Thanks again for all the reviews. I try and work in a little past Charmed into my story. Usually it's because of a rerun I've just watched and it's stuck in my mind but, I haven't seen the one where Prue got married in a while so, I could be wrong about Piper wearing jeans but, I'm pretty sure it was pants. I'll have to look out for the episode so I can check.
"You can still bail, it's not to late." Wyatt teased.
"Shut up." Chris glared as the music began playing and everyone turned to the stairs. Chris watched as Buffy came into view and smiled at the choice of dress as he was thrown back in time.
Chris stood waiting at the bottom of the stairs trying to ignore Paige as she snapped away with her camera.
"Will you st..." He trailed off as Buffy came into view. He looked from the tiny silver strappy stiletto shoes, to the long full flowing skirt to the tight corset like bodice of the dress, all in shades of green. She looked amazing with her hair piled into a slightly messy updo with tendrils framing her face. She seemed to float down the stairs as the dress moved around her. Chris swallowed hard trying to remember to breath. "You look.. You look amazing."
Don't fall Buffy repeated over and over in her head taking a deep breath before she began her decent. Her eyes met Chris's and they locked. The rest of the world faded away as she took her first step beginning her decent down the floral adorned staircase.
"It's perfect." Mel said happily as her mother and Aunts turned to her annoyed.
She never saw him coming.
"Buffy!" Chris screamed as the figure appeared behind her disappearing with his bride before anyone could react.
"You just had to say it." Piper sighed.
One minute she was walking down the stairs the next she was here, but where was here? And who brought her she wondered furiously as she spun around to face her kidnapper only to find herself alone. She could sense evil all around her.
"Chris!" She screamed waiting for him to orb in after a few minutes with no reaction she began to worry. "Leo! Kyle! Paige! ANYONE!" She called frantically as she began to realize just where she was and why they we're not coming.
"Still nothing?" Paige pestered Kyle as Phoebe scryed.
"No, I can't sense her, but that doesn't mean anything, we all know she can block me." Kyle replied.
"But why would she?" Phoebe asked throwing down the crystal.
"I don't know, maybe she doesn't realize she is, she does it unconsciously sometimes." Kyle shrugged.
"There's nothing in here." Wyatt said frustrated slamming the book shut.
"I still want to know who the hell that guy was." Phoebe said.
"A guy in a hooded black robe that can disappear, not a lot to go on." Paige replied. "But why Buffy is the real question."
"She's the slayer." Cole replied. "To demons killing her is a way to make a big name for yourself." He said instantly regretting the words as they all turned to Chris. Chris sat staring blankly out the window as Piper and Leo quietly talked to him getting no response.
"Don't worry, we'll get her back." Wyatt added quickly as they all waited for him to have some kind of response. It was as if he was in shock, he hadn't said a word since screaming her name. This wasn't Chris, he reacted, he got angry, he fought. They were worried.
"I don't understand." Chris said suddenly.
"You don't understand what?" Piper asked when they realized he wasn't going to continue.
"I'm supposed to be so powerful, more powerful than Wyatt, but I couldn't even stop one lousy demon from kidnaping her." Chris replied calmly.
"There was nothing any of us could do." Leo began.
"No." Chris interrupted. "She's gone, disappeared without a trace, I couldn't even..." He trailed off furiously grabbing the edge of the elaborately decorated table and turning it over. They watched as the carefully placed orderves and towering mountain of white frosting smashed into the floor.
"Feel Better?" Piper asked after he attacked the rest of the decor.
"No." Chris sighed as he sat on the step burring his head in his hands. "I can't sense her."
"I know, neither can Kyle." Leo began.
"No, she can't block me." Chris interrupted. "I can always sense her, she can't block me."
"Does that mean..." Mel trailed off unsurely.
"She's not dead." Chris began. "I don't know how, but I just know she's not But, she's in trouble."
"Then where is she?" Phoebe asked. "Someone must be blocking us from finding her."
"So where back to figuring out who." Wyatt began. "We find out who, we find out where they have her."
"Or, to be able to block us from finding her, they have to be using a lot of powerful magic, so if we scry for that." Paige began excitedly.
"We find her." Phoebe finished picking back up the crystal. "I'm not getting anything out of the ordinary." She sighed after a few minutes. "Every time I look for powerful magic, it just lands here."
"Where the hell is she." Paige grumbled taking over the scrying.
"What did you say?" Chris asked suddenly looking up.
"Um, where the hell is she." Paige replied confused.
"We're so stupid." Chris began excitedly. "I know where she is"
"Hey, wait you know where she is?" Paige asked.
"She's in the underworld." Chris said hurriedly.
"How can you be sure?" Wyatt asked.
"I just am, and I'm going to go find her." Chris replied orbing out.
"Don't Panic." Buffy ordered herself. Sure she was the slayer but, she'd just gotten her powers back, she wasn't exactly feeling 100 and adding to that she didn't really know how to control the new powers she'd gotten. Even if al that wasn't true, the last place she ever wanted to find herself was alone in the underworld with no way out. Who knew what kinds of demons she run into, or what powers they'd have. She couldn't just stay there though, someone had gone to the trouble of bringing her there and she either had to wait and face them or, the unknown evil out there. With a decisive nod she slowly made her way down the dimly lit cavern.