Chapter 9

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Prue and Andy returned to the Halliwell manor feeling dejected.

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Paige: No luck?

Prue: We told her about witches, magick. But unfortunately that demon Jason seems to have more influence over Pam than we do.

Cole: Perhaps Christy and I could show her how bad things would be if she joins Jason.

Andy: Maybe, she seemed like she had a conscience, wouldn't want millions, billions to suffer needlessly. Can you appear in her dreams to do this?

Christy: Yeah, we've done it before.

Prue: Okay, do it tonight when she falls asleep.

Leo: Guys, we have a problem. I was turning on the cartoons for Wyatt, and I must have pushed the wrong numbers on the remote. Anyway I saw this televangelist on tv, talking about how God hates gay people, how any peace agreement in the middle east is the work of Satan.

Cole; Sounds like an idiot.

Leo: That's just it, it's Gideon.

Chris: The same Gideon who murdered me in an alternate timeline.

Cole: Jason must have resurrected him.

Leo: I thought you said he could only resurrect demons.

Cole: No, I said he could only resurrect evil. Gideon chose evil for "The greater good" as he called it.

Piper: You mean murdering my son, trying to murder a baby.

Leo: I'll kill him again.

Piper: Get in line.

Cole: Whoever outranks the elders must have judged him as evil, and Jason brought him back. Towards what end, that I don't know.

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After meeting with her biological parents, Pam and Jason went to her house. Pam just wanted to turn on her television and lose herself in some soap opera for a little while. Instead, Jason "accidentally" turned the channel to a televangelist. It was a relatively new one, but he was speaking the same garbage as some of the others. He claimed that gay marriage meant the "the guns of hell are aimed at the american family." He also claimed that there would never be peace between Israel and Palestine, that "real americans" must do all they could to resist any proposed peace agreements. And he condemned those who provided food and medicine to refugees and immigrants, that "Satan controls these so-called christian groups." This kind of garbage infuriated Pam, which was the reaction Jason was going for.

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Pam: If Satan can really forge a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine, I'll proudly wear his mark.

Jason: So would I. I supposse it's all relative, good and evil.

Pam: What would you do, to make world peace?

Jason: That would require a lot of power, the kind possessed by God or the devil. I'd force everyone to get along, and hurt them if they didn't.

Pam: That sounds a lot like a dictatorship to me.

Jason: Hey, if it works. But it's not like either of us could have that kind of power.

Pam: Yeah, what a pity.

Jason: Yeah, I think we'd be benevolent dictators.

Pam: We could even bring peace between witches and demons. Who's to say who the good guys are in that conflict.

Jason: If only we had that kind of power.