Charmed
Chapter 5:
Peaceful day
I started the day, waking up happily with my husband, feeding the children, before asking Wyatt to orb us all too Magic school. Once inside Magic school I called for Paige, and she showed up, with Phoebe. I called Billie and her poofed inside and we all sat down.
I told them everything.
I told them about the day, why it happened, Leo's powers and the deal with the Absorbers. Of course they were shocked, angry with Leo, and Phoebe called Coop who tried to disappear before she could talk but I was expecting that, so I threw a potion at him when he appeared, he couldn't leave unless I wanted him to.
Phoebe had a good shout at Coop but eventually she calmed down, and we all spoke about it.
"So what?" Paige asked. "We just go the day as normal? And when it ends fight?"
"I guess so, but to be honest I think we should be training, searching for a vanquishing spell, potion or something. Each time we've fought them I've lost one of you." I looked at Paige, remembering that energy ball hitting her, her last scream before she was nothing but ash. Then I looked at Phoebe, I could hear it even now; hear the crack of her neck as an Absorber had snapped it.
Billie walked by and slumped down on the couch next to me, I remembered the fireball hitting her, the way she was blown through the window, the sound of her body as it hit the ground and probably broke all the bones in her body.
The pain, all of it still so real.
"Then let's go." Phoebe said.
We returned home, knowing that even if the Absorbers did attack and kill one of us if not all of us, it would be a waste of our time and theirs, as the day would start again. We spent most of the day with the Book of Shadows and other books from Magic School. We looked everywhere for them, and we didn't find a few references to them. But not much.
I was reading through the books again, Phoebe was training with her physical powers in the basement, and Paige was in the kitchen again, making as many powerful potions as she could.
Hours and Hours had passed; it had to be about four hours until midnight. The peaceful day had passed too quickly. It was already dark out. I looked around the attic and sighed angrily. I closed the book and sat down on the loveseat.
I saw a figure stand out of a stream of orbs. Leo. It was odd, seeing him with powers. Then I remembered I was still angry at him. His hands found my waist, and they were warm. I wanted to turn, to hold him and go and lie in bed, snuggle up to my hubby.
"Piper." he whispered, I turned and looked him in the face. "Piper, you need to know I only did what I did because I love you, I never imagined it would get this bad..." he said, I shrugged.
"I know, you messed up. Big time. I've witnessed both of my sisters, and Billie killed, and each time my heart breaks a little more. You don't know what that's like. And I have four hours or so to find a spell to kill them." I said, pretty soon I started to come up with my own, it wasn't great but it was coming along. All the time Leo watched, and tried to help as much as he could.
Pretty soon I had finished the spell, Phoebe and Paige had joined me. Paige with a potion each, a potion similar to the one we had used on the source. The spell I had, a powerful one.
We could do this.
I stood there, Phoebe on my right, with Leo at her side, Paige on my left, with Billie next to her.
The clock struck Twelve.