Chapter 26 - "What's done is done. I win."
Most of the Halliwell sisters had agreed to do the vanquish tonight, and had to get Cole, Bane
and James out of the house and away from the action. They couldn't risk them getting killed.
"I was just thinking, if Cole would trust Alec and do whatever for him just by hearing his name,
that could happen to everybody else in the town. He could turn them on us - we'd have no chance."
Piper fretted.
An average mortal couldn't have fought off Alec's lure. The only reason Cole managed to get a
bad vibe off of him was because Alec wanted him to feel that way. He wanted the Halliwells to
get scared of Alec and what he might be able to do to them, or to anyone else for that matter.
"I never really thought about that before. Woah i hope he deosn't do that. I think it'll be okay
Piper, i don't think that he would do it, even if he thought about it."
"What makes you think that?" Piper asked.
"Well he has too much pride, i bet he doesn't think he'd need a whole town of people to help him
just to kill you four." Bane told.
"I hope you're right. I'd even spread magic all over town to protect the people and ourselves if
i knew how to." Piper was getting edgier by the second. Her instincts were facing off. She still
had no clue why she felt that was and it was driving her crazy.
"I would too. But Piper, you gotta calm down. Everything will be fine. I've never seen you this
jumpy before. What's going on?" Phoebe asked.
"I don't know. One side of me is saying, vanquishing Alec like this shouldn't be done and
something will happen in the process and i know the thing that will happen will be bad, very
bad and i know it will hurt. The other side of me is saying we have to vanquish him, and it has
to play out like this - i think that side is my Charmed instincts there. ...i just don't trust
them right now."
"The Warlocks?" asked Phoebe.
"No, my instincts. They're all out of control and i don't know why none of you are feeling it
as well!" Piper yelled at her sisters. "I'm sorry." she apologised and got a glass of water.
"It's okay sweetie. If it's any consolation, we are all feeling a bit iffy about it." Phoebe
tried to make Piper know she wasn't the only one a tad concerned.
"I am too. But my instincts right now are over-riding everything else i'm feeling. So i have to
do it." Prue said.
"I feel the same way." Paige agreed.
Piper was outnumbered, she was so close to yelling at all of them, but one half of her was holding
her back. She had no choice but to go along with it.
[Time lapse]
Paige orbed James, Bane and Cole to Piper's club to be safe. They had to stay put. While she did
that, Prue, Phoebe and Piper got out the summoning spell and the things they needed: Mace for
magical awareness and some Cleavers for Strong friendships/coven/family. Then they got out the
candles: Black for banishing, Red for power, Silver for channeling and Blue for peace (this one
for Kaleb). Once Cole and James were safe, Paige came back and held hands with her sisters around
the candles and herbs.
"Black, Silver, Blue, Red
Bring us now, this Warlock dread
Come to us, we summon thee
Vanquish now by Power of Three
We call on Alec, to relinquish his life
We call on Alec, to be rid of this night."
Nothing happened. "I don't understand, that spell should have worked." Prue was confused.
"Try it again." said Phoebe. The sisters said the spell again, and a whirlwind appeared in the
room. They were about to start chanting when Leo, Bane, Cole and James appeared.
"What the hell..." Paige was now confused.
"Leo!" Piper yelled out as the wind died down.
"Piper." Leo said back.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
"I don't know, i was hoping you could tell me." Leo had a blank stare.
Piper loooked back at him, she was going to blurt out that she was a witch when she noticed Cole,
Bane and James had the same look.
The other sisters noticed that too. "Alec." Phoebe said.
"He's here, but where?" asked Paige.
The four guys yelled out "Halliwell!"
"Ignore them, it's a distraction!" Prue yelled.
The women heard clapping coming from the backyard. "You're not as stupid as i thought you were."
Alec said from outside.
The guys stood there motionless. The four sisters left them, and headed out back to kill Alec.
"Any last words before you die Warlock?" Prue said in a confident tone.
"I do have something to say, but these words will not be my last. You girls do not deserve to be
witches, you don't have the skill, or power, or will. You need to hand over those powers so i
can put them to good use...i think your men would do a better job than you have if i gave them
the power of three." he said in a smart-alec [NO PUN INTENDED] tone.
"How 'bout you shut up and learn what's good for you." Piper told him, with a deadly stare.
"How 'bout you listen to your instincts already and forget about vanquishing me tonight." Alec
said back, with an equally evil stare.
"What's he talking about Piper?" Phoebe asked.
"....The power of three will set us free." Piper started to chant.
The other three sisters joined in and Alec started to get agitated. "Damn you stupid bitches!"
"Keep going!" ordered Prue.
"You think that spell alone will stop me?! Time for a reality check my girls." Alec spat. He made
an energy ball appear in his hand and threw it at Phoebe. Phoebe levitated out of the way.
Paige called for it. "Energy ball!" It came to her. "Who did you steal that power from?" she asked
and then threw it back at him. It made contact with his body, but he didn't flinch.
"No one, you naive child. That power given to me, by my brother."
Phoebe came back onto the ground. "Kaleb never gave that power to you. He was an innocent mortal
who you corrupted!" Phoebe yelled in anger and came at Alec. He and Phoebe fought but Phoebe was
thrown to the ground and knocked out. Cole heard Phoebe's cries and snapped out of the trance.
Paige orbed a real heavy pot plant at Alec, but he said something and latin and threw it back at
her. Paige was knocked to the ground, along side Phoebe.
"Asshole! Leave them alone, deal with me!" Prue flung her hand in the air to slam Alec into the
shed but nothing happened.
Piper continued to chant but stopped when she was bumped into by Cole. She knew he was trying to
help Phoebe but she held him back. She let go of him and threw her hands in the air to freeze him,
nothing happened.
"What's going on with my telekinesis?" Prue wondered where the hell her power went.
"I have it now, maybe you are as stupid as i thought." Alec beamed and went to use her power against
her. Prue tried to Astral behind him - it worked. She was about to make contact with a kick when
Alec used her power to throw her real body into the side of the house. She was now knocked out
and her astral self disappeared into thin air.
Piper couldn't believe it when Cole didn't freeze, she finally snapped out of it and looked over
to Prue who was temporarily out of action.
"Let me guess, you stole my power too?"
"No i didn't Piper, you power just doesn't work on Cole."
"What are you talking about? I've frozen him once before."
"Then why isn't it working now? Because he's evil."
"He is not!"
"Ahh, you are the smartest of the bunch. You don't believe everything i say."
"Of course i don't, and you should believe me when i say 'Blow this!" Piper blew Alec into pieces.
*That's all i had to do?! Freekin' useless spell.* Piper looked at Cole, he was now frozen. "I
knew he wasn't evil Alec, you were controlling him. Now who has the last laugh?" Piper yelled
to the place where she blew him up. She laughed but was cut-off.
"I do." Alec's body was rearranging itself in the spot where Piper thought he had died. Alec had
a sinister grin on his face. One swing of his hand and Piper crashed through a window.
"And they all fall down." Alec started to laugh. He walked inside the house and picked Piper up
from all the shattered glass. She had a bad cut on her eyebrow which was sure to leave a small scar.
He looked over at Leo and James, they were still out of it. He then carried Piper outside and lay
her by her sisters. Then he searched for the Book of Shadows. He headed into Prue's room.
James and Leo finally broke out of their trancy state and didn't know what was happening. James
noticed the broken window and Leo ran outside, with James behind him. They saw the girls unconcious
and Cole frozen. Cole unfroze when James and Leo placed their hands on his shoulders. The three of
them tried to awaken the Halliwells.
Alec re-entered the backyard and saw three guys. "WHERE'S THE BOOK?!" he yelled at them.
"What book?!" Cole and Leo asked. James ignored Alec and kept trying to wake the girls up.
"Useless mortals." Alec sniped. He noticed the shed, and went to go there. "The book can wait, i
want you men to witness the death of your women."
James had woken the Halliwells up. Alec threw a huge energy ball at them but the women dived out
of the way just in time.
The girls stood up, held hands and chanted again. "The power of three will set us free........"
Alec's body started to go up in flames this time. "No. No! It's not possible!" he yelled in anguish.
The sisters kept chanting. He couldn't hurt them now, the spell was protecting them, they were fully
focused on bringing to him what should've come to him a long time ago.
Alec couldn't believe he was failing, he didn't want to go out without a fight. He saw the man
in closest range to him and fired the biggest energy ball he could make with the power he had left.
The ball was heading straight for Cole, Phoebe saw and almost broke the chant off to save him, but
she didn't move, they were too close to winning to stop now.
Cole was about to die...then Leo, as fast as lightning jumped in front of him and pushed the other
two guys out of the way as well. Cole was saved, but Leo....his body had vanished and all that was
left was a giant scorch mark on the pavement. Piper saw the whole thing, and immendiately let go
of her sisters hands. She ran over to where Leo was a second ago and her eyes welled up with tears,
she was about to collapse on the spot when Bane came out from the house and caught her.
"Piper!" called out Phoebe, Prue and Paige. "Finish this!!" They kept chanting but the flames on
Alec were dying down.
Finally all the flames that were consuming the Warlock's body had vanished, just like Leo did.
"What's done is done. I win."
All of their hearts were racing, and were all filled with hatred, fear and sadness.
"Keep chanting, keep going!" Bane yelled to the three. He picked Piper up and dragged her to her
sisters. He looked her in the eye and said, "You ARE going to vanquish him, do you understand?
Do it for Leo, do it for us, just god damn do it and do it now!"
Piper didn't have the strength, or the will. But Bane's words made her so angry that she froze him
and blew up Alec for the second time. Piper's eyes were filled with fire and she grabbed her sister's
hands so tight that it hurt them. They just had to put up with the pain and join her in the vanquish.
Alec was regenerating, and finally came back into view. The Halliwells were saying the verse for
the eighth time at this moment. Alec was now visible. "THE POWER OF THREE WILL SET US FREE!" Alec
was in a pool of fire. Bane opened his hand and revealed a potion he was making earlier when
Cole was outside and Leo and James were not responding to anything. He threw it at Alec and there
was a huge explosion, luckily they didn't live near anyone or else there would have been a lot of
questions to answer. Cole and James looked on. Alec was finally sent to hell where he belonged.
Most of the Halliwell sisters had agreed to do the vanquish tonight, and had to get Cole, Bane
and James out of the house and away from the action. They couldn't risk them getting killed.
"I was just thinking, if Cole would trust Alec and do whatever for him just by hearing his name,
that could happen to everybody else in the town. He could turn them on us - we'd have no chance."
Piper fretted.
An average mortal couldn't have fought off Alec's lure. The only reason Cole managed to get a
bad vibe off of him was because Alec wanted him to feel that way. He wanted the Halliwells to
get scared of Alec and what he might be able to do to them, or to anyone else for that matter.
"I never really thought about that before. Woah i hope he deosn't do that. I think it'll be okay
Piper, i don't think that he would do it, even if he thought about it."
"What makes you think that?" Piper asked.
"Well he has too much pride, i bet he doesn't think he'd need a whole town of people to help him
just to kill you four." Bane told.
"I hope you're right. I'd even spread magic all over town to protect the people and ourselves if
i knew how to." Piper was getting edgier by the second. Her instincts were facing off. She still
had no clue why she felt that was and it was driving her crazy.
"I would too. But Piper, you gotta calm down. Everything will be fine. I've never seen you this
jumpy before. What's going on?" Phoebe asked.
"I don't know. One side of me is saying, vanquishing Alec like this shouldn't be done and
something will happen in the process and i know the thing that will happen will be bad, very
bad and i know it will hurt. The other side of me is saying we have to vanquish him, and it has
to play out like this - i think that side is my Charmed instincts there. ...i just don't trust
them right now."
"The Warlocks?" asked Phoebe.
"No, my instincts. They're all out of control and i don't know why none of you are feeling it
as well!" Piper yelled at her sisters. "I'm sorry." she apologised and got a glass of water.
"It's okay sweetie. If it's any consolation, we are all feeling a bit iffy about it." Phoebe
tried to make Piper know she wasn't the only one a tad concerned.
"I am too. But my instincts right now are over-riding everything else i'm feeling. So i have to
do it." Prue said.
"I feel the same way." Paige agreed.
Piper was outnumbered, she was so close to yelling at all of them, but one half of her was holding
her back. She had no choice but to go along with it.
[Time lapse]
Paige orbed James, Bane and Cole to Piper's club to be safe. They had to stay put. While she did
that, Prue, Phoebe and Piper got out the summoning spell and the things they needed: Mace for
magical awareness and some Cleavers for Strong friendships/coven/family. Then they got out the
candles: Black for banishing, Red for power, Silver for channeling and Blue for peace (this one
for Kaleb). Once Cole and James were safe, Paige came back and held hands with her sisters around
the candles and herbs.
"Black, Silver, Blue, Red
Bring us now, this Warlock dread
Come to us, we summon thee
Vanquish now by Power of Three
We call on Alec, to relinquish his life
We call on Alec, to be rid of this night."
Nothing happened. "I don't understand, that spell should have worked." Prue was confused.
"Try it again." said Phoebe. The sisters said the spell again, and a whirlwind appeared in the
room. They were about to start chanting when Leo, Bane, Cole and James appeared.
"What the hell..." Paige was now confused.
"Leo!" Piper yelled out as the wind died down.
"Piper." Leo said back.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
"I don't know, i was hoping you could tell me." Leo had a blank stare.
Piper loooked back at him, she was going to blurt out that she was a witch when she noticed Cole,
Bane and James had the same look.
The other sisters noticed that too. "Alec." Phoebe said.
"He's here, but where?" asked Paige.
The four guys yelled out "Halliwell!"
"Ignore them, it's a distraction!" Prue yelled.
The women heard clapping coming from the backyard. "You're not as stupid as i thought you were."
Alec said from outside.
The guys stood there motionless. The four sisters left them, and headed out back to kill Alec.
"Any last words before you die Warlock?" Prue said in a confident tone.
"I do have something to say, but these words will not be my last. You girls do not deserve to be
witches, you don't have the skill, or power, or will. You need to hand over those powers so i
can put them to good use...i think your men would do a better job than you have if i gave them
the power of three." he said in a smart-alec [NO PUN INTENDED] tone.
"How 'bout you shut up and learn what's good for you." Piper told him, with a deadly stare.
"How 'bout you listen to your instincts already and forget about vanquishing me tonight." Alec
said back, with an equally evil stare.
"What's he talking about Piper?" Phoebe asked.
"....The power of three will set us free." Piper started to chant.
The other three sisters joined in and Alec started to get agitated. "Damn you stupid bitches!"
"Keep going!" ordered Prue.
"You think that spell alone will stop me?! Time for a reality check my girls." Alec spat. He made
an energy ball appear in his hand and threw it at Phoebe. Phoebe levitated out of the way.
Paige called for it. "Energy ball!" It came to her. "Who did you steal that power from?" she asked
and then threw it back at him. It made contact with his body, but he didn't flinch.
"No one, you naive child. That power given to me, by my brother."
Phoebe came back onto the ground. "Kaleb never gave that power to you. He was an innocent mortal
who you corrupted!" Phoebe yelled in anger and came at Alec. He and Phoebe fought but Phoebe was
thrown to the ground and knocked out. Cole heard Phoebe's cries and snapped out of the trance.
Paige orbed a real heavy pot plant at Alec, but he said something and latin and threw it back at
her. Paige was knocked to the ground, along side Phoebe.
"Asshole! Leave them alone, deal with me!" Prue flung her hand in the air to slam Alec into the
shed but nothing happened.
Piper continued to chant but stopped when she was bumped into by Cole. She knew he was trying to
help Phoebe but she held him back. She let go of him and threw her hands in the air to freeze him,
nothing happened.
"What's going on with my telekinesis?" Prue wondered where the hell her power went.
"I have it now, maybe you are as stupid as i thought." Alec beamed and went to use her power against
her. Prue tried to Astral behind him - it worked. She was about to make contact with a kick when
Alec used her power to throw her real body into the side of the house. She was now knocked out
and her astral self disappeared into thin air.
Piper couldn't believe it when Cole didn't freeze, she finally snapped out of it and looked over
to Prue who was temporarily out of action.
"Let me guess, you stole my power too?"
"No i didn't Piper, you power just doesn't work on Cole."
"What are you talking about? I've frozen him once before."
"Then why isn't it working now? Because he's evil."
"He is not!"
"Ahh, you are the smartest of the bunch. You don't believe everything i say."
"Of course i don't, and you should believe me when i say 'Blow this!" Piper blew Alec into pieces.
*That's all i had to do?! Freekin' useless spell.* Piper looked at Cole, he was now frozen. "I
knew he wasn't evil Alec, you were controlling him. Now who has the last laugh?" Piper yelled
to the place where she blew him up. She laughed but was cut-off.
"I do." Alec's body was rearranging itself in the spot where Piper thought he had died. Alec had
a sinister grin on his face. One swing of his hand and Piper crashed through a window.
"And they all fall down." Alec started to laugh. He walked inside the house and picked Piper up
from all the shattered glass. She had a bad cut on her eyebrow which was sure to leave a small scar.
He looked over at Leo and James, they were still out of it. He then carried Piper outside and lay
her by her sisters. Then he searched for the Book of Shadows. He headed into Prue's room.
James and Leo finally broke out of their trancy state and didn't know what was happening. James
noticed the broken window and Leo ran outside, with James behind him. They saw the girls unconcious
and Cole frozen. Cole unfroze when James and Leo placed their hands on his shoulders. The three of
them tried to awaken the Halliwells.
Alec re-entered the backyard and saw three guys. "WHERE'S THE BOOK?!" he yelled at them.
"What book?!" Cole and Leo asked. James ignored Alec and kept trying to wake the girls up.
"Useless mortals." Alec sniped. He noticed the shed, and went to go there. "The book can wait, i
want you men to witness the death of your women."
James had woken the Halliwells up. Alec threw a huge energy ball at them but the women dived out
of the way just in time.
The girls stood up, held hands and chanted again. "The power of three will set us free........"
Alec's body started to go up in flames this time. "No. No! It's not possible!" he yelled in anguish.
The sisters kept chanting. He couldn't hurt them now, the spell was protecting them, they were fully
focused on bringing to him what should've come to him a long time ago.
Alec couldn't believe he was failing, he didn't want to go out without a fight. He saw the man
in closest range to him and fired the biggest energy ball he could make with the power he had left.
The ball was heading straight for Cole, Phoebe saw and almost broke the chant off to save him, but
she didn't move, they were too close to winning to stop now.
Cole was about to die...then Leo, as fast as lightning jumped in front of him and pushed the other
two guys out of the way as well. Cole was saved, but Leo....his body had vanished and all that was
left was a giant scorch mark on the pavement. Piper saw the whole thing, and immendiately let go
of her sisters hands. She ran over to where Leo was a second ago and her eyes welled up with tears,
she was about to collapse on the spot when Bane came out from the house and caught her.
"Piper!" called out Phoebe, Prue and Paige. "Finish this!!" They kept chanting but the flames on
Alec were dying down.
Finally all the flames that were consuming the Warlock's body had vanished, just like Leo did.
"What's done is done. I win."
All of their hearts were racing, and were all filled with hatred, fear and sadness.
"Keep chanting, keep going!" Bane yelled to the three. He picked Piper up and dragged her to her
sisters. He looked her in the eye and said, "You ARE going to vanquish him, do you understand?
Do it for Leo, do it for us, just god damn do it and do it now!"
Piper didn't have the strength, or the will. But Bane's words made her so angry that she froze him
and blew up Alec for the second time. Piper's eyes were filled with fire and she grabbed her sister's
hands so tight that it hurt them. They just had to put up with the pain and join her in the vanquish.
Alec was regenerating, and finally came back into view. The Halliwells were saying the verse for
the eighth time at this moment. Alec was now visible. "THE POWER OF THREE WILL SET US FREE!" Alec
was in a pool of fire. Bane opened his hand and revealed a potion he was making earlier when
Cole was outside and Leo and James were not responding to anything. He threw it at Alec and there
was a huge explosion, luckily they didn't live near anyone or else there would have been a lot of
questions to answer. Cole and James looked on. Alec was finally sent to hell where he belonged.