"Now you understand why you have to keep this a secret? Why you can't tell anyone about us, about what you saw today." Phoebe said. Prue walked in with a glass of water and handed it to Dr. Griffith.
"If others knew, we wouldn't be able to do what we do anymore. We wouldn't be able to help future innocents like we helped you." Prue said. Dr. Griffith took a sip of the water.
"No, I understand. I mean, I don't understand everything. Demons, witches, the Source. So much for being an atheist. Your secret is safe with me." Dr. Griffith said and set the glass down.
"How do we know your not lying? It wouldn't be a first. Plus, I can blow you strait to hell if you spill anything." Piper warned, and Dr. Griffith looked shocked at what he just heard.
"Piper!" Phoebe warned, but also tried to sound a bit angry. Piper saw what she said and quickly apologized.
"Still I don't want him- me being lied to again. I mean you remember what happened last time he- I was lied to. I ended up killing my boyfriend." She added the last part quickly. Prue looked at Piper weird.
"Uhh, Piper can we talk for a second?" Phoebe asked standing and walked into the foyer. Piper reluctantly followed.
"What is up with you? You need to chill." Phoebe said in a hushed voice.
"Sorry, I really didn't mean for that particular statement to slip, at first I thought I was thinking it, not actually saying it." Piper whispered, she knew how critical this was for Prue, and them.
"It's ok, just try to control yourself. Take my advice, maybe you shouldn't talk as much, now don't go and just stop talking but think about what you're going to say." Phoebe suggested from experience at the column. Piper smiled and nodded. The two walked back into the conservatory.
"You two ok?" Prue asked, cutting off her conversation with Dr. Griffith. Her two sisters sat down.
"Yeah, we're fine, just a little kink to work out." Phoebe said smiling. Piper nodded and smiled as well.
"Good, 'cause I want to take Piper and go looking for Shax." Prue said standing.
"No!" Piper and Phoebe said together. Prue looked at the two weird.
"What we mean is, what if someone sees us?" Piper asked.
"Yeah why can't we just summon Shax like we did with Cole?" Phoebe asked, suddenly remembering her old demon crush.
"Phoebe, that is absolutely… ya know what, that actually sounds like a good idea." Prue said thinking over Phoebe's idea. The little sister smiled, she knew what would happen: the live TV, the photographers. She shuttered at the thought.
"Ok, I'll get the book for the spell." Piper said standing. She headed for the foyer. Prue nodded and looked back at Dr. Griffith.
"You know, you don't need to go right now. You can stay here if you feel safe." Prue said. Dr. Griffith shook his head.
"No, if I stay here any longer then this memory will be imbedded in my mind for the rest of my life. I'm going to go home, take a sleeping pill, and not wake up until tomorrow. When I wake up, I'm going to think this is a great big bad dream." He said, standing. Phoebe also stood up and walked Dr. Griffith to the door. Prue watched as Phoebe closed the door and walked back into the conservatory.
Phoebe smiled, "What?" She asked. Prue shook her head. Piper walked back in the room carrying the Book of Shadows.
"Okie dokie then, lets kick some demon ass." Piper said opening the book up to the page that had the spell to summon Belthazor.
"Uh, Piper this spell summons Cole not Shax." Prue said.
"Yeah, well, I thought that if we just replace the word Belthazor with the word Shax then maybe it will work." Piper said.
Prue flipped through the following pages, "And there isn't a spell to summon Shax?" She asked. Piper shook her head. "Well it's worth a shot." Prue said with a sigh. Piper smiled. She now knew that if the spell worked, then Prue would be back in their lives again. Then something else came to her: What would happen to Paige? Would she even be in their lives?
"Hey, Piper. You with us?" Prue asked. Piper pulled out from her thoughts.
"Huh? Oh yeah, yeah. Sorry." She said and walked over behind the table that Phoebe and Prue had tipped on its side for a barrier. Phoebe set the book down on the floor and started the spell.
"Magic forces black and white. Reaching out through space and light. Be he far or be he near, bring us the demon Shax here." They finished the chant and a tornado of wind appeared in the room. It wasn't long before the tornado died and Shax formed in the room.
"The spell, the spell." Prue said. Phoebe pulled out the paper from earlier.
"Evil wind that blows, that which forms below, no longer may you dwell, death takes you with this spell." The sisters chanted. Shax groaned, there was another clap of thunder just like before, and he blew up. Phoebe smiled and raised her hand in the air.
"Yes! We did it! Now who's bad? Huh? Huh? Ha!" Phoebe yelled at the emptiness in the room. Prue looked at Piper. Her face asked, 'What's up with her?' Piper just shook her head. Although she actually did know what was up. Phoebe calmed down but still giggled.
"So, who wants ice cream?" She asked standing up and walking into the kitchen.
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Pamela banged her head on the table. Prue was pacing the floor. Paige was flipping through the Book of Shadows.
"Three hours, three whole hours." Pamela said. Sidney had gone home a long time ago. Pamela continued to bang her head in the table.
"Ok, here's the spell to call a lost witch…" Paige dragged her last word on.
"They're not lost." Prue said, continuing to pace.
"We could re-write the travel to the future spell." Prue said.
"It's too risky." Prue said still pacing. Paige groaned and laid her head on the book.
"Leo get you ass in here!" Paige yelled clearly annoyed. They all waited in silence for Leo. Soon they heard footsteps coming up the stairs.
"What?" He asked walking into the attic.
"Why aren't my sisters back yet?" Paige demanded. Leo had a look of concern on his face.
"They're not back yet?" Leo asked. Paige shook her head, ignoring the pounds of Pamela banging her head.
"I'll check with the council." Prue said and disappeared in bright white lights.
"Well, I'm not really sure why. Sometimes it's the way you say the spell, were is it?" Leo asked and looked around the room. Pamela held up her hand, holding up the slip of paper. Leo walked over and took it, and then Pamela went back to banging her head. Leo read over the spell a few times figuring out what went wrong.
"Here it is, 'and fix what will lack' they might have already saved Prue and got rid of Shax, but they still have to get rid of the Source." Leo said, and showed it to Paige.
She groaned, "Phoebe, and Piper didn't beat the Source with Prue but with me. I don't even know if I'll ever be Charmed now that Prue's still alive." Paige said sounding hopeless. Leo wrapped an arm around Paige.
"I wont let that happen." He said trying to comfort her. They barely noticed that Pamela stopped banging her head on the table. Pamela lifted her head. Not only was her mother in danger, but also she was worried that one thing in Phoebe's life could stop her from being born. 18 years, of no demons, no mother, just her powers to make her life easier.
'Well my life had such a big meaning to the world.' Pamela thought sarcastically. She looked over at Paige and Leo who were flipping through the Book of Shadows again. She even thought that Phoebe originally didn't want her, but quickly pushed that thought out of her mind. She didn't even know who or where her father was.
'Answers that will soon come.' Pamela thought.
