DarkPriestess66: This is Charmed Again pt 2, same as last chapter, I used most of the script or what could be called a script, Read and Review please.
The next morning, Alexis was in the kitchen cooking breakfast, which was Piper's job but she was busy tending to Leo, who was knocked out by the now late and unlamented Shax.
Piper retrieves an ice pack from the freezer and places it gently on Leo's neck. Leo holds it against his sore neck. "I don't understand how you can keep healing innocents, but you can't figure out a way to heal yourself."
"It's kind of hard to heal myself when I'm knocked out." Leo replies, Phoebe walks in. Alexis took out another coffee mug and handed it to her,
"Leo, how is possible for an angel to even get knocked out? I mean, you are, after all, technically dead." Phoebe asks,
"I have to agree on all, how is it possible?" Alexis agreed, as she turned bacon over in the frying pan, sometimes she wondered how she could be a failure at making potions and yet be average at cooking, but she might as well place the blame of her potion failures on Professor Snape, he wasn't a very good teacher,
"Three years together, and now you're asking these questions?" Leo asked,
"Well..." Phoebe began, Alexis shrugged, "I even knocked out Carmela a few times,"
"I think the more appropriate question is, how does a whitelighter get somebody knocked up?" Piper asks
Phoebe and Alexis lets out a giggle.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Leo replies,
"What do you think it means?" Piper asks,
"If it's about Paige, I swear, the Elders had no idea that she even existed, or that she was your sister." Leo replies
Phoebe: Sister witch.
"Half-witch, half-whitelighter. Let's not forget that little surprise." She helps Leo with the ice pack. "I still can't believe that Mom kept that secret from us."
"Well, it sounded like she didn't have much of a choice." Phoebe reasoned,
"We're her daughters. She could've found a way to share that information with us." Piper
White and blue orbs appeared revealing Carmela, "Professor Dumbledore requests that you're back in class on Monday, and I have your homework,"
"I was planning on it," Alexis agreed, "But we have to save Paige first,"
The doorbell rings. "That better not be another long-lost relative." Piper states,
"No sis, He's at Hogwarts," Alexis replies, as she walked with to the door. She answers the door. Piper, Phoebe, Leo, and Carmela follow. Alexis greets Darryl at the door and lets him in.
"Hi Alexis." Darryl greets
"Hi there." Alexis greets then closes the door and Darryl looks around.
"Where's Cortez?" Darryl asks,
"Who?" Leo replies,
"Inspector Cortez - the one I hit over the head, the one you said you would take care of. He's missing. Police inspectors are not supposed to be missing. Where is he?" Darryl asks,
"Well, I kind of sent him to…" Phoebe began sheepishly
"Timbuktu. It rhymed with undo." Piper interrupted,
"Timbuktu." Darryl repeats,
"It's okay. Cole went to get him." Leo stated.
"Cole?" Darryl repeats, then Cole shimmers into the manor by the stairs.
"Cole!" Phoebe exclaims.
"Wait." Cole gets an energy ball ready and a bounty hunter appears suddenly and strikes. The bolt of blue lightning misses him barely and Cole kills the bounty hunter with his energy ball. Cole stands up. "Damn bounty hunters… they're like gnats."
"Where's the inspector?" Darryl asks
"Don't worry. I found him. Moved him to a place he can't tell a soul what he saw. Literally." Cole answered
"What do you mean? Where'd you put him?" Leo asks
Cole gestures below him.
"In the basement?" Phoebe asks,
Alexis' eyes widened as she realized what he meant, "You didn't, nevermind you're half demon, of course you would, Pheebs, I think he means a little bit further down than that."
"Oh." Phoebe replied as she realized Cole meant in Hell.
"Cole, he's a cop. He's one of the good guys." Leo stated
"He's also the one who can expose them as witches. I think that you, above anybody, would want to avoid that at all costs." Cole argued
"Not at that cost. We have to save him." Leo replied
"Save him? What do you mean, save him? Wh-what's going on?" Darryl asked confused, Alexis would have thought three years being friends with the Halliwell family would have taught the mortal cop some lessons,
"You know what, Darryl? We are going to take care of this whole mess." Phoebe stated as she began to usher Darryl to the door
"Wait a second. Hold..." Darryl states,
"You don't worry about it." Phoebe escorts Darryl out the door and then joins the others.
"Okay. Maybe you can talk to the Inspector, reason with him." Piper suggests as Phoebe hugs Cole.
"And what if he can't? What if you two get exposed? What's to say the same thing won't happened to you that happened to Prue?" Cole asks,
Alexis looked up, her ice blue eyes bring with defiance, "Bring it on, so what if we end up in a some laboratory."
"Well it's a risk we'll have to take." Phoebe agreed.
"Yeah well, you know what? There's another risk you guys have to worry about. On the way back, I heard gargoyles." Cole stated.
"Gargoyles? You mean like statues?" Piper asked.
"That's only in they're in their resting state. They come alive to ward off evil. In this case, I think they're trying to ward off the Source. I think he's surfaced." Cole explained,
"Wait - what? He's here? Now? Where?" Phoebe asked, Alexis' jaw dropped as she remembered the boggart turning into the Source, "No way,"
"I don't know. Could be anywhere. Or anyone." Cole answered.
"Probably came for Paige, but she doesn't stand a chance against him. She doesn't even know what her power is yet." Leo reasoned,
"Leo, we don't stand a chance against him." Phoebe replied, "Not without Prue."
"Hang on, for second guys, But we might with Paige - the new Power of Four." Alexis stated, "We need to find her,"
"Can you sense her?" Piper asked Leo,
"I don't think so. She's too new." Leo answered before he looked at the only one who could sense a new whitelighter. "Carmela, could you sense her?"
"I can try," Carmela replied, the Elder closed her eyes and spread out her sensing power. "Yes, I got her. She's heading for a church, but I can't tell which one."
"Well then we just have to start with the church Mom was talking about." Piper suggested,
"Piper…" Phoebe and Alexis began,
Piper interrupted "What? Phoebe, I'm not crazy about it, either, but we can't just do anything about it - now. Mom wouldn't want us to... and neither would Prue."
Alexis nodded, "Prue would find a way to kick our asses, and yes I'm cussing. Get use to it."
Cole and Leo shimmered and orb off respectfully to get Cortez.
A hour later, Piper is holding the Yellow Pages and looks into Phoebe's room. Alexis was nowhere to be found as well.
"Phoebe, Lexi, I think I found…" Phoebe's not there. "The church. Phoebe? Alexis?" Piper looks into Prue's old room to find Phoebe standing there, facing the window. Piper sets down the phone book and walks up to her sisters "What are you doing in here?"
"I was already in here when Phoebe came in," Alexis answered as she sat on Prue's old bed. "I found her like this,"
Phoebe turns around holding a leather jacket. Phoebe's face is tear stained.
"You remember the time I borrowed this from Prue without asking?" Phoebe asked
"Which time?" both Piper and Alexis asks.
"When my boyfriend's cat peed on it. Oh. She got so mad, I thought she was gonna have a stroke." Phoebe:whips her nose. "But the funny thing was, she got mad at you because she thought that you were the one that had borrowed it. And you never told her the truth. She never knew it was really me."
Phoebe sobs and sits down on a red sofa. Piper comes over and sits beside her. Piper pulls Phoebe to her and embraces her sister. Alexis follows and hugs Phoebe too, "I miss her so much."
"I know. Me, too. I was wondering when you were gonna let go." Piper replied,
"I miss her too," Alexis replied as well.
"I was just… I was trying to." Piper hands her a tissue. "Thanks. Stay strong, you know, keep it together for you, and… then I put all my energy into trying to save… Paige because I figured only one of us could break down at a time. Otherwise, we'd both be useless." Phoebe sits up. "I'm scared, Piper. I'm really, really scared. She always took the lead. She was… she was our big sister. How are we supposed to go on without her? How are we supposed to go up against the Source without her?"
Piper sighs. "I don't know. But I do know that we can't let the bastard get Paige, either so, no matter what we think or feel, she is our sister. And sisters protect each other."
"I agree, I haven't doing much protecting have I?" Alexis asked, "I should have been here, I should have."
"It's not your fault, you were at school, sweetie, where you were meant to be," Piper replied as she kissed Alexis' forehead, Together they drove to the church and went inside to the office of the nun that help Patty and Sam save Paige.
"Yes, may I help…" Sister Agnes stated to ask.
"Hi." She freezes Sister Agnes. "Hey, what's up? We need to get you out of here."
"What did you do to her?" Paige asks,
"Oh, she just froze her. She'll be fine." Phoebe answers,
"Yeah. Lucky I didn't blow her up. My powers have been a little off lately." Piper stated offhanded.
"Piper, Alexis." Phoebe points at the blanket Paige is holding.
"Is that our blanket?" Piper asks then tries to touch it, but Paige pulls it away.
"No! That's mine! Leave me alone!" Paige turns to leave.
"All right! Gee." Piper replies as Piper, Alexis, and Phoebe follow Paige.
"Paige. Paige. Paige." Phoebe calls out
"Stop or I'll freeze!" Piper exclaims. Paige stops and turns. Phoebe, Piper, and Alexis stops as well.
Phoebe whispers to Piper "She's a witch. You can't freeze her."
Piper whispers back to Phoebe "She doesn't know that."
"Will you please just leave me alone?" Paige continues to walk towards the main exit. Alexis ran up to where she just was.
"Look, I know what you're going through. We went through the same thing when we first found out we were witches, too." Alexis reasoned, "I'm the youngest witch here, and I'm just like you a hybrid as well."
"Look. You just gotta trust us. Somebody very, very bad is after you." Piper explains,
Paige stops and turns around. "Trust you? You just froze a nun? How do I know you're not the bad ones?"
"Well if we are, then you are, sister." Piper answered
"Piper." Phoebe was shocked but Paige turns to leave.
"What? Fine. Then you try." Piper relented,
Phoebe turned to Paige "You have a magical power, you know." Paige stops and turns. Phoebe and Piper come closer to Paige to talk. "Mmm. At least, if you're really a Charmed One, you do. And the sooner you learn it, the sooner you'll be able to protect yourself."
"I have a power?" Paige asks interested now,
"According to the prophecy, the third sister has the power to move things with her mind. Like Prue could." Piper explains,
"How does it work?" Paige asks
"You concentrate on an object like that candle right there." Phoebe points at the candle a few feet away. "And then you just wave your arm at it."
Phoebe demonstrates and waves her arm. Paige tries it, but nothing happens. She looks to Piper and Phoebe.
"Or, uh, you could squint your eyes. She used to squint her eyes." Piper suggested
Paige waves her hand at the candle and squints but nothing happens to the candle. She turns back to the others.
"She's not Prue, She will never be Prue." Alexis stated,
"She's right, maybe I'm not one of you after all if I can't even make that candle…" Paige raises out her hand in the candle's direction. The candle is surrounded by blue and white bright lights and disappears and reappears in Paige's outstretched hand. Paige hands the candle slowly to Phoebe. "Oh."
"Told you so," Alexis stated
"So perhaps the whitelighter in her makes it work differently?" Phoebe wonders then blows out the candle and sets it aside.
"Half-breed." Piper muttered
"Piper, That's not nice, I'm a half breed too." Alexis snapped.
outside Shane/Source appears in a ball of fire and walks toward the church.
"She better be here, Oracle. I'm running out of time." He states.
Oracle just as a voice replies, "She is. Don't worry."
Shane/Source stops and spots the gargoyle. The gargoyle screeches and Shane/Source drops to the ground covering his ears screaming in pain.
"No!"
Back inside, Piper, Phoebe,Paige, and Alexis hear the noise.
"What is that?" Paige asks
"I don't know." Phoebe answers.
Outside Shane/Source's hand glows read and the doors open.
"Paige." Shane/Source calls
"Shane?" Paige rushes to help him. "What's the matter? My god, what happened?"
"I don't know. Someone's after me." Shane, who was possessed by the Source replied. Paige helps him up.
"Paige!" Alexis shouts as she, Piper, and Phoebe run after Paige.
"Come on. Let's get out of here." Paige states
"Paige! Come back!" Phoebe but Shane/Source turns and fires a red bolt at Piper, Phoebe, and Alexis. They scream and go flying backwards, sliding their way to the inside of the front of the church. "Whoo!"
"What the hell was that?" Piper asks
"Good question." Sister Agnes replies,
Piper calls for Leo, who uses the memory dust on Sister Agnes to make her forget what she just saw. Then they orb to the Manor Conservatory. Piper and Phoebe are sitting on the couch with Alexis sitting on the floor in between then with her arms wrapped around her knees, Cole and Leo are pacing in front of them with their arms folded.
"So the Source was there, at the church?" Leo asks
"Well, the gargoyles weren't exactly whistling Dixie, Leo." Phoebe answers
"Plus, something pretty powerful knocked us on our asses." Piper adds, Cole sits down.
"But if he was there, why didn't he try to kill Paige?" Cole asks
"Maybe he didn't want to go up against the Charmed Ones." Phoebe suggested,
"No that doesn't make sense, He knows that Paige is new to her powers. If ever there was a time to attack…" Alexis replied,
"Wait a minute. Alexis' has a point, What if he's not trying to kill her anymore? What if he's trying to lure her to his side?" Leo asked.
"Translation please?" Phoebe asks
"The mythological window." Cole replies,
"There's a window of opportunity, an opening." Leo explains,
"48 hours." Cole adds
"Right, 48 hours where a nascent witch who hasn't chosen to use her powers for good or evil yet can be swayed either way." Leo sits down.
"Wait, so all he has to do is cast a spell on her?" Phoebe asks
"No, he can't. It has to be her choice, but he can tempt her, entice her. If he gets her to use her powers for evil…" Cole answers.
"She becomes evil forever." Leo finishes, Phoebe sighs.
"Who makes up these cockamamie rules?" Piper asks the Cole looks down and Leo looks up. "Oh, never mind…"
"Okay, so we have less than 24 hours to get to Paige and no idea how to find her." Phoebe states,
"But I bet the Source does." Piper stated.
Alexis stood up, and walked away,
"Where are you going?" Phoebe asks
"Where else, what helps us solve our problems, I'm going to the attic," Alexis answers.
While in the attic, Cole is looking at Cortez, who's leaning against his car parked outside the Manor. Phoebe, Piper, Leo, and Alexis are at the Book of Shadows.
"Are you sure you don't want me to turn Belthazar loose on Cortez just for a minute or two?" Cole asks
"No. He doesn't have anything on the girls yet. Besides, now is no time to be blurring the line between good and evil." Leo answers.
"After that duel last year, I don't want to see Belthazar any time soon," Alexis adds
Phoebe closes the book. "This is useless." She clears her throat. "We're never gonna find Paige without a little help." The book opens on it's own and flips through the pages. It stops on one page. "Works everytime. Okay, an enchantment spell. Wait. How is this gonna help find her?"
"Well, maybe it's not to find Paige. Maybe it's so we can ID the source. See the last line? It's, 'So she can reveal the evil within.' " Piper suggests
"But that'll only help if we can find him?" Phoebe asks
"Maybe we can, or at least, maybe you can." Leo replies then he looks at Cole.
"What does he mean?" Phoebe asks
Cole walks toward them. He clears his throat. "Demons can sense the Source's aura. It's how he reminds us of his power, his reach. Maybe if I focus on it…"
"Then he'll know you're doing it. And he'll find you." Phoebe replies
"Not if I was careful. It's your only chance at saving your sister." Cole goes back to the window.
"Okay. So we need something to enchant." Piper stated,
"Right, um…" Phoebe responds, Everyone looks around. Phoebe spots something. "Oh!" She goes over to a shelf and finds a pair of pink kiddy sunglasses. "How about these?"
"My old sunglasses, I lost a long time ago?" Alexis asked.
"Oh Phoebe." Piper sighs
"What? They're perfect." Phoebe replies,
Alexis hold the sunglasses while Piper and Phoebe places their hands on hers,
"Magic forces far and wide, Enchant these so those can't hide, Allow this witch to use therein, So she can reveal the evil within."
The glasses lenses' grow.
"Okay. Better test 'em." Piper suggests, Phoebe puts the glasses on. She giggles a little as she looks at Leo.
"Well?" Leo asks
"Nothing. You look the same." Phoebe answers
"How 'bout me?" Cole asks Phoebe looks at him and lets out a little scream. "What?"
Through the glasses, Phoebe sees Cole as Belthazar as he walks toward the girls. "What do I look like?"
"You look like hell." Phoebe answers as she takes off the glasses. "Enchanting." Cole smiles. Phoebe looks up. "Thanks for the magical assist Grams."
"How do you know it wasn't somebody else?" Piper asks, "Now where would Paige be?"
"South Bay Social Services" Alexis replied, then everyone looked at her, "What? I'm using logic, she's half whitelighter, so she would be drawn to people who need help,"
"Well let's go then," Piper replies,
Another hour later, Piper pulls up in her jeep with Phoebe, Cole, Leo, Alexis in it. They all get out and look around.
"I don't see Paige anywhere." Phoebe stated,
"Are you sure this is the right place, Cole?" Piper asks
"The Source is here. I can sense him." Cole answers.
"I can sense Paige, she's here too." Alexis adds.
"Wait. There she is." Leo pointed out, Phoebe puts on the sunglasses and sees a black aura around Paige.
"What is she doing?" Piper asks
"I don't know, but she's got a black aura around her." Phoebe answers,
"The Source?" asks Leo
Cole answers, "No. It can't be. If Phoebe saw my demonic self, then she'd see his too."
"Yeah. Well, whatever it is, it's not good. Come on." Phoebe responds, They go towards Paige as a small crowd gathers around Jake.
"Paige? Paige? It's me, Phoebe, Alexis, and Piper." Phoebe asks,
"He's evil. He's hurting his child." Paige answers, like she was in a trance
"No. You're being seduced into doing this." Phoebe reasoned,
"All right. You know what? Hi." Piper pushes Paige's hand down. "Leo, take her. Go home. Go, go, go, go." Leo orbs out with Paige. Jake's pain lessens.
Alexis turned to where the crowd was, "Something is wrong with this," she decided to walk over and see what was happening,
"Let's get out of here." Cole suggests, They walk away.
Alexis saw a man on the ground holding his chest, she thought Paige was trying to orb his heart out of his chest, but it might feel like a sudden heartattack to him,
"Are you sure you'll all right?" the woman asks as the man stands up. "Maybe you'd better lay back down."
"I'm not covering for you anymore Carol. You keep your hands off our son." He walks off.
Alexis turned around and saw her family was leaving her, she ran off to catch up.
Piper, Alexis, after she caught up with them, and Phoebe are in jeep.
"You three go ahead. I'm going to stay behind. Make sure the Source doesn't follow you." Cole stated as he was standing beside the widow, He and Phoebe kiss. They then drive off.
The Source comes out of the building. He runs up behind Cole, but disappears in a burst of fire before Cole turns around. Cole then shimmers away. He then shimmers near Shane/Source and walks up behind him. He turns around and stabs Cole in the stomach. Cole falls down on his knees.
"Don't die too quickly, traitor." Source declares then holds his hand beside Cole's ear, emerging a yellow-orange light from it. "I want your beloved witch to see your last breath." He puts his hand on his chin. "To feel the heartache of loss, again." He begins to walk away.) Oracle, find Paige… one last time." He disappears in a burst of fire.
The remaining sisters arrive at the Manor. Piper, Phoebe, Alexis come in. Phoebe takes off her coat.]
"Leo, where's…" Piper ask as they enter a hall, a knife is thrown, nearly missing Piper and Leo. Phoebe and Piper let out a small scream. Alexis dives out of the way,
"I'm having a hard time convincing her that she is not evil!" Leo exclaims
"I see that." Piper replies,
"Lamp" Paige summons, It disappears in white orbs and reappears. She telekinetically throws it toward Piper and Phoebe, who duck after they scream. It smashes against the wall.
"Bright side - at least she's getting the hang of her new power." Phoebe stated as she dodged the lamp,
"That was Mom's crystal!" Piper exclaims before, She tackles Paige to the ground. Phoebe and Alexis joins her in holding her down.
"Okay. Relax. Relax." Phoebe stated, Leo takes Piper's place in holding Paige down as Piper gets up. "All right. Now what?"
"We just better hope there's some Wiccan exorcism in the Book of Shadows cause… yeah." Piper answers then She goes to the stairs, but stops when the lights flicker off and on. Shane/Source appears by the corner of the stairs. "Who are you?" His eyes turn all black and he telekinetically throws Piper through the stairs banister.
"Piper!"
"Piper!"
"Piper!"
Shane/Source throws an energy ball at her, but Phoebe levitates to avoid it. She goes to kick Shane/Source and he disappears, making her crash into the Grandfather clock. He appears by the couch. Piper uses his power to blow him up. Paige stands up and Leo helps Piper up. Shane/Source reassembles. Phoebe grabs the glasses and puts them on. She sees the Source.
Alexis transfigures herself and charges at the Source but is telekinetically thrown into the dinning room, where she lays panting in pain, but she forces her body up and goes back to stand besides Leo, she felt the bones on the right side of her body twinge as she limps,
"Oh, Piper! That's the… that's the…" She takes off the glasses and goes to Piper. "Loo…loo… loo… look!" Piper pushes her hand away.
"I know who that is." Piper replies,
"Your powers are strong, but will they be enough without the Power of Four." Shane/Source declares,
"Shane, what's going on?" Paige asks
Source uses Shane's voice "It's okay. I'm here now."
"Stay away from me." Paige states,
"She still has free will. You can't force her to choose." Leo explains,
"Oh, but she's already chosen, haven't you? Come with me. You'll be safe forever. I promise." Shane/Source replies,
"Don't listen to him. He's lying." Piper states,
Alexis pulled what strength she had left and reverted back to her normal self, "Please Paige, listen to us."
Source states. "They only want you for your power. You don't have to share it. It's yours." He turns into Mr. Cowan. "You've already seen what you can do with it. You do what nobody else can do." He turns into Carol. "You nearly saved my son from his father. From all the pain and suffering he's put him through." He turns into the little boy. "Please help me. Don't let him hurt me anymore. You're my only hope." Paige takes his hand and starts to go with him.
"No!" Phoebe explains then the boy/Source races his hand, suspending Phoebe in mid-air and shocking her with electricity. "Help me!"
Paige pushes Boy/Source down and Phoebe falls down. Piper, Leo, Paige, and Alexis who could barely move goes over to her to help her up. The clock chimes in the background.
"Phoebe? Okay. Come on. Come on." Piper asks, The boy disappears and the Source reposes Shane, who stands up. "I guess blood's a little thicker than evil."
The Source/Shane looks at the clock and goes out of Shane, who falls to the ground, to reveal his true self. "I've broken the Charmed circle before. I'll do it again. Besides, it wasn't a complete loss. Thanks to Belthazar."
"What did you do to him?" Phoebe asks
"Oh my God." The Source, Leo, and the sisters turn to see Cortez standing near the front door with a video camera. He's amazed at what he sees.
"Inspector, would you get out of here?" shouted Piper, as Cortez reaches for his gun, the Source fires an energy ball at him, knocking him on the coat rack. He screams. He's knocked on a hanger. Piper gasps. Cortez falls down, revealing blood on the hanger. The Source disappears in a blast of fire. The others all but Alexis who collapsed race to Cortez. Leo kneels down beside him.
"Looks like evil wins again, huh?" Cortez asks,
"Not if I can help it." Leo heals him. Cortez is shocked.
"How'd you do that?" Paige asks as Leo helps a shocked Cortez up.
"That's what whitelighters do. We heal good people." Leo:
"Speaking of whitelighters, Leo?" Alexis panted in pain, "I think the Source broke some ribs, I can't breathe,"
Leo rushes over to Alexis and heals her,
"Thanks," Alexis thanked him as she stood up,
"We have to go find Cole." Phoebe stated in worry, All, except Cortez, leave. He checks his used to be wound and the video camera.
Near South Bay Social Services. Cole is lying on the ground, nearly dead.
"Cole!" Phoebe spots him and runs over to him. She kneels down beside him. "Oh no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no." She puts his head in her lap. Piper freezes Cole.
"Heal him." Piper ordered,
"You know that it's against the rules." Leo replies,
"Leo, screw the rules. The Elders owe us." Phoebe snaps,
Carmela orbs behind them, "She's right, Leo, the other Elders can get their robes in knots, you listen to me and only me, Heal Him."
"Even if I could, I could only heal his human half and that… wouldn't be enough power to save him." Leo replies and kneels down too.
"Aren't I half whitelighter? I mean, couldn't I use my half to offset his half?" Paige asks,
"It's worth a try. Take my hand." Paige kneels down beside him and does so. "Hold your other hand over his wound."
Paige and Leo heal Cole. He unfreezes and gasps for air. Phoebe hugs him, happy he's alive.
"That was good, right?" Paige asks as Piper helps her stand up as Leo stands up too.
"That was very good. Let's just hope it wasn't all for nothing." Piper answers.
Alexis, Piper, Phoebe, Cole, and Leo were sitting in a corner of P3, Piper's club. A waitress brings Cole and Leo their drinks.
"Oh good, thank you." Cole states, as he takes his drink,
"Thanks, too." Leo agree, She leaves. "Feels good be here again."
"Feels good to be anywhere again." Cole chuckles.
"I will drink to that." Phoebe agreed, They clink their drinks. "Don't ever scare me like that again."
"Promise." Cole replies, Phoebe smiles as she takes a drink.
"You okay?" Leo asks,
Alexis looks over at Piper,
"I'm not sure." Piper answers,
"Prue?" Leo asks again,
"Yeah. We barely got through the funeral and then everything started to go crazy and we haven't had a chance to mourn yet. And that's just not right." Piper explains,
"I think we'll have the rest of our lives for that." Phoebe agrees
"Yeah, the pain will lessen but there will always be sorrow, Prue will always be with us," Alexis seconded, "who knows someday, we might be able to summon her,"
"I'm still not sure about continuing on with this destiny thing. I need sometime to think about it. I hope you're okay with that." Piper states,
"Absolutely." Phoebe replies,
"For sure, I'm doubting it too," Alexis agrees,
"And I hope you're okay with it too." Piper asks Leo,
"They may not be, but I am." Leo takes her hand. Paige walks up.
"Let me deal with Carmela, then she can deliver a message to them from me," Alexis states,
"So does this mean I get free drinks now?" Paige asks, Phoebe and Alexis chuckles a little. "Oh, I didn't mean it like that. It's not that I really drink or… Okay. I'm just gonna go." She begins to leave, but Leo stands up and stops her.
"No, Paige. You belong here, remember?" Leo asks,
"You sure?" Paige asks, "I don't want to intrude."
"Mmm. Come on. Come sit right here." Phoebe replies, Cole goes over to stand next to Leo as Paige sits down next to Phoebe.
"Come on, We're family," Alexis states, as she leans forward to look at Paige,
"Okay, so, uh, maybe Leo and I should go uh… pretend like we got something better to do." Cole suggests,
"Good idea." Piper agrees
"Yeah." Cole replies then he and Leo leave.
"I won't stay long. I just wanted to, uh, come by and thank you." Paige explains,
"For what?" Phoebe asks
"For what? You mean, beside from saving my life." Paige chuckles. "I feel like I should bake you a cake or something."
"Do you cook?" Piper asks,
"No, no. Not really." Paige answers,
"Don't worry, neither can Phoebe," Alexis teased, as she playfully ducked at Phoebe reached over to smacked her.
"So how's Shane?" Phoebe asks changing the subject,
"He's okay, I guess, except I'm not too sure he wants to see me anymore." Paige explained,
"Oh, I'm sorry." Phoebe apologized,
"No. Can't say I blame him. You know? He doesn't know exactly what happened to him, but he knows it's something bad and he knows it's somehow connected to me." Paige replies,
"Yeah, well, you're not truly one of us until you've dated a demon, so, welcome to the club." Piper states,
"Or a ghost" Alexis adds,
"Can I ask you a question?" Phoebe asks,
"Hm-mmm." Paige replies,
"Why did you come to Prue's funeral? I mean, you never even met her, right?" Phoebe asks,
"No. I never did. I don't want this to be taken the wrong way, but... I just feel like a part of me lost her too and I just... I felt drawn to her, to all you guys. I guess it was just a part of me trying to find out who I was." Paige answers,
Alexis reaches over and pats Paige's knee, "Don't worry, I feel the same way, I wasn't born a Halliwell, I'm adopted too,"
Piper and Phoebe look at each other.
"Come on. There's something we need to show you." Piper states,
"Show me what?" Paige asks,
"What good magic can do." Phoebe answers, They get up and leave.
They go to the Manor and up to the attic, Alexis stand with Piper, as Phoebe lights the last two candles in a circle and then join Piper and Alexis by the Book of Shadows as Paige watches on.
"Here these words. Hear my cry spirit from the other side. Come to me, I summon thee. Cross now the Great Divide." Patty appears in a bright light.
"There's someone here we thought you should meet." Phoebe explains, Patty looks at Paige.
"Paige." Patty greeted,
"Mom?" Paige asks,
Patty steps outside the circle and becomes real. She hugs Paige, who smiles after the hug.
"Welcome home." Patty hugs her again as Piper and Phoebe watch on the tender moment. Alexis leans into Piper's side, she wished she was born earlier so she could have had Patty, as a mom for real instead of a spirit mother.
DarkPriestess66: Okay, It has come to my attention, that some of you might be confused as to how Alexis is related to Harry, Lily is/was Penny's daughter, so that makes Harry, a Halliwell if not by name. Also Alexis was adopted by both blood and magic, so her powers are tied together it works like the bloodwards do, she's tied forever to the Warren/Halliwell line.