The next two months were hard on everyone. Piper did plenty of research on
child custody cases and made sure to visit Melinda at least once a week.
Leo spent endless nights at the Police Station with Darryl, Paige worked
hard on putting the case together and Phoebe and Cole went looking for a
perfect lawyer to represent them. Everyone wanted to see little Melinda
with Piper and Leo and their actions were enough to tell anyone that they
were behind them one hundred percent. Finally on August 4th, Melinda's
second birthday Piper and Leo were ready to take on the court.
When they arrived at the courtroom that afternoon they were astonished to see how lengthy the custody cases were. First the lawyers had a moment to make an opening statement and then the testimonies began. Everyone was there to lend support, from fellow whitelighters to workers at P3 and even Victor was called to the stand. It appeared that everything was going well and then the judge called a short recess.
"It seems we're doing quite well Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt," Mark, their lawyer informed them, "this process should be over soon the judge just has to review the facts and then he'll make his final decision."
"So you're confident that we'll win?" Piper asked nervously
"It looks good at this point. Now we should just go back to the courtroom and wait till the judge comes back."
So Mark, Piper, Leo and the gang made their way back into the courtroom to wait. As they were sitting talking to one another they saw smoke appearing. Out of instinct Piper, Paige and Phoebe began to look around. What they saw was the judge, attorney, lawyers, police and the rest of the people in the court house turn into horrible creatures and a cloud of smoke transform into a slender woman with long dark hair.
"Okay guys what should we do? How about we take out Morticia and then her friends." Phoebe whispered
"Good idea." Piper and Paige said And with that they began to kill every evil thing that was present in the courtroom. Phoebe used her kick boxing skills while Paige threw things and Piper blew things up. Cole also helped by throwing energy balls. When they all had a moment to breath they huddled in the corner to discuss their next plan of action.
"Okay so what do we do about "Morticia"?"
"She's the Queen." Cole said
"What? Wait you mean like Queen of the Underworld?"
"Yeah. You can only kill her by using a spell, although I can try to weaken her with the energy balls."
"Okay you do that and then we'll hit her with the spell we used to vanquish the last source." Paige said
Cole began by throwing energy balls. She staggered a bit but it didn't do too much to weaken her it just caused her to get angry. She was just about to hit Cole with a fireball when Piper, Phoebe and Paige began to recite the spell.
Prudence, Penelope, Patricia, Melinda
Ashley, Ellen, Laura and Grace Halliwell witches stand strong beside us Vanquish this evil from time and space
And with that she was vanquished.
Due to the fact that there was no one left to give them a verdict Piper and Leo took it upon themselves to sign adoption papers and lie to the state, saying that Judge Jones had granted them full custody of Melinda.
When they arrived at the courtroom that afternoon they were astonished to see how lengthy the custody cases were. First the lawyers had a moment to make an opening statement and then the testimonies began. Everyone was there to lend support, from fellow whitelighters to workers at P3 and even Victor was called to the stand. It appeared that everything was going well and then the judge called a short recess.
"It seems we're doing quite well Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt," Mark, their lawyer informed them, "this process should be over soon the judge just has to review the facts and then he'll make his final decision."
"So you're confident that we'll win?" Piper asked nervously
"It looks good at this point. Now we should just go back to the courtroom and wait till the judge comes back."
So Mark, Piper, Leo and the gang made their way back into the courtroom to wait. As they were sitting talking to one another they saw smoke appearing. Out of instinct Piper, Paige and Phoebe began to look around. What they saw was the judge, attorney, lawyers, police and the rest of the people in the court house turn into horrible creatures and a cloud of smoke transform into a slender woman with long dark hair.
"Okay guys what should we do? How about we take out Morticia and then her friends." Phoebe whispered
"Good idea." Piper and Paige said And with that they began to kill every evil thing that was present in the courtroom. Phoebe used her kick boxing skills while Paige threw things and Piper blew things up. Cole also helped by throwing energy balls. When they all had a moment to breath they huddled in the corner to discuss their next plan of action.
"Okay so what do we do about "Morticia"?"
"She's the Queen." Cole said
"What? Wait you mean like Queen of the Underworld?"
"Yeah. You can only kill her by using a spell, although I can try to weaken her with the energy balls."
"Okay you do that and then we'll hit her with the spell we used to vanquish the last source." Paige said
Cole began by throwing energy balls. She staggered a bit but it didn't do too much to weaken her it just caused her to get angry. She was just about to hit Cole with a fireball when Piper, Phoebe and Paige began to recite the spell.
Prudence, Penelope, Patricia, Melinda
Ashley, Ellen, Laura and Grace Halliwell witches stand strong beside us Vanquish this evil from time and space
And with that she was vanquished.
Due to the fact that there was no one left to give them a verdict Piper and Leo took it upon themselves to sign adoption papers and lie to the state, saying that Judge Jones had granted them full custody of Melinda.
