Desperate Measures
Author's Notes: I don't own any of the characters except for the ones I made up. This story takes place right at the time of Season Four opener episode "Charmed Again", only with an important twist- Paige never shows up for Prue's funeral. Without the Power of Three, what measures will Piper and Phoebe be forced to do in order to continue to protect innocents and destroy the Source?
Piper and Phoebe both watched on with teary eyes as Prue's coffin was lowered down into her grave. Leo held Piper, who put her head on his shoulder, while Phoebe just stood there. Phoebe then turned and walked back towards the car.
"Phoebe!" Piper yelled. "Phoebe! Wait up!"
Phoebe stopped walking, and turned around to face her sister.
"What is it?" Phoebe asked her.
"Aren't you going to come back here and say your final goodbyes to Prue?" Piper asked her.
"I have better things to do." Phoebe said coldly. "The Source is still out there. He must be killed. Especially now that Prue is dead!"
"Yes, but how do you expect to kill him without the Power of Three?" PIper asked her between sobs.
"I have a way." a familair voice said from behind Phoebe. "It's not easy, but it may be the only way."
Cole walked up from behind Phoebe, who immeaditley ran over and hugged him.
"No way!" Leo shouted. "No way I'm letting you do that to them!"
Piper, Phoebe, Leo, and Cole were back in the Halliwell Manor, in the living room.
"How else can they fight demons, kill the Source, and protect the innocent without the Power of Three?" Cole asked. "If they don't have the Power of Three as good witches, they'll be easy pickings for the Source!"
"But turn them dark, turn them into warlocks!" Leo said questionably. "Don't you remember what happened the last time Piper and Phoebe were warlocks?"
"Yes, I do." Cole admitted. "Piper and Phoebe still had enough control to fight evil, in that case the preistess, despite their intentions and other actions. Being warlocks again will give them enough power to fight the Source, and also a ruthless edge that will be needed in the coming fights."
"Yes, but what if they kill an innocent in their ruthlessness?" Leo asked. "It wouldn't take much for them to lose control, not to mention the fact that I wouldn't be their Whitelighter anymore."
"I was evil, too, once." Cole said. "I'll help them control it. It's the only way."
"No, Cole, I agree with Leo." Piper said. "It's too big a risk to take, especially since you said that you're not sure if you can turn them back into good witches."
"No, Piper, it's too big a risk not to take." Phoebe interjected. "Cole's right, if we don't do this, we're dead."
Piper sighed. She knew Phoebe was right, but she couldn't think of giving up her life.
"Evil can't love, right Cole?" Piper asked him.
Cole nodded.
"Lust, but not love." he replied.
Piper looked towards Leo, her husband. If she did this, she would be incapable of loving her husband.
Piper finally nodded.
"It's neccesary." Piper said. "We have to do this, for the better of mankind. And, for Prue."
Leo nodded.
"I understand." he said with a sad smile. "I'll be waiting for you to return to me, Piper."
As Piper moved towards him, Leo orbbed out.
A brief moment of silence was interrupted by Cole.
"Come on." Cole said. "I'll show you were to meet Torakin."
Piper's car drove up to a run-down nightclub. The sign could no longer be made out, and trash was already collecting on the grass.
"Looks like a place where a demon who turns witches would be." Piper said under her breath.
She and Phoebe made their way down the walkway, and entered the club through the double doors. The club suddenly dissapered, the illusion ending for the two sisters. They were inside a dark cave, where Torakin was sitting on a seat on top of a large platform.
"Welcome, witches." Torakin said.
Suddenly, he realized who they were- the two remaining Charmed Ones!
"Charmed Ones!" the demon exclaimed. "It is a great honor to be the one who will turn you! You two will make very powerful Warlocks!"
"That's what we were hoping you'd say." Phoebe said in her best evil impression.
"Well step foward girls, come up here." Torakin said. "Up the stairs and join me on the platform!"
Piper and Phoebe silently made their way up the stairs and onto the huge platform. They stopped as they stood in front of Torakin. Torakin motioned for them to drop to their knees, which they did. Torkain raised his hands and placed one on each of the girls' foreheads.
This is it. Piper thought. The final time I will think as a good human being for a long time. I'm going to miss it.
Phoebe, however, had a bit of excitement. She still remembered all the power she had as a warlock last time, and she was confident that Cole could help her control all that power.
"Shokan, miran, porakin, maxin!" Torakin said in a strange dialect.
His hands glowed black, and the dark energy went into Piper and Phoebe's bodies. He held his hands there as dark energy continued to pour into the once-innocent girls. Finally, he stopped, as Piper and Phoebe, collapsed, stomach-first onto the platform, gasping for breath.
Piper was the first to make it back to her feet. She glared at Torakin with darkness in her eyes.
"How do you feel?" Torakin asked them.
Piper's eyes glowed back again.
"Just super." she said with a sly smile. "Unfortuantley, I don't think you'll be able to say the same."
Piper waved one of her hands, freezing Torakin solid in a block of ice (Author's Note: From now on when I say Piper's freezed someone, I mean she froze him in ice like she did the last time she was a Warlock, not the good witch kind of freeze). piper then pushed the ice block off the platform, shattering Torakin's body into a million pieces as it hit the ground. Piper bit her bottom lip in dark desire.
"Damn, I missed doing that." Piper said with an evil laugh.
Phoebe rose to her feet as well, a similarly dark look in her eyes. She then raised both her hands up in the air, and Torakin's large chair went up in flames until it was nothing but ashes. Phoebe smiled as she kneeled down and blew the ashes off the platform.
"Fire is so invigorating." Phoebe said. "I love watching things burn."
"Come on." Piper said, regaining control. "Like Cole said, we have to resist the dark desires. Let's head back to the mannor."
"Okay...." Phoebe said, a bit of dissapointment in her voice.
The two sisters blinked out.
"You're too late, Leo." Cole said, sitting in a chair in the Halliwell living room. "They've already gone to be turned."
"Well then tell me where they've gone, because I'm going to stop them!" Leo said, determained. "I can't let Piper do this to herself. Become that dark creature, that evil shell of her former self."
"Aww, thanks honey, I love you too!" Piper said with a laugh.
Leo turned around to see Piper and Phoebe standing behind him, on the other side of the living room. There was no question as to whether they had been turned or not- the dark looks in their eyes gave it away.
"How'd it go?" Cole asked them, surpressing how turned-on he got when Phoebe was evil.
"Magnificantly." Phoebe said. "Piper froze that demon solid. He shattered into little itty-bitty pieces- it was so much fun to watch!"
Leo looked at Piper. She hadn't taken her eyes off of her husband since she blinked in, and Leo knew it, feeling her piercing dark glare go through his heart.
She's enjoying my pain. Leo realized. She's feeding off of it.
Piper walked closer to Leo. Leo tried to back away from her, but he tripped over the coffee table, landing on the floor, and causing Piper to start laughing hysterically.
"What a dumb-ass." Phoebe said, looking on.
"Come on Leo, I'm not going to bite." Piper said with a laugh. "That is, unless you want me to."
Leo picked himself up just as Piper leaped over the coffee table, landing on him as Leo landed on the couch. She layed on top of him, laughing, as her face was inches away from Leo's. She put her face even closer, as if she was going to say something intimate.
"Leo..." she said in a semi-sweet voice.
"What, Piper?" Leo replied.
"Can we go have sex now?"
Leo sighed as he pushed Piper off of him and to the floor.
"Hey!" Piper said angrily as she stood back up.
She waved her hand and froze Leo solid as he sat up. She raised her fist to shatter his head.
"No, Piper." Phoebe said. "We need someone on the good side to help us now that we're evil. We need someone who can think like a goody-two-shoes."
"Well, what about Cole?" Piper whined.
Phoebe laughed.
"He may not be a demon anymore, bu tlet me tell you something, he sure ain't an angel either."
"Phoebe!" Cole yelled.
Phoebe shot him a mischievious grin.
"Alright, alright." Piper said. "I'll unfreeze the stupid bastard, but he'd better have sex with me this time!"
Piper waved her right hand, unfreezing Leo. Leo shivered, then sneezed. Piper laughed.
"Aww does Leo-weo have a closey-woldsey?" Piper said in her best baby voice.
Leo shot her an annoyed look, as again Piper laughed.
About an hour later, Leo was seated on the Halliwells' couch, wrapped in a blue blanket. Piper sat on a new chair, eyeing him as he took a sip of some hot cocoa.
"Where's Phoebe and Cole?" Leo asked.
"Off having sex, probably." Piper said. "It's easy to see that Phoebe being evil turns Cole on."
"I'm sorry I asked." Leo said, and Piper laughed.
Then, quite suddenly, she got serious.
"Leo." Piper said, without the evilness to her voice that she has had all night.
"What, Piper?" Leo asked her.
"I'm still in here." Piper said. "The real me is still here, and I'm mostly still in-control. The wisecracks, and lust I can't help, but I'm not going to let myself lose control. And I need you to still love me, because your love helps me stay in control."
Leo walked over to Piper and kissed her.
"I'll always love you." Leo said, before kissing her again.
Hah, that sappy speech worked! Piper thought. Leo is SUCH an idiot, but at least now I know how to get what I want out of him!
A few hours later, the door to Piper's bedroom opened. Piper sat up, wearing nothing but all of her body besides her head and neck under the covers of her bed. Leo also sat up, also wearing nothing but covered up to his neck with the covers as well.
"Can't you see we're busy in here?" Piper said angrily.
"Phoebe's had a preminition." Cole said from the doorway. "An innocent we have to protect."
"C'mon, Leo, let's ignore him and get back to......"
"No, Piper." Leo said. "Cole's right, we have to go save the innocent."
Piper glared at Cole angrily. She made a dark ball of enegry in her hands but Cole closed the double-doors to her bedroom as she threw it, and the energy, weak, dissintigrated on the doorway. Piper growled in anger.
Thirty minutes later, Piper and Leo entered the kitchen, fully clothed, where Phoebe was making some coffee and Cole was sitting at the table, reading some sort of newspaper.
"Morning." Leo told them.
Cole and Phoebe ignored him as he took a seat at the table. Piper stood, leaning against the wall.
"So, you going to tell us what your preimintion was about, or let us guess?" Piper said.
Phoebe glared at Piper.
"I've been getting a lot of those lately." Piper said with a laugh.
"It was some little kid, six or seven, I guess." Phoebe said. "The kid was home alone, and then two people, who the kid called Mommy and Daddy, entered the house. They transformed into some kind of demons and killed him."
"TAlk about your punishments." Piper said.
Then Piper had an evil grin.
"Wish I could see what your face would have looked like if Grams turned into a demon to punish you." Piper said. "That would have been a kicker during your wild years, talk about scared straight!"
Phoebe shot Piper another glare.
"There it is again!" Piper laughed.
"Can we PLEASE stop joking about the kid's death and find a way to, I don't know, maybe STOP IT!" Leo yelled.
"Okay, okay, geez." Piper said. "Ruin my fun, why don't you."
She turned to Cole.
"Know any demons who fit that profile?" she asked him.
"Yeah." Cole replied. "Dargos. He feeds the Source the most powerful normal mortal souls- the souls of a pure, innocent young child. He does this by placing a demonic seed in the parents, which turns them into semi-demons of sorts, whose only goal is to kill their child. Once the child is dead, they die as well, and it looks like a family suicide. No investigations, no mess."
"Effective." Piper said.
Phoebe raised her hand.
"Yes, Phoebe?" Cole asked.
"Excuse me, Mr. Cole, but do you think we'll have to baby-sit the little kid?" Piper asked him half-mockingly.
"Yes."
"I can't stand fucking children." Piper said.
"Piper that's ridicolous." Leo said. "Just the other day, you and I were talking about when we were going to have a baby."
Piper rolled her eyes.
"Okay, okay, we need to calm down and get organized." Cole said.
As Cole started to explain a plan, Leo began thinking to himself about whether or not they could pull it off.
I just hope Piper or Phoebe doesn't kill the kid. Leo thought.
To Be Continued....
Author's Notes: I don't own any of the characters except for the ones I made up. This story takes place right at the time of Season Four opener episode "Charmed Again", only with an important twist- Paige never shows up for Prue's funeral. Without the Power of Three, what measures will Piper and Phoebe be forced to do in order to continue to protect innocents and destroy the Source?
Piper and Phoebe both watched on with teary eyes as Prue's coffin was lowered down into her grave. Leo held Piper, who put her head on his shoulder, while Phoebe just stood there. Phoebe then turned and walked back towards the car.
"Phoebe!" Piper yelled. "Phoebe! Wait up!"
Phoebe stopped walking, and turned around to face her sister.
"What is it?" Phoebe asked her.
"Aren't you going to come back here and say your final goodbyes to Prue?" Piper asked her.
"I have better things to do." Phoebe said coldly. "The Source is still out there. He must be killed. Especially now that Prue is dead!"
"Yes, but how do you expect to kill him without the Power of Three?" PIper asked her between sobs.
"I have a way." a familair voice said from behind Phoebe. "It's not easy, but it may be the only way."
Cole walked up from behind Phoebe, who immeaditley ran over and hugged him.
"No way!" Leo shouted. "No way I'm letting you do that to them!"
Piper, Phoebe, Leo, and Cole were back in the Halliwell Manor, in the living room.
"How else can they fight demons, kill the Source, and protect the innocent without the Power of Three?" Cole asked. "If they don't have the Power of Three as good witches, they'll be easy pickings for the Source!"
"But turn them dark, turn them into warlocks!" Leo said questionably. "Don't you remember what happened the last time Piper and Phoebe were warlocks?"
"Yes, I do." Cole admitted. "Piper and Phoebe still had enough control to fight evil, in that case the preistess, despite their intentions and other actions. Being warlocks again will give them enough power to fight the Source, and also a ruthless edge that will be needed in the coming fights."
"Yes, but what if they kill an innocent in their ruthlessness?" Leo asked. "It wouldn't take much for them to lose control, not to mention the fact that I wouldn't be their Whitelighter anymore."
"I was evil, too, once." Cole said. "I'll help them control it. It's the only way."
"No, Cole, I agree with Leo." Piper said. "It's too big a risk to take, especially since you said that you're not sure if you can turn them back into good witches."
"No, Piper, it's too big a risk not to take." Phoebe interjected. "Cole's right, if we don't do this, we're dead."
Piper sighed. She knew Phoebe was right, but she couldn't think of giving up her life.
"Evil can't love, right Cole?" Piper asked him.
Cole nodded.
"Lust, but not love." he replied.
Piper looked towards Leo, her husband. If she did this, she would be incapable of loving her husband.
Piper finally nodded.
"It's neccesary." Piper said. "We have to do this, for the better of mankind. And, for Prue."
Leo nodded.
"I understand." he said with a sad smile. "I'll be waiting for you to return to me, Piper."
As Piper moved towards him, Leo orbbed out.
A brief moment of silence was interrupted by Cole.
"Come on." Cole said. "I'll show you were to meet Torakin."
Piper's car drove up to a run-down nightclub. The sign could no longer be made out, and trash was already collecting on the grass.
"Looks like a place where a demon who turns witches would be." Piper said under her breath.
She and Phoebe made their way down the walkway, and entered the club through the double doors. The club suddenly dissapered, the illusion ending for the two sisters. They were inside a dark cave, where Torakin was sitting on a seat on top of a large platform.
"Welcome, witches." Torakin said.
Suddenly, he realized who they were- the two remaining Charmed Ones!
"Charmed Ones!" the demon exclaimed. "It is a great honor to be the one who will turn you! You two will make very powerful Warlocks!"
"That's what we were hoping you'd say." Phoebe said in her best evil impression.
"Well step foward girls, come up here." Torakin said. "Up the stairs and join me on the platform!"
Piper and Phoebe silently made their way up the stairs and onto the huge platform. They stopped as they stood in front of Torakin. Torakin motioned for them to drop to their knees, which they did. Torkain raised his hands and placed one on each of the girls' foreheads.
This is it. Piper thought. The final time I will think as a good human being for a long time. I'm going to miss it.
Phoebe, however, had a bit of excitement. She still remembered all the power she had as a warlock last time, and she was confident that Cole could help her control all that power.
"Shokan, miran, porakin, maxin!" Torakin said in a strange dialect.
His hands glowed black, and the dark energy went into Piper and Phoebe's bodies. He held his hands there as dark energy continued to pour into the once-innocent girls. Finally, he stopped, as Piper and Phoebe, collapsed, stomach-first onto the platform, gasping for breath.
Piper was the first to make it back to her feet. She glared at Torakin with darkness in her eyes.
"How do you feel?" Torakin asked them.
Piper's eyes glowed back again.
"Just super." she said with a sly smile. "Unfortuantley, I don't think you'll be able to say the same."
Piper waved one of her hands, freezing Torakin solid in a block of ice (Author's Note: From now on when I say Piper's freezed someone, I mean she froze him in ice like she did the last time she was a Warlock, not the good witch kind of freeze). piper then pushed the ice block off the platform, shattering Torakin's body into a million pieces as it hit the ground. Piper bit her bottom lip in dark desire.
"Damn, I missed doing that." Piper said with an evil laugh.
Phoebe rose to her feet as well, a similarly dark look in her eyes. She then raised both her hands up in the air, and Torakin's large chair went up in flames until it was nothing but ashes. Phoebe smiled as she kneeled down and blew the ashes off the platform.
"Fire is so invigorating." Phoebe said. "I love watching things burn."
"Come on." Piper said, regaining control. "Like Cole said, we have to resist the dark desires. Let's head back to the mannor."
"Okay...." Phoebe said, a bit of dissapointment in her voice.
The two sisters blinked out.
"You're too late, Leo." Cole said, sitting in a chair in the Halliwell living room. "They've already gone to be turned."
"Well then tell me where they've gone, because I'm going to stop them!" Leo said, determained. "I can't let Piper do this to herself. Become that dark creature, that evil shell of her former self."
"Aww, thanks honey, I love you too!" Piper said with a laugh.
Leo turned around to see Piper and Phoebe standing behind him, on the other side of the living room. There was no question as to whether they had been turned or not- the dark looks in their eyes gave it away.
"How'd it go?" Cole asked them, surpressing how turned-on he got when Phoebe was evil.
"Magnificantly." Phoebe said. "Piper froze that demon solid. He shattered into little itty-bitty pieces- it was so much fun to watch!"
Leo looked at Piper. She hadn't taken her eyes off of her husband since she blinked in, and Leo knew it, feeling her piercing dark glare go through his heart.
She's enjoying my pain. Leo realized. She's feeding off of it.
Piper walked closer to Leo. Leo tried to back away from her, but he tripped over the coffee table, landing on the floor, and causing Piper to start laughing hysterically.
"What a dumb-ass." Phoebe said, looking on.
"Come on Leo, I'm not going to bite." Piper said with a laugh. "That is, unless you want me to."
Leo picked himself up just as Piper leaped over the coffee table, landing on him as Leo landed on the couch. She layed on top of him, laughing, as her face was inches away from Leo's. She put her face even closer, as if she was going to say something intimate.
"Leo..." she said in a semi-sweet voice.
"What, Piper?" Leo replied.
"Can we go have sex now?"
Leo sighed as he pushed Piper off of him and to the floor.
"Hey!" Piper said angrily as she stood back up.
She waved her hand and froze Leo solid as he sat up. She raised her fist to shatter his head.
"No, Piper." Phoebe said. "We need someone on the good side to help us now that we're evil. We need someone who can think like a goody-two-shoes."
"Well, what about Cole?" Piper whined.
Phoebe laughed.
"He may not be a demon anymore, bu tlet me tell you something, he sure ain't an angel either."
"Phoebe!" Cole yelled.
Phoebe shot him a mischievious grin.
"Alright, alright." Piper said. "I'll unfreeze the stupid bastard, but he'd better have sex with me this time!"
Piper waved her right hand, unfreezing Leo. Leo shivered, then sneezed. Piper laughed.
"Aww does Leo-weo have a closey-woldsey?" Piper said in her best baby voice.
Leo shot her an annoyed look, as again Piper laughed.
About an hour later, Leo was seated on the Halliwells' couch, wrapped in a blue blanket. Piper sat on a new chair, eyeing him as he took a sip of some hot cocoa.
"Where's Phoebe and Cole?" Leo asked.
"Off having sex, probably." Piper said. "It's easy to see that Phoebe being evil turns Cole on."
"I'm sorry I asked." Leo said, and Piper laughed.
Then, quite suddenly, she got serious.
"Leo." Piper said, without the evilness to her voice that she has had all night.
"What, Piper?" Leo asked her.
"I'm still in here." Piper said. "The real me is still here, and I'm mostly still in-control. The wisecracks, and lust I can't help, but I'm not going to let myself lose control. And I need you to still love me, because your love helps me stay in control."
Leo walked over to Piper and kissed her.
"I'll always love you." Leo said, before kissing her again.
Hah, that sappy speech worked! Piper thought. Leo is SUCH an idiot, but at least now I know how to get what I want out of him!
A few hours later, the door to Piper's bedroom opened. Piper sat up, wearing nothing but all of her body besides her head and neck under the covers of her bed. Leo also sat up, also wearing nothing but covered up to his neck with the covers as well.
"Can't you see we're busy in here?" Piper said angrily.
"Phoebe's had a preminition." Cole said from the doorway. "An innocent we have to protect."
"C'mon, Leo, let's ignore him and get back to......"
"No, Piper." Leo said. "Cole's right, we have to go save the innocent."
Piper glared at Cole angrily. She made a dark ball of enegry in her hands but Cole closed the double-doors to her bedroom as she threw it, and the energy, weak, dissintigrated on the doorway. Piper growled in anger.
Thirty minutes later, Piper and Leo entered the kitchen, fully clothed, where Phoebe was making some coffee and Cole was sitting at the table, reading some sort of newspaper.
"Morning." Leo told them.
Cole and Phoebe ignored him as he took a seat at the table. Piper stood, leaning against the wall.
"So, you going to tell us what your preimintion was about, or let us guess?" Piper said.
Phoebe glared at Piper.
"I've been getting a lot of those lately." Piper said with a laugh.
"It was some little kid, six or seven, I guess." Phoebe said. "The kid was home alone, and then two people, who the kid called Mommy and Daddy, entered the house. They transformed into some kind of demons and killed him."
"TAlk about your punishments." Piper said.
Then Piper had an evil grin.
"Wish I could see what your face would have looked like if Grams turned into a demon to punish you." Piper said. "That would have been a kicker during your wild years, talk about scared straight!"
Phoebe shot Piper another glare.
"There it is again!" Piper laughed.
"Can we PLEASE stop joking about the kid's death and find a way to, I don't know, maybe STOP IT!" Leo yelled.
"Okay, okay, geez." Piper said. "Ruin my fun, why don't you."
She turned to Cole.
"Know any demons who fit that profile?" she asked him.
"Yeah." Cole replied. "Dargos. He feeds the Source the most powerful normal mortal souls- the souls of a pure, innocent young child. He does this by placing a demonic seed in the parents, which turns them into semi-demons of sorts, whose only goal is to kill their child. Once the child is dead, they die as well, and it looks like a family suicide. No investigations, no mess."
"Effective." Piper said.
Phoebe raised her hand.
"Yes, Phoebe?" Cole asked.
"Excuse me, Mr. Cole, but do you think we'll have to baby-sit the little kid?" Piper asked him half-mockingly.
"Yes."
"I can't stand fucking children." Piper said.
"Piper that's ridicolous." Leo said. "Just the other day, you and I were talking about when we were going to have a baby."
Piper rolled her eyes.
"Okay, okay, we need to calm down and get organized." Cole said.
As Cole started to explain a plan, Leo began thinking to himself about whether or not they could pull it off.
I just hope Piper or Phoebe doesn't kill the kid. Leo thought.
To Be Continued....
