A/N: I would like to dedicate this chapter to my sister. Today is her birthday, and I just wanted to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Just to let you guys know, that this chapter probably won't have anything to do with birthdays. It was just a little thing I put in. Please read and review. Thanks
-Jenifer
CHAPTER 8
Patience and Brian walk back into the conservatory hand in hand. Upon enetering they saw everybody in a mess. Phoebe was crying into Cole's shoulder. Henry was holding Paige, as she just stared were Fayre was standing. While Piper was standing in shock. Leo had his arm around her, and the boys were standing behind her.
Cole looked up and saw Patience standing there with Brian. She was holding his hand staring at the room. A tear slid down her. He was ready to go to her, but Brian was already there with a shoulder for her to cry on. " How could she do this? He was only a little boy. Sure he might have been annoying at times, but she didn't need to vanquish him." he heard her say through sobs.
" No, it is not over. We will fight this. I mean we are the Charmed One's. We are the most powerful force ever. Well other than our children, and not only do we have the power of the Charmed One's, but we also have the power of her very own blood." Piper looked at Brian.
" Me? You are going to use my blood to make a vanquishing potion aren't you?" He looked at the ground then at his father. He knew that she needed to be vanquished and that she was evil, but it was weird. He almost felt some sort of connection with her. " Will my blood even work?"
" Yes, you guys are connected. You are connected between the bond of brother and sister, and not only are you brother and sister, but you are twins. That makes the bond that much tighter. You can sense her all you have to do is concentrate. It will come to you I promise." Piper smiled, and it almost made him think that he could.
" Well, I am not going to stand around and let you vanquish my daughter. Brian are you coming?"Castil looked at Brian, and he shook his head. He knew that he needed to stay with the Halliwells, he knew that they needed him. " Fine." and with that said he poofed away. Everybody was standing looking at where Castil was standing when Chris broke the silence.
" Mom, you mean you trust him now?" Chris asked, looking at Brian. Not really sure how he felt about the very powerful half demon standing next to him.
" Christopher, he risked his life to save us, against his sister. How could you not?" She said in a matter of fact voice. She looked at Phoebe. " You couldn't sense anything evil could you?" Phoebe shook her head through red puffy eyes. Piper looked at Leo. "Do you trust him?" Leo looked at Brian then back and Piper.
" Piper if you trust him. I trust him."Piper nodded her head.
" Good, then lets find my neice and nephew." The group started walking out except for Phoebe. Brian noticed that she wasn't with the rest of them and went to go see if she was ok. She was kneeling with her hands on the ground were Peter was last standing with her eyes closed.
" Mrs. Halliwell?" He asked quietly, not wanting to disrupt her. Phoebe opened her eyes and looked at him.
" Phoebe." she said then stood up. " You can call me Phoebe, after all you did practically just save my life." He blushed a little and then looked at the ground. He could definantly see where Patience got her good looks, but then again the Halliwell family was known for thier good looks, not only their witchcraft.
" Mrs..." he stopped when she raised an eyebrow at him. " Phoebe" she smiled and nodded her head. " I just wanted to say that I am really sorry to what happened to Peter, and I swear if it is the last thing I do. I will stop my sister, and get your son and niece back." His voice had this tone of determination in it, and she knew instantly that he would not harm them.
" Thankyou, and I might just take you up on that offer." She walked over to him and put her hand on his arm, but got thrown into a premonition.
It was in a cave and Fayre was standing next to a tied up Sadie and Peter. When a hooded figure stepped out of the darkness and looked at the children. "You have done me well. I needed all three but this will be good enough. Now leave me while I take care of them." Fayre looked at the children then at the hooded figure.
" But master, what are you going to do with them?" she asked, looking afraid of what he was going to say. The hooded figure laughed.
" Kill them of course. Then I will take their powers, and by taking their magic I will be taking some of the Halliwell magic, and I will be one of the most powerful beings to ever have lived, and the first thing I will do is kill the blessed family and their twice-blessed child, and then I am going to kill your brother." He did an evil sort of laugh and Fayre looked confused.
" My brother?" she asked, but it was to late he held out his hand and two knives appeared, then in the blink of an eye he sent them flying towards the children.
Phoebe gasped as she got knocked out of the vision. Sometime during it Brian had called everybody in because they were all standing around looking at her, waiting to see what she had just seen. Cole came over to her and put his arms around her. " Phoebe what did you see?" He asked anxiety in his voice.
" He wants to kill them. Cole he wants to kill Peter. Which means he isn't dead yet." Phoebe knew she shouldn't be excited, but she couldn't help it. She has a chance of saving her son now. Cole didn't look as optimistic.
" Well thats great hunny. Now we just have to find him before the premonition takes place. You guys should start scrying." He looked at Wyatt, Chris and Patience. " Brian why don't you go with them, I mean you guys share the same blood. She will be easier to find with you scrying, and you three can start on the vanquishing potion."
" But dad." Patience started but with a quick look from Cole she was quiet again. They all just stood there when he yelled. "Now!" they looked at Piper and with a nod of her head they orbed upstairs.
Cole started barking out orders, and everyone did them no questions asked, but Phoebe interrupted him in the middle of one of his orders. " Cole." he looked at her with an annoyed look. He didn't like being interrupted when he was explain something.
" What?" he asked calming down a little.
" Well, I think Fayre. I think she might help us." Cole looked at her with wide eyes.
" Phoebe, she took our child and Paige's what in the world makes you think that she will help us?" he had his eyebrows together with his hand on his hip. Phoebe looked up at him.
" Because I just do." She stared back at him with the same determination in her eyes. " And out of the two of us who do you think will be more apt to tell how she really feels. An empath" she points to herself. " or an ex demon?" she points at Cole.
Paige stares at Phoebe and Cole staring each other down. Both of them being the stubborn people they are and not wanting to back down. Her stomache got kinda queezy and she put her hand over it. "Hey calm down in there." she says to herself. She and Henry were planning on telling the family at dinner tonight that they were going to have another baby, but they had forgotten that Brian was coming over, and well you know the rest. They really haven't got the opportunity with demons attacking and all. " Phoebe I trust you." she said smiling at her.
"Well I'm with Cole, how are we supposed to trust a demon?" Henry said crossing his arms. Paige raises and eyebrow at him, but Leo interrupts.
" I am with them. She kidnapped your children, she is not someone I would call an alley." So it came down to the Charmed One's against their husbands. Battle of the sexes have a whole knew meaning now.
" Are you kidding me?" Piper looked at Leo like she was in disbelief. Leo stood by Cole for the moral support as Phoebe backed up to her sisters.
" Henry hunny I really think that you need to come with us." Paige smiled at him, but in a threatening way, but he didn't back off.
" Paige, hunny I don't even think you should be going after the demon. Let alone if she is some powerful dangerous thing. Anyway I have an elder and half demon on my side." He looked at Cole and Leo, when he looked back at the girls they were all standing with their hands on their hips, and an eyebrow raised.
" Well guess what, we are the Charmed One's." and with that Paige grabbed the Phoebe and Piper who were on each side of her and orbed out of the room. Henry was standing there with his mouth hanging open.
" Henry, Henry, Henry, I figured you would have known better than that by now." Cole was shaking his head, with a small smile on his face. Henry looked at him and then at Leo.
" What is he smiling about?" he asked with a quick look towards Cole who was still kinda laughing.
" He is probably just happy that it was you, and not him that the girls got mad at." Cole shrugged his shoulders and started walking up the stairs to the attic, but stopped a couple stairs up.
" Hey why did you say Paige shouldn't go after the demon?" Cole asked raising an eyebrow. Henry looked at the ground. Paige wanted to tell everyone together, but he had been caught, and if there was one thing he learned in this family was it was not a good idea to lie.
" Because, she is pregnant." He could practically hear Leo's mouth dropping to the ground, but then he felt a tight embrace.
" Congradulations, It is kinda rotten timing, but I mean there is not really any good timing when your family is powerful witches that are fighting demons every other day." Henry nodded his head and looked at Cole, who was smiling.
" Well , I have to say I never saw that one coming, but congrats anyway. Now lets go get our wives before they do something stupid."
In the attic...
" Hey, hows it going up here?" the sisters orbed in to see the children hard at work. Brian was over a map swinging one of the most powerful crystals they had over it. While Patience was looking at the book while Wyatt threw them in a boiling pot, and Chris was scribbling furiously over a pad of paper. They all looked up from their appointed task when they entered.
" Well, the potion is coming. I don't know if it is going to work. Since I don't know exactly how her power works. Or even all the powers she has. So I am just mixing and matching and hoping for the best, and since nothing has exploded yet. I am thinking it working out ok. We need some Billings Root, but we don't have any up here." she looked Piper. " Do you know if you have any in the kitchen?" Piper nodded her head.
" Yeah, should be in the third cupboard to the left of the refriderator. I will go down and get it for you." She started to turn around to go downstairs, but Patience yelled out after her.
" No, its ok Aunt Pip-" she got cut off, and when she finished she was standing in the kitchen. She took a step and kinda lost her balance. Did I just shimmer? I just shimmered! Why do I have to get a new power now! she thought to herself, but she could hear Phoebe screaming frantically for her.
" Patience! Patience? Patience!" Patience looked at the cupboard and found the Billings Root right where Piper said it would be. Then she shrugged shoulders. Why not? she thought to herself. She closed her eyes and thought of the attic, and when she opened them she was there. Everybody was staring at her, and she felt self-conscious.
" I got the Billings Root." She held up the bottle and laughed a little. Cole smiled real big and ran up to give her a hug.
" My little girl can shimmer!" Patience looked at him with a raised eyebrow.
" Yeah, great just what I need. Another power, I do good to control the ones I have." as soon as she finished Chris let out a yell.
" I got it!" he screamed, which scared Patience. She rose her hands in the air, and a flame of fire came out of it. Brian acting quickly held out his hand, and the flame redirected his way, and went into his hand. Patience crossed her arms and looked at Cole.
" See!" she said in a I told ya so sort of way. Cole was about to open his mouth, but Piper interrupted.
" Not now Cole." she looked at him, and he shut his mouth. " Chris what were you screaming about?"
" Well... I think I just figured out how we can find her." He looked at Wyatt with a smug smile on his face.
" Well what is it?" Piper asked.
" Well, I rewrote the to call a lost witch spell. The thing is Brian is gonna have to say it, but instead of calling her to us. We are going go to her." Piper smiled.
" Good thinking Chris, other than that is everything ready?" She looked at Paitence and Wyatt. Wyatt added the Billings Root, and the potion went poof, and Brian took the spell Chris had written. They were all ready to go demon hunting.