Chapter 4
"Is there someone here that can comfort you in this time of need?" an EMT asked phoebe as she was sitting on the steps with her hands covering her face, and her tears.
"Oh…yeah. My sister is upstairs." Phoebe responded as she raised her head.
"Does your sister know about the situation?" The EMT asked.
"Yes. She just doesn't want to be down here right now." Phoebe said looking at the black body-bag that her eldest sister now laid in. The EMT noticed this and stepped in the way so she wouldn't see.
"Well we are going to take her to the coroner's office and in just a few hours he will call and tell you the cause of death. If it was murder, then after you hang up with him, you need to call the police and let them know." Just as the EMT was finished Darryl, a lieutenant for the SDPD, and also a friend of the Halliwell sisters walked through the front door.
"Thank you Bill," Darryl said to the EMT that was talking to Phoebe, "I got it from here."
"Yes Mr. Morris. Call us if you need anything else." The EMT, now identified as Bill said to inspector Darryl Morris. Bill grabbed a bag full of things he might have needed to bring Prue back to life and walked out the door.
"I was right in the middle of a meeting when I heard. I came as soon as I could. Where is Piper? Is she okay?" Darryl asked phoebe who was now wiping the tears from her eyes.
"Yeah, she is upstairs in the attic." Phoebe said as she got off the steps and began to walk up them. Darryl followed.
"Piper, they took Prue away." Phoebe said as she opened the door to the attic. She looked around not. Piper was nowhere to be seen. Phoebe noticed a not on the table. She grabbed it and got sucked into a premonition.
Shax was standing in front of a cloaked figure in a cave. Piper walks up and Shax turns around. The cloaked figure flames out as Shax and Piper shoot evil glances at each other.
"Did you just have a premonition?" Darryl asked Phoebe.
"Yeah. When I touched this note I saw Piper and it looked like she was getting ready to take out some revenge on Shax." Phoebe said.
"What is a Shax?" Darryl asked.
"Never mind that." Phoebe said and she began to read the note aloud. "Dear Phoebe, I know I said that I was sorry and that I wouldn't go after Shax but I have to! Prue means everything to me and I need her back! Love, Piper."
Phoebe looked down at the table and saw a map to San Francisco and saw a crystal from where Piper had been scrying for Shax.
"The park? That makes no sense! Why would Shax hide out in a park?" Phoebe asked. "Whatever. I have to try it! LEO!" Phoebe called for her whitelighter and he responded quickly to the call.
"Yes Phoebe?" Leo asked as he orbed into the attic.
"Take me to Golden Gate Park NOW!" Phoebe demanded. Leo looked puzzled "Don't ask questions just orb! NOW!"
"Okay, that's fine. You guys just go and I'll catch up." Daryl said as he watched Phoebe and Leo orb out of the attic.
"Is the doctor dead?" A devilish voice asked Shax in a cave.
"Yes." Shax replied.
"And the witches? Are they gone too?"
"Yes."
"I wouldn't go that far." A voice from behind Shax said. It was Piper.
"You idiot! You didn't kill them!" The cloaked figure said as he flamed out.
Piper and Shax stood and looked at each other. After a few moments, Piper made the first move. She raised her hands and extended them to their fullest length and opened her palms. When she did this a blast of fire came out of Shax's chest and he flew back. When he got up he threw an energy ball at Piper. This time she was ready for one of his deathly attacks and pulled a metal pipe that she had strapped to her back and swung at the energy ball. It went zooming back at Shax and hit him right in the chest. Piper got out a piece of paper from her back pocket and began to chant the vanquishing spell that she needed to kill Shax.
"Evil wind that blows,
That which forms below."
Shax threw another energy ball and Piper froze it when it was right at her chest. Because Shax was an upper level demon, neither he, nor his powers would stay frozen for long. The energy ball broke through the freeze and hit Piper. She flew up against the wall as Leo and Phoebe orbed in.
"Leo, heal her!" Phoebe said as she picked up the paper that Piper was reading from. She began to read the spell aloud remembering that it wounded Shax this morning with only one person saying it.
"Evil wind that blows,
That which forms below.
No longer may you dwell,
Death takes you with this spell."
Shax blows up right in front of Phoebe's eyes just as he did this morning. Phoebe turns around to see that Piper has finally woken up.
"What the hell where you thinking Piper?" Phoebe said in a mean tone.
"I needed to get him back! For Prue." Piper said in the same tone as Phoebe.
"DAMMIT PIPER YOU COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED!" Phoebe yelled. Piper began to cry and held her face in her hands.
"Oh my god! I am so sorry! Please forgive me! Please forgive me! Please!" Piper repeated over and over. Phoebe knelt down next to her sister and held her as she herself began to cry. The two sisters held each other and cried as Leo orbed them home.
For conclusion, please watch "Charmed Again Parts 1 and 2" in Charmed's season 4!
