A/N: I decided to change the working title of chapter from what I had previously told some of you.

Angelically Charmed: An Angelic Awakening

"I can't heal them. They're in limbo" Regretfully Leo pulled his hands away. Even though death had been temporarily stopped by Piper's spell it still didn't stop the actual act of dying.

"Try again" Piper begged.

"Piper, I can't-" Leo's voice lingered as Melinda and Ally returned to their normal childlike selves. Now that shadow creatures were gone their was no need for adult forms however their moral injuries remained.

"I SAID TRY AGAIN, DAMN IT!" Piper gritted her teeth forcing her voice to soften, "Please".

Once again, Leo held his hands over the bodies of his daughter and niece.

"Nothing" Piper whispered touching her nose with the back of her hand. "Why? Why isn't it working?"

"Because technically they're in the first stage death" Leo choked.

"First stage?" Amanda looked at her uncle confused.

Leo turned to her offering his explanation. "Death has various stages. The first is acceptance and limbo that's when a person is mortally wounded or succumbs to a terminal illness. They're physical bodies are gone but the spirit remains in tact until it moves onto the afterlife"

"Then there is still a chance," Amanda blurted hopefully. If Ally and Melinda hadn't were stuck in limbo then maybe their souls could be brought back. "Maybe we can find a spell. There was one in the book…"she thought for a moment. "The Awakening Spell"

"The awakening spell?" Piper repeated incredulously, "How do you know about that?" The awakening the spell was the spell that Phoebe and Prue had cast when Piper had contracted Arroyo fever. "How on earth did you ever find it?"

"I told you, I read the book"

"The entire thing?" Piper raised her eyebrows before dismissing the thought. "Amanda, that spell has serious consequences" Sleepless, Piper, Prue and Phoebe had all been rendered sleepless until Prue and Phoebe said the reversal spell which had sent Piper back into a coma.

Amanda raised her right hand shooting out in anger. "SO, what consequences would possibly worse than losing them?"

"Nothing" Piper replied meekly, "But we'll need a poppet"

A few moments later, Piper and Amanda knelt over Ally andMelinda each holding a rag doll. "Here," Piper said handing Amanda a scrap of paper which contained the spell.

"Thanks, but I don't need it" They just needed to change some words to make it fit their purpose. Amanda didn't bother to gaze up at her aunt. Every spell from the book of shadows was now deeply embedded into the back of her brain.

Speaking simultaneously both witches moved their hands in circle motions rotating the dolls around Melinda and Ally's lifeless bodies.

Sleep eternal never more, and shift this source of death's borne,

to this poppet whom none shall mourn

"It's not working" Declan stood beside Leo marveling at Amanda's new found expertise. It was as if she had been a witch of experience all of her life.

"Give it sometime" Leo whispered placing his hand on the younger man's shoulder as Piper and Amanda repeated the spell.

"Mommy!" Five-year-oldMelinda and Six-year-old Ally woke up with a bolt, sitting straight up.

"I'm here babies, I'm here" Piper smiled embracing all three of them.

"Wha happened?" Ally rubbed her eyes tiredly causing Amanda to steal her nose.

"You two kicked ass, that's what happened"

"Oooo…Mommy. Amanda says a potty mouth word" Melinda replied still releasing in the feel of her mother's arms.

"Yes she did," Piper kissed the top of Melinda's hair, "and she and I will have a long talk about that as well as your ass kicking" Piper kissed Melinda again. " Now how would you guys like it if Leo took you two little super witches out for ice cream"

Both girl's faces lit up with delight. "Can we have cake too?" Ally beamed.

"Sure Uncle Leo will get you whatever you want" Piper pulled to her feet, "run upstairs and wash up first"

"Hoorah!" The sound of thundering little feet echoed up the stairs with all eyes following the sound.

"Are you sure you want me to take them out?" Leo asked skeptically, "It's almost dinner time"

"Yes, and take um…." Piper motioned towards Declan. "Who are you?"

"Declan, I'm Amanda's future husband," the young demonic tracer answered regretfully as Piper's eyes went wide. Although, Amanda's prince spell had been broken when death interfered, Declan still only had swooning eyes only for her.

"HER WHAT?" Piper crossed her arms over her chest seething as she waited for Leo and Declan to leave with the younger girls.

"You messed with the future didn't you?"

"Just a little" Amanda cowered showing Piper her pincher grasp. "But Declan grew up when I did. The only thing I really saw was Ally future power. She'll be able to-"

"Amanda!" Piper stamped her foot. "You know you're not suppose to mess with the future! You could change history!" Piper shook her head and pinched the bridge of her nose. "What else did you do?"

"Nothing" Amanda lifted her hand to her mouth and began to bite her fingernails.

"Oh nothing except read the entire book!" Piper spat almost in a rage jerking Amanda's hand away from her mouth. "Do you know that the book of shadow's has nearly fifteen hundred pages of spells and potions?" Piper whirled not giving Amanda a chance to answer, " "I've been a witch a lot longer than you, and I haven't even read the entire thing, and much less memorized every spell!"

"Would you believe I'm gifted?" Amanda swallowed watching Piper give her the evil eye. "Okay, I cast the smart spell!"

"The Smart Spell!" Piper had to force herself to bit down on her lip to control her anger. "Oh crap this is worse than I thought"

"Would it help if said I knew how to find Mom and Dad and Aunt Paige?"

"This had better good," Piper grumbled prodding the young witch/tracer in the back.

Amanda sat at the computer entering the coordinates to several astral planes, "All I need to do is scan in Mom and Dad's picture and then download a chip from the scrying crystal and cross reference the probability of time travel"

"Really" Piper replied sarcastically, "Uh won't demons be able to pick up on this since you're using the internet?"

"Aunt Piper we do have the latest in magical spyware," Amanda smiled hitting the enter button. Several green and gray files scrolled across the screen hundreds at a time until the computer found a match.

"Blockbuster?" Piper peered over Amanda's shoulder. "Prue and Andy are trapped inside a video store?"

"Not a video store" Amanda rose to her feet and crossed over to the video cabinet. "A video, or at least this video opens up the portal" Searching her family's collection she plucked out an old videotape of her father's favorite movie: The Untouchables. "Weren't Dad and Uncle Darryl watching this when Dad first disappeared?"

"Yeah they were" Piper took the dusty video into her hands. "So how do we get it to open up?"

"Leave that to me" Amanda grinned making Piper roll her eyes.

The Angel of Destiny stood in the Afterlife sipping a cup of tea when Death appeared when a nervous looking Bane. "What are you doing?" she droned.

"Trying to save the world"

"That isn't your job" The Angel of Destiny took a moment to eye Bane up and down. "And he shouldn't be here, now be gone before you cause greater damage to grand design"

Death's eyes narrowed showing a hint of emotion, "Don't you lecture me on the Grand Design! I wrote it!"

Waving her cup of tea away, Destiny raised her chin in a commanding manner. "Then you should also know that by bringing this mortal in before his time you are submitting to your own demise"

"That's a chance I'm willing take," Death returned, "now give him his powers"