Hello all. Here we go again.
lizzie, sorry I confused you. I was just trying to get the action in and the bad guys known.
Many thanks also to shortie4283 and also Stony Angel. I emailed you, Stony Angel, under a different email from my yahoo account so hopefully you got it....................................................................
Piper took a sip of her bottled water and watched the club goers around her. A lot of them were leaving now that the band was done performing. She saw the band start to pack up and smiled in relief that the show had been so good.
"Tell me you got a c.d. of theirs." Phoebe said smiling at her.
"Yeah, I got a couple." Piper responded.
"Good. I claim one of those for myself, Missie. Because that was one awesome band that you had play." Phoebe told her smiling.
"Yeah?" Piper asked raising her eyebrows at Phoebe's good mood and smiling.
"Oh, yeah." Phoebe laughed. "Remember when you wanted to be a professional singer?"
"Oh god don't remind me."
"You kept singing Barbara Streisand and Whitney Houston stuff all day everyday and then Grams bought all of us earplugs." Phoebe giggled.
"Grams.. She kept telling me I had a better destiny then in singing in bars and imitating the top 40 singers."
"Sounds like Grams alright," Phoebe responded. As she brought her drink up in a toast. "To good old Grams. Wherever she may be in the afterlife let her be happy."
"Ditto," Piper replied as she tipped her bottled water towards Phoebe's strawberry daiquiri. "Oh, and also to Prue."
Phoebe's smile faded a little bit at the mention of Prue. Piper knew that that was still a line they needed to cross one day in order to be able to be done mourning. Maybe, she shouldn't have brought it up.
It was the anniversary of Prue's death though. It kind of needed to be brought up. Prue deserved a shout out wherever she was and where ever she had passed on to.
Prue. God, it had been forever since she'd thought of her older sister. Prue had always been the perfect one of the family. 'The overachiever with a soul', Grams had once referred to her as. Prue had always known what to do and when to do it and even how it should be done right. She'd been so powerful.
Then, Prue had been taken from them.
Piper and Prue had been in the house alone and Shax had attacked. They hadn't been prepared. They both had been near death and Leo had only had enough time to choose one of them to save. Piper had been the one he had chosen to save.
Once in awhile, Piper had to wonder what it would hade been like to have died that day. If she and Leo had never been together then Prue would have still been alive. Prue would've survived and Piper would have died.
Sometimes she knew she hadn't died because she was Leo's wife and that had biased the whole situation. As selfish as it seemed, she was happy that he had saved her. She wanted to be alive for as long as she could be alive. She wanted to see her family grow up and her children have their own families.
She had never wanted to die young like her mother had.
She snapped away from thoughts of dying and thought about Prue for a moment. Prue had been taken from them so quickly. . Shax had attacked and they hadn't had the power of three with them to save themselves. They hadn't even been prepared.
Then, Paige had entered their life. She had been a godsend as well as a problem at times.
It was nice to know that the Power of Three could be reconstituted. It was also nice to see the baby sister that she had never known about. Deep down in the beginning it had been so hard. They hadn't had time to grieve before they had had to accept a new sister into their home.
It was like Paige was replacing Prue at times and she had hated her for that.
She loved Paige now more then ever. She was her baby sister and she had to love her. It was just in the very beginning just knowing her own oldest sister who had always taken care of her and everyone else was gone. Piper had had to take on her role as the leader of the family while trying to keep sane. Then, Paige had come in as a new witch who tended to screw things up ever week.
Now, it was better between them, but before it had been hell.
"To Prue," Phoebe agreed and tipped her glass in the toast.
Piper smiled wanly and looked away from her middle sister. Only a few dozen people were still in the club. She saw a man nearing his thirties talking to the singer of Red Helter onstage. Then, she saw a business card passed into her hands. Piper was happy someone was having good luck on that day.
Then, out of the corner of her chocolate colored eyes she saw something that was off in the club.
There was a set of twins standing in the very middle of the dance floor. They had roughly went through a few people to get there and now that they were there they were searching through the small groups of people for someone. For a moment it even looked like they were sniffing something out as if they were dogs or something and could pick up a scent.
The weird looking red haired, white-blue eyed twins looked at each other silently communicating for a moment. Then, they smiled a savage smile that ripped a few shivers through Piper' body. She felt her baby kick in warning as she watched the two join hands.
Their pale white albino colored hands joined as Piper frowned. Something was definitely off in the air. Something was definitely wrong with this picture. She couldn't tell what it was at the second but she knew she would soon find out.
She slowly got to her feet. She saw a confused Phoebe look up from a sip of her drink and watch her as she moved to her feet. Piper had to see this better.
Energy balls brilliantly formed in searing white globes inside of the twins free hands. Piper gaped at them as she looked around the club. There were still so many innocents everywhere and they were just going to attack magically in front of all of them? She followed their eyes and their own aim as they threw their energy balls straight at the stage ahead of them.
The energy balls were going to slam right into the singer of Red Helter and the man with the business cards. Crap, this was almost a perfect night. Strike that it had almost been a perfect month without any demonic interruption. Until now, at least.
Piper went to freeze the energy balls before they could do any damage to anyone. Before she could though someone knocked straight into her. The pure power of being knocked off of her balance threw her straight ahead onto her side on the floor.
Her head rammed into a wooden bar stool as she did and everything went black for a moment. Then it came back and she saw the dizzy world around her.
She moaned for a moment as she laid on the floor and looked around for the source of her fall. Whoever it had been that had made her fall was no where to be found. As she looked up to find her attacker she saw all of the innocents running chaotically around the room in search of the exit. Piper didn't freeze them. They needed to get out of danger as fast as possible.
She curled in a ball as she saw a few coming her way, but in the last possible moment they ran in a different direction.
She turned her head, breathed hard so she could see through her hair piling in front of her face, and saw more energy balls flying.
The singer ran off of the stage somewhere in the back. The man talking to her threw a table as if it were made of nothing at the twins. They threw an energy ball at it that destroyed it before it could even hit them. It fell to the ground in ashes.
Phoebe came to her and helped her to her feet.
"What the hell was that?" Phoebe asked her.
"I don't know but that's exactly where they are going once I get through with them!" Piper warned as she came back onto her feet.
Another set of energy balls were thrown at the man as he ducked. Piper saw a large flame from one of the energy balls burn through the man's shirts shoulder as he patted out the flames. His eyes turned a black color as he hissed at the twins trying to kill him.
Great. For once demons are not here to vanquish us yet they are still in my club to vanquish each other. In the process of their death match they were ruining her very club. The table alone had cost her two hundred dollars. She was going to take it out on them too.
Another set of energy balls came. She froze them before they could take out the very overly expensive microphone on stage and the other one almost taking off the other demons head. He'd had enough time to duck before she could unfreeze the one to kill him off.
Dang.
If only Paige was there and could've thrown the energy balls back at the happy couple.
"Phoebe I'm guessing if they could be separated they would be powerless. So we need to separate them as soon as possible!" Piper told her sister.
"Yeah, but Piper they don't freeze!"
"Good point." Piper added.
Piper looked back at the factor that they weren't freezing as she saw their blue white eyes search for the source that had stopped their attack. They didn't have to search far to find the source. Their eyes glittered in fury when they found Piper and Phoebe standing there.
"Oh, crap." Piper whispered.
An energy ball was instantly thrown at them.
"What the hell is going on out there!?!" Chris cried as he stopped searching Victoria's eyes and went to the door.
From the cot the sounds of war came into the room. A table breaking and energy balls being thrown and destroying things pounced off of the walls as Chris went to the door.
Victoria had herd it too but she wasn't ready to go out there and save people yet. She felt dizzy and weak still and she barely thought she could make it up. Her being out here in the center of the chaos would be certain death.
Chris went to the door and looked out to see energy balls flying, people running, and demons fighting each other.
Mom. She needed his help.
"Victoria" he said as he turned back to her.
He didn't want to leave her alone in there like this. There was definitely something wrong with her. She was getting weaker with every moment that passed. If a demon came in here she would be helpless. Yet his mother needed help.
"Go," was all Victoria said to him.
He met her hard blue-violet eyes and nodded. She knew he needed to save his family. She wasn't gong to stand in his way either.
He gulped down a breath of air and then rushed back to her. He pressed her reddish brown hair down and looked into her eyes. "Just stay here alright. You're safer in here."
"Fine," she responded.
He nodded again. Then he kissed her cold forehead and ran out of the backroom and into the chaos.
