A/N- Hello everyone. I'm so sorry this has taken so long but i've been working ont his other story that i got really involved in. I've not decided whether or not to post it here. Anyway, this chapter might not make a whole lot of sense to you right now, but i promise everything will become clear next chapter, even if it does take a while. Please don't give up on me and review if you like this. Have a great day, Blessed Be
Chapter Twelve- Blackout
"Hello? Hello, is anyone there? I could really use some help here." A young woman sat on the cold hard floor of a small secluded room. She struggled with the ropes that bound her wrists together on a large silver pole that ran up through the ceiling and down into the ground. It was no use, the ropes seemed to be unbreakable, and she at last gave up the fruitless grapple and took to shouting out once more. As she did she heard a voice.
"Keep yelling, I can't find you." The woman was relieved. There was somebody here. They could free her. She continued to yell, and slowly she began to hear the sound of echoing footprints. They were approaching.
"Don't stop," The voice said, and so the woman didn't.
What seemed like hours later a tall man stepped out from behind the curve in the wall. The woman immediately soaked in all of his features. Tall, different colored eyes, beautiful black hair, amazing body poorly concealed under the skintight black shirt that was visible through the open trench coat that hung down under his ankles.
"Hang on." The man took long strides towards her and seemed to glide across the damp stone. He untied the ropes and helped the grateful woman up onto her feet.
"Thank you so much, I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't found me."
"It's no problem. What's your name?" The man said. Beautiful voice, slight French accent, positively seducing.
"Um… I don't know actually. I think I knew at one time, but I can't remember anything."
"That's okay, it'll all come back to you slowly. I'm Tenzin, Saben Tenzin." Saben held out his hand, and the nameless woman took his in hers. He had a firm grip, long slender piano playing fingers, neatly manicured nails, pale skin.
"Thank you so much, I don't know how I'll be able to repay you."
"Don't thank me yet. We still have to get out of here."
"Do you know where he is?" the woman asked.
"I think so. If I don't then we're in trouble." Saben took the woman's hand and led her towards what seemed like an exit. "I think we can get out this way."
"It's so easy."
"Demon's aren't exactly known for their cleverness."
"Sorry, did you say demons?" the woman asked.
"Yes, demons. Filthy creatures that spend their time in the underworld searching after witches and others whom they can torture and kill."
"Am I a witch then?"
"Aren't you?"
"I don't know."
"Nor do I. Come though, we must leave here now before they return." Saben opened the door and the woman leapt nimbly through and into the fresh air.
"Ah, it feels so good."
"How long have you been down there?"
"Three weeks. Three weeks Phoebe, and still we can't find her." Piper paced around the room. Neither she nor Piper had been able to get a good nights rest.
"She's probably dead, the message said three days."
"No, she's not dead. I would know if she had died, you would know. They're keeping her alive, but why? Why would they keep her there and not chance an attack on us?"
"Piper, you're going to jinx us." Phoebe said. She was sitting with her hands in her head at the table in the kitchen, trying desperately to rethink everything they had done and everything they had yet to do. She couldn't. She was just too tired, too run down.
"Maybe the elders have learned something new," Phoebe suggested.
"Since yesterday? I don't think so Phoebe. Something tells me that the demons aren't going to wait much longer before Paige is diced."
"But we don't know where she is, who she's with, or what the demon wants."
"Have we tried summoning him?"
"Three times."
"Well you know what they say, fourth times the charm."
"I thought it was third."
"It's fourth if I says it's fourth." Piper snapped.
"Sorry. Alright, let's try one more time. If not then I don't know what we're going to be able to do."
"We'll think of something. Paige is counting on us, we can't give up on her."
