Disclaimer: Still don't own any of the characters of Charmed, they belong to Spelling Production. The only hope I have is owning the soon to be released DVD of the first season. And as stated before I have only seen half of season 6 and all of season 7.

I still own Rosanna, Maria and half of Pandora. The person who owns the other half, is some crazy Greek person who believed in their Gods. Long since deceased, I think, lol.

And as I said before the spells I use, are from the Book of Shadows, which everyone knows is from the show itself. If anyone is interested in knowing where I found this Book info, please feel free to email me, and I will e-mail you the links. I would just put them here, but not sure allows that, and don't want my story, or account deleted.

Mari, thanks for the support, and keeping me going when I was sure I wasn't doing this story right. I owe you big time.

Thanks for all the reviews. I am a huge fan of Greek myth, and know almost everything about it. But I am human so I might have made a mistake.

Chapter 3: Into the Past

"Ok we have the spell to go back in time, and the spell to trap Pandora. After we trap her we will grab Maria and bring her here, go back and free Pandora." said Phoebe.

"Hold up, if mom freezes time, how are you going to grab Maria?" asked Chris. He had just finished drawing the Charmed One insignia onto the wall.

"Silly, everyone knows that the real Pandora never leaves the box, so we trap her and wait for Maria, then freeze time." said Phoebe. "You know it's easy to see your got your dad's brains in the family."

"Hey!" said Leo.

"Sorry Leo, put it's true."

"Enough already, just be careful, especially you mom." said Chris.

"We will take good care of her, don't worry Chris." said Phoebe. "Now you go stand over there with Rosanna and your dad, and we will back in a flash."

"Wait!" said Rosanna. "Take the spell with you, the one that freezes time."

"We don't have to do that, Piper can freeze time." said Phoebe.

"Just in case she can't, take the spell. You don't have to always take chances you know?"

"Alright, we will take the spell, but we won't need it." answered Phoebe. She wasn't sure why, but Rosanna was getting on her last nerve. She acted like a know it all, just cause she as an empath.

"Ok, how about a spell to induce sleep, that might be better?" asked Chris. "Then there would be no risk of interrupting the time pattern."

"He has a point." said Leo. "Putting them to sleep would be natural, and time would never stop."

"Yeah, that a good idea." said Paige, as she flipped through the Book of Shadows. "Got it."

"Alright, now can we go?" asked Phoebe, impatiently.

"Yes, but be careful, we can't afford for anything to go wrong." said Rosanna.

"It won't, I promise." said Phoebe. "Alright let's go."

The Charmed Ones chant:

Hear these words, hear the rhyme

Heed the hope within my mind.

Send me back to where I'll find

What I wish in place and time.

Chris, Leo and Rosanna watched as the insignia started glowing white, and opened to reveal a blue portal. The sister grabbed each other hands and walked through. The portal closed behind them.

"Oh no!" said Leo. "They didn't take the spell with them to come back."

"What?" asked Chris. "You have to follow them, dad."

"Ok, but I don't know the words."

"I do," said Chris. "I have done this before, you know."

"Yeah, alright you say the words, I will go back, with the spell to bring us back."

"Alright, stand here, ready?"

"Yeah, do it!" he said as Rosanna handed him a spell, that it appeared she had copied from the Book of Shadows. Later he would have to ask her why the Book trusted her so much.

As Chris recites the spell, the insignia started glowing white, and reopened to reveal the blue portal. Leo stepped through it.

Phoebe, Piper, and Paige stepped out of the the portal. At first glance they knew the world they were in, was very different. Off to their right, they saw a small child, casting a spell to create fire, so his family would have fire to cook by that night, and stay warm. After he cast the spell, he looked directly at the Charmed Ones, as they walked through the village.

Piper was struck by the sheer happiness on his face, from what there was of his home, she could tell his family wasn't rich, far from it. But he was happy, he smiled up at them as they passed.

As she passed, she couldn't helped but look back at him. As they passed the next house, they noticed, several people in front, openly practicing magic. It was a world where magic was accepted as a part of life. Something she wanted for her boys.

"This might be a bad time to ask, but where are we supposed to find Pandora?" asked Paige quietly.

"I have no idea." said Piper.

"Ok, my mythology is a little rusty, but if I recall, she was married to Epimetheus, brother of the famous Prometheus. And they lived in a village somewhere in Greece." said Phoebe.

"Well that helps." joked Piper.

"Maybe someone here would know her. Excuse Miss?" Paige called out to a woman who was stirring a pot of what appeared to be stew, that was hanging over a fire.

"Yes?" said a woman with straggly long black hair.

"We're looking for a woman, her name is Pandora. Do you have any idea where we could find her?" asked Paige.

"Yes, she lives in the village here, two house over, but she wouldn't be home right now, she goes for a walk through the forest over there." the woman said pointing. "They say that is were she hid the treasure Zeus gave her."

"Alright thanks." said Paige, as her and her sisters started walking toward the forest. "We better hurry before she opens that box."

They walked for seemed like miles before seeing a woman ahead of them. They slowed down. "That must be Pandora." whispered Paige. "Quick someone coming, let's trap her in the box, and cast the spell putting everyone asleep, then find Maria."

Piper took the paper out of her pocket, "Alright let's do this." as they step closer to the woman, they chanted:

Freedom's loss must be unwitting
Into the box to do my bidding.

A bright golden light appeared and swirled around the young woman. The woman disappeared into the light, the light then traveled and was sucked up into the box. "Alright, let's cast the sleep spell now, and look around here for Maria." said Phoebe.

Piper says the spell, "Sopio!"

"Alright let's look around, we all know Maria would have been close by, so let's look." said Paige.

"Wait, how do we know she would do that?" asked Piper. "We don't know her at all!"

"Alright I am only guessing, but she came here to stop Pandora, so wouldn't she at least try to get close to Pandora?" asked Paige.

"Alright." said Piper.

A few minutes later they hear leaves rustling, sounding like someone was coming. "I thought every one was asleep?" said Paige.

"Maybe the spell didn't work?" said Piper.

"Hide," Phoebe loudly whispered, as she ducked behind a shrubbery bush. She watched as her sisters found their own hiding places.

"Piper! Are you here?" said a man's voice.

"Leo?" asked Piper, as she stood up. "What are you doing here?"

"You forgot the spell to bring you back to the future. Why are you hiding?"

"Cause we didn't know who was following us." said Piper as she punched him in the arm. "Don't scare us like that!"

"Ouch! Sorry. Have you found Pandora and Maria yet?"

"Pandora is in the box, we were looking for Maria." said Phoebe.

"Over here!" yelled Piper, who had walked about 20 feet form the others. As Leo and the other girls approached the saw a young woman laying on the ground. She was in the path that Pandora would have went if she had made it past the box. "Hurry up!"

"Ok Leo you pick her up and we head back to our present, shall we," said Phoebe.

"Leo why did you come again?"

"Cause you forgot the spell to bring you back to our present." he answered.

"No we didn't, we have it right here." said Paige as she held up the piece of paper.

"Yeah, Chris handed it to her before we left." said Piper

"Oh, I saw him do that. I guess I was just worried." he said glancing at Piper with a sheepish grin.

"Why didn't Chris tell you? Or his little friend?" asked Paige.

"I think my son wanted to make sure you all got back safely. And her name is Rosanna. Now can we go, before Chris wears a hole in the floor pacing please."

"How do you know what he's doing?" asked Phoebe.

Before he could answer Piper did, "Cause he's just like his father."

"Alright let's go." said Phoebe.

The sisters recite the spell to bring them back through the portal, into the time they had left behind. They chant:

A Time for Everything

and to everything it's place

Return what has been moved

Through Time and Space

The portal reopened, it was the same blue portal they had used before, but Chris had told them it would be, so they step through it, with Leo carrying Maria.

"Chris! Will you stop pacing?" said Rosanna.

"Sorry." he said as he stopped pacing. "Why aren't they back yet?"

"Cause they aren't."

Just behind Chris the portal started turning blue again, and Rosanna drew his attention to it. "See here they come."

Through the portal stepped the three sisters and Leo carrying an unconscious woman, Chris walked over and helped his father lay her on the floor. "What took so long? What happened?" asked Chris.

"We trapped Pandora, and found Maria here." said Phoebe.

"What?!?" asked Chris in a shocked state that caught his parents attention.

"What is it honey?"asked Piper.

"This isn't Maria!"

"What? Then who is she?" asked Paige.

"I don't know, I never saw her before?" answered Chris, as he turned to Rosanna. " Rosanna?"

Rosanna stepped forth and looked at the woman before her, "What have you done?"

"We took the wrong woman, that all, we just go back and find Maria, at least we know where Pandora is, she's in that box." said Phoebe.

"No, she's in your attic!" yelled Rosanna. "This is Pandora!"

"Then where is Maria?" asked Piper.

"Oh no." said Phoebe. "I think we put her in the box."

"You have no idea what you have done!" said Rosanna.

Probably not the biggest shock that they made a mistake, huh? Well it gets better I promise!