Note: Sorry I haven't written in so long! Again....

Charmed AltaVerse 4x02 The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell

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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"Uhm, Prue, Phoebe!" Piper called. Her sisters came into the foyer, and looked up at the bend of the stairs, where a door sat. It opened, and a man appeared in it's doorway.

"You've got to help me. You've got to stop the—" Behind him, a horse appeared. One, carrying a headless horseman. The horseman swung his sword down, and the man's head fell off, the mans' body falling to the floor, as the door swung shut.

"What the hell was that?" Phoebe said.

"That, was the headless horseman."

"Who said that?"

"It was the head," said Prue, pointing down at the stairs. There, on the landing, sat the mans head, his glasses lopsided.

"Leo!" Piper called. Moments later, Leo orbed into the house.

"What is it?"

"Oh, Leo, thank heavens you're here. Would you mind helping me. Magic School is in danger!"

"Magic School? Leo, do you know him?"

"Yea. His name is Sigmund. He's a teacher at Magic School. Students go there to learn to hone their magic. But luckily, it's protected from demons."

"If it's protected," Phoebe said, "How can it be in danger?"

"Because it's not a demon that's attacking it – it's the headless horseman."

"I have a question." Prue said. "If you're nothing but a head, how are you not dead."

"Part of the schools magic," Sigmund explained. "As long as my body remains there, you can't die of a natural cause. Magic can kill you. Fireballs, energy balls. But not swords and daggers. Unless you're a demon, of course."

"Ok, OK, we get it. So now what?"

"Well, you need to take my head back to Magic School, and Gideon can put it with the other teachers."

"I can't go there," Prue said. "I'm vunerable."

"But Prue, we may need the Power of Three."

"I'm a half a witch, Phoebe. It'd be more like the Power of Two and a Half."

"But think of the innocents Prue."

"Guilt. Great motivator. OK, we all go together. Who's going to carry the head?"

"I'd prefer to be called 'Sigmund', if you don't mind."

"Fine. Who's going to carry Sigmund?"

"I'll do it," Leo said.

"Good." Prue and her sisters clasped hands, and walked up the stairs, over the head, and through the door, with Leo carrying Sigmund right behind them.

Magic School was a large building, with a never-ending hall. In the Grand Hall, an Elder stood waiting for them.

"Ah, Sigmund, my old friend, I'm so sorry."

"Not at all, Gideon. But, if you wouldn't mind orbing me to the other heads?"

"Not at all." Gideon lifted his hand, and Sigmund's head orbed away in a swirl of purple orbs."

"Purple orbs. I've never seen that before," Prue said.

"It's unique only to me. But enough chit-chat. Piper, are you alright?" Gideon looked at the middle sister, who as turning her head back and forth, as if looking for something.

"Yeah, I'm—I'm fine. I just keep hearing this baby sort of, cry out to me."

"I don't hear anything," Leo said.

"Ah," Gideon said, raising his hands above his head. "A sign! Follow it Piper, and it may lead you to your heart."

"Do what? Alright." Piper turned and left, following the sound of the baby.

"Meanwhile, Leo, you must go back to the manor, and wait."

"For what."

"You'll see."

Leo looked at Gideon for a moment, then orbed out.

"Prue, I think you should become a teacher. You might be able to help out my Advanced Magical Power class. Sigmund was the teacher but – well. You'll do just find." He waved his hand, and a black robe orbed onto Prue. "Go down the hall, the tenth door on the right."

"Tenth?"

"Tenth."

Prue turned and left.

"And what about me?" Phoebe asked. "Do you want me to levitate up and clean the chandelier."

"Oh, no. We have people for that. I want you to look around Magic School, see if you find anything suspicious. If you do, report back to me."

The golden doorknob turned smoothly, as Piper followed the noise of the baby sounds. Opening the door, she found the room was completely dark, as if a black cloud were blocking it. Even the light from the hall did not penetrate it.

"I must be insane." Piper said. She stepped through the cloud, and the door shut behind her.

In the room, sat a little baby. The only source of light, an eerie glow that seems to come from the walls. The baby smiled and cooed at her.

"Hi, little baby. Where's your mama?" Behind the baby, two portals, one black, and one gold opened up. The baby turned into a blur, and the blur split right down the middle, one flying into the golden portal, and one into the black.

"OK, should I follow? Oh, what the hell." She stepped up to the golden portal, took a deep breath, and stepped inside.

"What am I looking for?" Phoebe asked the walls, as she carried out Gideon's assignment. She stepped down yet another corridor.

"OK, time to check a room. She stepped up to a big, black, dusty door. She blew a little of the dust of the front. The door read "For Those Who Seek Answers". She shrugged, and turned the door knob, but nothing. She pulled on the door, the knob came out, causing her to fall on her back.

"Ouch!" She exclaimed. She got onto her knees and looked through the hole. Inside, sat a cauldron. She leaned closer, until her head touched the door. When suddenly, the hole got bigger, and bigger, and swallowed her up, spitting her on the other side. The knob tugged at her hand, and she released it. The knob flew into it's original place.

"Nice little spell," she said. She stood up and walked over to the cauldron, and looked down into it. The golden liquid sat still, that is, until she touched the side of the cauldron. And although there was no fire, the liquid bubbled merrily, as if it were a child that was happy to see her.

"Go on, touch it," came a voice from the shadows.

Just as noisy as any regular high school class, the students in Prue's AMPs class became quiet as she opened the door.

"I'll be filling in for Sigmund until he gets back."

"She's hot!" a boy said and whisled.

"I bet Ryan doesn't think so!"

"Shut up."

"If you weren't gay, we wouldn't say that."

"Everyone be quiet!" Prue commanded. Everyone in the room shut their mouths. "One more word, and I'll turn you into a toad." Prue bent down over Ryan's desk, holding her robe close to her body so the kid behind him wouldn't see. "Just ignore them. It doesn't matter if you're gay or not."

"Thank you." Ryan whispered. He waved his hand, and an apple appeared on Prue's desk.

"You're a conjurer. Very neat. I, myself, am a telekinetic, with the added power of astral projection. Although I can't actually do telekinesis at the moment."

"Why not?"
"Astral Arrest."

"What's that?"

Before Prue could answer, a boy in the front row said "A suspension of other powers due to an incomplete attempt at joining an astral projection with its host."

"Nerd!" The boy who whistled said.

"This is going to suck," Prue said.

Piper took a deep breath, and stepped in. The golden light washed over her, and Piper stepped into the observatory in a world like her own, but somehow brighter. Prue walked up to her and hugged her.

"Where have you been, Piper? It's almost time for the doctor."

"Doctor?"

"We have to make sure our little nephew is doing OK, don't we?"

"Nephew, what do you mean?" Piper looked down at her stomach, and saw her belly had grown several sizes.

"I'm pregnant?"

"Well duh."

"But the horseman. What if he's in league with a demon?"

"Demons? Piper, demons don't attack anymore. Not since we took out the Source." Said Phoebe.

"And what about Leo? Where is he?"

"Honey, are you feeling OK? You know that Leo is looking for baby clothes. After all, you're almost due, and the baby you already have is growing, growing, growing!"

"Doesn't he have charges to look after?"

"No, Piper" Prue said. "Remember, Leo doesn't have charges anymore. He's still a whitelighter, but he's retired. He'll grow, and age, then die. Just like the rest of us. What's wrong with you? Did you hit your head?"

"But wait. I already have a baby? This is incredible."

"Yes. It is. And with Phoebe married to Cole, and Prue and Andy engaged, life has never been happier." Andy and Cole shimmered into the sun room. Cole went over and hugged his wife, as Andy kissed Prue.

"I have to go to 415, so I'll see you later." Prue waved her hand, telekinetically sending her jacket to her, then astralled from the manor.

"And I have to take Piper to the doctor's."

"Wait, why was Cole with Andy?"

"Cole's a lawyer, and Andy's a police officer. They've been working on a case for weeks, Piper, you know that. Now let's go check up on that perfect baby boy."

"Who was that?" Phoebe asked the shadows. A young woman, probably a student, stepped out of the shadows.

"My name is Clara. Do not be alarmed. I will not hurt you. I am here to show you the way."

"The way? The way to what?"

"The way to your heart."

"That was Piper's thing. She was supposed to find her heart."

"She was meant to find an ulterior part of her heart. You were meant to find love, she want meant to find fertility."

"Fertility? She's going to find something about a baby?"

"I can not say for sure. But I can tell you that what you see will help you decide your question for Cole."

"Whether or not he loves me or he's just using me to hide."

Clara looked down into the bubbling liquid.

"It is not hot, if you are wondering. But you will need to submerge your head."

"And get my hair wet? Are you crazy."

Clara raise her eyebrows.

"OK. You might be crazy." Phoebe took a deep breath, and dipped her head into the cauldron. Her feet left the ground, and her feet slammed onto the floor of her room.

"Wow, Harry Potter moment. Was that a pensieve?"

Phoebe crossed her room, and opened her door. Everything was the same. She turned, and went up to the attic. Inside Cole sat flipping through the Book."

"Cole, you're a demon. How can you touch the Book?"

"Demon? I'm not a demon, Phoebe. I've told you that. I have demonic powers, but I'm not a demon. Not since that potion."

"What potion?"

"Did you hit your head? Oh well, it doesn't matter. We have to go. Prue and Piper are hunting down a demon. A warlock they think."

"Cole, I don't get it. What's going on?"

"Phoebe, you're not acting like yourself. Did you hit your head?"

"Well, everything is normal." the doctor said. "Your baby is in good health. You have nothing to worry about." The doctor turned and left the room.
"Oh, yay." Phoebe said. "Now, we need to get home." Phoebe walked around the bed and out the door, in which a golden portal opened. Piper jumped off the bed, and walked up to it.

"But I don't want to leave. This world is so wonderful." Golden strands of light came from the portal, wrapped around Piper, and pulled her through.

The golden portal closed behind her as she passed through it. On the floor sat half of the blur that the baby became. Piper had to go through the other portal for the baby to be whole again. She stepped up to it, looked back at the blur, then walked through the black, stepping into the observatory of a world that was night. Her hands jumped down to her stomach. She wasn't pregnant in this reality.

"Phoebe? Prue? Cole?" Piper walked into the living room.

"OK, summoning spell," Piper told herself.

"Powers of the witches rise,
Course unseen across the skies,
Come to me, I call you near,
Come to me, and—"

"NO!!" Leo yelled as he orbed into the manor. He jumped, and tackled Piper to the ground, then orbed out again.

Leo and Piper orbed down into Magic School. The floor was scorched, the walls were on fire, and the bookshelves were almost bare of any books.

"Leo, what the hell was that for? I was trying to summon my sisters. I need to find them."

"You don't want them, Piper. I know you've been fixated on saving them, but you can't. They're warlocks already. They've killed over a thousand innocents. It's too late!"

"Warlock? How can they be warlocks? They're witches!"

"Did you hit your head, Piper?"

"I wish people would stop asking me that!"

"If you'd act normal, maybe people wouldn't."

"Leo, don't be mean to me. I'm your wife, you can't talk to me that way!"

"I think exwife is more accurate."

"Ex? How can we be ex? Why did be divorce?"

"We divorced because you decided to pay more attention to your sisters and the Power of Three. But it didn't help, did it? They still turned when you – it's all your fault. If you weren't so selfish, this would have never happened."

"Selfish? Leo, what the hell are you talking about?"

"You know what I'm talking about. When you used magic to trap our Wyatt in your stomach so you could tap into his powers, when your spell broke, and he was finally born, it was too late. You didn't have time to save your sisters from being turned evil by the Source. Then Wyatt was stolen, and now he's evil. You ruined the world, Piper."

"Who's Wyatt?"

"Our child, Piper! Our son!"

"Our son? Leo, we should be having a daughter. When we went to the future—"

"The future was wrong, Piper. Everything's been changed. And it's all your fault.

"Leo, stop yelling at me! Or I'll blow you up!"

"You'd really kill me, Piper?"

"Kill you? Won't you just reform."

"Since your sisters killed the Elders, all whitelighters have had less power. We can't just heal now, Piper, you know that." Piper froze Leo.

"I'm going to summon my sisters."

"Powers of the Charmed Ones, rise
Course unseen across the skies,
Come to me, I call you near,
Come to me, and settle here."

"No, Cole, I didn't hit my head. But I'm beginning to think that the world has."

"Here it is!" Cole exclaimed. He took a pad and wrote a spell, then rushed over, grabbed Phoebe's hand, and shimmered out.

Shimmering into an alley, Phoebe saw Piper and Prue watching as a demon ate a man."

"We're here. What's that?"
"That would be a demon, eating our innocent. We thought he's have a nice last mean before we kill him." Piper froze the scene. The sisters rushed forward, and Prue waved her hand, sending the demon into a wall. It quickly recuperated, and rushed forward. Piper blasted it, and blasted it again. Phoebe ran forward, levitated into the air, kicking it in the chest. The demon grabbed her foot, and threw her into the wall.

Cole pulled the spell out of his pocket, as Prue waved her hand again, and Piper froze him. Phoebe got up and looked over their shoulders to read the spell.

"Demon, feeding on remains,
Leaving death-stewn scarlet stains,
Hear us now, the Power of Three,
We banish you to eternity!"

The demon screamed as he was vanquished.

"OK. One down, four to go."

"Four? Why are we going after four demons?"

"Prue's five demons an hour regime."

"Five? Prue? What the hell is with this?"

"We've taken out the Source, so why not indulge a little, and get his little cronies?"

"Yeah, but—"

"You and Cole go back to the manor, find the next demon's spell. His name is Erris. He's in southern California."

"Wait, Piper what about you? You hate hunting demons."

"I'm only doing this until we find the darklighter that killed Leo." Piper and Prue clasped hands, and astralled out. Cole grabbed Phoebe's and shimmered to the manor.

Lights appeared, and vanished, and there stood Prue, and Phoebe, their hair a deep black, wearing tight black leather.

"Piper, why did you summon us? Trying to kill us again?"

"Maybe she's trying to 'save us'."

"Again, Piper? That didn't work last time. Why would it work now?"

"Please, tell me, what's going on. How did you turn evil. Where's my baby. What is Leo talking about."

Prue and Phoebe exchanged a glance, then both of them made a fireball, and threw at at Piper, who ducked. The fireballs hit Leo, killing him."

"Leo! No!" Piper scrambled over to Leo. Behind her, Prue grabbed her hair, and put a dagger to her throat. The blade slipped cleanly through her skin.

Phoebe and Cole shimmered into the attic, and Cole crossed over to the Book, with Phoebe right behind him. She placed her hands on the Book, to stop him from reading. He looked up into her eyes.

"Phoebe we don't have time for this. If we don't get that spell for Prue, she'll kill me. Probably literally."

"Cole, tell me how you feel about me."

"I love you, and no matter what happens, I'll stay right beside you."

Phoebe's feet left the ground, and she found she was standing in the Answer Room, Clara looking down into the cauldron.

"Welcome back." Clara said. "So, what did you find?"

"Cole loves me. Even with Leo dead, Prue insanely killing demons, and Piper compliantly following her lead, he still was with me. He still loved me. We're meant to be."

"How do you feel?"

"Exhausted."

"I doubt you feel as exhausted as your older sister."

"Prue?" Clara shook her head. "Piper. What's wrong with her."

"She is in a bit of a jam. She has had her slit throat."

"By who?"

"Prue."

Phoebe turned ripped the doorknob from the door, and pressed her face against it. She fell through to the other side, and then ran as fast as she could to the Grand Hall, where Gideon stood.

"Prue killed Piper. Where are they?"

"You met Clara, have you? Interesting. Did she show you the cauldron? It's of her own design."

"Yes, it's very lovely. Where are my sisters."

" Prue is in a classroom, and like you, Piper was taken to another world. There, she has been killed by Prue."

Piper fell out of the black portal, gasping and coughing. The baby sat on the floor, whole, and clear, no longer a blur. Piper picked the baby up, and looked into his eyes. Into Leo's eyes.

"Wyatt?" the baby faded from her arms. The door behind her flew open. Leo, Prue, and Phoebe stood.

"Piper, are you OK?" Piper's sisters rushed forward and embraced her.

"I'm fine. I'm just exhausted. I've been to two worlds. One was way better than the other. But I am glad to be home. But guess what? I found something out!"

Behind Leo, the horseman appeared.

"Leo, orb out!" Prue yelled. Leo orbed as the horseman swung his sword. Prue rushed forward, and kicked the sword out of the horseman's hand, then flipped through the air, kicking the horseman off of his horse. She picked up his sword, and plunged it into his heart. The horse and the horseman disappeared.

Prue smiled at her sisters as they came out of the room.

"We did it."

"No, Prue," Phoebe said. "You did it. We're too tired to do anything right now. Let's go home."

Back at the manor, the Charmed Ones shared stories of what they did. Piper, telling them about the happy world, her pregnant, with a child, Cole and Phoebe married. She only left out the part about Andy. Then, she told them about the evil world, but skipped over her trapping her baby in the womb.

Piper sat next to Leo, holding his hands, Phoebe sat on Cole's lap, her arms around his neck, and Prue sat alone in a chair.

"It's no fair," Prue said. "You guys get to sit with the guys you love, and I have no one."

"I wouldn't worry about that for too long, Prue," said Piper.

"What do you mean?" Phoebe asked.

"Let's just say, I've had a little premonition of my own."

"I don't get it."

"Me either," Prue admitted. "But I had a good day. I taught kids, and I think I was very good at it. It was easier than I thought."

"Stop it, Prue. Don't rub your luck in our faces. You didn't go through two worlds."

"And you didn't fight a demon in yours."

"No, I just got killed by my oldest sister."

"Yeah, that does suck."

"Yeah, but at least it wasn't real." said Prue.

"Oh, Piper, you never told us what you figured out, after you came out of your world." Phoebe said.

"Yeah, what did you find out?" Leo asked.

Piper looked at her family and said, "I'm pregnant!"

Note: I think this is my longest chapter yet. Eight pages long! I mean, the last page only has the last sentence, and this note, but still. I hope you enjoyed, please leave a review, and wait with bated breath for the next installment!