Phoebe was sifting through the pages of the Book of Shadows, checking that every page was there and complete. "It's all here," she said, "but I doubt it'll be that easy to get magic back to the rest of the world." She was looking directly at Skye as she said this. Phoebe wasn't giving up blaming her for how badly things had gone.
Skye was still sat on her chair, curled up tightly into a ball. While Phoebe needed someone to blame and had gone straight for Skye, Wyatt was beginning to see that the girl really had done it all out of love for her daughter.
"Well I'm out of ideas now," Paige said, sitting down in an armchair. "Let someone else have a go."
"What does the book say about … Was it Honjaa? Honjit? Hon-something?" asked Piper.
"Honjuu," corrected Wyatt, moving around next to his Aunt to get a look at the Book. "It just says that he's an Upper Level Demon and has many other demons working for him. Why can't people write the specifics in here like, say, how to kill him?"
"I could blow him up," suggested Piper.
"For starter's there's no magic, and I only wish it'd be that easy, Mom" replied Wyatt. "I reckon we're going to need a Vanquishing spell and a Vanquishing potion. In which case;" Wyatt took that chance to look up from the book and directly at Skye; "we need to know exactly what Honjuu put in that potion."
Skye remained silent on her chair.
Screams were heard from Prescott Street outside the Manor, so Phoebe got up, gripped Skye by the arm and pulled her towards the window. "Look at that," Phoebe said, forcing Skye to look out of the window. "You did that. Imagine what they are going to do to your daughter when they find her. She won't be protected by whatever pact you made with them for her safety. They'll take her, and keep her alive until you show up. Ten they'll kill her before they kill you. Unless you want that to happen, I suggest you help us."
Paige, Piper and Wyatt looked on as Phoebe spoke to Skye. Skye looked out of the window, and watched a Leuctra and another spiny looking demon chasing and killing people on the road outside, throwing fireballs and energy balls.
"I'm sorry," Skye whispered, watching the events unfold in front of her. The sisters and Wyatt were right; all of these people's deaths were her fault, and as much as she wanted to keep her daughter safe, it didn't have to be done at the expense of the rest of the world. "I'll try to help you," she whispered, "but I can't remember everything we put into that potion."
"It's a start," Phoebe replied, motioning for Skye to cross over and sit at the small table next to Piper.
"So, what can you remember?" Piper asked Skye.
As Skye began listing ingredients and Piper noted them down, Wyatt and Paige looked through the Book to try and find any reference to this sort of spell ever being used before. Phoebe was assisting Piper, and trying to work out a reverse potion that they could try and make even though magic was non-existent at the present moment.
"There's nothing here," Wyatt whispered to Paige as they turned the pages slowly, not wanting to miss anything. "I don't know how we're going to get magic back, and I don't even know if Chris is still alive."
"He's alive, Wyatt," replied Paige in a quiet voice. "Trust me; you'd know if your brother was dead. You'd sense it."
"Maybe," Wyatt replied. Then, suddenly, a thought struck him that hadn't really occurred to him before. "We need him to be able to undo this." He said this in a slightly louder voice, so the others could hear him.
"Need who, Wyatt?" asked Phoebe.
"We need Chris! Skye said the spell needed the blood of the son of a Charmed One, didn't you?" he asked, directing the question directly at Skye.
Skye nodded meekly.
"Well Chris is stuck in the Underworld! Having something to do to get magic back won't help if Chris is still down there, will it? If the spell used his blood to take away magic, then won't we need his blood again to bring magic back?" Wyatt was stood in the centre of the room now, a slightly panicked look on his face.
"You didn't tell us Chris was still down there!" Piper cried at her son. "I assumed he was up here trying to do something somewhere else!"
"Well we can't get him back without magic and we need magic to actually go and get him, so whatever we do we're screwed!" Wyatt shouted back.
"OK!" Phoebe shouted over the both Piper and Wyatt. "Wyatt, arguing with your mother is not going to solve anything, and Piper, he has a point and the same goes to you."
Skye shifted in her seat and raised her hand tentatively. When everyone was looking at her she said, timidly, "What if you try to write the spell so that because the one to take magic away required the blood of a son of a Charmed One, the one to bring it back needs the daughter of a Charmed One? Would that work?"
"You know," said Piper. "I think she's onto something."