44 Blueberry Hill, Friday

[sleepswthdemons]

Phoebe was a stressed wreck. Cole and Anders kept trying to get her to sit and rest, but there was no way she could.

Piper was missing!

Paige and Savannah had come over last night and told her that Piper was missing. They had searched the house, the Coven and every other place they could think of to look, but there had been no sign of her sister.

"We have to figure out what happened," Phoebe told the group as she reached for the Book of Shadows. "We have to find --" As her hands closed around the book, Phoebe gasped, her body tensing.



She and Paige... someone appearing... demon... she starts a vanquish spell, but he uses powers like Paige's... takes the Book of Shadows away from her... fireball hitting Paige... "You have Piper to thank for this"... fireball hitting her... killing them... demon and Book of Shadows disappearing...



Phoebe came out of the premonition with a shocked cry.


[[OOC: For those at 44 Blueberry Hill]]

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[holdingontolove.livejournal.com]

"Phoebe?" Cole said, swooping to her side to steady her.

[sleepswthdemons.livejournal.com]

Phoebe leaned against Cole, her face white as she looked at Paige. "I just saw a demon kill us -- kill me and Paige."

[holdingontolove.livejournal.com]

Cole tensed. "Not gonna happen," he growled. "Who was it? Did you recognize him?"

[sleepswthdemons.livejournal.com]

Phoebe was shaken, but she swallowed. "He took the Book from me..." She took a deep breath, trying to calm down. "Let me see if I can find him in the Book Of Shadows." She sat down on the couch and started flipping through pages.

[beenthroughthat.livejournal.com]

Sam had been across the room, pacing, trying to calm himself down so his own agitation didn't set off Phoebe's empathy any worse than it already, inevitably, would.

He finally crossed the floor to drop onto the couch on Phoebe's other side, resting a hand on her knee. "No one is killing you," he said, voice brittle with tension and stubbornness.

[wolvesraisedme.livejournal.com]

Savannah was frowning. "No one is hurting Paige!"

[holdingontolove.livejournal.com]

"No one is getting hurt at all," Cole said, hand resting protectively on her shoulder as she flipped through the Book.

[beenthroughthat.livejournal.com]

"Way too many stubborn people in this room for that," Sam said, forcing a brief chuckle.

[wolvesraisedme.livejournal.com]

Savannah was a little flaily. "I have been kidnapped, cut into like a piece of meat and now my guardian has been kidnapped." Her eyes narrowed. "I draw the line now. Paige is not getting hurt. Phoebe is not getting hurt. We are going to find whoever took Piper and make them wish they had never been born."

[sleepswthdemons.livejournal.com]

Phoebe's hand froze on one of the pages she had been turning. "That's him," she whispered. "That's the demon I saw kill me and Paige." She started reading the page. "His name is Zankou..."

[holdingontolove.livejournal.com]

Cole, if it was possible, grew even more tense. "That's not possible," he said.

[beenthroughthat.livejournal.com]

Sam turned and pinned him with a sharp gaze. "Gonna share with the rest of the class?"

[holdingontolove.livejournal.com]

"He's a powerful demon," Cole said slowly. "On par with the Source. The Source banished him and imprisoned him long ago."

[angelandwitch.livejournal.com]

"So how do we vanquish him?" Paige asked.

[sleepswthdemons.livejournal.com]

"Another one... like the Source." Phoebe took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down. Every time they had tangled with the Source...

"He said... he said that we could thank our sister for him being able to take the Book away from me and kill us."

[beenthroughthat.livejournal.com]

Sam was thinking along the same lines, and he wrapped an arm around her shoulders, suspecting both of them needed that bit of reassurance. "So we don't let him take it."

[holdingontolove.livejournal.com]

"Zankou takes the powers of those he kills," Cole said flatly, trying to keep his dread to himself. "If he has Piper -- and if he was thanking her for letting him take the book . . . no, just taking her powers wouldn't let him take the book. He'd need to take all of your powers. But you and Paige were still alive when he attacked."

[sleepswthdemons.livejournal.com]

Phoebe paled. "Oh no. Oh no." She shook her head. "She wouldn't..." She flipped through the Book, making sure that the spell she and Piper and Prue had burned years ago wasn't there. It wasn't. She looked at Cole. "Could he... would he know about the spell to take away our powers?"

[holdingontolove.livejournal.com]

". . . he might," Cole said reluctantly.

[beenthroughthat.livejournal.com]

"We can't -- what the hell are we waiting for?" Sam blurted out.

[sleepswthdemons.livejournal.com]

Phoebe closed the book and looked at Paige. "Looks like we need to take a trip to the Underworld and find ourselves a missing sister."

[wolvesraisedme.livejournal.com]

"Not without me, you're not," Savannah said firmly.

[holdingontolove.livejournal.com]

"Neither of you two are going anywhere," Cole said firmly. "I'll go. I know my way around."

[beenthroughthat.livejournal.com]

"Not without me, you're not," Sam retorted. "No going to the Underworld alone for you."

[sleepswthdemons.livejournal.com]

"It's Piper, Cole," Phoebe said with fear in her eyes. "I can't... not again."