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Chapter six
"Leo," Piper said. "Can you heal her?"
"I'm not sure." He walked over to the little girl and tried anyway.
Paige stared at the child. She looked vaguely familiar. "Where's Phoebe?" Paige questioned just above a whisper.
"You're staring at her," Piper answered with a hint of detectable anger in her voice.
"I'm sorry?" Paige questioned.
Phoebe woke up with a gasp. She looked at her surroundings and looked at the people surrounding her. She let out an ear piercing shriek followed by shouts of "GRAMS!" She started crawling backwards, away from those surrounding her.
"Honey, Grams is not here," Piper tried.
"Where is she? Where am I?" little Phoebe mumbled. "PRUE!"
"Honey –"
"Piper? A word?" Leo asked.
"Piper?" little Phoebe questioned. "I know Piper, and that is not Piper!" little Phoebe had backed herself into a corner and sat on the floor with her knees drawn to her chest. "Who are you!" little Phoebe yelled.
Leo dragged Piper away from little Phoebe, dragging Paige with them both as well. "This is past Phoebe… You need to watch you say so as to not alter her world, which means –"
"No mention of Grams," Piper finished.
"I think he's leaning towards the bigger one, Piper," Paige said, referring to herself and the Prue situation.
"So how do we avoid that?"
In the midst of Piper, Paige and Leo's conference, little Phoebe ceased it upon herself to sneak out of the attic and into, what she remembered, to be her bedroom.
"Make up lies."
Piper sighed. "Phoebe honey…" Piper looked around the attic. "Where did she go? Guys, where did she go?"
They heard a shriek from downstairs and they all ran towards it.
"My room!" little Phoebe cried. "What happened to my room! Where are my dolls, my teddies, my pictures of Johnny?"
"Johnny?" Paige asked.
"Huge obsession with Johnny Depp."
"Where am I!" She screamed.
"Sweetie you're…" Piper looked around at Leo or Paige for some kind of help.
"You're dreaming, honey," Paige tried.
"Dreaming?" Piper spat. Not even she would believe that at little Phoebe's age… how old was little Phoebe anyway? Paige and Leo shot Piper a steely-eyed glare. She rolled her eyes."That's right honey, dreaming…" She played.
Little Phoebe put her hands on her hips. "How dumb do you think I am?" She spat.
"Watch your tone, missy!" Piper snapped. "Just because you don't exactly know us doesn't mean you can take a tone with us either."
Phoebe raised a brow.
"Well I am ten… how can you expect me to believe that I am dreaming?"
Piper stomped her foot in frustration. "Is there some kind of spell where we can make her believe what we say?" She asked turning to her husband.
Little Phoebe scrunched her face up in confusion… spell? She thought.
"Do I really need to answer that, Piper?" Leo asked with an eyebrow raised in sarcasm.
Piper sighed in frustration. "I don't have time for this."
"We gotta make time Piper! She is our sister for crying out loud!"
"Paige!" Leo hissed.
"Sister?" little Phoebe yelled. "I am not your sister! My sisters are not as pale as you; we have color in our skin tone!"
"Hey!" Paige snapped.
Piper froze little Phoebe. "Easy tiger, she's a kid."
"Was she always that mean to strangers?" Paige snapped.
"Kinda…" Piper tried to remember.
"I'm not that pale… am I?" Paige pouted.
"Well –" Leo began.
"No time!" Piper yelled. "Two demons in the one day, what the hell?" Piper yelled at the roof, trying to deliver her message to the elders.
Leo cocked his head sideways as though listening to something…
"Leo?"
"A diary?" He asked.
"What?" Piper asked back.
"Shh!" Leo hissed. He continued to listen with a far away glance on his face.
Piper looked at Paige with a frustrated glance and Paige threw her hands up in question.
"Where?" Leo asked. Silence… Leo walked over to the chest of drawers and tried to open it to no avail. Leo held his hand over the drawer – rather than his hand turning yellow, as it would to heal, it turned blue – and the drawer popped open.
"How did you…?" Piper began to ask but stopped herself when she saw Leo pull out Phoebe's diary. "I wouldn't do that Leo. If Phoebe," she looked at little Phoebe and let out an annoyed grunt, before continuing, "Big Phoebe finds out we went trough her diary, we are gone… like goner than gone!"
"The Elders say it's vital to the mystery of little Phoebe." He placed the diary on the table and held his hand over it. The diary burst open and flipped to the last entry written. He picked it up and read silently.
After what felt like ages, he finally put it down and looked at his wife and sister-in-law with a solemn look. "Oh boy…"
"You can't just say that after reading something from our sister's diary, Leo," Piper said. "This is Phoebe we are talking about – do you know how much emotion that girl has?"
"Apparently enough for her subconscious to turn her into a child…"
"What?" Piper and Paige spat.
"Listen to this… 'I still remember the world from the eyes of a child. Slowly those feelings were clouded by what I know now… Pure and white as the driven snow, she doesn't know…The wicked ways of the world have not found her young, restless heart…She is blind to the darkness that surrounds her young innocent life … Cool, cool innocence; how I yearn to have that back once again.' She's done it to herself without even realizing it."
"Only Phoebe could and would do something like that, whether she's big or little! Now instead of worrying about one big thing, we gotta worry about two of them!" Piper let out.
"Don't lose it now. There is plenty of time to lose it later. Now we need to find Prestyn. Remember? Cole has her somewhere that Leo can't sense her; we need to get priorities in order before we panic. So now that the Phoebe mystery is solved…" Paige let on.
"Right…" Piper agreed. "Orb little Phoebe to magic school with the boys and come back as soon as you can. We're going to venture into the underworld."
