Hey! See, I told ya I'd get back right away! I just want to thank y'all (that's right, I said y'all and I'm not even from the South. Go figure...) for all of your awesome reviews. You guys make this so much fun and you make me love writing. This story has more reviews than any other Army of Witches story (it didn't get as many as Cole's Revenge, but that one's hard to beat) and that's just so cool. So thank you so much and keep on reviewing, cause your reviews keep me rockin' and rollin'!
Who-will-change-the-world- Lol! I can get the French pronunciations right for the most part, but everything else is wrong. I guess you'll have to see about her being dead for good...
Fire Gazer- Haha! Thanks!
s.halliwell- Ah, well you're probably right about that. Guess you'll just have to see...
The-Cheese-Fairy- Lol! I know, I hate cliffhangers, but they are fun to write! Okay, calm down now. I can't kill Piper! I love Piper! Don't worry.
fanmania- Haha! Don't worry, don't worry.
Prince Halliwell- Haha! See, you are smart. Of course I'll save her. Don't go using your imaginary witch powers on me or anything. By the way, did you get my latest email?
"What do you mean she's dead?" Prue asked frantically, looking at the definitely lifeless body of her younger sister. Visions of the war and Paige's dead body came flooding back to her. She couldn't fail again. But she had.
"I mean she's dead. I can't bring her back. She's gone," Leo said, tears coming to his eyes.
"No! No she's not!" Prue cried, the tears flowing down her cheeks. Paige buried her head in Frisco's chest, crying silently. Phoebe hugged Prue, who was sobbing violently. Leo held Piper's limp body in his arms. He gasped when a man with gray hair and black clothes appeared.
"Who are you?" he asked defensively. The man smiled.
"I am Death," he said in a British accent.
"Well you can get the hell out because Piper's not dead!" Prue exclaimed. Paige looked up.
"Death?" she asked shakily. "As in Grim Reaper death?"
"Well, I suppose, if that's how you want to put it," he said nonchalantly. "And yes, your sister is dead."
"You're not taking her!" Prue screamed, trying to use her powers to send him flying. Nothing happened.
"I'm beyond your powers. You can't fight me, Prudence. You know that. Remember Inspector Davidson?" Death asked with a grin.
"Shut up!" Prue yelled.
"Prue," Phoebe said. Prue ignored her and pounded the air where his chest would have been.
"Why are you here?" Paige asked.
"Isn't it obvious? Piper Halliwell was on my list. She's dead. I'm here to take her spirit to the afterlife," Death replied, becoming annoyed at their stubborn ignorance. More sobs wracked Prue's body. "But... I do need an assistant. This work has gotten a little much. I haven't had this much business since the Black Plague. I think I can bring your sister back."
"What?" Phoebe asked, hope shining in her eyes.
"What's the catch?" Prue asked.
"The catch is that she would be doing a lot of work for me. She would be allowed to see you, she has a son of course, but she would be a spirit of Death," he replied.
"Like you?" Paige asked.
"Yes, like me," Death replied. The girls looked at Leo, who had been silent the whole time.
"If it brings Piper back to us, I'll do it," he said quietly. The sisters nodded. Death held his hand over Piper and emitted a black glow. Piper's spirit came out of her body. She was wearing black clothes, like Death. She looked around at the scene: her sisters with red puffy eyes, Frisco and Persephone with worried and confused looks on their faces, Death looking at her with a satisfied grin, Leo with tear stains on his cheeks and puffy red eyes, and finally her body, limp and lifeless at her feet.
"Oh no! Am I dead again?" she asked. Death nodded. "How did this happen?"
"You were killed by a demon, sweetie," Phoebe replied.
"What am I wearing? This isn't what I'm going to my funeral in, is it?" Piper asked. If the situation weren't so serious, her sisters would have laughed at how superficial she was being.
"You're wearing the outfit that you'll be wearing for the rest of eternity," Death replied.
"What?" Piper asked.
"Why don't we go downstairs. We can explain everything," Paige said.
"Oh no, there's no time. There are people to send to the afterlife. We can't keep them waiting!" Death exclaimed, grabbing Piper and misting her out. The others just stood there, staring at the body.
"Are we going to have a funeral?" Paige asked.
"Paige!" Prue exclaimed.
"What? We're not seriously thinking of letting her stay like this, are we? We need to find a way to get her body back to life! We need to get her spirit back in! Parker deserves to have a living mother, not some spirit of Death who will some day have to take his spirit to the afterlife. I don't know about you guys, but I want my sister back! So I say we magically preserve her body until we can find a way to put her incorporeal ass back into it," Paige said. Phoebe smiled.
"Time to place a call to the seven dwarves," she said.
Several hours later, Piper's body was encased in a glass coffin, surrounded by seven midgets. They hustled and bustled around it, cleaning off specs of dust here and there and smudges from the glass.
"Why again do you need her preserved?" the lead dwarf asked.
"Personal reasons. We need to find a way to get her back into her body so she can live again," Paige said. The dwarf nodded.
"Didn't we already have to preserve you before?" he asked curiously. Paige blushed.
"Yeah, well that was for a different reason," she said. The dwarf shook his head and walked away.
"So what now?" Phoebe asked.
"Now we focus on getting Piper back," Prue replied.
"What about the Bringers?" Paige asked.
"My siblings and I are on it. We'll keep searching for Nexuses and kill any Bringers we find," Frisco offered. Paige smiled.
"Thanks honey," she said giving him a kiss.
"Just get Piper back," he said, orbing out. The three sisters sighed and plopped on the couch in the attic.
"Well, I guess we'd better get started," Prue said.
"Why does Piper always have to die?" Paige asked.
"Who knows? She's a Death magnet," Phoebe said.
"Yeah, and this time he really stuck to her," Paige said.
I love how they always make a joke of it when Piper dies. Cause she always dies. She's died, what, four, five times now? It's crazy. She's always dying. Oh well. Her sisters will get her back. I didn't save her body for nothing! Anyways, till next time...
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