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Here endeth the Author's Note. I'm trying to put in spacers, but the site doesn't seem to like them.


It was a typical Monday morning whirlwind in the Halliwell manor. Piper had gotten Wyatt and Chris dressed and fed, and then re-dressed. Giving each of them a kiss, she handed them over to their Aunt Paige. "Have a good day at school, Paige," she said, already turning to grab her coat and purse. "I'm off to the club, lots of paperwork's been piling up."

"Bye, hon," Phoebe called out after her.

"I'm off to school," Paige announced. "Thank heavens they opened up a real daycare there, 'cause that elf-nanny was working my last nerve." She orbed out with her nephews, leaving Phoebe alone in the kitchen.

The middle sister looked around, and began clearing the dishes off the table, loading them into the dishwasher. Half an hour later, when the entire kitchen sparkled almost to Piper's standards, Phoebe sighed. "OK, enough procrastinating," she thought to herself. Slowly, she walked to the stairs and up to the attic. Standing in front of the Book of Shadows, she spoke aloud.

"What happened? How could I have been so wrong? That was my most powerful vision. I've never experienced emotion that strong with any other premonition. How is it that future me had no idea what the Avatars were really doing?"

Movement caught her eye, and she glanced down to see that the pages of the Book were flipping of their own accord. When the pages finally stilled, she was surprised to see a spell she'd never noticed before: For Seekers of Truth.

The entry warned that this was a one-time-use spell, which should only be used by one who sought understanding of a particular issue: not power, not revenge, not an explanation of fate, but the truth of a matter that was currently clouded. "One-time-use? Maybe I should show it to Piper and Paige, see if they want to find a different truth...But the Book opened to this page on its own. Which means that Grams or someone wanted me to find this spell. So I might as well do it."


Phoebe cleared space in the crowded attic and lit candles. She sat down, as the Book entry recommended, then recited the spell.

Darkness clouds my inner eye

Show the real truth now to me

Let me know the reason why

Grant me total clarity.

Her body slumped backward as she was thrown into a premonition. Herself, and Piper and Leo, in the attic with the Seer. "So it's a post-monition," she thought absurdly.

"I can't tell you," the Seer was saying. "But...I can show you." Phoebe watched herself put her hands in the Seer's, and knew she was about to receive the premonition of Utopia. Piper, Leo, and the Seer were all staring, transfixed, at her past self. On her face, so briefly that only she herself could recognize it, a look of horror began to dawn. "Horror?" thought Phoebe. "But Utopia was beautiful, serene." But as she watched, Alpha flared in behind the Seer, and started chanting softly. Immediately, a peaceful smile replaced the horrified expression that hadn't even fully appeared on her face.

"Wait, what are you doing here? What did you do?" Phoebe cried out. Alpha ignored her, oblivious to her presence. "No, no, go back, I have to hear what he said," she whispered urgently.

Her vision, obligingly, rewound a bit, stopping just before Alpha appeared. She moved closer to where he would be standing, ignoring everyone else in the attic. He flared in, and this time, Phoebe was able to hear him.

"Only what I show you will you see. Calm, peaceful, your daughter, your nephews. Mommy, Mommy, Chris was scaring me about the demons again. Chris, it's not nice to tease. Ladybug, what did I tell you about the demons, they don't exist anymore, not since the Avatars." He chanted all of this dispassionately, and Phoebe gasped as she recognized the words from her premonition.

Phoebe's eyes flew open. "No! But...how can that be? He...he changed my premonition? What was it supposed to be?" She looked at the Book of Shadows, as if expecting it to answer. "That's not enough! What was my vision supposed to have been?" But as she glared accusingly at the Book, she saw the entry she'd been reading erase itself, until she was left staring at a blank page.