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A Knight to Remember
"And they all lived happily ever
after."
-Piper
Paige is telling
her boyfriend, Glen, a story in bed. It's about an evil enchantress who
locked away a beautiful maiden, cast a spell on her prince so he would
conceive her heir, and therefore dark magic ruled the kingdom forever.
"What kind of fairy tale is that?" Glen asks. "It's just one that's kinda
stuck with me as long as I can remember." Paige says.
Flashback to
the dark ages: the evil enchantress locks away the maiden, telling her,
"This is my destiny, not yours." The enchantress looks exactly like Paige.
The next morning,
Piper is in Prue's room, reminiscing. She looks very wistful, as she walks
around Prue's room, fingering a necklace and putting on Prue's jacket.
She leaves, and shuts the door quietly.
Down in the
kitchen, Piper is stirring her instant coffee. Phoebe walks in, complaining
that she looks like a drowned rat. She can't use her blow dryer, because
they've turned off the electricity to ward off attacks from the shocker
demon. Piper points out that they need the Power of Three to vanquish him,
so Phoebe says she's going to call Paige. "Not the cordless!" Piper cries,
but it's too late. The shocker demon comes out of the phone and attacks.
After he's gone, Piper suggests that Paige move in with them.
At Paige's apartment,
Paige and Glen wake to Paige's alarm buzzing. "Oh, my God, it's 9:00, I
am so screwed." Paige says. Glen asks her if she can't be a little late,
since he's leaving for Australia tomorrow, and then he asks her to go with
him. She turns him down saying, "I've got too many responsibilities."
Piper and Phoebe
arrive outside Paige's door. Right before Phoebe can knock, Leo orbs in
and says Paige is "a little indisposed at the moment." He's been checking
up on Paige to keep her safe. "Wait, you watch?!?!" Piper exclaims.
Paige and Glen
are kissing, when Piper, Phoebe, and Leo barge in. They say they need to
talk to her, and then let it slip that Leo's been watching her for the
past week. All the time. Paige, horrified, kicks them out. "Unbelievable."
she mutters. Flashback: the evil enchantress casts a spell on the prince
and leads him to her bed chamber.
Later that morning,
Paige knocks on the door to the Manor. After Piper and Phoebe let her in,
she begins to march upstairs to check the Book of Shadows. "What do you
think about moving in with us?" Piper asks. Paige gives them a look, and
says, "Are you two out of your freaking minds?" then storms up to the attic.
Piper and Phoebe follow.
In the attic,
Paige flips through the book, until she finds the page on the evil enchantress.
She says the spell, despite Piper and Phoebe's efforts to stop her, and
the prince materializes right in front of them. "My love," he says, bowing
in front of Paige.
Downstairs,
the prince chases Paige into the kitchen. Piper and Phoebe can't help but
laugh while the prince follows Paige around the island, telling her how
much he loves her. He begins kissing her hand, and Paige tells Piper to
"do that thing that you do" because "he's using his tongue." Piper freezes
him, and Paige makes a quick escape, to work. She doesn't want to handle
this.
On their way
back to the kitchen, Piper and Phoebe notice the TV on. As they go to inspect,
the shocker demon attacks again. They use their powers to get rid of him
temporarily then hurry to the kitchen, only to find that the prince has
escaped out the back door.
At work, Paige
is mad at Leo "for watching over me." He tells her that that's his job
and they get to talking about Piper and Phoebe asking her to move in. Paige
says, "It's like they want me to be Prue- superwitch. And I can't. I don't
know how." He says he doesn't believe that they think that, but she counters
that, "Have you checked out her room? It's a shrine." She tells him she's
not ready to move in.
At home, Phoebe
is scrying for the prince and Piper is on the phone with Darryl. There's
been a carjacking- a garbage truck at sword point. Piper figures it must
have been the prince. She calls for Leo, who orbs in in the middle of her
call. He listens to the new information, and then orbs back out to check
with the Elders.
At work,
the prince has found Paige and right before he kisses her, the shocker
demon attacks again. The prince "slays the beast" and Paige seriously considers
kissing him, but then her boss barges in.
Back at home,
Piper and Phoebe are in the attic. Piper is lighting candles, while Phoebe
looks at the enchantress's page in the Book. She has an idea that Paige
was the evil enchantress in a past life. "Now you're reaching." Piper says.
Suddenly, a portal appears, and the evil enchantress comes through it.
"Paige?" Piper cries. "Still think I'm reaching?" Phoebe asks. "Where is
the prince?" the enchantress asks, and begins throwing fire at Piper and
Phoebe.
Piper and Phoebe
are putting out fires, when Leo orbs in. The enchantress is long gone.
They tell him that she is Paige's past life and that she's here, in their
world. Leo says that they can't let her find the prince, because if she
conceives his heir, history will be rewritten. "The world will plunge into
darkness. Yadda, yadda, yadda." Piper says, clearly unfazed.
At Paige's
apartment, the prince tries to convince Paige to go back to his castle
with him. She says she's tempted, and the prince again moves in to kiss
her. Suddenly, Piper, Phoebe, and Leo orb in. Hey!" Piper cries, and freezes
the prince. "Sorry, thought he was attacking you," she explains. Paige
says they were just kissing, and asks what on Earth they are doing there.
They tell her that the evil enchantress has come and she nearly killed
Piper and Phoebe trying to get to the prince. They have the potion that
will stop the enchantress. "Fine. I'll do it." Paige says, and heads to
the door. "I mean by myself." she says, as they try to follow her. "I got
you into this mess, I'll get you out."
Outside, Paige
runs into the evil enchantress. They have it out, but the evil enchantress
wins, throwing Paige against her car and knocking her out. Back in the
apartment, Leo senses trouble, and orbs to Paige.
While Paige
and Leo are gone, the evil enchantress barges into Paige's apartment, throws
fire all over the place, and recaptures the prince, taking him back through
a portal. Piper and Phoebe decide they need to follow, and Paige and Leo
run back in just as Phoebe jumps through the portal, and it closes.
Leo is
feeling the wall that Piper and Phoebe disappeared through, while Paige
paces, groaning about losing her sisters. Leo reminds her about how powerful
she is and tells her not to be afraid to tap into it now. Paige gets an
idea, she'll create her own portal, and bring herself to them.
Paige and Leo
peer into a doorway, where the prince and the evil enchantress are in bed
together. Paige tells Leo to find her sisters, while she distracts them.
She marches boldly into the room, and announces her arrival, "Hi! I hate
to interrupt myself at a time like this."
Leo finds Piper
and Phoebe chained to a wall in a dungeon. He fights off a guard, and knocks
him out. Piper and Phoebe are giddy with relief. "I thought you were a
pacifist." Phoebe remarks, as he unchains them. They hear Paige in the
distance, and rush off to her assistance.
Piper, Phoebe,
and Leo find Paige fighting with the evil enchantress. Paige knocks her
against a wall, and yells for Piper and Phoebe to throw the potion. They
comply, and the evil enchantress powers are bound. The maiden rushes in
to her prince and kisses him, thus breaking the spell. Piper, Phoebe, Paige,
and Leo smile.
The foursome
arrives back in Paige's apartment, which is a mess. "I guess I won't be
getting my security deposit back." Paige says. "Too bad you don't have
any other place to stay." Piper says. Phoebe smiles, "It's no pressure.
It's totally up to you, whenever you're ready." She tells her sister, who
smiles back.
A day later,
Piper and Phoebe knock on the door to Prue's old room, which has been transformed
into Paige-land. They admire her room, and then hear a knock on the front
door. Paige tells them that that's Glen, and that he's stopping by to say
goodbye. Before she goes downstairs, Paige hits the light switch and the
shocker demon arrives. They vanquish him without missing a beat. "Piece
of cake." Paige remarks, before heading downstairs. "And they lived happily
ever after." Piper says. "Yeah, right." Phoebe replies and the sisters
head downstairs, their arms over each other.
Special thanks to Rose for writing
this summary :)