Chapter 2
Piper was behind the bar at P3, tending bar. Her instincts were telling her something bad was about to happen. She quickly turned around and a demon was standing there, with an innocent that the demon held by knife point. People stopped, the music stopped in horror. Piper knew this was going be tricky, since she hadn't done the whole magic thing since Prue died. She didn't know if she could.
She kept thinking FREEZE! Trying to psych herself into freezing the room. Piper lifted her hands slightly as to not draw attention to herself. She closed her eyes, as she froze the room. Piper opened her eyes.
"I did it."
She quickly unfroze the woman.
"Wh-wh-what happened?" She asked confused and scared.
"Just go. Don't ask me questions."
The young woman ran out of P3. Piper thought about blowing this sucker up. She raised her hands again to do so, but the demon broke from her freeze and saw what she was about to do. He quickly blasted her back, and she fell to the floor, and he vanished. Piper through her hands up in frustration, and then realized her butt was sore.
"Ow," she said rubbing her bottom. "Dammit!"
The room soon unfroze, with the people at the bar staring at her on the floor. One of the bartenders helped Piper up.
"What the hell happened? Where we robbed? How'd the guy get out?" The bartender asked too many questions for Piper to think about.
"I'm not sure."
Should I phone the police?"
"No, I don't think anything was taken...Nothing to worry about people. Go back to what you were doing."
The music started up again, people began dancing once again. The people at the bar began talking again, as if nothing happened. Piper grabbed her purse and jacket, told her manager she had to go home.
"If you need anything, call me at home or on my cell."
***
Piper pulled up in front of the manor, determined to get that demon out of her life. She had noticed the lights were on in the attic. She quickly ran into the house and up the stairs to the attic. Paige and Phoebe were looking in the book of shadows. They didn't know what they were after, but thought Phoebe would get a premonition.
"Good you're up here," Piper announced as she entered into the attic.
Phoebe and Paige looked up as Piper was coming towards them. She stopped in front of the stand.
"This doesn't change things, Phoebe," Piper said firmly. "A demon attacked an innocent and me at P3."
"Are you ok?" Phoebe asked concerned.
"Fine," Piper told her. "What are you doing up in the attic?"
"I've been feeling like something isn't quite right.Like something evil has been in the manor watching us. I can't explain it. It's just a feeling that I get.I was hoping that if we look through the book, maybe by chance, Phoebe would get a premonition," Paige explained to Piper.
Pipers walked around the book of shadows, and begin flipping through the pages of the book. The triquatra came together and glowed bright red. It was a sign that the girls would be together. The girls hadn't even noticed. Piper then came to the page with the demon she encountered earlier.
"Looks like it'll be an easy vanquish, if we could catch him," Piper said annoyed.
"Why? What do you mean?" Paige asked.
"He has the power of speed," Phoebe read aloud.
"We'll have to figure out a way to slow him down," Paige thought scratching her head.
"It doesn't explain why I was able to freeze him," Piper asked rhetorically.
"Maybe he just wanted to see what you could do, after all this time," Paige suggested.
"I agree," Phoebe chimed in. "How do we stop him? Slow him down enough to use a potion or a vanquishing spell?"
"That's all we can do. That's all we know," Piper said to Phoebe.
"Would your freezing work? Paige asked Piper.
"I don't know. He could have adapted to your powers and could anticipate when I'd freeze."
"Let's get to work the, "Paige said encouragingly.
Phoebe and Piper began to feel like it was old times; working on vanquishing a demon, but neither one would let the other know that.
*** "What made Piper decide to work with Phoebe and Paige?" Prue asked of her mother and grandmother.
"It's possible she missed working to save the innocents and vanquishing the demons," Patty suggested.
"I'm just glad that she's speaking to Phoebe," Grams believed.
"I wish that I could just let Piper and Phoebe know that I don't blame anyone, and they shouldn't be blaming each other. It was my time to go. I learned that on the day death showed me what was to come, I couldn't fight it. It had to happen."
"Eventually they'll see it that way," Patty said in hopes that she was right.
"Eventually, dear," Grams says comforting Prue.
*** Piper read more about this demon, while Phoebe and Paige worked on a spell to slow him down.
"Carmichael was once a low level sorcerer, but his love double crossed him. She worked with a demon named Marcus, thus making Carmichael his slave. Marcus had taken away Carmichael's powers, weakening him severely, each day, he was locked away.
On the very last say of captivity, Carmichael managed to save up what little power he had, and broke out of the cell, killed Marcus, and his lady love. Vowing that he'd kill her in every life there after, whether she was evil or not. He even went as far as to kill the people that she had been with, innocent or not," Piper read. "No witch has been able to vanquish him. Speed is one of many powers he's acquired over the years from demons, witches and warlocks. See Next Paige for Pictures of Marcus and Carmichaels lady love, who happened to be a witch."
Piper turned the page, and when she did, she couldn't believe her eyes.
"No, that can't be," Piper said stunned.
"What is it, Piper?" Paige asked concerned.
She motioned for her sisters to come over to her.
"Oh my," Paige said shocked.
"That looks like you, Piper," Phoebe said shocked as well.
"LEO, GET YOUR WHITELIGHTER ASS DOWN HERE," Piper yelled.
Leo orbed into the attic, looking a bit upset that she called him that way. He hated when she did that, but he had been used to it by now.
"What do you want," He asked fully materialized.
"You once told me you knew about my past lives, correct?"
"Yes, that's correct," Leo says wondering what she was getting at. "What are you getting at?"
"Did you know about this?" Piper asked pointing at the page.
Leo walked over the book, and looked at the Piper like drawing. The hair was much longer though. He didn't want to say anything, he couldn't anyway, and she was longer his charge. Leo didn't know how they were still able to call him from time to time. Maybe because he always listed for them to call him when he was needed.
"I can't tell you anything. I'm no longer your whitelighter."
"Don't me that crap. You go up there tell them.No demand that you be reinstated as our whitelighter right now. As far as I'm concerned, The Charmed Ones are going to need their whitelighter."
Leo was shocked. Not to mention Phoebe and Paige. He waited so long to hear those words; The Charmed Ones are back together. He wondered if she wanted him back to, but wouldn't push it if she wasn't read.
"Ok, I'll see what I can do, but I can't guarantee anything."
"I know. I understand. Just tell them we really need their guidance on Carmichael. He almost attacked an innocent and I at the club. Not to mention this happened in front of people. If the book is right, he could kill anyone at any time."
"Ok," Leo said orbing out.
"Hurry up," she protested.
"We're really going to have a whitelighter again? Phoebe asked.
"Yep!"
Paige read the bottom of the picture.
"Oh her name is Marguerite," Paige said.
"Why does that name sound familiar," Phoebe asked.
"You're right it does," Piper agreed.
"I'll be damned; I don't know where I heard it," Phoebe said in confusion.
A few minutes later, Leo orbed back.
"I'm reinstated. It's only for a trial basis. Just to make sure you stick together."
"What about the demon?" Piper wondered.
"It seems that the elders don't know," He responded.
"What?" Piper says in frustration.
"They don't know when it took place?" Paige asked.
Why is it in the book if they elders don't know anything," Phoebe asked her brother-in-law.
"I don't know. They can't explain it," Leo says vaguely. Piper could always tell when Leo was lying or holding something back. This was one of those times. She looked at him sternly. He knew something was up as he avoided her gaze.
"Leo, you're not telling us everything," Piper says still looking at Leo.
"No, I swear, I don't know."
"We'll see," She froze Leo.
"What'd you do that for?" Paige asked of Piper.
"Leo's lying.He knows something."
"How do you know?" Paige asked as she looked at Leo.
"He's my husband.Besides when he lies, he doesn't look me in the eyes," Piper says playfully feeling a lot better.
She really felt that the old feeling was coming. Not that she'd forgiven Phoebe yet, but it was good to work with her sisters again. Paige and Phoebe squinted to see Leo, as he began to unfreeze.
"Wh-what," Leo asked confused. "What happened?"
"Piper froze ya," Paige smiled jokingly.
Leo's faced frowned.
"Yeah, she froze ya."
"Piper, you can't freeze me like that."
"I know you're hiding something," Piper said ingoing her husband, who still didn't look her in the eyes.
"Oh yeah, I can see it," Paige and Phoebe said in unison.
Piper was behind the bar at P3, tending bar. Her instincts were telling her something bad was about to happen. She quickly turned around and a demon was standing there, with an innocent that the demon held by knife point. People stopped, the music stopped in horror. Piper knew this was going be tricky, since she hadn't done the whole magic thing since Prue died. She didn't know if she could.
She kept thinking FREEZE! Trying to psych herself into freezing the room. Piper lifted her hands slightly as to not draw attention to herself. She closed her eyes, as she froze the room. Piper opened her eyes.
"I did it."
She quickly unfroze the woman.
"Wh-wh-what happened?" She asked confused and scared.
"Just go. Don't ask me questions."
The young woman ran out of P3. Piper thought about blowing this sucker up. She raised her hands again to do so, but the demon broke from her freeze and saw what she was about to do. He quickly blasted her back, and she fell to the floor, and he vanished. Piper through her hands up in frustration, and then realized her butt was sore.
"Ow," she said rubbing her bottom. "Dammit!"
The room soon unfroze, with the people at the bar staring at her on the floor. One of the bartenders helped Piper up.
"What the hell happened? Where we robbed? How'd the guy get out?" The bartender asked too many questions for Piper to think about.
"I'm not sure."
Should I phone the police?"
"No, I don't think anything was taken...Nothing to worry about people. Go back to what you were doing."
The music started up again, people began dancing once again. The people at the bar began talking again, as if nothing happened. Piper grabbed her purse and jacket, told her manager she had to go home.
"If you need anything, call me at home or on my cell."
***
Piper pulled up in front of the manor, determined to get that demon out of her life. She had noticed the lights were on in the attic. She quickly ran into the house and up the stairs to the attic. Paige and Phoebe were looking in the book of shadows. They didn't know what they were after, but thought Phoebe would get a premonition.
"Good you're up here," Piper announced as she entered into the attic.
Phoebe and Paige looked up as Piper was coming towards them. She stopped in front of the stand.
"This doesn't change things, Phoebe," Piper said firmly. "A demon attacked an innocent and me at P3."
"Are you ok?" Phoebe asked concerned.
"Fine," Piper told her. "What are you doing up in the attic?"
"I've been feeling like something isn't quite right.Like something evil has been in the manor watching us. I can't explain it. It's just a feeling that I get.I was hoping that if we look through the book, maybe by chance, Phoebe would get a premonition," Paige explained to Piper.
Pipers walked around the book of shadows, and begin flipping through the pages of the book. The triquatra came together and glowed bright red. It was a sign that the girls would be together. The girls hadn't even noticed. Piper then came to the page with the demon she encountered earlier.
"Looks like it'll be an easy vanquish, if we could catch him," Piper said annoyed.
"Why? What do you mean?" Paige asked.
"He has the power of speed," Phoebe read aloud.
"We'll have to figure out a way to slow him down," Paige thought scratching her head.
"It doesn't explain why I was able to freeze him," Piper asked rhetorically.
"Maybe he just wanted to see what you could do, after all this time," Paige suggested.
"I agree," Phoebe chimed in. "How do we stop him? Slow him down enough to use a potion or a vanquishing spell?"
"That's all we can do. That's all we know," Piper said to Phoebe.
"Would your freezing work? Paige asked Piper.
"I don't know. He could have adapted to your powers and could anticipate when I'd freeze."
"Let's get to work the, "Paige said encouragingly.
Phoebe and Piper began to feel like it was old times; working on vanquishing a demon, but neither one would let the other know that.
*** "What made Piper decide to work with Phoebe and Paige?" Prue asked of her mother and grandmother.
"It's possible she missed working to save the innocents and vanquishing the demons," Patty suggested.
"I'm just glad that she's speaking to Phoebe," Grams believed.
"I wish that I could just let Piper and Phoebe know that I don't blame anyone, and they shouldn't be blaming each other. It was my time to go. I learned that on the day death showed me what was to come, I couldn't fight it. It had to happen."
"Eventually they'll see it that way," Patty said in hopes that she was right.
"Eventually, dear," Grams says comforting Prue.
*** Piper read more about this demon, while Phoebe and Paige worked on a spell to slow him down.
"Carmichael was once a low level sorcerer, but his love double crossed him. She worked with a demon named Marcus, thus making Carmichael his slave. Marcus had taken away Carmichael's powers, weakening him severely, each day, he was locked away.
On the very last say of captivity, Carmichael managed to save up what little power he had, and broke out of the cell, killed Marcus, and his lady love. Vowing that he'd kill her in every life there after, whether she was evil or not. He even went as far as to kill the people that she had been with, innocent or not," Piper read. "No witch has been able to vanquish him. Speed is one of many powers he's acquired over the years from demons, witches and warlocks. See Next Paige for Pictures of Marcus and Carmichaels lady love, who happened to be a witch."
Piper turned the page, and when she did, she couldn't believe her eyes.
"No, that can't be," Piper said stunned.
"What is it, Piper?" Paige asked concerned.
She motioned for her sisters to come over to her.
"Oh my," Paige said shocked.
"That looks like you, Piper," Phoebe said shocked as well.
"LEO, GET YOUR WHITELIGHTER ASS DOWN HERE," Piper yelled.
Leo orbed into the attic, looking a bit upset that she called him that way. He hated when she did that, but he had been used to it by now.
"What do you want," He asked fully materialized.
"You once told me you knew about my past lives, correct?"
"Yes, that's correct," Leo says wondering what she was getting at. "What are you getting at?"
"Did you know about this?" Piper asked pointing at the page.
Leo walked over the book, and looked at the Piper like drawing. The hair was much longer though. He didn't want to say anything, he couldn't anyway, and she was longer his charge. Leo didn't know how they were still able to call him from time to time. Maybe because he always listed for them to call him when he was needed.
"I can't tell you anything. I'm no longer your whitelighter."
"Don't me that crap. You go up there tell them.No demand that you be reinstated as our whitelighter right now. As far as I'm concerned, The Charmed Ones are going to need their whitelighter."
Leo was shocked. Not to mention Phoebe and Paige. He waited so long to hear those words; The Charmed Ones are back together. He wondered if she wanted him back to, but wouldn't push it if she wasn't read.
"Ok, I'll see what I can do, but I can't guarantee anything."
"I know. I understand. Just tell them we really need their guidance on Carmichael. He almost attacked an innocent and I at the club. Not to mention this happened in front of people. If the book is right, he could kill anyone at any time."
"Ok," Leo said orbing out.
"Hurry up," she protested.
"We're really going to have a whitelighter again? Phoebe asked.
"Yep!"
Paige read the bottom of the picture.
"Oh her name is Marguerite," Paige said.
"Why does that name sound familiar," Phoebe asked.
"You're right it does," Piper agreed.
"I'll be damned; I don't know where I heard it," Phoebe said in confusion.
A few minutes later, Leo orbed back.
"I'm reinstated. It's only for a trial basis. Just to make sure you stick together."
"What about the demon?" Piper wondered.
"It seems that the elders don't know," He responded.
"What?" Piper says in frustration.
"They don't know when it took place?" Paige asked.
Why is it in the book if they elders don't know anything," Phoebe asked her brother-in-law.
"I don't know. They can't explain it," Leo says vaguely. Piper could always tell when Leo was lying or holding something back. This was one of those times. She looked at him sternly. He knew something was up as he avoided her gaze.
"Leo, you're not telling us everything," Piper says still looking at Leo.
"No, I swear, I don't know."
"We'll see," She froze Leo.
"What'd you do that for?" Paige asked of Piper.
"Leo's lying.He knows something."
"How do you know?" Paige asked as she looked at Leo.
"He's my husband.Besides when he lies, he doesn't look me in the eyes," Piper says playfully feeling a lot better.
She really felt that the old feeling was coming. Not that she'd forgiven Phoebe yet, but it was good to work with her sisters again. Paige and Phoebe squinted to see Leo, as he began to unfreeze.
"Wh-what," Leo asked confused. "What happened?"
"Piper froze ya," Paige smiled jokingly.
Leo's faced frowned.
"Yeah, she froze ya."
"Piper, you can't freeze me like that."
"I know you're hiding something," Piper said ingoing her husband, who still didn't look her in the eyes.
"Oh yeah, I can see it," Paige and Phoebe said in unison.