As per usual ladies and gentlemen, I DO NOT OWN CHARMED - no Piper, no Phoebe, no Paige or Prue or Leo or Cole sob

I do, however, own Prestyn and I am proud of that :)

Anyways, sorry about the delayed update and sorry if this chappie laggs... Oh and i tried to do the big confrontational scene as best i could, so i hope it is okay. I hope, overall, this chappie is okay... :)

Peace...


Chapter thirteen

Piper froze Leo.

Paige looked at Piper incredulously. "What did you do that for!" She yelled with her hands on her hips. Paige was getting annoyed with the fact that in the past three days she had had to play the eldest sister. She was the youngest, she was the one who should have been throwing her fits and the one to be put in her placeand Piper should have been the one throwing the fit for Paige throwing a fit; but not in this family. Paige had come to grips with that.

"This is ridiculous!" Piper yelled shrilly. She put a hand to her forehead. "How many times in three days can Prestyn be taken from us!"

Paige had had enough. She pushed Piper hard fromthe shoulder, and Piper stumbled backwards. "Unfreeze him! How else are we supposed to know what's happened?" She demanded.

Piper, shocked at the action of her youngest sister, pushed Paige back. "We already know what happened! She got kidnapped – again!"

Paige faced her sister with a scowl, andbrought her face towards Piper's – noses inches away from each other. "Unfreeze him, now!"

Piper wanted to challenge her sister but, instead, grunted and did as told. With a roll of her eyes and a flick of her wrist, Leo was unfrozen.

Paige wasted no time. "How, Leo? How is she missing – again?" Paige snapped at him.

"I don't know, I don't know." Leo started pacing the attic. "She was in the bathroom, and then she wasn't."

This baffled the three of them. Piper let out an exasperated sigh and walked over to the map and the crystal and started to scry for her.

Paige rolled her eyes and let out a breath. "That is not going to work Piper. Cole wouldn't be that stupid as to go to the same place again, and he has probably found a way to strengthen the cloak around wherever it is they are… So we need a better plan than…" Paige trailed off when she saw the crystal drop down. She looked at Piper and waited for the 'I told you so'.

"She's in the abandoned building. It dropped down on 7th," she confirmed monotonously.

Paige was particularly shocked at this confirmation. "Again? No, no, no – it's a trap. It's got to be a trap. Cole would not take her and keep her in the same place she was before."

"She has a point," Leo agreed.

"Well it's where the crystal dropped," Piper stated simply. Paige thought about her last statement and looked at Piper with an evident glisten in her eyes. "What?" Piper snapped. Finding it highly inappropriate that Paige was looking even slightly happy.

"It's not a trap." Leo and Piper looked at Paige oddly. Think about it –"

"Thought about it," Piper cut Paige off. "I've come to the conclusion that you're nuts."

"Shut up and listen!" Paige snapped. "He wants us dead for foiling his plan… why would he set a trap? Why wouldn't he just come for us? And why would he take her from here without going through us? Something doesn't add up…"

"What are you getting at?" Leo asked with a quizzical look.

"What if he didn't come to her, but she went to him?"

"That doesn't make sense," Piper spat. "She's petrified of him, why would she go back to him?"

"Because she knows that by giving herself to him, it's the only way to save Phoebe," Leo answered, finally coming into the realization.

"Okay now what are you getting at?" Piper faced her husband.

"I was speaking to one of the Elders, and I'm thinking that maybe Prestyn overheard my conversation."

"Say it with me people," Piper mused. "Long shot," she enunciated.

Leo shook his head. "No it's not. I snapped at Wyatt for eaves dropping on the conversation I had with the Elder and Phoebe came to his defense saying that it was hard to not hear it. Prestyn probably heard and understood what we were on about and schemed a plan in her head," Leo thought out loud.

"So she wasn't kidnapped again, she's given herself up willingly!" Paige let out.

"Well there's no question about Prestyn being Phoebe's… She takes stupid risks, just like her mother," Piper mumbled.

Paige looked at her in shock. "If our mother was in danger from a demon, would you do everything you could to save her?" She stared daggers into the eldest witch's brown eyes. Paige's own brown eyes clouded in anger.

Piper knew that her previous statement came out wrong. She rectified herself. "I was just making a point that she definitely is a Halliwell."

"Then just say that next time!" Paige snapped.

An awkward silence spilled over the attic. Everyone was tired so it was inevitable that the girls would be getting on each other's nerves, but neither of them thought they would be so affected by the other's remarks and comments.

Leo broke the silence hesitantly. "We should save Prestyn…"

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Prestyn's five year old mind recognized the space she was in, which meant she had shimmered to the right place. Deep down she knew she would get a timeout for what she had done, but all that mattered was keeping her mommy safe and alive. She decided to walk into the centre of the floor and maybe someone would notice her and take her to the Bad Man.

"You!" Colegrowled from the shadows. Prestyn yelped and jumped. He strode towards her.

"Leave her alone!" Piper screeched mid-materialization. Cole stopped and turned around. Paige and Leo had to hold Piper back as she was about lunge on to Cole.

"Auntie Piper, go away!" Prestyn screamed, and willingly walked toward Cole.

"Pres –" Paige didn't get to finish calling for her niece as Cole hit her with a low voltage energy ball, throwing her across the room; only rendering her unconscious. Piper squatted down to feel a pulse – it was there. Prestyn squeezed her eyes shut to avoid seeing anything she didn't want to see. Her hands over her eyes as though they would shield her.

"Paige…" Leo tended to her and began to heal her.

Cole shook his head with a smirk and sighed. "I can't let you do that, Leo." He hit him with a low voltage energy ball and he, too, fell unconscious.

"Leo," Piper murmured.

"They're not dead Piper, I don't need them… I just don't need them or you to foil my plan. I only want the girl… or Phoebe… or both…"

"Always wanting what you can't have."

Cole hit her with an energy ball, but this one was a high voltage one, hurling her body straight up through the stair case and up to the second level of the building. splitting her stomach open, causing blood to stream out of the open wound. "I was going to spare you, Piper, but as usual, your smart mouth didn't help you." He turned towards Prestyn, and began advancing on her. "Now as for you…" He walked over to her and picked her up so her face was level to his. He locked eyes with her and started the failed chant.

'Apud hic nocte et apud hora,

Nos vocatio ex vetustas potestus

Dimitto lucrum de suus anima

Mando malus altus intus suus exosso'

Black fog emerged and began entering Prestyn's body. She began shaking uncontrollably; her eyes were turning from hazel to black; the color was draining from her body.

'Apud hic nocte et apud hora,

Nos vocatio ex vetustas potestus

Dimitto lucrum de suus anima

Mando malus altus intus suus exosso'

Prestyn didn't like what was happening to her, the feeling was awful. She didn't know that this was going to happen to her. She wanted to save her mommy, but she was hurting so much. She was trying to be brave, but it wasn't working. She started to cry and pushed Cole's face away from hers – but with Prestyn being so little, and Cole being so big, his face barely moved at all.

'Apud hic nocte et apud hora,

Nos vocatio ex vet –'

Cole started to convulse, his chant cut short. Both Prestyn and Cole were raised at least three feet off the ground. Neither of them knew what the Hell was going on but they both knew it was coming from Prestyn – blue static electricity was streaming out of her hands and straight into Cole's head. After several minutes, they both fell to the ground, Prestyn landing on top of Cole's limp body.

"What the Hell was that?" Paige muttered. She had woken up in time to see the show. Paige's thoughts were interrupted by the ear-piercing shriek that came from Prestyn's direction. She orbed over to her niece and scooped her up and held her tight, letting her niece cry inconsolable tears into her shoulder. She walked over to Leo and shook him. Slowly he started to stir and woke up wondering what had happened. "Cole hit us with an energy ball."

"Piper?" He asked, drowsily.

Paige looked around. "Piper?" She called. "Piper!" No answer. "Sense her."

Leo closed his eyes and concentrated. "I can't concentrate. Get Prestyn out of here, go up to the Elders, I'll meet you there."

Paige orbed out without hesitation.

Leo closed his eyes and sensed for his wife. He felt her – barely. She was in pain, and weak. He orbed to the second story and saw Piper lying in a pool of her own blood. He wasted no time in healing her. "Come on baby, wake up… Wake up…" Leo had his hands over Piper's wound, but she was not healing right away. His hand shot down for a pulse. It was there – it was weak, but it was there. "Come on Piper…" Piper's wound began to slowly disappear. The blood that was spilled vanished and her clothing was mended, along with her wound. She groaned and her eyes slowly fluttered open. She looked around, as though trying to rememeber what had happened. She sat up fast.

"I'm gonna kill that malicious son of a bitch!" She got up and started to walk down to the first floor, when she was pulled back by Leo – which was probably a good thing, considering the stairs had been destroyed when Piper was sent flying through them. She looked back at Leo with a glare.

"It's already been done."

Piper looked at him with confusion. She pulled him up to his feet. "What? How?"

"I… I don't know how. I was still out."

Piper looked back down and saw the lifeless body of Cole Turner. She couldn't help the grin that formed on her face. You deserve everything you get you bastard.

Upon thinking that, the section of the floor in which Cole was on opened up in a ring of fire and Cole fell through it. The floor pieced itself back together and Piper's grin grew wider. She felt arms wrap around her body and she looked up to the person they belonged to.

Leo kissed Piper's forehead and looked at her with a grin. "We've got to go. Prestyn and Paige orbed out to the Elders. Prestyn was hysterical."

Piper nodded, leaning back into Leo's embrace and felt herself materialize out of the building.


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