Charmed AltaVerse 3x08 Rising Action
Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed or any characters associated with it, except those I have created.
CREDITS:
Shannen Doherty
Prue Halliwell
Holly Marie Combs
Piper Halliwell
Alyssa Milano
Phoebe Halliwell
Julian McMahon
Cole Turner
Brian Krause
Leo Wyatt
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I've thought of a brilliant and, let's say, kinda retarded twist to the end of the season! Hope you look forward to it.
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Prue threw a ball of fire at Cole. Just before striking him, time froze. Beta faded in.
"What are you doing?" she asked, indicating the fireball.
"I'm trying to do what you're supposed to be about," Prue said angrily. "I'm destroying evil."
"As I have said, Cole is not evil. And killing him now could discourage Phoebe from joining us. We need her for the transformation to occur. Trust me, Prue. I will set things right." Beta closed her eyes, rewinding time to just before Prue knocked on Bane's door."
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"Would you please just check one more time?" Phoebe asked, facing Cole in his living room, "Just to be sure?"
Cole closed his eyes in concentration.
"If Prue's in the manor, I can't sense her."
"Is that possible?"
"Is what possible?"
"For Prue to be in the manor and you not sense it."
"I doubt it. Unless she has a spell on her, or is an Avatar."
"That's not funny."
"A spell?"
"No," Phoebe tapped Cole in the chest. "Prue being an Avatar."
"Do you think she is?" Cole asked, eyeing Phoebe.
"No. Prue couldn't, wouldn't be an Avatar. Not unless she was under mind control. Well if she's not at the manor, where is she?"
"I can't sense the Charmed Ones, Phoebe, only sense who's in a certain location. Go." Phoebe took a deep breath, and electroported out.
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Reforming in her hand, Piper set the plant down again, and tried once more, to blow it up. Piper sighed, and turned, startled, and blew up Leo, who orbed back into the attic.
"Oh my God! Leo!"
"It's alright," Leo said, hugging his wife. "I'm already dead."
"That's not the point."
"Well, at least you blew something up."
"But I'm supposed to blow when I'm angry, not startled. And I can freeze right, I just can't blow up."
"I know. I've felt and heard."
"Heard?"
"Prue keeps complaining about your powers, and told me to tell the Elders to take your new power away because there's no reason for you to have it when blah, blah, blah. You know Prue."
"Yeah, but—"
"Piper! Demon!" Leo yelled, pointing at the demon in the corner of the attic. He took a step forward and threw an energy ball at Piper, who was protected by a force field.
"How—"
"I didn't," Piper said, freezing the demon. She placed her hands on her stomach. "She did. Our baby used magic from the womb."
Lightning pierced the demon and he screamed and was vanquished. Piper and Leo turned to face Phoebe.
"Cole sensed that Prue was gone," said Phoebe. "So I dropped on in."
"And what are you doing here?" asked Piper. "If Prue finds out you're here—"
"That's exactly why she won't. I just wanted to tell you that I am getting married to Cole."
"Phoebe, that's great!"
"No, it's not," Prue said, storming in, "The Elders will never allow it."
"So, you did cast a spell." It wasn't a question.
"What do you mean?"
"Prue cast a spell on herself so that Cole couldn't sense her." Prue looked around at her sister in confusion, then half-faked understanding. It was half true, because Prue realized that Cole couldn't sense her because she was an Avatar.
"Yeah, I did," Prue complied. "And it was obviously a good choice. Especially, if Cole is going to be sensing for me."
"He didn't want you to attack me when I got here."
"You actually think I'd attack you?"
"No, not really. At least, I'm hoping you won't." Prue stepped forward and hugged her little sister.
"I'd never hurt you, Honey. I love you. And I'm going to make a deal with you. If you call off the wedding, at least for a while, and promise that Cole won't live here in the manor, you can live here, and he can visit and be your boyfriend or fiancée or whatever. I just want you to be happy, but I have to think of your safety. Until I know for sure that Cole isn't evil, I ask that you not marry him. Please. It will cause problems with the Elders. Remember when Leo and Piper went up there for a month? They almost split them up. I know how much you love Cole, and I just want you to be happy."
"I'll ask him," said Phoebe. "But I don't know what he'll say. He might allow it. And I don't really want to marry him. Not because don't love him, I do. I just...it was too rushed, and I want to be proposed to romantically. Not in an apartment after my sisters just tried to kill the man I love."
"We didn't try to kill him," Piper clarified. "Prue did. Not me. Prue was alone."
"Thanks, Sis," Prue said over her shoulder. "Go to Cole and ask him."
Phoebe electroported out.
"Do you think she'll do it?" Prue asked Piper, shape shifting into Beta, or rather, into her true form.
Piper turned into Gamma.
"If she does, turning and capturing her could be easy. Her living here will make it easy to copy her."
"I just wish we didn't have to resort to such measures," Leo said, turning into Alpha. "But it's a necessary evil. Last time, we were thwarted, but this time, we won't be."
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"I think you should," said Cole. "But remember: They will know about the premonition. This information is valuable. Don't worry. Everything will be OK."
"Yeah, I'd like to believe that." Phoebe electroported out.
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As she electroported into the manor, Phoebe was knocked out by a ball of light.
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Waking up in the Avatar lair, Phoebe saw her sisters being held up against the wall by the same balls of light that knocked her out. Prue's eyes were covered, all three sisters were gagged, and none of them could move their hands, which left them defenseless. Phoebe tried to communicate silently with her sisters, one of which couldn't even see. Phoebe looked at Piper's hands, to which her sister shook her head, signaling she couldn't use them. Phoebe could barely make out Leo in the darkness, knocked out to stop him for orbing. Piper looked at him worryingly. As if she could see her sisters, Prue tilted her head compassionately at Piper. Prue wriggled slightly, signaling that she thought they'd get out of it.
Why don't you use your powers Phoebe thought to Prue. Just astral project out.
I've tried Prue thought back. But I can't. They cast some kind of spell on me. I'm sorry.
It's OK Prue Piper thought. Everything will be ok.
We'll get out Phoebe said. I have a plan.