In the attic of the Manor the grey dust appeared and as the dust started to fade the figures of all them appeared. Once they were fully there Cole went and grabbed a chair for his pregnant wife while she never complained Cole knew how hard it was for her to be on her feet so much. "What should I do?" Phoebe sat down in the chair that Cole provided for her. Now if he would give her a foot massage she would feel perfect. Either way it did help tremendously to sit down. Her feet began to ache a little less. Before Phoebe had time to answer Cole's question she felt Chrissy climb into her lap. Her daughter must be high on emotions to have went from anger and yelling like she was to this. Phoebe couldn't help it and she smiled down at her little girl. It's been awhile since Christine wanted to be held like this and Phoebe had missed it. She started gently running her fingers through Chrissy's hair, something that used to soothe her as a baby and looked up at Cole and Leo. "I really don't know. What do you think?" Christine waited fort Phoebe to sit down and she then went and crawled upon her lap and put her head on Phoebe's shoulder.
Piper looked over at her son after being Orbed to the Manor. She hadn't really been paying attention to what everyone around was saying or doing. She was too focused of combing her brain of ways to get her other son back. Looking down at Wyatt now she saw the pain in his eyes which probably looked like what hers did. She would have to start focusing more on her loved ones around her before she lost them too. "Your Aunt is probably just waiting for Uncle Cole to sparkle her home. Or is waiting on Melinda and Christine to pack up, you know how long it takes for them to get ready." Piper gave him a warm smile and a hug. She glanced at the clock. "How about an early lunch?" If anything could calm her nerves and get her back into the right frame of mine it was cooking. Wyatt looked up at her and smiled some, "Yeah. Lunch sounds yummy."
Piper looked down and smiled at Little Wyatt when he agreed to lunch. It made her sad to think that she wouldn't be making anything for her other son, but she shook that thought from her and tried to stay positive, something see has never mastered. Adult Melinda heard voices coming from the main hall, as soon as she had gotten off the phone with Cole. She looked down at her watch and wondered why little Wyatt was out of school so early; he still had a few hours before Magic School allowed the students to leave for the day. "Mom..?" she called out, exiting the kitchen and walking into the living room, where future Wyatt was waiting for her with the news from Cole. Melinda spotted Piper and younger Wyatt, as soon as she entered the living room area. "Hey, what's Wyatt doing home already? Did something happen at Magic School?" she added, remembering what Cole had said to her on the phone earlier; that something was wrong and he couldn't talk.
She knew that he was going to be home with Christine and her younger self, but she didn't know that Wyatt was coming home as well, but the more she thought about it, the more it made sense. Melinda looked over at Future Wyatt, before turning her attention back to Piper. "Is everything okay at Magic School? Uncle Cole said that something was wrong."
"In here" Piper yelled to Melinda after hearing her daughter say her name. She turned to face her after she asked what they both were doing home. "Distractions, lots and lots of distractions." Piper started for the kitchen then stopped after hearing what Cole had said.
"Wait, he said something was wrong?" In a flash, panic erupted inside her. She knew Wyatt was fine, he was right next to her. But little Melinda. What if something happened to her? She fought for control to keep her voice steady, she didn't want little Wyatt to become alarmed. "Did he say anything else? Was it a demon?"
Sensing the panic on her Mom's face, Melinda assumed that Piper hadn't known about what was going on at Magic School. Perhaps everything went down after Wyatt had Orbed them both to the Manor. Great. She knew that Mel had to be fine, or else she wouldn't be here now, but what if something had happened to Lily.. or Aunt Phoebe and the baby. She tried her best to hide her own panic from little Wyatt; she had learned that from Piper, as she responded with a calm voice. "No, all he said was that he couldn't talk now...but he would be home soon with the girls." Melinda replied, before adding. "But Aunt Phoebe sounded really scared, from what I heard on the other end of the phone. I'm sure if it were a demon, she would have found a way to contact you already" she added, trying to reassure her Mother.
Stephanie was at first at little startled about showing up in the throne room. She had figured that he would at least come to her. For her it was a little awkward to be sitting the way she was, but she would have to get over that. "I have been watching Piper since I arrived back at Magic School and I know for a fact that she is now back at the Manor." She looked over and saw the high-level demon eyeing her. She rolled her eyes and focused back on the Source. You would think after eons in the Underworld the demons would have started to look a little better, not all demon-y. Ick. Defiantly not her type.
The Source looked to Stephanie who was in his throne room and sensed her thoughts on him bring her here, he said in a deep power filled voice "you dare presume that I should come to you… that I am a dog that should come at your command. You are my slave who does as I say!" these Marks Sisters, while useful needed to learn their place amongst him. He then looked to the demon to his right his eyes looking her up and down The Source formed a fireball in his hand and sent to the demon no one was to look at her with lust except for him. "You have done well Stephanie, you will be rewarded but first I need you to go check on our guest in the dungeon. Make sure their sleep goes unnoticed. "The Marks Sisters were the only other living things to know that, he in fact, had both Chris's in his cage. And if they were wise they would keep it that way. He then turned his head to the side and put his chin on his fist as he waited for the call from Piper.
Stephanie frowned at being called a slave. That was not the right thing to say, even from the Source. In an instance rage flashed in her eyes. "I am not your slave. I prefer to think of our little arrangement more as business partners." Most demons have some fear of the Source, but not Stephanie. She knew she was too valuable to be killed, more so than even her Sisters. "I thank you for the compliment, but remember," she said as she stood giving him a look, "you would not be in the position you are in now if it wasn't for me. So do not underestimate me." With that the rage left her eyes and she flashed him a smile. "Now I will go check on our guests." She did a little bow, showing the Source respect, and then shimmered off to a location only known by 3 others.
The Source watched the witch as she reacted to him calling her a slave, as she was done with her comments she shimmered out. His fist slammed on his thrown and a burst of flames erupted from his fist, "insolent little witch! How dare she talk to me like this!" His anger started to leave his face and a cold smirk replaced it. These three think that I need them; they have no idea what I am capable of. It was then he waved his hand and there in a ball of flames a demon stood before him however this was not just any demon he was tall muscular, his skin was red, teeth were sharp, his black eyes went to the floor as his bald head bowed to the source. There in front of The Source stood….BELTHAZOR!
Stephanie arrived where the cage was located and she immediately felt like something was wrong. Usually when she was near her Sisters she felt their presence, but there was nothing. She walked all the way around the cage and checked that the entrance was secure and it was. Stephanie felt a sigh of relief, if anything happened to this cage it would be her head on a platter. Now she could focus on her missing Sister. She "listened" for any thoughts coming from Rebecca, but again heard nothing. "Rebecca? You here?" She yelled, hoping it was her telepathy on the fritz. "Great, just great." She said after silence. She knew how angry the Source would be if he knew that the one sister he sent to protect the cage was MIA.
She didn't think her sister would leave her post unless something had came up. And now that there was no one watching the cage she couldn't very well leave it unguarded. Stephanie flipped out her cell phone and called Candace's phone. No answer. After the voicemail kicked in Stephanie said in a furious voice. "Better be glad it was me who found out you weren't here, instead of the Source or you would be dead by now." With that she ended the call and called her other sister Rebecca. She knew that Rebecca was still at Magic School, but hoped she would still answer her phone. Maybe she knew where Candy was.
The Source looked at the red and black marked demon in front of him and smiled. "You will be a perfect decoy, go now stir up some trouble at the Manor but wait for my signal." Belthazor shimmered out, and The Source again sat on his thrown. The Source wasn't a man of patience nor was he a demon to rush into things. But he had to push things a long faster if his plan was not to be spoiled. In a ball of flames he was gone a few seconds later he reappeared in front of the Manor in a black shirt, brown dress pants and a brown trench coat. His eyes had returned to normal as he again knocked on the manor door. In his hand he had a large zip lock bag with a child size blue vest, the bag had in red letters the word EVEDENCE. He again knocked on the door.
Back at the Manor, Leo smiled when his daughter jumped out of his arms and ran downstairs, before walking over to where Cole now stood. He looked at Phoebe, then focused his attention on Cole, remembering what he had said earlier back at Magic School. "Didn't you say that Wyatt and Melinda needed help with something?" Cole looked to his wife, child, and then Leo as he walked over to them.
"I am not sure dear, I still think our best bet to get a lead is if I go down to the underworld and see what I can find?" he looked into Phoebe's eyes trying to get a read on her feel on it. He didn't want to push it but knew that it was there best chance. He then looked again to Leo and said, yeah they called me and I think were going to ask me something but I had to get off the phone before they could ask…should go see what they wanted" he then looked at the Attic door.
When Melinda felt that they had landed and weren't sparkling around anymore she wiggled out of her Dad's arms and ran downstairs. She wanted to get away as far away from Chrissy as she could. "Momma, momma, momma." She called as she flew down the stairs. She could never imagine saying the things to her parents like Christine did. Leo looked around the attic, as soon as they materialized in. Traveling around with Cole-although rare, made him miss how Orbing made him feel; like he was invincible and nothing could touch him. It was times like these that he missed being a Whitelighter, being out there helping good witches. Though, being human and getting to have a normal life with his family was a well deserved trade, sometimes he wished that things would go back to the way they were.
Phoebe thought about Cole in the Underworld. She hated the idea, anything could happen, but then again who else knew that place better than he did. This would be something she and her sisters would have to discuss. Maybe there was another way. She nodded when Cole suggested about seeing what they wanted when they had called. "Yeah, who knows what went on while we were away." Phoebe looked down at her daughter. This would be a good time for a mother-daughter chat. She looked back up at Cole and Leo.
"You two go on. If you need me I will be here with Christine. I think she and I have some things that we need to discuss." With that she looked back down at her daughter. She wanted to get to the bottom of what was really going on with Chrissy.
Piper knew Melinda was right. If something had happened they would have called and let her know about it. Besides she told herself Phoebe was a Charmed One if anything had happened to her of the kids she was able to take care of it. She slowly managed to calm herself down and looked at her Future daughter. "You're right." That's when she heard "Momma" coming from the stairs. She turned to look just as Little Melinda ran into her arms. It looked like she had been crying. "Sweetie, what's wrong?: Now she knew something had happened that no one had called to tell her about. She hugged her daughter close. Before Little Melinda could answer she heard the doorbell ring. Piper sighed and looked over at Future Melinda. "Could you get that?" she asked.
"Sure, no problem." Melinda replied and returned the smile, before walking to the front door. Great, it was the same detective from this morning. With everything that has been happening, she hadn't had time to tell Piper that he had visited earlier. Man, was he persistent. This must be really important. She opened the door and mustered up the friendliest face she could. Then she saw the EVIDENCE bag in the detectives hand and her face went blank for a few seconds, before looking back up at the detective, a bit panicked. "What is that?" she asked, looking for a more reassuring answer, other than what she really thought it was. Because it looked an awfully lot like what Chris use to wear when he was a kid. She remembered it because he never took it off, and her and Wyatt use to pick on him about it.