A/N: Paige and Leo are both running Magic School.
Chapter 11: Not Punish the Guilty
Piper and Phoebe were standing on either side of Paige who was the potions master of the family. "Okay, now that's done, all we have to do is wait for an hour for it to simmer and then we add three fruit flies."
"The hard will be forcing the potion down the guy's throat. We'll have to pour it in his mouth while he's frozen, and hope he swallows it when I unfreeze him." Piper said, sounding much more sure of herself than she really was. They had been at this for almost six hours, and in the end the only way to tell if it would work was to try it on the Gu'auld, and risk the innocent while trying to vanquish the demon. They had never been up against a demon like this before.
And now the charmed ones were waiting. That was a first. They were actually waiting for a government agency to call them back before they did anything. Jack said that he wanted to witness this, so Paige had just orbed off to get him, but they had to wait for Jack to get back to his house first. They couldn't have a general disappearing in the middle of his base.
Just then Paige and Jack orbed in. Paige looked ready to go, but her passenger looked like he had been hit by a truck. "I think I'm going to sit down now if it's okay." Jack said and sitting on the old couch that had been moved up here years before after a demon attack. One end was missing and there was holes in the covering from demon attacks over the years, but Jack didn't care, he felt as if his legs were about to give out and he was going to hurl.
Paige jumped right in, "Okay, everyone's here, lets get going people, after this I have progress reports and letters to parents to finish, and the Macgregor twins are this close to being suspended if they pull one more prank."
Piper interrupted: "Okay Paige breath, okay, We have enough demons exploding in this room, we don't need you to do the same." At the mentions of demons and exploding in the same sentence Jack's eyes started to bug out.
Daniel sat next to Jack, "Hey man, you wanted to be here remember,"
"I know, it's just that that orbing ride was worse than going through the Stargate the first time, minus the getting ice all over part."
Daniel patted Jack on the back, "Takes a little getting used to at first."
Then Phoebe came running through the crowd with potions in her hands, "Okay people, we have to get him to actually swallow a full cup of this stuff otherwise it won't help, and too much could kill them both so here's the plan. We get him angry, Piper try to freeze him with his mouth open, Paige you put this giant funnel in his mouth and I pour it down his throat, then Piper unfreezes him and Paige you hold his mouth shut long enough to swallow him, got it, good."
The three sisters got into position with Daniel and Jack in the back watching. This is a new experience Jack thought. "Unfreeze him now," Phoebe ordered. Then he demon who had been still for the last 10 minutes, his body was mortal after all, he saw that something had changed in that split second to him. With that his eyes glowed, he was pissed, "What have you done to me, how dare you Bewitch your GOD! Bow down to me or you will suffer my wrath…"
"Oh, Please," Piper said freezing the Gu'auld having a temper tantrum. I've been a god before, and you sir are no god." Without needing to be told Phoebe and Paige went to work at freeing the host, but first they had got get him to drink this stuff.
The funnel was in and the potion was going down smoothly. It was all in, but now they had to get him to swallow it, and to do that they had to unfreeze it, and if he spit any of it out, they were screwed.
"It's down" Screamed Phoebe.
"Okay, I'm unfreezing him in 3… 2…. 1… Now!" The Gu'auld rocked and tried to get free, to scream but he did the fateful thing while two girls were claming his jaw shut, he swallowed. At that moment the monster's eyes glowed and went out for the last time, and then he started cophing, and the host spit out the Gu'auld into the same jar that had held the potion that hat killed it. "Is the parasite dead?"
"As a doornail"
Jack put in his two cents, "I don't get that expression, 'dead as a Doornail, a doornail was never alive, and you need to have been alive to become dead."
"Jack, no comments from the peanut gallery," Paige responded, "The thing are dead, you saw it, now if you want to go home at a decent hour, it'll either be now, or I can take you back after I'm done, which will be very late."
"I think I'll stick around, I haven't had a chance to see little Prue in a while, she misses her Uncle Jack."
"Where am I?" The former host asked. He was awake. The five people in the attic turned, and faced the man who had been in hell in his own body, and now they could get answers from the source, for he had the memories of the dead larvae that lay in the measuring cup on the table.
To Be Continued…
Please read and review. Sorry it took me so long. I will be coming out with many more chapters. I don't even know where I'll be headed, but this could be a never-ending saga for all I know! But I promise that I'll keep 'em coming!
