CHAPTER SEVEN
"Who are you?" He asked.
"Look, we can explain," Phoebe said quickly, recognizing him as Steve from her vision.
"Do you live here?" Paige asked hopefully.
Steve gave each of them a look, and then sighed. "I'm sorry. If you're innocents looking for the Sacred Ones, they're apparently not here." The he looked around. "Then again, Amanda should be." He eyed them suspiciously again.
"Actually, we're not innocents. We think that we're here to help you," Phoebe said.
"You think?" Steve asked.
"Well, we sort of cast a spell, and we ended up here," Paige explained.
"Wait, you're witches?"
"Yes. We're the Charmed Ones," Piper said, getting irritated that this was taking so long.
"Who?"
"Okay, let me try to explain this," Phoebe said, looking at her sisters, and then back at Steve. "You see, lately one of your relatives has been transporting back and forth from our world to yours. I guess our nephew had been doing the same thing, and this morning so did I. Well, trying to get to the bottom of things, we – my sisters and I – cast a spell to bring us here so we could sort things out."
"My wife didn't mention any of this to me," Steve replied.
"Maybe it happened while you were out. I didn't see you when I came," Phoebe said.
"Either way, we're here to help you. When we came, Phoebe got a premonition of your family being attacked," Piper said.
"It happens on a daily basis. We're used to it," Steve replied with a shrug.
Piper looked at Paige. "Yeah, well in this one someone ended up dead."
"What?" Steve asked. Phoebe picked up the picture of all three, and pointed to Amanda. Steve took the picture and stared down at it.
"She's the one who was killed. And the little boy was taken," Phoebe said.
"Sam?" Steve asked. He sunk into a chair. "I don't believe this. This is exactly what Sadie was trying to prevent."
"Who's Sadie? One of the girls?" Paige asked.
"No, uh – this is going to be hard to explain. Sadie is a girl from the future. She came back to prevent my son – Sam from being killed. If it was succeeded, the world would be destroyed, because Sam wouldn't be there to protect it," He explained.
"Hmm. That sounds a lot like what's going on with Chris," Phoebe said, looking at her sisters.
"Who's that?" Steve asked.
"Oh, he's my son from the future. He came back to prevent my eldest son from turning evil and destroying the world," Piper said simply.
Steve nodded. "Sound familiar."
"Where we come from, we're known as the Charmed Ones. The guy in my vision mentioned that these women are the Sacred Ones," Phoebe said.
"Yeah, the power of three."
"So, their like our counterparts?" Paige asked. "In our world, we're the power of three."
"I suppose so. But I'm sure you are whole sisters," Steve said.
"Actually," Piper cut in. "Paige is our half sister."
"Oh. Well Amanda is the girl's half sister. Through their Father. That's where their power comes from," Steve explained.
"Our power comes from our Mother," Paige said. Then something dawned on her face. "Oh my gosh, I am so sorry. We never introduced ourselves. I'm Paige Matthews, and these are my sister, Piper and Phoebe Halliwell."
"Steve Blaire," Steve said, shaking her hand. "Now that we have all that established, maybe I should call the girls and get them down here. We might need their help fighting whoever is after us."
Paige looked guiltily down. "Um, I don't think you're going to find them here," She said.
"What do you mean?" Steve demanded. Her sisters looked at her.
"When we were in the kitchen I happened to notice a note on the refrigerator."
"Paige!" Piper exclaimed.
"Well it helped. At first it didn't make sense, but now I get it." She got up and then came back with the letter, handing it to Steve. It read:
Steve,
Well, Siobhan said not to let you know, but you know me – can't keep a secret. Okay, we went off to 'Another World' for a 'fun' time. Be back later. (Some friends need help) Please don't tell Siobhan I ratted us out.
Your favorite Sister-in-law,
Manda
Steve groaned. "She would keep it a secret. Any time she and her sisters do something behind my back, Amanda has to be the one to warn me." He shook his head, then looked up. "Wait, you don't think there's a chance they went to your world, do you?"
"No clue," Paige said.
"Let's get down to work so we can get home," Piper said, standing up. Steve nodded.
"Yeah, just let me make a few phone calls," Steve said.
"Who are you calling?" Phoebe asked nervously.
"First my work to tell them I won't be coming in, and then Sam's school to get him out. I think I'd rather have him here with me than at school."
"But isn't school safer?" Phoebe asked.
"No. Not without the Sacred Ones it's not. At the moment Sam is much safer in the house," Steve replied. He went off to make his phone calls, leaving the sisters to ponder what would happen next.