I lifted my head and saw Anna sitting on the couch, absentmindedly playing with Charlottes long brown hair. Charlotte was reading a magazine. I looked over and saw my mother in the conservatory watering the plants, while my dad helped my uncle Chris set up some kind of new table in the dining room. I was in the foyer, not two feet in front of the door.
"Glad you could join us." I turned to see my Grams descending the stairs with her two sisters behind her. Everyone looked over at me and smiled – Uncle Wyatt poked his head in from the kitchen to give me a wave and the rest of my cousins appeared from all around the house, throwing me smiles and waves from across the room.
"I'm dead." I said, understanding. This wasn't one of Barbos's tricks, or my mind playing tricks on me. That energy ball had been at full strength and it hit me square in the chest, sending the energy straight to my heart – stopping it.
"Will you stay with us?" Phoebe asked. She was no longer the old white haired woman I remembered, but young again – my age. So were Paige and Piper. Everyone else seemed to be going about their business – Wyatt and Chris were good naturedly arguing over something or other, my cousins all rushing around setting the table, my parents stealing a kiss behind one of the taller plants. Leo came over and squeezed Pipers shoulder before going over to talk to his two brother in laws, Coop and Henry.
"You have a choice." I looked back to Pheobe. "You can stay….or you can return."
"But I am dead." I repeated. All three sisters smiled.
"That never stopped us on more than one occasion." I looked around at my family, feeling all the warmth of being reunited, once again in the manor….
"Why would I want to leave?"
"To live a full life." I turned around and my mouth dropped open slightly. Prue stepped inside the house, hanging up her coat on the coatrack. She came over to me and put a hand on my shoulder. "You can stay and be with your family now. But you forfeit the chance to live a life we Halliwell sisters could never have – a normal one." I looked at her questioningly, but then I realized what she was saying.
"I am the last." I said slowly. "The Halliwell line has ended." I looked around at my family members, seeing not only my sisters, cousins, parents, and grandparents, but my great grandparents, great great grandparents, all those in our mighty history. I looked back at the three sisters – the Charmed ones. They were all smiling. Phoebe gave me a grin. Then I looked at Prue, brown eyes locking with brown eyes - I blinked and I was looked at myself in the mirror in the foyer.
Then I smiled….and slowly closed my eyes.
(And you thought I was going to end it all in one go but it wouldn't be Mina Grey if I didn't end it with a cliffhanger! Stay tuned for the season finale!)