Leo caught Phoebe before she hit the ground.
"What happened?!" Piper exclaimed.
"She didn't read the fine print." Prue answered. "She's now seeing her past life thru her past life's eyes."
"So her spirit is in the past. The life that is haunting her?" Xander asked.
"Yes." Leo said. "And hopefully she'll figure out why her past life is haunting her."
After about half an hour, Phoebe abruptly came to, holding her throat.
"Phoebe, what's wrong?" Prue asked, concerned.
"You and Piper were killing me!"
"We'd never do that!" Piper protested.
"You had to, I was trying to kill you." Was the astonishing answer.
"Why?" Xander asked.
"I fell in love with a warlock and turned evil. And I could shoot fire! Prue could blow ice and Piper could freeze, like she does now. I know I saw it some where around here."
"Saw what, Phoebe?" Prue asked.
"The family tree. Here it is. Here we are now, sisters and this is us, cousins in the twenties. Prue was a photographer, a really good one too. People were lining up to have her take their pictures. Piper ran a speak easy out of the Manor. Xander was a singer at the speak easy, singing on a stage. Cordelia was his girlfriend and a waitress. They got scolded for being caught in a closet making out. Piper was married to Dan and Leo was her ex boyfriend."
"Dan? Next door Dan? The guy I dated before Leo came back?" Piper asked. "And how could you tell? Did we look the same?"
"Kinda."
"Actually, no." Leo said. "Your soul recognized theirs, souls tend to find each other from one life to the next."
"So, past you, got seduced to the dark side and tried to kill past Prue and Piper, they killed her instead. So past you is trying to warn present you?" Xander asked.
"It might have something to do with past me dying on today's date at the same age." Phoebe said, pointing at the family tree. "Maybe something that happened in that past life around the time I died and is why my past is literally haunting me."
"So now what?" Prue asked.
"I need to go back and investigate and I need to be in control to do it. Which means I need to come up with a spell that will let me do that. Also, could you check into a Christina Lawson? She might still be alive. She was a child at the time and past me broke her doll. It's possible she remembers something. Her mother worked at the speak easy."
"I can call Willow and have her check into her." Xander offered.
"You do that." Prue said. "We'll help Phoebe with a spell."
After a little while, Xander came back and found Phoebe passed out again. "I take it, you got a spell going?" He asked.
"Yes. Hopefully she can figure it out. Did Willow find anything?" Prue asked.
"Yes. She found a Mary Lawson that worked at a speak easy run out of this house in the twenties, owned by three cousins. She had one child, Christina, who's in a local nursing home ."
"Xander and I can go talk to her, while you guys keep an eye on Phoebe." Leo offered.
"I'm willing." Xander said. Once at the nursing home, Xander realized he had to use the bathroom and told Leo he'd meet him at Christina's room. About fifteen minutes later he arrived just in time to see an old woman morph into a young man and hit Leo, knocking him out and then blink out. Realizing it might be the warlock past Phoebe had fallen in love with, since some could be immortal, Xander knew he had to get back to the house. Everything that was happening to Phoebe might be a trap. Knowing Leo would be alright and could orb himself back, Xander headed out to the car and drove as quickly as he could back to the Manor. He eased in the back door and peeked into the living room. Phoebe sat on a chair holding the man's hand and Prue and Piper were confronting them. 'Past Phoebe must be in control. I've got to do something to get the warlock out of the way.' Both their backs were to him and though Phoebe was by a wall, the warlock wasn't. Grabbing a poker, Xander, moving fast, came up behind the warlock and slammed the poker against his head.
"Xander, the amulet she's wearing is protecting her! We have get it off her so they can switch back!"
"This is my life now! She'll die and I'll live!"
"Sorry, Phoebe." Xander said and slammed the poker onto Phoebe's head as well. "Gods, forgive me, I just hit a woman. Female demons are one thing, even when they look human, they aren't and they're either trying to eat me or kill me."
"You did what you had to, Xander." Prue said, pulling the amulet off of Phoebe. She gasped and came too, only to grab her throat. Prue quickly put it back on her and it lit up for a moment, before going back to normal.
"Are you back, Phoebe?" Piper asked.
"Yes. I know why my past life was haunting me. Past you and Prue cursed past me, because they were afraid Anton, the warlock, would seduce me to evil again. The amulet protected me from the curse."
"So this must be Anton. What do we do about him?" Xander asked.
"I suggest a variation of the Nickolas must die spell." Prue said. "Preferably before he wakes up."
They quickly gathered the ingredients and substituting Anton for Nicholas recited the spell.
Lavender
Mimosa
Holy thistle
Cleanse this evil from our midst
Scatter it's cells throughout time
Let this Anton no more exist
Xander was awed by the sight of the warlock essentially shattering into nothing.
"Wow, that's some spell!"
"Remember when we first met I mentioned our powers were bound when we were kids because of the threat of a warlock? That's the spell Grams created to deal with that warlock." Prue told him.
"Grams took threats to the family real serious." Xander joked.
"Oh, yeaaaaah!"
