Chapter 3
When Piper and Leo come back home after closing P3, All the lights are out. As she opens the door, Piper sees Prue's handbag on the floor next to Phoebe's.
" Well, seems like the lost sheep found her way back home. " she states to Leo, pointing the handbags.
" Looks like we were worrying ourselves for nothing. " he says.
" Can you blame us? " Piper teases him.
" No, not really. " he smiles. " It comes with the job. "
They both walk into the living room.
" I wonder why Prue didn't call us, though. " Piper suddenly asks.
" Maybe she forgot or maybe Phoebe came back so late they both decided to go to bed straight away. " Leo answers.
" Yeah, maybe. " Piper says, not really convinced.
" If it worries you so much, ask her tomorrow. " Leo kindly suggests.
" You're right. " Piper said looking at him. " I'm sorry. I think I worry too much. "
" I don't have to apologize. " Leo tells her as he puts his arms around her. "You have every right to worry for your sisters. "
" Really? "
" Really. It's even one of the things I love about you, that way you have of being worried about what happens to others. " he adds before kissing her.
They stand like that a few minutes, holding each other, not saying a word because they don't need to to understand each other. Then Leo looks at the skies. He is being called. He lets out a small sigh. Why does that always happen in such moments? Slowly, with regret, he lets Piper go.
" Uh, Piper, you know I'd love to stay. " he starts.
" But you have to go. " she finishes for him, having guessed what is going on. "Go, I understand. "
" Really? "
" Really. Come on, your bosses are waiting. " she smiles.
" Thank you, Piper. "
He kisses her one last time then, just before he orbs out, he says " I love you. "
" I know. " she says as she watches him disappear. " I love you too. "
Piper goes upstairs to get ready for bed and notices that her sisters' doors are closed. " I hope they didn't have a fight. " she thinks as she enters her bedroom. " I'll talk to them tomorrow. " she decides as she puts on her pajamas. Then, Piper lies down, unaware that the two other bedrooms are empty and that Prue and Phoebe are actually trapped in Lucy's basement. "
In front of her living room window, Lucy watches the last lights in the neighboring house being turned of. " Damn it. " she thinks. She saw Piper come home with Leo and she waited for him to leave to kidnap Piper in her sleep. That is why she made sure to go put Phoebe's handbag in her house and to close the doors of the bedrooms she thought were those of her captives. But Leo never left. So, she must now change her plan.
Thinking about Leo and Piper, Lucy remembers how she found them cute at P3. She particularly remembers the way Leo looked at Piper: in it, you could see all the love it is possible to feel in this world. No one looked at her like that, not since her fiancé Kevin's death.
Poor Kevin. He really loved her, she knows it. That's why she fought the Voices with all her strength when they told her to kill him. She even tried to kill herself to get rid of the Voices. But Kevin stopped her. And she killed him. That day, the first time the Voices were stronger than her, Lucy's life turner into horror. Because the instant she saw the face of the love of her life stiffened in death, Lucy knew she lost her strength and soul with him.
In her heart, she knows Kevin had nothing to do with her family's death. As she steps away from the window, a little voice tells her that all those that came after him, including the Halliwell sisters, were as innocent as he was. But that little voice is soon drowned out by the other Voices, who her whispering to her to kill Phoebe, Prue and Piper.
Lucy lets herself fall on the bed, crying, praying that death will come and take her before dawn.
In Lucy's basement, Prue tries to untie herself from the chair. It is not easy with her eyes blindfolded. She hears Phoebe move next to her, probably also trying to free herself. She hears her try to say something through her gag, but Prue can't make out what it is.
As she tries to free herself, Prue blames herself for not suspecting Lucy's real intent. If only she had insisted at the club, if only she'd listen to Leo at dinner time, if. Prue knows very well that this is not helping her but she can't help herself. And since she can't share her thoughts with Phoebe and that her sister can't try to comfort her, Prue keeps blaming herself.
Next to her, Phoebe wonders what time it is. Let's see. When Lucy came to gag her before Prue's arrival, she told that she was right and that P3 was great. So it is nighttime. But what time in the night? Late enough so that Piper has come back from P3? Locked in the basement since the end of the afternoon and unable to look at her watch, Phoebe has no way to know it. But if Piper has come back from P3, she must have noticed they're missing. " Unless she's with Leo and she has something else in mind. " Phoebe jokes to herself. She'd like to talk to Prue, but her gag stops her from it. " Let's say Piper has come back. " she thinks. " Let's also say she notices we're missing. She still wouldn't know where we are. " Phoebe figures. She feels a little low. All she as left to do is hope that, one way or another, Piper will discover where she and Prue are and come to their rescue.
That is a really small hope but it's enough to keep Phoebe from loosing all her courage.
When Piper wakes up, the first thing Piper notices is the lack of noise in the house. Even if it is unusual at this hour, she doesn't worry much about it. She gets up and goes to the bathroom to take a showing. In doing so, she walks past her sisters' bedroom door and notices that they are still closed. " They're probably still asleep. " Piper guesses.
When she gets out of the shower, the doors are still closed. She decides to let her sisters sleep a little more goes down to the kitchen to eat breakfast.
After having eaten, Piper goes to the living room to watch TV. As she sits on the couch, she notices the phone on the floor. " What is the phone doing her? " she wonders. Picking it up, she notices that the line is still open. Finding this very weird, she puts it to her ear. She hears the phone company's recorded message saying " Please hang up and dial the number again. " It is probably repeating that message since yesterday evening.
Piper hangs up and, intrigued, goes upstairs to ask her sisters if they had a problem. She knocks on Prue's door first.
" Prue? " Piper calls out. " Are you there? "
No answer.
She keeps knocking on the door and calls her sister's name once again. Still no answer. Piper opens the door, thinking of the apology she'll give Prue. She is surprised to find that not only is the room empty but that the bed hasn't even been slept in.
Suddenly having a bad feeling, Piper runs to Phoebe's room and opens the door without knocking. Like she expected, Phoebe isn't there and everything is in order in the room. (Well, as much in order as Phoebe's room can be.) " Oh no. " Piper thinks. " Phoebe never came back home last night. And now, Prue's missing too!
Remembering having seen her sisters' handbags last night, Piper runs to the entrance, picks them up and starts searching them in hope of finding a clue. After ten minutes, Piper still hasn't found anything indicating her sisters' whereabouts. In spite of that, the meticulous search of the handbags helped her to calm down. "Okay, let's try to retrace their steps. Maybe that'll help me. " Piper tells herself, wishing Leo will come back soon.
Meanwhile, Prue and Phoebe, who finally fell asleep, spent, are awaken when Lucy turns on the basement light. She's holding a plate with toasts in it. She walks to the girls and unties Phoebe's gaga.
" Lucy, what's going on? " Phoebe asks.
" It's breakfast time. " Lucy simply answers.
" Huh? "
Lucy picks up her gun, looks at Phoebe and says " I'll untie your hands so you can eat. If you try anything, I'll kill Prue. Understood ? "
Phoebe nods. Lucy unties her than gives her the plate. Phoebe eats in silence, coming up with all sorts of plans that are all completely unrealistic.
When she's finished, Lucy starts tying her back to the chair. In doing so, she touches Phoebe's hands and triggers a premonition. Phoebe sees Lucy in their kitchen, closing in to Piper from behind and knock her out. Lucy, who didn't notice anything, finishes tying her hands and gets up. She then unties Prue's gag.
" Listen, I'll do you a favor and not gag you, since I'm going to get your sister anyway. " she states before climbing up the stairs.
As soon as the door is closed, Phoebe quickly tells Prue about her premonition.
In the manor, Piper is sitting in the kitchen, thinking about what happened yesterday. " Okay. Phoebe went shopping with Lucy. She left a note to tell us she'd come back home for dinner but she didn't. Lucy did. But she doesn't know where Phoebe is. Prue disappeared after leaving P3 last night. But she left alone. No, wait a minute. " Piper suddenly realizes. " That's not true. Prue left at the same time Lucy did. " Which means both her sisters disappeared while they were with Lucy. Piper realizes that Lucy is the one who kidnapped her sisters. She gets up and goes to the phone.
In the entrance, the door opens. Lucy enters the manor, intent to come out with Piper Halliwell.
In Lucy's basement, Phoebe finishes describing her vision to Prue.
" We have to do something, Prue! " Phoebe exclaims.
" Yes, but what? We're stuck here. " Prue replies.
" We've gotta try to free ourselves. "
" No, wait. Maybe not. "
" What? "
" I think there's something I can do. " Prue says.
" What's that? " She figures what Prue means. " Oh, you'll astral project yourself. "
In the manor's kitchen, Piper is dialing Inspector Darryl Morris' phone number. He's probably the only person who can help her right now. Just her luck, her friend's line is busy.
On the kitchen's doorstep, Lucy sees Piper on the phone. There's no one else ion the room. " Perfect. " she thinks as she takes one step forward.
Piper hangs up and dials the number once again, decided to keep doing so until Darryl's line is freed.
Lucy slowly moves forward. Piper is showing her back to her, unaware of the danger behind. " In a few seconds, it will be over. " Lucy tells herself.
At the same instant, Prue closes her eyes underneath her blindfold, then her body falls on her chair.
Prue appears in the kitchen behind Lucy and Piper. " Piper, watch out! " she yells as Lucy is getting ready to attack. Alerted, Piper turns around and sees Lucy ready to hit her. Piper screams and raises her hand, freezing Lucy. Prue tells her "We're in her basement. " before going back to her body.
" Did you do it? " Phoebe tells her as she sees her body move.
" Yes. Piper froze Lucy and she's on her way here. "
In the manor's kitchen, Piper doesn't take time to think. She leaves Lucy in her predicament and goes out to help her sisters. She runs to the next house and opens the door which, luckily, wasn't lucked. As she steps foot in the house, she yells " Prue! Phoebe! "
" This way, in the basement! " she hears Phoebe scream back.
Piper runs to the kitchen.
Still in the manor, Lucy unfreezes. She notices Piper's missing but she doesn't waste time asking herself questions. Besides, she can easily guess where Piper went. Lucy takes out the gun she put in her pocket and runs to her house.
In Lucy's kitchen, Piper finds the basement door and tries to open it. It takes her a few seconds to understand that it's resisting because Lucy locked it to keep her sisters from coming out. She quickly unlocks it and swiftly opens the door. She sees the light switch and turns it on.
" Piper! " Phoebe yells.
Piper runs down the stairs and goes to her sisters. She starts to untie Phoebe who's nearest to the stairs.
Meanwhile, in the manor, Leo orbs in the living room. Immediately, the whitelighter notices something is wrong. The front door is wide open and there is no sound in the house. " Something's happened to them. " he thinks as he starts getting worried.
At the same moment, Lucy enters her kitchen. She silently walks to the basement door. Through it, she can see Piper finishing freeing Phoebe. Then both sisters walk toward Prue. It is time, the Voices tell her. Phoebe can't really do anything and Prue's eyes are blindfolded for a few more seconds. As for Piper, she is turning her back to her. She will have to be the first victim. Quickly, Lucy aims and shoots.
Leo, who went out hoping to see the sisters, hears the shot being fired in the neighboring house. " No! " he thinks as he runs there, sensing that is where the girls are.
In the basement, things just turned ugly. Piper is on the floor in Phoebe's arms. There is a red stain on the front of her shirt and it's getting bigger every second. Prue, who's still tied to her chair but doesn't have her blindfold because Piper managed to untie it before Lucy shot her, watches them, horrified. She hears Piper having trouble to breathe and Phoebe telling her to hang on. She knows Lucy is a the top of the stairs. Normally, she would use her power to make her fall. But Prue is still shocked and can't take her eyes off of Piper.
Lucy, tears in her eyes, aims at Prue. As she's about to pull the trigger, two arms catch her from behind and make her lose her balance. It is Leo. He sees Piper lying on the floor. " No, Piper! " he says. He starts to go down the stairs but Lucy, who managed to not loose her weapon as she falls, stands back up and threatens Leo with her gun.
Thankfully, this time, Prue sees her and pushes the woman with her powers. Lucy falls down the stairs. Leo runs to Piper, whose life now hangs by a thread. However, she's still alive which means he can still save her.
Lucy slowly gets up. She looks up and sees Leo kneeling near Piper. She can read in his eyes all the pain he is in. She knows she just killed the love of is life. Suddenly, Lucy doesn't see Leo anymore, she sees Kevin. That's how he looked at her when she tried to kill herself. She hears the Voices telling her to pick up her gun and to kill Leo so she can kill the girls later. Lucy reaches for her gun then stops. In her mind, she sees everything that has happened since she first heard the Voices realizes what she's done. And, for the first time in a long time, Lucy is stronger than the Voices. " My God, what have I done? " She asks herself. " What have I become? " Kill them, the Voices tell her. " No. " Lucy says. " I won't kill anymore. Never again. " And she curls up and cries.
Meanwhile, Leo tries to heal Piper. Suddenly, Piper's breathing, which had become difficult and irregular, steadies itself. Then the young woman opens her eyes and whispers " My savior. " as she looks at Leo. He smiles at her and holds her near him, thank Heaven he could save her once again.
After having also held Piper in her arms, Phoebe frees Prue. Then everyone turns to Lucy. She's sitting on the last step, her head in her hands, crying herself out.
" I'm sorry. " she says looking up to her. I didn't want to, I swear. It's the Voices. "
The others look at her, uncertain what to do. Finally, Phoebe goes to Lucy. She doesn't know why but she's sure Lucy's sincere. A look at Prue, Piper and Leo tells her they think the same thing. She sits next to Lucy and holds her in her arms.
" There, it's over, Lucy, it's over. " she comforts her.
" Call the police. Tell them I surrender myself. Tell them I have many murders to confess. " Lucy does.
" Alright. " Prue answers. " Come to our house and we'll do that.
A few minutes later, everyone is in Halliwell Manor's living room. Prue is on the phone with Darryl.
" She said her name's Lucy Rainworth and that she has murder to confess. "
" Did she say which ones exactly? " Darryl asks.
" No. She just said she had murders to confess. But I think she has mental problems, Darryl. "
" Why's that? "
" She said voices told her to commit those murders. "
" Alright. I'm coming, Prue. "
" Okay. "
" And Prue? "
" Yes? "
" Be careful, okay? "
" I promise we'll be, Darryl. "
She hangs up and goes to the others. Prue sits in front of Lucy.
" I called Darryl Morris. " she tells her. He's a friend of ours, a police inspector in the homicide section. He'll take care of your case. "
Lucy nods but doesn't say anything. In fact, she hasn't said anything since she got here.
" Lucy, can you tell us why the voices wanted to kill those people? " Phoebe asks.
There is a long silence.
" They say it's because of them if my family died. " Lucy finally answers.
" And you believed them? " Piper asks.
" Yes. But not anymore. In the basement, I remembered the truth. "
" And. what's the truth? " Leo wants to know.
" Two years ago, something terrible happened in my home. I had gone to visit the family of Kevin my. my fiancé. " She stops a moment to master herself. " My took his hunting gun and killed the neighbors. Then, he came back home and killed my brother, my sister and my mother. "
" Why did he do that? " Prue asks.
" I have no idea. I never understood it. I've been trying to understand for two years. With the result you now see. "
" What happened to your father? " Piper asks.
" He. When I came back home, I found him in the living room, next to my mother. He'd. He'd killed himself. I tried to help him but. it was too late. "
Lucy starts crying. Phoebe, sitting next to her, puts her arms around her. No one speaks. After a few minutes, Lucy calms down and speaks again.
" That's when the Voices started. And they never stopped. "
As she finishes her sentence, Darryl rings at the door. Prue lets him in. Lucy spends the following hour giving her deposition to Darryl. When she's finished, she's stopped crying. Darryl says he must now bring her to the precinct.
" That's fine. " Lucy says. " Can I go to the bathroom before? "
" Sure. " Darryl answers.
Piper leads Lucy upstairs and leaves her alone in the bathroom. Lucy closes the door. She opens the tap throws cold water in her face. Then she looks at her image in the mirror. " My God, I'm a monster. " she tells herself.
Downstairs, an eternity seems to have gone by when Darryl says " Maybe one of you three ought to go check if she's okay. Seems to me she's been in there a while. " " I'll go. " Piper says.
She climbs up the stairs and knocks on the bathroom door.
" Lucy, are you alright? " she asks.
No answer.
" Lucy? "
Still no answer.
Piper opens the door and freezes.
" Oh, my God! Leo! " she screams as she runs inside.
Lucy is lying on the floor tiles, blood all around her. Her two wrists are cut. Piper lets herself fall next to her. She suddenly feels a strange chill but doesn't think much of it. She tries to revive the young woman.
Alerted by Piper's scream, Leo, Prue, Phoebe and Darryl run into the bathroom. Understanding immediately what happened, Leo also kneels next to Lucy and tries to heal her. Unfortunately, it is too late.
" I can't, Piper. " he says taking his hands away. " I'm sorry. "
" Dear God, why did she do that? " Piper asks, tears in her eyes.
" Maybe because she couldn't keep living on like this. " Leo answers taking Piper in his arms. " At least, you can tell yourself that now, she is in peace. "
When Piper and Leo come back home after closing P3, All the lights are out. As she opens the door, Piper sees Prue's handbag on the floor next to Phoebe's.
" Well, seems like the lost sheep found her way back home. " she states to Leo, pointing the handbags.
" Looks like we were worrying ourselves for nothing. " he says.
" Can you blame us? " Piper teases him.
" No, not really. " he smiles. " It comes with the job. "
They both walk into the living room.
" I wonder why Prue didn't call us, though. " Piper suddenly asks.
" Maybe she forgot or maybe Phoebe came back so late they both decided to go to bed straight away. " Leo answers.
" Yeah, maybe. " Piper says, not really convinced.
" If it worries you so much, ask her tomorrow. " Leo kindly suggests.
" You're right. " Piper said looking at him. " I'm sorry. I think I worry too much. "
" I don't have to apologize. " Leo tells her as he puts his arms around her. "You have every right to worry for your sisters. "
" Really? "
" Really. It's even one of the things I love about you, that way you have of being worried about what happens to others. " he adds before kissing her.
They stand like that a few minutes, holding each other, not saying a word because they don't need to to understand each other. Then Leo looks at the skies. He is being called. He lets out a small sigh. Why does that always happen in such moments? Slowly, with regret, he lets Piper go.
" Uh, Piper, you know I'd love to stay. " he starts.
" But you have to go. " she finishes for him, having guessed what is going on. "Go, I understand. "
" Really? "
" Really. Come on, your bosses are waiting. " she smiles.
" Thank you, Piper. "
He kisses her one last time then, just before he orbs out, he says " I love you. "
" I know. " she says as she watches him disappear. " I love you too. "
Piper goes upstairs to get ready for bed and notices that her sisters' doors are closed. " I hope they didn't have a fight. " she thinks as she enters her bedroom. " I'll talk to them tomorrow. " she decides as she puts on her pajamas. Then, Piper lies down, unaware that the two other bedrooms are empty and that Prue and Phoebe are actually trapped in Lucy's basement. "
In front of her living room window, Lucy watches the last lights in the neighboring house being turned of. " Damn it. " she thinks. She saw Piper come home with Leo and she waited for him to leave to kidnap Piper in her sleep. That is why she made sure to go put Phoebe's handbag in her house and to close the doors of the bedrooms she thought were those of her captives. But Leo never left. So, she must now change her plan.
Thinking about Leo and Piper, Lucy remembers how she found them cute at P3. She particularly remembers the way Leo looked at Piper: in it, you could see all the love it is possible to feel in this world. No one looked at her like that, not since her fiancé Kevin's death.
Poor Kevin. He really loved her, she knows it. That's why she fought the Voices with all her strength when they told her to kill him. She even tried to kill herself to get rid of the Voices. But Kevin stopped her. And she killed him. That day, the first time the Voices were stronger than her, Lucy's life turner into horror. Because the instant she saw the face of the love of her life stiffened in death, Lucy knew she lost her strength and soul with him.
In her heart, she knows Kevin had nothing to do with her family's death. As she steps away from the window, a little voice tells her that all those that came after him, including the Halliwell sisters, were as innocent as he was. But that little voice is soon drowned out by the other Voices, who her whispering to her to kill Phoebe, Prue and Piper.
Lucy lets herself fall on the bed, crying, praying that death will come and take her before dawn.
In Lucy's basement, Prue tries to untie herself from the chair. It is not easy with her eyes blindfolded. She hears Phoebe move next to her, probably also trying to free herself. She hears her try to say something through her gag, but Prue can't make out what it is.
As she tries to free herself, Prue blames herself for not suspecting Lucy's real intent. If only she had insisted at the club, if only she'd listen to Leo at dinner time, if. Prue knows very well that this is not helping her but she can't help herself. And since she can't share her thoughts with Phoebe and that her sister can't try to comfort her, Prue keeps blaming herself.
Next to her, Phoebe wonders what time it is. Let's see. When Lucy came to gag her before Prue's arrival, she told that she was right and that P3 was great. So it is nighttime. But what time in the night? Late enough so that Piper has come back from P3? Locked in the basement since the end of the afternoon and unable to look at her watch, Phoebe has no way to know it. But if Piper has come back from P3, she must have noticed they're missing. " Unless she's with Leo and she has something else in mind. " Phoebe jokes to herself. She'd like to talk to Prue, but her gag stops her from it. " Let's say Piper has come back. " she thinks. " Let's also say she notices we're missing. She still wouldn't know where we are. " Phoebe figures. She feels a little low. All she as left to do is hope that, one way or another, Piper will discover where she and Prue are and come to their rescue.
That is a really small hope but it's enough to keep Phoebe from loosing all her courage.
When Piper wakes up, the first thing Piper notices is the lack of noise in the house. Even if it is unusual at this hour, she doesn't worry much about it. She gets up and goes to the bathroom to take a showing. In doing so, she walks past her sisters' bedroom door and notices that they are still closed. " They're probably still asleep. " Piper guesses.
When she gets out of the shower, the doors are still closed. She decides to let her sisters sleep a little more goes down to the kitchen to eat breakfast.
After having eaten, Piper goes to the living room to watch TV. As she sits on the couch, she notices the phone on the floor. " What is the phone doing her? " she wonders. Picking it up, she notices that the line is still open. Finding this very weird, she puts it to her ear. She hears the phone company's recorded message saying " Please hang up and dial the number again. " It is probably repeating that message since yesterday evening.
Piper hangs up and, intrigued, goes upstairs to ask her sisters if they had a problem. She knocks on Prue's door first.
" Prue? " Piper calls out. " Are you there? "
No answer.
She keeps knocking on the door and calls her sister's name once again. Still no answer. Piper opens the door, thinking of the apology she'll give Prue. She is surprised to find that not only is the room empty but that the bed hasn't even been slept in.
Suddenly having a bad feeling, Piper runs to Phoebe's room and opens the door without knocking. Like she expected, Phoebe isn't there and everything is in order in the room. (Well, as much in order as Phoebe's room can be.) " Oh no. " Piper thinks. " Phoebe never came back home last night. And now, Prue's missing too!
Remembering having seen her sisters' handbags last night, Piper runs to the entrance, picks them up and starts searching them in hope of finding a clue. After ten minutes, Piper still hasn't found anything indicating her sisters' whereabouts. In spite of that, the meticulous search of the handbags helped her to calm down. "Okay, let's try to retrace their steps. Maybe that'll help me. " Piper tells herself, wishing Leo will come back soon.
Meanwhile, Prue and Phoebe, who finally fell asleep, spent, are awaken when Lucy turns on the basement light. She's holding a plate with toasts in it. She walks to the girls and unties Phoebe's gaga.
" Lucy, what's going on? " Phoebe asks.
" It's breakfast time. " Lucy simply answers.
" Huh? "
Lucy picks up her gun, looks at Phoebe and says " I'll untie your hands so you can eat. If you try anything, I'll kill Prue. Understood ? "
Phoebe nods. Lucy unties her than gives her the plate. Phoebe eats in silence, coming up with all sorts of plans that are all completely unrealistic.
When she's finished, Lucy starts tying her back to the chair. In doing so, she touches Phoebe's hands and triggers a premonition. Phoebe sees Lucy in their kitchen, closing in to Piper from behind and knock her out. Lucy, who didn't notice anything, finishes tying her hands and gets up. She then unties Prue's gag.
" Listen, I'll do you a favor and not gag you, since I'm going to get your sister anyway. " she states before climbing up the stairs.
As soon as the door is closed, Phoebe quickly tells Prue about her premonition.
In the manor, Piper is sitting in the kitchen, thinking about what happened yesterday. " Okay. Phoebe went shopping with Lucy. She left a note to tell us she'd come back home for dinner but she didn't. Lucy did. But she doesn't know where Phoebe is. Prue disappeared after leaving P3 last night. But she left alone. No, wait a minute. " Piper suddenly realizes. " That's not true. Prue left at the same time Lucy did. " Which means both her sisters disappeared while they were with Lucy. Piper realizes that Lucy is the one who kidnapped her sisters. She gets up and goes to the phone.
In the entrance, the door opens. Lucy enters the manor, intent to come out with Piper Halliwell.
In Lucy's basement, Phoebe finishes describing her vision to Prue.
" We have to do something, Prue! " Phoebe exclaims.
" Yes, but what? We're stuck here. " Prue replies.
" We've gotta try to free ourselves. "
" No, wait. Maybe not. "
" What? "
" I think there's something I can do. " Prue says.
" What's that? " She figures what Prue means. " Oh, you'll astral project yourself. "
In the manor's kitchen, Piper is dialing Inspector Darryl Morris' phone number. He's probably the only person who can help her right now. Just her luck, her friend's line is busy.
On the kitchen's doorstep, Lucy sees Piper on the phone. There's no one else ion the room. " Perfect. " she thinks as she takes one step forward.
Piper hangs up and dials the number once again, decided to keep doing so until Darryl's line is freed.
Lucy slowly moves forward. Piper is showing her back to her, unaware of the danger behind. " In a few seconds, it will be over. " Lucy tells herself.
At the same instant, Prue closes her eyes underneath her blindfold, then her body falls on her chair.
Prue appears in the kitchen behind Lucy and Piper. " Piper, watch out! " she yells as Lucy is getting ready to attack. Alerted, Piper turns around and sees Lucy ready to hit her. Piper screams and raises her hand, freezing Lucy. Prue tells her "We're in her basement. " before going back to her body.
" Did you do it? " Phoebe tells her as she sees her body move.
" Yes. Piper froze Lucy and she's on her way here. "
In the manor's kitchen, Piper doesn't take time to think. She leaves Lucy in her predicament and goes out to help her sisters. She runs to the next house and opens the door which, luckily, wasn't lucked. As she steps foot in the house, she yells " Prue! Phoebe! "
" This way, in the basement! " she hears Phoebe scream back.
Piper runs to the kitchen.
Still in the manor, Lucy unfreezes. She notices Piper's missing but she doesn't waste time asking herself questions. Besides, she can easily guess where Piper went. Lucy takes out the gun she put in her pocket and runs to her house.
In Lucy's kitchen, Piper finds the basement door and tries to open it. It takes her a few seconds to understand that it's resisting because Lucy locked it to keep her sisters from coming out. She quickly unlocks it and swiftly opens the door. She sees the light switch and turns it on.
" Piper! " Phoebe yells.
Piper runs down the stairs and goes to her sisters. She starts to untie Phoebe who's nearest to the stairs.
Meanwhile, in the manor, Leo orbs in the living room. Immediately, the whitelighter notices something is wrong. The front door is wide open and there is no sound in the house. " Something's happened to them. " he thinks as he starts getting worried.
At the same moment, Lucy enters her kitchen. She silently walks to the basement door. Through it, she can see Piper finishing freeing Phoebe. Then both sisters walk toward Prue. It is time, the Voices tell her. Phoebe can't really do anything and Prue's eyes are blindfolded for a few more seconds. As for Piper, she is turning her back to her. She will have to be the first victim. Quickly, Lucy aims and shoots.
Leo, who went out hoping to see the sisters, hears the shot being fired in the neighboring house. " No! " he thinks as he runs there, sensing that is where the girls are.
In the basement, things just turned ugly. Piper is on the floor in Phoebe's arms. There is a red stain on the front of her shirt and it's getting bigger every second. Prue, who's still tied to her chair but doesn't have her blindfold because Piper managed to untie it before Lucy shot her, watches them, horrified. She hears Piper having trouble to breathe and Phoebe telling her to hang on. She knows Lucy is a the top of the stairs. Normally, she would use her power to make her fall. But Prue is still shocked and can't take her eyes off of Piper.
Lucy, tears in her eyes, aims at Prue. As she's about to pull the trigger, two arms catch her from behind and make her lose her balance. It is Leo. He sees Piper lying on the floor. " No, Piper! " he says. He starts to go down the stairs but Lucy, who managed to not loose her weapon as she falls, stands back up and threatens Leo with her gun.
Thankfully, this time, Prue sees her and pushes the woman with her powers. Lucy falls down the stairs. Leo runs to Piper, whose life now hangs by a thread. However, she's still alive which means he can still save her.
Lucy slowly gets up. She looks up and sees Leo kneeling near Piper. She can read in his eyes all the pain he is in. She knows she just killed the love of is life. Suddenly, Lucy doesn't see Leo anymore, she sees Kevin. That's how he looked at her when she tried to kill herself. She hears the Voices telling her to pick up her gun and to kill Leo so she can kill the girls later. Lucy reaches for her gun then stops. In her mind, she sees everything that has happened since she first heard the Voices realizes what she's done. And, for the first time in a long time, Lucy is stronger than the Voices. " My God, what have I done? " She asks herself. " What have I become? " Kill them, the Voices tell her. " No. " Lucy says. " I won't kill anymore. Never again. " And she curls up and cries.
Meanwhile, Leo tries to heal Piper. Suddenly, Piper's breathing, which had become difficult and irregular, steadies itself. Then the young woman opens her eyes and whispers " My savior. " as she looks at Leo. He smiles at her and holds her near him, thank Heaven he could save her once again.
After having also held Piper in her arms, Phoebe frees Prue. Then everyone turns to Lucy. She's sitting on the last step, her head in her hands, crying herself out.
" I'm sorry. " she says looking up to her. I didn't want to, I swear. It's the Voices. "
The others look at her, uncertain what to do. Finally, Phoebe goes to Lucy. She doesn't know why but she's sure Lucy's sincere. A look at Prue, Piper and Leo tells her they think the same thing. She sits next to Lucy and holds her in her arms.
" There, it's over, Lucy, it's over. " she comforts her.
" Call the police. Tell them I surrender myself. Tell them I have many murders to confess. " Lucy does.
" Alright. " Prue answers. " Come to our house and we'll do that.
A few minutes later, everyone is in Halliwell Manor's living room. Prue is on the phone with Darryl.
" She said her name's Lucy Rainworth and that she has murder to confess. "
" Did she say which ones exactly? " Darryl asks.
" No. She just said she had murders to confess. But I think she has mental problems, Darryl. "
" Why's that? "
" She said voices told her to commit those murders. "
" Alright. I'm coming, Prue. "
" Okay. "
" And Prue? "
" Yes? "
" Be careful, okay? "
" I promise we'll be, Darryl. "
She hangs up and goes to the others. Prue sits in front of Lucy.
" I called Darryl Morris. " she tells her. He's a friend of ours, a police inspector in the homicide section. He'll take care of your case. "
Lucy nods but doesn't say anything. In fact, she hasn't said anything since she got here.
" Lucy, can you tell us why the voices wanted to kill those people? " Phoebe asks.
There is a long silence.
" They say it's because of them if my family died. " Lucy finally answers.
" And you believed them? " Piper asks.
" Yes. But not anymore. In the basement, I remembered the truth. "
" And. what's the truth? " Leo wants to know.
" Two years ago, something terrible happened in my home. I had gone to visit the family of Kevin my. my fiancé. " She stops a moment to master herself. " My took his hunting gun and killed the neighbors. Then, he came back home and killed my brother, my sister and my mother. "
" Why did he do that? " Prue asks.
" I have no idea. I never understood it. I've been trying to understand for two years. With the result you now see. "
" What happened to your father? " Piper asks.
" He. When I came back home, I found him in the living room, next to my mother. He'd. He'd killed himself. I tried to help him but. it was too late. "
Lucy starts crying. Phoebe, sitting next to her, puts her arms around her. No one speaks. After a few minutes, Lucy calms down and speaks again.
" That's when the Voices started. And they never stopped. "
As she finishes her sentence, Darryl rings at the door. Prue lets him in. Lucy spends the following hour giving her deposition to Darryl. When she's finished, she's stopped crying. Darryl says he must now bring her to the precinct.
" That's fine. " Lucy says. " Can I go to the bathroom before? "
" Sure. " Darryl answers.
Piper leads Lucy upstairs and leaves her alone in the bathroom. Lucy closes the door. She opens the tap throws cold water in her face. Then she looks at her image in the mirror. " My God, I'm a monster. " she tells herself.
Downstairs, an eternity seems to have gone by when Darryl says " Maybe one of you three ought to go check if she's okay. Seems to me she's been in there a while. " " I'll go. " Piper says.
She climbs up the stairs and knocks on the bathroom door.
" Lucy, are you alright? " she asks.
No answer.
" Lucy? "
Still no answer.
Piper opens the door and freezes.
" Oh, my God! Leo! " she screams as she runs inside.
Lucy is lying on the floor tiles, blood all around her. Her two wrists are cut. Piper lets herself fall next to her. She suddenly feels a strange chill but doesn't think much of it. She tries to revive the young woman.
Alerted by Piper's scream, Leo, Prue, Phoebe and Darryl run into the bathroom. Understanding immediately what happened, Leo also kneels next to Lucy and tries to heal her. Unfortunately, it is too late.
" I can't, Piper. " he says taking his hands away. " I'm sorry. "
" Dear God, why did she do that? " Piper asks, tears in her eyes.
" Maybe because she couldn't keep living on like this. " Leo answers taking Piper in his arms. " At least, you can tell yourself that now, she is in peace. "