Truth Hurts

Disclaimer: Don't own Charmed I wish, but if anything here isn't familiar from the show, it's mine.


Wyatt appeared in Piper's arms in millions of blue orbs, but then began fading again.

"Wyatt, stay here!" Piper commanded, but her son continued to fade. She was holding him so tightly that when he disappeared her arms hit her chest. A shrill laugh came from around the corner.

"Demon?" Phoebe asked, turning to her sister. Piper shrugged a stern look on her face. She brought her hands up.

"Come out, right now! And bring my son back!" She cried angrily, blowing rocks out of the wall. The explosion made several rocks fall from the roof, causing a small hole to appear in the roof. Sunlight pooled into the dark room.

Phoebe shakily got to her feet, only to fall forward, clutching her head in pain. Piper ran to her sister's side.

"Pheebs, what's wrong?" Piper asked her eyes scanned the cave for a demon.

"It's… whoa; someone is doing some serious hating… ouch!"

"Yeah, you've got your power back!" Piper smiled, and then it dropped, "Who, can you tell?" Phoebe shook her head slowly. Piper slowly got to her feet, and turned around slowly. "Come out, now, or I'll do some serious damage."

There was the tapping of heels and a figure appeared before her. Automatically, Piper's hands opened to explode her but nothing happened. Well, the explosion happened in the wall behind the person.

"Ghost?" Phoebe asked quietly.

"No, something… worse." Piper shrugged, trying again. The sisters' toke in what the stranger was wearing. A strapless, black dress, with a silk, hooded poncho. The hood was draped over the stranger's face.

Phoebe jumped up and delivered a kick across the figure's head. As she jumped to deliver a second kick she didn't hit anything. She was floating above the scene, she was levitating! It was then she noticed the hood had fallen away from the figures head, to reveal a face.

Piper stood, frozen, staring at the person that the hood had fallen back to reveal.


Paige fell, unsteadily, against the chair that Leo had pushed beneath her.

"Oh my God, that little—" Paige started as Leo brought baby Chris into the lounge, he put his finger to his lips, gently rocking his son. Paige let her face fall into her hands.

"Paige, I'll go get the Book of Shadows, you look after the Chris." Leo said, slipping Chris into Paige's arms. He nodded at his sister in law and then orbed to the attic. Within seconds he was back with the elderly book.

"But… we don't have much information on her. Most of it can be the lie." Paige said quietly, "I knew she was a demon!"

"Well, not a demon." Leo said, flicking through the book. "Remember the demons who tried to kill you and your sisters?" Paige nodded. "Remember this?" He asked, turning the book to face her.

Within its pages, this book held all the secrets of all the demons the Halliwells' had ever encountered. Now it had a page which Paige had never seen before.

It had a picture of a young girl, Jade, in the centre, wearing a long, black, sleeveless dress. And around the picture it told of the girl's amazing history. She was Merlin's daughter, but she couldn't live up to her father's standards and so killed him and turned dark. There was no vanquish but it did say she made the victims' relive their worst moment and brought it to life again. Not to kill them, to make them panic and steal their strategies, passing them off as her own.

"Original." Paige nodded, and then her head snapped up. "Piper, Phoebe, what's was their worst ever moment in life?" Leo glanced at Paige, a stern look on his face.

"Prue."