CHAPTER TWO

Piper and Paige walked towards Leo as he orbed back into the manor

"Honey what's going on?"

Leo looked at her a worried look on his face an expression that was mirrored on everyone else's faces. "I can't track her anywhere and when I spoke to the elders they said she's at the manor –".

Cole suddenly interrupted him "She's not here Leo look around"

Leo nodded his head "I know that She's not at this manor she's in a parallel dimension".

"How did she get there?" Piper asked.

Leo shrugged not really knowing the answer "We think she was summoned there by you and Prue or of course a demon we can't be sure this hasn't happened before".

Paige unwrapped a lollipop and began walking towards the attic "Well there's gotta be something in the Book of Shadows right" she suggested.

The others nodded and followed her up the stairs.

AU Manor

Phoebe continued to flick through the changed book of shadows she took in the differences between her book and theirs. "A glamour spell".

Piper grinned "Yeah we used that to get into Nathaniel Pratt's house…He had a videotape of us using magic so we made him think we were his neighbours…And Prue used it to get this hot guy".

"How do all this happen? Leo was supposed to show up and guide us"

Prue sat down on a chair beside her "And how do he come to be our whitelighter?" "He came in secret at first, pretending to be our handyman".

Piper suddenly put her hands to her mouth in shock "The handyman! We vanquished him but he was a demon --".

"You vanquished your whitelighter!"

Phebes we didn't know who he was and you're the one who made up the spell" Prue stated as she looked at her watch.

"I didn't make that spell…You said you performed a spell to bring your Phoebe back from the dead…You can't do that so the spell did the next best thing…It brought me here". Phoebe stood in silence for the next few minutes "You can't have vanquished Leo he must've knew you wouldn't trust him so he stayed away he's guiding you from a distance…He's not doing a very good job but he might be our only hope".

Piper began to walk out of the attic "You were taken from us once and whether you're our Phoebe or not you're still a charmed one".

Prue nodded her head in agreement "Piper's right you belong here with us at the manor".

Piper and Prue walked out of the attic and closed the door behind them

"We'd better keep her here she's acting like a crazy woman"

"She's our sister Prue we can't lock her in the attic she can levitate out of the window anyway".

They both began to walk down the stairs.

"Then one of us will watch her around the clock until she's through this you stay here first and I'll be back in time for you to get to work tonight" Prue instructed before leaving the manor.

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Piper closed the book in frustration "There's nothing!"

Paige looked to her sympathetically "Can't we go there?"

Leo shook his head "Even if by some miracle you could you couldn't do anything to help her you probably wouldn't have your powers like when you went back in time Piper with Prue and Phoebe you didn't have your powers".

Piper nodded in agreement as she remembered "And if we did have our powers?" "The Charmed One's against The Charmed Ones no one would want to be there when that happens, you don't know how their powers would have grown compared to yours they might be stronger".

Cole suddenly spoke up from where he leaned against the wall by the attic door "If they killed you the Charmed One's in this world wouldn't be able to protect the innocent and vice versa".

Paige frowned "So it's a no win situation…Leo couldn't you go?"

He shook his head again "I don't know what would happen if I went there I wouldn't want to disrupt the work my other self has been doing".

Cole suddenly walked towards them "And what about me?"

All eyes turned to him "Maybe Balthezar has been has been vanquished in this other world".

"And if y…He hasn't?" Leo asked.

"I don't have my powers now anyway it would be like there's two of me walking around".

Piper shook her head in disagreement "As much as I want her back it's too dangerous if she someone managed to get back here and then you were stuck in that other place she'd never forgive us".

"But at least she'd be alive…The world can do without an ex-demon but without The Charmed one's the world would go to hell".

Leo walked over to Piper and put his arms around her "He's right, it's the only way to get Phoebe back".

Cole stood inside the pentacle waiting anxiously for Piper and Paige to finish preparing the spell,

"Do you have the chant to bring you back?" Leo asked him.

He nodded silently, impatiently, he waited in the darkness the five candles providing the only light in the attic.

Piper watched him solemnly "Don't take too long".

He closed his eyes and waited.

'There's a Charmed One that must be found

We send her love to find her

In heart and Soul their bound

Where she's lost in this other world, he'll find her'.

AU MANOR

Phoebe sat on the floor of the attic, thinking, knowing one of her 'sisters' was still in the house keeping an eye on her it'd been half an hour since Prue came back from work whether or not Piper was still there she didn't know. She jumped back as she heard a shout and a bolt of light, seconds later a figure rolled across the floor and landed in a heap by a heap of boxes.

She walked towards the figure slowly aware of the fact that one of her 'sisters' was running up the stairs a familiar face looked up at her.

He flinched as he stood up to greet her "You have had a lot of people worried". "Cole, sweetie you have to hide now!"

The door was flung open and Prue faced her "Phoebe get away from him".

Phoebe stood protectively in front of Cole "Prue wait"

"She's alive here"

"Yeah and Leo's not…Apparently" Phoebe quickly gave him an update.

Prue looked at her angrily, betrayal written across her face "How could you lie to us about Balthezar?" She didn't wait for an answer as she flicked her wrist and sent Cole flying across the room and through the window.