Even without an active power Phoebe was able to hold her own against the demons around her. She had gone prepared with potions and so far every one was working to her liking.
She felt her adrenaline pumping through her with each vanquish she made. She even started to have some fun with it. Getting the demons to kill themselves.
"You can't win this witch. Sooner or later you will run out of potions."
"Where the hell are my sisters?" Phoebes voice held more courage then she felt.
"If I told you they were dead would you believe me?" he laughed knowing, even at his level, the bond the three shared.
"Liar!" Phoebe quickly jumped up and tossed another vial in his direction. Hearing the crying of pain was all she needed. She knew he wasn't vanquished, but she knew she had hurt him pretty good. One lucky shot. It was all she needed.
He looked down at the singed skin and muscle where she had hit him with the potion. "You will pay for that witch." he pushed himself up against the rock, And so will your sisters." He added in before he shimmered out of the caves.
Phoebe leaned against the rocks she had been using for cover. "Now what?" she said to no one.
"Now? Now I get you the hell out of here before your sisters kill me."
Phoebe looked up quickly to see Leo taken refuge beside her.
"What the hell were you thinking coming down her alone?" He scolded her
"Trying to save my sisters!" she shot back. "And I might add, taking out some demons along the way."
"Phoebe you can not defeat these guys alone. You don't have an active power." He was trying to get her to understand that he needed her to find her sisters and if anything happened to her when they were found. They would kill him, again.
"Well in case you hadn't notice Leo, I did alright. And I hurt their leader bad!" she argued in her own defence. She knew her sisters would be mad at her for doing what she did, but she didn't care. All that mattered to her was getting them back.
Leo stood up and pulled her to her feet. "Ok you know what, let's just get out of here and re-work this." He took Phoebes arm in his and started to orb out. Though he did see the pained expression on her face when he took her arm.
She felt the world refocus as the orbs released her. Reaching for anything to help balance herself, she grabbed hold of Leos arm as he eased her down to the couch.
"Just take deep breaths Phoebe. It will wear off eventually." Leo said as he saw her struggling with her orientation of everything around her.
She closed her eyes as her world came back to normal. As normal as it could be with her sisters missing. "How dare you!" her voice was low and held venom Leo had not heard before. But he knew the tone. She was pissed off.
"Phoebe." He looked at her with caution.
"Don't Phoebe me Leo. I was on to them. I was finding my sisters and you came in there and pulled me out like yesterday's flowers. How dare you!!"
"Phoebe I had to. First you are no match form them alone. You would have gotten yourself killed."
"I think I killed enough of them on my own to prove THAT theory wrong." She shot back, the daggers in her eyes not getting by him.
"Phoebe." He looked at her trying to get through to her. "It was wrong. You could have been killed. You were lucky and you know it."
Phoebe relaxed into the back of the couch. Her head resting on the cushions as her mind took over. 'Stupid Phoebe. Leo is right what were you thinking? I just wanted to save them. I need them.'
The voices went back and forth in her mind as she tried to justify her actions to herself. And in the end she would have to. She would have to, to her sisters.
"Phoebe?" Leo looked at her not wanting to lose her into herself.
"I need them back Leo." Her voice was soft almost inaudible to him. But even the words could not convey he feeling of lost and loneliness.
Leo wasn't really sure what to do. He had seen the look on her face many times as Prue or Piper comforted her. But this time was different. He felt her body press to his as she cried into him. His instincts took over as he wrapped his arms around Phoebe holding her as her sisters had over the years. But what she was feeling he knew he couldn't heal.
She lay there not moving. She had been trying for hours to gather her barring's but as yet she had been unable too. She kept her eyes closed as she looked back in her mind to the night they came for her. The fight that had insued until she felt the sharp pain in her side. A pain that she associated with a dart gun.
Her mind drifted out of instinct to her sisters. Were they in the same place she was. Attacked at night by a demon?
She tried to push way the drugs in her system, the fogginess in her mind. But as she did she wished she hadn't. Sounds and motion she heard and saw made her cringe as to where she was. But it still made no sense.
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He worked diligently into the night. Needing and wanting answers. Answer only they could provide. But his task was hampered.
He looked up to see his partner. "This is not going to work."
"Sure it will. And when everything is done we will be very rich men." Dr Jefferies spoke as he held the gaze in his eyes. "Soon enough everything will come to us Curtis and the world will be ours." He laughed.
Larry made his way through another darkened alley. He wasn't even sure anymore that what his brother in law and colleague were doing was right. All he knew was he needed to do what he needed to survive.
He paced with impatience before seeing the man he was seeking out.
"Did she come?"
"Yes." He answered his eyes drifting towards the wound on his arm.
Larry noticed but said nothing. "And?"
"It was taken care of."
Larry smiles appreciatively. "Thanx."
"Don't thank me yet human. This isn't over." His words were firm as he disappeared leaving Larry to wonder just who this guy was.
His mind twirled on his way back to the station. He never thought once in his life about the possibilities of another world beyond what he knew. He made his way up the steps as he had a million times before. Everything was different now. He was in a world he didn't belong in and he knew that.
Looking across the station to another desk he felt hatred. One he had never felt before: hatred towards one of his own. But as he passed by as every day he did he fought to remain in control. He knew that the inspector knew their secret. He was a partner with Trudeau after all and he was sleeping with the oldest, everyone knew that. He spun involuntarily as the phone rang. He waited just to see who it was.
"Morris here." He paused briefly before his face fell "I'll be right there Leo." Hanging up the phone he grabbed his jacket and practically ran from the station. Leaving behind many officers wondering the nature of the call.
Larry watched before following discreetly. He knew the call was coming, he hadn't expected it to take as long as it had. Pulling the car to the curb he waited.
Darryl took the steps in stride as he quickly knocked on the glass door.
As it opened he said nothing to the man before him. As he made his way inside. Seeing her siting there lost in her own world his heart reached out to her. "Phoebe?"
She blinked back her emotions as she looked up at him. "Hey."
"What. What's going on?" He recalled some of the conversation he had with Leo but it wasn't enough. As an inspector he needed more to go on.
Phoebe looked at him not realy sure herself what was happening. "Some one took them Darryl. Someone took my sisters." she fought to stay strong but as it was becoming more clear to her, she was losing the battle against the damn holding everything in.
The silence that fell between them was bigger and louder then an echo in the Grand Canyon. To Phoebe her sisters were her world and without them Darryl knew her world would fall apart in no time.
