A/N: Susan: Yes, Phoebe and Leo will speak with Paige in this part. I just needed to pull things back to the main focus of the story for a bit. Princess Pinky: All of your assumptions are absolutely correct! Btw, I did add a tiny part with Paige but it all fits together so the focus hasn't changed. Sci Fi Fan Gillian: It's good to see a review from you again! CC: Thank you so much for catching up you're the best!

Eternally Charmed: One Good Backfire, Deserves Another

"Paige, you got to come home," Phoebe pleaded following her fermented sister, the rock Queen through the darkened caverns of the Rock world. A underlying pushed a cart filled with diamonds struggled to pass them piquing Phoebe's interest. Greedily her hand shot out reaching for one of the shining rocks.

"Oooh, can I have one those, just a little one?"

"No" Paige snapped in her hardened rock like state. "They all belong to my husband"

"Your husband?" Phoebe looked down the cavern to see the Rock King sitting on his slate throne polishing his precious gems. "You've got to be kidding"

"I don't think she is" Leo swallowed staying one step behind the sisters. "Her heart is made of stone, she can't feel"

"And that's the way I like it!" Paige blistered nearly causing her ivory smooth face to crack. "Here in this life, I don't have deal with the responsibility of innocents or sisters or witchcraft or-

"Glenn" Phoebe finished, "Or how about Aretmus, or what about the dimension of Lost Souls?"

"You don't anything" Paige's voice dropped to a whisper.

"Don't I?" For the first time in months, Phoebe stood up to her stonehearted sister. "We're Halliwells Paige. We don't run from our problems we fix things"

"No you're a Halliwell! You, Prue, and Piper, you're all super witches! You don't get people you love killed!"

"Phoebe shook her head abstinently, "Paige you know that isn't true. We've all lost, especially Prue"

"Oh yes, the super witch of them of all! The high priestess who gets to spend eternity with her true love and three children? That Prue?" Pebbles flew from Paige's fingertips as a result of her frustration.

Why was Paige's anger suddenly directed as jealously towards her sisters? Phoebe wondered leaning into Leo as a way to shield herself from the flying debris. "Paige-"

Leo's arms wrapped about Phoebe protectively halting anymore that Phoebe might have wanted to say.

"Paige has to choose to come back on her own"

"But-"

"But nothing Phoebe, Paige here of her own free will"

"You're right, if Paige wants to come home, it has to be her decision" Phoebe frowned, once again pleading silently with her younger sister as she and Leo orbed away.

Manor

"YOU'RE PREGNANT! Piper's eyes were the size of budging cantaloupes as she stared at her oldest sister. "How did this happened?" she ranted disgusted. Immediately she knew it had to be Dantalian and Andy's child. Talk about backfire.

"Personal Gain probably but at least I vanquished Dantalian" Prue hushed as she laid Ally back into her bed. She then went over to Austin's crib and peeked in to see the tiny infant sleeping peacefully on her back.

Prue smiled as she straightened, "the best of all with Dantalian gone. I'm now completely immortal" she said prissily, trying to see light in her situation.

"You mean only until the next Dark Priestess comes along" Piper crossed her arms over her chest and shook her head. "I still don't believe it, Prue you are so screwed.

"Screwed what happened now?" Phoebe and Leo walked into the entrance of the nursery.

"Prue is pregnant with Andy and Dantalian's child" Piper proclaimed.

Immediately a smile crossed Phoebe's face "Prue's pregnant with demonic child? GET OUT!"

"It's half demonic" Prue put in as the angry child inside of began to kick with a slicing vengeance. "Hey Ow!" Prue looked down at her stomach glaring.

"It was a backfire" Piper stuttered, "Prue went to vanquish it and came back pregnant".

"Wait a minute. Prue you tried to vanquish Andy's child and he's okay with this?"

"Not exactly" Prue said sheepishly "But it's a demon Phoebe and it wasn't created out of love. He'll understand"

"But it's still Andy's baby Prue, that has to count for something" Phoebe looked about noting the absences of Prue's beloved. "Wait a minute where is Andy?"

"He and Natalie are in the attic trying to come up with a cloaking spell so that the Elder's don't find out"

"Oh yeah, Bar Code tattoo and the end of Prue" Phoebe quipped, knowing that the Elder's were taking their new witch sterility law very seriously "What are you going to do?".

Prue looked down at her stomach, thinking what a hypocrite she would like in front of her subjects, not that this pregnancy had been planned mind you. But still, that probably wouldn't keep the Elders from burning she and Andy alive at the stake.

"I don't know, try to find a way to have a magical miscarriage I guess"

"You can't do that Prue" Leo speaking as the voice of wisdom politely reminded the group that unborn children were neither good nor evil. They just were beings who needed to choose.

"Leo trust me, this child is evil. I've seen what it can do" Prue returned

"No it isn't. Until now the baby has been feeding off Dantalian's life force, not yours."

"So what are you saying Leo?" Phoebe's eyes narrowed as they made their way out of the nursery and up the stairs towards the attic. "Are you saying that since Prue is good, then this baby will good too?"

"Baby's feed on the aura that their birth's mothers give them. Dantalian is evil so Ayleia only has only known the evil essence that loomed around her".

"It makes sense, I guess" Piper shrugged placing her hand on the doorknob.

Prue put her hands up just as they were about to enter. "No…No…it doesn't. This child has already made her first kill by vanquishing Austin's clone and killing the Motherly Prue, not to mention she tried to kill Amanda too"

Piper opened the door, allowing Prue to enter first.

"This baby also hates me" Prue looked over her shoulder before sliding up next to Andy.

"It doesn't not," Phoebe squinted in disbelief making Prue grin.

"Oh really?" Prue wrapped her arms around Andy's neck, pulling him into a kiss. In less than a second, black orbs appeared around Prue pulling her out of the embrace and sending her straight through the stained glass window. Bits of glass shattered over the sound of Prue's scream, as her body fell towards the ground.

"Prue!" Piper ran to the window flicking her wrists bringing time to a halt.

"Freezing gravity, nice trick" Timidly Phoebe leaned out the window to see her sister frozen in midair "Prue are you okay?"

Andy was about to orb after her when Leo stepped in his way. "You'd better let me."

"Right" The tracer, replied dumbfounded, "I guess the baby is a little possessive".

"A little? It's a good thing that Prue is partially immortal." Piper perked an eyebrow as Leo orbed back into the room with Prue in his arms.

"Thanks" Slowly she ran a hand through her long raven hair letting out a sigh. "So now what do we do?"

"You face your punishment" Zola appeared along with three other Elder's two males and one female.

"So much for a cloaking spell" Piper's eyes rolled heavenward, earning the sarcastic witch a jab from Leo"

"Punishment for what? Andy and I haven't done anything"

"The baby was conceived by dark magic, not from a disregard towards the law" Leo interjected, stepping in Prue's defense. "Prue and Andy were both tricked by the Dark Priestess, you can't punish them for something they have no control over"

"He has a point" the female Elder glanced at Zola

Zola's face-hardened at the sound of defiance, "But how that look to rest of the magical community if their Wiccan leader is with a demonic child. No…no…she is covering for her husband…punishment is eminent."

Bright lights appeared forming the apparition of Melinda Warren, "then let the punishment be that Prudence must carry this demonic child to term for the consequence of personal gain."

"But your Excellency what will the others think?"

"Let them think what they wish" Melinda sniffed, "It is not as if the child not does not belong to her husband" In Melinda's eyes the rest of the wiccan community would view the pregnancy as result of the martial bliss that Prue shared with Andy.

"But it isn't mine-" Prue opened her mouth to protest. In her mind the best solution was to vanquish the child.

Lovingly, Melinda smiled and took Prue's hands into her own, "Prue,. Your body was meant to bare the children of the mortal Tracer, the Angelic Ones"

"She's kidding right? She really expects Prue to carry a baby that isn't her?" Phoebe whispered turning her body into Piper.

"No I don't think she is" Piper lifted the corner of her mouth mumbling.

Prue pulled her hands free of Melinda's and looked at Andy, "As much as I love Andy and the greater good, I don't think I can do that". Adverting her eyes, Prue tried to flee from the room, with Andy trailing.

Prue! Prue!"

"This is ludicrous!" Zola's fists clenched, his nostril flared. The eldest and supposedly wisest of the all the Elders had reached his limited. "This is just more thing that has come out your need to fight destiny over selfish mortal love!" Seven years ago it had started with Patty's spell to reunite Prue with Andy and tonight it was going to end.

Gripping his staff Zola raised both of his hands and looked heavenward, "I hereby vanquish you both to separate astral planes for all of eternity!" he shouted causing ripples of telekinetic energy to sweep through the room opening a portal.

No! You will not vanquish my sister!" Seething mad, Piper shoved Zola pushing the two of them into the mouth of the portal, right before it closed stopping both Prue and Andy right in their tracks.

"Piper!" Leo heard his wife's screams as she and Zola disappeared into a bottomless vortex