Chapter 77: Charmed Again Pt. 1

Buffy and Piper sit in the attic in tears, both of them flipping through both Books.

"Hear now the words of the witches, the secrets we hid in the night. The oldest of Gods are invoked here, great works of magic is sought." Piper and Buffy says. "In this night and in this battle, we call upon the ancient power."

Piper looks up and closes her eyes. "Bring back my sister. Bring back the Power of Three." She keeps her eyes closed for a prayerful beat, then she opens them, looks at the candle, but sees nothing."

Buffy flips to a page in her book, 'To Call a Lost Witch.' She expertly finds and mixes certain ingredients into a silver bowl as she chants from the book. "Power of the witches' rise. Course unseen across the skies. Come to me, I call you near. Come to me and settle here." Then, she finds an athame and slices the left finger of her left hand so that blood can symbolically spill directly from her heart and into the bowl. "Blood to blood, I summon thee. Blood to blood, return to me."

A faint gust of wind flickers the candle, but not much else.

"Piper? Buffy?" Phoebe calls out.

Piper looks up, hopeful. "Prue?" She looks at the candle.

Phoebe enters the attic from downstairs. "Sweeties, its 4 o'clock in the morning. What are you two doing?" Piper and Buffy don't answer, they just stare blankly at the Books. Phoebe notices Buffy's bleeding and gets a towel. "You're bleeding, Buffy." She finds a clean cloth, takes Buffy's hand and wraps the wound.

Piper shakes her head, "I don't understand why magic can't fix this. And why we can't bring Prue back."

"It's not like we haven't cheated death before. Heck I've died three times and come back. I don't understand why this time isn't any different." Buffy says.

Phoebe sighs, "Because Leo can't heal the dead, Piper, Buffy. You know that."

Piper shakes her head, "There's other magic, magic that we've used before." She and Buffy flip through the pages and fights the tears. "Scrying, calling a lost witch, reversing time. It's like the book just deserted us and deserted Prue, and I don't understand why."

Phoebe takes Piper hand, holds both Buffy's and Piper's hands as she shares their pain. "We lost our sister." She didn't bother correcting herself that Prue was actually Buffy's cousin. They had long since accepted Buffy as a sister even if she wasn't. "How can we ever understand that? We've tried every magical way to bring her back… but we can't. She's gone." Their eyes well up as they face the harsh reality, then they fall into a group embrace. "I just - I thank God that I didn't lose you both too." Phoebe gives both Buffy and Piper a little kiss. She breaks the hug. She sighs. "We have to get some rest. Prue will never forgive us if we look bad at her funeral."

Buffy smiles sadly, "No she wouldn't." She looks down at both Books of Shadows before closing both of them. She and Piper stand and she, Piper and Phoebe exit the attic arm-in-arm, closing the door behind them.

A mysterious wind suddenly blows through the attic. The triquetra, on the cover of both books begins to glow. The mysterious wind re-opens both books and magically turns the pages to the last spell Buffy tried to cast, "To Call a Lost Witch..."

The next morning Phoebe, dressed for the funeral, adjust some flowers on the table in the Parlor. She walks into the living room, where Victor, dressed in a dark suit, is sitting on the chair, staring vacantly at the floor bearing the kind of grief only a parent who's lost a child knows.

Phoebe gives her Dad a small kiss. "Can I get you anything?" She touches Victor tenderly on the shoulder.

Victor looks up at Phoebe. "Oh, no thanks sweetie."

Phoebe waters a plant and fiddles with a few plants. Phoebe looks up to find Leo entering the parlor with Cole. Both men are dressed in suits.

"Look who's back." Leo says.

Phoebe smiles, "Cole!" She runs to him and embraces him in her arms and then releases him. "I was afraid you weren't going to make it to the funeral."

Cole shakes his head, "Well, I - I can't make it… or, shouldn't anyway. The Source has got every demonic bounty hunter out there looking for me."

"Yeah. So what else is new?" Phoebe says.

Cole sighs, "This is different. Saving you makes it a different, makes me a traitor - and he not going to stop until he finds me and I don't want that happening at Prue's funeral."

Phoebe shakes her head, "So, we'll protect you."

"You can't protect me." Cole says.

Phoebe frowns, "Why not? We're still witches, aren't we?"

Cole shakes his head, "Yeah, but you're not the Charmed Ones anymore. Even with Buffy's augmentation you can't even come close to the power of three."

Phoebe finds herself at the partially repaired, unpainted wall where Prue died.

Leo steps in. "He's right, Phoebe. Without the Power of Three…"

Phoebe raises her hand. "I don't understand. Isn't it harder to track a demon in a cemetery, Cole? You have to go. I need you there."

Cole nods. Victor escorts Darryl in through the front door.

"Hey, how are you holdin' up?" Darryl asks.

Phoebe sighs, "Okay." She and Darryl hug and slowly step away from each other. "It's sweet of you to stop by."

Darryl smiles, "Had to. Besides, I thought you should know - they're assigning Prue's case to another inspector."

Leo frowns, "What case?"

Darryl sighs, "What case? Are you kidding? Prue and a prominent doctor were killed here, Leo. Made a lot of press. People want answers. Important people."

"So, what's this guy gonna find? That it was a demonic hitman? Gimme a break." Cole says.

Darryl nods, "He might. Look, you don't know him like I do. He'll keep looking until he finds something, believe me."

"I'm not worried." Cole says.

Leo shakes his head, "Well, I am. I saw what happened when they were exposed as witches. Time may have reversed itself, but it still cost Prue her life."

Victor frowns, "Would you people mind? For God's sake, we're burying my daughter today. Can't this wait?"

Phoebe moves over to hug her father, who's struggling to hold it all together.

Upstairs in Buffy's bedroom, Buffy's partially dressed, she is sitting in front of the mirror, lost in her thoughts, absentmindedly brushing her hair.

Victor eases open the door and enters. "Buffy?" She doesn't react, just keeps brushing. Victor approaches her. "Buffy, we have to go."

"I don't want to go." Buffy says.

Victor sighs and kneels down next to her. "Why not?"

Buffy looks at Victor. "Because if I go, that'll mean that Prue's really not coming back, and I don't think I can handle that. I've already lost so much, Uncle Victor. First my mom and now Prue."

Victor nods, "We can handle it together. We can be there for each other, Prue would have wanted that."

Buffy looks at the mirror again, "She's been there for me ever since I moved in to the manor. She was like the big sister, I never had. And I don't know how to live without her!"

Victor sighs and nods as he pulls Buffy into an embrace. "It'll be okay Buffy."

They hear Piper yell at Leo in their room, "I'm not angry. I am pissed off! Don't you understand? You healed the wrong sister! You saved me because I'm your damn wife, and you should've saved her because she was the best! Because she… you should… Why do they put us through so much for it to end this way?"

Buffy pulls out of Victor's embrace as she stands and makes her way out of her room and into Piper's. She walks over and the two fall into each other's arm as they cry.

Later at the Mausoleum. A beautiful ivory-colored coffin sits on a pedestal amongst the flowers. An ivory-dressed, Wiccan Priestess stands before a blue silk covered altar table, which is adorned with a ceremonial chalice. A tied, silver cord lays before the chalice, three lit candles surround it, symbolizing birth, death, and the rebirth. To the unaware mourners, however, the service comes across a part traditional, part New Age. Buffy, Piper, Phoebe, Leo, Cole, Darryl, and Victor are seated close to the priestess. Buffy, Piper and Phoebe dab at their eyes and Cole keeps his eyes peeled for any trouble. The funeral program, which bares the symbol of the triquetra above the name, read: "PRUDENCE HALLIWELL, 1970-1999; 'Forever in our Hearts.'

"That which belongs to fellowship and love. That which belongs to the circle, remains with us. The wheel turns. As life is a day, so our sister has passed into night. Nothing is final, and we who remain behind know that one day, we will once again share the bread and wine with our sister. O' blessed spirit, we bid you farewell, for you await a new destiny." The Priestess says.

With that, she unties the silver cord and gently lays it into the chalice. She blows out the candles. Darryl goes over to Buffy, Piper and Phoebe to hug them. He is followed by Giles, Willow, Xander, Oz, Angel (who was orbed in by Leo) and even Cordellia.

Giles looks to Buffy and whispers in her ear, "Take as much time as you need. We're all going to pitch in and take over for you."

Buffy looks to her friends and smiles sadly, "Thank you."

Other people begin to pay their respects. Phoebe thanks another mourner, then turns to the last of the mourners, whom she doesn't recognize –

Paige shifts over anxiously. "I'm so sorry for your loss."

Phoebe smiles sadly, "Thank you." Paige begins to leave. "How did you know Prue? From work?"

Paige shakes her head, "No. Just… just from around, you know."

"Have we met before?" Buffy asks.

Paige shakes her head, "No. I don't… I don't think so. Anyway, my condolences."

Phoebe smiles, "Thank you." Phoebe shakes Paige's hand - then gets hit with a powerful premonition: Paige is on a skyscraper rooftop helipad. She screams as she squeezes her eyes shut in fear as the demon Shax gestures and sends a concessive blast toward her to kill her. Phoebe stumbles to the floor after her premonition ends.

"Phoebe." Piper, Leo and Buffy say.

Buffy, Piper, Leo, Victor, and Cole rush over to her as Paige, oblivious, but not wanting to stick around, leaves. Leo and Victor help Phoebe stand up.

"Are you all right?" Piper asks.

Phoebe nods, "I saw him... the demon that killed Prue."

"Shax? What was he doing?" Leo asks.

Phoebe nods, "He was killing that girl."

"What girl?" Buffy asks.

Phoebe nods, "The one I was just talking to. Buffy the one you asked if you had met before. We've gotta go find her..."

Two Bounty Hunters suddenly materialize on either side of Cole and immediately fire lightning bolts at him. Cole dives, just barely avoiding the bolts, which blow up the altar.

"Go. Go." Leo says as he pulls Piper behind a pillar for safety. Victor looks on in disbelief. Buffy and Phoebe dive out of the way. Cole rolls, comes up firing, vanquishing one of the Bounty Hunters, but the second Bounty Hunter appears beside Cole. Before he can kill Cole, though, Phoebe runs up and knocks him to the ground with an expert martial arts move. She then hides behind a statue.

"Stop it." Piper and Buffy shout.

The Bounty Hunter spins to fire at Phoebe, but Cole fires an energy ball at the Bounty Hunter, blowing him up in a shower of fiery sparks.

Buffy and Piper lets out an irritated, angry yell. "Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!"

"Damn it! This is Prue's funeral, for God's sake!" Piper says. "Can't we at least bury her in peace?! Is that too much to ask?!" She knocks over a vase of flowers. She then storms out in tears, Buffy following behind.

Later back at the Manor for the memorial, Buffy walks down the stairs. It's obvious she's been crying.

"You sure don't recognize her from anywhere?" Cole asks.

Phoebe sighs. "Well, Buffy did say she looked familiar."

They turn to Buffy.

Buffy sighs, "I could've sworn I've seen her somewhere before. Now if you excuse me I really don't want to be saving innocents at the moment." She walks over to Piper.

Phoebe nods, "But somehow, we got to find her before nightfall, or else…" She slides a flower vase over an inch, then back again.

Cole gently grabs her arm with a concerned look. "Honey, what're you doing?"

"Uh, I'm cleaning." Phoebe says.

Cole shakes his head, "You don't clean. You hate cleaning."

Phoebe sighs, "I know... but it's better than falling apart, isn't it?"

"Maybe you should just try and focus on the girl. You said she was attacked on a rooftop?" Leo says.

Phoebe nods, "Yeah. One with a heli-pad… but it a tall building, although, there were a lot of taller ones around it."

"Okay, so we just need to figure out which building it was before Shax does." Leo says.

Piper walks up to them with Buffy. "And do what exactly? You can't defeat Shax, not without the Power of Three. And no amount of augmentation from Buffy will equal the Power of Three no matter how hard we try."

"But you and Prue did." Phoebe says.

Piper sighs. "That's because Prue was the strongest. Trying to do it without her would be suicide."

"Yeah, suicide. I don't know about Piper, but I really don't want to lose more family." Buffy said.

Phoebe nods, "Maybe so, but I got that premonition for a reason, Buffy, Piper. That girl is our innocent, so we have to try and save her."

"Says who? Why do we have to?" Piper asks.

"Piper…" Leo says.

Piper frowns, "What? Do you really expect us to keep doing this stuff after what happened? To keep risking our lives? Do they?"

"Yeah I'm tired of putting my life on the line and for what. The people I care about get taken from me. First Mom, now Prue." Buffy says

Leo sighs, "Buffy, Piper, keep your voices down…"

"No, Leo, we won't. I don't want to do this anymore, okay? I don't think Buffy does either to tell the truth. It-It's over! You can tell them that we buried their precious Charmed Ones when we buried Prue."

"Yeah you can tell them I quit. The Charmed Slayer is done. They can wait for another to be called in say 60 years." Buffy says.

They spin and stalk up the stairs. Leo starts to follow, but Phoebe stops him.

"No, leave them be. They both need to be alone. Look, I don't know where we go from here, but I do know that I can't let that girl die…especially not by the same demon that killed Prue."

"The question remains, how are you going to stop Shax without the Power of Three to say the vanquishing spell?"

Piper and Buffy walk into the attic and start placing five lit candles in a lose circle on the floor in front of the Charmed Book of Shadows.

"We're witches, damn it. We've summoned people before and we're gonna summon Prue now whether you like it or not! No more games, no more playing the good witch." Piper says as she and Buffy go to the Charmed Book, which is opened to the spell. "I want to talk to my sister. And Buffy is her cousin. We need to talk to her. At the very least, you owe us that."

Buffy and Piper takes a soul-cleansing breath, then glares at the Book as they chant together. "Here these words. Hear my cry spirit from the other side. Come to me, I summon thee. Cross now the Great Divide."

Inside the circle, white magical lights, ever-so-slowly begin to appear. Buffy and Piper looks up, their anger replaced by hopeful wonder as they step closer, anticipating Prue's appearance, but is, instead, surprised to see the ghost of Grams.

"Grams?" Buffy and Piper say.

Grams smiles, "Hello, my darlings. How are you?"

Piper shakes her head, "How are we? Are you kidding? Do you guys not get the news up there?"

Grams sighs, "I meant, how are you both holding up?"

Buffy shakes her head, "Not very well. We're both a little lost. Why didn't you come before? When we called after…"

"I couldn't, Piper, Buffy. I was… busy." Grams said.

"You were busy?" Piper asked.

Grams sighs, "I was with Prue."

"Oh." Piper and Buffy say.

"Of course you were. Right." Piper says.

Buffy nods, "Well, that makes sense. Is she okay?"

Grams looks to Buffy, "Your mother, Aunt Patty and I are helping her through this."

"But how is she?" Piper asks.

Grams sighs, "I'm not allowed to tell you now… just like you're not allowed to see her, at least not for a while anyway."

"But, why?" Buffy asks.

Grams nods, "Because seeing Prue right now, speaking to her, keeps her alive for both of you. Which keeps the both of you from being able to move on with your lives, to continue with your destiny."

"What destiny? Okay. It's over. It's done. Prue is gone. And I…" Piper says.

"Yeah I quit. I'm not going to be the Charmed Slayer anymore not when this is the cost." Buffy said.

Grams sighs, "I know, sweeties. I know… but if there's one thing you've both learned over the last three years, it's that there's a reason for everything… which means there's a reason for this, too. You're destiny still awaits. blessed be." She disappears in the same swirl of white lights that brought her to Piper and Buffy.

Piper looks to Buffy and sighs. They turn and walk out of the attic together.

Later Phoebe and Buffy sits next to the fireplace. Piper walks toward them and hands them both a teacup.

"Here, this should help. It's chamomile. I had three cups." Piper says takes a seat on the floor beside Phoebe and Buffy.

"Thanks." Phoebe says as she takes a sip and sets it aside. "Doesn't seem real, does it?"

Buffy sits there just holding the cup. "No."

Piper shakes her head, "No. What are we gonna do with all of her stuff? What are we going to do with her car?"

Phoebe shrugs, "I don't know. Sell it, I guess."

Piper nods, "Unless either of you want it."

"No." Phoebe and Buffy say.

Phoebe holds hands with both Buffy and Piper. "We're gonna get through this, you know. We just have to stick together." Leo orbs into the room. "Well?"

"Well, they don't know anything about her, so she's definitely not a Whitelighter." Leo says.

Phoebe shakes her head, "Then why can she orb, Leo?"

Leo sighs, "They can't explain it."

Buffy, Piper and Phoebe stand up.

"Then how is it possible that they don't kn…" Phoebe says.

Cole shimmers into the room. "Whew. Sorry I took so long. I had to dodge a couple of bounty hunters."

Leo nods, "Did you find anything out?"

Cole nods, "You have no idea what I found out. Turns out the Source doesn't think she's a Whitelighter at all." He sits on the arm of a chair. "In fact, he thinks she might be another… Charmed One. That's why he put Shax on it. He thought he ended the Power of Three. Now he's worried that this girl may somehow reconstitute it."

"No, but that's not possible. Is that possible?" Phoebe asks and Leo shrugs. Buffy and Piper begins to take off. "Piper? Buffy?"

Cole frowns, "Piper? Buffy?

They follow Piper and Buffy as they go up to the attic and over to the Charmed book.

"What's going on?" Phoebe asks.

Piper nods, "We're going to ask Grams what's going on, actually."

"Grams?" Phoebe asks confused.

Buffy nods, "Mm-hmm. Your destiny still awaits, she says. There's a reason for everything, she says."

Piper nods, "So, it's time to summon her transparent butt back here and find out exactly what that reason is."

Phoebe nods, "Okay, but what should…"

"Here these words. Hear my cry spirit from the other side. Come to me, I summon thee. Cross now the Great Divide!" Buffy and Piper chant.

Piper lets out a semi-satisfied sigh.

Grams appears in a bright light. "Piper? Buffy? Why are you two calling? P-Phoebe, wha-what's going on?"

"Grams, why does the Source think that the Charmed Ones can be reconstituted?" Buffy asks.

"I do - I don't know what you're talking about." Grams says.

Piper shakes her head, "You know what, Grams? You were a lousy liar when you were alive, and now as a ghost, you're worse."

Phoebe sighs, "If you know something, Grams, you have to tell us. We deserve to know."

"I can't. I'm sworn to secrecy." Gram says.

Phoebe frowns, "By who?"

"By me." Patty says as she appears right next to Grams in a bright light. "By me."

"Mom?" Piper says.

Buffy looks at Patty slightly confused, "Aunt Patty?"

Patty nods, "We didn't tell anybody because we were afraid that there would be reprisals, afraid that, you girls would be denied your powers. Your birthright. Patience was even worried Buffy might be denied hers when she was born. It happened after your father and I were divorced, when Sam and I were together.

"Sam?" Cole asks.

Leo nods, "Her Whitelighter."

Cole shakes his head, "Hmm. Apples don't fall far from the forbidden tree, I see."

Piper frowns, "Shh! Go on, mom."

Patty nods, "You and Phoebe were both toddlers, and of course Buffy wasn't born yet. You just thought Mommy got a little fat." She smiles. "You never knew I was pregnant."

"I was the only one who knew." Grams said.

Patty nods, "And Sam, obviously and of course Patience." She looks at Buffy. "I never hid anything from your mom."

Grams nods, "Right. Well, yes, of course."

"We wanted to keep the baby, of course. But mother –" Patty says.

Grams nods, "Well, I - I knew it would be disastrous. You know, before you and Leo, Piper, it wasn't just forbidden. It was unthinkable for witches to be with Whitelighters. I mean, let alone have children with them."

Patty nods, "So, that's why we had to - why we decided… to give the baby up. Sam and I took her to a local church as soon as she was born. And we asked the nun there to find a home for her, and she found one. A very, very good home."

"Yes." Grams says.

"Explains why the Elders didn't know about her." Leo says as he looks at the sisters.

"All right, hold it. Wait just one minute. Are you telling me, that that girl, our innocent, is really… our sister?" Phoebe says.

Patty nods, "Your baby sister."

"I have another cousin?" Buffy asks.

Grams nods, "Their baby half-sister. And yes Buffy you have another cousin."

"But by my half, which makes her a sister witch. Well, actually, not yet anyway. Not until all four of you are here together by the Book. Just like before." Patty says.

Grams nods, "Charmed. Again."

"And I thought my family was screwed up." Cole says as Piper gives him a look.

Buffy frowns, "Four? I'm not a Charmed One."

Patty smiles, "Actually you are Buffy. Oh in the beginning you weren't that's true. But the power of three has always been rooted in the bond Prue, Piper and Phoebe shared as sisters. Since you moved in you've formed a bond with them. You considered them your sisters even if they weren't. The magic latched on to that bond and made you a Charmed One."

"Then the power of three isn't broken." Phoebe says.

Grams shakes her head, "Power of Three is broken because it relied on the bond with Prue. The Power of Four existed because of the Power of Three. Without a Power of Three there is no Power of Four. You need your other sister for the Power of Three. And Buffy for the Power of Four."

Cortez walks into the attic, seeing the two ghosts there. Everyone is a bit stunned. Darryl is right behind him. "Well, I'll be damned."

"Darryl, do something!" Piper says.

"He's a cop, Piper. And he's got a search warrant." Daryrl says.

Cortez nods, "And believe me, I've found what I've been searching for." Cole moves slightly towards Cortez. He aims his gun at him. "Ah-ah-ah-ah. Don't move. I'll shoot."

"Then so will I." Cole says.

"Cole…" Buffy says.

Phoebe shakes her head, "Okay Inspector, just put the gun down. There is a very good explanation for all of this. Feel free to chime in anytime, guys."

"My whole life, I suspected evil magic was real, that there was something more. I've seem too many horrible things in the job to suspect otherwise, not the least of which are the two murders that happened here." Cortez says.

"Wait. Are you accusing us?" Piper asks.

Cortez nods, "I've just begun to accuse you, lady!"

"All right, fine. You caught us. Congratulations. So what are you gonna do about it? Shoot us?" Grams says.

"Easy, Grams. Not all of us are dead, remember?" Buffy says.

Leo nods, "All right, look, you can't arrest us, especially not them. Nobody will ever believe you."

"Maybe not at first. I'm putting this whole place under constant surveillance. I'm taping your every move. Sooner or later, I'll catch you doing something uh, supernatural, and then…" Cortez says.

Darryl knocks Cortez out with the but of his gun. Cortez falls to the floor. "I think you've been through enough today, huh?"

Piper nods, "Thank you."

Phoebe walks over to Darryl. "Darryl, go, get out of here. We don't want you to take the fall for this."

"No, it's okay." Darryl says.

Buffy shakes her head, "No, it's not. This is our problem. He wants to expose us, not you. Let us take care of this, please?"

Darryl nods, "If you need me, you know where to find me, huh?"

Phoebe nods and turns to Cole.

Darryl heads downstairs and leaves the manor.

"It doesn't solve your problem. He's gonna wake up eventually. You've just bought yourself some time." Cole says.

"What you're gonna need, especially if you're wanna save your…" Leo says.

"Sister?" Phoebe says.

Grams nods, "Well, what are you waiting for? Just write a spell. Get rid of him."

"Uh, get rid of him?" Buffy asks.

"Well, you know what I mean. Dump him somewhere. Anywhere. With all the witches in this room, we oughta be able to do something with him. I mean, just start rhyming. Uh, take him back, take him away. Remove him now. Don't let him stay." Grams says as she gestures to Phoebe.

"Oh. Uh. We call the spirits to help undo and send him off to… Timbuktu." Phoebe says as Cortez vanishes from the floor. "Whoa. It worked."

"Timbuktu? You sent him to Timbuktu?" Piper asks.

Phoebe nods, "All right, well, it was the only thing I could think of that rhymed with undo."

"Don't worry. Uh, I'll find him." Cole says and he shimmers out.

"Okay, well this is way too much for me to handle. Way too much." Piper says.

"Me too." Buffy says.

"Nobody can blame either of you for being angry." Patty says.

"Angry? Yeah, I'm angry. Um, I'm confused and you know what? This - this is just crazy. You cannot float in here after all these years and go, "Oh gosh, I forgot, by the way, you've got a sister." Especially not today of all days." Piper says.

"Piper's right." Buffy says. "This is just the worst day to be dropping revelations on us. Are you going to turn around and tell me I have a mystery sister also?"

Patty sighs, "I know it's a lot, sweeties. More than anybody should have to deal with, but you're going to have to deal with it the best way you know how. Losing Prue, learning about another sister... this is your, path. This is your destiny. Get angry at it, cry about it, but don't fight it. Or it'll consume you."

Grams nods, "Come on, Patty. The rest is up to them." She and Patty disappear.

Buffy, Piper, Phoebe, Leo head downstairs.

"I can't sense where she is because she's technically not a witch yet." Leo says.

Phoebe nods, "All right, so all we have to go on is that church that Mom mentioned and the nun."

Buffy sighs, "Okay, let's get one thing straight. I am only doing this to save her."

Piper nods, "Same here. Plus I'm not remotely interested in reconstituting...The Charmed Ones." She is cut off to find Paige waiting for them. The door is left open.

"I, the door was open. I'm sorry. I shouldn't be here." Paige says and turns to leave but Phoebe stops her.

"No, no, no. No, no. We were just coming to look for you." Phoebe says.

"You were?" Paige asks.

Phoebe nods, "Yep. Come on in. Welcome. I'm Phoebe. And this is..." Phoebe hooks her arm into Paige's and walks over to Buffy, Piper and Leo.

Paige smiles, "Piper. I know. I've been to your club. Pretty great." She turns to Buffy. "And this must be Payson, the cousin you renamed the club after."

Buffy nods, "You got it, I'm Payson. But my friends and family call me Buffy."

"Why?" Paige asks.

"It's a long complicated story." Buffy says.

"And you are?" Piper asks.

"Paige. My name is Paige." Paige says.

Phoebe smiles, "Hmm. Another P. Imagine that."

"It's nice to meet you." Piper says as she shakes Paige's hand. A bright blue shines over the girls.

"Okay. What was that?" Paige asks.

"I think that means you're supposed to be here." Leo says as the door slams open and a strong wind knocks Buffy, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige backwards. Leo is knocked down on the stairs. Shax materializes and walks closer. He is about to strike when Leo jumps on his back. "Run! Get upstairs!"

"Leo?!" Piper says as she, Phoebe, and Paige run upstairs. Shax throws him off his back and Leo is knocked out. Shax then looks upstairs.

Buffy, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige enter the attic and go to the Charmed Book.

"What are we doing? What is that thing?" Paige asks.

"We'll explain later." Buffy says.

Piper flips through the pages of the Book. "Okay, just say this spell out loud with us, okay?"

"Spell, what are you guys, witches?" Paige asks.

Phoebe smiles, "And so are you. We hope."

Buffy nods, "Well, we're about to find out." The strong wind breaks through the attic door and Shax materializes. The girls recite the vanquishing spell.

"Evil wind that blows, that which forms below. No longer may you dwell. Death takes you with this spell." Buffy, Piper, Phoebe and Paige says.

Shax moans in pain as he explodes, vanquished.

Phoebe shakes her head, "It's not enough. Shax was just the messenger. We gotta get the Source."

Paige frowns, "The Source of what?"

"Of all evil." Piper says.

Paige frowns, "What have you guys turned me into?" She turns and runs out the attic and out of the manor.

"Paige?" Buffy and Piper says.

"Wait." Phoebe says as she, Buffy and Piper start following.