Chapter 9

After carefully planning out their attack on the family of demon whitelighters, the girls gathered the potions and necessary weapons before heading off to battle. All the while Paige sat on the couch paler then usual and wheezing horribly. Prue walked over to her sister and tried to give the girl some words of comfort.

"Just hold on Paige, we're going to whatever we have to, to take away your pain, I promise. You just have to fight the poison off just a little longer."

It was then that Piper called for Leo to help the girls orb to the mansion since Paige was in no condition to do so.

"LEO!" Piper called as she stuck an athame into the loop on her jeans. After a minute or two the whitelighter orbed in.

"Are you guys ready to do this?" he questioned.

"As ready as we can possibly be." Piper responded. Looking around the attic Phoebe had the strangest feeling that something was terribly wrong.

"Give me one second so I can get Justin to stay with Paige" she said as she headed out of the attic. The women spent a good twenty minutes running through the house trying to find her husband, to no avail. "JUSTIN!" she shouted as she made her way into the manor's kitchen. Not being able to find him anywhere caused Phoebe to become filled with panic. Something inside her knew that her husband was in trouble and it had something to do with their current enemy.

The second she hit the attic she hysterically informed her sisters about the disappearance of the man. "Honey are you sure that he didn't just go out to the store or something?" Prue said as she tried to calm her sister down.

"No Prue, he always lets me know when he's going out. He's in danger, I can feel it."

"Ok, ok, umm Leo can you try and see if you can sense him?" Piper asked. Closing his eyes Leo tried to locate the man, which unfortunately he couldn't. While the sisters pondered Justin's whereabouts an uninvited guest sat ease dropping and taking in every word with amusement.

"Dumb withes" he said to himself. It had almost been too easy to snatch the man from the witches. He hoped that killing them would be just as easy once he was able to get the information back to his family.

"I swear I will make those sons of bitches pay if they hurt one hair on my husbands head" Phoebe finished as the girls looked on helplessly they were determined now more then ever to take out the clan.

"Time is of the essence especially since they now have Justin" Prue spoke

"So what's next?" Phoebe questioned, all too anxious to kick some ass.

"Well for starters we can't leave Paige alone, so I'm going to have to write a spell while Leo stays here with her." Turning to the whitelighter she added "Go get the crystals so we can put you and Paige in a protective cage."

The man instantly obeyed. Giving the girls a weak smile Paige found her voice and spoke weakly "I'll be fine, you guys are going to need Leo in case one of you gets hurt."

"No Paige, we are not leaving you alone. Besides if something does happen the other two can help the third. Where as if something happens to you while you're here by yourself." Piper stopped not really wanting to continue "you'll die"

"Ok, I've got the spell" Prue said as she stood next to Phoebe and Piper. After securing the crystal cage, the girls stood together once again ready to go. It was then that their spy decided to make his presence known.

"I think I have what you're looking for" he said as he took a cautious step forward.

"Great" Piper said "Just great"