Authors Note: so this chapter is going to have some foul language, I couldnt help it Neil isn't the nicest Person on earth. Ummm... and there will be a little bit of umm... unpleasantness. Just warning you.

Disclaimer: okies so I don't own charmed or any thing related to it, i.e. the setting or the characters. The only characters that are mine are Sara and Jill and Neil.

A light in the dark

Chapter Two: SARA

Sara Cunningham entered the Halliwel house in a bad mood.

Why was it that right when she started doing something that she'd get a call from piper or one of the other Halliwel sisters asking if she could come and baby-sit Wyatt. Not that she minded watching the child; heck Sara had grown rather attached to the boy. But when a sitting job interrupted her life like this one was Sara usually quit. When for instance Sara was about to go shopping for her groceries and she was called to baby-sit just as she was entering the store. Sara could understand that happening once maybe even twice, but that wasn't the case. It seemed that whenever Sara was about to start anything she would get a call. Normally Sara would have already quite, but she liked Wyatt and his family too much to do that to them. The only time the only time she got really angry with them was when they would leave before Sara got there. That really made Sara angry. Leaving a child unattended for any length of time was dangerous, she should know. Sara shuddered trying to keep the unpleasant memories from surfacing up to the forefront of her thoughts.

After closing and locking the front door Sara made her way up to the baby's room. When she got up there, Sara saw that Wyatt was sound asleep. She smiled and gave him a small kiss on his forehead.

After she made sure that Wyatt was all right Sara headed downstairs to get her backpack and a drink. Once she had them Sara headed back up stairs to Wyatt.

Making herself comfortable in the white rocking chair by Wyatt's crib, Sara pulled a small white book out of her backpack. Inside the book were pictures of Sara and a young girl of about two.

Jill Cunningham had been Sara's baby girl she had been Sara's pride and joy. Yet she had been the result of something so heinous that Sara sometimes couldnt bear to think of it.

When she had been about seventeen Sara had fallen in with a bad crowd. She had been constantly getting into trouble. She didn't understand the danger she was in. She had been going steady with her boyfriend Neil Banta for three months when it happened.

It was a Wednesday when it happened. The previous night Sara had walked in on Neil cheating on her with a friend of hers. She had called it quits right then and there. Sara had stormed out of the small apartment that she had been sharing with him. She had left so fast that she had forgotten her wallet. She cursed herself for her idiocy every time she thought of that. Sara had spent the night and most of the next day with her parents before going back to get her wallet. When she had gotten back to her former apartment she had found it empty so she decided to stay for a few minutes longer to gather up a few personal belongings before she left forever. While she was in the middle of packing he had come back.

Sara closed her eyes and thought back to that moment.

"You stupid little bitch, you were with him weren't you"? He had come barreling through the door with that statement.

Sara dropped the clothes she was holding and looked up at Neil. He was holding a knife that was covered with blood.

"Oh god Neil what have you done", Sara half screamed?

"You were with him weren't you, you good for nothing piece of shit?"

"What are you talking about, I wasn't with anyone last night, except for my parents? So who ever HIM is I wasn't there!"

" Don't lie to me you stupid bitch!"

Sara backed away from Neil slowly. She had never seen anyone so angry and so obviously unstable. She couldnt think of whom Neil thought she was with. Unless, no that couldnt be it. He was Neil's best friend, and Sara had no interest in any of Neil's friends.

"I wasn't with any one but my parents last night. What have you done?"

Neil's face was contorted with rage. Sara knew that if he came back while she was there that there might be a fight, but she had never expected this.

Suddenly from out of a deep fog Sara heard a baby cry out.

Sara heard the cry again and snapped out of her reverie.

Wyatt, something must be wrong with Wyatt. Sara got up from her chair and looked over Wyatt. He let out another wail. "Hey Hon, what's wrong huh?"

Wyatt squirmed in his crib.

"I bet I know what's wrong mister man. Do you need your diaper changed?"

Sara picked Wyatt up and placed him on the changing table.

"Oh you are a stinky little man aren't you. "?

Sara thought about what had happened after she had failed to convince Neil about where she had been that night.

Neil had gone completely out of control. He had hit her over and over again. He had hit her until she had been in a senseless fog. Then he had... she couldnt bare to think of it. He had raped her. After he finished with her he had left saying, "never lie to me again you bitch".

Sara had slipped into a void of unconsciousness. She had heard from the hospital staff when she had woken up three days later that she had been found by a concerned neighbor who had seen Neil rush out of the building. Neil had been arrested when he had tried to hold up a convenience store.

Sara had found out that she had been lucky to survive the "encounter", as they called it. She had three broken bones and had been stabbed in the back with the knife that Neil had used to kill his best friend bill. She still had the long scar on her back.

It had taken here four months just to get out of the hospital. By then she had become resigned to the fact that she was pregnant with Neil's baby. She was even looking forward to raising the child.

Sara got to spend two happy years with Jill before she was taken away from her. Jill, it turned out had Ebstiens Anomaly, a rare heart condition. She had died two months before her third birthday. Sara had to undergo two years of therapy before she could even stand to look at another child.

After that she had started a babysitting service consisting of about twelve babysitters. The business was a year and a half and going strong. Sara was happy finally in a long time she was happy.

She had been working with the Halliwel's for about three months, and she couldnt be happier.

After she had finished changing Wyatt she put him down to sleep and went down stairs to get him some food.

Authors Note, again: sorry there's so much back story but I couldnt think of how to put it in any other way. I hope that you enjoyed the story and if I offended you at any point, a thousand apologies!