Disclaimer- I do not own Charmed or any of its characters. They are all owned by Aaron Spelling but I do own anything that you do not recognize.
After deciding what everyone was going to do, both Phoebes went up to the attic to look in the book, Andy went up to the Elders, both Pipers went to make potions, while Prue and Paige were left to formulate a plan on how to get home.
"Ok," said Paige to Prue. "What we need first is a big sheet of paper."
"For what?" asked Prue.
"Well, I think it might be useful to write down what's happened so far in my universe then you can see if anything that happened in my universe happened in yours."
"How will that help?" asked Prue looking suspiciously at Paige.
"Well, if you can find a point where both of our timelines coincide, then possibly we could write a spell that'll send us back to that time and place…and that universe. Just makes everything a whole lot easier." Paige took a deep breath and looked at her sister. She noticed that Prue was looking at her with something that resembled a cross between a glare and a look of curiosity. "Why are you looking at me like that, Prue?"
"Like what?"
"Like how you just were?"
"I wasn't looking at you funnily."
"Yes you were."
"Was not."
"Was to."
"Was not."
"Was to."
"Was not- I feel like I'm arguing with a child."
"Then tell me why you were looking at me like that."
Prue looked at Paige with a look of evident defeat and said, "No offense to you but I still don't trust you."
"You don't even trust Piper or Phoebe?"
"I'm not sure. For all I know, you could all be very convincing shape shifters."
"Well, we're not."
"Yeah? And how do I know that?" Prue walked over to a picture that was hanging on the wall, took it in her hands and gave it to Paige. "Look who's in this picture."
It was a picture of the Halliwell family taken about 10 years prior. Paige noticed that Piper and Leo were there with Chris and another boy, probably Wyatt, next to him. Then she saw Prue with Andy and their two children, Patience and Adam. Then much to her surprise, she saw Phoebe in Cole's embrace with Paul and another boy whom she recognized. Paige held up the picture and pointed to the boy. Paige's surprise was very evident in her voice. "Isn't this the Source?"
Prue glared at the picture and said, "And Phoebe's son." She took the picture back from Paige and placed it on the wall. She whirled around and said, "That was my family."
Paige sighed and looked at her older sister. "Piper and Phoebe talk a lot about you, you know. They've told me so many things like how you were- are such a great witch, took care of them when Mom and Grams died, how you saved them so many times. They also told me that you had lots of pride and how it was hard to get you to trust anyone."
"Did they, now?" asked Prue, looking at Paige.
"I always told them that you never seemed like that in any of the pictures I've seen of you. You seemed like a really nice person." Paige looked up at Prue with pain in her eyes. "I've always wanted to meet you. Now I finally get to meet you and…"
Prue's eyes hardened and she interrupted Paige saying, "Cut the drama. If you already know that I won't trust you, then why are you telling me all this?" Getting no reply from Paige she said, "I trusted Cole and look what he got us into."
"He was the Source in this universe as well?"
"Of course, and did anyone listen to me when I told them? No, so I just let it slide. He was good for Phoebe and I didn't want to take that away."
"Looks like we're in the same boat," said Paige. "I have a bad feeling about Cole."
"Your Cole could possibly be different from ours, but tell me about him."
"Well, firstly, he's suddenly become so rich, buying Phoebe all these expensive things, and trust me, I'm not jealous. Then, I know he has his powers but…"
"But what?" asked Prue.
Paige's looked down at the ground. "I know that you don't trust me, but could you at least not tell Phoebe or Piper that I brought this up again?"
Prue looked at the woman in front of her and said, "Alright."
Paige took a deep breath. "One day we were fighting this one demon, which magnified anger in people. I forget what kind of a demon he was but, he infected me. During the time that I was affected by it, I saw Cole do the weirdest things…more scary than weird…"
"Like?" asked Prue curiously.
Paige took a breath and tried remembering what had happened. "He threw fire balls at me…his eyes became solid black like how high level demons' eyes are. Then he began…flaming all over the attic."
"That's horrible, Paige," replied Prue coming over to the couch where Paige was sitting. "Did you tell Piper and Phoebe?"
"They wouldn't listen to me. After I saw him do those things, something inside me made me want to kill him, so I tried…and they got mad at me after that. I still haven't told them about what I saw."
"What did you do?"
Paige looked at Prue and said, "I kept my doubts to myself and tried to like Cole…only for Phoebe though. I still have a bad feeling about him though."
Prue looked at Paige and smiled "Looks like we're more similar than I thought." She wrapped Paige up in a hug then said, "Hold on to those doubts. If Phoebe is happy, just let it go…"
Paige hugged Prue back. After a while, Paige said, "I know that I don't live in this universe but I think it might make me in this universe happy if you told her that you guys were her sisters."
"Will do, Paige, will, do."
Paige beamed at her sister then said excitedly, "Did you know that I had whitelighter powers even before I became a witch?" Prue shook her head. "I was surprised myself. But then if I hadn't had them, I wouldn't have been alive today."
Prue didn't get a chance to answer because right then, she heard yet another crash in the attic, similar to the one by which Andy had appeared. "What was that?" she asked jumping up from next to Paige.
"Beats, me," Paige replied.
Then out of nowhere came a scream; neither of the witches could tell if it was a scream of terror, or a scream of joy, for Phoebe's screams for both emotions always sounded the same.
cliffhangers, i love them sometimes...