Chapter 5

Leo orbed to the manor and called out. "Anyone home?" He walked into the living room, glancing down at a photo of Piper, Wyatt and himself. He smiled a sad smile and moved away. "Piper? Paige? Phoebe? You guys here?" when he received no response he shrugged and sat down and waited.

Paige opened the door into the Temp Job office. "Hey Max, what have we got for today?" she said smiling at the assistant seated behind the desk.

"Not much today Paige, actually, nothing at all." He shuffled some papers and looked up at her. "Hey but I heard there's gonna be a few vacancies tomorrow if you want to come back and check."

"Right, ok I will. Thanks anyway Max." she waved as she left the office.

"No problem." He called after her. "Any-" he was cut off by the sound of the door slamming. "-time." He sighed and turned back to his computer.

Allie left the café walked down the street and turned the corner into a small alley, and she pulled her cell phone from inside her bag. She looked at the scrap of paper in one hand, and then at the phone in the other. "Oh what the hell am I getting myself into…" she sighed and dialled the number.

"Hell is the right word. It's exactly where you're going."

She turned to see the demon standing behind her, but before she could react he grabbed her and pushed her into the wall causing her to drop the cell phone.

"Get the hell away from me!"

"No witches here to save you this time." He sneered, and shimmered out with her.

Paige's faint voice could be heard through the dropped phone. "Allie? Allie is that you?"

While the demon attacked, Paige had heard almost every word of what he said. When she got no response, she hung up. "Damnit." She hurried down the street and when no one was looking, orbed out.

"Piper! Phoebe! We have a problem." She shouted when she orbed back in the manor.

"Paige!" Leo came running out of the living room. "What's wrong?"

"Cliff notes version; Demon stole the innocent. Need to find Piper and Phoebe. Can you sense them?"

Leo closed his eyes and focused. "Yeah, Phoebe's at work. Pipers at the supermarket."

"Get Piper, I'll get Phoebe, hurry!" and with that, she orbed out leaving Leo standing there, and then orbing out.

"Phoebe-" Paige began as she orbed into the office."Paige! How many times do I have to tell you? No orbing into my office!"

"No never mind that now Pheebs, the demon took Allie!"

"What? How?"

"I don't know, caught her off guard I suppose!" Paige replied throwing her hands up. "Now come on! We've got to get back to the manor." Without waiting for an answer, she grabbed Phoebes hand and orbed away.

Leo and Piper appeared in the manor just as Phoebe and Paige arrived.

"Leo? What's the-"

"Piper, the demon got Allie." Paige butted in.

"Oh, well that's just great isn't it. Now what are we going to do?"

"For starters, call Chris? I mean, he probably spent the night studying the book to find out what demon it was anyway, hence he needed the coffee this morning…" Phoebe shrugged. "Although, he probably has us on mute.."

"He what? Whitelighters can't do that! Can you imagine what dangers that could lead to? Wait until I see him -"

"Leo, so now's not the time to be all Elderly. CHRIS!" Paige shouted, and watched as a blue cloud of orbed formed into the familiar scowling face of Chris.

"What Paige?" He raised an eyebrow, then looked around seeing the three sisters, and Leo. "Uh oh…Ok, ok, look if this is about that whole demon scanning the house the other day I swear, I had a vanquishing potion ready in case he tried anything!" he pulled the best innocent face he could and looked at the sisters.

"Actually no, it's about the innocent…What the hell do you mean you had a demon scanning the house for evil? When was this?" Piper shouted at him, Chris realising he just dug himself into a hole.

"Uh never mind that now. What about the innocent?" he tried changing the subject.

"Screw the innocent-"

"Piper, argue with Mr. Neurotic later, save a life now."

"Phoebe's right, Chris the innocent got taken by the demon."

"Oh well done on 'watching over' her Paige. Real impressive!" he clapped his hands in a typical sarcastic Chris fashion. "How the hell did that happen?"

"She was on the phone to me, then from what I gather the demon appeared, grabbed her, and shimmered out."

"Didn't I tell you, you guys should have vanquished it?"

"Now is NOT the time for 'I told you so' Mister, so give us a hand here!" Chris looked at Piper, thinking he probably shouldn't get her even more pissed at him right now.

"Alright, do you have anything to scry for her with?"

"Nope, she took all her stuff with her this morning."

"Great. That's a help." He raised an eyebrow, lowering it straight away when he received a look which could kill from Piper.

"Uhm, well I'm betting he took her to the underworld right, I mean come on it is a demon after all."

"Well, I heard it say on the phone ' hell….it's exactly where your going' " Paige shrugged, getting impatient. "Come on Chris, Leo can't one of you guys try and sense her?"

"I don't even know her." Leo shrugged and turned expectantly at Chris.

"And I do?" rolling his eyes and crossing his arms.

"She threw a lamp at you, you got pissed off." Phoebe stated. "You know her. Now orbs your ass down to the underworld and try and sense her Mister."

"Nice Phoebe, real nice. Paige did you make the vanquishing potion? And besides it's not my fault, you guys lost her, I thought you needed to 'guide her'. I wouldn't give up the day job anytime soon."

With that, the three sisters and Leo glared at him. "Right…let's get going then shall we..?" And with that all 5 of them orbed out.