C4 Reborn

Leo gazed at Piper as she got Wyatt and Chris ready to go over a friends place. How could he ever look into her beautiful brown eyes again, knowing he had betrayed her trust over something as big as this? But he knew, as Phoebe knew that it was right. He had spent last night on the Golden Globe Bridge, in-between the worlds of humans and angels. He felt reborn. He was free.

"Leo?" Paige called, pulling him away from his thoughts, "Can you take me to and from work today? I'm getting my car repaired."

"Sure." Leo gave Phoebe an apologetic look.

They were both going to "wag" work that day, to scry for "Shax", but there was no way he was going all across town to Paige's work and then come all the way home again. Phoebe sighed. It looked like she was on her own then.

"Piper, I'm staying home today, I'm not feeling well." She fibbed.

Piper felt immediate sympathy for her sister. She knew Phoebe was "sick" from yesterday, when her family had crushed her dreams. She knew it would be a while before she forgave them. Piper looked at her divided family and wondered how one event could change their bond so much. She felt a dizzy wave of guilt and confusion.

"Leo, hurry up." Paige whined, marching out the door with her office clothes and brown formal shoes.

"Goodbye everyone!" Leo Wyatt left the house without hesitation, and without kissing his wife goodbye.

Paige's office job didn't match the level of enjoyment her previous job, principal of magic school. One thing it was good for though was it took her mind away so she could finally think clearly. All morning she had been thinking of magic and what it meant to her. Things weren't black and white anymore. She could vaguely see where Phoebe was coming from. Her co-worker and friend Natalie Ashton headed out the door carrying a large pile of papers.

"Nat!" Paige called out and handed her documents of her own. "Can you please photocopy these while you're there?"

Natalie sighed, twirling her short black hair around her pixie-like ears. "That's a lot, Paige."

"I know. It's just that my brother- in-law's picking me up soon and I don't want to keep him waiting."

Natalie rolled her eyes over-dramatically. "Fine."

"Thanks, Nat, you're an angel. "said Paige, settling back on her computer.

Nat tried to give her an annoyed look but failed.

Paige was almost snoozing when smoke filled her nostrils. One look at her male coworker next to her and she knew.

"Oh my god."

The wall was red hot. She raced out the door, having no idea where she was going. The smoke drew her to all fours as she crawled down the hallway. She paused at the staircase. She could see that further down the hallway was where the fire was. Should she escape or help? Perhaps the fumes where getting to her head, as she charged on. Desperately choking, she saw the blaze which consumed the photocopy room. Resisting the urge to scramble to safety, she called out. She gasped as Natalie answered her yell, her friend's voice shaking with fear. Paige wished there was some way to reach her friend through the wall of fire.

"Natalie!" she screamed repetitively and got no answer.

She kept screaming until the fire finally engulfed the lone figure and Paige silently collapsed in a bed of smoke.

Phoebe hated deceiving her sisters even more than bad coffee. But even scrying, a low level magic skill was giving her thrills. She sang to Alicia Keys on the radio, happily twirling a string attached to a crystal over a map of San Francisco.

"Ah-hah!"

The crystal landed and Phoebe pocketed two vanishing potions and hurried out the garage to get her bike. She was surprised to find the warehouse abandoned. I'm too late. She thought. She walked outside with a heavy feeling in her stomach. But as her hands clasped on the railing she had a premonition.

The demon that looked like Shax was gaining on an attractive young man. "There's nowhere to run, witch!" Shax laughed.

Phoebe pedaled quickly to Georgia Heights. The demon had the man cornered in a backstreet similar to the one Phoebe had visited two nights ago. His long scaly fingers reached for the amulet around the witch's neck.

"I don't think so!" Phoebe roared through on her dodgy bike, spreading dust into the demon's face.

She placed a kick in his stomach. He counter-attacked with blows to her head and shoulders. She kicked him and he fell backwards on a pile of rocks. As he heaved a boulder at her, she shot up in the air, the rock missing her by a millimeter. She landed on a roof and leaped towards his skull, knowing she would catch him unawares and knock him out cold. Almost there... Then suddenly he turned and fired an energy ball, hitting Phoebe mid-air. Her last thought before she hit the ground. I need my sisters.

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