Sorry I didn't respond to reviews last time, but I totally forgot! Here are the ones for this time:
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Piper walked into her house, scared out of her wits. She could not believe how late she had stayed at the Manor, although she was only about ten minutes late. Nevertheless, she was late. She knew she would pay.
Suddenly, she was grabbed from behind, her wrists held behind her with one of Daniel's strong hands, and his other hand grabbing her hair and pulling her head back. "What did I tell you about being late?" he whispered in her ear. When he got no answer, he pulled on her hair even more, causing her to wince. "You said never to be late again." Piper forced out. "Good girl. And, what else did I tell you never to do? LIE TO ME!" he shouted. Piper was completely confused by his last statement, and was completely not expecting what was coming up next.
He turned her around, pinning her against the wall. He held one of her tiny wrists in both of his large hands, pinning them to the sides of her head and causing her elbows to form ninety degree angles. He bent his head down so that he was more to her level. "You lied to me. I know who Louisa, May, Ally, and Cody really are. Now, either you get rid of the brats, or I'll get rid of them for you, just like I got rid of that teacher, Ms. Waters." he said calmly. Piper's eyes began to water at the thought of her teacher. "No, please, don't." she begged. "I will if you don't get rid of them." he threatened. Piper just nodded, tears streaming down her face.
"Now that you've agreed to that, you'll get your punishment for lying." he said, and she became even more scared. She had NEVER lied to him before, and wondered what he was going to do to her. He transferred both her wrists to one of his hands, and pulled her over to the staircase. He forced her to kneel on the ground by the stairs, and then took off his belt. Her eyes opened in fear, thinking that he was about to do the worst. But, he took the belt and wrapped it around her wrists and a railing, causing her wrists to be bound to it.
He left the room for a moment, and she tried to struggle out of her binding. She knew what was coming was bad. Really bad. And she knew it would hurt, a lot.
Her eyes opened in horror when he walked in, and she spotted what he was carrying. It was a whip. She tried struggling some more, but he came over and slapped her.
He walked behind her, and he pushed up the back of her shirt. She heard his hand pull back, and then a loud crack resounded throughout the room. A searing pain went throughout her back. It felt like it was on fire. She screamed. A high-pitched, blood-curdling scream. "Don't scream." he commanded, and cracked the whip again. She bit her lip against the horrible, unbearable pain.
He cracked the whip again, again, and again. Each time the pain got worse, and worse, and worse, until she felt that if he did it one more time she would burst in half. She was crying hard from the pain. Then, just as he cracked the whip again, she fell into the realm of unconsciousness.
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Phoebe shot out of bed, drenched with sweat. She looked around, and saw a worried family around her. She saw that they were a little blurry, and it was then that she realized she was crying. It took her so long because of the pain she felt on her back. It was unbearable, just as it had been in the dream.
"Phoebe? Phoebe, you okay?"
Phoebe turned to Prue, although Paige and Leo were also in the room. "Prue, it was horrible! He just kept on whipping, and whipping! It hurt so much!" she said through her sobs. The others gathered closer to her, and Prue said "Honey, don't worry, it's just a nightmare. It's not real, it doesn't exist." "I'm not so sure about that." Paige said, staring wide-eyed at Phoebe's still-aching back. "What do you mean?" Prue asked, and looked on her sister's back as well. Her eyes opened in shock. "What?" Phoebe asked, her tears were starting to slow down. "You have whip marks on your back." Leo said quietly, also seeing her cut-up back.
Suddenly, the wounds rippled, and disappeared. All three of their mouths dropped wide open. "What is it?" Phoebe asked. "The marks, they... they just disappeared." Paige said. Leo looked up at the Halliwell sister. "I don't think the dream was only that." he said. "You need to tell us about it, Phoebe." Prue said, looking sympathetically, yet demandingly, at her sister. The marks that were on her back for only a moment looked very painful. "Which dream?" Phoebe asked, and the others stared at her. "What do you mean, Pheebs?" Paige asked.
"I've had this kind of dream before, yet not like this." Phoebe admitted. "What do you mean? What was this dream?" Prue asked. "I mean I've had a dream where this kind of thing happens before." Phoebe answered. "You've been whipped like THAT in a dream before?" Paige asked. "NO, no! This is the first time I've been whipped, or even hurt like this. You see, in my dreams, I think I'm... an abused child." Phoebe said. "An abused child?" Prue repeated. "Yeah. And every dream, this guy, whom I assume is my father, beats the living daylights out of me. He's just so strong, so controlling. I don't have time to defend myself." Phoebe admitted gloomily.
"In the first dream I had, he broke my wrist. For a few weeks after that, I only had a few dreams, of very light beatings. Maybe a slap or a whack. But recently, they've been becoming more frequent, and more brutal. Tonight, he, well, you saw what he did. He did it because I was late and I lied to him about something. Probably about friends' names, I had used cover-up names. He threatened to kill them if I didn't, like, break it off with them." Phoebe's voice was shaking during the entire speech. The dreams had scared her more than she cared to admit.
"Whoa." Prue and Paige said in unison. "Do you know what causes the dreams?" Leo asked. "No." Phoebe admitted solemnly. "Well, could it be an innocent that we have to protect?" Paige asked. "She." Phoebe corrected automatically. "She?" Prue asked. Phoebe just nodded. "Anyway, if SHE is an innocent, aren't we meant to help her?" Paige continued. "Yeah, that's kind of what we do." Prue said sarcastically. "Phoebe, is there anything else that you can tell us about the dreams? Something that might lead us to who and where she is?"
"Well, the names she made up for her friends make up something similar to Louisa May Alcott." Phoebe said. "Oh, and that narrows it down to, oh, every girl in the world." Prue said sarcastically. "Prue, that's not helping." Paige said, trying to quell the fire before it got the chance to get out of control. Prue just rolled her eyes. "Anything else?" Paige asked hopefully, wanting to get some more clues. "Well, I don't think so. There isn't much about her that I know. I only know about the dreams." Phoebe said. "It's really weird. I mean, I see everything she sees, and feel everything she feels, both physically and emotionally. It's like I'M the one being beaten, being in this hell of a life, but I can't control my... her actions. It's like I'm a visitor in her mind during those dreams."
"I don't think I've ever heard of something like that before. I'll go check with the Elders, see if they know anything." Leo said, and orbed 'up there'. After there wasn't an orb left in the air, Prue and Paige turned to their sister again. "So, you wanna go back to sleep, honey?" Prue asked, her 'big sister mode' back on. "I don't know." Phoebe said, shrugging. "I mean, I don't want to have the dreams again, it was WAY to freaky. But, I need to have the dreams or else we won't be able to find her." "So what do you wanna do?" Paige asked. "I think I'll go back to sleep. Innocents come first, and I don't intend on changing that rule." Phoebe answered.
"Okay." Prue agreed, and she and Paige went to the doorway. "See you tomorrow?" Paige asked when she got to the door. "Definitely." Phoebe answered. "'Night." Prue and Paige called from the hall. "'Night, guys." Phoebe called back, and laid back down in her bed, trying to get as comfortable as she could. She knew she probably had a long night ahead of her.
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AN: Okay, guys, sorry for the shortness! But, to make up for it, I will update sooner, as long as I get reviews! Please, please review!