Post by StoryGirl83 on Jun 4, 2010 21:26:54 GMT -5
Chapter Six – Waiting and Searching
Wyatt had looked over the Book of Shadows several times over the past week and a half, trying to find something on their demon. Even with the additional information he had gained from Tyler, Seth, Kevin, and even Darryl he still wasn’t finding something that matched up. It appeared that there was nothing there, but something told him to keep looking, that something was in there.
“Daddy, I want down,” Halli demanded.
Tyler hugged her tighter. “No, Halli.”
Miranda shivered and hugged her arms around herself, she rocked back and forth mumbling, “My babies.”
“I’m here, Mommy,” Halli announced. “I’m here.”
Miranda just rocked back and forth.
Seeing this Piper headed over to Tyler. “I’ll take Halli to get a snack. You see to your wife.”
Tyler let Piper take Halli out of his arms and watched her as she lead her to the kitchen. As they left the room he stood and walked over to Miranda. “We’re going to get them back,” he told her with more confidence than he felt. He hugged her close.
Tyler closed his eyes, trying to block out all the events of the last few hours. He just wanted everything to be all right, to have his kids back.
The sound of orbing brought his attention to the middle of the room. This time it was Chris who formed there. Chris walked over to the chair where his brother sat pouring over the Book. “So what’s going on, Wy?”
Wyatt looked up and pointed in the direction of Tyler and Miranda. “Remember that answering machine message back in January from the guy who set his wife’s hair on fire?”
Chris chuckled and nodded. “That him?”
Wyatt nodded. “The woman with him is his wife, Miranda. They have four children and three of them are missing. I think I heard mom say she was taking the youngest to the kitchen.”
“Do we have any idea what we are looking for?”
“Very little,” Wyatt admitted, “but the knowledge is growing, thankfully. We are one hundred percent sure that this has to do with the demon that Seth and Melinda were trying to find last week. And we’ve even had Kevin here with a request for help from the elders.”
“They want our help?” Chris asked, astounded. “Don’t they hate us?”
“I don’t think it’s quite that bad,” Wyatt retorted. “Apparently, though, anything can be put aside for a common enemy.”
“So this demon is a threat to the elders?”
Wyatt shook his head. “Not so far as anyone seems to know. It’s a threat to the magical children of the world. And that’s enough for the elders.”
“Is that all you know?”
Wyatt shook his head. “Seth said he first showed up in 1627 and Kevin said they think he used to be human, so between the two, our demon was probably around the turn of the sixteenth century . . . which means finding any info about that is kind of unlikely, unless there’s something in the book.” Wyatt looked down at the Book, frustrated. “And if there’s something here, I’m not finding it.” He scowled. “Why can’t I find something?”
“Maybe there’s nothing to find,” Chris suggested.
“There’s something in here,” Wyatt insisted.
Chris sighed. “Have we tried scrying for these kids?”
Wyatt shook his head. “I don’t think so.” Seeing Piper returning with Halli he directed his question at her. “Mom, did anyone try scrying for these kids?”
Piper shook her head. “It won’t matter if they’re in the underworld.”
“And if they aren’t?”
Piper looked over at Tyler trying to console his wife. Then, she looked down at the little girl whose hand she held. “I’ll see what I can do.” She smiled up at her younger son. “Did everything go okay at The Manor?”
Chris nodded. “It was busy, but everything was fine when I left. How can I help here? Honestly, I don’t see much going on or much need for me to be here.”
Piper picked up Halli and brought her over to Wyatt. She put her on his lap. When he looked up at her surprised, she informed him that, “Tyler’s a little busy right now. I need to talk to your brother. Someone needs to keep Halli with them. We don’t know how this demon is getting these children, but he’s fast.”
Wyatt nodded and moved over so he could seat Halli next to him. “Why don’t you help me look for the bad guy that took your sisters and brother?”
Halli grinned up at him. “I can do that.”
Piper ignored them and led Chris into the dining room. “We have to find this demon and fast, Chris. And once we find him, we don’t know what it will take to defeat him. Tyler came to us for help and we are going to help him. Kevin came to us and told us that whitelighters have been freaking out, because they are losing their young charges. And they can’t track them, which means these kids are either cloaked or in the underworld. Seth thinks the kids are kept alive while he’s collecting them, because apparently he likes to torture them. We got a phone call from Darryl asking for our help, because he’s feeling the effect of this where he is. Have you any idea what it means for Darryl to call us?”
Chris nodded. “Yeah, I get it, but what can I do?”
Piper started to say something, but stopped at the sound of the phone. “Get that. It might be Paige.”
Chris sighed and nodded. “Okay. I want to help, Mom. I just don’t know what to do. Let me try scrying for the kids. It couldn’t hurt.”
“We’ll talk about it later,” Piper assured him. “Get the phone.”