Post by StoryGirl83 on Jul 18, 2010 13:27:01 GMT -5
Chapter Fifteen – What Can You Do
Vicki’s words echoed through Piper’s head as she walked into the sitting room. “Vicki’s been captured,” she announced.
Hope frowned. “Are you sure?”
“Considering that Vicki told me so herself, yes,” Piper announced.
That got everyone’s attention.
“You talked to Vicki after she was captured?” Wyatt asked.
Piper nodded. “The line’s still open in the hall. She was afraid if I hung up she wouldn’t be able to reconnect and she’s got a good point.”
“Then, where are the kids?” Chris asked.
“Vicki thinks it’s some sort of other plane or dimension,” Piper told him. “May I borrow your phone, please?”
Chris searched through his pockets and came up empty. “I think it’s in my room.”
Piper raised an eyebrow and looked at Wyatt.
Wyatt smiled and handed her his cell. “No problem.”
Chris rolled his eyes.
Piper ignored them as she waited for the phone to be picked up.
“Wyatt?” Prue’s voice questioned on the other end.
“Piper,” was her sister’s response.
“Vicki’s gone, Piper,” Prue informed her with a catch in her voice. “She was there one moment and then . . . she was just gone.”
“I know,” Piper reminded her. “I had her on the phone, still do actually.”
“What?” Prue looked at the phone startled. “Is she all right?”
“She wanted to explore her surroundings and get back to me on that one,” Piper informed her. “She didn’t want to hang up in case the connection couldn’t be retrieved.”
“We can’t let her stay there,” Prue insisted. “Have you found out how to get her out?”
“We know that if you injure the demon enough, there will be a window of opportunity to escape, but it appears that he can stop that fairly quickly, even injured and once he does he goes into hiding which means all further opportunities may be lost.”
“So we need to vanquish him, not just injure him.”
“We can’t let him retreat,” Piper concluded. “Once we find a way to engage him, that’s it. He has to go down then.”
“So how do we do that?” Prue wondered aloud. “A spell?”
“A power of three spell would be nice,” Piper commented, “but for some reason the three of us can’t do that. We need Phoebe and we have no idea where she might be.”
“A regular spell might work, though,” Prue suggested.
“Could be,” Piper hedged.
“Too bad we don’t have Phoebe,” Prue commented. “She always was best at those spells.”
“I’ll see if my boys can think of something,” Piper offered gaining her a look of suspicion from her older son. “They’ve come up with some over the last few months. Maybe they can come up with something useful.”
“I’ll see if I can find some way to summon this demon,” Prue offered. She glanced over at where Hank was sitting on the floor in the corner with his notepad. “And I think I’m going to ask Hank to work on a spell, too. Something tells me he might have some idea what he’s doing there and I think he wants to help.”
“Hope’s finally settled herself some,” Piper commented. “She’s entertaining Halli.” Piper looked over to where Paige was talking with Tyler and Miranda. “I hate to tear her away from them when Paige seems to have calmed down Tyler’s wife, but I think I’m going to get Paige to help me try and come up with a potion and we’ll see what happens with that. When Vicki finds anything, I’ll let you know.”
Prue sighed. “I guess I’ll have to settle for that. We have to get her out of there.”
“We will,” Piper assured her. “We’ll get all of them out.”
It seemed that having something to do had lifted peoples’ spirits some, but there was still restlessness, mostly in the form of Seth. He wanted a fight and he didn’t know how to make it happen. He did know that he couldn’t even try to find this demon until they knew how to deal with them. He was well aware of an underlining thankfulness that his little brother was human and completely nonmagical. It meant Peter was safe from this demon’s agenda.
Hope and Halli were situated near Tyler and Miranda. After the fifth time that the two girls got in Wyatt’s way as he tried to write a spell, Hope suggested that they switch locations. Both girls had vested interest in getting the children safely out of there, wherever there was.
Piper and Paige had secluded themselves in the kitchen where they were working on potions. Not quite sure what kind of damage this demon could take they had worked on extremely varied potions. Each one was unique, created for very different weaknesses.
Wyatt and Chris sat side by side arguing over the word of their third spell or at least what might end up being their third spell. They had several attempts that hadn’t even been completed. Two were completed, but neither brother was really all that satisfied with the results. It was a big question if the spells would do any damage at all.