Chapter 2
Phoebe stood in her new bedroom that Prue had given to her as she began putting what little she had into its right place with a small smile on her face. She went about fixing her things as she put the TV on to make the room feel more homely.
"I'm at an apartment building on the corner of eighth and Franklin where a murder occurred earlier this evening. The victim, believed to be a nurse at County General, was reportedly stabbed to death in her apartment." The reporter spoke through the TV telling everyone watching about the death of a young woman. Phoebe walked by the TV and stared into the mirror checking her face as there was a knock to the door.
"It's me and Sam." Piper spoke through the bedroom door with a nice smiley voice as Phoebe welcomed them into her room. Piper came in with a barrel of food set out on a wooden tray. Sam was behind her barreling into the room with a smile on the face as he jumped onto the bed before anyone could move. Phoebe smiled.
"Oh, thank god. I am starving." Phoebe cried out with glee to her siblings as she crawled across the bed towards her siblings. Piper smiled at her baby sister while she moved the younger boy out of the way and away from the tray that she was now placing on the bed.
"I figured. Hey, that's my boyfriend, Jeremy!" Piper commented to her sister as she saw the man on the TV with a big smile on her face. Sam looked at Piper's smitten face before turning to Phoebe and making gagging noises. Phoebe smirked as Piper frowned at him.
"Otherwise known as the man I don't like. Under Roger of course and maybe Dean." Sam told his big sister with a big smirk on his face as he took a dig out of his big brother and sisters with an even better smile at Piper's glare. Phoebe laughed at what her brother had said.
"You shush. What happened?" Piper asked her younger sister as she looked at the TV screen in confusion as she went to sit on the bed with her younger siblings. Phoebe and Sam both glanced at the TV and then Sam turned back to Phoebe in curiosity.
"Oh, some woman got whacked." Phoebe told the two with a monotone voice as she went back to ignoring the TV and sat on the bed properly. Sam nodded in confusion as he stole one of the treats that Piper had put on the bed with one of his cheeky smiles.
""Whacked"? Phoebe, you've been in New York way too long." Piper asked her little sister with a weirded out expression to her younger sister. Phoebe rolled her eyes as she leaned back onto the bed with Sam at the bottom of the bed. Sam nodded his head enthusiastically, agreeing with his big sister on Phoebe being in New York.
"I second that." Sam commented with a small smile to his older sister as Phoebe bent over to ruffle his brown hair with a small light smile on her face. Sam was really happy to have his big sister back in his life and didn't want that to go away. Phoebe then sighed as she retracted her hand and picked up something to eat.
"Yeah. I should have stayed. And why didn't any of you tell Prue I was coming back?" Phoebe asked her big sister and little brother with a shrug and a need to know. Sam gave her a glare as he thought that it would have been obvious why he hadn't told Prue. Piper rolled her eyes as she looked at Phoebe as she turned the TV off.
"And risk her changing the locks? I don't think so. Besides, you should have been the one to tell her, not me or Dean." Piper told her younger sister with a stern voice to the younger woman as Sam nodded his head and put his own two cents in. Piper and Phoebe both smiled at him. Because no matter if he was five, fifteen or fifty-five he was always so innocent and childlike.
"Good point, Chicken little and her sidekicks." Phoebe commented to her sister and younger brother with a small smile as she bit into the cracker that she was eating. Sam playfully hit her on the leg as Phoebe kicked back with a humors smile. Piper smiled as well as a chap lit up the room.
"I disagree with that comment Yankee." Dean suddenly butted in with a laughter filled voice as he came into the room and jumped on the bed beside Piper. Phoebe laughed slightly as Sam and Piper both rolled their eyes at the normal Dean Halliwell behavior.
"It's just so hard for me to talk to her. She's always been like a mother." Phoebe responded as the smile that she had on two minutes ago leave her face. Piper sighed agreeing but she understood why Prue was the way she was being ten when her mom had died. While Prue was thirteen.
"Yeah Pheebs has a point there." Dean replied with a small smile as he gave Piper a pointed look asking her to argue with him. Piper shook her head at the younger boy. Dean probably agreed with Phoebe the most in the family, especially with him being more like Phoebe.
"She's still like my mother being my legal guardian and all." Sam responded lightly to his big sisters and brother with a small smile as he looked down sadly. He still couldn't believe that his Grams was gone. Phoebe pulled him into a small hug as Piper and Dean looked over to him sadly.
"That's not her fault. She practically had to sacrifice." Piper spoke as some kind of defense to Prue. It truly wasn't her fault that she acted more like a mother to them than a sister. They only had their Grams after their mom had died and even then Grams was getting on in years. So Prue had to step in as the mother.
"Her own childhood to help raise us." All four of the siblings finished with a monotone voice as they all began to laugh and how that had been such a famous phrase for Prue growing up. And even now it was still the same after fifteen years.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Phoebe replied with a big smile as she took apart some of her food with a smile to her siblings. Dean playfully punched his elder sister in the arm as Phoebe punched him right back. Sam smiled at their antics as Piper shook her head.
"Hey, we're lucky she was so responsible. We all had it easy. All we had to do was be there." Piper supplied into the conversation with a bright smile on her face as she tried yet again to defend her eldest sister. Sam nodded his head as Phoebe sighed.
"Yeah, well, I don't need a mom anymore, you know, I need a sister." Phoebe told her big sister with a slightly harsher and louder tone than necessary as Sam blinked up at her a little startled. Phoebe looked apologetically to her little brother as Dean just nodded in agreement with his big sister.
"I second that." Dean responded to his big sister with a nod of interest at the prospects of having a third sister rather than a mom. Ever since his mom had died when he was four Prue took up the role and now at nineteen he didn't need a mom. Like Phoebe had said; he needed a sister.
"I can't I need a mom according to CPS." Sam commented with a slightly dejected tone to his elder siblings with a hateful tone. Yet again he hated being the baby of the family. Piper, Phoebe and Dean gave him a sympathetic look. A chap to the bedroom door made them all look up and see Prue with a blanket in hand.
"Hey. This was always the coldest room in the house." Prue told her sister with a motherly look to her siblings as she placed the blanket onto the table at the side with light heartedness. Sam looked over to his big sister with a small smile as he looked to her expectantly.
"Thanks." Phoebe told her big sister thankfully as she put up a fake facade. Prue nodded her head before walking away ignoring the longing looks that Sam was giving her. Sam looked back to his sisters dejectedly as Piper pulled him into a small hug.
"Well at least she was nice to you. I think that means she's coming around to the idea." Sam spoke to his elder siblings with his normal everyday smile. The older three turned to glare at him and then all flung a pillow at him with humor as Sam fell off the bed with a huffing sigh. Sometimes he really hated being the youngest.
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Andy was now walking around in the dead blonde's house as he put forensic gloves to touch the things in the apartment. He then lifted the plastic sheet to look at the young blonde sadly. He then noticed something similar about the young girl
"The same tattoo that was on the other two victims." Andy spoke up to his partner as he found the triquetra tattoo. Daryl walked over beside his partner with a handkerchief to his face as he looked sympathetically to the young dead woman.
"So the murderer is killing cultists." Daryl replied to his partner with a grim voice on his face as he turned away from his partner to look around the apartment. He couldn't believe that such a beautiful woman could believe in something so trivial.
"No the murderer is on a witch hunt." Andy corrected his partner with a tense voice as he put the cover back over the young woman sympathetically. He didn't care if she was a witch or not he just wanted to get the thing that was doing this.
"Oh, yeah, and he's five hundred years old and he lives in Salem. Look around Trudeau. Pentagrams, altars, offerings. All tools for a freak fest." Daryl told his partner as he tried to get through to the twenty-eight year old that none of this witch malarkey was sane for any respecting police Inspector. Andy rolled his eyes as he took of the gloves.
"They call them sabots, and this was hardly a freak fest. She was a solitary practitioner. She practiced her craft alone." Andy pointed out to his partner with a slightly hushed tone to Daryl. Daryl just sighed in frustration with his partner over what he had said. Andy replied to the sigh with another sigh of his own.
"Let me ask you something. Do you believe in UFOs?" Andy asked his partner with a voice of curiosity. Despite it only being a simple question but he was actually curious. Daryl looked over at the brown haired man as if he was crazy.
"Hell, no." Daryl immediately commented with slight disgust over the issue. The amount of idiots that he had arrested whom broke into science buildings and such to prove the existence of such things. Andy didn't really seem surprised by Daryl's view.
"Neither do I. but do you believe there are people out there who do believe in UFOs?" Andy replied to his partner with a curious tone as he tried to get it across to the black skinned man that just because he didn't believe didn't mean that everyone else doesn't believe.
"Yes, but I think they're crazy." Daryl commented in his own tone of voice as he tried to think about what the point in this conversation actually was, especially if Andy himself didn't even believe in UFOs. Andy nodded his head in agreement.
"Then why can't you believe there are people who believe they are witches?" Andy asked his partner with distress over Daryl's lack of approval towards the witches' idea. Daryl inwardly groaned as he looked at his partner. Andy sighed at him.
"Look, all I know is that if you don't stop taking about witches, I'm gonna start questioning you." Daryl spoke to his partner with a suspicious tone to the twenty-eight year old whom just smirked. A skinned cat purred as it jumped up onto the counter. Andy stepped towards the cat much to Daryl's displeasure.
"I'd stay away from that cat, Trudeau. It's been clawing the crap out of everybody. See you in the car." Daryl told his partner warningly before he walked off as Andy stayed where he was. He lifted the skinned cat up and noticed its collar. It was red with a golden medallion showing another black triquetra.
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Piper, Phoebe and Sam sat at the small table in the sunroom as they played about with the spirit board like they used to when they were younger. Phoebe smiled at her siblings happily. She loved spending time with her family despite being away for so long. She just wanted to know how things had been.
"I'm glad to hear you and Jeremy are still together." Phoebe told her big sister with a smile as she tried to get back into the sync of being the little sister to Piper, knowing that she would have a harder time with Prue. Sam scoffed at that.
"Unfortunately much to my displeasure. They're still together. But I'm working on it. I'll get Dean to help." Sam told his big sister with a slightly excited and mischievous voice to the older woman as he tried to ignore the death glare that Piper was sending to him. Despite that he couldn't ignore the playful hit to the arm that he received from his sister.
"No, you will not. You leave Jeremy alone." Piper told her baby brother with a stern voice as she glared at the fifteen year old darkly. The Halliwell sisters knew better than anybody how dangerous the Halliwell brothers could be to anyone if they had have the chance.
"Where did you meet him anyway?" Phoebe asked with curiosity as well as a silent defending of her baby brother from Piper's anger. And everyone in the Halliwell family knew that when Piper was angry then things were bad. Piper thought back to the day she met Jeremy with a smile.
"We met at the hospital cafeteria. The day Grams was admitted. He was covering a story and I was bawling over a bagel…." Piper told her little sister with a smile of awe struck smile on her face as she thought about that day. Phoebe smiled back as she pushed the pointer on the spirit board. Sam scoffed again to his sister.
"I knew I should have went on that bagel run." Sam commented sarcastically to his sisters as he made fist to swing showing his disappointment. Phoebe laughed at her brother's sarcasm while Piper glared at him again. Phoebe pushed the pointer towards the S and then away.
"So he handed me a napkin." Piper told her little sister with a light tone as she smiled again to the memory. Ignoring the scoffs and smirks she was receiving from her baby brother. Phoebe laughed lightly at the story that her elder sister was telling her.
"How romantic." Phoebe said light-heartedly with the hint of sarcasm to her big sister. Piper gave Phoebe her own laugh. Sam frowned as he gave out puking noises. The very idea of his big sisters sex lives was horrible to him, not to mention disturbing also.
"As a matter of fact, it was. The napkin had his phone number on it. Stop pushing the pointer." Piper told her sister with a laugh as she smiled at the immaturity of her smart younger brother. Sam laughed at his older sister as he felt Phoebe slack slightly on pushing the pointer.
"I'm not pushing it." Phoebe told her siblings with mock shock over them accusing her of pushing the pointer. Piper and Sam both gave their sister a knowing glance before they both rolled their eyes as the pointer moved on.
"Yeah right." Sam voiced out sarcastically to his big sister with humor as Piper smiled at him. No matter how much she and Prue tried they knew that Dean was influencing Sam a lot more than they wanted him too.
"You used to always push the pointer. More popcorn? Sam help me." Piper told her brother with a demanding voice as punishment for what the kid was thinking about doing to her boyfriend. Sam rolled his eyes at his sister's demanding voice. Phoebe laughed at the two.
"Always pick on the youngest when you want something. Be happy mom had more kids Pheebs." Sam replied with mock anger as Piper stood up and ruffled his hair and grabbing the bowl before walking into the kitchen as Sam followed, slouching the whole way. Phoebe smiled at the two as she looked down on the board.
"Hey, I forgot your question." Phoebe asked her big sister with confusion over what she was supposed to be asking the spirit board. Sam glanced at his sister not knowing what the question had been in the first place. Piper glanced over at her sister.
"I asked if Prue would have sex with someone other than herself this year." Piper yelled back to her sister with a humors voice. She then laughed when she noted the look of utter disgust that came across the youngest Halliwells' face. Again the thought of his sisters' sex lives even his brother's extensive sex life was a horrible thought to him.
"That's disgusting!" Phoebe called back to the older girl with a small mischievous smile on her face at the thing she was asking the spirit board. She knew that it would make things all the more interesting. Sam nodded with Phoebe's comment.
"No kidding, I'm scarred for life." Sam called out in fear to himself as he tried to spit out the bitter taste that was in his mouth at the thought of his families' sex life. Piper and Phoebe both laughed at the teen's disgust while Phoebe looked back down on the spirit board.
"Please say yes." Phoebe whispered to herself with excitement as she stared at the board with a smile. She froze as the pointer suddenly moved on its own. Phoebe let her face fill with fear as she tried to think whether it was real or not.
"Piper." Phoebe whispered in fear as she looked down on the board. She didn't understand what was happening but either way it was freaking her out a bit. When she noticed that neither Piper nor Sam had moved she looked up.
"Piper, Sam, get in here!" Phoebe yelled to her siblings with fear to her siblings over the moving pointer. Sam and Piper came running into the sunroom leaving the popcorn in the kitchen in fear for what might be happening to Phoebe.
"What?" Piper asked her younger sister with confusion over why she had been screaming for her and Sam as she stepped closer to her sister with Sam behind her both looking at Phoebe in fear and confusion, neither understood the reasons why Phoebe had yelled.
"What's up Pheebs?" Sam asked his big sister in confusion when he noticed that nothing was wrong with Phoebe. Before Phoebe could answer the confused question Prue and Dean came storming into the room. Both with looks of confusion when they noted that nothing was wrong.
"What did you guys do now?" Prue asked her siblings with an angered yet confused tone as she looked over the three. When she noticed nothing was wrong she glared at them. Dean looked to Phoebe and then to his younger brother.
"Me? I didn't do anything." Piper told her big sister with a slightly frustrated tone over being accused of something when all she did was walk back into the room. She glanced at Prue whom had now turned to look at Sam.
"Me either I was with Piper." Sam replied to his sister as he stepped closer to Piper and away from Prue. Whenever Phoebe was around Sam felt slightly more afraid of Prue and her anger. Phoebe looked over at them while Dean stepped closer to Prue.
"The pointer on the spirit board. It moved on its own." Phoebe told her brothers and sisters with fear as she sat back away from the spirit board. All of the other Halliwells glanced at their sister with pointed expressions. They all knew that Phoebe was the one that used to push the pointer as a child. And always pretended that she hadn't pushed it.
"You're kidding me!" Dean responded to his big sister with humor and sarcasm. Knowing that Phoebe always tried to do things in a certain way. And used to scare little Sam when they were kids through the spirit board. Phoebe glared at the nineteen year old with anger over his sarcasm.
"I'm serious. It spelled A-T." Phoebe told her siblings with a desperate need for them to believe her although she knew for a fact that Prue was the most unlikely to believe her. She would have thought that at least the others would believe her. Even if it seemed a little impossible.
"Well, did you push it?" Piper asked her little sister in a condescending way that broke Phoebe's heart. Dean tried to hide a smirk at Piper's voice knowing that he was influencing her more than she would care to admit while Sam and Prue just raised an eyebrow.
"No!" Phoebe yelled out with anger and sadness over the situation. She was upset that even Piper was questioning her sanity and angry that they didn't believe her. More so that they had written her off without truly considering that she might be telling the truth.
"You always used to push the pointer." Prue told Phoebe what everyone else was thinking with a placid tone as Phoebe glared at her with slight anger over Prue just not believing her without fairness. Sam glanced at her with a weirded out expression on his face.
"Yeah you even fought with a five year over getting to push the pointer." Dean commented with a small laugh as he thought back to ten years ago when Sammy was five and Phoebe thirteen fighting with the boy over pushing the pointer because the boy wanted to see some magic. Phoebe glared at him.
"My fingers were barely touching it. Look." Phoebe told her little brothers and big sisters with emphasis on her words as she tried to get them to believe her at least slightly. The sisters and Dean just sighed in irritation as Sam looked sympathetically towards her. Phoebe kept trying to make the pointer work again but nothing happened.
"You're such a gag real Pheebs." Dean told his big sister with humor at the joke he assumed Phoebe was playing on them. Phoebe glared at her little brother before looking back on the pointer. The others sighed as they began to walk away. It was then that Phoebe felt a push as the pointer moved and then moved back to the letter T.
"It did it again! It moved!" Phoebe proclaimed to her siblings with a desperate need for them to believe her. The siblings all turned back to look at her and the board. They all noted that the pointer was still on the letter T. Phoebe slightly noticed the scared look on Sam's face while she also noticed the looks of disbelief from Prue.
"It's still on the letter T." Prue told her baby sister with a condescending and slightly erratic tone to the middle Halliwell as she glared at her. Phoebe glared back at her big sister angrily that Prue was being so condescending towards her. Sam looked over at Piper and Dean.
"Yeah Pheebs dramatic much. There are kids in the room." Dean commented to his elder sister with a glare to her when he noted that Sam was looking at Phoebe in slight fear of the moving pointer. Phoebe looked to them with unfairness. While Prue stepped closer to the youngest Halliwell.
"I swear, it moved." Phoebe called out to her sisters and brothers with a demanding tone to the others. She needed them to believe her on at least this one thing. Prue and Dean both glared at Phoebe and then walked away from the other three to go back to fixing the chandelier. Or at least trying to fix the chandelier.
"Phoebe this isn't funny anymore. Quit it." Sam called out to his big sister with slight fear. He blamed it all on that stupid movie that he had watched with his best friend Madeline Gray. He then went to walk away. Phoebe then felt the pointer move as she jumped out of her chair. Sam and Piper looked back to see the slightest twitch.
"There! Look! You saw that right?" Phoebe asked her two siblings with a desperation as the pointer was now on the letter I. Piper and Sam steadily walked towards the table, both in shock for what they may or may not have seen. Phoebe looked up at them to see Piper nod slowly.
"I think so, yeah." Piper responded to her sister with a slight denial over what she may have or may not have seen. Sam nodded his head wordlessly as he agreed with Piper. He saw something but he just didn't know what it was that he had seen.
"I told you I wasn't touching it." Phoebe told the two with a forcefulness to them to let them know that she was being truthful. Piper and Sam stepped closer to their sister just as the pointer started moving again with Phoebe nowhere near it.
"Oh my god! Dean! Prue!" Sam yelled out in fear as his eyes went wide at seeing the pointer move with a gasping shout as he turned to look at his sisters fearfully. He heard a bang and a curse meaning that he had somehow he had distracted the other Halliwells.
"Prue, Dean, can you guys come in here a sec?" Piper called out to her brother and sister with a more urgent voice making it known to them to get in the room. Phoebe quickly picked up an envelope and quickly began to write as she remembered the spirit board spelling out as it was now on the letter C. Just as Prue and Dean came into the room.
"Now what?" Prue asked with a darkened glare as she stormed over to her youngest sister while Dean walked over to the frightened fifteen year old that stood in the corner of the room. He noted quickly that Piper was also looking terrified while Phoebe began looking from the board to an old envelope.
"I think it's trying to tell us something." Phoebe told her sisters and brothers with confidence as she continued to write down the letters that the spirit board had touched trying to see what sense it made. Dean laughed mockingly to his elder sister while Sam glared at him still in fear of the moving pointer.
"Tell us something? Phoebe, it's a stupid wooden board. Ghosts aren't real." Dean pointed out to his sister with humor and mock laughter as he tried to get it across to Phoebe that her joke had failed and that she hadn't fooled him or Prue. Phoebe turned over to glare at her little brother before returning to the paper as Sam glared at Dean too.
"You tell that to the wooden pointer that moved on its own." Sam yelled out to his big brother with a fairly frustrated and frightened voice to the older boy. He was terrified of the moving pointer that he had once loved to play with when he was a child. Dean glared back at the teen.
"Attic." Phoebe told the other four members of the family with a slightly scared but brave tone as she turned the envelope around to face the other members of the family. Just as a big bout of thunder banged together. The lights then went out plunging the place into darkness. Sam jumped in fear.
"Piper, I'm a great fighter. There is nothing to be afraid of." Dean told his big sister with his most confident and badass voice, trying to get it across to both Piper and Sam that there was nothing to be afraid of. Piper just ignored him as she stormed out of the conservatory with Prue on her heels while Phoebe stormed off towards the kitchen.
"Don't you think you two are overreacting? We are perfectly safe here." Prue yelled after her little sister as she stormed after her while Piper headed to the front door. Both Dean and Sam following behind their sisters. Sam looked between his sisters with fear over everything that was happening.
"Don't say that. In horror movies, the person who says that is always the next to die." Piper yelled out to her big sister with a forceful but fearful voice over the entire thing. As she grabbed a hold of her black jacket and trying to put it on despite her fear. Sam glanced over at the two with widened and fearful eyes.
"What?" Sam asked in fear at the thought of some psycho killing him and his family. He looked up at Prue with slight fear. Dean frowned in confusion as he looked at Piper thinking over what she had said and relating it to the horror movies that he watches.
"I thought the first person to die was the person that said I'll be right back." Dean asked with confusion over the subject of murderers from all the movies that he had watched in the past. Sam's eyes had widened at hearing that since that was a common phrase for him to use when he stepped out of a room for a few minutes.
"What?" Sam screamed out in even more fear at hearing that. He didn't want to think that simple phrases were set-ups for people to maybe die. Prue glared at Dean and Piper when she noted that what they were saying was scaring the fifteen year old.
"Can you guys quit it? You're scaring Sam." Prue scolded the two with anger as she stepped closer to the young teen trying to comfort him lightly. Sam looked up at his big sister thankfully as Dean jumped in between them with a goofy but comforting smile to the youngest.
"Well if it counts for much, Sammy. In the movies, virgins don't die. So that means you and Piper are safe." Dean told the youngest Halliwell with a small playful smile on his face which brightened when Piper and Sam both turned to glare angrily at him. Dean just brushed them off unbothered while Piper continued to put her jacket on.
"Piper, it is pouring rain. There's a psycho on the loose. Jeremy's not even home." Prue yelled out to her sister with a frustrated tone as she tried to get Piper to see to reason. Knowing that if she got this fear out of Piper then Sam should be easy. Piper glared as she tried to think of some kind of solution to the whole thing.
"So, I'll….I'll wait in the cab till he gets home from work." Piper told her big sister as she finally put her jacket on with a fearfully whilst she glared at her sister. She knew that Prue and Dean hadn't seen it but by the doubly frightened look on Sam's face she knew that what had happened had actually happened.
"And I'm gonna go down to Kat's place." Sam told his big sister with a desperation to get out of the house as he grabbed a hold of his own jacket and trying to put it on which was difficult due to how much he was shaking. Whatever was going on had terrified him more than anything.
"Oh that'll be cheap. And no, you are not, Sam." Prue told her siblings with a slight glare as she grabbed the teenager away from the door. Sam growled at his big sister but moved away from the front door and closer to Dean. While Piper glared at the eldest Halliwell.
"Prue, I saw that pointer move." Piper yelled out to her big sister with a determined yet frightened voice. She didn't know what to make out of what was happening but it scared her. Prue looked at the younger girl with sympathy as she put her hands on Piper's arms to comfort her slightly. Hoping to god it worked.
"No, look, what you saw was Phoebe's fingers pushing the pointer." Prue told the younger brunette as she tried to get it across to the younger girl that none of what Phoebe was doing was true. That it was all a joke. Sam glared angrily at his eldest sister. He knows what he saw and what he saw was that stupid pointer moving.
"No, the pointer really did move." Sam yelled out to his older sister as he tried to convince her that what he, Phoebe and Piper saw was true. And that Phoebe wasn't making a joke about this. Prue and Dean both gave him a slight glance before turning back to Piper.
"Sammy, it was just Phoebe being Phoebe. A magic trick." Dean told the youngest Halliwell with his most convincing tone as he tried to get it across to the kid that nothing was wrong. Sam just glared at his big brother and his condescending tone. Just because he was the youngest didn't mean he was stupid. He know what he saw.
"There is nothing in that attic. She's playing a joke on us." Prue cried out to her siblings with frustration written all over her voice. She was sick and tired of the way Piper and Sam just believed that Phoebe was being truthful when it was Phoebe Halliwell that they were talking about. Dean laughed at that slightly.
"A good joke but a joke never the less." Dean told his siblings with a humors yet sarcastic tone as he laughed over the fact that Sam and Piper were believing in this stupid joke. The laughter quickly stopped when Prue gave him a darkening glare that would make even the devil gulp.
"We don't know that. We've lived in this house for months now and we've never been able to get that attic door open." Piper yelled out to her eldest sister as she pointed a finger at her in anger, fear and stress. Piper then stormed back inside the manor to grab the white phone on the side table as she tried to phone Jeremy or a cab to come and get her.
"Yeah Piper's right and even before, back when Grams was alive we could never open that stupid door." Sam agreed with his sister as he thought back to many times he had tried to get into the attic to look for something but he never could. And whenever his Grams caught him. It wasn't very pretty when Grams caught you doing something you weren't supposed to do.
"Great, now the phone doesn't work." Piper complained out load to her siblings in anger as she glared at the phone with even more anger. At hearing this Sam's eyes widened further as memories from the movie that he had watched with Kat the night before came back to him. Dean rolled his eyes in annoyance.
"Yeah, the power's out. Look just go with me to the basement." Prue asked her sister with a strong and confident voice as she asked with just a monotone voice to the younger Halliwells. Both Sam and Piper's eyes widened at hearing this while Dean just glanced up weirdly towards the oldest Halliwell. He was kind of pissed that Prue had asked Piper.
"What?" Both Piper and Sam cried out as they both shivered at what Prue was asking off of one of them. Prue just glanced at them as if they were stupid which they were anything but. While Dean gave them all a weird and yet pissed off look. He didn't understand why Prue had asked Piper instead of him to going to the basement.
"I need someone to hold the flashlight. While I check out the circuit box. Dean I want you to watch Sam." Prue told her siblings with a bossy tone as she took charge of the situation as usual. Piper turned to glare at her big sister. The very thought of going down into a dark creepy ass basement terrified her.
"Phoebe will go with you to the basement." Piper yelled out as soon as she noticed Phoebe walking by and towards the stairs with a flashlight in hand. Phoebe stopped and glanced over at her siblings while Sam looked at her in desperation. Phoebe shook her head.
"No, I'm going to the attic." Phoebe told the other four with a strengthened voice as she pointed towards the stairs with the flashlight in hand. Sam looked over at her as if she was crazy which was probably more than likely considering it was Phoebe.
"Are you crazy? The spirit board told us to go up there. I'd rather be in the basement." Sam yelled to his big sister as the very thought of going up to the attic made Sam shiver. Not that they could really open the door in the first place. But it was a scary prospect. Phoebe gave him a sympathetic look while Prue stepped in front of the fifteen year old.
"No, you're not. We already agreed." Prue told her youngest sister with an anger and stress filled voice. She knew that yet again Phoebe was going against the majority vote to do what she wanted rather than what the family had decided. Phoebe glared back at the eldest Halliwell with annoyance.
"I am not waiting for some handyman to check out the attic and I'm certainly not waiting until tomorrow. I'm going now." Phoebe explained to her brothers and sisters with her normal stubborn attitude as she turned back to the stairs and began to storm up the stairs whilst the others looked on towards her. Prue glared angrily before storming into the living room with Sam trailing behind her.
"Prue, wait!" Piper called out to her elder sister with a scared voice as she stormed over to the older brunette while Sam quickly followed behind her in fear. Dean looked at the two, he knew how Piper and Sam were the more fearful people in the family. Preferring comedy romance to the horror movies that he, Phoebe and sometimes Prue watched.
"How about I go down to the basement with Prue and you stay with Sammy up here. We'll meet up with Phoebe." Dean told his big sister with the slightest of nods as Piper nodded back and walked with Sam into the living room while Prue and Dean went to walk down stairs to the basement.
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Meanwhile Phoebe walked up to the attic and tried to open the door. But it was locked. She went to walk away when suddenly it opened. Phoebe against her better judgment walked into the room. She flashed the light across the room before she noticed a glow coming from a chest at the window of the room. She walked closer and opened it. She found a big book and pulled it out. She sat down as she looked at the front of the book. Her fingers traced the symbol before she opened it.
"The book of Shadows." Phoebe read to herself as she looked at the front page. She was startled by the thunder before she moved to the next page and looked to see an incantation.
"Here now the words of the witches.
The secrets we hid in the night.
The oldest of gods are invoked here.
The great work of magic is sought.
In this night and in this hour.
I call upon the ancient power.
Bring your power to we siblings five.
We want the power.
Give us the power."
Phoebe read out in hesitation with the thunder and lightning raging outside as a bright light spread throughout the entire house unknowingly the five siblings within. A picture of all five sibling grew bright as they were all pulled in close together.
"What are you doing?" Prue's voice suddenly called out into the room as Phoebe jumped up to find her two big sisters and two little brothers. Phoebe pulled the book into her arms as she let her nerves calm slightly before standing up and walking towards the four.
"Reading an incantation. It was in this Book of Shadows. I found it in that trunk." Phoebe told the other four as she stood up and walked towards her four siblings with a shyness unlike herself as she pointed back towards the trunk she had been just moments ago sitting on. They all glanced at the big strange book in Phoebe's hands.
"Let me see that." Prue asked her little sister as she took the book from the younger girls arms with curiosity. Dean spared a glance at the big book before turning back to his youngest big sister with a look of confusion and curiosity while Sam looked down on the book that his eldest sister was looking at with curiosity.
"How did you get in here?" Piper asked her younger sister with a hostile and yet confused and curious tone as she pointed to the door. Phoebe and Dean both looked back at the door. And then Dean turned back to Phoebe expectantly. While Prue opened the big book. Sam glanced at it. But it was hard to see with him being so small.
"That's my question too. I mean I tried everything to get into this room growing up." Dean also asked with his own dose of curiosity over the once locked door. He had tried to get into the room a hundred times in the past. And he was brilliant at picking locks, forced to as a part-time mechanic. Yet he had never gotten into this room.
"The door opened." Phoebe explained to the others with as much conviction and confusion as she had the first time she had proclaimed something had happened that night. Immediately Sam looked up from the book at hearing that. His once curiosity over the huge book now gone.
"Opened? I thought you said ghosts don't exist." Sam asked with fear and confusion as he shivered lightly while looking around the room. He noticed some things from the past and other things he has absolutely no idea about. Phoebe nodded her head as Dean glared at the fifteen year old.
"Wait a minute. An incantation? What kind of incantation?" Piper asked with a stern voice as she suddenly remembered what Phoebe had said when they had all first entered the attic. And somehow that scared her more than the door suddenly opening. Dean and Sam both glanced up at her in confusion while Prue began to read the big book.
"It said something about there being three essentials of magic; eh timing, feeling and the phases of the moon. If we were ever gonna do this. Now at night on a full moon is the most powerful time." Phoebe recited as she remembered everything that she has read. The thunder began to get louder again outside as Sam jumped. Dean and Prue began to think through what Phoebe had said before Prue went back to the book.
""This?" Do what, "this"?" Piper asked her little sister with confusion and slight fear written all over her face as she looked around the attic before turning back to Phoebe again. Piper put her hands on her hips to act more stern and intimidating to the younger girl as Phoebe spared a glance to the other people in the room.
"Phoebe what in the hell is this?" Sam asked his big sister in irritation and irrational fear over what might or might not be happening to him. He glanced at Prue to find her still reading away and then turned to Dean to see him staring at Phoebe with a frown on his face.
"Receive our powers." Phoebe admitted begrudgingly to her four siblings as she squeezed her eyes shut waiting for the blow out that she knew would happen. It wasn't everyday something like this happened and she knew it was probably bad timing on their part.
"What powers? Wait our powers? You included me in this." Piper yelled at to her in anger as she thought about what this might mean to her. Phoebe just shrugged as Dean looked over Prue's shoulder to look at the Book of Shadows with curiosity. Prue continued to read whilst Sam's eyes widened in fear.
"And me. Phoebe!" Sam yelled out to his sister with a fearfulness over what his sister had just said to him. He didn't want to be different. His life was already bad enough. Phoebe turned to him with a slight sadness to her expression as she thought about how this would affect Sam if what happened was true and that they were given their powers.
"No she included all of us. "Bring your powers to we siblings five" it's a book of witchcraft." Prue explained to her younger siblings as she slammed the book shut and stood to glare at the younger girl with a stern look and her hands on her hips. Piper glanced over at the book that Dean was now looking through.
"Let me see that." Piper asked her younger brother with curiosity as Dean passed the giant book over to his elder sister as he turned to glare at Phoebe with anger. Sam noticed the tension between all of his siblings with a heavy heart. He was the one that was supposed to act like a kid and yet it was them that were acting like kids.
"What were you thinking Phoebe?" Dean yelled out to his sister with anger and annoyance. He couldn't believe that Phoebe could be stupid to do things she had no reason doing, especially when it involved all of them as a family. Sam and Phoebe both glared at Dean while Piper continued to check out the book.
"Guys, can we stop fighting for one second. Nothing bad has happened. Let's just go down stairs." Sam yelled at his siblings with anger as he decided to be the voice of reason between the family. They all just turned to glare at him before Prue stormed down the stairs. Piper placed the book down on the chest before following after with Phoebe in front and Sam and Dean behind her.
"Sprit boards. Books of witchcraft. Figures all this freaky stuff started when you arrived." Prue grumbled out to her siblings with a frustrated and agitated tone as the entire family began to trek their way down the stairs with nervous and scared looks. The lights were still out which made the house seem bigger and more scary while the youngest and oldest girls argued.
"I wasn't the one that found the spirit board." Phoebe argued with her eldest sister in what see seemed like something so trivial and unimportant. Sam rolled his eyes with anger. It was so obvious to him that Phoebe and Prue were going to fight with each other no matter what.
"Oh right blame Prue why don't you?" Dean yelled at Phoebe as he went straight to defending his big sister from what Phoebe was saying to her with anger. Phoebe just turned to glare at him while they continued to walk down the stairs in unhappiness. All of them worried about what had happened down the stairs. Dean smiled at her.
"Wasn't my finger sliding on the pointer?" Prue argued back with her little sister ignoring Dean but thankful to him for defending her the way that he was. She smiled lightly but quickly put back up her mask. Phoebe glared at her oldest sister and little brother angrily.
"It doesn't matter cause nothing happened, right, Phoebe? When you did that incantation?" Piper asked her little sister as they all began walking down the stairs and into the living room but she was desperate to know exactly what was happening to her and her family. Dean nodded in agreement with Piper as did Sam and Prue eventually.
"Please tell me that nothing happened Phoebe?" Sam asked his big sister with a desperate need for everything to be normal like it had been this morning. Right now he missed normal. Phoebe turned slightly to glare at the two while they all retreated down the last pair of stairs with feelings of confusion and curiosity.
"Well my head spun around and I vomited split pea soup. How the hell should I know?" Phoebe asked her brothers and sister with a high pitched voice. She had had enough with people accusing her of this and that and thinking that she knew something when she was just as in the dark as the other four. It was annoying.
"Eh because you're the one that did it." Dean told the youngest female Halliwell with a sigh of agitation over what was happening. He would be lying if he said that he wasn't scared but he knew that he would never admit it. He looked around the house slowly as did everyone else in the house.
"Well everything looks the same." Piper proclaimed as she looked around the house waiting for something to happen. And yet nothing happened. She smiled slightly believing that he luck was coming back to being her normal luck while Dean and Sam both looked around weirdly.
"I think so. It looks the same right?" Sam asked with confusion and desperation. He could only deal with so much in one night. He looked around and everything seemed to be still in its original order much to his happiness. Dean looked around and nodded. He had opted to not say anything anymore.
"Yeah your right." Phoebe replied with a slightly disappointed tone over still being boring normal old Phoebe Halliwell. But then again did she need any more drama in her life. No, not really. They were know on the last step as they looked around again to find nothing wrong and that everything was in its place.
"The house still needs work." Prue explained in sympathy for herself knowing that she was going to be the one to fix the house. Dean also looked around the house feeling sympathy towards his oldest sister. He knew she'd end up fixing the house all on her own being the perfectionist that she was. He smiled at that.
"And everything feels the same so nothing's changed. Right?" Piper spoke as she followed her brothers and sisters around the house. The siblings were unaware that the picture had changed. And they were unaware of the man dressed in black standing outside of their home. The man stood and waited. He smiled a dark smile before he walked away from the Halliwell Manor. Things had changed.