Chapter 6: The Selection

"Have you guys seen Leo or Darryl yet?" Phoebe asked, approaching her sisters at the lunch table they were sitting at.

"No," Paige said, lifting a spoonful of green goop and watching it fall back onto her plate. She pushed her plate away. "I'm suddenly not hungry."

"As horrible as it is," Piper said. "You need to eat. If they do a selection and you're not fit and healthy, you'll be sent to the gas chambers."

"Maybe a little bit then," Paige said, pulling her plate back in front of her and forcing herself to swallow the globs. Suddenly two SS officers walked into the room. It was Darryl and Leo. They searched the place, and walked over to the sisters. They slowed down when they got to them, but still kept walking.

"Meet us behind Z134 at midnight," Leo said.

"We'll make sure there are no guards watching as you go," Darryl added in.

"How was that for conversation," Paige said.

"They can't be seen talking to us," Phoebe said.

"I know," Paige said. "Where's Z134 anyways?"

"It's across the camp from where your guys' quarters are," Piper said. "It's a few buildings down from mine. I'll watch for you guys and I'll accompany you to the place."

"It's a date." They finished their lunch in silence and went back to their construction.

"Paige," Phoebe whispered. Paige was sound asleep. Phoebe started poking her. "Paige!" she whispered firmly, yet still quietly. Paige groggily opened her eyes. Suddenly she remembered where she was.

"Oh yeah," she said. "Forgot about tonight." Phoebe rolled her eyes.

"Let's go." They slowly crept out of the building. Even though Darryl had said no officers would be there, they were still fearful of running into one.

"It doesn't look like there are any around," Paige said.

"Yeah, but look at the watchtower," Phoebe said. There was a spotlight pointing down and two men watching over the camp. "We'll have to walk around the back of the buildings."

"Okay," Paige said. They crept slowly and silently in the darkness. They jumped at every shadow that they saw. "Sure wish I could orb."

"Yeah, I wish you could too." They got to the other side of camp and saw someone standing up ahead. "Oh no," Phoebe said. "Someone's up there." They slowly approached the person. It turned out it was Piper.

"Let's go," Piper said. They continued on to Z134. Piper had been right. It wasn't far from her quarters. "There it is," she said, pointing to a building, which was identical to any other one. They saw two men standing behind the building and thought it was Leo and Darryl.

"What are you three doing?" one of the men yelled.

"Oh my god!" Phoebe exclaimed. "It's not them." They had their guns pointed at the sisters. Then Leo and Darryl jumped out and knocked them out.

"Leo," Piper said. She ran over to him and gave him a long kiss.

"What do we do about these two?" Paige asked.

"Let us take care of that," Leo said. "About this Mike person. It appears that he's become pretty close to the leader of this camp. He's closer than he seems. He also knows that you three are here."

"What? How?" Phoebe asked.

"Why hasn't he had us killed yet?" Paige asked.

"He tried getting Piper killed when she first got here," Darryl said.

"He was the one that pushed you into the right lane," Leo said. "Also, tomorrow there's going to be a selection, where they pick out all the unhealthy ones and kill them. He's planning on taking you guys out then."

"How do you know all this?" Piper asked.

"Never you mind that."

"How do we stop him?" Phoebe asked.

"And what exactly are his plans?" Paige asked.

"Well if you've ever heard of Oskar Schindler," Leo said. "He's planning on killing him so that he never creates a factory and saves thousands of Jews."

"Why does this demon care about so many Jews from the past?" Piper asked.

"I'm not certain," Leo said. "But it could be because to stop the ancestors of some of his enemies."

"And how do we stop him?"

"Well, he like you, has no powers in this time. I guess we can take care of that. Once we do, we'll meet with you guys again and we can get out of here."

"What about the selection?" Paige asked. "Can you kill him before then?" Leo and Darryl looked at one another.

"No," Leo finally said. "You guys have to find a way to get out of that part." Piper looked at him.

"What do you mean we have to find a way out of that part? What do you expect us to do? We have no powers. He knows who we are. We don't know who he is. He has a little bit of the upper hand here."

"Piper, I know this is rough, but you have to make it through that. We can't get to him, without getting ourselves exposed, until after the selection. We have the time planned to meet him. Now you three get back to bed. Think about a way to get out of this. We need to go back before any one notices that we are missing too." He gave Piper one last kiss. "Go now." Phoebe and Paige had to literally pull their older sister with them.

"What can we do?" Paige asked Phoebe, once back in their bunks.

"What if we take out the demon ourselves?"

"Right in front of everyone? No, that's crazy. We'd get killed."

"Yeah, you're right." Phoebe rested her head on her pillow. "I guess we're going to have to let this all play out."

"Come on!" SS officers woke them up with their yelling. They were forced to strip down and go outside.

"Well, let's go, Paige," Phoebe said. They ran out to join the others. They were forced to run in a large circle around doctors and SS officers. The doctors would point people out and the SS officers would get them and gather them up. Paige and Phoebe met up with Piper and they ran around the track together. They could see a man smiling at them. They knew that was him, that was the demon.

"Any plans would be well appreciated right now," Piper said.

"Sorry, we've drawn up a blank," Phoebe said. Three SS officers ran out and grabbed each of the sisters. They were taken in front of Mike. He motioned for the SS officers to leave them.

"So, we meet at last," he said to them. "Are these truly the all powerful Charmed Ones? HA! You're nothing but dirty, naked, pathetic, girls. No powers, no nothing."

"You don't have powers either," Paige said.

"I don't need demonic power, I have all the political power I need. I'm this camp's runner's right-hand man. And it's enough to have you three killed." The sisters looked at each other.

"Well there's still one thing you don't have that we still do," Piper said.

"Oh, and what's that?"

"Each other." The sisters ran at him and pushed him down. Once he was down, they ran towards the gate.

"Guards!" Mike yelled. They could hear the shots firing and hitting right behind them. They kept running.

"Great plan, Piper," Paige said sarcastically.

"Well, it gave us time didn't it?" Piper said in her defense.

"To do what? Run endlessly to be cornered into a gate?" Piper knew Paige had a point.

"There's no turning back now," Phoebe said. They got to the front gate. It started to open. "Huh?" They looked up at the watchtower. Darryl was standing up there. "You guys keep going," Phoebe said.

"What are you doing?" Paige asked.

"We still need to help Darryl." She ran for the watchtower. SS officers weren't only shooting at the Charmed Ones now, they were shooting at Darryl. Paige and Piper kept going.

"Phoebe what are you doing?" Darryl asked once Phoebe had gotten up to him.

"Saving your ass," she said.

"Listen, you go," Darryl said.

"Not without you. Let's go now!" SS officers were getting closer to them. Together they ran down the tower stairs. The stepped out to see that they were surrounded. Mike stepped up.

"I may not have all three of you, but one of you dead is enough to destroy the Charmed Ones."