EIGHT
"How are you doing?" Piper said looking in the door to Prue's room, Phoebe standing next to her.
"You seemed kind of upset," Phoebe said.
"Yeah, I'm okay," said Prue. "It's just what Marcus said. About us deciding that he should die. He was right about that."
"You did the right thing," Piper said. "Marcus had no right to do what he did. Tonami was an innocent."
"I know that," Prue said. "But I didn't think it was supposed to be like this. We've never had to choose before. Between vanquishing an evil or protecting an innocent."
"We didn't have a choice," Phoebe said. "Marcus didn't leave us any choice."
"I know that, baby sister," Prue said. "But it doesn't make what we had to do any easier. Marcus was an innocent, too. But that changed when he helped to kill Tonami."
"At least we were able to put things right again," Piper said.
"I wonder if this is how it's going to be?" wondered Phoebe. "The Book of Shadows didn't say anything about situations like this. It just mentions warlocks and demons and other evil creatures. It never said anything about having to choose between an innocent and an evil."
"Things are rarely as they appear," Prue said. "I guess with magic it's bound to be more so. Remember the shape changers? We had no idea they were evil until they tried to steal the Book of Shadows."
"That's true," Piper said. "I guess there really isn't much we can do about it. We just have to do the best we can and hope it's enough."
"At least we have the Book of Shadows," Phoebe said. "Without it we wouldn't even have known what was going on."
"I think we had all better look through the Book of Shadows more often," Prue said. "There seems to be a lot of things out there we don't know anything about. We came pretty close to vanquishing the wrong one this time. We need to make sure that doesn't happen again."
"Good idea," Piper said. "So, what say we all go downstairs and have some hot chocolate?"
"With those little marshmallows?" Phoebe asked.
"Of course," Piper said. "It's not real hot chocolate unless you have the miniature marshmallows."
"I want the different colored ones," Prue said.
"I think we can arrange that," Piper said.
Arm in arm the sisters all headed for the kitchen.
The End
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