Chapter two: Where things went wrong
"He took Phoebe" she said to Leo, as tears streamed down her face.
He just looked to the ground, ignoring her. It wasn't about her, although, it was about him: he was drained, all his energy was gone. He could feel his wings were about to be cut off at any moment.
Paige understood he wasn't really there and orbed out, just because, to anywhere. When she opened her eyes, she could see Prue's grave before her eyes. She had been there only one time and that was when Piper became a fury.
"At least they're with you now...they missed you" she said, sitting down, like a little girl. "I wish I could have became as good as you were, even a half of what you where would have been enough..." she sobbed.
Cole was in the room he used to share with Phoebe. She was lying on bed, he had put her some clothes on and just pretended she was sleeping.
"I'll be back soon, wait for me" he said, shimmering out of the room.
He appeared somewhere in the underworld.
"What..."
"Shut up" said Cole, killing all the guardians of a book and breaking all the protections it had. He approached and took it, but he felt his hands burning. It was painful but he was not going to give up on his only one shot. He fought, he felt he couldn't, and when he thought he couldn't keep holding the book, he fell on his back with the book on his hands.
Leo wasn't crying anymore. He was just holding Piper in silence. He knew the Elders were not going to help him, and despite he had blocked all signals from up there, he could sense there was a huge mess, but nothing compared to the mess inside his heart. He touched her bleeding stomach, there was no life in there anymore. He pursed his lips. It had been so hard for them conceiving, their kid had been a miracle. They had decided to fight for her and make up for all the damage their society had done to Paige, Sam and Patty back then and now...dreams. An illusion. All was gone. His little girl would never call him daddy. He would never be jealous of her boyfriend, or walk her to the groom on her wedding day. He would never carry her on his arms on a sunny day in the park, or walk her to her school, or argue about the length of her skirt. All what he had dreamed with was gone. His life was gone. Piper was gone and their child with her.
At the cemetery, Paige finally lost patience and broke. Her throat was dry and her her hands in fists, her vision was failing.
"Can't none of you see I'm alone?" she yelled, talking to her sister, mother and grandmother's grave, "Can't you see there's no one around and I don't know what to do? Piper and Phoebe are dead, they're dead and I'm lost" she screamed, hitting the grave, "Why I always end up alone and clueless? Why is is so hard for me getting a little bit of help? What would you have done, Prudence?" she shouted, falling on her knees.
The answer hit her with the voices of her sisters telling her stories about Prue and how strong she was. She knew that the only thing she had left was taking all the Halliwell traits she had and making them work along the Matthew's. She was decided to do anything in her power and beyond to bring her sisters back to life, even giving her own in the try.
Paige's breath was uneasy and her heart was beating way too fast, but she didn't care: this was war, her war, the most important war of her life and it was time to stop crying to start moving. She closed her eyes, she smiled thinking about all the love she felt for her family, and she orbed. Both, Cole and Paige appeared in the Turner's room at the apartment.
"What are you doing?" she asked, looking at Phoebe on the bed, kind of confused.
"Don't yell she's resting", he told her, really serious.
Paige shook her head. He had lost it, definitely.
"Ok I don't have time for this" she said, ignoring his dementia to orb to her, but when she tried to orb back to the beach, Cole stopped her.
"Where you think you're going?," he asked, in a condescend tone.
"I won't stay here prentending they're alive when they aren't. Because, one, it's creepy" she said, giving him a look, "and two, I'm not like that. I'm going to find a solution," she finished, finally orbing.
This time Cole didn't stop her. He was more powerful than her and he could wait a few more hours, besides, he knew she wouldn't hurt her, right now, he needed to check the book he had in his hand that gladly she hadn't seen.
Leo saw Paige orbing with Phoebe, and her new attitude awakened him a little, but not enough.
"We need to go home", she told him, stretching her hand to him.
Leo looked at her and they orbed together to the Manor. Once they got there, they placed the bodies on a sofa in the attic.
"There must to be something" she said, flipping through the book's pages.
"They won't help us" he said, referring to the Elders.
"But we won't give up. You won't give up, will you?"
Leo shook his head. His red eyes looked into Paige's white eyes, she wasn't crying anymore, she was in a warrior's attitude.
"Are you looking for this?" asked Cole, shimmering with a sheet of paper on his hand.
"What's that?" asked Paige, trying to take it, but he didn't let her.
"The solution to our problem", he replied, letting her look, but look only.
"Our?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Your sister, our wives, our family, our problem" he said, walking to them. The Book of Shadows immediately closed.
"You're still evil" said Paige.
"I'm all you got since the good guys won't help", he smirked, balancing on his heels.
Paige had to nod. Leo just looked at him.
"Spit it," she demanded with her chin.
Cole smiled inside, knowing that they were going to accept anything, no matter what. Then started talking.
"First, we need a spell that invokes all your family line to help us with their power, another with mine, but that's nothing if we don't use nexus"
"You lost your mind?" asked Paige, "Do you think I'll believe you after all you've done? Do you think I'll just give you the source of all power just like that?".
"You alone can't fight me, I can kill you in a snap and take this place and conquer the magical word in another if I want, I don't need your permission".
Paige looked at him, clenching her jaw. Her back tensed immediately. He was right and she hated to know that. She was as fragile as a dandelion. It was matter of seconds for her to be killed by any kind of upper demon, and if he didn't kill her it was only because of Phoebe's memory. She knew that.
"Phoebe is dead, Piper is too. Won't you take the risk?" demanded Cole, afraid of her refusal: he needed all the magic he could gather and even though the Charmed ones no longer existed, Paige was still a powerful witch.
"I hate to know you're right and that we have no more options" she said, heartbroken and desperate.
Cole nodded.
"Let's move then. Leo?" asked at the man crying over his wife's body.
"Count on me" he assured, jaws clenched. There was no longer a good side or a bad side for him at the moment, there was only a chance to get Piper back side. It wasn't that he had sold his morals to a love, no, it wasn't that: it was that Cole was right in what he said, he could do that himself, he didn't need them, so getting Piper and Phoebe back was actually the only way to stop the madness coming. And also, to save his heart.
"Paige is powerful but she's not the power of three, we need your white good magic to increase hers and the Halliwell line to do the same. We will need Piper's and Phoebe's blood".
"What if this doesn't work?" she asked.
"We have no more chances and the war between good and evil begins; it's in the evil's favor and since you're gonna die first, because mmm, everybody hates you and your line, including your whitelighter," he said, looking at Leo," and you have no reasons to stay alive since well, the girls, I'd recommend you hold on until your last breath".
Paige and Leo looked at each other, knowing he was right: they had to succeed or die trying.
Cole gave them the instructions and everybody started doing their part. Once everything was set, they were ready to sit on the area they had prepared around the nexus. Leo was nervous about what he was doing, he had been serving the good side for years and now, he was using the nexus for semi-selfish reasons.
"What?" asked Cole, looking at him with a severe expression.
Leo just shook his head and sat. Cole smiled to himself.
Paige sat to the right side of Leo and sighed. Cole sat to her right and to Leo's left. He handed them a spell with his family line, and all of them started the ritual after he had explained to them all they had to do. For them it felt extremely weird practicing that kind of black magic, to Cole, it had never felt better; Paige's magic was a plus even when he could sense the white in it. When they finished, both, Paige and Leo, gasped. Feeling their chests as if they had a rock over them.
"Now, the Halliwell line spell" asked Cole.
Paige took a deep breath and thought sorry to her ancestors before starting:
Phoebe, Piper, Prudence, Penelope, Patricia, Melinda…
Astrid, Helena, Laura and Grace,
Halliwell Witches, stand strong beside us
Vanquish this evil from time and space
Cole took a knife and everyone spilled some of their blood in a pot with many ingredients previously mixed, including Piper's and Phoebe's.
Magic of the nexus working for good and bad,
don't make distinction between white and black,
focus in power and make our rise,
please accept our offers and take us back,
bring us to the past where the fate of the ones we miss stopped going right.
To...whenever things started to go wrong we need to go,
to whenever things started going wrong we need you to send us all.
Please, send us to the moment we lost the ones we love.
Please, send us, to the moment where things went wrong.
A white light wrapped and elevated them a few inches from the floor while the house shook violently. Frames and vases fell down to the floor as the windows from the attic to the conservatory got crashed, shattered and broke. The chandelier of the living room lit up in a blueish splendor, making the vision so painful that the group had to release their hands to cover their eyes, hiding their heads in their arms. Within two seconds, Paige, Leo and Cole felt their bodies heavy as plumb and were dragged in a quick move to the ground before melting into the nexus as the house stopped moving and all colors went back to normal.
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