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Chapter 2
"So what are we supposed to do now?" Paige demanded, stepping out from behind the kitchen island, coffee mug in hand. The other three glanced up from their own cups and Leo sighed, speaking his words in days.
"Keep fighting the good fight," he said, his eyes transfixed on the table as if it were the most interesting object in the room.
"Bull shit."
"Paige-"
"I don't wanna hear it, Leo," she cut him off. "That's two down, two to go." She glanced at her only remaining sister for some support but Phoebe didn't move, sitting silently across from Leo. "We keep doing this, we all die. Show of hands for that option?" No one moved. "That's what I thought." She turned to back to her brother-in-law. "And I'm done. I quit-whatever you wanna call it. Our sister is dead!"
"My wife is dead!" Leo yelled, rising abruptly to his feet and nearly knocking his chair backwards.
"Enough!" Phoebe screamed, white-hot lightening shooting from her palms and scorching the wall opposite her. Paige and Leo instantly fell silent at the disturbance. "We have enough to worry about without you two making things worse."
Paige, shaking her head, crossed the room to the door and exited, no doubt heading up the stairs toward her room.
"We, um," Leo glanced at Cole and Phoebe after watching her leave. "I think we all just need to calm down," he advised, ever the voice of reason in the group. "You know, get some rest. We'll…leave the future for the morning." With that, he turned and followed Paige's lead.
"I'll meet you upstairs, okay?" Cole placed a hand on his wife's shoulder. Phoebe swallowed hard and nodded in acknowledgement, watching him leave with the others.
Then she plopped back down in her chair and broke into silent tears.
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"Phoebe?" Paige padded into the kitchen, tightening the belt on her bathrobe. She stopped hen she spotted her sister, still seated in the chair they had left her in a few hours before. "Honey," She approached her cautiously, lowering herself into the seat beside her. "Have you been in here this whole time?"
If Phoebe heard her, she gave no sign of it, neither speaking, nor turning to face her. She sat there, the Book of Shadows lying open in her lap, rocking slowly back and forth, as if attempting to comfort herself.
"I can't do it again, Paige," she said finally, her voice barely audible.
"You can't do what again, Pheebs?" Paige asked, gently brushing a stray strand of hair off Phoebe's face.
Phoebe shook her head, still staring straight ahead. "I can't lose another sister."
Paige's eyes wondered down to the open Book. Phoebe had it turned toward the back, a section the sisters had normally avoided in the past, due to the dangerous spells it contained. Invoking the elements, summoning demons…resurrection.
Phoebe glanced over at her sister, looking her directly in the eye. "I won't lose another sister."
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