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Separation- Chapter 13
"Oh my god. Patrick." Phoebe's hand slowly covered her open mouth as her eyes widened at the same speed. Paige stared in shock as she saw their whitelighter in the doorway. And as Piper and Leo stood next to each other, holding Samantha's hand, both their hearts stopped. Patrick's eyes were stern, and cold, not like any other whitelighter's look. He took a few steps out of the doorway, and towards the family as he eyed each and every one of them individually.
"Shocked Phoebe? Normally, you guys don't have that freaked look on your faces when I come. And you usually don't have company at the house either. Why don't you explain to me what's going on here." He said, with his voice as emotionless as it could be.
"How long have you been there...?" Paige asked, cautiously. Patrick shoved his hands into his pockets. "Long enough to hear who those other people are. Long enough to know who that little girl is." He said with a sigh. Piper's hands trembled as she saw the look on Patrick's face.
"And I'm presuming that this young man is the famous Leo I've been hearing about. The breaker of all rules." He said with a little laugh. Leo's fists tightened and his eyes filled with anger, and rage. He couldn't ignore the sudden urge to abandon his pacifism and start throwing some punches at Patrick right now. How could the Elders have picked such a careless replacement for the girls? The Charmed ones?
Piper stood up walked up to him so that they were face to face. "Patrick, please.you cannot tell the Elders. If you do..Leo..my daughter..I.."
"I'm sorry Piper. You know I can't keep this to myself. You know that it's my duty to report this to the Elders. You have to confront them..you can't hide this forever. They're going to find out anyway."
"Patrick. Please, you've heard the stories. I love Leo, and I love my daughter.I don't want anything to happen to them at all. If the Elders find out." she started but Patrick turned away before she could finish. "Don't let me give you the talk again Piper. Love can't interfere with anything. You knew the rules, and you broke them. It wouldn't be right to not give you a punishment of some sort..."
"Punishment?? PUNISHMENT? For what? For falling in love with the person that THEY sent us? It's only natural! And even those STUPID elders should realize that! You can't blame them for falling in love! It's only natural..if they didn't want them together, they should have seen this coming and not assign Leo to us anyway!" Paige shouted loudly in their defense.
There was a silence after her exceptionally loud comeback. Samantha shifted a little on her back. Leo turned back to her, to see if she was okay. A sudden urge came over him, to just take her away, from all of this commotion, so that he could be alone with her and then he would know she was safe. Piper lowered her head, not knowing what to say. Phoebe just stayed silent. Patrick sighed and started to walk away.
"And I think I'll include that rude remark in my statement too. You charmed ones can work it out when you go to court 'up there'. They're going to HAVE to have a summoning of the council once they hear this." He said as he started to walk away. Phoebe then stood up suddenly and ran after him. She grabbed his shoulder and he automatically flinched and turned around to swat her hand away. "Don't touch me wi.Phoebe." He said with hesitation.
"Patrick you have to let this go. We've done a lot for you right? Can you just please keep this major thing for us." She pleaded. Patrick's eyes seem to flame with rage. "What??? Done a lot for me?? Is stopping me from doing my job doing a lot? Is leaving me behind when I was supposed to accompany you in innocent savings doing a lot for me?? Is getting me in trouble with the Elders because I'm not able to do what I was assigned to do like giving me a gift basket??? Saying that I'll never amount to that Leo over there. Well I'm better than that reject angel over there and I'm done. If you don't want me to report this you're going to have to do a lot more than just talk to me because I really wouldn't mind seeing you jackass's and that little brat getting sent to life in exile." he screamed.
Leo stood up suddenly and hurdled towards him. Since he was too fast, he nailed Patrick to the wall and held a tight grip to his neck. Patrick started to gag, turning red and his face was scrunched up trying desperately to breathe. "What did you call my family?" Leo said, still holding him up to the wall, his body filled with fury and anger. Piper, Phoebe and Paige all ran to the two.
"You heard me." Patrick said through his gagging. Leo held him tighter and he started to gag even more. All blood rushed to his face and he was as red as a rose. "Leo STOP!" Piper screamed, putting her arms on Leo's shoulders, trying to pull him away. But Leo seemed like he couldn't hear her. "I'll show you to talk about my family like that. Nobody..talks like that about my wife, or my sisters, or my daughter. I don't even know how you qualified to become a whitelighter with that language and that attitude in you."
"Wouldn't.you ..like to know..." Patrick whispered.
"Leo! STOP! You're suffocating him!!! STOP!" Piper kept screaming. Paige and Phoebe were now helping to get Leo off of Patrick. Leo kept on choking him right until he noticed Patrick wasn't looking at him anymore but behind him. His eyes wandered and a smile on his face slightly appeared. Leo turned his head around with his hands still on Patrick but what he saw made him abruptly let go.
Samantha had woken up, and she was staring at Leo choking the living daylight out of Patrick. Her eyes were full of so much fear and Leo could see her trembling right on the couch. He slowly stood up, her lips shaking as she stared at all five of them. Patrick was coughing, and using all the time he had to suck in all the precious air to fill in his lungs. Paige, Phoebe and Piper turned around suddenly to see what was happening. Sam stared at all of them in great fear, and started to look for the door.
Leo stretched out his hand to signal her to stay. "No wait.Sam!" he shouted to her, trying to grab her shoulder. When he finally did, he turned her around and looked her in the eye.
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Sam groaned and opened her eyes a bit. She couldn't remember anything in what happened the last few hours. Where was she? Where were her aunt and uncle? She remembered something about a man in the house, and Prue. But nothing specific was coming to mind. She needed answers, and felt so woozy and sick. Her eyes were watery, and the bright lights blurred her vision a bit but even if her sight was blurry, that didn't stop her from feeling that something was seriously wrong.
Once her vision cleared she stared up at the ceiling. It didn't look familiar. It didn't look like her house. She lifted her head up to see the couch she was laying on. It wasn't her regular brown leather couch. She sat up and stared up at the surroundings around her. It wasn't her house. She tried to think if she had any friends who had the images of this house, but she couldn't think of any.
She was in a stranger's house.
How did she get here? Why was she here? Suddenly she felt like breaking down and crying. She wanted to be home. She wanted to be home with her aunt and uncle. She rubbed her eyes wishing it was all a dream but it was no use. She didn't know where she was at all. She turned to her right and heard a bunch of people screaming and a lot of commotion.
She saw the backs of three women. One with short, curly dark brown hair, one with long, straight chestnut brown hair, similar to hers, and one with short red hair. She also saw a blonde man, choking another man pinned to the wall. The blonde man, who looked extremely, extremely familiar, looked furious, almost like a monster. Sam flinched and scrunched up in her seat. She assumed that this man, by the way he was using all his rage to try and murder that young man, was some kind of murderer.
Was she next?
Sam started to whimper, her eyes set on that man, feeling fear like she had never experienced before. Her emotions started to run haywire and she didn't know what to do. Suddenly, she saw that the man being choked saw her, and once he did, everyone started to turn around to see her. The blonde man stopped choking the other man, and suddenly his face turned sad, like he was almost ashamed of what he had done.
Sam was still scared out of her mind. He started to walk towards her a little. "Sam.." He whispered out of nowhere. Her eyes started to widen. How did this murderous, familiar stranger know her name? What, was she that popular to kill? She backed away, afraid that the man was going to grab her and start choking her as well. As if on cue, the man grabbed her shoulder and turned her around.
She gasped, her heart beating out of her chest. Her level of fear and anxiety multiplied itself by ten. She stared into the eyes of the blonde man. His eyes seemed softer now, and something about his face seemed so familiar, almost as if he looked a little like her. "Don't be scared Sam. There's nothing to be afraid of." He said, his voice almost comforting to her.
Something told her to listen to the man, and to say that he might be not so bad. But the images in her head were only leading her to when she saw him almost killing the other man. She closed her eyes and tried to get free from his grasp. "Please don't hurt me." she practically whispered, her voice trying to find a higher volume but her fear wouldn't let that be possible. The man suddenly let go of her, and took a step back. "I'm not going to hurt you..I could never hurt you Sam." He whispered to her. His eyes were pleading with her to not be afraid of her.
Before she could say anything, the man who was being choked interrupted their moment. He rubbed his neck a little staring evilly at the blonde man. "Don't think the Elders won't hear about this. You will all be exposed soon enough." He hissed, as he stared at each one of them. Then his glare caught Samantha's eye, and he snickered as he stared at her. 'You'll be gone soon enough young one..' She heard the man say.
Her eyes grew even more with fear. She could swear that it was that same man's voice, but she didn't see his lips even move. And it was loud enough for her to hear, but no one else did seem to hear anything. Suddenly, the man did something even more impossible. He started to turn into shiny blue lights, and in seconds, he disappeared out of the room. What kind of hellhole was this? Where the heck was she and who were these devil people?
As she stared at the empty space where the man had disappeared with unbelieving eyes, something caught her eye. She turned to one of the women staring at her. When she got a full glimpse of the women, she gasped. The woman was the same person from the club who chased her and saw her freeze the club and make the trash can explode. Her eyes widened even more, if it was possible as she saw the woman. 'Did she kidnap me? Because I was in her club..or she might kill me. Oh god, oh god.' she thought as she backed away.
"Sam, please..we can explain why." the red haired woman started but Sam put up her fists. "Don't touch me. I'm a blue belt in kung fu and I'm not afraid to use my fists in self defense." She said, stuttering in her speech. Just then, her memory started coming back to her mind, all the things that happened all in between. Her aunt and uncle. Tears started to flow down her cheeks and she started to whimper.
"Uncle Art..Aunt Apolla." She whispered as she backed away faster now. The blonde man tried to chase after her but she was too fast. 'Run. Just run home. RUN.' She kept telling herself. Finally she was out the door, and she was running down the street, tears streaming down her eyes, eager to see if this was all a dream.
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Leo looked at the fear in Samantha's eyes. He never saw someone so afraid, so afraid of him. He felt shameful and regretted ever feeling an ounce of anger, to actually scare his daughter. To actually make her believe he was the bad guy now. He felt horrible. "Sam." he muttered, but she just fastened her pace.
He saw her take a look at Piper and gasp, and she fasted her pace even more. Before he knew it, she was already running. Leo tried to grasp for her again, just wanting to explain that he wasn't the bad guy. He was her father, and he loved her more than anything in the whole world. But she was too fast for him, and before you knew it she was already out the door. He started to run after her but he felt Piper hold him back.
"Leo.she thinks we're the bad guys now..she's not going to listen to us. She'll keep running away. We have to find a different way to get through her, or she'll just keep running and soon she'll be in danger again." She said, with a depressing look in her eyes. He sighed, knowing she was right and went back to the living room where Phoebe and Paige were.
Paige and Phoebe were plopped down on the couch and Piper scooted next to them. Leo stood pacing, thinking of a way to fix it all. "This is such a mess..I don't know how we're going to fix this one." He whispered. Piper laid her head on Phoebe's head and Phoebe started to hug Piper for comfort. Leo rubbed his head and tried to think.
"Wait.you guys didn't even tell me why she was here? And why she had a darklighter arrow pierced through her in the first place." He said, facing all three of them. Piper and Phoebe turned to Paige with the same question in their eyes. "Paige?" Phoebe said, asking her to tell them at once. Paige made a scrunched up face and straightened up in her seat.
"Okay.it all started when I went to that school..I bumped into her by accident and I saw her and heard her name and knew that she could be my niece. So after she left, I asked the principal for her file. I found her address and stuff, and I thought I could just find out if she was really her..Samantha Wyatt. Your daughter."
"You should have told me Paige.I mean..you shouldn't have done this alone." Piper said, with a little disappointment in her tone. But Leo seemed to take it differently. His eyes seemed to widen and he confronted her suddenly. "What?? You started looking for her? Paige, you just can't do that! IF the Elders ever found out who was with her..where her location was.."
"Wait a minute. What are you saying? That you knew this WHOLE time where she was?" Piper said, standing up and facing him in the eye with a sudden anger in her. Leo stopped, and sighed a bit. "Yes." He said reluctantly. Piper went up to him and slapped him hard on the face. Leo held his cheek and stared at her with forgiving eyes. "I'm sorry Piper..I can..."
"Explain Leo? Explain how you kept the location of my daughter away from me? Fourteen years Leo..fourteen years I had to live without her. Fourteen years I had to count on my memories to give me a visual on her. She's my daughter too dammit. I'm her mother, and I think I deserve a little info on her once in awhile. Did you even think about how I would feel?" she snapped at Leo. All Leo could do was regret his actions.
"Piper.I wanted to tell you.but I didn't want her getting hurt. I knew you would go look for her, and I couldn't have that.you're under strict surveillance already.I couldn't risk it. And you know it too." He whispered to her. Piper shook her head and faked a laugh. "You could have at least sent a picture." She whispered and sat back down next to Phoebe, trying to avoid eye contact.
"Okay, now that we got this straightened out, I have to get to the next part of my experience. Anyway, so I went to her house, and inside it was all dark with nobody inside, and the door was open. When I got in, I saw Samantha with another woman..I don't know who she was, she just appeared out of nowhere. Before you know it, a darklighter comes in and tries to kill me but the woman saves me. And we fight together to beat the guy." Paige said, continuing her story.
"Do you have any idea who the woman was? We can try to contact her to get to Sam." Phoebe suggested, but Paige merely shrugged. "The woman looked so familiar, but I couldn't quite get my finger on who she was. But she does know who Leo is. After we fought, she gave Sam, who was already shot by an arrow, to me and told me to bring her to Leo. So maybe you know her. She had..long dark hair, with blue eyes I think. I couldn't quite tell."
"It's too small of a description to know who it was.I know a lot of people like that. But what was she doing with Sam? That part I don't get. And why was Sam alone in the first place?" he asked.
"What do you mean?" Paige asked, not sure what he meant.
"I left Samantha with two of my whitelighter friends when she was a baby. They've been her guardians her whole life, as her aunt and uncle-"
"Ah.some new information I see Leo. Thanks for sharing." Piper said, once again showing much anger through her voice. Leo gave a sorrowful look to her and went on. "Well, they should have been there.unless..."
"I didn't see anyone there Leo..I'm just guessing that the darklighter got to them first." She said, giving Leo a sympathetic look. Leo took a deep breath. "Well, we have to do something..I just don't know what." He said quietly. Paige suddenly looked as if she had gotten an idea and pulled something out of her pocket. She held a shining crystal to Phoebe's face. "I found this left at the house by the darklighter. What do you think it is?" she asked.
Phoebe took the crystal and examined it. "I don't know.but it's shining very brightly. I'm going to go look at the Book of Shadows. Coming? Yay or nay?" she said, getting up from the couch. Paige followed her as they walked up the stairs. Leo and Piper stayed behind. Piper sat on the couch, staring at Leo, not knowing what to do. Leo had his arms folded across his chest as he stared longingly at Piper.
"Piper.I.I'm sorry. You deserved to know.I was a fool..I just.didn't want anything to happen." He whispered. Piper got up and walked up to him so that they were face to face. She put her hand on his shoulder. "Just.there's too many secrets around us.I don't want there to be anymore. I'm sorry for over reacting I.just don't want anything to happen to you.or.her...I'm not even sure myself." She said back to him.
Leo took a deep breath and leaned in to kiss Piper. Piper wrapped her arms around his neck, savoring the familiar feeling Leo always gave her when they kissed. Leo remembered how much he missed her embrace around him. Piper started to realize how much she actually missed Leo. How she longed to be in his armed every single moment. But she suddenly let go. "Come on.we have to find Samantha first." She whispered to Leo. Leo nodded and the two held hands as they climbed the stairs to the attic.
Meanwhile, Paige was looking around the attic for some potion ingredients as Phoebe searched for something in the Book of Shadows about the crystal. As Paige looked through the bunch of things, something caught her eye. There was a picture, between a bunch of books and it had Piper and Phoebe in it. They were younger than they were now, but that's now what made Paige pick it up. In the middle of Piper and Phoebe was the woman that she saw in Samantha's house. Paige gasped as she realized who she was.
"Oh god. Prue." She said, her hand over her mouth.
Phoebe looked up from her doing. "What was that Paige?" she asked. Paige quickly put the picture back and turned around to face Phoebe. "Um, nothing Phoebe. Just thought I saw a bug or something." She said. Phoebe nodded and went back to the book. Questions ran through Paige's mind until Piper and Leo walked through the attic door.
"So what are we doing now?" Piper asked, gripping Leo's hand. Suddenly, Phoebe stopped flipping and hit the book to get everyone's attention. "Found something!" she screamed aloud. Paige, Piper and Leo gathered around her and the book to see what she found. There in the book was a picture of a bald, middle aged man gritting his teeth as if wanting to look tough with the crystal in his hands.
"Arkon. A powerful demon who is a darklighter force leader, one who uses darklighters to do evil deeds in order to please the underworld. Arkon is usually known to be very power hungry, and uses a special energy crystal that detects power and literally sucks the power from the being it's focused on." Phoebe read from the book.
"So obviously, Arkon sent a darklighter to Sam's house to take her power." Leo said. Phoebe nodded. "And he's probably going to try again. It says here that he stops at nothing to get the right amount of power he needs."
"Is there a vanquish?" Piper asked, examining the book. Phoebe read more and nodded. "To vanquish Arkon, we need to, according to the book, trap his own soul into his own energy crystal while saying this spell right here." Phoebe said, pointing to the spell in the book. All four of them seemed to sigh at the same time.
"I'll make some potions that will help us fight Arkon." Paige offered as she went back to go make potions.
"And I guess I'll make some spells to help us find Sam and the darklighters." Phoebe said, running to get a piece of paper.
"We have to hurry up..we never know when he'll strike at Sam again." Leo said, knowing that Sam was out there, running, alone and helpless.
Stay tuned for Chapter 14 of "Separation."
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Separation- Chapter 13
"Oh my god. Patrick." Phoebe's hand slowly covered her open mouth as her eyes widened at the same speed. Paige stared in shock as she saw their whitelighter in the doorway. And as Piper and Leo stood next to each other, holding Samantha's hand, both their hearts stopped. Patrick's eyes were stern, and cold, not like any other whitelighter's look. He took a few steps out of the doorway, and towards the family as he eyed each and every one of them individually.
"Shocked Phoebe? Normally, you guys don't have that freaked look on your faces when I come. And you usually don't have company at the house either. Why don't you explain to me what's going on here." He said, with his voice as emotionless as it could be.
"How long have you been there...?" Paige asked, cautiously. Patrick shoved his hands into his pockets. "Long enough to hear who those other people are. Long enough to know who that little girl is." He said with a sigh. Piper's hands trembled as she saw the look on Patrick's face.
"And I'm presuming that this young man is the famous Leo I've been hearing about. The breaker of all rules." He said with a little laugh. Leo's fists tightened and his eyes filled with anger, and rage. He couldn't ignore the sudden urge to abandon his pacifism and start throwing some punches at Patrick right now. How could the Elders have picked such a careless replacement for the girls? The Charmed ones?
Piper stood up walked up to him so that they were face to face. "Patrick, please.you cannot tell the Elders. If you do..Leo..my daughter..I.."
"I'm sorry Piper. You know I can't keep this to myself. You know that it's my duty to report this to the Elders. You have to confront them..you can't hide this forever. They're going to find out anyway."
"Patrick. Please, you've heard the stories. I love Leo, and I love my daughter.I don't want anything to happen to them at all. If the Elders find out." she started but Patrick turned away before she could finish. "Don't let me give you the talk again Piper. Love can't interfere with anything. You knew the rules, and you broke them. It wouldn't be right to not give you a punishment of some sort..."
"Punishment?? PUNISHMENT? For what? For falling in love with the person that THEY sent us? It's only natural! And even those STUPID elders should realize that! You can't blame them for falling in love! It's only natural..if they didn't want them together, they should have seen this coming and not assign Leo to us anyway!" Paige shouted loudly in their defense.
There was a silence after her exceptionally loud comeback. Samantha shifted a little on her back. Leo turned back to her, to see if she was okay. A sudden urge came over him, to just take her away, from all of this commotion, so that he could be alone with her and then he would know she was safe. Piper lowered her head, not knowing what to say. Phoebe just stayed silent. Patrick sighed and started to walk away.
"And I think I'll include that rude remark in my statement too. You charmed ones can work it out when you go to court 'up there'. They're going to HAVE to have a summoning of the council once they hear this." He said as he started to walk away. Phoebe then stood up suddenly and ran after him. She grabbed his shoulder and he automatically flinched and turned around to swat her hand away. "Don't touch me wi.Phoebe." He said with hesitation.
"Patrick you have to let this go. We've done a lot for you right? Can you just please keep this major thing for us." She pleaded. Patrick's eyes seem to flame with rage. "What??? Done a lot for me?? Is stopping me from doing my job doing a lot? Is leaving me behind when I was supposed to accompany you in innocent savings doing a lot for me?? Is getting me in trouble with the Elders because I'm not able to do what I was assigned to do like giving me a gift basket??? Saying that I'll never amount to that Leo over there. Well I'm better than that reject angel over there and I'm done. If you don't want me to report this you're going to have to do a lot more than just talk to me because I really wouldn't mind seeing you jackass's and that little brat getting sent to life in exile." he screamed.
Leo stood up suddenly and hurdled towards him. Since he was too fast, he nailed Patrick to the wall and held a tight grip to his neck. Patrick started to gag, turning red and his face was scrunched up trying desperately to breathe. "What did you call my family?" Leo said, still holding him up to the wall, his body filled with fury and anger. Piper, Phoebe and Paige all ran to the two.
"You heard me." Patrick said through his gagging. Leo held him tighter and he started to gag even more. All blood rushed to his face and he was as red as a rose. "Leo STOP!" Piper screamed, putting her arms on Leo's shoulders, trying to pull him away. But Leo seemed like he couldn't hear her. "I'll show you to talk about my family like that. Nobody..talks like that about my wife, or my sisters, or my daughter. I don't even know how you qualified to become a whitelighter with that language and that attitude in you."
"Wouldn't.you ..like to know..." Patrick whispered.
"Leo! STOP! You're suffocating him!!! STOP!" Piper kept screaming. Paige and Phoebe were now helping to get Leo off of Patrick. Leo kept on choking him right until he noticed Patrick wasn't looking at him anymore but behind him. His eyes wandered and a smile on his face slightly appeared. Leo turned his head around with his hands still on Patrick but what he saw made him abruptly let go.
Samantha had woken up, and she was staring at Leo choking the living daylight out of Patrick. Her eyes were full of so much fear and Leo could see her trembling right on the couch. He slowly stood up, her lips shaking as she stared at all five of them. Patrick was coughing, and using all the time he had to suck in all the precious air to fill in his lungs. Paige, Phoebe and Piper turned around suddenly to see what was happening. Sam stared at all of them in great fear, and started to look for the door.
Leo stretched out his hand to signal her to stay. "No wait.Sam!" he shouted to her, trying to grab her shoulder. When he finally did, he turned her around and looked her in the eye.
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Sam groaned and opened her eyes a bit. She couldn't remember anything in what happened the last few hours. Where was she? Where were her aunt and uncle? She remembered something about a man in the house, and Prue. But nothing specific was coming to mind. She needed answers, and felt so woozy and sick. Her eyes were watery, and the bright lights blurred her vision a bit but even if her sight was blurry, that didn't stop her from feeling that something was seriously wrong.
Once her vision cleared she stared up at the ceiling. It didn't look familiar. It didn't look like her house. She lifted her head up to see the couch she was laying on. It wasn't her regular brown leather couch. She sat up and stared up at the surroundings around her. It wasn't her house. She tried to think if she had any friends who had the images of this house, but she couldn't think of any.
She was in a stranger's house.
How did she get here? Why was she here? Suddenly she felt like breaking down and crying. She wanted to be home. She wanted to be home with her aunt and uncle. She rubbed her eyes wishing it was all a dream but it was no use. She didn't know where she was at all. She turned to her right and heard a bunch of people screaming and a lot of commotion.
She saw the backs of three women. One with short, curly dark brown hair, one with long, straight chestnut brown hair, similar to hers, and one with short red hair. She also saw a blonde man, choking another man pinned to the wall. The blonde man, who looked extremely, extremely familiar, looked furious, almost like a monster. Sam flinched and scrunched up in her seat. She assumed that this man, by the way he was using all his rage to try and murder that young man, was some kind of murderer.
Was she next?
Sam started to whimper, her eyes set on that man, feeling fear like she had never experienced before. Her emotions started to run haywire and she didn't know what to do. Suddenly, she saw that the man being choked saw her, and once he did, everyone started to turn around to see her. The blonde man stopped choking the other man, and suddenly his face turned sad, like he was almost ashamed of what he had done.
Sam was still scared out of her mind. He started to walk towards her a little. "Sam.." He whispered out of nowhere. Her eyes started to widen. How did this murderous, familiar stranger know her name? What, was she that popular to kill? She backed away, afraid that the man was going to grab her and start choking her as well. As if on cue, the man grabbed her shoulder and turned her around.
She gasped, her heart beating out of her chest. Her level of fear and anxiety multiplied itself by ten. She stared into the eyes of the blonde man. His eyes seemed softer now, and something about his face seemed so familiar, almost as if he looked a little like her. "Don't be scared Sam. There's nothing to be afraid of." He said, his voice almost comforting to her.
Something told her to listen to the man, and to say that he might be not so bad. But the images in her head were only leading her to when she saw him almost killing the other man. She closed her eyes and tried to get free from his grasp. "Please don't hurt me." she practically whispered, her voice trying to find a higher volume but her fear wouldn't let that be possible. The man suddenly let go of her, and took a step back. "I'm not going to hurt you..I could never hurt you Sam." He whispered to her. His eyes were pleading with her to not be afraid of her.
Before she could say anything, the man who was being choked interrupted their moment. He rubbed his neck a little staring evilly at the blonde man. "Don't think the Elders won't hear about this. You will all be exposed soon enough." He hissed, as he stared at each one of them. Then his glare caught Samantha's eye, and he snickered as he stared at her. 'You'll be gone soon enough young one..' She heard the man say.
Her eyes grew even more with fear. She could swear that it was that same man's voice, but she didn't see his lips even move. And it was loud enough for her to hear, but no one else did seem to hear anything. Suddenly, the man did something even more impossible. He started to turn into shiny blue lights, and in seconds, he disappeared out of the room. What kind of hellhole was this? Where the heck was she and who were these devil people?
As she stared at the empty space where the man had disappeared with unbelieving eyes, something caught her eye. She turned to one of the women staring at her. When she got a full glimpse of the women, she gasped. The woman was the same person from the club who chased her and saw her freeze the club and make the trash can explode. Her eyes widened even more, if it was possible as she saw the woman. 'Did she kidnap me? Because I was in her club..or she might kill me. Oh god, oh god.' she thought as she backed away.
"Sam, please..we can explain why." the red haired woman started but Sam put up her fists. "Don't touch me. I'm a blue belt in kung fu and I'm not afraid to use my fists in self defense." She said, stuttering in her speech. Just then, her memory started coming back to her mind, all the things that happened all in between. Her aunt and uncle. Tears started to flow down her cheeks and she started to whimper.
"Uncle Art..Aunt Apolla." She whispered as she backed away faster now. The blonde man tried to chase after her but she was too fast. 'Run. Just run home. RUN.' She kept telling herself. Finally she was out the door, and she was running down the street, tears streaming down her eyes, eager to see if this was all a dream.
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Leo looked at the fear in Samantha's eyes. He never saw someone so afraid, so afraid of him. He felt shameful and regretted ever feeling an ounce of anger, to actually scare his daughter. To actually make her believe he was the bad guy now. He felt horrible. "Sam." he muttered, but she just fastened her pace.
He saw her take a look at Piper and gasp, and she fasted her pace even more. Before he knew it, she was already running. Leo tried to grasp for her again, just wanting to explain that he wasn't the bad guy. He was her father, and he loved her more than anything in the whole world. But she was too fast for him, and before you knew it she was already out the door. He started to run after her but he felt Piper hold him back.
"Leo.she thinks we're the bad guys now..she's not going to listen to us. She'll keep running away. We have to find a different way to get through her, or she'll just keep running and soon she'll be in danger again." She said, with a depressing look in her eyes. He sighed, knowing she was right and went back to the living room where Phoebe and Paige were.
Paige and Phoebe were plopped down on the couch and Piper scooted next to them. Leo stood pacing, thinking of a way to fix it all. "This is such a mess..I don't know how we're going to fix this one." He whispered. Piper laid her head on Phoebe's head and Phoebe started to hug Piper for comfort. Leo rubbed his head and tried to think.
"Wait.you guys didn't even tell me why she was here? And why she had a darklighter arrow pierced through her in the first place." He said, facing all three of them. Piper and Phoebe turned to Paige with the same question in their eyes. "Paige?" Phoebe said, asking her to tell them at once. Paige made a scrunched up face and straightened up in her seat.
"Okay.it all started when I went to that school..I bumped into her by accident and I saw her and heard her name and knew that she could be my niece. So after she left, I asked the principal for her file. I found her address and stuff, and I thought I could just find out if she was really her..Samantha Wyatt. Your daughter."
"You should have told me Paige.I mean..you shouldn't have done this alone." Piper said, with a little disappointment in her tone. But Leo seemed to take it differently. His eyes seemed to widen and he confronted her suddenly. "What?? You started looking for her? Paige, you just can't do that! IF the Elders ever found out who was with her..where her location was.."
"Wait a minute. What are you saying? That you knew this WHOLE time where she was?" Piper said, standing up and facing him in the eye with a sudden anger in her. Leo stopped, and sighed a bit. "Yes." He said reluctantly. Piper went up to him and slapped him hard on the face. Leo held his cheek and stared at her with forgiving eyes. "I'm sorry Piper..I can..."
"Explain Leo? Explain how you kept the location of my daughter away from me? Fourteen years Leo..fourteen years I had to live without her. Fourteen years I had to count on my memories to give me a visual on her. She's my daughter too dammit. I'm her mother, and I think I deserve a little info on her once in awhile. Did you even think about how I would feel?" she snapped at Leo. All Leo could do was regret his actions.
"Piper.I wanted to tell you.but I didn't want her getting hurt. I knew you would go look for her, and I couldn't have that.you're under strict surveillance already.I couldn't risk it. And you know it too." He whispered to her. Piper shook her head and faked a laugh. "You could have at least sent a picture." She whispered and sat back down next to Phoebe, trying to avoid eye contact.
"Okay, now that we got this straightened out, I have to get to the next part of my experience. Anyway, so I went to her house, and inside it was all dark with nobody inside, and the door was open. When I got in, I saw Samantha with another woman..I don't know who she was, she just appeared out of nowhere. Before you know it, a darklighter comes in and tries to kill me but the woman saves me. And we fight together to beat the guy." Paige said, continuing her story.
"Do you have any idea who the woman was? We can try to contact her to get to Sam." Phoebe suggested, but Paige merely shrugged. "The woman looked so familiar, but I couldn't quite get my finger on who she was. But she does know who Leo is. After we fought, she gave Sam, who was already shot by an arrow, to me and told me to bring her to Leo. So maybe you know her. She had..long dark hair, with blue eyes I think. I couldn't quite tell."
"It's too small of a description to know who it was.I know a lot of people like that. But what was she doing with Sam? That part I don't get. And why was Sam alone in the first place?" he asked.
"What do you mean?" Paige asked, not sure what he meant.
"I left Samantha with two of my whitelighter friends when she was a baby. They've been her guardians her whole life, as her aunt and uncle-"
"Ah.some new information I see Leo. Thanks for sharing." Piper said, once again showing much anger through her voice. Leo gave a sorrowful look to her and went on. "Well, they should have been there.unless..."
"I didn't see anyone there Leo..I'm just guessing that the darklighter got to them first." She said, giving Leo a sympathetic look. Leo took a deep breath. "Well, we have to do something..I just don't know what." He said quietly. Paige suddenly looked as if she had gotten an idea and pulled something out of her pocket. She held a shining crystal to Phoebe's face. "I found this left at the house by the darklighter. What do you think it is?" she asked.
Phoebe took the crystal and examined it. "I don't know.but it's shining very brightly. I'm going to go look at the Book of Shadows. Coming? Yay or nay?" she said, getting up from the couch. Paige followed her as they walked up the stairs. Leo and Piper stayed behind. Piper sat on the couch, staring at Leo, not knowing what to do. Leo had his arms folded across his chest as he stared longingly at Piper.
"Piper.I.I'm sorry. You deserved to know.I was a fool..I just.didn't want anything to happen." He whispered. Piper got up and walked up to him so that they were face to face. She put her hand on his shoulder. "Just.there's too many secrets around us.I don't want there to be anymore. I'm sorry for over reacting I.just don't want anything to happen to you.or.her...I'm not even sure myself." She said back to him.
Leo took a deep breath and leaned in to kiss Piper. Piper wrapped her arms around his neck, savoring the familiar feeling Leo always gave her when they kissed. Leo remembered how much he missed her embrace around him. Piper started to realize how much she actually missed Leo. How she longed to be in his armed every single moment. But she suddenly let go. "Come on.we have to find Samantha first." She whispered to Leo. Leo nodded and the two held hands as they climbed the stairs to the attic.
Meanwhile, Paige was looking around the attic for some potion ingredients as Phoebe searched for something in the Book of Shadows about the crystal. As Paige looked through the bunch of things, something caught her eye. There was a picture, between a bunch of books and it had Piper and Phoebe in it. They were younger than they were now, but that's now what made Paige pick it up. In the middle of Piper and Phoebe was the woman that she saw in Samantha's house. Paige gasped as she realized who she was.
"Oh god. Prue." She said, her hand over her mouth.
Phoebe looked up from her doing. "What was that Paige?" she asked. Paige quickly put the picture back and turned around to face Phoebe. "Um, nothing Phoebe. Just thought I saw a bug or something." She said. Phoebe nodded and went back to the book. Questions ran through Paige's mind until Piper and Leo walked through the attic door.
"So what are we doing now?" Piper asked, gripping Leo's hand. Suddenly, Phoebe stopped flipping and hit the book to get everyone's attention. "Found something!" she screamed aloud. Paige, Piper and Leo gathered around her and the book to see what she found. There in the book was a picture of a bald, middle aged man gritting his teeth as if wanting to look tough with the crystal in his hands.
"Arkon. A powerful demon who is a darklighter force leader, one who uses darklighters to do evil deeds in order to please the underworld. Arkon is usually known to be very power hungry, and uses a special energy crystal that detects power and literally sucks the power from the being it's focused on." Phoebe read from the book.
"So obviously, Arkon sent a darklighter to Sam's house to take her power." Leo said. Phoebe nodded. "And he's probably going to try again. It says here that he stops at nothing to get the right amount of power he needs."
"Is there a vanquish?" Piper asked, examining the book. Phoebe read more and nodded. "To vanquish Arkon, we need to, according to the book, trap his own soul into his own energy crystal while saying this spell right here." Phoebe said, pointing to the spell in the book. All four of them seemed to sigh at the same time.
"I'll make some potions that will help us fight Arkon." Paige offered as she went back to go make potions.
"And I guess I'll make some spells to help us find Sam and the darklighters." Phoebe said, running to get a piece of paper.
"We have to hurry up..we never know when he'll strike at Sam again." Leo said, knowing that Sam was out there, running, alone and helpless.
Stay tuned for Chapter 14 of "Separation."
A/N: Hoped you liked it. A review would be nice! Remember the thank you cards! Sorry again for the inconvenience of not having italics, bold, or underlining!