Toby came over around noon. I had already been up for two hours and I had finished cleaning the kitchen and updating the potion ingredients when he showed up. I was sitting in the conservatory when he showed. I was writing in my songbook, inspiration was knocking… I think that it had to do either with Mandy, my muse, or that Creationist demon that had attacked me, maybe infected, but I didn't tell anyone that.

"Hey, Toby," I said as I answered the door to let him in. "It is to late to put you to work, I already finished. Didn't have that much to do."

"Ah… that is to bad for you. Good for me!"

"So did you hear about Bianca, she and Chris are expecting a baby!"

"Really? That is so cool… but they aren't married, are they?"

"Yeah, they are well… kind of… it is hard to explain, it was a Wiccan type of wedding. Cool though."

"You know, I still find it cool that your family is so open to let Bianca into your family while she claimed to be a witch. You guys are so open."

I smiled and nodded while continuing to write in my notebook. It was easy to act as though I wasn't a witch, I didn't usually have that many demons after me, just the one and that was new. And he didn't know what we all were, what we kept hidden from him and our friends. When he asked when Bianca and Chris had the Hand-Fastening, I said no that I wasn't a witch like her, and that was the truth, he just took it as that I wasn't a witch, and I am, just not a Phoenix, I'm a Charmed Ones daughter.

Anyway, after a while, Toby had gone up stairs and gotten my guitar and was now strumming notes while we tried to match up the song that I was working on with a good tune, and it wasn't going to well.

"Toby I still think that the beat needs to be more up beat and loud, we could go downstairs and find a beat with the drums."

"Mel, how is that going to help? Plus your basement creeps me out, like something is down there. Just plainly creepy, why don't you just sing it the way that you want it to sound and then we can find the beat later at practice in a few days."

"Your afraid of my basement. There is nothing down there Toby, just drums and some old baby stuff and more storage. Plus, I'll protect you from what ever you think is down there!"

"Fine, but not funny stuff, or I am going to lock myself in you room again! Maybe read more of that journal I found but didn't get a chance to read because Wyatt is good at picking locks."

"Hey! Fine no funny business from me, just music because it is my number two or number three passion, not sure which one yet. Probably number three."

As we walked through the dinning room and the kitchen Toby asked, "What is number one and number two then?"

"Not sure yet. Now, rule number one is 'family never leaves anyone behind.' Oww, Toby why did you stop moving? Toby? What is going on? Wyatt? Chris? Mom?" I called out looking around the kitchen noticing that no one was orbbing in. "Paige? Wyatt? Penny? Pearl? Henry? Anyone? Prue?..."

"Would you stop calling out to people sweets, no one can hear you? I happened to have frozen the world and no one can hear you. We are all alone. Again."

"What do you want Morana?"

"Oh, you do know my name. Interesting cause I never told you to call me that or told you it. You must have smart brothers, a smart family. Now, anyway, onto my real reason of being here, you."

I moved as she walked to the other side on the island in the kitchen and ran her fingers over the wood of the cabinet, which melted away into purple smoke as her fingers moved over it.

"What are you doing? Would you like to explain the reason that you are here or do I need to learn to read your mind?"

"I like the sarcasm that you have, makes your voice more beautiful. But yes, the real reason I am here, to talk to you, and to admire this one," she said as she past me and walked up to Toby and went to be face to face with him. "He is cute, not my type, but cute."

"And what is your type? Witches?"

"Good try, but no, only power, like you," she said as she looked around Toby at me. "I could kiss him, but exposure is not my thing… not at the moment at least. Now," she said walking around him to me, and I felt again as though I couldn't more but this time I was going to find out about her, I was going to get her to talk somehow.

"You look nothing like her, you know? I heard she had dark hair, and was extremely fair skinned and had wolf like teeth with claws on her hands. You don't. Did you have to change with the times?"

"Quiet! You know nothing of what I really look like. I am better then her. She had nothing, no real power, only collection of souls in her closet, now I am more powerful then I was before! I have real power now, power you could only dream of!"

"Okay…"

"You want to see the old look, fine, but you wont like it at all!"

Shit, I may have gotten something out of her but now… she was going to kill me. "No…"

She changed to wolf like girl. "You wanted this," she hissed at me as she grabbed me with her claws and I could feel the blood running down my arms as she dug her claws in and brought her mouth to my ear and whispered,

"Faking it all of the time,

Conscience, it cuts like a knife.

When will you start to realize,

We don't have time on our side.

There is more then meets the eye,

Hits you right between the eyes."

"Wait, that is my song… oww…"

"Be patient sweetie, your time and power will come and I will get it all back, everything that was stolen."

She let go of me and I fell and hit the ground and she bent down over me and kissed me again and said, "I'll be back and next time just ask, I have nothing to hide from you lover."

And with that Morana was gone and Toby moved again. He turned and saw me, but by then I was blacking out again due to the poison, but I did get out a sentence.

"I didn't want any of it… nothing like this, she keeps coming back to give me more... I didn't want it..."

Damn.

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