FIVE

"Oh, sure no problem," Piper said. "It should be easy to persuade him to come back to accept what he went there to avoid in the first place. Piece of cake."

"Why can't we just grab him and bring him back?" Paige asked

"Free will," said Leo. "He's chosen to avoid death. That's the right of any human. To do what they can to prolong their life. You can't interfere with his free will any more than we can."

"And just how do we persuade him to come back?" Piper asked.

"That's up to you," Destiny said. "But it must be his choice. It must be voluntary."

"How do we get there?" Phoebe asked.

"I can open a door for you," Destiny said. "It is only a one-way door, but you can enter that way."

"How do we get back?" Paige asked.

"While most of your powers won't work there." Samuel said, "your orbing will. You'll be able to orb all of you back. You see, orbing is not simply moving from one place to another. For just the briefest of moments, when you orb you are literally in every place at the same time."

"That's, why you had to practice to orb to where you wanted to," Leo said. "It's also why you initially didn't orb where you had intended."

'Wait a minute," Paige said. "I'm half White Lighter. So is Piper's baby. If Leo can't go to this plane because he's a White Lighter, won't it affect us the same way?"

"No," said Destiny. "You are also half human. That will allow you to enter the plane just as your sisters can. But it is possible you may suffer some temporary effects because of your White Lighter half. Nothing severe or permanent, I can assure you."

"We need to talk this over," Piper said. "This is a lot to lay on us out of the blue."

"Of course," said Destiny. "But don't take too long. The situation becomes more critical with every passing moment."

Without waiting for a response, the three Angels simply vanished from the manor.

"What's there to talk about?" Leo asked.

"We're talking about bringing a man back to die," Piper said. "That's not something you just go out and do."

"It's not like you're killing him," Leo said.

"That's not the point," said Phoebe. "Even if everything they told us is true, we're talking about a man's life here."

"One man versus every future generation yet to be born," Paige said.

"You don't have a problem with this?" Piper asked Paige.

"I don't see there's much choice." Paige said. "If we don't do this, think of all the babies that will never be born."

"And no one will ever die again," interjected Leo. "Think about that. No matter how much pain they're in, no matter how much they may be suffering, Death won't be able to take them."

"I hadn't thought of that," Phoebe said. "He's got a point."

"But that doesn't give us the right to bring a man back to die," Piper said.

"You aren't," Leo said. "Remember, you're just persuading him to return. It will be his decision. You're just going to fill him in on consequences he may not be aware of."

"And if he won't come back on his own?" Piper asked.

"You heard Destiny," Paige said. "We don't force him to come back. We do our best to persuade him to return and if he won't at least we can say we did our best."

"I think they're right, Piper," Phoebe said. "We aren't killing him. We are protecting future generations of innocents. I don't think we have a choice her."

Piper thought about it for a moment. Their arguments were persuasive. And she thought about all the women who wanted a baby as much as she did. Women, whose babies would be stillborn because of Dr. Harris.

"Let's get this over with," Piper said finally.