Purpose | Chris Halliwell

13 | Get baby back

"You go first." She whispers to me and I carefully sneak across the room to another hiding place. I stop seeing a baby toy making Piper knock some broken glass and gasps. "Cassie, why did you stop?" She bends down and I show her the toy and she picked up a photo frame of a man. 

"Piper." I say making her turn around to see the creature standing right behind her. 

He pushes her against the wall then throws me across the room as I go to hit him. Not like it would do much anyways. I hit the wall hitting my head making me my ears ring and my vision blurry some. 

"Cassie." Piper comes over to me. 

"Where did he go?" I rub my head trying to stand up but she had to help me up. 

"Probably to the house. Come on, we need to try to get out of here." She walks us to the door. 

"I hit my head but last time you tried the door it shocked you." I tell her. 

"That's way I'm going to try to blow it up." She tells me as she keeps trying.

"Let me try one with you." I tell her and when we both do it the door sparks. 

She opens the door and looks outside and we see a beautiful, peaceful neighborhood. We hear the creature breathing heavily and go back inside. He has tucked the baby in bed and is rubbing his tummy. 

"You're okay. It's alright, you're home now." The creature looks over at us. 

"Let me fix you up." Piper tells him. 

"Can you find me a cloth?" She asks me so I leave the room to find one. 

"Here you go." I hand it to her as she gets him to sit down in a chair next to her.

The creature growls in pain, "Well, quit moving around so much, you're just making this more difficult." She tells him. 

"Just leave me alone." He tells her. 

"Why? So you can die? Hey, it's your choice. I'm just saying, if we can't stop this bleeding..." She tries to tell him. 

"Fine. But just hurry up." He gives up. 

"You're welcome. Who did this to you?" She asks him. 

"Your sisters." He answers. 

"Oh. Sorry. Actually, if they used the potion I think they did, you're lucky to be a live. You should have been blown to pieces." She explains to him. 

"How do you know?" He asks. 

"Well, 'cause I made it." The creature roars. "Come on, show a little spine. What kind of demon are you?" She asks him. 

"He's not a demon." I answer before him. 

"Then what are you? I saw a picture of a man in the bedroom. Oh, come on, I've been around a lot of demons and they don't usually live in neighborhoods right out of Home and Garden." She tries to get him to tell us.

"Is that why you're helping me? You think this is some sort of hideous curse or something." He asks us and she says yeah making him get up. "Well, then go. I don't need your pity. It's not what happened and that's not who I am. Not anymore, anyway. Just leave us. Go." He tells us.