DarkPriestess66 says: same as before I don't own anything, this is part of Long Live the Queen.

Carmela orbed with Cedric, Alexis and Harry, their trunks were orbed to the manor first, it was storming outside,

"Thank you for taking international orbing, your belongings may have been lost in the flight," Carmela replied, "Now I want lunch,"

"Very funny, Carmela." Alexis laughed, as she went into the kitchen, to grab some sacks and glasses for some ice tea,

Harry and Cedric came and sat down at the table, Cedric was looking around the kitchen in wonder.

"I take it you're a pure blood?" Alexis giggled as she watched Cedric look around.

"How'd you guess?" Cedric asked.

Alexis shrugged, "I wonder where my sisters are?"

"Work," Leo orbed down, "I'm sorry about what happened,"

"So next year everyone thinks we're crazy," Alexis shrugs again. "Not like I haven't thought about that, Oh Cedric, this is Leo, my brother in law and joint whitelighter with Carmela."

"Nice to meet you, sir." Cedric greeted standing and shaking hands with Leo.

"Not a demon, ghost or anything but a normal wizard. Well done Lexi." Leo stated.

Alexis blushed, "I just had to save him from being killed, that's all if that doesn't prove my devotion nothing will,"

after their sacks were finished,

"Come on, I'll give you the tour of the famous Halliwell manor." Alexis stated, "As you can plainly see is the lovely kitchen, next we'll move on the conservatory, which is were I spend most of my time, writing songs or just relaxing after a demon vanquish, trust me we have a lot of those," she gave a tour, ending with her room, "Well this is my room, I share with Harry, but it's magically enhanced, so we have our own space, Harry's side is over there with a bed and mine's right here, seeing lovely assorted colors of Hogwarts,"

"Nice," Cedric commented, "What are your summers like here?"

"Let's see, being hunted by the Source, who is now happens to be my brother in law, and being shrunk by a psycho demon," Alexis answers, "I hope nothing to bad happens this summer," She turned to Leo, "You are explaining everything has happened, when you went home after the second task,"

Leo nodded, "Might as well sit, this is a long story,"

Alexis lead the way to the living, Cedric and Harry sat on the couch, Leo explained how Paige was feeling bad about her adoptive parents, Leo called in a favor from a malevolent spirit's named Clyde, went back to Paige's past found out she orbed out of the car that night, next thing. They did was vanquish Source, then come to find out that only Cole's love for Phoebe was the only thing keeping the Source from completely taking over.

"So she chose Cole over us?" Alexis asks, "Paige was right all alright,"

"What?" Leo asks

Alexis heaved a sigh, "Paige has been writing to me since the second task, she confessed that she felt that Cole was still evil, and I didn't think she meant it, literally. But I had my doubts too. I never liked Cole from the beginning, but I kept my prejudices to myself," she put her head in her hands, she wanted to berate herself, for not seeing what was so obvious, no one ever stops being evil,

Cedric put his arm around Alexis' shoulder, then looked at Leo,

"Lexi, we'll get Phoebe back," Harry stated, "After all we got out of tougher scrapes then this,"

Alexis stood up with a determined look on her face, "I say to god, We'll taking down the Source once and for all." she turned and walked up the stairs.

"Where are you going?" Cedric asks

"Attic, I need Potion Ingredients," Alexis answers,

"She reminds me of Piper, when something's to much drown yourself in Potion making," Leo stated,

Alexis had the table loaded full of vials, potion ingredients, and a cauldron. She went into the kitchen, and started brewing potions.

"You are obsessed" Harry commented as he came into the room, Cedric followed behind, for lack of anything better to do.

"I would so the same thing for you guys," Alexis replied. "Just wait until Piper and Paige come home."

The next day, Piper and Paige are in the attic with Alexis, Piper was helping with making potions while Paige looks through the Book of Shadows.

"Damn it, I have read through this fifteen times, there is nothing even remotely helpful about how to save Phoebe." Paige stated

"I told you, she made a choice. There's no magical cure for that." Piper replies,

"Yeah, well, she's pregnant, Piper, so she's being influenced by the baby inside." Paige retorts

Alexis' head snaps up, "She's what!"

"Oh did we forget to mention it?" Piper replies, "Sorry, She's two months along,"

"And why didn't you tell me she was carrying demon spawn?" Alexis asks, "we could've helped her overcome that but she chose Cole."

"Will you two just stop with the potions already? You've already over run the kitchen, I'd say we have enough." Paige asks

"This one duplicates my freezing power plus it scalds the flesh, so we should only use it in a dire emergency." Piper explains,

"No! I will not scald Phoebe's flesh, she's still our sister." Paige exclaims.

"As much as I'm pissed at her for choosing a demon over us, I have to agree." Alexis agrees

Leo and Carmela orbs in.

"Paige." Leo states, She walks over to them. "How is they?"

"They're like Piper/Alexis light. All the personality without any of those messy emotions." Paigeanswers

"Rumor on the demonic grape vine is the new queen is killing upper level demons. Word is she killed two just last night." Leostates

"What does that mean?" Paigeasks

"It means it looks like Phoebe's working from the inside for the good guys." Carmela explains, she was looking at Alexis, as she was mixing potions, "Snape would be proud, well not really,"

"That's great." Paige replies,

"Since when do you guys believe rumors that are spread by demons?" Piper asks,

Carmela pulled up her sleeves, and grabbed Alexis and Piper by the shoulder, "You two are getting out of this attic, and no going into the kitchen, you are going to relax on the couch while I orb over to the Chinese place and get take out,"

After lunch, Piper, Paige, Leo, Alexis, Harry, and Cedric, Carmela are in the dinning room. Piper and Alexis are showing them the potions.

"These are meant to slow an attacker down but not do real serious harm, it's kind of like magical mace." Piper explains,

"Sounds reasonable I guess." Paige responds

"These are a little more lethal - explosives, paralytics, your garden variety of poisons." Alexis stated pointing to the side of the table, "Snape would be proud and me poisoning someone."

"So you're gonna poison Phoebe?" Leo asks, Alexis just gets him a deadpanned look.

"Leo, she's carrying the spawn of the Source, she's throwing fire from her hands. If she shows up here, we'll do what we have to do to protect ourselves." Piperanswers

"You're not even giving her a chance." Paige replies

"Paige, we gave her every chance in the world to come back to us and she threw it in our faces. She chose the Source of all evil over her own family." Piper states,

"Have me choose between you guys and Cedric, I will always choose you," Alexis added, "Family comes first,"

Phoebe flames in. "Surprise!" Piper quickly grabs a potion and throws it towards Phoebe. Phoebe throws fire at the potion, disintegrating it. "Nice to see you too, Piper."

"What do you want?" Piper asks

Alexis steps in front of Cedric and Harry protectively.

"Oh, and here I thought you'd be happy to see me." Phoebe states

"I'm happy to see you."Paige replies,

"Paige." Piperand Alexis snaps,

"What?" Paige asks

"Unless you're here to tell us you filed for a divorce, we don't really have much to talk about." Piper states

"Oh that's not true. For instance we could talk about how rigid you are. It's really not a very attractive quality." Phoebe replies,

Alexis picks up potion.

"Wait. Phoebe, what are you doing here?" Leo asks

"I had a premonition. We have an innocent to save and not a lot of time." Phoebe answers, as she sits in a chair.

"That is so great. Look, I told you." Paige responds,

"Don't get excited, it's not what you think. I haven't changed my mind, I'm not leaving Cole and I'm not renouncing my ground. It's just I've never ignored a premonition in my life and I'm not about to start now." Phoebe replies,

"Uh, Phoebe, you're evil. You're like the queen of all evil, literally." Alexis states, while motioning for Carmela to get Harry and Cedric away, Carmela grabbed the back of their shirts, and pulling them into the kitchen.

"That's beside the point." Phoebe replies,

"How can that be beside the point?" Alexis asks

"I say we do it." Paige spoke up

"What?" Piper and Alexis asks as they look at her

"Excuse me." Paige states then pulls Piper, Alexis and Leo aside. "Look, this is what we've been hoping for. A sign that there's still good in her. Why else would she care about saving the innocent?"

"Because it's a trap." Piper replies

Alexis nods her agreement, "Need I remind you of the graveyard incident."

"Piper, Lexi, this could be our only chance." Paige states

"I think Paige is right. By helping her do good, it might sway her back to our side." Leoreasons,

"Fine." Piper and Alexis reluctantly agree

Paige turns backto Phoebe "Okay, you're on, we'll follow you."

Piper and Alexis grabs some potions.

"Let me explain to Harry and Cedric," Alexis excused herself, as she went into the kitchen,

"What's that for?" Phoebe asks

"Insurance." Piper replies,

In the Kitchen,

Alexis walked up to Carmela and in a whisper, "If anything and I mean anything happens on your radar, get them out. Don't come looking for me,"

"Alexis," Cedric stated

She turned to him, "This is what I do, it's my job. Trust me."

"Just be careful and come back to us," Cedric stated.

"Always," Alexis replied before leaving.

In an alley. Piper, Paige and Leo orb in. Phoebe and Alexis flames in.

"Argh, why do I always have to land in the mud." Paige complains,

"Come on, over here." Phoebe

They stand behind some wooden crates.

"How do you know when he's gonna get attacked?" Leoasks

"I know." Phoebe answers, the innocent walks around the corner. "There he is."

Malick shimmers in behind him. Piper freezes Gregory. Malick looks around.

"Hey." Piper goes to blow him up but Phoebe knocks her. She blows up a bike nearby.

"No, Piper." Phoebe states

"What are you doing?" Piperasks

An energy ball appears in Malick's hand.

"Stop." Phoebe orders then walks towards Malick. Malick kneels down.

"My queen."

"Leave that innocent alone. Go." Phoebe whispers,Malick shimmers out. Phoebe turns around to find Piper, Paige, Alexis, and Leo staring at her. "What? One of my subjects."

"How-how-how could you do that? How could you just let him go?" Piper asks in shock, Alexis had her mouth open in shock.

"I don't know you're so upset, we saved the innocent didn't we?" Phoebe asks

"I can't talk to her, you talk to her." Piper:

"Phoebe..." Leo began

"Things are not as black and white as they used to be. Okay, I can't just go around killing demons anymore." Phoebereplies

"Why not? We heard you just killed two last night." Paige asks

"Yeah, well, that was different, he was getting on my nerves. I promised Cole I wouldn't kill anymore. And killing Malick would've been a huge betrayal." Phoebe explains,

"Malick? You're on a first name basis with the demons?" Piper asks

"If you were just gonna order him to stop you could've done that on your own. Why did you even come to us?" Alexis asks after she managed to close her mouth.

"Because I missed you guys! Okay, is that so wrong? I missed you." Phoebe replies,

"Phoebe, you can't be the queen of the underworld and a Charmed One. You can't have it both ways." Leo states,

"Why not?" Phoebe asks "Just because it's different doesn't mean that it can't work. And you all miss me too even though I'm sure Piper or Lexi probably doesn't want to admit it to herself."

"Of course we miss you, honey." Paige replies,

"Well, you can have me back. You can have the power of four back. You just have to be willing to meet me half way." Phoebe states.

"Phoebe, you can't protect the innocent and save demons, it just doesn't work that way." Alexis states,

"Apparently it does. He's alive isn't he?" Phoebe asks

"Yeah, but your friend Malick is gonna come back." Paige replies,

"You don't know that." Phoebe responds

"That's what they do, Phoebe, they come back. They snarl and come back." Alexis states,

"Yeah, and now we have to worry about protecting him instead of trying to save you." Paige adds,

"You think I need saving?" Phoebe asks

"Are you kidding me? That baby inside you has corrupted you more than you think." Piper answers,

"Piper." Phoebe states

"Don't Piper me. This is insane, what you are saying is insane. You cannot come back, you cannot work with us as long as you are married to the Source." Piper replies,

"So what do you want me to do? Do you want me to leave my husband?" Phoebe asks

"Yes." Piperanswers,

"That is not fair!" Phoebe exclaims,

"It's not fair, Phoebe, but you have to pick a side, good or evil. That's how it works. Even though it means giving up someone you love, you have to choose." Leostates,

"I'm really sorry you feel that way." Phoebe apologizes, then flames out.

"I can't do this." Piper states, Alexis nods in agreement, they start to walk away.

"What about Greg?" Paige asks

Piper unfreezes him. Greg goes over to where his bike was chained.

"Oh, no, not again." the innocent sees Paige and Leo. "Did you guys see anyone take off on a chrome and orange bicycle?"

"No, sorry." Paige replies,

"Why did I bother locking it?" Greg asks then walks away.

"Uh, what should we do?" Paige asks

"Follow him." Leo answers, and they leave.

Alexis and Piper were at P3, while Piper was drinking Jack Daniels, Alexis flamed over to the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade Village and brought a case of butterbeer, she was going to buy firewhiskey but she was under age. With her case in hand, she flamed back to P3. Together they drank until they were nearly ready to pass out, Leo orbs in. He sees Piper and Alexis sitting on a chair with her feet on the table, almost passed out. A nearly empty bottle of Jack Daniels is sitting on the table along with five empty bottles of butterbeer.

"We're closed." Piperstates

"Honey..." Leobegan,

"I don't want to talk." Piperinterrupts,

"Me neither," Alexis agrees taking a drink of her sixth bottle.

"I know how you're feeling." Leo states

"Even more than we don't want to talk. we do not want a pep talk." Piper replies,

"What are you two doing?" Leoasks "and what are you drinking, Alexis?"

"What does it look like I am doing. I'm trying to stop myself from feeling like the failure that I am." Piper answers,

"Butterbeer and I am in total agreement with Piper," Alexis answers,

Piper fills her glass. Alexis get another bottle out of the case.

"You both are not a failures it's not your fault Phoebe..." Leoreasons,

"I am the oldest sister, okay, it is my job to keep the family together, and see it, this my friend, I am a failure." Piperinterrupts

"That's enough." Leo states thentakes the bottles off them.

"Paige could see that Cole clearly had turned evil and she tried to tell me over and over and over and over and over. That doesn't even sound like a word anymore." Piperstated, while Alexis just glares at Leo for taking away her bottle of butterbeer.

"You know, I didn't see that he was evil, Piper, Lexi. Phoebe didn't see it at first, we didn't want to see it. We wanted a normal, happy family, that's just human nature." Leo replies

"She is my little sister and I let him destroy her. That is not human nature, that is the nature of failure." Piperreplies

"I should have voiced my opinions too, I should have done something different then keeping my mouth shut." Alexis states.

"Alright, I'm not gonna listen to this anymore, you both are a good witches and..." Leo began

Piper freezes him.

"I said no pep talks." Piper takes the bottle back off him. Alexis follows, her head spinning, "Nobody listens around here anymore." Piper and Alexis takes a sip of their drink and falls off their chair. "Ouch."

Leo is still frozen and Piper is unconscious on the floor. Paige orbs in with Greg.

"Oh my god, Piper, Alexis." Paige races over to them and sees the empty glass and bottle beside them. She touches Leo and he unfreezes.

"And good sisters..." He looks around. "Paige, wh-?"

"You were frozen, Leo, and I'm guessing demons didn't get them." Paige explains,

"No, more like inner-demons. I can't believe she froze me. Are you okay?" Leoasks

"Barely. It was a different demon this time, they really want that guy dead. You're gonna have to heal him and orb him somewhere safe." Paige answers,

"Then what?" Leo asks

"Then I'm gonna put this family back together. Can you heal them?" Paige asks

"No, I can't heal self inflicted wounds." Leo replies,

"Great, now I'm down three sisters." Paigestates,

Paige slaps Piper and Alexis gently and they wakes up.

"Aaahh." Piperand Alexis groans.

Leo and Paige orb both drunk women and the leftover case of butterbeer, they figured out it was from the wizarding world back to the manor.

Piper, Alexis and Paige are in the kitchen. Piper and Alexis are sitting at the table with their heads down, while Paige mixes together some ingredients in a blender. Cedric was beside Alexis rubbing her back, he couldn't believe she would resort to alcohol to help her cope, and butterbeer wasn't that alcoholic to begin with, Harry was sitting at the end of the table not knowing what to do, since he never had to deal with losing a sister to the other side.

"How many hangover cures do you have?" Piperasks

"A lot. There was a time in my life when I needed these often." Paige answers,

Piper and Alexis looks up,

"Ugh." The blender makes an awful racket, Piper and Alexis groans. "I'm sorry, Paige, I don't know what got into me. I mean, it's one thing when your sister has a husband that you can't stand; it's another when he is the Source of all evil." Piper states

Paige pours the stuff from the blender into two cups and takes it over to Piper and Alexis.

"Drink up, we've got some work to do." Paigeorders,

"We can't lose her. I can't lose another sister; I don't think I'll survive it." Piper states,

"I've been thinking about it. Phoebe was different today." Paige replies,

"Yeah, she was nuts." Alexis states as she drank the hangover cure.

"Yeah, but she cared, about us, about Greg. Something has changed and I think now is our chance to get her back." Paige

"How?" Piper asks

Alexis looks at Piper then at Paige in a confused manner.

"Well, I think we storm the penthouse, bring the crystals, we still know the spell, we vanquish the Source the same way we did the last time." Paige answers,

"Yeah, but now this time the Source is Cole. Do you really think she's gonna say a little spell with us to vanquish him?" Alexis asks, as she leaned against Cedric, if it were him, she doubted she would be able to do the same thing or Harry for that matter.

"If she doesn't we die." Paige

"Is that supposed to be comforting?" Piper asks

"Its also suicidal," Alexis adds,

"Actually, yeah. The good in Phoebe is fighting to the surface, we saw that today. I don't think she's just gonna stand by and watch Cole kill us." Paigereplies

"Are you willing to bet your life on that?" Piper asks

"Aren't you?" Paige retorts,

"You know, you're pretty amazing, Paige. I mean, a year ago you were an only child." Piper states,

"I couldn't agree more with that," Alexis adds, she had grown closer to Paige then her sisters, maybe it was because Paige was closer to her age,

"And I don't want to be again. Let's go." Paige replies Piper and Alexis grabs their drinks and stands up. "There we go. I'll get the crystals."

They walk to the bottom of the stairs and see Phoebe walking through the foyer. "Phoebe."

"Cole is gonna kill Greg Conroy, and I can't let that happen." Phoebe explains,

"So what do you wanna do?" Piper asks

"I think that we have to vanquish Cole." Phoebe answers,

"I knew it, I knew she was ready." Paige stated in an I-told-you-so voice.

"We have to use Greg as bait." Phoebe adds,

"Bait? But he's an innocent." Alexis asked as she paled slightly,

"I know, but Cole's looking for him, he'll find him wherever he is so he's safest here." Phoebe replies,

"So we have Leo bring Greg here but then when Cole arrives Leo's gotta orb Greg outta here." Piper suggests,

"And then we vanquish Cole." Phoebefinishes,

Alexis was having doubts, this sounded awfully like a trap to her, and she has been in many traps,

"I'll get the crystals." Paige states, then goes upstairs.

"Phoebe, um, I know how much you love Cole, I'm really..." Piper began

"I can't get emotional about this now, Piper, if I do I won't be able to go through with it." Phoebe interrupts

Paige comes back down with the crystals.

"Ready." Paige declares

"Leo, bring Greg." Piper calls,

Leo orbs in with Greg, behind Phoebe

"So how long do you think till Cole gets here?" Paige asks

Suddenly, Phoebe changes into Cole.

"Sooner than you think." Cole answers,

Cole throws a fireball at Greg and he is incinerated. Cole flames out.

Alexis turned around to find Cedric and Harry standing there, eyes wide in horror.

"Welcome to the Halliwell Manor, demons check in, but they don't check out, We're going to end this." Alexis stated in a monotone voice,

"We?" Piper asks,

"I'm going too, We'll use the power of four this time and make sure he's gone for good." Alexis replied.

Piper, Paige and Leo orb in. Cole walks into the penthouse's living room. Alexis looks around, "Nice place for a demonic ass,"

"You evil son of a bitch." Paige states

Piper blows up Cole and he disintegrates into fragments which fly around in a circle. Paige places the crystals on the floor around him.

"Phoebe, get out here and help us damn it." Piper shouts to the bathroom, the fragments of Cole is pulled back together. "Paige."

Cole hits Paige and is knocked across the room. One of the crystals she was holding bounces along the floor.

"Don't make me kill you." Cole states,

Piper blows up Cole again and Leo heals Paige.

"Phoebe, you heard what he said, he's gonna kill us, help us!" Alexis exclaimed, "We need you with us,"

In the bathroom. Phoebe is leaning against the door, sobbing.

"Forgive me." Phoebe whispers, She goes into the living room. The fragments of Cole is pulled back together and a fireball appears in his hand. Phoebe picks up the crystal that bounced across the floor.

Cole whispersto Phoebe "I'm sorry, it's, it's for the best."

"I know it is." Phoebe replies as she walks over to Cole and the fireball in his hand disappears. Phoebe kisses him.

"Phoebe?" Piper asks, Alexis raises an eyebrow.

Phoebe moves away from Cole.

"I'm sorry too." Phoebe apologizes, She places the crystal in its place and the trap is activated.

"Phoebe, no. No!" Cole exclaims, figuring out what is happening,

"I'm sorry, baby, I'm so sorry." Phoebe apologizes again, before backing up and rejoining her sisters,

"Prudence, Penelope, Patricia, Melinda..." Piper and Alexis calls together, Fire appears near Cole's feet.

"Astrid, Helen, Laura and Grace..." Phoebe calls,

"I will always love you." Cole states,

"Halliwell witches stand strong beside us." Paige states,

"Vanquish this evil..." Phoebe adds

"From time and space." all four sisters finishes, They vanquish Cole and it makes a huge explosion, making the windows smash. Phoebe walks to the middle of the room and cries.

The next day, Alexis laid down on the couch, with her feet in Harry's lap and her head in Cedric, he was running his fingers though her hair,

Alexis staring at the stairs, and at Piper, who is leaning against the wall at the bottom of the stairs. Leo walks in.

"Hey." Leo greets,

"Hey." Piper greets back,

"Why don't you go up and see her." Leo suggests,

"I don't know what to say. I can't imagine... I mean, if it had been you..." Piper replies,

Leo hugs her.

"I agree with Piper, I can't think of it, if it had been Cedric, Harry or any of my friends from Hogwarts, even Draco." Alexis' voice cracked just thinking about vanquishing someone she loved, Paige walks in through the front door.

"Hey." Paige greets,

"Hey." Piper greets

"Hey," Alexis greets from the living room, as she gets up, then goes over to her sisters,

"How's she doing?" Paige asks

"I don't know, she hasn't come down yet." Piper answers, as she looks up the stairs, with Alexis' eyes following.

"How long have you been standing there?" Paige asks "or laying on the couch?"

"A while." Piper and Alexis answers,

"Maybe we should go see her." Paige suggests,

"Okay." Piper agrees then they start to go upstairs and Piper stops. "What if she wants to be alone?"

"She's gonna be alone a lot. Maybe right now she needs us." Paige answers,

"Right." Piper and Alexis agrees,

They go upstairs and walk into Phoebe's bedroom. Phoebe is lying on her bed crying. they go over and lies beside her and they comfort Phoebe.

DarkPriestess66: due to constant thunderstorms, this is the only chapter, I will be able to post. I will work on more but you guys have to wait until the weather breaks to get them. Sorry, blame Mother Nature.