Epilogue
Four Years Later
There had been two graduations, several dozen demon vanquishes, a club opening, a blossoming photography career, two marriages, a divorce, and a couple funerals in the past four years. Phoebe was working as an advice columnist, Piper had opened a club, P4, Prue was working as a photographer, and Paige was at a very small exclusive college in northern California.
Phoebe had found love, in the form of a demon named Cole. They had wed but after only a few months into the marriage they divorced. Piper had married as well, to the Charmed One's whitelighter, Leo. Prue would have married Andy but a year after they became witches, he sacrificed himself to a demon to save the sisters.
Another funeral was for Paige's friend Melanie. Melanie and her parents were on their way home from visiting Peter when they were in a car crash. Melanie had used her power to stop one car from crashing into another, unknown to her, the driver was a demon. Melanie's parents survived the crash but she was killed on impact.
It was now May of Paige's second year at Orchid University. Paige had made the decision to keep the secret about the school secret. She told them it was a high ranked, small school, but not much more. It was high ranked and very small, the reason behind that was because it was a school for magical creatures only. Paige had decided she wanted a career where she could help people but also use her gifts.
She knew Prue still feared that she would become consumed by magic which is why she kept the true nature of the school a secret. Simon had been her boyfriend for two and a half years. He was also the person she first slept with. He moved back to England while she stayed in California. She was in a relationship now with a witch, someone a few years older than her, named Richard.
Like her family, they were all witches. Paige had told her sisters of Richard and even that he was a witch. Prue had asked how she knew he was a witch, and Paige had said she recognized his last name from on of her Magic School history books.
Slowly May ended and Paige returned to the Manor for the summer. They were all glad to see Paige, now nearly twenty one. Phoebe talked one night at dinner all about her job at the paper. Prue showed Piper several of her photographs. Leo asked Paige how the school year had gone. He knew that Paige had gone to a Magic University.
"My classes were good this year. This fall will be my last year."
"Have you decided what you wanted to do yet?" Prue asked, "You declared a major at the beginning of the year, right?" OU required students to double major, one with a magical background and another with a mortal background. Paige had chosen teaching with specifics in English, spells, potions, other languages, and she had minored in business. Her roommate had convinced her saying one day she might be headmistress of Magic School and she would need to know how to run it.
"Education," Paige said, "Student teaching starts next semester."
"There are schools close by?" Phoebe asked, "I thought the school was fairly secluded."
"It is, but the farthest a school is only a half an hour away," Paige said truthfully.
"How's it going with you an Richard?" Phoebe asked later that evening while they were in one room. Phoebe split her room with Paige for the past few summers, as Piper had transformed Paige's old bedroom into a future nursery.
"Good," Paige said taking a drink of soda.
"Have you slept with him yet?" she asked and Paige started coughing.
"Why would you ask that?"
"We know what happened between you and Marx a couple of years ago. So have you?"
"No," Paige said slowly, "Are you in a relationship with anyone?"
"Dating isn't really in the cards for me right now," Phoebe said.
"You'll get married Pheebs. You write an advice column on relationships," Paige said, "It's bound to happen."
During the summer Paige spent helping out at the library in Magic School. There were demon vanquishes of course. In the summer, the vanquishes, it seemed were more in the middle of the day while during the school year it seemed to happen late afternoon mid-evening. One of Richard's roommates had a theory that there was a demon school like there was for witches.
Mid summer Prue left San Francisco for a business trip to London. Phoebe spent several evenings with her new boss, Jason. Piper and Leo finally went on a honeymoon while Paige spent the time at Magic School with the Book of Shadows locked tightly away. Richard visited Paige and he walked around Magic School with her. She told him what had happened her sophomore year. All those security measures were gone, there hadn't been a demon attack since then. He had come to tell Paige that he wouldn't be seing her for a while. Paige knew of his family feud. They ended their relationship temporarily.
Later on Paige learned of Richard's fiancé's death. Paige, a few years later, with her sisters stepped in to help with the continuing feud. It was the fiancé who had been causing even more trouble. Afterward Richard proposed them getting back together Paige told him it would be safe for him to stay away from magic for a while. She got back together with Simon. He had changed some since school. Paige thought he seemed more stuck up, similar to how he was when she first met him. After several months of dating Paige once again saw the man she had fallen in love with. He proposed to her on top of the Eiffel Tower. Her cheeks turned the shade of the color of her hair, which was red from a potion mishap. She said yes and became the third Halliwell sister to marry. She was pregnant with her first child, Piper had two boys and a daughter (Wyatt, Chris, and Melinda) while Prue had two daughters (Patricia and Poppy), when Phoebe married a cupid. (A/N: The part after the line break is present day again)
Paige also met up with Hadley. Hadley was planning to go med school in New York. She wanted to become a surgeon. They talked some of Melanie, who had died not long after they had graduated. Hadley confessed that it was difficult for her to return to Magic School because everything there reminded her that Melanie was gone. She asked Paige how she could bear it.
"I'm sad she's gone but Magic School is one of my favorite places to be. I can't see myself staying away from the school. Melanie isn't really gone, I still feel her when I stop by our old dorm room or when I'm in the great hall..."
"Have you told your sisters you'll be teaching there in a couple of years?"
"No, I will, just after I graduate. Prue, I think, will try to convince me otherwise. I love Prue but when she wants something, she doesn't stop till she gets it. She's stubborn."
"And you aren't?" Hadley asked laughing.
Eventually Paige returned to school for one more year and she told her sisters about working at Magic School.
"I'm happy for you," Piper said now pregnant with her first child.
"So am I," Phoebe said who was now in a relationship with a ghost writer named Leslie. Prue was very quiet. She stood next to her husband, Eric, an old flame from years ago. He said he thought it was great Paige would be teaching the next generation of witches.
"Are you sure this is what you want?" Prue asked.
"Yes, I'm sure," Paige said firmly, "I'll come back, for vanquishes and such."
"Our destiny is pretty much over, so I don't think we'll need you that much for vanquishes," Phoebe said. The Triad and the Source had been vanquished. The Angel of Destiny said there was one more large battle but he couldn't reveal when it would take place.
"Just in case, call me," Paige said. Piper handed her a small iron key. Paige remembered it faintly, it was for Magic School. Not long after she started she just orbed in an out but the key was good to use as well.
"Don't forget to come back once in a while," she said.
"I won't. I'll always come back. I'll always come back to my family."
A/N: That's it for The Rise of the Power of Four! I hope you all enjoyed the story. Thank you so much for reading it to the end! Thanks for all the favorites, follows, and reviews! Before any of you ask it isn't likely that I'll be writing a sequel. For those who read Unraveling Secrets the story will start back up again in December! Estelle: The Last of the Fire Fae will continue until the end of season 2 and then I'll start writing season 3. Thank you so much! Please review with your thoughts! Charmed Always- K