Something Wicca This Way Comes
Salem, Massachusetts 1692 Night time
"You may kill me, but you cannot kill my kind. With each generation, the Warren line will grow stronger and stronger - culminating in the arrival of three sisters. Together, these three sisters will be the most powerful witches the world has ever known. They will be good witches and vanquish all kinds of evil. They will be known as the Charmed Ones" a young long blonde haired woman in colonial clothes said as a couple of men strung her up to a wooden pole that was set on top of a pile of wood. While she spoke the crowd that was gathered around shouted "Witch!" "Burn the Witch!". During this time couple of the gentlemen grabbed a torch and begin to set the pile of wood, that the woman stood on, on fire. After the woman finished speaking she began to feel the heat from the fire as it rushed up the pile of wood and up to her feet. Looking up at the sky one last time she felt the fire as it slowly burned her body causing her to scream out in her pain.
San Francisco, California 1998
Inside a woman's apartment. Dark and stormy night
A young woman with short blonde hair and wearing a dark blue robe walks out of kitchen and places a bowl of food down on the floor for her cat. She walks into her living room and sits down in front of an altar with various magical equipment on it. As she sits there she begins to point at each of the candles surrounding and magically lights them. After she is done she begins to chant a spell "Ancient one of the earth so deep, master of moon and sun. I shield you in my wiccan way, here in my circle round, asking you to protect this space, and offer your sun force down." While she is chanting she doesnt realize that a mysterious man in a black rain coat as entered her apartment and starts to walk up behind her. As she is meditating she suddenly becomes aware of another person's presence within the room. Jumping up she sees who the man is. "Hey you scared. What are you doing here?" she asks the man as he pulls out a dagger and stabs her in the stomach and kills her.
Inside an old Victorian Manor
Same Night
A young woman with long dark brown hair walks in " Hey Prue? Alex?" she says as she puts her umbrella up on the hook by the door along with her jacket.
"We're in here, working on the chandelier" Prue replied as the woman walked around the corner towards them into the living room.
"Sorry I'm late" the woman apologized.
"What else is new? Piper, I would have been here to meet the electrician myself but you know I can't leave the museum until six. I didn't even have time to change. " Prue told her as she held the ladder while Alex was stepping down off it.
"I just didn't realize how long I was in Chinatown. Did Jeremy call?" Piper asked as they stood in the living room.
"No, but he had some roses and a package delivered. What were you doing in Chinatown? I thought that you had an interview in North Beach." Alex replied as he folded the ladder up and proceeded into the dining room.
"I did but I went to Young Lee market after my interview to get the ingredients for my audition recipe tomorrow." Piper told him as she followed him into the dining room and opened up the package that was on table.
"So, that wolfgang-puck knock-off didn't hire you then?" Alex asked as he walked back into the dining room from putting the ladder up.
"No, but this just may get me the job." She said as she pulled out a bottle from the package.
"Jeremy sent you port?" Prue asked as she took the bottle from Piper and looked at it.
"The ultimate ingredient for my recipe." Piper told her.
"Nice boyfriend" Prue smiled back at her.
"Oh my God, I don't believe it. Tell me that's not our old spirit board?" Piper asked as she looked down the table and notice it laying there.
"Yeah, I found it in the basement when I was looking for the circuit tester." Prue answered back as she put the bottle back into the box.
Flipping the board over Piper begins to read the inscriptions on it "To my three beautiful girls. May this give you the light to find the shadows. The power of three will set you free. Love, Mom. We never did figure out what this inscription meant."
"Well, maybe we should send it to Phoebe. That girl is so in the dark, maybe a little light will help." Prue said as she walked out of the dining room and back into the living room.
"You're always so hard on her." Alex piped up as she left.
"Alex, the girl has no vision, no sense of the future."
"I really think Phoebe's coming around."
"Well, as long as she doesn't come around here I guess that's good news."
Outside an apartment building
Same night
"Well, it's about time." Inspector Morris said to his partner as he walked into the apartment building.
"I got here as soon as I heard. Another dead female, right? Mid to late twenties." his partner Trudeau replied as he followed him.
"I've been paging you for over an hour, Trudeau, where have you been? "
"Checking out a lead."
"What lead?" inspector Morris asked.
"One that didn't go anywhere."
"You're avoiding my question."
"Because you don't want to know that I went to an occult shop." Trudeau whispered to make sure no one else could hear.
"You hate me don't you? You wanna see me suffer."
"I wanna solve these murders. Someone's after witches."
"Women." The dark skinned inspector corrected him.
"That woman up there, I bet she was killed with an athame."
"Wrong. Double edged steel knife."
"Right. That's an athame. It's a ceremonial tool. Witches use them to direct energy."
"That woman didn't direct jack. She was stabbed. Plain and simple."
"Was she found in an altar?"
"Yes." Inspector Morris replied relunctantly.
"Were there carvings on that altar?"
"Just do me a favour. Don't even follow a lead without checking with me first."
"You wanna go to occult shops?"
"Get to work okay."
"Jeremy Burns. San Francisco Chronicle. You care to comment?" said a male reporter with short brown hair.
"A woman was stabbed. Plain and simple." Trudeau replied back to him looking annoyed.
"Well, that's the third one in three weeks." Jeremy stated back to him as Trudeau walked away from him.
Back at the old Victorian Manor
"I don't get it. I have checked everything, there's no reason why the chandelier should not be working." Prue frustratedly said as she fiddled with the circuit tester.
"You know how we've been talking about what to do with the spare room? I think you're right, we do need a roommate." Piper asked as she and Alex walked into the laundry room.
"We can rent the room at a reduce rate in exchange for some help around the house." Prue replied as she closed the circuit tester and walked back into the kitchen.
"Phoebe's good with a wrench." Alex replied back to Prue.
"Phoebe lives in New York." Prue stated.
"Not anymore." Piper hesitantly told her sister.
"What?" Prue asked her.
"She left New York. She's moving back in with us." Piper told her.
"You have got to be kidding." Prue said as she walked out of the kitchen and back into the living room.
"Well, I could hardly say no. It's her house too. It was willed to all of us." Piper told her as she and Alex followed right behind her.
"Yeah, months ago and we haven't seen or spoken to her since." Prue told them.
"Well, you haven't spoken to her." Alex said to her as he stood behind Piper.
"No, I haven't. Look, maybe you two have forgotten why I'm still mad at her?" Prue asked angrily.
"No, of course not but she had nowhere else to go. She lost her job, she's in debt." Piper responded defensively.
"And this is news? How long have you two known about this anyway?" She said as she looked back at her two siblings.
"A couple of days, maybe a week-or two." Piper replied back.
"Thanks for sharing. When does she arrive?" Prue asked as the door behind her opened up and in walked a younger girl with short brown hair.
"Surprise! I found the hide-a-key." The woman excitedly said as she came in from the storm outside.
"Phoebe, welcome home." Alex said to her as he ran over to her and gave her a hug.
"Hello, Alex" She replied back giving him a hug.
"It's so good to see you. Isn't it Prue?" Piper asked her.
"I'm speechless." Prue replied back.
"Oops. I forgot about the cab." Phoebe said as they heard the sound of the taxi cab's horn outside.
"Thats ok,I'll get it." Piper replied as she grabs Prue's purse and her umbrella and runs to the door.
"Piper, that's my purse." Prue hollered as but it was to late as Piper had already left to go outside.
"Thanks. I'll pay you back." Phoebe replied.
"Is that all that you brought?" Prue asked her as she looked down at Phoebe's things.
"That's all that I own and a bike. Look, I know that you don't want me here ..." .
"We're not selling Grams' house." Prue interrupted her.
"Is that why you think I came back?" Phoebe asked her.
"Look, the only two reasons Piper and I gave up our apartment and moved back here is because this house has been in our family for generations and Alex needed someone to watch over him." Prue responded back to her.
"Hey I am able to take care of myself. You do know that right?" Alex said with a stern look on his face, but was ignored.
"No history lesson needed. I grew up here too. So can we talk about what's really bothering you?" Phoebe asked as she looked at Prue with anger in her eyes.
"No, I'm still furious with you." Prue replied as calmly as she could.
"So, looks like we're going to have a tense reunion filled with boring chitchat and unimportant small talk?" Alex asked sarcastically as he put his hands in his pockets
"No, but otherwise we won't have anything to talk about." Prue replied sarcastically back to him with a glare.
"I never touched Roger." Phoebe blatantly said to Prue.
"Whoa, well look at the time. I think I got some homework to do" Alex replied as he quickly walked backwards towards the stairs.
"I know you think otherwise because that's what that Armani-wearing, Chardonnay-slugging, trust-funder told you ..." Phoebe began to say.
"Hey, I have a great idea. Why don't Alex and I make a fabulous reunion dinner." Piper interrupted as she came back into the house and walked up to the girls.
"I'm not hungry." Prue said as she walked away from them.
"I ate on the bus." Phoebe said as she walked upstairs and past Alex.
"Okay, we'll try the group hug later." Piper said looking defeated at how the reunion took place.
Phoebe stood in her room in front of the mirror. With the news on the TV, but she wasnt really watching it or paying attention to it. As she stands there she hears a knock on the door.
"It's me." Piper says from the other side of the door.
"Come on in." Phoebe replies as she turns around and sees Piper carrying a tray with drinks and food on it. "Thank God. I am starving." Phoebe said as she grins and lays on the bed.
"Figured." Piper said as she looked over and sees Jeremy on TV. "Hey, that's my boyfriend, Jeremy. What happened?"'
"Some woman got whacked." Phoebe said as she took a bite of some food.
"Whacked? Phoebe, you've been in New York way too long."
"Yeah, I should have stayed. Now, why didn't you tell her I was coming back?"
"And risk her changing the locks? I don't think so and besides, I think you should have been the one to tell her not me."
"Good point, Chicken Little. It's just so hard for me to talk to her. She's always been more like a mother."
"That's not her fault. She practically had to sacrifice ..."
"Her own childhood to raise us." Phoebe and Piper both said.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Phoebe said with a grin
"And we're lucky she was so responsible. You, Alex and I had it easy, all we had to do was be there." Piper told her younger sister.
"Yeah, well, I don't need a mom anymore, you know, I need a sister." Phoebe said as she finished the last bite of her food as someone knocked on the door.
"This was always the coldest room in the house." Prue said as she walked in with a blanket and laid it down on the bed.
"Thanks." Phoebe said as Prue turned around and left.
Back at the murdered witch's apartment. Trudeau and his partner are there along with other policemen and crime scene investigators. Andy bent down towards the young blonde dead woman laying on the floor and looked at the tattoo on her neck. The tattoo was a full circle with three interlocking arcs inside of it.
"It's the same tattoo that was on the other two victims." Trudeau told his partner as he stood back up.
"So, the murderer is killing occultists."
"No, the murderer's on witch hunts."
"Oh, yeah, he's five hundred years old and he lives in Salem. Look around, Trudeau. Pentagrams, altars, offerings, all the tools of a freak fest." Trudeau's partner said sarcastically.
"They call them Sabbaths. Which is hardly a freak fest. She was a solitary practitioner. She practiced her craft alone."
"Mmm."
"Let me ask you something, Morris. Do you believe in U.F.O.'s?"
"Hell, no."
"Neither do I. But do you believe that there are people out there who do believe in U.F.O.'s?"
"Yes, but I think they're crazy." Morris replied back to Trudeau
"Well, then why can't you believe that there are people who believe they are witches."
" Look, all I know is if you don't stop talking about witches, I'm gonna start questioning you." Morris said as a cat jumped up on the bench and meowed at them. Andy then walked over and pets her. "I'd stay away from that cat, Trudeau. It's been clawing the crap out of everybody. See you at the car." He told Trudeau as he left. Looking back he saw Andy look at the cat's collar.
As Andy looked at the cat's collar he noticed that it had the same symbol on it that was tattooed on the witch that laying dead on the floor.
Back at the old Victorian manor. Piper and Phoebe are sitting at the table playing with the spirit board while Alex set on the couch watching TV.
"I'm glad to hear you and Jeremy are still together. Where did you meet him anyway?" Phoebe asked as she and Piper moved the pointer around the board.
"We met in the hospital cafeteria the day Grams was admitted. He was covering a story and I was bawling over a bagel. So, he handed me a napkin."
"How romantic."
"As a matter of fact it was. The napkin had his phone number on it." She said as Phoebe laughs. "Stop pushing the pointer."
"I'm not touching it."
"You used to always push the pointer. More popcorn?" Piper asks her as she gets up and heads to the kitchen to fix some more.
"Hey, I forgot your question!" Phoebe hollers at Piper.
From the kitchen Piper replies "I asked if Prue would have sex with someone other than herself this year?"
"Hey little brother is in the room. I dont need to hear about what yall do behind closed doors" Alex responded as he covered his ears with his hands.
"That's disgusting. Please say yes." Phoebe laughs at them. When suddenly the pointer moved to the letter 'A' by itself. "Piper!" The pointer then moves againt to the letter to T. "Piper, get in here!"she shouts again
"What?" Piper asks as she semi runs back to the living room.
"What did you guys do now?" Prue asks them as she also enters the living room.
"Me? I didn't do anything." Piper defensively tells her older sister.
"Dont look at me im just watching TV" Alex replies back.
"The pointer on the spirit board. It moved on its own." Phoebe tells the three of them. "I'm serious. It spelled 'A' 'T'."
"Well, did you push it?" Piper asks her.
"No." Phoebe tells them.
"You used to always push the pointer." Prue says with a smirk on here face.
"My fingers were barely touching it. Look."Phoebe said as she puts her fingers on the pointer, but nothing happens. Prue and Piper turn and start to leave when the pointer moves to the bottom of the board, then back to the letter 'T' again. "Ah, it did it again! It moved!"
Prue and Piper turn back around and look at the board.
"It's still on the letter T." Prue says not believing her.
"I swear it moved." Phoebe told them as Prue turns around to leave the room. The pointer moves again, but Piper sees it too."There." Phoebe says as She stands up." Look. You saw that right?" She asks Piper and Alex.
"I think so, yeah." Piper responds back to her.
"I told you I wasn't touching it." Phoebe replies as the pointer moves again.
"Prue, can you come in here for a sec?" Alex calls to her.
"Now what?" Prue asks as she comes storming back into the room.
Phoebe then grabs an envelope and begins to write the letters down. " I think it's trying to tell us something." She says as she holds up the envelope Attic.
Just then there's a loud clap of thunder and the power goes out leaving the four siblings in the dark. Piper quickly leaves the living room and heads to the foyer with Prue and Alex right behind her.
"Don't you think you're overreacting? We're perfectly safe here." Prue asks Piper as they enter the foyer.
"Don't say that. In horror movies, the person who says that is always the next to die." Alex quickly tell Prue.
"It is pouring rain. There's a psycho on the lose. Jeremy's not even home." Prue tells Piper ignoring what Alex said to her.
"Well I'll-I'll-I'll wait in the cab until he gets home." Piper sys nervously as she tries to get her coat on but unfortunately has to fight with it.
"That'll be cheap." Prue replies back.
"Prue, I saw that pointer move." Piper tells her after finally getting her coat on.
"No, look, what you saw was Phoebe's fingers pushing the pointer. There's nothing in the attic, she's playing a joke on us." Prue tells her trying to get her to stay home.
"We don't know that. We've lived in this house for months and we've never been able to get that attic door open." Piper says as she crosses the foyer and picks up the phone."Great, now the phone doesn't work."
"Yeah, the power's out. Look, go with me to the basement." Prue says to Piper
"What?" Piper asks her unbelievably.
"I need you to hold the flashlight while I check out the main circuit box."
"Phoebe or Alex will go with you to the basement won't you guys?"
"Nope, I'm going to the attic." Phoebe answered her as she stopped in front of the stairs holding a flashlight.
"Yea and I'm going with her" Alex asked as he also stopped right behind Phoebe with a flashlight in his hands too.
"No, you're not. We already agreed." Prue told the both of them.
"I am not waiting for some handyman to check out the attic and I'm certainly not waiting until tomorrow. I'm going now." Phoebe told her back as she began to walk up the stairs with Alex right behind her.
"Prue, wait." Piper says after Prue who storms off into another room.
Phoebe and Alex walk up the stairs until they get to the attic door. Phoebe tries to open the attic door but it's locked. She gives up and the two turn to walk back down the stairs when they hear a creak and turn to see the attic door opening. They both walk inside and begin to look around with their flashlights. Suddenly a light shines on an old looking trunk and the two of them walk over to it. Phoebe then places her flashlight down and opens the trunk where she sees that there's a book inside. She then picks up the book and blows the dust off and closes the trunk to sit on it and open the book.
"The Book of Shadows." Alex and Phoebe says as she turns the page and starts reading.
"Hear now the words of the witches, the secrets we hid in the night, the oldest of Gods are invoked here, the great work of magic is sought. In this night and in this hour, I call upon the ancient power, bring your powers to we Warren Witches, we want the power, give us the power." As Phoebe finishes reading the passage, the chandelier downstairs begins to gently shake and illuminate.
"What are you doing?" Prue asks them as she and Piper walked into the attic.
"Uh ... reading an incantation. It was in this Book of Shadows, Phoebe found it in that trunk." Alex replied back to Prue
"Let me see that" Prue says as she grabs the book from Phoebe.
"How did you get in here?" Piper asked the two of them.
"The door opened." Phoebe replied excitedly.
Wait a minute, an incantation? What kind of incantation?" Piper asked when she realized what Alex has said.
"It said something about there being three essentials of magic. Uh, speed, feeling and phases of the moon..." Alex started to say.
"If we were ever gonna do this, now - midnight on a full moon - is the most powerful time." Phoebe finished for him.
"This? Do what this?" Piper asked.
"Receive our powers." Phoebe answered.
"What powers? Wait, our powers? You included me in this?"
"No, she included the three of us. Bring your powers to we Warren Witches." It's a book of witchcraft." Prue said with some anger in her voice as she read from the book.
"Let me see that." Piper said as she took the book from Prue.
Outside the Manor
As the four siblings stood in the attic none of them knew that a strange man in black coat stood outside of their house looking up at them.
Back inside the Manor
"Spirit boards, books of witchcraft. It figures all this freaky stuff started when you arrived." Prue says as they all walked back down the stairs.
"Hey, I wasn't the one who found the spirit board." Phoebe angrily said back
"But it wasn't my fingers sliding around on the pointer." Prue replied back.
"It doesn't matter. Because nothing happened, right Phoebe... Alex, when you did that incantation?" Piper asked them.
"Well, my head spun around..." Alex started
"and I vomited split-pea soup. How should we know?" Phoebe finished
"Well, everything looks the same." Alex said as the walked into the Foyer.
"You're right." Phoebe said disappointingly.
"But the house still needs work." Prue replied.
"Everything feels the same, so nothing's changed." Piper said.
Back Outside the Manor
The man in the black coat that was standing there slowly walks off.
The Next Day
Outside Halliwell Manor.
Phoebe's sitting on the stairs drinking a cup of coffee when Piper walks out.
"You're up early." Piper says as she closes the door and heads the stairs.
"I never went to sleep." Phoebe says as she takes a sip of her coffee.
"Don't tell me you put on a black conical hat and spent the night flying around the neighborhood on a broomstick?" Piper asked as she sits down next to Phoebe.
"The only broom I've ever had was kept in a closet beside a mop." Phoebe replied back to her.
"So what were you doing?"
"Reading. Is Prue or Alex around?
"She went to work early and Alex went to school this morning. Reading aloud?"
"No, but according to the Book Of Shadows, one of our ancestors was a witch, named Melinda Warren."
"And we have a cousin who's a drunk, an aunt who's manic, and a father who's invisible." Piper says as she stands up and proceeds to her car.
"I'm serious. She practiced powers. Three powers. She could move objects with her mind, manipulate speed, and see through time. Before Melinda was burned at the stake, she vowed that each generation of Warren witches would become stronger and stronger, culminating in the arrival of three sisters." Phoebe begins to tell her as they walk to Piper's car. "Now, these sisters would be the most powerful witches the world has ever known. They're good witches and I think we're those sisters."
"Look, I know what happened last night was weird and unexplainable, but we're not witches and we do not have special powers besides, Grams wasn't a witch and as far as we know, neither was mom and what about Alex? Your prophecy only calls for three sisters. It can't be us." Piper said as she kisses Phoebe on the cheek. "So take that Nancy Drew." She says as she gets in car.
"We're the protectors of the innocent. We're known as the charmed ones." Phoebe tells Piper as she drives off.
The Museum of Natural History
"There's been change of plans." Roger says as he and Prue walks into the room.
"Change of plan regarding the Beals expedition?" Prue asks him.
"The extra money that you help raise through private donations has sparked significant corporate interest. The Beals artefacts will now become part of our permanent collection." Roger replies as they stop to look at one of the pieces.
"Well, that's terrific."
"Which is why the board wants someone a little more qualified to handle the collection from now on. You look surprised."
"I don't know why. I'm furious. Not only have I been on this project since its inception, but I'm the curator who secured the entire exhibition." Prue said furiously. "You're the person a little more qualified aren't you?" She said as she realized who it was.
"I could hardly say no to the entire board of directors, could I? But I know you'll be happy for me, after all, what's good for me is definitely good for you. Right, Miss Halliwell?"
"Miss Halliwell? Since when did we stop being on a first-name-basis? When we stopped sleeping together or when I returned your engagement ring, Roger?"
"I didn't realize the two were mutually exclusive. Although I certainly enjoyed one more than the other."
"Bastard!" Prue says as she turns to leave.
"Prue, wait." Roger says as Prue stops. "I feel like I should say something if only to avoid a lawsuit." As Prue leaves once again, Roger's pen in his pocket leaks and gets a blue ink spot on his shirt. He takes the pen out of his pocket and it squirts in his face.
At Quake Restaurant
Piper is in the kitchen making her audition meal. Just as she's pouring the port wine in a measuring cup, Chef Moore enters the kitchen.
"Your time is up. Let's see." Chef Moore said in his French accent . He then pick an index card and begin to read."Roast pork with gratin of fennel and penne with a port giblet sauce."
"Chef Moore ..."
"What?"
"Uh, the port ..."
"Yes, without the sauce it is nothing more than a salty marinara. A recipe from a woman's magazine. Puh! " He says as he gets the food ready onto his fork.
"I didn't have time for- "
"Ah-ah!" he interrupts her.
"But, but ... " Piper says as he puts some on a fork and raises it to his mouth. Piper waves her hands around and he stops. He stands there like a statue. "Chef Moore? Chef Moore?" She says as she waves her hand in front of his face."Hello? Hello?" She then rushes over and picks up a baster and fills it up with some port. She dribbles some on Chef Moore's forkful of food. He unfreezes and puts it in his mouth.
"Mmm ... this is very good. C'est magnifique." Chef Moore says witha smile on his face and a dumbfounded Piper looking at him.
Museum of Natural History.
Roger's office. He's sitting in his chair facing the window, talking on the phone.
"It was my idea to spark corporate interest in private donations. Not only have I been with this project since its inception,but we both know who really secured the entire exhibit." Roger then swings around in his chair and sees Prue not knowing she had came in and heard everything he had said "Prue ..."
"I quit. " She interrupts him.
"I'm going to have to call you back." Roger says as he hangs up the phone. "Think about this, Prue."
"Lousy job, lousy pay, lousy boss. What's to think about?" Prue sarcastically asks him.
"Your future. Because, believe me, if you walk out with no notice, you can kiss any references-"
"Don't threaten me, Roger." Prue interrupts him and gives him a pissed off look.
"You know me. Had to try. You're hurt, you're angry, your pride is wounded. I understand all that. That's why you can't see that I'm doing you a favor."
"Excuse me?"
"I had to take the exhibit away from you. If I hadn't, the board would have come and put a total stranger in my place. Think about it, Prue. I'm here for you. Not some stranger. You should be thanking me not leaving me."
"Well, I'm not worried. I'm certain that your intellect will make quick work of the seventy-five computer discs and thousands of pages of research I left in my office."
"You're gonna regret this."
"Oh, I don't think so. I thought breaking up with you was the best thing I'd ever done. But this definitely tops that. Goodbye, Roger." Prue says as she turns around and walks out the door
"I hope there are no office supplies in your purse." Roger hollers at Prue who stops for a second and wraps her hands around an imaginary neck and proceeds to keep walking. Not know that Roger's tie begin to tighten around his neck and starts to strangle him. Fighting to unless his tie he opens his draw and finds a pair of scissors and cuts the tie off. "What the hell was that?" Roger asks as he falls backwards out of his chair and on to the floor.
On the sidewalk. Piper's in a phone booth.
"Phoebe, answer the phone. Answer the phone." Piper said as she hangs up as she walks out of the booth, Jeremy walks up to her. "Oh, God, Jeremy you scared me."
"I-I can see, I'm sorry. You okay?"
"Yeah, now I am. I really am. Um, what are you doing here?"
"Well, I wanted to be the first to congratulate you on your new job."
"You always surprise me. How did you know?"
"You prepared your specialty, and everyone's who's ever sampled your work, can truly see how talented you are."
"I get so turned on when you talk about food." Piper says as she smiles and takes a step closer to Jeremy.
"Hotdogs, hamburgers, pizza." Jeremy replies back with a smile as he leans down and kisses Piper.
Outside
Phoebe is out riding her bike on the road. As she is riding she suddenly hit by a Premonition. In her Premonition she sees two boys on rollerblades. As they are rollerblading a car is coming from another road heading towards the two boys. Within seconds the two boys and the car meet head on causing an accident. Then just as suddenly the Premonition is done. Phoebe continues riding and just like in her Premonition she sees the car and the two boys.
"No! Wait!" Phoebe shouts as she begins to pick up her pace on the bike. She then throws herself to the ground sliding in between the boys and the car stopping the vision she had seen from coming true.
Later that day at the Hospital
Prue walks up to the desk. Andy is standing there with his back turned.
"Hi, um, I'm looking for my sister, Phoebe Halliwell." Prue asks the Nurse at the Nurse's Station.
"One second please." The Nurse replies back to her and then turns to Andy. "What's the name again?"
"Inspector Andrew Trudeau. Homicide. Dr Gordon's expecting me. " He replies back to her.
"Andy?" Prue asks.
"Prue? I don't believe it. How are you?" He replies back excitedly.
"I'm good. How are you?"
"Fine. I just can't believe I'm running into you."
"Yeah, I'm picking up Phoebe. She had some kind of accident."
"Is she gonna be okay?"
"Yeah, she'll be fine. Um, what are you doing here?"
"Murder investigation." He says as he looks down at his hands.
The two of them stand there looking at each other; an awkward silence.
"Your sisters still in x-ray's so it'll be another fifteen minutes." The Nurse said as she came back. The Nurse then turned to Andy "Do Gordon's office is to the left and down the hall. He's with a patient right now but you're free to wait outside his office."
"Thank You" Andy and Prue tells her.
"Well, it's good seeing you, Prue." Andy says as he shakes Prue's hands.
"Yeah, you too, Andy. Take care." Prue replies back. The two of them start to go their separate ways but stop.
"You know, Phoebe's busy, Dr. Gordon's busy. Can I buy you a bad cup of coffee while we wait?" Andy asks her.
"Sure." Prue answers him as they walk towards the coffee machine. "So, you're an inspector now?"
"What can I say? In any other city I'd be called detective."
"Inspector's classier."
"Liking it better already."
"Your dad must be so proud."
"Third generation. You bet he's happy. How about you? You taking the world by storm?"
"Well, I'm living back at Grams' house, and as of an hour ago, looking for work."
"Oh. "
"I heard you moved to Portland."
"I'm back. You, uh, still seeing Roger?"
"How did you know about him?"
"I know people."
"You checked up on me?"
"I wouldn't call it that."
"What would you call it?"
"Inquiring minds want to know."
"You checked up on me"
"What can I say? I'm a detective."
Quake. Prue, Alex and Phoebe are sitting at the bar.
"The Chosen Ones? The Charmed Ones? Phoebe, this is insane."
"Are you telling me that nothing strange happened to you today? You didn't freeze time or move anything?" Phoebe asks the two of them.
"I had a boring day at school as always and possibly failed one of my tests" Alex said as he looked down into his drink to keep from making eye contact with Prue.
"Roger took an exhibit away from me. All right, look, Phoebe, I know that you think you can see the future which is pretty ironic." Prue answers her as she turns back from looking at Alex.
"Since you don't think I have one, that my vision of life is cloudy compared to your perfect hell? Even if you don't want to believe me, just once can't you trust me?" Phoebe begs her.
"Phoebe, I do not have special powers. Now, where is the cream?" Prue asks when the cup of creamer slides down the bar towards them.
"Really? That looked pretty special to me." Phoebe says kind of sarcastically. As Prue continues to look at the cup of creamer, it slowly starts to fill up her cup of coffee.
"Oh my god. So, um, I can move things with my mind?" Prue asks now realizing the truth.
"With how much you hold inside, you should be a lethal weapon by now." Phoebe replies back.
"I don't believe it." Prue says as she holds her forehead in her hand.
"This must mean that Piper can freeze time." Phoebe says
"Well that's a ripoff. Why do you three get to have powers and I dont. I mean im just as much part of this family as you guys" Alex says with a hint of anger and disappointment in his voice as Prue grabs a shot of tequila and drinks it all. She then give Alex a look that says Now is not the time.
"Are you okay?" Phoebe asks Prue.
"No, I'm not okay. You turned me into a witch." Prue replies back.
"You were born one. We all were. And I think we better start learning to deal with it." Phoebe tells her.
"Not all of us to be exact" Alex mumbles as the three of them get up and proceed to head outside.
"When I was looking through the Book Of Shadows, I saw these wood carvings. They looked like something out of a bosch paintings. All these terrifying images of three women battling different incarnations of evil." Phoebe recites to Prue.
"Evil fighting evil, that's a twist." Prue sarcastically says.
"Actually, a witch can be either good or evil. A good witch follows the wiccan rede. 'An it harm none, do what ye will.' A bad witch or a warlock has but one goal: to kill good witches and retain their powers. Unfortunately, they look like regular people. They could be anyone, anywhere." Alex explains to Prue.
"And this has what to do with us?" Prue asks her.
"Well, in the first wood carving, they were in the slumber, but in the second one, they were battling some kind of warlock. I think as long as we were in the dark about our powers we were safe. Not anymore." Phoebe answers her.
Piper and Jeremy are sitting in a cab. With Piper holding a box of fortune cookies.
"Has anything weird or unexplainable ever happened to you?" She asks him.
"Sure. It's called luck or fate or some people call it miracles. Why? What happened?"
"Forget it. Even if I could tell you, you'd swear I was crazy. Now open your fortune cookie." She answers him as she hands him a fortune cookie.
"Okay." He opens it and reads the bit of paper. "Soon you will be on top."
"It doesn't say that."
"Yes it does."
"Let me see that." she says as she snatches the bit of paper from his hands.
"Is that a bad thing?"
"Of the world. Soon you will be on top of the world." She says as she reads the piece of paper.
"Can you make a left on 7th please." Jeremy asks the cab driver.
"You got it." The driver replies/
"7th? I thought that we were going to your place." Piper asks Jeremy.
"We are, but you reminded me of something. I wanna show you the old Bowing building. The view of the Bay bridge is amazing."
At The Pharmacy
"I'll be right back with your prescription." The Pharmacists tells Phoebe.
"Take your time." Phoebe replies.
"Excuse me, where do you keep the aspirin?" Prue asks the Pharmacist.
"Aisle three."he says as he points the way.
"Chamomile tea works great for headaches." Phoebe tells Prue as they walk away from the Pharmacists.
"Not for this one it won't." Prue says as she, Alex and Phoebe wander up the aisle.
"You know I'm not afraid of our powers. I mean, everyone inherits something from their family, right?" Phoebe asks.
"Yeah, money, antiques, a strong disposition. That's what normal people inherit." Prue tells them as she begins to look up and down the aisle.
"Who wants to be normal when you can be special?" Alex asks.
"I want to be normal, I want my life to be... you know, isn't this aisle 3?" Prue asks furiously.
"Well, we can't change what happened. We can't undo our destiny." Phoebe calmly says.
"Do you see any aspirin?" Prue asks as she looks up and down the aisle.
"I see chamomile tea." Phoebe replies back with a smile.
"Look, I have just found out that I'm a witch, that my sisters are witches, and that we have powers that will apparently unleash all forms of evil. Evil that is apparently going to come looking for us. So excuse me Phoebe, but I'm not exactly in a homeopathic mood right now." Prue scolded.
"Then move your headache out of your mind." Prue stares angrily at Phoebe and a bottle of aspirin flies off the shelf and Prue catches it. "You move things when you're upset." Phoebe states.
"This is ridiculous! I thought that you landed on your arm, not your head." Prue replies not wanting to believe.
"You don't believe her?" Alex asks Prue.
"Of course I don't believe her." Prue denied.
"Ro-ger." Phoebe slowly sings when suddenly a few more bottle of aspirin fly off the shelf. "Now let's talk about Dad and see what happens."
"He's dead, Phoebe." Prue says sternly.
"No, he's moved from New York, but he's very much alive." Phoebe replied back.
"He isn't to me. He died the day he left Mom." Prue stated
"What are you talking about? He's always been a major button pusher for you. You're mad he's alive, you're mad I tried to find him, and you're mad I came back. Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad." Phoebe antagonizes her when all the medicines and bottles fly off the shelves. "Feel better?"
"Lots. " Prue replies with a look of relief.
"The Book of Shadows said your powers would grow." Alex tell them.
"Grow to what?" Prue asks as they laugh.
The old Bowing building.
"Well, here we are." Jeremy says as he open the door and walks in.
"I don't care how amazing the view is. I'm not going in there." Piper tells as she stick her head inside.
"Come on, come on. I have a surprise inside."Jeremy tells her as he pulls her inside and the two of them step inside an elevator. Jeremy pulls the old wooden door down and presses a button and the elevator starts to go up."You are gonna love this. I bet you tell Prue and Phoebe the moment you see them. "
"I never mentioned Phoebe came home." Piper says with some confusion.
"Whoops." Jeremy says as he pulls out a knife.
"What is that?" Piper asks him.
"It's your surprise." Jeremy replies.
"Jeremy, stop it, you're scaring me. Damn it! I'm serious!" Piper demanded him.
"So am I. See, I've waited six months for this. Ever since Grams went to the hospital. I've known for some quite time that the moment that old witch croaked that all your powers would be released. Powers that would reveal themselves as soon as the three of you got together again. All that was needed was for Phoebe to return." Jeremy said as he stood there and twirled the knife around in his hand.
"It was you, wasn't it? You killed all those women." Piper asked as she backed away from him.
"Not women, witches!" Jeremy says as he faces towards her.
"Why?" Piper asks him as she takes another step backwards.
(He raises his hand and flames come out of his finger tips.)
"It was the only way to get their powers." He replies as he raises his hand and flames come out of his finger tips. "And now I want yours. " He adds with his voices suddenly changes in a demonic tone. Jeremy then starts to advance on piper in the small elevator. Piper screams as Jeremy raises his arm to stab her. Throwing her hands to protect herself Piper freezes and the elevator.
"Okay, think, stay calm. I gotta get outta here. Okay." Piper tells herself. She then climbs up the wooden door on to the next floor. As she is just about out of the elevator Jeremy unfreezes and he grabs her leg trying to pull her back in. Piper then tries to fight him off and grabs a two-by-four that's laying on the ground and swings it behind her hitting him on the head and knocking him out and onto the floor of the elevator.
Halliwell manor
Phoebe presses play on the answering machine.
"Prue, it's Roger. I've decided to let you come back to work. Seriously, let's talk. Bye." Roger's voicemail says.
"Piper's definitely not home unless she's turned into a cat." Prue says as she is holding a cat and walks over to Phoebe and Alex a cat.
"How'd the cat get in?" Alex asked her as he pet the cat on the head.
"I don't know. Someone must have left the window open. Um, did Piper leave a message?" Prue replies back to him and puts the cat on the floor.
"She's probably out with Jeremy. Roger called." Phoebe answers her.
"Yeah, I heard." Prue sighed.
Just then the front door opened with a frantic and panicked Piper coming "Prue?"
"In here." Phoebe says as Piper locks the door. "Piper?"
"Oh my God, what is it? What's wrong?" Prue asks her.
"Lock the doors, check the windows. We don't have a lot of time. Phoebe.. Alex, in the Book Of Shadows, did it say how to get rid of a ..."
"Warlock?" Alex and Phoebe both say interrupting Piper.
"Oh my God." Prue says.
Back a the elevator Jeremy wakes and realizes the Piper is gone. He then grabs his knife and climbs out of the elevator and runs outside saying: I'll get you, you bitch"
Halliwell manor
"I'm calling the cops." Prue says as she goes to grab the phone.
"And tell them what? That you're witches? That some freak with powers beyond comprehension is trying to kill you guys? Even if the cops did come, they'd be no match for Jeremy, and you guys would still be next." Alex warned Prue.
Phoebe suddenly came running down to the top of the stairs and said "I found the answer, come on."
The Attic
The girls are sitting in a circle on the floor around a low table while Alex stands behind them watching. They have placed candles in a circle around them.
"Okay, we've placed the nine candles anointed with oil and spices in a circle." Prue states to the girls.
"Wait, I only count eight." Piper says as she finishes counting the candles.
Oh you forgot this one." Alex remembers as he holds up a birthday candle.
"A birthday candle?" Piper asks him as she takes it from him and hands it to Phoebe.
"I guess Grams was a little low on witch supplies." Alex replies and he steps back to where he originally was.
"Alright, we need the poppet." Prue states as she reads from the book that's also in between them all.
"Got it." Piper tells her.
Phoebe lights the birthday candle and puts it in the pot.
"Right, we're set. Get ready to cast the spell." Prue replies.
"Okay, first I'll make it stronger." Piper says she gets a rose and places it on top of the poppet. "Your love with wither and depart, from my life and my heart, let me be, Jeremy, and go away forever." She then presses the rose thorns into the poppet and places it in the pot."Okay, the spell's complete"
"Let's hope it works." Prue prays.
The four siblings watch the poppet and rose as they slowly start to burn. Suddenly the poppet and rose explodes and catches on fire.
The four siblings then start cleaning up the attic and putting everything away. As Phoebe picks up the pot she is pulled into a premonition. In the premonition she sees Jeremy walking down the street when he suddenly start screaming in pain as hundreds of thorns tear through his skin. "Wait! It didn't work." Phoebe says after the premonition ends.
"What?" Piper asks her.
"The spell, it didn't work." Phoebe reiterates to her.
"How do you know?" Alex then asks her.
"When I touched the pot, I had a flash. I saw Jeremy." Phoebe explains to them.
"You touched the pot and you saw him?" Prue asks in confusion.
"He's on his way here." Phoebe tells them and they four of them run of the attic and down the stairs and to the door. When Prue opens the door there was Jeremy standing there causing Piper and Phoebe to scream.
"Hello, ladies and gentleman." Jeremy says as he walks into the Manor. Prue then backs up stands in front of Phoebe and Piper. They slowly walk backwards as Jeremy advances on them. Prue then uses her power causing Jeremy to hit the wall.
"Piper, Phoebe, get out of here now!" Prue demands and the two girls run upstairs.
"Cool parlor trick, bitch. You were always the tough one weren't you, Prue?" Jeremy says as he raises his hand up to fling her aside, but Alex shows up.
"Thats my sister you're talking to you prick." Alex angrily says as he tackles Jeremy and the two fall to the ground. "Prue get upstairs I'll hold him off" Alex tells her as he stands back up and Prue runs upstairs.
Jeremy stands up and raises his hand Alex who throws his hands up to protect himself when a fireball suddenly appears in one of his hands. Astonished at what happened Alex quickly throws the fireball at Jeremy knocking him back.
"Whose the bitch now?" Alex taunts him.
"Well thats a new twist a warlock in the Warren Family." Jeremy says as he steps forward.
"Bullshit I can't be a Warlock" Alex denied.
"Maybe you should have asked that Grams of yours about who you really are before she croaked." Jeremy taunts back.
Alex looked up the stairs not wanting to believe him, which gives Jeremy long enough to fling Alex to the side knocking him out.
Up in the Attic
"Phoebe, you're right, our powers are growing." Prue says as she enters the Attic and closes the door.
"Where's Alex?" Phoebe asks.
"Downstairs he holding off Jeremy to give us time to figure out how to defeat him." Prue replies back.
"Put as many things against the door as you can." Piper tells girls then push the dresser against the door and placed a chair on top. They also slide a two-by-four in front of the door to barricade it.
"Take me now, Prue. My powers are stronger than yours." Jeremy says and then laughs as the two-by-four moves away from the door. "Do you think a chair will stop me?" He asks as the chair slides off the dresser. "Do you think a dresser will stop me?" The dresser slides away from the door. "Have you witches figured it out yet? Nothing, nothing can keep me away." He laughs again.
"What do we do? We're trapped." Piper asks as the girls back away from the door as it explodes and sees Jeremy standing there and all three girls scream.
"Come on, we'll face him together. Do you remember the spirit board?" Prue asks the girls.
"The inscription on the back." Piper replies.
"The power of three will set us free." Prue says as Jeremy shoots a beam of fire at them causing a circle of fire surrounds them. "Come on, we gotta say it together." The three girls then holds hands.
"The power of three will set us free. " The girls begin to chant over and over again. As the girls chant a strong wind begins to blows around them.
"I am not the only one! I am one of millions! In places you can't even imagine! In forms you would never believe! We are hell on this earth! You will never be safe! And you will never be free!" Jeremy tells the girls just before he explodes and disappears.
"The power of three." Prue finishes as Alex walks into the attic.
"What did I miss?" he says as he grabs his head and the side of the door to hold himself up.
Halliwell manor.
The next morning. Prue walks outside and grabs the paper and sees Andy walking towards her.
"Good morning! " Andy says cheerfully while holding a cup of coffee.
"Hey, this is a surprise." Prue says with a small smile.
"I've been feeling really guilty about that bad cup of coffee. I just want to make it up to you."
"So, you brought me a good cup of coffee?"
"Oh this? No, this is mine. I, uh, just wanted to ask you out to dinner. Unless of course you're afraid."
"Afraid of what?"
"Oh, you know, having too good of time, stirring up old memories, rekindling the old flame."
"Hmm, good point, better not."
"Okay. Friday night, eight o'clock?" Andy asks her, but she doesnt answer."You're hesitating."
"Yeah, but it's not what you think. It's just that my life has gotten a bit complicated. Can I call you?" Prue asks him and Andy hands her his card.
"Sure. Take care, Prue."
"Bye, Andy." Prue says as Andy turns around and walks to his car. As he leaves Piper, Phoebe and Alex walk out of the house with Phoebe holding the cat.
"Its Andy" Piper says as the walk down the steps.
"I told you I heard a man's voice." Alex replies back to them.
"What did he want?" Piper asks Prue.
"He asked me out." Prue replies back
"And you said ...?" Piper stops for Prue to finish.
"I started to say yes and then I stopped. I wondered if I could date. I mean, do witches date?" Prue asks them.
"Not only do they date but they usually get the best guys." Piper replies with a smirk as she Phoebe and Alex laugh.
"You three will not be laughing when this happens to you. Believe me, everything will be different now." Prue jokingly says as they head back up the stairs.
"Well, at least our lives won't be boring." Alex says.
"But they'll never be the same." Prue finishes.
"And this is a bad thing?" Phoebe asks.
"No. But it could be a big problem." Prue states.
"Prue's right. What are we gonna do?" Piper asks.
"What can't we do?" Phoebe asks her back.
"We are gonna be careful, we're gonna be wise and we're gonna stick together." Prue tells the other three.
"This should be interesting." Alex says as they walk into the house. After the others walk in Prue stands inside the house and looks at the door. She then moves her finger and shuts it with her power.
End
