A/N: Paige knows that she is holding Amanda and not Glenda. Read on and you will see why I planned it that. Sorry for any confusion but I promise I have a purpose in mind.
Angelically Charmed: Portrait of a Schemer Part 2
"You can't destroy me, Piper…you don't have the guts!" Paige thrust her chin forward knowing that Piper knew somewhere deep inside the enchantress, lay the heart and soul of her sister.
"I will if I have too" Piper blinked trying to fight the emotion in her voice. Without Prue and Phoebe to help her, she was literally dependant on her powers, and her powers alone.
"Paige why don't you hand me Amanda" Drake stretched out his hand. "She's an innocent in all of this the one you really is want is Glenda".
"Amanda is quite fond of me, aren't you Angel Girl?" An athame appeared in Paige's hand where she strategically placed it under Amanda's throat. "Now get me my Daughter!"
"Drake shimmer to Darryl's and get Glenda" Piper ordered keeping her jaw clenched as Drake slowly recoiled his hand.
"But?"
"Just do it!" Pipers snapped watching him disappear into a set of ripples.
From the top of stairs, Declan watched fearfully along with Melinda and Ally. "Amanda needed me" Black and dark blue orbs appeared and before Ally and Melinda knew it he was gone; invisible just like his dark minded Mother and his future wife.
Invisible orbs floated down the stairs making their way towards Paige, where Declan waited patiently for a moment before sinking his teeth into her mid-thigh.
Naturally Paige screamed, releasing Amanda where the child dropped to the floor. "What did you do?" She seethed bringing down the athame directly down to the spot where Declan had been standing.
A small gasp of pain was heard before the little boy became visible, again…bleeding.
"Paige he's just a little boy!" Piper fell to her knees sliding to Declan's side where she cradled him protectively into her arms. Amanda quickly scurried to her Aunt's side.
Blood there was blood coming out of Declan's stomach. "Uncle Leo!"
"He can't help him right now" Piper's voice cracked before she dropped a teary kiss into the little boys hair.
"Nobody can" Paige hissed wickedly just as a set of shimmers appeared behind her causing her to whirl around.
Drake was holding Glenda in his arms.
"Our daughter is here Glendrous! Come see your daughter!" Paige shouted triumphantly still clutching the athame.
"Don't you mean my daughter?" From out of nowhere bright angelic balls appeared forming into Glenn in the angelic flesh. He of course was dressed in angelic white with a heavenly glow surrounding his presence.
"Glenn" Piper whispered too soft for anyone else to hear, "but how?" Silently she watched as the angelic mortal made his way towards Paige who was still seething with evil dripping from her lips.
"Witch Trickery!" she spat, looking over Glenn's shoulder to see his past counterpart.
Glenn merely smiled as his counterpart stood frozen in his tracks. "No it isn't Paige, and you know it" Mysteriously, Glenn gave a nod to his daughter who had formed a tiny light ball of goodness in her hand.
On her father's command, Glenda shot the ball straight into the back of Paige's head causing bright gold and white swirling lights to form around her. Just like with Amanda, Paige let out a small gasp letting the goodness flood her system.
Unable to handle the amount of Goodness that was filling the room, Glendrous vanished.
"Glenn?" Tears fell from Paige's huge chestnut eyes as she looked around the room, letting them finally land on Declan. "What have I done?"
"I don't know. All I know is that I was sent back because you and Glenda needed me" at that moment, Glenn stepped out his angelic light and became corporeal so that he could gather Paige into his arms. Weeping she looked over Glenn's shoulder to see an injured and bleeding Leo trying to heal Declan. Bane was just pushing to his feet pressing a hand to large gash that he had received on the head.
"I don't know if this is going to work" Leo looked at Piper and then to Paige. "I can't heal demons" Even it was just a little demon who'd been chosen by the Elder's as a cause worth saving.
" Due to the boy's outstanding show of bravery. We shall make an exception this case but know that the witch shall have consequences," Both Piper and Leo jerked their heads up to see three Elder's dressed in white and gold robes standing before them.
Leo turned his attention back to Declan healing his wound.
"You okay Buddy?" Piper smiled ruffling his hair as the little boy gave a groan of life. She then gently passed Declan back to Leo and pulled to her feet. "What kind of consequences?"
Using magic against children, even demonic children, was forbidden especially for a Guardian, like a Paige. "Paige will banished immediately"
"Banished?" Before Piper could even comprehend the thought, the middle Elder conjured a glass lantern and carefully opened the door, sucking Paige inside. A tornado like funnel with the strength of a vacuum literally tore Paige from Glen's arms.
"Glenn!" Paige held out her hand in useless effort.
"Paige? PAIGE!" Glenn screamed helpless as Paige disappeared in the lantern transforming into a swirl of firefly lights.
The three Elder's then disappeared as suddenly as they appeared taking Paige with them.
Bay General
"A clot, there is definitely a small clot located in the speech center of her brain" Ava Shuvani frowned as she studied results from Cat Scan and MRI that she had performed on Prue.
"Which means?" Andy looked at the doctor expectantly watching her place the film back into its protective sheath. He was still in shock that magic had been unable to heal Prue. He like Prue had thought of them being nearly invincible.
"It's means that when Prue wakes up that she will probably be incapable of speaking at least for a while. The good news it that if these results are correct, Prue should have suffered little or permanent paralysis"
"I am AWAKE!" Prue screamed unable to make an audible noise of any kind.
"Little or permanent paralysis?" Andy swallowed trying to take it all in. How could this be happening? Didn't immortality count for anything?
"I know this is a lot for you to take in right now" Ava soothed, "so for the moment we'll just concentrate on awaking Prue. But before I can do that, I'll need you to go out to the front desk and fill out some paper work"
Paper work? Andy couldn't fill out paper work unlike Prue he was still dead to the rest of the world. "I'll need to go get Piper for that"
"Of Course" Ava returned, "I'll make sure nothing happens to Prue until you return"
"No..Andy…please…don't…leave" Prue's heart started to race. The worse thing about being paralyzed was not being able to open her eyes. Who would have ever thought that your eyelids could ever become paralyzed? She thought disdainfully.
As if she had some how heard Prue's call Ava turned giving Andy some comfort "I tell you what, I go ahead and the Fentanyl started, I'll call you when she's stable"
"No…stay…stay…stay" Although Prue had never been afraid of the dark, there was something about being trapped in her own body that literally terrified her. What if she were never going to be able to move again? Or open her eyes…
For several moments everything in the room seemed peaceful as Andy started to shuffle his way out of the room. Then floor began to shake and monitors within the room began to crack, followed by the sound of breaking glass.
"What is that?" Ava looked around startled as a massive force of telekinetic energy took over the room.
"It's Prue" Andy whispered as the shaking became more intense, causing an IV pole to topple over. "She's trying to reach out"
"Prue?" Ava braced herself against the large computer that controlled all of the monitors, hoping it wouldn't fall. "I thought she could only channel her powers through her eyes and her hands.
Andy tried to step forward, stumbling. "No actually, her powers are initially channeled through her mind.
"Then she's done this before?" Ava looked Andy incredulously. She always knew that Prue was a powerful witch to say the least, but to have the ability to use her powers when her body was in such a fragile state spoke in epic proportions of what a spirit brought back from the after life was capable.
"A few times, but mostly it's when she's angry with me and doesn't want me to know about it" The surges of emotional blasts had started occurring shortly after Alyeia's birth mostly in sporadic episodes. Andy grabbed the bed railing before letting his hand fall into Prue's hair, stroking it gently. "It's okay, Prue. I'm here"
"I'm not angry with you Andy. We just have a lot to work out" Prue sighed inwardly letting her emotions calm at the feel of his touch. "Okay, this is better, I can handle this…THIS! OW!" Prue felt a sharp prick as Ava started an IV. A few moments later she was surrounded by a sensation of inner peace as the drug started to take over her system. "Whoa…I'm starting to feel a little funny here…really funny. All right who make the room start to spin…not that I can see the room" she felt dizzy, really dizzy she concluded before bursting out into a giddy laugh.
In one sweeping moment, Prue's love life flashed through her mind, bursting her insides like a skyrocket. One minute she was with Andy reliving the moment that had given Amanda life and then strangely the next with Bane.
"Bane? How did he get into this picture?" Prue hadn't thought about him in a long time years in fact, not since Andy had come back into her life. Why should she? She wondered letting herself enjoy the moment that she and Bane spendt together on the dance floor as Hellfire.
In a nuetral section ofunderworld, Natalie stood over the mason jar what held the remains of Francis, "all right dear, it's time to bring your back" with a wave of her hand the ashes started to regenerate and once again became Francis.
"What happened to me?" the Sorceress asked shocked at her new surroundings. "How did I get here?"
"I brought you back" Natalie returned, "As an avatar I have the power to control many things even life and death"
Natalie then glanced upward as a wayward set of orbs appeared transforming into an off balance Bane. "What did you do to Prue?" he roared lunging at his older half sister. "I know you did something Franny!" Born to Bane's mother and a warlock, Francis had inherited her father's powers; making her a mid-level sorceress in the supernatural world. When her father had been vanquished by the Source, Bane's mother had no choice but to remarry a mortal who would keep her daughter safe. All of her life Francis had looked out for her younger mortal brother, Bane waiting for magic to take a hold on him on somehow.
"She was following orders" Natalie droned "as you should you. Now that you have come into your powers you should respect magic, like your sister"
"I do" Bane ran a hand of frustrations through his hair. " But you said that if I listened to you. Prue would be mine for the taking! You never mentioned anything about being married and having kids"
"A technicality" Natalie sniffed waving her hand, as if Bane were some sort of servant. "Now go back to the manor and let Leo teach you how to use your powers for the greater good. Francis and I will take care of all the rest"
"I don't want to see anything else happen to Prue" Clenching his fists, Bane exploded upward in a set of orbs, just as three Elder like figures appeared one of which who was holding a lantern.
"You have a Charmed One?" Natalie took the lantern smiling triumphantly as the three figures shape shifted into their true form; avatars.
"Paige, the youngest" King Glendrous rounded the corner, changing into a fourth avatar of Chinese decent. "The plan of pulling she and Piper in a mock past reality worked like a Charm...excuse the pun"
"First Phoebe had been eliminated and now Paige Well Done" Natalie beamed, knowing that the remaining Charmed One's would have no choice but to blame the Elder's for the lose of another sister.
"That's two Charmed Ones down and two to go" Crystal glasses filled with wine appeared into the hands of Francis and the avatars. Together they toasted one another heartily reeling momentary victory.
"Making that one and half" Thinking of Prue's present condition, Francis clinked her glass with Natalie's.
"Soon, we will have no one to worry about except Piper"