AUTHOR'S NOTE

I know. I know, I am bad. I keep deleting stories, and I need to tell you, that reputation sucks. But instead of creating an alternate season six, I am going to use an alternate season seven. It wouldn't make sense to have a season six when the season has already ended. People would get bored.

So this season seven carries over aspects and plot points from season six (i.e., Chris dying in "It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World, Part I & II", Baby Chris being born, Phoebe not having her powers, etc.).

I hope you enjoy it.

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INT. UNDERWORLD - CAVERN. A tall demon robed in black is brewing a potion. A demon materializes in the cavern.

DEMON
Damn it, Thor, is the potion done or not?

THOR
Patience, Diaka. There is no need for rush. The Charmed Ones
aren't going anywhere.

DEMON (DIAKA)
But every single second we waste, they are much closer to finding
us out.

THOR
They aren't going to find us out. The sister who receives visions of
the future is powerless, right now. And besides, they are distracted
by the birth of Baby Christopher Halliwell. There is no way they can
sense what is happening here.

DIAKA
You don't know that. For all you know, they could be on our tails.

THOR
Will you shut up? The cloning potion is almost done. Now all I need
is a drop of blood from one of the Halliwells. In fact, I think I'll leave
that up to you.

DIAKA
What? No! No way. I'll get killed!

THOR
Well, if you don't go ...

He trails of and powers up an energy ball in his hand. He pulls back his hand, as if to throw it. Diaka cowers and dematerializes. Thor squeezes the energy ball and it explodes in a small puff of smoke.

THOR
I thought you'd see it my way.

He turns back to his potion and picks up a slate. He grabs another rock and begins to carve something on it. When he finishes it, we see the triquetra on the slate. Thor drops it into the potion and the potion bubbles furiously.

INT. P3 - NIGHT. Paige and Phoebe are at the bar. Piper joins them.

PIPER
Hey. How's the peanut gallery over here?

PHOEBE
Aren't you supposed to be with Wyatt and Chris?

PIPER
Uh, Leo is taking care of them right now. He told me to take a break
for awhile. So ... what are you two little chattering bugs chattering
about?

PHOEBE
Oh, you know, the usual. Work, sex, Paige wants to open an inn.

PIPER
Oh! I see.
(to Paige)
Did you plan on telling me this?

PAIGE
I just did. Or rather, my sister Blabber-Mouth did.

PIPER
Well, when I said telling me, I didn't mean a "Hey, look, over here!"
kind of approach, more like, "Piper, I've been meaning to tell you
something".

PHOEBE
Er ... how about I go get us some drinks?

She quickly gets up, and Paige jumps after her.

PAIGE
Ooh, I'll help.

Piper grabs Paige and pulls her back down to her seat.

PIPER
Nice try, sister. Paige, inns are expensive, okay? When did you start
to get this crazy idea.

PAIGE
Well, I don't know. I mean, all these wacky crazy temp jobs that I've
been having lately. I'm just sick of them, and I wanna be the boss
for once. No one telling me what to do.

PIPER
Did you consider the facts in owning and running an inn? Like, all
the hiring that is involved, and all the money?

PAIGE
This from the witch who opens a club?

PIPER
I was young, and I was stupid. It's harder then it seems.

PAIGE
You know, I would have clamped my hand over Phoebe's mouth if I
had knew the reaction you were going to have.

PIPER
Look, I am not trying to be Negative Nancy, here, but-

PAIGE
Too late.

PIPER
... but what I'm saying is, you should think this over.

PAIGE
That's what I was doing for the last six weeks. Huh! Six weeks.
What is that? Forty two days? A month and a half? Seems like a
good thinking period to me.

Phoebe returns with a tray of drinks.

PHOEBE
Okay, we have drinks. How is Adolf Hitler and is enemy Jew doing?

PAIGE
Well, Adolf Hitler's enemy Jew is going to go home and take a little rest. Why doesn't Adolf Hitler get a drink and take a minute to
consider how his younger sister wants to run her life?

She picks up her jacket and purse and leaves the club.

PIPER (calling after)
Hitler did not have a sister!

INT. MANOR - FOYER. Paige walks into the house with her jacket on. She holds her keys in one hand. An energy ball suddenly comes whizzing out of nowhere, knocking Paige across the foyer.

Paige slams into the wall and falls back to the ground. She gets up and turns around to see Diaka standing there with an athame in his hand.

PAIGE
Ohh. Leo? Le-

Her sentence is cut off as she orbs out, just barely missing an energy ball that has come flying in her direction. Paige reorbs behind Diaka. She kicks him in the back and he falls to the ground.

PAIGE
Athame!

The athame orbs and appears in Paige's hand. She raises it to stab Diaka but he dematerializes.

Paige relaxes her hand only to have Diaka rematerialize on the stairs. He holds out his hand and the athame teletransports out of Paige's hand and into Diaka's. He throws it at her and it hits her in the shoulder.

PAIGE
Uhh!

She falls to the ground. Diaka motions with his hand again and the athame in Paige's shoulder appears in his hand. He holds up the bloodied athame and shakes a bit, dropping a bit of her blood into a vial.

Diaka dematerializes. Paige looks at the wound on her shoulder and she falls unconscious.

END OF TEASER