A/N: If this part seems a bit confusing please go back and re-read chapters 18 and 19 for clarification. Thanks again for all of the reviews!
Charmed in the Afterlife: Will the Real Super Witch Please Stand Up?
Paige stood over the book, letting her fingers run over the words to the Power of Three spell: Hear now the words of the witches, the secrets we hid in the night, the oldest of Gods are invoked here, the great magic is sought. In this night and in this battle, I call upon the ancient power...
"Bring back my sisters. Bring back the Power of Three" she whispered. Frustrated, she closed the book and buried her face in her hands for a moment. "I've tried everything! Why isn't anything working?" Forty eight hours had passed and she yet to find a way to save her sisters.
"There must be something you haven't tried," Andy reopened the book and began to flip through it's pages.
"Trust me, there isn't," Paige hummed, irritated. "And even if there were, I'm not super witch!" That would always be Prue's title in Paige's mind.
"The answer is in here, it has to be" Andy relented cutting her a glance and knowing that the book would never desert the power of three.
Amanda stood behind them at an easel playing with a set of magnetic letters. "Kitty" she giggled as her little hands seemingly placed all of the letters in the correct order. K-I-T-T-Y.
"There!" Andy jabbed his index finger onto one of the pages of the book.
"To Call A Lost Witch?" Paige squinted at the spell, miffed, 'Who would you like for me to call? I already tried to summon Prue and it didn't bring her back!"
"Mommy" Amanda answered absentmindedly watching the letters on the easel as they formed the letters M-O-M-M-Y
"Mommy?" Paige's upper lip curled, and her head cocked, "Since when can she spell?"
"She can't" Andy swallowed moving towards the easel. "She's just saying the words and the letters are arranging themselves".
"Daddy" Amanda grinned looking up to father as once again the letters fell into the word perfectly. D-A-D-D-Y. Andy looked at Paige carefully.
"How is that happening?"
Andy shrugged, "maybe the same way the book sometimes turns it pages?".
Paige's eyes narrowed, beading back and forth. "Grams?!" Suddenly the room began to shake.
"I don't think that's Penny." Andy swooped Amanda up, holding her close while Paige latched onto his arm for support.
"Who else would it be?"
The letters on the easel then dropped to the floor, clearing the board. Then one by one, they began to float positioning themselves into a name. "A-L-L-Y". Andy read. "Ally?"
"Ally can reverse time," Paige whispered returning to the book as the shaking stopped. Gazing down at the spell she began to chant.
Powers of the witches rise, Course unseen across the skies, Come to us who call you near. Come to us and settle here.
White lights swirled in the ritual circle, prompting Paige to exchange glances with Andy.
"It's just lights". The two continued to watch as the lights began to take shape, materializing into the child that Prue and Andy saw when they were with the angel of death. She was still an apparition about the age of three.
Clinging, to her father, Amanda whispered softly, "Daddy who dat?"
"That's your sister" Andy answered watching his oldest brow furrow.
"Why she not a baby?"
"Because she's an angel"
"You is an angel" Amanda squealed placing her hands on either sides of his cheeks.
Paige moved slowly towards the circle, standing just outside it's glow. "Ally?" she paused for a moment, "Your Mom and my other sisters need your help".
Not making a sound, Ally held out her arms to her aunt. The lights disappeared, making her whole. "How do think her power works?" Paige asked taking the child into her arms. The hint of the red astral flash, answered Paige's question. "Maybe we can tap into it, like we did before and orb back. That way, we'll have your protection if there are any demons lurking"
Still holding Amanda, Andy nodded and stepped up to Paige. "Take us, back to Mommy" he said as Amanda reached for Ally's hand. The angelic girl smiled at her older sister, giving her hand a squeeze. The room began to spin, as time propelled backwards rewinding before their eyes.
"Take us all the way back to the night we were all at the demonic pub!" Paige ordered. In the flash of an instant, Paige, Andy and the two girls were standing in the back ally way, where Prue had been struck by the athame.
"Paige what are you doing? This is too far!"
"No it isn't" Paige returned, handing Ally off to Andy so that he was holding both of his daughters. "If I can prevent, Prue from being struck by the athame, that was suppose to kill you, then I can save Ally and Prue's pregnancy too."
"Paige, I don't think you can do that" Andy called after her.
"And Why Not?" Paige glanced back over her shoulder, as white and blue orbs formed in front of her. Still balancing one daughter on each arm, Andy blocked her path.
"Because it goes against the greater good," he replied with finality. "Good witches know they can't use their powers to change destiny". The words sounded foreign as they came from his lips making him shift his eyes. "Did I just say that?" he added silently.
"We'll see about that," Paige side stepped the tracer and started for the alleyway, in which Prue had been stabbed while trying to save Andy. "If I save Prue then your daughter lives, end of story"
Andy followed Paige to the entrance of the ally, keeping himself and the girls out of sight. A trickle of fear ran down his spine as he saw himself as the wendigo, tracer, and another image of himself standing next to pregnant Prue.
Time played out just as it had before with Prue pulling the athame out of the wendigo-tracer Andy's hands.
Ill kill you witch!" The crossbow appeared in his hands, firing.
"Prue!" Doing the only thing he could, Andy stepped in front of Prue blocking the arrow's path just as Paige entered the ally, with her brown eyes growing wide.
"Force Field!" she shouted causing a glowing blue light to encircle the three of them, deflecting the arrow. The force field disappeared with Prue and Andy still clinging to each other.
The Paige in the shadow's then made herself known, "Prue the athame! She's going to kill Andy!" The Prue in Andy's arms looked up to see, another women, reaching for the athame, she'd thrown under the dumpster.
"No!" Squinting again, Pregnant Prue hurled the athame, out of the women's reach. She then used her power, to throw the Wendigo-Tracer into the block wall, knocking him unconscious.
The Andy in her arms, faded away, leaving only the real Andy holding the girls, remaining.
"You'll forgive me as soon as I vanquish the Wendigo," Prue told his unconscious, possessed counter part. Just as they had the first, time Prue, Piper and Phoebe went on to defeat the Mother wendigo.
A few moments later, the Real Paige smiled at Andy when Ally disappeared from his arms just as pregnant Prue came back into the ally with Piper and Phoebe.
"You're okay" Prue beamed, wrapping her arms around his neck. Andy kissed her lips, whispering softly.
"So are the both of you" Andy held her for several seconds before Amanda began to wriggle in between them making Prue look up, bewildered.
"How did she get here?"
"It's a long story" Andy grinned, kissing her forehead while Paige stood behind him.
"And to think you doubted me?"
"I never doubted you Paige" Andy replied passing Amanda to Prue, "but I think we have a problem"
"What's that?"
"Now that Prue is pregnant again, Piper is not"
Paige looked at Piper keeping a confident grin, "I can fix that, as soon as I vanquish Shaylee," All she needed to do, was to catch the teen demon by surprise, before she had a chance to absorb, Melinda's power.
"And you call Prue super witch?"
Paige returned to the manor, waiting for the eve of Phoebe's family dinner. "C'mon, I need you to find something for me" she told an unsuspecting Shaylee. Reluctant, Shaylee took a hold of Paige's handing, allowing her to orb them back to the orphan plane.
"Why are back here?" Shaylee whined just as she had before.
Paige smiled slyly, leading the teen towards the cavern of the unborn. This time, she had come prepared with a potion to vanquish the warlock who would try to steal Melinda's lantern and a special plan in mind for Shaylee.
"I told you, I have to find someone," Together the two walked back towards the vortex with Paige remembering how Shaylee had feared the swirling mass.
"Who do you have to find?" Shaylee's voice quavered.
"My real charge. You see I don't deal with children who are related to the Source," Paige retorted anticipating Shaylee's next move. A thin force field formed around her body, as Shaylee eyes turned black.
"How did you know?" Shaylee spoke in deep throaty demonic voice.
"Call it my white lighter half's intuition"
Large talons formed from Shaylee's hands, as she started to lash out, striking at Paige's force field.
"Nice try" Using the force fields deflective power, Paige tossed the young demon into the vortex. A hallow agonizing scream was heard as Shaylee plunged down into the bottomless depth.
"Well done, vanquishing a child of the Source is no easy feat" Natalie appeared behind the young witch, wearing a complacent smile. "It appears you have passed your first test". It came as no surprise to Paige that finding Shaylee had been a plant by the dubious Natalie to test the depths of her powers.
A soft smile formed on Paige's lips, "well coming from you, I'll definitely take that as a complement. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go find my niece".
"I'm proud of you Paige," Natalie said watching her charge disappear into the vortex which would take her to the cavern on the unborn.