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Takes place five years after Love Will Lead You Back
Prudence (Prue) Halliwell
She works at 415 Magazine as a very successful photographer. She sometimes travels, like once or twice every six months. She lives in Dan's old house with her husband Jason Hart. She is also the mother of Andrew and Josephine (Jo) Hart. She has the powers of telekinesis, astral projection, and blinking (but didn't get it from evil).
Piper Halliwell
She owns a chain of restaurants and nightclubs in Northern California, including P3, Quake, and Toscana ? the restaurant where she and Leo had their first real date. She has the powers of temporal stasis with increased range and rewinding time (up to an hour). She lives in a house across the street from the Manor with her husband, Leo Wyatt, and three kids. She stays home most of the time and has to pick up her four-year-old son from pre-school.
Phoebe Halliwell
She is a nurse at San Francisco Memorial Hospital. She has the power of premonitions and flying. She lives at the manor with her son.
Paul Halliwell
He's a year younger than the twins are. He is a little popular. His Dad was Cole. He has the power of premonitions. He is a sophomore at Baker High and is into Drama. He is almost in every play.
Lucy & Patty H. Wyatt
Patty is daughter to Piper and Leo Wyatt. She loves to cook, shop, and sing. Sheís a little popular, inherited her concern for others from her Dad, and has the powers of temporal stasis and the healing touch. She is a Senior at Baker High School and an A average student. Sheís also on the Girlsí Varsity Soccer team and in the Women's Choir. Lucy loves to cook, shop, and dance. Sheís an outdoorsy kind of girl. She has her Dad and sister's same concern for others. She has the powers of telekinesis and orbing. Sheís a B average student at Baker High and is on the Dance Ensemble team. They both own a small sky blue jeep. She uses it to go shopping and to the beach with her sister, cousins, and friends. Their favorite food is ruffle potato chips with her very special dip: white/chocolate frosting with little bits of fruit in it.
Leo Wyatt
He is a stay home father (except when he goes away on white-lighter business). He has his white-lighter powers and lives with his wife and three kids.
Andrew Hart
He is the same age as Paul, but two months younger. He has two powers since his Dad's a good warlock and his mother's a good witch. He has the power of icy mist (from his Mom) and shape shifting his voice (from his Dad).
Josephine (Jo) Hart
She is in eight grade and wants to be a writer for sci-fi or mystery stories when she grows up. She also wants to be a cheerleader. She loves mystery stories and is very good at spying. She, like her brother Andrew, has two powers. She has the power of astral projection (from her Mom) and blinking (from her Dad).

Paul sat on the window seat in the attic of his Victorian Manor home, staring out the window. For the past four years, he had been living their with his mother, alone. His Aunt Prue's family lived next door and his Aunt Piper's family lived across the street from him. His Mom was working late at the hospital. He glanced at the city below, wondering about his father. All he knew was that his father's name was Cole Turner and that he was an ADA that was killed by a demon when he tried to save his mother. He had seen pictures of his father, but that was all he knew.
His Aunt Prue told him that his mother was devastated for months about her husband's death. Just then, a strong gust of wind blew through the open window, blowing the Book of Shadows open. Paul quickly stumbled over to the window and closed it tight. He then walked over to the book that rested on the podium. He looked at the page it had landed on.
It was the page about a demon called Belthazor. He touched the page and suddenly fell into a premonition. He saw his Mom stuck in a corner of a gray room that looked like a mausoleum, fear tearing her eyes. He then saw his father stand in front of her. A demon was there and fired a fireball at Paul's Dad. Paul then saw Cole turn into Belthazor and fire an energy ball at the demon.
Paul then came out of the premonition. He was in a state of shock. He glared at the page across from it and saw that it said Belthazor's human form. Underneath it was a picture of his father. "My Dad is a demon?" he asked to nobody.
***
"Earth to Paul. Come in Paul," Lucy said as she and her twin sister Patty sat down beside Paul. The two of them were his Aunt Piper's daughters. They were identical twins that were seniors at their High School, Baker High. "Are you all right?" a familiar voice asked behind him. Paul turned around to find his cousin, his Aunt Prue's son, Andrew Hart, sitting down beside him.
"Are you all right?" Lucy asked. All his cousin's eyes were on him. "There's nothing wrong." "You're only quiet and zoned out when something's wrong. You've always done that," Patty said. Paul studied her. He knew she was one person that he couldn't lie too. He gave her a small smile. "All right. All right. I'll spill my guts," he said. He ushered her and the others closer. That signaled them that it was something Wiccan.
When they were all together, Paul cleared his throat. "Last night, I was in the attic, just thinking about my Dad. The book then blew open by the wind. I closed the window and went to the book. It had stopped on the page out a demon named Belthazor. I touched it and had a vision of my Dad fighting a demon. Then, my Dad turned into the demon Belthazor." "What?" Andrew cried in a quiet outrage.
"I swear that's what I saw." "Well, why don't you ask your Mom about it? I meanÖ" "You're right, Patty. I will ? Tonight."
***
Paul found himself sitting at the dinning room table, finishing some homework around seven that night. Just then, the front door opened and he looked up to see his Mom walk through in her nurse's outfit. "Hey sweetie. How ya doing?" "Fine," he said, emotionless, turning back to his homework. His Mom walked up to him. "What's wrong?" He didn't answer.
She pulled up the chair next to him and sat down. "Listen, I know something's wrong." Paul just looked up and straight ahead. "Last night, I had a premonition," he said. He explained everything, from what he was touching to what he saw. His Mom looked down worried. "Is it true? Was Dad a demon?"
"UmÖ" "I want the truth, Mom," Paul said, his voice slightly raising. She looked up and into his eyes. "Yes. He was a demonÖ and you're half demon." "Why didn't I know about this till now?" "Because the day you came home from the hospital, your Dad bound your demonic powers." "And when were you going to tell me? Never?"
"No. We were planning on telling you in four more years, when we thought you'd be old enough to handle it." "You thought I wouldn't be old enough to handle this until I was twenty?" he asked, standing up. His Mom could tell he was angry. He definitely has his father's temper, she thought.
"Look, I know you're mad, but your father and I did this because we didn't want you to be evil." "What makes you guys think I would turn over to the side of evil?" "Because you remind me a lot of your father. After his mother, who was a demon, killed his father, who was human, your Dad was raised to be evil. Then he turned good and then went back to evil. He switched a lot and we were afraid that somehow, you would turn evil, weather it be peer-pressure or otherwise." "Mom, don't you know me better than that?" She sighed and looked at the ground. "I got to go," he said, heading for the front door.
"Go? Go where?" his Mom asked, worried. "Just out!" He slammed the door behind him. Phoebe bit her bottom lip slightly as fear expanded inside her body.
***
Piper was in the living room of her large four bedroom house, cleaning up some of the art mess that her four-year-old son, Angel, made on the coffee table. Just then, the phone rang from the hall. "I'll get it," Leo said. He picked it up as he walked into the living room and saw Piper scrubbing the crayon stain out of the coffee table.
"Hello?" "Is Paul over there?" Phoebe asked frantically from the other line. Piper glared up and he mouthed Phoebe to let her know who was on the phone. "No. He's not. Is everything all right?" Phoebe chuckled sarcastically a little. "Well, if you count having a small fight as all right, then yes." "What happened?" Leo asked, concerned for his nephew. "He had a vision last night of Cole turning into Belthazor and got mad at me for not telling him and left. I already tried Prue's, but he's not there." "How long ago did he leave?"
"Twenty minutes ago. He seemed pretty pissed off when he left. I'm so worried." "Well, how about we wait a little while and if he doesn't show up in half an hour, we'll come over there and search for him." "All right. Thanks. You're one of the best brother-in-laws I have." Leo smiled. "Bye." "Bye."
He hung up. "What happened?" Piper asked as she finally won her battle with the stain. Leo sighed and sat down on the sofa. "Paul and Phoebe got into a small fight and he took off twenty minutes ago." "What was the fight about?" Piper asked as she stood up off the floor and dusted off her jeans. "Paul had a vision yesterday and found out that his Dad was Belthazor and got mad at her for not telling him."
***
Paul trotted down a street and arrived in Golden Gate Park. He looked up and saw a family playing at a playground. He remembered the time when his Aunt Piper and Mom took him and Patty to the park. "No! Let me go!" Paul jerked his head toward a clutter of trees to where the voice was coming from. He decided to investigate and ran over to find a man with short dark brown hair around his age tossing a girl in front of a tree like she was a dishcloth, knocking the girl into unconsciousness.
"Hey!" Paul shouted. The guy whirled. "The lady told you to leave her alone." "Yeah. And what are you going to do about it?" he asked as he advanced forward. That was a good question. Usually, he had one of his cousins, Aunts, Uncles, or his Mom with him to help him. But what could he do alone. He only had a passive power. "Just leave the lady alone."
The guy then grew a concern look on his face. Paul grew a confused look when he saw the guy starting to sniff. "I smellÖ another witch around here, butÖ is that a half demon I smell also?" Paul just stared at the ground, casting off a slight look like he had been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. "Ah! You're half witch and half demon? How can that be?" Paul glared up. "That's none of your business. Just leave her alone." The guy thought for a moment. He then smiled.
"I have a deal for you. If you come with me and let me show you where your demonic heritage comes from, I'll let the girl go." Paul studied him suspiciously. "I promise not to harm her again." Why not? Just going with him will save one witch's life and that's good, he thought. He held out his hand, but part of his conscious was telling him that this was wrong. He just felt so confused and mixed up, like he was torn between good and evil.
"Deal," he announced. The guy shook his hand. "You can call me Dylan. I'm a demon." "Paul." Dylan smiled. Paul tried to pull his hand back, but Dylan held onto it tightly. "I need to hold your hand to get there," he said. Before Paul could answer, the two blinked away.
***
Phoebe nervously tapped her fingers on the table in the hall. She then looked at the clock by the stairs and noticed that it was 7:49. She couldn't wait any longer. She was about to head to the phone when she heard the front door open. She whirled around and saw Piper, Leo, and Patty enter the Manor. She then heard the back door open and jerked her head toward the kitchen to see Prue and Andrew come through.
They all walked up to Phoebe. "I was just about to call you guys." "Well, Paul told Patty and Lucy about the vision, so they know." "So does Andrew," Prue said. "Have you tried calling a premonition?" Piper asked. Phoebe sighed. "What do you think, Piper? I was born yesterday. Yes, I have. I held his backpack, but got nothing." Piper's eyes wondered behind them to the foyer. She then walked over and picked up a picture that Phoebe had taken last month of Paul when they went to visit Phoebe's Dad.
She walked back next to her husband and handed the picture to her younger sister. "Maybe you should try again." Phoebe took the picture quickly and used her fingers to trace the shape of her son. Just then, she fell into a vision. She saw her son and another guy that looked about his age simmer into a very familiar place. She saw an altar with candles lit.
She gasped loudly as she came out of the vision. She opened her eyes. "Pheebs, take a deep breath," Prue couched, comforting her sister. Phoebe took a deep breath in and let it out. "All right. What did you see?" Piper asked. Phoebe glanced at each face in the house. "I sawÖ Paul shimmer into Cole's old hideout with another guy, most likely a demon," Phoebe said, cleverly hiding her fear.
Prue and Piper grew slightly scared expressions. "So what do we do now?" Andrew asked. Everyone thought for a moment.
***
Paul blinked with Dylan into a cave-like area. He looked around and saw an altar in the middle with a dozen candles lit around it. "Wow," he awed. Suddenly, a woman with a black cloth entered the room, drawling both young men's attention. The woman drew back her hood to reveal her short, medium brown hair. She looked to be about ten years older than Aunt Prue. "Mother," Dylan addressed the woman as she looked up. Her eyes widened. "Heller, who is this?" she asked in an English accent, which made it sound like she was from Australia or New Zealand.
Paul figured that Heller was Dylan's demon name. The woman then walked a little closer to Paul and sniffed the air. Paul tried his hardest to keep a straight face and succeeded.
"I thought I told you to kill a witch, not bring one here." "But Mother, I can explain. I was about to when this guy Paul showed up, ordering me to let her go. I found out he's half-demon." The woman studied Paul and took another sniff. "Who are your parents?" Paul figured that they wanted to know which one of his parents was a demon. "My father's name was Cole Turner." Both Dylan and his mother cast him a confused look. Paul sighed.
He figured he better use his Dad's demon name, finding it still hard to believe that his father was a demon. "Belthazor." Dylan's mother's eyes widened. "Belthazor? You're the great and powerful Belthazor's son?" Paul nodded, figuring he better play it safe. "And I bet that rumor I heard was true ? he fell in love with a witch, one of the Charmed Ones. Is that witch your mother?" Paul just glared at the ground, not wanting to say anything. Dylan's Mom's smile widened. "You're safe with us here," she quickly lied and dragged her son aside.
***
About that same time, Phoebe found herself in the attic with her sisters, Leo, Patty, and Andrew. They were looking through the Book of Shadows for anything to help Paul. Just then, a slight wind blew through the attic and flipped the book all the way to the Binding Spell page.
"Binding Spell? Why would Grams flip the pages to that?" Patty asked her mother, whom shrugged. She decided that Grams knew best in these situations and decided to read the fine print at the bottom of it because she didn't want to read the spell out loud. "Here's why. ëWarning ? Witches take caution that if you bind your children's powers and if they don't cast the spell to summon their powers within sixteen years after the binder's dead at the exact time of their death, the powers will emerge on their owní."
"Uh-oh," Prue said. "What? What's wrong, Mom?" Andrew asked, not having a clue about what was going on. Phoebe turned and looked at Patty and Andrew. "Cole died on November 16, 2003 at 8:45 in the evening," she said, remembering it all too well as she was there. Andrew and Patty finally understood that in half an hour, Paul's demon powers would emerge. "He will either have the power of energy balls or shimmering," Prue told the teenagers.
Silence surrounded the room for a few moments. "We have got to get him back and get through to him because no son of mine is working for the Source," Phoebe said as she pushed her way through Piper and Leo to get to the book to find something to help him.
***
Paul stood by the altar, glaring at all the interments on it while Dylan and his mother talked in the corner as they observed Paul. "Unbelievable, but yet, truly remarkable. Belthazor had a son and you've found him." "But who is Belthazor?" His mother smiled.
"Belthazor was the most powerful demon before you were born. He was like any typical demon, but powerful. He was able to kill the Triad, a group of higher level demons, find the Charmed Ones and gain the youngest witch's trust. But unfortunately, he fell in love with her and turned to the side of good. The Source sent demons and bounty hunters after him to kill him for his betrayal, but none were able to do their job. One time, Raynor of the Brotherhood was able to kill the witch's love for him by casting a spell over him and having him kill an innocent witch with his witch girlfriend looking on. Somehow, she was able to turn him back to the side of good. Then, a demon found out that they got married, but the second time he went back to kill him, he was vanquished by the Charmed Ones. Sixteen years ago, just a few months after you were born, the Source sent out his most powerful and trusted ally, a demon named Lvies. He was able to tail Belthazor to the mausoleum, where it was discovered he was meeting his witch years before. He told the Source what happened and the Source told all the demons. Lives arrived there to see Belthazor and his witch hiding there. He was able to knock out Belthazor in his human form and fought with the witch for a while. He had beaten her and had her wounded on the ground. He was about to move in for the kill when Belthazor woke up and attacked Lvies. Lvies fought with him for a while and then tossed him to the ground. He then glared at the frightened witch. He threw a killer energy ball at her and Belthazor took the blow, killing him. Before he could kill the witch, her sisters and a good warlock ran in and Lvies knew he was outnumbered, so he came back here. Lvies didn't know that Belthazor had a son before he died and neither did anyone else. That witch must have raised him to be one." Dylan's eyes widened as he got an idea.
"Mom, what if we were able to show him the wonders of being evil? Have Paul embrace his demonic side?" His mother mirrored his smile. "Yes. And I know just the thing."
***
Phoebe slammed the book in frustration. "Nothing. There's nothing there." She sat down on the small couch they had fixed in the attic. "Phoebe, we will come up with a plan to help Paul. He will not be working for the Source," Prue said. Piper's eyes then lit up with a slight idea. Leo saw this look and knew it well. "You have an idea?" "Yes." All eyes in the room fell on her. Piper turned and looked at her younger sister.
"We know that Paul is mad at me, you, Prue, and Jason for knowing about Cole being a demon and not telling him. He might not listen to any reason from any of us." "What about us? I mean, Patty, Lucy, and I didn't know about this till today," Andrew interrupted. "Well, I was thinking, remember when Phoebe was turned into a Banshee?" Leo scoffed a little. "How could I forget?" He glanced over at Prue.
"You were a dog and kept barking at me." Prue smiled, embarrassed. "Well, then you must remember how we got Phoebe back to good." "You summoned Cole to find me and tell me he loved me," Phoebe reminded them. "Well, what if we can get Cole to go to Paul and talk to him, then maybe we don't have to worry about Paul turning evil." "But how are we going to get Cole to come here? He's dead," Prue pointed out. "Well, I think I could write a spell to summon him," Phoebe said. "Okay. Let's get to it then," Leo said. Everyone got up and headed downstairs.
***
Paul studied the candles surrounding the altar. He knew that demons used tools to kill witches, but he didn't know that some of the tools were so similar. "Are you all right?" Paul turned around to see Dylan standing behind him.
"Yeah. It's justÖ for the 16 years of my life, I've only known few things about my father ? what he looked like, that he was an Assistant Distract Attorney, and that his name was Cole Turner. Then yesterday and today, I find out that he was a demon and my Mom, Aunts, and Uncles knew. They hid that from me. How could they do something like that to me?" he asked, slightly angry. Dylan smiled. "Well, I also know what it's like to not have a father. A witch vanquished him when I was younger." Paul wasn't really listening.
***
Phoebe was in the kitchen, finishing to write the spell to summon her husband. She just had to save her son, she just had to. She and her sisters knew that they couldn't use the To summon the Dead spell because none of them were blood related to Cole, only Paul was. Phoebe looked up at the clock. It was 8:36. Patty came in and hung up the phone. She had just called her sister, whom was watching their little brother, to tell her what was happening. "So, how are Angel and Lucy?" Phoebe asked, not looking up.
"Angel doesn't want to go to bed, so he keeps orbing from room to room in the house." Phoebe gave a small, quick smile. "Well, I think I'm just about finished. Go get everyone else," she told her niece as she quickly wrote the last line of the spell to bring Cole back from the dead. Patty walked out of the room. Phoebe stood up and began to light the candles. A few moments later, her sisters, Leo, Andrew, and Patty walked into the room. "All right. I'm going to cast it," she informed. After that, she walked in front of her sisters. She took a deep sigh to concentrate.
"Bring back my husband here
Who I love so dear
So you can help me save our son
And not allow him to have any evil fun."
A small breeze blew through the room. Then, a clutter a red specks circled a foot in front of Phoebe. A few moments later, Cole appeared in front of Phoebe, looking exactly the way he did the day he died. "Cole," Phoebe said. She ran to him and hugged him. He hugged her back. "So that's Cole, huh?" Andrew asked his Mom. He was around the same age as Paul when Cole had died. "Yes," Prue told her son. The two lovers pulled apart from a kiss they had fallen into.
"Do you know what's happening?" Piper asked. Cole nodded. "Paul found out that I was Belthazor and ran out. Phoebe had a vision of him and another demon blinking into my old hideout and you brought me back to try and get through to him." "Exactly." "Wait, but how do you know?" Patty asked.
"Well, I've been looking over Paul and Phoebe from where I've been over the past 16 years." "Oh." "So, what's the plan now?" Prue asked. Phoebe touched a small picture of her son that she always kept in her pocket. Suddenly, she fell into a very violent premonition. She saw her son holding an athame late at night.
He smiled wickedly as he glared at a frighten woman backed up against a tree. He then stabbed the woman. She opened her eyes and fell backwards toward the ground. She let out a light scream as she opened her eyes. Leo and Cole immediately ran to her and caught her before she hit the ground hard. Andrew pulled out a chair and Phoebe was set down on it.
 "What is it? What did you see?" Prue asked, kneeling down beside her youngest sister. She saw how badly shaken she was and hadn't seen anything like this since she had a vision of herself being burned at the stake. Phoebe just stared at her hands, trying to make sense of what she had just seen.
"I just sawÖ one of my worst nightmares coming true." Phoebe then looked up and looked around for Cole, who was kneeling on the other side of her. She looked straight into his eyes. "I saw Paul. He was evil. He had an athame in his hand and killed an innocent woman."
"Not if we can help it," Prue said. "The Source must be planning to turn him evil and have him kill an innocent to make him evil forever," Cole observed. "But first we need a plan," Andrew reminded them. Everyone thought for a moment. "Wait, I have an idea!" Patty cried.
***
For the past twenty minutes, Paul had been listening to Dylan talk about his Dad, making Paul glad that his Dad was good. Suddenly, a small north spiritual wind blew in the room. Paul looked around, wondering where it came from. Then, before he could react, Dylan's Mom blinked in behind Paul and shot an energy ball at him, knocking him unconscious. She smiled wickedly.
"Never trust a demon, witch," she announced. She looked at her son. "The Source wants me to give him this," she told him, holding up a bottle of red liquid. Dylan smiled, knowing that the liquid could turn any good being evil, but for Paul to be evil forever, he had to kill an innocent.
Dylan turned Paul over on his back. His Mom threw the lid off. "Open his mouth," she ordered. He did as she said and then, she poured every drop of the liquid into his mouth. She then set the bottle aside and smiled wickedly. All of a sudden, Cole and Phoebe shimmered onto the scene behind the altar. Dylan and his Mom glared up. Cole immediately spotted the woman and recognized her.
"Elyia," he addressed. She stood up, not bothering to wipe the dust off her dress. "Belthazor," she said, kind of in a questioning tone too. Phoebe ran to her son and kneeled down beside him with a worried expression. She glared up at Elyia angrily. "What did you do to him?" "Just helping him embrace his true self," Dylan said. Phoebe glared at him angrily. She wished silently that she had Prue's power to throw him to the other side of the room. Cole spotted the bottle by Phoebe and quickly picked it up, examining it closely.
He saw a few drops of a liquid he recognized all too well. He hurled it at a wall with all his anger, shattering the glass to pieces. "It's Mylera, a potion that turns good beings evil." Phoebe quickly jerked up at him, worried. "We have to get him backÖ" "He's not going anywhere. The Source wants him," Elyia said. "Screw the Source! You're not taking my son!" Cole roared.
He quickly fired an energy ball at Elyia, knocking her to the ground and making her loose consciousness before she even knew what hit her. Phoebe sprung up as did Dylan. He advanced forward, about to attack Phoebe when suddenly, the twins orbed in behind Dylan and Patty froze him. Their eyes widened when they saw Paul lying on the ground.
They rushed to him. "What happened?" Patty asked, concerned. "They gave him Mylera, what turns good evil," Cole informed them. The twins jerked their heads up at him. "What?" they cried in union. "We've got to get him back home," Phoebe said. Cole nodded.
He looked at the twins. "You two orb back to the Manor. Tell the others what happened. I'll shimmer the three of us into the attic," Cole informed. "All right Uncle Cole," Lucy said. The two backed away a little. Lucy hugged her sister from behind and the two quickly orbed out. Cole, knowing that Patty's freeze would ware off soon, quickly hugged Phoebe and Paul and shimmered out.
***
Piper was pacing back and forth inside the conservatory while Prue and Andrew sat on the wickered couch. Leo had taken over for Lucy in watching little Angel. Piper checked her watch a second time. Suddenly, someone orbed into the room by the table. Piper turned around and saw that it was her daughters. "Is everything all right?" Prue immediately asked.
The twins shook their heads in union. "Uncle Cole told us that a demon gave Paul a drink of something that turns someone good to evil." Everyone grew a shocked expression. "He said he'd shimmer them into the attic." "Let's get going then," Prue said. She led them all upstairs to the attic. Piper opened the door to see Cole and her younger sister knelt around the old sofa, where a figure lay on the bed.
They all rushed over to them to discover that the figure was Paul, still unconscious. "Can I heal him?" Patty asked, walking up behind Cole. He shook his head, not looking up. "You can't remove Mylera magically. The only thing we can do is pray that he can remember how it feels to love someone and remember the good he's done." Piper stared down at her nephew. This was one of the scariest moments of her life.
***
 The warn feeling of the sun crept onto Phoebe's sleeping face. She was sleeping in a chair next to Paul. She opened her eyes and looked around, hoping that the events that had taken place the previous night were a dream. She looked around and discovered it was reality. She glanced down at Paul. He was still out of it. She then looked over at the Book of Shadows. She had checked it twice the night before to see if there was anything that would help him.
Couldn't hurt to check again, she thought. She quickly went over to it and opened it. She flipped through the pages, trying to find some spell to remove the evil from him. She didn't care what Cole had said the night before about magic not being able to remove it. She had already lost her Mom, Grams, and the love of her life. She wasn't going to lose her only child too.
She had only flipped through a couple of pages when suddenly, she heard a slight moaning sound. She jolted her head up to see Paul beginning to stir about. "Paul," she quietly said. She quickly rushed over to him. "Paul honey, are you all right?" He opened his eyes as he slowly sat up. He glared at his mother, showing her the red eyes that had replaced his brown eyes. Phoebe stood up and slowly backed up, knowing that her son had been turned evil.
He stood up. Phoebe felt angry, frightened, and afraid all at once. "I'm fine." He then exited the attic down the stairs. "Where are you going?" Phoebe asked, following him. "Just out!" "Wait. I know what's happening to you," she said. Paul stopped and turned around, glaring at his mother. "You do?" "Yes. I'm your Mother. I knowÖ" "What's best for me? You thought it was best for me not to know that my own father was a demon?!" Paul asked, raising his voice a little. Phoebe hated it when he did this. "Listen, both your Dad and I thought we were doing what we thought was best for you. Neither he nor I want you to be evil. IÖ" "Know how I feel? No you don't. You knew that Grandpa was human!"
"But I didn't know that your Grandmother was a witch or that Grams was one either and they hid that from us to protect us." "Yeah, but remember when I asked if Dad was something supernatural and you said no. You lied to me!"
"We did what we thought was best for you," an unfamiliar male voice said from behind Paul. He whirled around to see Cole step out of his room. "Dad? But how?" "Your Mom brought me back, to explain to you that what we did was for your own good," Cole said as he walked up to his son.
"Not letting me know the truth about my family was good for me?" "In this case, yes. It's the same case with your great-grandmother not telling your Mom and Aunts that they were witches when they were younger. It was for their protection." Paul scoffed. "Some protection," he muttered.
Suddenly, he shimmered out of the room. Phoebe gasped. "Elyia must have told him about my powers and he must have decided to try it out now." Phoebe's sight wondered down to the ground as she found it hard to believe what just happened. She had had fights with Paul before, but never something like this. "The things he said, IÖ I can't believe he would say stuff like that," she said, glaring up at Cole sadly. "It's the Mylera, not him. It's working its way around his body. If we don't go to him and stop him, the Mylera will reach all the way to his heart, mind, and soul and take over the son we knew."
"How long does Mylera take to take over a person completely?" Phoebe asked. Cole walked closer. "Eighty years ago, I used it on a witch because she was to powerful for me to kill. It took her forty-eight hours to completely turn evil and kill someone. But she wasn't half demon. It may take half the time for the Mylera to work on Paul. Before the hours were up, the Mylera makes them hurt anyone that got in their way." "But what are we going to do to get him back?"
Cole thought for a moment. "Do you have your cell phone?" "It's in my room on my dresser. Why?" Cole talked as he walked down the hall and into Phoebe's room. "I can probably tail him. All I have to do is think about him. Is the number of the Manor the same as before?" he asked as he went into Phoebe's room and grabbed the cell phone off the desk.
"Yeah." "Okay. I'd like you to go downstairs and call your sisters over here to hang out a little. I'll go to Paul and try to get through to him. I'll call you four times every hour and let you know what's going on." "Okay." The two then shared a short passionate kiss. "Bring him back to me." "I will. We won't lose our son," Cole promised. He then shimmered out.
***
Prue had just woken up and walked downstairs when suddenly, the phone rang. Prue walked over to the table where the phone rested and answered it. "Hello?" "Prue, it's me. Phoebe called. She needs us over at the Manor," Piper said from the other line. "All right. I'll be there in a sec," she said. She hung up. Jason then walked in from the kitchen. He darted his brown eyes at his wife.
Prue looked at him. "I have to go over to Phoebe's. She needs me and Piper over there." "All right." "I'll call if there's any trouble," she said. Before Jason could say anything, Prue blinked away.
***
Piper quickly rushed across the street and opened the door to the Manor, not even bothering to knock. She closed the door after she entered. "Prue! Phoebe!" "In here!" Prue called from the conservatory. Piper raced in to find both her sisters seated on the couch. She then saw the sad look on Phoebe's face. "What happened? What's wrong?" "That's what I want to know," Prue said. Both sisters looked at Phoebe. She looked up and cleared her throat.
"Paul woke up a couple minutes ago. He yelled at me for not telling him about Cole and then shimmered out, but Cole went after him. He took my cell phone."
***
Cole shimmered into the forest and saw Paul walking through it a couple of feet ahead of him. "Paul!" His son stopped and turned around, looking annoyed. "You have to believe that we only did what we thought was best for you. That power comes from evil and it may have turned you evil if the Mylera didn't get to you first. Mylera is the potion that Elyia gave you to turn you evil, and you had no right to yell at your mother the way you did."
"I'm not listening to a lecture," Paul scoffed. He then shimmered away.
***
Phoebe came back into the conservatory from the hall after talking to Cole. "Paul shimmered away from him," she informed her sisters, who sat on the wickered couch. Prue stood up and walked over to her youngest sister. She gave her a hug from behind. "Sweetie, we will find him. I promise that by this time next week, you and Paul will be going about your everyday stuff." "I hope you're right," Phoebe said, sounding sad. She then walked over to the couch and sat down beside Piper.
"It's just thatÖ I don't want to lose him too. I mean, first Mom, then Grams, then Cole. I justÖ I don't think I can handle losing my son too." "You won't have to, Pheebs. We will not lose Paul to the Source," Piper said, trying to cheer her sister up. All three sisters glared at each other, all three determined to keep the Source's plan far away from Paul.
***
Paul shimmered into an alley in downtown San Francisco. Anger toward his parents rose higher inside of him. They thought not telling me I was half demon was for my own good? Yeah right, he thought as he walked up to a building and looked up. He smiled evilly, thinking he could try out the power he had just received from his Mom a week ago. He found out that his Mom had the same power a couple of months after she found out she was a witch when the Woogyman gave it to her, but Paul had received it when he was good. He casually walked into the building.
***
In the Wyatt house, Lucy walked downstairs in her white sweater shirt, blue jeans, and black boots to find her Dad having breakfast with her brother, who was bringing a bit of pancake to his mouth in a sloppy manner. Her Dad hung up the cordless phone. "Who was that?" Lucy asked as she went into the kitchen to grab a glass, not even bothering to say good morning. "Well good morning to you too," Leo joked. She gave him a slightly annoyed smile. He smiled back.
"That was your Mom. Sheís over at the Manor," Leo answered. "What happened?" she asked, sensing something wrong as she took the container of orange juice out. "Well, Paul woke up, yelled at Phoebe, and then shimmered away, which is kind of like orbing away, except fading into the background. Cole has that power too. Paul still won't listen to reason."
Lucy came back and took a sip of her orange juice. Leo glared up at his eldest daughter. He knew what she was thinking. "Look Luce, I don't want you or Patty to go after Paul. He's dangerous now. There's no telling what he might do."
***
Patty had just changed into a purple long sleeved shirt, white jeans, and tennis shoes when all of a sudden, a knock came on the door. She looked up as she finished tying her shoes. "Come in." Lucy opened the door and came in, closing the door behind her. "Paul woke up and ran away, or should I say shimmer away, which is like blinking, but fading into the background." "He did?" Patty asked in slight disbelief as Lucy sat down next to her. Lucy nodded.
"And Mom's at the Manor with Aunt Prue, comforting Aunt Phoebe. Dad doesn't want us to go after him because he thinks Paul's dangerous," she informed, making a quote gesture. "Paul? Dangerous? I've known him for his whole life and there are plenty of words to describe him, but dangerous? Against us?" Patty asked as she put a bandanna in her slightly wavy hair. "Well, I haven't known him that long, but I can't just sit back and let the adults handle this." "Neither can I. We're eighteen. We should do something." "But what?" Lucy asked. The two sisters sat there, pondering for a while.
***
Prue, Piper, and Phoebe found themselves making some breakfast for themselves at the same time. They had turned on the radio onto a station that played their favorite music from when they were in High School. The song Walking on Sunshine played. Piper lipsank to the song as she flipped the pancake over. Prue put her third egg on the plate as she also lipsang and swayed her body to the music. Phoebe just emotionlessly cooked the bacon.
As they sat down to eat, the phone rang. Phoebe jumped up and raced to pick it up. "Cole?" "No. It's Leo. I need to talk to Piper for a minute." "Oh. Sure," Phoebe said. She looked at her sisters as she took the phone away from her ear. "Piper, it's Leo." The middle sister stood up and took the phone away as Phoebe went to sit back down. "Hey." "Hi. Look, the girls are missing." "What?" Piper asked, looking frightened. "Yeah. I just checked all over the house. I think they went after Paul to try to help him."
"Well, they definitely have your impatience for waiting when someone's in trouble." "Yeah. Look, I was going to orb over there with Angel. Can you watch him while I go get the girls?" "Uh, yeah. Of course." "All right. See you in a minute."
They both hung up. Piper turned to her sisters. "The girls left to look for Paul." "And Lucy can orb herself and Patty to where he is just by thinking about him," Phoebe realized. "And with the Mylera in him, there's no telling what he'll do," Prue observed. Piper turned to Phoebe. "You've gotta call Cole and tellÖ" Before she could finish, the phone rang and Leo orbed in with the little brown haired boy beside him.
Piper handed Phoebe the phone, which she still had in her hands. Phoebe answered it and walked aside. "Mommy!" Angel exclaimed. Piper smiled and bent down. Her son flew into her arms. She picked him back up. "Morning sweetie." Leo gave her a light kiss on the lips. He then turned to his son and gave him gave him a small kiss on the cheek. "Well, I'm going to find your sisters. You be good," he told him.
The little boy looked at Phoebe's plate and pointed at it happily as he played with his little action figure from a television show he liked to watch. "Yummy! Pancakes!" "Come on. You just had two whole ones ten minutes ago," Leo complained a little. "I know, but I still hungry." "I'll find a little something for him to snack on," Piper told him. He smiled and then orbed out.
Phoebe put the phone down on the counter. "Of all the obvious places in the world. Take a wild guess where Paul is," Phoebe said after she gave Angel a quick smile. Prue and Piper both knew.
***
Patty and Lucy orbed into a stall at one of the deserted bathrooms inside the building where Paul was. They got out and looked around to find nobody else there. "You orbed us into a bathroom stall?" Patty asked, looking at her sister. "I just taught of a secured place near where Paul is, so let's go out and look around," Lucy said, throwing some of her straight strawberry blonde hair over her shoulder. They quickly walked out of the girlsí bathroom and found themselves at a skating park. Patty cast a look, like she had just found the answer to a question, an answer that was so obvious.
"Of course! Paul always comes to a skating park to skate on his skateboard when he has to take some things off his mind." "And there he is!" Lucy exclaimed to her sister as she pointed to where their cousin was. They ran over to a bar that kept them out of the skatersí way. Paul was doing some of the tricks he had learned from his friends on his skateboard. "Why don't you freeze the place?" Lucy asked. "Two reasons. A) Paul might freeze and B) Someone might see."
"Or someone might spot you before you even try," a familiar voice behind them said. The twins spun around together to see Paul's Dad standing there. "What are you two doing here?" "We're here to help," Lucy announced without hesitation. "You two should go back home." "Uncle Cole, we're eighteen. We're powerful wiÖ" "Women," Patty interrupted, before her sister carelessly said witches.
"You're also teenagers in trouble," another familiar voice said as he emerged from the crowd. They turned around to see their father coming up to them. "Dad, I've know Paul for his entire life. I've lived with him for 10 years. And I can't just sit back at home and hope everything turns out for the best. I have to do something to help," Patty explained. "The last part goes for me too," Lucy announced. Leo sighed. He gave Cole a questionable look.
***
Andrew rolled over in his bed. He opened his eyes a little and looked at the clock. The last time he checked it, it was midnight. Now, it was 10 to 11. He had been asleep for a little over 10 hours. He quickly jumped out of bed, got dressed, and raced downstairs, bumping into his Dad. "Wow. Where's the demon?" "Oh. I just wanted to go over to the Manor and see how Paul's doing." Jason sighed. He put his hand on his son's shoulder. "Andrew, why don't you and I go to the living room and have a seat, shall we?"
Andrew followed his father into the living room and sat down on the couch next to his Dad. He saw the worried look on his father's eyes. "What's wrong?" he asked, concerned. He took a quick look around. "Where's Mom and Jo?" "Your Mom is with Aunt Piper and Aunt Phoebe over at the Manor. Jo is out back with her friend Emily." "Then what's wrong? I can see that something's wrong."
Jason sighed. "WellÖ" he began. He explained what happened with Paul. Prue had called him and told him that the twins had gone off after him too. "And I don't want you or Jo to go after him. Cole can handle it." Andrew sighed, not really planning on promising his Dad anything.
***
Piper took a peek into Phoebe's old room, which was now Paul's room. She spotted her younger sister sitting Indian style near the back of the bed with her back against the wall and a photo album in her lap. "Phoebe?" Her little sister's head jerked up. "What are you doing?" Piper asked, leaning in the doorway. Phoebe immediately closed the photo album and set it aside. "I was just, uh, looking through some photos." Piper sat beside her and picked up the photo album.
It was the photo album that Phoebe and her sisters had filled with photos of Paul since they first took his picture. She gave out a small sigh and a half frown, half smile. "Phoebe, what's wrong with you?" she asked, still staring at the photo album. "You mean besides the fact that the Source has turned my own son against me?" Piper looked up. "I mean why have you lost your confidence? This is the first time I've seen you without confidence during a fiÖ I mean, a timeÖ I meanÖ"
"Save it. I know what you mean. But that's just it. It's the first time that the evil I have to fight is within my own flesh and blood." "Uh, no it isn't. Remember when the Fear Demon turned Prue against us and when I was possessed by thatÖ blue smoke?" "That's different." Phoebe looked up and looked her sister straight in the eyes. "You and Prue are my sisters. Paul's my son." She let out a sigh.
"This is the first time that his father's past has caught up with him." Well, we knew this time would come sooner or later, Piper thought, not wanting to say it out loud. She pulled Phoebe into a small hug. "EverythingÖ" "Will be fine? You and Prue have told me that so many times, but IÖ. Wait a minute. Where is Prue?" she asked, looking around, trying to change the subject. "Downstairs, watching cartoons with Angel. Now don't tip-toe around the subject. Why have you lost your confidence in this?"
Phoebe let out a small sigh as she stared down at the photo album. "I'm justÖ I'm so afraid that my vision will come true. And what he said to me earlier." Piper gave her a questionable look. "He was so pissed off at me. I've never seen him that angry when it wasn't acting." Piper saw that her sister was slowly breaking out into tears. She sat closer to her sister and hugged her. Phoebe started to bawl out. "Hey," a voice said from the doorway. Piper and Phoebe looked up to see Prue leaning against the doorway. "Hey. Is everything all right downstairs?" "Yeah. Except I lost Angel in a Bugs Bunny movie," she said as she walked into the room. She sat down and looked Phoebe straight in the eye. "Phoebe, you've got to pull yourself together. We have to help Paul remember what it's like to be good."
***
Andrew sat at the dinning room in his house, picking at the lasagna his father made for him, his sister, and her friend for lunch. Just then, his Dad came in from the kitchen, putting his coat on. "I've got to head into work for a couple hours." He went over to Andrew. "Don't go after Paul," he whispered into his ear. He then gave his daughter a kiss on the forehead. "Be good." She gave him a small smile and he headed out. Andrew finished his lunch quickly and then decided that he would join the twins and disobey his parentsí wishes. He decided to go off to help Paul, whom was like a brother to him.
"Where are you going?" Jo asked, looking up from a stack of magazines that she and Emily had piled on the dinning room table. Andrew put on his football jacket. "Uh, I'm going to go to the park and throw the football around with some of the guys," he lied. Jo gave a look that said you heard Dad. "I'll be back in a couple hours," he informed. He headed out the door and ran to the bus stop on the corner of the street to hop the bus that would take him to Wheels & Ramps, a skating park that he and his cousin had gone to for the past 5 years.
***
After forty-five minutes of skating, Paul decided to turn his skateboard in for the day. He was about to head towards the exit when he looked and saw Patty heading toward her. He quickly scouted around for an exit, but it was too crowded. And Paul didn't want to draw any attention by shimmering away. "Paul. I need to talk to you," Patty said as she reached her cousin. "Later." He tried to move around her, but she stepped in front of him, blocking his way. "No. Not later. We need to talk now." "I said laÖ" Paul stopped when he touched Patty's shoulder and was thrown into a premonition.
He saw himself sitting on the porch steps of his Grandpa's house, waiting for him as he and the twins laughed at a joke. He then saw himself lying on the ground in pain after a demon attack and saw Patty heal him. He opened his eyes, remembering that the vision he just had happened a month ago. Why would I be shown this? Paul asked himself. "What did you see?" Paul quickly spotted an opening and raced away. "Paul!" his cousin cried, but Paul fled the park.
***
Prue walked downstairs and saw her youngest nephew still gazing at the cartoon displayed on the television set. She smiled. He didn't have to worry about vanquishing evil just yet. Just then, a crash boomed from the attic. "Prue! Piper!" Prue raced upstairs, where she joined her sisters. There, in the middle of the attic, was a young man with short dark brown hair. "That's one of the demons that helped turn Paul evil," Phoebe announced to her sisters. The demon smiled. "Name's Dylan. And I'm glad that Paul is evil. In a few hours, he'll be evil forever, and there's not a damn thing you can do to stop it."
"Obviously you don't know us very well," Prue said with a smart-alec attitude she almost always used. Dylan scoffed. "Please!" He threw his hand towards them, throwing an energy ball towards the sisters. Piper threw up her hands and instantly froze the energy ball and Dylan. "What do you say we send it back to him and vanquish him?" "I'm with you there. This guy has gotten on my last nerve," Phoebe said. "Same with me," Piper agreed. Prue smiled and swatted her hand at the energy ball, telekinetically sending it flying into Dylan. He unfroze and let out a scream before he exploded into nothingness. "Any demon that comes across me right now will be vanquished," Phoebe said angrily.
***
Patty, Lucy, and Cole raced into an alley, following Paul. Leo had decided to orb back to his wife and talk to her about their stubborn daughters. As they arrived in the narrow alley, they saw Paul shimmer away. Lucy immediately hugged her sister and they orbed out. Cole immediately followed. The three disappeared into the woods. They saw Paul and decided to follow.
***
Paul walked out of the woods to find himself near the camp sight he and his family used to camp at when he was younger. He loved playing near the basketball court there. There was always a stray basketball there. As he walked towards the court, he nearly missed being bombarded by a football. "Heads up!" someone yelled. Paul moved aside just in time to see a football land on a patch of leafy ground. "Hey Paul!" Paul looked up and saw Frank Peterson, one of the football players at Baker High School, run up to him.
He bent down and picked up the football. "Sorry. Didn't see you." "Frank! Toss it over!" another football player yelled. Paul saw that it was David Lyton, the guy that always teased Paul for little things since the two were in fourth grade. David didn't see Paul. Frank smiled. "Catch ya later!" He headed back towards his friends. Paul watched on evilly.
***
Andrew raced out of Wheels & Ramps. He had checked around and hadn't seen any of his cousins. His friend whom worked there, Tim, had told him that Paul left ten minutes ago and so had the twins. Andrew wondered over to a bench near another store. He had to sit down to think. "Where else would he go?" he muttered to himself. He knew his powers wouldn't help him to locate his cousin. Maybe with dumb luck, Paul will appear near here, he thought.
He glanced around and did a double take when he saw Paul walk out of an alley and towards a dangerous part of town. Andrew waited for a moment, expecting to see the twins or Cole come out of the alley. But two minutes had passed and nobody emerged from the alley. Andrew got up and decided to follow Paul at a short distance.
Once, he saw Paul about to turn around and quickly ducked into nearby store ? a bookstore. He looked out about ten seconds later and saw Paul leave. Andrew quickly and quietly followed him.
***
"You let them go?" Piper asked as she sat next to her husband on the couch. Her son was sitting in front of the huge wide screen television, watching an action cartoon. "Well technically, they're right. They're almost adults. You and I both know how many demons and warlocks they've vanquished in the past four years together. They're becoming fine young ladies." Piper gave him a slight smile that quickly disappeared. "I justÖ I don't want to lose them," she admitted, putting her head on Leo's shoulder.
He gave her a hug. "We're not gonna lose them," he assured her. Suddenly, Angel raced over to his parents. He loved hugs, almost as much as cartoons. Piper and Leo looked at him with smiles on their faces. "You want a hug too, don't ya?" Piper asked her son. He nodded happily. His parents smiled and made a three-way hug with him.
***
Prue and Phoebe stood by their Book of Shadows, looking for information on the demon they had killed 20 minutes ago. Just as they got half-way through the book, Jo astral projected into the attic. "Jo, honey. What are you doing here?" "Andrew went to help Paul," Jo blurted out. "What?" Phoebe asked. "Dad told him not to before he left for the magazine. Andrew lied to me and told me he was going to the park to throw the ball around with his friends."
"How do you know he was lying?" Prue asked her daughter. "Mom, this is Andrew we're talking about. Would he rather throw around a football with his friends or help a cousin in trouble?" "He'd help a cousin in trouble," Prue said, looking at Phoebe. "Look, I know what you're thinking, but my son would never hurt any of yours or Piper's kids," Phoebe protested, slightly turning away. "The Mylera may change that." Phoebe sighed and walked over to where a couple framed photographs rested on a slightly crocked table. She was angry that her sisters would think that her own son would kill someone related to him.
She picked up a copy of Paul's sophomore yearbook photo. She showed it to her eldest sister. "Does this look likeÖ" Phoebe was stopped by a premonition. She saw a young man around the same age as her son walk into a woodsy area to retrieve something when Paul came up from behind him and hit him in the back of the head with the end of a gun he held in his hand. Paul then turned him around and aimed the gun at the guy's heart.
As Phoebe came out of the premonition, she dropped the photo onto the ground. "Phoebe, what did you see?" Prue asked, walking over to her sister. So did her daughter. Phoebe told the two about the vision. "Why would Paul kill a member of Andrew's football team?" "Wait a minute," Jo said. She headed out of the attic and to the study/guest room (Piper's old room before she married Leo) and picked up last year's yearbook and slammed it on the desk as her Aunt Phoebe and Mom joined her.
She flipped it open to the freshman section. She knew exactly who she was looking for and pointed to it. "Is this him?" Phoebe looked closely at the photo, examining it. "Yeah," she said, looking at her niece for a moment, then stood back up. "It's David Lyton. He's been picking on Paul since fourth grade for the littlest things. Now this year, he's picking on Paul for not making the football team when Andrew did." "So now Paul's gonna want to end the teasing," Prue realized.
She glared at her sister. "Did you recognize the woods?" "Uh, yeah. It's Stryant Forest, where we went camping." "Well, I have to go." "Don't make a mess and no magic around Emily unless necessary," Prue said. Jo nodded and astral projected out.
***
Patty and Lucy looked around the unfamiliar street. They looked around. It looked like a summer place. Most people wore shirts, shorts, and sandals. "Did Paul shimmer to a tropical island?" Lucy asked. Patty's eyes widened when she saw a sign that read WELCOME TO THE BAHAMAS. "I'll say." She painted at the sign. Cole and Lucy gazed over and grew the same expressions. Just then, the cell phone Cole had been carrying rang. "Hello?" he answered.
"The operator told me that it's 4:22 where you are and it's only almost 1:30 here," Phoebe said form the other line. "Paul shimmered here to the Bahamas, but we've been looking around for the past ten minutes and we haven't seen him." Lucy then realized something. "He tricked us," she told them. "What?" Patty asked. "He knew we were following him, so he shimmered here and used his new power he got 2 weeks ago on us. He made us see him run out of that alley."
Cole quickly told Phoebe this. She told him about the premonition she had. "We'll be there," Cole said. He hung up. "Phoebe had a vision of Paul about to kill someone named David Lyton. Do you know who he is?" "The bully this been picking on Paul since the year before Lucy and I met." "Did Aunt Phoebe tell you where the vision took place?" "Yeah. Stryant Forest." "That's where we went camping when we were little," Patty said. "All right. Why don't we go there and wait until he comes there so we don't risk Paul tricking us again," Cole said.
"Sounds good, but I'll go back home to get some lunch for us." "And what about me? I don't have the power to transport like you two." "I'll shimmer you to the forest," Cole said. Patty nodded and they headed back towards the alley.
***
Andrew grew a worried, slightly scared expression as he watched Paul go into a gun store. He watched in disbelief as Paul picked out a small shotgun and walked over to the cashier. He's probably making him see him older and paying him enough money, Andrew thought. He quickly ducked into the nearest store, a small flower shop, when he saw Paul leave the store across the street. When he saw Paul go into an alley, he quickly raced out without being too obvious. When he reached the alley, he saw Paul shimmer away.
***
Paul shimmered into the kitchen of his home. It was deserted. He need something to eat. He opened the cupboard and saw a bag of his favorite chips. He suddenly heard footsteps coming towards him and turn around just in time to see his Aunt Piper and Uncle Leo enter the kitchen cautiously. "Paul. Please stop for a moment and listen to us," Piper ordered calmly. Paul sighed angrily.
"Can't a guy get something to eat without lecture?" "In this case, no. We're your family and we want to help you. But we can't help you unless you allow us to," Leo told his nephew. "I don't need any help. For the first time in my life, I'm free. Now you guys and the rest of the family better stay out of my way." He grabbed the bag of chips out of the cupboard and shimmered away.
***
Lucy had just finished making some sandwiches and put them in a bag along with some sport bottles of juice when all of a sudden, she heard a familiar voice call her name, but the voice seemed far away. "Lucy." She hesitated for a moment, then recognized the voice of her cousin Andrew. She sighed as she orbed out. She then orbed into an alley crowded with dumpsters and boxes. She saw her cousin in front of her with his back towards her.
"Andrew. What are you doing here?" Her cousin turned around. "What do you think?" Lucy sighed. "Can't be left out, can ya?" "Nope. I figure I'd check at Wheels & Ramps, but my friend Tim told me you guys left ten minutes before I came and then I saw Paul." "What did he do?" "He used his mind manipulation power on some guy and bought a gun."
Lucyís eyes widened in fear. "That's why he had that gun in that vision," she murmured. "What vision?" Lucy looked back up at her cousin. "Aunt Phoebe had a vision of Paul about to shoot David Lyton in Stryant forest at night." Andrew's eyes widened in slight fear too. He wasn't exactly buds with David, but he wasn't mortal rivals with him either.
"Paul would never kill someone." "Mylera has never been in him before," she replied. She then thought for a moment. "How ëbout coming with me to Stryant forest? Paul's supposed to be there in a couple hours." "Sure," Andrew said without hesitation. He then hugged his cousin and she orbed them out.
***
Piper walked upstairs to tell her sisters what just happened and as she landed on the second floor, she bumped right into Prue, sending them both crashing to the ground. Prue got up quickly and helped her sister up. "Sorry. I didn'tÖ" "Don't worry about that. Same with me," Prue said. "Well, something happened downstairs." "Something happened while Phoebe and I were in the attic too. Jo astraled in and told us that Andrew has also joined the ëHelp Paulí team and Phoebe had a vision of Paul about to kill some bully that's been bugging him for the past 6 years named David Lyton."
"Speaking of Paul, he shimmered into the kitchen and warned Leo and I to tell the rest of the family to stay out of his way," Piper informed. "Where is he now?" "Shimmered out again. He could be anywhere," Piper scouted around the hallway, noticing that Phoebe was not with Prue. "Hey, where's our little sister?" "Taking a nap in her room. I finally convinced her to take a rest and we'd let her know if something comes up."
Piper took a deep sigh. She then got an idea and showed it in her face. "What? What is it?" Prue asked. "I was just thinking, you know how Paul is mad at Phoebe for not telling him about being part demon, right?" "Right?" her eldest sister asked, not quite getting at what her sister was poking at. "Well, what if we stop Paul from shimmering away for a few minutes and he tells Phoebe how he's feeling and she tells him truthfully the answers and what she's feeling. Remember what Cole said? Paul has to remember how it feels to love someone and remember the good he's done," Piper reminded her.
"Well how do we do that?" Prue asked. Piper thought deep for a moment. "I think I know a way," she told her sister.
***
Phoebe cautiously looked around Stryant forest, but the mist had thickened and she could only see four yards in front of her. "Paul?" she asked into the air. "Mom?" a young voice echoed back. Phoebe glared up. Out of the mist, a young boy walked out. Phoebe gasped as she recognized the young boy who had dark brown hair. It was her son at twelve-years-old. "Paul?"
"What's wrong Mom?" he asked as he approached Phoebe. "Are you okay?" "No," he said, keeping a blank face. "What? Are you hurt?" "It's not like that. You lied to me," he told her, his voice changing into his deep, sixteen-year-old voice. In front of Phoebe's own eyes, Paul shape shifted into his sixteen-year-old self. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"I already explainedÖ" "It wasn't just for my own good." "Sweetie, if I had the chance to go back in time, I'd go back six years ago to the first time you asked me and tell you the truth." "You can't cast a spell for personal gain. It's too late for that," Paul told her. He shoved her onto the ground and pulled out a small shotgun. "No Paul. Please, put the gun down."
Paul just gave her an evil grin. Suddenly, David came and bent down to pick up a football. Paul pointed the shotgun at David and watched him stand up. His eyes widened when he saw Paul with the gun. The trigger was pulled and David fell to the ground, dead. "NOOOOOO!!" she hollered at the top of her lungs.
***
In the living room of the Manor, Leo tossed Angel the blue ball and saw his son smile as he caught it. Prue and Piper smiled as they watched the little boy happily throw the ball back to his Dad. "NOOOOOO!!" Leo, Prue, and Piper glared up towards Phoebe's scream. The three of them raced upstairs and into Phoebe's room to find her tossing and turning in bed. Her sisters went over to her and stared shaking her, trying to wake her up. "Phoebe, wake up," they told her.
Two minutes later, the youngest sister awoke and sat up with a jolt. "Wow. Easy," Piper told her. "Are you okay?" Phoebe breathed a sigh of relief. "It was just a dream," she announced with a sigh. "Why don't you tell us about it?" Leo suggested as he pulled up a chair from Phoebe's dresser and sat in it. Phoebe told the three about her dream.
"Well, you don't have to worry anymore because Piper and I have come up with a plan to get Paul back on the good side, but we need your help," Prue told her youngest sister. "How?" Piper explained her plan to Leo and Phoebe. "I never thought of that." "That might actually work," Leo said. They then heard little footsteps come to the door. Leo cautiously walked to the door and looked out.
He glared down to see his son walking towards him, trying to carry his favorite blue ball. "Can we still play Daddy?" Leo let out a light laugh. He then peeked his head back in. "I'm going to take Angel back home to play." "I'll let you know if anything happens," Piper told him. He smiled and led his son to the front door.
***
"Please tell me your sister isn't planning on joining this little party?" Cole asked Andrew. The two of them were with the twins in Stryant forest. "No. She has a friend over." Cole let out a sigh of relief. In this case, ëthe more the merrierí wasn't such a good idea. He knew that Paul's family loved him, but right now, there was no telling what his son would do.
Patty wiped her hands on a napkin that Lucy had brought with her and stood up off the ground. "Well, are we gonna wait around here for four hours?" "You're right. Maybe 3 of us should look around in case he's already here and the other one stay here in case he arrives early," Lucy suggested as she stood up too. "That's a good idea," Andrew commented.
"Yeah. I'll stay. Something about before tells me that I kinda got through to him. I think he got a premonition when he touched me," Patty said. "All right. How about you two check near the camping area and I'll check over here," Cole said, pointing towards the opposite direction of the camping area. "All right." Cole, Lucy, and Andrew went their separate ways.
***
None of them knew that at that moment, Paul sat at a picnic table at the park where he had met Dylan the previous night. He had just finished his lunch and was looking over a picture of the football team. He glared over the picture of brown haired David Lyton. "No more teasing or bullying. It ends tonight," he vowed quietly. His fingers than wondered over to where his cousin Andrew was in the picture. As soon as his fingers touched the photographed face of Andrew, he fell into his second premonition that day. He saw himself and Andrew helping a girl off the ground before vanquishing a demon with a spell.
Paul opened his eyes, wondering what was with the wacky premonitions he'd been getting. He decided to do what he did with the other one and brushed it out of his mind for now.
***
Andrew and Lucy arrived at the field near the campsite to find most of the football players there, tossing the football around. One of them, Brian Smith, immediately noticed his friend. "Hey Ands!" he called. Andrew's nickname among the football team was Ands. "You come to throw the ball around?" another asked. "No. Can't. I'm busy." "Family business again?" Brian asked.
Andrew gave a slight nod. "Come on. He isn't here in the field, so let's go," Lucy told her cousin quietly. He nodded at her. When they turned to leave, David rushed up to Lucy. "Hey honey, have you reconsidered my dating offer?" Lucy rolled her eyes. She and her sister couldn't stand David Lyton.
"A couple things. 1) My name is ëLucyí, not honey. 2) I don't date rude guys. 3) I especially don't date guys who bully my cousin around. 4) The answer will always be no. Now if you'll excuse us." Lucy and Andrew left to search some more.
***
Patty glared around, wondering where Paul was. She felt very tense and a little scared. She gazed up to the sky and heard a flock of birds crying as they flew south for the winter. Patty reminded herself that Thanksgiving was next week. She smiled.
Suddenly, a twig snapped behind her. Patty whirled around and saw Dylan's mother standing there, a few yards in front of her, wearing a black cloth with the hood off. Her short, light brown hair had been thrown over her shoulders. "Where's my son?" she asked, bitterly and angrily. "I don't know," Patty honestly replied. "You're lying witch!"
"I'm not. The last time I saw him was yesterday," she replied, finding herself alone with a demon for the first time in years. "You'll regret your lying." With that, she flicked her hand toward Patty, sending an energy ball coming straight for her.
Patty immediately threw her hands at the ball, freezing it just before it hit her. She jumped back, trying to give herself some space. "Okay Patty, you can do this," she coached herself. She studied the frozen demon in human form. She then thought of a spell.
"Demon mother in my sight
I vanquish you with all my might
The daughter of a Charmed One I be
And so I say farewell to thee."
Who ever knew English class could pay off, she thought sarcastically. Dylan's mother unfroze and began screaming as a blaze of fire engulfed her. She then vanished as did the energy ball. Patty smiled at her work.
***
Phoebe walked slowly into Paul's room (Phoebe's old room). Her sisters were downstairs, fixing lunch. A double bed with white sheets, ocean blue pillows, and a light & dark blue plaid blanket lay neatly in the same spot where Phoebe's bed had been when this had been her room six years ago. A desk with a computer and stereo on it sat near the window against the wall. A dresser with a small TV on top sat directly in front of the bed. To the right side of the bed was a sliding window closet door. The rest of the walls had a few posters of Paul's favorite band and some of his favorite movies like Star Wars.
Phoebe's gaze drifted over to the night stand, where a framed photo of herself and her son sat. Phoebe felt cold tears fall from her eyes as she walked over to the night stand. She carefully picked up the framed photo and traced it with her fingers.
It had been 3 days since she had seen him smile like that. A knock came on the opened door behind her. Phoebe didn't jump, nor did she acknowledge it. "Phoebe?" her eldest sister asked. When she didn't answer, Prue walked up behind her. She saw the picture. She then instantly knew how her sister felt. "I've never felt so defeated Prue. What if this doesn't work?" Phoebe quizzed. "It will work. Paul will not work for the Source." "But what if it doesn't?"
"Then we'll figure something out. The Source can send demons and warlocks to try and kill us, and he can kill our mother, but he's really overstepped the boundaries this time if he thinks he can turn Paul against us forever and expect us to sit back and take it. In the meantime, why don't you come downstairs and have lunch with Piper and I? You can't help Paul on an empty stomach."
Phoebe let out a small laugh and set the framed photo down. Prue led her out of the room.
***
Lucy and Andrew raced back to where Patty was. "Anything?" Lucy asked her sister. She shook her head sadly. "You?" "No. But we did find David. He's over at the field playing football with the rest of the guys." "And that demon I froze last night's mother came, demanding to know where her son is, but I vanquished her." "You vanquished Elyia?" a voice asked behind them.
They turned around to see their Uncle Cole approach them. "Yeah. I cast a spell and vanquished her." Cole sighed. "Well, did any of you find Paul." "Nope." "He hasn't come here," Patty said. "He'll be here. According to Aunt Phoebe's premonition, he'll be here," Lucy commented. None of them spoke for a moment. "Um, I forgot to tell you guys something," Andrew spoke up.
***
None of them knew that at that moment, Paul was in a desert at a shooting range. Two cans rested silently on a wooden fence. Paul carefully aimed the gun and then pulled the trigger. The can on the left flew right off the fence. Paul smiled and aimed for the other can. It flew right off the fence and next to the other can after he pulled the trigger. "Perfect aim," he told himself.
***
Phoebe took a small bite of her grilled cheese sandwich. "Phoebe?" Piper asked. The youngest sister didn't even bother looking up. "Phoebe?" Prue joined in. Phoebe finally looked up at her two sisters. "You've got to be confident Pheebs. We are going to win." Phoebe gave them a small smile, but then let if fade.
"I know. It's justÖ if only you saw what I saw in those premonitions," she said as she took another bite of the grilled cheese sandwich, finishing it. The elder Halliwells had already finished theirs. "I'll do dishes," Piper said. She took her plate along with her sistersí plates.
She walked over to the sink and began washing the dishes. In the middle of it, Prue came over to her. "This is really hard on our little sister." "Well yeah. The Source has tried to kill us and the kids, but he's never turned one of the kids against us.  Paul working for evil is worse then him being killed by evil," Piper explained. "I will not allow that to happen. Nobody related to us Halliwells will work for evil," Prue said, very confident. Piper smiled as she thought of a joke.
"ColeÖ" "Worked for evil. The key word is worked, but he gave up his life to save our sister from being killed." Piper smiled as she finished washing the last dish and put it in the dishwasher.
***
"Want to go downstairs and check out the music video channel?" Emily asked. She and Jo were sitting in Joís room. They had just gone through every magazine that Jo owned, a lot of them being 415 Magazine, since her Mom worked there. "Sure. You go ahead. I'll go in the kitchen and grab some sodas." "Okay," Emily said without hesitation.
The two girls walked downstairs and Emily went into the living room. Jo stopped at the foot of the stairs and her smile faded. She looked up towards the ceiling. "God, please help my family to get Paul back to good. Please? I don't want to have to fight against my cousin," she prayed, very quietly cause she didn't want Emily to hear.
***
"You saw Paul go into a shop and use his power to make a guy think he was of age to buy a gun and he actually got one?" Patty asked. She couldn't believe it. "Yeah. That's what I saw. My eyes weren't playing tricks. I swear." "That's why he had a gun in Aunt Phoebe's premonition," Lucy realized. "Well, gun or no gun, we have to turn Paul back as soon as possible. If we don't turn him back before his first kill, he'll be lost in evil forever," Cole said.
"So if Paul kills David, he'll be evil," Lucy said. She didn't like David at all. He was always trying to hit on her or Patty. And he couldn't tell the two apart. "So we have to save both Paul and David. Let's just hope we don't risk exposing ourselves," Andrew said. "I second that." "Third," Patty admitted.
***
Paul had been practicing his perfect aim for an hour. He smiled as a bottle shattered onto the desert floor below. While practicing, he decided to wait until it was dark enough for him to go out and kill David.
An hour and a half later
The Halliwell sisters had decided to try and pass time by playing the Game of Life. Phoebe looked at the clock and saw that it was 4:30 in the afternoon, and the sun set right about 5. "I'm not waiting anymore. It's time for us to go," Phoebe said. "PhoebeÖ" "Please don't even say it Prue. The sun sets in half-an-hour, and it takes 25 minutes to drive up to Stryant forest."
The two elder Halliwell sisters looked at each other for a moment. They then looked at their sister. "All right, Phoebe. Let's go get Paul back. We'll take my car," Piper said as she and Prue hurriedly cleaned up the game. "The Source won't win this time," Prue said confidently. They went to get their coats and put them on. "The Source can take my mother away from me, but I'll fight like hell before he takes my son away from me to work for him," Phoebe told her sisters.
"Now that's the Phoebe I know. The one who's confident," Piper joked. Without saying another word, the three sisters headed out the door.
***
"Daddy?" a young child's voice asked. Leo looked up from the book he was reading to see his son walk into the room, holding his teddy bear that the twins had given him for his last birthday. "Well, look who's up. Did you have a good nap?"
Angel nodded and walked over to Leo, whom picked up the little boy and put him in his lap. "Where's Mommy?" "Sheís out helping your Aunties with something. So how about you watch some cartoons on TV for a while? Then the two of us can make dinner for Mommy and your sisters when they come home, okay?" "K," Angel smiled. He climbed out of his Dad's lap and went over to the TV.
***
Inside the Hart's residence, the phone rang. Jo and Emily ran downstairs to the living room and Jo picked up the cordless phone. "Hello?" "Hi. This is Emily's Mom. Can I talk to her please?" Jo handed Emily the phone. "It's your Mom."
Emily took the phone. "Hi Mom." "Hi. What's going on?" "Well, Jo and I are just hanging around the house." "Okay. Have you been careful not toÖ you know?" "Yes Mom. I'm fourteen, remember?" "I suppose you're right. Well, I'll pick you up at ten tomorrow morning. Then we'll go to church." "Okay. Bye." "Bye." Emily hung up.
"My Mom's so protective of me." "I can relate to that," Jo said. The two then headed back upstairs to Joís room. Mom's so worried about me using my powers in front of Jo. May I remind her that I have had control of them for ten years, Emily thought.
***
Lucy tensed up when she heard a few pair of footsteps running towards her, Patty, Andrew, and Cole, whom had been talking for the past two hours. The sun had just set only five minutes ago, but it seemed like it had been dark for hours.
Lucy relaxed when she saw her Mom and Aunts run to them. Aunt Phoebe had called Cole an hour ago and told them their plan for getting Paul back to the good side. Cole gave her their approval, saying that the plan might work.
"So when David comes, I can freeze him and then Paul will follow and we can get him back on our side, right?" Patty asked. "I think so," Piper told her daughter. Phoebe scouted her eyes around and they widened when she realized something.
"Phoebe, what's wrong?" Cole asked. "Uh, guys, we have a problem in the plan." "What problem?" everyone asked in union. "This isn't the spot where my premonition took place," Phoebe reported. "Are you sure?" Prue asked.
"Positive. It was an area like this, but there was a rosebush kinda in that corner and a large rock that you could lay on in the middle." "The relax rock?" Patty asked, looking at her sister. The sistersí kidsí had called the rock that because whenever they were having a bad time camping with their family, they could go there to relax. "That's over on the other side of the forest," Patty reported.
Everyone exchanged a worried face. "Okay, um, why don't we run ahead first? Paul's not mad at us, so we should be able to calm him down before you guys come. Give us a five minute head start," Andrew pleaded. The adults looked at each other. Prue nodded. "All right." With that, Prue watched her son and two nieces run off.
***
Paul had been spying on David and the other football players for the tree house that the people who ran the camping area built for the kids who came to the camp. He saw one of the football players throw the football. David jumped up to try and get it, but it flew further from him and way into the nearest patch of forest. David then jogged into the forest.
Paul smiled as he shimmered out of the tree house. He shimmered next to the rosebush by the relax rock. The football had landed on the side of it. David entered the patch of forest without knowing that Paul was there. He bent down to pick up the old football.
"Can't get away from me," he muttered to himself as he stood up. "I second that," Paul told him. Before David could turn around, Paul shimmered behind him and held him by his sweater collar. He took out the gun and pointed it at David's head.
"Paul Halliwell?" David asked, becoming very frightened. "Who'd you think it was?" "W-w-what do you want?" "For it to stop," Paul reported. Before David could ask another question, Patty, Lucy, and Andrew arrived a few feet behind him.
"Paul!" Lucy bellowed, loud enough for both Paul and David to hear. Paul just stood there for a moment, frozen like a statue. Lucy and Andrew gave Patty a questionable look. Patty shook her head. Andrew cautiously approached Paul.
Suddenly, an eardrum shattering explosion throughout the entire forest. Andrew sauntered back with a gasp, feeling something warm and wet gushing across the right side of his chest. He looked down and saw blood pouring from his chest. He then felt himself begin to loose consciousness. His legs gave out from under him and he fell onto grass under him as he fell into unconsciousness.
Lucy looked up to see David on the ground and Paul standing there with the gun pointed at where Andrew had fallen. She then realized he made them think they saw him standing there when he had really knocked David out and shot Andrew.
"NOOOO!!!" Patty bellowed. She began to race to Andrew. "Patty, no!" Lucy tried to stop her twin, but Patty raced away too quickly. Paul quickly raised the gun and shot Patty in the same exact spot where he had shot Andrew. Lucy let out a shocked gasp as her twin sister fell next to Andrew. Paul looked over at her. "Do you want to join them? I told Aunt Piper to let the family know to stay out of my way," Paul said, as he rose the gun toward the last cousin in front of him.
***
All three sisters gasped as they heard a second gun shot erupt throughout the woods. Their fear grew when they realized the sound was coming from where their children were. "Oh my God," Phoebe gasped. She and her sisters immediately turned to a race and ran to the wide-open area. All four adults were gasped at the nightmarish scene.
Patty and Andrew lay on the ground, almost near death. Lucy had been knocked out. "Leo!" Piper cried, almost forgetting about Paul. She put up her hands and froze Paul's body, leaving only her nephew's head unfrozen as she went over to her Patty, putting her head on her lap as Prue did the same with her son. Leo suddenly orbed in. Cole went over to check Lucy for a pulse.
"Leo! It's Patty and Andrew!" she cried. Leo face grew very scared, like he had just seen his worst nightmare. He quickly raced over between his daughter and nephew. He held either hand over their heart, silently pleading to have his power work. Oh please God. Don't take away my daughter, he begged. A golden glow shaded under each of his hand. He breathed a sigh of relief as color started to come back into the faces of his oldest daughter and nephew.
As her husband healed one of her daughters, Piper looked worriedly over her shoulder at her other daughter. "Sheís all right. Sheís just knocked out," he assured her. Phoebe was staring at Paul, looking like she just betrayed her. "Paul, look what you almost did. You nearly killed your cousins! This isn't you." "Maybe it's the new me. Maybe it's the me hiding behindÖ" "No. It's not you."
Prue looked angrily at her nephew for the first time in a long time and mumbled a spell to restrain him, knowing that the freeze would wear off shortly.
"I call on the spirits
Hear my plea
Allow Paul not to shimmer away
Oh let it be."
Cole lay Lucyís head down gently and raced over to his wife. "Listen, both of us are so sorry that we never told you," Cole said. "We were scared that something like this would happen. We were scared that if the evil forces found out that you were part demon that they would do something like this to you and you'd be working for the Source. And that would devastate me. I love you so much."
"We all do, but we didn't tell you because we didn't want something like this happening to you. All your cousins love you too. Jo, Patty, Lucy, Andrew, and even little Angel. Remember what it feels like to be loved," Cole begged. Paul looked down at the ground. Something changed inside of him. Patty suddenly gasped for breath. So did Andrew.
All of a sudden, a red ball of light shot out of Paul (like the sin balls in that episode) and exploded into nothingness. Paul fell to his knees. "Honey, are you okay?" Phoebe asked as she and Cole kneeled down beside their son. When he looked back up, there were tears starting to stream down his cheeks. "I'm so sorry Mom. I'm so sorry."
"It's all right. It's all right. It wasn't you," his mother assured him.
***
Later that night, everyone was in the Halliwell Manor in the conservatory. Phoebe and Cole sat with Paul on the wickered couch. Piper and Prue sat in the other chairs. Patty, Lucy, and Andrew had pulled over the chairs from the small table.
Prue had called her husband and told him what had happen. Her husband, Jason, was now at home, watching Emily and Jo. Leo had gone back home to watch Angel. Paul looked over at Patty, Lucy, and Andrew. "You guys know how sorry I am for what I did, right?" The twins let out a sigh of relief.
"Paul, for the hundredth time, that wasn't you. We both forgive you," Patty said. Everyone looked over at Andrew. "Of course I forgive you. But if you ever do that again without magic in the mists, then don't even ask if I forgive you." Paul let out a short laugh. "I'd never do anything like that."
The adults laughed too. After they laughed, Prue remembered something. "Oh, we have to send Cole back," she told her sisters. Phoebe looked a little depressed. "Honey, you have to. I was only sent here to help bring Paul back to the good side. I wasn't meant to say. We all know that I died and I have to go back." "But DadÖ" Cole stopped and turned to his son.
"Sorry son. I have to go back. I don't have a choice. I was called to stop you from being completely evil and I did that. Now it's time for me to go back. But don't mourn me, but remember me and never turn to evil by choice. I'm so proud of the things you have done. Even though I was only alive for the first three months of your life, I've been watching over you your whole life from heaven and will continue to."
Paul took this all in for a moment, then nodded. He gave his Dad a hug, who returned the hug. "Thank you for your help Dad." "You're welcome." He turned over to Phoebe. She nodded. He stood up. Phoebe took a semi cleansing sigh.
"My husband is here
And has done his task
But he is supposed to be a spirit in heaven
Transfer him back there
Let it come to pass."
White orb lights engulfed Cole and when they finished circling around, Cole was gone. Paul and Phoebe stared at the space where he was.
***
The next morning, Prue walked out of the kitchen with a mug of coffee and walked into the living room. It was almost 10:30 in the morning and Andrew had gone next door to throw the ball around with Paul. Everything was back to normal. She saw her daughter and Emily sitting on the couch, watching some early morning cartoons. "So, did you girls have fun yesterday?" "Yeah Mom. We had a blast." "I'm glad. I'm sorry I couldn't be here. I had someÖ family business to attend to with Joís Aunts," Prue told Emily.
"I understand. I just hope that Jo can come spend the night at my house next time." "I'm sure that won't be a problem," Prue told the girls as she took a sip of her coffee. Just then, someone knocked on the door. "That's probably my Mom. We've gotta do our usual Sunday errands," Emily said. She and Jo followed Prue over to front door.
Prue had never met Emily before or her Mom. Emily had only been friends with Jo for a month, ever since Emily had moved back to San Francisco from Orlando, where she had lived with her Mom her entire life.
When she opened the door, a woman who looked to be about five years younger than herself with mid-length, straight, raven hair. There was a certain familiarity about her. "Um, hello. I'm Mrs. Matthews, Emily's Mom." "Hi. I'm Mrs. Hart, Joís Mom." The two shook hands. "Uh, I know this is going to sound weird, but um, have we met before? You look a little familiar." "Um, I don't think so."
The two just stared at each other for a moment. The two girls walked up to them. "Anyway, thank you for having Emily." "It was our pleasure. We wouldn't mind having her over again." "Bye Jo. I had a great time. Bye, Mrs. Hart." "Bye Emily. We'll see you later," Prue told her. Mrs. Matthews smiled as she helped her daughter down the stairs with her duffel bag. She looked over her shoulder at Mrs. Hart, who shut the door. Mrs. Matthews then looked back at her daughter as she pushed the button on her electronic door opener. The driver and passenger's doors popped open.
The two got in. "You didn't use your powers did you?" "No Mom. I didn't summon anything." "Did anything wiccan happen?" "No," Emily told her mother. She then paused. "Although once when I came back from the bathroom, I could've swore I saw Jo in a trance like state." "Well, let's just hope they're normal people and not a family of warlocks," her Mom said as she started the car and drove away from Presscott Street.
Paige, you're being paranoid. Nothing's the matter with Mrs. Hart's family, she told herself as she turned on the radio and headed home.
***
Prue watched out the window as she watched Mrs. Matthews light green beetle turn the street corner and leave. Why did she look so familiar? That thought drifted away as she saw Patty and Lucy drive down the street towards the mall in their small sky blue jeep that was given to them last year as their birthday present. She smiled. Her husband then came up behind her and gave her a hug. He kissed her on the cheek and saw the twins drive away.
"Yep. Just an average weekend in the Halliwell family," she commented. "Fighting evil while going about our everyday lives. You bet," Jason said. Prue laughed a little and then looked at her husband. The two of them fell into a passionate kiss.
THE END
Bloopers:
Scene: Wyattís residence. Piper is sitting by the coffee table in the living room. Sheís trying to rub out the crayon stain on the coffee table. A phone rings. Leo goes to get it, but when he gets there, the cordless phone is missing. He looks around at the crew.]
Leo: The phone's gone. (Piper scrubs on the stain harder as she smiles, trying not to laugh.)
Director: Cut.
ß [Scene: School. Patty sits next to Paul.]
Paul: There's nothing wrong.
Patty: You're only quiet and zoned out when something's right. (She gasps as she realizes her mistake.) I'm sorry. I meant wrong. (Paul smiles as Patty looks over at the director.) I apologize for messing up the line. I have too many lines.
Director: I understand. You're playing two characters. That's why this is a practice run. Cut.
ß [Scene: Halliwell Manor. Phoebe is sitting by the table. Paul is standing up.]
Phoebe: Look, I know you're mad, but your father and I did this because we didn't want you to be evil.
Paul: What makes you guys think I would turn over to the side of evil?
Phoebe: Because you remind me a lot of your father. After his mother, who was a demon, killed his father, who was human, your Dad was raised to be evil. (She takes a deep sigh and then looks at the director.) What's the rest of my line?
Director: Cut.
ß [Scene: Attic. Phoebe backs away from the couch where Paul is sitting, looking evil. Paul stands up and accidentally trips over the chair sitting by the couch. Phoebe and a crew guy go over to him.]
Phoebe: Are you okay?
Paul: Yeah. I just tripped over my own feet. (He stands up.)
Director: Okay. Cut.
ß [Scene: Manor. Second floor. Phoebe and Paul are there, arguing.]
Phoebe: IÖ
Paul: Know how I feel? No you don't. you knew that Grandpa was human!
Phoebe: But I didn't know about your Grandmother and great-grandmother being witches and neither did your Aunts. And they hid that from us to protect us.
Paul: Yeah, but remember when I asked if Dad was something supernatural and you said no. You lied to me! (They wait for a moment. Nothing happens.)
Director: Okay, stop a minute. Where's Cole? (Cole walks onto the set.)
Cole: I'm sorry.
Director: Cut.
ß [Scene: Alley. Lucy and Andrew are there talking.]
Andrew: Paul would never kill someone.
Lucy: Mylera has never been in him before. (The two of them just stare at each other for a moment. Lucy then looks off to the side.) I'm sorry. I forgot my line again.
Director: Cut.
ß [Scene: Woods. Lucy and Andrew are around the camp site, talking to David.]
David: Hey honey, have you reconsidered my dating offer?
Lucy: A couple things. 1) My name is ëLucyí, not honey. 2) I don't date rude guys. 3) IÖ forgot my line.
Director: That's okay. Cut.