Nightmares
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Random3: What basically happened was Cole and Prue were brought back from the dead so they are as they were when they died. As far as Prue remembers, she has just been unconscious for a couple of hours, or maybe days. Cole's last memory was being in the alternate future, trying to stay with Phoebe. So Cole was belthozor, and Prue is a witch.
Hundreds of demons that had taken on the form of everyone the charmed sisters, boyfriends, mates, bosses and even people the sisters had passed in the street and people Piper, Prue, Phoebe and Paige had worked with.
The sisters scanned the crowd that were still coming through the knock down wall, and then spread out, Prue at the far left and Paige at the far right.
"Do you know how much that is going to cost to fix?" Piper yelled over the noise. All the demons sharply turned to her. As they turned, the light flashed off their silver tinted hair. The sisters tensed.
Phoebe jumped up, and levitated above the crowd, catching their attention. They all turned to look up at her, distracting them so the other three could make their move. Two demons exploded who stood at the front of the crowd. Piper exploded another one that was about to stab Paige as she reached for her Atheme. The youngest looked up at Piper and nodded her thanks, Piper gestured for Paige to move and just as she jumped away, Piper exploded two more demons.
The Darryl demon lunged at Prue, who ducked and flung him across the room. He smashed against the wall, and then fell onto the table and smashed through it; he groaned and then exploded, leaving green slime all over the sofa.
There was a squeal from above the sisters, and Phoebe was drunkenly flying around the roof, dodging lightning bolts that a brown, short haired man throwing at her. Piper swung round to him and froze his arm. Just as he brought the other up, aiming it at Piper, Prue used her telekinesis to throw him against the wall, and then Piper exploded him.
The two sisters high five, grinning madly as they turned to the hundred left. Paige's enthusiasm dropped as she saw Piper and Prue getting so happy. How many times had she saved her sisters lives? They'd never acted like that to her.
After several more vanquishes Phoebe suddenly smashed through the window. Paige disappeared into millions of blue orbs and pushed her safely onto an old sofa, someone had left out as garbage. Even though Paige didn't push her with as much strength as she'd planned, Phoebe still landed safely on the rubbish. Paige queried with herself, why she didn't have much strength left but she could only come up with the answer that she was tired and sad.
Back inside the manor, Prue and Piper were still working as a team to defeat the demons but for everyone they vanquished another suddenly stepped out.
After several more hours of fighting, the number of demons began to dwindle. Suddenly Paige was thrown against the wall, and landed on the broken table. She gasped, the colour drained from her face before she passed out. Both Piper and Prue stopped fighting, and ran to Paige's side, but she was out cold. Prue was suddenly fuelled by anger and swung her hand at the demons. Each demon was pushed back through the wall, and the wall was fixed in a blink on an eye. Prue stared, open mouthed at where the demons had stood.
Piper's tears began to fall onto Paige's body as blood seeped through the red top she was wearing. Prue gingerly helped Piper turn Paige over, to relieve a sharp wooden table leg stabbed through her back. Prue gasped, as Piper began sobbing even harder, bending double over her youngest sister.
The colour drained from Phoebe's face as she walked into the room and stood, frozen, behind her sisters. Piper turned to her sister, her shoulders still shaking gently and tears were drying on her face.
"We… we…" she started, before turning back to Paige.
"We need to save Leo," Prue whispered, getting up unsteadily and reading the Book of Shadows. Then she nodded and slowly shut the elderly book. Then something caught Phoebe's eye, where all the demons had been standing.
She slowly ran over to the spot, and bent down to examine the object. She picked up the locket and studied it. It was a golden necklace, and there was something engraved into the back: LW 4 PH, and then inside were two pictures, a black and white cut out of a blonde man in an army suit, and a brunette, younger version of Piper.
She stood up quickly and showed it to Prue silently. The eldest sister nodded, taking the locket from Phoebe, and then she turned to Piper.
"We can still save her," She stated gently.
Piper looked up at Prue and then stood up and gestured to her dirty top. She left the room and she was heard running up the stairs. Prue shook her head and turned back to Phoebe.
"The book says that you can shimmer, blink, orb or even astral project into the victim's nightmare world by using the object left behind. The emotional connection should make you real to them," Prue sighed, relaxed her shoulders and held the locket in both her hands. Phoebe quickly placed a hand on Prue shoulder and Prue turned to her.
"Are you sure…?"
Prue nodded and then relaxed herself again. She closed her eyes, and then her body fell limp. Phoebe caught her sister before she hit the floor, and placed her gently on the chair. Then she carefully picked Paige up, and placed her on the sofa, after placing the violet blanket over the green slime.
She then cast her eyes over her two unconscious sisters. 'One could die if the other does,' Phoebe thought, before walking upstairs and checking on Piper.
Piper was standing over Chris's cradle, as he murmured sleepily to her. Piper looked up at her sister, as she entered the nursery.
"I don't know Pheebs, everyone seems to be blaming me for this and … ," Piper started, picking up her youngest son gently. Phoebe walked up to Piper.
"Oh, come on Piper, you know that's not true," Phoebe explained.
"Do I? Maybe it is my own fault. I forgot that Jade had got Wyatt when I showed Prue Chris, and I keep forgetting about Chris," She stated to her sister, falling into her sister's arms.
Phoebe gently wrapped her arms round Piper.
"No, Piper, this isn't your fault. You've just re met Prue, our sister we thought we'd never see again, Leo's been taken, Wyatt's been taken, and Paige is dying. Piper you have every right to forget," Phoebe whispered, 'God, Leo is so much better at this than me,' she thought.
Leo looked around him helplessly, all the elders glared down at him where he kneeled.
"You have failed, Leo Wyatt, we now destroy you!" They all said in unison, and two men in golden robes stepped forward and both pointed at him. Suddenly flames burst from their fingers and flames came rushing at him. He tried to put his hands up to protect his face but he was frozen.
As the orange and red flames came rushing for him, he cried out.
The room flashed before his eyes, and wedding music played in his ears. He thought it was all in his head but as he opened his eyes he saw he was looking into the Halliwell manor through the window. And he was wearing cloth rags and ripped scruffy jeans.
But it was what was happening inside the manor that amazed him most. There stood a light brown haired man in a tux, at first Leo thought this was when he and Piper got married but then he noticed the person at the alter wasn't Penny Halliwell, who was high priestess as their marriage, but a normal vicar who held a white bible.
The man turned to look at the doorway and Leo noticed him as Dan! And he was watching… a beautiful woman walking towards him in a long, white, wedding gown… Piper!
When she reached Dan, he gently kissed her, before pulling away. Leo knocked on the window desperately, before the couple turned to look at him and started laughing.
The scene flashed again and Leo was inside the manor watching the wedding. Once it was over, Dan swept Piper up into his arms.
"I am so glad I chose you over that other man," Piper giggled, "He so fancied himself as an angel."
"Oh Yer, Leo…" Dan said.
"Shush," Piper whispered placing a kiss on his lips, "I don't care about him anymore… I gave up my heritage for you didn't I?" Piper explained, Leo gasped, she had given up her powers?
Piper and Dan suddenly turned to him and laughed.
"There's him…" Dan laughed deeply.
"I knew he'd try crawling back…" Piper replied in the middle of her laughter.
Leo suddenly stood up in an outburst of anger.
"You gave up your powers? You gave them up, for him?" He shouted.
"No… she gave up the money from her sisters' wills!" Dan shouted back.
Piper suddenly stopped laughing and glared at Leo, her eyes blazing with anger. Then she pulled out an arrow from no where and stabbed him with it. Too late, Leo realised it was a dark lighter's arrow.
He bent double in pain as the poison seeped into his veins and he lost consciousness. He heard the distant sound of Piper's laughter as he passed out.
"He won't be bothering us again."
Light flashed before Leo's eyes, and he was standing over a teenager. Chris looked up, his angry eyes bored into his father's.
"You killed her!" Chris spat at him, then Leo noticed his son that Chris was crying over the body he held in his arms. Brown hair fell over his arm, and blood seeped into his white shirt. At first Leo thought she was Bianca, but then he saw her face, Piper!
"No…" Leo started to sob as a blonde haired man walked up to him.
"You killed her… your not our father!" Wyatt shouted angrily. Leo fell to his knees.
"I… am… I…" Wyatt suddenly kicked him in the gut and the scene faded.
It was just him in the middle a black abbess. Was this supposed to symbolise him turning evil? He gasped in horror at the thought as a red flash filled the room. He looked up and saw a short, dark haired woman in a black dress standing before him. She knelt beside him and rubbed his shoulders.
"Leo… save yourself, this isn't real… you need to save Paige…" Prue whispered, but Leo's eyes flashed as he looked at her.
"You're not fooling me again! You've hurt me enough!" He cried, throwing every bolts at her from every angle. Prue cried out, trying to duck, but they seared through her arms. Suddenly she was being lifted off the ground, surrounded by a huge blue energy bolt.
"Leo, no!" She screamed, and then she disappeared.
Leo was alone again, and it was all he deserved. He knelt on the floor and quietly sobbed to him, it was all too much.
Jade smiled at Leo as she watched him through the red crystal. She'd expected him to be tougher than this but only by being a white lighter, but of course, he wasn't just a white lighter, he was a husband, lover and father. She turned to the blonde haired infant that gurgled at her.
"Your going in next." She smiled as the child brought up his sheild, "You can't defeat me with that."
