Took me long enough, didn't it…? Well I've been busy, hope you'll enjoy this chapter. Thanks for all the reviews!
Knocking on heavens door
Chapter four: Devil unleashed
Piper was going through the Book of Shadows like 100th when Leo orbed in. "Did the know anything?" she asked right away. Though she didn't like the Elders very much, she had put all her hope on them, since she couldn't find anything helpful in the book. "Yeah, as amazing as it sounds, they did", Leo answered. "Well, what is it, what's wrong with her?" Leo bit his lower lip. "Leo?" "Let's go downstairs. I think everyone should hear this…"
Leo was worried, very worried. Piper could see that. She followed him to Ashley's room, trying to think what could be that bad. "Dad! Did you find out anything?" Chris asked as they came to the room. "I did. Sit down, we need to talk." Wyatt and Chris looked at each other and sat down. Mel and Lisa both looked at their uncle very afraid. "So… what did you find out?" Paige asked.
Leo sighed. "The Elders told me that Devil has woken up", he said. "The Devil? It actually exists?" Wyatt said. "No, not that devil. The Elders never gave an actual name to it, because it only wakes up like once in a hundred years", Leo explained. "Okay, well, what's that got to do with Ashley?" Piper asked. "Every time Devil wakes up, it's main goal is to kill powerful witches in most horrible ways. Usually he tries to find easy targets…" "Hang on! He kills powerful witches and tries to find easy targets?" Mel said. "Yes. You know, lonely, depressed, alcoholics…" "But Ashley isn't any of those things!" Piper screamed. "You sure? How much do we actually know? During the last few years, she has hardly ever talked about her life", Chris pointed out.
Piper looked at Ashley, who was lying still on her bed. "Most horrible ways…?" she whispered. "Every time is different. Devil has only one weakness, he has only seven days to kill his target, after that he falls back to sleep. So if the witch he has his eye on can fight that long, he or she might survive." "So how long do we have?" Piper asked. "That's the thing. I don't know. Only one who does is Ashley and she can't tell us that right now", Leo answered. "But there must be something we can do for her!" Lisa said. "There is. We can let her know we are here. Maybe that will give her strength to fight…
Piper, Leo and the others might thinks that Ashley was sleeping, but inside her head, she was very awake. She walked around the room she was in, her head filling with awful memories. "Yes… this is where it all started, isn't it? Your room when you were in France. This is where that horrible boy did such a bad thing to you. It left a scar that never healed. No, it's just became deeper and deeper…"
Ashley couldn't see the talker, but his voice made her feel sick. How could he know what happened here? She hadn't told anyone. "You didn't have to tell. I know, Ashley. I know everything. You wanna see what happened here? Just one more time…"
FlashbackAshley had had a wonderful day. She had been in France a week now and she was feeling quite homie. Her family was really nice and they took a really good care of her. Right now she was in their house alone. The parents of the family had gone to a store and their daughter had gone to her dance lesson. So the only one in the house was Ashley. Or so she thought…
"Hey, didn't know you were here." Ashley jumped like three feet. "Oh, hi Jaq… yeah, I didn't know you were here either." Ashley put her diary that she writing on her desk. Jaq was the son of the family. He was quite cute, but for some reason Ashley didn't like him very much. Jaq didn't seem to know that, because he entered the room and sat down on Ashley's bed.
"So… you write a lot?" Jaq asked pointing to Ashley's diary. "I do…" Ashley answered. "Can I see?" "No!" Ashley said and took her diary to her hands. "Why?" "It's a diary! I write quite personal things in it, you know." "Oh, come on, it can't be that bad. Let me see!" Jaq reached his hand to take the diary away from Ashley but she backed away. "No." "Give it to me! I promise I won't laugh." "No!"
Ashley was about to leave the room but Jaq took a hold of her arm. "You're hurting me…" Ashley whispered. "Oh yeah? Well get over it girl, cuz I'm gonna give you a hard ride!" And before Ashley could say anything, Jaq pressed his lips on hers. Ashley tried to scream, to hit, even bite but nothing worked. Soon Jaq started to unbutton her shirt while she tried to escape. But he was too strong. And he knew what he wanted…
End of Flashback
Ashley didn't cry. She didn't have any kind of emotional reaction to what she saw. She just looked at scene. "Yes, this started it. This started to circle that made your aunt stop loving you. This started the circle that will make them all stop loving you…" "Yes…" Ashley whispered. "It would. But they will never find out… Never! They can't…"
"They can't find out…" Everyone turned their heads to Ashley. "Sweetheart?" Piper said but Ashley didn't wake up. "What can't we find out?" Wyatt wondered. "And why?" As an answer to his question, Ashley said: "They wouldn't love me… they can't know…"
All fell silent. Finally, Piper managed to open her mouth: "We have to make her see that we would love her whatever she has done", she said. "Yes, but if she thinks that what she did was so bad that we would stop loving her, we would have to make her know that we know what she did. And still love her. Otherwise she won't believe", Leo said. "So how do we find out?" Chris asked. "Her diaries…" Mel said. "What?" "Her diaries! She has written them all her life! I bet we can find out what she has done from them!" "That's worth a shot", Piper said. "Where does she keep them?"