Piper made her way out of her car and towards the manor, close to nearly 4'clock. She ached everywhere, she was tired, she knew that she was going to have to sort out the party for the wretched man earlier in the morning and needed to check the Book of Shadows for the demons that had attacked her. She opened the door, which would lead her to a nice comfy bed, but she needed to do work first. She closed the door quietly behind her, making sure that she was not going to wake anyone up and cause more noise that she could handle right now. After the attack in the club she spent another hour cleaning up with the help of the Genie, she wasn't in the mood to answer his questions and so got the job as soon as she had started it.
She hung her coat and bag up by the door and made her way into the kitchen to get a glass of water before she went to the attic. She made her way slowly, thinking that how much her body was aching in so much pain. She needed rest and she needed it now, but she knew that it was impossible to do so at the moment.
Walking into the kitchen she made her way to the cabinet by the sink and pulled herself out of glass. She turned her body towards the sink and placed her hand on the tap to release the cold water that was waiting for her to drink. Filling the glass right to the top, she turned the tap off and placed the glass now filled of water. She moved to the cabinet across from her and found the pain killers that would make her feel slightly better.
She placed the pill in her mouth and drank the water like her life would depend on it. She placed the glass down on the side, being careful not to drop it onto the floor. She was worried that she was going to pass out from how tired she was becoming. She made her way out slowly out of the kitchen, holding onto the side of the walls that she walked past, making sure that she could support herself all the way to the attic. Just as she was making her way into the dining room, she heard a loud bang in the living room. She snapped her head around and looked into the direction of the room. Walking as quietly as she could, she tip toped over, making sure that her hands where ready, and making sure that she was being quiet. She poked her head around the corner to see if anyone was there. Nothing. She made her way in, being completely quiet, not even daring to breath. Moving towards the window and looking behind the curtain, looking behind the sofa, once again nothing.
What the hell is going on!?, she shouted to herself inside of her head. She couldn't take this anymore. She crept up and looked into the darkness of the manor that was surrounding her. Then that was when she saw something run from the into the dining room. Without thinking who or what it could be, she ran out of the living room and into the main hallway, she raised her hands and with all the power that she had, she gave a full thrust of power and blew something that had been moving in the dining room. What Piper did not realise is that what ever that something was, repelled her blast back at her, making her laid against the main door, breaking the windows, falling to her feet and knocking her out unconscious.
Piper awoke later on in the morning, with a horrible headache, and even more pains than she had after P3. She lifted a sore hand to her sore head to try make the headache disappear. She opened her eyes slowly and waited till her blurred vision disappeared until she could finally see Paige and Leo around her bed, looking very worried and frightened.
"Piper, you're awake." Leo said with a sigh of relief as he helped her up so she could sit up on their bed. "I was so worry about you."
"What happened?" Piper winced, asking both Leo and Paige. They both looked each other, as to say to each other, who should tell her. "Well?" She asked them again, waiting for an answer.
"Okay, it was a bit of a shock for Leo to see you there this morning." Paige began to say to him.
"What do you mean?" She asked her confusedly.
"Erm Leo?" Paige asked him, telling Piper that she did not want to know what had happened.
"You had been blowing things up in the dining room last night. And then you knocked yourself out, how, I don't know. I heard the noise downstairs so I came down and found you mumbling about how they are coming, and you must stop them." Leo carried on explaining to Piper.
"What?!" She was confused, she didn't say anything of the sort, at least she didn't remember saying anything. She was also confused that they were suggesting that she was randomly blowing things up in the dining room which was also not true. She saw something, or someone and she was going to get to the bottom of it. "Look, I saw something or someone downstairs. That's why I used my power this morning." She explained to the both of them.
"Honey…" Paige carefully said to her, "there was no body when Leo came downstairs this morning, nothing. Just a blown up chair…my favourite chair actually" She told her. Leo gave her the look as to say, "shut up and leave it for now".
Piper stared at them, with her mouth hanging wide open. They thought that she was crazy, that she was making things up
"No, no! I saw something!" Piper said, raising her voice to both of them, shocking Paige and Leo. "I wouldn't make something up like this!" She told both of them sternly and getting out of bed.
"Okay, okay. When Phoebe is back, we will call for the Witch Doctor and try and see if there are any bad spirits lurking around here." Paige told her calmly. Piper nodded her head, as a way of agreeing and as a way of thanking her for helping her in this.
Both Paige and Leo were about to walk out of the room, when Piper suddenly remembered.
"Wait! I was attacked in the club last night, by three warlocks, we need to find out who they are. They said something about the end is coming and it's something that we cannot stopped."
They both stopped in their tracks and turned around to face Piper.
"What?" Paige said to her, rather scared. "Not another ultimate power we need to destroy!"
"I don't know the thing is we need to find out who they are, and get more information out of them."
"Okay I'll go and get the Book of Shadows, you just stay here and rest till I come back."
With that, Paige and Leo left the room, leaving Piper alone, by herself. Wondering whether the stress of being Charmed, a mother, a wife and running a business was finally getting to her. She didn't know anymore, was she really imagining things? Was what Paige and Leo said to her true? She didn't understand, as she ran her hand across her head, feeling the on coming pain of another headache, she knew that things had to be sorted out
It felt that she had been asleep for days, months, years. She had never felt so tired in her life. In fact she did not even remember when she had fallen asleep. She moved her aching body out off of her bed and decided that Paige and Leo had just left her there.
I better go and check the Book Of Shadows…hopefully Paige did it for me… She thought to herself but guessed that Paige hadn't checked the book because she did not think that it was important. Like everyone else.
Making her way into the attic she smelt a foul stench coming from the attic. She began walking even slower to the attic door scared and worried that something or someone was up there. She turned the corner of the stairs and poked her head around the corner and gasped, the door had been brunt completely to a crisp. She ran into the attic unaware of what might still be in the attic waiting for her.
"Paige? Paige!? Are you in here!" She called loudly.
Piper got a first clear look at the attic, it was a terrible mess. Everything was in ruins. Nearly everything in the attic was burnt or destroyed. She took careful steps further into the attic, trying to see if she could see something or someone but there was too much smoke covering every inch of the attic. "Paige, talk to me! Leo, Leo!? Are you in here!?"
She heard something move in the corner of the room. She snapped her head around and began making her way over to see where the nose had come from, forgetting to be careful. Waving the smoke from her face, she tried to see where that noise had come from. Piper randomly bent down and picked up the wood that had fallen in a heap. She saw a hand coming into her view, Leo's hand.
"Leo! Leo!!" Piper screamed. She was terrified now, something had happened here and she didn't have a clue.
"P-Piper…?" Leo's voice quietly called to her.
"I'm here honey, just give me a second and I'll have you out of here…." Piper threw everything off of her husband, not wasting a second. When finally he was clear of everything, Piper lifted him up as best as she could and supported him against her body so he could breath, though it would not do much good due to the smoke that remained.
"Leo wh-what the hell happened here?" Piper asked him looking around the room and at his face that was bleeding and bruised.
"You mean…you don't know?" Leo winced as he tried to talk to her.
"No…I was in our room asleep, I didn't hear a thing…" She replied back to him, stroking his hurt face.
"Well…after Paige and I left…you…about twenty minutes later…I heard a crash…in the attic…I went up and saw…this demon…with Paige and the book…and then…I was here…" He looked up at her in pain.
"Paige is gone? Oh my god… Right Leo I need you to try and get up hurry okay and then I'm going to get Wyatt to heal you." Piper decided.
"No…we can't do that to Wyatt…" Leo argued at her, but Piper was not hearing any of it. She lifted him off of the ground and took him back down to their room, trying to think of a reason for this.
It seemed that Phoebe was spending all her time in the office now, making her career even more of a success. She hardly got to see Coop or her sisters anymore because of the time that she had to put into her job.
Knock Knock
"Come in…" Phoebe called, not looking up from her computer, too busy with her work.
"Phoebe, you have a call on line one. It's your sister Piper" Her assistant said to her.
"Is it important?" She asked, still not looking up from her computer.
"Well yes. She said that someone broke into your home and attacked your brother-in-law." She replied back slowly to her.
Phoebe raised her head from the computer screen and looked at her assistant with her mouth wide open. She nodded her head as to, 'I'll take the call'. She waited till her assistant had left her office and closed her door and then took Piper's call.
"Piper? Piper? What's happened?" She asked panicky.
"That's the thing I don't have a clue what happened here. I was asleep and there I went up to the attic and everything was in ruins."
"What!?"
"Paige is missing and so is the book! You need to get over here quick!" Piper shouted down the phone.
"Okay, okay I'm leaving now!" Phoebe slammed down the phone and saved her work and before she knew it, with all the thoughts that was going through her head, she was already out of the office.
Piper hung the phone up and turned her attention to Wyatt and Leo. As much as she hated making her son tap into his powers, her husband needed his help as soon as he could get it.
"Are you okay honey? Everything is going to be alright as soon as Wyatt has healed you." She reassured him.
"No…we can't do this to him Piper…" He calmly said to her.
"Leo you need healing. You're seriously hurt." She explained to, unable to make sense of why he didn't want healing.
"We can't make Wyatt do this…even if I am his father…" He looked down at Wyatt who was hugging his teddy closely to him, with a sad face shining at his father.
"I don't mind daddy…" He quietly told him. Piper looked at her son and knew that she was not doing the right thing. She couldn't bare to see her first born son be put through this.
"It's okay Wyatt…go back to your room and play. Mummy will take care of daddy…I promise." Trying to smile at him. Both Leo and Piper watch as their son hesitated to leave the room but slowly made an effort till he was out of completely out of sight.
"Don't worry Piper…I'll be fine…Paige can heal me when you get her back…" Leo whispered to her. Piper looked into her husband eyes and kissed him softly on his lips, and told him that she would be back.
She moved quickly out of the room so she didn't have to be there any longer. Her mind was full of different thoughts and she could not process anything. Why was this happening to her? Why now? She ran her hand through her hair and led against the wall to keep her supported.
What I am I going to do? Where's Phoebe she should be here by now…She looked over to the clock in the corner, she had only called her about 15 minutes ago and she knew that it didn't take long to get from her office but to the manor. Maybe she couldn't get away…She asked herself, if it was her boss…she would blow her up for risking her husband and sister's life.
"Piper! Piper! I'm here!" Piper turned her head and saw Phoebe running up the stairs in a hurry, forgetting to take her coat off. "Is Leo okay? Where is in here?" She was beginning to make her way into Piper and Leo's room when was stopped by Piper who closed the door to stop her from going in.
"Yes Leo is in there, but he needs his rest." Piper said to her. She motioned her to follow her into the attic so she could see what happened for herself. Phoebe followed her older sister without a questions.
Once at the top of the attic, Piper let Phoebe in while she stood outside to wait for her. She didn't need to go back in, she had seen everything for herself once today.
"Woah…this is quite a mess…" She commented, looking around the whole attic and seeing the mess that had been created.
"I know…do you think you will be able to get a premonition to find out what happened?" Piper asked her, knowing full well that she would be able to get a premonition.
"Well yeah, but I wouldn't know where to begin if I'm honest…the whole attic is a mess…" She carefully looked around the attic being carefully not to step on anything that she could use. She bent down and placed her hands onto of different broken objects hoping to get something out of them. But nothing was coming to her mind.
"Any luck there Pheebs?" Piper asked, not moving from the same spot.
"Well no, not yet. I mean pretty much everything here is damaged and could help us…but so far I can't get a read off of anything. It's like something…or someone doesn't want us to know what happened here…" She replied back before getting back down to work.
"You know…I was thinking that all of this might have something to do with…Prue. You know the pictures, the necklace, and the letter that you got." Piper suggested to her. Phoebe looked up at her with a confused face, she stood up and moved over towards her, wanting to know what Piper was going on about.
"Piper…you think that Prue did this?" Phoebe asked slowly, trying to make sure that she understood.
"Well, I don't really know if I'm honest, but everything seems to be connected to her doesn't it?"
"Wait a second!" Phoebe shouted at her, waving her arms in front of her face to pull in her attention, "you think that our sister did this!" Pointing to the mess that surrounded them. "How could you think such a thing? Especially since she is-is…" Dead. She couldn't finish the ending of her sentence, but Piper knew what her final word was.
"What else can I think? Everything that has happened to us recently has been in one way or another connected to Prue. Maybe it's a spirit trying to warn us about something to come…" Piper explained to her.
Phoebe looked at her even more confused than she was a couple of seconds ago. She took a look around the attic and couldn't believe what her sister was saying to her. "You think that Prue. Our oldest sister did this. To give us an warning. Took our sister and the Book of Shadows to tell us something?"
"Phoebe don't talk to me like that!" Piper raised her voice at her.
"I'm sorry! But what else am I suppose to think! I come home and find that you think that our sister did this! No…I'm sorry but this is the hands of evil…not our sister. How could you think of something like that?" Phoebe exclaimed to her, shocked that her sister would think of something like that to her. She looked at her sister and knew that she didn't have anything else to say back to her. She turned around and looked at the attic once more to see if there was anything that she could use.
The Book of Shadows stand… She thought to herself. She moved over to it carefully and stood it front of it and placed her hands carefully onto.
FLASH.
"Piper, you weren't right! We need to go now!" Phoebe said breathlessly to her sister with a horrid expression on her face.
This did not make Piper feel a better at all.
