A/N- Hi, sorry this took so long to write. I was out of town and couldn't access my files. I have rewritten the second part of the fourth chapter, and added it here as another chapter instead, and deleting it off the other one. I am working on the next one, but i am starting school, so it may take me a little while. Thank you pshycokitty3 for all your help, and thank everyone for the review. Please keep reading and reviewing...
Ten minutes later she arrived home. Paige answered the door. She told Phoebe that Piper was in the living room with Darryl, pouring over files and papers. Leo had gone to check with the elders to see if Celebrian was really a demon, or what else she could be. Chris hadn't made an appearance since that morning, and Leo couldn't sense him, so Piper figured he had gone to the underworld to hunt for information.
"Okay thanks. I think you better come in the living room so you can hear what I have to say." They sisters walked into where Piper was sitting. She didn't look up, and she seemed deeply absorbed in her information gathering.
"Piper, can you put that down for a second, I have something to tell you." Phoebe reenacted their conversation at the function and then sat silently. Piper was sitting with her head in her hands and her brows deeply furrowed. Paige too seemed to be deep in thought. At long last Paige spoke up.
"So you think that maybe a demon is holding her captive, or using her, and Wyatt may be her way out of that prison."
"I think that's a possibility, but that we have to keep our minds open. It is a theory, and I'll go look it up in the book of shadows right after this." Phoebe looked at her other sister. "Any ideas?"
"She could be cursed. Remember when we saved that ghost town from a town loop, with Prue?" Phoebe and Piper flinched, but she continued on. "What if she's cursed to stay fifteen until she does something. Maybe Wyatt is the only way she can access the kind of power that she needs in order to force herself out of this curse, whatever it is."
"Possible. I'm going to go check. I'll be in the Attic if anyone needs me. Call me when Leo gets back." Phoebe got up, but then she turned back to Piper. She concentrated hard on Piper, looking into her eyes, but she couldn't read her mind. She tried to levitate and found she could
"There goes that theory."
"What did you say?" Piper looked at her
"I didn't"
"Oh." Darryl, who had been sitting quietly suddenly, got up.
"I think I'd better leave."
"Good Idea." Paige grabbed his coat, and helped him out the door. When she got back Piper had gone.
"She's going to check once more in the book of shadows, make sure we haven't over-looked something. I'm going to try to summon her. She didn't try to hurt me when we were talking and..."
"Of course she didn't", Paige interrupted. "You in the middle of a group of people. She wouldn't attack in a crowd.
"She's not going to try to hurt us. Trust me; I'm going to go work on a spell. You do whatever it is you think needs to be done." Phoebe put up her hands and motioned for Paige to move along.
"Why is it," Paige asked herself when Phoebe had left, "That when you want something done, you gotta do it yourself? Whoa!" She staggered. "I'm beginning to sound like Barbas. She shook her head, looked around suspiciously and orbed out.
"Paige?!" Phoebe called. "Damn her, why'd she leave?" Phoebe put her hands on her hips and called for Leo.
"Leo!" He orbed in front of her.
"What is it? I'm really in the middle of something right now. Something important."
"Get Paige for me will you? She's orbed out and I don't know where she went."
"Why don't you call for her?"
"She's not going to listen to me, just do it!"
Leo closed his eyes and they stood in the hall for a while, silent and unmoving. Slowly Phoebe move her face closer and closer to Leo's, until they were almost touching nose to nose.
"What's the matter?" she said loudly, making him jump and trip over the table.
"Phoebe!"
"Sorry. Where's Paige?"
"I don't know, I can't sense her. She must be in the underworld."
"The underworld... well now I'm going to have to go get her... damn her" she said again.
"Um Phoebe, I'm not sure that's such a great idea, you see," he was about to go on when a shout came from upstairs.
"Phoebe, Paige, I found something!!!"
Phoebe looked at Leo and they simultaneously ran up the stairs, down the hall, and burst into the attic. No one was there. Phoebe rushed over to the book and looked down. She ran her finger down the center. A page had been torn out. Phoebe looked around the attic calling for Piper, and then throwing her hands up in frustration.
"Great, just great."
