"What do you expect to find? We've been out here for hours, let's go home and see what Phoebe has. Something you suggested earlier, remember?" Piper grumbled looking around the area they were standing in.
"I don't know, something though." Prue answered
"Demons don't usually leave footprints, remember?"
"No, but sometimes they leave a residue when they've been vanquished. Something otherwise innocuous. Look, I just don't understand how we could vanquish such a powerful demon without a spell."
"Luck? Come on lets go home." They started walking up the street, walking past a little girl standing in front of her house, Piper smiles.
"Hi! What's you name?" The little girl smiled slightly, turning to her rapidly approaching mother.
"Come on sweetie, stay away from them." She gently steered her daughter toward the house, turning back to Piper and Prue she spoke, "Stay away from my family!"
"Hey!" Prue said irritated. Piper watched hurt warring with confusion.
"What prompted that?" Piper asked, Prue shook her head speechless. "Wonder what Leo and the Girls found out? I'm dying to talk to the girls about the future."
"Huh." Was all Prue said.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"She hope's she wrong! What a line of crap!" Phoebe fumed Amy rolled her eyes.
"Why do you two always fight? Just ignore it, for the sake of our sanity!" Lila frowned. The far wall was blurry.
"WHAT sanity Amy? We live with Trina we lost it a long time ago!" Trina materialized along with Cole.
"Time? What are you talking about?" Trina asked while looking around the room. What a mess!
"Were talking about sanity, " Amy said bounding down the stairs and came to an abrupt halt. " WHAT are you wearing?! You look like gloom and doom." Trina looked down at her formal wear and shrugged.
"Jealous?" Amy's mouth dropped and Lila cracked up.
"Hardly," Amy appraised Trina's appearance and pointed a finger saying a little spell.
"Midnight light, create beauty beyond this sight, Adorned in silver, diamonds and sapphires I create." She smiled. Prue and Piper walked through the door in time to hear the spell, raising a brow they went to view the spells handy work.
"Well done, Amy!" Piper said beaming at her. Leo came to stand behind Amy draping his arm over her shoulders. Phoebe had taken a seat on the stairs. Soon everyone was staring at Trina.
"Oh for crying out loud, stop starting and give me a mirror!" Cole chuckled.
"In the hall just after the door." Walking past Pure and Piper, Trina went to look and grinned. Amy had created a diamond stars and full moon sapphire necklace with a horizontal crescent moon dripping a Blue Zircon that hung just above her cleavage provocatively, with matching earrings and a bracelet, Amy had added class to the outfit.
"Now, I'm jealous." Amy declared. Trina walked to the mirror and stood there admiring herself.
"Damn, but I look good!" Amy and Lila laughed.
"Here we go! Doesn't she have a big enough ego as it is?" No one had time to reply before the phone rang.
"Oh, maybe that's Griffiths. Hello? No, Darryl, just wait, slow down, okay. What?" Pure said.
"Have you seen the TV yet today? It's all over it."
"What's all over it, Darryl?" Trina frowned at Pure's question and turned white as her memory clicked. A quick glance at Lila and Amy told her they had remembered too. With a heavy sigh Lila walked into the living room.
"Just turn on the TV, okay?" Darryl said and Prue turned on the tv. "I told the captain I would handle it."
"Oh my god!" Prue watched in horror as the tv showed her and Piper vanquishing Shax.
"Prue? Prue?"
"Here we are approaching the home of where they allegedly live." The tv thundered.
"Oh!" Prue, losing feeling in her hand dropped the phone and covered her mouth with her hand. The tv showed Elana standing in front of the manor.
"Prue, Piper and Phoebe Halliwell. And you're gonna meet them live right here on KCSF."
"What are we gonna do?" Piper breathed. Trina sitting on one of the kitchen chairs turned from staring at the tv to look at Lila.
"Who's going to get to go on Opah?"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The outside of the manor was a media nightmare, if you got a glimpse of pavement or the street you were lucky, going out side wasn't an option, even had the wanted to. After Trina had asked who was gong to be on Opah, she had been banished to the living room for fear Prue would do damage. Staring out the window at the horde of people surrounding the manor she noticed Darryl's car, and nearly laughed as he was swallowed up by media shouting questions.
"Have you come to arrest them?" One shouted.
"No comment." Darryl said as he walked swiftly toward the door.
"Do you consider them dangerous?" The same reporter bellowed.
"I said no comment." Darryl said walking up the stairs. The reported called Elana was talking to a woman named Alice.
"Hey, hey, I can help. I know who they are, I know what they are. They're witches just like me. Just like I am." Trina sniffed at the woman's comment and called out to Prue.
"Aunt Prue, Darryl's at the door." Prue walked toward the door sparing a glare in Trina's direction from outside could be heard Darryl.
"Yeah, Prue, I'm at the door, open it up." The reporter on the door step whirled around with a microphone stuffing it into Darryl's face.
"Would you like to make a statement?" She asked eagerly.
"I said no comment." Darryl ground out, shoving passed to enter the manor. The reporter not in the least offended shoved her microphone toward the door.
"Miss Halliwell..."
"Back off!" Prue snarled as Darryl brushed past to get inside. Prue slammed the door with enough force to raddle the glass. Trina winced wondering how many times that stained glass had been broken as she listened with half a ear to the conversation around her.
"Isn't that illegal? Can't you do something about that?" Piper asked.
"Hey, killing somebody on live TV is pretty illegal too, you know." Darryl said in a tone that suggested she should have thought of that.
"Okay, it wasn't somebody, Darryl, it was a demon. And we're pretty sure we didn't kill him anyway." Prue said.
"Do you wanna try telling them that?"
"Ugh..." Prue frowned.
"Look, I've called for backup, but that's not gonna help for long. This thing's gonna get ugly fast." Darryl said seriously. Trina couldn't say quiet any longer.
"Yeah THINK! Like HELLO! This is going to get more than UGLY! Think about who your dealing with here!" Darryl started noticing Trina for the first time.
"Who's she?" Prue glared at Trina and replied with barely constrained violence to Darryl.
"She and her buddy's claim to be the future children of Phoebe and Piper, but we have no proof to that claim so at the moment their just very intrusive house guests." Trina looked like she was going to blow a fuse and Lila just sat with her mouth open while Amy launched an attack.
"We don't CLAIM Anything! We ARE who we SAY we are! Just because your too stupid to recognize it don't make us frauds!" Darryl interrupted Prue's reply.
"Who's your father?" Amy stared at him before half bellowing,
"You can't be that dense! Leo Wyatt is my father." Darryl Looked at Trina and asked,
"If she's Piper's daughter then you must be Phoebe's decedent, who's your father?" Trina arched a brow and sighed wondering why Prue hadn't shouted it out for the world to hear, and answered,
"Cole Turner is my father." Trina watched Phoebe, Cole and Leo enter the room as Darryl gaped. Cole caught Trina's eye with obvious question, Trina shook her head in exasperation. The movement brought home to Darryl that he had been staring. He turned to watch Cole walk across the room and putt his arm around Trina and she lean her head on his shoulder. Still astounded but seeing the resemblance, Darryl smiled.
"You're definitely your father's daughter. I don't see much of Phoebe in you." Trina smiled shaking her head.
"True I favor my father but I have Mom's personality." Prue had heard enough.
"Can we go back to the problem at had please?"
"We shouldn't have followed Shax into the street." Piper said.
"We didn't have a choice, Piper!"
"Didn't we?"
"Sure, we could've let him kill our innocent. That would've been better, you think? Alright, you know what? Let's not let this thing get between us, okay? We have enough problems as it is, please."
"More than you know. The captain wants me to bring you in for questioning." Darryl said. Prue heaved a sigh.
"Right, Darryl, and what do we tell him? The truth?"
"What are you gonna tell them?" Darryl asked looking out the window. Prue opened her mouth just as Darryl's cell phone went off, with a small frown he answered.
"Captain?" His voice faded as he walked into the other room. Prue turned to Leo.
"What do the Elders say?"
"Nothing you wanna hear. They're still trying to figure out how to get you out of this mess. It's pretty big news up there."
"Well, in case you hadn't noticed, it's pretty big news down here too. Any suggestions to start with?"
"No, we're still working on it."
"Oh, well, by all means, tell them to take their time." Piper said sarcastically.
"Well, they're not the ones that screwed up." Leo said. A collective 'Yeeouch' went up from the girls as the winced and waited for the result of that careless comment. Piper frowned.
"Excuse me, screwed up? We've been busting our wiccan butts for three years without getting caught. Don't we get credit for that?"
"Piper, you've been exposed. If we can't fix this it could undermine all the good that you've done and all the good that you're still destined to do." Piper glared at him and flung back,
"Well, maybe this is our destiny, maybe it's just not meant to be."
"You don't believe that."
"Don't I?" Prue silently huffed then spoke.
"I don't. I mean, look, this whole year has just been a series of tests, right? To see what we're made of. Well, maybe this is one more test. Which means we can't give up, alright? So while the Elders are figuring out what we're supposed to do, we still have work to do, okay?"
"Dr. Griffiths?" Piper asked
"Yeah, if we don't catch him before he gets out of surgery, Shax will." Prue turned to Leo. "Unless you know something we don't?"
"No, you're right, your powers aren't enough to vanquish him. You'll need the three of you to say the spell."
"Yeah, well, we only have two of us. Don't ask, just orb us to the hospital, okay?"
"I can't. The Elders won't let me. They don't wanna risk exposing Whitelighters too."
"Cowards!" Piper spat. Darryl walked back into the room in time to here Prue snap,
"Fine, we'll just save him without your guys help. Let's go." Darryl shock his head before saying,
"Whoa, Prue, Prue. Even if you can save your innocent, that still doesn't save yourselves."
"Yeah, I know that, Darryl, but first things first, alright? Try and buy us as much time as possible with your captain as you can." She turned to Leo. "And you, why don't you get back up there and White light a fire underneath your bosses butts." Pure and Piper headed for the back door.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Whether or not any arrests have been made at this time..." Trina watched Elana report with enthusiasm, not seeing Prue and Piper sneaking out along the drive way.
"Hey! I need to talk to you." Alice shrieked. Piper and Prue bolted to the jeep, wrenching open the doors they scrambled in slamming the doors. Elana raced after them, with the microphone out in front of her like a wand.
"Miss Halliwell..."
"Don't leave, don't leave." Alice wailed. Trina sniffed in distain. *what a pathetic chick.*
"Miss Halliwell." Elana said again, while Alice jumped up and down waving her arms like a mad man.
"Please take me! Come on, please, take me with you." she watched the drive away. "Oh, man." Trina felt a twinge of pity.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The First thing Phoebe noticed was the luxury of the cave. The room had transformed into a glittering chamber, with blood red silk hanging from the walls and black carpet on the floor. The bed was a four-poster canopy, with a shimmery black fabric, that was intertwined with red so that it gave off the illusion of water. The comforter was black with red lining and pillows were a mixture of red and black. The table was a old but well kept oak Victorian. Phoebe smiled this was Trina's touch not Cole's, but it suited him. Cole walked into the room.
"You're not an easy girl to dump."
"Yeah, well, I didn't risk everything to come down here and not get what I came for." Cole laughed dark and sinister while advancing on her.
"Well, you can't have me. Not anymore."
"I can if I reverse the spell that took you away from me."
"We've already had this conversation, Phoebe. Even if you could reverse it, it doesn't change the fact that I..." Continuing to advance.
"That you killed a witch. Yeah, I know, Cole, but you didn't do it willingly and that's the difference. That's what gives you a second chance, that's what gives us a second chance." Cole walked right up to Phoebe, gently he trailed his fingers up her torso till they were around her neck.
"I already had a second chance and I blew it. Now, this is your last chance, understand? No more games. Go home. You can't save me." Phoebe slipped her arms up around his back and smashed the potion on his back.
"You wanna bet?" Cole staggered back looking startled. "Pretty cool potion, huh?" He reached out and dragged her to him, plastering her to his body he kissed the air out of her lungs.
"Wow!" Phoebe breathed. "Let's get out of here."
"Where?"
"What do you mean where? Home. Back to my place."
"You really think they're just gonna let me go? They're not gonna come looking for me again?"
"We'll fight 'em off."
"For how long indefinitely? Phoebe, we tried it up there, it doesn't work for us."
"So where does that leave us?"
"Right where we are."
"What about our daughter? She's alive and real, there must be a way. No, I'm not going to accept that Cole, No there is a way and we'll find it! I love you too much to just give up."
"I love you too, and I'm not seeing a way, but I'll fight with you and our daughter. I promise"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
San Francisco Memorial Hospital smelled. It smelled like bleach and sick people. Pure hated hospitals. Watching Dr. Griffiths come out of the operating room and throw his surgeons cap into a hamper she shuddered. Walking over to the reception desk he sighed, the sympathetically smiling receptionist handed him the phone.
"Dr. Griffiths." Turning he saw Prue and Piper race up to him.
"Hi!" Prue said with false cheeriness, taking the phone from him and handing it back to the receptionist.
"He's still after you, come on." Piper announced.
"Lets go." Pure ordered pulling him away from the desk.
"I thought you said you got rid of this thing." Dr. Griffiths complained as Pure and Piper herded him out of the hospital to the Jeep in the parking lot.
"Yeah, well, we don't think that anymore, okay?" Pure huffed.
"Where are we going?" Dr. Griffiths questioned.
"Just somewhere safe." Pure answered.
"Look, I'm not cut out..."
"Get in the car." Shoving Dr. Griffiths in the Jeep, Piper went to slam the door when a huge wind pushed him right back out again onto the grass. Pulling up on the opposite side of the road Elana and her camera man got out to start taping. As if on cue for dramatic effect a woman screamed and Shax appeared. Piper groaned as she and Prue jumped out of the Jeep. Across the street the news crew watched with barely contained excitement.
"Evil wind that blows, that which forms below, no longer may you swell, death takes you with this spell." With dramatic affect Shax blew up like shattering glass and disappeared. The surrounding people gasped, some let out little screams.
"Now that was a vanquish." Piper said with triumph. The people began clap and cheer. Prue and Piper looked around, noticing Elana and her cameraman filming them, and Elana with a big grin on her face.
"Uh-oh." Prue breathed.
"News at eleven." Piper confirmed.
"Oh, that's bad."
"I don't know, something though." Prue answered
"Demons don't usually leave footprints, remember?"
"No, but sometimes they leave a residue when they've been vanquished. Something otherwise innocuous. Look, I just don't understand how we could vanquish such a powerful demon without a spell."
"Luck? Come on lets go home." They started walking up the street, walking past a little girl standing in front of her house, Piper smiles.
"Hi! What's you name?" The little girl smiled slightly, turning to her rapidly approaching mother.
"Come on sweetie, stay away from them." She gently steered her daughter toward the house, turning back to Piper and Prue she spoke, "Stay away from my family!"
"Hey!" Prue said irritated. Piper watched hurt warring with confusion.
"What prompted that?" Piper asked, Prue shook her head speechless. "Wonder what Leo and the Girls found out? I'm dying to talk to the girls about the future."
"Huh." Was all Prue said.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"She hope's she wrong! What a line of crap!" Phoebe fumed Amy rolled her eyes.
"Why do you two always fight? Just ignore it, for the sake of our sanity!" Lila frowned. The far wall was blurry.
"WHAT sanity Amy? We live with Trina we lost it a long time ago!" Trina materialized along with Cole.
"Time? What are you talking about?" Trina asked while looking around the room. What a mess!
"Were talking about sanity, " Amy said bounding down the stairs and came to an abrupt halt. " WHAT are you wearing?! You look like gloom and doom." Trina looked down at her formal wear and shrugged.
"Jealous?" Amy's mouth dropped and Lila cracked up.
"Hardly," Amy appraised Trina's appearance and pointed a finger saying a little spell.
"Midnight light, create beauty beyond this sight, Adorned in silver, diamonds and sapphires I create." She smiled. Prue and Piper walked through the door in time to hear the spell, raising a brow they went to view the spells handy work.
"Well done, Amy!" Piper said beaming at her. Leo came to stand behind Amy draping his arm over her shoulders. Phoebe had taken a seat on the stairs. Soon everyone was staring at Trina.
"Oh for crying out loud, stop starting and give me a mirror!" Cole chuckled.
"In the hall just after the door." Walking past Pure and Piper, Trina went to look and grinned. Amy had created a diamond stars and full moon sapphire necklace with a horizontal crescent moon dripping a Blue Zircon that hung just above her cleavage provocatively, with matching earrings and a bracelet, Amy had added class to the outfit.
"Now, I'm jealous." Amy declared. Trina walked to the mirror and stood there admiring herself.
"Damn, but I look good!" Amy and Lila laughed.
"Here we go! Doesn't she have a big enough ego as it is?" No one had time to reply before the phone rang.
"Oh, maybe that's Griffiths. Hello? No, Darryl, just wait, slow down, okay. What?" Pure said.
"Have you seen the TV yet today? It's all over it."
"What's all over it, Darryl?" Trina frowned at Pure's question and turned white as her memory clicked. A quick glance at Lila and Amy told her they had remembered too. With a heavy sigh Lila walked into the living room.
"Just turn on the TV, okay?" Darryl said and Prue turned on the tv. "I told the captain I would handle it."
"Oh my god!" Prue watched in horror as the tv showed her and Piper vanquishing Shax.
"Prue? Prue?"
"Here we are approaching the home of where they allegedly live." The tv thundered.
"Oh!" Prue, losing feeling in her hand dropped the phone and covered her mouth with her hand. The tv showed Elana standing in front of the manor.
"Prue, Piper and Phoebe Halliwell. And you're gonna meet them live right here on KCSF."
"What are we gonna do?" Piper breathed. Trina sitting on one of the kitchen chairs turned from staring at the tv to look at Lila.
"Who's going to get to go on Opah?"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The outside of the manor was a media nightmare, if you got a glimpse of pavement or the street you were lucky, going out side wasn't an option, even had the wanted to. After Trina had asked who was gong to be on Opah, she had been banished to the living room for fear Prue would do damage. Staring out the window at the horde of people surrounding the manor she noticed Darryl's car, and nearly laughed as he was swallowed up by media shouting questions.
"Have you come to arrest them?" One shouted.
"No comment." Darryl said as he walked swiftly toward the door.
"Do you consider them dangerous?" The same reporter bellowed.
"I said no comment." Darryl said walking up the stairs. The reported called Elana was talking to a woman named Alice.
"Hey, hey, I can help. I know who they are, I know what they are. They're witches just like me. Just like I am." Trina sniffed at the woman's comment and called out to Prue.
"Aunt Prue, Darryl's at the door." Prue walked toward the door sparing a glare in Trina's direction from outside could be heard Darryl.
"Yeah, Prue, I'm at the door, open it up." The reporter on the door step whirled around with a microphone stuffing it into Darryl's face.
"Would you like to make a statement?" She asked eagerly.
"I said no comment." Darryl ground out, shoving passed to enter the manor. The reporter not in the least offended shoved her microphone toward the door.
"Miss Halliwell..."
"Back off!" Prue snarled as Darryl brushed past to get inside. Prue slammed the door with enough force to raddle the glass. Trina winced wondering how many times that stained glass had been broken as she listened with half a ear to the conversation around her.
"Isn't that illegal? Can't you do something about that?" Piper asked.
"Hey, killing somebody on live TV is pretty illegal too, you know." Darryl said in a tone that suggested she should have thought of that.
"Okay, it wasn't somebody, Darryl, it was a demon. And we're pretty sure we didn't kill him anyway." Prue said.
"Do you wanna try telling them that?"
"Ugh..." Prue frowned.
"Look, I've called for backup, but that's not gonna help for long. This thing's gonna get ugly fast." Darryl said seriously. Trina couldn't say quiet any longer.
"Yeah THINK! Like HELLO! This is going to get more than UGLY! Think about who your dealing with here!" Darryl started noticing Trina for the first time.
"Who's she?" Prue glared at Trina and replied with barely constrained violence to Darryl.
"She and her buddy's claim to be the future children of Phoebe and Piper, but we have no proof to that claim so at the moment their just very intrusive house guests." Trina looked like she was going to blow a fuse and Lila just sat with her mouth open while Amy launched an attack.
"We don't CLAIM Anything! We ARE who we SAY we are! Just because your too stupid to recognize it don't make us frauds!" Darryl interrupted Prue's reply.
"Who's your father?" Amy stared at him before half bellowing,
"You can't be that dense! Leo Wyatt is my father." Darryl Looked at Trina and asked,
"If she's Piper's daughter then you must be Phoebe's decedent, who's your father?" Trina arched a brow and sighed wondering why Prue hadn't shouted it out for the world to hear, and answered,
"Cole Turner is my father." Trina watched Phoebe, Cole and Leo enter the room as Darryl gaped. Cole caught Trina's eye with obvious question, Trina shook her head in exasperation. The movement brought home to Darryl that he had been staring. He turned to watch Cole walk across the room and putt his arm around Trina and she lean her head on his shoulder. Still astounded but seeing the resemblance, Darryl smiled.
"You're definitely your father's daughter. I don't see much of Phoebe in you." Trina smiled shaking her head.
"True I favor my father but I have Mom's personality." Prue had heard enough.
"Can we go back to the problem at had please?"
"We shouldn't have followed Shax into the street." Piper said.
"We didn't have a choice, Piper!"
"Didn't we?"
"Sure, we could've let him kill our innocent. That would've been better, you think? Alright, you know what? Let's not let this thing get between us, okay? We have enough problems as it is, please."
"More than you know. The captain wants me to bring you in for questioning." Darryl said. Prue heaved a sigh.
"Right, Darryl, and what do we tell him? The truth?"
"What are you gonna tell them?" Darryl asked looking out the window. Prue opened her mouth just as Darryl's cell phone went off, with a small frown he answered.
"Captain?" His voice faded as he walked into the other room. Prue turned to Leo.
"What do the Elders say?"
"Nothing you wanna hear. They're still trying to figure out how to get you out of this mess. It's pretty big news up there."
"Well, in case you hadn't noticed, it's pretty big news down here too. Any suggestions to start with?"
"No, we're still working on it."
"Oh, well, by all means, tell them to take their time." Piper said sarcastically.
"Well, they're not the ones that screwed up." Leo said. A collective 'Yeeouch' went up from the girls as the winced and waited for the result of that careless comment. Piper frowned.
"Excuse me, screwed up? We've been busting our wiccan butts for three years without getting caught. Don't we get credit for that?"
"Piper, you've been exposed. If we can't fix this it could undermine all the good that you've done and all the good that you're still destined to do." Piper glared at him and flung back,
"Well, maybe this is our destiny, maybe it's just not meant to be."
"You don't believe that."
"Don't I?" Prue silently huffed then spoke.
"I don't. I mean, look, this whole year has just been a series of tests, right? To see what we're made of. Well, maybe this is one more test. Which means we can't give up, alright? So while the Elders are figuring out what we're supposed to do, we still have work to do, okay?"
"Dr. Griffiths?" Piper asked
"Yeah, if we don't catch him before he gets out of surgery, Shax will." Prue turned to Leo. "Unless you know something we don't?"
"No, you're right, your powers aren't enough to vanquish him. You'll need the three of you to say the spell."
"Yeah, well, we only have two of us. Don't ask, just orb us to the hospital, okay?"
"I can't. The Elders won't let me. They don't wanna risk exposing Whitelighters too."
"Cowards!" Piper spat. Darryl walked back into the room in time to here Prue snap,
"Fine, we'll just save him without your guys help. Let's go." Darryl shock his head before saying,
"Whoa, Prue, Prue. Even if you can save your innocent, that still doesn't save yourselves."
"Yeah, I know that, Darryl, but first things first, alright? Try and buy us as much time as possible with your captain as you can." She turned to Leo. "And you, why don't you get back up there and White light a fire underneath your bosses butts." Pure and Piper headed for the back door.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Whether or not any arrests have been made at this time..." Trina watched Elana report with enthusiasm, not seeing Prue and Piper sneaking out along the drive way.
"Hey! I need to talk to you." Alice shrieked. Piper and Prue bolted to the jeep, wrenching open the doors they scrambled in slamming the doors. Elana raced after them, with the microphone out in front of her like a wand.
"Miss Halliwell..."
"Don't leave, don't leave." Alice wailed. Trina sniffed in distain. *what a pathetic chick.*
"Miss Halliwell." Elana said again, while Alice jumped up and down waving her arms like a mad man.
"Please take me! Come on, please, take me with you." she watched the drive away. "Oh, man." Trina felt a twinge of pity.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The First thing Phoebe noticed was the luxury of the cave. The room had transformed into a glittering chamber, with blood red silk hanging from the walls and black carpet on the floor. The bed was a four-poster canopy, with a shimmery black fabric, that was intertwined with red so that it gave off the illusion of water. The comforter was black with red lining and pillows were a mixture of red and black. The table was a old but well kept oak Victorian. Phoebe smiled this was Trina's touch not Cole's, but it suited him. Cole walked into the room.
"You're not an easy girl to dump."
"Yeah, well, I didn't risk everything to come down here and not get what I came for." Cole laughed dark and sinister while advancing on her.
"Well, you can't have me. Not anymore."
"I can if I reverse the spell that took you away from me."
"We've already had this conversation, Phoebe. Even if you could reverse it, it doesn't change the fact that I..." Continuing to advance.
"That you killed a witch. Yeah, I know, Cole, but you didn't do it willingly and that's the difference. That's what gives you a second chance, that's what gives us a second chance." Cole walked right up to Phoebe, gently he trailed his fingers up her torso till they were around her neck.
"I already had a second chance and I blew it. Now, this is your last chance, understand? No more games. Go home. You can't save me." Phoebe slipped her arms up around his back and smashed the potion on his back.
"You wanna bet?" Cole staggered back looking startled. "Pretty cool potion, huh?" He reached out and dragged her to him, plastering her to his body he kissed the air out of her lungs.
"Wow!" Phoebe breathed. "Let's get out of here."
"Where?"
"What do you mean where? Home. Back to my place."
"You really think they're just gonna let me go? They're not gonna come looking for me again?"
"We'll fight 'em off."
"For how long indefinitely? Phoebe, we tried it up there, it doesn't work for us."
"So where does that leave us?"
"Right where we are."
"What about our daughter? She's alive and real, there must be a way. No, I'm not going to accept that Cole, No there is a way and we'll find it! I love you too much to just give up."
"I love you too, and I'm not seeing a way, but I'll fight with you and our daughter. I promise"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
San Francisco Memorial Hospital smelled. It smelled like bleach and sick people. Pure hated hospitals. Watching Dr. Griffiths come out of the operating room and throw his surgeons cap into a hamper she shuddered. Walking over to the reception desk he sighed, the sympathetically smiling receptionist handed him the phone.
"Dr. Griffiths." Turning he saw Prue and Piper race up to him.
"Hi!" Prue said with false cheeriness, taking the phone from him and handing it back to the receptionist.
"He's still after you, come on." Piper announced.
"Lets go." Pure ordered pulling him away from the desk.
"I thought you said you got rid of this thing." Dr. Griffiths complained as Pure and Piper herded him out of the hospital to the Jeep in the parking lot.
"Yeah, well, we don't think that anymore, okay?" Pure huffed.
"Where are we going?" Dr. Griffiths questioned.
"Just somewhere safe." Pure answered.
"Look, I'm not cut out..."
"Get in the car." Shoving Dr. Griffiths in the Jeep, Piper went to slam the door when a huge wind pushed him right back out again onto the grass. Pulling up on the opposite side of the road Elana and her camera man got out to start taping. As if on cue for dramatic effect a woman screamed and Shax appeared. Piper groaned as she and Prue jumped out of the Jeep. Across the street the news crew watched with barely contained excitement.
"Evil wind that blows, that which forms below, no longer may you swell, death takes you with this spell." With dramatic affect Shax blew up like shattering glass and disappeared. The surrounding people gasped, some let out little screams.
"Now that was a vanquish." Piper said with triumph. The people began clap and cheer. Prue and Piper looked around, noticing Elana and her cameraman filming them, and Elana with a big grin on her face.
"Uh-oh." Prue breathed.
"News at eleven." Piper confirmed.
"Oh, that's bad."