Authors note: I am terribly sorry for the long time between updates. Just so you guys know I am not abandoning this story and I don't ever intend to abandon it ever. Well unless it is finished, then I might write a sequel. wait I'm getting ahead of myself. Sorry I do that a lot. Oh well I hope that you enjoy this installment of: A Light in the Dark.

Oh and Happy St. Patricks day!

Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed. That really sucks but I'll live.

A Light in the Dark

Last Time:

Who the hell are you and what the fuck are you doing in my cell?"

The stranger smiled even more at that outburst.

"Me Neil? Why I'm the person who's going to get you out of this hell whole. That's who I am."

I'm the person who's going to get you out. Those words repeated over and over in Neil's mind. 'Get you out. Get you out'

And now with out further ado:

Chapter Four: Dark Lighters

"What do you mean your going to get me out?" Neil Banta demanded of the strange man standing in his cell.

Instead of being angry or offended as one might be when someone is being so obviously rude to you, the man gave Neil a benevolent smile and gestured for him to take a seat on his bed so that they could talk.

Once Neil had complied with that 'order' the man started talking.

"My name is Corvus and I am your new best friend. Now why would that be I'm sure you want to ask," the man, Corvus said forestalling Neil who had been about to interrupt.

"I'm your new best friend because I have a way for you to get out of this place, and I can get you what you most desire, a chance to avenge your imprisonment on the one who is responsible for your being in this rather unsavory place."

It took Neil a second to process what Corvus said to him; but when he did he was looking at the man in front of him with a malicious glint in his eye. There was just one question he needed answered.

"Where is she?"

Corvus laughed lightly, "Patients Neil, all things come to those who wait. Now let's see about getting you out of here." With those words Corvus grabbed Neil's arm and they both disappeared in a cloud of black smoke.

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A WEEK LATER:

A week had past since Sara had been called to baby-sit Wyatt and she hadn't been called back since. It wasn't very odd for there to be such a long time between jobs for the Haliwell's, Sara often went a week or two between jobs, but she was worried about little Wyatt. When she had left he was just starting to get sick. She hoped that the Reason that she hadn't been called was because Piper and her Sisters were looking after the child.

Sara was sitting in her office at the Daycare that she had opened wondering if she should call the Haliwell's to check if Wyatt was doing well. She had spent her morning thinking about that issue while she filled out her paperwork. 'by god I really hate paper work. I guess that's what you do in hell, endless paper work'. Sara sighed and decided to take a coffee break while she continued to debate to herself the pro's and con's of calling the Haliwell's. The pro's being that she could find out if Wyatt was doing fine, and as an added bonus maybe it would be Chris that she could talk to. Sara didn't know exactly who Chris was to the Haliwell sisters, but from what she could tell he was a family friend. She didn't think any of the sisters thought of him as a romantic interest, it looked like they viewed him in more of a family member point of view. Though you could be wrong you know. The evil little voice known as her conscious whispered in her head. Sara hated that voice, well actually it wasn't really a voice, and no she was not going crazy thank you very much. It was more like her inner voice giving her a place to bounce ideas off of.

As Sara reentered her office, she noticed something that took the idea of talking to the Haliwell's right out of her mind. There were dozens roses in a Crystal Vase. Sara froze remembering the last time she had been given roses. Neil had gotten her a Rose for every Year she had been alive for her seventeenth birthday. She had been so pleased with him, it had also been a week before he had murdered his best friend and raped her. '

Sara shuddered and pushed unwelcome memories to the back of her mind. Then he noticed the note.

A rose for every year my rose has been alive… Hi Sara dear, it's been too long.

Neil

Sara froze after she read the note. It couldn't be, he was in jail. What if he got out? It's happened before, people have broken out of jail before. Sara shuddered and looked around the office in fear. Seeing no one she rushed to the front desk of her small building and started talking to her startled secretary never noticing the four people who had just walked into the building.

"Amy! Has anyone come into the building recently?" Sara asked urgently.

"No Ms. Cunningham, but there …." Amy was cut off as Sara asked another question.

"So you haven't seen a man with dirty blond hair around 6'5''?" She seemed almost frantic.

"No Ms. Cunningham, but there is someone to see you right now, are you quiet alright?" Amy asked with a concerned expression on her face.

Sara heaved a sigh of relief, it was just a practical joke or something, Neil couldn't have sent her the roses, or brought them himself, there was no way he could he was in prison after all. "Yes I'm fine Amy thank you for asking." Sara remembered she had said that there were people to see her, "oh did you say there were people to see me?"

Amy smiled, her boss wasn't very much older than herself and Amy thought of her as a big sister of sorts, a very forgetful big sister to be sure, but a big sister none the less. "Yes, if you would turn around then you would see who it is."

Sara whirled around and smiled as she spotted a smiling Piper carrying Wyatt, Phoebe, Paige, and best of all Chris. "Oh, hello, sorry didn't see you earlier. How can I help you? Wait let's head to my office first." Sara smiled and started to head back to her office with the Haliwell sisters and Chris following behind her. She didn't have to continue the debate about calling them now.

Once she entered her office the smile died from her face as she saw Neil, along with another man dressed in black pointing what looked like a cross bow at her. The last thing she heard before the arrow hit her was. "Hello honey did you miss me?" Sara gasped in shock and pain, and fell to the floor with an audible thump. The last thing she saw before she passed out was Chris' startled expression.

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Authors Note: muhahaha! I'm done! Don't worry the next chapter will be from Piper's point of view explaining what happens after our dear babysitter is hit with the arrow. I hope to update soon. TA!

Kira

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