I got so into this when I was writing it. Seriously, I was like "Kick his ass, Billie!" I hope it turned out as well on paper as it was in my mind.
Billie's hand shot to her pocket, searching for her second vial.
"Are you looking for something?" he asked, moving towards her, "Because I think I have it."
Cal grabbed the first potion from the place it hung in the air and showed a second to Billie.
"You know, maybe I should vanquish you."
"You can't vanquish a witch," Billie said, even though she had no idea if it was possible to vanquish someone good.
"Well, you don't know if it's possible, and I'll admit to being curious, so why don't we find out?"
Cal moved as if to walk towards her, but shimmered out and appeared behind her back, wrapping one arm around her stomach and placing a hand at her throat. She froze, knowing beyond a doubt that he'd break her neck if she struggled. He pulled her backwards and she felt cold steel encase her wrists.
"It wasn't the smartest battle plan to come into my home alone and hope to vanquish me, Billie."
"So I was supposed to wait until you came and attacked me?" Billie shot back, hoping that Cal didn't hear her voice trembling.
"No wonder I liked you," he replied, his eyes moving slowly over her body.
Billie couldn't take any more of the situation, and she started to struggle against the chains holding her to the wall. Cal casually opened the first vial of vanquishing potion and dripped some onto her chest. Billie hadn't been prepared for the move and screamed in agony as her skin was burned.
"Oh, so it looks like this stuff does work on you," he said.
Billie tried to catch her breath and ignore the fact that her chest felt like it was slowly being devoured by flames. Cal waited for her breathing to return to normal before tilting the vial towards her skin again. Billie jerked forward, her breath catching in her throat as her injured chest came into contact with the glass. Cal took a step back at the sudden movement and almost dropped the potion. As he bent down to grab it before it hit the ground, Billie kicked him under the chin, sending him sprawling backwards.
Her feet landed on the spilled potion and she slipped, being caught by the chains holding her wrists. The metal dug into her wrists and she gasped, trying to stand up again and take the weight off of her wrists. She tried to get herself free of the chains and succeeded in unlocking one of the cuffs before Cal recovered. He stepped over the potion and slammed her into the wall, his hand on her chest. The key to the cuffs fell to the ground behind her and Billie frantically tried to unlock the chains with her powers, but to no avail.
Cal put on a glove and held the empty vial in his hand, hitting her in the face with it. Glass embedded itself into her cheek and the small drops of potion left in the bottle invaded her already open cuts. Billie cried out again and her legs gave out underneath her, her body unable to cope with the pain she was in.
He rubbed his chin and looked at her for a moment before punching her in the stomach. Billie gripped her abdomen with her one free hand and tried to stop the pain while Cal moved back to the table he had been standing at when she had come in.
"I've got some things to do right now, babe, so try not to suffer too loudly," he said before returning to his reading. Billie spent the next five minutes trying to regulate her breathing and quell the pain she was still experiencing. Her legs were shaking badly, but she could only lean against the cave wall, which didn't help.
She couldn't believe that Prue had left her; she couldn't believe that she'd been so stupid to go alone with a woman she'd met only days before. It may not have even been Prue, it could have been a demon. The more Billie thought about her situation, the angrier she became at herself and at Cal. If Cal hadn't done all of this to her, she'd still be normal. She wouldn't have gotten into drugs and she'd have a much better relationship with, well, everyone. The anger welled up in her and she felt like she was going to explode when she heard a slight clicking above her head. Looking up, she noticed that the key had flown upwards and unlocked the remaining cuff.
She looked at her hand and then back at Cal. She remembered reading about people who saw red when they were angry. Billie didn't just see red, she saw flames. She took a step towards Cal, her legs regaining all stability and confidence. She waved her arm towards him and he was flung into the wall sideways.
"You're the reason everything is going wrong in my life," she yelled at him as he stood up, smiling.
"You finally got a backbone," he replied, looking amused.
She flung him against the wall again, ignoring his comment.
"You're the reason I ran away. You're the reason I killed someone. You're the reason I had to be stuck in that damned clinic for weeks."
With each accusation, she threw Cal a little harder, a little faster. And with each attack, she became more and more angry.
"You raped me. You were a disgusting excuse for a human being before you became a demon, and you're going to get exactly what you deserve. You're going to burn down here forever."
She thrust out her arm and threw him into the ceiling. Calling for the potion in his pocket was easy, and when she did it rocketed towards her, changing course immediately before it reached her and launching back towards Cal. His smirk was gone now, and Billie smiled, seeing fear in his eyes. As it hit him in the chest, she held him up with her right arm as she reached into her jacket for the other two potions.
"I am sick of being treated like this. You don't deserve my fear, and you don't deserve to live."
She threw the two potions one after another and let go of her hold on him as they hit him square in the chest. He fell to the floor and Billie called for the spilled potion. As it rose from the floor, Billie's anger was reaching its peak.
"This was the last thing you hurt me with, and it's the last thing you'll ever see or feel."
With that last remark, Billie brought her two hands together, causing Cal and the potion to fly together, exploding in flames on contact.
Billie tried to smile, but the overuse of her power was making her feel extremely tired. Her eyes began to close and she was powerless to stop them, falling to the hard ground.
10x10x10x
Paige opened the door to the manor and walked in. It was one in the morning and she was wiped out. Piper and Phoebe were at P3 but she declined the invitation, feeling like she should be with Billie. Of course, they wouldn't be spending any time together that night seeing as how she was probably asleep and if she wasn't, Paige planned to bitch at her until she was.
She walked through the kitchen without turning on the light, moving straight downstairs. When she didn't see Billie, she called out her name. There was no response and Paige started to get worried. She kept the light on in the room and walked quickly back upstairs and right to the second floor.
Maybe she's taking a bath. Yeah, that's probably it.
She arrived to the second floor and checked both bathrooms before sprinting upstairs to the attic. The Book of Shadows was open and she started to suspect what Billie was up to. She rushed to the Book and looked at the page it was open to.
A vanquishing potion. Oh no, no, no, no.
She ran back downstairs, grabbing the phone on her way. She got into the kitchen and slid on the floor as she tried to stop herself. Turning on the light, she found multiple potion ingredients out and a pot on the stove, along with a post it with the same instructions that had been in the Book upstairs. She dialed Piper's cell phone and didn't wait for her to speak when she picked up.
"Get Phoebe and go into your office alone, now. I'll be waiting for you."
She was orbing out before Piper hung up the phone.
When Piper and Phoebe opened the door, they saw Paige looking pissed off, which really meant that she was terrified.
"Billie went after Cal alone," she blurted out the second they closed the door. Again, not giving them a chance to speak, she grabbed them and orbed them back into the kitchen.
"Oh no," Phoebe gasped as she took in the scene in front of her.
"Oh yes," Paige replied before orbing off again and reappearing a moment later with a map and crystal in hand. She moved over to the table and threw the map down, immediately starting to scry.
Phoebe and Piper looked at each other in shock after Paige snapped at them to "do something." They had never seen their sister like this before, and were somewhat apprehensive. She was acting a little like Piper did right after she lost Prue.
When the scrying didn't work, Paige swore badly and repeatedly. She orbed away and with another glance, Piper and Phoebe rushed up the stairs. When they got to the attic, they found Paige swearing at the ceiling. When she hit the Book of Shadows and knocked it to the floor, Piper rushed over to her sister and grabbed her, bringing her over to the couch, still yelling.
"Tell us where she is, damn it! How dare you not tell us what she was doing! You're worthless pieces of sh-!" Piper put her hand over her little sister's mouth, looking up at the ceiling with an apologetic expression.
Phoebe went to pick up the Book and whispered something to herself. Apparently it worked, and she found a spell. Piper and Paige were oblivious to their sister's actions and were extremely surprised to find themselves being transported to another place.
When Paige saw Billie on the floor, she rushed over to her, trying to shake her awake. Her eyes darted around the cavern, looking for an enemy that was nowhere to be seen. Phoebe noticed a scorch mark on the ground and walked over to it, investigating the burn.
"Billie, come on, wake up. Billie, you wake up this second or I'll kill you!"
Tears started falling out of Paige's eyes and she wiped them away angrily.
"I swear if you don't wake up right now, you are in so much trouble."
When Billie didn't stir, Paige stood up, her eyes flashing.
"Where the hell is he?" She started muttering to herself, trying to remember the spell to summon a demon, but she couldn't recall more than a few words.
"Paige," Phoebe said softly.
"I swear to God, when I find him, he's going to wish he were dead."
"Paige," she said again, a little louder.
"No, he's going to wish he'd never been born. When I'm through with him, he'll be nothing more than a-"
"Paige!"
"What?!" Paige whirled towards her older sister, ready to direct her rage at Phoebe if need be.
"I think he's already dead."
"What the hell do you mean, 'He's already dead'?" she almost sneered.
Phoebe got up and ignored her sister's tone, knowing how scared she really was.
"I think Billie killed him."
"He'll be damn lucky if she did," Paige replied.
"Uh, guys? Maybe we should get Billie home," Piper interjected.
Paige looked at Piper and then back at Billie before the fire was extinguished from her eyes and she orbed everyone back to the manor.
I'm actually thinking it would have been awesome to see Paige destroy Cal at that point. Anyway, I'd love reviews for this chapter more than any other, because it really was the most important one in the story, and I want to make sure I did it right. So what did you think? Too much of something, not enough of another? Let me know, all it takes is a couple clicks of the mouse and a few more keystrokes.