Author's Note:

edboy4926 - It might be an interesting twist. I could work it to where Chloe becomes a Slayer after Buffy's death in the Master's Cave. It would of course require replacing Kendra with Chloe, which would be easy to do since Kendra was seen in only four episodes of BTVS. And Chloe could be killed like Kendra calling Faith, before Max has a chance to rewind time, which of course she would do. I'd have to think long and hard about Chloe dying for Faith to be called as it would be tricky with Max's rewind power. Maybe the Slayer essence doesn't recognize time reversal?

Fanfictionfanatic2324 - Other than in this story you are likely not going to see them again. Max's rewind powers, Max and Chloe are from the Life is Strange game. You can find it on Steam btw, where the first episode (it is a 5 part episodic game) is free. I have my doubts anyone else will do a crossover with Charmed or Buffy with Life is Strange, seeing how few crossovers there are to begin with for Life is Strange (there is 100 times more non-crossovers than crossovers). And while you idea of tying in Prince of Persia (which I have not played or seen the movie) is an interesting one, will not happen in this story.

Chapter 2: Charmed Part 2

Max and Chloe were back with Phoebe and Cole at what Phoebe called the Manor. They watched as Phoebe and Cole told Leo what had happened and what Max had seen.

"Are you sure she orbed? Are you sure that it wasn't something else?" Leo asked.

"Max, described it," Phoebe said. "Bright white, shiny thingies came, she disappeared and then she reappeared."

"That's what I saw," Max said with a sigh. She noticed Piper stood at the kitchen sink unmoving and wondered what was going through the woman's mind. She half expected when they had gotten back that Piper would ask her and Chloe to leave, but as of yet she hadn't.

"What else could it be?" Phoebe asked.

"It just doesn't make any sense," Leo said.

"Why not?" Chloe asked.

"Because she might be a Whitelighter," Leo said. "I didn't tell you guys the whole truth earlier about me and this is not the place to do it now." He looked back at Cole and Phoebe. "But why would Shax want to kill a Whitelighter?"

"Maybe he doesn't know she's a Whitelighter," Cole suggested.

"Right, the Source sends out his personal assassin, but doesn't know who he's after?" Leo said with a shake of his head.

Max looked over at Piper as she clattered pots that she was washing, noticeably.

"Is it possible that she didn't know that she was a Whitelighter?" Phoebe asked.

"No. Why?" Leo said.

"She looked surprised to me," Max said. "Like I did when I first found out I could rewind time."

"Well that doesn't make any sense either," Leo said.

"Okay, why don't you go up and ask the Elders what does make sense so we don't go risking our lives again?" Phoebe suggested. "And while you are up there?" She looked toward Max and Leo nodded in understanding.

"I'll be right back," Leo said with a glance toward Piper as he orbed out.

"He wasn't your childhood friend was he?" Max asked her eyes wide at the fact Leo had orbed.

"No," Phoebe said.

"Maybe I should, uh, go to the other side and see what I can find out," Cole said before Phoebe had a chance to explain to Max and Chloe what a Whitelighter was and who Leo was."

"No," Phoebe objected as she looked toward her boyfriend.

"I'll be careful. Nobody'll see me. Besides, it could be good to me to go back down, confused any bounty hunters that might be trying to track me. Don't worry. I won't disappear," Cole said as he kissed Phoebe on the cheek and then shimmered out.

"Hey, you okay?" Phoebe asked.

Piper nodded. "Yeah. Sure, why not? We could have another funeral tomorrow. I mean, all the dishes are out and we pretty much know who to invite," she said as she held a small white towel in her hand and faced Phoebe.

"Piper…" Phoebe said.

"Just tell me one thing. Are you insane or are you just plain stupid? We bury Prue this morning and you go off tonight and nearly join her. What the hell is the matter with you?" Piper asked.

"I was trying to save an innocent," Phoebe answered.

"No. You were trying to get yourself killed, which is what this family does best is get killed," Piper said as she threw the towel onto a counter in frustration and anger. "Isn't it obvious by now that our only destiny is to die? And you are making it way too easy for them, Phoebe. You are just walking right into it!"

Max glanced at Chloe who nodded. She held out her hand and rewound time.

"Yeah. Sure, why not? We could …" Piper said.

"I know you don't know me, and kind of have only my word and very little proof I might be your sister's daughter," Max said as she stood up. "But I know what it's like to lose someone. My parents and I moved to Seattle from Arcadia Bay five years. I only recently returned to my hometown a few weeks ago on a scholarship to attend Blackwell Academy. The first time I saw Chloe after arriving at Blackwell; she was shot and killed right in front of me. Of course at the time I didn't know Chloe was Chloe, as I didn't recognize my best friend. She had changed, she hasn't always had blue hair, or a short haircut/ Anyways in the heat of that moment, I found out I had this power. I rewound time, saved her. Got her back. I would do that several more times over the course of the following week. The final time I watched my former teacher who kidnapped and drugged me; kill Chloe at point black range. It was a whole day before I could go back and by that time I could not rewind far enough. I had to use a picture my friend Warren had taken with my camera the night before and jump backwards in time to that point so that I could save Chloe. But for that day, I missed her so much. It was when I first realized I had fallen for my best friend hard."

Phoebe and Piper looked at each other and then at Max. Neither of them interrupting what she was saying as they were beginning to realize that Max seemed to be very much like Prue.

"If I could I would jump back through a photo for your sister, make a long distance phone call and it turn out alright, I would. But those kinds of changes can be lead to bad results. Using a photo I jumped back in time to when Chloe's father, her birth father, was still alive. I saved him from getting in a car accident. But there was a consequence, Chloe got into a car accident two years later. She was slowly dying and wheelchair bound. Her lungs were failing, she begged me to end her life, and I did. For her, I didn't want her to die in pain, not that way. My point is, not all changes will be alright. I can make small changes, such as saving Chloe. But big ones, it is better not to mess with. I know this does not help you with your grief. But I hope it does give you something to think about."

Piper nodded slowly as she left the room.

"Thank you," Phoebe said.

"So what is Leo?" Max asked.

"He's a Whitelighter," Phoebe said. "Think of him as a guardian angel for witches. No he wasn't our childhood friend; he's been our Whitelighter since Prue, Piper and I were born. He himself died during World War II while saving people. Being made a Whitelighter was his reward for that."

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Max and Chloe sat on a couch as they gave Phoebe some privacy.

"Here, this should help. It's chamomile. I had three cups," Piper said as she handed Phoebe a cup of tea before handing one to Chloe and Max as well.

"Thanks," Phoebe said as she took a sip. "Doesn't seem real, does it?"

Piper shook her head. "No. What are we gonna do with all of her stuff? What are we going to do with her car?"

Phoebe looked toward Max. "If Max does turn out to be Prue's daughter like we already surmise she might be. I think we should give it all to her."

Piper looked to Max and nodded. "That sounds like a good idea. It will help you to connect with her somewhat. In fact while you're in San Francisco, you both can stay in her room."

Just at that moment Leo orbed in.

"Well?" Phoebe asked.

"Well, they don't know anything about her, so she's definitely not a white-lighter," Leo answered.

"Then why can she do what you do?" Max asked.

"They can't explain it," Leo said. "But they do know about you, Max."

"And?" Piper said.

"She's Prue's daughter. Even Prue confirmed it via Grams. Since I'm your husband, even I'm not allowed to see Prue, yet," Leo said. "But while up there, I did talk to Grams. She told me that about a year before Grams died, Prue had finally confided in her about the six months she was gone."

"What did they say about Max's personal gain use?" Phoebe asked.

"It wasn't personal gain as far as they were concerned," Leo said. "Everything that happened in Arcadia Bay was meant to happen the way it happened. It seems Chloe's family, mainly the oldest of her two younger sisters has a destiny here in California and it was Max's use of her powers that insured the family moved from Oregon to California. Without that use they would have remained in Arcadia Bay and she would never have known of her destiny."

Just at that moment Cole shimmered in. "Whew. Sorry I took so long," he said. "I had to dodge a couple of bounty hunters."

"Did you find anything out?" Leo asked.

"You have no idea what I found out. Turns out the Source doesn't think she's a Whitelighter at all," Cole said as he sat on the arm of the couch next to Max. "In fact, he thinks she might be another… Charmed One. That's why he put Shax on it. He thought he ended the Power of Three. Now he's worried that this girl may somehow reconstitute it."

"No, but that's not possible. Is that possible?" Phoebe asked as Leo shrugged. They watched as Piper quickly stood and headed for the stairs. "Piper?"

"Piper?" Cole echoed as they followed Piper up the stairs and to the attic.

"What's going on?" Phoebe wondered as Piper moved over to the Book of Shadows.

"I'm going to ask Grams what's going on, actually," Piper said.

"How?" Chloe asked as Max shrugged. "Isn't their Grams, dead?"

"Grams?" Phoebe asked confused.

Piper nodded. "Mm-hmm. Your destiny still awaits, she says. There's a reason for everything, she says. So, it's time to summon her transparent butt back here and find out exactly what that reason is."

"Okay, but what should…" Phoebe started to say but was interrupted as Piper began to chant, ""Here these words. Hear my cry spirit from the other side. Come to me, I summon thee. Cross now the Great Divide!"

Piper lets out a semi-satisfied sigh as Grams appeared in a bright light.

"Piper?" Grams said started to find herself in the attic. "Why are you calling? P—Phoebe, wha—what's going on?"

"Is this their Grams?" Max whispered to Leo who nodded. "And she's dead?" Again he nodded.

"The spell Piper cast, can call a spirit," Leo whispered back.

"Grams, why does the Source think that the Charmed Ones can be reconstituted?" Piper asked.

"I do—I don't know what you're talking about," Grams lied.

Piper sighed. "You know what, Grams? You were a lousy liar when you were alive, and now as a ghost, you're worse."

"If you know something, Grams, you have to tell us. We deserve to know," Phoebe said. "Especially with Max being here. Is there something she can fix with her power?"

"It has nothing to do with her power," Grams said. "And I can't tell you, I'm sworn to secrecy."

"By who?" Phoebe asked.

"By me," came a disembodied voice. A woman appeared next to Grams. "By me."

"Mom?" Piper said.

"She's my grandmother, right?" Max asked.

"Yes, Max," the woman said. "I'm your grandmother, my name is Patty." She looked to Piper and Phoebe. "We didn't tell anybody because we were afraid that there would be reprisals, afraid that, you girls would be dined your powers. Your birthright. It happened after your father and I were divorced, when Sam and I were together."

"Sam?" Chloe, Max and Cole said at the same time.

"Her Whitelighter," Leo answered.

"Hmm," Cole said. "Apples don't fall far from the forbidden tree, I see."

"Shh!" Piper said. "Go on, mom."

"You and Phoebe were both toddlers," Patty explained. "You just thought Mommy got a little fat." She smiled. "You never knew I was pregnant."

"I was the only one who knew," Grams explained.

"And Sam, obviously," Patty added.

"Right. Well, yes, of course," Grams said acknowledging that Patty was correct.

"We wanted to keep the baby, of course. But mother –" Patty said.

"Well, I—I knew it would be disastrous," Grams interrupted. "You know, before you and Leo, Piper, it wasn't just forbidden. It was unthinkable for witches to be with Whitelighters. I mean, let alone have children with them."

"So, that's why we had to—why we decided … to give the baby up," Patty said. "Much for the same reasons Prue and Andy gave you up, Max."

"Prue was afraid I wouldn't let her keep you, Max," Grams said.

"Anyways Sam and I took our baby to a local church as soon as she was born. And we asked the nun there to find a home for her, and she found one. A very, very good home," Patty said.

Grams nodded in agreement. "Yes."

"Explains why the Elders didn't know about her," Leo said as he looked at Piper and Phoebe.

"That doesn't make sense why they knew about Max but not this supposed sister," Piper objected.

"Her power is what kept Max on their radar," Leo said.

"All right, hold it," Phoebe said looking at her mom. "Wait just one minute. Are you telling me, that that girl, our innocent, is really … our sister?"

Patty nodded. "Your baby sister."

"Their baby half-sister," Grams corrected.

"But by my half, which makes her a sister witch," Patty said. "Well, actually, not yet anyway. Not until all three of you are here together by the Book. Just like before."

"Charmed. Again," Grams added.

"And I thought my family was screwed up," Cole said.

"I was beginning to think the same thing," Max said with a sigh as Piper gave her a look. "Sorry ... I guess, Aunt Piper?"

"You're forgiven," Piper said.

Just at that moment two men walked into the attic.

"Well, I'll be damned," one of the men said.

"Darryl, do something!" Piper said as she looked at the second man, an African-American.

"He's a cop, Piper," Darryl said. "And he's got a search warrant."

"Inspector Cortez," Phoebe whispered to Piper, Max and Chloe, who had not been part of her earlier confrontation with Cortez.

"And believe me, I've found what I've been searching for," Cortez said Max began to raise her hand in preparation to rewind time. He turned his gun on her. "Ah-ah-ah-ah. Don't move. I'll shoot."

"Max, don't," Chloe whispered, "please."

"Okay Inspector, just put the gun down," Phoebe said. "There is a very good explanation for all of this. Feel free to chime in anytime, guys."

"My whole life, I suspected evil magic was real, that there was something more," Cortez said. "I've seem too many horrible things in the job to suspect otherwise, not the least of which are the two murders that happened here."

"Wait. Are you accusing us?" Piper asked.

Cortez smirked. "I've just begun to accuse you, lady!"

"All right, fine. You caught us. Congratulations. So what are you gonna do about it? Shoot us?" Grams said.

"Easy, Grams. Not all of us are dead, remember?" Phoebe said. She waved her hand at Max telling her not use her rewind power, just yet.

Max nodded as she lowered her hand.

"All right, look, you can't arrest us, especially not them. Nobody will ever believe you," Leo said.

"Maybe not at first," Cortez argued. "I'm putting this whole place under constant surveillance. I'm taping your every move. Sooner or later, I'll catch you doing something uh, supernatural, and then…"

Darryl quickly and quietly knocked Cortez out cold with the butt of his gun. "I think you've been through enough today, huh?"

"Thank you," Piper said.

"Darryl, go, get out of here. We don't want you to take the fall for this," Phoebe said.

Darryl shook his head. "No, it's okay."

"No, it's not. This is our problem. He wants to expose us, not you. Let us take care of this, please?" Phoebe insisted.

Darryl sighed. "If you need me, you know where to find me, huh?" he said as he turned and walked out of the attic.

"What are you going to do about him?" Chloe wondered. "When he comes too … And since you wouldn't let Max use her rewind …"

"Even if Max rewound time," Piper said. "We would have very little time to change things before they showed up."

"Piper is correct," Grams agreed. "Patty and I could go back up there. But that would have still left you all under surveillance."

"Time though is what you have at least bought yourself," Cole said. "Because he is gonna wake up eventually."

"Time what you're gonna need, especially if you're wanna save your…" Leo said.

"Sister?" Phoebe finished for her brother-in-law.

"Aunt?" Max added as Phoebe nodded.

"Well, what are you waiting for? Just write a spell. Get rid of him," Grams suggested.

"Uh, get rid of him?" Phoebe asked slightly confused at what Grams was suggesting.

"Well, you know what I mean," Grams said. "Dump him somewhere. Anywhere. With all the witches in this room, we oughta be able to do something with him. I mean, just start rhyming. Uh, take him back, take him away. Remove him now. Don't let him stay." She gestured to Phoebe.

"Oh. Uh," Phoebe said getting the idea. "We call the spirits to help undo and send him off to… Timbuktu." Cortez vanished from where he lay crumpled on the floor. "Whoa. It worked."

"Timbuktu? You sent him to Timbuktu?" Piper asked shocked Phoebe sent him to Timbuktu.

"All right, well, it was the only thing I could think of that rhymed with undo," Phoebe said.

"I can fix it," Max said as she held out her hand and rewound time. When time moved forward once more Cortez was once again crumpled on the floor. She quickly put her hand over Phoebe's mouth. "The only thing you can think of to rhyme with undo was Timbuktu?" She looked at Cole. "Could you take him somewhere?"

"Yeah," Cole said as he knelt down next to Cortez and shimmered out with the Inspector.

"Okay, well this is way too much for me to handle. Way too much," Piper said.

"Nobody can blame you for being angry, sweetie," Patty said.

"Angry?" Piper said angrily. "Yeah, I'm angry. Um, I'm confused and you know what? This—this is just crazy. You cannot float in here after all these years and go, 'Oh gosh, I forgot, by the way, you've got a sister.' Especially not today after learning that Prue hid the fact she herself had been pregnant and we had a niece all this time that we didn't know about."

"I know it's a lot, sweetie. More than anybody should have to deal with, but you're going to have to deal with it the best way you know how," Patty said. "Losing Prue, learning about Max, learning about another sister ... this is your path. This is your destiny. Get angry at it, cry about it, but don't fight it. Or it'll consume you."

"Come on, Patty. The rest is up to them," Grams said as she and Patty disappeared.

"I can't sense where she is because she's technically not a witch yet," Leo said as they headed downstairs.

"All right, so all we have to go on is that church that Mom mentioned and the nun," Phoebe said.

"Okay, let's get one thing straight. I am only doing this to save her. I'm not remotely interested in reconstituting...The Charmed Ones," Piper said as they reached the bottom of the stairs to find Paige waiting for them.

"I, the door was open," Paige said. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't be here.

"No, no, no," Phoebe said as she moved to stop Paige from leaving. "No, no. We were just coming to look for you."

"You were?" Paige asked confused.

Phoebe nodded. "Yep. Come on in. Welcome. I'm Phoebe. This is Max and her girlfriend, Chloe. And this is..."

"Piper," Paige said. "I know. I've been to your club. Pretty great."

Piper smiled. "Thank you. And you are?"

"Paige. My name is Paige," Paige said.

Phoebe glanced at Max and wondered slightly if Prue had followed the family tradition of names that start with P. She would have to ask Max to see her birth certificate later. She turned her attention to Piper. "Hmm. Another P. Imagine that."

"It's nice to meet you," Piper said as she shook Paige's hand.

"What is that?" Chloe asked as a blue light shone above Piper, Phoebe and Paige.

"I think that means Paige is supposed to be here," Leo said as the front door slammed open and a strong wind knocked them off their feet.

Max instantly recognized the demon from the roof as it materialized. She reached out her hand and rewound time.

"I think that means Paige …" Leo started to say as time started moving forward again.

"Move!" Max said as she shoved Piper, Phoebe, Chloe and Paige toward the stairs. "Incoming!"

Piper and Phoebe looked at each other. They didn't need any encouragement. They had seen enough of Max's power that day to know something had happened if Max had just rewound time. They dragged Paige up the stairs as Max and Chloe followed.

"What are we doing?" Paige asked.

"We'll explain later," Phoebe said.

"Okay, just say this spell out loud with us, okay?" Piper said as she flipped to a page on the demon in the Book of Shadows. "It was the one you saw on the roof earlier?"

"The one that you guys said was Shax," Max said.

"Spells, what are you guys, witches?" Paige asked.

Phoebe nodded. "And so are you. We hope."

"Well, we're about to find out," Piper said as Shax materializes from out of the tornado in front of them.

"Evil wind that blows," Piper, Phoebe and Paige chanted together, "that which forms below. No longer may you dwell. Death takes you with this spell."

Shax moaned in pain as he exploded.

"It's not enough," Phoebe said. "Shax was just the messenger. We gotta get the Source."

"The Source of what?" Paige and Chloe asked.

"Of all evil," Piper answered.

"What have you guys turned me into?" Paige asked as she turned and ran out of the attic.

"Paige?" Piper called after Paige.

"Wait," Phoebe added.