Trapped in evil, chapter 2.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters mentioned here except Liana.

Everyone was crowding her, all saying what needed to be done. The sad thing was everything everyone was saying could basically be rounded up into one statement. They wanted her to kill Leo.

"Okay quiet, quiet everybody, I am not killing Leo." She said plainly. She didn't need to waste her breath explaining to them, they would never understand.

"Liana, you must kill Leo if you want to be purely evil."

"Maybe I don't want to be purely evil." She answered simply.

There was a chorus of "I knew it she is turning to the good side." "Oh dear" and "This isn't good."

"Evil is like a drug it runs through your veins, and I'm fine with being doped up I'm just not fine with being addicted."

"What are you talking about?"

"Well have you ever seen a purely evil demon that wasn't miserable? Of course, I hear you say but when was it, it was when they were killing. A purely evil demon is needy it kills because it needs to otherwise it doesn't live it just exists, their main goals are to get more and more powerful and yet they not only rely on but desperately need the forces of good. That isn't a situation you want to be in if you are trying to eliminate the forces of good now is it?" 

"Now, does anyone want me to kill Leo" she said.

Everyone was speechless, she had pictured them as pathetic dogs scavenging for food.

She exited.

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Leo had just told them the entire story, of the curse on his family.

"That is so sad" Piper said sympathetically.

"I'm sorry Leo, but you do understand that we still have to kill her" Prue said.

"No we don't" Piper said, caressing Leo's hand gently.

"Thank you" Leo whispered grateful that someone finally understood.

"What do you mean we don't" Phoebe asked.

"Well it seemed all Liana was concerned of was people thinking she was turning good, so all we need to do is tell her to let us go and assure her that everyone will think we just escaped."

"That wont work." Prue said.

"It's worth a try," said Phoebe.

"Prue it will work, didn't you see it in her eyes?" Piper asked.

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"Yeah of course it will work." Liana said, she had been standing in one of the doorways. "Although Leo tells that story with great inaccuracy I should probably tell you the corrected version." She added.

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It had been a week since they had been in Liana's palace, Leo had been in a crazy phase of trying to find something to convert her to the good side since then.

"Didn't he say he spent five years doing this after she left" Phoebe said.

"Yes. But he believes now there is an increased chance of it working, he says she is the closest to this side since when she left." Piper replied.

"Makes sense" Prue said. "Yeah and at least now I know why he tosses and turns so much in his sleep." Piper said "But" she continued

"I'm really worried about him he doesn't seem to do anything apart from research." Piper said.

"Maybe we should call Liana" Prue said. As though by magic (Well it was by magic so ignore that) Liana appeared in front of them. "Where is he?" she asked.

"The attic." Piper replied.

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Liana approached Leo he was so busy he didn't even notice her. "Leo." She placed a hand on his shoulder. "You have to let go."

"There has to be a way." Leo said distantly. 

"Do you really want to risk it, risk turning evil yourself?" Liana replied.

"I won't turn evil" Leo said.

"That's what I said." Liana whispered, "They get into your head Leo until there is nothing left but evil."

"You have much more inside you than evil." Leo said.

"That's all thanks to you"

"I left you there" Leo said.

"You were scared Leo, its okay to be scared" then she added compassionately "You have to let go, that's the only advice I can give you Leo."

She went downstairs.

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"He will be fine, I hope." Liana said.

"I hope so too." Said Piper.

"That's all we can do, hope?" Prue asked.

"Yes" Liana said. "and wait."

"So isn't it about time we heard the correct version of the story" Phoebe tried to lighten the mood but knowing that definitely would not work.

"Well, when our parents died I was eight and Leo was thirteen, he gave up everything for me, his education, his dreams of being a doctor, his life, and he concentrated all his efforts on looking after me he was and is the closest and only person I have ever remembered as family. But when I found out about the curse I was heartbroken. It wasn't enough that he had already given up so much for me now he was going to give up and go against all of his beliefs and everything he had been brought up with, he wouldn't ever be able to help people which he had always thought he could still do even if he wasn't a doctor in fact he would be doing the opposite. I could see the torture in his eyes. That was when I knew, I had to go he did so much for me there was no question about it I wanted to do this for him, I wanted him to have one last chance and that's why I went to evil. I wrote him a long goodbye letter telling him I would only pretend to be evil and saying how much I would miss him. Then I left. They soon found out that I was not willing to commit to evil properly, and they locked me in a cell, they used dream weavers to get into my mind. They played out my worst nightmares and fears over and over and over again never ending every minute of every hour of every day of every month. They also put all these negative thoughts in my head like everyone abandoned me because they all hated me and I didn't deserve their love. They said that my only option was to turn evil. I kept telling myself it wasn't real or true, I had hope that Leo would come. But after hearing it so many times with nothing else not being able to maintain your own thought because it has got so loud inside you that you don't even remember what your thoughts sound like. I started to believe and then I broke." Liana halted as if she was ashamed of herself. "Leo gave up so much for me and I believed that he had never loved me." Tears began to flow down her reddened cheeks. 

"Hey, its okay" Phoebe said. Cuddling her.

Liana decided to stay in the manor for a while to make sure Leo was okay.

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Kitchen, next morning everyone is there, even Leo has managed to tear himself away from the books. Liana is showing everyone embarrassing photos of Leo as a kid.

Leo: (Snatching a photo away) Whatever happened to "I cant visit you because I would probably kill everyone around you"?

Piper: Give me that photo, Prue and Phoebe showed you all the photos of me, and its payback time.

Everyone looked at the photos and laughed light-heartedly. Even Liana seemed less stoic.

Suddenly a demon in its human form shimmered in, it was wearing a burgundy cloak similar to Liana's. He looked at Liana blankly and stated simply: Its time to return to the palace.