Angelically Charmed: The Witch, the Mirror, and the Lipstick
Orbs floated down from the disco ball and back into the hand mirror, Grams was holding in her hands. "Any sign?" Penny asked as a young couple walked by. Quickly she began picking her teeth in an effort to keep Paige concealed.
"No…Picking your teeth? Ewe…" Paige made a disgusted face.
"Well I had to do something dear, someone might have seen me talking to you" Penny shrugged in her grandmotherly tone. They needed to find Drake. Casually, Grams stuck the hand mirror back into her bag. She purposely left the latch open so that Paige could see out.
"See anything?" Paige asked when they entered the corridor of the hotel.
"Only Prue and Andy" Grams beamed watching the young couple. They were standing on the sidewalk outside the hotel. Andy had hands shoved in his pockets looking grim faced while Prue's arms were folding over her chest. They appeared to be arguing.
Prue and Andy? Paige did her famous upper lip curl. If Prue and Andy were at the prom, then they weren't where they should be. Inadvertently, Paige had changed their history.
"Don't let them see you!" Paige hissed catching a glimp of the super couple as they came through the door. From where she sat, waiting in the mirror, she could hear, disgruntled Andy's protests.
"I just don't understand…we've been planning this night for months!"
"Let's just say I feel a little guilty going behind Grams back this time"
"It's never been a problem before"
"It is tonight okay?" Prue stared at him heatedly.
Grams had moved behind a large artificial plant, pretending to be reading an advertisers pamphlet. Though the torment in Prue's green eyes was almost more than she could take, she was pleased that her granddaughter had made a proper moral decision.
"I can't believe you're just going to let them argue like that" Paige tossed out noticing that Prue had headed into the bathroom.
"What would like me to do walk up to Prue and Andy and just give them my blessing?"
"Yes" Paige answered before squeezing her large dark eyes tightly shut, "No…I don't know. All I know is that their constant arguing is part of the reason I am here. That and that stupid reflection/ mirror demon"
"We'll find the demon," Penny said assuredly not realizing the danger that Prue had just stepped into. Keeping her eyes on Andy Penny stepped to her left accidentally bumping right into Drake.
"Excuse me" The demon said politely having no earthly clue of how close he was to the real Paige. Not wanting to expose, her granddaughter, Penny conveniently pulled her purse too locking Paige into a world of temporary darkness.
"No grams that's Drake!" Paige thundered only to have her cries fall on deaf ears. "Drake!" She tried to orb knowing that unless there was something with a reflection, she would have no medium to support her soul. Not since she, Piper and Phoebe had been shrunk by the demon Gammil had she felt so inadequate. Orbs floated through the air searching for a place to reconsistitute.
Must find mirror. Suffocating, Paige felt like she was suffocating. Her lungs burned, unmercifully. A large mirror with gaudy gold trim hung just outside the woman's bathroom. But was it too big, Paige reasoned, other people might see her.
"Paige?" Grams hissed unconsciously watching the trail of orbs streaming from her purse.
"Did you say Paige?" Drake looked about hoping for a glimpse of the porcelain skinned witch.
"How do you know Paige?" Penny's eyes narrowed suspiciously trying not focus on the faltering orbs swirling around her head.
"She's my date" Drake tugged on his lapels.
"Drake" Penny said without forethought pulling the hand mirror from her purse. Orbs filled it instantly, illumining the glass in a glowing blue.
Whew, Paige took in a huge gulp of air, trying to free herself from labored breathing. "That was close"
"Paige?" Drake nearly did a double take. "How did you get in there?"
"That's not important" Paige panted, "what is important is that we find the demon that stole my body!"
"Well that won't be too hard" Drake sheepishly scratched the back his head. "She's in the bathroom"
"Prue" Penny dared to breath. "Paige, we've got to hurry!"
Inside the ladies room, Prue stood at the sink looking down into the white basin of the sink. The woman of reflection stood behind her.
"Oh Miss Mathews, I didn't know anyone was in here" Prue remember the pretty dark substitute teacher and forced a smile.
Miss Mathews? The woman's eyes narrowed for a moment before realizing Paige's given name. "Why so glum?"
Prue shrugged modestly, shaking her head.
"Problems with you date?"
"Yeah" Prue replied keeping her eyes on the sink. "You know how guys are
"Tell me about it" The woman of reflection rolled Paige's beautiful dark eyes in a mocking manner. "You would happen to be a cheerleader would you?'
Young Prue's brow furrowed for a moment before giving weight to hearty smile, "Yes why?"
"No particular reason" the woman responded dabbing her lips with the cherry lipstick.
"Oooh, pretty color" Prue watched the woman smack her lips. Smiling inwardly, the woman turned the bottom of the tube so that the lipstick shot up as high as it go.
"You want some? It go would great with your dress"
Penthouse Present Day
Phoebe held Cole's hand tightly as they shimmered to the penthouse he shared with Drake and Declan.
"Nice, place" she complimented taking a few moments to let the décor sink in. "I just have a hard time believing you moved out of the manor"
"I couldn't stay there without you" Cole lowered his head giving her a grieving glance as the sound of thundering feet came pounding across the hardwood floor.
"Your back!" Declan stood all wide-eyed staring up at the half demon. Behind him stood the elf nanny Cole had hired to tend to the boy while he was out performing his legal duties.
Declan cocked his head, looking up at the man he'd come to think of as a guardian and the witch. "You's the lady from the picture next to Cole's bed" he blurted recognizing the deceased clairvoyant.
Phoebe's face lit up her hands sliding to her knees. She wanted to look at the boy closer. "Who's this?"
"He's mine" Cole said not biting back at grin when Phoebe's large chocolate eyes stared back in surprise. "Well not technically, He's the son of Mandela and a male witch. The Elder's thought I'd make a good role model"
"Role model" Phoebe said slowly testing out the thought as Cole's arm wrapped around her shoulder.
"Declan, this is Phoebe. Phoebe is Amanda's Aunt. Phoebe this is Declan"
"It's nice to meet you Declan," Phoebe cooed in her mock baby voice. "So you know Amanda?"
"I suppose's to marry her when I get big" Declan stated knowingly, "Uncle Drake told me"
"Marry?" Phoebe pushed herself up right, speaking through a clenched jaw.
"Long story" Cole whispered keeping a hold on her shoulders. 'But let's just stay it's connected to your so called Charmed destiny"
"Oookay" Phoebe drew out seemingly unfazed, "Whose Uncle Drake?"
"He lives with me and Cole" Declan blurted, "They is raising me"
"They are" Phoebe chuckled raising her eyes up to Cole, "Is there something you wanna tell? Because if you switched sides after I died, I can take it"
"Trust me, it's nothing like that" Cole replied with his own small laugh before kissing her hair.
Prom Night 1988
"Take it, it's really a great shade" The woman of reflection coaxed pushing the shiny tube closer to Prue"
"okay" Prue smiled showing the gaps in her teeth as she took the tube and raised it towards her lips, barely grazing her lower lip
"Prue don't touch that!"
Grams? Horrified Prue whirled around facing her grandmother.
"You shouldn't share lipstick Dear, you never know what kind of parasite might be lurking about" Penny eyed the woman of reflection heatedly curving her hand ever so slightly.
"Parasites" The woman of reflection narrowed her eyes ready for a fight.
"I hate you" Prue said under her breath before she sidestepped her grandmother.
Penny waited a moment until she was certain Prue was gone before throwing out her hand. "Leave my Granddaughters alone!" she hissed throwing the demon in Paige's body up against the floral decorated wall.
"A witch" the woman of reflection breathed curling her upper lip as she composed herself. "One old witch can't stop me"
"No but two can," Penny pushed her hand down into her big bag and pulled out the hand mirror, thrusting it forward. Orbs appeared and Paige flew into the mirror that sat over the sink. Her dark brows were narrowed, her lips spouting sassily
"Woman of reflection, get ready to feel my rejection. Spirits you have taken will now have you shaken"
"No longer shall you cause havoc, no longer shall you cause pain" Penny chimed in glancing at Paige's reflection.
"Back into the mirror you shall reign!" Penny shouted holding out her hand mirror as the woman before started to cower.
"No!"
"Grams?" Fear glazed over Paige's eyes as she watched her own body start to tremble and slowly peel apart. "I'm not liking this" She looked like her physical body was about to blow up.
"No longer shall you cause havoc no longer shall you cause pain, back into the mirror you shall reign!" Penny chanted against feeling a magnetic pull from the mirror.
"GRAMS!" Paige shouted as she watched her body began to warp towards the mirror in a long slow transparent wave "Grams stop!" The mirror holding Paige's body cracked opening a votex for the witches' soul to slip out. Orbs trickled out taking human form until Paige became corporeal
"Thanks" she breathed looking at her thin porcelain hands
"Don't thank me just yet" Penny grumbled as they watched all of the glass around them shatter into explosive bursts until one by one several trapped souls appeared all dressed in prom attire, some from the present so from the past.
"Thank you," a blonde haired girl said gazing down at her red hoop skirted dress. The others nodded appreciatively before their souls took flight heavenward.
"Who were they?" Paige asked watching her grandmother chew her lip.
"Her victims" Penny turned the mirror, allowing Paige to see the face of an old shriveled woman staring back her.
"She was waiting in Andy's house for Prue " Paige deducted watching Penny nodded.
"We should get rid of her"
"Oh allow me" Paige's left eye narrowed considering a chant before she grinned easily, "Take her now, take her away, remove this spirit now, don't let it stay. I call on the spirits to help up and send this reflection to Timbuktu"
The mirror float out of Penny's hands and slowly began to spin until it reached light speed, disappearing all together.
"I see you must have learned all of your rhyming from Phoebe" the older woman laughed causing Paige's facial expressions to solemn.
"As a matter of fact, I did"
"Paige is something the matter?" Grams tilted her head watching Paige's eyes mist.
"Everything's fine" Paige swallowed as Drake stepped into inside the door.
"Can I be of assistance?"
Grams eyed Paige carefully watching her youngest grandchild blush at the sight of the humble looking demon.
"As a matter of fact you can," Paige quipped crossing the room to take Drake's arm. "You can tell me how in the world I ended up in a pink ballerina style dress"
Drake lifted hand, brushing her cheek with the pad of his thumb, "All I can say is despite a demon taking over your body you look absolutely beautiful"
"Why thank you, Mr. Drake, you don't look so bad yourself" Paige chuckled staring up in his light colored eyes before walking out on his arm.