Prue pulled up to the Manor and had an uneasy feeling in her gut, Andy's car was parked in front of the house. It had hardly been a day since he'd found out Magic was real. Why was he here now? Well, she wasn't going to get an answer just sitting here, she headed in and found more than Andy, Xander and Cordelia were also here. "What's going on?" She asked.

"Serial killer ghost escaped from Alcatraz and is killing people." Phoebe told her.

"We got a banishing ritual from our friend Wesley." Xander informed her.

"Because you have a totally useless vanquishing spell in the Book of Shadows." Cordelia said bluntly. "You have to be a ghost yourself to use it."

"And I brought the murder weapon from the first scene." Andy added. "Because the ghost left a fingerprint on it."

"And we're going to use it to track the ghost and then banish it." Phoebe finished.

"Why would a ghost leave a fingerprint on a weapon?" Prue asked. "That doesn't make any sense. Leaving the weapon, I can understand, they can manifest a new one, but why be careless enough to leave a fingerprint?"

"Andy," Xander said, feeling dread. "where was the fingerprint found on the murder weapon?"

"On the blade, not the handle." Andy realized. "Shit, the print was left deliberately. But why? It was an accident that it was found at all, wasn't it? I mean, fluorescent light is used to find blood traces or things on skin, not weird finger prints. There was no blood on the knife in the picture." He realized. "Damn it, I missed it. The knife found at the scene wasn't the murder weapon! The victim was stabbed 13 times, there would be blood everywhere, but especially on the murder weapon. So why the Hell leave a weapon that the investigating officer isn't going to link to a ghost?"

"How did you find out about the case?" Cordelia asked.

"Apparently Daryl and I have gotten a bit of a reputation for catching freaky cases lately. Blakeley, the officer assigned to this case, wanted to pick our brains on the weird print. Daryl and I later speculated that it might be a ghost doing the killing because the print linked to Jackson Ward, executed serial killer. It was an obvious jump after just finding out Magic and demons are real."

"Chess pieces on a chess board." Xander said, reminding Prue of the conversation this morning when they discovered their new jobs were at the same place. "Son of a bitch, someone set things up, they knew that officer would ask you and you'd ask 'experts'." Some what sarcastically. "We need answers, we can't banish the ghost right away, we need to question it."

"How are we going to do that?" Phoebe asked.

"We were going to track it down," Xander said. "Let's summon it's ghostly ass instead. Phoebe, we need salt for a quick containment circle. Andy, let's move the furniture in here out of the way." The two men began moving the couches in the conservatory out of the way as Phoebe hurried to find salt in the kitchen.

"You can summon a ghost?" Prue asked.

"Never tried it and never heard of anyone trying it, at least not like this." Xander answered. "A medium can call a spirit in a seance and demons can be summoned. I'll modify a spirit summons for a seance and make it specific to Jackson Ward. That hopefully will work." As Phoebe handed him a container of salt and he used it to make a circle around the knife with the finger print on it.

"Salt?" Andy asked.

"Magic involves symbolism, Andy." Xander told him. "Things imbued with meaning. Salt is pure, of the Earth, which connects it to the gods, which gives spiritual oomph as well. It'll hold for awhile."

He sat down for a moment and wrote out the summoning spell and began reworking it. "Alright, I think I have something that will work. Places everyone, if it works, things will start happening fast. And Andy, guns work on a lot of things, but ghosts aren't one of them and they can redirect bullets with their version of telekinesis."

"Gun stays holstered, got it."

Phoebe and Cordelia each took a position and Phoebe handed Prue and Andy a copy of the banishing spell and a candle and lighter.

"I don't have any powers." Andy protested. "I'm not a witch."

"Neither am I." Cordelia told him. "Prue and Phoebe will supply the power, we can help by supporting them. Magic involves symbolism, like Xander said. And the ritual requires four people."

"Okay, I guess." Andy reluctantly took the piece of paper and the candle and lighter she handed him as Xander began the chant to summon Jackson Ward for questioning.

'Jackson Ward, restless soul not at peace,

where you wander without release,

because you haven't been forgiven.

Now I'm opening the gate

you passed through when you met your fate;

I command you, through the veil,

to answer my summons without fail!'

An image began to form within the circle of salt. A man in his late forties with a scarred face appeared.

"That's him!" Phoebe yelped.

"He sure does look like the picture you found." Cordelia agreed.

"Ah, you interrupted me." The ghost of Jackson Ward complained. "I was about to kill another one. Oh well, nice to see you again, little witch." He waved at Phoebe. "Did you enjoy your tour of Alcatraz?" He started laughing. "Man, are you in for it now."

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A/N Summoning spell from Lands Beyond wiki, modified by author.