Chapter Two

Paige looked crest-fallen when she heard the news about Leo getting in contact with the sister that she had replaced. Phoebe looked pale and shocked. Piper was holding hands with both of her sisters when she told them of what Leo had told her. He was standing in a different room when Piper told them the news as he knew Piper would want to tell the sisters on her own without him interrupting with an extra piece of information; as he usually did.

"So…what do we do?" Paige asked, "If you really think that a change in a Charmed One could be terrible then…we need to do something about it right?" Piper nodded and Phoebe smiled,

"You know, it's funny isn't it? Prue would know how to sort this out in an instance, remember…all those times…" she stopped when she realised that, of course, Paige wouldn't remember.

"Well, we need to work together." Piper said firmly, allowing the situation to involve Paige, who she could imagine would feel left out by the fact that they were getting in to contact with a ghost of her half sister that she had never met. "Leo!" Piper called and in an instant Leo appeared in the door, "We need to work together on this one agreed, you included seeing as you are the one that can hear her and we can't."
Can you hear her now?"

Leo shook his head,

"She's been quiet for a while know, I haven't heard her sing since late last night."

"Why is it you she's trying to contact?" said Paige sharply, "I mean, no offence, but surely a sister, or at least a Charmed One would understand more what she was talking about, it seems like by communicating to you and not any of us she's stalling us because we have to work out every little clue she's giving us."

"Good point," Piper said quickly, turning to Paige, "but what makes you think she's leaving clues?"

"I don't know, just a feeling I think, why would a ghost want to change…how is it possible even?"

"I…" but Piper couldn't answer but instead looked to Leo for advice. He shrugged and then suddenly out of the blue he started to sing.

"I am the son, I am the heir, I am human and I want to be free, just like everybody else," and then as quick as he started singing he stopped and instead fell to the floor.

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"Leo?"

"He's opening his eyes,"

"Don't ever do that again!"

"Leo, are you okay honey?"

Leo pulled himself up from his position which was sprawled on the floor. He put one hand on his head and pulled his other away from Piper's hand to put it on the floor to steady himself.

"What…what happened?"

"You started singing a song and then you just collapsed."

"What song?"

"The Celtic one, the one that Prue used to sing, the tune was the same only the words, they were sad, they have been changed, she's changed them and she's sad," Phoebe said. She stood up from her position, which was crouched on the floor by Leo's side. Paige was already standing and Piper helped Leo get to his feet and then sit on a sofa, and steadied him as he nearly fell over on his way there.

"It was horrible," Leo said as he sat down, "I felt so sad, and trapped, I don't remember singing but I remember feeling like I was being dragged down and suffocating."

"Prue?" The three sisters looked at each other; Leo shook his head though to dismiss the option that he was possessed for a short moment by Prue.

"No, whenever I hear Prue I am filled with a warm feeling, this was the opposite of that feeling." He put his hand to his head again as though he could still feel the dread that had come over him while he sang.

The three sisters left Leo alone in the lounge to recover to his usual self while they discussed their options.

"We need to contact her," Paige said, "It was no coincidence that Leo should sing the song that Prue has been singing to him, I'll tell you that much."

"Perhaps, but if it wasn't Prue singing through Leo then it was someone else and we need to work out who that was before we try and help Leo right? What if it's a demon trying to destroy Leo from the inside out?" Phoebe suggested,

"Leo's normal now, he's mortal now?" Piper said, dismissing the idea,

"Yes but…what if they aren't trying to get at Leo then and they are trying to get to us in a really longwinded way? They've started with Prue and now they are going to get to Leo?" Phoebe tried again; she was full of idea's that would worry her until Piper dismissed them because generally, as far as Phoebe was concerned, Piper was rarely wrong.

There was a pause.

"Well if that's the case, we need to do something now." Piper said.

Phoebe sighed deeply and nodded, Piper looked at Paige who simply nodded slightly and looked a little worried. There was no point in asking why someone would want to get at them because that was obvious; they were the Charmed One's. It was part of the package, you become charmed and you get people that generally want to get at you or kill you or destroy your family.

Though this was a more unusual way of getting at the sisters it was still a way and the sisters had to do something about it.

It would upset Piper the most; she cared about family the most. Perhaps they will get to my sons as well, they are so young and innocent but anyone can be manipulated. What if this demon is only trying to get at me and next will be Phoebe and Paige? I don't know if I could cope without them as well as my husband and my sons. I'll be all alone…