Piper starred down at the place Phoebe had been lying only minutes before. She had tried to freeze Prue but as always her big sister didn't freeze. "Good witches don't freeze." She reminded herself. Then why take Phoebe? She added to herself not really sure what was going one. She had now lost both her sisters. At least she knew somewhere deep inside that one was still savable. At least she hoped she was. She knew if she lost Phoebe as well, then her world as she knew it was over.
"Paige. PAIGE!" she yelled out as she started for the doorway. No matter what it took she was gonna get Phoebe back and Prue in the process, and set everything as it should be.
Paige heard Piper yelling at her and then saw her leaving the room. As she came to her senses she made a beeline after Piper and to where ever it was she was going.
"Piper. Piper what is going on?"
Piper turned around and took Wyatt from Paige's arms and continued to the attic. "Our big sister just kidnapped Phoebe, and prevented you, Chris and Wyatt from healing her that is what is going on. Now we need to figure out where they went and have to save both of them before it is to late."
As they entered in the attic the pages of the BOS were flipping furiously.
"Ok I hate it when it does that." Paige stated as she stepped in front of the book.
"You get used to it. I did." Piper replied non-chalantly as she balanced Wyatt on her hip.
Piper started to read when the vortex opened up before them. She clutched on to Wyatt tightly not sure of what would appear.
"The Charmed Ones. So nice to finally meet you." His voice was almost metallic as it spoke at them. His eyes falling to Wyatt, "And the son of. One day it shall all come to pass."
Piper instinctively turned putting herself between Wyatt and the intruder. "What do you want?"
He cast his eyes at her as he moved with ease around the attic, "Not what you think. I am looking for someone. I think you know who. So just tell me where she is and I will be gone."
Piper and Paige shared a look. They had an idea who he was looking for but if they fiend innocent maybe he would give them something they needed as well.
"What do you want?" Piper stepped towards him almost feeling the danger in doing so.
He cast his face to one side meeting her gaze, "I want your sister." his words cut through any thought that Piper and Paige might have been having at that time. "It is nothing personal. Well to you anyway. Her son wants to meet her." his voice was calm as if this was something they should know.
"Excuse me. Her son?" Paige was the first to voice her opinion. "Son as in…"
"The son she was carrying when she was married to the Source. I believe you knew him as Cole."
Piper didn't even look at anyone as she tried to process what was going on. "Cole?"
"Yes. She was pregnant with their son before you vanquished him at the penthouse I believe it was."
"And we vanquished Cole for good last year when he went back to the past. I also saw the Seer and the baby getting killed in the underworld more then a year and a half ago. We all did." Paige replied not believing a word the demon before them was saying.
"Yes. I recall that." he lifted up a vase and examined it before placing it back down. "But life is more complicated then even the Charmed Ones think. For example. Do you really know who your whitelighter is?" His smile gave off something of knowledge but neither sister baited to it. "No, ok. But know this. The Son of the Source is now the New Source. And he wants to meet with his Mother. So, just tell me where she is and I will leave you alone. Or, you can't not and I can make your deaths very painful, and I will find her anyway."
Paige was about to protest when Piper placed her hand on her arm. She didn't want anything to happen to Phoebe, but she also knew if Paige and her were dead, there would be no saving any of her sisters.
"She isn't here." Piper said as she held his gaze to her own. She held his eyes to hers knowing for that one split second he didn't believe her, "She was taken after she had a premonition. As far as I know, she is with her son now."
The sound of her voice emphasized the word son. Piper knew that Phoebe no longer thought of him as her own. She hadn't soon after the Seer had taken him from her. She had gone through the withdrawals most Mothers do, but Piper knew her sister also knew that the baby she had been carrying was pure evil. Nothing that her body could have taken and nothing she wanted.
He glared into her eyes, reading what he saw spoken. He knew she wasn't there and that the witch had spoken the truth. But where was she? His own doubts and concerns rose inside him. "I will be back one day witches. And the power of evil will win the final battle."
He disappeared before Piper or Paige could even think of reacting. He had come to them with no ill intentions but they both knew in the end, if it came to it, he would kill them.
The perspiration beading on her brow as she felt the pain all around her. She could hear muffled voices but to her nothing made sense.
"Heal her."
"I can not."
"You can and you will, he wants her alive and able to feel the punishment and pain he wishes to give her."
Amesist moved towards the bed in which the witch lay. He wasn't sure if he should do the right thing or let her die slowly as any demon would a witch, especially one so powerful.
"Heal her and I will see that you do not die slowly." Her voice was confident and powerful. He only needed to meet her gaze once to know what she meant.
Quickly gathering what he needed he started his task, though inside he felt something wasn't quite right.
Prue sat with her sister as the potions ands herbs that Amesist had used slowly worked. Running her hand over the top of her sisters' head she felt something inside, something she hadn't felt in two years.
"Soon he will met you and all will be right." But the tug continued as he helped heal her sister. The one who could set her own freedom to be. "Soon we can be a family again. Living here with your son."
Making his way through the caverns he tried to tame down the anger that was building inside of him. For over two thousand years he had served the Source and now the Source had betrayed him. Trusted his job to someone else. And deep down inside he had a feeling he knew who it was.
How could a witch help him more then that what he served more then of hundreds of Source before him.
"Avellino. You have returned."
"I have Sire but I have not brought for you what you seek."
"I will have what I seek. I believe my, Aunt is it, will retrieve her for me."
"Is it wise to let her roam free sire. She is a witch as we know and a Charmed One at that."
"Yes, but she will not betray me. She still has the evil coursing through her veins. Something that will not let go of her now. She is one of us now."
Avellino held his tongue not sure what to say or think. But he knew somewhere that even as a soul the witch could not be trusted.
"Sire. What if. Well what if she does not bring her to you? What if the witch in her is stronger then you think. After all, your own mother fought it." his words were spoken with caution.
He flew at him before he could even react. "You say you are a servant of the Source? Then keep your mouth shut. She will not go back to what she was. I have seen to that." his grip was firm and strong around Avellino's throat.
Avellino didn't even fight back. It was not his place. But he had to fight off the feeling he had on the witch that his master had sent after her own sister. "Where are they?"
"They will be here soon. Even now she is back in the underworld. Both if them, though I sense one is close to death."
"May we all wish it to be the Charmed One." Avellino waited for a reply. When not receiving one he wasn't sure if the Source was anxious for the witches death or not.
He made his way around to his throne. Siting in it quickly he wasn't sure what emotions he was feeling. Like his Father he was not completely demonic, but the part of him that was, was not was pushing itself forward. A part of him he wanted nothing to do with as his cry reached throughout the deepest caverns.
"Sire?"
"I am nothing like him. He was weak. He gave into his human half. I will suppress it and rule the underworld with strength and power."
Avellino watched as his new master fought the inner battle he had seen the last one fight. Though he knew inside this one was different. The demon side if him was much more powerful. The blood of Belthazor and the potion from the Seer had made him that way. Powerful enough to withstand the humanity inside him, no matter how good and powerful the witch inside him was.
"It is strong in me." He closed his eyes trying to shut out the feeling and voices in his head.
"You can fight it sire. You did even when you were in her womb. The power of your Father is stronger."
"Yes. Maybe." He kept his eyes closed as he searched for her.
Piper had gone directly to the BOS in the attic hoping beyond hope she would find the answers she needed. Now with only her and Paige, she knew it would be harder to get Phoebe back, let alone save Prues soul from eternal damnation.
Paige hesitated but then followed after Piper to the book. She had a feeling that this was something that they might not be able to fix.
"Piper what if we..."
"We can. Don't even think it Paige. I lost one sister and it nearly killed me. If I lose Phoebe it will." Her voice was hard and determined.
How long had it been? Nothing in the BOS pointed them to where they needed to go in saving both Prue and Phoebe.
"Maybe this is one we need to work out on our own." Paige spoke quietly as Piper flipped another page. "Piper this is something that wasn't set in the past. I mean, our sister feel in love with and married the Source of all evil. I don't think that is something that our ancestors predicted."
Piper stopped as she listened to Paige's words. She knew deep inside that Paige was right. This wasn't something anyone predicted. A Charmed One falling in love with evil. "Ok so what? We need to come up with something on our own. A spell a potion."
"Well we can vanquish him with the same spell we used on Cole when he was still the Source." Paige suggested as she found herself pacing back and forth in the attic.
"We could if we had Phoebe back. The spell only works with three of us." Piper reminded her sister.
"Three. Not necessarily the three of us. Just three Charmed Ones."
Piper stopped and looked at Paige. She knew what she was thinking. "Paige I don't think Prue is in the vanquishing demon kind of mode right now."
"Maybe not now. You always told me that it was her love for you two that kept her balanced. Maybe somehow we can tape into that. Maybe the Prue you knew is still there. We can vanquish him and save Phoebe."
"Or save Phoebe and vanquish them both." Piper said the words that were on her mind but she wasn't sure if she was ready for that. She couldn't vanquish her own sister. Could she?
Paige took in Pipers face knowing what it read, "Piper. We might not have a choice." She said sadly, wanting to at some point, get to know her sister, not vanquish her.