CHAPTER 4

"Is she going to be alright?" Sam asked, worry and guilt evident in his voice.

"Get back!" Leo shouted at Sam, placing his charge's limp body onto the couch. He placed his hands over the stab wound, but nothing happened.

"Oh my god." Sam muttered running his hands through his hair.

"Piper! Paige! Phoebe!" Leo called and the three girls walked into the room. Phoebe was the first one at Leigh's side.

"My god what happened?" she asked, her eyes widening at all the blood.

"This guy stabbed her." Leo said, not taking his eyes away from the girl, but gesturing to Sam with a nod.

"And you brought him back here!" Paige yelled in accusation.

"I didn't bring him. I'll explain later. I need your help healing her; I think he punctured a lung." Paige ran to Leo's side to help "Phoebe, get me a bucket." Phoebe nodded and disappeared from the room "Piper, sweetie, could you get her a glass of water for if she wakes up." He grimaced at the word 'if'.

"Leo, don't talk like that, she's not dying tonight." Phoebe said, returning with the requested bucket. Leo nodded and as Phoebe had said it, his and Paige's hands lit up a golden yellow colour and the blood began to clear up and Leigh's skin began to knit itself back together.

The blonde woke with a sharp gasp of breath. She realised she still couldn't breathe and reached for the bucket that Phoebe had placed beside her. The blood that was still in her lungs came back up as she coughed into the bucket. Phoebe sat beside her, rubbing soothing circles onto her back. When Leigh stopped coughing, and the blood stopped pouring out of her mouth, she grabbed the water that Piper held out to her and gulped it down quickly.

"I am so glad you're okay." Sam pleaded, taking a wary step toward her.

"Get back and sit down!" Leo thundered at him.

"What is he doing here?" Leigh's voice sounded slightly gravelly, like she hadn't spoken for months. "He stabbed me!"

"Yeah, why exactly did you stab her?" Paige said angrily.

"I-I thought she was a demon." He admitted sheepishly.

"Why the hell did you think that? And how do you know about demons." Piper said sourly.

"Because she telekinetically threw me into a wall and because I'm a…a hunter."

"I'm guessing you don't hunt Bambi?" Phoebe asked. He shook his head. "Thumper?" she asked, hopefully. He shook his head again.

"Well that's great and all, but that doesn't answer my question; why is he here?" Leigh croaked out.

"I sensed that you were in trouble," Leo began but Leigh interrupted.

"Sensed?" she asked in disbelief.

'There's more I don't know about?' she silently mused.

"I'll explain later, but anyway, I orbed to you and you were…well, you know, and when I was orbing back here, this guy," Leo gestured to the hunter with slight spite in his voice "grabbed my leg and tagged along."

"I was worried." He defended, looking her in the eye.

"That I might actually wake up?" Leigh said sarcastically.

"That you wouldn't." he said calmly and looked away, breaking their eye contact.

Leigh was about to say another witty, sarcastic reply but was halted when she felt a sharp sting in her gut. She pressed her hand to where the wound was and felt a thick, warm substance ooze onto her hand.

"Leo, you healed me right?" she asked.

"Yeah, why?" his even yet slightly angry expression turned to one of concern.

"I don't think it worked." Leigh said, removing her hand and leaning slightly back so he could get a look at the blood on her hand and seeping through her grey t-shirt.

Dean was pacing his motel room. He had woken up an hour ago and Sam still wasn't back. He finally gave in and picked up his phone to call his little brother. He dialled the number – he never really liked speed dial – and put the phone to his ear.

The ring tone sounded once…twice…three times. He was about to hang up when a voice sounded on the other end.

"Dean? What's up?" Sam asked, but Dean could tell something wasn't right.

"What's up? What's up! Where the hell are you?" Dean practically screamed into the phone.

"I'm at this house, well, it's a manor actually."

"Why are you at a manor? This isn't the perfect time to get laid."

"What – Dean – no! I accidentally stabbed this girl and, I dunno some freaky shit is going on, even for us."

"You 'accidentally' stabbed a girl! How do you 'accidentally' stab someone?"

"She has powers. She threw me into a wall."

"So? Maybe she's on 'roids."

"With her mind Dean. I thought she was a demon, but she wasn't. She nearly died and now they're kind of interrogating me. They don't trust me."

"Wow, I wonder why. Who are they?"

"Uh, this guy, Leo, and these three women, Piper, Phoebe and Paige. I think they're witches, but, like, good witches. I'm not sure, I haven't had a chance to actually converse coz, you know, I stabbed their friend."

"Good witches?" Dean sounded sceptical.

"Uh-huh."

"Gimme the address, I'll be there soon."

"Oh and Dean, bring the first aid kit and hurry."