Blind Reality
a/n: I was looking for a whatif fic about the aftermath of sense and ability in an AU where two of the charmed ones do not get their senses back. So Piper is still blind and Phoebe is still death. Fortunately Paige did get back her voice, which isn't actually a sense otherwise there would be six of those. Anyway, the word that I plucked out of my dictionary is desireable. I am going to try something new and write this as a script. I do not own Charmed or any of the characters. Which is a shame because my bank account would have a bigger number. Enjoy ! :)
Chapter 1
Paige: Is everyone okay?
Piper: Wait how can you speak again?
Paige: Piper are you still blind?
Piper: Yes. Phoebe can you hear me?
Phoebe looks at her sister's lips moving and still doesn't know what she said.
Phoebe: What did you say?
Paige: I'll take that as a no.
Paige hands over her sweet little nephew to Piper and writes something on a piece of paper to asking Phoebe to get a premonition off of the smudge mark left behind from the vanquishing of the Crone.
As Phoebe touched the smudge mark a soaking wet Leo orbed into the room.
Leo: Are you ladies alright?
Piper: Paige got her voice back, but me and Phoebe still haven't gotten our senses back.
Leo: What about the crone?
Phoebe: Don't worry, she's dead.
Leo: I thought that vanquishing her would have brought all of your senses back. Maybe since the monkey touched you two last it didn't reverse properly when the Hag that sent him after you was vanquished.
Piper: Instead of guessing, why don't you go and ask the elders. Take Wyatt with you. I'm sure that they would love to see him.
Leo took the baby away from his wife and orbed out.
Piper: Now let's figure out a way to fix this in case the elders have nothing remotely helpful.
Paige: I'm with you. Come on Phoebe.
Phoebe still didn't know what was being said so instead Paige grabbed her arms and led her up to the attic. All the while watching Piper in case she walked into something on the way up.
Phoebe: I think it would be easier if I did the research. Right now you can't read Piper and it would take twice as long if Paige was going to read it as she would have to write everything down so that I could understand it.
Piper: Sounds good to me.
Phoebe flipped through the book looking for anything that can get their senses back. If she couldn't find anything they would be stuck like that for a long time.
Paige stood up to help Phoebe as Piper was hovering by the book for no reason.
Piper: How long do you think we have to be like this for. I don't think that I would be able to live like this forever. I would miss seeing Wyatt grow up.
Paige: Piper you are not going to be blind forever. Besides I think that we just found something. And it has nothing to do with evil monkey's.
Phoebe: It says here that it's a ritual that should bring back our senses, but we have to do it one at a time and it would be impossible for you to read the incantation.
Piper: I know but we can cross that bridge when we come to it. Why don't you go first and I will try to memorise the spell as you speak and you guys can fill in the gaps for me as I go.
Paige: I like that idea.
Phoebe went over to the table that the sisters use for rituals and performed the ritual that would enable her to hear again.
Phoebe: Someone clap or something I want to know if it worked. Huh it did work I can hear again. Okay Piper your turn.
Piper: Okay.
Paige grabbed Piper from behind and led her over to the table. Where she showed her where everything was.
Piper: What do I do first?
Phoebe: We need you to cut your finger with this knife.
Phoebe placed the knife in piper's hand.
Piper cut her finger with it.
Phoebe: Okay now I want you to add the spices that I put in your hand into the pot that we showed you.
Phoebe handed her all of the spices in the correct order.
Phoebe: Now recite the spell with your eyes closed and wait for the magic to happen.
Piper said the spell perfectly from memory and closed her eyes. There was a blinding flash of light. Piper fell onto her back unconscious.
Paige/Phoebe: PIPER!
Paige picked up Piper and orbed her to her bedroom. Phoebe followed behind her.
Phoebe: Do you think that it worked? That light never happened when I tried the ritual.
Paige: Maybe when the Crone sent the monkey totem after us she done something to make it harder for Piper to regain her vision?
Phoebe: Maybe, but right now I just want to see if the ritual worked properly.
Paige headed out of the room and came back with a damp cloth. She placed it on her sister's head. Little did they know that Piper's ritual had a disastrous effect on the entire world, or better yet reality. Including their sister
Piper opened her eyes and Paige and Phoebe seen them and began to panic when they were clouded over and slightly grey.
Phoebe: Does this mean that it didn't work?
Piper: What did work?
Paige: Don't you remember the ritual we performed, you know the one to restore your vision.
Piper: Paige, what are you talking about. I was born blind.
Phoebe: Piper quit kidding around. We know that you weren't.
Piper: Yes I was, do you not remember when I was ten I fell down stairs because you left something at the top of them and I tripped up over it.
Phoebe: Yes, you fell down the stairs because you were too busy reading a book and didn't see that it was there.
Paige could sense that an argument was about to start between her older sisters.
Paige: Okay Piper why don't we get Leo to bring Wyatt back down here and let you spend some time with your family.
Piper: That's sounds like a brilliant idea. LEO BRING WYATT!
Leo orbed in beside his wife.
Leo: Hey honey, is everything alright?
Piper: Fine, but I think those two need to sleep a little more. Their memory seems wrong.
Leo: Why? What happened?
Leo looked between the three sisters.
Paige: We were in the attic trying to bring Piper's vision back. There was a flash of white light and Piper was unconscious. When she woke up her eyes were clouded over and she claimed to have never been able to see.
Leo: That's because Piper has never been able to see. Why would you be trying to restore something that has never been lost?
Phoebe: Because it was lost. Demonically lost.
Leo passed the baby back over to his lovely wife.
Leo: I think that I will go and ask the elders what to do. Do you know what demon it was that done this to you.
Paige: It was the Crone, she sent a monkey totem after us. You know hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
Leo: I'm familiar with the expression and the totem. Honey are you going to be okay?
Piper nodded slowly.
Piper: Guys I think we should go to the hospital.
Phoebe: Why your head looks fine?
Piper: Not because of my head. My leg really hurts.
Phoebe pulled back the blankets and seen that her sister's leg was really swollen and looked slightly out of place. You could tell that there was something wrong with it just by looking at it.
Paige: Come on sweetie take my hand and we will help you to the car.
Piper took Paige's hand and with Phoebe's help they went to the car. Piper was told to keep her feet up in the back seat while the other two sat in the front. Phoebe had the baby who Piper had passed to her before coming to the car, in her free hand.
Phoebe: Do you remember exactly how you hurt yourself?
Piper: I think I tripped over something and fell over. I don't remember much.
Paige: Don't worry Piper we will get you to the hospital and have someone look you over.
Phoebe: Why didn't you say to Leo, he would have tried to heal you?
Piper: The elders wouldn't have allowed it. They don't let Leo heal me when I hurt myself around the house. So I pretended that I had only hurt my head so that he wouldn't worry so much.
Paige: We are nearly there. I just need to find a parking space.
Phoebe: There's one.
Paige parked where Phoebe had pointed and then they helped Piper out of the car. They went for the ramp deciding that the stairs would be too much to handle.
Phoebe went to the reception desk and Paige helped Piper to find a seat.
Nurse 1: Can you tell me what happened.
Phoebe: We think our sister might have hurt herself at home. She's blind and might have tripped over something.
Nurse 1: Okay here's a form fill it out and we will send for a doctor to take a look at her.
Phoebe took the form off of the Nurse and sat down with her sisters.
Paige: Piper what are your insurance details?
Piper: I don't know, I've never seen them.
Phoebe looked at her and tried her best not to laugh at the joke Piper made. She filled out what she could remember. Luckily Piper's details hadn't changed so it was pretty easy to fill out the form.
Soon enough a Doctor came and gave Piper's leg an X-Ray. Unfortunately it was broken. So it was put in plaster and Piper was told that she was lucky not to have broken anything else during her fall. It was then that he reiterated that if she had been holding her baby then he could have been hurt too.
Piper: Okay so he was stern.
Phoebe: No he was right, you do need to be more careful Piper you could have been more seriously hurt than just the one broken limb. You could have snapped your neck.
Piper: You try and navigate a messy attic while blind and stay on your feet.
Paige: Guys enough, we need to get back home before Leo sees that we aren't there.
Phoebe: Wyatt needs to know that his mommy is safe.
Piper: He knows that I will be okay. I just cannot stand the constant need to rely on people. Like right now. Even if I didn't have a broken leg I still would have needed someone to drive me to the hospital.
Phoebe sighed.
Phoebe: Piper-
Piper: No Phoebe, let me speak. I just wanted to try and gain some independence and all it got me was stuck with a cast on my leg for six to eight weeks.
Paige: I hear what you are saying sis. We think that maybe we should go home and figure out where we are.
a/n: That's it, I forgot to mention that this might be a little sucky and if you guys don't like the script writing, then just tell me and I can continue the story from chapter 2 written in proper sentences. Six pages of script and that was only chapter 1.