Hi, I wonder where my others reviewers have got too, I only got two for the last chapter, but thanks you two:
The-Cheese-Fairy: Glad you liked it! Glad you liked the quips! I thought Cassie shimmering Phoebe home would be a nice little bit of mother/daughter fluff! Go Pheebs? You really must hate Gabrielle, whereas I love her, she's so evil and everyone should hate her, but personally I love her!
Money makes me smile: Glad you liked it! I'm glad the chapter brightened up your day, which I'm sorry was gloomy! Glad you liked the CO's and Andy's comments!
This chapter is pretty much a rewrite of the season 2 episode with the same title.
Morality Bites:
Phoebe sat in her office at the Bay Mirror, it was late and she was chewing on the end of her pen as she tried to think for something to write in the magic book she was writing. She dropped her pen and when she picked it up accidentally knocked a picture frame, containing a photo of her and her sisters, off her desk. As she picked it up she was hit with a premonition:
Prue and Piper were crying into each others' shoulders as flames consumed Paige, who was chained to a metal pole.
"Oh god," she gasped, clutching her chest.
The following morning, at the manor, Piper was sipping at her cup of coffee while reading the newspaper, when she heard a knock on the door and went to answer it, nearly being knocked over by Phoebe as she walked in.
"Is Paige here?" she asked, glancing around to try and see her youngest sister,
"no, she's probably at her house," Piper replied,
"right, well I had a premonition last night, of her being burnt at the stake," Phoebe told her, Piper's eyes widened.
Later on, Phoebe and Leo were standing in the attic, while Prue, Piper and Paige were knelt around a table.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Leo asked, Paige nodded,
"I want to find out why I'm gonna be persecuted," she replied,
"okay, lets do this," Prue said, setting the piece of paper she had written the spell on alight and dropped it in the black, cauldron-like, bowl on the table, then they chanted:
"hear these words, hear the rhyme,
we send to you this burning sign,
then our future selves will find,
in another place and time."
White lights transported the charmed ones from the attic.
The Future:2009
Prue awoke in her future body to see a nine year-old girl running towards her,
"mom," she said,
"Grace?" Prue asked, the girl nodded,
"are you okay mom?" Grace asked, Prue nodded and walked over to the mirror.
"I need to get to school," Grace stated,
"okay, can you get your dad to orb you?" Prue asked, trying to decide if she liked her raven hair shoulder-length and wavy, like it was now,
"you said no magic unless it was extremely necessary," Grace said,
"oh, well now's a necessary time, call your dad," Prue instructed,
"are you sure? I mean you and him aren't even friends anymore," Grace stated,
"what?" Prue exclaimed.
"Ever since you got a divorce you haven't talked nicely to each other," Grace replied, this was too much for Prue to handle and if the couch hadn't been behind her she would have fallen to the floor,
"okay, well use a spell, I need to go see aunt Piper," Prue told her, Grace nodded and ran to grab her schoolbag, before casting a quick spell and disappearing in twinkling gold lights. Then Prue grabbed her leather jacket and ran from the house, getting into her car, which was the same one was from her time.
She arrived at the manor and found Piper waiting for her on the doorstep,
"how d'you I was gonna come straight here?" Prue asked,
"this is were we always meet for magical emergencies, so I figured it'd be the same in this time," Piper replied.
"Well, my future pretty much sucks, me and Andy are divorced," Prue told her sister, as they walked into the manor,
"yeah, well me and Leo might as well be, he's become a full time Elder," Piper said, as the two of them headed up to the attic. Piper ran her fingers through her long, brown, ponytail,
"I wonder if Phoebe and Paige are as lonely as us?" Prue said, Piper shrugged,
"oh god, where's the book?" she exclaimed,
"wait a minute, I just realised, if we're in our future bodies, then Paige must be in hers," Prue said,
"we need to find the book and reverse the spell," Piper stated.
"Where could it be?" Prue said, waving her hand in frustration as she spoke, releasing an extremely powerful telekinetic blast and practically destroying part of the wall,
"I guess that's what our powers are like in five years," Piper said,
"a key," Prue stated, spotting a small, old fashioned, key where a floorboard had been, before Prue had accidentally used her power.
"I wonder what it's for?" Piper said, as the eldest sister picked it up,
"I think it's the key for Paige's office at Magic School," Prue replied,
"do you think the book's there?" Piper asked, Prue shrugged,
"only one way to find out," she stated, saying the spell she had heard Grace cast before and transporting them to Magic School.
They reappeared in the school, but it was much different, it was cold, damp and dark, mice scuttling around everywhere.
"What's happened to this place?" Piper said,
"I think evil's taken over," Prue said, seeing two of the mice turning into demons, which Piper gestured at to blow them up, releasing her power of molecular acceleration in the form of a purple blast; like it had been when her grief over Phoebe, Patrice and Andy had temporarily strengthened her powers. After the demons had exploded the sisters moved over to Paige's office and Prue unlocked the door with the key, stepping in to discover that this wasn't wrecked like the rest of the school, it was just very dusty and cold,
"I don't think the demons could get in here," Piper said, as they began searching for the book of shadows.
"Found it," Prue said, pulling the book out of the cupboard she had found it in,
"find the spell," Piper instructed, as they began flipping the pages,
"it's gone!" Prue exclaimed, turning to the page where the spell which had brought them here and the reversal spell had been, in the year 2004.
"That must mean that our future selves have already used it," Piper stated,
"we need to go get Paige, maybe we can write a power of three spell to get home," Prue said.
Meanwhile, Paige was sitting in a prison cell, which had one clear door so that the guards could see in,
"what did I do wrong?" she asked,
"you've got a nerve witch," a man said, she looked up to see a woman.
"Who are you?" Paige questioned, standing up and walking over to the glass, but when the collar around her neck came to close to it she got an electric shock, so she stepped back,
"I'm sorry, it has been a while since my last visit, I'm Alicia Morgan," the woman replied,
"why am I here?" Paige asked, Alicia glared at Paige,
"you killed a man, but of course you claimed he had killed your husband first, then you killed him, with your powers, your evil powers," Alicia hissed, "you truly are evil," then she walked away,
"and by the way, the clock's ticking away," she told Paige, glancing up at the clock before continuing to walk away. Paige also looked over at the clock to see it was 3 o'clock, and if today was the day of her persecution then she only had two hours left, as in Phoebe's premonition there had been a metal clock on the wall not far away from where Paige was burning.
Prue and Piper were walking up towards the prison when a guard barged past them and dropped his gun in the process, Piper reacted upon instinct and froze the scene, in fact, she froze everything around them. Suddenly, a woman, Alicia Morgan, walked out the prison and saw everything frozen except Prue and Piper,
"witches!" she yelled,
"whatever," Piper said, freezing Alicia as they walked round to another side of the prison, not wanting to use the main door because they would most definitely get stopped.
"Leo!" Paige called, orbs swirled in-front of her and formed the Elder himself.
"Paige, I'm a fulltime Elder now, you can't just call me whenever," he stated,
"Leo, I'm going to be burnt at the stake in two hours, and when did you become a fulltime Elder?" Paige asked,
"when Cole turned evil, and Phoebe along with him, this gave evil the upper hand and for it to become equal balance between good and evil, I had to ascend to a true Elder, have you forgotten everything or something? and you're being burnt at the stake for the crime you committed, you killed a man," Leo replied.
"When? how? how did I kill a man? did I orb him off a cliff? orb his heart out of his body?" she questioned,
"I'll show you," he replied, taking hold of her hands and using his Elder magic to channel a vision of her killing a man into her:
A man was walking through a church when Paige stepped up behind him, releasing a beam of bright light from each of her hands and into his back. She increased the light and therefore increased the heat, causing the man to burn to ash within seconds. Just as he dropped to the floor in the form of ash, Alicia Morgan stepped in and gasped, pointing her finger at Paige and yelling;
"witch!"
As Paige came out of the premonition a tear rolled down her cheek,
"I'm a killer," she whispered, Leo nodded and orbed out, "Leo wait!" she called after him, but it was too late and he vanished, leaving her to sob alone.
Outside the prison,
"don't people usually break out of prison," Piper said, as she drew the outline of a door on the wall with chalk,
"stand back, now that I have a real target I can blast the wall to open it," Prue told her, Piper obeyed and stepped back. Prue focused on the rectangle shape on the wall, before throwing out both her arms and releasing a strong telekinetic wave, breaking the part of the wall from inside the outline and creating a hole.
"Do you think anyone heard?" Piper asked, as they stepped in,
"I don't think anyone didn't hear," Prue replied, as they began walking through the prison. They stopped when they came across a guard,
"freeze!" he ordered,
"good idea," Piper said, gesturing with her hands and freezing him,
"we don't even know where her cell is," Prue stated, as they continued walking.
"We can use a locator spell," Piper told her,
"why? so we can be caught using magic and get burnt at the stake too?" Prue said,
"then what do you suggest?" Piper asked,
"I say, you're probably right, if we get caught, we get caught, at least we'll go down together," Prue replied,
"is that supposed to be comforting?" the middle charmed one asked,
"I'm just facing the facts," Prue said, after shrugging. Then the eldest chanted:
"lead us to the one we wish to find,
from our magic she cannot hide."
A globe of white light formed in-front of the two, beginning to whiz around in the air and head through the many passageways, Piper and Prue running to follow it.
When it led them to a cell they found it was empty,
"oh god, we're too late," Piper gasped,
"no we're not," Prue said, watching as the locator magic continued to fly through the air, leading them to persecution room. They swung open the door and walked in just as one of the men was about to turn on the heat, Piper froze the room and ran over to free Paige, while Prue stood there, glaring at Alicia, slowly lifting her into the air with her power.
"Prue don't," Paige ordered,
"but she's going to get you killed," Prue stated,
"because I killed someone," Paige said,
"you killed a killer," Piper said,
"the wrong thing done for the right reason is still the wrong thing," Paige told them, turning back to the pole she had just been chained to.
"No, Paige, no," Prue said,
"I have to, I have to be punished for what I did," Paige said, all three of them had tears in their eyes,
"please, don't," Piper begged,
"I'm so sorry," Paige sobbed, as they shared a final hug, before the witchlighter walked over and stood back at the pole, nodding for Piper to unfreeze the room. The middle sister hesitated before flicking her hand, unfreezing everything, then she began crying into Prue's shoulder, not able to watch as their youngest sister was enclosed in a prism of flames. When Prue and Piper heard the crackling fire and yells of the crowd stopped they pulled away from each other, to find themselves back in the attic, in their own time, with Phoebe and Leo sitting on the couch waiting for them,
"where's Paige?" Piper asked, her cheeks streaked with tears, just like Prue's.
"I'm right here," a voice said from the doorway, they turned to see Paige. Prue and Piper instantly ran to her, wrapping their arms around her in a big hug,
"we thought we'd lost you," Piper said,
"you did, for a moment, I could feel the flames against my skin, my body was overheating, my flesh burning," Paige told them,
"I'm just glad we're back, and you're safe," Prue said. They heard barking outside and Paige felt the need to go and look out the window, she stared down to see a dog being walked by a woman; Alicia Morgan.
"I'm gonna get that bitch," Prue said, as she, Piper, Leo and Phoebe joined Paige at the window,
"don't," Paige instructed, grabbing her big sister's wrist before she could wave her hand at Alicia and use her power, "we don't want to get her suspicious of us, not unless we want the future that we just saw to happen, which reminds me, I need to go see Kyle, I'm gonna be spending a lot more time with him, to make sure he isn't killed by some guy, leading to me killing that guy and being killed myself." She dissolved into orbs,
"and I'm gonna go spend some time with Andy, make sure there's no chance of us getting divorced," Prue said, heading downstairs and driving back to her house.
That night,
"so we're agreed, there's no chance of us ever getting a divorce?" Prue said,
"agreed," Andy nodded, planting a kiss on her lips.
"Lets seal the deal," she grinned, climbing over so she was on top of him, and letting him lift up her top, removing it, before she began to slip down his boxers….
To be continued…
Next chapter- Prue discovers that she and Andy might have done more than seal their deal. Paige gets caught in a crossfire and ends up being shot, but the strange thing is Leo can't heal her…
'Caught in the Crossfire' should be up soon.