Where is the Love?
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Charmedbaby11: looks around room too Where are they? Hang on… this is my story! Oops!
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Grams paced around the room as Leo closed his eyes and concentrated on Phoebe, Piper, Prue and Paige. Leo's calm expression didn't change for several minutes until finally he opened his eyes with a defected sigh.
"I can't sense them anywhere," He stated sadly. Penny turned to her white lighter grand-son-in-law. Even though she'd always disproved of Piper's marriage to him, she'd learnt to love him as Piper's husband, trying to forget he was the charmed sisters white lighter. He was always willing to save the girls, as he was with the rest of his charges, but that was just what annoyed Penny.
"Leo, you've got to try harder. We can't let Prue or Paige, or even both, dies," Penny stressed.
Leo glared at her, "So, you'd allow Piper and Phoebe to die but not you're precise Prue or Paige. Penny, you've completed let Piper down since Paige came in, and now you're willing to let her die as long as Prue and Paige are saved?"
"No!" Penny cried, "I love Piper and Phoebe and the rest of the sisters as much as any grandma would, but Leo…" She hesitated, "If Prue and Paige die, the whole of the charmed line stops."
"But, that's what would happen if Phoebe or Piper died too."
"No, it's Piper's destiny to live, as it is Phoebe's, but Prue and Paige's destiny is about to get ripped apart—"
"Damn destiny!" Leo argued, "It's always destiny that gets between this family."
Penny looked at Leo sympathetically, he was right; destiny was always what hurt the sisters most.
"That killed Prue; it stopped them seeing Prue, it made sure Paige wasn't brought up with her rightful family…" Leo continued.
"Yes, but it was what also what brought Paige back to the sisters, it brought Phoebe, Piper and Prue closer together and it brought Phoebe back from New York. I understand your pain, Leo, but you can't just blame it on one thing or person, be it destiny or Jade."
Leo sighed again and tried to calm down. It was always a stress when his wife and sisters went away to fight demons but now it was worse because they hadn't meant to leave. He knew Piper could take care of herself but she was also under a lot of stress since Wyatt had been kidnapped. And as her powers were connected to her emotions, she could have a temporal power vanish as Phoebe had. But Phoebe had lost her powers and only got them back recently, if Piper lost her powers it would be up to Paige and she only had the power of orb and orbing telekinesis, hardly as useful as Piper's freezing and exploding power. Suddenly he remembered something.
"Paige still has Piper's power!" He stated.
Penny looked at him, confused.
"Piper swapped her powers with Paige to save her but they didn't swap them back. Now Piper has disappeared with powers she can't use as well, as well as Paige."
"Well, Piper might be able to master Paige's powers as they are only orbing and telekinesis. It's Paige we should be worried about, exploding and freezing is a difficult power to master, even Piper experienced that when she first received her powers." Penny explained calmly, her pacing restarted. Leo nodded, remembering when Piper first received her freezing and could only freeze things when she panicked, which wasn't useful when she need to freeze time when she wasn't scared. Then her exploding powers had come and she completely lost control.
Penny looked up hopefully when she heard Leo sigh, but he was still trying to sense the sisters.
"Leo, you do know I love Piper and phoebe as much as Prue and Paige but it's just, Prue seems to have no memory of her death," Penny explained, Leo looked questioningly at Penny.
"So, she should?" Leo questioned.
"Of course, I do, don't I?" Leo nodded slowly, "Well, Prue had a wonderful afterlife and it doesn't make sense for her to simply forget it."
"But, the elders thought…"
"As Piper says, the Elders aren't always right. Why do you think they didn't want you or the sisters to leave the manor? Just for their own plain enjoyment? Leo, if Paige dies and Prue continues to live, the girls' destiny will be thrown back three years. All the good they've done… Only they'll know Paige ever existed, Prue will completed take Paige's place." Leo gasped at the seriousness. He had simply assumed that the Elders had simply not wanted him involved, not that the Charmed Ones' destiny was a stake. He turned his back on Penny and his shoulders fell loosely. 'Where are they?' He thought desperately. He just hoped Penny was over reacting, for his wife and her sisters' sakes.
Penny placed a reassuring hand on Leo's shoulder.
"It's okay, the girls will be able to handle it, and it's in their…" She hesitated, a small smile playing on her lips, "They'll be okay."
Leo smiled at his wife's grand-mother. Even though he knew she'd never warmed to him marrying Piper, she had come from the afterlife to conduct the ceremony. She'd never had much luck with men and that's what had coursed her cool attitude to Wyatt and Leo, but even she'd managed to work around that in time and she had learnt to love them both.
"I'm sorry, but it's that Piper's always worrying she'll die before Wyatt has had chance to grow up. And, I just don't want that nightmare to happen, the boys need their mother," He stated.
Penny nodded, "I understand Leo, I may have been dead but just because I don't breath doesn't mean I don't hear things."
Leo almost laughed at Penny's humor even though he could see her stress in her eyes. At least she was here and safe, he would have broke down without some support.
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Review, review... more questions please. Where are the sisters? What was that flash of light? Is Jade involved?
