Chapter Four

Ah the trusty Book of Shadows, thought Phoebe as she flicked through the big book trying to find out anything and everything that she could that would possibly help her and her sisters try and find out what was going on, because in reality even though they might have taken some guesses, they had no idea what was going on.

Paige was down stairs talking to Piper about what she had told Phoebe in the night and any moment she expected Piper to come up stairs and ask Phoebe if anything had happened to her that she was keeping secret. And she did. Phoebe stood up and closed the book just as Piper appeared at the doorway.

"Phoebe, tell me the truth," Piper said and she walked up to her sister.

"Piper, nothing has happened to me yet and I won't let anything happen." Phoebe pulled Piper closer to her and gave her a hug. Phoebe's mind was then shocked with a horrible and searing pain and she could see Piper holding a knife over Leo's body, crying and Chris was standing in the corner with Wyatt.

"Phoebe! Phoebe!" Piper cried and she lowered her sister to the floor, "Phoebe what did you see." Phoebe looked at Piper with tears in her eyes.

"A vision of the future, you are going to kill Leo." Piper shook her head and stood up and turned with her back against the wall. She shook her head again and put her hands to her mouth.

"You're wrong."

"You know as well as I do that I'm not. I don't make up visions." Phoebe stood up and walked over to Piper, scared to touch her. Pier turned and looked at Phoebe.

"Kill Leo?"

"In front of your sons." Piper slumped down to the ground and hid her face with her hands and her long brown hair.

This is what I was afraid of, my sons and my husband, Leo is going to get hurt and there is nothing that I can do. I'm going to kill him. My sons are going to see and they are going to think that I'm a bad mother and they are going to hate me forever. What did I do to deserve this?

Phoebe stroked her sister's hair gently and Paige orbed in to the room.

"What the-?" Phoebe explained as quickly as she could without getting Piper more and more upset.

"Well, it can't be so bad, now that you know what you were going to do there must be a way you can stop it?" Paige said with a smile. "Right?" Phoebe nodded.

"I must have seen this vision for a reason? There must be something we can do to stop it because we know what's going to happen. We just need to work out when."

Phoebe spent the next few hours trying to recall as must of her vision as possible. She could see Piper standing over Leo's body holding a kitchen knife, Chris and Wyatt were standing in the far corner of the room, behind a sofa. So they are in the lounge. Phoebe tried to look around her vision as opposed to looking at what she was meant to be looking at. The shadows in the room were small and facing the eat wall of the house. So it's in the evening. But what day? Phoebe closed her eyes and trying to physically make herself have the vision again. She could see more than she did the time before. She could see the patterns on the walls. She could hear Wyatt crying and even hear Leo snoring softly. Then she turned and looked at Piper and tried to call her sisters name. Piper couldn't hear her. Phoebe turned around and looked at Wyatt and Chris. Wyatt was crying and calling out for his mum to stop what she was doing but Chris was muttering to himself. Phoebe looked a little closer and saw that there was a black fog over Chris' head.

She came back to reality gasping for air.

"Phoebe?" Paige caught Phoebe before she fell off the end of her bed. "What happened?"

"My powers, they've just grown. I can now go back in to a vision to see more of what I've missed."

"That's great, isn't it?"

"Yes it is. But now I know that Chris is in trouble."

"What?"

"Leo is going to become possessed and just before Piper tried to rid Leo's body of the demon…" Phoebe paused. It was all clear now, her vision actually made sense and what she thought was Piper killing Leo was actually Piper trying to save him. "Piper is going to use a charm to draw the demon away from Leo's body but she's going to be too late and the demon is going to transfer in to Chris' body. He's going to be in more danger because he's more manipulative than a grown man. And because Chris already has some powers we could all be in danger."

"You got all this from your vision?" Phoebe nodded. "Cool."

"We have to tell Piper."

Piper looked extremely relieved. So I'm not going to kill Leo, after all.

The Charmed Ones knew what they had to do because they knew now what the problem was. Leo was being possessed by an evil spirit and all the girls had to do was a simple spell that would rid Leo and hopefully the world of the spell as they would send it to another time.

"There's no time like now to do it then," Piper said and she picked up a kitchen knife. "Phoebe you are amazing. I'm impressed you knew that a stray soul would come out of someone's body if it felt that the body it inhabited was in danger." Phoebe just shrugged off the comment.

"Let's kick this spirits butt."

The three of them walked in to the lounge where Leo was laying. He had been watching day time TV and understandably had fallen asleep. Chris and Wyatt were standing in the corner of the room as they were playing a game of 'tag.' They both looked highly confused when their mum and aunts walked in holding a knife and two bottle of purple liquid. They stood up and held each other. Piper held the knife over Leo's chest.

"The evil ghost which in here lies, us three the charmed we do despise, we rid you now to go away, to another world and another day." Piper then dropped the knife so as it fell only millimetres away from Leo's chest and then she froze the knife where it was. As expected the ghost flew out of Leo's body and dived for the next.

"Chris duck!" Piper shouted and both her sons ducked down allowing Phoebe and Paige threw their small vials of purple banishing potion. The spirit looked directly at Chris and pointed at him and screamed "You are the son, you are the heir." And then he vanished completely.

"Who was that?" Paige asked.

"Chris, baby are you ok?" Phoebe turned and looked at Chris while Piper gently woke Leo up who was unaware that the whole thing had taken place.

My son is the heir…the heir to what? What does Prue know?