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Reminder: Craig insists on having another spirited sing song with Chris is in the air vent much to the girls' dismay, and the demonic council are up to something in this chapter.
Chris stared at Carla who was now standing her hands behind her back swaying gently, did she just… what the…?
"Huh?" Chris spluttered.
"You heard me, no flirting with Whitelighters." She leaned over waggling her finger at him.
"Right… Wait, you're a witch?" Chris asked.
Carla shook her head a grin now spreading across her flawless face.
Chris shrugged, he didn't like games where he was losing.
"Well then, we have to go find Craig and Paige!" She smiled and jogged down the corridor.
"Wait… what are you?!" Chris yelled his arms stretched out in irritation.
The photocopygirl swung round and stared at him, "I'm a firestarter. There is a reason this building is going to kill everyone you know."
Chris walked over to her, "What?" He asked intrigued. Ignoring her firestarter comment.
"Weeell, some guys on the 5th floor were doing top secret stuff and they were discovering the existence of demons, they nearly did actually." Carla said glumly. "The Elders sent me here when it opened to protect them… but I guess… I suck at that kind of job."
Chris decided to divert the conversation to more pressing issues like where their fellow friends had gone. He looked at her face, "It's ok we'll sort this out." Unsure of his own voice, he murmured. He wrapped he arms around her to make her feel better. It worked Piper did it to Leo. He felt her breath in, that was a good sign.
"Come on, we have to find Craig and Paige," he muttered.
"Fine," She wriggled away from him and raced towards the stairs, all her fears and sadness had evaporated, she was smiling again, even if they were trapped.
Chris was confused by this woman, why was she like that?
He knew that if he didn't find other members of the human race, this woman would drive him mad.
"Are you coming?" she squealed, standing by the stair case.
Chris growled, this was going to take forever, as he shuffled towards.
"Paige! They aren't your parents!" Craig tried to explain, it wouldn't matter even if he cracked a joke, she was too far gone for him to reach her. Unless … he reached into her skirt pocket and pulled her purse out quickly so as not to make her suspect any male… stuff.
He flicked through, whoa were her sisters HOT stuff! Ah, yes this was the one he was looking for. He slid a photo of her parents stand in front of some camping hut. The photo meant nothing to Craig but Paige seemed to be touched by it, aw her little eyes had stopped watering and were now…
"Did I say you could go in my purse?" She snapped snatching the photo off him.
Back to reality at last! Craig breathed a sigh of relief, he had dealt with a lot of women but none that told him off for showing them photos of their family… he hadn't gone to a girls house before so he wasn't sure about whether girls liked that kind of thing. Paige glared at him.
Obviously not.
Barbas once again astral projected beside Paige, "Well, well, well. I suppose we have gone through all your fears… what about yours hm?" He stalked over to Craig who was now helping the Charmed one to her feet.
Barbas wove his hand past his face and examined it, "Hmm, we well don't like heights. BUT our greatest fear is something else. Want me to show you?" Barbas snapped his fingers and melted into the air.
Paige clutched his arm tightly and they walked down the corridor clinging to each other.
Paige looked at the floor, a pool of water was oozing down the corridor underneath their feet. Craig ignored it and continued to walk along.
Paige noticed the water getting deeper.
Craig yelped throwing her backwards as an electrical wire swinging dangerously close to the water.
"Go back." He yelled.
Paige not sure what his plan was at all raced back to the stairs and climbed halfway up to avoid the water, then stared back down at Craig who was approaching the electrical wire, that now swung dangerously close to the water crackling with electricity.
"What the HELL are you doing?" She screamed.
"I'm going to move the wire! Then we can keep going." He replied coolly.
"You're going to get killed!" She screamed.
"This is interesting!" Barbas muttered in his astral form. "Fine, that is up to you though."
Paige quickly raced towards him through the water, "Wire!" She cried and orbed the thing from the wall to her hand hurriedly.
"Now go!" She said pushing him along.
Craig stared at her in horror but obviously ignored it and ran down the corridor, at the end he and Paige swung round examining the area.
"Ok… so it wasn't my best idea… But that was just the starter. The main course is to die for!"
Paige saw someone approaching them down the corridor, it looked like a woman.
"Carla?" She asked.
"At last me warriors can finish this!" Dalia smiled malevolently.
"Once they are in they can not escape." The Head reminded her.
"Still, once they have killed everyone the curse is finished." The Trok demon agreed.
The Head shrugged.
"Well let's watch how real demons do their job." Dalia grinned.
"Which way up or down?" Carla asked, standing by the stairs.
"Down, that's where they went isn't it?" Chris replied.
He looked around and saw a camera whirring around and pinning him to the spot.
"What is that?" He asked stepping closer the camera following.
"We have a camera system, they have practically bugged the entire building, along with the PA system." Carla replied shrugging.
"Wait, could people be watching this?" Chris asked hopefully.
Carla shrugged, "The control centre is on the 3rd floor, maybe we could find it there?"
"Ok…" Chris wasn't sure.
Barbas materialised behind him, "You have just given me the perfect idea!" He cackled to Chris.
"You fear is for everyone to know how you are feeling, you prefer no one to be let in. In case they are hurt. Like your mother was… will."
Barbas vanished, the boy had given him the perfect plan.
Frank and Sam had been trapped in the room for 2 hours now, the windows had been bricked over and serious doubt was creeping upon them. In the room was 8 dead colleagues along with them, each one died painful humiliating deaths, each one died in fear. Their only comfort was that they were alive, and the security camera system televisions covering an entire wall of the room.
From there they could see people running away from unknown ghosts scientists causing themselves to combust into flames. Everyone had gone crazy, everyone being either killed by each other or something else. Some thing Frank sure didn't want to know about. He didn't want to die with a look of pure terror on his face, more satisfaction he had achieved what his main goal in life had been.
He just had to find the right kind of woman to feed his goals. He sat in his chair staring at the screens in horror as more and more people were getting killed by mainly now each other. Then…
He saw a chestnut haired girl in a stairwell with a dark haired man, Frank saw how beautiful she was and became instantly infatuated by her, leaned closer to the screen listened to her melodic voice,
"We have to find to Paige and Craig!" She said angrily.
"I think we should too, why is this an argument with you?" The dark haired man asked frustrated.
"Because, if what you said about Barbas is right… we need to find something to protect ourselves, a knife or something. How are we going to help them if we are dead huh?" She explained.
"Sure, it's just, today is the first time I have been in this building, so you tell me where to go and I'll follow you. How is that?"
Frank could feel the drool running down his chin. She was gorgeous.
"Well, hello there." Barbas smiled as the large man leaned closer to the camera screen.
"Hmm well then your fear is simple, you fear that you will die never truly satisfied… wow that's a new one. Fear of dying is always a catalyst I suppose. Well you won't be needing that guy, he is far to whiny. Let's get rid of him." Barbas was enjoying this game, toying with people's emotions was what made the job all the more fun.
Phoebe raced home and flew through the front door, throwing her keys and coat on the floor and climbing the stairs to the attic, where Piper stood studying the Book of Shadows.
"Got anything?" She asked quickly.
"I wish…" Piper slammed the huge tome shut.
"Well, now there is not only a brick wall around the building but some electrical field."
"How?" Piper asked bewildered.
"Not quite sure yet, I'll let you know. But two people are dead because of it. We need to figure this out before more innocents are killed." Phoebe explained her voice filled with panic.
"Ok… who does that kind of thing?" Piper asked blowing up a box of clothes to vent her frustration.
"Wait a sec… remember last year when Barbas got out powers and locked us in the house? You know bricked us in?"
"Yeah…" Piper was cottoning on.
"This is him just on a larger scale." Phoebe explained happily jumping up and down.
"PHOEBE!" Piper screamed. "If that is the case don't you think that…hmm I don't know that our sister and my son are going to killed by their own fears?"
Phoebe slowed down jumping till she stopped.
"Oh my God!" She muttered.
"How are we going to get in there if people get killed touching it?" Piper asked.
"Look in the book again, check out Barbas maybe there is a little more on him we haven't seen." Phoebe suggested.
Piper flipped the cover of the tome over, sometimes the Book would add it's own little things at the right time to help the sisters. Piper prayed that this would be now.
"Oh my God!" Paige screamed, "RUN!" Craig and Paige raced back towards the stairs, realisation was setting in fast, that was a demon.
She didn't know which but it didn't look in the mood to try and help them escape the building.
"Who is that?" Craig asked as Paige raced down the stairs clutching Craig's wrist tightly. "Paige!"
"Ok…" Paige paused, "THAT my friend is a demon, who will stop at nothing to kill me and you. But mainly me." Then she continued to race down the stairs leaving go of his hand.
"WAIT! WHAT? PAIGE!" He yelled running after her.
"I told you!" She replied. Then went back up the stairs. She had a plan.
She stood at the end of the corridor, a couple of steps above the water, the Harpy was walking down and quickly orbed the wire to the water, it still had electricity in it, she hoped it was enough. The Harpy looked down at the wire as electricity flowed up her body, she howled and burst into flames.
Craig took one looked at Paige and ran away quickly.
"No Craig wait! It's not safe!" She called after him running after him.
"What the Hell are you?" He asked shakily.
"I'm a … no easier way to this… uh, I'm a witch!" Craig cringed as she said it and raced away up the stairs hurtling into Carla who was on her way down the stairs. Chris close behind.
"Stay away from me!" He warned Paige.
"What happened?" Chris asked.
"She did something… and now she says she is witch."
"Well we are too!" Carla said unaware of the reason Craig was running.
Chris wanted to throw her down the stairs, didn't she know he was running because he was scared.
"You're all a bunch of freaks." He cried.
"Nope not freaks, we are the same people in the lift shaft just now you know our secrets." Paige explained lightly.
Craig inched away.
"Please understand we aren't here to hurt you." Chris tried the more gentler approach.
"But, you won't hurt me…?" Craig whimpered.
"Nope." Carla said softly.
"Ok." Craig suddenly brightened up.
"Wow, that was quick." Chris started to think that Carla and Craig would be more than happy together, they both changed their emotions like Phoebe changed shoes. In other words extremely often.
"Ok! Let's go, we need someway to protect ourselves." Paige said nervously, she was still shaken from the Harpy attack.
"We were going to find some stuff actually." Carla said.
"Ok, where?" Paige asked.
"We could go to the canteen downstairs." Craig pointed out, "Lots of sharp stuff in there. Let's just hope no one tries to kill us on the way."
"Rats they found each other quickly, wait a minute how did that Harpy get in here. I'd better go warn the council. Dalia is messing in my affairs again." Barbas said and shimmered away.
Frank stood over Sam's dead body, he had been weak and pathetic and Frank could not stand people like that, now back to Carla. Once he had her on her own he would find her and make her surrender to him. He was going to die anyway. But first he needed a weapon of his own, he went into a drawer and pulled off the fake bottom and found Kea, his best friend, the one who stood by him over the years, the one he would die with, a long machete, being a butcher in his former job had made him love the sight of knives, shiny things, over the years trapped in this room he had promised the weapon that she would do what she had been forged to do. It wasn't long now. Then he would die happily. The group descended the stairs on their way to the canteen in the basement. The idiot was singing another song, again!
He would take great pleasure in ripping his throat open, Kea would like that.
"I know a song that'll get on your nerves get on your nerves get on your nerves I know a song that'll get on your nerves get, get, get on your nerves."
"Shut up Craig." Carla said angrily.
"I know a song that'll get on your nerves get on your nerves get on your nerves I know a song that'll get on your nerves get, get, get on your nerves."
"Craig!" Paige growled.
"I know a song that'll get on your nerves get on your nerves get on your nerves I know a song that'll get on your nerves get, get, get on your nerves."
"Craig come on man!" Chris said irritated.
"It was as I told you guys before, songs lift our spirits," Craig explained making over large gestures with his hands.
"I know a song that'll get on your nerves get on your nerves get on your nerves I know that'll get on your nerves get, get, get on your nerves."
"Craig!" Carla swung around her hand was on fire.
Craig backed away whimpering, and he went and knelt by Paige like a dog.
"Craig stop it." This was one of his immature moments, Paige decided.
"Ooh, I was right." He grinned.
"What?" Paige snapped.
"You are wearing pink underwear!" Paige pushed him away and continued walking.
"You sent your minions to do my job Dalia? I am ashamed the council does not trust me!" Barbas stood before the council.
"Barbas, it has been half a day, how many are dead?" The Head asked abruptly.
"There is under 10 people still alive in the building, our secret won't be spread, have no fear." Barbas bowed.
"Trok send in your minions." The Head said bluntly.
"Wait, sir, why? I am doing fine on my own." Barbas said annoyed.
"No questions, I want ALL the humans dead by tonight, then you can killed witches Barbas." The Head replied indifferently.
"As you wish, my lord." Barbas shimmered away.
"When do we kill him?" The Gremlock asked.
"Once he has done what he has set out to do." The Head replied.
The projection of the building reappeared.
I know this chapter was quite weak but it's all building up to the next Chapter promise. Don't let me down keep reviewing, Oh yeah and I'm thinking of the splitting the group again. Not sure, let me know in your reviews. Thanks for reading my work.