[Filtered to Dean, Hakkai, Sanzo, Seto, Jou, Martha, Tsuzuki, Tatsumi, Owen]

Still no word from Cole. Phoebe's going out of her mind with worry, which has the rest of us worried about her in turn.

[Filtered to Dean, Hakkai, Sanzo, Seto, Jou, Martha, Tsuzuki, Tatsumi, Owen]

I don't trust Cole anymore. I don't know if I ever really trusted him to begin with, but I trust him even less now. He went back to the underworld claiming that he could help us fight a band of demons called the Brotherhood of the Thorn, then he betrayed us by taking our innocent that we were trying to save, and now he's gone back to the underworld again and we haven't heard from him since. Phoebe's convinced that this is all part of some plan of his to get out of the inner circle of demons for good and that he'll be back, but I'm not so sure. He's half demon, and spending time with all his demon pals can't be doing him any good. I hope for her sake that she's right, but my instincts are telling me that he's up to no good and we need to watch our backs.

[Private Entry]

Shit. I was worried that something like this would happen.

Cole knows what the Brotherhood is up to. He told us about a business merger that the Brotherhood wants to happen, and a businessman named Frank Pirelli that they want to kill who plans to vote against the merger. Apparently demons make money in our world to carry out their schemes. I mean, they paid for Cole to go to law school and become an assistant district attorney before he went on the run, and things like that don't come cheap. Anyway, we saved Pirelli before the demons had a chance to kill him, and then later on the news we see a demon posing as Pirelli, saying that the merger will go through. Clearly Cole was not keeping us completely in the loop. Leo brought Pirelli back to the manor, and then we were attacked by demons. We realized that it was a distraction, but by the time we killed them, we were just in time to see Cole and some other demon shimmering away with Pirelli. I was worried that he was going to go dark side again, and now it looks like he has. He's betrayed us.

[Private Entry]

Last night Phoebe was out with Cole, and she saw a demon attacking an innocent man, a street prophet. She fought the demon, and she killed him. Turns out she killed Cole's brother. Not his biological brother (he doesn't have any of those), but a member of the Brotherhood of the Thorn, of which Cole was- is- a member. They're a group of elite demons, handpicked by the Source himself to serve him. The prophet said they were surfacing before he died. Cole says that means that they're up to something, but he doesn't know what. He's not exactly a member in good standing since he's been on the run and hiding from them. He volunteered to re-join them and find out what they're going to do, but Phoebe's dead set against the idea, and I have to say, I don't like it, either. Sending him back to them would be like sending an alcoholic to a keg party; it's just setting Cole up for a big fall, one that would devastate Phoebe. She wants to strip his powers before he goes so that he won't be tempted to use them, but the others in the Brotherhood won't believe him if he doesn't have his demonic powers, and they'll kill him if they don't believe that he's truly re-joined them.

I'm worried, but I don't want to say anything to anyone else. Not yet, anyway. My friends have enough on their plates with Seto being taken, and I don't want to add to their worries. This is for me and my sisters to figure out, not them.

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came to my party last weekend. I had a lot of fun, and it was great to see you guys again! :)

Phoebe's birthday was on Sunday. We kept it low key this year, especially since we were all hung over from the Halloween party on Saturday. Cole took Phoebe out for dinner, and then we all had cake and ice cream at the house and she opened her presents.

[Filtered to Dean, Hakkai, Sanzo, Seto, Jou, Martha, Cam, Tsuzuki, Tatsumi, Owen]

So yesterday I maxed out my credit card, Phoebe got a police officer fired by having sex with him in the back of a police van after she got kicked out of her ethics class for trying to have sex with the professor, Prue nearly got herself killed by single-handedly trying to save the entire city of San Francisco, and Leo wouldn't get his ass off the couch except when he wanted to go upstairs to take a nap.

That's right: we were infected with gluttony, lust, pride, and sloth respectively. Phoebe's cop was infected with anger and tried to kill us after he got fired, and two other innocent people were infected with greed and envy. Prue lost one innocent, but she managed to save the other, and Leo healed her gunshot wound, so she's fine now. Phoebe and I vanquished the demon that infected all of us, and everything is back to normal now. Sort of. I'm still trying to return all of the stuff that I bought yesterday, or most of it anyway. I kind of like the flat panel TV in the living room, and Leo really did need some new clothes...

( See what's inside! )

Happy birthday, Seto! :)

Leo and I decided not to move out of the manor after all. As much as we both want to, the timing just didn't feel right. It doesn't mean that we won't at some point in the future, just not right now.

In the meantime, Prue has graciously given up the master bedroom so that Leo and I have more space, and Phoebe is moving all of her stuff out of the upstairs bathroom so that we'll have more privacy. Hopefully things will be a little better now.

[Filtered to Dean, Hakkai, Sanzo, Seto, Jou, Martha, Cam, Tsuzuki, Tatsumi, Owen]

As I was packing up the last of my things yesterday, I discovered a glass bottle that had belonged to Grams that I got after she passed away. The bottle had some liquid in it, and when I looked at the bottom of the bottle, it had a little piece of paper taped to it. It was a list of ingredients for a power stripping potion. Before she died, Phoebe and Prue and I weren't nearly as close as we are now. Grams had already bound our powers when we were children, and she was going to strip our powers to protect us because she didn't feel that we were ready to take on the responsibility of being the Charmed Ones. She feared that it would tear us apart rather than bringing us closer together. I think that she passed away before she got the chance to do it.

Anyway, living together at the manor made us sisters again, and it brought us into our powers and made us who we are today, and I'm not sure if I'm ready to test the bonds of sisterhood by moving out just yet. The fact that Grams was willing to strip our powers to keep us together has to count for something, right?

Tonight's my last night in the manor. I know I'm going to miss it, but I'm also very much looking forward to moving into the new place with Leo tomorrow.

[Filtered to Filtered to Dean, Hakkai, Sanzo, Seto, Jou, Martha, Cam, Tsuzuki, Tatsumi, Owen]

Well, the demon is finally vanquished once and for all. It took us forever to figure out what to do, and it wasn't until Grams helped us that we were able to solve this one. She told us in a roundabout way to hold a seance, so we did, and we talked to this dead witch. When we told her about our demon, she told us that he was her familiar, but that he turned against her and killed her to become a demon. But in order for him to be a true demon, he had to shed all nine of his familiar lives. That's why he kept coming back for us to kill him. We tried really hard not to kill him after that, over the course of two days we ended up killing him eight times before we finished our vanquishing spell. We did it though, by forcing him to feel the pain of all nine of his deaths at once, and now he's gone for good. I do know one thing: I'm never going to look at Kit the same way again. I hope Prue and Phoebe take good care of her after I move out.

( Saki's meme )

Leo likes the place in North Beach, and so do I. We're moving next week. My sisters are not happy about it.

[Filtered to Dean, Hakkai, Sanzo, Seto, Jou, Martha, Cam, Tsuzuki, Tatsumi, Owen]

Something weird is going on here. Today Leo and I were out getting boxes and moving supplies, and a demon attacked us. I killed him by stabbing him with a box cutter, or so I thought at the time. When I got home, I found out that Phoebe had killed the very same demon today by stabbing him with a stiletto heel, and Prue had killed him by stabbing him with a knife. And then he attacked all three of us at the manor, and Phoebe stabbed him with an umbrella. It's like he can't be killed. We're working on a vanquishing spell right now, but we don't really know where to start, and we have no way of knowing if it will work even if we do come up with something.

I've had it with living with my sisters at the manor. They have no respect for me and Leo's privacy, and it's driving us both insane. Phoebe walked in on us in the shower this morning, for god's sake, and Prue routinely barges into our bedroom without so much as knocking despite me asking her to knock countless times. I've been looking at apartments, and I found one in North Beach that I think would be nice. If Leo likes it, hopefully we'll be moving out soon.

( Jou's meme )

Halloween party at P3 on Saturday, October 31. Mark your calendar, and RSVP by commenting to this entry if you plan to come. You're all invited! :)

[Filtered to Dean, Hakkai, Sanzo, Seto, Jou, Martha, Cam, Tsuzuki, Tatsumi, Owen]

It's over now. We vanquished the demons, but not before they killed Davidson. He went with them quite willingly, actually. He wasn't afraid to die and he wouldn't let us protect him. We tried anyway, but we weren't successful since he fought us every step of the way. The demons locked him in a mausoleum so that we couldn't get to him to help him, and then they got the information that they wanted from him before they murdered him.

Prue could see Death because she was next on his list. He took her to Davidson in the mausoleum and made her do nothing while they killed him. He told her that, had she tried to fight the demons by herself, she would have lost. She was outnumbered and would have been overpowered. I guess Phoebe's premonition was right, after all. Anyway, Cole and Prue are both safe now, and Death is gone for the time being.

Oh, and that awful lamp that Leo's friends gave us? It's not an issue anymore. See, I had finally resigned myself to the fact that the stupid thing wasn't worth fighting over and I would deal with it being in the parlor, and then Leo and I... well, we sort of bumped into the table that it was on and knocked it over, and it shattered. I swear I didn't do it on purpose, but I can't exactly say that I'm disappointed that it's gone, either.

[Filtered to Dean, Hakkai, Sanzo, Seto, Jou, Martha, Cam, Tsuzuki, Tatsumi, Owen]

Well, we know what we're up against now: two seeker demons and an angel of death.

The demons killed Prue's innocent last night, and now they're after Inspector Davidson, whom she's made it her mission to protect. They're trying to find Cole, trying to take him down for betraying the dark side, and they're killing off anyone who gets in their way once they get the information that they need from them.

The shadowy thing that was following her innocent? That was an angel of death, and now he's after Davidson, too. He introduced himself to Prue last night when he came for her dead innocent. Phoebe had a premonition of Prue turning her back on Davidson and letting the demons kill him, but Prue refuses to believe that it will come true. She swears that she's going to find a way to beat Death and save Davidson, but Leo says it can't be done. He says that when Death comes for someone, there's no way to stop him.

What I don't get is, if Death was after that woman and now Davidson, why could Prue see him? And why did he go out of his way to introduce himself to her?

[Filtered to Dean, Hakkai, Sanzo, Seto, Jou, Martha, Cam, Tsuzuki, Tatsumi, Owen]

I should have known that things were going too well for them to stay that way. First Prue and Phoebe were at the beach today to give me and Leo some alone time at the manor, and Prue saw some kind of shadowy thing hovering beside a woman at the beach. Phoebe couldn't seen it, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there. Prue thinks it could be demonic.

Then, Inspector Davidson, the guy inspecting Cole's disappearance, showed up on our doorstep and threatened to charge Phoebe with murder if she doesn't tell him what she knows about Cole and where he is. Apparently Cole's landlady was murdered today, and Davidson thinks that Cole did it and that Phoebe's covering for him. I don't think that Cole did it, though. Something else is going on here. Maybe it has to do with that shadowy thing Prue saw. Davidson's partner is the woman that Prue saw at the beach, so she's following her to try to protect her. Which is interesting, since Davidson's partner is following Phoebe...

Leo took me to a whitelighter reception this evening that some of his whitelighter friends threw for us. That was different. I wasn't exactly thrilled about going after all the fuss they put us through before we got married, but it wasn't so bad. Except for the fact that they gave us this fugly lamp, and Leo loves it, and now we're arguing over where to put the damn thing. It's in the parlor for now, but I really hope it doesn't stay there.

Blessed autumnal equinox! :D

Happy birthday, Hakkai! I hope you have a great day! :)