A/N : Just a quick warning to those who are asking who read my other fics: the stories that will be focused on updating rn are the Supernatural, and Charmed Fanfictions. I'll try to pick up the Fast and the Furious fic as well as the Grey's Anatomy fic in between but my focus rn is on Supernatural and Charmed. (As for the When Purgatory Falls series, Part One is finished and there's enough chapters posted in Part Two that i'm going to focus more on the Winchester Three series verses that one.) Thanks!

Charmed Again Part Two:

Summary: An 48-hour window endangers the Charmed Ones as Paige has yet to choose which side she'll serve, a flaw in the Grand Design which The Source employs to entice Paige to the side of evil.

The next morning in the kitchen of the manor Piper retrieved an ice pack from the freezer and placed it gently on Leos neck, "I don't understand how you can keep healing innocents, but you can't figure out a way to heal yourself."

"It's kind of hard to heal myself when I'm knocked out."

Phoebe and Pacey walked in, "Leo, how is possible for an angel to even get knocked out? I mean, you are, after all, technically dead."

"You know," Pacey grabbed one of the muffins she kept in the cupboard and turned back to the whitelighter, "I've always wondered that. How is that possible?"

Leo eyed them, "Three years together, and now you guys are asking these questions?"

"Well…" Pacey smiled, "Better late than never."

"I think the more appropriate question is, how does a white-lighter get somebody knocked up?" Piper eyed him pointedly and the other two giggled

Leo looked up at her, pale, "What's that supposed to mean?"

Pipers brow rose, "What do you think it means?"

"If it's about Paige, I swear, the Elders had no idea that she even existed, or that she was your sister."

Phoebe smiled, "Sister witch."

"Half-witch." Pacey mumbled a correction

"Half witch, half-whitelighter." Piper added, "Let's not forget that little surprise." She fiddled with Leos ice pack, "I still can't believe that Mom kept that secret from us."

"Well, it sounded like she didn't have much of a choice."

"Phoebe, everyone has a choice." Pacey stated, "She couldve- shouldve told us."

"We're her daughters." Piper agreed, "She could've found a way to share that information with us." The doorbell rang and Piper glared as she walked to answer it, "That better not be another long-lost relative."

"Oh, maybe its a brother." Pacey smiled, "With some hot single friends." the both of them eyed her and she shrugged, "What? Can't blame a girl for wishing."

All of them went to the door and greeted Darryl when he came in, he nodded, "Hi Piper."

"Hi there."

She closed the door and he started looking around, "Where's Cortez?"

Leo cocked his head, "Who?"

"Inspector Cortez - the one I hit over the head, the one you said you would take care of. He's missing. Police inspectors are not supposed to be missing. Where is he?"

"Well, uh," Phoebe looked at him, "I kind of sent him to…"

"Timbuktu." Piper finished, "It rhymed with undo."

"Timbuktu?" Darryl scoff

"It's okay." Leo dismissed, "Cole went to get him."

"Cole?"

Cole shimmered into the manor by the stairs, he stopped Phoebe from coming to him, "Wait." He readied an energy ball and a bounty hunter appears suddenly and strikes. The bolt of blue lightning misses Cole barely as he jumps out of the way and shoots his energy ball, killing the bounty hunter. He stood up smirking, "Damn bounty hunters… they're like gnats."

Darryl glared, "Where's the inspector?"

"Don't worry. I found him. Moved him to a place he can't tell a soul what he saw." He chuckled, "Literally."

"What do you mean?" Leo asked, "Where'd you put him?"

Cole gestured below him, "In the basement?" Phoebe asked

"No." Piper answered, "I think he means a little bit further down than that."

"Huh?"

"Hell, Pheebs." Pacey filled in

"Oh."

Leo motioned, "Cole, he's a cop. He's one of the good guys."

"He's also the one who can expose them as witches. I think that you, above anybody, would want to avoid that at all costs."

"Not at that cost." Leo argued, "We have to save him."

Darryl freaked, "Save him? What do you mean, save him? Wh-what's going on?

You know what, Darryl?" Phoebe offered a smile, "We are going to take care of this whole mess."

"Wait a second." He shuffled around them, "Hold-"

"No, no, no. It will all work out, Darryl. I promise." Pacey patted his arm as she led him out, "Just let us handle it and you don't worry about it."

After she joins the group again Piper turns to Leo, "Okay. Maybe you can talk to the Inspector, reason with him."

Cole, who was hugging Phoebe, bristled, "And what if he can't? What if you two get exposed? What's to say the same thing won't happened to you that happened to Prue?"

"Jeeze, Cole." Pacey glares, "Can you relax? We need to take this one catastrophe at a time. Those things are risks, we as witches, are just going to have to take."

"Yeah well, you know what? There's another risk you guys have to worry about."

Pacey sighed at him, "And what's that?"

"On the way back, I heard gargoyles."

"Gargoyles?" Piper repeated, "You mean like statues?"

"How do you hear statues?"

"That's only in they're in their resting state." He explained, "They come alive to ward off evil. In this case, I think they're trying to ward off the Source. I think he's surfaced."

"Wait - what?" Phoebe squeaked, "He's here? Now? Where?"

"I don't know. Could be anywhere. Or anyone."

"Probably came for Paige, but she doesn't stand a chance against him." Leo said grimly, "She doesn't even know what her power is yet."

"Well we can't fight the source ourselves." Pacey scoffs, "Not without Prue. Its freakin suicide."

"But you might with Paige - the new Power of Four."

Piper took a breath, "Can you sense her?"

"I don't think so." He shook his head, "She's too new."

"Well then we just have to start with the church Mom was talking about."

"Piper…"

"What? Phoebe, I'm not crazy about it, either, but we can't just do nothing about it - now. Mom wouldn't want us to... and neither would Prue."

Pacey paced all throughout her room later on sending an odd look here and there to Prue's room. The ache of her big sisters absence was deafening. That terrible moment she died was drilled hard into her memory and she hated that it was last time she would see her. Sighing she sat on her bed and absentmindedly fiddled with the pendent Prue gave he teen around her neck. Now all of a sudden they have another sister. To reunite the Power of Four. Pacey wasn't sure how she was supposed to feel. Happy wasn't at the top of the list though.

Piper ran in, holding the yellow pages, "Alright I think I found it. Come on."

Getting up she follows her to Phoebe's room but she's not there so they take another look into Prue's room. She was by the window, hidden by the wall, which is why Pacey didn't see her earlier.

"What are you doing in here?"

Phoebe turns around holding a leather jacket, her face is tear stained, "Do you guys remember the time I borrowed this from Prue without asking?

Piper looks from Pacey back to her little sister, "Which time?"

"When my boyfriend's cat peed on it. Oh. She got so mad, I thought she was gonna have a stroke." She whips her nose, "But the funny thing was, she got mad at you because she thought that you were the one that had borrowed it. And you never told her the truth. She never knew it was really me." Phoebe sobs and sits down on a red sofa. Piper and Pacey come over and sit beside her. Piper pulls Phoebe to her and embraces her sister, "I miss her so much.

"I know. Me, too."

"We all do, Pheebs." Pacey rubbed her knee

"We were wondering when you were gonna let go."

"I was just… I was trying to." Piper hands her a tissue, "Thanks. Stay strong, you know, keep it together for you guys, and… then I put all my energy into trying to save… Paige because I figured only one of us could break down at a time. Otherwise, all three of us would be useless." She sits up, "I'm scared. I mean… I'm really, really scared. She always took the lead. She was… she was our big sister. How are we supposed to go on without her? How are we supposed to go up against the Source without her?"

Pacey frowns, tears coming down her own cheeks as she watched her little sister, "I've been asking myself that same question.

Piper sighs, "I don't have the answers. But I do know that we can't let the bastard get Paige, either so, no matter what we think or feel, she is our sister. And sisters protect each other."

Pacey took a breath, "Let's get to the nun then."

Later on at the church...

Piper quietly knocks on the nuns office door before the three girls entered. The nun turned with a smile, "Yes, may I help…"

"Hi." Piper freezes Sister Agnes then turns to a very freaked out Paige, "Hey, what's up? We need to get you out of here."

Paige gaped, wide eyed, "What did you do to her?"

"Oh, she just froze her." Phoebe waved, grinning, "She'll be fine."

"Psh." Pacey laughs nervously, "Her powers have been off lately so it's lucky she didn't blow her up."

"Guys." Phoebe grows serious and points at the blanket Paige is holding

"Is that our blanket?" Piper tries to touch it, but Paige pulls it away

"No! That's mine! Leave me alone!"

Piper looks taken aback, "All right! Geeze!"

She turns to leave but the girls hurry and follow. "Paige wait." Pacey calls, "Just listen to us. Give us five minutes."

"Stop or I'll freeze!" Piper threatened and Paige stops and turns. Phoebe and Pacey stop as well.

Phoebe turns to Piper, "She's a witch. You can't freeze her."

"She doesn't know that."

"Will you please just leave me alone?" Paige continues to walk towards the main exit

"Look, we know what you're going through." Phoebe started, "We went through the same thing when we first found out we were witches, too."

"Look. You just gotta trust us. Somebody very, very bad is after you." Piper added

Pacey shouted, "And he's not gonna stop until youre dead, Paige!"

Paige stops and turns around, "Trust you? You just froze a nun. How do I know you're not the bad ones?"

Piper rolls her eyes, Well if we are, then you are, sister."

Paige turns to leave and Pacey took a breath stepping up, "Not helping, Pipes."

"What?" At her pointed stare sh motioned, "Fine. Then you try."

Pacey, exacerbated, threw out her hand and froze the door shut with ice momentarily, "Look, girlie, you have magical powers just like us. If not more." Paige stops, studies the door as well as her words and turns. The three shuffle closer to her, "At least, if you're really a Charmed One, our sister, you do."

Phoebe nods in agreement, "And the sooner you learn it, the sooner you'll be able to protect yourself."

"I have a power?"

"According to the prophecy, the third sister has the power to move things with her mind." Piper explained, "Like Prue could."

"How does it work?"

"You concentrate on an object like that candle right there." Phoebe points at the candle a few feet away, "And then you just wave your arm at it."

"Yeah…" Pacey waves her arm, "Prue usually does- uh did that…"

Paige tries it, but nothing happens. She looks to Piper Phoebe, and Pacey.

"Or, uh, you could squint your eyes." Piper offered, "She used to squint her eyes."

Paige waves her hand at the candle and squints but nothing happens to the candle. She turns back to the others, "Well, maybe I'm not one of you after all if I can't even make that candle…" She raises out her hand in the candle's direction. The candle is surrounded by blue and white bright lights and disappears and reappears in Paige's outstretched hand. Paige hands the candle slowly to Phoebe, "Oh."

Phoebe looked to her other sisters, "So.. perhaps the whitelighter in her makes it work differently?

Pacey blows out the candle and sets it aside, "Well She is a half-breed, so… different rules I guess."

A terrible screech is heard from outside and all the girls look at each other in shock. Paige backs up a little, "What is that?"

Phoebe shook her head, "I don't know."

Outside, the source who is now inhabiting Shane's body, Paige's boyfriend, places his hand up to the door. It glows red before blasting through Pacey's barrier and opening.

He steps inside then falls to the ground in pain, "Paige."

"Shane?" She rushes to help him, "What's the matter? My god, what happened?

"I don't know. Someone's after me."

"Come on. Let's get out of here."

She helps him up but Pacey looks to her two Halliwell sisters grimly, "That kids not human. His aura… it's- it's black. Not muddy or cloudy- black."

"The Source." They bolt towards her, "Paige!"

"Come back!"

"Stop! That's not who you think it is!"

He turns and fires a red bolt at the three of them. They scream and go flying backwards, sliding their way to the inside of the front of the church.

Piper glared as they got up, "What the hell was that?"

Sister Agnes stepped out of her office, "Good question."

Back at the manor...

The girls sat on the couch relaying the events to Cole and Leo who are pacing in front of them with their arms folded.

"So the Source was there, at the church?"

Phoebe watched him, "Well, the gargoyles weren't exactly whistling Dixie, Leo."

"And that kids aura screamed evil scumbag is hijacking me." Pacey explained, "Its was black."

Piper nodded, "Plus, something pretty powerful knocked us on our asses."

Cole sits down, "But if he was there, why didn't he try to kill Paige?"

"Maybe he didn't want to go up against the Charmed Ones."

He shook his head, "No, that doesn't make sense. He knows that Paige is new to her powers. If ever there was a time to attack…"

"Wait a minute." Leo stopped, "What if he's not trying to kill her anymore? What if he's trying to lure her to his side?"

"Huh?"

"Translation please?"

Cole snapped, "The mythological window."

Pacey looks between them, confused, "Yeah that explains Nothing."

"There's a window of opportunity, an opening."

"48 hours."

"Right," Leo agrees, "48 hours where a nascent witch who hasn't chosen to use her powers for good or evil yet can be swayed either way."

"Wait, so all he has to do is cast a spell on her?"

"No, he can't." Cole explained, "It has to be her choice, but he can tempt her, entice her. If he gets her to use her powers for evil…"

Leo sits, "She becomes evil forever."

Phoebe sighs, Pacey rolls her eyes and Piper scoffs, "Who makes up these cockamamie rules?" Cole looks down and Leo looks up, she waved them off, "Oh, never mind…"

"Well…" Pacey leans in, "We still have 24 hours to find her."

"Less than." Phoebe corrected grimly, "And no idea how to find her."

Piper rose a brow, "But I bet the Source does."