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"Alright, we're all sure we want to let the genie out of the bottle," Phoebe asked as they walked to the girl and stood in their positions over her. If looks could deceive then the girl looked perfectly innocent and defenseless.

Two things that they all knew she wasn't.

"Yeah, already. Let's just get this done and over with so we can save Wyatt." Paige replied, impatiently.

"So, anyone know how to wake her?" Phoebe asked, clapping her hands together.

"I do." Piper said pulling out a small vial from a nearby cabinet. "Smelling salts."

"Since, when did we get those?" Paige asked, her eyebrows raised.

"Since, I thought it would be easier to wake up one of you if a demon attacked then getting Wyatt to heal you and put him in danger while doing so," Piper told Paige.

The girl laid on the floor harmlessly. She was still unconscious to them and what they were planning. Phoebe had to admit the girl didn't really look like that much of a threat while lying there, but of course looks can be deceiving. The girl was lethal.

They all sat on the wooden floor. Piper sat in the very front at the girl's head with her legs drawn beneath her, Phoebe sat on the girls left side cross legged with one of the crystals in her lap ready for use if the girl got rowdy, and Paige sat on the girl's right side in the same position as Piper only with her hands resting on her legs.

Piper gave each of them a warning look. Then, she pulled the cork off the vial and let its powerful contents waft into the girls nostrils. It only took a brief moment to work before the girl's blue eyes burst open.

Victoria took a tortured breath as her vision faded in.

She was no longer with Andrew.

Her heart was beating fiercely and she was in a very junky attic. Didn't they clean anything in between vanquishing demons she wondered as she coughed. She saw a pale hand draw away from her that was holding a vial of some of the most potent smells in the world. She looked up at the hand to see the incarnate of P. Bexter.

"Okay, first things first. Who are you?" Paige asked, interrupting her anxiety attack.

"What do you want with my son?" Piper fiercely asked, at the same moment.

"To kill him haven't you figured that out yet?" Victoria whispered rawly to Piper. She could still feel the ghostly grip of Andrews hand pressuring over her throat.

"Why?" Phoebe asked, confused.

It was hard for Phoebe to believe another human being could be so cold. How even a human could be so matter a fact about trying to kill someone. She could see a demon being that way but never a human.

This girl laying before her seemed cold and calculated and a bit fatigued by everything that had been thrown at her. Underneath it all, Phoebe could sense a deep sadness that kept the girl going that was tearing at her sanity. Phoebe stopped trying to sense the girl's feelings instantly. Otherwise, she felt that the girls sadness would pull her too far in.

"We have unfinished business you could say." Victoria said, simply sighing. She rubbed at her throat gently to try and soothe it. As she did, she looked around her and saw the white crystals caging her in. Smart witches, she thought as she looked at them in irritation. She couldn't break through its defense. She was too weak at the moment to even try.

"But he doesn't know you." Paige responded.

"Oh, he knows me." Victoria answered bitterly. In her head, she saw him with his intense blue eyes gazing over her as if she were his own prized possession. She could still feel his mouth roughly corrupting hers after he'd killed his only brother without any remorse.

"Uh, no he doesn't. For all he knows you're just some lunatic off the street." Phoebe said truthfully with a slight bitter laugh.

"A lunatic. Hmm." Victoria repeated as she stretched her cramping body. She was still laying on her back in an awkward position.

The sisters watched her waiting to see if she was ready to try to get out of their magic circle. She didn't though. She just laid there like a lazy house cat and looked up at the ceiling emotionlessly. A bleakness was almost passing over her as she did.

Piper looked at her in disbelief.

Anything coming from the girl was better then this. She'd expected more of a fight or something to come from her. Instead, the girl was just lying there defeated and waiting to die. Piper wouldn't let her die so quickly. Her son needed the girl to save him and if it was the last thing she did Piper was going to make the girl do just that.

If that meant bringing the girl back into reality by force her she would.

"Hey, bitch. You hurt my son. You're lucky we let you live. "Piper yelled at her.

She would not let this girl get the upper hand. She wouldn't let her ignore what was going on and she would punish her if she chose to be indifferent to the chaos she'd created.

"Please, you don't expect me to believe that load of nonsense? The reason why you kept me alive is because you don't know how to wake him up yourself. Am I right or am I wrong?" Victoria replied defensively turning onto her stomach to look at each one of them in turn. Her blue-violet eyes seeing through them more then they wanted her to.

Piper though was the most pleased by the girl's come back. This way she at least had the girl's attention and could have some upper hand over her.

"Okay, so you've got us there. So explain yourself." Paige responded, leaning forward.

Paige just couldn't wait to hear this one.

She wanted to know exactly why this girl was willing to risk killing herself in the process of stopping Wyatt's life. Sure, other demons had done so in the past, but Paige knew there was something definitely different with the girl laying on the hardwood floor in front of her. There was just something about the girl that almost unnerved her. Besides how powerful she was, of course.

"Can you handle the truth?" Victoria laughed bitterly.

"Shall we show you how serious we are about this?" Phoebe asked , matter of factly holding up the white crystal to signify she had the power to torture the girl if she wanted. She gave her a small smile as she did. Hoping that she had made herself crystal clear.

"As much as I'd love to get electrocuted by you I'd rather not." Victoria answered with a sneer. "Ask away."

Victoria gave up slowly as she looked at each of the sisters. They stood for everything she had been against in both her lives, but now watching them and their strength in witchcraft she almost wished she had embraced it. Maybe, things would be different now if she had. Maybe, a lot of people she loved wouldn't have been murdered.

She sighed and looked at the floor. It cooled her body as she tried to drive away the painful bruises that were spreading over her from her attack on Andrew.

She was dead either way, she knew. Letting her know that her son, and their nephew was evil might even help her cause. She doubted it with how they were treating her at the present moment and how they had reacted before. She guessed she could at least try to let them know a little of the extent of his evil intentions were.

They wanted to know why she was there. So, she would tell them why she was there and she wouldn't sugarcoat the truth for them either.

For a moment, a sad expression passed over her features and reached her eyes as she looked up at them. Piper caught the sight of the sadness reaching the girl's eyes. The sadness made her look wiser then her age allowed.

Piper knew instantly that the girl was ready to talk.

"Let's start with our first question again. Who are you?" Piper started, getting back to business and not looking into the girl's eyes as she said it.

Instead, she looked at both her sisters. Phoebe was searching the girl Piper could tell. Whatever she felt was intense enough for Phoebe to seem to draw away from the girl physically. Piper knew her sister hadn't realized she had moved back and inch away while she was searching the girl, but Phoebe had when she had found something too intense to deal with at the present moment.

She knew her sister must have felt the girl's charged emotions. She wondered silently if they helped the girl or betrayed her.

"How do you expect me to answer that?" Victoria asked, sighing in exasperation.

"Let's find out."

Piper was done with waiting for answers. She took the white crystal roughly from a stunned Phoebe and placed it inside the circle. Victoria spasmed as she was electrocuted. A few coils of smoke wafting off of her shaking body.

For a moment, the bloodlust from earlier that day came through Piper's blood again as she watched the girl shaking on the floor. How does it feel to be powerless? she asked the girl silently.

"Stop it, you fool." Victoria rasped out still withering on the floor like a wild animal that had been hit by car.

Piper took control of herself and stopped.

She pulled the crystal back from the circle to her own body. Then, she gave a coolly collected smile to the girl. She wanted the girl to know that she was in control here not the other way around and that she was willing to give the girl hell for what she'd done to her son let alone her family.

Here, under these circumstances, the sisters had the upper hand.

"I'm Victoria Adams formerly Valerie Richards." Victoria said, in a ragged breathless voice.

"What do you mean formerly?" Paige asked, confused.

Paige was still unaccustomed to Piper's violent reaction to the girl before them. She knew the girl deserved every bit of it, but she wasn't sure why Piper kept going off. Piper had become a time bomb.

And if Piper kept doing that there wouldn't be a girl left to answer their questions to save Wyatt. Paige watched Piper out of the corner of her eye. The smile Piper gave the girl was enough to give her nightmares for a week.

"Well, that's the answer to your next question." Victoria answered.

"Oh really. Care to elaborate?" Piper asked, she let the crystal stay within easy sight of the girl by throwing it up in the air and catching it.

"My pleasure. Your beloved son right there and I were... involved in our last lifetime. After what he did, I decided to settle the score in this one." Victoria told them in a cold voice with hatred as her eyes followed the crystal in Piper's hands like a cat watching yarn being flung around for it to play with.

"Awe, did he leave you for someone else so you decided to strike back at him real good in this lifetime? You poor baby," Paige said, pouting dramatically and using a patronizing voice.

"No, you cretin. I'm here to try to right his wrongs." Victoria cried in her own defense.

"Okay, stop with the riddles." Phoebe broke in. It was the first time in a long time she had had the strength to get out what she needed to say out. Piper and Paige both took in the fact that Phoebe looked like she was wreck silently.

"I was. He is evil" Victoria told Phoebe. "As simple as that."

"What? That's not possible we solved that problem ." Paige said, softly.

"Oh really? So, he really didn't evolve in this lifetime as he should have." Victoria pondered, sitting up inside the crystal circle.

In a weird way, for the casual observer it almost looked as if the girls were all together having a dysfunctional form of a slumber party.

"No, he did evolve. We just had past issues." Phoebe reassured her.

"Never mind that. That is none of your business" Piper declared.

"Really," Victoria asked. She was looking head on into Piper's light brown eyes just trying to make her throw the crystal back into the circle to incinerate her. Then, she would start all over again and Wyatt would be dead to them.

She hoped Piper would take the bate, but she knew Piper wasn't going to. Piper would torture her like there was no tomorrow but she wouldn't vanquish her till she'd served her purpose.

"Yes, really. Now start talking before we pulverize you." Piper warned.

"God, I just can't believe the Elders let the greatest power of all time reside in you three as Charmed Ones," Victoria said in disbelief and disgust.

The crystal in Piper's hand was instantly thrown back into the circle again. Victoria would have laughed at hitting Piper's nerves if it hadn't been for the ongoing rush of electricity radiantly pursuing her body with jolts of pain.