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Chapter 13

"Curse?" Casie asked confusion written all over her face.

"Yes curse." Seth repeated slowly mocking Casie.

"They actually exist?"

"Yes of course they do." Seth replied in a tired tone.

"What type of curse?" Chris asked, he was glad that he was getting some answers and that some of this scenario was finally making sense.

Seth stared at Chris for a moment, he knew that Chris was just trying to get as much information as he could, but he saw no harm in telling them a little, since there was no chance of them escaping the cage and he had successfully distracted every member of his family, so no harm could be done.

"A witch cursed me into this body." Seth sneered at the memory all those years ago. "I am forced to live out my existence with only a fraction of my power and to face the mortality of this weak body. But not for long, soon I shall be free."

Chris didn't like the sound of this, Seth had already showed a decent amount of power, and if he were telling the truth – which in all fairness not many demons did – then Seth was truly a force to be reckoned with.

Chris decided to go further since Seth seemed to be in the mood to share. "What do you need us for exactly?"

Seth walked up to the glass cage and tapped on it, pointing at Casie. "That little witch is going to lift the curse for me!"

"Me? Why Me? What can I do? Are you even sure I'm a witch? I mean I have never done anything magical in my entire life I have no special powers! So I might not be a witch, how can you really tell you know it's not like I have witch tattooed on my forehead. So maybe somebody got it wrong, maybe you got the wrong girl." Casie babbled on, she then noticed Chris was trying to suppress a smile and she realised she had started to ramble; she always did it without noticing when she was scared. It was another one of her trademarks, when she was nervous she cracked jokes, but when she was frightened she rambled on about nothing.

"Sorry." She added quietly as she pressed herself against the farthest wall on her prison, the more distance between Seth and herself the slightly better she felt.

Seth rolled his eyes, almost as if he was dealing with a five-year-old that didn't understand that she couldn't have her cookie until after dinner.

"The reason being that your powers were bound, and if I'm not mistaken, which I rarely am, this is the eve of your twenty-first birthday. The day you receive your powers." Seth told her.

Chris didn't even have to look at Casie for confirmation as she let out a small gasp. At least it explained why she never knew she was a witch, it was like when his mother and aunts only found out about their heritage when Phoebe had read the spell from the Book of Shadows and unbound their powers.

Seth was pleased he got the reaction he did out of Casie, smiling to himself he decided to taunt her further, as it was so much fun.

"What your little mommy didn't tell you about it, aww what a shame."

Casie stiffened at his comment about her mother, she had been murdered when she was little and she had never really gotten over it, even now nearly eighteen years later.

"Don't you dare talk about my mother!" Casie hissed at him, no one ever did that; Casie was very protective of her mother's memory, since it was all she had left.

After she had died Casie had been shifted around from town to town, city to city, foster home to foster home until she was sixteen when she had had enough and had ran off, changing her last name from Scott to Winters, and from then on that was her, living only a couple of months in each city, never making friends so she didn't get to attached.

Casie had always lived with the haunting memory of her mother's death and to her moving on, meant moving on to the next city, she had lived in all the big cities like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, but as always she moved on after a few months, now she didn't even bother to unpack anymore, what was the point?

Seth laughed. "Hit a sore spot have I?"

Casie's fear seemed to evaporate and all she could think of was her mother, all she could see in her mind was her mother's broken and bloody form telling her that she loved her, right before she died.

Casie glared at Seth. Seth saw the change in Casie and laughed to himself, if she knew the full story he was sure she would be doing a lot more than glaring at him.

Chris also noticed the change in Casie, saw the all too familiar look in her eyes, he had after all lost his mother too. He understood her feelings and knew how much the memories hurt, even now when he had a younger version of his mother walking around with no idea she only had about fifteen years left to live. In some ways it was a dream come true, he had his mom back, but he knew that he would have to leave her when he went back to the future and he didn't know how he was going to do that.

Chris decided to change the subject quickly, as the current one was distressing Casie, she was beginning to hyperventilate slightly. "What do you need me for?" Chris questioned drawing Seth gaze over to him.

"Not to bright are you?'' Seth mocked.

"Well takes one to know one." Chris shot back.

Seth easy-going manner vanished, the expression on his face took on the cruel image of what he really was; a demon.

"Never insult me if you want to live much longer." Seth sneered.

"If you wanted me dead, I would be already." Chris replied in a smart-ass tone, he liked that he now had the upper hand.

Seth smiled slightly at the cockiness of the witch-whitelighter. "But I only need you until midnight, and then I will have the pleasure of killing a Charmed offspring."

Chris inwardly cursed himself, but wasn't going to give up now. "And what happens at midnight?"

"I'm tiring of you very quickly, if you knew what was best for you, you would stop." Seth warned.

"Where's the fun in that?" Chris stated, mirroring Seth's words from earlier.

Seth made a fist and directed the magical blow at Chris, who went flying backwards and crashed into the back of the glass cage. With that Seth smoked out.

"Oh my god, are you ok?" Casie asked as she rushed over to Chris, she tried to help him up, only to have her hand pass right through him; she had for a moment forgotten that she was in essence just a spirit.

"I'm ok." Chris replied as he forced himself to his feet. "You ok?"

Casie smiled slightly, it was sweet of him to notice. "Bearing up, but I don't know how much longer I can take this." Casie said honestly.

"Don't worry I'll get you out of here, I'll find a way!" Chris promised.

Meanwhile at the hospital...

Phoebe sat with a now completely awake Wyatt in her lap at Chris' bedside. Since Leo hadn't been able to cure her of her blindness she had been left babysitting.

"Mama." Wyatt said.

"Mommy busy right now but she'll be back soon." Phoebe replied.

"Dada"

"Daddy's busy too, so you'll just have to make do with your auntie Phoebe." Phoebe said, she could just picture the pout she was sure the toddler was wearing.

Piper and Leo had gone to P3 to see if they could find out anything on Seth. Paige had disappeared but Leo could sense she was still in the hospital and suggested that she had probably just gone for coffee, but that was half-an-hour ago and Phoebe was starting to get slightly worried.

"She's fine!" Phoebe kept telling herself.

It wasn't like she could do anything anyway; she couldn't see a thing and already had numerous bruises appearing all over her body from all the things she had managed to walk into. Phoebe thought this was probably Seth's - or however he was – plan, to put her out of commission, out of the way and this in turn made her feel even more helpless.

Meanwhile at P3...

"Find anything?" Piper called.

"Not since the last time you asked, a whole minute ago." Leo called back.

Leo was in the staff room going through Seth's locker, and all the other male bartenders' lockers, just in case Phoebe description was wrong and it wasn't Seth. While Piper was sprawled on a chair in the bar area, her feet were swollen and sore and Leo had insisted she sit down, in an effort not to get worked up about anything she had just simply agreed.

"Nothing." Leo said as he joined Piper by the bar.

"What do you mean nothing?" Piper demanded.

Leo sighed. "I looked in every locker, there's nothing out of the ordinary."

"What was in Seth's locker?"

"Just a few clean t-shirts and a half empty bottle of coke."

Piper smiled. "Leo I love you and all but you would make one lousy detective."

"Why?" Leo asked confused, he wasn't sure where she was going with this.

"Seth's worked here for a couple of months, and I bet ya nearly everyone else's locker had some personnel belonging in it, like a picture or something along those lines." Leo nodded and Piper continued. "The fact that Seth's is almost empty means he's got something to hide."

"Ok I see your point, but it doesn't get us any closer to finding Chris." Leo pointed out.

"Yes it does, because now we know that it is Seth, so all we have to do is look him up in the book and drop around to his place." Piper said.

"Ok, but maybe we should fill in Phoebe and Paige first?" Leo suggested.

"OK, orb away." Piper replied as she took his arm.

Meanwhile at the hospital...

Phoebe was humming along to the tune of some song that was playing on the radio. Because all she could see was black, the silence soon began to grate on her nerves so she had put the radio on to distract herself, and a restless Wyatt.

"Phoebe where's Paige?" Piper asked as she and Leo orbed into the room.

"Ahh!" Phoebe shrieked, she had been so absorbed in the music she hadn't heard the usual jingle that accompanied orbing, and the sound of Piper's voice had scared her half to death.

"Sorry." Piper apologised, realising she must have scared her sister.

"Didn't anyone ever tell you not to sneak up on the blind?" Phoebe asked sarcastically.

"Apparently not, so where's Paige?" Piper asked again.

"I don't know, I haven't seen her since you guys left." Phoebe said the worry still squirming about in her stomach

Leo closed his eyes and concentrated on Paige.

"She's seems to be in the hospital carpark." Leo said once he had located her.

"Why would she be there?" Phoebe asked, but her question was met with silence. "Hello?"

But once again her question was met with silence, Phoebe let out a heavy sign.

"It's not nice orb out and not say goodbye!" Phoebe shouted after them knowing they couldn't hear her.

Meanwhile in the hospital carpark...

In the darkness Paige was crouched behind a Land Rover trying to coax the little girl out of hiding.

"It's ok I won't hurt you." Paige said.

The child was curled up beside the wall, and was showing no intention of moving anytime soon. Paige has chased the girl halfway around the hospital and the carpark so she wasn't about to give up now, she had asked for her help and that's exactly what she was going to do.

"Don't worry, I'm here to help you." Paige said as she inched closer, she didn't want to scare her off.

Piper and Leo orbed in about two feet away from where Paige was crouched.

"It's ok." Paige reassured the little girl.

"Paige who are you talking to?" Piper asked as she raised her eyebrows.

Paige's headed twirled around to look at her sister and brother-in-law.

"Be careful you'll scare her off." Paige whispered, before turning back around.

Piper looked to Leo hoping he could make sense of the situation but he merely shrugged, showing he didn't understand either.

"It's ok." Paige said as she inched closer.

"Paige what the hell are you doing?" Piper demanded, she was getting worked up, she knew that but Chris had been missing for almost two days now.

"Just give me a second will ya!" Paige replied in an irritated tone.

Piper looked at Paige and then at the empty space of wall she was advancing on and she couldn't help but think her little half-sister had gone mad.

"Paige!" Piper yelled.

"What?" Paige shot back. Couldn't Piper see she was busy?

"Ok I'm trying really hard to stay calm but there's only so much a woman can take! I mean you split my husband in two, Phoebe's blind, not to mention the fact that my son's soul is missing along with our next door neighbour's and my other son's about to turn evil. So Paige I can not deal with you going cuckoo on me!" Piper ranted.

"Piper breathe." Leo advised, the last thing they needed now was for her to disappear again.

"I'm fine." Paige reassured her, then she nodded in the direction of the girl who was still crying. "She on the other hand isn't."

"Who isn't?" Piper asked.

Paige looked at Piper as if she was crazy. "The little girl." Paige said waving her hand in the child's direction.

"Paige there's no one there." Piper stated wondering what her sister was on.

"She's right there!" Paige protested but both Piper and Leo looked at her as if to say, where?

The girl scrambled to her feet then whispered in Paige's direction. "Help me!" Then she ran off.

"Wait." Paige called as she took off after her.

"Paige get back here!" Piper shouted but it was no use she was gone.

Leo grabbed Piper's arm before she started to chase her sister. "It must have been the potion." Leo suggested remembering Phoebe had mentioned they had both been hit with potions and that she was surprised Paige hadn't gone blind too.

Piper let out a small laugh. "What?" Leo asked.

"A potion we can fix, a hallucinating sister we can not!" Piper replied.

"Now what?" Leo asked.

"Well there's no talking any sense into Paige, Phoebe useless so it's just you and me honey." Piper said. "First let's check the Book of Shadows and then try Seth's place."

"Ok sounds like a plan." Leo smiled; Piper was always the level-headed one - besides to odd panic attack - the one with the plan.

Taking her arm he orbed them both back to the manor.

Meanwhile in the underworld...

Chris slouched against the glass beside Casie who was racking her brain for anything that could explain this whole situation. Seth had told her powers were bound, and Chris had told that for her to be a witch either her mother or her father was a witch. Considering that she had no idea who her father was she was being to think her mother had been a witch, and that she must have bound her powers.

Casie didn't really remember much of her mother since she had died when she was three and a half but she did remember the day her mother had died. Although she was young the trauma of that day had permanently imprinted it on her brain. Don't think about that now! She kept telling herself. It was over eighteen years ago and there was nothing she could do about it now.

"You ok?" Chris asked.

Casie jerked out of her thoughts and realised she had been staring into space. "Yeah just thinking."

"Careful that's bad for your health!" Chris joked which earned him a smile from Casie.

"What's it like being a witch?" Casie questioned.

"Honestly?" Chris asked and when Casie nodded he continued. "Sometimes it can really complicate your life that you just wish you were normal. But then it can also save your life, and others, which is so worth it. I remember the first time I saved an innocent, the buzz I got was better than any drug, just to know someone is alive because of you, it's amazing."

Casie smiled, Chris always seemed to know what to say to make her feel better and she was glad she was with him in this small glass prison, because if it had been anyone else she was sure she would have had a nervous breakdown by now.

"Thanks."

"For what?" Chris asked.

"For everything." Casie replied.

"Your welcome."

They sat in silence for a few minutes and then Seth smoked in with an evil smirk on his face.

"Almost midnight." Seth said. "ShowTime!"

Okay there it is, again sorry about the wait, made this longer to try and make up for it. Please review and tell me what you think! $