Chapter 5: Together

"Get back there!" an SS officer yelled. A man in front of Piper ran to the other line. It started a whole wave of confusion. People started running this way and that. She used this opportunity to switch to the other line.

That was a close one, Piper thought to herself She continued walking into a shower room. An SS officer stripped her down. Oh no! she thought. She had heard about the shower rooms. The Jews were gassed there. She feared she was minutes from death. Everyone around her was getting wound up. They started screaming for their lives, for they also had heard stories about the gas chambers. Piper took in a deep breath. She feared it might have been her last breath.

"I'm sick of hiding," Phoebe said. "I'm going to look for my sisters."

"Are you crazy?" the lady asked. "They'll find you!"

"I can't just sit here knowing that my sisters could be alive and in need of my help. I'm going out." She opened the cabinet door. She found that she was in a small room. She didn't hear anything so she went out of the room. Outside, she saw people, being taken into cattle wagons. She tried her best to stay hidden.

"We need to find Piper and Phoebe though," Phoebe heard someone say. Down the street, she saw Paige being taken by none other than Darryl and Leo.

"We know, Paige," Leo said. "But they've probably already been taken to Auschwitz."

"I'm going to Auschwitz?" Paige asked. Phoebe couldn't believe what she was seeing.

"What are you doing?" she asked, getting out of her hiding place.

"Phoebe, will you reason with them?" Paige said.

"We'll meet up with you guys later," Leo said. "We need all three of you together, and the only way to do so is to get you guys all in the same place."

"But we could die trying to be together," Phoebe said.

"You're the Charmed Ones," Leo said. "If I know you guys, you'll make it through this with flying colors."

"I guess you're right," Phoebe said. "But what about you two?"

"We'll get ourselves assigned to stand guard in the camp, and when we're all together, we can get out of here."

"We still need to stop Mike," Paige pointed out.

"Yeah," Phoebe said. "What about that? We can't keep him here for long. We need to stop whatever he has planned."

"We'll try to find out about this guy," Darryl said. "But you guys keep together and keep each other safe." They went to the nearest cattle wagon and got in. Darryl and Leo watched the wagon go off in the distance.

Piper stood in the middle of the shower room. She waited a few minutes. Nothing happened. Then, cold water started to come out. The people around her started to cheer. This meant that it was just a normal shower. Piper started to wash herself. The water only ran for a few minutes so she didn't have much time to do so. It shut off and she was pushed out and given clothes. She was forced to another stop. A man with a razor started to shave her head. Then he tattooed a number on her arm. This was her new identity.
"This is just plain disgusting," Paige said. She and Phoebe were standing in the cart, and a man next to her was relieving himself.

"Yeah, but there isn't much they can do about it," Phoebe said.

"I can't believe something like this happened to innocent people. It's horrible."

"I know and with that demon out there, who knows what he's planning on doing with it. He could make it so that this is still around in our present time." Paige's face went blank.

"We need to stop him."

"We need to find Piper first."

Piper was sent off to work. She was assigned to help build some new building for the camp. She knew nothing about construction, but she knew if she spoke up, she would be killed. She saw load after load of Jews being dropped off and sent in. She could see the smoke from the furnace, as people were burned alive.

"Keep working!" SS officers kept yelling. Occasionally, Piper heard the sound of gunfire and the sound of a man or woman falling to the ground. Fearful for her life, she kept working no matter what, up until the night came. The SS officers released them to their quarters for a few hours of sleep. Her sleeping area consisted of a large room, filled with rows of bunk beds. Although she was tired after all the working, she couldn't sleep. She was too worried about her sisters and Leo. In the back of her mind, she couldn't help but think they were dead. After hours of thinking of them, she finally fell asleep.

She was awoken the next morning with the sound of a trumpet. SS officers came in and started pushing people and yelling at them to wake up. Piper got up and put on her uniform. Her arm still pained her from where she got the tattoo. She went outside and got back to work.

Paige and Phoebe had been careful not to be separated after they were put in the camp. They were lucky and both were sent through the left line. Afterwards, like Piper, they got a number tattooed on their arms and had their hair shaven.

"I hope back in the future," Paige said. "I still have my hair." Phoebe smiled. She was glad her sister could still keep a bright attitude even though they were in the worse place in history.

It was the crack of dawn by the time all of that was over. They wanted to sleep but they had to work. They were sent to work on some construction. They hoped they would be able to find Piper at lunch. They didn't realize it but Piper was working near them, in fact, only ten feet away. They couldn't recognize her without her hair.

"I'm tired," Paige complained.

"Keep working," Phoebe said. "If you rest, they might shoot you." Piper heard their voices and looked over at them.

"Phoebe? Paige?" she asked.

"Piper!" Phoebe yelled. She started to run over to her, but decided against it. "Piper, we need to find the demon."

"I know," she said. "How are we supposed to find him when we are stuck in this camp, and he could be anywhere out there?"

"Leo and Darryl said they'd look into it," Paige said.

"You saw Leo? Is he okay?"

"Yes," Phoebe said.

"Wait, why isn't he in the camp?"

"He's sort of…a Nazi," Paige said. Piper looked at them.

"Leo? A Nazi? Ha!"

"It's true, Piper," Phoebe said. "Him and Darryl both. They are going to meet up with us here sometime soon."

"Hope it's really soon," Piper said. "I really don't like it here."

"I don't think anyone likes it here. We better get back to work now, we'll talk to you at lunch."