Magical Demon

by littlesimmer2

Paris is the fifth sister of the Halliwell line, but she has a secret that she can't join the charmed ones. She has demon blood in her, cause of her father, who is half demon. Her mother Patty didn't even know that, which was surprisely for her, but Penny did know and tried to warn her, she didn't listen and Paris was born, but she had to live with her father.

4. The Good, the Bad and the Cursed

Chapter 3 The Good, the Bad and the Cursed full chapter

Paris didn't tell them yet, about Cole's brother, saying that it wasn't that important, yet. Now, Paris and Piper were in the living room, Piper had set the table as then Prue came in. "Uh, wait a minute. We have one too many place settings."

Piper shook with her head. "No we don't."

"Okay, uh, you, me, Leo, Phoebe, Paris, dad. That's six, we have seven." Prue counted.

"Prue's right." Paris comment, looking at Piper.

Piper looked at her sisters. "So?"

"So who is the seventh for?" Prue asked to her.

"Mmm, maybe, um, mum." Piper replied to her. "What? It's my wedding. At least she could be here in spirit, if nothing else."

"Ahhh." Paris comment, looking at them.

Prue nodded. "Yes, she can be." Then she gave her a little hug.

Just then, Leo orbed in, he was looking at the table. "Wow, looks great. When do we eat?"

"Leo, can't you see we're having a sister moment?" Piper asked back.

Leo looked at her. "Oh, sorry. Do you want me to go?"

"No, I want you to help." Piper shook with her head. "This is your rehearsal dinner too, you know."

Prue looked at him. "So, Leo, you nervous? I mean, only one more week before dum, dum, dum-dum."

"Dum, dum, dum-dum." Paris added, smiling.

Piper nodded. "Thanks."

"Well, as long as no demons come bursting through that door, until them, I am fine." Leo comment to them.

Victor shouted from the outside. "Prue! Piper!" Then he and Phoebe walked through the front door.

Piper looked at Leo. "You had to jinx it."

Paris laughed a little at her sister's silliness. "Omg."

Just then, Prue walked at bit to Phoebe. "Hey. Phoebe, what happened?"

"Oh, it's nothing, I'm fine." Phoebe replied to her, causally. "I just need an aspirin."

Piper looked at her father. "Dad?!" As Paris stood there a bit uncomfortable.

"I don't know what happened." Victor replied to her. "One minute we're just walking around, the next thing I know she's bleeding."

"I got into a bar brawl." Phoebe comment to them all. "Well, actually, I didn't. Two cowboys did. Bo and some other guy. I didn't catch his name, but I think he was the bad guy, 'cause he was wearing a black hat. Oh, and they were transparent."

"Ghosts." Paris face palmed.

"She must have hit her head." Piper comment to them.

Prue nodded. "Uh-huh."

Victor looked at Phoebe. "Sweetheart, I never would have taken you there if I had any idea."

"It's fine, dad. Really, don't worry about it." Phoebe told him.

"Here, let me take care of that." Leo held out his healing hand but Phoebe stopped him.

"No, I'm alright." She told him as then she looked at Victor. "Dad, why don't you go to the porch and get those town files. You know, maybe there's something in them that can help us."

Victor nodded. "Alright." Then, he went outside.

"Dad doesn't know that Leo is a Whitelighter." Phoebe whispered shouted to them all.

"What?" Prue and Leo comment on the same time.

Piper was uncomfortable. "Well, I've been meaning to tell him, but considering mum had an affair with her Whitelighter, I didn't think he'd be really receptive to the idea."

Leo looked at her. "Piper, he's gonna kill me when he finds out."

Piper waved it off. "Oh, don't be ridiculous, you're already dead."

"She has a point there, Leo." Paris comment to him.

Just then, Victor came back in carrying a box of files. "Just a lot of investment stuff and background info. I don't see how it's gonna help you find out what happened."

Phoebe looked at her father. "Well, you're the one that called it a ghost town, and since Bo fell through me and I ended up with the same split lip that he had."

"Sounds like a ghost to me." Prue comment to her.

"That's what I said." Paris sassed.

Leo looked in disbelieve. "It can't be. Ghosts don't bleed."

"Ahem." Piper glanced at Victor.

"I mean, so I've read in books. Obviously it's not my area of expertise." Leo obviously lied to him.

"Mine, neither." Victor shrugged. "What do you say we let the supernatural stuff to the pros and go grab a bite?"

"I don't know, Mr. Bennett." Leo replied politely.

"Oh." Prue comment as then she and Piper smiled, she patted Leo on his back.

"Victor, please." Victor looked at Leo. "It's time you called me Victor, son. Come on."

Phoebe waved at them. "I'm fine. Go ahead."

Victor and Leo headed outside as Piper looked at her sisters. "Great, now I'm dead."

"Alright, why don't we just focus on Phoebe and try and figure out what happened." Prue suggested it to them.

"I agree." Paris nodded.

Phoebe was already headed to the stairs. "I'll get the book."

But Piper bear her to it. "I'll get it and maybe a drink."

"Ow." Phoebe comment, toughing her lip.

-0-0-

Not much later, Prue, Piper, Paris and Phoebe were in the living room. Piper's looking through the Book of Shadows. Phoebe's lying on the couch as then she pulled up the bottom of her blouse to reveal a big bruise. "Whoa." She comment.

Just then, Paris and Prue looked at her. "What?"

"Look, I have a huge bruise." Phoebe replied as Prue touched it gently. "Ow."

"Well, that's not looking good." Paris comment causally.

"Oh." Prue suggested. "Alright, well, you must have gotten that the same way that you got the split lip from Bo."

Phoebe sighed. "I don't get it. He gets beat up and I get his symptoms? How is that possible?"

"It must has happen, when he was walking though you." Paris suggested it. "But how? I don't know."

Piper sighed. "I wish I knew what I was looking for. I mean, if they're not ghosts, then what are they?"

"Well, whatever it is, it's got something to do with the history of that town." Prue told them as them she looked at Phoebe. "You said that they were dressed like cowboys, right?"

Phoebe nodded. "Yeah, real cowboys right out of the Old West. Uh, the outlaw said something to Bo about a guy named Sutter. Look him up. Maybe he's a demon."

Just then, Prue found a paper. "Wait a minute."

"Did you find something?" Piper asked to her.

"It's more of what I'm not finding." Prue replied. "Alright, nothing is dated past April 25, 1873. The maps, the land grants, death certificates. It's almost like time just stopped."

Paris and the others were clueless. "What do you mean stopped? Like, everybody just died?"

Prue shook with her head. "No, like stopped moving forward, literally. It wouldn't be the first time we've come across a time loop."

"Nah, we vanquished that demon." Phoebe comment to them.

"Wait a minute." Piper turned to a Time Loop page in the Book. "Well, maybe it's not a demon. Maybe it's a curse." She read from the book. "Certain spiritual traditions believe that a great evil or great injustice can be cursed into a time loop until righted."

Phoebe sighed. "So that is probably why this is happening to me. Our job is to right the wrong."

"Yeah, well, we better do it before your symptoms get any worse." Prue looked at her sister as then the doorbell rang "I'll get that."

Prue got up and answered the door. Cole stands there as he looked unshaven. Then, he walked into the hallway. "Hey, Prue, long time. Is Paris here? I was supposed to meet her."

Prue used her power on him and he flow across the room, landing on a small table. Phoebe, Paris and Piper jumped up from the couch. "Woops." Paris muttered as she was first to stand up, looking flustered at all of her sisters.

"What the... Cole, what...?" Phoebe stuttered, looking confused.

Then Prue looked at Paris. "How do you know him?"

"We have met two weeks ago." Paris glanced at Cole, who stood up.

"Was I not welcome here?" Cole asked to her. Then he whispered to her. "Did you tell them about my bother?"

"Nope." Paris shook with her head.

Just then, Prue interrupted them. "What the hell are you doing here? Do you have some kind of death wish?"

"No, I was told to meet Paris here." Cole replied to her.

"But I talked to you last week." Phoebe looked confused.

Piper pointed at Cole. "You talked to Phoebe? He talked to you?"

"Uh-huh, no." Cole replied to her.

"Your brother?" Paris whispered to him.

"Yep." He replied to her.

Then, Prue looked at Phoebe, confused. "You said that he was alive. You never said that he was back."

"It didn't matter because as I told him, I don't want anything to do with him anymore." Phoebe told them all.

"Oh, well, in that case." Prue went to use her power on him but Piper stopped her.

"Hey, hey, hey! I just set that table." She told her. "We don't have time to buy a new one before dinner."

"I'm not gonna use my powers against you anyway." Cole said dumpily to them. "In fact, I'm never gonna use them again, ever. It keeps me from being evil."

"Don't say sues things." Paris whispered to him.

Prue shook with her head. "No, you will always be evil, you're a demon."

"And he has a brother." Paris muttered.

"Half-demon." Cole corrected her. "My human half can suppress it if..." Just then he noticed that Phoebe has a blood lip. "Phoebe, you're hurt. What happened?"

Phoebe sighed. "You know what, Cole? It's none of your business. So, why don't you do yourself a favour and just get..." Just then she had a premonition, when it ended she looked ready dizzy.

"Phoebe?" Piper asked concerned.

Phoebe fell as then Prue and Piper catches her. "Phoebe, what happened?"

Phoebe lifted her hand. It was covered in blood. "I think I've been shot."

Prue and Piper looked at Cole and Paris as Phoebe laid there in pain. "You don't say." Paris sassed.

-‐-0-0-

Moments later, Phoebe was on the couch as Cole muttered to Paris. "So much to get away from here." He sighed. "But we cant let you sister die."

"I know." Paris told him. "After this i will them about you know..." He seemed to understand as he nodded to her.

Just then Leo orbed in. "What the hell are you doing here?" he looked at Cole.

"Forget about him, Leo. Phoebe's been shot." Prue replied to him.

Leo looked at the sisters. "Shot? How did that happen?"

"There's no time to explain." Prue looked at him. "Can you heal her?"

Leo started to heal her as Piper asked him. "Where's dad?"

"Seething probably." Leo replied as he continued to try and heal her but it doesn't work.

"Why isn't it working?" Paris asked concerned for her sister.

Leo sighed. "I don't know. Phoebe, you gotta tell me exactly how this happened."

"Um, I don't, I don't really know." Phoebe explained it to him. "I had a-a premonition and I felt Bo get shot and then I came out of it."

Prue looked at him. "Leo, can you heal her?"

"No, because Phoebe wasn't the one that was shot." Leo replied to her. "Bo was."

Piper looked confused. "What are you talking about? She's bleeding."

Leo sighed. "I know, but it's more like a psychic echo. Phoebe is linked to Bo somehow. Whatever he feels, whatever happens to him happens to her."

"Which means Bo must be magical too." Cole stated. "The only way they can be linked is through their magic."

Leo nodded "I agree."

"We have to find Bo." Cole suggested. "Heal him. It's the only way."

"Well, he's been cursed into a time loop along with the rest of the town." Piper told them. "And we don't know how to get there, let alone where there is."

"Well, it's gotta be a parallel plane existing in the same physical space as the town." Cole told her.

Prue looked at him. "You know, I don't think that we need any demonic input right now."

"If I can help save Phoebe's life, you sure as hell do." Cole glared at her.

Leo looked at him. "We're listening."

"Please, tell us what your plan is?" Paris asked to him.

Cole nodded. "Look, I move through different planes all the time. It's how I've been hiding from the Source. Shouldn't be any problem to shimmer into Bo's plane and bring him back here so you can heal him."

Piper raised an eyebrow. "You said you don't use your powers anymore."

"Shimmering isn't a lethal power." Cole comment to her.

"I agree." Paris muttered.

Phoebe looked at Cole. "Uh, why don't you just take Leo with you and you can heal Bo there?"

"I can't." Leo glared at Cole. "I'm not allowed to work with a demon."

Prue stood up. "Fine. I'll go."

"And me." Paris added.

Piper looked at her sisters. "Prue. Paris."

"I'm not gonna leave this up to him." Prue sighed.

"What she said." Paris pointed at Prue.

Piper looked at them. "Well, okay, what if something goes wrong and you get stuck in the time loop and you don't get back before midnight?"

"I'm not a Charmed One." Paris replied to her. "Whatever happens, Cole and I will make sure Prue is back safe and sound."

Prue sighed. "It's not the time loop I'm worried about." She looked at Piper. "Look, why don't you and Leo go to the town, see if you can find anything there to help break the curse." Then she looked at Phoebe. "You? You hang in there, okay?"

"Play nice, you three." Phoebe replied to them.

"We will." Paris nodded.

Cole looked at Prue and Paris. "Gotta hold my hand."

"This already sucks." Prue sighed as she held his hand Paris did the same and they shimmered out.

-0-0-

Cole, Paris and Prue shimmered in the town. Prue looked around her "Oh, wow, it worked."

"It really did." Paris comment, looking at Cole.

"You doubted me?" Cole asked to them.

"Well, no." Paris replied to him.

"Yeah, well, for all I know you were gonna take me..." Prue was interrupted. "Whoa! Aah!" Then, they hear a gunshot as then Cole pushed the girls against a wall of a building. "Okay."

"What the hell?" Paris exclaimed.

"Welcome to the Wild, Wild West." Cole replied causally.

Prue looked at him. "Alright, just-just so we're clear, I'm in charge here as is Paris. You're just our ride."

"Fine with me." Cole looked at them. "What's your plan?"

"Find Bo, lay low." Paris replied to him.

Cole raised an eyebrow. "That's a plan?"

"Yeah." Paris looked at him as Prue crossed with her arms. "You got a better one?"

Cole looked them up and down. "Maybe, but first I think we better find something a little less conspicuous to wear."

Then, Prue pushed him away. "Fine. Agreed. Any ideas?"

Suddenly, a couple of cowboys carry a dead cowboy out of a building. Cole nodded to Prue and Paris. "Yeah. Nothing you're gonna like though."

Some time later, Prue, Paris and Cole walked into a saloon wearing cowboy clothes. "Still think you should have worn that pretty, little red dress drying on the line." Cole comment to them both.

"Yeah, it was a prostitute's dress." Prue comment back, sarcastically. "Not exactly the kind of impression I wanted to make. At least I'm not wearing some dead guy's clothes."

Paris snickered a little. "She got you there."

Cole looked at them. "Hey, I thought you'd be pleased. At least I'm playing the role of a good guy." He told them.

"Yeah, right." Paris had a small smile on her face.

"Alright, just fact-finding. No getting involved." Prue added.

Then they walked up to the bar. Bartender looked at them. "What'll it be?"

"Hi. Moonshine." Prue replied to him.

Bartender looked confused. "A what?"

"She means Whiskey." Cole replied to him. "Make it two."

"Make it three." Paris corrected him.

"Leave the bottle." Cole comment as then he looked at Prue. "You watch too many old movies."

"And you'd be confusing me with Phoebe." Prue added.

Cole shook with his head. "Not a chance."

Bartender looked at them. "Passing through?"

"Maybe." Cole replied to him.

"Maybe if you're not, you ought to consider it." Bartender told them. "Things are getting pretty dangerous around here. Friendly advice. Wet your whistle, get back on your horses, and move on as fast as you can."

"Hi. What are we?" Prue asked to the bartender.

"A potted plant or something?" Paris added. "Talk to us. What's so dangerous?"

Bartender looked at them. "It's nothing to concern your pretty little heads about."

"Okay, now that's condescending." Prue told him.

"I agree." Paris nodded.

Cole looked at the sisters. "Lay low, remember?"

"Fine." Prue sighed.

"Okay." Paris nodded.

Cole looked at the Bartender. "You were saying?"

"There's some trouble between a powerful man in town..." Bartender was interrupted by Prue.

"Sutter?" She asked to him.

"The gang that are here." Paris added.

Bartender looked at them. "How do you know about Sutter?" He asked.

"This pretty little head knows a lot." Paris replied to him.

"So, why don't you talk to all of us now?" Prue added. "Tell us what's going on."

Bartender looked at them. "One of Sutter's men just got killed and now there's gonna be hell to pay." He told them all.

"That's the gun shot we had heard." Paris looked at Cole and Prue as they nodded to her.

Just then, three cowboys walked in the saloon as everyone turned to look. Sutter walked in behind them. "Where is he? Just so you know, I've already taken the liberty to print up the evening edition." Then he held up a newspaper with the headline "Half-breed to Die at Sundown". "Just so you know how serious this is. All the news that's fit to print." He turned to Isabel, Bo's sister. "You know where your little brother's hiding, now don't you?"

Isabel didn't look at him. "Even if I did, I'd never tell you. I'm not afraid of you, Mr. Sutter."

"Well, if you were smart, you'd be." Sutter told her. "Of course your kind are not, are they?"

The sisters started to go over but Cole stopped her. "Hold it. Plan is not to get involved."

Sutter turned to Cal. "I haven't seen Bo, Mr. Sutter, I swear. Not since he took off."

"You know, you lie to me again, Cal, and I'll do worse than this." Sutter held up a whip. Then a cowboy stabbed Cal's hand with a knife.

Prue rushed over and pushed the cowboy away as then she took off her scarf and wrapped it around Cal's hand. "What the hell is wrong with you people?"

Sutter looked at her. "Well, well, well. What do we got here?"

"Uh, Prue?" Cole asked to her.

"Lady, I don't know who you are or where you come from but you obviously don't have the slightest idea who you're dealing with." Sutter told her.

"Oh, please, what a cliché." Prue comment to him.

Then the cowboy stood up. "I usually don't hit women, but seeing you is dressed like a man, I imagine I can make an exception."

Just then, Prue blocked his punch and smashed a whiskey bottle over his head. Then she got out her gun and shoot at the cowboy's rifle, making it fly out of his hand.

Then Paris pulled out her gun and aimed at them as Cole pulled out a rifle and aimed is at the men. "Don't."

"No, we'll deal with these three later, after we take care of Bo." Sutter ordered his men.

A angry looking Cowboy looked at Cole. "This ain't over. You and me, we got a score to settle."

Then Sutter looked at the town people. "One of you know where he's at. And if you don't tell me, I'm gonna burn this town to the ground looking for him." Then they leave.

Cole and Paris went over to Prue. "So much for laying low."

"Yeah." Prue nodded.

-0-0-

Not much later Prue, Cole and Paris and Isabel walked outside. "Sutter's in tight with the railroads. He came here a couple of months ago promising to bring the tracks through and make it more than just an old mining town." Isabel explained it to them.

"In exchange for what?" Paris asked to her.

"A piece of everything." Isabel replied to her. "The mines, the bank, the newspaper. When folks started resisting, his boys took over. At first everybody stood up to them, but after they killed the sheriff. Cowards."

Cole looked at her. "Why's Sutter after your brother?"

"Because Bo wouldn't back down." Isabel replied to him. "He kept on fighting, trying to get everybody to take back the town."

"Sounds like a brave man." Cole comment to her.

Isabel nodded. "He is. Too bad the others aren't."

"Isabel, we know that Bo is injured." Prue told her. "We know that he's been shot. We can help you, but you have to trust us."

"I do." Isabel nodded. "Bo said you'd come."

Cole looked confused. "How's that again?"

"Bo, he saw it in one of his dreams." Isabel replied to him. "He said that three strangers would come, so, um, I knew."

"Alright, so wait a second." Paris asked to her, a little confused as was Prue. "Bo has dreams about the future?"

"Yeah. He has the gift." Isabel nodded. "He inherited it from our father, who was a great medicine man. His name was Soaring Crow."

"Was?" Prue asked to her.

Isabel looked sad. "He died when we were young." She replied to her. "When we moved here, my mother wouldn't allow Bo to talk about his gift. She knew that magic was considered evil in the white man's world."

"Yeah, I know what it's like to have a gift that you have to keep a secret." Prue comment.

"And live in a place where you have to hide half of who you are." Cole added.

"Same." Paris nodded to them.

"Come." Isabel told them all. "I'll take you to Bo. Come."

Then they walked over to three horses as Cole asked to Isabel. "Where'd you get the horses?"

"I told you." Isabel replied to him. "I was expecting you."

"And why are there three horses?" Paris asked to her.

"Well, you can't ride a horse." Isabel looked at her as Paris looked at surprised. "My brother told me that."

Then Cole helped her up his horse as he went to sit behind her as Prue comment. "Why must she sit by you?"

"Cause, I'm a gentlemen." Cole replied to her.

"Hello, I can speak for myself." Paris looked at them, annoyed. "And strangely enough I feel safe by him." Prue nodded and said nothing more.

"I Yi ,Yi, Yi, Yi." Cole said in a whisper. Then he spoke out loud. "You know, I still say we eliminate the threat first, kill Sutter. Probably break the curse anyway."

Then the others got on the horses. "Yeah, well, we don't know that, which is why we need to get to Bo first." Prue told him. "You know, Cole, if you want to try your hand at being good, your first instinct shouldn't be to kill." Then they ride off as Cal got on his horse and followed them.

-0-0-

Cole, Paris and Prue were following Isabel to Bo's hideout. "Any idea what we should say to him?" Cole asked to the sisters.

"We're not gonna say anything." Prue replied to him. "I'll do the talking."

"Yeah, cause you are the eldest sister." Paris comment.

Cole looked at her. "You know, it wouldn't kill you to be nice to me."

"Really." Prue looked at Cole. "It's funny you should say that, considering how many times you actually tried to kill me."

"That's all in the past, Prue." Cole told them.

"Right." Prue sighed. "After all this is done, you need to leave us alone. Otherwise, we'll have to do to you what we should have done in the first place, which is vanquish you."

"Then that's what you're gonna have to do because it's the only way you're gonna keep me away from Paris." Cole argued back.

"Now is not the time." Paris said as then she looked at them both.

Just then, Isabel turned to look at them. "Are you guys ready to go in? Uh, something wrong?"

"No, nothing that I can't handle." Prue replied to her.

"Speak for yourself." Paris muttered.

Then they walked into the small building. It looks like an old church as Bo was lying in the corner. He was holding a cloth against his wound. Isabel looked at them. "He's very weak. I tried to pull the bullet out but it's in too deep." Then she looked at her brother. "Bo. Bo. How are you doing?"

Bo looked at his sister. "What's the matter with you? Who the hell are they?"

"It's okay." Isabel calmed him. "They've come to help."

Prue looked at him. "Just like in your vision, remember?"

"I don't know what you're talking about." Bo replied to her.

"Bo, I told them." Isabel told him.

Bo looked at her. "Too much apparently. We don't need your help. Just leave now."

Prue stepped forward a bit, glancing at Paris. "Bo, my and Paris's sister gets visions too, and she had one of you getting shot, alright?"

"We're here to help you." Paris comment to him.

"And help her." Cole added.

But, Bo pulled out a knife. "It's a trick. Sutter sent you. I know he did."

Isabel shook with her head. "No, they stood up to Sutter. You should have seen it."

"Just get out of here!" Bo shouted to them.

Cole shook his head. "We're not going anywhere."

"I know that look." Bo looked angry at him. "Sutter's got it too. You're evil and she has something in her to." Then he looked at Paris, who looked shocked at him as does Prue. "I can sense it."

"Alright, then just look at me." Prue spoke up. "You can't say the same thing about me can you? Bo, this isn't just about you, alright? My sister will die too. This whole town will if you don't let us help you."

"They think that something Sutter is going to do will trigger a curse." Isabel added. "The kind that father used to speak about."

"If we show you that we have gifts too, will you trust us then?" Prue looked at him as then she looked at Cole. "Show him."

Cole looked confused. "Show him what?"

"You're gift." Prue glanced at him. "Show him your gift." Just then Cole shimmered out and then shimmered back in. then Prue looked at Paris. "Paris?"

Then Paris cloned herself as then she let the other self-disappear. "This good?"

"Yeah." Prue nodded as then she took off her gloves. "Alright, the first thing that we need to do is to get that bullet out of you." Then she crouched down beside him. "Uh, this is gonna hurt." She took the cloth off of his wound as she used her power to remove the bullet.

Bo shouted in pain as the premonition ended. "I believe you."

-0-0-

Not much later, Prue did something to her gun as Isabel comment. "You learn fast."

"Thanks." Prue smiled. "I have a few gifts too."

Cole stood by the window and looked outside. "Sutter's men just showed up. We better get Bo out of here."

"How?" Paris asked to him.

"What? How did they find us?" Isabel added.

"We must have been followed." Cole replied as then he comment. "I'll shimmer him back to Leo, then come back for you three."

Prue shook with her head. "No."

"What do you mean, no?" Cole asked to her.

"He dies, Phoebe dies." Paris added.

Prue sighed. "Taking Bo out of here will not break the time loop."

"It'll save Phoebe." Cole comment to her.

"Yeah." Paris agreed to him.

"Yeah, well, there's more than just Phoebe's life on the line here, Cole, Paris." Prue looked at them. "We have to break the curse by sundown, otherwise this entire town is doomed to repeat the same day over and over again."

Cole looked at her in disbelieve. "Are you seriously telling me you're willing to sacrifice your sister's life for a town full of cowboys?"

"What I'm saying to you is that there's a great good at stake here, one that I can't just walk away from and one that you shouldn't walk away from if you truly expect to be good." Prue replied to him.

"Not when our sisters live is at stake." Paris was being selfish.

Just then a man shouted. "We know you're in there, Bo. Come out with your hands up and nobody gets hurt. What's it gonna be, Bo?"

Cole looked at Prue and Paris. "Alright, how do we break the curse?"

"Do I look like I know everything." Paris replied to him.

Prue sighed. "I don't know, but I do know that it hinges on keeping Bo alive."

"No, it doesn't." Bo spoke up as then he walked towards them. "The curse isn't about me or about Sutter. It's about them. The townspeople who stood there and watched me die. The only way is for me to give myself up."

Isabel shook with her head. "No."

"It's okay, Isabel." Bo looked at his sister. "Have faith."

"And they'll kill you." Cole added to him.

Bo looked at him. "Maybe. This curse came from my father's people. I understand that now. It's meant to heal, to teach the townspeople to act without shame. I have to give them that chance."

"Helping them to save you saves themselves." Prue told them.

Just then, Bo opened the door and white doves flow out, he raised his hands.

-0-0-

Sutter's men were riding their horses through the town with Bo being dragged behind. They stopped and a man took Bo to Sutter. "I want you all to see what happens when people cross me." Sutter pushed Bo on the ground.

Just then, Cole, Prue, Paris and Isabel arrived. "No! No!" Isabel shouted as she wanted to rush over them.

But, Prue stopped her. "Don't! He knows what he's doing."

Bo stood back up and Sutter started to whip him. "What's the matter, boy? You too stupid to scream? I want you to beg for mercy." Sutter continued to whip Bo.

Prue looked at the townspeople. "What are you people doing? Look at him. He has the courage to fight Sutter for all of you."

"You can just stand there and watch him die." Paris added. "You have to do something! You can take him down!"

"Sutter can't take all of you out." Cole shouted as well. "You need to do what's right!"

Prue: "You cannot just stand by and let this happen." Prue called to them all. "Stand up to him! Don't be scared."

"Nobody crosses me." Sutter hissed as he got out his gun and pointed it at Bo.

Then the bartender shoot Sutter's gun out of his hand. "I think you just oughta leave Bo alone, Sutter."

"You just signed your own death certificate." Sutter told him.

Just then, Cal pointed his gun at Sutter. "If you wanna kill Bo, you're gonna have to kill me too."

Then the townspeople all pointed their guns at Sutter.

Isabel run over to Bo. "Are you okay?" But then, Sutter grabbed Isabel by the hair. "Aah!"

"Anybody comes after me and she's dead." Sutter threatened them all.

Cole looked at Prue and Paris. "Now can we do something?"

"Yes." Paris replied to him.

Prue nodded. "Oh, yeah." Then, Sutter let go of Isabel and jumped on his horse and ride off. Everyone chased him. Prue got on a horse and followed him as then she shoot at him and he fell off the horse. He tried to run away but Prue shoot him in the chest, she got off the horse and used her power on him. He flied into the sheriff's office as then Bo, Paris and Isabel catches up to Prue. "I don't think Sutter's gonna be a problem anymore."

"What about the curse?" Bo asked to them.

Prue looked at the sunset. "It's a beautiful sunset isn't it? I don't think there's been one quite like it in 128 years."

Then, they hear a gunshot as Prue and Paris rushed over and walked in. Cole laughed at the cowboy as then he turned around and saw them standing there. "Like I said, once a demon always a demon." Prue comment to him as then she walked back out, she pulled Paris with her. Cole throws his hat on the ground.

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Later Cole, Paris and Prue shimmered in. Cole has his arm around them as then Prue quickly pushed it away from her. "Eew!"

Cole had still his arm around Paris, she looked at him. "Could you?" She was revering his arm as then he pulled away.

"Finally." Piper smiled at them.

Victor looked at them. "What took you so long? We've been worried sick."

"Sorry, we had a few, uh, loose ends to tie up." Cole replied to him.

Prue looked at Phoebe. "Are you okay?" She asked concerned.

"I'm great." Phoebe replied to her. "Thank you. All of you."

Leo looked at them. "And the time loop?"

"Broken." Paris replied to him. "They will never have to live through that horror again."

"So then, um, where are they?" Victor asked to them.

"I don't know." Prue replied to him. "Probably living out their lives in a parallel plane, I guess."

"You don't think about it too much, Victor." Leo comment, looking at him. "It'd just give you a headache."

Piper clapped with her hands. "Okay, um, anybody up to a rehearsal dinner?"

"Absolutely." Phoebe replied, happily. "I'm starving."

Everyone headed for the dining room as Cole comment to them all. "Well, I guess I should be going."

"Yeah, that would probably be a good idea." Prue nodded.

Then Paris walked over to Cole. "You're not going anywhere, mister."

"Paris, I don't want to cause any trouble." Cole told her.

"You're staying and that's that." Paris stated as then she looked at her sisters. "If not we will just go out."

"It's okay, stay." Phoebe comment to her.

"Alright then, shall we?" Piper asked to them all.

"Yeah." Cole replied as then they go into the dining room, but what they didn't know that crow landed on the window sill outside.

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Chapter 3 done