They waited a few minutes before she heard Phoebe's voice. "Coming!" Paige felt a twang of compassion rise up in her throat, but she quickly pushed it down. "Don't get soft on me." Cole muttered, smiling. Phoebe flung open the door and jumped back. "Piper! Leo!" She screamed. Cole smiled. "Is that a way to treat your ex-husband and ex-sister?" He pushed his way into the living room. Paige flung the now dead white lighter onto the ground. Leo and Piper orbed in. "Cole!" Piper said in disbelief. "You're dead! We vanquished you!" Cole held out his arms and grinned. "Do I look dead to you?" Leo looked at Paige and then at the dead white lighter. "Oh no." He rushed over to her side. "Too late Leo. She's dead." Paige said coldly. "Leo, get out of her way. She's a dark lighter." Piper said. Leo quickly backed away from Paige who had shimmered a crossbow into her hand. "Well, isn't this nice. One big happy family again." Cole said grinning at Phoebe. "Get out of here. We vanquished you once and we can do it again." Phoebe glared at him. He raised his index finger. "Ah but you had the power of three." He nodded towards Paige. "As you can see, your sister isn't exactly a Charmed One anymore, with all the killing she's been doing." "Paige?" Phoebe said in disbelief. "Oh get over it already. Yes, I killed this white lighter. Guess what? I'm evil." Paige said, grinning. "Get it through your heads." "No you're not. You are a Charmed one. You're not evil Paige. Come back to us." Piper quickly pulled out a piece of paper and her and Phoebe started to chant. "Oh no you don't!" Cole roared and he rushed at Phoebe. He was intercepted by Leo and they were struggling. "Paige, kill them!" Cole yelled and whacked Leo in the jaw. Paige looked at her sister's and created a huge fireball. "Paige, don't do this." Piper cried. Paige drew her arm back and hurled the fireball at them. Phoebe and Piper dove aside as the fireball missed them by inches, Phoebe feeling the heat of the fireball. Piper froze the scene. Paige was frozen along with Cole. "We're too late." Piper said in disbelief, standing beside her youngest sister. Paige's face was masked with fury and anger. "Help me get her to the attic." Piper said to Leo. He orbed Paige and Piper up to the attic. Phoebe stayed behind, looking at her ex-husband. "Oh, Cole. Why can't you just leave us alone?" Cole just stared at her, frozen, ready to leap at her when he unfroze. Phoebe quickly made up a rhyme and a few seconds later, Cole was gone. She ran up to the attic. "Piper, I got rid of Cole for a while, but we need to cast a spell around the house to not allow him in." Piper nodded her agreement. After they had said the spell, Paige had unfrozen. She glanced around wildly. "Where's Cole?" She said angrily. "He's gone for the moment. And so are your powers!" Piper hurled a potion at Paige. It exploded near her feet. Paige cried out in surprise and tried to shimmer away but it wouldn't work. "Leo and Phoebe, tie her up." Piper urged. Paige curled her hands into fists. "Not without a fight." Leo orbed behind Paige and knocked her over the head. Paige fell limply in his arms. Phoebe and Leo tied Paige up to a chair and Piper flipped through the book, looking for a spell. "Quickly Piper, the time's almost up." Leo urged. "Got it." Piper said excitedly. Her and Phoebe grasped hands.
"Return our sister from the dark,
Remove in her this evil mark;
Cleanse her make her good again,
We ask for this simple task, begin!"
They recited. Paige's eyes flew open and she let out a blood curling scream that made the sister's hairs stand on end. Leo, Piper and Phoebe watched as Paige struggled to get away from the spell. Her hair was turning back to red, her clothes returning to normal. She let out one last cry and dropped her head defeated. Slowly, she raised a trembling head, tears spilling out of them. "I-I killed innocents." She cried out in anguish. Piper and Phoebe rushed over to their sister's side and comforted her for a few minutes. Paige finally calmed down after a few minutes. "I-I just want the demons to leave me alone!" "Shh. It's okay honey." Phoebe said reassuringly. Paige cried on Phoebe's shoulder for a bit. "I don't deserve to be a charmed one." She whispered. "I don't deserve sisters like you guys." Her eyes welled up. "Of course you do." Piper said fiercely and hugged her baby sister. "I can't see how you could believe that. You'll always be our sister." Paige smiled weakly. "What are we going to do about C-Cole?" She said in a shaky breath. "I don't know, but we'll think of something. We always do." Piper said. Paige wiped the tears from her eyes. "I didn't mean to kill them but it was like I couldn't control myself." Piper hugged her fiercely.
"Don't worry Paige, we know you didn't mean too. And don't worry. Nothing bad will come from this." Piper said softly. Suddenly there was a glimmer of blue and white as two elders arrived in the room.
"What is it?" Piper said suspiciously. She never really like the elders in the first place for trying to tear her and Leo apart.
"Miss Paige Matthews? We're going to need you to come with us." One of the elders said grimly. He handed over a sheet of paper to her.
"What is it?" Phoebe said concernedly. Paige looked up, her eyes wide with fear.
"Their going to kill me." She whispered hoarsely as Phoebe grabbed the sheet from her little sister.
"Paige Matthews-Halliwell is hereby sentenced to death for the murders of fellow white lighter's and witches." Phoebe read and dropped the letter. The elders grabbed Paige by the arm and they orbed her away.