A/N: Hey sorry this took me a little longer than excepted but I've been busy.
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Charmed Fan (Well I did tell you I was suffering from writers block at the time, sorry!)
Calen (Sorry if I confused you, yes Seth gave Piper a potion that is making her disappear, and you'll find out soonish what the potion is exactly, and oh you asked where Piper was, well she disappeared again and she is just about to reappear, hope that helped!)
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Anna Pallaria (yeah I can get carried away with my cliff-hangers, sorry bout that! Since you were dying to know what happened next I updated cause I don't want to kill anyone with my suspense lol! Hope this doesn't disappoint!)
Anyway the story...
Chapter 12
After throwing the potions Seth smoked out, leaving the two sisters bewildered and alone in Casie's bedroom.
"Ok what just happened?" Paige asked as she surveyed the remnants of the broken potion vial at her feet.
"I have no clue." Phoebe replied.
"Let's just get out of here, and check to see if he's in the Book of Shadows." Paige suggested as she made her way to the door.
"Yeah." Phoebe said, but as she started walking her vision seemed to cloud, it was almost like someone was slowly turning off a dimmer switch in the room.
"Err...Paige did it suddenly get darker in here?" Phoebe asked as she fumbled around the bed making her way to the door, but she received no reply. "Paige?"
Phoebe's vision was blurred, she could barely make out anything but she was fairly certain that Paige was no longer in the room. To the best of her ability Phoebe followed her sister.
Meanwhile Paige had made her way downstairs, when she arrived in the hallway she saw this little girl run right past her into the living room.
"Hey." Paige called as she ran after the girl.
Paige found the child cuddled up on the sofa crying, she couldn't be more that three or four years old.
"Hey, it's ok." Paige said as she inched closer to the girl not wanting to scare her. "What's wrong sweetie?"
The small girl looked up to Paige through red puffy eyes, her curly blonde hair hung around her face as tears slid down her cheeks.
"It's ok I'm not going to hurt you." Before Paige could get any closer a loud bang could be heard from the hallway, shortly followed by Phoebe cursing loudly.
Paige rushed to her sister, fearing the demon had returned, but all she found was Phoebe pushing herself to her feet at the foot of the stairs.
"What happened?"
"I tripped, and fell down a few stairs." Phoebe replied as she brushed herself off.
"You ok..." Paige trailed off as the small girl tugged on her jeans.
"Help me." The child whispered.
Paige was about to answer when Phoebe shouted out in pain.
"You ok?" Paige asked again as Phoebe proceeded to hop on one foot after stubbing her toe on the banister.
"No." Phoebe whined.
Paige turned back to the child but she was no longer there. "Phoebe did you see where the girl went?"
"What girl?"
"The little girl that was just here, didn't you see her?" Paige asked sceptically as she raised one eyebrow.
"Paige that seems to be the problem because I can't see ANYTHING!" Phoebe insisted.
"Huh?" Paige looked over at her sister just in time to see Phoebe stumble forwards and walk straight into one of the many boxes that littered the hallway.
"Oww." Phoebe whisper as she put her hands down to feel the box she had just walked into.
"Oh my god you're blind!" Paige exclaimed.
"Glad we're on the same page." Phoebe replied sarcastically.
Paige rushed over and gently guided her sister around the boxes. "How'd that happen?"
"Well I was thinking the potion."
"Yeah you're probably right, but how come I'm not blind too?" Paige asked.
"I couldn't tell you." Phoebe replied as she leaned into Paige, depending solely on her sister to guide her. "Who were you talking to?"
"There was this little girl, where'd she go?" Paige asked although she wasn't really expecting Phoebe to know the answer in her current condition, she let go of Phoebe to search the living room for the child.
"A little girl? But we already searched the house and no one was here." Phoebe said in the direction she assumed Paige had gone.
"But she was right here." Paige insisted as she wandered around the ground floor of Casie's house, but she found no trace of the girl.
"Maybe you were imaging things?" Phoebe suggested as she flayed her arms out trying to guide herself to the door without bumping into anything else, but her attempts were unsuccessful in the strange environment and her shoulder collided with the doorframe of the living room.
Phoebe silently cursed under her breath, rubbing her soon to be bruised shoulder. "Paige where the hell are you?"
"I'm here." Paige said as she placed an arm around her sister. "I can't find her anywhere."
Paige was so confused, the girl had just been there, and then she seemed to have just vanished out of thin air. The girl had asked for her help, but now Paige couldn't even find her, some help she was.
"Well we can come back and look for her when I can actually see, and help you look."
"Yeah you're right."
With that Paige orbed them both back to the manor attic, where she led Phoebe to the sofa.
"Leo?" Paige called.
Meanwhile at the hospital...
Leo was sitting in a chair beside the bed almost asleep when Piper reappeared.
"Oh god not again, this is getting ridiculous!" Piper exclaimed when she realised she had just lost another chunk of her life.
Leo jumped up from his chair.
"Ok Piper calm down, do you think you can do that, do you think you can stay calm?" Leo asked as he directed Piper into the chair he had just vacated.
Piper raised her eyebrows. "Ok...what's going on?"
"Well your sisters figured out what's causing you to disappear."
"And?" Piper probed.
"They figured out that it happens whenever you suffer an extreme emotion."
"Ok." Piper said as she let this new information sink in. Thinking about it, it did make sense to her now; every time she had vanished she was either, really scared, or happy or sad.
"Ok so you have to stay calm."
"Easier said than done." Piper replied, but she looked over at Chris with a sleeping Wyatt curled up beside him and knew they needed her now, she was their mother and it was her job to protect them and she couldn't very well do that if she was vanishing into thin air every five seconds.
Turning back to Leo, she took a deep breath. "I'll do anything."
"Good cause Paige is calling me, so I'll be right back." Leo kissed Piper on the cheek and disappeared in a shower of orbs.
"Ok, calm." Piper said to herself. "I can do that!"
Piper took in a deep breath, letting it out slowly. She remembered back to when her powers had advanced so she could blow things up, she had panicked blowing up most of the kitchen in the process, and Leo had tried to get her to relax by meditating. It had been a while, but Piper was going to stick to her words and do anything, she closed her eyes, took in another deep breath, and slowly cleared her mind of everything.
Piper solitude was quickly shattered when Leo orbed in with Phoebe and Paige.
"Why can't you heal her?" Paige asked, as she placed her hands on her hips.
"I don't know, there must have been something in that potion." Leo replied as he directed Phoebe into the chair beside Piper, who still had her eyes closed.
"Piper what ya doing?" Paige questioned, causing Piper to open her eyes and glare at her sister.
"Meditating." Piper simply stated which caused Paige to giggle. "Hey I'm trying to stay calm, so I don't go poof again!"
"Good plan." Paige said.
"What were you guys talking about, who won't heal?" Piper asked.
"Err...that would be me, we had a little run in with a demon and I'm now blind."
"What?" Piper cried.
"What happened to staying calm?" Paige asked sceptically.
Piper ignored her and turned to Phoebe. "Blind? How did that happen?"
"Well we were in Casie's house..."
"Why were you in Casie's house?" Piper interrupted.
"Maybe you should start at the beginning." Leo suggested.
"Ok then, after you disappeared Leo went to get coffee and found out Casie's in a coma, and that her soul is missing too." Phoebe said.
"Ok." Piper replied, trying her hardest not to panic.
"So Paige and I went to her house to find out what we can about her that could help us find her and Chris, Piper you should seriously see the place, she hardly has any stuff, and what she does have is all in boxes."
"But she moved in like two or three months ago." Piper said, how could anyone not have unpacked after that length of time?
"Yeah I know. Anyway I found this picture in her room and I got a premonition, it was about her mother, she died when Casie was about three." Phoebe said. "Then this guy appeared and threw a potion at me and one at Paige, then he just disappeared in a puff of green smoke."
"Well at least you saw the demon, was he in the Book of Shadows?"
"Wait Piper it gets better, the demon, I have seen him before, he one of your bartenders."
"What?" Piper and Leo both exclaimed in unison.
"What did he look like?" Piper questioned.
"Well he was average height and build, he had short black spiky hair..." Phoebe described, trying to remember his face, when all she could see now was endless black.
"Seth, yeah it's gotta be Seth." Piper replied as she thought of all of her male bartenders, Seth definitely fitted Phoebe's description best.
"Ok now we know who this guy is, how do we find him, and Chris and Casie?" Phoebe asked. "Plus I would like to see again, sometime soon preferably."
"You could check out his locker at P3, see if you could find any clues on how to find him." Leo suggested.
"Yeah." Piper agreed.
Paige, who had remained silent while Phoebe had filled in Piper, was leaning on the doorframe when she saw the little girl from Casie's house run past the door and down the corridor. Paige opened the door to see if it really was the girl, or if it was someone else.
The girl stopped and turned to face Paige. "Help me." She said before she turned and continued to run down the corridor.
"Wait." Paige called as she ran in pursuit of the child.
Meanwhile in the underworld...
Chris had grown more frustrated since Seth had left. He couldn't help but fear the worst, that Seth could be killing his aunts at this very moment, and what bothered Chris the most was that he was powerless to do anything about it.
"God I need to get out of here!" Chris shouted as he punched his glass cage, but as usually his blows had no effect.
"Yeah so do I but I think we have figured out that pummelling the glass isn't going to help!" Casie snapped as she ran her hands through her blonde curly hair.
"Well I don't see you coming up with any plans." Chris shot back as he began to pace.
"I should have just let you die and then none of this would have ever happened!" Casie screamed but quickly regretted it when a look of sadness flashed across Chris face. "I'm sorry I didn't mean that."
"You're right, you are in this mess because of me and I'm sorry." Chris said.
"Well if I die I'm so haunting your ass!" Casie joked.
"You're not going to die, I promise you I won't let you die." Chris said sincerely.
"Thanks." Casie replied, although she had only meet this guy yesterday she felt safe with him, and she truly believed his words when he said he would protect her.
Seth smoked into the cavern cutting short their conversation.
"Miss me?" Seth mocked.
"What did you do to Phoebe and Paige?" Chris demanded.
"They're alive, no sense in me killing them yet. But thanks to me they won't be getting in my way again." Seth smiled, almost as if he was pleased with himself.
Chris couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, they were alive, and this would hopefully give him enough time to get out of here. But a small voice in the back of his head kept saying 'you haven't come up with a way to get out yet, so what makes you think you can get out?' But Chris refused to admit defeat, he would find some way even if it killed him, he had to warn his family about Seth and he had to save Casie, she was his innocent after all.
Casie took a few steps forward, although her fear was still present her curiosity got the better of her. "Why do you need me? I'm nobody."
Seth laughed at her comment. "Oh but you are someone my dear, someone very important and because of you my curse shall be lifted tonight."
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See this is the part where you all say 'Ahh so that's why she called her story cursed!' As you can see there is method to my madness! I would like to add this whole Phoebe going blind plot I have had in my head for weeks and then suddenly a few stories appeared with a similar thing, so yeah sorry I'm not coping anyone, really! Sorry there wasn't much Chris and Casie in this chapter, will be more coming up I promise, I just kinda got side-tracked with the whole Phoebe and Paige thing...this chapter is slightly longer, hope you liked! Oh and I would like to add, wow 12 chapters this is the longest fan fiction I have ever wrote!! Ok I realised I have rambled on a bit so I will leave you with the usual beg of 'please review'!