Chapter/Scene 1 - The Manor; the beginning of our story.
The
front door to the manor opened and in walked Piper from out of the
cold carrying a bag of groceries in one arm and a diaper bag in the
other. Leo walked in, Chris strapped into the baby-carrier that hung
over his chest while Wyatt held his hand, carring in the free one a
small bag of herbs and glass bottles. A scream was heard from the
attic shortly following their enterance, an explosion followed right
after.
"Paige! Give it a rest up there, will ya?" Phoebe
called up the stairs as she hurried down them.
"Phoebe..
where are you off to this lovely afternoon?" Piper smiled at her
sister as she followed them into the kitchen.
"I - my dear
sister, who I absolutely love! - am off to the park with Wyatt,"
Phoebe set her bag down on the table and started applying her
lipstick.
"You're taking Wyatt to the park when it's this
cold out? Are you nuts? Phoebe, it's freezing!"
Coughing
emerged from the other room and in came Paige, hair disheveled and a
smudge of soot upon her brow. "Oh, so you told her about going
to flirt with that single dad, huh?"
"What!" Piper
dropped the cereal box she was holding and starred at
Phoebe.
"Paige!" Phoebe glared over at her baby sister.
'Oops,' was all that Paige mouthed back to her in response.
"What
are you using my son - your nephew - for now?"
"Well..
there's this guy, right? And he's really hot. He's a single daddy.
His wife passed away a year ago and uh.. well," she laughed. "I
saw him checking me out."
"Checking you out? Phoebe, the
guy was practically undressing you with his eyes!" Paige chipped
in. Phoebe laughed and Piper did too -- nervously.
"Soo.. can
I borrow Wyatt?" she smiled.
"You're not going to
actually tell this guy that Wyatt is your son, are you? I mean, c'mon
Phoebe-" Piper started.
"No, no, no! I'm going to tell
him he's my nephew. But.. I think having Wyatt with me will help to
better my odds, don't you think?"
"Phoebe.." Piper
started.
"Ah, ah, ah! Don't say it! I know, I know, okay? But
Piper.. I'm desperate. It's almost Valentine's day and I still
haven't gotten a date."
"Well, I'm sorry Pheebes, but
it's Wyatt's naptime. Why don't you take Paige with you?"
"Yeah
Phoebe, I'll go with you," Paige said, she was at the kitchen
sink wiping away the soot and fixing her hair.
"Well, I guess
it couldn't hurt," Phoebe smiled at Paige. "Let's get a
move on it."
"You mean him, don't you?" Piper
asked, teasingly.
"Huh?" Phoebe's face shown
confusion.
"Get a move on him," Piper grinned now.
"Geez
Piper, get better material. Come on Paige, let's go." Paige
walked over and took Phoebe's hand. They disappeared in a flurry of
blue and white orbs.
"Well, that was interesting. Leo, can
you put the boys down? I'm going to go and see what Paige was up to
in the attic."
Leo picked Wyatt up. "Sure, Piper. Come
on boys, let's get you to sleep." He left the room with them
both. Piper put all the groceries to one side before heading up to
the attic. Inside furniture was blackened by fire-burns and cotton
was strewn across the floor in every direction imaginable. The potion
bowl was still smoking. "What on earth?" She walked over to
the area and saw the Book of Shadows layed out infront of it. The
page was opened up to show a demon called 'Rabio.' Leo entered the
attic at that moment and she looked up from the book. "Honey,
could you get me a dust-pan and broom? Paige left me a mess to clean
up."
He nodded. "I see that. What was she doing up here
anyway?"
"I don't know, making a potion it seems. For a
demon named Rabio."
"Rabio?" He walked over to
where she and the book were.
"Uh huh, Rabio. It says here
that Rabio is a demon with the ability to steal both good-powers and
good-auras. What is that supposed to mean? That he's running around
stealing people's goodness?"
"Well, no. It means that
he's cloaking himself in a good-aura. So the only way to find him is
to look for a good-aura that's slightly less than it should be.
Afterall, if he's killing innocents his good-aura is rather seriously
tainted with the blood of their bodies," Leo explained.
"Right,
okay, but we haven't been attacked by demons at all and now all of a
sudden Paige has a demon she just has to kill without telling us? I
mean.. you would think she'd enjoy this down-time from all the
massive attempts on our lives and on the lives of her nephews. And
now she's just-just... going out and going demon-hunting? I mean,
c'mon Leo, what's the psychology behind that?" Piper slammed the
book closed and stood fuming, looking down at the potion
mixture.
"Piper, I'm sure there's a perfectly logical
explaination for it. Why don't you just ask her about it when they
get back?"
"I think I just might," she muttered,
mainly to herself as Leo headed towards the stairs to get her
dust-pan and broom.
