Charmed AltaVerse 3x12 Dreams Part Prue
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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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"Prue, can I use your car?" Phoebe asked, holding her hand out expectantly. Her face was strangely grim.
"Going to Cole's?" Prue wondered what made her so sad.
"What?"
"Cole: your boyfriend. Speaking of which, why aren't you happier?"
"Cole? You mean Balthazar? No, he's dead why would I go to his place?"
"Cole isn't dead."
"Yes, Balthazar is dead. You vanquished him. Can I use your car?"
"Sure," Prue handed her the keys, and Phoebe vanished from thin air. Prue stood up, and headed for the attic.
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A puff of smoke rose from the cauldron as Piper stood at it, adding ingredients to it. Prue came into the attic.
"Something strange happened downstairs."
"Strange? Like what?"
"Phoebe said that Cole is dead."
"Cole, the ADA that Phoebe fell in love with?"
"Yeah he is. You killed him. You used a potion to phase into his body, and used your power to blow him up from the inside."
"I never killed Cole! I don't know why you people are saying that. Cole is alive. And I'm going to prove it. I'm going to astral to his apartment right now!"
"No. You have to take me here," Piper said, pointing to a spot on the map. "There's a demon there that is just asking for a vanquishing. His name is The Kevmay, and he has the power to incinerate human flesh with his eyes."
"But Piper—," Prue interjected.
"No! Astral, astral. Faster, faster!"
Piper took her sister's hand and Prue astraled them from the manor.
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Phoebe opened the door to her love's apartment. She walked across the room to where a huge scorch mark was imprinted on the ground. She bent down onto her knees and a tear slipped from her eyes. She reached into her pocket and pulled a spell from her pocket.
"I summon now,
The Power of Three.
To raise a demon
And bring Cole to me!"
Nothing happened. She flipped the paper over to another spell.
"Hear now, my heart's desire,
And bring back Cole, with love afire!" Again, nothing. She thought of a spell in her mind and chanted it.
"In this night and in this hour,
I call upon the ancient power.
Bring back my Love.
Bring back Cole."
Phoebe lay back down on the ground and cried next to her Love's grave.
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Astralling into a graveyard, Piper threw a potion at a tall, bald demon. The potion had no effect. She blasted him, throwing him back into the wall of a mausoleum. His eyes began to glow. Piper tried again, blowing him up. Green slime exploded from his body. Piper raised her hands in panic, freezing the slime.
"Next!" Piper took her sister's hand and astraled from the graveyard.
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Several hours later, Piper and Prue astraled to the top of a roof.
"Piper, this is the seventh demon in the past three hours." A demon nearby was holding an innocent by the neck, ready to push her off.
"We won't let you kill her!" Piper yelled. The demon got a smug look and let go of the innocent, who stumbled back. Piper tried to freeze her, causing her to explode. Prue's face fell. Piper pulled an athame from her belt and threw it at the demon, which shimmered out. The athame flew off the building.
"Damn. Astral now!"
"You killed the innocent!"
"Not like it's the first time. Just astral now!"
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The manor door swung open, and Phoebe came into the manor, and heard Prue and Piper arguing in the living room. Phoebe walked into the room.
"What's going on in here?"
"Piper killed an innocent."
"Again? Piper, you've got to be more careful."
"Where you crying?" Piper asked Phoebe, ignoring her question.
"Yeah. I was—I was at Cole's. Trying, again, to bring him back. And don't dodge the question."
"Phoebe," Prue said, holding up her hand, as if to hold off the conversation, "you need to realize that Cole was evil. It was a good thing I vanquished him."
"Not now. Piper, you don't just put yourself at risk, but you put us all at risk when you do stuff like this."
"It's not my problem," Piper said. "I'm going to go scry for evil." Piper stood up and walked upstairs. Phoebe started after her.
"Wait," Prue stopped Phoebe in her tracks. "About Cole. I'm not sorry I vanquished him. He was a demon and he had to be stopped. I just wished I had done it in the real world."
"The real world?"
"Yeah. I think the Avatars put us in some kind of dream state. This isn't the real world."
"Yes, Prue, it is the real world. It's not the world I'm in love with, without Cole, but it's the world I have to live with.
"Phoebe—"
"No, Prue. No. Let's save Piper."
"OK. Let's go." Prue and Phoebe started up the stairs.
In the attic, Piper walked over to Prue, with a spell in her hand. "Let's go. Simple warlock. Nothing too big. We can take him out with a simple spell. Phoebe, you can come with us. Prue, astral."
"I'm not taking you. We're staying here."
"Fine. I've written a spell for such an occasion.
"Send me to the point I've selected,
Let only the air be affected." Light swirled around Piper, taking her from the manor.
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Piper appeared in a swirl of lights in a mausoleum. A warlock nearby started toward a witch, brandishing an athame. Piper blasted him back into a wall.
"Run!" The witch ran away.
"Through this being, weave this spell,
Create the pain of Heaven to Hell,"
Prue and Phoebe astraled into the mausoleum.
"May he suffer, and then he cries,
His tears will run and then he dies." The warlock screamed as a tear ran down his face, and he exploded in a burst of fire."
"Piper, we're here to save you," Phoebe said, pulling a potion from her pocket. "And this may be the only way." Phoebe threw the potion down at Piper's feet, causing her to fall asleep. Prue astraled her and her sisters home.
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In the manor, Prue and Phoebe spoke to Piper the next day.
"You've got to stop this," Phoebe said. "You're doing more harm than good. Just stop."
"I can't. Since Phoebe quit when you killed Cole, we have to keep up the slack."
"Piper, I'm not quitting anymore. We're the Power of Three again. Don't worry."
"Fine, I'll stop. After two more demons."
"NO!"
"One more?"
"NO. None more."
"Half one. Just a half a demon. Just a little torture? Or maybe a nice stab?"
"I'm going to stab you if you don't stop," said Prue.
"Fine, I'm going to bed." Piper stood up and left the room.
"Phoebe," Prue said, stopping Phoebe from following Piper's lead. "I love you, and ever since I started this dream, I've seen you all depressed and sad. And maybe in my world, Cole isn't perfect, but you love him, and so I accept him. And if I ever get back to my world, I swear on my life that I will accept him. And even more, I'll let him move into the manor."
"Prue, I don't know what you're talking about."
"Yeah. I know you don't. Go on to bed. I love you."
"You too." Phoebe said, walking away.
Prue looked into the fire and laid her head into her hands.
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Prue (the real one) twitched in her sleep. The Avatars raised their hands at once. Orange energy shot from the table and spread around the world. The planes and helicopters froze in mid-air, their pilots and passengers asleep. The boats rose slowly over the water, everyone on board falling asleep. The orange energy seeped back into the room.
"It has begun."