Chapter Two
The next morning was better, but it doesn't matter to Cole, he was just glad and thankful that Phoebe had made it through the night…
"Cole, Phoebe, Paige breakfast!" Piper hollered from the kitchen, the usually morning wake up call.
They walked hand in hand downstairs, as they entered the kitchen Piper felt like there was something missing from the room. The usual morning greeting, she knew something was up. And Paige still hasn't come down yet.
"Hey, what's up?" Piper tried to lighten up the room.
"Nothing." Cole and Phoebe replied in unison, there were smiles missing from their faces, especially Phoebe. She would always be perky in the morning. But in this specific morning that Phoebe was lost. She looked worried, frightened, terrified, troubled, afraid, and the list could go on.
"Am I missing something?" Asked Piper.
"Um…no, there's nothing. If there is you'd be the first to know." Cole stuttered, not knowing of what else he could say. They weren't sure of what was after them. Until they got all the facts straight they were not ready to come out of the closet and fret everyone else.
Piper looked at them weirdly, she knew they were hiding something, but she decided to let it be, for the moment. Her mind started to wonder where Paige could be; it'd been over 15 minutes. She decided to give another holler, "Paige, you're breakfast is getting cold!"
No answer was received. Piper started to get a little worry and tried once more. "Paige?"
"She's probably at her date's house." Phoebe said with out stirring her coffee.
"I heard her come in last night." Piper replied. "She's probably still asleep, she came in pretty late." With that she was off to Paige's room.
Cole and Phoebe were left alone behind in the kitchen. Cole took a glimpsed at Phoebe; her face still had the same expression as it was before.
"She's not in her room." Piper said, entering the kitchen again.
"Where could she be if she isn't in her room?" Cole analyzed.
"Probably left for work already." Phoebe said.
"On time? Not like her." Piper joked. But soon became quiet again. "Well I'm going to take advantage of this and go take a shower before all the hot water is gone."
After Piper left, something had hit Phoebe's head. A thought… Cole could tell that something was on Phoebe's mind.
"What is it?" He interrupted the thought.
"Nothing, just something Piper said about Paige." Phoebe replied simply.
"What about it?" Cole asked anxiously.
"She said Paige came home from her date last night, and last night I felt his presence, this morning she's missing…" She was unable to finish her thought and Cole had cut in.
"So you're saying that it was Paige's date is the psycho?"
"Well, yeah. I saw two bodies by the lake, so it must have been Piper and Paige's. And Paige could be his first victim." Phoebe carefully trying to get her thought straight. Suddenly another chill ran down her back. She just stared blankly to the wall and there was the silence again.
"He's here isn't he?" Cole was used to her look by now. Phoebe and Cole abruptly gotten up and ran upstairs calling for Piper. Half way up the stairs, they noticed the front door was wide opened. They had lost Piper, the thought ran through her mind.
"No, no, this is impossible. This can't be happening. Not now." Phoebe was in tears, running out of the Manor hoping that she would find Piper.
"Phoebe!" Cole ran after her. "She's gone."
"No, she can't be. We still have time to catch up to her." Phoebe tried to convince herself.
"We don't know where the lake is." He remembered what she had told him the other night, catching up to her.
"If I remember from my premonition correctly the lake is down that way." Phoebe pointed down the road.
"Phoebe there's no lake there." Cole observed the street.
"It was in my vision." Phoebe said desperately trying to find the street.
"Phoebe she's gone and there's no lake around here." Cole tried to convince her.
"There has got to be! I saw it!" Phoebe practically screamed tears streamed down her cheeks. "Piper! Piper!"
"Phoebe! Stop it. You're wasting your time screaming out her name. We can go back and look in the Book of Shadow for her." Cole said still chasing after her.
"Piper! Answer me damnit! LEO! LEO!" Phoebe ran around the neighborhood screaming from the top of her lungs out for Piper like a maniac.
"Phoebe! It's not going to do any good to run around the neighborhood hollering out Piper's name. Let's go back to the Manor and look this demon or whatever the hell he is up!" Cole caught up with her.
Phoebe stopped and turned around slowly toward Cole. Her face was soaked wet, her eyes were bloodshot red and puffy. It looked like she'd been crying for hours, but in reality she only been crying for ten minutes, non-stop. "Come on, let's waste no time." Cole took her into his arm and glanced around him to see if no one was around and shimmered back into the Manor.
Upstairs in the attic, Phoebe pacing back and forth nervously, out of nowhere a swirl of blue bright lights took form on the wooden floor on the ancient attic.
"Hey!" Leo voice filled the cathedral-like room. Soon he noticed the room was missing something. Phoebe looked like she had been at a funeral, and Cole was flipping The Book of Shadow. "What's wrong, heard you call me."
"Piper had been abducted, Leo!" Phoebe burst out.
"What?!" Leo reacted in disbelieve.
"She's gone. A psycho kidnapped her and Paige. They're gone Leo. I saw it in my visions, in my dream that they were chopped in chunks. It was horrible!" Phoebe exploded in tears. Leo's eyes sprung up with tiny drops and roll down his face. "Can you try to sense where they are?"
"Yeah I can--I can do that." Leo slowly closed his eyes as a single tears roll down his face and tried to concentrate. "I can sense her! She's--she's still alive!"
"What about Paige?" Phoebe added.
"I can't sense her anywhere." Leo slowly said opening up his eyes.
Phoebe collapsed onto the chair, holding her head up with her hand supporting it. "She's gone. She's GONE!"
"What do you mean she's gone?" Leo said in a low tone of voice.
"She can't be." Cole jumped in.
"She's dead, she's with PRUE, GRAM, MOM…!" Phoebe shouted. "Why?!, Is dead, murder witches like in the family gene or did they just make a deal with the Angel of Death?"
"Phoebe, we still have time to save Piper." Cole tried to be optimistic.
"What's the point? I mean we'll just have another two long lost sisters come running in." Phoebe forced a sarcastic chuckle without any sentiment.
"Phoebe, it's not time to joke. For God's sake this is Piper and Paige we're dealing with here. Your sisters! You can't afford to joke about this, while Piper and Paige are dead somewhere in the wood!" Leo blew off.
"Who's joking, Leo?! Don't you think I know that? Don't you think that this had been haunting me for the past damn week?!" Phoebe practically yelling with tears sprung in her eyes and slowing scrolled down her pale cheeks.
"What? What do you mean the past week?" Leo said looking intensely at Phoebe.
"I've been having nightmares," She began, "about me, I was walking home one night, and unexpectedly I was lost in this wooded place. I heard a wolf howling deep from inside the wood. I followed the sound and there were bodies part chunked up. Two heads, four arms and legs, piled up on one another dripping with blood…"
"STOP IT!" Leo couldn't take it any longer.
"There's nothing in the book." Cole shut the book, looking like he hadn't slept in days. Black bag under his eyes, but it's nothing compare to Phoebe's. She looked horrified, her face was dead pale, her hair was soaked in sweats, and her eyes were swollen filled with tears scrolling down her cheeks.
"He's not something supernatural. He's a mortal." Phoebe said plainly. "Nothing we can do, it's over. We don't know where he is; don't know what he'd done with Piper. If the book can't help us, nothing can."
"We can call the cop." Leo said rushing downstairs to get the phone.
The next morning was better, but it doesn't matter to Cole, he was just glad and thankful that Phoebe had made it through the night…
"Cole, Phoebe, Paige breakfast!" Piper hollered from the kitchen, the usually morning wake up call.
They walked hand in hand downstairs, as they entered the kitchen Piper felt like there was something missing from the room. The usual morning greeting, she knew something was up. And Paige still hasn't come down yet.
"Hey, what's up?" Piper tried to lighten up the room.
"Nothing." Cole and Phoebe replied in unison, there were smiles missing from their faces, especially Phoebe. She would always be perky in the morning. But in this specific morning that Phoebe was lost. She looked worried, frightened, terrified, troubled, afraid, and the list could go on.
"Am I missing something?" Asked Piper.
"Um…no, there's nothing. If there is you'd be the first to know." Cole stuttered, not knowing of what else he could say. They weren't sure of what was after them. Until they got all the facts straight they were not ready to come out of the closet and fret everyone else.
Piper looked at them weirdly, she knew they were hiding something, but she decided to let it be, for the moment. Her mind started to wonder where Paige could be; it'd been over 15 minutes. She decided to give another holler, "Paige, you're breakfast is getting cold!"
No answer was received. Piper started to get a little worry and tried once more. "Paige?"
"She's probably at her date's house." Phoebe said with out stirring her coffee.
"I heard her come in last night." Piper replied. "She's probably still asleep, she came in pretty late." With that she was off to Paige's room.
Cole and Phoebe were left alone behind in the kitchen. Cole took a glimpsed at Phoebe; her face still had the same expression as it was before.
"She's not in her room." Piper said, entering the kitchen again.
"Where could she be if she isn't in her room?" Cole analyzed.
"Probably left for work already." Phoebe said.
"On time? Not like her." Piper joked. But soon became quiet again. "Well I'm going to take advantage of this and go take a shower before all the hot water is gone."
After Piper left, something had hit Phoebe's head. A thought… Cole could tell that something was on Phoebe's mind.
"What is it?" He interrupted the thought.
"Nothing, just something Piper said about Paige." Phoebe replied simply.
"What about it?" Cole asked anxiously.
"She said Paige came home from her date last night, and last night I felt his presence, this morning she's missing…" She was unable to finish her thought and Cole had cut in.
"So you're saying that it was Paige's date is the psycho?"
"Well, yeah. I saw two bodies by the lake, so it must have been Piper and Paige's. And Paige could be his first victim." Phoebe carefully trying to get her thought straight. Suddenly another chill ran down her back. She just stared blankly to the wall and there was the silence again.
"He's here isn't he?" Cole was used to her look by now. Phoebe and Cole abruptly gotten up and ran upstairs calling for Piper. Half way up the stairs, they noticed the front door was wide opened. They had lost Piper, the thought ran through her mind.
"No, no, this is impossible. This can't be happening. Not now." Phoebe was in tears, running out of the Manor hoping that she would find Piper.
"Phoebe!" Cole ran after her. "She's gone."
"No, she can't be. We still have time to catch up to her." Phoebe tried to convince herself.
"We don't know where the lake is." He remembered what she had told him the other night, catching up to her.
"If I remember from my premonition correctly the lake is down that way." Phoebe pointed down the road.
"Phoebe there's no lake there." Cole observed the street.
"It was in my vision." Phoebe said desperately trying to find the street.
"Phoebe she's gone and there's no lake around here." Cole tried to convince her.
"There has got to be! I saw it!" Phoebe practically screamed tears streamed down her cheeks. "Piper! Piper!"
"Phoebe! Stop it. You're wasting your time screaming out her name. We can go back and look in the Book of Shadow for her." Cole said still chasing after her.
"Piper! Answer me damnit! LEO! LEO!" Phoebe ran around the neighborhood screaming from the top of her lungs out for Piper like a maniac.
"Phoebe! It's not going to do any good to run around the neighborhood hollering out Piper's name. Let's go back to the Manor and look this demon or whatever the hell he is up!" Cole caught up with her.
Phoebe stopped and turned around slowly toward Cole. Her face was soaked wet, her eyes were bloodshot red and puffy. It looked like she'd been crying for hours, but in reality she only been crying for ten minutes, non-stop. "Come on, let's waste no time." Cole took her into his arm and glanced around him to see if no one was around and shimmered back into the Manor.
Upstairs in the attic, Phoebe pacing back and forth nervously, out of nowhere a swirl of blue bright lights took form on the wooden floor on the ancient attic.
"Hey!" Leo voice filled the cathedral-like room. Soon he noticed the room was missing something. Phoebe looked like she had been at a funeral, and Cole was flipping The Book of Shadow. "What's wrong, heard you call me."
"Piper had been abducted, Leo!" Phoebe burst out.
"What?!" Leo reacted in disbelieve.
"She's gone. A psycho kidnapped her and Paige. They're gone Leo. I saw it in my visions, in my dream that they were chopped in chunks. It was horrible!" Phoebe exploded in tears. Leo's eyes sprung up with tiny drops and roll down his face. "Can you try to sense where they are?"
"Yeah I can--I can do that." Leo slowly closed his eyes as a single tears roll down his face and tried to concentrate. "I can sense her! She's--she's still alive!"
"What about Paige?" Phoebe added.
"I can't sense her anywhere." Leo slowly said opening up his eyes.
Phoebe collapsed onto the chair, holding her head up with her hand supporting it. "She's gone. She's GONE!"
"What do you mean she's gone?" Leo said in a low tone of voice.
"She can't be." Cole jumped in.
"She's dead, she's with PRUE, GRAM, MOM…!" Phoebe shouted. "Why?!, Is dead, murder witches like in the family gene or did they just make a deal with the Angel of Death?"
"Phoebe, we still have time to save Piper." Cole tried to be optimistic.
"What's the point? I mean we'll just have another two long lost sisters come running in." Phoebe forced a sarcastic chuckle without any sentiment.
"Phoebe, it's not time to joke. For God's sake this is Piper and Paige we're dealing with here. Your sisters! You can't afford to joke about this, while Piper and Paige are dead somewhere in the wood!" Leo blew off.
"Who's joking, Leo?! Don't you think I know that? Don't you think that this had been haunting me for the past damn week?!" Phoebe practically yelling with tears sprung in her eyes and slowing scrolled down her pale cheeks.
"What? What do you mean the past week?" Leo said looking intensely at Phoebe.
"I've been having nightmares," She began, "about me, I was walking home one night, and unexpectedly I was lost in this wooded place. I heard a wolf howling deep from inside the wood. I followed the sound and there were bodies part chunked up. Two heads, four arms and legs, piled up on one another dripping with blood…"
"STOP IT!" Leo couldn't take it any longer.
"There's nothing in the book." Cole shut the book, looking like he hadn't slept in days. Black bag under his eyes, but it's nothing compare to Phoebe's. She looked horrified, her face was dead pale, her hair was soaked in sweats, and her eyes were swollen filled with tears scrolling down her cheeks.
"He's not something supernatural. He's a mortal." Phoebe said plainly. "Nothing we can do, it's over. We don't know where he is; don't know what he'd done with Piper. If the book can't help us, nothing can."
"We can call the cop." Leo said rushing downstairs to get the phone.