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Summary: After making it back from the past the thirteen are forced to go save Parker and Calleigh. Along the way Chuck trades himself for the lives of his friends. Meanwhile Prue manages to get herself sucked into an alternate reality after a battle with an unknown demon. The big showdown with the source is looming just over the horizon for the thirteen. This episode things will come out they will find out about Jake's demon half and Chris's flashbacks. Another part of the prophecy will be fulfilled when two lovers separate. The future people are going to come clean about what is going on in the future. If they can manage to get rid of the source they will then have to turn their attention to Ben and Phoebe isn't going to be real happy about them getting rid of him. This is the second part of the season finale look for twists and turns to abound.


Chapter 1: Bargaining Chips

"Look Paige Al and I have been back and forth about this hundreds of times we don't know what happens to turn Jake. Because if we did we would already taken care of it." Jack said running a hand through his hair. The five people from the future were in Mel's room having a super top secret meeting since there was really nothing they could do to help the others out with the source.

"No one is accusing you both of not trying hard enough we were just simply asking if you had any idea of what the hell happens." Dom said reasonably the last thing he wanted or needed was to get in a fight with Jack.

"No Dom we have no idea because trust us if we did this would have been fixed a long time ago." Alan chimed in they had tried everything they could think of and it just wasn't working for them.

"The reason we ask is things have gotten really bad Jake would have never in a million years put his hands on Brady but he hit Brady with an energy ball. So we have to figure this thing before there is nothing left for us to save." Paige said shaking her head sadly. She loved her Uncle Jake but he had turned into someone that she didn't even recognize.

"I'm sorry but what is so special about Brady? No one in the family could even get him not to do things and he is terrified of Prue. So I want you to tell me what makes this cupid so damn special." Jack asked still not knowing that Brady was his cousin.

Brady put out his hand for Jack to shake and he took it not sure where he was going "Phillip Bradley Halliwell you don't know me but I know you." he said introducing himself to his cousin.

Alan slapped himself in the center of the forehead "Jack you and I are so fucking stupid this is Aunt Phoebe's son. He looks exactly like Uncle Coop. I can't believe we missed it everything about him screams Halliwell." He announced sizing him up.

"Well that is because no one accused you two of being as smart as your big brothers. Chris and Henry had me figured out the first day I showed up." Brady replied.

"So what is really going on at home?" Jack asked he wasn't sure he wanted to know but he needed to know.

"None of it is good Jake is slipping more and more into the darkness he isn't even recognizable anymore. Aunt Prue has just about decided that there is no saving him she is the one who sent Brady back to keep him safe. His kids won't have anything to do with him and well you guys all know what happened to Aunt Phoebe." Paige replied.

"Hey we are going to figure this out I promise because I can't even imagine that sweet guy downstairs turning into the monster that we all know. It seriously had to be something bad that turned him because he can't even stand that fact he is half demon. Hell he can't even talk civilly to Uncle Cole half the time." Alan assured Paige.

"I know we will but it so frustrating sometimes. I don't know how you guys did it for so many months. I'm sorry that I have been so hard on you because what you guys have done back here is a hell of a lot worse than what we've had to contend with." Paige said her voice wavering a little bit but she wouldn't cry because it was a sign of weakness to her. And Paige Halliwell was anything but weak she came by it honestly. She had Chris's stubbornness and Bianca's iron will it wasn't a great combination and it got her in trouble a lot.

"Alright lets stay loose to give them a hand if they need it but only if they ask." Dom suggested.

"Ok we can do that." Jack agreed they couldn't leave them hanging out to dry if they asked them for help.

Little did they all know that just outside the door they had a little bit of an audience.


Opening Credits:

Starring:

Wyatt Halliwell- Wes Ramsey

Chris Halliwell- Drew Fuller

Henry Matthews Jr.- Channing Tatum

Cooper Halliwell Jr.- Paul Walker

Charles Bradford- Jonathan Rhys Meyer

Lila Nicolae- Jordana Brewster

Roman Nicolae- Ben McKenzie

Elizabeth Shane- Bethany Joy Galeotti

Parker Halliwell- Eddie Cibrian

Troy Shane- David Boreanez

Bianca Hoyt- Marisol Nichols

Calleigh Cavanaugh- Anne Hathaway

And

Prue Halliwell- Jenifer Love Hewitt

With:

Melinda Halliwell- Amanda Bynes

Valerie Halliwell- Eliza Dushku

Penny Halliwell- Daneel Harris

Carly Matthews- Sophia Bush

Patty Matthews- Rachel Bilson

Ricky Bradford- Taylor Lautner

Jack Halliwell- Jensen Ackles

Alan Halliwell- Chris Pine

Brady Halliwell- Michael Bublé

And

Emily Bradford- Hilary Burton


Tim was sitting in the sunroom in one of the chairs he had a band aid across the bridge of his nose. Troy has really done a number on him and if he was being honest with himself he deserved it he really did. He couldn't expect after walking out on them and not contacting them for eighteen years that they would welcome him back with open arms. He had screwed up big time where his kids were concerned it was one thing that he and Nicole got divorced but he shouldn't have divorced his kids as well.

"Tim why the hell did you come back?" the question startled him out of his thoughts and he was shocked when he looked up and saw that it was Liz who had asked him that. He was surprised that his little girl even wanted to be in the same room with him.

"Liz I'm surprised you even want to be in the same room as me. I thought you would feel the same way your brother does." Tim replied instead of answering her question.

"Troy and I do feel the same way Tim you may think that he is raging but he isn't he is hurt just like I am. I mean I spent so many nights after you left lying awake in bed crying I thought it was something that I had done to make you leave I thought that maybe if I had been better behaved then you wouldn't have left. I felt like I was lost for so long and now I'm afraid that any man I love will leave. Wyatt has to tell me on a daily basis that he isn't going anywhere." Liz said sitting down across from him no matter how hard it was for her to bear she wanted to be looking him in the eyes when he explained the past eighteen years to her.

"Elizabeth I want you to know that my leaving had nothing to do with you or you brother you are both the best things I have ever done. I just couldn't stay I know that's not the explanation that you're looking for but it's all I have for right now." Tim said meeting her brown eyes with his.

Liz took what he said in stride she wasn't going to let him make her cry again she had wasted too many tears over him. "Fine I can accept that Tim but I would really like to know why you came back." She said reasonably she was trying to be an adult about that whole thing.

"I had a vision all I know is it had to do with you and Troy and some demon he looked like the source." Tim supplied in answer to her question.

Liz's breath caught in her throat that was what she had saw pieces of the source and she didn't know anything more than that. "Yeah I saw something like that myself but I only got bits and pieces so I don't know I don't have the best control over that power."

Tim smiled at her "So you were the one who got my powers then I guess Troy got your mom's powers."

"Yeah I got the psychic genes and Troy got the witch powers. Though we both got empathy and telepathy." Liz replied she had missed seeing her dad smile at her.

"Lizzie I know that this isn't worth much but I'm sorry for what I did to you. And I'm not just saying that because Troy beat the hell out of me I'm saying it because I mean it. I never once wanted to do anything to hurt you kids or your mother." Tim apologized but I'm sorry couldn't make up for almost twenty years of not being there.

"Well it's not worth much I can't just forgive you just like that after you missed everything but if you really want forgiveness you'll stay around and prove it. One day I will get married and I would really like it if my dad were there to walk me down the aisle." Liz said it was what she wanted more than anything in the world. And she was inclined to forgive him so she could have him in her life but she needed him to prove he wasn't going to run away again.

"I would really like that too I'll tell you what if your willing to think about forgiving me then I'm willing to work for your forgiveness." Tim replied smiling at her again.

"Ok Tim we have a deal but I have things to do just stay away from Troy because he won't forgive you as easily." Liz said getting up and walking out of the room leaving him alone with his thoughts again.


"I don't like it that we don't know why the demon sent us back to the past. I mean demons might be stupid but they have a reason for everything they do." Chris frowned before he took a pull off the neck of his beer.

"C. Perry we're the Charmed Ones and the thirteen that is reason enough for any demon to attack us. It has to be related to that but what I don't understand is what happened to Cal and Parks. I don't like that at all honestly if I were going to do something to anyone in our group I would go after you, me, or Prue we are the biggest threat not those two." Henry mused taking a bite of his pizza.

"Boys I agree with both of you but I can't help but think this might be a distraction but from what I don't know. Maybe the source wants us distracted so he can attack us when we least expect it. At any rate it would be nice if there were more than four of us who were functioning right now." Prue chimed in.

Roman held up his hands in a sign of surrender "Hey don't ask me I'm just the guy who makes the potions and cooks when we're deep in our brainstorming sessions."

"We're not exactly helpless like you paint us to be we could help you if you would let us." Mel offered she didn't want to see four of her favorite older people get hurt because the rest of them were being stupid. But they were paying for that right now Piper, Phoebe, Paige, Nicole, Derek, and Eva were holding them hostage in the living room.

"No we're not saying that your helpless we're just saying we don't want you guys to get hurt helping us out. You know that we would never be able to forgive ourselves if that happened." Chris said trying to let her down gently.

"Chris letting Mel, Patty, Ricky, and Hailey help you might not be such a bad idea considering the shape the rest of your group is in right now. I know that you normally don't like to use them unless you have to but this time you might have to. The longer Calleigh and Parker stay gone the more danger they are in." Leo supplied he didn't like the idea anymore than his son did but they weren't left with much of a choice in the matter.

"Maybe you guys might want to think about letting Greg help you." Coop suggested only because he knew that it would make Phoebe happy.

"No." Chris and Hank said in unison they didn't trust him and they weren't about to let him into their inner circle.

"What Chris and Hank meant was he is higher than a Georgia pine just like the rest of them he won't be any help." Patty explained for her cousin and brother knowing full well they were carrying on like that because they didn't trust him.

"This is just an idea and forgive me if I'm speaking out of turn but you have five people from the future sitting around doing nothing right now they might be able to help you." Cole offered he was only trying to help he didn't want Ben in with them he knew what he was really up to.

"Cole does have a point it makes sense you could get those five to help." Henry agreed with him.

"I know that I'm not the best person with magic sometimes but I don't get why scrying for them didn't work." Hailey said she felt pretty at ease with the group of people she was with now it was the others who overwhelmed her.

"They might be in a section of the underworld that is cloaked that is always possible and it is pretty likely." Ricky answered her question.

"As your whitelighter I'm ordering the three of you to at least take someone more than Roman as backup the four of you won't be enough." Andy told his three charges not that they were going to listen to him but it was worth a try.

Chris looked at him like he was crazy "Is that anything like when Aunt Paige told us not to go work Jackson over? Because we didn't listen then either but we're all cool now."

"Tell me you guys didn't the three of you are partners?" Andy asked them groaning.

"Of course we did I had to defend my baby sister's honor if I don't do it no one else is going to." Henry pointed out reasonably.

"Please Henry if anybody's baby sister's honor needs defending it's mine Val does more than enough for two people and yet I don't beat anyone up because if I did I would be doing it all day." Prue said smirking a little bit she knew that her sister was no angel she didn't even try to pretend.

"You've got that right Prue I feel like I have to mother Val, Carly, and Penny it is not an easy job." Mel huffed she still wasn't really happy with either of them.

Prue was about to reply she felt herself being sucked into a vision. Parker and Calleigh were in the underworld sitting in a cavern when about ten demons that looked sort of reptile like shimmered in and began throwing energy balls at them. She gasped as she came out of the vision if she hadn't of been sitting she would have fell down.

"Ladybug what did you see?" Hank questioned her.

Prue took a moment to catch her breath before she answered her older cousin. "I saw Parker and Calleigh they were in the underworld and these frog looking demons shimmered into the cavern they were in. I'm not sure what kind of demons they were they just were reptile looking."

"Come on Prue which one is it reptiles or frogs? Because frogs aren't reptiles they're amphibians." Mel asked.

" I don't know Mel all I know is I wouldn't want to be alone with one of them." Prue replied leave it to her little cousin to care about her word choice.

Chris cocked his head to one side deep in thought he had saw demons like that before he was just trying to remember where. And then it hit him it was from one of his flashbacks. "Prue I hate to break it to you but you have been alone with one of those demons before a lot actually."

"Chris I think I would remember if I had ever been alone with something that ugly." Prue said dramatically.

"Well I'm telling you that you have it was just with a hybrid they like to mate with humans so they can blend in." Chris replied.

"If it's not Hank and Mel correcting my word choice it's you telling me what I've done." Prue threw her hands up in the air.

"One thing is for sure Chuck can't go on this demon hunt it would be too dangerous." Chris said hoping she would take the hint.

Prue rubbed her hands over her face "Chris you are all over the place right now first we're talking about the frog demons and now we're talking about Chip not being able to go."

Hank caught on to what Chris was saying "Chuck can't go he is right."

"Ok please explain." Prue finally said she didn't understand a lot of what they came up with sometimes.

Chris put a hand on her shoulder "Ladybug sweetie Chuck can't go because those demons are manticore demons and Chuck is half manticore. I don't want him to get caught in the fall out the potion to vanquish them is one nasty potion that I don't want him around." He didn't know it but he had just made a major slipup.

Leo looked at his son curiously there was no way he could know about what that potion did because he hadn't been born yet when the sisters had made it and as far as he knew he had never faced a manticore demon. The only way he could have known about that was if he was getting flashes of his other self. He didn't want to say anything about it without proof but if he was right Piper was going to flip out. "Chris is right that potion will kill Chuck he can't be around it. Derek would have a fit and I for one am not going to let that happen either."

"Ok so I guess we know where they are and what is happening so now we see if the others are in any condition to go and then we take it from there. Mel you guys be on standby we might need you and we might not." Henry ordered he didn't want to put them in danger if he could help it.


Piper was standing in front of the mantle with her arms crossed over her chest the look on her face was one that all the young people sitting before her knew to fear. Messing with a pissed off Piper was bad enough but with her whacked out pregnancy hormones she was ten times worse. "The things that I have to say to you are so violent that they shouldn't be said in mixed company." She warned them.

"Mom we didn't do anything that bad and given what we just went through again I think you could be a little forgiving." Wyatt said giving his mother his most charming smile.

"Wy watch yourself Aunt Piper will get a hold of you it doesn't look like she is in a very good mood." Troy said to him in a stage whisper like he wasn't in enough trouble as it was.

Piper narrowed her eyes further at him "Wyatt I know damn well what you went through but that still doesn't give any of you any right to engage in delinquent activities. I know better than anyone what it's like to loose someone and I know that you have been going through a lot lately but my God use your brains sometimes."

"What Piper means to say is just because you are stressed it doesn't give you an excuse to smoke pot." Phoebe said being calm and then she heard how she sounded. "Oh my God I sounded just like Prue when I said that she used to tell me that all the time." She mused and Prue rolled her eyes at her baby sister.

"Yeah but it was available and I needed an outlet it was either get high or kill someone. Option one seemed like the better choice to me. because it has just been proven that my demon hunting when I get stressed only gets people I love killed." Bianca said in her defense.

"Bianca Lyn Hoyt I want you to read my lips and listen good because this is the last time I'm going to tell you this. What happened to me was not your fault there was nothing you could have done. Now either get that through your head now or I will haunt your ass every night for the rest of your life until you get that." Oriana threatened her sister.

"O give me a break please alright you got the easy part out of all of this. You weren't the one who had to explain to mom and dad why you were with me in the first place." Bianca shot back.

"Ladies I hate to make a suggestion but now isn't the time for you two to be having a spat. They are trying to yell at us and I for one would like to get that done and over with. Because we now have to gone find Parker and Calleigh who somehow managed to get themselves taken hostage." Chuck said pointedly.

Derek stared his son down until he looked at the floor. "Charles I don't know how often you used to do this as a kid and I don't want to know but it better never happen again or I will not be held responsible for what I do to you."

Lilly hid her face behind Jake's shoulder trying hard not to let Chuck see her laughing "Lilly I don't know what you think is so funny because you will be in just as much trouble as Chuck the next time I find out you did something like this." Eva informed her daughter.

"So we've got the idea behind this we're in big trouble and we're sorry it won't ever happen again." Liz said more than a little tired of being lectured all the time she was a grown woman she knew how far to push things.

Nicole put her hands on her hips and narrowed her eyes at her daughter "Elizabeth Ashley Shane watch your mouth I don't find you amusing at all. I honestly shudder to think about what you did when you were a teenager it is a good thing that I didn't know because I might have killed you or thrown you out of the house."

"You would have had to been around to know what I was doing." Liz mumbled and Wyatt put his hand over her mouth before she could talk herself into a hole.

"Ok I know that what we did was wrong I really do realize that but I think that we have more important things to worry about now other than how much trouble we are in." Jake said.

"Jake has a point they did somehow manage to lose my baby brother and I would really like it if they got him back before something happens to him." Prue said it was the first time she had referred to Parker in those terms.

"As much as I hate to spring my delinquent friends from the trouble they are in we kinda need them because Prue had a premonition. It was about what happened to Parker and Calleigh. And while I realize that you are not done yelling at them I would like to remind you that you have a bunch of juvenile delinquents up in the attic who you can yell at." Henry said coming into the room and interrupting that little charade.

"Ok I want to go on a demon hunt but I really need something to eat first." Jake said and Henry couldn't tell if that was the pot talking or not Jake was pretty much always hungry.

"No shit me too I don't know where the kid got that shit but it was damn good stuff. And I have had good stuff before there was this one night when Wy and Liz decided that we should get stoned and I had to go all the way to China Town but now is so not the time for that story." Troy said trailing off when he saw the look his mom was giving him.

"Troy Timothy Shane you are in more than enough trouble for one day don't add to it. I really don't think you want to be in trouble for things that you did years ago." Nicole warned him.

"Aunt Nicole as much as I agree with you reading this knucklehead the riot act I really do need him." Henry said sweetly.

"Henry Victor are you really sure that you want these doped up people helping you hunt demons?" Paige asked her son one eyebrow raised.

"Mom I have no other choice it's either ask them or take the girls with us and I don't want to do that unless I have to." Henry replied he wasn't very happy with his friends but they were what he had to work with.

"Ok we will help just give us a minute because we all seriously have the munchies." Chuck giggled a little bit.

Henry looked at him pointedly "I want help from everyone but you Chuck. You can't come on this demon hunt you need to stay here and trust me you don't want to be on this hunt."

"Ok you know we can discuss this in the kitchen where there is food. Because that was seriously some good shit that we need to find out where Huck got it." Lilly said just wanting to get hold of some food.

"Alright you potheads lets go in the kitchen I can't promise you anything is left because we had pizza while you were getting stoned. And if you managed to leave any of that pot Chris and I could probably tell you what dealer he got it from." Henry replied.

"Henry you will do no such of a thing they are bad enough without you encouraging them." Phoebe told her nephew sternly.


Prue and Roman were in the kitchen actually working together nicely for a change they were making the manticore demon vanquishing potion. Things were definitely not good if those two were working together without fighting.

"Roman hand me the black poppy that should be just about the last thing that this potion needs and we will be ready to go." Prue said measuring some ingredients and throwing them into the pot.

Roman picked up the jar that Prue asked for and handed it to her "There you go Ladybug just be careful with it we don't want to blow ourselves up."

"You're telling me Ro that is the last thing we need to happen and yet if it did it would be the least of all our problems." Prue replied dropping a small amount of black poppy into the potion. There was a small puff of smoke that caused them both to jump back.

Mel was sitting on the counter by the sink and she raised an eyebrow at both of them. "You two getting along so well scares the hell out of me. I'm looking out the window and I don't see pigs flying so I don't think anything earth shattering has happened in the last half hour." She said looking over her shoulder out the window to be sure.

"Mel we need to do this to get Parks and Cal back besides that I think we have another cease fire in place right now. That is until your boyfriend does something to make me mad and then it will be all out war again." Prue replied handing a potion vial to Roman.

"In other words give him ten minutes and he will say something that pisses Prue off and then the war is back on." Ricky said sitting on a stool at the counter.

"I'm all for open warfare but now is not the time Ricky don't encourage them. Because believe me Snuffy we don't want them to start right now. Besides I think that Hailey should get used to us before she has to witness an epic blowout." Patty replied grabbing his hand.

Henry Sr. rolled his eyes at his daughter and her boyfriend. "I think that you need to give her two years to get used to you before you have one of those major blowouts."

"Really it's fine I don't mind actually don't mind me at all I'm just trying to stay out of the way." Hailey said not wanting to be the center of attention.

"Honey you can't stay out of the way in this family it's either choose sides or get run over. You could join the juvenile delinquents and let them get you in all kind of trouble or you can join the group of reasonable people and laugh your ass off at the others when they get in trouble." Leo informed her winking.

"It's not even like that she could join the group of planners and all around geniuses we need a third member." Chris piped up he was supervising Prue and Roman for lack of anything else to do.

"Hailey do us all a favor and don't do that the brothers from another mother are bad enough as it is." Coop pleaded with her all those two boys needed was someone to make them worse.

Chuck came storming into the room at that moment and he was all in a huff. "Prue why the hell can't I go on this demon hunt?" he demanded of his secret fiancé.

Prue stuck her finger tip in the potion "Give me your hand." She ordered him and he did. She barely dabbed a little bit of the potion on the back of his hand.

Chuck's face registered the discomfort he was feeling. "Ow that burns what the fuck is that?"

"That would be manticore vanquishing potion it is very strong. You're not full blooded manticore so it takes less to kill you. And if that little bit burned I don't want to think about what a whole vial will do to you. So you're not going I can't risk you like that Chip I love you." Prue explained to him.

"Prue I can't let you go and not come with you I have to be there to protect you." Chuck replied reasonably.

"Ok fine you can come but here is the deal the minute we tell you to leave you go we will be fine." Chris bargained with him.

"Ok that is fine by me you have a deal Mr. Halliwell." Chuck said shaking hands with him.


Paige was sitting alone in Mel's room because she needed time to think so she was more than a little annoyed when she heard a knock on the door. "Come in." she said gruffly she was in no mood to be bothered.

"Hey it's just me I wanted to talk." Oriana said giving her a smile.

"Aunt O there is nothing to talk about I don't have time for this." Paige replied crossing her arms over her chest.

Oriana sat down next to her and put her hand on her shoulder "Yes you do need to talk Paige I think that it will help you."

Paige sighed she knew that her aunt was right she needed to get this off her chest. "Ok but what I'm about to tell you can go no further than this room."

Oriana crossed her heart "I won't tell anyone not even Grams." She promised.

" A demon basically did some mind control on my dad and Aunt B they ended up sleeping together. Which would have been fine if she hadn't gotten pregnant with twins. So then they had to tell Uncle Hank about what had happened and how it had happened. Anyway when Vic and I were born they found some way to bind my Phoenix powers. So I grew up my whole life thinking that Julie was my mother. And she is my mom she always will be. Anyway when what happened to screw the future up happened they had to tell me and they gave me back all my powers I was still dealing with that when a bunch of shit went down and then I had to come back here." Paige explained willing back the tears that she felt burning her eyes.

Oriana pulled her into a hug "Sweetie everything will be ok maybe you should just tell your mom and dad."

"I can't because I don't want them to know I want things to turn out different this time. I know that it means giving up a lot but it is worth giving up. I just want things to be alright." Paige replied.

"Everything will turn out fine I promise and if not I will knock some sense into all three of them." Oriana assured her.


Parker and Calleigh watched as a couple of manticore demons as they were splitting the night's dinner between them.

"I don't think I want to know what the hell that is they are eating all I know is it makes me want to never eat meat again." Calleigh said wanting to gag a little at the sight.

"Something tells me that if they are eating that then we have no hope of trying to talk our way out of here. I don't even think they can talk." Parker replied in a whisper.

Calleigh nodded her head in agreement as she watched one of the demons flick out its forked tongue. "Oh that is disgusting and yet I think I've seen someone do that before."

"I know I have seen someone do that before Chuck I think this might be the kind of demon his mother was. He does the same damn thing with his tongue and everyone finds it disgusting." Parker said trying hard not to look at the carnage that was those demons eating their dinner.

"Psst, Psst." They heard coming from the entrance to the cavern. They turned to see Chris, Henry, Prue, Chuck, and Roman. The others hadn't been sober enough to come.

"It took you guys long enough." Parker bitched at them mentally.

Henry held up his hand in a sign for him to wait a minute he flicked out his fingers and froze the demons in the room. "Do I want to know how the hell you guys managed to get taken hostage?"

"It had nothing to do with anything we did trust us." Calleigh replied this wasn't her idea of a good time it was her idea of torture.

"Well no shit." Prue said sarcastically.

"Come on stop arguing and lets get out of here." Chris urged they were wasting time when they should be getting the fuck out of dodge.

"I don't think you're going to be going anywhere." A human looking demon said coming into the lair. Hank lost his concentration and his freeze wore off.

"Chuck get out of here now." Prue ordered him but he stood fast in his place.

"No Prue I'm not going anywhere." Chuck replied.

"Oh that is so cute the mighty half demon has to get his girlfriend to protect him." The demon taunted him.

"From where I'm standing you're only half demon too and I think I could take you." Chuck shot back he was not in the mood to deal with this jerk.

"Chuck cool it making them mad is not what we want to do I really wish you would leave." Henry said stressing each word.

"I'm not going anywhere. I'm staying right here and I'm going to see this through." Chuck said shaking his head.

"Chuck we can't use the potion as long as you're here." Chris told him trying to get him to go.

"Oh so you're half manticore too." The other demon was playing with him.

Chuck flicked out his tongue to prove it "That's right my mother was a demon now I hope you don't have a problem with that."

"None in fact I think that we can propose a small trade. You for the rest of your friends the source is very interested in you." the demon replied after thinking it over for a minute.

"Chuck don't do it we can find another way." Prue urged him she didn't want him doing this for her.

"No I have to but first you have to let them all go I don't trust demons." Chuck said not wanting to take any chances.

"Considered it done." The demon said thrusting out his hand and the others were thrown out of the cavern.

Chuck just gulped he didn't know what he had gotten himself into but it was more than worth it as long as Prue was safe.


A/N: So here is the first chapter of the last episode of this season. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Liz had a little heart to heart with Tim I think they needed that. Ben is spending a little too much time with the younger kids I think we should be worried about that. Roman and Prue are getting along that is never a good sign. The pot smoking gang done got in a world of trouble. Hailey is trying her best to fit in with the Halliwells. Chuck has got himself into a little bit of a spot as if they didn't have enough going on now they have to figure out a way to get him back. I can smell one of Chris and Henry's master plans coming on and those never end well. The people from the future are letting more and more about what happened in their time slip. Soon they will just give up and tell everything that has been going on plus someone heard them while they were talking I wonder who that was. Jake is living on borrowed time as far as his secret is concerned it is going to come out sooner rather than next time please review.