Different Paths Part 47:
Handling some things

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Prue didn't loose time. She needed to talk to someone who knew more. It was whether her grandmother or mother. She at the end decided for Patty. She had to read what stood in the book and Patty was able to freeze people. Probably even her sisters.
"Mom?"
she called
"mom, please, I need you"
she said lowly. She knew it was enough. Patty appeared beside the bed
"what's with this curse? How can I break it"
"Prue..."
"Mom... I can find out with and without you... it's only easier and maybe even faster with you... and I'm not really in the mood of loosing one of them or my daughters, okay? So how can I break it?"
"You have to find Pandora's Box... say a spell, which's in the book, over it. This spell will release one of the contents of the box. You'll have to fight it. Whether you win, the curse will vanish and the content will retreat into the box again. Or you loose and die."
Prue closed her eyes and swallowed
"you don't have to do this, Prue"
"yes I do... I can't risk their lives... but I have to do it alone..."
Prue said sighting and then looked at her mom
"I need you to freeze them so I can put a spell on them, so they don't follow... can't follow..."
"Prue... this is... very dangerous..."
"I know... but I have to do this alone... and I need to search the book... for more... I know about Pandora's Box... but I don't know where to find it..."
Patty nodded and Prue sat up
"is ... is it true... what... what Paige... guessed? Did Grams manipulate the curse?"
Patty nodded
"you'd else be cursed every day. It took her months to write something to at least change the curse slightly. The four years is only the condition, because she wrote it to you and your sisters..."
"Why did... you never tell me something about this? I could have..."
"we never wanted you to find out about this... we didn't want to risk your life because of feeling guilty..."
Prue just got up and went to the door. She opened it a crack and then looked at her mom.
"You sure?"
Prue nodded. Patty stretched her hands out into the other room and with a move of her hands, the whole room froze. Patty's powers had been a lot more proceeded than Piper's and so she also could freeze witches.
"Thanks mom"
"be careful..."
Prue didn't answer. She just stepped into the room and looked around. Everyone was lost in their tracks. Prue then saw the book, which was held by Paige. She picked it from her and placed it on the couch table of her father. She then sat down on the couch, next to her dad and started to flip. After a few seconds the book opened itself
"thank you"
Prue whispered and waited for the book to stop

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Selena
Selena is the daughter of Eleanor, which is the daughter of Cassandra Wentworth.
Selena had hypnotic powers, she channelled with a special necklace. This necklace was handed down to her daughter who hid it. Its hiding place is one of the greatest family secrets our bloodline shares.
Selena fell in love with a demon called X'RUS after her beloved husband James died. Her daughter Eva and all the following daughters of the blood line were cursed to be single children forever. This curse can only be broken by the, so called, 'oldest'

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Prue read through it and then nodded
"great... what use has this? Grams... don't you have something more... effective?"
she asked and the book started to flip again

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Evocation of the omens of blood
This ceremony was performed on Selena by X'RUS.
X'RUS had found a way into Selena's heart and discovered her powers. With this knowledge he discovered her destiny about becoming an ancestor of the charmed ones.
To keep the destiny of the charmed ones from unfolding he performed the evocation of the omens of blood on Selena. This ceremony actually is a curse. Every daughter of Selena shall only receive one daughter or else the oldest shall be cursed forever. Bad luck will be lurking always in the home of this child.
The curse can only be reversed by the 'oldest' herself. She has to search Pandora's Box and release with a spell one of its contents.
The following battle has two possible ways of ending. Whether the 'oldest' wins or losses against this content. Either way, the curse will be broken and the content will be banished back into the box.
If the 'oldest' should experience suicide the curse will hunt down the next set of siblings. Is she dieing a natural death it, the curse, too is reversed.

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Prue covered her face. The next pair of siblings would be her kids. The curse would move on to Meghan. Prue shook her head, not even wanting to think about this. She turned pages and found the page of Pandora's Box right behind it. Prue fast skimmed over the page. She knew most of these things.
"Why the hell is there nothing how to get there!"
Prue asked angrily and then looked down to find the spell she needed to get one of the contents onto her butt.
"Great..."
Prue said and then scribbled the spell down on some little paper. She then removed her necklace, she had gotten from her mom, a few days before she died, and held it up high, while standing in the middle of the room

"From whence they came, take them now, for 24 hours, banish their powers.
From whence they came, take them now, for 24 hours, banish their powers.
From whence they came, take them now, for 24 hours, banish their powers."

After Prue had repeated the spell three times bluish lights came from her sisters, Andy and Cole. She swallowed hard as they settled in Prue's necklace, which now was shimmering purplish. Blue lights and a red crystal. She had used the spell rex had used to get to their powers and this time the powers weren't caught in a lantern but in her necklace. She looked down at it and swallowed
"you guys have to forgive me..."
she whispered and put the necklace around her neck again. Then went to the book and ripped the page of Pandora's Box off. She then went to her father's kitchen and set the page on fire. Then threw it into his sink, where it could burn down without any danger. She again swallowed and then moved over to Andy. She looked at him and saw the watery eyes he had. She touched his cheek gently
"I'm sorry baby... but... I can't... risk your life... watch our girls for me, okay?"
she closed her eyes again and bit her lip. Then opened them again and made herself bigger. She pecked his lips and then started chanting again, while looking into his desperate green eyes

"As this is said

Through time and space

Take me to

Another place"

After the last words Prue vanished and was transported to the place she desired to be. To the box.