Charmed Forever (Completed)

[Esmeralda]

Author’s Note: First of all, for all of you who absolutely adored “Forever Charmed”, the Charmed finale, and thought it was one of the best shows, if not the best show of the series and would be upset to see it written differently, you may not want to read this. But for those of you who like me wondered:

1) How both Piper and Billie survived that explosion at the end of Kill Billie Vol 2 without a broken bone

2) Why the Hollow didn’t go out of Piper and Billie until a being of good and a being of evil said the spell on the Hollow’s box

3) How Piper and Dumain, both non-cupids, were able to use a cupid’s ring, which is used to amplify and direct a cupid's power

3) Why we only saw Piper and Leo as old and not Phoebe, Coop, Paige or Henry

4) Why Old Piper and Old Leo in the future knew what Piper and Leo were going to do, but Wyatt and Chris had no idea and neither did S6 Chris

5) Why Patty’s idea of 3 generations of Halliwells tapping into the Power of Three worked, when only three sisters are supposed to be able to tap into the Power of Three

6) Why Grams didn’t recognize Piper from That 70’s Episode

7) Why Wyatt even had his powers in the future, if he’d lost them to the Jenkinses as a toddler

8) Why Henry wasn’t part of the final all-generation hug

9) How the Charmed Ones were able to write down what would happen in the future when they hadn’t lived it yet

10) How Leo, an ex-whitelighter mortal, could possibly handle magical children while trying to teach them

Well, this is my answer. I’m sure you’ll find a hundred little things wrong with it. And I’m sure you’ll find parts of Forever Charmed that you’ll wish were part of this and that aren’t (Ditto--but they weren’t logical or consistent with the rest of Charmed) If reading this makes you want to do your own version of Charmed Forever (or whatever YOU want to call it)--GO FOR IT!! Along the same lines, if someone has already done that and if there's any similarites between theirs and mine, it's purely coincidental, because I haven't read anyone else's yet--although I will!! I hope you enjoy this and will let me know what you think!

“Charmed Forever"

Based on “Forever Charmed” by Brad Kern
Adapted by Esmeralda

Disclaimer:

I don’t own anything Charmed--if I had, the finale would've been something like this! All of these characters belong to Spelling Productions and The WB. I would like to acknowledge www.thecharmedone.com’s spoilers, which I used as a basis for this story!

This story is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Spelling in gratitude for all the wonderful shows he produced, especially Charmed!

PROLOGUE

After using their newly-acquired Hollow powers to vanquish the Triad, Paige black-orbed her sisters in to the conservatory to find Billie and Christy coming down the stairs.

“We have been waiting for you,” Billie told them, also Hollow-filled, her eyes black.

“Your wait is over,” Paige, her eyes also black, replied.

“Where are your potions?” a black-eyed Piper wanted to know.

Christy, her eyes black, too, glared. “We do not need potions this time.”

“Neither do we,” Phoebe shot back, her eyes as black as the others.

Piper glared at Christy. “I knew you couldn’t be trusted.”

Christy shrugged. “You should have followed your instincts.”

Piper glared back. "Next time, we'll know."

Billie smirked. “There will not be a next time,” and holding out her hands, the Battle to End All Battles began Both sets of sisters held out their hands and shot streams of fire at each other. The mega powers collided and caused a cataclysmic explosion. Billie and Christy were blasted backwards and caught up in the fiery tornado. The Halliwells were also blasted backwards and swept up as well.

The explosion rocked the Manor, blowing out all of the window before the entire Manor blew up into a mushroom cloud. Mixed in the middle of it was the picture of the original Charmed Ones, shattered, the spirit board broken in two, the wicker chairs from the conservatory ripped apart, the stairs splitting.

No one could possibly survive such an explosion, but in the midst of all the destruction were signs of someone orbing out. There was just one problem--the orbs were as black as the Hollow-filled sisters’ eyes!

Within moments, it was over. Debris continued to fall amongst the rubble and the dust settled, followed by an eerie silence. Just when everything seemed to be lost, someone orbed back--Paige! She'd panic-orbed and was safe! She started looking around, calling for her sisters, but the first ones she spot were the Jenkinses. Paige could see Billie, her blank eyes staring at nothing, her head lolling at a strange angle, her arms maybe buried, perhaps gone. Near her, Paige could see Christy in a similar condition, except it was her legs that couldn’t be seen.

Paige glared angrily at her enemies, then turned her back on them, still calling out for her sisters. That’s when she spot Phoebe’s tatooed arm, still attached to her shoulder. Screaming, she ran to her sister and began digging her out, crying out when she realized that Phoebe was dead. Then she screamed again as she spot Piper buried except for her head and shoulders, her head lolling at a strange angle. Dragging Phoebe’s body over to Piper, Paige began digging her oldest sister out, crying, moaning, keening as she did.

Taking both of her sisters in her arms, she began rocking them, kissing their eyes closed. “Don‘t worry,” she assured them, as she kissed Phoebe‘s bone-white cheeks. “You won‘t go unavenged! Evil will pay!” She turned to kiss both of Piper’s already-cold cheeks. “Don’t worry about your sons, big sister! Evil won’t touch either of them ever again, I guarantee it!”

Her pitch-black eyes glared at her enemies as she dropped her sisters’ bodies and driven mad by both grief and the Hollow, she black-orbed out.

To be continued if anyone wants me to

[AjentAnjel :)]

great! please continue!!! ive been waiting for this to start!

[Esmeralda]

Thank you, Bassist!! I truly appreciate that!! Here ya go!!

CHAPTER ONE

Henry was in his office, totally frantic. He had been phoning for what seemed like hours, but hadn‘t been able to get a hold of Paige. For the he-wasn’t-sure-how-manyth time, he tried calling the Manor--again he got the “Not in service” signal. Now he was in full panic, not sure what he should do, unsure what if anything, he could do.

Suddenly the phone rang and he grabbed it, hoping it was Paige. It wasn’t--it was Victor and he was also in a total panic, telling Henry to turn on the television. Henry grabbed his remote and hit the power button. He stared as the screen showed the remains of the Manor, surrounded by yellow tape, the police going through the mess. Henry gasped as he read the caption: “GAS EXPLOSION ON PRESCOTT STREET--FOUR BODIES FOUND." Even as he and Victor watched, a police officer announced, “We have identified two of the bodies as Piper Halliwell, who resided at this address, and her sister Phoebe Halliwell of 1234 California Street. The other two bodies remain unidentified.“ As he spoke, four black-and-white photoes of the dead women were shown--Piper, Phoebe, Billie and Christy. Both Henry and Victor went into shock, mourning the deaths of Piper and Phoebe, but both cried out, “Where is Paige?“

~~~

Meanwhile, in the black room at Magic School, Dumain approached the melted platform where the Charmed Ones had vanquished the Triad, not sure what to do or where to go.

Suddenly Paige black-orbed in. “Where are the demons?” she demanded. “Tell me before I drain your powers and vanquish you!”

Dumain stared at her in shock. “What happened?” he asked. “Where‘s Billie and Christy?”

“Dead,” Paige told him, her voice totally emotionless. “Just like my sisters. Evil killed my sisters and now I’m going to kill everyone else! Now where are the other demons?“

In a total panic, Dumain smoked out. Paige screamed in frustration and black-orbed out herself. If she couldn‘t get the demons, she‘d save her nephews!

~~~

Meanwhile, Victor was still talking with Henry, the television on in the background. Suddenly Paige black-orbed in.

“Paige!” cried Victor as he heard Henry’s happy cry from the phone. “You’re alive!” He moved to hug her, but her black eyes stopped him. “What happened?”

“Where are my nephews?” Paige demanded, her voice cold as death.

“Why do you want them?” Victor asked in fear.

“Evil took my sisters--I won‘t let them take my nephews! I’m taking them instead!“ and she began to walk towards the back room.

“No!“ and Victor tried to stop her.

Paige held out her hands. “Victor!“ In a flurry of black orbs, Victor flew towards Paige, and she ricocheted him into the wall. As he sank to the floor, unconscious, Paige turned towards the guest room.

There she could see a youth bed where Wyatt was peacefully sleeping, and a crib holding a peacefully-sleeping Chris. Paige walked into the room, looking at her nephews, insanely muttering, “Don‘t worry, it will all be over soon. Aunt Paige has always protected you. Now she will be sure that evil will never touch either of you again. Don‘t worry, it will be over soon and you‘ll be safely with your mother again!”

[Fourever Charmed]

esmeralda said:

6) Why Grams didn’t recognize Piper from That 70’s Episode

I know! I couldn't believe she didn't remember her, but what baffled me the most was the line, "You become The Charmed Ones?!" My jaw just about hit the floor and I was like, "She came to you when Patty was pregnant with Phoebe! You guys wrote the spell to vanquish Nicholas. It's why you had to bind their powers! How can you not remember that they become The Charmed Ones?!"

Anyway, I'm kind of liking the idea that Paige lives. And the fact that she wept over both her sisters. (When I wrote my own version, the first thing I did was make Piper mourn over Paige's body, because I felt that Kern just didn't honor Paige at all.)

ETA: I almost forgot. I'll be crossing my fingers for a permanent Billie death.

[Esmeralda]

Thanks, Fourever! I'll definitely look over yours when I get a chance! Is it completed? Mine is; I'm just going to post it by chapters--more dramatic that way! Speaking of, here's Chapter Two!

CHAPTER TWO

Henry, still on the phone, was relieved to hear Victor call out for Paige until he heard her say she wanted the boys. “What’s going on?“ he yelled. “Victor! What’s happening?“ When there was no answer, he yelled for Paige, but she didn’t answer either.

Looking up to the heavens, hoping the Elders would hear him, Henry cried out,. “Please! Someone! Anyone! Help!“ But to his terror, it wasn’t an Elder who orbed in, but Dumain who smoked in, and he was holding the Hollow box.

~~

Meanwhile, Paige, her eyes still black, was standing at Wyatt’s youth bed, looking down at him, rubbing a hand across his cheeks. “First I’ll drain your powers,” she muttered, “Then I’ll send you to your mother!” She tried to use the Hollow power to drain Wyatt’s humongous Twice-Blessed powers, but there were no powers to be drained. Screaming in frustration, shaking her head in disgust, she turned towards Chris’ crib.

~~

Back in Henry’s office, Dumain was trying to explain. “Both sets of sisters called up the Hollow and now Paige has gone power-mad from the Hollow and the only way to stop her is to put the Hollow back.”

“How do you do that?” Henry wanted to know.

“Both Good and Evil must say the spell written on the Box.. Put your hand on it…”

Henry backed off, putting his hands up to try to ward off this evil. “I’m only mortal. Not magical at all.”

Dumain growled in frustration. “There must be someone else!”

Henry thought and then cried out in a loud voice, “Coop! Coop, come here right now!”

Coop heart-orbed in, his face a study in utter devastation.

“Why didn’t you come before?” Henry demanded.

“Phoebe’s dead,” and Coop’s voice was as dead with grief as Paige's. “I felt it. I felt her death. Why didn‘t I do a better job of helping her find love? She deserved to be loved for the beatiful wonderful person she was before she died.”

“Well, maybe she did, ” Dumain shrugged. “But if you don’t want the whole world to be in a similar situation, you have to help.”

Coop sighed. “Why? What’s the use? The only one I ever loved is dead.“

Henry glared. “Because that’s what Phoebe would want you to do. Just like Paige would want me to help save her."

Coop sighed again. “Yeah, You‘re right.” He turned to Dumain. “What do I have to do?”

“Just hurry!” Henry implored them. “Please, hurry!”

~~

Meanwhile, back in the guest room of Victor’s condo, Paige stood at an open window, her eyes even blacker than before now that she had drained Chris of his newly-discovered powers. She had the little boy in her outstretched arms. Looking ten stories down to the pavement below, Paige dropped Chris, screaming, "Tell your mother I love her!"

Chris woke up, screaming as he fell, now unable to panic-orb himself to safety.

[Fourever Charmed]

Yeah, it is completed. Actually, it's the one right under yours and has the same name as my board name: Fourever Charmed. (I picked my board name long before season 8.)

Anyway, on with your review! Wow. I didn't expect Paige to try and steal their powers. The only thing is, don't they have to use their powers on the Hollow first, before the Hollow can suck them in? (Which is why Piper and Paige were tricked into using their powers?)

[Esmeralda]

Oh, very, VERY good, 4Ever! I'm not that nuts on S4, so I'll admit I don't know it as well as I should to use it in here. I need to make it work this way, where Paige simply sucks it up, partially so people wonder if Chris will go SPLAT and also in order to make this work for the entire fic. Hopefully, as I suggested in my notes, someone will write it THEIR way and make it work proper! So do YOU want to know if Chris goes SPLAT? Here ya go!!

CHAPTER THREE

Back at Henry’s office, both Coop and Dumain had their hands on the Box and were chanting the spell: Abolio exume ga ume to eternius."

The Box floated up in the air and let off a bright light. It disappeared and returned safely to its crypt.

~~

Just when Chris was falling passed the second story of the condo building, Paige’s eyes returned to normal! “CHRIS!” she screamed. Quickly she held out her hands, this time summoning her nephew. When Chris found himself orbed into Paige’s arms, he began screaming in fear. Paige hugged him and comforted him as best as she could, but the little boy was absolutely terrified, remembering seeing Paige's head sticking out the window as he fell.

Then remembering how she used to settle Baby Wyatt down, Paige began to sing to him. At the sound of that voice, Chris began to relax in his aunt’s arms and Paige hugged him in relief.

Suddenly Paige remembered someone else. “Wyatt!” Still hugging Chris, she ran over to her older nephew‘s bed. But Wyatt was still sleeping like an angel. Sighing in relief, she hugged Chris tighter, before remembering someone else. "Victor!" and she ran back to the living room.

Victor was just coming to when Paige ran in. Seeing Chris in her arms, he yelled out in protest, looking for something, anything, he could use to defend Chris, not even daring to think what Paige might have done to Wyatt.

“It‘s OK, Victor,” Paige reassured him. “I don‘t know how, but somehow the Hollow‘s gone. I‘m OK, again.”

To be sure, Victor reached out for Chris, and Paige willing handed him to his grandfather. Then Victor pointed at the phone. “Talk to Henry. He must be terrified.“

~~

Henry hung up the phone, relief and joy on his face. He smiled at Coop and Dumain. “She’s OK! Paige is OK!“ He turned to Dumain and heartfelt-fully told him, “I don’t know who you are, but thank you.“

“Oh, I didn’t do it for your side,“ Dumain smirked. “I did it for mine,“ and he smoked out.

Coop reached for Henry’s hand. “Concentrate on your love for Paige and I will take you to her.”

“Do we really have to orb?“ Henry asked, fear in his voice, still not used to that method of transportation.

“Your wife needs you,“ Coop insisted, enjoying getting back at Henry for yelling at him, even though he knew he deserved it. Henry sighed and agreed, so Coop instructed, “Concentrate on how much you love Paige.”

Henry nodded. “That wasn’t really her who did that. I love her very much,” and as his ring began to glow red, Coop heart-orbed them both out.

~~

Soon Paige was back in Henry’s arms, glad to be there, but devastated over the loss of her sisters. “Why couldn’t I save them?” she moaned. “Why couldn’t we have found a different way to vanquish the Jenkinses? They were Hollow-filled, too. They must’ve said the spell the same time we did. Why couldn’t we have said it first or figure out some other way of getting it first? What am I going to do without them, Henry? I can’t stand being the only one left.”

Henry hugged her tightly. “You’re not the only one left,“ he comforted. “You’ve got me, Paige, and we’ve got the boys.”

“No, no! It’s not the same! When Dumain tells the other demons that I’m the only Charmed One left, all the demons will be after us! And without my sisters, we’d be sitting ducks!”

“Isn’t there anything we can do to bring them back?“ Victor asked hopefully, and Paige only mournfully shook her head. “Can’t the Elders help?“ he insisted. “Or even the magical community? After all you girls have done for them!“

Paige shook her head. “No one can help. Thanks to the Jenkinses, everyone thinks we‘re the evil ones.”

“Well, the Elders should know better!” Victor insisted. “And what about Leo? The battle is over. Shouldn’t we get him back? He might know a way to get Piper and Phoebe back! If anyone would know what to do, Leo would."

[Fourever Charmed]

Oh, haha, that's alright. I'm kinda a Charmed nerd, and I guess I tend to be too critical of things sometimes. For example, I actually researched the date (according to the show and the 1998 Autumnal Equinox) that they (Prue, Piper, and Phoebe) recieved their powers (again), just for a fanfic. *dork*

Now I've got to say, I'm not a Wyatt or Chris fan. (I've only ever written the show version of them once, and that was in my re-write and only because I wanted to make it semi-believable.) But I'm glad Paige returned to normal in time. Kudos on the idea of using Coop and Dumain to seal back The Hollow. I would've never thought of that. And I also liked the interaction between Henry and Victor, as well as Victor and Paige. I know it must still be hard for him, knowing that Patty had a child with the guy that she fell for while he was still married to her. And yeah! Where the hell is Leo? Billie, that itch, has been defeated!

[Esmeralda]

Oh, no, I don't think that's dorky, 4Ever, I think that's being a good author--a good researcher, something the show desperately needed! And if I'm griping about the show not being consistent, I should've tried to be more consistent myself!! But as I said, that's for someone else to figure out when writing THEIR version!! By the way, I also hate Chris and Wyatt, especially the future ones--they took too much attention away from the ones who were supposed to have it--the Charmed Ones. But like you, I've kept them in here to try to make it consistent with the finale and for the Chris/Wyatt fans who would want them there. So do Paige and Victor and Coop get Leo back?? Let's find out!

CHAPTER FOUR

Paige brightened with hope, so she called and called and called for the Angel of Destiny, but the Angel didn’t make an appearance. Instead Sandra the Elder orbed in. She truly looked sorrowful over the loss of the other two Charmed Ones.

“I’m so sorry, Paige. Leo was to be returned after Piper helped win the battle. But the battle wasn’t won. No one has won.”

“But we vanquished the Triad!” Paige argued. “We vanquished Billie and Christy! We even put the Hollow back!”

Sandra nodded. “And you’ve also ended the Charmed Ones. That means it was a draw.”

“There’s gotta be something you can do!” Paige begged. “Figure it out or, or, or I’ll never answer your jingles again!” she threatened, trying to do her best impersonation of Piper on a tirade.

Sandra’s face oozed sympathy. “I am so very sorry.” and she orbed out.

Paige stomped her foot in frustration, then fell into Henry’s arms and began sobbing wildly, now in complete despair. “Why did I have to be the one who survived? Why couldn’t Piper? She would’ve figured out something. I’m useless. I can’t do anything without her or Phoebe!” while Henry tried to soothe her.

Victor refused to give up. He turned on Coop. “How ’bout you? You’re magical. Can’t you help?”

Coop shrugged. “How? I‘m just a cupid. I‘m don‘t have powers like the Charmed Ones.”

“But you love Phoebe,“ Henry coaxed. “I can tell you do. Can’t you use your ring and your love to make her come back to life?” and Paige raised her head, afraid to even dare to hope.

Coop shook his head. “My ring doesn’t work that way. I can use it to make a love connection between people or to show them why they’ve closed their hearts, but that’s it, and with Phoebe dead, there‘s not much more I can do. I can’t do anything else until the next generation is ready for love. It‘s part of being a cupid.”

Paige brightened. “No, you can do more! Phoebe told us how you took her to the past to explore her love failures--can’t I use your ring to turn back time so I can save my sisters?”

Coop shook his head. “My ring doesn’t work that way either. It’s used strictly as an amplifier and a pointer for my cupid powers.”

“Well, then can’t you take me on that time trip? To save Phoebe?” Paige knew which button to push.

Coop shrugged. “I told you--I can only use my powers to take you back in time to follow love.”

“Perfect,” Paige told him, “Because I love my sisters.”

Hope brightening their eyes, both Victor and Henry encouraged Coop to try, but Coop was still unsure. Turning to Paige, he warned her, “My powers do not always work as they should because love is not practical.”

Paige shrugged. “I don’t have any other choices. Please?”

Coop reluctantly agreed and put his hand on her shoulder. “Think about your sisters and how much you love them. Just remember, it’s best to keep it simple.”

“Paige,” Henry suggested. “How ‘bout trying to keep it simple by concentrating on just one of your sisters?” and Coop nodded.

Paige breathed the word “Piper.”

Coop looked disappointed , but his ring glowed as he and Paige disappeared.

[Fourever Charmed]

I'm glad it was Piper. I'm a huge, huge Piper-Paige fan, and (like I already said), they didn't have the relationship they should or could of had on the show. Paige was pretty much forgotten, unless she was needed for a Po3 vanquish. (Kind of like Prue, after he threw her through a wall. 'Guess Kern didn't like the telekinetic sisters very much.) I'm kinda hoping they end up going back in time, because I'd love to see Paige see Piper (and possibly Prue) as little girls. Other than Witchstock, we never really got to see her dabble with time travel and I think that would be very interesting.

ETA: I think I've got another question to add to your list. Again, going on with my Prue rant....

11) If Patty was pregnant with Phoebe, like the show made her out to be, why did they have to use "family magic to recreated the Po3," when they already had the Power of Three right there (Little Prue, Little Piper, and unborn Phoebe)? It defeats the purpose of what they did in That 70's Episode.

There was absolutely no reason that they couldn't honor Prue's memory in a REAL way. (Simply mentioning her name is NOT honoring her memory.) They didn't need to have Shannen back to show Little Prue. And there were other ways to add Prue, without having Shannen return. (i.e. She could've left a note in the BOS, like Patty did in From Fear To Eternity, without having ever actually appeared.) I know it would've tickled a bunch of Prue fans.

Okay, okay, okay. I'm stopping now! lol I'll be waiting for the next update.

[Esmeralda]

4Ever, let me tell you. I've had a chance to start to read your Fourever Charmed and it absolutely totally blows mine out of the water! You do SUCH a great job with it! Once I finish, I'll post a review that will make your head so big you'll neve be able to get through a door again! I'm afraid mine pretty much follows the finale script--I"m first to admit that I'm pretty much of a plot-person and not much of a description person, and trying to fix the plot by answering those questions (and a few others that my beta came up with...) is what I've tried to do, so you may be a bit disappointed. Who knows, maybe someday we can get together and combine our ideas and come up with a HECKOVA virtual finale!! Want to what happens when it's Paige and Coop who go time-travelling rather than Piper and Leo? Here ya go!

CHAPTER FIVE

When Paige and Coop first heart-orbed back in, Paige couldn’t figure out why they had orbed into Piper and Leo’s bedroom. But just as she realized that all of the furniture was different, she and Coop were surprised by a scream of “Demon!“ as two young naked people sat up in bed. Screaming herself, Paige’s hands flew up to cover her eyes.

“Why did only he freeze?“ asked a familiar voice as Paige turned to look and saw a frozen Coop.

“I don’t know,“ replied a voice that Paige had only heard once, a voice welcoming her to the Halliwell family. Peeking through her fingers, she was shocked to see a very, very young-looking Victor and a lovely young woman who could only be one person.

She smiled at that person, telling her and not Victor, “That’s because I’m your daughter, Mom!“

“What?“ screamed Victor in shocked disbelief. “She can’t have a daughter your age!“

“Uh,“ Paige muttered, desperately wishing Piper was here--Piper always knew what to say in a situation like this. “Uh, we came from the, uh, the future to ask for your, uh, help?”

“The future?” Victor demanded. “What sort of crock is that? I still think she‘s a demon! Vanquish her, Patty!”

“No!” screeched Paige in terror.

“She‘s right,” Patty agreed. “She can‘t be. She would have frozen. I think we should hear what they have to say.”

“Well, all right,” Victor reluctantly agreed. “But can she at least have the decency to give us some privacy so we can get dressed?”

“Uh, sure,” Paige agreed. “If you could unfreeze my, uh, my friend.”

Patty grinned. “Oh, right,” and she flicked her hands.

As soon as he could move, Paige led Coop out, calling out, “We‘ll meet you downstairs.” As they walked down the stairs, she shook her head. “I was thinking about Piper, not Mom! I hardly even know Mom despite having heard so much about her from Piper and Phoebe. Why would your powers bring us here?”

Coop shook his head. “I have no idea. But maybe it’s because I was still thinking about Phoebe. I haven’t stopped thinking about her since I felt her death. I haven’t stopped thinking about how much I love her and that I never even knew it. After watching her all this time, trying to help her find love the way I helped the rest of you find it--”

“What?!” Paige interrupted. “You helped me find Henry??”

He shrugged. “Of course I did. And Glen and Richard and Kyle, too, but they didn’t work out. I can bring couples together; I just can’t always keep them together. I was so happy when Henry worked out for you. Not often I get to be at the wedding of one of the couples I brought together.”

Paige looked at him suspiciously. “The Elders didn’t really send you, did they?”

He grinned sheepishly. “You don’t really think that they would want any of you to find love and be distracted by a family from concentrating on your duties as Charmed Ones, now do you?” and Paige smirked. “I’ve had to fight those idiots ever since they were dumb enough to make Leo the Charmed Ones’ whitelighter.”

“Dumb?”

“Sure. They knew Piper and Leo were lovers in a past life. Not a good idea ot have a couple like that work together, especially in life-and-death situations like you guys face. But if they were going to bring them together, well, it’s just not in my nature to not help them find the love that was already in their hearts. That’s what cupids do.”

Paige was still confused. “But why didn’t we ever see you before? Phoebe told me about another cupid she met, but he sure wasn’t you!”

“Nah, he just became one of their innocents when a demon stole his ring. A cupid is lost without his ring to amplify and direct his powers.”

“So why let us see you now?”

“Well, after you found Henry and Piper was happy with her mortal Leo, even after he was frozen, I was asked to personally help Phoebe. He said that after the love failures with Drake and Dex, the only way I’d be able to convince her not to give up on love was to do it face-to-face. He wants her to find the love she found with him with someone else.”

[Fourever Charmed]

"He said"? I wonder if Paige is going to figure out he's talking about Cole. (He is talking about Cole, right? LOL) Great, great, great twist!! And I liked how they discussed the whole thing with Piper and Leo being lovers in a past life. Yeah, that really does beg the question, if they knew about that and yet they also were intent on trying to keep them apart, why the hell did they assign Leo to The Charmed Ones? That's so mean! I never thought of that before. I have more hate for The Elders than I ever had before. Wow. Please, update A.S.A.P.

[Esmeralda]

Well, you've got to keep in mind that back in Season 1, Leo DID tell the sisters that they weren't supposed to know about him being their whitelighter--he was supposed to just do stuff for them on the sly--but as soon as they knew who/what he was, the Elders should've either assigned someone else as the Charmed Ones' whitelighter OR had Leo clip his wings right then! And as I said, the Elders sent Coop to Phoebe for all the crap they've put her through?? Shall I barf now or later?? But I see I didn't see a very good job hiding who DID! HERE COMES COLE (the ONLY way he'll "appear" in this)!

CHAPTER SIX

Paige stared in shock. “Cole?!”

Coop nodded. “Cole. I was so sure I’d made the right match there. And I did. But circumstances got in the way. But he loves her enough that he wants her to be happy, even if it meant with someone else. But can you imagine what her reaction would’ve been if I had told her that I was sent by Cole?”

Paige giggled. “I think I’m going to enjoy having you as a brother-in-law.”

Coop smiled sadly. “If I get to be your brother-in-law. We still have to save her and Piper. And she still has to realize that she loves me as much as I now know that I love her.”

Paige smiled. “I think she does. It’s the idea of having a forbidden love that scares her. She’s seen what Piper and Leo have had to go through and she knows what she and Cole went through. She’s afraid to go through that again. But my bet’s on you,” and he smiled in gratitude.

“You must be a very powerful witch to be able to travel through time.”

At this new voice, Paige and Coop looked up the steps to see Patty and Victor walking down the steps, both now fully-dressed, their wet hair telling Paige what took them so long. She heard Coop give out a disappointed sigh.

“What?” she asked out of the corner of her mouth.

He replied the same way. “Seeing them hold hands. Another couple I brought together that circumstances tore apart.”

Paige didn’t reply. After all, if circumstances known as Grams hadn’t torn Victor and Patty apart, Patty would’ve never fallen in love with Sam her whitelighter, and they would’ve never had Paige. Instead she answered Patty. “Oh, I can’t time travel. That was him,” and she pointed at Coop. “who did that.”

Victor smiled at Coop. “So are you my future son?”

Paige smiled back. :Sorry, you just had all girls.”

Patty smiled at her. “So are you Prue or Piper?”

“I don’t think we should say too much,” Coop warned. “We don’t want to change history.”

“But we have to tell them something!” Paige protested. “Maybe they can help us.”

Patty nodded. “Of course, if we can. Why don’t we all go in the conservatory and sit down?”

As they walked into the sunny room, Paige heard a squeaky sound and looked down. Smiling, she bent down to pick up a soft bunny with bright white fur. “Whose is this?” she asked.

Patty’s smile was tender. “It’s Piper’s. She won’t go to sleep without her Floppy.”

“So how old is she now?” Paige wanted to know.

Victor smiled. “She’s three and you’re five, Prue.”

[Fourever Charmed]

Oh! Twist of the knife! I guess he didn't look very closely at her brown eyes, did he? I wonder if Patty'll notice or not? Or if she'll even try to pull off pretending to be Prue? *cringe* That's such an awfully uncomfortable situation. Wow. Now I'm just witching to find out how Paige handles this. Please update soon!

[Esmeralda]

Victor's not the one who didn't notice--ES didn't! I never noticed the difference in eye color, so my characters won't either. Something else for someone else to straighten out in their version! And as for Prue's mole--I developped one when I was older, so I'm assuming that Prue did, too. But how will Paige react to this? Let's find out!

CHAPTER SEVEN

At first that name startled Paige, but she quickly realized that letting them think she was Prue was easier than trying to explain who she really was, so she simply nodded, giving Coop a warning look. He merely shrugged.

As they sat down, Victor requested, “Well, tell us what happened. I’m still new to this witch-stuff.”

“Well, we didn’t quite mean to show up here, but we’re trying to save Piper and Phoebe.”

“Phoebe?” asked Patty. “Who’s Phoebe?”

Coop smiled. “Your and Victor’s youngest daughter.”

“Daughter?” Patty asked. “You mean?” and she touched her tummy, and Coop smiled and nodded and both Patty and Victor hugged in joy.

“But you said you wanted to save them,” Victor said, his arm now protectively resting on Patty’s tummy. “What happened?”

“They were both killed in a battle with evil,” Coop quietly told them.

“And I was trying to go back in time to warn them,” Paige explained. “I might have tried to do it myself, but without the Power of Three, I had to have Coop do it instead,” and Coop shook his head warningly, afraid that Paige had said too much.”

“Power of Three!” exclaimed Patty. “You mean you and your sisters are The Charmed Ones?”

Coop again tried to stop her, but Paige figured she might as well go for broke and nodded.

Patty smiled with pride. “The Charmed Ones! Oh, Victor! Our daughters are The Charmed Ones!”

“Sounds dangerous,” worried Victor.

Patty smiled at him. “Being a witch, saving innocents, is always dangerous, Victor. But it’s worth it. I warned you about that when you asked me to marry you.”

“Yes, you did,” he admitted. “But I never dreamed it would affect our children, put them in danger, cause their deaths!”

“Well, it has, and now we have to save them. Mother! That’s it! If we can find her, maybe we can recreate the Power of Three.”

“Can’t we leave HER out of it?”

“Victor! You said it yourself! These are our daughters we’re talking about. We must do anything we can to save them!”

Paige started getting excited, grinning at Coop. “It could just work!”

“Well, we already have you, Prue, and you say I have Phoebe here,” and she touched her tummy. “So all we need is Piper. I’ll go get her and--”

“No!” protested Victor. “You are NOT going on no time travel journey while carrying our child and you most certainly are NOT going to take our three-year-old daughter! She’s much too young for that!”

“And we most certainly don’t want to take you, Patty,” Coop pointed out. “What if something happened to you? Phoebe would never be born.”

Neither would I, Paige silently added. “We’ll just go find Grams.” She turned to Coop. “I love her, too,” and he nodded. “She’ll be able to figure out something.”

“No!” Patty protested. “You have to let me come. I’ll be careful, but you can’t just come here and tell me that I’m going to have another daughter and then in almost the same sentence tell me that both she and Piper are going to be killed without letting me help!”

[Fourever Charmed]

Ooh, somehow I think Paige isn't going to be able to pretend to be Prue the entire time. Because if they get back to the present, and Paige has to orb or TKO something, Patty's gonna be like, "Why can Prue orb?" I liked the way you had Victor very protective of Piper. It was cute. I can't wait to see Paige seeing Piper as a little girl. And Grams! I wonder if she'll recognise that Paige isn't Prue, because she's already seen Prue as an adult in That 70's Episode?

[Esmeralda]

You're definitely on the right track, 4Ever, but as you know, Coop's powers don't always work the way you think they might... Welcome to one of my own favorite parts of my rewrite! Will Patty get to go time-traveling in my version? Let's find out!!

CHAPTER EIGHT

Paige started to protest, but she recognized the determination in her mother’s eyes--she’d seen it in Piper’s much too often and knew better than to try to talk her out of it. She shrugged at Coop, who nodded, who motioned for Patty to stand next to him, while Paige started thinking about how much she loved Grams.

“Wait a minute!” Maybe Paige wasn’t protesting, but Victor sure was. “This is crazy! Patty, you can’t be seri--” but even as he kept protested, he faded out in a glow of pink as Paige, Coop and Patty heart-orbed out.

As things came back into view, Patty cried out, “Where’s Victor?”

“Back in the seventies,” Coop smiled. “I don’t think we’re there anymore.”

“And we didn’t come back to our time either,” Paige said as she looked around. “Look at the furniture! I feel like we popped into the middle of a scifi-movie!”

Patty nodded, a bit scared, but more fascinated. “And look.” She reached down to pick up a bunny, old and grey, its fur matted down and an ear missing. “It’s Piper’s Floppy, but look how old he is!”

“I just got a triple score!” They all started at the sound of an old excited voice coming from the dining room.

“You don’t spell Zankou with an X!” protested an old woman’s voice. While a whole bunch of other voices picked up the argument, Paige’s eyes almost bugged out of her head. Zankou? How could anyone old know about Zankou? Reacting rather than thinking, Paige began walking towards the dining room. Coop tried to stop her, but Paige shook him off.

Walking into the dining room, she saw three old couples sitting around a Scrabble board. Near the bottom of the board were six tiles that spelled “XANKOU“. All six glanced up, saw the newcomers, but never stopped arguing the latest play, as if strangers walked in on their Scrabble game all the time.

An old woman, her short hair a too-bright cherry-red that didn’t match her orange lipstick and who had her back to Paige, turned around. “Do you spell Zankou with an X or a Z?”

“Are you challenging?” demanded another old woman, her long naturally-white hair flowing down her back.

“I’m not asking you,” “Red” replied, then smiled at Paige. “I’m asking me.”

“Me?” squeaked Paige, but as she looked more closely at “Red”, she realized that this was indeed herself--at least 50 years older, but definitely her.

“Well?” Old Paige asked again with an encouraging smile. “How do you spell it?”

“With a Z,” Paige managed.

Old Paige spun back with a crow of triumph to smirk at the woman with the long white hair. “Yes, I am challenging. Take the word back, Leo!”

“Leo!” screeched Paige as she looked at the man taking back his tiles. “It is you! You’re not frozen!” And now she recognized the woman with the long white hair and the other old woman whose hair was short and bright lemon-yellow. “Piper! Phoebe! You’re not dead!” And that must mean…”Henry!”

Her 80-year-old husband nodded, then slowly got up. “Be right back,” and he slowly made his way towards the kitchen.

Paige looked at the last old man for a long time before crying out, “Coop? But you’re old! How can a cupid grow old?” and the Coop who had heart-orbed her here was wondering the same thing.

[Fourever Charmed]

Oh man! Paige turned her hair back to red? *sniffle* Please come back? I've got to know how this all plays out. lol I wonder if Paige's secret will be revealed next time? Or if Piper and Phoebe know, and pretend she's Prue. Kudos on having Henry in the future. It's sweet. There wasn't a lot of him in the finale.

[Esmeralda]

Oh, it irritated the crap out of me that the only ones we saw in the future were Piper & Leo--even in the pictures at the end! It made me think that Phoebe, Coop, Paige & Henry were all dead, an idea I don't like! It also makes me think that the WB went cheap for Charmed's finale, unwilling to pay for actors to play the other two couples or to have the actors/actresses made up, which also irritates the crap out of me! So will the old ones be the ones who give away Paige's secret and what will Patty's reaction be? Let's find out!


CHAPTER NINE

Old Coop turned to smile at Old Leo. “It’s worth becoming mortal for the woman you love,” and Old Leo and Old Piper smiled at each other, while Old Phoebe giggled like a teenager on her first date.

Coop’s eyes grew wide. “And if you’re mortal, then your love isn’t forbidden!”

Old Coop smiled back at himself. “Exactly. And how do you think I came up with the idea?”

“What?” screeched Paige, totally confused.

Old Piper reached behind her. “We knew you were coming, so--” and she brought out a plate of cookies and offered them to the newcomers. “Mom? Grams always said that these were your favorites.”

Patty simply stared, her arms still wrapped protectively around her tummy. If Paige and Coop were confused, she was in shock. But something about the love in Old Piper’s voice gave her the courage to reach out and take a cookie. Biting into it, her face lit up in bright smile. “Even better than Grams’” and everyone grinned while Coop reached for one, too.

Paige didn’t; she was still confused. “But why are we here?” she asked, still trying to make sense out of something that made no sense at all, desperately wishing the younger versions of her sisters were with her--they would’ve figured it out.

“You were aiming for Grams,” Old Paige tried to explain. “But you came to a time when you, yourself are the grandmother, just like your sisters, and your love for your sisters is greater than your love for Grams.”

Patty, still enjoying her cookie, looked surprised by that and started to ask, but Coop interrupted her. “How did you know we would be here?”

Old Coop smiled. “Because 50 years ago, it was me and Pai-” Old Paige quickly elbowed him ad looked at Patty. “Prue” he quickly corrected himself, “who traveled to the future, so, of course, we were expecting you.”

Old Leo nodded. “Be sure to write in the Book of Shadows that you arrived on July 6, 2050, so we’ll know.”

“2050,” gasped Patty, and Paige and Coop were a bit surprised, too.

Old Leo sighed and smiled at Old Piper. “Those were the days before the truce, fighting demon, saving innocents.”

Old Piper smiled back tenderly. “Finding one another, losing you when you became an Elder, finding each other again, only to have to lose you again. Thank God I got you back!”

“But you didn’t!” cried a still-totally confused Paige. “I still don’t get it! How can you be alive, Piper? How can Phoebe be alive? Why isn’t Leo still frozen?”

Old Paige shrugged. “Because we saved them.”

“But we haven’t yet!” Paige protested.

Old Paige smiled. “But you will.”

Paige shook her head. How could she possibly be having an argument with herself? “I’ve got a headache.”

“Here.” Old Henry was back, a glass of water in one hand, two aspirin in the other.

[Fourever Charmed]

lol I think my favorite part was when Paige was getting a headache because she was having an argument with herself. And how Old Coop almost slipped up and called Paige, well, Paige. The way the cookies were made especially for Patty was sweet, and Coop sneaking one was also pretty hilarious. Aw! I'll be sitting on pins and needles for the next update!