A/N: Yeah, I betcha all weren't exprecting that one!
Together Forever As One
Chapter 18: Joining Forces
Prue and Paige's mouths dropped open.
"W..wh..what?!" Prue asked, in complete shock.
"He's my husband." Alternate Prue replied.
"How? Why? When? What ever made you marry that..that...monster?!" Paige stammered.
"He was the 'love of my life' or so I thought, the greatest person since Andy....After about a year of dating, I told him I was a witch. He accepted it. Then a few months later we were married....One morning I woke up and I had these chains on my wrists and ankles; then I learned he was a warlock. But he didn't want to kill me, he wanted me to suffer like he'd suffered....He won't say how or who made him suffer though. Then he took Piper, somewhere I don't know....Probably so she couldn't use her powers. That's when Phoebe turned evil with Cole, again. They left the Manor and Phoebe took the Book of Shadows with her, she may be evil, but since that is still her book too, she can still take it. I've never been able to escape. Well, once, before they took Piper. We tried to use the Power of Three against him, but we weren't strong enough....It failed! The Power of Three failed! It's the ultimate power of good, how could it fail?!" Alternate Prue cried out, as more tears ran down her dirty face.
Paige shook her head. "Because the 'Power of Three' isn't the ultimate power of good, within our generation anyway." She replied.
"What do you mean?" Alternate Prue asked.
Prue stepped forward. "We mean that the 'Power of Four' is the ultimate power of good, for our generation. Like we said, Paige is my....our sister. Together we are the Power of Four." Prue stated.
Alternate Prue stared at Paige. "No, there are only three of us." She said.
"Paige was given up at birth. Look, we should find the others. Together you can vanquish him and hopefully set this thing straight." Prue said.
"I bet he was the one who cast the alternate reality!" Paige spoke up. "If we vanquish him, we vanquish this world!" She added.
Alternate Prue stared at Prue and Paige. "But I can't leave....The binding..." She began, but was cut off by Paige.
"Forget that." Paige said, with a roll of her eyes. She held out her hands. "Chains!" She ordered. In a swirl of blue and white orbs, the chains vanished from Alternate Prue's wrists and ankles, then appeared in Paige's hands. "Better?" She questioned. Paige turned and hurled the chains at the wall, making a crack in the wall.
Alternate Prue rubbed her wrists and then her ankles for a moment, they were very white from the pressure and being their so long, then they began to turn red as more blood flowed to them. "Thank you...." She murmured. She stood up, weakly. Then squinted her eyes, sending a telekinetic blast into the wall, making a huge hole as the wall fell apart.
"No pro...." Paige's voice trailed off as she heard a loud thud of the door. She waved her hands frantically.
Prue grabbed one of Paige's waving hands and grabbed one of Alternate Prue's hands.
Paige nodded and orbed them out.
The man from earlier stormed into the room, to see a few blue and white orbs vanish from sight. "Nooooo!" He roared. With that, he blinked out.
Paige orbed herself, Prue, and Alternate Prue into the attic of the Halliwell Manor where the map and crystal were still sitting. The pieces of the photo and Paige's ring were still on the map.
Alternate Prue took a few moments to look Prue up and down, noticing a small bulge on her stomach. "Are you..." She trailed off.
"About two and a half months along." Prue replied, with a smile.
"Tell me....about your reality...Your world, please?" Alternate Prue asked.
Prue and Paige glanced at each other.
"It couldn't hurt." Paige said.
"Ditto." Prue replied.
"Well...." Paige began, with a grin. "Like we said; Prue, Piper, Pheebs, and I are the Charmed Ones, the Power of Four! Piper and Leo are happily married with the beautiful daughter that they waited for, for like ever! Her name is Phiona Melinda Wyatt and she is four-years-old. I'm married to this awesome guy named Glenn, he's a mortal, and we have a five-year-old daughter named Pearlinda Melody Belland, Pearl for short. She was a real surprise and frankly, I wasn't expecting it....But it was what allowed Prue to come back. She had died, or so we thought. But it was an illusion by The Elders so that when we were untied as the Power of Four, we'd have an unbreakable bond. But don't get me wrong, they didn't find out about me until Prue supposidly died. See, she would have died but they rescued her before that could happen....See Piper died, then time was reset by Tempus, and Prue was about to die when they saved her and made the illusion that she'd died....It's confusing..Anyway, Cole is supposidly good. I have my doubts. But he married Phoebe and they have an adorable daughter, she's about two-years-old right now. And then Prue..well...I'll let her tell you..." Paige said, as she motioned towards Prue.
"Well, for my thirty-sixth birthday, my sisters got me the best gift I could ever ask for....Andy." Prue whispered, as she placed her hand on her stomach.
"What? But he died! Or...did he? Is he alive?" Alternate Prue asked.
"No, he's dead....But he got to be just as alive as anyone else...For twenty-four hours. And well..ya know, one thing led to another. We hadn't seen each other in...well...a long time! About a month later, wham, I'm pregnant! How crazy is that?" She asked.
Alternate Prue smiled. "Your world sounds much better than this one." She said.
"I'm sorry..that you're here." Paige said, with a sympathetic look.
"It's okay, maybe it'll be over soon?" Alternate Prue suggested.
Suddenly Prue's husband blinked in. "How dare you!" He roared, then he noticed Prue and Paige. "No! No! I made this world so you wouldn't be here any longer!" He screamed.
"Too bad, so sad!" Paige said. "Warlock!" She screamed. In a swirl of blue and white orbs, the warlock orbed out and then orbed in, flying at the wall.
Prue and Alternate Prue exchanged glances, then held out both their hands in unison, sending a simotanious major telekinetic blast into him; literally sending him crashing through the wall, making a large hole in the attic.
"Damnit!" The warlock screamed. He blinked out.
Paige closed her eyes, using her power to sense evil, then her eyes flashed open. "Prue, incoming!" Paige yelled.
Prue whirled around and saw the warlock blink in, then saw 2 fire balls flying straight for her. She smiled and just stood there.
Alternate Prue raised her hands, but she was too late, they fire balls were too close to Prue.
Prue grinned and phased through the fire balls, letting them hit the wall behind her. "Ooops." She smirked. Then she waved her hand, telekinetically sending the warlock crashing through the stained glass windows in the attic.
Alternate Prue's mouth dropped open. "Wow...I don't think I have that power...Is it our daughter's power?" She asked.
Prue shook her head. "Nope. It was a new power I got, before I was pregnant." Prue replied.
"But we don't walk through fire balls, we move things with our minds." Alternate Prue said, with confusion.
"Exactly. I move objects with my mind, I move myself to different places with my mind, and I move myself through things with my mind." Prue replied. She pointed to Paige. "Paige made the connection." She replied.
Paige raised her hand. "Guilty...." She replied.
Alternate Prue gave off a small smile.
"But our daughter does have a quite useful power." Prue added.
Alternate Prue gave Prue a questioning look.
"T...." Prue's voice trailed off, as she picked up telepathic thoughts from someone other than Paige or Alternate Prue; the warlock. "Paige, behind you!" Prue screamed, as she whirled around.
Paige instantly orbed out, without looking back; just as Prue yelled to her, she's sensed evil behind her. Paige orbed in, behind the warlock, and saw a fire ball heading for the broken window. "Fire ball!" Paige yelled. The fire ball orbed out of mid air and orbed into her hand. She hurled it at the warlock, hitting him in the back.
The warlock screamed with pain. "I'll get you! You'll never win, I'll have my revenge!" He roared, then blinked out.
Prue looked back at Alternate Prue. "Like I was saying, telepathy. It's really useful. I can read mind whenever I feel like it." Prue said, with a shrug. "But I'm afraid that might be a little bit more useful when my daughter realizes she can use it to read my mind...." Prue said, in a bit a unsure tone.
"What are the powers that my..our nieces have?" Alternate Prue asked.
"Pearl can create white balls of light, like a whitelighter, but when they hit something the ball of light and the object explode, like Piper's exploding power. Phiona has orb-telekinesis. It's like a mixture of our telekinesis and Paige's telekinetic orbing; she can shoot orbs from her hand that either hit or surround an object, then move it like you or I would. Pam takes after....Cole...she has the power of shimmering; I doubt I need to explain that power." Prue explained.
Alternate Prue shook her head. "No need." She replied. "Sound like they're really powerful..." She murmured.
"They are! Much more powerful than the Charmed Ones; the Power of Four. Our daughters, the cousins, are known as The Blessed Ones! And by the way, just because Pearl and Phiona are part whitelighter doesn't exactly mean they act like angels, unless they want something, so don't get the wrong impression." Paige said, with a laugh.
"Paige..Prue...We need to find Piper, Phoebe, and Alternate Paige. I think that if we can unite the Power of Four, then we can vanquish that warlock and return to our world." Prue said.
"But..." Alternate Prue's voice trailed off as she saw the scrying map. "Is that where they are?" She asked.
"We should scy again, it's been a while, they may have moved." Prue said.
Paige shook her head, in disagreement. "I can sense for them! I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier! But then again, if I had, we wouldn't have found...Prue." Paige replied.
"Guess it was meant to be?" Prue suggested.
Paige nodded. She closed her eyes and began to sense for Piper, Phoebe, and her alternate self. Minutes passed, then Paige opened her brown eyes. "I've got Piper. Here, take my hands." She said.
"Wait, what about Prue?" Prue asked.
Paige looked over at Prue. "Oh...good point. Okay, stay here and get cleaned up, I'll get Piper." Paige replied.
"Paige...." Prue said, in a stern tone.
"I can handle myself, I'm a big witch-whitelighter!" Paige said, as she made a crossing motion over her heart. "Promise!" She said.
Prue quickly reached over and hugged Paige. "Be careful." She whispered in Paige's ear.
"I will." Paige whispered back, then orbed out.
Prue turned to Alternate Prue. "Okay then..I guess it's...." Prue's voice trailed off as she placed her hands over her stomach, bracing herself as a sudden wave of nausea hit her. "Oh God! I don't feel so..." She stopped in the middle of her sentence, placing her hands over her mouth, then running at full speed towards the wall; phasing through it.
'Must be the pregnant thing.' Alternate Prue thought. She shook her head and followed after Prue, but she decided to go through the open doorway.
Paige orbed into a dark room, she could make out the figure of a large object a few feet away, in the shadows. "P..Piper?" Paige called.
Suddenly light filled the room.
"I knew you'd come.." A male voice said, with a sickening tone. "And all alone?" He asked.
Paige looked around, not seeing anyone. "Who are you?" She demanded.
"I'm not sure how you escaped my power, but I'll fix this. I'll kill you both." The voice cackled.
"Wh..who is that?" A weak, female voice asked.
Paige spun around to see a huge cage. "Piper!" She gasped.
Piper clung to the bars of the cage. "Who are you?" She begged.
"Paige...Paige Halliwell, your sister..." Paige replied.
Piper's eyes flashed with fury. "How dare you temp me with my sisters again! And this, this is sickening! Trying to make me believe that I have another sister, it's impossible!" Piper's voice flared.
"You'll never reach her." The warlock cackled.
"Piper, blow up the cage!" Paige yelled. 'But wait, maybe she tried but it would not work?' She wondered.
Piper rolled her tired, brown eyes. "So you can laugh at my failing powers, again?" She asked, as she stared at Paige. "Why don't you just transform into Prue or Phoebe and make this actually seem believable?" She asked, in a mock tone.
Paige shook her head. "I could, but can Prue or Phoeebs do this?" Paige asked, then she orbed out and orbed in, next to the cage.
Piper's eyes widened. "How did you manage to steal whitelighter powers?!" She gasped.
"Fine..You need more proof?" Paige asked. She looked at the cage. "Cage!" She yelled. Blue and white orbs surrounded the cage, but seconds late, they fizzled out. "No!" Paige gasped.
Piper stared in disbelief. "How'd you pull that off?" She asked. Then she shook her head. "Illuions probably....or a spell." Piper said, with disgust in her tone.
"Foolish half breed! You can't win against me!" The warlock wailed.
'But I know someone who can get through that....' Paige thought, with a grin. "Warlock!" Paige screamed, at the top of her lungs. Orbs filled one corner of the room and then vanished, then orbs appeared next to Paige and the warlock appeared next to her. "Invisibility?" She asked, with a roll of her eyes.
Piper stood up from the floor of the cage now. "How'd you do that?" She asked, with a burst of curiosity.
"What? Wait, you mean this?" Paige asked. She looked at the warlock and shrugged. "Warlock." She stated, simply. With that simple word, the warlock orbed out and then orbed in, smashing face first into the wall.
"Look, we need to get you out of here!" Paige said, as she reached out for Piper's hand. "Take my hand." She said.
Piper looked hesitent and then fianlly grabbed Paige's hand, through the bars of the cage.
Paige tired to orb them out, but she was pulled back, by her grasp on Piper's hand. "Nevermind. I know what to do. Just hold on...." Paige said, then she orbed out.
Paige orbed into the Alternate Halliwell Manor, next to Prue and Alternate Prue. "Look, we have to go help Piper! Come with me!" She said. Without waiting for a response, she grabbed their hands and orbed them out.
Paige orbed herself, Prue, and Alternate Prue into the large light filled room.
Prue gasped as she saw 4 athames flying towards the cage; Piper was huddled in the corner, trying to avoid them.
Alternate Prue quickly waved her hand, telekinetically sending the athames flying back at the warlock.
Prue held out her hand, trying to telekinetically pull the bars of the cage apart; nothing happened.
"Prue, it's magically protected....So, plan 'P'?" Paige asked.
"Plan 'Phasing' it is." Prue replied. She walked over to the cage. "Piper, give me your hand." Prue said, in a calm tone.
Piper stared in awe as she looked from Prue, to Paige, to Alternate Prue. "Prue!" She gasped, immediately recognizing her sister from her own world.
"Piper...Please, take Prue's hand, we need to go." Alternate Prue pleaded. She looked at the warlock and flicked her wrist, telekinetically sending him crashing into the other side of the wall.
Piper nodded and locked her hand with Prue's.
Prue immediately turned herself into her phasable state, which also turned Piper phasable, since she was holding Piper's hand. "Now just walk right through the cage." Prue instructed.
Piper looked a little confused then nodded and carefully began to moved her body through the solid bars. "Amazing...." She muttered, as she was fully out of the cage.
Prue released Piper's hand and stepped back; immediately they both turned solid again. "Now, we have to go find Alternate Phoebe and Alternate Paige." Prue said.
"'Alternate'?" Piper asked, in confusion. "Wait, explain later.." Piper said, as she swirled around to face the warlock. "You bastard!" She hissed, as she raised her hands to explode him. But she only succeeded in exploding a chunk of the warlock's shoulder.
The warlock screamed out in pain. "No!" He roared, as he placed his hand over the bloody hole in his shoulder. "I'll get you for this!" He yelled, then blinked out.
"Take hands!" Paige shouted.
Prue, Alternate Prue, Alternate Piper, and Paige joined hands.
Paige orbed them out.
Paige orbed everyone into the attic of the Halliwell Manor. "Look, we need to find my alternate self and Pheebs' alternate self." She said, as she closed her eyes, trying to sense her other older sister. "I..I have Phoebe!" Paige exclaimed, as she orbed out.
"Pai...." Prue's voice trailed off, as she watched her baby sister orb away. "Damn!" She cursed. Suddenly she placed her hands over her stomach. "Oh no! Here it comes again!" She gasped, as she ran towards the broken attic windows. She squinted her eyes, telekinetically blasting away the rest of the window. She reached the window and hung her head outside it, puking onto the front yard.
"Ugh..." Alternate Piper exclaimed, as she covered her ears and shut her eyes.
Prue spit out a mouthful of puke and then wiped her mouth with her sleeve. She turned around, her face slightly red with embarrassment. "I'm so sorry about that..I can clean it up...." She offered.
Alternate Prue shook her head. "The joys of pregnancy...." She said, with a shrug of her arms.
"Sorry.." Prue replied.
"No, no, it's okay. Don't worry 'bout it. We won't even be here after we vanquish that thing, right?" Alternate Prue replied. She looked back at Alternate Piper. "Piper!" She yelled.
Alternate Piper uncovered her ears and opened her eyes, glancing over at her older sister. "Yeah?" She asked.
Alternate Prue just sighed. "Nevermind...." She said.
Before anyone could say another word, Paige orbed in with 2 screaming people.
"Who the hell are you and what the hell did you do with me?!" Alternate Paige screamed.
"I'll have you killed for this!" Alternate Phoebe hissed, as she raised her hand, and sent a bolt of energy from her palm at Paige.
Alternate Piper gasped and raised her hands, freezing the bolt of energy, inches from Paige's chest.
Alternate Phoebe's eyes became wide as she saw the energy bolt stop in mid air. She slowly turned around to find Prue, Alternate Prue, and Alternate Piper staring at her. "P..Piper...." She gasped.
"Phoebe! How could you?!" Alternate Piper said, with horror in her voice.
"But how?! I thought...they said you were dead! They said both of you were dead!" Alternate Phoebe gasped.
"Dead?! Dead?! You listened to demons?! Phoebe, how could you?! I'm still very much alive, I've just been trapped in a magical cage for years!" Alternate Piper cried out.
"And I've been trapped with an abusive, warlock husband for years while you run off and become evil!" Alternate Prue raved.
"Hey!" Alternate Paige yelled, with fright and horror in her tone. "Where the hell am I, how did I get here, and what are you people?!" She screamed.
Paige raised her hands. "Everyone, quiet!" She screamed.
The room became silent, then Paige realized the froze energy bolt could unfreeze at any moment. "Energy bolt!" She yelled. The energy bolt orbed out and then orbed in, blasting out the window. She turned to the group. "Now, as I was saying...." Her voice trailed off as she looked at Prue.
Prue nodded. "We don't have time for the long version. But the short one is this: Paige and I were transferred here from the 'real world'. Our reality. The one you live in, is a fake. It was created by a demon, so he could destroy the Power of Four!" Prue stated.
"The 'Power of Four'?" Alternate Phoebe questioned. "No way, there are only three of us! The Power of Three!" She protested.
"No! You have a fourth sister! Me....or rather, her...." Paige said, as she pointed to Alternate Paige. "I..her..we are the daughter of Patty Halliwell and her whitelighter, Sam Wilder. Given up at birth to a local chruch, raised by the Matthews family, and found to reconstitute the Power of Three after Prue 'died'. But she didn't really die. It was an illusion by The Elders, so we'd make a bond when Prue came back. My unexpected pregnancy allowed just that. We created the Power of Four." Paige explained.
"A white what?!" Alternate Paige asked. She shook her head. "You're all crazy, that's what you are!" She stammered.
"Oh really? Then what about this....Chair!" Paige yelled, as a chair orbed out and then orbed in, flying at Alternate Paige.
Alternate Paige gasped and disappeared in a flurry of blue and white orbs, then she orbed back in, in the same spot. "What the hell?!" She stammered.
"And you have the power to orb things with your mind....Similar to telekinesis. Just say the name of any object in the room." Paige said, as she motioned her hands around the room.
"You really expect me to just say..." Alternate Paige looked at the watch on Prue's hand. "Watch, and have it come to me?" She asked, with sarcasm in her voice. Then the watch on Prue's hand orbed out and then orbed in, in Alternate Paige's hand. "Oh my God! What have you done to me?!" She gasped.
"Nothing, it's always been with you. Remember your parents' car crash? Why you were saved and they weren't? Well, you orbed out before the crash." Paige replied. "Watch." She said. Prue's watched orbed out of Alternate Paige's hand and orbed back onto Prue's wrist.
Prue looked at Alternate Phoebe. "We need the Book of Shadows." She said.
Alternate Phoebe nodded. "Powers of the witches rise, course unseen across the skies, come to me I call you here, Book of Shadows, settle here." She recited. In a blast of red light, the Book of Shadows appeared in Alternate Phoebe's hands. "What do you need?" She asked.
"The spell to...." Prue began, but her sentence was finished by Paige.
"Vanquish the warlock who created this reality!" Paige said, as she held out her hands. The Book of Shadows orbed into Paige's hands, opened to the page that had the warlock and the spell to vanquish him. "Here it is....Your four, take hands!" Paige said.
Alternate Paige stared at Paige. "I..don't know if I trust you." She said, as she backed away from the group.
"Glenn still loves you, ya know." Paige said.
"Glenn...how do you know about Glenn?" Alternate Paige asked.
"He's my husband...The father of my child, Pearlinda. I need to get back to them and the only way to do that is if you cooperate with us." She reasoned.
"A daughter?" Alternate Paige asked.
"Mhmm. And I'm begging you to let me get back to them." Paige pleaded.
Alternate Paige slowly nodded. "Wh..what do I do?" She asked.
"Create a circle with those women." Paige said, as she pointed to Alternate Prue, Alternate Piper, and Alternate Phoebe. "Then just say what I tell you to say, with them." Paige said.
Alternate Paige nodded. "Okay...." She whispered. She walked over to the group and took Alternate Prue and Alternate Piper's hands.
"Thank you." Paige said. She looked back at the Book of Shadows. "Now say this; 'We summon thy evil, who creates worlds of lies, we bring him here, to say goodbye!'" Paige read, from the book.
"We summon thy evil, who creates worlds of lies, we bring him here, to say goodbye!" Alternate Prue, Alternate Piper, Alternate Phoebe, and Alternate Paige repeated.
A cool breeze ran through the attic, giving each woman goosebumps.
"Say it three more times!" Prue said.
"We summon thy evil, who creates worlds of lies, we bring him here, to say goodbye! We summon thy evil, who creates worlds of lies, we bring him here, to say goodbye! We summon thy evil, who creates worlds of lies, we bring him here, to say goodbye!" The Alternate, Power of Four, chanted.
The cool breeze became a raging wind and swirled around, knocking boxes over, and almost sending Prue and Paige off their feet. Then the wind gathered in the center of the circle that the Alternate Charmed Ones had created and formed a tunnel! It spun around faster and faster for about 2 minutes, then it stopped and formed into the warlock; Alternate Prue's warlock husband.
"Piper, freeze!" Prue cried out.
Alternate Piper pulled her hand away from Alternate Paige's hand for a brief second and wave it, freezing the warlock, then locked hands with Alternate Paige again. "He's breaking out of the freeze already!" She yelled.
"Repeat after me, four times, the following!" Paige cried out. "'We summon upon the Power of Four, to vanquish this evil, you will create worlds, no more!'" Paige yelled.
"We summon upon the Power of Four, to vanquish this evil, you will create worlds, no more! We summon upon the Power of Four, to vanquish this evil, you will create worlds, no more! We summon upon the Power of Four, to vanquish this evil, you will create worlds, no more! We summon upon the Power of Four, to vanquish this evil, you will create worlds, no more!" The Alternate Charmed Ones chanted.
Suddenly fire errupted from the warlock's chest, as he broke from Alternate Piper's freeze. "No!" He screamed in pain, as the fire consumed him. Then he burst into a firery vanquish and ashes drifted down upon the Alternate Charmed Ones. Then the ashes faded into nothingness.
"We did it!" Alternate Prue exclaimed.
"Thank you." Alternate Piper said, as she looked at her newfound baby sister.
"No, thank you." Paige said, as she walked over to Prue and took her big sister's hand.
"Goodbye...." Alternate Phoebe said.
"Goobye.." Prue replied.
Alternate Paige looked over at Paige and mouthed, Good luck.
"You too." Paige replied.
Then the Alternate Charmed Ones faded out of the attic and the attic slowly faded away as well.
Prue and Paige held tightly onto each other's hands and then suddenly they found themselves in the Manor next to Phoebe and Leo again.
Leo bent down and placed his hands over Phoebe, healing her. When she was fully healed, he pulled his hands back. "The earthquake stopped! We'd better go check on everyone else." He said. He looked at Phoebe. "Are you okay?" He asked.
Phoebe nodded. "Thanks, Leo..." She said, then hugged him. "Where is everyone else."
"I'll take you to them." Leo said. He took Phoebe's hand and orbed them out.
Prue and Paige looked at each other.
"Time here must have just stopped until we returned." Prue said.
Paige nodded. "I'm glad we're back...That other world was so..."
"I know." Prue replied, as she telepathically read Paige's mind.
"Let's go see if everyone else is okay." Paige said.
"Ditto." Prue replied, as she gave her younger sister's hand a reassuring squeeze.
Paige orbed them out.
Moments late, Paige orbed them into Piper's room.
"Everyone's okay!" Prue exclaimed, as she looked from face to face.
"I'm glad dat's over...I was weal scawed!" Pam said, as she hugged Phoebe tighter.
"What do you say we go down to the kitchen and make hot chocolate with lots whip cream, since everyone is already up?" Piper asked.
Pearl, Phiona, and Pam cheered.
Piper reached out and took Phiona and Leo's hands. "Let's go." She said.
Leo smiled. "Meet everyone there?" He asked.
"Totally!" Phoebe said, as she reached out and placed her hand on Cole's shoulder. "Right?" She asked.
"I wouldn't miss it." Cole said.
Leo orbed himself, Piper, and Phiona out.
Paige walked over to Glenn and Pearl, hugged them both, then took their hands. "Prue, come join us!" Paige said.
Pearl held out her free hand. "Pleeeease! Auntie Prue!" She begged.
Prue smiled and walked over to her eldest niece. "I'd be honored." She replied. She took ahold of Pearl's hand.
Paige orbed them out.
"Hot chocolate!" Pam announced, as she reached out for her parents' hands.
Phoebe grinned and took ahold of Pam and Cole's free hands.
Cole grabbed onto Pam's hand, finishing the circle. "What do you say to a double shimmer?" He asked, as he looked down at his daughter.
"Double shimmew! Double shimmew!" Pam cheered.
"On three! One..." Cole said.
"Two.." Phoebe said.
"And three!" Pam cried out.
At the same time, Cole and Pam shimmered out, with Phoebe. TO BE CONTINUED....
A/N: BTW, I was curious if any of you have seen the "Friday The Thirteenth" series, with Jason? Are any of you fans or do you totally hate the show, or have you never heard/watched it? lol (Don't ask why now, I'll explain later.) ;)
Together Forever As One
Chapter 18: Joining Forces
Prue and Paige's mouths dropped open.
"W..wh..what?!" Prue asked, in complete shock.
"He's my husband." Alternate Prue replied.
"How? Why? When? What ever made you marry that..that...monster?!" Paige stammered.
"He was the 'love of my life' or so I thought, the greatest person since Andy....After about a year of dating, I told him I was a witch. He accepted it. Then a few months later we were married....One morning I woke up and I had these chains on my wrists and ankles; then I learned he was a warlock. But he didn't want to kill me, he wanted me to suffer like he'd suffered....He won't say how or who made him suffer though. Then he took Piper, somewhere I don't know....Probably so she couldn't use her powers. That's when Phoebe turned evil with Cole, again. They left the Manor and Phoebe took the Book of Shadows with her, she may be evil, but since that is still her book too, she can still take it. I've never been able to escape. Well, once, before they took Piper. We tried to use the Power of Three against him, but we weren't strong enough....It failed! The Power of Three failed! It's the ultimate power of good, how could it fail?!" Alternate Prue cried out, as more tears ran down her dirty face.
Paige shook her head. "Because the 'Power of Three' isn't the ultimate power of good, within our generation anyway." She replied.
"What do you mean?" Alternate Prue asked.
Prue stepped forward. "We mean that the 'Power of Four' is the ultimate power of good, for our generation. Like we said, Paige is my....our sister. Together we are the Power of Four." Prue stated.
Alternate Prue stared at Paige. "No, there are only three of us." She said.
"Paige was given up at birth. Look, we should find the others. Together you can vanquish him and hopefully set this thing straight." Prue said.
"I bet he was the one who cast the alternate reality!" Paige spoke up. "If we vanquish him, we vanquish this world!" She added.
Alternate Prue stared at Prue and Paige. "But I can't leave....The binding..." She began, but was cut off by Paige.
"Forget that." Paige said, with a roll of her eyes. She held out her hands. "Chains!" She ordered. In a swirl of blue and white orbs, the chains vanished from Alternate Prue's wrists and ankles, then appeared in Paige's hands. "Better?" She questioned. Paige turned and hurled the chains at the wall, making a crack in the wall.
Alternate Prue rubbed her wrists and then her ankles for a moment, they were very white from the pressure and being their so long, then they began to turn red as more blood flowed to them. "Thank you...." She murmured. She stood up, weakly. Then squinted her eyes, sending a telekinetic blast into the wall, making a huge hole as the wall fell apart.
"No pro...." Paige's voice trailed off as she heard a loud thud of the door. She waved her hands frantically.
Prue grabbed one of Paige's waving hands and grabbed one of Alternate Prue's hands.
Paige nodded and orbed them out.
The man from earlier stormed into the room, to see a few blue and white orbs vanish from sight. "Nooooo!" He roared. With that, he blinked out.
Paige orbed herself, Prue, and Alternate Prue into the attic of the Halliwell Manor where the map and crystal were still sitting. The pieces of the photo and Paige's ring were still on the map.
Alternate Prue took a few moments to look Prue up and down, noticing a small bulge on her stomach. "Are you..." She trailed off.
"About two and a half months along." Prue replied, with a smile.
"Tell me....about your reality...Your world, please?" Alternate Prue asked.
Prue and Paige glanced at each other.
"It couldn't hurt." Paige said.
"Ditto." Prue replied.
"Well...." Paige began, with a grin. "Like we said; Prue, Piper, Pheebs, and I are the Charmed Ones, the Power of Four! Piper and Leo are happily married with the beautiful daughter that they waited for, for like ever! Her name is Phiona Melinda Wyatt and she is four-years-old. I'm married to this awesome guy named Glenn, he's a mortal, and we have a five-year-old daughter named Pearlinda Melody Belland, Pearl for short. She was a real surprise and frankly, I wasn't expecting it....But it was what allowed Prue to come back. She had died, or so we thought. But it was an illusion by The Elders so that when we were untied as the Power of Four, we'd have an unbreakable bond. But don't get me wrong, they didn't find out about me until Prue supposidly died. See, she would have died but they rescued her before that could happen....See Piper died, then time was reset by Tempus, and Prue was about to die when they saved her and made the illusion that she'd died....It's confusing..Anyway, Cole is supposidly good. I have my doubts. But he married Phoebe and they have an adorable daughter, she's about two-years-old right now. And then Prue..well...I'll let her tell you..." Paige said, as she motioned towards Prue.
"Well, for my thirty-sixth birthday, my sisters got me the best gift I could ever ask for....Andy." Prue whispered, as she placed her hand on her stomach.
"What? But he died! Or...did he? Is he alive?" Alternate Prue asked.
"No, he's dead....But he got to be just as alive as anyone else...For twenty-four hours. And well..ya know, one thing led to another. We hadn't seen each other in...well...a long time! About a month later, wham, I'm pregnant! How crazy is that?" She asked.
Alternate Prue smiled. "Your world sounds much better than this one." She said.
"I'm sorry..that you're here." Paige said, with a sympathetic look.
"It's okay, maybe it'll be over soon?" Alternate Prue suggested.
Suddenly Prue's husband blinked in. "How dare you!" He roared, then he noticed Prue and Paige. "No! No! I made this world so you wouldn't be here any longer!" He screamed.
"Too bad, so sad!" Paige said. "Warlock!" She screamed. In a swirl of blue and white orbs, the warlock orbed out and then orbed in, flying at the wall.
Prue and Alternate Prue exchanged glances, then held out both their hands in unison, sending a simotanious major telekinetic blast into him; literally sending him crashing through the wall, making a large hole in the attic.
"Damnit!" The warlock screamed. He blinked out.
Paige closed her eyes, using her power to sense evil, then her eyes flashed open. "Prue, incoming!" Paige yelled.
Prue whirled around and saw the warlock blink in, then saw 2 fire balls flying straight for her. She smiled and just stood there.
Alternate Prue raised her hands, but she was too late, they fire balls were too close to Prue.
Prue grinned and phased through the fire balls, letting them hit the wall behind her. "Ooops." She smirked. Then she waved her hand, telekinetically sending the warlock crashing through the stained glass windows in the attic.
Alternate Prue's mouth dropped open. "Wow...I don't think I have that power...Is it our daughter's power?" She asked.
Prue shook her head. "Nope. It was a new power I got, before I was pregnant." Prue replied.
"But we don't walk through fire balls, we move things with our minds." Alternate Prue said, with confusion.
"Exactly. I move objects with my mind, I move myself to different places with my mind, and I move myself through things with my mind." Prue replied. She pointed to Paige. "Paige made the connection." She replied.
Paige raised her hand. "Guilty...." She replied.
Alternate Prue gave off a small smile.
"But our daughter does have a quite useful power." Prue added.
Alternate Prue gave Prue a questioning look.
"T...." Prue's voice trailed off, as she picked up telepathic thoughts from someone other than Paige or Alternate Prue; the warlock. "Paige, behind you!" Prue screamed, as she whirled around.
Paige instantly orbed out, without looking back; just as Prue yelled to her, she's sensed evil behind her. Paige orbed in, behind the warlock, and saw a fire ball heading for the broken window. "Fire ball!" Paige yelled. The fire ball orbed out of mid air and orbed into her hand. She hurled it at the warlock, hitting him in the back.
The warlock screamed with pain. "I'll get you! You'll never win, I'll have my revenge!" He roared, then blinked out.
Prue looked back at Alternate Prue. "Like I was saying, telepathy. It's really useful. I can read mind whenever I feel like it." Prue said, with a shrug. "But I'm afraid that might be a little bit more useful when my daughter realizes she can use it to read my mind...." Prue said, in a bit a unsure tone.
"What are the powers that my..our nieces have?" Alternate Prue asked.
"Pearl can create white balls of light, like a whitelighter, but when they hit something the ball of light and the object explode, like Piper's exploding power. Phiona has orb-telekinesis. It's like a mixture of our telekinesis and Paige's telekinetic orbing; she can shoot orbs from her hand that either hit or surround an object, then move it like you or I would. Pam takes after....Cole...she has the power of shimmering; I doubt I need to explain that power." Prue explained.
Alternate Prue shook her head. "No need." She replied. "Sound like they're really powerful..." She murmured.
"They are! Much more powerful than the Charmed Ones; the Power of Four. Our daughters, the cousins, are known as The Blessed Ones! And by the way, just because Pearl and Phiona are part whitelighter doesn't exactly mean they act like angels, unless they want something, so don't get the wrong impression." Paige said, with a laugh.
"Paige..Prue...We need to find Piper, Phoebe, and Alternate Paige. I think that if we can unite the Power of Four, then we can vanquish that warlock and return to our world." Prue said.
"But..." Alternate Prue's voice trailed off as she saw the scrying map. "Is that where they are?" She asked.
"We should scy again, it's been a while, they may have moved." Prue said.
Paige shook her head, in disagreement. "I can sense for them! I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier! But then again, if I had, we wouldn't have found...Prue." Paige replied.
"Guess it was meant to be?" Prue suggested.
Paige nodded. She closed her eyes and began to sense for Piper, Phoebe, and her alternate self. Minutes passed, then Paige opened her brown eyes. "I've got Piper. Here, take my hands." She said.
"Wait, what about Prue?" Prue asked.
Paige looked over at Prue. "Oh...good point. Okay, stay here and get cleaned up, I'll get Piper." Paige replied.
"Paige...." Prue said, in a stern tone.
"I can handle myself, I'm a big witch-whitelighter!" Paige said, as she made a crossing motion over her heart. "Promise!" She said.
Prue quickly reached over and hugged Paige. "Be careful." She whispered in Paige's ear.
"I will." Paige whispered back, then orbed out.
Prue turned to Alternate Prue. "Okay then..I guess it's...." Prue's voice trailed off as she placed her hands over her stomach, bracing herself as a sudden wave of nausea hit her. "Oh God! I don't feel so..." She stopped in the middle of her sentence, placing her hands over her mouth, then running at full speed towards the wall; phasing through it.
'Must be the pregnant thing.' Alternate Prue thought. She shook her head and followed after Prue, but she decided to go through the open doorway.
Paige orbed into a dark room, she could make out the figure of a large object a few feet away, in the shadows. "P..Piper?" Paige called.
Suddenly light filled the room.
"I knew you'd come.." A male voice said, with a sickening tone. "And all alone?" He asked.
Paige looked around, not seeing anyone. "Who are you?" She demanded.
"I'm not sure how you escaped my power, but I'll fix this. I'll kill you both." The voice cackled.
"Wh..who is that?" A weak, female voice asked.
Paige spun around to see a huge cage. "Piper!" She gasped.
Piper clung to the bars of the cage. "Who are you?" She begged.
"Paige...Paige Halliwell, your sister..." Paige replied.
Piper's eyes flashed with fury. "How dare you temp me with my sisters again! And this, this is sickening! Trying to make me believe that I have another sister, it's impossible!" Piper's voice flared.
"You'll never reach her." The warlock cackled.
"Piper, blow up the cage!" Paige yelled. 'But wait, maybe she tried but it would not work?' She wondered.
Piper rolled her tired, brown eyes. "So you can laugh at my failing powers, again?" She asked, as she stared at Paige. "Why don't you just transform into Prue or Phoebe and make this actually seem believable?" She asked, in a mock tone.
Paige shook her head. "I could, but can Prue or Phoeebs do this?" Paige asked, then she orbed out and orbed in, next to the cage.
Piper's eyes widened. "How did you manage to steal whitelighter powers?!" She gasped.
"Fine..You need more proof?" Paige asked. She looked at the cage. "Cage!" She yelled. Blue and white orbs surrounded the cage, but seconds late, they fizzled out. "No!" Paige gasped.
Piper stared in disbelief. "How'd you pull that off?" She asked. Then she shook her head. "Illuions probably....or a spell." Piper said, with disgust in her tone.
"Foolish half breed! You can't win against me!" The warlock wailed.
'But I know someone who can get through that....' Paige thought, with a grin. "Warlock!" Paige screamed, at the top of her lungs. Orbs filled one corner of the room and then vanished, then orbs appeared next to Paige and the warlock appeared next to her. "Invisibility?" She asked, with a roll of her eyes.
Piper stood up from the floor of the cage now. "How'd you do that?" She asked, with a burst of curiosity.
"What? Wait, you mean this?" Paige asked. She looked at the warlock and shrugged. "Warlock." She stated, simply. With that simple word, the warlock orbed out and then orbed in, smashing face first into the wall.
"Look, we need to get you out of here!" Paige said, as she reached out for Piper's hand. "Take my hand." She said.
Piper looked hesitent and then fianlly grabbed Paige's hand, through the bars of the cage.
Paige tired to orb them out, but she was pulled back, by her grasp on Piper's hand. "Nevermind. I know what to do. Just hold on...." Paige said, then she orbed out.
Paige orbed into the Alternate Halliwell Manor, next to Prue and Alternate Prue. "Look, we have to go help Piper! Come with me!" She said. Without waiting for a response, she grabbed their hands and orbed them out.
Paige orbed herself, Prue, and Alternate Prue into the large light filled room.
Prue gasped as she saw 4 athames flying towards the cage; Piper was huddled in the corner, trying to avoid them.
Alternate Prue quickly waved her hand, telekinetically sending the athames flying back at the warlock.
Prue held out her hand, trying to telekinetically pull the bars of the cage apart; nothing happened.
"Prue, it's magically protected....So, plan 'P'?" Paige asked.
"Plan 'Phasing' it is." Prue replied. She walked over to the cage. "Piper, give me your hand." Prue said, in a calm tone.
Piper stared in awe as she looked from Prue, to Paige, to Alternate Prue. "Prue!" She gasped, immediately recognizing her sister from her own world.
"Piper...Please, take Prue's hand, we need to go." Alternate Prue pleaded. She looked at the warlock and flicked her wrist, telekinetically sending him crashing into the other side of the wall.
Piper nodded and locked her hand with Prue's.
Prue immediately turned herself into her phasable state, which also turned Piper phasable, since she was holding Piper's hand. "Now just walk right through the cage." Prue instructed.
Piper looked a little confused then nodded and carefully began to moved her body through the solid bars. "Amazing...." She muttered, as she was fully out of the cage.
Prue released Piper's hand and stepped back; immediately they both turned solid again. "Now, we have to go find Alternate Phoebe and Alternate Paige." Prue said.
"'Alternate'?" Piper asked, in confusion. "Wait, explain later.." Piper said, as she swirled around to face the warlock. "You bastard!" She hissed, as she raised her hands to explode him. But she only succeeded in exploding a chunk of the warlock's shoulder.
The warlock screamed out in pain. "No!" He roared, as he placed his hand over the bloody hole in his shoulder. "I'll get you for this!" He yelled, then blinked out.
"Take hands!" Paige shouted.
Prue, Alternate Prue, Alternate Piper, and Paige joined hands.
Paige orbed them out.
Paige orbed everyone into the attic of the Halliwell Manor. "Look, we need to find my alternate self and Pheebs' alternate self." She said, as she closed her eyes, trying to sense her other older sister. "I..I have Phoebe!" Paige exclaimed, as she orbed out.
"Pai...." Prue's voice trailed off, as she watched her baby sister orb away. "Damn!" She cursed. Suddenly she placed her hands over her stomach. "Oh no! Here it comes again!" She gasped, as she ran towards the broken attic windows. She squinted her eyes, telekinetically blasting away the rest of the window. She reached the window and hung her head outside it, puking onto the front yard.
"Ugh..." Alternate Piper exclaimed, as she covered her ears and shut her eyes.
Prue spit out a mouthful of puke and then wiped her mouth with her sleeve. She turned around, her face slightly red with embarrassment. "I'm so sorry about that..I can clean it up...." She offered.
Alternate Prue shook her head. "The joys of pregnancy...." She said, with a shrug of her arms.
"Sorry.." Prue replied.
"No, no, it's okay. Don't worry 'bout it. We won't even be here after we vanquish that thing, right?" Alternate Prue replied. She looked back at Alternate Piper. "Piper!" She yelled.
Alternate Piper uncovered her ears and opened her eyes, glancing over at her older sister. "Yeah?" She asked.
Alternate Prue just sighed. "Nevermind...." She said.
Before anyone could say another word, Paige orbed in with 2 screaming people.
"Who the hell are you and what the hell did you do with me?!" Alternate Paige screamed.
"I'll have you killed for this!" Alternate Phoebe hissed, as she raised her hand, and sent a bolt of energy from her palm at Paige.
Alternate Piper gasped and raised her hands, freezing the bolt of energy, inches from Paige's chest.
Alternate Phoebe's eyes became wide as she saw the energy bolt stop in mid air. She slowly turned around to find Prue, Alternate Prue, and Alternate Piper staring at her. "P..Piper...." She gasped.
"Phoebe! How could you?!" Alternate Piper said, with horror in her voice.
"But how?! I thought...they said you were dead! They said both of you were dead!" Alternate Phoebe gasped.
"Dead?! Dead?! You listened to demons?! Phoebe, how could you?! I'm still very much alive, I've just been trapped in a magical cage for years!" Alternate Piper cried out.
"And I've been trapped with an abusive, warlock husband for years while you run off and become evil!" Alternate Prue raved.
"Hey!" Alternate Paige yelled, with fright and horror in her tone. "Where the hell am I, how did I get here, and what are you people?!" She screamed.
Paige raised her hands. "Everyone, quiet!" She screamed.
The room became silent, then Paige realized the froze energy bolt could unfreeze at any moment. "Energy bolt!" She yelled. The energy bolt orbed out and then orbed in, blasting out the window. She turned to the group. "Now, as I was saying...." Her voice trailed off as she looked at Prue.
Prue nodded. "We don't have time for the long version. But the short one is this: Paige and I were transferred here from the 'real world'. Our reality. The one you live in, is a fake. It was created by a demon, so he could destroy the Power of Four!" Prue stated.
"The 'Power of Four'?" Alternate Phoebe questioned. "No way, there are only three of us! The Power of Three!" She protested.
"No! You have a fourth sister! Me....or rather, her...." Paige said, as she pointed to Alternate Paige. "I..her..we are the daughter of Patty Halliwell and her whitelighter, Sam Wilder. Given up at birth to a local chruch, raised by the Matthews family, and found to reconstitute the Power of Three after Prue 'died'. But she didn't really die. It was an illusion by The Elders, so we'd make a bond when Prue came back. My unexpected pregnancy allowed just that. We created the Power of Four." Paige explained.
"A white what?!" Alternate Paige asked. She shook her head. "You're all crazy, that's what you are!" She stammered.
"Oh really? Then what about this....Chair!" Paige yelled, as a chair orbed out and then orbed in, flying at Alternate Paige.
Alternate Paige gasped and disappeared in a flurry of blue and white orbs, then she orbed back in, in the same spot. "What the hell?!" She stammered.
"And you have the power to orb things with your mind....Similar to telekinesis. Just say the name of any object in the room." Paige said, as she motioned her hands around the room.
"You really expect me to just say..." Alternate Paige looked at the watch on Prue's hand. "Watch, and have it come to me?" She asked, with sarcasm in her voice. Then the watch on Prue's hand orbed out and then orbed in, in Alternate Paige's hand. "Oh my God! What have you done to me?!" She gasped.
"Nothing, it's always been with you. Remember your parents' car crash? Why you were saved and they weren't? Well, you orbed out before the crash." Paige replied. "Watch." She said. Prue's watched orbed out of Alternate Paige's hand and orbed back onto Prue's wrist.
Prue looked at Alternate Phoebe. "We need the Book of Shadows." She said.
Alternate Phoebe nodded. "Powers of the witches rise, course unseen across the skies, come to me I call you here, Book of Shadows, settle here." She recited. In a blast of red light, the Book of Shadows appeared in Alternate Phoebe's hands. "What do you need?" She asked.
"The spell to...." Prue began, but her sentence was finished by Paige.
"Vanquish the warlock who created this reality!" Paige said, as she held out her hands. The Book of Shadows orbed into Paige's hands, opened to the page that had the warlock and the spell to vanquish him. "Here it is....Your four, take hands!" Paige said.
Alternate Paige stared at Paige. "I..don't know if I trust you." She said, as she backed away from the group.
"Glenn still loves you, ya know." Paige said.
"Glenn...how do you know about Glenn?" Alternate Paige asked.
"He's my husband...The father of my child, Pearlinda. I need to get back to them and the only way to do that is if you cooperate with us." She reasoned.
"A daughter?" Alternate Paige asked.
"Mhmm. And I'm begging you to let me get back to them." Paige pleaded.
Alternate Paige slowly nodded. "Wh..what do I do?" She asked.
"Create a circle with those women." Paige said, as she pointed to Alternate Prue, Alternate Piper, and Alternate Phoebe. "Then just say what I tell you to say, with them." Paige said.
Alternate Paige nodded. "Okay...." She whispered. She walked over to the group and took Alternate Prue and Alternate Piper's hands.
"Thank you." Paige said. She looked back at the Book of Shadows. "Now say this; 'We summon thy evil, who creates worlds of lies, we bring him here, to say goodbye!'" Paige read, from the book.
"We summon thy evil, who creates worlds of lies, we bring him here, to say goodbye!" Alternate Prue, Alternate Piper, Alternate Phoebe, and Alternate Paige repeated.
A cool breeze ran through the attic, giving each woman goosebumps.
"Say it three more times!" Prue said.
"We summon thy evil, who creates worlds of lies, we bring him here, to say goodbye! We summon thy evil, who creates worlds of lies, we bring him here, to say goodbye! We summon thy evil, who creates worlds of lies, we bring him here, to say goodbye!" The Alternate, Power of Four, chanted.
The cool breeze became a raging wind and swirled around, knocking boxes over, and almost sending Prue and Paige off their feet. Then the wind gathered in the center of the circle that the Alternate Charmed Ones had created and formed a tunnel! It spun around faster and faster for about 2 minutes, then it stopped and formed into the warlock; Alternate Prue's warlock husband.
"Piper, freeze!" Prue cried out.
Alternate Piper pulled her hand away from Alternate Paige's hand for a brief second and wave it, freezing the warlock, then locked hands with Alternate Paige again. "He's breaking out of the freeze already!" She yelled.
"Repeat after me, four times, the following!" Paige cried out. "'We summon upon the Power of Four, to vanquish this evil, you will create worlds, no more!'" Paige yelled.
"We summon upon the Power of Four, to vanquish this evil, you will create worlds, no more! We summon upon the Power of Four, to vanquish this evil, you will create worlds, no more! We summon upon the Power of Four, to vanquish this evil, you will create worlds, no more! We summon upon the Power of Four, to vanquish this evil, you will create worlds, no more!" The Alternate Charmed Ones chanted.
Suddenly fire errupted from the warlock's chest, as he broke from Alternate Piper's freeze. "No!" He screamed in pain, as the fire consumed him. Then he burst into a firery vanquish and ashes drifted down upon the Alternate Charmed Ones. Then the ashes faded into nothingness.
"We did it!" Alternate Prue exclaimed.
"Thank you." Alternate Piper said, as she looked at her newfound baby sister.
"No, thank you." Paige said, as she walked over to Prue and took her big sister's hand.
"Goodbye...." Alternate Phoebe said.
"Goobye.." Prue replied.
Alternate Paige looked over at Paige and mouthed, Good luck.
"You too." Paige replied.
Then the Alternate Charmed Ones faded out of the attic and the attic slowly faded away as well.
Prue and Paige held tightly onto each other's hands and then suddenly they found themselves in the Manor next to Phoebe and Leo again.
Leo bent down and placed his hands over Phoebe, healing her. When she was fully healed, he pulled his hands back. "The earthquake stopped! We'd better go check on everyone else." He said. He looked at Phoebe. "Are you okay?" He asked.
Phoebe nodded. "Thanks, Leo..." She said, then hugged him. "Where is everyone else."
"I'll take you to them." Leo said. He took Phoebe's hand and orbed them out.
Prue and Paige looked at each other.
"Time here must have just stopped until we returned." Prue said.
Paige nodded. "I'm glad we're back...That other world was so..."
"I know." Prue replied, as she telepathically read Paige's mind.
"Let's go see if everyone else is okay." Paige said.
"Ditto." Prue replied, as she gave her younger sister's hand a reassuring squeeze.
Paige orbed them out.
Moments late, Paige orbed them into Piper's room.
"Everyone's okay!" Prue exclaimed, as she looked from face to face.
"I'm glad dat's over...I was weal scawed!" Pam said, as she hugged Phoebe tighter.
"What do you say we go down to the kitchen and make hot chocolate with lots whip cream, since everyone is already up?" Piper asked.
Pearl, Phiona, and Pam cheered.
Piper reached out and took Phiona and Leo's hands. "Let's go." She said.
Leo smiled. "Meet everyone there?" He asked.
"Totally!" Phoebe said, as she reached out and placed her hand on Cole's shoulder. "Right?" She asked.
"I wouldn't miss it." Cole said.
Leo orbed himself, Piper, and Phiona out.
Paige walked over to Glenn and Pearl, hugged them both, then took their hands. "Prue, come join us!" Paige said.
Pearl held out her free hand. "Pleeeease! Auntie Prue!" She begged.
Prue smiled and walked over to her eldest niece. "I'd be honored." She replied. She took ahold of Pearl's hand.
Paige orbed them out.
"Hot chocolate!" Pam announced, as she reached out for her parents' hands.
Phoebe grinned and took ahold of Pam and Cole's free hands.
Cole grabbed onto Pam's hand, finishing the circle. "What do you say to a double shimmer?" He asked, as he looked down at his daughter.
"Double shimmew! Double shimmew!" Pam cheered.
"On three! One..." Cole said.
"Two.." Phoebe said.
"And three!" Pam cried out.
At the same time, Cole and Pam shimmered out, with Phoebe. TO BE CONTINUED....
A/N: BTW, I was curious if any of you have seen the "Friday The Thirteenth" series, with Jason? Are any of you fans or do you totally hate the show, or have you never heard/watched it? lol (Don't ask why now, I'll explain later.) ;)