Chapter 7
Explanations
Piper woke-up the next morning with the sun shining in her eyes. "That means that Paige slept through the night," thought Piper relieved that her baby-sister didn't have any more nightmares. Piper sat-up in bed and headed towards the bathroom but before she even got their she saw something that made her start laughing. Prue and Phoebe had opened their sleeping bags making sort of a bed on the ground using extra blankets over them. Phoebe was spread over about ¾ of the 'bed' and her head was on Prue's pillow with her own tossed aside forgotten. It looked like sometime during the night Phoebe had taken up all the blankets and tangled her self in them. Piper was now clutching her sides from laughing so hard.
Prue eyes opened groggily at the sound of Piper's laugh. She sat-up and gave Piper and evil look. "You wouldn't be laughing if you slept next to someone who kicked you all night and kept taking the blankets," said Prue standing up to face Piper. "Well she'll pay for it," was all Prue said as she exited the room. When she came back she had a glass of water with ice cubes in it. "You know she is going to screech when you dump that on her," said Piper when she saw what Prue had and figured out what she was going to do with it. "So, she deserves it," said Prue questionably. Prue then proceeded to take all the blankets off of Phoebe who was lying on her stomach. Then she pushed Phoebe's tank top up making sure that her back was almost completely bare and exposed. While Prue was doing all of this Phoebe barely moved or any sign of waking up. Prue finally dumped the glass of water on Phoebe's back.
Phoebe yelped up in surprise and screeched. She stood up and glared at Prue with her hands on her hips, "What did you do that for?" "Well let's see you took all the blankets from me, took my pillow, pushed me off our sleeping bags, and you kicked me all night," said Prue ticking off all the things that Phoebe managed to do in her sleep. "Oh," said Phoebe not really knowing how to respond to that.
"Did Paige sleep through the night?" asked Prue on a more serious note. "Yes as far as I know," said Piper. Just then Paige's eyes fluttered open. "What's going on?" asked Paige sleepily. Then she saw Prue and her mouth dropped open. "Hi I'm your eldest sister Prudence but you can call me Prue," said Prue happily waving at Paige. Paige just stuttered, "Why, I mean how." Then she turned her gaze towards Phoebe and Piper. "What did I miss?" asked Paige finally being able to form a full sentence and over the shock of seeing her dead sister walking around solid. "Before or after you fainted?" said Piper. "Well all I remember is that guy hitting on me," answered Paige sitting up in bed.
"So can someone tell me what happened after that?" asked Paige. "Well you kinda kicked the guy in the nuts," said Piper trying not to start laughing. "Oh my god now I remember I cannot believe I did that. I am so sorry Piper. You didn't get into trouble did you?" asked Paige. "No the guy was smart enough not to press charges after all he touched you after you told him to take a hike and Cole and Leo handled the cops after we carried you out of the club," said Phoebe looking guiltily down at her hands. "Phoebe you know that it wasn't your fault, right?" asked Paige noticing the look on Phoebe's face. "I know but I saw it and I should've ran over when I saw that guy start to hit on you," said Phoebe sadly. "I just figured you would tell him off and that would be the end of it," said Phoebe. "Phoebe it isn't your fault," said Paige firmly. Paige didn't want Phoebe blaming herself after all the reason she fainted was because of her awful past and that wasn't Phoebe's fault.
"So what happened after you put me in my bed?" asked Paige trying to switch the subject so Phoebe couldn't disagree with her. "Prue appeared in the kitchen where we were drinking coffee waiting for you to wake-up. After we sat down and talked a while I came up here to check on you and you were thrashing around in your bed. So I called Piper and Prue up here and all of us worked to get you to calm down. We switched your clothes because you were drenched in sweat and we didn't want you to get sick which I hope you aren't mad about," said Phoebe looking at Paige. "No that is okay, what happened then?" asked Paige. "We decided that we were going to sleep up here so that we could be here in case you had another nightmare," finished Phoebe.
"What was your nightmare about?" asked Piper boldly after a few seconds of silence. Paige averted answering the question by asking "I still don't understand why is Prue here, care to explain?" Prue noticed right away that Paige averted answering the question but didn't say anything about it. Prue, Piper, and Phoebe looked at each other they didn't want to tell Paige about them having to bond with her. They wanted Paige to come to them on her own when she was ready to trust them. Phoebe was the first to speak, "Well the Elders thought that a Power of Four might help rid the World of Evil better including getting rid of the Source." "Oh," said Paige. "Great now they got their older sister back they really don't need me for anything other then demon vanquishes and now the newly formed Power of Four," thought Paige bitterly and sarcastically to herself.
"Let's go to the movies today, what do you guys say?" asked Phoebe interrupting Paige's thoughts. Just as soon as the words left her mouth a demon shimmered in. He immediately fired a fireball in Paige's direction, who was still sitting in her bed. Paige disappeared in a swirl of orbs and re-appeared a few seconds later and the wall behind her ended up with a huge scorch mark on it. She then immediately jumped out of bed and stood by Prue. Piper tried to freeze him but it looked like it wasn't working and then tried to blow him up but the blast barely scratched the demon.
The demon decided to try one more thing and conjured up a fireball in each hand. He fired one at Prue and Paige and the other one at Piper and Phoebe. Prue easily flicked the first fireball away from her and Paige and back to the demon who easily side stepped it. Paige saw the one going towards Phoebe and Piper and shouted, "Fireball," and the fireball orbed towards Paige and she shot it back at the demon. The demon didn't expect it and the fireball hit him straight in the chest. The demon screamed out in agony and immediately shimmered away. "Well so much for the movies," said Phoebe sarcastically picking herself off of the floor where she dove out of the way of the fireball.
"Nice job by calling that fireball away from me and Phoebe," said Piper smiling at Paige. "Thanks, but Phoebe still had to dive outta the way," said Paige smiling back at Piper. It felt good to be praised by Piper. "True but still it was quick thinking on your part and that is what can saves our lives," said Piper patting Paige on the back. Paige instantaneously tensed up which Piper noticed immediately. "Jeez she really is bad, something really bad must have happened to her to cause her to tense up when all I did was pat her on the back. What are we going to do? I will have to talk to Prue and Phoebe when Paige isn't around," thought Piper worriedly. "Book of Shadows, right?" asked Paige interrupting Piper's worrisome thoughts. "Definitely," said Prue leading the way towards the attic and BoS.
When the four sisters got to the attic Piper and Phoebe hovered over the Book while Prue and Paige sat down on the couch. "It looks like our buddy's name is Zeenkoo. Zeenkoo has been around for almost a century and is in the Source's inner circle. His powers are shimmering, fireballs, and he is immune to the freezing power," said Piper reading what was written in the Book. "Well that explains why you couldn't freeze him," said Phoebe. "He must be immune to your other power to," said Prue logically. "We need to get some of the rarer ingredients and we are out of dragon root," said Phoebe while silently reading the ingredients to herself. "Me and you can go get those, Phoebe while Piper writes the vanquishing spell just write them down," said Prue handing Phoebe a pen and a pad of paper.
"Okay done, now we can go but I have to go get dressed first," said Phoebe after she finished writing down the potion ingredients they needed. "Speaking of getting dressed, I can't believe you guys sold my car and got rid of all my clothes," said Prue in a pouty voice. "Not all your clothes, Piper kept your leather jacket," said Phoebe grinning. "Which you can have back," Piper said quickly. "No that is okay you can keep it," said Prue smiling at Piper knowing how attached Piper had become to the black leather jacket. "Are you sure?" asked Piper questionably she knew how much Prue had loved the soft smooth black leather jacket.
"Of course I have to buy new clothes anyway speaking of which I need to borrow something to wear today can I borrow something from you Pheebs?" said Prue. "Sure you can borrow something," said Phoebe grabbing Prue's elbow and dragging her towards her room. "Wait I want to come with. Paige will read the passage on Zeenkoo so that you can help me with the spell?" asked Piper following Prue and Phoebe towards Phoebe's room. "Sure," said Paige shrugging her shoulders. "They might just want some time alone," thought Paige as Prue, Piper, and Phoebe left the room.
When they got to Phoebe's room, Prue turned towards Piper and asked, "So what did you want to tell us?" "How did you know I wanted to tell you something, oh never mind. I wanted to tell you that as soon as I patted Paige on the back she tensed up big time," said Piper with a worried expression. "Really she tensed up when I hugged her to," said Phoebe in awe. "Umm, I wonder what that could be about?" asked Prue more to herself then anyone else. "Did you guys notice that when we asked what her nightmare was about she immediately averted the question?" asked Prue. "Yes," said Piper and Phoebe at the same time. "Well we better get going but we have to keep a close eye on her and grab any chance we can get to get her to open up to any of us," said Prue grabbing the clothes Phoebe had handed her to borrow. "Okay well I will be here to keep an eye on her and maybe I can get her to talk to me," said Piper shrugging her shoulders.
"No don't let her be for now, and then maybe I can get her to open up to me," said Prue firmly after all she was the oldest and she felt that it was her responsibility. "Prue it isn't all your fault and not all of your responsibility," said Phoebe firmly. "Yes well I think that we should still hold off until we got a better grip on the situation," said Prue changing into her clothes. Phoebe also got changed and they walked out of the room together. "Okay well then you two hurry back because after we vanquish this creep we have a baby-sister to help," said Piper in a whisper as she headed towards the attic. "We'll see you when we get back," said Phoebe as she and Prue headed towards the stairs to go downstairs.
Piper ran up the stairs and found Paige sitting in a chair hovered over the Book of Shadows. "Find anything?" asked Piper which startled Paige who jumped a little. "Sorry," said Piper sheepishly. "That's okay you didn't mean to and no I didn't find anything at least nothing that we do not already know," said Paige. "I did think of something though I don't think the Power of Three spell will work anymore," said Paige looking up at Piper. "Your right why don't while I write the vanquishing spell you come up with a Power of Four spell?" asked Piper thinking that maybe that will help Paige with her self-confidence.
"Are you sure you want me to do that?" asked Paige wondering why Piper would trust her with something this important though it did feel good that Piper would trust her with something that important. "Of course, let's get dressed and then we can get to work so that we finish the spells before Prue and Phoebe get home and that way we can surprise them with the new Power of Four spell and a kick butt vanquishing spell," said Piper smiling at Paige. Piper grabbed the BoS and they walked out of the attic. "Let's meet in the living room in 15 minutes that way we can help each other, what do you think?" asked Piper when they came to the hallway where their rooms were. "Sounds good to me," said Paige.
Author's Note: Well that is the end of the lovely chapter 7. I hope you all like it and enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it. It is a longest chapter I have ever written. I changed it like a million times. I appreciate you guys staying with me through this hard time especially since my life isn't going the way I would like it to go. Not to bore you with details but I am in the process of losing my best-friend of eight years (half of my fricking life I am 16 and I have known her since I was 8 and have been friends with her since then and best-friends not long after that) which is the only one left considering I lost the other one of like two years like 2 or 3 months ago. So I have started chapter 8 and will get it posted ASAP and I am sorry again that this story isn't getting posted as fast as it should be posted.
With Lots of Love,
Ang, Your Author