"This isn't right. I recognise these names; they're on my family tree. Melinda Warren, P. Baxter, ah, here. After P. Baxter and Gordon Johnson, my family tree, says Octavia Hardy." Oswin pointed out, looking at the family tree.
"What are you talking about?" Piper asked, rounding on Oswin, putting her hand down on the table.
"I think we're related."
Back to present day
"Ruuuuun!" Phoebe screamed, as she Piper and Oswin ran around the corner, narrowly missing a fireball as it exploded a dumpster next to Piper.
"No kidding, Pheebs!" Piper shouted, ducking out of the way of the trash that went flying through the air.
"Paige! Get your whitelighter ass down here!" Oswin shouted, really wishing Paige was with them, especially when they ended up running into a fence. "Until we vanquish this bastard, I can't help you." The warlock, Haarg, had cornered both Oswin and Piper separately and stolen their powers, leaving them powerless. The warlock ran round the corner, just as the three were trying to climb over the fence. He twitched his hands, freezing Oswin mid-climb. Phoebe jumped up, levitating in the air, not touching the fence, while Piper was still climbing. The warlock interlocked his fingers, palms out, and hit the fence with electricity, throwing Piper back, knocking her into a dumpster, knocking her out.
"Piper! Dammit, Paige!" Phoebe shouted out, landing back on the ground, just as Oswin unfroze and fell to the ground, hitting her head, and losing consciousness right away. "Crap."
"Now for your power, witch!" Haarg shouted, holding his hand out towards Phoebe's neck. Just then, blue orbs filled the alley, and Paige saw the mess, Piper and Oswin, and Haarg and Phoebe.
"Ugly metal thing!" Paige swiped her hand and a metal pole flew off the floor and embedded itself in Haarg's chest. It wasn't enough to kill him, only the power of three would be able to do that, but it was enough to make him stop reaching out for Phoebe, make him leave.
"I'll kill your living relatives, one by one. I swear." Haarg said, snarling at Phoebe, before shimmering out.
"Paige, thank god. Help." Phoebe ordered, running over to Piper. "Bring Oswin over. We'll orb back to the house." Paige supported Oswin, and walked over to Phoebe, who had her hand on Piper's shoulder, and Paige orbed them back to the manor.
"Leo!" Phoebe shouted. "Leo get your whitelighter ass down here right now!" Phoebe laid Piper on the couch as Paige did the same for Oswin. A few seconds later, blue orbs filled the room, and Leo appeared.
"What's the matter-? Piper!" Leo rushed over to Piper, holding his hands out, bright yellow light emitting from his palms as he healed her. "What the hell happened?"
"Don't forget Oswin, too." Phoebe said, as she sat down next to Piper's feet on the couch. "The warlock, Haarg, took their powers. He froze Oswin and electrocuted Piper, knocked them both out. Tried to take my powers. We need the power of three to kill him."
"He said something about every live family member, he's going to kill them." Paige said, as Piper woke up, and Leo moved over to Oswin. "We should check the family tree."
A few minutes after Oswin woke up, the 5 of them ran up to the attic, to find the family tree.
"Where the hell is it?!" Exclaimed Piper, ripping pieces of paper of the shelf, looking for the scroll of their family tree. "It has to be here somewhere!"
"Piper, calm down." Phoebe said as she dodged scrolls flying past her head. "You're over-reacting. He's not going to know who's in our family if we don't even know."
"Shush." Piper said, throwing more paper around.
"Ow." Oswin said, when a scroll hit her in the head.
"Piper, stop." Paige stressed. "I can find it easily, remember?"
"Well do it then."
"Family tree." Paige said, and a scroll from the floor orbed into her hand. "There, you should have just asked." Piper didn't care, and grabbed the scroll from her hand, moving over to a table and pushing everything off. Oswin was quick to react, and threw out her right hand, encasing the objects in ice.
"Piper, it was one threat. He's not going to do it." Phoebe tried to make Piper see clearly, back in the right frame of mind.
"This isn't right. I recognise these names; they're on my family tree. Melinda Warren, P. Baxter, ah, here. After P. Baxter and Gordon Johnson, my family tree, says Octavia Hardy." Oswin pointed out, looking at the family tree.
"What are you talking about?" Piper asked, rounding on Oswin, putting her hand down on the table.
"I think we're related."
"Related? How?" Paige asked.
"Most of our ancestors are the same." Oswin started. "Hold on, let me try this. Show what it missing to me, on this family tree, no longer a mystery, show what should be."
"You have to lay off the rhyming." Paige joked, but suddenly stopped smiling as names, one-by-one, burnt themselves into the scroll; Octavia Hardy, Olympia Hardy, Oswin, Olivia and Odette Hardy.
"Well I'll be." Phoebe said, as she stepped back. "We are related." Without warning, Piper grabbed the scroll and yelled at the ceiling.
"Hear my cry, spirit from the other side, come to me, I summon thee, cross now the great divide!" Piper tapped her foot impatiently until Penny and Patty appeared in a flood of white orbs.
"Hello Pip-" Patty started, but was interrupted by Piper whistling sharply.
"Get this, P. Baxter. I want to have a word with her." Piper demanded, waving the family tree.
"Piper, honey, that's not a good idea." Penny said, by Patty laid a hand on her mother's shoulder.
"She's not going to back down, she's a Halliwell. Get her." Penny nodded, and a flood of white lights appeared in front of Patty and Penny, and when the lights disappeared, Piper stood staring at herself. Luckily, Oswin was behind Piper, and able to catch her when she fainted.
"Oh god, Piper, wake up. Wakey wakey." Oswin said, laying her down on the couch, trying to wake her up. "Phoebe, family tree, I've got Piper." But Phoebe was staring at P. Baxter, remembering her trip back in time to her past life, when P. Baxter killed her, and damned her future lives.
"Can I help you, or are you just going to stand there?" P. Baxter asked Paige, before turning to Phoebe. "You."
"Err, yeah, hi. Me. Don't worry, I'm not evil. I just have some questions." Phoebe stammered. This woman murdered her. Well, not her per say, but still. Piper was still out of it, Oswin was waving a magazine in her face, to keep her cool.
"Cut the crap and ask her, Pheebs." Oswin interjected.
"Okay. Jeez. This is the woman who condemned all of my lives." Phoebe hissed, before turning back to P. Baxter. "How many kids did you have?"
"One. Penelope."
"Liar." Paige said, pointing to the names on the scroll.
"How did you-"
"I cast a spell, I knew something was wrong." Oswin said, when Piper suddenly bolted up, pushing Oswin off the chair, just as the ice broke, sending trinkets raining onto Oswin's head. "Ow, dammit, forgot about that. Anyway," Oswin said as she stood back up. "Tell me, how exactly, I am related to the Halliwells, and how I never knew it."
"Penelope and her sister never got on. That's right Penny, you had a sister. You two didn't get on at all. Your opposing powers made you fight. It was normal sibling rivalry, but they were too powerful. It was going to become a magical warzone. I split the two of them, wiping their memories of each other, and Octavia moved away to south San Francisco."
"Makes sense. Thanks."