Chapter 1

Their night was fantastic. Phoebe, Prue, Piper and Justin couldn't remember when they have had more fun. They started their evening off with the a trip to the movies followed by a fabulous dinner at the hottest café in town, only to end the night with drinks at P3 or as it's called now P4, and listening to a awesome performance by Nickelback. As the foursome exited Piper's jeep they noticed Paige's car. Unfortunately she had to work late so they had to deal without the life of the party for one night. The group continued their talking and laughing about the events of the week and the inconsistency's of the film that they had just watched. Once they reached the door, their laughter abruptly ended when they heard Paige's cry for help.

Prue immediately pulled out her keys trying to quickly open the door.

"Hurry Prue!" Piper shouted at the oldest Halliwell.

"I'm trying!" she snapped back before using her telekinesis to unlock the door.

Rushing in the girls scanned the room for any sight of their sister. Not finding any, Piper ran towards the dinning room with her sisters and brother in law hot on her heels. Seeing the unconscious girl

"Paige!" she cried before kneeling down beside her. The others gasped at the sight of the wounded girl. Sensing that no one really wanted to check for a pulse Justin took it upon himself to see if the she was still alive. Feeling along the girl's wrist Justin found one.

"She's still alive, I can feel her pulse, but it's very weak" Justin spoke.

"Oh thank God" Phoebe responded.

Thinking quickly Piper called out "LEO! Get your ass down here, NOW". Leo was Piper's new boyfriend and the girl's whitelighter. They met him about eight months ago when the girls tried to cast a healing spell for an injured Piper. But instead of healing the woman it summand the angel. It was love at first sight for both and they've been joined at the hip every since, except for tonight that is. He had a meeting with the ever useless Elders that just couldn't wait.

Before Piper could yell out again Leo arrived. "Sorry I was still in..." but before he could finish Prue interrupted.

"No time for that, heal Paige now" she said as she kneed down next to the girl taking her hand in her own. Everyone held their breath while Leo allowed the golden glow to close Paige's wound. After about two minutes the sisters started to panic.

"Why isn't she healing Leo?" Phoebe asked as she held on to Justin's hand for dear life. Seeing the tears in her sister's face Piper moved over to Prue, knowing that her mind would be flashing back to the day of Paige's accident two years ago.

"She is it's just taking longer because she was almost completely gone before I got here." After a few more moments the girl began to stir.

"She's coming around" Prue spoke in a shaky voice. Soon the girl was sitting up and looking around trying to shake away the dizziness.

"Oh sweetie, I'm so glad you're ok" Prue said wrapping her hands around the girl only to be joined by Piper then Phoebe.

"Yeah barely" the girl responded.

"What happened?" questioned Piper as she brushed the hair out of the girl's face.

"Well I came home and called for you guys, but no one came. Then I went into the fridge to get something to eat when I felt as if someone was watching me. I turned around and Justin or what I thought was Justin was standing behind me. I told him that he scared me but he didn't respond. That's when I saw the scar on his face. I asked what happened when I didn't receive an answer again I realized that something wasn't right. At that point the demon conjured an athame and tried to stab me. I called for a knife and threw it at him, but he dogged it. I ran around the corner and he was right behind me so I called for the grandfather clock and hit him with it. That's when I heard you guys outside and I yelled to you for help. I guess he must have had enough time to recover."

"Did he have any distinctive marks?" Phoebe asked handing her sister a glass of water.

"No, just the scar, that's all I can remember since everything happened so fast"

"Ok, so we know that the demon has a scar and that's he's obviously a shape shifter."

"Alright guys we need to check the book and find out all we can about this demon and then vanquish his ass." Piper spoke as she made her way to her feet.

"I couldn't agree with you more" added the eldest charmed one as she now stood by her sister.

"What do you say Paige do you have it in you to kick some serious demon ass with your sisters"

"You're damn right I do; oh I need to grab the athame from the kitchen so we can use it to scry for him." Paige said before rushing off.

Once she returned Prue was at the bottom of the stairs waiting for her, not wanting to leave the girl alone again. I knew I should have stayed home, she scolded herself. Paige's voice broke her thoughts. Seeing the woman standing waiting for her

"Ok, shadow" she said giving her sister a playful look. "Let's go get him."

Watching the younger girl make her way up the stairs Prue thought to herself once more. For trying to hurt you, he's going pay. And she would make sure that it would be a slow and painful death.