I've had a number of people ask me why I didn't let Piper kill Billie. I'll let you know that I will never let a Charmed One kill a witch (and as long as Billie can apologize, she's still a witch, not a warlock—and if she wasn't a witch, the Elders wouldn't have made Paige her whitelighter), even though I swear I hate the Jenkinses as much as the rest of you because they were the stars of the last season of Charmed AND of the finale of Charmed, not the Charmed Ones! That was another one of those "really irritated the crap" parts of "Forever Charmed"for me! BILLIE won the battle, not the Charmed Ones! They helped, but if BILLIE hadn't survived after Kill BIllie Vol 2, if BILLIE hadn't realized that Dumain was evil, if BILLIE hadn't used HER power to bring the Charmed Ones to the past and if BILLIE hadn't accidentally vanquished her own sister, she and Christy would still be evil! Piper never would've gotten Leo back without Billie! Maybe in Kern's version (after all, it's very obvious that she was his favorite character!), but not mine! No WAY she'll be the star, guaranteed! Have you noticed how very little time I've given her and Christy-- that there hasn't been a scene that didn't include at least one Charmed One once Paige was no longer Hollow-filled? That's how the finale should've gone!

But hating a character isn't a good enough reason for getting rid of them, not if you're doing what I'm doing with "Charmed Forever"—trying to write a fanfic that could've realistically had a chance to be the basis for the finale. Believe me, try as I did (and, believe me, I did try), I just couldn't come up with a scenario where Piper should get Leo back after killing a fellow witch. That would've made Piper as evil as Christy and set up a "Morality Bites"-type future as compared to the Scrabble future! Revenge isn't a good enough reason for murder—remember what Phoebe learned during "Morality Bites": the Charmed Ones are supposed to protect the innocent, not punish the guilty! Wrong Things Done for The Right Reason Are Still Wrong! How I wish Kern had remembered that; he forgot it so often, especially in Seasons 6-8, but I never will!

So Billie and Christy have to live, rats fooey! BUT if they have to live, see if you don't agree that this is the proper way to handle them!

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

"What do you mean?" Grams asked.

Phoebe didn't respond. She simply turned to Billie. "Billie, how much do you love your sister?"

Billie thought about it, puzzlement and confusion on her face. "No way I can love my sister the way she is now," she admitted. "I hate the fact that she's evil and wants to kill you guys. But I keep thinking about the Christy I knew as a kid, before she was kidnapped. I love my big sister very, very much. I wish I could have my big sister back, really back."

Phoebe grinned at Coop. "So let's go get the sister you love!" Everyone but Coop looked confused, even Billie, so Phoebe explained. "If Coop could use the power of Paige's love for Piper to bring Young Piper here to our time, why can't he use the power of Billie's love for her sister to bring Young Christy here, before she was kidnapped, and simply not send her back?"

Piper thought about it, then nodded. "If there's no Christy for the Triad to kidnap, there would be no evil plan."

Paige also nodded. "They need two sisters, so one could befriend us before the other turned her evil and destroy us."

Phoebe grinned, nodding before finishing. "Then we just do to her what Grams did to us--bind her powers!"

Young Piper's eyes almost popped out of her head. "Is that why I didn't have powers before I came here?"

Grams hugged her and promised to explain it all later--much later!

Billie nodded. "It's a good plan. As long as you add three things."

"What's that?" Piper asked, still a bit suspiciously.

"First, can we go back to just before Christy was taken?"

Coop nodded. "If you can feel in your heart your love for Christy as she was at that moment, yes, I think I can do that."

"Why?" a still-suspicious Piper demanded.

"That way I can vanquish Dumain, so he can't do this to any other young witches. I would love to vanquish the demon who tried to turn my family evil, and who would've without you, Phoebe."

Phoebe smiled. "I would've never thought of it if Mom hadn't pointed out that being kidnapped wasn't really Christy's fault--that she's truly an innocent."

Piper nodded. "Done. What's your second condition?"

"Second, that after you bind Christy's powers that rather than keeping her here, you send her back. My parents missed her so much and so did I. That way we can have the life we should've had. If you get rid of Dumain and bind her powers, she's no longer a threat to you, and neither am I, because I wouldn't have to hunt for her."

Coop shook his head. "That won't work. The current Christy would still be here and still be evil. She would simply blur into herself."

Wyatt spoke up. "Well, what if you do something similar to what happened to Chris?"

"What do you mean?" Piper asked.

"Well, he came from a world where I was evil, came back here and blurred into Baby Chris. He still has the memory of that other world, but I'm not evil--the world he remembered isn't the world he's living in due to different circumstances." and Chris nodded before Wyatt continued. "If you could capture this Christy, who's evil, and bring her back and let her blur into Young Christy, and then get rid of Dumain, Young Christy would still have the memory of being evil, but wouldn't actually be evil herself, because the things that made Christy evil wouldn't happen to her. And if her powers are bound, no other evil creature could make her use them for evil."

Piper nodded. "We can do that, too. What's the third thing, Billie?"

"Hearing Wyatt's solution, I can change what I was thinking and make it better. That when we go back, you let me find myself and let me blur into myself and bind my powers, too." Billie looked at Young Piper. "When I first got them, I thought they were fun, too. But now I know better. They're not fun--they're dangerous!"