Thanks to everyone for the reviews! I know that the chapters are short, but I try to update ASAP! (Sorry I haven't updated over the weekend – I was in FL on vaca!) Okay, here's the fourth chapter!
Paige, Phoebe, and Leo were all huddled around the Book of Shadows, trying to figure out what had just happened, while Prue tried to calm down Piper – she wasn't helping.
"Um, hello people! If you hadn't noticed, I've been dead for over an hour now! Some body get me out of here!"
"Piper," said Leo earnestly, "We don't really know if you are dead. You've got to try to calm down! We've tried everything we could think of: you tried to walk out of the circle but it bounced you back, we tried a summoning charm but that didn't work because you're already here, and Prue tried to go back up to, uh, wherever, but she got bounced back also. We're doing our best!"
Nobody had ever really heard Leo break down under pressure like that, and they were all stunned. Wyatt started crying.
"Oh, no, honey," said Piper, trying to nurture her son from across the room. "Don't worry, sweety, I'll be out of here soon, don't cry! Paige, make him stop crying!"
"Right!" Paige swung her body around the Book of Shadows and picked up a crying Wyatt. In a matter of minutes, he eventually stopped.
"Okay," said Prue, "Let's just look at the stuff we know: Piper can't leave the circle, and I haven't been able to leave the circle since Piper came into it. I have a theory, and –"
"Wait wait wait," interrupted Paige, "How the hell did you get a theory? You gae two obvious statements, and then came up with something. How? Explain!"
Prue smiled at the confusion on her youngest sister's face.
"Hey, don't worry about it. It's kind of like a power, unofficially. I guess it's because I'm head witch, I can think more clearly than the rest of you –"
"Hold up!" Interrupted Phoebe, "What do you mean, because you're the head witch? You're dead, remember? You're not a witch anymore! I mean, sure, you're still technically a witch, but it's not like you're –"
"Oh my God," said Prue, "Phoebe, you're a genius!"
Phoebe smiled.
"Yeah, I know – mind telling me why?"
"It was something you said – "
"Piper," said Leo, "I understand now. You'll be out of there in no time!"