ACT III
INT. MANOR, UPSTAIRS HALLWAY, A FEW MINUTES LATER
Paige and Phoebe ran through the upstairs, trying to catch 'Teenage Piper', who was running away from them, after seeing Leo orb. Phoebe leaned against the wall, breathing heavily, and Paige looked at her with a beaten expression.
"Why'd she freak like that?" Paige asked, putting her hand to her chest to try to stop her racing heart.
"I think the spell turned her into a teenager in the literal sense," Phoebe responded, facing her sister. They heard loud footsteps running towards Piper's bedroom, and a loud sound told them that Piper had slammed her door.
INT. MANOR, PARLOR, A BIT LATER
Phoebe sat in the parlor reading a magazine while Paige was off somewhere else, both giving Piper time to calm down. Suddenly, she heard a big explosion.
"Piper?" she shouted. "Piper, are you okay? Piper, what was that sound?" Phoebe shouted, as she ran upstairs to Piper's bedroom. Her jaw dropped in shock. Paige stood in the midst of wood pieces, the remains of Piper's bedroom door.
"What happened here?" Phoebe asked, cautiously stepping into the room.
"All I did was knock on the door," Paige said, and they both looked to the teenage Piper, who was sitting on her bed, her legs folded and her arms wrapped around then, whimpering.
"She doesn't realize what she did, or what she can do, with her powers," Paige said, looking around the room. Phoebe gently moved towards her sister, but Piper scurried back, away from her, and whimpered louder.
"Don't be afraid of us, Piper," Phoebe said gently.
"Who are you people? Why are you here?" Piper asked through sniffles.
At that moment, Leo orbed in, a look of worry on his face. Piper looked at him, gave a squeak, then ran to duck behind Paige.
"There's a boy in the house!" the teen whispered, her face now six shades of red. She was staring at Leo, a look of fear and nervousness on her face.
"Piper," Paige said, turning around to face the timid adolescent and gesturing to Leo. "That's not a boy. That's Leo, your h -"
"- Heavenly protector!" Phoebe interrupted quickly, giving Paige a look and whispering. "She was terribly shy around boys at that age, from the stories I heard."
"Okay, well, I have to go to work, so, um... you'll have to watch her, please?" Paige asked Phoebe, giving her a pleading look.
"I have work too, you know," Phoebe said.
"One of us has to stay with her! Leo?" Paige asked, turning to him.
"I can't, not with the work I do," he replied.
"Okay, I'll take her, but you owe me," Paige said, grabbing her coat and gesturing for Piper to follow her. Phoebe opened the front door to leave as well, and Leo orbed out once Piper was out the door.
INT. SOUTH BAY SOCIAL SERVICES, MAIN ROOM, DAY
Paige walked into the office, Piper following her timidly. Her boss, Mr. Cowan, walked out from his private office and came towards her.
"Ms. Matthews, we don't provide babysitting here, who's the kid?" he asked her, looking down at Piper. The timid teen shrank back in shyness.
"Oh, um, this is my cousin, Piper," Paige said, thinking fast and hoping he'd buy the fib.
"Ms. Matthews, I'll repeat what I just said, we do not provide babysitting services, so I suggest you ask one of your sisters to handle the kid and get to work," Mr. Cowan said, a stern expression on his face. He turned and walked back into his office, and Paige hurried to her cubicle, Piper following her obediently.
When Paige got into her office, she grabbed the phone and dialed Phoebe's office, keeping an eye on Piper.
"Phoebe Halliwell," Phoebe said in professional greeting when she picked up.
"Phoebe? It's Paige," she said.
INT. BAY MIRROR, PHOEBE'S OFFICE, SAME TIME
"Paige, uh, I'm kind of busy right now, what's wrong," Phoebe said, typing something into her computer as she talked. Her assistant came in and handed her a crate full of letters, smiled, then left.
"I can't keep Piper here, my boss almost blew a gasket when I brought her in!" Paige said.
Phoebe rubbed her temple and sighed. She glanced around at all the letters still unread and sighed.
"I can't have her here, she'll distract me!" Phoebe said. She heard playful giggling on the other end and Paige's aggravated groan. "Alright, uh, orb her here during our lunch hour, okay?"
INT. SBSS, PAIGE'S OFFICE, SAME TIME
"Okay," Paige said, then hung up the phone. While she had been talking, Piper had curiously leafed through (and disorganized) much of Paige's paperwork, leaving her once-semi-organized office in shambles.
When lunchtime rolled around, Paige took her sister's hand and started to orb.
"AAHH!" Piper screamed, stepping back quickly. Paige looked to the window that faced the main area, and she saw a few people looking in their direction.
"You don't have to be afraid of me, Piper. I won't EVER hurt you, okay?" Paige said soothingly, facing her sister again. "We need to go to Phoebe."
Piper nodded, and Paige orbed her to Phoebe's office -
INT. BAY MIRROR, PHOEBE'S OFFICE, THAT AFTERNOON
- Muttering a quick thank you before orbing back to her office. Phoebe groaned as her assistant walked in at the same time (not noticing Paige or Piper) and placed a crate full of letters on her desk, smiling sympathetically.
"Alright, Piper, um..." Phoebe said, trying to find something to occupy the frazzled teen. Piper was so overwhelmed that she thrust her arms out and accidentally froze another of Phoebe's co-workers, and whimpered in frustration. Phoebe sighed and bent down to look Piper in the eyes, then spoke sternly. "Piper, honey, you've gotta calm down!"
At that, Piper's eyes widened, and she ran off into the newspaper's bullpen.
INT. BAY MIRROR, BULLPEN, SECONDS LATER
Piper ran from Phoebe's office in hysterics, accidentally waving her arms and blowing a nearby waste bin into smithereens. This only caused her to panic even more, and the people who saw what happened gave Phoebe a look of confusion.
"Uhh..." she said, smiling nervously.
INT. DEONIC UNDERGROUND, ETERNAL NIGHT
Melinda struggled to break free of the ropes typing her to a pole. The two demons had shimmered out a few minutes ago, and she knew they were going to find another victim. Sure enough, they shimmered in, one holding a girl about her age, and the other grabbed another rope. They tied the other girl up, and put a piece of tape on her mouth, just as they had to Melinda. Then they gave a sinister laugh and shimmered out. The other girl writhed frantically, trying to get free, and Melinda looked her in they eyes.
"Everything will be okay," she said, sending a telepathic message to the girl, and the girl's eyes widened in shock.
"You're a – a witch too?" the girl said, using the same telepathic power as Melinda.
"Yes, and my mother and aunts are too. They're the Charmed Ones, and they'll come for us, don't worry," Melinda said. The two girls then sat in wait, praying for their rescuers to come...
INT. MANOR, PARLOR, THAT NIGHT
"We've gotta get those demons, so Piper can go back to the way she was," Paige said, as they sat in the parlor that evening. "And besides, Mel's life is at stake!"
"Well, all we have to do is set Piper out as 'bait,' and wait till they come for her," Phoebe said, glancing at the younger version of her sister, who was sitting in a nearby chair, reading a book.
"Then what?" Paige asked.
"Well, we follow them back to wherever their 'headquarters' are, shall we say, and that should be where the others are," Phoebe said.
At that moment, two demons shimmered in. Spotting Phoebe first and then Paige, one demon threw energy balls at them, while the other went to Piper and grabbed her.
"No!" Phoebe said, as she dodged energy ball after energy ball. The poor girl screamed in panic, then fainted of utter shock. Paige gestured and called for two energy balls at once, and threw them at each of the demons, but they shimmered out before the energy balls could reach their targets, taking Piper with them.
"Piper!" Phoebe cried frantically.