Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed or any characters associated with it, except those I have created.

Shannen Doherty

Prue Halliwell

Holly Marie Combs

Piper Halliwell

Alyssa Milano

Phoebe Halliwell

Julian McMahon

Cole Turner

Brian Krause

Leo Wyatt

-

"I can't stand it Prue." Piper said to her sister, "It hurts too much. It's like she's died. I just want Phoebe and Cole back."

"Well, I'll take Phoebe, but Cole can stay wherever the hell he is."

"Prue."

"What, Piper. No matter what you both say, he's the Source of All Evil. And I'm tired of saying that."

"He's not the Source, Prue, he's like he used to be. A half-human, half-demon."

"No matter what he is, Piper, we have to vanquish him. Or at least strip his powers."

"Cole would never do that. It'd put Phoebe at a risk." Leo's scream echoed from upstairs.

"Damn," Prue said, "Not again." The sisters ran downstairs, to see Leo being held in the air by a demon. Electricity ran over his body and he exploded, causing Leo to fall to the floor.

Phoebe stood behind him, her hands outstretched.

"Hello, sisters."

"Phoebe," Piper said, "you're back."

"I'm not staying. Cole used a spell to bring me here. I'm only here to get some clothes."

"Phoebe, Prue wants to say sorry and says you can come back!"

"No I don't. Phoebe, as long as you're the Source's girlfriend, you'll never be allowed to stay here."

"Then I guess I'll never be able to stay." Phoebe turned and went into her room, as Piper helped Leo to his feet.

"You OK, Honey?"

Phoebe threw clothes into a suitcase and picked up a picture of Piper, Prue, and her at the lake. She smiled and placed the picture in the suitcase, then zipped it up, and pulled it off the bed by it's handle, to join her sisters in the hall.

"Phoebe, you don't have to go," Prue said. "You just have to kill the Source with us and you can come back."

Phoebe flamed from the room.

-

Phoebe set her suitcase down as she flamed into Cole's old apartment, newly furnished.

"How'd they take it?"

"I didn't tell them."

"Phoebe—"

"No, Cole. I can't tell my sisters. They still hate you."

"What about you? Do you hate me?"

"Of course not. I said 'yes', didn't I? Cole. I love you. And no matter what my sisters say, I'm going to marry you."

"What about your sisters?"

"If they don't ever come to love you, then they can just forget about ever seeing me again."

"Did you tell them about the electroportation?"

"I didn't tell them."

"And why not?"

"I forgot."

"You forgot that you can teleport with lightning? How do you forget something like that."

"It's hard to remember things like that when your sister tells you that if you don't leave the man you love, you can forget about ever coming back." Phoebe sat on the couch and burried her face in her hands. "I don't know what to do."

"You make a choice and stick by it."

"Yeah, but without me, they're vunerable. I mean, that demon stole part of Prue's power. And with the way Piper looked, her powers are probably screwed." Cole sat down next to Phoebe and kissed her head.

"It's going to be OK. So, make your choice. Your sisters....or me."

Phoebe leaned foward and kissed Cole, then said, "You."

-

"Just try again Piper. We can figure this out," Prue said, talking about Piper's powers. Since Phoebe left, when Piper tries to blow something up, it instead turns into a thousand little black spheres and reforms somewhere else.

"Leo!"

"Piper, Leo is working. You can't just call him whenever you want."

"I don't want him as my husband. I need him as my whitelighter. If he can't talk to me on a casual level, then he can talk to me on a business level because if there's something wrong with my powers, then the Elders should let him do that. Leo!"

"Piper, there is nothing wrong with your powers. I can use astral energy to move my real body and other objects. Phoebe can shoot lightning. Now, you can do whatever this is."

"Leo, for Godsakes, it's about my powers!" Leo orbed down into the room.

"What, Piper, I'm working."

"There's something wrong with my powers watch." Piper turned to face the plant centerpeice on the table. She opened her hands to blow it up, instead, it just turned to particles and reformed on the counter.

"When did you get that power?"

"Wait, so it is a new power?"

"Ha!" Prue said.

"Yes. That's why I was up there. The elders wanted to warn me that you were going to get the power of molecular dispersion and reformation."

"What can it do?"

"Well, it can make particles disperse, destroying the object, or it can just move the object."

"But she's not destroying anything. Just moving it."

"Well, she needs to practice. But I've really got to get back to work. Love you." Leo kissed Piper, then bent down and touched her belly. "And I love you too." He orbed out.

"So see? Your powers are fine."

"Shut it, Missy. Or I'll move you to Alaska."

"I'll just astral right back."

"Yeah yeah." Piper left the kitchen. Prue waved her hand. The plant astralled back to it's place on the table. She followed Piper.

"I just don't see why we're getting all these powers all of a sudden."

"Well, we're powerful witches, we've done a lot of good, and—" Prue stopped, then waved her hand. A crash sounded from the living room. Piper spun on her heels, and ran to the living room, with Prue on her tail. Cole lay amongst the rubble. Phoebe ran down the stairs and waved her hand. Electricity ran over Prue, who was thrown onto the table. Piper opened her hands. Dispersing Phoebe, who reappeard in the air, and fell to the floor. Prue stood up from the table and threw a telekinetic wave at Phoebe, who electroported out, then back in behind Prue.

"How—"

"It's part of my new power. Along with this!" She elctrically threw Prue again, then ran up to the turn on the stairs, and picked up the Book of Shadows and ran over to Cole, who flamed out.

"You can't have the Book!" Prue yelled, now standing by Piper.

"I already do." Piper opened her hands. The Book dispersed as Phoebe electroported out. The Book reformed in Piper's hands.

"This is ridiculous," Piper said. "How can Phoebe be that powerful?"

"It's her new power. Like mine, it can do stuff we never imagined."

"Yeah but yours was just an advancement of your astral projection power."

"I think our new powers are just advancements of our powers. I mean look at it this way: I had the power to move things with my mind, then I had astral projection, and from that, astral energy. You had the power to freeze, then got the power to make things explode by controlling molecules, and now you can make molecules move through the air. Phoebe can see the future, levitate, and has the power of telepathy, which is just her tapping into someone's brain, where there is electricity, then she controls that for her own purpose.."

"You think too much. You're making my brain hurt. Can you repeat that?"

"We're getting stronger. Much stronger."

"Now, that I understood."

"Piper, if the Elders are giving us all these new powers, there must be something looming ahead."

"What're we going to do?"

"What we always do.

"Save the day."

-

Phoebe elctroported into the apartment, her hands empty.

"What the hell?"

"Seems your sister has a new ability as well."

"Yeah. Do you think we're all getting new powers?"

"Yes. And I think you know why."

"The Avatars. We have to warn them. There's a page in the Book of Shadows." Electric started to form over Phoebe.

"Wait—" the electric faded, then Cole said, "We can't. They wont' believe us. They'll think I'm the threat and you're trying to distract them. Use a spell."

"Why can't you?"

"Use evil magic on the good Book of Shadows?"

"Right. OK let me think."
"Let them think what must be
turn the pages so they may see
as if turned by her hands,
let the pages open, as if by Grams."

-

The Book of Shadows started to turn it's pages on it's own as Piper and Prue looked through it.

"Don't you love when it does that," Prue asked.

"No. Not as much as you seem to." The Book stopped on the "Avatars" page.

"The Avatars," Prue read aloud, "A group of powerful beings, more so than the Elders whose collective is bent on power. Viewed as a threat by the Elders. Although a potion exists, the ingredients are uknown, but believed to be essense of Suxen."

"What's a Suxen?"

"I have no idea. I don't even remember this page."

"Well, maybe Mom or Grams added it from the beyond or whatever."

"Or it coulbe be the Source."

"Prue, it's the Book of Shadows. Cole's magic can't affect it. He's not even the full Source, he doesn't have the power needed to do it."

"No, I mean whoever the full Source is."

"You think there's a new Source?"

"What if that's what these powers are for? Destroying the new Source. I mean, they won't go long without a leader."

"Yeah, I know, but still. It doesn't seem likely. And besides, who would it be?"

"What about Phoebe?"

"You think Phoebe is the new Source."

"No. I meant what if it's Phoebe who's casting the illusion over the Book to make us see the Avatars to drive us away from Cole."

"You mean to drive you away from Cole. I only want to get Phoebe back, I don't want to kill Cole like you."

"Yeah, well until Cole does something amazingly good, I'm not going to like him."

"Yeah, and watch. He'll save your live, and you'll be OK with him."

"I didn't say I was going like him. I just said I'll stop hating him, and finally see that he might be good on some level."

"He is, Prue," said Piper, "He's saved Phoebe, me, and even you multiple times."

"Yeah, right after he tried to kill us."

"We've tried to kill each other a lot of times. Like when Phoebe was under the Woogy, or how about when you first got your astral projection power and you tried to kill us."

"I understand. But his power is—"

"Evil. But so was the powers Phoebe had when she was possessed."

"But that's the thing. She was possesssed. Cole's not possessed."

"Actually, he is. He's possessed by Phoebe's love."

"I can't talk about this anymore. Call Leo. Get all the info you can about the Avatars, see if there's a new Source." Prue stood up and started towards the door.

"Where're you going?"

"I'm going to see Bane. I love you."

-

"I love you too," said Cole, laying next to Phoebe in his bed. Twilight set over the city as Cole and his fiancee lay next to each other.

"So, I think we should invite my sisters to the wedding."

"What about the Elders?"

"Exactly. What about them? I don't care what they have to say. I'm going to marry you. And that's final. Nothing more to say about it."

-

Prue drove down the road, looking agitated and scared as she passed other cars. She turned onto a deserted side road. An avatar, Beta appeared in the seat next to her. Out of surprise, Prue spun the wheel, causing the car to head straight toward a pole, when suddenly, it all stopped. Everything. The car, the birds in the sky, everything except Prue.

"What the hell?"

"My name is Beta. I'm an Avatar. I'm good, don't worry."

"Good, no, you're a threat." Beta held up her hand. A ball of light shot from it and went into Prue's head.

"You want to save the world. What did you do to me?"

"I only used my power to let you see my true intentions. In an alternate world, we tried to remake the world, but because of Paige, who had taken your place after you died, stopped us. That is why we went back in time and protected you with astral energy. We hadn't expected you and your sisters to become more powerful. However, it's come at an oportune time. We want you to join us. To help us rid the world of evil."

"Like Cole?"

"No. Cole is not evil. If you wish to destroy him, that will be your choice. But first, we must save the world. Then personal vendetas can be achieved."

"So, if I help you make Utopia, then you'll help me kill Cole?"

"No. We're going to give you power. You will join our collective. Add your power to ours. Then you can kill Cole with this power."

"OK. I'll join you."

"Excelent." Beta raised a hand. A shaft of light shot from it, into Prue's head. She then waved her hand. A wave of red energy shot from it. The car returned to it's path on the road. The avatar faded out and the car sped down the road again.

-

Beta faded into a dark room, with a glowing table-like surface.

"The Eldest has joined us, and I sense Piper may be the next one."

"No. Leo's next. Prue will be able to convince him when Piper goes through her phase."

"But when?"

"Soon."

-

Prue walked up to a door and knocked. The door swung open to reveal Bane standing behind it.

"Prue, hi."

"Hey, Bane, can I come in?"

"Yeah, of course."

"Prue stepped into his apartment and sat down."

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing. I just needed to see you." Prue looked at the wall to her left.

"What?"

"Nothing. It's just, Cole used to live in the apartment next to this one."

"Yeah. Did Phoebe move out?"

"How did you know that."

"She lives in Cole's old apartment with some guy."

"Is she there now?"

"Yeah."

Prue astralled out.

"Prue?"

-

Prue appeared in Cole's apartment and walked into the bedroom.

"Prue?" Phoebe said, "What're you doing here?"

Prue threw a ball of fire at Cole.