Chapter 50: Magic Hour
Phoebe is standing next to the table making 3D glasses. Prue and Buffy are watching.
"She's gonna choose you." Prue says.
Buffy shakes her head, "Is not."
"Out of the three of us you're the closer to her, Buffy. Ever since that deal with yours and Phoebe's past lives you two have been almost inseparable." Prue says.
Buffy sighs, "And you and Phoebe have known her longer. I mean, there was that whole bonding time before I even moved in."
Prue sighs, she concludes Buffy has a point. Phoebe puts on the 3D glasses. "What are those?"
Phoebe smiles, "They're glasses so we can watch the eclipse."
"They're very cool." Prue says.
"I made you a pair too." Phoebe says.
Prue smiles, "Yay, thank you."
Buffy rolls her eyes.
Piper walks in.
Phoebe smiles, "Oh, good, you're home."
Prue nods, "Hey, so, um, we were sorta hoping that you could settle something for us."
"Sure, anything to get my mind off weddings." Piper says. Buffy, Prue and Phoebe look at each other. "What?"
Prue shakes her head, "Nothing."
"No, come on. What?" Piper says.
Prue sighs, "Okay, uh, well, we were kind of wondering who you were going to have as your maid of honor."
"Oh, well, let me think about it. I'm not allowed to invite anybody or have a cake or a band or flowers, so what makes you think I'll be able to have a maid of honor?" Piper says.
Buffy shakes her head, "It's not that bad."
They walk into the living room and sit down on the couch.
"It's not like I'm some girly-girl and wants like a fairytale wedding, but I just thought there would be some things that would be givens." Piper says.
Phoebe nods, "Like fighting with the caterer and agonizing over who makes the final cut on the guest list?"
Piper sighs, "Even those. I just, just wanna be able to celebrate a little."
Prue nods, "Alright, maybe you're not getting your dream wedding but you are getting your dream guy."
Piper sighs. Leo orbs in.
"Leo!" Buffy says.
"Shh!" Leo says.
"Leo." Phoebe whispers.
"I hate to be the bearer of bad news." Leo says.
Piper shakes her head, "Can't you possibly be the bearer of a big hug?"
"Not after what I just found out." Leo says as he sits on the coffee table in front of Piper. "They want an answer, Piper, about us. Either there isn't any us or you guys get a new Whitelighter. We have till tomorrow night to decide."
"Tomorrow night? That's insane." Piper says.
Leo nods, "Look, there is door number three. We can try and pull this off tomorrow night, if we do, it's binding. They can't even break that apart."
Piper nods, "Yeah, but if they find out they can break us apart into a thousand little pieces."
"Excuse me?" Phoebe and Buffy says.
Piper sighs, "I believe the term he used was "unspeakable wrath, the likes of which you can't even imagine.""
Leo nods, "Look, I'm not gonna lie to you, we would be taking a huge risk and until they get an answer they are going to be listening very closely, so any talk of 'it' any use of the W word..."
"I hate to be the detail police but how are we gonna hide it from them when we're on their supernatural redial? They're always gonna be tuning in. Phoebe, did you find anything in the Book Of Shadows about how to hide this?" Prue says.
Phoebe shakes her head, "No, nothing. I'm sorry, I'm still on the unspeakable wrath part. I mean, is that just the bride and groom or does it also include bridesmaids?"
"Phoebe..." Buffy says.
Phoebe sighs, "What? I mean, there must be some real reason that this merging is so forbidden, their hardcore against it."
Prue nods, "Yeah, well, rules are meant to be broken."
Phoebe shakes her head, "Bodies weren't."
Piper nods, "And neither were hearts. Leo, are you sure there's a way we can do this without getting caught?"
Leo nods, "If there is we'll find it. Just be extra careful. Speak in code and especially avoid using words like, you know."
"Hmm." Piper says.
Leo nods, "Dum, dum, da-dum."
Piper nods, "Mmm hmm. Alright, you should go." They stand up and stand close to each other. "The less time you spend here is probably better." They move in to kiss but stop. "And we probably shouldn't do that either."
Leo nods, "Soon."
Piper smiles, "Yeah."
Leo orbs out.
Buffy gets up and hugs Piper. "Why are they so hell-bent on seeing each one of us so very very alone." Kit growls from outside. "Kit?"
Out on the porch an owl is there and Kit has her claw up ready to attack it.
Buffy opens the door. "Kit, leave that alone."
"Bad kitty!" Phoebe says.
The owl suddenly turns into a naked man.
"Good kitty." Prue says.
Moments later Everyone is in the living room.
Chris, the former owl, has wrapped a towel around his waist. "Are you afraid of me?"
Prue shakes her head, "No, are you planning on sprouting horns, growing fangs and eating us?"
"If you work for him he'll do worse than that." Chris says.
Buffy shakes her head, "Which him are you referring to?"
"Okay, hi, not that I don't enjoy the verbal ping pong here but we do have that other thing we need to figure out kind of quickly, so let's cut to the chase. Are we helping or fighting?" Piper says.
"What you saw happen to me didn't scare you?" Chris asks.
Phoebe rolls her eyes, "If I had a dollar for every time an owl turned into a hot guy on our porch, I'd be rrr—"
Piper covers Phoebe's mouth. "We've seen worse."
Prue nods, "If you're not here to kill us, apparently we're supposed to help you."
"The only help you can give me is to allow me to leave." Chris says.
"I think it's pretty obvious, don't you, that uh, pretty familiar with the world of magic. We're sort of on the same team here." Buffy says.
Chris shakes his head, "But the last thing I need in my life right now is more magic."
"I don't think you understand." Piper says.
Chris sighs, "No, you're right, I don't understand, because I stopped understanding when he cursed me and took my life away from me. The only thing I do understand is loss. The only thing I want is revenge."
"Who did this to you?" Phoebe asks. "Was it a magician, a sorcerer?"
"It was my boss." Chris says.
"Just give us some time, I'm sure we can figure out—" Prue says.
Chris shakes his head, "I've lost enough time already when your cat dragged me here. Look, I only have twelve hours and at sunrise tomorrow I am airborne again. I won't, no, I can't last another day repeating the same cycle. Tonight, this thing ends. His life and I hope the curse that goes along with it."
Buffy sighs, "Just give us 30 seconds, please."
Chris nods, "Starts now."
"Okay, uh, there are some of my boyfriend's clothes over there. Why don't you dress while we huddle." Piper says.
Chris walks over to the pile of clothes.
"Well, he definitely has that whole tortured innocent thing going on." Phoebe says.
"Yeah, but we're kind of busy and he doesn't seem to want our help." Piper says.
"Been there, saved that, it wouldn't be the first time. Alright, you get ready just incase he decides to bolt. Alright, here's what we're gonna..." Prue says as they notice Chris has snuck out.
"Oh, well, he's gone. That's too bad." Piper says.
Phoebe shakes her head, "Uh, Piper, we can't just ignore this. He was brought to us for a reason."
Piper nods, "Yes, but we have to find a way to hide the www... rutabaga before they catch on."
"The rutabaga?" Buffy asks confused.
Piper nods, "It's a code word for the thing we're not supposed to talk about." She hums the wedding song.
Buffy nods, "Oh, the rutabaga."
Piper nods, "Yes, so let's do the divide and conquer thing, okay?" Kit is playing with the owl feather. "Great."
Prue nods, "I'll look in the Book Of Shadows and try to scry what this owl feather is." She picks up the feather. "You guys see what you can come up with for Piper's rutabaga."
Piper walks in the foyer.
"Uh, maybe I should stay here and help you." Phoebe says.
Prue shakes her head, "Phoebe, Piper needs your help just as much as the innocent does, maybe more."
"Prue I can help Piper. It don't take fifty of us tag teaming each other." Buffy says.
Prue shakes her head, "Buffy I know you can. But I need you here okay. That way if I find Chris you can flame me to him."
Buffy sighs and nods.
Later in the attic Buffy and Prue are looking through both Book Of Shadows. Piper and Phoebe walk in having just returned from the bookstore.
"Hey, I hope you guys had better luck than I did." Prue says.
Piper walks over to the BOS and starts flipping the pages. "Not really. I ended up with the wrong books and, uh, well, Phoebe almost got lucky right there in the store."
"Ha ha. So you two didn't find anything?" Phoebe says.
Buffy nods, "Yeah, it's just the pieces don't really seem to fit, you know, I mean, I-I can understand cursing someone to be an animal but why for only half of the day?"
"And we don't know where he went, right?" Phoebe asks.
Prue shakes her head, "No, we both tried scrying with the owl feather but it must not work while he's human."
"I found something." Piper says.
"On the curse?" Buffy asks.
Piper shakes her head, "Um, no, about the, um, rutabaga. It's a ritual that's like a rutabaga but it's called a, um..." she writes down "Handfasting" on a small blackboard.
Phoebe nods, "Oh, yeah, hand..."
"Shh shh shh." Prue, Piper and Buffy says.
Piper nods, "The reason we write the bad words is so that we don't say the bad words. Wait a minute, I thought you said you looked in the book and couldn't find anything to help me."
"Uh, yeah, well, it said that we needed a high priestess and since we don't have one of those I just sort of figured why even mention it. Besides, I couldn't find anything in there about how to hide it from them and thinks that's the really most important part so that we don't have to feel the, um..." she writes "unspeakable wrath" on the blackboard and shows it to them.
Piper sighs "I think you can say those words."
Phoebe nods, "Uh, I was hoping writing them down would help us remember them. Um, I'm just worried that if you go through with it, it's going to be too dangerous and that maybe, um, this is really hard for me to say, but maybe you're being a little selfish."
Piper sighs, "Selfish?"
Phoebe nods, "Yeah, because what if your rutabaga keeps us from doing our job, keeps us from saving innocent people? What happens then?"
"Uh, yeah, but what about me?" Piper asks. "I mean, maybe you're right, maybe I'm being selfish but what's wrong with that? I mean, when do we get to do something for ourselves? Haven't you ever wondered that, or wanted that?"
"Yeah, absolutely, but not at the expense of hurting other people or each other." Phoebe says.
Piper sighs, "Is that what you're afraid of? Getting hurt?"
Phoebe shakes her head, "No, Piper, I'm afraid that you're not afraid of getting hurt."
"I've been through more pain in the past two years that you can imagine and this is the only way to stop that. Now, I'd like to do the right thing but I also want to be with him." Piper says as she closes the Charmed Book Of Shadows and the owl feather falls on the floor.
Buffy picks it up and has a premonition of Chris being attacked by a wolf. "I so wish I didn't have that stupid power. Why can't Phoebe be the only one who gets Premonitions."
"What is it?" Prue asks.
Buffy sighs, "Our innocent and I think he was being attacked by a coyote or a wolf."
Later in the forest Buffy, Prue, Piper and Phoebe are there looking for Chris.
"Alright, wait a minute, I think that this looks like the place... sorta." Buffy says.
Piper sighs, "That's funny, I remember it looking like the right place sorta three hours ago."
Phoebe shakes her head, "Okay, look, if you wanted a supernatural LoJack, Buffy and I are not it."
"Oh, wait, look, that is where Christopher was standing in my premonition." Buffy says.
A wolf is lurking in the bushes.
"Shh, shh, what was that?" Piper says.
They see Chris.
"There he is." Prue says.
"Hey!" Phoebe says.
The wolf runs out and barks at the girls.
"No!" Chris says.
The wolf runs over to Chris.
"Okay, Piper, you have to freeze him." Phoebe says.
Buffy shakes her head, "Wait. I don't think it was an attack after all."
Chris looks to the wolf, "We don't have much time, my love, someone's coming."
Prue nods, "Buffy's right he's not attacking."
Chris and the wolf run into an old house and face each other. Buffy, Prue, Piper and Phoebe watch from outside. As the sun rises the wolf turns into a naked woman and Chris turns into an owl.
Moments later the woman (Brooke) is dressed. She runs out of the house as Buffy, Prue, Piper and Phoebe follow.
"Wait. Christopher wanted us to talk to you." Prue says.
"He does?" Phoebe asks.
"I'm vamping." Prue says as Buffy rolls her eyes. "It's the only was to get her to stop. Look, we met him last night, right before he went after the sorcerer. We tried to stop him but without your help he'll do it again and we both know what will happen if he does."
Brooke nods, "He'll die. How do I know that you're not working for him?"
Buffy smiles, "You don't. You guys can't do it alone so you're just gonna have to trust us."
Brooke nods, "Trust is earned."
Phoebe nods, "Okay, I hate to break up the whole getting to know you portion of the program but what did Christopher mean when he said someone was coming?"
"If Christopher went after him, then he must've sent someone after us." Brooke says.
Piper frowns, "Why?"
Brooke sighs, "Because he fell in love with me. This, this curse is my punishment for not returning that love."
"So woman by day and wolf by night?" Piper asks.
The owl flies past them.
"He's warning me, we have to go." Brooke says.
"Huh? Oh, alright." Piper says.
"Ok take my hands." Buffy says.
"What?" Brooke asks.
"Just…" Buffy says as the sorcerer's assistant appears with a crossbow and shoots arrows at them.
"Where is he?" the Assistant asks.
Prue shakes her head, "That's the least of your problems."
Prue uses her power and he goes flying. He runs away.
Phoebe nods, "Have we earned your trust yet? Come on."
Buffy nods, "Ok, Brooke grab a hold Phoebe's hand. You have to either be touching me or someone who is touching me."
"Why?" Brooke says.
"You'll see. Just do as I ask please." Buffy says and they flame back to the manor.
"I swear to God I've seen this in a movie somewhere." Phoebe says.
"Uh, Pheebs?" Prue asks.
Phoebe nods, "Upstairs, Book Of Shadows, curse search, way ahead of ya."
"Uh, okay, you and I are gonna go to the kitchen.
"I'm fine, really, let me help." Brooke says.
Prue shakes her head, "Look, you are tired and hungry, please, just let me help."
They walk in the kitchen.
"Wanna take a wiccan time out and do the crossword puzzle?" Phoebe says as Piper gives her a look. "Piper, uh, about what I said before, I didn't mean..."
Piper sighs, "Yes, you did. You never say anything you don't mean."
Phoebe nods, "You keep saying that it isn't like what you'd have imagined and I do understand your side of it, I mean, I have never seen anyone look at you the way Leo does and that is beautiful and you deserve that but I still, I, um, I can't say that it's right. And I wish that I were wrong and it's important that you know that."
Piper nods, "The problem is you're not. There's truth to do what you said, I can't deny that. So unless you, Buffy and Prue approve it I won't go through with it.."
Phoebe heads upstairs.
Buffy smiles, "I approve I just would have liked it to be celebrated is all instead of basically being an E word."
Piper looks at Buffy and sighs, "I know you do, Buffy. But in the end this kind of affects all of us."
"Okay." Buffy says.
Buffy and Piper walks in the kitchen
Brooke is reading a note left on the fridge. "We used to leave each other notes. When this, when this first happened I'd find them at sunrise and I'd know, I'd remember all the reasons why I loved him. And then..."
Buffy sighs, "The letters stopped." Out of all of them she was the one who knew how Brooke felt. Dating a vampire was not the easiest of relationships. When she was sleeping Angel was awake and when Angel was asleep she was awake.
"There's a limit, you know, to how much any person can take." Brooke says as she looks out the window. "You keep wondering..." The owl lands on the back of a chair outside. "You keep asking yourself..."
"Shouldn't love conquer all?" Piper says.
Prue nods, "You know this isn't fair. I mean, it's hard enough to find somebody that you can spend the rest of your life with but when you constantly have magic medalling, I am so sick of it. I mean, I've been through it, Buffy went through it, you're going through it, Piper, and now Brooke? What love can't conquer we will."
"For everybody but ourselves." Piper says.
Buffy shakes her head, "My sister, the day's not over yet."
"We're gonna need your help if you want this to end happily ever after. I know I could use a happy ending." Piper says.
They walk out into the backyard and Brooke walks over to the owl.
"I took a job. It was an established firm with the reputation for promoting from within." Brooke says as she picks up the owl. "My boss was this odd man. I'd worked for nightmares before but nothing like this. He made moves, I made things clear, he made me this."
"To keep you away from Christopher?" Buffy asks.
Brooke nods, "He said if he couldn't have me, no one would. Until there was a night within a day or until I give in. I never thought... magic was for kids parties, it wasn't real. I didn't know."
"We're still kind of getting used to it ourselves." Piper says.
Brooke sighs, "But this, this is my fault."
"No, you said yes to a job, not to a man." Prue says.
Brooke nods, "But Christopher is being punished because of me. I did this to him."
Buffy shakes her head, "That's not what he said. He doesn't blame you for anything and he said..."
"How strong you are." Piper says.
Brooke smiles, "He said that?"
Piper nods.
"He said that it's your strength that he first fell in love with. And he just needs to know that you're not gonna give that up." Prue says.
Later Assistant #2 is chasing them around the house with a crossbow.
"Phoebe?" Prue calls out.
"Coming." Phoebe replies.
Piper gets stuck against the wall with two arrows stuck on her sleeves. Phoebe walks downstairs and he shoots an arrow near her. Buffy is working on one of the arrows trapping Piper. Phoebe gasps. Prue uses her power and he crashes into a cupboard.
"Pheebs, a little help here please." Piper says as Phoebe and Buffy pull out the arrows. "Okay, he could've killed me."
"Us." Phoebe says.
"The question is, why didn't he?" Buffy asks.
"Because I don't want you. I want the bird, where is he hiding?" Assistant #2 says.
Brooke walks into the room and the assistant points the crossbow at her. The owl flies in front of her and he shoots getting the owl. "No!"
Buffy powers up a fireball throwing it at the assistant and he disappears in a puff of smoke. She, Prue, Piper and Phoebe run over to Brooke. Brooke is crying as she picks up the owl.
Moments later Everyone's sitting on the couch. Brooke is holding the owl.
"He'll be alright." Prue says.
"I know that's the right thing for you to say but you don't know that. Now all I can do is watch him die." Brook says.
Buffy shakes her head, "No, we can do a lot more than that."
Piper sighs, "You know I can't, not now, not while they're watching."
Buffy shakes her head, "My sister, this has absolutely nothing to do with us and everything to do with an innocent." Piper closes her eyes and Leo orbs in. "Leo, we, uh..."
Leo nods, "I know, they told me about the bad guys. The vanquishing talk caught their ears not the other thing."
"Leo's a healer." Prue says.
Leo walks over to Brooke and the owl. "I can't heal animals."
"Well, we can't take him to the vet." Phoebe says.
Piper sighs, "He's not exactly an animal."
Leo tries to heal the owl.
"He is until sunset." Prue says.
"So you're saying we have to wait?" Phoebe asks.
Leo nods, "I'm sorry."
The doorbell rings. Phoebe goes to answers it. A moment later Leo walks into the foyer.
"Did you ever think, did you ever consider that maybe it wasn't meant to be?" Piper asks as Phoebe and Leo walk back in. "Things happen for a reason, right? Maybe it's not worth the risk to be together."
"If you don't take the risk for love, then what do you take it for?" Brooke asks.
Buffy nods, "Brooke has a point."
Phoebe clears her throat. Leo walks outside.
"Leo, wait." Piper says. She goes after him.
Buffy looks between Phoebe and Brooke. "Excuse me." She gets up and goes to follow Piper outside.
Leo is walking down the stairs. Piper follows. Buffy stays far enough back to not intrude but close enough incase Piper needs support.
"Leo, wait, you can't do that. You can not come into the end a conversation and assume that you know everything." Piper says.
Leo sighs, "Alright, let's pretend that I don't know anything. Then explain it to me."
"I wasn't questioning you, I was questioning our decision." Piper says.
Leo nods, "Then ask me your questions."
"Don't you think I would like to?" Piper asks.
Leo shakes his head, "Honestly, I don't know what you're thinking."
"Well, what I'm thinking is maybe Phoebe is right. Maybe we're being selfish, our decision affects other people, other people that I happen to love." Piper says.
Leo nods as he motions towards Buffy, "I love them too, Piper."
Piper looks over at her cousin and nods, "I know, I know that. Look, you are the last person I wanna be fighting with right now."
"Then let's stop." Leo says.
"Leo, if we get... if you and... Okay, let me try that again. Brooke and Christopher love each other very much but in the end that didn't matter." Piper says.
Leo nods, "We haven't reached the end yet. Have a little faith. Don't you think this scares me too? Don't you think that I have my doubts?"
"Do you?" Piper asks.
Leo nods, "Of course I do. What I'm trying to say is I know what Christopher must feel. You know, always worried about the timing, about how he has to live his life, knowing what his true feelings are but unable to share those with the one person that he has them for."
Buffy walks over, "How the timing is never just right."
Leo nods in agreement. Of all of them Buffy understood the best about what was happening between him and Piper.
"She knows but it doesn't fix everything." Piper says.
Phoebe walks up next to Buffy, "You've gotta give it a chance." She holds up a small blackboard. "Logic and reason go out the window when love gets involved."
They see that Phoebe has written on the blackboard: You have my blessing.
"You have mine as well, you know that. My sister." Buffy says.
"Wait a minute, I thought you said that..." Piper says.
Phoebe smiles, "Yeah, well, I got a long distance call with some really good advice."
"But we still haven't figured out how to pull it off." Piper says.
Phoebe nods, "When the time's right, you'll know."
Buffy smiles, "Pheebs is right there."
Phoebe looks up at the sky.
"That's quite a turnaround for you, sis. Who's your new confidante?" Piper says.
"Huh?" Phoebe says distracted.
Buffy looks up and then sees what Phoebe has already recognized.
"I think she means your advice giver." Leo says.
Phoebe blocks her face with the blackboard.
"Nice try, Pheebs, but the distraction technique stopped working in third grade." Piper says.
Buffy shakes her head, "It's the eclipse. A night within a day."
"I'm sorry, please repeat." Piper says.
Phoebe looks to Buffy and smiles, "The curse, the eclipse. Until a night within a day. Isn't that what Brooke said? That's what gonna break the curse." She runs inside. "Prue, it's happening."
The owl turns back into Chris as everyone walks in.
"Leo, it just happened. Please help him." Prue says.
"This proves the theory. It's the eclipse." Buffy says.
Chris tries to sit up.
"Whoa, whoa, you're not going anywhere." Leo says.
"Brooke." Chris says.
Prue nods, "Just rest, okay, we'll tell her."
Chris shakes his head, "You can't, she's gone."
Buffy frowns, "What do you mean she's gone?"
"She was in the kitchen when I left." Phoebe says.
Prue frowns, "She's gone to him hasn't she? Alright, we'll handle it while Leo works on you."
Leo walks over to Chris. He pulls out the arrow and heals him.
"Thank you." Chris says.
Piper shakes her head, "I don't understand. Why would Brooke go to him?"
Buffy sighs, "She didn't trust that we would be able to save him. Am I right?"
Chris nods, "Yes. She knows that she can thought.
"How?" Phoebe asks.
Chris nods, "The curse. If at anytime she agrees to be with him, seals the pledge with a kiss..."
"She'll be forever bound." Piper says.
Phoebe nods, "But the eclipse changes that."
"Yeah, but she doesn't know that." Buffy says. "Who's up for a flame express?"
In an office building Buffy, Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Chris flame in.
"T minus and counting." Phoebe says.
Piper nods, "Then we get to break into Attica." She stops. "Ugh. I don't feel so..."
"What is it?" Buffy asks concerned.
"I don't know, I don't have a good feeling about this. Wait a minute, I take that back. I do have a good feeling about it, about something. I feel all warm and fuzzy." Piper says.
"Is it your stomach?" Prue asks.
"No, it's here." Piper says as she pats her chest.
"When the time is right you'll know. Oh my God, the time is right." Phoebe says.
"The time for what?" Prue asks.
Buffy smiles, "The, uh, the wed... the rutabaga. It's gotta be the eclipse. If we can't look up, that must mean that they can't look down."
Prue gets all excited. "Oh! Oh! Oh! Ooh, this is it, this is it. Okay, all we have to do is get home and..."
Phoebe nods, "And do the ritual and let Leo know and call the florist and we gotta d-d..." Piper stops her. "What's, what?"
"We've gotta get to Brooke." Piper says.
Phoebe nods, "Right, we've gotta get to Brooke and then we gotta get home."
Piper sighs, "No, we only got time for one. So we either save Brooke..."
Chris shakes his head, "Piper, go home. Of all people I understand this, alright, and so would Brooke. I can handle this on my own."
"No. Alright, we'll go in the front." Piper says as Prue uses her power and the door flies open.
Sorcerer and Brooke are leaning in ready to kiss. "Oh, look, it's the girl scouts. Set your thin mints down on the table and leave before you get yourselves hurt."
"Let her go." Buffy says.
"I have no fear of witches." Sorcerer says.
Prue smiles, "Maybe not but how do you feel about true love?"
Brooke sees Chris and they smile.
"That's not possible." The Sorcerer says as Chris and Brooke walk over to each other. "If I can't have her, no one will."
A crossbow appears in the sorcerer's hand.
"Whoa." Piper says as she freezes them.
"Anyone got a vanquish in their pocket?" Phoebe asks.
Prue shakes her head, "Oh, let's not get rid of him just yet. I want him to watch this for a little bit." She uses her power and the crossbow flies out of his hand. "Okay, go ahead."
Piper unfreezes them and Chris and Brooke kiss. The sorcerer starts to burn and disappears. Chris and Brooke hug.
"I don't know what to say." Brooke says.
Chris nods, "How can we thank you?"
"You already have." Buffy says.
"Oh, Piper, I think I have a solution to the whole maid of honor thing." Piper says.
"Oh, me too." Prue says.
"What about our distinct lack of a high priestess?" Piper asks.
"Would you please just let me worry about that." Phoebe says.
Back at the Manor Grams and Leo are standing in the living room. Leo is dressed in a suit.
Grams smiles, "Girls, your high priestess is waiting, unfortunately the eclipse is not. Now let's move it." She uses her power and wedding music plays in the CD player. "That would be your cue, bridesmaids."
Prue and Phoebe walk down the stairs. The stand at the bottom of the stairs. Then Buffy escorts Piper down the stairs, she and Piper are the only ones holding bouquets. It had been decided that Buffy would be the maid of honor and Prue and Phoebe would be Piper's bridesmaids. Leo smiles as Buffy and Piper stops at the bottom of the stairs.
Prue nods, "You look beautiful. I know it's not exactly how you wanted it."
Piper nods, "But it's exactly what I wanted." She looks over at Leo and they smile. Buffy, Prue, Piper and Phoebe walk into the living room. Prue and Phoebe stand to the side. Piper stands in front of Leo as Buffy stands beside Piper. Leo and Piper smile at each other again. All of a sudden Leo starts jerking. He yells, is surrounded by light and orbs out. "Grams, how can this happen? What did we do?" She starts to panic.
"Listen to me, darling, it's going to be okay. We will fix this." Grams says.
Piper starts crying. "We, we have to." Buffy holds Piper in her arms. "This, this is all my fault." She kneels on the floor and so does Buffy. Prue and Phoebe kneel down next to Piper and Buffy. "He didn't deserve to be... I don't, I don't think I can do this."
Piper cries harder and Buffy, Prue and Phoebe comfort her.