Chapter Two: Is That The Spell?
Piper and Prue ran up the stairs leading to the Manor and through the front door, up the stairs and into the attic. Prue dashed for the Book of Shadows, and Piper ran to the 'Ritual' chest. She pulled out 6 candles, 1 stick of incense, and the lighter. Prue found the spell and sat down next to Piper with the Book.
"Is that the spell?" asked Piper.
"Yeah, but I don't know if she'll come back corporeal or all ghostly-like," replied Prue.
"Alright, here we go!" said Prue as she and Piper read the spell aloud.
"Hear my plea, hear my cry. Spirit from the other side, come to me, I summon thee, cross now the great divide".
Suddenly, a gust of wind engulfed the room and a swirl of bright lights surrounded them. Someone was coming into view, but it wasn't their grandmother, it was…
"Mom?!?" exclaimed Prue.
"What the hell is she doing here?" asked Piper.
"Well, the Elder's said you might need some help coming to terms with this, so they sent me down. But I'm only here until you don't need me anymore, so you can't reverse the spell," said Patty, the girl's mother.
Prue and Piper couldn't speak. They were still in shock over Phoebe's death, and now this took the cake.
"I can't deal with this right now. Help Prue or something, just leave me alone. Phoebe's just died, and they send ANOTHER dead person down to 'help us'? How the hell is this supposed to help us? This makes absolutely NO sense, and they expect us to be like, 'Oh well. Hi mom. You can help us'. I don't think so! Sorry Mom, but I can't deal with getting close to someone else, and have them dying. I truly am sorry," said Piper, and she walked away.
"Well, I'm sorry you feel that way, honey. But I am only here to make Phoebe's transition easier, and do to that I have to make you understand why it was her time," Patty said.
"Okay then, explain to us, why the hell was it her time?" asked Prue.
"She needed to pave way for something," replied Patty.
"What?" asked Piper, intrigued of what she heard.
"I can't reveal that. It will reveal itself, in its own time," replied Patty, "Blessed Be, my girls" and she vanished in a swirl of bright lights.
"Oh wow! A great deal of help that was!" Piper exclaimed and stomped off, down to her room, or so Prue thought.
She walked down the stairs, past hers and Prue's rooms, and past the bathroom to Phoebe's room.
She opened the door and closed it quietly and made her way to the bed.
She started punching at the pillows screaming, "Why! Why did you have to leave us?" Prue had obviously heard, as she ran into the room and pulled Piper off the bed.
"Piper, you have got to get yourself under control. You can't go around bashing beds to make yourself better," said Prue.
"You're right. I've gotta go to a counselor. But first off, remember how Jeremy worked for the paper, and they were doing an expose at "South Bay Social Services"?" asked Piper.
"Yeah, I remember that, why?" replied Prue.
"Well, I'm gonna go and see whether or not his stuff is still there. Seeing as they think he's just a missing person, surely some of his stuff would be in the "Case" drawer" said Piper and she left the room, grabbed her car keys, and went off to "South Bay Social Services", completely oblivious of what she was to find there.