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(Paige's POV)
"Good morning," Phoebe said, cheerily, as I walked into the kitchen.
I opened one eye, "Coffee."
She understood and nodded, "Here take this before you go on yet another wild caffeine rampage."
I took the offered coffee mug and took a sip before answering, "I only did that once."
"I'm wondering why you need the caffeine so desperately. Has was your night?"
She obviously didn't want to talk about what had happened the night before and I was all fort that plan. I smiled, and answered as I always did, "Magical."
"You always say that," Phoebe protested.
"Because it's always true. Or at least more magic than you've been getting."
She made a face at me, "What's that supposed to mean?'
"Nothing," I answered, taking another gulp of the coffee. "So have any fun premonitions or fun dreams last night?"
"Ew and no," Phoebe admitted, "But I do have a dinner date tonight."
Oh, really," It had been a while since Phoebe had gone out on a date, "With who?"
"Nobody," She answered.
"Hmmm, nobody, sounds like a real keeper. I say marry him on the spot." I said, sarcastically.
"No thanks," She said, getting another cup of coffee. It was amazing how much coffee we went through in the Halliwell household. "Three marriages is enough. I am through with the marriage concept."
I nodded, "Sounds like a plan," I drained the coffee cup before adding, "So who's your date tonight?"
Phoebe shot me a look when Piper came running into the kitchen, "The Book is gone."
"What?" Phoebe and I said at the same time.
"The Book is gone, Chris never came home last night, Wyatt isn't here-"
"Wait," I stopped her ranting because it was becoming harder to hear her, "explain that slower."
"Chris didn't come home last night, the Book is gone, and Wyatt isn't here, and I highly doubt he went anywhere cause it's like seven in the morning and he doesn't go for runs. He's not you, Paige" Piper explained, slower this time.
"Ha Ha," I said. Piper always thought going for a run every morning was a waste of time.
"Did you check the attic?" Phoebe asked.
"For the Book?" Phoebe nodded, "Yes, and I checked downstairs."
"What about Katie's room." Phoebe and Piper gave me a weird look so I continued, "She likes the pictures and takes the book to look at them."
"Okay, one I checked all the bedrooms and two, you need to have a talk with your daughter."
"Yeah, yeah, I know. I figure all that'll happen is she knows how to vanquish a demon before we do." I had already tried telling Katie that the demons in the Book were not as fun as they looked. She didn't seem to listen.
"So you think Chris or Wyatt has the Book?" Phoebe said, steering the conversation away from Katie and her weird obsession with looking at the Book.
Piper opened her mouth to say something but Katie screamed, "Mommy!" before she said anything.
Exchanging looks, we ran into the conservatory where Katie was watching cartoons. Except, Katie wasn't watching the cartoons anymore, she was on the ground with a large gash on her arm. "Katie, what happened?" I asked, softly, trying to pry her hand away from the gash so I could get a look at it.
"Chris, energy ball, and attacked," were the only words I could comprehend out of what she said. It didn't seem possible. Chris would never attack Katie, unless it wasn't Chris.
(Chris's POV) "Aha! Found something," Bianca said triumphantly.
"What?" I asked looking over her shoulder at the Grimoire, scanning the page, "It's just a short thing about the twice-blessed child. We already know that."
"I know that," She countered, "But read from here," She pointed to a small paragraph, "To here." She flipped the page and pointed halfway down, then handed me the small book.
"The twice-blessed child...most powerful...end all humanity?" I mumbled, reading the passage, "Wait, he's going to end the world?"
"No," She said, taking the book back, "He's not because there is a way to stop him."
"How?"
"Well, it says here that there was never meant to be a second son," She answered.
"Huh?" She was losing me and fast.
"According to this, Wyatt was never supposed to have a little brother."
"Oh, thanks, as if I don't feel unimportant enough already," I said, sarcastically.
"No, I mean that if Wyatt didn't have a little brother, the world would be doomed." She grabbed my head and forced me to read a small section of the page, "Look, it says that, 'Only one can stop the twice-blessed. Left in the shadows, this one will bring an end to the evil inflicted on the world by the twice-blessed'."
"That's great," I said, reclaiming freedom for my head, "Does it say how I'm going to do that?"
She looked at the ground, "No."
"Then we're still in the same mess we were before."
"Not quite, there may be a way out of here."
(Paige's POV)
"Owwweeee!" Katie screamed.
I grimaced, and took away the cloth with a good dose of antiseptic on it. "I know, sweet but I'm almost done. Hold still and it won't hurt as much."
Katie nodded, and tried to sit as still as a seven year old could. She winced when I touched the wound with the cloth again but didn't scream. Quickly, I wrapped her arm in a bandage. "Okay, all done. Now why don't you go play with Daddy?"
Katie nodded, and hopped off the chair and ran upstairs.
"Is she okay?" Phoebe asked when I walked into the kitchen.
"She'll be fine." I answered. "Chris didn't do this."
Phoebe gave me a weird look, "What do you mean? She said-"
I interrupted her, "She said that she thought it was Chris. But Chris would never hurt Katie, he would rather die. And we have been dealing with warlocks lately..."
Phoebe finished for me, "And warlocks can glamour into someone else. But do warlocks have energy balls?"
"They do now," I said. I looked over at Piper. "Piper, honey, you okay?"
Piper looked up and I could tell that she was trying not to cry, "Yeah, fine. I'm sorry about Katie."
I waved it off, "We don't think it was Chris. There's just no way."
"Who then?"
"A warlock," Phoebe said, already starting on the warlock vanquishing potion. "That glamoured into Chris to make us think it was him."
"What about last night?" Piper asked.
I wanted to say that if she and Leo had listened to Chris, he probably wouldn't have stormed off but I could tell she was already beating herself up over it. "Maybe the warlocks are impersonating both Wyatt and Chris."
"And the only way we'll know for sure is if we ask," Phoebe said, dropping a handful of herbs into the potion. A small explosion occurred and she smiled.
(Chris's POV)
"Explain that again."
Bianca sighed, exasperated, "We combine our magic, what's left of it and we should be able to orb or shimmer out of here."
"Alright." I said standing up. Bianca didn't say anything back. I turned to face her and she had this look of extreme sadness on her face, "What's wrong?"
"They betrayed me," She said quietly. I didn't have to ask who. I knew who, they had done the same to me. "They abandoned me and everything that we had done for him." I couldn't find the words to say; instead I just walked over to her and put my arms around her small frame. "They don't know what we know, which means we'll get them back for what they did."
"Do you mean that?"
"Of course," I said, "Blood takes care of blood." She nodded, knowing what I meant. She and I were the only ones that choose to stay bound to blood oath and we had to take care of each other now.
"Warlock!"
The call sounded like it was Aunt Paige. Suddenly, we were orbed out of the cavern and into in the manor foyer. Aunt Paige, Aunt Phoebe, and Mom were standing there, completely shocked to have summoned Bianca and me instead of the warlock.
"This can't be helping us any." I said, poking a finger at the magic cage that Bianca and I were trapped in.
(Paige's POV, overlaps just a smidge)
"Warlock!" I commanded, throwing out my hand. Phoebe had told us that we would trap a warlock and force them to tell us everything. We didn't expect to summon Chris and that girl he had left with the night before. Well, my sisters didn't. I said warlock, but I was thinking Chris.
"This can't be helping us any," Chris said, poking the magic cage. I nodded my agreement, trying to make it look like an accident.
"Chris," Piper said, still obviously in shock.
"Hey, Mom," Chris said, trying to lighten the mood. "This is Bianca, a friend."
"Nice to meet you," Piper said, politely, but I knew that she didn't mean it. Then she kicked a crystal, breaking the magic cage, "Chris we need to talk."
(Chris's POV, more overlapping)
"Chris we need to talk," Mom said.
I grimaced, knowing that tone. The you're-in-big-trouble-mister tone. You tend to learn these things after so many lectures in the chair. "Okay,"
"Okay," She echoed, and motioned for me to follow her into the kitchen. Once we were in the kitchen, she didn't seem as nice, "Where have you been? What were you thinking, running off like that? Where did you meet this Bianca girl? Why did we get you when Paige summoned a warlock? And what the hell happened to your hand?" She threw all the questions at me in less than one minute.
"One question at a time," I answered. "I've been in the park, then abducted by Wyatt. I left because you wouldn't listen to me. I met her in the park yesterday. I have no idea how Aunt Paige got me. And I told you, I cut myself."
She didn't say anything, probably thinking over what I had just said. "Did you just say that Wyatt abducted you?"
I nodded, "He's the one behind the warlock attacks."
A/N: MWAHAHAHA! Cliff-hanger, sorta. I am evil! And damn proud!
Response to reviews:
Calen- Hehe, that's a good idea. I should go make them give up Chris and let him go be Paige's kid. Yeah now that Wyatt is evil, Chris might have to stick around, just so they won't get lonely. He does good work.
Charmediscool- Yeah, Dan was stupid and I already knew that she picked Dan because I started watching the series like in the fourth season. It was a little obvious. I would love to see her guest star so that she and Paige could meet but I have a feeling that ain't gonna happen anytime soon. If we can't even see in her flashbacks, I highly doubt Prue will come back. But that still would be cool. ooh, that's a good story idea. Thanks.
cherry7up56- They will be kicking some butt. oops, that was a bit of a spoiler. I have a wierd problem with that, giving away things in my story in responses. Oh well. Thank you for the great review.
Cat- I can't answer all those questions at once but the answer to one is no. I'm not saying which one, you have to figure that out on your own. But it's made pretty evident by this chapter anyway but you know.
rafiki- I will try to make all that stuff happen. But I have a good idea of where I'm going with this, it's just a matter of typing. And the more times you sat that my story is great the happier I am. So say it all you want! : )
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