Chapter 5: Paige's New Hairdo
"I can't believe you guys didn't come get me last night." Phoebe said to Piper. Phoebe sat at a table in the attic holding a string attached to a crystal circling a map of San Francisco.
"Well Paige had everything under control. She told Nate she went to get you and circled around the block so she could come back and demon-sit." Piper responded. Piper was standing at The Book Of Shadows trying to identify the demon as something other than a Kazi. She finally looked up at her sister to see that she was scrying. "Hey Phoebe, what are you scrying for? We have the demon."
"No, we have the King; I am scrying for his warriors." Phoebe said pointing her finger at Piper.
"I told you…only I was resurrected!" The King told Phoebe.
"Shut up!" Piper snapped at the demon. She picked up a crystal the size of a potion vial and threw it on the ground at the perimeter of the demon's cage. He cried in pain as a volt of electricity hit him. "You never did tell us why…or who resurrected you." The demon just looked away. Piper scowled at the demon then looked at her sister. "Anything?"
"No not yet." Phoebe shook her head. Piper went back to looking through the book. "AH! This is so damn frustrating!" Phoebe said as she slammed her hand down on the table to take a break. "We really need to modernize scrying! This is so…eighteenth century!" Piper laughed at her sister. "Where is Paige?" Phoebe asked as she looked around the attic.
"Sleeping." Piper responded not even looking up from the book.
"Not anymore! Do you have to keep torturing the demon Piper? You keep waking me up!" Paige said to her sister as she walked through the attic. Piper still hadn't looked up but she shot a dirty look at the book as if it where her sister. Phoebe laughed and looked over to Paige and was shocked as to what she saw.
"Oh my god! Paige! What potion did you blow up in your face this time?" Phoebe asked her sister as she got over shock and straight into joking.
"What are you talking about?" Paige asked her sister. Piper had finally looked up from the book.
"Well whatever potion she keeps blowing up, it is saving her a fortune so she doesn't have to go to the salon." Piper said with a smile.
"I like it." The demon said hoping to butter the sisters up and let him go…no such luck.
"Shut up!" Piper said and threw another crystal at the cage.
"Okay jokes over guys…and demon! What are you talking about?" Paige said looking at everyone in the room.
"Your hair…it's dark…and long." Phoebe said. Paige looked at Phoebe with a disbelieving face. She walked straight past the demon's cage and over to the full-sized mirror that stood in a corner of the attic and gasped as she saw her reflection. Her hair was indeed long and dark brown as if someone had dyed it and put in extensions in her sleep.
"Scissors!" She yelled as she held out her hand. The scissors that had lain in the kitchen table from the day before had orbed into her hands.
"Hey hey hey…personal gain!" Piper said pointing at Paige. She ignored the comment and began to cut her hair. The scissors snipped and snapped and Paige's hair had returned to the short length that it was the night before. She looked at the floor successfully and back at the mirror to notice that it was all back on her head again. She gasped. "That's new." Piper said.
"What the hell is going on?" Paige exclaimed. She walked past the cage, not even noticing that she had knocked a crystal out of place, and laid the scissors on the table that Phoebe was using. The Kazi King, without anyone noticing, finally seized the opportunity and shimmered out of the attic. "Why is my hair like this?"
"Your guess is as good as ours." Phoebe said. "But we will fix it later. Right now we need to worry about the…" Phoebe turned to look at the demon and noticed that he was gone. "Um…where did he go?" Piper and Paige also looked.
"Paige, you knocked a crystal out of place." Piper said. As she whipped her head around to look at her sister, she saw Prue. Then where Prue was standing, it quickly turned into Paige. Piper realized what happened then said, "Paige you just flashed!"
"What like Phoebe with her black and white thing?" Paige asked with a puzzled look.
"Yeah…only…you were Prue." Piper responded.