Act Three
The next night at P4…
Pacey, Piper, Phoebe, Leo, and Cole are sitting in a vip area as a waitress, Megan, brings Cole and Leo their drinks. Cole nods, "Oh good, thank you."
"Thanks, too." Leo says before she leaves, "Feels good be here again."
"Feels good to be anywhere again." Cole chuckles
"I will drink to that." Phoebe says and they clink their drinks, "Don't ever scare me like that again."
"Promise." Phoebe smiles as she takes a drink
"Ugh." Pacey groaned, "Stop. You two are making me hate single life."
Cole laughs, "Well get out there. Mingle."
She grimaced and Phoebe eyed her, "That guy at that bar keeps staring at you."
She scoffs taking a big sip of her drink, not wanting to even look his way, "Yeah. Well he can look the other way."
Phoebe frowned, remembering the last boyfriend she had who passed away because of a demon, "Sweetie you know it's been over a year almost."
"I know. I'll get there." She smiled enough to let her know not to worry, "I'll be okay, Pheebs."
Leo turns to Piper studying her, "You okay?"
"I'm not sure."
"Prue?"
"Yeah." She took a deep breath, "We barely got through the funeral and then everything started to go crazy and we haven't had a chance to mourn yet. And that's just not right."
Phoebe took a sigh herself, "I think we'll have the rest of our lives for that."
Piper shook her head, "I'm still not sure about continuing on with this destiny thing. I need some time to think about it. I hope you two are okay with that."
"Definitely." Pacey nods, looking t her drink, "It's… a lot for me too. Without Prue it just doesn't seem right." She looks to their little sister, "That okay Pheebs?"
"Absolutely."
Piper turned to Leo, "And I hope you're okay with it too."
"They may not be," he motions to the elders, "but I am." He takes her hand just as Paige walks up
"So does this mean I get free drinks now?" Phoebe Chuckles a little as Piper and Pacey eyed her, "Oh, I didn't mean it like that. It's not that I really drink or… Okay. I'm just gonna go." She begins to leave, but Leo stands up and stops her
"No, Paige. You belong here, remember?"
"You sure? I don't want to intrude."
"Mmm. Come on. Come sit right here." Cole goes over to stand next to Leo as Paige sits down next to Phoebe
"Okay, so, uh, maybe Leo and I should go uh… pretend like we got something better to do."
Pacey smiles, "Probably a good idea, guys."
"Yeah." Come nods before he and Leo leave
"I won't stay long. I just wanted to, uh, come by and thank you."
Phoebe looked her over, "For what?"
"For what? You mean, beside from saving my life." She chuckles, "I feel like I should bake you a cake or something."
Piper leaned in excitedly, "Do you cook?"
Paige frowned, "No, no. Not really."
Phoebe looked her over, "So how's Shane?"
"He's okay, I guess, except I'm not to sure he wants to see me anymore."
"Oh, I'm sorry."
"No. Can't say I blame him. You know? He doesn't know exactly what happened to him, but he knows its something bad and he knows it's somehow connected to me."
"Yeah, well, you're not truly one of us until you've dated a demon, so, welcome to the club."
Pacey laughs at that, "Or a warlock. In Pipers case. Or a Ghost in mine."
Phoebe shook her head, "Can I ask you a question?"
"Hm-mmm."
"Why did you come to Prue's funeral? I mean, you never even met her, right?"
"No. I never did. I don't want this to be taken the wrong way, but... I just feel like a part of me lost her too and I just... I felt drawn to her, to all you guys. I guess it was just a part of me trying to find out who I was."
The girls all study her for a second before Piper pats her leg and gets up, "Come on. There's something we need to show you."
"Show me what?"
"What good magic can do."
Epilogue: In the attic...
In the attic of the manor Phoebe lights the last two candles in a circle and then join Piper and Pacey by the Book of Shadows as Paige watches on, "'Here these words. Hear my cry spirit from the other side. Come to me, I summon thee. Cross now the Great Divide.'"
Patty appears in a bright light, "There's someone here we thought you should meet." Phoebe motions and Patty looks at Paige
"Paige."
"Mom?"
Patty steps outside the circle and becomes real. She hugs Paige, who smiles after the hug, "Welcome home." She hugs her again as Piper, Pacey and Phoebe watch on the tender moment
