DarkPriestess66 says This is more Charmed then Harry Potter, also I'm using some of the script from a site I found for Charmed eps. So not mine.
Alexis sat in Prue's room feeling very useless, she should have been here. She should have helped vanquish the demon that murdered her oldest sister. She glanced at the digital clock and it read 3:53am. She had stayed up all night, she decided to go up to the attic and look at the book.
"Piper?" Alexis asks as she goes to sit beside her sister, "Can I help?"
Piper didn't say anything,
"Hear now the words of the witches, the secrets we hid in the night. The oldest of Gods are invoked here, the great magic is sought." Piper and Alexis start to chant in a disparate way,
A candle flickers. They are surrounded by herb jars, chalices and other ritualistic items.
"In this night and in this battle, We call upon the ancient power."
Alexis looks up and closes her eyes. "Bring back our sister. Bring back the Power of Four."
Piper has her eyes closed for a prayerful beat, then she opens them, looks at the candle, but sees nothing. Blindly determined, she starts flipping through pages until she finds another spell, To Call a Lost Witch. She expertly finds and mixes certain ingredients: rosemary, cypress, yarrow root into a silver bowl as they chant from the book.
"Power of the witches' rise. Course unseen across the skies. Come to us, we call you near. Come to us and settle here."
Then, she finds an athame and slices the left finger of her left hand so that blood can symbolically spill directly from her heart and into the bowl. "Blood to blood, We summon thee. Blood to blood, return to us."
A faint gust of wind flickers the candle, but not much else. She buries her face in her hands in defeat. Alexis lets out a sob as she lays her head in Piper's lap.
"Piper? Lexi?" Phoebe asks Piper looks up, hopeful. Alexis raises her head in hope.
"Prue?" Piper asks She and Alexis looks at the candle. Phoebe enters, wearing her nightclothes and jacket. She has a tear-stained face.
"Sweetie, it 4 o'clock in the morning. What are you doing?" Phoebe asksPiper and Alexis doesn't answer, they just stare blankly at the book. Phoebe notices Piper's bleeding and gets a towel. "You're bleeding."
Piper doesn't notice or doesn't care. Phoebe finds a clean cloth, takes Piper's hand and wraps the wound. Alexis finally blinked and stuck her finger in her mouth to stop the blood.
"I don't understand why magic can't fix this. And why we can't bring Prue back. It's not like we haven't cheated death before. I don't understand why this time isn't any different." Piper stated after a while.
"I should have been here, if I was then Prue would still be here," Alexis blamed herself, she even thought about blaming Dumbledore and McGonagall for sending that stupid owl that changed her life.
"Because Leo or Carmela can't heal the dead, Piper, Alexis. You both know that." Phoebe reasoned.
"There's other magic, magic that we've used before." Piper argued as She flips through the pages and fights the tears. "Scrying, calling a lost witch, reversing time." She closes the Book of Shadows. She stands up. "It's like the book just deserted us and deserted Prue, and I don't understand why."
Alexis held one of Piper's hands, as tears were rolling down her cheeks for the second time, Phoebe takes Piper's other hand, holds them both, shares her pain.
"We lost our sister. How can we ever understand that?" Phoebe paused "We've tried every magical way to bring her back… but we can't. She's gone."
Their eyes well up as they face the harsh reality, then they fall into each other's arms. It's a nightmare neither one of them can ever wake up from. "I just - I thank God that I didn't lose you too." Phoebe gives her a little kiss. She breaks the hug. She sighs. "We have to get some rest. Prue will never forgive us if we look bad at her funeral."
Piper and Alexis can't help but smile through the tears at that. Piper stands, looks down at the Book of Shadows one last time before closing it. Arm-in-arm, they exit, shutting the door behind them.
Alexis crawled into the bottom bunk bed, she had in her room,
"Lexi?" whispered Harry, he was on the top bunk.
"Yeah?" Alexis asked as her voice was lacing with sorrow.
"I know I haven't been here long enough to be part of the family, but I miss her too." Harry stated. He sat up and hopped down from the top bunk and sat beside Alexis. "it's strange to miss someone you never even knew."
Alexis scooted over, "I don't think I managed to sleep by myself. Would you mind just sleeping in my bed?"
Harry shook his head and laid down. The teens just stared at each other for a while before sleep claimed them.
In the morning, Alexis dressed in black dress in the bathroom as Harry was changing in their room. Since they shared a bedroom at the manor. She stared at her reflection, her purple streaked hair was longer then now after three years, she was growing into a beautiful young woman, some would even say she looked like the actress Megan Fox. She thought about just wearing her school robes, it would be better.
She heard the doorbell ring, "Coming!" she walked down the stairs and into the foyer, and opened the door, there stood Victor Bennett, piper and phoebe's father. And she guessed in someways Victor since coming back into their lives, he had adopted her as well.
"Hi dad." Alexis greeted, "Come in."
Victor walked and hugged Alexis, then went into the living room and sat down.
Alexis just touched his shoulder then walked away to check on Phoebe, who was dressed dressed for the funeral, adjusting some flowers on the table.
"Dad's here. Pheebs." Alexis informed,
"Thanks, sis." Phoebe replied.
Carmela orbed down into the kitchen and walked into the parlor, she was dressed in black, "I'm not here from them, Prue was my friend, I'm here to offer my support that's all."
Phoebe nodded, then left to go into the living room,
"Carmela, you're one of my best friends, but your status isn't helping right now, could you check on Harry?" Alexis asked.
Carmela nodded and left.
Alexis walked back into the living room, where Victor, dressed in a dark suit, is sitting on the chair, staring vacantly at the floor.
"Can I get you anything?" Phoebe touches her dad tenderly on the shoulder. He looks up at her.
"Oh, no thanks sweetie." Victor replies,
Phoebe waters a plant and fiddles with a few plants. Phoebe looks up to find Leo entering the parlor with Cole. Both men are dressed in suits.
"Look who's back." Leo stated. Alexis turned and smiled at Cole, she was filled in by Leo that Cole saved Phoebe's life while they were in the underworld trying to reverse time to save Piper from dying, but they lost Prue instead. Just thinking about what happened made more tears form in the teen's eyes.
"Cole!" Phoebe exclaims then runs to him and embraces him in her arms and then releases him. "I was afraid you weren't going to make it to the funeral."
Alexis bit her lip as she watched the two embrace, this was only of her worries about dating Cedric, the losing him to evil.
"Well, I - I can't make it… or, shouldn't anyway. The Source has got every demonic bounty hunter out there looking for me." Cole replied,
"Yeah. So what else is new?" Phoebe asks
"This is different. Saving you makes it different, makes me a traitor - and he not going to stop until he finds me and I don't want that happening at Prue's funeral." Cole answered.
Alexis walks over to Cole, and places a hand on his arm, seeing as it was the only place she could reach. "We'll protect you,"
Cole turned to look at her, "You can't protect me."
"Why not? We're still witches, aren't we?" Phoebe asked.
"Yeah, but you're not the Charmed Ones anymore." Cole answers.
Phoebe finds herself at the partially repaired, unpainted wall where Prue died. Leo steps in.
"He's right, Phoebe. Without the Power of Four…" Leo began but Phoebe raises her hand.
"I don't understand. Isn't it harder to track a demon in a cemetery," Alexis stated,
"Cole? You have to go. I need you there." Phoebe asked.
Cole nods. Victor escorts Darryl in through the front door.
"Hey, how are you holdin' up?" Darryl greeted
"Okay." Phoebe and Darryl hug and slowly step away from each other. "It's sweet of you to stop by."
"Had to. Besides, I thought you should know - they're assigning Prue's case to another inspector." Darryl stated
"What case?" asks Alexis and Leo.
"What case? Are you kidding? Prue and a prominent doctor were killed here, Leo. Made a lot of press. People want answers. Important people." Darryl replied, surprised to see Alexis, he knew she went to a magical school but didn't think she would be here, but she was related, so she had to showed up.
"So, what's this guy gonna find? That it was a demonic hitman? Gimme a break." Cole asked.
"Yes, then we'll have another Innocent's blood on our hands," Alexis stated, her problems about Sirius Black seemed small in the big scheme of things, so what a serial killer was after her and Harry's blood.
"He might. Look, you don't know him like I do. He'll keep looking until he finds something, believe me." Darryl replied.
"I'm not worried." Cole stated
"I'm worried, excuse me I don't want to end up in some laboratory with wires shoved everywhere, remember the monkeys?" Alexis asked. She shivered at the doctor who found out about them being witches, and went on a killing spree, true they couldn't tell the doctors that she was blood adopted, which is the reason why she has ice blue eyes. The powers merged in her. When she lost her Charmed Powers she lost her other magic as well.
"Well, I am too. I saw what happened when they were exposed as witches. Time may have reversed itself, but it still cost Prue her life." Leo stated.
"Would you people mind? For God's sake, we're burying my daughter today. Can't this wait?" Victor snapped,
Alexis moved over to her adoptive father with Phoebe to hug their father, who's struggling to hold it all together.
"Leo would to please go get Piper, it's almost time." Alexis asked,
Harry walked out with Carmela walking behind him, "He was having trouble with his tie,"
"What can I say, I never had to put one on before," Harry stated, he walked to Alexis and place a hand on her knee,
"Don't you two have school?" asked Darryl
"Don't worry our Headmaster gave us permission to leave," Alexis before standing up, and going into the kitchen where she slammed her fist on the counter,
"Alexis?" Harry asked
Alexis turned around, "Sorry, I'm just really losing it, I never had to deal with death of a loved one before."
"I guess we're going to do the same thing, kill the one who murdered people," Harry stated.
"i wouldn't say that in front of Darryl unless you want to be arrested," Alexis replied, "But yes, I am going to avenge Prue's death even if it takes a lifetime,"
A while later, Alexis and Harry were sitting in an mausoleum, awaiting for the Priestess who would allow Prue to rest in peace.
"So this is a wiccan ceremony?" whispered Harry, he didn't know what was happening,
"Yes," whispered Alexis,
A beautiful ivory-colored coffin sits on a pedestal amongst the flowers. An ivory-dressed, Wiccan Priestess stands before a blue silk covered altar table, which is adorned with a ceremonial chalice. A tied, silver cord lays before the chalice, three lit candles surround it, symbolizing birth, death, and the rebirth. To the unaware mourners, however, the service comes across a part traditional, part New Age. Piper, Phoebe, Alexis, Harry Leo, Cole, Carmela, Darryl, and Victor are seated close to the priestess. Piper, Phoebe, and Alexis dab at their eyes and Cole keeps his eyes peeled for any trouble.
Alexis held a funeral program, which bares the symbol of the triquetra above the name, read: "Prudence Halliwell, 1970-2001; "Forever in our Hearts."
"That which belongs to fellowship and love. That which belongs to the circle, remains with us. The wheel turns. As life is a day, so our sister has passed into night. Nothing is final, and we who remain behind know that one day, we will once again share the bread and wine with our sister. O' blessed spirit, we bid you farewell, for you await a new destiny." the Priestess explains with that, she unties the silver cord and gently lays it into the chalice. She blows out the candles. Mourners standing, shaking hands, crying.
Darryl goes over to Piper, Phoebe, Alexis, and Harry to hug them and people begin to pay their respects. Phoebe thanks another mourner, then turns to the last of the mourners, whom she doesn't recognize - Paige, who shifts over anxiously.
Alexis watched the last mourner, she didn't know who the brunette who was talking to Phoebe was but she felt the magic that bound her to the Halliwells, renew and strengthen. Who is this woman?
"I'm so sorry for your loss." the brunette stated.
"Thank you." Phoebe replied, the brunette begins to leave. "How did you know Prue? From work?"
"No. Just... just from around, you know." the brunette answered, Alexis wondered why the woman who looked barely out of her teens sounded so nervous.
"Have we met before?" Phoebe asked
"No. I don't... I don't think so. Anyway, my condolences." the woman answered
Alexis began to think about the woman, why would the magic that allowed her into the Warren line be reacting to this unknown mourner?
"Thank you." Phoebe shakes Paige's hand, Alexis gasped as she saw her sister's face as it showed the signs of her having a premonition, Phoebe stumbles to the floor after her premonition ends.
"Phoebe." Piper called,
"Phoebe?" Leo asks,
Piper, Leo, Victor, Cole, Alexis, and Harry rush over to her as the brunette, oblivious, but not wanting to stick around, leaves. Leo and Victor help Phoebe stand up.
"Are you all right?" Piper
"I saw him... the demon that killed Prue." Phoebe replied,
"What?" Alexis asked, she grabbed a hold of Harry's arm thinking the demon was going to show up here,
"Shax? What was he doing?" Leo asked
"He was killing that girl." Phoebe answered.
"What girl?" Piper asked.
"The one I was just talking to. We've gotta go find her..." Phoebe replied.
Four Bounty Hunters suddenly materialize on either side of Cole and immediately fire lightning bolts at him. Cole dives, just barely avoiding the bolts, which blow up the altar.
"Go. Go." Leo ordered
Leo pulls her behind a pillar for safety. Victor looks on in disbelief. Cole rolls, comes up firing, vanquishing Bounty Hunter number one, but Bounty Hunter number two appears. Before he can kill Cole, though, Phoebe runs up and knocks him to the ground with an expert martial arts move. She then hides behind a statue.
Alexis shoved Harry behind her, she raised her hands in front of her, letting loose her own torrent of flames, "Not the only one who can play with fire!" destroying bounty hunter number two
"Stop it." Piper stated but no one heard her.
Bounty Hunter number three spins to fire at Phoebe, but Cole fires an energy ball at the Bounty Hunter, blowing him up in a shower of fiery sparks.
Piper lets out an irritated, angry yell. "Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Damn it! This is Prue's funeral, for God's sake! Can't we at least bury her in peace? Is that too much to ask?"
She knocks over a vase of flowers. She then storms out in tears.
Alexis turned as Piper stormed out, as tears coursed down her own cheeks, "Piper."
Carmela, Leo, Cole, Phoebe, Harry, and Alexis went back to the Manor.
Phoebe slowly works her way through the Mourners, who are drinking coffee, eating cold cuts, and sharing stories. She gives a woman a plate.
"Thank you." Phoebe walks over to Leo, Cole and Alexis. Once she was back in the Manor, Carmela orbed Harry back to school, the excuse was that he didn't have permission to stay for the rest of the week.
"I don't see her anywhere." Phoebe stated.
"Who?" Leo asks
"The girl from my premonition." Phoebe answered as passing mourner, overhearing that, quietly reacts. Leo seeing that pulls Phoebe to the main stairs, where they can have some privacy.
"Phoebe, you gotta be more careful." Leo chastised
"I'm sorry." She apologized.
"You sure don't recognize her from anywhere?" Cole asked
"Well, she did look familiar like I've seen her somewhere before. But somehow, we got to find her before nightfall, or else…" Phoebe answered then let the sentence trial off.
"I felt something when she was near us," Alexis added, when the three turned to her, she narrowed her eyes, "I felt the magic that binds me to this family reawaken,"
After all the mourners left, Alexis watched as Phoebe slides a flower vase over an inch, then back again. Cole gently grabs her arm with a concerned look.
"Honey, what're you doing?" Cole asked slightly worried.
"Uh, I'm cleaning." Phoebe answered.
"You don't clean. You hate cleaning." Alexis stated, as she sat in a chair.
"I know... but it's better than falling apart, isn't it?" Phoebe asked
"Maybe you should just try and focus on the girl. You said she was attacked on a rooftop?" Leo asked changing the subject.
"Yeah. One with a helipad… but it a tall building, although, there were a lot of taller ones around it." Phoebe answered
"Yeah that helps," Alexis added.
"Okay, so we just need to figure out which building it was before Shax does." Leo suggested, Piper walks up to them.
"And do what exactly? You can't defeat Shax, not without the Power of Four." Piper asked.
"But you and Prue did." Phoebe replied.
Piper sighs. "That's because Prue was the strongest. Trying to do it without her would be suicide."
"Maybe so, but I got that premonition for a reason, Piper. That girl is our innocent, so we have to try and save her." Phoebe reasoned
"Says who? Why do we have to?" Piper asks
"Piper…" Leo began,
Piper interrupted him "What? Do you really expect us to keep doing this stuff after what happened? To keep risking our lives? Do they?"
"Piper, keep your voice down…" Leo stated.
"No, Leo, I won't. I don't want to do this anymore, okay? It-It's over! You can tell them that we buried their precious Charmed Ones when we buried our sister." Piper spins and stalks up the stairs. Leo starts to follow, but Phoebe stops him.
"No, leave her be. She needs to be alone. Look, I don't know where we go from here, but I do know that I can't let that girl die... especially not by the same demon that killed Prue." Phoebe declared.
No one noticed Alexis going up the stairs following after Piper, Up in the attic,. She watched as Piper is angrily placing five lit candles in a lose circle on the floor in front of the Book of Shadows.
"Piper, what are you doing?" asks Alexis,
"I'm a witch, damn it. I've summoned people before and I'm gonna summon Prue now whether you like it or not! No more games, no more playing the good witch." Piper answered. Alexis backed up in fear of what her sister might do, Piper goes to the Book, which is opened to the spell.
"I want to talk to my sister. I need to talk to my sister. At the very least, they owe me that."
Piper takes a soul-cleansing breath, then glares at the Book. "Here these words. Hear my cry spirit from the other side. Come to me, I summon thee. Cross now the Great Divide."
Inside the circle, white magical lights, ever-so-slowly begin to appear. Piper looks up, her anger replaced by hopeful wonder as she steps closer, anticipating Prue's appearance, but is, instead, surprised to see the ghost of Grams. "Grams?"
"Hello, my darlings. How are you?" Grams greeted
"How am we? Are you kidding? Do you guys not get the news up there?" Piper asked
"I meant, how are you holding up?" Grams amended
"Not very well. I'm a little lost. Why didn't you come before? When I called after…" Piper began, Alexis grabbed her hand silently telling her sister to calm down, yelling at Grams wouldn't bring Prue down here.
"I couldn't, Piper. I was... busy." Grams answered.
"You were busy?" Alexis asked.
"I was with Prue." Grams replied.
"Oh. Of course you were. Right. Well, that makes sense. Is she okay?" Piper asks.
"Your mother and I are helping her through this." Grams answered.
"But how is she?" Alexis asked.
"I'm not allowed to tell you now... just like you're not allowed to see her, at least not for a while anyway." Grams stated.
"But, why?" Piper whined
"Because seeing Prue right now, speaking to her, keeps her alive for you. Which keeps you from being able to move on with your life, to continue with your destiny." Grams explained.
"What destiny? Okay. It's over. It's done. Prue is gone. And I…" Piper replied.
"I know, sweetie. I know... but if there's one thing you've learned over the last three years, it's that there's a reason for everything... which means there's a reason for this, too. You're destiny still awaits. blessed be." Grams responded. She disappears in the same swirl of white lights that brought her.
Alexis looked at Piper, "Okay is it genetic or do all Halliwells enjoy being so cryptic?"
"If we're going to save this girl, I think you should get some rest. That fire blast of yours wasn't as strong as I've seen it before," Piper replied,
"Of course, it wasn't, Piper. I'm losing my magic both kinds." Alexis explained, "my powers are tied to the Power of Four, if one dies, my magic dies." she walked out of the attic and down to the stairs to go take a nap.
Alexis woke when she heard Phoebe's voice in the kitchen, and Leo's debating over something. She got up and walked into the kitchen, and sat down at the kitchen table,
"Are you sure she orbed? Are you sure that it wasn't something else?" Leo asked.
"Leo, she disappeared. Bright white, shiny thingies came and then she reappeared. " Phoebe answered "What else could it be?"
"It just doesn't make any sense." Leo replied.
"Why not?" Cole asked.
"Because why would Shax want to kill a White-lighter?" Leo asked.
"Hang on, what happened I've been asleep," Alexis asked. She listened as they told her and this woman and how Shax tried to kill her and she orbed away, "Maybe he doesn't know she's a whitelighter."
"Right, the Source sends out his personal assassin, but doesn't know who he's after?" Leo asks, Piper, in the background, clatters the pots that she's washing, noticeably.
"What if she didn't know that she was a white-lighter?" Alexis asked.
"No. Why?" Leo answered.
"Because she acted as if she didn't. She acted just as surprised as we were when she orbed out." Cole explained.
"Well that doesn't make any sense either." Leo stated.
"Okay, why don't you go up and ask the Elders what does make sense so we don't go risking our lives again?" Phoebe asked. Leo looks at Piper.
"I'll be right back." Leo orbs out. Phoebe covers her eyes.
"Maybe I should, uh, go to the other side and see what I can find out." Cole suggested Phoebe looks at him.
"No." Phoebe replied.
"I'll be careful. Nobody'll see me. Besides, it could be good to me to go back down, confused any bounty hunters that might be trying to track me. Don't worry. I won't disappear." Cole stated.
Cole kisses Phoebe on the cheek and shimmers out.
Alexis cleared her throat and nodded at Piper, who is hunched over the sink, Phoebe moves closer,
"Hey, you okay?" Phoebe asked
"Yeah. Sure, why not? We could have another funeral tomorrow. I mean, all the dishes are out and we pretty much know who to invite." Piper: replies as she holds a small white towel in her hand and faces Phoebe.
"Piper..." Phoebe began
"Just tell me one thing. Are you insane or are you just plain stupid? We bury Prue this morning and you go off tonight and nearly join her. What the hell is the matter with you?" Piper asked.
"I was trying to save an innocent." Phoebe defended herself.
"No. You were trying to get yourself killed, which is what this family does best is get killed." Piper throws the towel onto a counter in frustration and anger. "Isn't it obvious by now that our only destiny is to die? And you are making it way too easy for them, Phoebe. You are just walking right into it!"
Phoebe embraces Piper. Alexis stood up and walked over and hugged them too.
"I am so sorry." Phoebe apologized
"I cannot handle anything right now, and I certainly cannot handle losing another sister." Piper admitted.
While waiting for Leo and Cole to come back, Alexis and Phoebe move the living room and sit beside the fire,
"I remember when I was four and Prue nearly had a heartattack when I almost went head first into the hearth," Alexis whispered, she had her head on Phoebe's lap,
"I remember that too, only time Grams wasn't disappointed in me," Phoebe replied, then looked as Piper came in with two teacups.
"Here, this should help. It's chamomile. I had three cups." Piper takes a seat on the floor beside Phoebe and Alexis, who sat up when Piper came in.
"Thanks." Phoebe takes a sip and sets it aside. "Doesn't seem real, does it?"
"No. What are we gonna do with all of her stuff? What are we going to do with her car?" Piper asks.
"I don't know. Sell it, I guess." Phoebe replied.
"Unless you want it." Piper stated, "Or you Lexi, you're going to get your learner's in a couple of years,"
"No thanks," Alexis shook her head,
"No." Phoebe holds hands with Piper. "We're gonna get through this, you know. We just have to stick together." Leo orbs into the room. "Well?"
"Well, they don't know anything about her, so she's definitely not a white-lighter." Leo replied,
"Then why can she orb, Leo?" Phoebe asked.
"They can't explain it." Leo answers, Piper, Phoebe, and Alexis stands up.
"Then how is it possible that they don't kn..." Phoebe began to say something when Cole shimmers into the room.
"Whew. Sorry I took so long. I had to dodge a couple of bounty hunters." Cole stated.
"Did you find anything out?" Leo asks
"You have no idea what I found out. Turns out the Source doesn't think she's a white-lighter at all." Cole sits on the arm of the couch "In fact, he thinks she might be another... Charmed One. That's why he put Shax on it. He thought he ended the Power of Four. Now he's worried that this girl may somehow reconstitute it."
"No, but that's not possible. Is that possible?" Phoebe: Leo shrugs. Piper and Alexis begins to take off. "Piper? Lexi?"
"Piper? Alexis?" Cole repeated confused, The others follow them, Piper and Alexis goes to the attic and to the book.
"What's going on?" Phoebe asks
"We're going to ask Grams what's going on, actually." Piper replied,
"Grams?" Phoebe repeats,
"Mm-hmm. Your destiny still awaits, she says. There's a reason for everything, she says. So, it's time to summon her transparent butt back here and find out exactly what that reason is." Piper stated.
"Okay, but what should..." Phoebe began but was silenced by Piper as she began to chant the summoning spell.
"Here these words. Hear my cry spirit from the other side. Come to me, I summon thee. Cross now the Great Divide!"
She lets out a semi-satisfied sigh. Grams appears in a bright light.
"Piper? Alexis? Why are you calling? P-Phoebe, wha-what's going on?" Grams asks
"That's what we want to know, keeping anymore secrets?" Alexis asks. "We already know about Aunt Lily,"
"Grams, why does the Source think that the Charmed Ones can be reconstituted?" Piper asks
"I do - I don't know what you're talking about." Grams lied.
"You know what, Grams? You were a lousy liar when you were alive, and now as a ghost, you're worse." Piper retorted.
"If you know something, Grams, you have to tell us. We deserve to know." Phoebe stated.
"I can't. I'm sworn to secrecy." Grams replied.
"By who?" Phoebe asks
"By me." Patty appears right next to Grams in a bright light. "By me."
"Mom?" Piper asks
"We didn't tell anybody because we were afraid that there would be reprisals, afraid that, you girls would be dined your powers. Your birthright. It happened after your father and I were divorced, when Sam and I were together." Patty explained, "Also this was way before you joined our family Alexis,"
Alexis nodded, "I figured that much out for myself, since I was born in 88"
Cole turns to Leo "Sam?"
"Her white-lighter." Leo answered.
"Hmm. Apples don't fall far from the forbidden tree, I see." Cole replied,
"Shh!" Piper to Patty "Go on."
"You were both toddlers. You just thought Mommy got a little fat." Patty smiles. "You never knew I was pregnant."
"I was the only one who knew." Grams added.
"And Sam, obviously." Patty stated.
"Right. Well, yes, of course." Grams agreed
"We wanted to keep the baby, of course. But mother-" Patty broke off with a glare at her mother,
"Well, I - I knew it would be disastrous. You know, before you and Leo, Piper, it wasn't just forbidden. It was unthinkable for witches to be with white-lighters. I mean, let alone have children with them." Grams explained.
"So, that's why we had to - why we decided... to give the baby up. Sam and I took her to a local church as soon as she was born. And we asked the nun there to find a home for her, and she found one. A very, very good home." Patty finished.
"Yes." Grams agreed
"Explains why the Elders didn't know about her." Leo looks at the sisters.
"All right, hold it. Wait just one minute. Are you telling me, that that girl, our innocent, is really... our sister?" Phoebe asked.
"Your baby sister" Patty replied, "Well still adopted sister to you, Lexi."
"Their baby half-sister." Grams corrected
"But by my half, which makes her a sister witch. Well, actually, not yet anyway. Not until all three of you are here together by the Book. Just like before." Patty stated.
"Charmed. Again." Grams adds.
"And I thought my family was screwed up." Cole states, Piper gives Cole a look. Cortez walks into the attic, seeing the two ghosts there. Everyone is a bit stunned. Darryl is right behind him.
"Well, I'll be damned." Cortez stated.
"Darryl, do something!" Piper exclaimed.
"He's a cop, Piper. And he's got a search warrant." Darryl replied,
"And believe me, I've found what I've been searching for." Cortez states as Cole moves slightly towards Cortez. He aims his gun at him. "Ah-ah-ah-ah. Don't move. I'll shoot."
"Then so will I." Cole replied,
"Cole..." Leo warned.
"Leo, I wouldn't bother if I were you, Its in his nature," Alexis rolled her eyes, "Besides if I had enough room, I would so give this guy a heartattack."
"Okay Inspector, just put the gun down. There is a very good explanation for all of this. Feel free to chime in anytime, guys." Phoebe reasoned
"My whole life, I suspected evil magic was real, that there was something more. I've seem too many horrible things in the job to suspect otherwise, not the least of which are the two murders that happened here." Cortez explained.
Alexis felt offended, she wasn't in Slytherin, she wasn't evil.
"Wait. Are you accusing us?" Piper asks,
"I've just begun to accuse you, lady!" Cortez answered
"All right, fine. You caught us. Congratulations. So what are you gonna do about it? Shoot us?" Grams sarcastically asked.
"Easy, Grams. Not all of us are dead, remember?" Phoebe reminded,
"All right, look, you can't arrest us, especially not them. Nobody will ever believe you." Leo stated.
"Maybe not at first. I'm putting this whole place under constant surveillance. I'm taping your every move. Sooner or later, I'll catch you doing something uh, supernatural, and then…" Cortez replied but Darryl knocks him out with the butt of his gun. He falls to the floor.
"I think you've been through enough today, huh?" Darryl asks
"Thank you." Piper replied.
Phoebe walks over to Darryl. "Darryl, go, get out of here. We don't want you to take the fall for this."
"No, it's okay." Darryl replies,
"No, it's not. This is our problem. He wants to expose us, not you. Let us take care of this, please?" Phoebe asks
Darryl agrees, "If you need me, you know where to find me, huh?" Phoebe nods and turns to Cole. Darryl leaves the manor.
"It doesn't solve your problem. He's gonna wake up eventually. You've just bought yourself some time." Cole states
"What you're gonna need, especially if you're wanna save your..." Leo agreed but faltered
"Sister?" Phoebe asks
"Well, what are you waiting for? Just write a spell. Get rid of him." Grams stated.
"Uh, get rid of him?" Alexis repeated "How are we suppose to do that?"
"Well, you know what I mean. Dump him somewhere. Anywhere. With all the witches in this room, we oughtta be able to do something with him. I mean, just start rhyming. Uh, take him back, take him away. Remove him now. Don't let him stay." Grams replies, She gestures to Phoebe.
"Oh. Uh. We call the spirits to help undo and send him off to… Timbuktu." Cortez vanishes from the floor. "Whoa. It worked."
"Timbuktu? You sent him to Timbuktu?" Alexis asked, mentally remembering the spell, she might use it on someone at school.
"All right, well, it was the only thing I could think of that rhymed with undo." Phoebe replied
"Don't worry. Uh, I'll find him." Cole shimmers out.
"Okay, well this is way too much for me to handle. Way too much." Piper states.
"Nobody can blame you for being angry, sweetie." Patty replies
"Angry? Yeah, I'm angry. Um, I'm confused and you know what? This - this is just crazy. You cannot float in here after all these years and go, "Oh
gosh, I forgot, by the way, you've got a sister." Especially not today of all days." Piper responds
"I know it's a lot, sweetie. More than anybody should have to deal with, but you're going to have to deal with it the best way you know how. Losing Prue, learning about another sister... this is your, path. This is your destiny. Get angry at it, cry about it, but don't fight it. Or it'll consume you." Patty stated
"Come on, Patty. The rest is up to them." Grams and Patty disappear. Piper, Phoebe, Leo, and Alexis head downstairs.
"Can't you find her?" Alexis asked as they reached the bottom,
"I can't sense where she is because she's technically not a witch yet." Leo answered.
"All right, so all we have to go on is that church that Mom mentioned and the nun." Phoebe suggested
"Okay, let's get one thing straight. I am only doing this to save her. I'm not remotely interested in reconstituting...The Charmed Ones." Piper is cut off to find the brunette waiting for them. The door is left open.
"I, the door was open. I'm sorry. I shouldn't be here." She turns to leave but Phoebe stops her.
"No, no, no. No, no. We were just coming to look for you." Phoebe stated
"You were?" she asks,
"Yep. Come on in. Welcome. I'm Phoebe. The one with the purple striped hair is Alexis, And this is..." Phoebe answered
Phoebe hooks her arm into Paige's and walks over to Piper and Leo. Alexis was holding one of Piper's hands just in case this girl was really their sister,
"Piper. I know. I've been to your club. Pretty great." The woman interrupted
"Thank you. And you are?" Piper asks
"Paige. My name is Paige."
"Hmm. Another P. Imagine that." Phoebe wondered.
"It's nice to meet you." Piper states then shakes Paige's hand. A bright blue shines over the girls.
"Okay. What was that?" Paige asks
"I think that means you're supposed to be here." Leo answers then the door slams open and a strong wind knocks Piper, Phoebe, Paige, and Alexis backwards. Leo is knocked down on the stairs. Shax materializes and walks closer. He is about to strike when Leo jumps on his back. "Run! Get upstairs!"
"Leo?" Piper shouts before she, Phoebe,Paige, and Alexis run upstairs. Shax throws him off his back and Leo is knocked out. Shax then looks upstairs.
The reconstitute Charmed Ones ran into the attic and stand by the book,
"What are we doing? What is that thing?" Paige asks
"We'll explain later." Phoebe answers while Piper flips through the pages of the Book.
"Okay, just say this spell out loud with us, okay?" Piper asks
"Spells, what are you guys, witches?" Paige asks
"And so are you. We hope." Phoebe answers
"Well, we're about to find out." Alexis stated as the strong wind breaks through the attic door and Shax materializes. The girls recite the vanquishing spell.
"Evil wind that blows, that which forms below. No longer may you dwell. Death takes you with this spell."
Shax moans in pain as he explodes, vanquished.
"It's not enough. Shax was just the messenger. We gotta get the Source." Phoebe stated.
"The Source of what?" Paige asks
"Of all evil." Piper replies,
"What have you guys turned me into?" Paige turns and runs out the attic and out of the manor.
"Paige?" Alexis calls out, "Wait."
Piper, Phoebe, and Alexis start following.