the power of three has never left this family. And that brings me to the reason that we are here. The power of three should have been past on to my children a few years ago. But that didn't happen. And you know why?"
Bane looked at Piper. "I have know idea/"
"Don't lie to me," Piper was furious. "You have helped with the kidnapping of my daughter. Why?"
"I didn't, I, How did you..."
"Cut the crap, just spill it" Pipers eyes where shooting fire by now.
Bane knew he had to tell them what happened. He couldn't lie anymore.
"It has been 16 years ago. I was just out of jail. When demons approached me.
They took me to the underworld. They wanted me to be their spy between the human world and the demon world.
But I didn't want to have anything to do with them again. It took me a few weeks to make that clear.
In that time I heard about their plans to get the daughter of a Charmed one. They still where recovering from the ultimate battle. But this would make sure that by the time they where strong enough to fight again, there wouldn't be a new power of three.
They knew how to break down the alarm system that you guys made, to keep the rooms of your children demon free. So it was easy to get one of your children.
They planned to take the youngest daughter. And they did.
"Well go on." Paige looked at Bane.
He swallowed and continued. "They had just let me go, when they took your youngest daughter" He looked at Piper.
"I decided to stay at the underworld, to see if I could do something. And I could. I destroyed the demon that took your little girl to a cave.
In all those weeks they had kept me there. I had learned something about demons and I had time to create a vanquishing potion.
I knew that I couldn't bring the girl to your house again. She would have been taken again and again. And they would probably have killed me to.
So I took here with me. I gave her a potion that would make her forget everything and that would block whitelighters form sensing her. Then I cut her hair and died it so nobody would recognize her. I took the first plane that I could get.
When we landed I brought her to a hospital.
That's the last thing I ever saw of her."
"And where did you take her exactly?" Piper asked.
"I can't tell you that, If I tell you, they will get her again. They just don't want another power of three." Bane answered.
"We know that." This time it was Wyatt who was speaking.
"Who are you?"Bane looked at him.
"Im the brother of the girl you talked about. And we know that they don't want us to have the power of three."
"Us, what do you mean with us." Bane said.
Wyatt pointed at Chris and at himself.
But before Wyatt could say anything, Phoebe asked "Why did you do it?"
Bane looked at her, his looked very said, "I really loved Prue. I was disappointed that she didn't came by to visit, but still I couldn't let her niece die. I need it to do something. And this was the best I could come up with. I wanted her to have a good life and I sure hope she has."
Then Melinda stepped between her brothers and said: "She has!"
Bane looked at her, "O my God, you are her, how, what ..."
"Next time you want to help the Halliwells, please let us know," Chris said sarcastically.
"But they will try to destroy you, they will..."
"Don't worry about us, we are strong and we can defend ourselves". Wyatt said.