A/N: Hello everybody! This is the third and final part of my story. Everybody cheer with me. lol. These chapters are much shorter than usual because the part is smaller than usual. There's a total of 12 chapters so I'll post 2 or 3 at a time. That we can have the usual 5 to 6 posts per part, unless you want longer posts and shorter amounts. Tell me. As usual, please RR.
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Part 3
Chap 46.
An hour or so later, a doctor approached Paige and Phoebe. "Misses Halliwell?"
"That's us. How's our sister?"
"We…we think that there may be some complications. We have to do some tests."
"Are they going to be ok?"
"We don't know yet," the doctor said and then left.
Frustrated and nervous, Phoebe sighed. Cole walked over and handed them some coffee. "Is everything all right?" He asked.
"No."
Leo orbed in from a secluded sight. He searched for one of the sisters.
"Leo!" Paige motioned over.
"They have to run some tests because they think there are complications," Phoebe informed.
As panic spread on Leo's face, Paige quickly tried to find a silver lining. "We just saw Chris. He was very much alive. That means everything'll be ok. Right?"
"Yeah," Leo said detached as he walked over to a waiting room seat. Paige followed him to keep him optimistic.
Phoebe pulled Cole to the side. "You should go find Luc."
"We're not prepared for him. We have to buy clothes, a bed, toys, and all that other stuff that toddlers need! Even more so, you should be there with me," Cole rationalized. It wasn't that he didn't want to find his son and kill the bastards that stole him, but something held him back. His instincts were telling him that something was wrong.
With the powers of empathy, Phoebe could mistook his instincts for nervousness. "Sweetie, there isn't a wrong way to do this. He can't stay in the Underworld for one more minute. I refuse to let him go on being evil. You'll be fine on your own. I can't go, you know that."
"It's not that…" Cole began, but Phoebe's harsh glare made him change his mind. "Okay," he nodded.
Phoebe gave him a quick kiss during which he shimmered away. "I hate it when he does that!" She muttered.
Future
2027
"Wow! This is…different," Kat looked around the manor's attic.
"Well, it's definitely not the museum," Chris understated.
"Maybe we screwed up."
"We should summon some one who knows what happened."
"Aunt Prue?"
Chris nodded. "The book's not here."
"I've got the spell memorized. Are there any candles around here?"
"Yup. Where they usually are, but there aren't any matches."
"Chris, when does that ever stop me?" Kat followed Chris in a circle. As he would set a candle down, she would magically light it.
"Hear these words, hear my cry
Spirit from the other
side
Come to me, I summon the
Cross now the great divide."
"Hi, Prue," Chris greeted.
She flinched considerably at his words. She bowed to Kat, "My liege."
Kat looked to Chris for guidance, but he shrugged. Stranger things had happened. "Aunt Prue, where'd the bowing thing come from?"
"Just showing my respect. I'm sorry if it has displeased you, my liege."
"What the hell is going on?"
"You told us to summon you when we got back. Maybe you should fill us in," Chris suggested.
Stepping beyond the candle-lit barrier, Prue became corporeal and excitedly threw her arms around them. "It's really you! You really don't know how much we missed you."
"Yes! It's us." Chris squirmed underneath her grasp.
"What happened?" Kat asked hugging her back.
Relinquishing her hold over Chris and Kat, she began, "Things went wrong after you left."
"How wrong?"
"Well, Andy and I left after you guys, but we kept a watchful eye. We saw Piper start to have contractions and need to go to the hospital. While Piper was there, Phoebe sent Cole to find your brother, Kat."
"You told them?"
"You get to save your brother and I don't? I wanted him to be raised good!"
Prue shook her head, "Sweetie, they couldn't. Luc was pure evil. The tonic that seer made your mother drink killed his soul. They had to vanquish him because he began to take control of the Underworld."
"How old was he when he did that?"
"Elevenish, but we knew he was too far gone earlier than that. Besides you, the only people that could kill him were your parents. Since you were only two, they did it, but it caused them to split up. Maybe it was because of them or you sister that Paige had found her husband. So maybe it was because your parents divorced or your sister never existed that Paige didn't meet him and that your cousin was never born. In fact you were lucky because if they had vanquished Luc when they should've you wouldn't be alive."
"Ok, Luc is vanquished, Prue and Piper, the kids, don't exist, but how did this all happen?"
"Well, Wyatt and Luc were pretty tight. When Luc was vanquished, Wyatt couldn't handle it. He went on a demon killing spree."
"Runs in the family," Kat mumbled.
Prue and Chris ignored her comment. "You hid a lot of power from us didn't you, Chris?" He shifted uncomfortably and suddenly found himself fascinated by the floorboards. "Chris, four years after Wyatt's reign began, you were 14, and you vanquished Wyatt and yourself with one hell of a spell."
"Himself?" Kat asked.
"He has a lot of power, but not enough to sustain himself after that kind of spell. And you, Miss Magical Prodigy, missed him so much that you resurrected him, but the spell you used accidentally reversed both of your moral polarity. You're both evil. Kat, you're the strongest so you're the leader, but you two make one hellva a team and put emphasis on the Hell part."
"How do we fix this?" Kat asked astonished.
"We can stop it. We'll go back and warn everybody," Chris suggested.
"No, we did that before. I've got an idea. You're technically dead so go into the circle with Aunt Prue and I'll blow the candles out. Once you're Up There with Them, They'll figure out how to make you good again and keep you there where you belong. I'll go to talk to my parents. They're alive, right?"
Prue nodded, "All Charmed Ones except me."
"Ok, they'll rebuild this place after we're gone."
"Kat…"
"No, Chris, this is what we're going to do. Time traveling didn't work before, and it won't work now. Apparently this is our destiny, and we can't screw with it. Get in the circle, or I'll make you."
Prue put a comforting arm around him. "Being dead isn't so bad. Trust me," she said as the walked into the circle.
Fighting back tears, Kat blew out the candles.
Chap 47
Thinking of her father, Kat shimmered to an old broken down home not far from the manor. She knocked on the door. Cole answered it. "My liege," he knelt before her.
Kat had expected this, but it still shook her. "Wow. Um… ok, Dad, get up. I need you and Mom to help me out."
Getting up, Cole tried to keep his composure. "With all do respect, since when did you call us Mom and Dad?"
"Oh, I don't know… 23 years ago, when I met you," she answered sarcastically.
"Kat?"
"Yes."
He pulled her into a large bear hug. "I'm so relieved that it's you. Come in," he opened the front door all the way, so Kat could enter.
"I can't believe this time. When we left I thought it'd be wonderful or at least the same, but I with all my powers of premonition I never saw this coming. I mean, I'm evil."
Cole nodded sympathetically. "So are you going to go back into time again?"
"No, actually I wanted you and Mom to do something for me."
"Depends on what it is and if you can find her."
"Go to the manor and wait for us in the attic. We'll be there in 10 minutes."
Ten minutes later, Kat and Phoebe shimmered into the attic. Phoebe and Cole stood on opposite ends never meeting each other's eyes.
"So what is it that you need?"
"I think you both know."
"The invincible spell," Phoebe whispered.
"I have already vanquished one child, and I will not vanquish the other!" Cole protested.
"Dad! It's for the greater good!"
"NO!" Cole yelled. To make his point, Cole threw an energy ball at the nearest thing. Ironically it was very same mirror that Kat had blown up the in the other time. In the same way they had before, the shards fell onto the floor in a slow motion making a harsh shattering noise.
Kat and Phoebe both jumped, but Phoebe said, "I agree. I won't do it." She crossed her arms and felt like that was that. End of story.
Kat had other ideas. "You have to!" She screamed.
"We don't have to do anything." Cole shook his head.
"Mom! Dad! I have wasted a whole hour trying to get caught up with current events. In that hour my memories have been changing to fit this time. If you don't kill me now, then I could suddenly turn on you with all of these memories. I can turn on the entire world. I can kill everybody. You know that I wouldn't, but evil me would. Don't you get that? I won't care who I kill! Do you understand that I can feel the evil growing inside me?" She yelled angrily. How could they let her go on and kill people? Were they really that selfish? Kat tried to calm down and take a different approach. "Mom, do you remember when you traveled to 2009? You went to the future to know why you burned on a stake. The future you had committed a crime that your past self would've never done. Nevertheless, the moment you saw it in a premonition, you were willing to accept your punishment. When Aunt Prue and Piper tried to save you, you wouldn't let them. You were ready to die because in the future you had killed an innocent, and you knew it was wrong.
I feel these memories and I know that I've killed so many innocents. I can see their faces as each and every memory pops into my brain. Right now, I feel remorse, but I won't when I become future me. I will keep on killing. People will die if I don't. Are you really so selfish that you'll deny me my turn to burn?" Kat asked passionately.
"We won't let you turn evil. We'll find a way to prevent those memories from wiping out the old ones," Phoebe answered still trying to deny the obvious.
Kat's demeanor changed. She stiffened up at the sight of both her parents in one room. "Is there something wrong with being evil? If it helps me gain power, I don't see the problem. On your knees! The both of you can't be here. You know the rules!"
"Kat?" Scared Phoebe cut her off.
Once again, her posture changed. "I'm turning now!" She cried panicked.
Phoebe gave a weary sigh of defeat. She reluctantly chanted,
"Evil at our door,
we won't have you anymore."
Visibly upset, Cole joined in.
"You, of our flesh and blood, we erase.
Vanquish this evil from time and space."
Rather than bursting out in flames or wailing in pain and misery, Kat began to glow. It appeared as if an invisible force pushed her back. Almost instantly she was gone.
"I would've much rather stayed in hell, then come back and vanquish my children," Cole said shimmering out.
Phoebe was left alone in her former attic. Tears streamed down her face as her shoes crunched the glass beneath her feet. She started to make her way home to Jason.
