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The title for this chapter is a play on 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'. I know I said Paige wouldn't be back for a while but I thought this would be an appropriate chapter to include her in!
Four Funerals and a Wiccaning:
Prue held her two month old daughter in her arms as she flipped through a magazine,
"what's wrong baby?" she asked, Grace had just began to cry hysterically. Then the eldest charmed one looked up to see Leo standing with a dead woman in his arms,
"she's a witch," he told her,
"what happened?" Prue asked,
"I don't know, but this is the second kill this week," he replied.
"What do the Elders think?" she asked,
"they think the Source is trying to fulfil an ancient prophecy," Leo explained, taking a piece of paper from his pocket and handing it to her,
"a crucifix of witches four, will give the life of evermore," she read, "what does that mean?"
"It means that if the Source can kill four powerful witches and place their body in the shape of a cross, he can perform a ritual and become immortal," Leo told her,
"can we stop this?" Prue questioned,
"yeah, if the four witches can have a funeral before he can get them all together to perform the ritual, if the Source was to get a demon to dig up them up their bodies would be protected by the Mystic," he said.
"Who's the Mystic?" the eldest sister asked,
"the priestess of the Holy Order," the whitelighter replied,
"okay, but can't the Source just kill four more witches?" Prue asked,
"no, he must kill each witch with a special athame which can only be used four times, and that is the only way to work the ritual," Leo replied.
"Right, so we have one witch, he has one, and there are two left?" Prue said, he nodded in agreement,
"right, well Grace's wiccaning is tonight so we need to sort this thing out before then," she went on to say, "Phoebe will be able to help you save the innocents and Andy will be able to help identify that body and search through missing persons for the one the Source has."
Later that afternoon,
"Phoebe just rang, the dead witch Leo had is called Janet Jamieson, and they think the one the Source has is Maxine Preston," Piper told her big sister, she was helping Prue to plan for Grace's wiccaning.
"Did they say anything else?" Prue asked,
"yeah, another witch is dead," the middle sister replied, they watched as Grace conjured a pacifier into her mouth.
"How cute," Piper smiled,
"it's not cute, she conjured a drum onto our bed in the middle of the night," Prue said,
"she uses her powers while she's asleep?" Piper asked, Prue nodded.
In the underworld, the Source sat on his throne, looking on as three of his demons tied two witches to a large, stone, crucifix,
"get the other from the whitelighter and bring me this witch, she shall be the fourth," he said, giving one of the demons a business card,
"Paige Matthews," the demon read, and then they faded out, leaving the Source alone.
Meanwhile, Leo and Phoebe had got in touch with Janet's family and her body was in the morgue, then they had decided to go to the underworld to find the other two bodies.
"Does Piper talk about me at all?" Leo asked,
"she does still love you Leo, but she's with Dan," Phoebe replied,
"I didn't ask if she loved me," he said,
"no, but something told me that's really what you wanted to know," she told him.
Paige Matthews exited South Bay Social Services, where she worked, and found three men standing next to her car,
"Paige Matthews, you're gonna have to come with us," one of them said. They all reached out to grab her at the same time, but she dissolved into bright lights before they could touch her,
"she orbed!" the second demon exclaimed. Orbs materialised in Paige's car and she appeared in the front seat, one of the demons formed a ball of grey mist and shot it at her car, covering the back window with stone as she drove off.
Back in the underworld, the youngest sister and their whitelighter had found the chamber where the bodies were tied to the crucifix, except the Source was also there and was talking to an African-American woman.
"Seer, did my men fail," the demon king questioned,
"they did not kill the Matthews girl, though they have yet to go after the body," she replied,
"we need to go to the morgue," Leo whispered, he and Phoebe were hiding behind the wall, listening to the Source and the Seer.
"No, we need to go after the one who's alive, Janet's already dead, but she isn't," Phoebe replied, though her voice was a bit too loud and the Source heard,
"witch!" he yelled, shooting a fire ball at her, but Leo orbed them out in time.
Paige entered her apartment and gave her boyfriend, Glenn, a kiss,
"good day at work?" he asked,
"yeah," she lied, "where's Karis?"
"Sound asleep," he replied, "what's with you lately,"
"aren't I allowed to worry about our daughter?" she asked,
"of course," he said, wrapping his arms around her and planting a kiss on her head.
Piper arrived at the cemetery, it was Janet's funeral and she was watching in case any demons attacked,
"waiting for me?" asked a voice, Piper spun around to find the Seer standing behind her,
"who are you?" the middle sister asked,
"the seer," she replied. The Seer hit Piper on the head with a metal staff and took hold of her arm, then they disappeared in a dark flare.
Phoebe and Leo arrived at Paige's apartment and knocked on the door,
"hi," Glenn greeted as he opened the door, "can we help you,"
"yes, we are looking for a Miss Matthews," Phoebe replied,
"I'm Miss Matthews," Paige said, walking up to the door with a nine month old baby girl on her hip.
"We're from the police and we have reason to believe there is someone after you," Andy said, walking up behind Phoebe and Leo with his police badge so Paige and Glenn could clearly see it,
"oh my god, is that why you've been acting so weird?" Glenn asked,
"urm…no, I have no idea what these people are talking about, you must have made a mistake," Paige said, she pushed the door to close it but Leo put his foot in the way,
"are you a witch?" Phoebe asked. Paige shook her head and walked away, hoping Glenn would sort it out, but he walked after her,
"Paige, tell me what's wrong," he said.
"What should we do?" Phoebe asked, Leo and Andy shrugged, but they all got a shock when the door became orbs and closed, then returned to normal,
"since when can you do that?" Andy asked Leo,
"I can't," he replied,
"maybe it was Paige?" Phoebe said,
"no, orbs are only come from whitelighters," Leo told them,
"well Paige might be a whitelighter, or at least half whitelighter," Phoebe replied. Leo orbed them back to the manor and they found Prue asleep on a chair with Grace wriggling in her arms,
"where's Piper?" Leo asked,
"HELP!" Piper's voice echoed through his head,
"she's in trouble," he said, orbing out.
He orbed into the underworld to find Janet, along with three other dead witches, tied to a stone cross,
"where's Piper?" he shouted,
"here," the Seer said, she stepped out of the shadows followed by a demon who was holding an unconscious Piper.
"What do you need her for?" he asked, "you already have four dead witches,"
"once the ritual is complete I want her to try and vanquish me, it will feel good to be unaffected by a charmed one," the Source replied, as he flamed in next to the Seer.
"You're not going through with this," Prue said, as she appeared next to Leo out of twinkling gold lights,
"how did you get here?" the Source snapped,
"magic," she replied, striking the Source, the Seer and the demon with a telekinetic blast, "get Piper," she instructed, Leo ran over and picked Piper up into his arms,
"we need to get these witches outta here," Prue stated, Leo orbed them all out, including the dead witches.
The following morning, the charmed ones, Andy and Leo watched as four funerals took place in the cemetery, ruining the Source's chance of immortality,
"how come the Source could kill another witch? I mean you said he could only get four," Phoebe said,
"he can, but he never killed Paige," Leo replied,
"speaking of Paige, do the Elders have any idea why her powers are orb-based?" Phoebe asked,
"nope," the whitelighter said,
"it would seem we all had a bit of an adventure yesterday," Piper said,
"I know, and we didn't even get to Grace's wiccaning," Prue replied, and then they drove off.
"Oh my first grandchild is having her wiccaning," grams said happily, turning corporeal and scooping Grace from Prue's arms,
"let the wiccaning begin," Patty said, appearing out of a golden swirl, grams nodded and began the spell to summon the Halliwell matriarchs.
To be continued…
