I'm very sorry for the loooong wait. Here's Phoebe's Memory....enjoy!!!

Part 6

"Have you worked out where we are yet?" Paige asked.

Leo shook his head, "No, but I've remembered the spell."

"Well don't keep us in suspense!" Piper snapped impatiently, still recovering from her memory.

"It was a spell to make those affected relive painful memories,"

The colour drained from Chris's face as Leo spoke. "Umm does that mean all of us?" he asked meekly.

"Well that explains why you went back to WWII and Piper was a Valkyrie again" Phoebe interjected, ignoring Chris.

"Ha! So is this umm gonna affect all of us?" Chris asked nervously, a hint of panic making its way onto his face.

"Well, the spell was kind of general, "Leo replied, eyeing Chris suspiciously, "so, it'll probably affect everyone who was in the room."

"Maybe it won't affect me cause I was...well...asleep!"

"I doubt it."

"What do you know?" Chris muttered angrily.

Piper rolled her eyes at the two of them and focused on trying to get back on subject. "Why would this demon do something like this?"

Leo's attention moved from Chris back to the girls. "I think this is the work of a stronger power..."

"Like?" Paige queried.

"I'm not sure yet,"

"Now there's a surprise!" Chris mumbled sarcastically.

Paige and Phoebe sent warning looks his way but only received a shrug from the witch-whitelighter.

Suddenly the scenery began to change around them once again.

"Here we go again..." Piper groaned.

Colours swirled together as images began to form. Everything appeared as if it were spinning and felt like if you were going round and round on a Merry-Go-Round. The images slowly began to sharpen and everyone gasped at the scene before them.

"We're...home?" Piper managed to stutter out in shock.

"It's another illusion created by..."

"One of our memories...got it!" Phoebe said tightly, finishing the sentence for Leo.

"Whose memory happened in the Manor then?" Paige asked.

Behind them Chris shifted uncomfortably and looked down at his feet but went unnoticed by the girls and Leo.

"Well, it's either you, Phoebe or Chris's, "Piper said, looking around the room trying to find something that could give them a clue. "I doubt its Chris's though! Why would his memory be in the Manor?"

"Yeah! Why would mine be in the Manor?" Chris said with a nervous laugh, all the while trying to avoid eye-contact with anyone.

"So, Phoebe or Paige?" Leo asked no one in particular.

"Err guys!?!"

Piper, Phoebe and Leo turned around at the sound of Paige's slightly scared and surprised voice.

"Oh my god," Piper gasped, "Wha...What is.....What's wrong with you two?" she spluttered, as she took in her youngest sister and their whitelighter.

Paige looked over at Chris or rather straight through him. Both she and the younger witch-whitelighter were almost completely transparent.

"Well, now you mention it, I do feel a bit..."Chris looked at his hand, waving it in front of him, "faint!"

The others just glared at him and Piper rolled her eyes at his joke and then turned to her ex-husband for answers.

"Leo, why...what's happened?"

"I...I don't know."

"I think it's safe to say this isn't Paige's memory" Chris said, frowning at the echo in his voice.

"Then its Phoebe's" Paige needlessly stated, an echo also in her voice.

"That doesn't explain why you two look....like you do!" Phoebe responded.

"Maybe it's because this memory happened before Paige and Chris were around?" Leo spoke up thoughtfully.

Piper frowned at this," but if that is true, then why were we all part of your memory?"

"I don't know," Leo replied slightly frustrated, getting fed up being asked questions he didn't know the answers too, "you took the places of other people that had been present at the time."

"Well, I wasn't there when Piper went all...loco...on everyone" Chris pointed out, unconsciously taking a step back from Piper.

Leo sighed in frustration, "but you were still actually in our lives" unfortunately he added silently, "otherwise Piper wouldn't have become a valkyrie in the first place!"

"Hey, I'm not the one who took away her emotions..." Chris growled angrily, the echo in his voice making him sound even angrier.

"Well, I wouldn't have had to do that if you hadn't..."

"Oh my god shut the hell up!" Piper yelled, "The both of you" she added looking pointedly at the two of them.

"But..." Chris started and then realised his error.

"Don't you but me young man!" Piper yelled again, causing Chris to cringe and lower his head to look at his shoes, "Can we focus on getting through Phoebe's memory please? Thank you!"

"I'm still not sure what memory this is..."Phoebe began.

She was interrupted by a bright flash of light and her, Chris and Leo vanished from view leaving Piper and a transparent Paige standing in the hallway.

Paige looked over at her eldest sister and frowned. Piper was standing opened mouth, gaping at the dark haired women and man; dressed in a doctor's coat; that had just appeared next to them.

"Piper, are you ok?"

"Prue?" Piper managed in a really soft whisper that only Paige picked up.

"Prue? This is Prue....oh no!"


 Meanwhile, Phoebe, Leo and a transparent Chris appeared in a dark, candle lit cavern.

"Are we in the underworld?" Chris asked, his voice echoing even more in the cavern.

"Looks like it" Leo replied.

"But why !?!" Phoebe gasped, as her formerly dead husband walked into the cavern.

"He knows. About you, about us," Cole said, oblivious to Phoebe's surprise.

"Cole? As in demon boyfriend...vanquished three times Cole?" Chris asked, coming to the conclusion that Cole couldn't see him.

"You know about Cole?" Leo whispered suspiciously, coming to the same conclusion as Chris.

"Hello! From the fu-ture!" he replied, pointed at his self with both hands.

"What do you mean?" Phoebe said, addressing Cole.

"He's offering a deal. He'll get Tempus to reset time if you stay...here," Cole replied solemnly.

"Oh no..."Phoebe paled and he hands began to shake violently.

"Phoebe, are you alright?" Chris asked, trying to make out what his aunt was muttering.

"No, please not this memory – I don't want this one!"

"What one?"

"Phoebe?" Cole's concerned voice broke through to her and she looked up at him. "He said it was the only way to bring one of your sisters back to life."


"They?" the man dressed in the doctor's coat asked.

"Yeah, demons. Uh, more specifically, Shax." The dark haired woman – Prue replied. "He was the source's assassin."

"Hold it, I get it! This is a practical joke, right? Do you have a hidden camera here? My second wife put you up to this? Ah, it's just like her" the man said, all the while laughing nervously.

"Ah poor guy, "Paige said, "hasn't even been attacked and he's already crazy!"

"O...o...okay, Dr. Griffiths, listen to me," Prue said, giving the man a funny look, "this is anything but..." She stopped talking altogether and shuddered, looking over her shoulder like she thought there was something there.

"Whoa...creepy."

Piper heard Paige gasp in shock and looked over at her puzzled.

"What?"

Thinking Piper was talking to her; after all there was no one else present that she could be addressing; Prue shook her head. "I don't know, I just felt a chill" she said, "Phoebe?" she called up the stairs, waiting for a response from her youngest sister but none came.

"Oh that was freaky," Paige said, "there was this dark shadow...thingy. It particularly tapped her on the shoulder!"

"Phoebe are you there?" Prue called again, more urgently this time.

"Where is Phoebe?" Paige asked Piper.

Piper leaned closer to her transparent sister and responded in a low whisper so Prue couldn't hear. "Underworld."

Just then Phoebe, Leo and a still transparent but quite fed up Chris appeared next to them.

"Or not..."

"We're not supposed to be here," Phoebe said, panic beginning to show in her voice, "It didn't happen like this!"

"I'm confused" Chris said, not liking the fact that he didn't know what was happening.

"Right there with ya!" Paige agreed.

"Phoebe?" Prue called in the direction of the stairs again, oblivious to the new arrivals.

"Well I'm guessing she can't see you guys either," Paige said, again needlessly pointing out the obvious.

"Maybe whoever did this just wants us to watch what happens?" Leo suggested, looking from Piper to Phoebe in concern, He was worried how seeing this particular event would affect the two of them.

"But...but...I never saw what happened before" Phoebe said in a small voice.

Suddenly a large tornado burst through the open Manor doors and everyone present turned to face it in shock and fear. It was in this moment that Paige realised what demon this was and what was about to happen.

"I'm guessing that's not your normal everyday tornado?" Chris said more as a statement than a question.

"Phoebe, where are you?" Prue's panic-ridden voice shrieked.

"Here...I'm right...here!" Phoebe cried in vain.

"Oh crap!" Piper groaned, just before the tornado knocked herself and Prue to the ground.

A clap of thunder reverberated around the Manor as the tornado began the calm down and took the form of a grey demon with a shock of white hair and dark, hollow eyes. There before them stood Shax – the only demon to have ever killed a charmed one.

"Dear god!" Dr. Griffiths managed, looking wide-eyed at the large demon.

"No!" Prue yelled, pulling herself up from the floor and pushing the doctor out of the way.

"No. Prue. Don't!" Phoebe cried, her eyes glistering with unshed tears.

Shax grinned menacingly. He formed a large energy ball and threw it straight at Prue. The ball hit her in the chest and sent her careering straight through a wall.

Chris's eyes widened and realisation dawned on his face. He knew what event this was now.

"Oh god" "No!" he heard his two aunts cry out.

"Piper?" the panic in his father's voice caused him to take his eyes off of the prone body of the aunt he never knew and over to where his mother was slowly getting up from the floor.

"I don't want to go over there," Piper cried in frustration, as if she didn't have control of her body at this particular moment, "no...don't get up! Stay down damn it!"

Unfortunately, Piper got up and found herself directly in front of Shax, who was preparing to throw another energy ball.

"Oh no you don't!" Chris shouted and moved to stand in-between Piper and Shax

"What are you doing?" Piper asked.

"Helping..." he replied matter-of-factly.

She shook her head and sighed, "I don't think..."

Just then Shax threw the energy ball towards them. The ball passed straight through Chris's transparent body and connected with Piper's stomach, sending her crashing through a wall landing next to her elder sister.

"Urgh!" Chris groaned, rubbing the area where the ball had passed through him, "that felt...weird!" He turned around and saw Piper lying deadly still next to Prue. "Mom!" he cried in a harsh whisper and ran to Piper's side.

"What are you?" Dr.Griffiths asked as Shax approached him.

Shax grinned and tilted his head. "The end!" he growled out, throwing an energy ball at the doctor. The doctor hit the window behind him, breaking the glass and landing on the sill – dead.

"Geez...how cliché is that," Paige muttered, "The end!"

Once the doctor was dead and Shax had surveyed his destruction he reformed into a tornado and twisted out of the doors. The Manor doors slammed shut behind him, shattering the windows.

"Leo...heal her!" Phoebe cried, running over to where Piper and Prue lay.

Leo nodded and moved over to heal Piper. He was shocked when he felt someone grab his arm and stop him.

"No Leo!" Phoebe cried, tears threatening to fall down her face, as she gripped his arm, "Prue! Heal Prue first!"

"Phoebe!" Leo gasped in shock, looking at her like she'd grown another head.

"Phoebe he can't do that!" Paige cried, equally as shocked as Leo by Phoebe's outburst.

"Yes he can...heal her. Heal Prue!"

"Are you crazy?" Chris angry voice rang out from next to her, his own eyes glistening. It was then they all realised that Paige and Chris were solid again. "No way! He's gotta heal Piper!"

"No!" Phoebe cried, taking no notice of the desperation on her future nephew's face, "Leo heal Prue!"

"Leo, don't listen to her. Heal Piper!"

Phoebe growled angrily and grabbed Leo's arm pulling him towards Prue, "Prue!"

"Piper!" Chris snapped, grabbing Leo's other arm and pulling him towards Piper.

"Prue!"

"Piper!"

"PRUE!" Phoebe screamed, tears falling freely down her face now. "Don't you understand? I want my big sister back!"

"She's already dead!"

"But he can save her now...I'm not going to lose her again. I couldn't bear that!"

"Yeah well. I...I...I'm not losing M...Piper!" Chris shouted back, so angrily that he almost gave himself away to Leo.

"What do you mean by that?" Leo asked suspicion evident in his voice.

"I...ermm..."

"Chris..." Paige suddenly cried in alarm, "You're transparent again!"

"What?" Chris looked down at himself and sure enough he was transparent, even more this time. "Piper!" he hissed frantically. "Leo, you've gotta heal her...now!"

"Please Leo...heal Prue!" Phoebe whined, too caught up in her pain to notice what was happening.

"Phoebe! Don't you get it?" Chris snapped, forcing Phoebe to look at him, "Piper's dying...for real! Do you really want to lose her too?" transparent green eyes bored into her own adding something silently that he hoped she pick up.

"I...oh god!" Phoebe cried, realising what Chris was saying, "I'm sooo sorry. Leo, heal Piper quick!"

Leo, however, was already in the progress of healing Piper. It seemed to take ages before she stirred, showing them just how close they were to actually losing her.

"Wha...what happened?" she asked, groaning as she held her head in her hands.

"You almost died," Paige said softly.

"But...I thought the idea was to make us watch and relive our memories," Phoebe said meekly, not believing what she had almost done.

"Yes" Leo confirmed, "And Piper was almost killed then. By putting us in our past selves places she could've died!"

"You mean...I almost killed her?"

"Yes!" Chris snapped angrily.

"Chris!!!" Piper, Paige and Leo yelled.

"Well it's true!" he mumbled, folding his arms across his chest.

"Oh I'm a horrible person!" Phoebe whispered, watching as Prue's body disappeared and the scenery reverted back to the bleak whiteness.

"No you're not Phoebe," Paige said softly, putting a comforting arm around her sister.

"Yeah! You only wanted Prue back," Piper added.

"But I almost got you killed Piper!"

"But I'm still here, and I always will be, right?"

Chris scoffed, "Yeah right!" he muttered, wiping a hand across his face.

"What was that?" Piper asked.

"Oh nothing..."


Back in the cavern the woman slammed her hands against the wall.

"Those damn whitelighters!" she shrieked, splashing the water's surface which had Chris's image on it.

"Why did he fade the second time?" the demon asked curiously.

"What are you on about?"

"The whitelighter," he said, pointing at Chris's image, "he faded a second time and then became solid once the witch was healed!"

"What does it matter? If you hadn't recited the spell when the whitelighters were around, I would have the Charmed Ones by now!"

"Don't try blaming this on me! You still have two remaining!"

"Two to go!" the woman mused, "The youngest sister! What memories does she hold?" She waved her hand across the water and Paige's face appeared.

TO BE CONTINUED....

Next Chapter: Paige's Memory