(Prue sits in the sunroom holding Chris in her lap and watching Wyatt play on the floor. She looks extremely happy.
Piper enters carrying a laundry basket.)
Piper: You're still in here?
Prue: Yes! (Squeezing Chris' face gently) I cannot get enough of this face!
Piper: He is cute, isn't he?
Prue: Oh! He's adorable! (Smiling at Wyatt) So's he… God, you make gorgeous kids.
Piper: (starting to fold the laundry) I know, right?
(Prue smiles and goes back to playing with her nephew)
Piper: Prue… we're having a concert for women's cancer awareness at the club tonight… I was wondering if you'd like to go.
Prue: (her smile fades quickly as she looks back at her sister) It's only been a week, Piper… I-I'm kind of still getting used to all this-
Piper: (lowering the shirt in her hands) I know… I just thought you'd want to get out… You know, have some fun that doesn't involve Legos and crayons.
Prue: Hey, I like Legos.
Piper: Yeah, I know… I'm just saying it'd be good for you to get out.
Prue: It's too soon, Piper… Anyway, I'm supposed to be dead, remember?
Piper: I know, I know-
(Paige orbs in, hurried)
Paige: (speaking quickly to Piper; panicked) Hurry! Where's the book?
Piper: Upstairs, where it always is, why-?
(Paige orbs away. Piper looks with confusion at Prue)
Piper: What's wrong with her?
(Prue shrugs.
A half second later Paige orbs back in, holding the book)
Piper: What's wrong? What're you looking for?
Paige: (rifling through the pages) One of my charges has a domovoi infestation-
Piper: I'm sorry?
Paige: Domovoi. You know, common household being attracted to places full of magic and old pipes-
Piper: I know what they are… but you acted like you were in a hurry, I thought it was something important.
Paige: (flustered) it is important! My charge hasn't slept in a month. And, it is my responsibility to take care of her.
Piper: Right. (Looking at Prue) Could you watch the boys for a few more minutes, I have to call Phoebe about tonight.
Prue: (squishing Chris' face again) Of course!
(Piper laughs and rolls her eyes, leaving the room.
Paige sits in a chair, still perusing the book)
Prue: So… you're a whitelighter?
Paige: (not looking up) Yeah… my dad was a whitelighter and apparently (closing the book having found what she was looking for) so am I.
Prue: Your dad… Sam, right?
Paige: (standing up and placing the book on the chair) Yeah… tell Piper I said bye-
Prue: Wait, I wanna ask you-!
Paige: Bye! (Orbs out)
Prue: -something.
[Cue credits/intro
(Piper walks into the kitchen, Prue following close behind)
Piper: She doesn't hate you.
Prue: Uh, yeah, she does. You should've seen how anxious she was to leave earlier. She's been avoiding me ever since you guys brought me back-
Piper: Prue, she was going to help a witch with a spirit problem. (Opening the refrigerator and pulling out a sparkling water) That doesn't mean she's avoiding you. Trust me. Paige is just… (Opens the water) Paige.
Prue: (sitting at the table) Easy for you to say… she doesn't hate you.
Piper: (sitting next to her sister) Oh come on, Prue… this is hard on her-
Prue: I know, but it's not like it's easy for me. I've lost almost six years of time…. I come back and one of my little sisters is a mother, twice over, and the other is married to a man I've never met… and, surprise, I have another sister, also married, who can't stand to be in the same room with me. I'm sorry if I'm a little upset.
Piper: I know, honey… I'm sorry… just give it time; give Paige time. It'll be okay.
(Prue rolls her eyes and gets up to grab a water.
We hear the front door open.)
Phoebe: (from front room) Piper? Prue? (Walks into the kitchen and hugs Prue) Oh! God, I can't hug you enough.
Prue: (tensing slightly) Yeah… I got that after the third hour.
Phoebe: (smiling) sorry… (Looking at Piper, also grabbing a water) Count Coop and I in for tonight. (To Prue) You going?
(Prue sits back down and Phoebe joins)
Prue: No… I don't think so.
Phoebe: (disappointed) Aww, why?
Piper: She's afraid of the world…and Paige.
Prue: (annoyed) I've been dead for a long time, okay? And (takes a long sip) Paige hates me.
Phoebe: No she doesn't! You should've seen her when she found out she'd be meeting you-
Prue: Right.
Piper: And while we're on the subject of family members you're avoiding, when can we tell dad about you-?
Prue: (Standing up) No.
Phoebe: Prue-
Prue: No, you guys. I know it's unfair or whatever, but I'm just… (Disconcerted) I'm not ready.
Piper: (clearly irritated) Okay… but you're gonna have to face everyone eventually.
[NEXT SCENE
(Paige sits across from her husband at an outdoor café. She looks annoyed; they are obviously in the middle of a conversation.)
Henry: -she's your sister, Paige.
Paige: Um, hi… whose side are you on?
Henry: Yours. I'm just saying you shouldn't be so intimidated-
Paige: I am not intimidated.
Henry: Yeah, you are.
Paige: (beaten) If you'd heard the way they used to talk about her, you'd get it.
Henry: I do get it, it's just… you should try talking to her. I have a feeling avoiding her won't work.
Paige: (rolling her eyes) whatever.
(We suddenly become aware of a figure invisible to everyone else in the scene who stands a ways away, watching Paige intently, and smiling with malice; Barbas)
Barbas: Oh, Paige… you're making this too easy. (Teleports out)
[NEXT SCENE
(Piper and various employees are busy setting up P3, preparing for the concert that night.
Phoebe and Paige enter.)
Phoebe: (looking around, impressed. To Piper) Busy are we?
Piper: You think? Don't just stand there, do something. (Kneeling behind the counter and standing again, handing Phoebe a box of decorations.) Hurry, go.
Phoebe: (rolls her eyes and starts to walk away) Fine… but I can only help for a little while; I've got work to do.
Piper: Mhm. (handing Paige a towel) wipe the counter down, please.
(Paige moves to stand beside her sister and starts cleaning the counter)
Paige: (after a few moments) so uh… where's Prue?
Piper: Home… she still isn't really up to leaving the house.
Paige: (halfhearted) that's too bad.
Piper: (lowering the towel in her hand and eyeing her sister suspiciously) is something wrong, Paige?
Paige: What? No!
Piper: (Unconvinced) Mhm… seriously, what is it?
Paige: (pretending to be flustered) Nothing!
Piper: (lowering her voice) Paige, ever since Prue's been back I haven't seen you talk to her once.
Paige: (rolling her eyes) it's not like its intentional, okay? I've just been… busy…
Piper: Busy?
Paige: Yes.
Piper: With domestic spirits?
Paige: Yes… they happen to be very formidable.
Piper: Look, whatever the problem is, I think it'd really help the both of you if you'd just talk.
Paige: (Pauses before changing the subject) is there anything else you need me to do?
Piper: Uh yeah… could you take out the trash?
(Paige groans but does as she is told)
[NEXT SCENE
(Barbas stands behind a beautiful woman who is facing away from him, looking annoyed. They are obviously in the Underworld.)
Woman: You want me to do what?
Barbas: (moving to stand beside him) It's what you do, isn't it? Trap witches in interdimensional pockets?
Woman: (turning to him) Yes, but you're talking about the Charmed Ones.
Barbas: Only two of them… I'm dealing with the other two.
Woman: How?
Barbas: The only thing you need to know is that I need Phoebe and Piper somewhere where they won't be able to save their sisters. You can do that, cant you?
Woman: Of course!
Barbas: Good.
Woman: You guarantee they won't be coming after me?
Barbas: Their power lies in their sisterhood… let's just say I'm working on severing those ties.
Woman: You're sure?
Barbas: Crocell… you do your thing… I'll do mine. (Starts to leave, but stops) And one more thing: don't kill them… I'd like to keep that pleasure for myself. (Teleports out)
[NEXT SCENE
(Paige exits a door from the club into the alleyway, carrying two large bags of trash and looking annoyed)
Paige: (to herself) Problem? There is no problem. (Tosses the bags into the trash bin) I'm just busy…geez.
(Barbas' projection appears behind her, smiling menacingly)
Barbas: Hello again, Paige.
(Paige, having started back toward the door, falters)
Barbas: How dare Piper blame you for Prue's problems?
(Paige remains still, looking thoughtful)
Barbas: She's already taking her side over yours.
Paige: It's not my fault…
Barbas: What happens as time progresses? How will things be different in a month? A year? What happens when Prue's presence tears your family apart?
(He creates a projection, and Paige watches with terrified eyes.
Piper, Phoebe, and Paige face an enormous, daunting demon in the manor. Everything seems to be shaky and moving slowly.
Phoebe yells at Piper to blow it up, and that's when Prue runs into the room. Piper, her hands held in midair, turns to looks at Prue.
"Prue?!"
Immediately, the demon makes his move, vanquishing Piper. All three remaining sisters scream in horror, and Phoebe runs to the spot where Piper had stood. The demon vanquishes her as well.
Paige screams again, then turns to Prue.
"Look what you've done-!" finally, the demon vanquishes both Prue and Paige.)
Paige: (looking terrified) Piper… Phoebe…
Barbas: Your sisters are in constant danger as long as they're distracted by Prue. Now that she's back, they'll try to return to the way things were… but it won't work… they'll die.
Paige: (tears well up in her eyes) No…
Barbas: Yes… they don't stand a chance unless you do something… you have to stop Prue from endangering them.
Paige: She's going to kill them…
Barbas: Kill her, Paige… you're the only one who can save them.
Paige: I have to save them… I can't let her hurt them…
Barbas: That's a good girl… you know what to do.
(The projection disappears as the door to the club swings open. Phoebe smiles at Paige from the doorway)
Phoebe: Hey, I have to get going… you want me to take you home?
Paige: No, I have some things to get done, you go ahead.
Phoebe: (smiling) Okay. (Leaves)
(Paige looks around the check that no one is watching and orbs out)
[NEXT SCENE
(Prue sits at the kitchen table, flipping through a family album, smiling fondly at pictures of herself and her sisters as children.
After a moment, Leo enters)
Leo: Still looking at those pictures?
Prue: (Looking up and smiling at him) Yes… they make me feel better.
Leo: (sitting next to her and glancing at the pictures) feel better? Is something wrong?
Prue: (closing the book and sighing) I don't know-
(Leo raises an eyebrow at her and she sighs)
Prue: -okay, yes. It's Paige.
Leo: Paige?
Prue: Yeah. I've been here a week… and I haven't once held a real conversation with her.
Leo: Because-?
Prue: Because she's avoiding me.
Leo: Well… you've kinda been avoiding her too, haven't you?
Prue: (Rolling her eyes) please… why would I do that?
(Once again he raises an eyebrow at her)
Prue: Okay, so maybe I am. So what?
Leo: Prue, she's your sister.
Prue: Leo, I don't know her.
Leo: Yeah, and I can guarantee that not talking to her won't change that. Piper and Phoebe had a hard time getting to know her at first… but they got through it. You can, too… she's just…stubborn… kinda like you.
Prue: Nice.
Leo: Trust me… you'll like her.
Prue: All right, then.
Leo: (standing) I'm gonna take the boys to the park and you're welcome to come if you-
Prue: That's all right… thanks, Leo.
(He nods and leaves the kitchen. She opens the book and looks at the pictures again.
A few moments pass before we hear the front door open and close, and almost as soon as it has, Barbas' projection appears behind Prue.)
Barbas: It's been too long, Prue.
(She flips the page of the book; pictures of her are nowhere to be found. The pages thereafter are instead filled with pictures of Piper, Phoebe, and Paige.)
Barbas: Doesn't it hurt… doesn't it hurt that they so readily replaced you with Paige?
(Prue looks slightly hurt, but continues flipping through the book)
Barbas: But then again, they did always compare her to you, didn't they?
(She pauses)
Barbas: Not much of a comparison, if you ask me. Sure, she's half whitelighter, but you were always the strongest.
Prue: I had to do everything…
Barbas: That's right. And now, Paige is jealous… she's regretting having helped to bring you back.
Prue: (confused) But Phoebe said—
Barbas: They didn't want to worry you… but Paige is threatened. She wants to send you back.
Prue: (standing up quickly from her chair) No! I can't go back.
Barbas: She's working on it now… she wants to get you out of the way… she wants to replace you again.
Prue: (Grabbing her hair in panic) No… I can't go back!
(He creates another projection, this time it takes place in the attic. Paige stands at the book, a pad of paper in her hand. She writes furiously, when Prue walks in the room. She looks up and smiles menacingly.
Prue walks to her, confused. "What are you doing?"
Paige steps forward, reading from the paper "Sister Soul which was reborn, feel now all my fear and scorn, return her now from whence she came, return her to her rightful plane."
Immediately, Prue is vanquished and the projection fades.)
Prue: (terrified) No!
Barbas: Yes… she wants you gone.
Prue: But—
Barbas: You have to stop her… you have to get her before she gets you.
Prue: (looking like she's had some epiphany) I have to stop her.
Barbas: That's right.
Prue: (suddenly angry) I won't go back. (Storms out of the kitchen)
Barbas: (smiling to himself) not alone, anyways. (Teleports out)
[NEXT SCENE
(Paige is in the attic, still under Barbas' influence, and is flipping through the BOS. She holds a pad of paper in her hand, just like in Barbas' projection.
We hear footsteps outside the door before it is thrown open to reveal Prue.)
Prue/Paige: You!
Prue: (Stepping further into the room) what are you doing in here?
Paige: (moving from behind the book) why should I tell you?
Prue: (noticing the pad of paper in Paige's hand) No! (TK's Paige across the room and into a wall)
(Boxes and random objects crash to the floor, and Paige scrambles to crawl out from the debris)
Paige: (noticing a large trunk beside Prue) Trunk! (It flies into Prue, knocking her off her feet)
(Meanwhile: Downstairs, Phoebe enters the front door. As she passes the front room, she notices Piper rifling through a box on the coffee table)
Phoebe: Hey you, what are you doing here? I thought you had work to do.
Piper: I do. (Finding what she was looking for) Aha! (Stands up) I left the club checkbook here and I need it for tonight… why aren't you at work?
Phoebe: Oh, I was gonna stop by and see if Prue maybe wanted to have lunch with me.
Piper: (moving a strand of hair behind her ear) I doubt it… you know how she's been avoiding leaving the manor since she got back.
Phoebe: (slightly disappointed) I know but I still—
(We hear a loud crash from upstairs and both women look up, worried)
Piper: What the hell was that?
(Another crash is heard)
Phoebe: Attic.
(Together they hurry up the stairs)
(In the attic: Prue TK's the trunk off of herself and jumps up, running to where Paige is still climbing out of the debris.
She picks up a piece of wood and swings it, but Paige orbs out in time.
She re-materializes on the other side of the room, behind Prue)
Paige: Over here! (She waves mockingly at Prue as she turns around before pointing at a chair a few feet away) Chair! (She sends the chair flying at Prue who tries to stop it using her own telekinesis, but it flies at her anyway.
As she and the chair hit the floor, Phoebe and Piper run in)
Piper: Oh my god! What are you two doing?
Paige: Get out of here, Piper!
Phoebe: Paige—
(Before she can continue, the woman Crocell materializes behind her.
Piper and Phoebe both turn to face her, and Piper raises her hands to freeze her, but nothing happens)
Crocell: Nice try (She smiles and raises her hand to her mouth, blowing a sparkling dust at both Piper and Phoebe, who immediately fade away.
Crocell looks at the two remaining sisters and sneers) How unfortunate for you. (shimmers out.
Prue and Paige stare at the spot where their sisters were standing suddenly free of Barbas' 'spell' and obviously petrified)
[NEXT SCENE
(Paige sits on the chair she had earlier thrown at Prue, staring into the space in front of her, dazed, while Prue paces in front of her, holding her head in anxiety)
Prue: (panicked) what just happened?
Paige: (listless) I don't know…
Prue: She just appeared and, and… then she… (Turns to face Paige) Have you ever seen her before?
Paige: (looking at Prue) Are we really pretending we didn't just try to kill each other?
Prue: (frustrated) we have more problems right now.
Paige: No… I've never seen her.
Prue: The book! Maybe she's in the book. (Running to the book) please, please let there be—(she flips open the book and freezes) Uhh… what—(she keeps flipping the pages, her panic escalating)
Paige: (standing) what's wrong?
Prue: (motioning frantically at the book) it's gone… its gone!
Paige: (moving to look at the book) what's gone?
Prue: All of it! Everything!
Paige: (gets to the book and flips through it; sure enough all the pages are blank) Oh my god… (Looking at Prue) What happened?
Prue: (closing her eyes; thinking) Uh… when, when that woman appeared and Piper tried to freeze her… (Opens her eyes) it didn't work.
Paige: And?
Prue: And the same thing happened before…when we used our powers on each other. (Looks at the chair across from them and waves her hand; nothing happens) My powers are gone...You try… call it.
Paige: (looking at the chair) Chair! (Again, nothing happens) …What now?
Prue: I don't know…
[NEXT SCENE
(Phoebe and Piper materialize in some random field. Beside them are a few huge boulders, and about 100 feet away is a large cavern-looking thing, but everything else is open. The whole place looks to be glowing with a brilliant white light, and both women look around at their surroundings, confused)
Piper: Um… okay… where are we now?
Phoebe: I-I don't know… are we dead?
Piper: I hope not… I've got a huge shipment coming to the club tonight and if some demon makes me miss it, I swear to god--
(Suddenly, Crocell appears in front of them and smiles)
Crocell: Welcome to my world, ladies… I hope you've enjoyed your stay. (She creates an energy ball and throws it at them.
Piper tries to blow it up, but nothing happens; Phoebe reacts in time to push her out of the way; they hit the ground hard)
Piper: Ow…
(Crocell starts moving slowly towards them)
Phoebe: (to Piper) Hurry! Get up!
(They get up and start running for the cavern)
Crocell: (stops walking and watches them run away) you can't hide from me! There's nowhere to go! (Shimmers out)
[NEXT SCENE
(Prue is pacing back and forth again, and Paige looks helplessly at the BOS)
Paige: Well… what gave your powers back last time?
Prue: … we basically just had to… reconcile… reform the bond…so much for that.
Paige: (defensive) what is that supposed to mean?
Prue: We're the ones who broke the charmed bond, Paige… and you and I have no relationship to mend.
Paige: So what are we supposed to do? We don't even know if they're dead or alive.
Prue: They can't be dead… if she'd wanted them dead she'd have just killed them… and probably us, too…
Paige: Yeah, but—
(Barbas teleports in.)
Paige: Barbas.
Barbas: Hello, Paige. (Looking at Prue) Prue! How lovely to see you again my dear-
Prue: Shut up!
Barbas: That's no way to speak to an old friend now is it? (Materializes an energy ball, and throws it at Paige)
Prue: No! (Reacts quickly, jumping to Paige and pushing her out of the way; the energy ball grazes her shoulder; Paige orbs them both away)
Barbas: Damn. (Teleports out)
[NEXT SCENE
(Paige and Prue orb into magic school, Prue winces in pain and Paige kneels beside her, healing the wound)
Paige: (when the healing is completed) you okay?
Prue: (touching the previously injured spot) Yeah… Thanks.
Paige: (looking at Prue) why'd you do that? … I kinda got the feeling you hated me... you know… when we tried to kill each other.
Prue: Yeah, well…I can't lose another sister right now. (Stands up).
Paige: (smiling to herself as she stands) we should be safe here… but not for long.
Prue: Hey… how come you can still orb and everything?
Paige: It comes from my whitelighter side, not my charmed side.
Prue: Oh… (Looking around) Well… is there somewhere we can find out who that woman was?
Paige: (nods) yeah, c'mon. (Heads for the library, Prue follows)
[NEXT SCENE
(Phoebe and Piper, now deep within the cavern, stop running to catch their breath.)
Phoebe: (hunched over, holding her chest and wincing) Ugh! Why didn't your powers work?
Piper: (aggravated) probably because our stupid sisters can't control their stupid emotions.
Phoebe: (straightening up) Huh?
Piper: They were using their powers against each other... and now, we're all screwed.
Phoebe: If we live… remind me to kill them.
Piper: Deal.
(They both turn to look behind them after hearing a slight noise)
Phoebe: (taking Piper's hand) C'mon, we have to keep moving.
(Piper groans but they continue running)
[NEXT SCENE
(Paige is reading aloud from a book to Prue who sits at a long table, surrounded by books.)
Paige: Crocell… a powerful demon who uses her specially blended magic powders to open pockets in the many planes where she traps her victims until she can feed on their magic… very few have ever escaped, but there is a potion.
Prue: Oh, good. So, they could be literally anywhere in the Universe and all we have is a potion.
Paige: try not to be so positive.
Prue: We don't have time to be positive. (Stands and beings to pace)
Paige: Well… we have to find them.
Prue: Obviously… we'll never find them without magic-
Paige: (loudly) what is your problem?
Prue: (Stops and glares at her) my problem? Are you kidding me? You're the one with the problem.
Paige: (standing) me? I have been nothing but nice to you-
Prue: Nice to me? Nice to me? You call trying to kill me being nice to me? You must be sick in the head-
Paige: Kill you? When did I try to kill you?
Prue: You didn't get the chance, but I know… I know what you really want. You hate me!
Paige: hate you? Lady, I don't know you! All I know about you is that you're dangerous and you're going to get us all killed-
Prue: What are you talking about?! Are you completely insane?
Paige: No! I'm- (pauses)… (Softly) scared…
Prue: … (Confused) What?
Paige: I'm scared… (Looks at Prue) and I'm willing to bet you are too-
Prue: Duh. Who wants to die?
Paige: (facing away from Prue) He did it again…
Prue: Who did-?
(As she speaks, Barbas teleports in behind Paige)
Prue: Paige!
Paige: (turns to see Barbas) Barbas.
Barbas: Very good, Paige. You figured it out. Smart girl.
Paige: (backing away) you… you're working with Crocell…
Barbas: Quick, aren't we?
Paige: Where are our sisters?
Barbas: Oh… they're all right for now… now, as for you and Prue here, I'm afraid I can't say the same. (Creates an energy ball) Too bad.
(Just as he is about to throw it at Prue, Paige rushes up behind him and hits him hard in the head with a large book.
The energy ball disappears and he turns to her, extremely angry)
Paige: Leave her alone.
Barbas: Have you lost your mind? (Again he creates an energy ball and throws it at her. She throws up her hands in an effort to protect herself, but the energy ball hits her hard in the stomach)
Prue: No!
(Barbas looks very proud of himself and Prue rushes past him and holds a bleeding Paige tightly to her chest)
Prue: Oh God! Wake up! No! No, please wake up!
Barbas: Prue, Prue! This is what you wanted, isn't it?
Prue: (Sobbing into Paige's hair) No! Please don't die! I'm so sorry!
Barbas: Of course it is.
Prue: no, no, no! Paige, wake up! Wake up! You are stronger than this!
Barbas: Just admit it Prue… admit it, you hate her. You hate her and you're glad I killed her so you didn't have to-
Prue: No-
Barbas: You saw her as a threat from the very moment you came back. That's why you've been avoiding her-
Prue: No-
Barbas: And as a welcome back present, I'll let you watch me finish her off (raises his hand to create an energy ball)
Prue: No! (as she speaks, books fly off the shelves, chairs and tables slide away across the floor, and Barbas is thrown backwards to the floor.
The blue lights that manifest each time the Charmed Ones are constituted swirl around Paige and Prue, and Paige's injury dissipates.
She sits up quickly gasping for air)
Barbas: What? No!
Prue: (to Paige) You're okay!
Paige: (looking around at the chaotic scene) What happened?
(Barbas throws an energy ball at them, but it bounces off the swaddling lights and hits the wall behind him)
Prue: I'm not sure… can you orb us out of here?
(Paige nods, taking Prue's hand, and orbs them both out)
Barbas: NO! How?!
[NEXT SCENE
(Paige and Prue arrive in the attic and Paige looks at Prue, confused)
Paige: How did you-? How did I-?
Prue: I don't know… (Standing and turning away from Paige) Maybe magic decided it wasn't your time… (Moving to the book) Maybe now we can-(pauses)
Paige: What?
Prue: Th-the book… it's… different.
Paige: (Concerned; moves to stand beside Prue) what do you mean? (Upon seeing the book her jaw drops) Oh my-
We now see the cover Book of Shadows. Only now, the Triquetra has been replaced with the Infinity symbol
Paige: (tracing the symbol with her finger) it's the symbol for Infinity…what happened to the Triquetra?
Prue: I have no idea… (Flips open the book and quickly brushes through it) All the spells are still here. (Stops on the page titled 'Crocell') Here's the potion for Crocell... let's just make it and figure out what happened to the book when we have our sisters back.
(Paige nods and heads out the door, Prue and the BOS close behind)
Paige: (Stops halfway down the hallway) Hey, Prue?
Prue: What?
Paige: Thank you.
Prue: For what?
Paige: You said we had to mend our relationship… I think you saved me back there.
Prue: You saved me first, remember?
Paige: Call it even?
Prue: (Smiles) Agreed. (continues down the hall)
(Paige smiles to herself and follows Prue)
[NEXT SCENE
(Piper and Phoebe are still running, but Piper stops, clutching her side)
Piper: I… I have to stop.
Phoebe: She'll kill us-
Piper: So will all this running!
(Crocell emerges from around a corner behind them and smiles)
Crocell: You ladies are very rude, you know. I'm trying to be a friendly host and you run away. Tsk tsk.
Phoebe: (backing away with Piper) who are you?
Crocell: (ignores the question and creates an energy ball) I promised Barbas I'd leave you for him… but, let's face it, I'm a demon. How could I pass up a chance at offing the Charmed Ones?
(She throws it. The girls scream and Piper throws up her hands, the energy ball freezes inches from their faces)
Crocell: What the-?
Piper: Ha! (Steps back and explodes the energy ball, then tries to explode Crocell; it only causes her to step back) Dammit!
Phoebe: Not working!
Piper: You think?
(Crocell creates an energy ball and throws it at them; it just barely misses them)
Phoebe: (as she and Piper run away again) what do we do?
Piper: Try not to die!
(They continue running for a short distance, before running into a group of huge wall-like boulders)
Phoebe: Ah! What now?
(They turn to face Crocell as she makes her way toward them; Piper uses her molecular hyper-mobilization on her over and over, but it only serves to slow her slightly)
Pipe: Phoebe, do something!
(Crocell keeps moving closer)
Phoebe: What?!
(Crocell is now only about ten feet from them, and creates an energy ball)
Crocell: Sort of anticlimactic, don't you think? (She raises her hand, about to throw it when Paige and Prue orb in)
Prue: Hey! Back off!
(She and Paige both throw a vial of potion at Crocell who is promptly vanquished)
Piper: (to Phoebe) Kind of was anticlimactic. (To Prue and Paige, somewhat irritated) I am going to kill you-
Prue: (Moving to take Piper's arm and drag her back to Paige; Phoebe follows) Okay, but later; we have to go to Magic School.
Piper: (As Paige takes her hand) what? Why? What did you two do?
Paige: Barbas attacked us.
(Once Phoebe reaches them, Paige orbs them all out)
[NEXT SCENE
(The girls arrive at Magic School to find the room where Barbas was is now empty)
Piper: Here?
Paige: (stepping away from the group and looking around) I guess we should've known he'd run off scared.
Phoebe: He may be evil but he's not stupid, he knows better than to go up against us…especially after that ass kicking we gave his little friend.
Paige: I don't know… this was way too easy…
Piper: Well great… I won't be sleeping anytime soon… (Turning to Prue and Paige) How'd you two get your powers back anyway?
Prue: (wrapping her arm around Paige's shoulders) we remembered that we're sisters.
Phoebe: Great… if you two ever pull that 'I'm going to kill you' stuff again, I swear The Power of Four will become the Power of Two very, very quickly.
Piper: Seriously.
Paige: (Taking Phoebe's hand) Eh, quit whining… we just saved your asses. (Jokingly) We so just could've left you here. (Orbs out)
[NEXT SCENE
(Piper, Paige, Henry, Leo, Phoebe, and Coop sit on couches in P3, talking. The club is extremely crowded and a band performs in the background)
Phoebe: It's too bad Prue didn't come. You'd think she'd welcome the distraction after the day we've had.
Piper: Yeah, well, she finally agreed on confronting Dad, so she's spending all night cooped up in her room thinking about everything that could go wrong. Just, you know, being Prue.
Leo: You have to appreciate that she's even agreed to talk to your dad, it's a big step.
Piper: I know, I still wish she'd come.
Paige: Well, lucky for you, I managed to talk her into it. (Motions to the stairs where Prue is descending, looking extremely nervous)
Piper: (stands to welcome her sister into the circle) Paige! How'd you get her to come?
Prue: She begged. (Smiles at Paige)
Paige: I just convinced her that nothing could be harder than learning to get along with me.
Prue: (sitting) which is so not true… I mean, what if someone sees me? What do I say then?
Piper: (sitting) well, we'll deal with that later. We've died and come back to our lives; it's no big deal.
(Everyone laughs)
Prue: I'm sure. But, whatever happens, I'm just glad I even got to come back.
Phoebe: (standing and walking to Prue, hugging her fiercely) Us too, honey.
(Paige and Piper both pile onto Prue as well and the scene fades out)
[END