Here's the next chapter. I hope you like it. I didn't plan on this happening but I was writing and it just came to me.
Chapter 31-The Meeting
Pheobe paced back and forth in the attic, dry tears clinging to her face, anxiously awaiting to hear from Leo. She tried to stay on the positive side but she couldn't help thinking about what would happen if they were not returned to her. She needed her husband and she hadn't even seen her son yet or held him. She mentally kicked herself for letting the Cleaners take her memories. If she had been stronger, a better wife, a better mother, maybe they wouldn't have been able to take her family. She didn't even see her son and yet she was already screwing up as his mother.
Prue walked into the attic.
"Have you heard anything?" Prue asked, hoping Leo would hurry up.
Prue had all of her memories back and the guilt had returned. She didn't fight hard enough. Her baby sister was in a coma fighting for her life and she couldn't even protect her husband and son for her.
"Not yet," Pheobe said, clasping her hands together as she began her pacing routine again.
"We'll get them back," Prue told her little sister.
"I hope so," Pheobe said. "Where is Piper?"
"Feeding the boys," Prue answered.
Both of them saw bright blue lights signaling that Leo had returned.
He stood before them, a solumn look on his face.
"Well, the bad news is that they denied your request for a meeting," Leo told them.
"And the good news?" Pheobe asked.
"If I orb you up there against their orders, we both get what we want, our families back," Leo said as he took her hand in his and began to orb.
When they reappeared, they were standing in a bright, white room.
"Leo, we told you that she could not come. You defied us," one of the Elders said as he took a step towards them. "You know the punishment for such an act. Your Elder title will be stripped and your wings clipped."
"I understand," Leo said, inwardly jumping for joy at the fact that he was free.
The Elder, then, turned his attention to Pheobe.
"We will not change our minds. They pose too much of a threat," the Elder informed her.
"They pose a threat? Cole has given himself to good and my son is just a baby. How could you?" Pheobe asked, tears forming in her eyes. We trusted you. You were supposed to be the upholders of good. You talk about threat and exposure but you just use that as an excuse to murder innocents."
"We didn't..." the Elder started.
"What else would you call it?" Pheobe screamed, interrupting him. "I was finally whole again. For two years I was alone, without my soul-mate, surviving only to fight on the side of good. After I lost him, the battle between good and evil took my mind off of him, helped me go on. I can't do that this time since I don't believe in fighting for something that betrayed me. There is nothing left for me to live for. You took away my will to live when you took my family."
Leo knew where she was going with this and pulled her away from the other Elders.
"Don't do this," he said, looking into her eyes, which held no fear, only determination.
"Go home to your family. Take care of them, Leo, and tell them that I love them," Pheobe told the man.
Leo tried to speak.
"Don't, Leo. I can't go through this again. I lost him once and I barely made it through it. Now losing him and Ben, I can't go on."
Leo didn't know what to do, so he took a step back from her . He understood her reasons. He would probably do the same if he lost Piper and the boys.
Pheobe turned back to the Elders.
"Return my family," Pheobe told them.
"We will not," the Elder answered.
"Then you leave me no choice," she said as she pulled a vial from her pocket.
The Elders took a step back and turned around, intending to run, afraid that they were about to be killed.
The head Elder turned back, not hearing an explosion and watched as the youngest of the Charmed Ones drank the potion, falling to the floor immediately afterwards.
So, how was it? Please review. I can't believe I was actually nice to Leo. Wow. I deserve a pat on the back.