Previously: Chris teleported into the living room, where the sisters and Leo were talking, looking even angrier than he had when he left.
"THAT BASTARD" Phoebe yelled as soon as Chris appeared; causing all of them to give her weird looks.
"Don't look at me like that, it wasn't me, it's him" she defended herself; pointing at Chris.
"And how do you know what I had in mind?" Chris asked, every letter showing the anger inside of him.
"I'm an empath now, so can you please go stand over there and dial it down a notch?" Phoebe said, while signaling with her hand to where he should stand.
"Well, you all will be furious when you find out what I know" Chris said through gritted teeth.
"What is it? What did you find out?" asked Leo.
"Well the demon's name is Zara; he's an upper level demon who has been trying to defeat the Source for years. He somehow found out about Paige and realized that the Charmed Ones needed a damn good motive to kill the Source, to actively pursue him instead of just waiting for him to attack them. So when he got word of the Source's plan to kill Prue to disseminate the Charmed Ones and the double cross, he decided to use it to his advantage. He kidnapped Prue and put in a shape shifter in her place, he thought that all he had to do was wait till the newly constituted Charmed Ones killed the Source, and then he can claim his rightful place as the Source; using Prue as sign of how powerful he is. Either he would have been able to turn her evil by then; or at least break her." Chris said.
"But then, Cole ended up with the Source's powers" Phoebe slowly said as she tried to digest the information.
"Not just that, you guys vanquished the Source sooner than he thought. Prue was neither evil nor broken by then; so he couldn't use her. And Cole being the Source and you the Queen didn't help. But he figured he will blackmail you, get Cole to relinquish being the Source and you get Prue back" Chris said.
"Cole became the SOURCE and you HIS QUEEN!" Prue shrieked.
"Juicy details to that later" Paige tried to calm her eldest sister down, and Phoebe smiled cheekily once again.
"Anyways," Chris said in a bit of an angry voice, and Phoebe winced at both his tone and what she was getting off of him, "That plan also went out the window when you guys vanquished Cole, and the underworld decided that they didn't want to be ruled again"
"Then why did he keep me alive?" Prue asked, before she received glares from her family and a slap on her arm from Piper, "Not that I'm not grateful, but it just seems that he had no use for me anymore"
"Leverage, he wanted to use you against the Charmed Ones, but on his own terms, so he kept you alive. But what I don't understand is how come you never tried to escape?" Chris wondered.
"Like I already explained; he said that if I tried, that he will kill Andie and my sisters, one by one in front of me. And later on when Wyatt was born, his name was added to the list" Prue explained.
"Is that what the demon meant by 'that outta teach you not to run away again'?" asked Piper
"Yea, when you two showed up, they had just recaptured me after what they thought was my attempt to escape, and even though they weren't the ones that brought you down there, they counted on the fact that I didn't know that, and figured they would use it to their advantage anyways"
"Wait a minute, what do you mean by 'what they thought was my attempt to escape'?" Chris asked with confusion.
"I don't know what happened myself actually, I was sitting there one second, and the next I felt lighter and was transported to another cave, I tried to make a run for it but they found me because I was too weak to properly fight or run" Prue explained.
"You felt lighter?" Leo asked, "Yea, why? Does that make any sense to you?"
"Yea, that's why Wyatt started crying. When he sensed where you were, he tried to orb you all the way over here, but his powers aren't that strong yet, so you ended up in the underworld in a cave somewhere; he cried because he failed and you got recaptured, so he decided to take Piper and go to you." Leo proudly explained.
All four sisters starred at Wyatt in bewilderment and Chris starred at him with a grateful look.
"You were saying something about him being powerless?" Piper teased her sister.
"It's what I was told" Prue said as she played with her nephew, "I owe you my life" Prue said as she kissed his forehead.
"OK people, as much as I hate to interrupt, but we need to go look in the book to see if we can make this bastard wish he never even thought about Prue" Paige ordered.
Prue, Piper and Chris were huddled around the Book of Shadows trying to find the page on Zara, as well as identify the demons that Piper vanquished to see if more are expected to show up or not. Paige was sitting next to Leo on Aunt Pearl's couch playing with Wyatt, and Phoebe was trying to make a potion that Chris told them about, to keep her empath powers out of everyone's emotions.
"Found them" Piper finally said, as she tapped the page of the book.
"Them?" Paige asked as she raised an eyebrow.
"Yea, the demons that I vanquished. They're low levels, and it seems like I vanquished their king so they're gone for good" Piper happily said.
"And I found the entry on Zara" Chris said. They all huddled around the book, except for Phoebe, who kept working on the potion.
"We already know who he is, we need a way to vanquish him" Paige said.
"Which isn't mentioned anywhere in here" Piper said with frustration as she looked to the bottom of the page. Chris was about to say something, when a small voice from the doorway of the attic interrupted them, "Mommy".
I know that this is short but it has been a bit of a long day; let me know what you all think.
Thank you to those who read and reviewed...very much appreciated