The Search
"Piper! We're home!" Phoebe called as she and her younger sister entered the Manor late that evening. Phoebe was carrying a few heavy grocery bags through the front door and into the hallway. After receiving no answer she tried again. "Piper!" Still no response she frowned.
Paige walked in also carrying a few bags. She shut the large doors behind her and her older sister. Glancing at her older sister's troubled look she frowned herself. "What's wrong?''
"I don't know." Phoebe walked away from Paige and ran upstairs, leaving her younger sister to put the grocery bags away, to look for Piper. "Piper?!" She climbed to the second level and followed the second set of stairs into the attic. "Piper?" Phoebe pushed the door open to find an empty room.
"Hey." Paige said right behind Phoebe, causing the older Halliwell to jump. "Sorry. But what's the matter? Where's Piper?"
Phoebe shook her head. "I don't know." The sisters nodded to each other, clearly thinking the same horrific thought. "Leo!" Phoebe shouted toward the ceiling.
Within seconds a flurry of blue and white lights appeared. Piper's husband soon stood before them. He scanned the little group of two for his wife. When he didn't see her he had a bad feeling about the reason he was called.
"Piper's missing." Phoebe said with a obvious tone of worry in her voice. "Her car is in the driveway, but she's not here."
Leo closed his eyes and focused on his inner voice and listened. Nothing. He focused harder. Again nothing. His green eyes opened with a look of horror. "I can't sense her."
Phoebe and Paige exchanged the same look. "She's in the Underworld? How?" Paige asked, as if her questions could be answered.
"Who cares how, we need a game plan, and fast." Phoebe said, quickly ushering her sister and brother-in-law into the attic to start planning quickly.