Chapter Twenty-Six: Power Hotage
Synopsis:
About to die of frost, Billie and Taylor quarrel over casting a spell. In the meantime, the Charmed Ones search for Leo, hoping to get rid of Christy in the process. One of the sisters might need her powers to expend.
"You know what I mean." Taylor looked at her intently.
"I do, but it's still funny. Now the conjuring please; I'll be dead in five seconds flat." Billie was trying to look more certain than she really was, standing strong before her friend.
"OK, but let me tell you I hate you." Taylor turned around, pouting.
"Quick!"
"Alright, alright, it's comin', it's comin'!" Taylor closed her eyes. After a few seconds though, she opened her eyelids slowly, uncertainly, checking if Billie was looking at her.
"T.!" Billie shouted the nickname angrily; her lips trembled and were turning blue. She tried to restrain herself from shaking, closing her mouth tight together.
"Oh, I'm so sorry, Bill, I just can't!" She rushed to Billie's side and hugged her to try and keep a semblance of warmth in-between them.
"It's OK," Billie said faintly. "I wish I had my projection power."
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Phoebe fell on her knees in the wet, cold snow. She couldn't take it anymore. The cold all around her. The cold all inside her. The cold coming from Piper's heart. It was just too much.
"Up." Piper stood straight, expressionless, not trembling … in the outside anyway.
Paige helped Phoebe on her feet again. All three women were tucked in big coats, scarves, gloves and bonnets but Phoebe still couldn't handle the frosty air and the newly blowing wind didn't help … perhaps Piper's internal hurt wasn't much of a pick-me-up either.
"I'd like to see if you'd act that feeble if it were Coop's life at stake here", Piper said, mean.
"I love Leo as much as you do," retorted Phoebe, holding up on Paige's arm. "At least I never tried and blew him up."
"Enough!" Paige demanded. "Guys, shut up and foc– Oh God!" Paige suddenly fell victim to the frost too, but an inner kind at that. "You stay here," she commanded the other two. "I'll be right back." As she dissolved into orbs, she shouted, "And don't kill each other or I'll torment you in the grave!"
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Paige reappeared some yards away from where she stood with her Charmed sisters. Instantly, she spotted Billie and Taylor lying in the snow cover, Billie mumbling incomprehensible words, her eyes rolling in their sockets.
"Oh my God, you stupid bimbos!" She ran to them the best she could and knelt next to them, grabbing both their hands and orbing out once more.
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All three materialized in Billie's dorm room, Billie and Taylor lying in the same position they were in before, only now on the bed as Paige sat next to them and raised her hands above their white, frozen skin, whispering, "Time to see if Phoebe was right when she said Leo warmed up her tea."
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