Chapter 18-Talks and Demons

Piper had been standing outside Parker's door for what seemed like hours now. She slowly took a deep breath and opened the door. She saw Parker sitting in her desk chair, hugging her knees to her chest, tears streaming down her face, and looking out of her bedroom window. She looked so small and fragile to Piper. No matter what she did, no matter how old she got or what kind of trouble she got into, she would always be her baby girl. That is one thing that Piper knew for sure would never change. That still didn't change the fact that Piper was pissed off that she would do something so stupid. "Parker." Parker jumped a little and looked up at her mom. She visibly swallowed hard dreading her mother's appearance in her bedroom. "We have to talk about this."

Parker just nodded. She knew it was coming. There was no way to avoid it. She twirled her chair around to face her mom who was now sitting on her bed. "Why? What happened to make you do something so stupid? You have two kids and school and a bunch of other stuff going for you. You missed a whole day of your children's lives to go and ruin yours." She ranted standing up from the bed and pacing back and forth. Parker just watched and nodded. Knowing all those things were true. "Answer me!"

"I don't know mom. I quit before I got pregnant and the second something goes wrong. I go right back to it. I know that I missed a day in my children's lives and I regret it. I really do. I wish I could take it all back but I can't. I'm stuck with the stupid decisions I made. I will never make those mistakes again. From now on, all my time and energy goes into school and my kids. I dedicated myself to that last night when we got through talking." she told her not even begging for forgiveness like usual. Now she was just talking like she was ashamed, and she was. Piper stood thinking about what she just heard her daughter say.

"Wait a minute. What do you mean those mistakes? What else did you do?"

"Nothing. I was talking about all the other times I've done it before. I'm really sorry mom. You can keep me in your own personal supervision 24/7 if you want. I don't care. I just want to get my life back to where I wake up, feed and change the kids, get ready for school, go to school, come home, take care of my kids, do my homework, and go to bed. That's all." Parker confirmed even though she knew she was lying Piper seemed to by it.

"OK, you go to school, you come home. That's it." Piper remarked. She started to continue to press the issue when they heard Potter and Phoenix both start to cry. That immediately threw up an alarm and Parker quickly orbed into the nursery.

When she got into the nursery she sees a demon standing over the twins, who were sitting in the floor screaming inside of their protective bubble. "Hey!" she screamed starting to blow him up, which only sent him taking a step away from the twins. "Get" blast "the" blast "hell" blast "away" blast "from" blast "my" blast "kids!" double blast. The demon shimmered out with a wound on his chest and an arm blown off. Parker, knowing that Piper was standing in the doorway and was responsible for the second blast the last time, ran over to the twins to check on them. "Are they OK?" Piper asked in concern.

Parker nodded picking Potter up from the floor and holding him close bouncing him a little. Piper picked up Phoenix and she did the same except made small shushing noises and whispered reassuring words into the baby's tiny ear. She looked over and noticed that Parker had walked out of the room with Potter. "Parker?" She asked following her down the hall a couple of steps behind.

"That was the same demon from yesturday." Parker mumbled to herself even though she was sure that her mother had heard.

"Demon? What demon?" Piper asked worried.

"A demon attacked the twins yesturday while you were at the club." Parker told her. "That was the same demon. The problem is I blew him up last time."

"If you blew him up. How did he attack again?"

"I'm not sure, I didn't get to finding him in the book, Dillon started yelling and...doesn't matter. Anyway, the point is I didn't get to read it's entry. If it even has one."

"So, what we've got here is a demon who reconstitutes himself stronger whenever he gets vanquished. And he's after my grandchildren." Piper remarked.

"Let's just focus on changing that thank you." Parker remarked flipping vigorously through the Book OF Shadows.