I've changed the title of this chapter as this new one is more fitting, and I thought 'caught in the crossfire' sounded quite boring.
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Previously-
"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.
Then-
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….
Soul Sisters:
Prue ran out of the bedroom and into the bathroom, vomiting in the toilet.
"Are you okay?" Andy asked, walking in wearing just jeans, she nodded, before changing her mind and throwing up again, he cringed.
Later that morning, Andy had cooked Prue some breakfast, but when he put it on the table in-front of her she ran straight to the bathroom, puking again,
"is mommy okay?" Grace asked, tucking into her spaghetti hoops on toast, Andy nodded,
"she's just got a bad tummy," he replied, beginning to eat his own breakfast.
After spewing her guts up about five more times Prue smoked into the manor,
"hey Prue," Piper greeted, from where she was tidying up the living room,
"I need a bucket," the eldest groaned, dropping onto the couch.
"Are you feeling okay?" Piper asked, sitting down by her sister, Prue shook her head,
"the other night, after we returned from the future, me and Andy agreed that we'd never get divorced, and sealed the deal with a very passionate night, and now I think I might be pregnant," she replied, but before Piper could even think about congratulating her, Prue ran off to the bathroom.
Meanwhile, Paige and Kyle were walking through the park, Karis was at school and Aurora was with Piper, so they had the day to themselves.
"Paige duck!" Kyle yelled, pushing her to the ground just as a bullet whizzed past them, grazing his arm and creating a cut,
"you're hurt," she stated, reaching out to touch his arm,
"I'll live, but we need to get outta here, before we get caught in a crossfire and don't manage to dodge the bullets," he told her, making sure the two people who were shooting at each other had both stopped to reload, before grabbing Paige's hand and pulling her up.
"Run!" he instructed, but it was too late, the gunman to their right released another bullet from his gun. It flew through Paige's chest, narrowly missing her heart.
"Paige!" Kyle exclaimed, holding his dying wife in his arms, "Leo! Leo!" he yelled, both gunmen had now run. Leo orbed in behind a tree, so no one could see, and ran over to Paige,
"why isn't it working?" Kyle asked, watching as Leo failed to produce a healing glow,
"I don't know," he replied, then he reached out to heal Kyle's arm, which also didn't work.
"I think it was the bullets," Leo said,
"we can look in the Book of Shadows, but I'm not going to let my wife die," Kyle stated,
"we won't let her," Leo promised, orbing the three of them out.
They orbed into the attic and Kyle carried Paige onto the couch,
"what happened?" Piper asked, as she walked in with two week old Aurora,
"Piper, get her out of here, we can't let her feel Paige's pain," Leo told her, she nodded and headed back downstairs with her baby niece.
"Check the book for anything on magical bullets, I'll keep trying to heal her," Leo instructed, Kyle obeyed and began flipping through the book of shadows.
Not much later, Kyle had found something in the book;
"it says that ghostly bullets were created to separate the soul from the body, and can only be used by upper level demons, if used by anybody else then they will be just like normal bullets," he said,
"that must be why I can't heal you, your souls are slowly being torn from your bodies, that must be blocking my magic," Leo told them.
"I bet it was Borx who was shooting, as he's the only demon around, he must have cloned himself and his clones were shooting at each other so that when we got caught in the middle it would look like a normal crossfire, and he must have thought we wouldn't find out until it was too late," Kyle said,
"I think it nearly is," Leo said, watching as Paige lost consciousness.
"Go get Piper, or Prue, any of her sisters, they need to cast a spell to bind her soul to her body," Kyle ordered, Leo ran downstairs to get Piper or Prue,
"I'm not letting you go," Kyle said to Paige, stroking her head, she gave him a half smile before a cold glow lit up her body and her soul exited it, vanishing in a bright swirl.
"Just give me a minute to write a spell," Piper said, as she and Leo walked in,
"it's too late," Kyle said, looking deeply at Paige's body,
"no it's not," Piper told him, "we can still catch her spirit before it goes to wherever the bullet sends you, we've only missed her by a few seconds." Kyle nodded and stood up, but was hit with a dizzy spell and collapsed,
"Piper, bind his soul to his body, that's what Paige would want," Leo said, she nodded and chanted a spell she made up as she went along:
"don't let him move on,
make sure his soul isn't gone."
A quick glow passed over Kyle, signifying that her spell had worked,
"now it's time to work on getting Paige back," she stated, beginning to write down a new spell, but had trouble trying to word it right.
Down in the underworld, Borx sat on a rock, watching what was happening in the manor through a crystal seeing ball Gabrielle had given him the previous day. Even though Kyle had worked out he had cloned himself to make it look like a mortal crossfire, they still hadn't managed to save Paige, as she had been his main target, not Kyle.
Back at the manor, Phoebe was now trying to write a spell while Piper used the bullet, which had spiritual residue on it, to scry for Paige's soul.
"One of us should go check the afterlife for her," Prue stated,
"why don't we just mom or grams?" Phoebe suggested,
"no, the whole trouble with making a circle of candles and chanting the spell will take too long, whereas I can just kill myself quickly now, get up there, ask, and then hopefully Leo will heal me and I'll be able to come back," Prue replied,
"Leo can't heal the dead," Piper said,
"then you can just rewrite the soul binding spell slightly and summon me from the afterlife, then bind my soul back to my body," Prue told her,
"you're not gonna let us talk you out of this are you?" Phoebe said, Prue shook her head,
"I was always there for you guys, but I wasn't for Paige, mainly because we didn't know she existed, but I want to make up for that, I want to always be there for her now, and for that to happen there she needs to be put back together, so we have to find her and I'm gonna get looking," Prue replied. The eldest sister grabbed an athame from the table beside her and was about to plunge it into her chest when Piper stopped her,
"what if you are pregnant? this could kill the baby!" she exclaimed,
"I'm not, I've took four pregnancy tests since I got here, I quickly nipped out to the shop to buy them after I was sick, again, and they were all negative, so I must just have a stomach bug or something," Prue said, stabbing the athame into her chest and dropping to the floor. Her soul rose from her body and disappeared.
In the ghostly plane, Paige was wandering through this plane's version of the manor when Prue materialised in-front of her.
"Oh god, did Borx get you too?" Paige asked,
"no, I stabbed myself so I could come find you, and I'm kinda glad you're stuck in the ghostly plane, as there's much chance of me being healed from here than in the afterlife," Prue replied. Both women's clothes had changed to white gowns, which had long, bell, sleeves and a circular neckline.
In the underworld, Borx launched the crystal ball at the wall in fury, if Phoebe and Piper used a spell to return Prue, she could bring Paige with her, which would give them back the power of three.
"I can't let it happen," he roared, grabbing the gun containing the ghostly bullets and pressing it to his stomach, pulling the trigger and releasing the magical bullets. A black glow ejected from his body, forming his soul, which was partially surrounded by his gloomy aura.
His soul travelled to the manor of the ghostly plane, and there he stood, face to face with Prue and Paige. Except Borx's clothes hadn't changed to white, they were still the same, showing that he was definitely no angel.
"It's time to end the charmed ones once and for all," he hissed, forming a large energy ball in his palm,
"it's time to end you once and for all," Prue said, flinging the energy ball at the wall behind with her telekinesis, creating a scorch mark.
"I'm stronger than you," he stated, creating another energy ball,
"nothing's stronger than the power of three," Paige argued,
"as I said, I'm stronger than you," he grinned, pointing his finger at each of them, like he was counting them, then the sisters looked at each other and realised they only had the power of two. Though the fact that Piper wasn't here didn't stop Prue and Paige from embarking on a full on fight with Borx. Prue clutched his throat in a telekinetic hold, while Paige deflected the energy balls he was throwing,
"I told you I was stronger," Borx said, after throwing them both through the air with an energy ball.
"We need to get back to the real world," Prue stated, as she and Paige staggered up,
"agreed," Paige said, psychokinetically-orbing Borx down the stairs.
In the mortal world, Piper and Phoebe had just chanted the spell to summon a spirit for the third time, the other two times it had summoned Patty and Penny, and this third time it finally summoned Prue and Paige, and someone else.
"Borx," Piper said, narrowing her eyes at the demon,
"say the spell," Prue instructed, not taking her eyes off Borx, Piper and Phoebe nodded, before chanting:
"bind these being to their hosts,
no longer roaming as ghosts,
heal them and put them back,
from the ghostly world so empty and black."
The souls of Borx, Prue and Paige all returned to their bodies,
"I just wish it hadn't put Borx back too," Piper said, as Leo healed Prue,
"I think now that Paige and Kyle are bound to their bodies the bullet has become useless, you should be able to heal them," Phoebe stated, Leo moved onto to heal Paige and Kyle at the same time, finally succeeding.
"That's the last time I take a walk in the park," Paige joked,
"me too," Kyle agreed, holding his wife close with a smile on his face, kissing her on the head.
Later that day, Piper and Leo were getting some coffee when a bullet flew past their heads, they turned to see Borx.
"I'm gonna get that demon," Piper said, running from the Bay View Café and towards Borx, who also ran, creating a chase, Leo then ran after Piper. When she got close enough to him, Piper gestured and froze Borx, running over and grabbing she gun from his hand, emptying the bullets onto the floor and putting it back in his hand, blowing up the bullets. After unfreezing Borx tried to shoot her, but found that the bullets were all gone,
"one of these days I will get you charmed ones," he promised, flaming out,
"we'll be waiting," she whispered, before walking over to where Leo was standing, waiting for her.
To be continued…
Next chapter- Prue saves a gypsy from a demon who wants her eyes.
'I Only Have Eyes For You' should be up soon.