I placed four crystals in a circle and held the fifth in my hand. I looked around and caught the eye of Dimitri while he stood in the living room doorway. He was watching me with a thoughtful look in his eyes. He was studying me. I gave him a smile that I hoped told him that I loved him but I had work to do before I went back to the kitchen.
"Paige, can you hand me the cockle shell for the potion?" Phoebe asked me.
I handed it to her. "You're making the Belthazor vanquishing potion. Why? Cole doesn't have his powers back from when he was that demon does he?"
"Most likely. He doesn't have his Source powers and even if this potion doesn't kill him, it can at least weaken him because it is for upper level demons as well. I hope." Phoebe stirred the pot fiercely. Piper looked up from her potion and gave me a worried look. Phoebe was rambling about this vanquish.
"I'm going to check on Wyatt and Leo. I'll be right back," Piper said as she turned off her burner under her potion and left the room.
I leaned against the counter and held the crystal in my hand. I turned it around and around, staring at the different cuts in the pressurized rock. I was so caught up in the rock, that when Phoebe spoke, it startled me.
"Where's Paige? What did you do to her?"
It was so deathly calm that I almost leapt out of my skin.
"What are you talking about? I'm right here," I said like my sister was nuts.
"What happened to Paige?" Her voice rose a little.
"Phoebe?" I asked. The wild look in my sister's eyes told me that something was wrong. "Phoebe, it's Barbas!" I told her. I was getting a bad feeling about this.
Suddenly, Phoebe kicked out and hit me square in the stomach. I flew back against the cabinets and the crystal fell from my hands. I straightened up as best I could before Phoebe roundhouse kicked me in the face and I fell through the kitchen door and into the dining doorway.
"Phoebe!" I yelled as I scrambled backwards away from her.
My sister grabbed me by the shirt collar and pulled me close enough for her to punch me in the face. I felt my lip pop open and blood begin to pour out. She yanked me close again before speaking in a flat, angry tone.
"This time, I'm going to vanquish you for good."
"It's me, Paige!" I tried again to snap her out of the hallucination. It didn't work.
I got another punch on the cheek but Phoebe let go of me so I flew across the floor and into the table, breaking the wood. I felt hot tears flow down my face as I realized that my sister was gone.
"Phoebe, come on, it's me, this is a hallucination!"
Phoebe lifted me up and threw me. I landed on a glass table in the conservatory and I stayed on the ground. I was too weak to do anything but breathe and cry. Phoebe came over me with a knife in her hand.
In one last feeble attempt to save my life, I tried to use my powers. I waved my hand but nothing happened.
You're powers don't work. They aren't yours. They've always been Prue's and you are not her. You'll never be her. You'll die a failure.
The voice in my head was the last thing I heard as I felt the smooth blade of the knife pierce my skin. Phoebe's ragging eyes was the last thing I saw before everything went black.