Prue Halliwell hung up her cell phone and turned to her sisters, Piper and Phoebe and their friend, Dee. "I'm sorry that was my boss at the auction house, apparently I have to work even on a Saturday. Something just came in that she wants me to appraise. Dee, could you apologize to David for me? Give him my love, okay."
"I will, he'll be sorry you missed the rest of hus birthday party, but he knows there's a present from you on the table, that'll help."
Prue smirked. "I'm sure it will." She headed down the path toward where her car was parked, not noticing the young boy, David, run into the bushes and trees on a path that would run right passed her. Not until she spotted a demon reach out and grab David. She reacted instinctively and reached towards him only to get a surprise as he and the demon were forcibly separated and hung in midair. She channeled her power through her eyes, she'd never channeled it through her hands before. She didn't see a man watching the whole scene, a man who was also a reporter. She was so startled by her own actions that she lost control of the Magic and both the demon and David fell to the ground. The demon was up and moving before she could react and grabbed David and ran away. She recoverd and ran after them.
Only for the demon to stop and open a hole in the ground and jump down in to it, carrying David.
Prue stopped, horrified that she couldn't save her friend's son from a demon. She did the only thing she could do, she called the police and reported a kidnapping and went back to tell her friend, who broke down crying as Prue told her all she saw was someone grab David and run, which she also told the police when they arrived. She told her sisters though, that the demon had swirling eyes.
"I could have stopped it." She confessed to Piper. "I was just so startled."
"It's not your fault, Prue." Piper insisted. "It's the first time you've channeled your power through your hands, your power's growing, we were warned it would happen, we just didn't know when."
"Why now? Just as David gets snatched by a demon of all things?"
"He's not the first one." Phoebe said, returning to her sisters. "I was just talking to one of the Inspectors, he said another child was taken yesterday, same area."
"A demon who steals kids, can it get any worse?" Prue groaned.
"Uh, yeah. Actually it can." Phoebe answered. "It happened before, the Inspector said 20 years ago two other kids disappeared from this park."
"Were they ever found? Alive?" Piper asked hopefully.
"He didn't know, he didn't have any details, just that he'd heard it had happened before. They'll investigate whether it's connected."
"It's a demon, they're not going to find anything." Prue said grimly.
"No, but we can." Phoebe reminded her. "The Book of Shadows should have an entry identifying the demon, provided our ancestors encountered it. Which hopefully will help us find David."
"Then let's get going." Prue said determinedly. "The sooner we know, the sooner we can save him. I'm not losing any child to a demon if I can help it!"
Prue's phone rang and she grimaced. "I forgot about the appraisal."
"You go, Piper and I'll take care of it."
"I'll be home as soon as I can." Prue promised and once again headed to her car, unaware of a man watching her. Piper and Phoebe said their goodbyes to their friend and promised to keep David in their prayers and headed for Piper's car. Once home they immediately went to the attic and began paging through the Book of Shadows, looking for something that matched Prue's description.
Down in the sewers David and another boy were locked in a cage. David tried screaming for help but one of the demons grabbed him and held a hand in front of his face and a blue light shone out of it. Slowly David's eyes went white. "I can't see! Why can't I see? I want my mom! Mom!" The demons ignored him.
Back at Halliwell Manor Piper continued to leaf through the Book of Shadows at the kitchen counter and Phoebe began using her laptop to research the kidnapping from twenty years ago.
"Nothing." Piper slammed the book shut and went to the cupboard and began pulling ingredients for supper out.
"Nothing with the swirling eyes Prue said she saw?"
"No, I found demons with no eyes, demons with four eyes, but no swirling eyes. Have you found anything?"
"I found references to the kidnapping 20 years ago. Two boys taken from the same area of the park that David was taken from and one of them was never seen again."
"Oh. Great." Piper looked sick, imagining the possibilities.
"But one of them was found, his name is Brent Miller, he was found roaming the streets. He was fine, except for one thing. He was blind."
"Blind?" Piper said, hurting for the boy.
"He told the authorities sewer monsters stole his eyes, they thought he caught a parasite that damaged his eyes."
"We can't tell Dee her son might be blind. I don't know how to handle this."
"I'm going to see if i can track down this Brent Miller, maybe he remembers something that could help us."
"I hope you're right. I'm going to take Dee a care package, I have to do something, I can't just sit around worrying about her and about David and feeling helpless."
"Piper, we're going to find him, we just have to stay optimistic."
"I hope you're right."
Phoebe began by looking up all the Brent Millers listed in online phone books, looking for one about the right age, hoping he still lived in San Francisco.
Meanwhile the reporter had tracked down Prue at the auction house. He was about to make a nuisance of himself.
