DEAD TROUBLE
Piper was in Elderville and waited patiently to talk to the head Elder.
"Hello Piper. My name is Frunderick and I am the head Elder." A large man with a beard and moustache appeared and smiled down at Piper. She stood up almost immediately.
"Can you tell me anything about Leo? Where is he? We haven't heard from him for three months since he got promoted to be an elder."
The man sat down and drew a long breath, lowering his hood. "Piper, the things that Leo did three months ago were good enough to earn him a place here with us elders. The truth is that since that promotion, we haven't heard anything from Leo. We don't know where he could be."
Piper looked worried and couldn't believe what she was hearing. The Elder carried on. "We don't know if he's safe or in any danger. We've been trying to find him but there is no luck. I know we should have told you and I understand that you must be angry with us but the charmed ones have enough to worry about and we don't know if Leo is in any kind of trouble anyway."
"well…" Tears began to form in Piper's eyes "what else can it be? There is nothing that would prevent Leo from contacting me, his wife and his son unless it was danger. Oh god what if he's –"
The Elder interrupted "Don't even think it Piper. I'm sure you're very distraught. I'll take you back to the manor. I think it's up to the charmed ones to sort this out. All we know is that the last place that we know of that was Leo was was outside the manor."
"Outside?" Piper asked.
"Yes, he told Chris that he would be your new whitelighter and then there is no trace of where he went from there."
Frunderick orbed Piper back to the manor where Chris, Paige and Phoebe we're arguing about Phoebe not hearing Paige call for help.
"STOP! WE HAVE MORE IMPORTANT ISSUES TO DISCUSS HERE!" Piper began to scream as she cried. They all stopped and watched her. Piper sank to the floor and whispered "Leo's in trouble. He's not been seen for three months by the Elders and Chris you were the last to see him. What happened?"
Chris shifted nervously "Erm…Leo just told me that I was your new whitelighter and then he said that he had to go and do Elder duties and he orbed off. I assume he reached Elderville."
"He didn't and I don't know what to think." Phoebe and Paige hugged Piper and comforted her. Chris decided to try and find Leo by orbing around.
The girls sat there for half an hour crying their eyes out on the floor. Neither of them could speak and there was no word from anyone as of yet. They didn't even have the strength to check to see if the book of shadows could help them.
"Oh if anything's happened to him –" Piper began snorting into a tissue.
"We'll find him Piper………" Phoebe began.
Suddenly blue sparks shot up in the air and there was a terrific wind that blew most objects out of proportion. There in the thick blue fog stood a ghost. The ghost of Prue, the eldest Haliwell sister."
