Warnings: I don't own the rights to any of the characters from the hit TV show "Charmed" or the storylines related to the show those rights belong to original creator Constance M Burge.
15+ Moderate/Graphic Displays of Violence, Sexual Innuendos, Witchcraft and Potentially Triggering Scenes.
"I've got to admit something to you Paul and I'm afraid of how you're going to react to it." Raven said nervously while her and Paul sat on a blanket having a picnic within a park in San Francisco. "I really don't want you to hate me because I've really enjoyed this time we had together."
"Raven it's okay I'm sure nothing is going to be as bad as Cole Turner being your charmed one." Paul joked with her.
"Cole and I entered your lives under false pretenses he saved Drake on his own accord, but he never planned to stick around." Raven reluctantly revealed. "Until we got word about how to access the locked dark grimoire and we got desperate."
"What's the charmed ones got to do with the dark grimoire?" Paul asked as he stood up from the ground, shocked by Raven's betrayal. "The dark grimoire has nothing to do with us in fact none of us can even touch it no good can."
"The grimoire was locked many years ago by the original charmed ones when the elders couldn't find a way to destroy it and until now it wasn't thought possible of it ever being unlocked." Raven revealed as she stood up to face Paul.
"So, buying Halliwell and Turner, you and me getting close and Drake becoming friends with Cole it was all part of some game to you two?" Paul asked, furious with himself and the demon in front of him. "I knew I should never have trusted Cole, but I was so foolish to underestimate you."
"At first we were just trying to get that book unlocked but then I really started to like you and I realized the last thing I want to do is hurt you or your family." Raven tried to explain herself. "I was hoping we could find a way around hurting you and this plan of ours would do nobody any harm but now this wicked witch named Morgana has formed an alliance with my brother and god only knows what she's capable of."
"I thought you were different to the rest of them," Paul snapped at her. "You even convinced me to allow Cole near my son!"
"Trust me please Paul I'm not like the demons you vanquish I'm not evil." She pleaded with him. "The only reason I reconnected with Cole is because he had a plan to reunite us with our father. Do you know what it's like to grow up without a father because your mother took him from you? I was raised by a monster not a mother who never understood my or Cole's humanity and we were punished for being who we were. When we were old enough, we ran from her but not together and I've spent well over a century completely and utterly alone."
"I'm so sorry you had to go through that Raven I truly am but despite how much I don't want it to, this changes everything." Paul replied.
"It doesn't have to," Raven said as tears began forming in her eyes. "Let me help fix all this."
"If you came to me with the truth from the start we would've helped you I mean it's our job to help out when we can but you didn't instead you lied to me and because of those lies I won't be able to ever trust you again." Paul admitted to her.
Pan and Lacey decided to spend the day out having some quality time with Drake's daughter and Pan's niece Lilah who was now about 10 months old. The couple decided to take her to the beach with it being such a hot day as Pan believed this to be a normal day out with her girlfriend and her niece not knowing what Lacey had planned.
"Lilah honey who put this ridiculously heavy jacket on you on a beautiful day like this?" Pan asked her niece while she, Lilah and Lacey sat on the beach making sandcastles together before she took off Lilah's jacket shocked to see her niece wearing a plain white top with black writing on it saying Marry Aunt Lacey leaving the Halliwell witch shocked. "I thought you didn't want to do the whole marriage thing with me?"
"That was a long time ago I was still adjusting to this whole white lighter gig and I was scared but despite everything that's changed over the last three years my love for you has only grown more and more." Lacey declared.
"Are you sure your ready to become a Halliwell?" Pan asked Lacey.
"I'm more than ready to become your wife." Lacey responded with a smile before the two were both shocked to see a ring box blink itself on little Lilah's lap causing her to laugh. "I knew I forgot the ring but how did it get here? I never told Drake I forgot the ring.
"I think Lilah's starting to come into her powers." Pan admitted as she picked up the ring box, opened it and placed the ring on her finger before kissing Lacey. "I love you so much Lacey Morgan."
"I love you too Pan Halliwell." Lacey responded with another kiss before looking down at Lilah. "Thanks for the ring save even if you're having powers now completely and utterly terrifies me."
"Just wait until we start having kids." Pan laughed.
Drake and Cole walked into the foyer of the Halliwell laughing amongst themselves as they continued walking into the dining room only for their laughter to instantly stop as they saw Paul and Raven sat down at the dining table in total silence making Drake wonder why they had been called there while Cole feared his secret was out.
"So, what's with the big family meeting?" Drake asked his father and his father's business partner as he sat down next to Paul. "I want to make a morbid joke but, in this house…that's just tempting fate."
"I have no idea." Paul replied to his son as he tried to hide his anger while watching Cole sit down next to his sister Raven. "I'm not the one who called this family meeting."
"Is this about you sleeping with Raven?" Drake asked his father. "Because people in this house can have a sex life without announcing it or being walked in on."
"Wait…what?" Paul replied in shock.
"Well it started with a shirt on a floor and ended with that look on your face." Drake responded with a laugh. "It's okay dad you can date whoever you want just as long as they haven't already been with your sister, I don't see anyone having a problem."
"We didn't call the meeting." Raven butted in, begging for the conversation to change.
"Did I just put my foot in my mouth?" Drake asked a silent room. "You know I can actually put my foot in my mouth don't ask how I learned that little trick."
"I'm going to take a guess and say it's from your stripping days." Cole laughed, noticing the awkwardness between Paul and Raven.
"No it was this crazy hot chick I saw for about of month she was in to all kinds of…" Drake began to say before realizing just how serious the situation was as Paul refused to make any eye contact with Raven who kept looking at him with hurt in her eyes. "Never mind that ended when I arrested her."
"You're a total goofball when your happy aren't you?" Cole teased Drake.
"Oh, shut up!" Drake blushed at Cole before turning his attention to his dad. "Is everything okay?"
"Everything's fine." Paul lied, unable to tell his son the truth, not wanting to be the one to ruin his son's newfound happiness.
"So, guess what we went and did?" Pan asked the room after she, little Lilah and Lacey orbed into the dining room with Lacey holding baby Lilah in her arms.
"Why does it feel like someone's about to murder someone in here?" Lacey asked the four sitting down at the table before Drake got up on his feet and rushed over to take his daughter of her.
"Daddy miss you so much." Drake said as he gushed over his daughter and cuddled into his little girl. "Daddy missed you so much! Yes, he did."
"Seriously dude dump a baby in your arms and suddenly you're a giant talking teddy bear." Lacey taunted her best friend.
"Just ignore your aunt Lacey she's just bitter because Daddy has always been the pretty friend." Drake joked while talking to his daughter before sitting back down at the table as Cole began making faces at little Lilah making her laugh away.
"You said you guys went and did something?" Raven asked Pan and Lacey.
"We got engaged!" Pan revealed to everyone making everyone cheer even Paul as he was sincerely happy for his little sister.
"Oh my god not to put any pressure on you girls but please make me your wedding planner I am literally bored out of my tiny little mind without a job right now and I refuse to go back to being a detective." Drake pleaded with Lacey and Pan. "I'd totally smash it as a wedding planner."
"Congratulations!" Raven and Cole both said as they got up from their seats and separately shook the hands of the newly engaged couple.
"Well I for one am thrilled you are finally going to become a Halliwell." Paul said to Lacey as he stood up from his chair and gave his white lighter a hug. "Just remember we keep our name in this family so get used to being Lacey Halliwell."
"So, is that a no to be a wedding planner?" Drake asked Lacey and Pan. "I really need a job even if it doesn't pay."
"You could always come work for me at the law firm." Paul suggested to his son as Drake stood up from his seat and passed Lilah over to him.
"Thanks, but no thanks I've already been in charge of hell once and it didn't exactly end well." Drake joked with his father.
"Well I wasn't quite thinking wedding planner I was thinking more best man." Lacey said to Drake. "How does that sound?"
"Fine," Drake sighed. "I'll just find another way of keeping my brain from dying from boredom."
"You're supposed to say thanks." Lacey laughed before Drake hugged her.
"Congratulations Lace just don't fuck it up!" Drake joked with his best friend.
"And of course, I want you to be my best man big brother." Pan told Paul.
"See now, this calls for a celebration how about drinks on me?" Cole suggested to which everyone cheered too except Paul who continued to struggle his hatred towards the demon.
"Why didn't you tell everyone the truth?" Raven asked Paul as she walked into the kitchen of the Halliwell Manor to see Paul pouring champagne into flutes.
"Because everyone is happy right now and we're not going to spoil that." Paul replied as he placed the champagne bottle down on the kitchen counter. "We continue with Morgana and Cole's plan long enough to vanquish this witch."
"Are you sure you want to be keeping stuff from your family? I'm not one to judge but that never ends well for you." Raven warned him.
"You've left me with no choice." Paul said before noticing Drake walking in smiling from ear to ear.
"So, I've decided to throw the girls a surprise engagement party tonight." Drake revealed to them both.
"Tonight, that doesn't really give us much time." Paul replied to his son.
"Yeah you won't be able to get much done within a few hours." Raven agreed with Paul.
"I'm already planning everything in my head as we speak and Cole's going to help me with it although I haven't told him yet." Drake answered while Paul and Raven shared another awkward glance at each other, which Drake noticed but misinterpreted as romantic tension. "You guys need to find the perfect engagement which means spending the next few hours together and nowhere else until the perfect gift is bought."
"If you're sure you can manage the party planning then I'm sure I can help your father find a present." Raven replied with a forced smile.
"Haven't you got an appointment with Magic School today?" Paul asked his son.
"Ugh yeah but their only going to ask me to enroll and except from getting Lilah enrolled early I'm not interest in any student related conversation with them I mean I'm a freaking charmed one who single handily took down the triad I should be teaching not being taught." Drake complained. "I can still swing by there and get the party perfect I was born to overachieve."
"So, please remind me why you've pulled me away from my new fiancé to attend some magic school meeting with you." Pan asked Drake as the two walked down the corridors within magic school
"I need back up in case the elders try getting me enrolled instead of Lilah which means you'll have to stop me vanquishing them while standing up for me when I boast about how amazing I am as a charmed one." Drake told his aunt.
"Oh yeah about that I think Lilah's starting to come into her powers, but we'll talk about that after this meeting." Pan replied.
"She has?" Drake asked as they both stopped walking and his face lit up with excitement. "What power does she have? How does she use it?"
"Hey guys it's so good to see you both." Quinn said after orbing himself in front of them both. "It's been far too long!"
"Oh, you're the elder who summoned me." Drake said looking far from amused. "I hope for your sake you're not about to tell me I need lessons…"
"Oh," Pan laughed to herself. "Something tells me this is going to get interesting.
"So, you weren't going to tell me then you decided to tell me because you saw some sense but clearly not enough to talk to everyone else." Lacey told Paul as the two of them walked into the attic of the Halliwell Manor. "When the first person you've shown interest for in forever turns out to be a backstabbing demon you tell everyone."
"She's only trying to get her father back if anybody should be understanding of that it's us." Paul replied as they walked over to the book of shadows. "I mean my father randomly showed up out of nowhere declaring an undead sister before leaving town once again and yet I still hope I'm going to see him again."
"Yeah daddy issues are a sore point for everyone in this house." Lacey replied as Paul began flipping through the pages of the book of shadows. "I still miss mine everyday and it doesn't help Jake's still out there somewhere hating me."
"We just need to work together and hope she doesn't screw us over." Paul said to his white lighter. "Obviously it's up to you if you want to tell your fiancé but please don't tell Drake about this mess."
"That man shook my hand and wished me congratulations while plotting against my fiancé and my best-friend there's no chance in hell I'm not telling them both, before or after I kill the demon myself." Lacey declared to her future brother in law. "And just because you're still crushing on Raven doesn't mean she's getting saved from being crushed by me if she so even puts one more foot wrong."
"It's so good to see you again Quinn." Pan told her former white lighter turned elder before giving him a hug as the two of them stood in the hallway of magic school with Drake by their side. "Lacey proposed and we're getting married."
"That's great news I'm so happy for you two!" Quinn replied sincerely as he broke off his hug with Pan.
"As nice as this reunion is, I've got a busy day ahead so can you just tell me why I've been summoned here?" Drake asked his ex.
"The elders myself and Paige included wanted to offer you a job at magic school." Quinn revealed to a stunned Pan and Drake.
"You want to offer me a job here no offense, but my only skills are stripping and police work neither are exactly fitting of a school." Drake replied to him.
"Well let's hope they're not hiring you here for their stripping skills." Pan said to her nephew before turning her attention to Quinn. "I love my nephew but if you're wanting him to teach he's still fairly new good enough not to be a student but not quite at the teaching stage either."
"Magic school has just starting accepting demonic students those either seeking redemption, those who are part demon and any who don't report back to the Underworld so as you can imagine the transitions' not going to be smooth with elders' and teachers' prejudices not to mention students who are no doubt going to be spies and we all believe a half demon hybrid who just so happens to be a charmed one would help a lot around here during this time." Quinn explained to them both.
"So, what exactly would my job title be around here?" Drake asked him.
"We're offering you the position of magic school's guidance counselor which I personally believe you'll be amazing at and it also happens to pay very considerably." Quinn told his ex-boyfriend and former charge.
"Wait so he gets paid for giving guidance around here and yet we all don't get paid for being the freaking charmed ones?" Pan complained to the elder.
"Just how much are we talking here and does that mean free childcare?" Drake wondered as he found himself enticed by the job offer.
"We're talking posh private school kind of money." Quinn replied to Drake. "And yes, all childcare here is free."
"Considering Lilah's starting to display powers before she's even a year-old magic school would be perfect for her." Pan admitted to them both.
"I don't get it I'm hardly a professional at giving guidance." Drake said to Quinn.
"This position isn't just because you're part demon Drake you've been through so much change over the last few years that you could help any student adjust to changes in their life and help them come through it with your excellent guidance." Quinn complimented Drake causing Pan to smile at the two of them. "You're the strongest person I know, and anyone would be lucky to get some guidance from you."
"I suppose when you explain it like that…" Drake began to smile at Quinn, old feelings coming back to the surface.
"Favoritism!" Pan coughed under her breath.
Raven stood in front of her window within her office at Halliwell and Tuner law looking out at the city before her while pondering about her current situation knowing her brother would never forgive her for giving back on their plan while fearing Paul would also never forgive her for initially betraying him when suddenly she heard her door open only to turn around to see Paul throw a potion at her feet.
"What did you just do?" She wondered.
"Do you believe Cole can be trusted to do the right thing in the end?" Paul asked her, knowing she couldn't lie to him thanks to her truth potion.
"I don't think he will because he never does but I really hope he does." Raven replied before realizing she had no choice but to tell the truth. "I suppose I deserve being hit by a truth potion after everything so go ahead and ask away."
"Have you ever killed someone?" Paul questioned her.
"No but I believe anyone is capable of it if pushed enough." Raven admitted.
"Can I really trust you to be on my side now?" Paul continued his truth potion fueled interrogation.
"Yes, because I never wanted anyone to get hurt from the get-go that's the last thing I want especially now that I've found myself really starting to like you." Raven revealed before Lacey orbed into the office.
"So, you can be trusted that's good because I liked you at first and having to kill you for messing with my family would've been a real bummer." Lacey said to the half demon/human hybrid. "However, it's pretty clear Cole needs to go!"
"What do use want me to do?" Raven asked them both. "Whatever it is I'll do it."
"For our plan to work we need to wait for the potion to wear off so you can give the performance of several lifetime." Lacey instructed.
"Are you sure you guys haven't made an error here by hiring me I mean I don't even know how to give the right kind of guidance to somebody." Drake worried as he and Quinn walked into Drake's new office within magic school. "What if I give the wrong advice and mess up somebody's life?"
"The fact that you're worried about something like that just shows me that you're going to do great here." Quinn replied, reassuring the Halliwell hybrid.
"I should really have a more professional job than my previous stripping gig now that I'm a father and all that but I'm still not sold that this is my professional calling although I am only just coming around to being a charmed one after three years." Drake explained to his former white lighter.
"I know you can do great things here just like I knew you'd do great things as a charmed one face it, Drake Black I'm never wrong." Quinn told him with a sense of self righteousness that Drake couldn't help but find adorable.
"Are you sure you shouldn't be guidance counselor around here? You always gave the best advice even if I never did really listen." Drake joked with his elder ex.
"I really do miss those days." Quinn said with a sad sigh, wishing in that moment he could go back to his white lighter days.
"I don't…" Drake admitted. "I was a total mess back then and I'm only just starting to pull myself together now and I like who I'm becoming now."
"You do seem really happy now I'm happy for you." Quinn replied sincerely.
"And I'm happy for you living your dream as an elder I really hope it's everything you wanted it to be and more." Drake told him.
Raven rushed into Cole's office within Halliwell and Turner law firm instantly making Cole and Morgana panic who were in there having a hostile meeting about their wicked plans.
"What's wrong?" Cole worried.
"Paul hit me with some kind of potion and found out everything we had planned." Raven revealed to them both.
"I should've known playing with demons was going to bite me in the ass luckily for me I never just have one plan up in the air." Morgana admitted. "We'll just kill the charmed ones steal the child and get the little brat to unlock the dark grimoire."
"That was never the plan!" Cole snapped at the devious witch. "None of them are getting hurt and there's no chance your going anywhere near Lilah."
"Please your nothing more than a dead demon who won't pass on you don't get to make demands of me!" Morgana snapped at Cole.
"Actually, I've already come up with a plan where nobody gets hurt and we can persuade Drake to open the dark grimoire." Raven told them both. "I have Paul unconscious and tied up in my office and I plan to get back to him before he wakes up. He's already been cloaked so no pesky white lighter finding him and getting in the way."
"Wow at least someone in your family can get a job done." Morgana said to Cole, mocking the demon.
"I must admit I didn't think you had it in you sister." Cole admitted, ignoring Morgana's insult towards him.
"You'd be surprised what I'm capable of doing when push comes to shove brother." Raven replied.
"So, it's pretty clear dad having a girlfriend at work has turned him even more into a workaholic he had the cheek to get Raven to call me to say he couldn't make this." Drake announced as he walked downstairs and into the foyer to meet Pan and Lacey. "Which is so beyond frustrating I can't even begin to complain but I won't because today's been an amazing day and we should be appreciative of it."
"Okay this happy go lucky Drake is really starting to spook me blink twice if you've joined a cult and can't get out of it." Lacey teased him.
"What exactly is Paul running late or not showing up for anyway?" Pan asked her nephew.
"Follow me!" Drake told them both with a smile on his face as the two walked into the dining room before Drake waved his had across the table making a buffet of food blink onto the table as well as cutlery, dining ware and a fancy table cloth to dress the table. "I've been working hard on my powers, so I don't have to shout all the time."
"Consider me impressed." Lacey complimented him as she looked around at the dining table filled with food.
"Drake this is truly amazing I don't even know what to say." Pan admitted to her nephew.
"How exactly have you managed to do all this without a single shout out?" Lacey wondered.
"Telekinesis is the ability to move things with your mind therefore I knew I could somehow tap into my witch side to do just that while also tapping into my demonic side to summon things just by thinking about them I mean that's how I blink everywhere it makes sense I can now blink things to me." Drake explained to them both.
"Starting to believe it's not just favoritism as to why you got a job at magic school." Pan said to her nephew, proud of how far he has come.
"Okay enough talking now girls it's time we get to drinking." Drake told them both before glasses of champagne suddenly blinked into each of their hands.
"Okay now you're just being a showing off." Pan laughed. "Which means you take after me!"
"Drake can I talk to you for a moment?" Cole asked after shimmering into the dining room.
"You don't even compliment all my hard work that you were supposed to help with me before going M.I.A and now your gate crashing my best friend and my aunt's engagement party to demand private time." Drake moaned at Cole. "Does it look like a party where privacy is needed? No, because the lot of you haven't even bothered to show up."
"Drake it's okay this is perfect the way it is honestly." Pan reassured her nephew.
"No, it's not because I wanted everything to be perfect god damn it! Everything is meant to be perfect but clearly, it's just the calm before the storm and boom here's the storm signs coming one by one." Drake snapped at everyone in the room. "How are we supposed to be happy if no-one can make time to be happy god damn it?"
"Drake it's okay!" Lacey told him as Drake realized, he had just overreacted.
"Yeah of course it is sorry I was just going full party planning diva there thank god I'm not planning the wedding." Drake joked trying to brush off his little outburst.
"I'm sorry I missed helping earlier but can we please talk?" Cole pleaded with the Halliwell hybrid while Lacey used the distraction of Drake's recent outburst to slyly slip something in Drake's drink.
"Yeah of course but we should make it quick." Drake told his demonic friend before he and Cole walked out of the dining room and began heading for the stairs as Lacey pulled Pan in for a tight embrace.
"It's showtime!" Lacey whispered in her fiance's ear.
"What are you on about?" A confused Pan asked her fiancé.
"Oh yeah," Lacey laughed. "I should probably fill you in right now."
Morgana walked into Raven's office at Halliwell and Turner law looking smug for a second before realizing she had been trapped in a crystal cage as a seemingly unconscious Paul stood up from behind the desk before Raven shimmered herself into the room standing next to the Halliwell lawyer.
"I've got to admit for a really old witch you're not as smart as you should be." Raven mocked her.
"I'm going to kill every single one of you!" Morgana shouted at them both, furious to have fallen for their trap.
"Yeah that's a lot more threatening when you're not about to be dead." Paul replied to the wicked witch before Lacey orbed into the office hand in hand with Pan who quickly uses her free hand to explode the devious witch.
"Well that's one down." Pan declared.
"And just one more left." Lacey replied.
"Okay so what's the big emergency that you just had to gate crash Pan and Lacey's engagement party?" Drake asked Cole as the two walked into the attic of the Halliwell Manor. "It better be good because this day is going downhill really quick."
"There's something I really need you to do for me." Cole told him as the dark grimoire appeared into his hand with a blight red flash.
"What is that?" Drake wondered.
"I need you to open it for me it's very important to me." Cole replied before Drake grabbed the book out of his hands shocking Cole that Drake could even touch it.
"Why is some dusty old book so bloody important suddenly?" Drake snapped as Lacey orbed into the attic with Paul and Pan on each side of her making Cole instantly panic as he instantly snatched the book out of Drake's hands and tried to open it to no success.
"Damn it!" Cole snapped.
"Guys what exactly is going on right now?" Drake asked everyone while looking around the room and slowly backing away from Cole.
"Cole was going to threaten you with your father's life if you didn't unlock that dark grimoire for him." Lacey revealed to a stunned Drake.
"The dark grimoire is basically the evil book of shadows which you clearly never knew which means I've still got more to teach you." Pan piped in before getting judging looks from both Lacey and Paul. "Which is so not the time for me to talk about it."
"I'm sorry son but he's been playing us this entire time thankfully Raven told us the truth in time before it was too late." Paul told his son.
"Is this true?" Drake asked Cole before snapping. "Answer me!"
"I wasn't going to actually hurt you or your father I just need this book unlocked so badly." Cole tried to explain himself.
"I slipped a little potion in Drake's drink so you couldn't harm him because quite frankly nobody knows what your capable of." Lacey told Cole.
"I understand why you need that book or at least believe you need it because I've felt the pain of losing someone and I would've made the same mistakes as you if I knew of a way to bring any of them back but that kind of magic is locked away for a reason." Pan explained to Cole taking a much softer approach towards him than anyone expected. "Sometimes whether we like it or not death really is the end."
"I really meant it when I said you were the first friend; I've ever truly had I didn't expect to bond with you like I did." Cole told Drake before shimmering out of sight.
"Are you okay?" Paul asked his son as he began walking over to him.
"I will be." Drake said as he forced a smile on his face. "We should get back to celebrating now family only this time."
"Drake we can rearrange for another night." Pan told her nephew.
"Guys I'm perfectly fine and I didn't go to all that trouble downstairs for nobody to enjoy it." Drake told them all. "Now let's go party!"
"How could you betray me like this?" Cole asked his sister after shimmering into her office at Halliwell and Turner law to find Raven sat behind her desk clearly expecting his visit.
"I was willing to do this crazy plan for you because I wanted to try and help you get to a good place, but dad's been gone for a long time and there's no bringing him back." Raven admitted as she stood up from her chair. "I wanted to help you so badly brother but I'm beginning to fear you're the walking stereotype that allows this world to label all demons the same. You lost your wife and your child due to the darkness you desire, you lost Drake and now I'm afraid you've lost me. I can't be in your life any longer because I no longer believe there is any redeeming you and even if I did I know for a fact you're just going to continue the same cycle you've been doing for far too long already."
"I should kill you where you stand!" Cole shouted at his sister.
"Try me." Raven shouted back, making it clear she wasn't scared of him.