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The Charmed one's were in the living room of the Manor house, after they got Billie out of the underworld Paige tried to heal her. She managed to heal most of the young girls wounds but she still had some deep lacerations on her back, probably from being whipped but they weren't deep enough to need stitches thank god. Now Billie was in the spare room asleep, she had been asleep since Paige orbed them out.
"Three and a half months." Paige said in a disbelieving voice. Piper came into the room with three coffee's.
"I wonder what they wanted." She said setting the coffee's down.
"I want to know how she survived." Paige said. "She must've gone through hell."
Piper opened her mouth to continue the conversation but was cut of by a blood curdling scream, coming from Billie's room. Phoebe was the first person up and was already half way up the stairs by the time her sisters hit the bottom step.
By the time Piper and Paige got in the room, Phoebe was comforting the broken blonde trying to wake her up. She had started bleeding again from all the thrashing around her nightmare was causing.
"Billie? Honey you need to wake up." Phoebe told her frantically gripping hold of her shoulders and trying to hold her still. Billie's eyes flew open and looked in every direction in a panic. Her breath was coming out short and uneven and she showed no sign of calming down soon.
"Sweetie your safe now." Paige told her walking slowly into the room, Piper half a step behind. Billie stared at the wall ahead of her, not crying, not talking or reacting, not doing anything. Which scared the sisters, a lot.
"Billie?" Piper asked hesitantly and reached out and touched her shoulder, Billie screamed and threw herself of the bed and backed herself into the corner of the room.
"Billie?" Paige asked taking a small step towards her in which Billie reacted by moving further into her corner and making herself smaller, which Paige didn't think was possible.
Phoebe slowly walked towards the young blonde trying to keep her tears at bay, Billie needed her to be strong. "Billie, sweetie it's okay. No one here is going to hurt you." Phoebe said as she touched Billie's arm, Billie flinched but didn't back away or scream which Phoebe took as a good thing. "Billie, honey, you need to get back in the bed and let me re-bandage your wounds. Is that okay?"
Billie nodded and allowed Phoebe to take her back to the bed. Piper handed Phoebe the things to clean and re-bandage Billie's wounds and Phoebe got on with it. It was a relatively silent apart from an occasional gasp from Billie and a murmured apology from Phoebe. When her wounds were cleaned Billie moved onto her back and soon fell back to sleep she was completely exhausted. Phoebe was holding Billie and when she realised Billie was asleep tried to get out of the bed but Billie gripped onto her tighter not letting her leave.
"You guys go to bed." Phoebe whispered. "I'll stay with her tonight."
"Okay. Good night." Piper said.
"I'm going to go home. I'll be back first thing in the morning." Paige informed her sisters before orbing out.
Phoebe got herself comfortable in the bed, settling herself in for what she knew was going to be a long night. Smiling to herself as she felt Billie move closer into herself she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.
~o0o~
"C'mon Billie, scream for me." The voice demanded, Billie bit her bottom lip to keep from screaming. Her body was going through absolute agony, currently she had shock bracelets on 50,000 volts coursing through her body, yet she still refused to scream. She was telling herself that tasting her own blood would be better than giving this demon satisfaction. Her body was thrashing around, she couldn't control it and it disgusted her.
"Oh c'mon baby, scream for me. I love it when you scream." He hissed at her stepping towards her and kicking her in the face splitting her lip, but still Billie refused to scream. It took all of her strength but she managed it. He hit the button and shocked Billie again. Billie bit her already bleeding lower lip to keep her scream in. Focusing on the dull pain from her lip instead she managed to hold back her scream.
"Now, now Billie I'm gonna give you a choice. I can get the whip out, or you can just tell me what I need to know. Which is it?"
Billie took a shuddery breath in and looked the demon straight in the eye. "I'll tell you what you want to know when every demon in the underworld is vanquished." Billie told him in a steady, strong voice which sounded more confident and calm then she really was.
"As you wish." The demon said with a glint of pleasure shining in his eyes which made Billie shudder. "Get me the whip!" He ordered someone who Billie could not and did not want to see.
Crack!
Billie screamed, she couldn't hold it back. She knew it, the demons knew it. As the tears streamed down Billie's face she tried to control herself.
Crack!
Again the she heard the whip noise resonate before she actually felt it. The sharp, fiery pain that was completely unbearable and that no human should ever have to go through. A pain no one should be able to survive, but Billie was managing it... barely.
Crack!
The pain it would seem wasn't killing her, she wished it would, but it wasn't. There was only one thing she was glad of. That this was happening to her and no one else, at least whilst these demons were focused on her they were not out there killing innocents.
Crack!
Scream.
Crack!
Scream.
Crack!
"Billie wake up."
Scream.
"Billie come on honey wake up?"
Scream
"Come on Billie. It's me. It's Phoebe wake up sweetie. Come on."
~o0o~
Billie eyes shot open and she shot up in the bed. Her chest was rising and falling dramatically and her breathing was laboured. She was covered in a sheen layer of cold sweat, she could barely feel the hands of someone on her shoulders and the voice telling her it was okay seemed like a faint whisper, when it reality the women comforting her was nearly shouting it at her.
Some of her wounds had opened up due to her thrashing about and the once white bed sheet was now becoming a horrible red that would definitely leave a stain.
"Billie?" A hesitant voice asked. Billie didn't respond, she didn't even look like she heard the voice which frightened the three sisters who were now in the room. Phoebe was trying to get Billie's attention but the young girl just wasn't responding, her eyes were misted over and she wasn't moving from her position.
"Billie?" Phoebe asked again with a little more certainty, she reached out to place a strong, comforting hand on her shoulder but Billie flinched and tried to throw herself to the opposite side of the room.
Piper took a step further into the room and then slowly started to walk towards the terrified girl. "Billie honey I'm going to have to re-bandage your wounds okay? I'll be quick and I won't hurt you. I promise, but I need to fix it okay?"
Billie didn't respond but when Piper touched her and she didn't try to escape she took that as a good sign and as quickly as she could re-bandaged and cleaned the young blondes many wounds.
"There you go sweetie." Piper said moving back around Billie so the terrified girl could see her, not that it mattered much seen as though Billie was looking into her own lap refusing to acknowledge the sisters.
"Are you hungry Billie?" Paige asked. Billie shook her head quickly. "Thirsty?" After what seemed like an eternity Billie nodded, still not looking at anyone. "Okay honey, I'll be back with a glass of water in a second." Paige told her as she backed out of the room, she thought about orbing but didn't want to scare Billie. A couple of minutes later Paige entered the still very silent room to find no one had moved since she'd left.
"Here you go Billie." Paige said softly handing Billie a pint glass full of water. Billie slowly took the glass and looked at it. She slowly moved it to her lips and drank from the cup even slower. The whole process took just under ten minutes. Once she was done Phoebe from her place still beside Billie took the glass and placed it on the bedside table.
"Billie can you talk?" Piper asked. This seemed to be the wrong thing to say. Billie started to breathe very quickly and unevenly as she scrunched her eyes up and cowered into herself as if to make herself a smaller target. The three sisters looked at each other quickly in worry before moving into action.
Piper and Paige went upstairs to the attic to make a sleeping potion for the young witch who looked and felt completely exhausted whilst Phoebe stayed and tried to comfort Billie, without touching her, which was an extremely difficult thing to do. By the time her sisters came down Phoebe had somehow managed to get Billie's breathing back to normal. Piper handed Phoebe the potion who turned her full attention back onto the broken blonde.
"Billie." She said hesitantly. "I need you to drink this." She said whilst pointing to the purple potion, she was not however expecting the poor girl to freak out. Badly. As soon as her attention was bought to the vial Billie threw herself out of the bed and into the corner of the bedroom. Bringing her knees up to her chest, wrapping her hands around her legs and putting her head on her knees she started to rock back and forth, whispering something that only she could Charmed ones shared a startled and scared look before Phoebe slowly walked over to the terrified girl.
"Billie honey, I promise it won't hurt you. We would never hurt you. I would never hurt you, it will just help you fall to sleep honey, a peaceful sleep. I promise it won't hurt." Billie took a shaky breath in, she'd stopped mumbling to herself now and was only rocking a little bit. "Billie I promise this won't hurt. Do you trust us? Do you trust me?" Phoebe asked her, she barely even heard the blondes reply. If she hadn't been straining her hearing she would have missed the whispered yes. Slowly un-curling herself Billie looked at Phoebe and nodded.
Taking her hand Phoebe led the girl back to the bed and put her in it. Making sure she was comfortable, she unscrewed the vial and put it to the blondes lips. Taking the potion in one gulp Billie fell asleep as soon as her head touch the pillow. "How long should her peaceful sleep last?" She asked her sisters.
"It should last her up until about ten in the morning." Piper said looking at the clock and seeing it say midnight. "Well I'm going back to bed. Shout if you need anything." With good nights said all around the Charmed ones left to go and get some peaceful sleep of their own.
A/N: So how'd you like it?