Another Halliwell
Chapter 6
The ride from the highschool to the Halliwell Manor was silent. It wasn't an awkward silence, just two people with nothing to say. Not that they'd exactly know what to say if they did want to, they were walking into a potential shit storm. Neither Willow nor Sarah knew what to expect when they arrived home to retrieve Sarah's stuff to remove it to Willow's home. Since the Charmed Ones had been keeping Sarah under a type of house arrest, she hadn't been able to do her job as the Slayer, therefore, the council had removed them as her legal guardians. Sarah hadn't wanted to hurt her cousins by getting the council to declare them unfit guardians and get her legal guardianship transferred over to Willow, she just didn't want to be locked up like an animal any more.
Willow stopped the car outside the Manor. "Do you want me to come in?" She asked her young charge cautiously.
"Might be a good idea. They can yell at you while I get all my stuff together." Sarah replied, unbuckling her seatbelt, and opening the door of the Range Rover. Together, they climbed the steps to the front door, and rang the doorbell.
Piper opened the door after checking to see who it was. "Sarah, where have you been? You're an hour late." She sounded more scared than outraged.
"These are for you." Willow said, handing Piper the change in guardianship papers while Sarah snuck by and went to her bedroom to retrieve her things.
"Transfer of Guardianship… What are these for? Why are you getting us declared unfit? Why are you taking Sarah?" Piper ranted at Willow.
"You've been keeping her from doing her job as the slayer, keeping her locked up like an animal. It's not only cruel, it's inhumane. Do you know what happens to a slayer who doesn't slay? She dies. She'll go insane from lack of activity, and will die. Or she'll become a demonic magnet, and draw all demons towards her, and die. If Sarah were to remain with you, she would die. I'm doing this not only for the good of the world, and all innocents she can save, but also to save her from you. Cause, believe it or not, you're slowly killing your cousin." Willow replied, trying to bite back her anger towards the Charmed Ones. "I'm not going to keep her from seeing you, but she's going to be living with me, and I'll be her primary care giver until she's eighteen, or she dies." Willow spied Sarah coming up the stairs from the basement with her duffle bag of stuff, and said, "I have nothing further to say to you. Good day. Come along Sarah." She turned on her heel and headed out the door.
"I'll come by and see you in a couple of days, okay?" Sarah asked Piper as she too headed out the door.
"That'd be fine. Take care of yourself, ok?" Piper replied, blinking back tears.
"Tell Leo and the others I said good bye please." With those final words, Sarah walked out of the charmed manor.