Post by simplypoo83 on Aug 16, 2005 14:24:50 GMT -5
Charmed season 8 episode 1
Return of the Halliwells
Written by: Rebecca - prue516
When Phoebe finds out that her horrible nightmares are really premonitions of innocents being killed by a demon she and her sisters have to fight a horrifying demon to get the Book of Shadows back and find a way to return to San Francisco to keep protecting innocents but with clear names regarding Inspector Sheriden’s death and the magical exposure.
[Apartment in San Fernando Valley, California. Night time, Sept.9, 2005. Phoebe is tossing and turning in her bed.]
[Phoebe’s dream- alley- a teenage girl is screaming as a dark figure approaches her with a huge athamea.]
Girl-Who are you?
Dark Figure-That doesn’t matter seeing as how you won’t even be alive ten minutes from now.
Girl-Please leave me alone!
Dark Figure- I could do what would I get out of it? It just wouldn’t be as satisfying as if I were to do this.
[the girl screams as he quickly grabs her and plunges the athamea into her heart.]
[Phoebe sits bolt up-right, gasping for air. Tears fill her eyes as she lays back down hoping she wouldn’t go back to sleep in fear of having yet another dream like that one. Cut to apartment kitchen 8:00 am. Piper is pouring coffee into a mug as Phoebe walks in]
Phoebe-I had another one of those dreams last night. But this time it was a teenage girl. And it seemed more real than the others. I was feeling her terror and pain.
Piper-Phoebe, I told you it’s just your conscience bugging you. You started having these dreams about a week after we went into hiding and you’re thinking about innocents. I’ve told you over and over again. Demons didn’t go around killing innocents before we got our powers, and now that the demons think we’re not here, they probably aren’t doing it now.
Phoebe-I know, but it just seemed so real.
Piper-All nightmares feel real, Pheebs.
[Paige enters.]
Paige-Good morning. How’d you two sleep?
Phoebe- Bad.
Piper-Not so much.
Paige-That’s nice.
[Paige sits on the couch and turns on the morning news.
Phoebe-Oh my gosh!
Paige-What?
[Shows TV screen with a reporter standing next to a crime scene with a teenage girl who was stabbed in the heart.]
Reporter-A fourteen year-old girl was found stabbed in the heart early this morning by a janitor coming outside to throw some garbage in the dumpster. The police have ID’d the body as Anna Williams, a local freshman at Baker High.
[Back to Phoebe]
Phoebe-That’s the girl from my dream!
(End of Teaser)
[Apartment- day.]
Piper-Are you sure she’s the girls from your dream?
Phoebe- I’m positive. I feel so bad. Its either stop this demon or stay in hiding. Is there any way can do both?
Piper- Just because she got stabbed doesn’t mean there’s a demon behind it. Serial killers do it too.
Did I mention she was stabbed with an athamea?
Piper- Now why didn’t you say that to begin with?
Phoebe- I figured that once I said demon you would figure it out.
Paige- Ok! Phoebe didn’t say it. Piper didn’t figure it out. There’s a demon that Phoebe’s dreaming about that’s going around killing innocents. Let’s stop trying to figure out the small stuff and focus on the big picture. Shall we? How are you dreaming up demon attacks, Phoebe?
Phoebe- I guess maybe I’m having premonitions in my sleep.
Paige- So, your powers are growing?
Phoebe- Yeah, I guess so.
Piper- So how are we planning on fighting this demon if we can’t tell who he is?
Paige- That’s simple. We’ll just find the Book of Shadows.
[Halliwell Manor- Day- Glamorized versions of the girls sneak in and change back to their real looks.]
Paige- Do you think it’s still in the attic?
Piper- I doubt it. The police probably tried to take it when they cam to search the house after the explosion.
Phoebe- They couldn’t. We’re the only ones that can get the book out of the house.
Piper- Zankou did it.
Phoebe- Yeah, by weakening us, but we were perfectly fine when we left.
Paige- Well the whole magical world thought we were dead. Maybe the book did too.
Pier- Well, then we have four possibilities. Either it’s still here, the police took it, the elders took it to prevent demon from taking it or a demon took it.
Phoebe- Then we should search the house before checking the other places.
Paige- Great. Let’s split up. Phoebe, you check the second floor, Piper, you check down here, and I’ll check the attic.
Piper-Hey, why do you get the one-room floor?
Paige- Because I’m the youngest.
[the girls meet at the bottom of the stairs]
Phoebe- I found nothing, but I grabbed some stuff from each of out rooms. Piper, here’s your diary. Don’t worry I didn’t read a single page. Paige, here’s you favorite pair of shoes that you’re always complaining about missing, and I grabbed my hat that I’ve been missing.
Paige- Phoebe, you could buy another one. It wasn’t that expensive.
Phoebe- One, They don’t sell them anymore. I got for my twenty-fifth birthday, which was a couple of years ago. Two, a new one wouldn’t be a special. This hat has sentimental value.
Paige- How much sentimental value could come from a hat?
Phoebe- That’s not important. What’s important is finding the book so we can kick this demon’s a**.
Paige- Fine, what ever. Maybe your dad knows where it is.
Piper- We might as well see. Lets’ go.
[She grabs both of her sisters’ hands and Paige orbs them out.
Apartment building hallway- Victor’s door- day. Glamorized Piper knocks on the door.
Victor- I’ll be there in a second!
[He answers the door. He looks like he hasn’t slept in ages.]
Victor- What ever you’re selling, I’m not interested.
[He starts to close the door and glamorized Phoebe stops him]
Phoebe- Wait.
Victor- What do you want from me?
[The girls glance around the hallway to make sure nobody’s there. Then, they snap their fingers and reveal themselves as the charmed ones. Victor is speechless and a tear rolls down his cheek.]
Piper- Can we come in?
[Victor’s apartment- Living room- day]
Phoebe- So now do you understand?
Victor- As much as any mortal could.
Piper- So how are the boys?
Victor- They’re fine. I got a crib for Chris and there wasn’t any room for another bed in my room so Wyatt just sleeps with me at night. I think he likes comfort.
Piper- When he was a baby and he’d wake up in the middle of the night wanting a bottle Leo would get him, warm up a bottle, and lay back down with him between us. He’d lay on his side with Wyatt’s head propped up on his arm put his other arm over him and prop the bottle up on it. Of course they’d both go back to sleep before he finished and I had to wash the milky sheets and pajamas every morning.
Victor- Yeah that’s what I used to do with you two and Prue.
[He looks up to Paige who looks like she’s feeling a little left out.]
Victor- I’d have done it for you too if I’d have known about you.
[Paige smiles like she finally feels completely part of the family.]
Wyatt- Mommy?
[They all turn to the left to see Wyatt standing there holding his teddy bear. Piper smiles and hold out her arms.]
Piper- Yes, it’s mommy. Come here, baby.
[Wyatt walks over and Piper picks him up and sits him in her lap. He gives her a big hug as she holds him and rocks back and forth.]
Piper- It’s ok. Mommy’s here. Do you like living with Grandpa?
[Wyatt nods his head and hugs her harder.]
Paige- It’s so sweet. Look at them.
Phoebe- I know. Don’t you want to be a mom just like her?
Paige- I’m not sure if I could.
Phoebe- I know. Same here.
[Wyatt falls back asleep and Piper gets up and puts him back to bed.]
Piper- Ok. Let’s get down to business so I can figure out a way to be with my children more often.
Phoebe- Right. Daddy, do you have any idea what happened to the Book of Shadows?
Victor- No I don’t. My best guess is that the elders would have taken it. That or a demon got it first.
Paige- Let’s call Sandra and see what she knows.
Phoebe- That sounds like a plan to me.
[Sandra orbs in and steps back at the site of the supposedly dead charmed ones.]
Sandra- What? We all thought you were dead.
Piper- Well, we’re not and we have demon we need to fight but don’t’ know who he is. Do the elders have the Book of Shadows?
Sandra- No.
Sisters- What?
Sandra- When I finally convinced the other elders that taking it and binding the children’s powers was the right thing to do-
Piper- Wait. You bound my boys’ powers?
Sandra- I was about to get to that. The elders sent me to retrieve the book and drop off a binding potion with Victor to use on the boys. I went to the manor and searched everywhere. I had watched the police while they were inside and made sure that none of them touched it so my guess is that a demon beat me to it.
Piper- Now what about this binding my kids’ powers thing?
Sandra- I came to drop the potion off and got in just in time to see Wyatt vanquish a demon that attacked them. I decided that Wyatt was powerful enough to take care of his self and the little family he had left. I also knew that the demon world already knew about them and their powers there would be even more demons coming after them once they knew the boys were defenseless so I left with the potion and explained it to the other elders.
Piper- Well that’s nice to know.
Paige- Yeah, it’s nice to know that she didn’t bind Wyatt and Chris’s powers, but now we need to focus on the fact that there is a demon somewhere out there with the book.
Sandra- I really can’t stay here any longer. Good luck.
[Sandra orbs out and the sisters plop down on the couch in front of Victor.]
Victor- Did you have a nice talk with the elder?
Phoebe- No.
Paige- The elders don’t have the book. A demon beat them to it.
Piper- And we could never find it because there like, a million demons in the underworld. There’s no way we’d be able to narrow it down to just one or two in time. Everyone in San Francisco will be gone.
Phoebe- Well at least we’d know who the demon is.
Piper- In case you haven’t noticed, a joke won’t do anything for us.
Paige- Wait a second. We could scry for it.
Phoebe- Scry for the Book of Shadows? Could we do that?
Piper- Remember what Grams said when you, me and Prue went back to the 70’s to stop that warlock? What’s his name? Nicholas. That’s it.
Phoebe- Are you going anywhere with this or are you just going to babble?
Piper-I’m going somewhere with it. Do you remember that time?
Phoebe- Yes.
Piper- Do you remember what Grams said when we asked if she could really write a spell to send us back?
Phoebe- She said, “We’re witches dear. We can do anything.”
Piper- It’s as true now as it was then.
Paige- I’ll orb to the manor really quickly and get the map and crystal.
Phoebe- You should grab some other stuff while you’re there. You should get all the magical herbs and the crystals for the crystal cage.
Paige- And while I’m at it I should just grow a few more arms.
Piper- Don’t be silly. Just take a bag. Here.
[Piper empties out the contents of her purse and hands it to Paige.]
Piper- put everything in there.
Paige- Ok, I’ll be back in a little bit.
[Phoebe turns to see Piper putting all her things in her purse.]
Phoebe- Piper, what are you doing?
Piper- What? I’ve got to put my stuff somewhere.
[Ten minutes later Paige orbs in holding Piper’s capacitated purse and a crystal in her hand.]
Phoebe- Did you get enough stuff, Paige?
Paige I wasn’t sure exactly which herbs qualified as magical so I just brought all the ones with weird names.
[Piper and Phoebe start going through the bag.]
Phoebe- Didn’t you notice how much the billings root looked like ginger root?
Paige- Oh, all well. Get off my back.
Piper- Come on let’s start scrying.
[Piper lays the map out on the floor and stops.]
Piper- How’s the crystal supposed to know to look for the book as opposed to a witch or a demon? And how will it find something in the underworld?
Paige- Well, for the first question, I brought our family tree to hold with the crystal. You know, Halliwells calling Halliwell magic. For the second question, to tell you the truth, I didn’t even think about that.
Phoebe- I’ve got an idea. We can cast a spell to see what part of the city it’s under.
Piper- Wow, Paige, our sister is brilliant.
Paige- Phoebe, since it was your idea, and you’re better at it, you need to get to work on that spell.
[Phoebe spends about fifteen minutes writing and finally finishes. She picks holds the crystal and family tree above the map and reads]
Phoebe- Ok, here we go.
I, Halliwell am calling thee,
So my magic can return to me.
Show me the place you are below,
Can I save you? Please let me know.
[The crystal drops on the edge of Golden Gate Park.]
Phoebe- Ok, so now we know where it is, but we have no clue what demon has it and therefore, we will be going completely un-prepared.
Piper- Well It’s got to be an upper-level demon. I don’t think a lower-level demon would care too terribly much. I could make a vanquishing potion that we can take with us.
Paige- Yeah, but you have no idea what potion to make.
Piper- How about I invent one? I can create an all-purpose vanquishing potion.
Phoebe- That’s a good idea. We can use every magical herbs to make sure that’s it’s powerful enough.
Piper- And we can use the source vanquishing spell with it.
Paige- Ok, then lets’ get to work.
[Piper finishes with the potion and puts it into three jelly jars. Phoebe and Paige enter the room.]
Phoebe- Whoa! I’ve never seen a black potion before.
Paige- That means either it doesn’t work or it’s the most powerful potion ever made.
Piper- That’s the idea. Are we ready?
[Both of her sisters nod their heads. Underworld- eternal night. The sisters orb in with their backs to each other to ensure that nothing sneaks up on them. A huge demon comes out of the shadows.]
Demon- Well, well, well. Would you look at what we’ve got here? The Charmed ones. And here I thought you three died killing Zankou.
[The demon is holding an athamea in his hand.]
Phoebe- It’s the athamea. He’s the demon from my premonitions.
[She throws her jar of potion on the ground. And nothing happens.]
Piper- That potion should have worked. Why didn’t it work?
Demon- I am the demon, Yanison. The only way for you to vanquish me is by stabbing me with my own athamea after you’ve dipped in that little potion you’ve got right there. But, of course, I’m not going to let you have my athamea so I’ll make sure you three will be vanquished for good this time.
Paige- Oh, crap!
[Paige grabs her sisters’ hands and orbs out. Victor’s apartment- day.]
Paige- Let’s get the crystals and get out of here. We weren’t expecting that, and now that we know, we’re going to the manor where we can fight on our own turf. He’ll track and follow us so we have to get out of here right now.
Piper- Is there any more to your plan?
Paige- No. I’m making this up as I go along.
[The sisters grab hands and orb out. Manor- Attic- night time. The girls orb in and hurry into battle positions]
Paige- Piper, Phoebe, take a crystal.
[Yanison shimmers in and the girls lay the crystals down in a square trapping him.]
Paige- Athamea!
[And the athamea orbs into her hand and she kicks a crystal to the other side of the room.]
Phoebe- Paige, what are you doing?!?!?
Paige-trust me!
Yanison- My athamea!
Paige- Piper freeze him!
Piper- It won’t work!
Paige- Yes it will.
[Piper shuts her eyes and grits her teeth as she gestures to freeze him and relaxes when it works.]
Piper- What the H***?
Paige- No time to explain.
[Paige opens her jelly jar and dips the athamea in the potion then gets behind Yanison.]
Paige-Alright, unfreeze him.
[Piper unfreezes him and when he notices that Paige moved he turns around and she stabs him in the heart. He drops to the floor on his knees, and Paige holds up the fingers 1, 2, 3.]
Sisters- Prudence, Patricia, Penelope, Melinda, Astrid, Helen, Lauren, and Grace, Halliwell witches stand strong beside us. Vanquish this evil from time and space!
Yanison- No!
[He’s engulfed in flames and than blows up.]
Phoebe- Man that felt good.
[Charmed ones apartment- kitchen- 7:00 pm.]
Piper- I think you’ll sleep pretty well tonight, Pheebs.
Phoebe- Yeah, me too. And it’s nice to have the book back.
Piper- Yeah, it is.
Phoebe- I want to go home.
Piper- Phoebe, we are home.
Phoebe- No, I mean I want to go home to the manor. We grew up there.
Piper- I know, but how would we do that? Zankou killed Sheriden on tape, the homeland security people saw us in the attic, they saw a huge explosion in the basement, and went in to see that weren’t there. I don’t think even the cleaners could clean that up.
Paige- I just might have a solution to that.
Phoebe- Oh yeah? And what would that be?
[Paige gets a little mischievous grin on her face.]
[Police Department- 7:30 pm. The sisters enter and everyone crowds around them.]
Phoebe- Yes, we know you have a lot of questions and we are here to answer them. It’d probably be best to speak to whoever is in charge here.
Officer- Right this way, ladies.
[He leads them into a small interrogation room where they waited a while for Agent Keyes to arrive from the Homeland Security building.]
Keyes- Hello, ladies. I have a few questions for you. First of all, where have you been these past few months?
Phoebe- We’ve been staying in an apartment waiting for our house to be fixed after the explosion.
Keyes- I saw you through the attic window. What were you doing up there? When Sheriden was up there all we saw was that man that killed her in that… supernatural way. How did you three survive the explosion?
Piper- We were visiting our dad and had just gotten home when we heard a weird noise in the attic. We figured something somehow fell over so we went upstairs to see what it was. When we walked in the door we found Sheriden laying there. So we were about to go downstairs to get out of the house incase her killer was still there.
Paige- Then we heard the sirens, looked out the window and saw all the guys with guns and decided to get out quicker. We went downstairs and got out the back door just in time to see the guy jump over the fence and for the basement to blow up.
Phoebe- My guess is that he left a bomb down there or something.
Keyes- Well, I’ve heard enough. You’re free to go.
[The girls get up and leave. Manor- Front Hall- 9:00 pm]
Paige-
May the object of objection become but a dream,
As I cause the scene to be unseen.
[The whole manor is restored to its original beauty.]
Leo- It’s good to be back.
Piper- Yeah, it really is.
[Piper and Leo take the boys upstairs and put them to bed. Cut to Phoebe’s bedroom. Paige enters as Phoebe is putting her clothes in her closet. Paige sits on the bed and picks up Phoebe’s favorite hat.]
Paige- Now that everything’s back to normal, could you tell me about the hat?
Phoebe- When I first came home from New York all those seven years ago Prue and I pretty much hated each other. About a year later, we were just like best friends. It was like we had never hated each other. She used to always just give me a card for my birthday because she didn’t think I deserved anything more. Then she woke me up on my 25th birthday and handed me this box with a big gold bow on top and when I opened it I found hat. It fit perfectly, and Prue said that it brought out the color in my eyes like she’d never seen a hat do for anyone else. It may sound dumb, but it was my first gift from her when it actually felt like we were sister who chose to be friends and not just sisters who got stuck with each other.
Paige- I understand. Now, I am tired and I’m going to bed right now. Good night, Pheebs.
Phoebe- Hey Paige.
Paige- Yeah?
Phoebe- I feel the same about the shoes you gave me for my birthday after we met.
Paige-Yeah, same here with the purse from you. Now, I really am tired so I’m going bed. Good night.
Phoebe- Good night.
[Manor- Conservatory- Next morning. Piper is feeding Chris while Leo and Wyatt are eating their waffles. Phoebe comes down the stairs and Paige comes a couple minutes later.]
Paige- Good morning everyone.
Piper- Good morning.
Phoebe- Doesn’t it feel great to be home again?
Leo- It feels better than that.
Piper- I agree.
[They all jump at the sound of the doorbell. The sisters open the front door to find a blonde girl who looked about 18 or 19 years old.]
Girl- Is Prue Halliwell here?
Piper- Who’s asking?
Girl- I’m her daughter.
[The girls look at each other in bewilderment. Fade out.]
End of Episode.
Return of the Halliwells
Written by: Rebecca - prue516
When Phoebe finds out that her horrible nightmares are really premonitions of innocents being killed by a demon she and her sisters have to fight a horrifying demon to get the Book of Shadows back and find a way to return to San Francisco to keep protecting innocents but with clear names regarding Inspector Sheriden’s death and the magical exposure.
[Apartment in San Fernando Valley, California. Night time, Sept.9, 2005. Phoebe is tossing and turning in her bed.]
[Phoebe’s dream- alley- a teenage girl is screaming as a dark figure approaches her with a huge athamea.]
Girl-Who are you?
Dark Figure-That doesn’t matter seeing as how you won’t even be alive ten minutes from now.
Girl-Please leave me alone!
Dark Figure- I could do what would I get out of it? It just wouldn’t be as satisfying as if I were to do this.
[the girl screams as he quickly grabs her and plunges the athamea into her heart.]
[Phoebe sits bolt up-right, gasping for air. Tears fill her eyes as she lays back down hoping she wouldn’t go back to sleep in fear of having yet another dream like that one. Cut to apartment kitchen 8:00 am. Piper is pouring coffee into a mug as Phoebe walks in]
Phoebe-I had another one of those dreams last night. But this time it was a teenage girl. And it seemed more real than the others. I was feeling her terror and pain.
Piper-Phoebe, I told you it’s just your conscience bugging you. You started having these dreams about a week after we went into hiding and you’re thinking about innocents. I’ve told you over and over again. Demons didn’t go around killing innocents before we got our powers, and now that the demons think we’re not here, they probably aren’t doing it now.
Phoebe-I know, but it just seemed so real.
Piper-All nightmares feel real, Pheebs.
[Paige enters.]
Paige-Good morning. How’d you two sleep?
Phoebe- Bad.
Piper-Not so much.
Paige-That’s nice.
[Paige sits on the couch and turns on the morning news.
Phoebe-Oh my gosh!
Paige-What?
[Shows TV screen with a reporter standing next to a crime scene with a teenage girl who was stabbed in the heart.]
Reporter-A fourteen year-old girl was found stabbed in the heart early this morning by a janitor coming outside to throw some garbage in the dumpster. The police have ID’d the body as Anna Williams, a local freshman at Baker High.
[Back to Phoebe]
Phoebe-That’s the girl from my dream!
(End of Teaser)
[Apartment- day.]
Piper-Are you sure she’s the girls from your dream?
Phoebe- I’m positive. I feel so bad. Its either stop this demon or stay in hiding. Is there any way can do both?
Piper- Just because she got stabbed doesn’t mean there’s a demon behind it. Serial killers do it too.
Did I mention she was stabbed with an athamea?
Piper- Now why didn’t you say that to begin with?
Phoebe- I figured that once I said demon you would figure it out.
Paige- Ok! Phoebe didn’t say it. Piper didn’t figure it out. There’s a demon that Phoebe’s dreaming about that’s going around killing innocents. Let’s stop trying to figure out the small stuff and focus on the big picture. Shall we? How are you dreaming up demon attacks, Phoebe?
Phoebe- I guess maybe I’m having premonitions in my sleep.
Paige- So, your powers are growing?
Phoebe- Yeah, I guess so.
Piper- So how are we planning on fighting this demon if we can’t tell who he is?
Paige- That’s simple. We’ll just find the Book of Shadows.
[Halliwell Manor- Day- Glamorized versions of the girls sneak in and change back to their real looks.]
Paige- Do you think it’s still in the attic?
Piper- I doubt it. The police probably tried to take it when they cam to search the house after the explosion.
Phoebe- They couldn’t. We’re the only ones that can get the book out of the house.
Piper- Zankou did it.
Phoebe- Yeah, by weakening us, but we were perfectly fine when we left.
Paige- Well the whole magical world thought we were dead. Maybe the book did too.
Pier- Well, then we have four possibilities. Either it’s still here, the police took it, the elders took it to prevent demon from taking it or a demon took it.
Phoebe- Then we should search the house before checking the other places.
Paige- Great. Let’s split up. Phoebe, you check the second floor, Piper, you check down here, and I’ll check the attic.
Piper-Hey, why do you get the one-room floor?
Paige- Because I’m the youngest.
[the girls meet at the bottom of the stairs]
Phoebe- I found nothing, but I grabbed some stuff from each of out rooms. Piper, here’s your diary. Don’t worry I didn’t read a single page. Paige, here’s you favorite pair of shoes that you’re always complaining about missing, and I grabbed my hat that I’ve been missing.
Paige- Phoebe, you could buy another one. It wasn’t that expensive.
Phoebe- One, They don’t sell them anymore. I got for my twenty-fifth birthday, which was a couple of years ago. Two, a new one wouldn’t be a special. This hat has sentimental value.
Paige- How much sentimental value could come from a hat?
Phoebe- That’s not important. What’s important is finding the book so we can kick this demon’s a**.
Paige- Fine, what ever. Maybe your dad knows where it is.
Piper- We might as well see. Lets’ go.
[She grabs both of her sisters’ hands and Paige orbs them out.
Apartment building hallway- Victor’s door- day. Glamorized Piper knocks on the door.
Victor- I’ll be there in a second!
[He answers the door. He looks like he hasn’t slept in ages.]
Victor- What ever you’re selling, I’m not interested.
[He starts to close the door and glamorized Phoebe stops him]
Phoebe- Wait.
Victor- What do you want from me?
[The girls glance around the hallway to make sure nobody’s there. Then, they snap their fingers and reveal themselves as the charmed ones. Victor is speechless and a tear rolls down his cheek.]
Piper- Can we come in?
[Victor’s apartment- Living room- day]
Phoebe- So now do you understand?
Victor- As much as any mortal could.
Piper- So how are the boys?
Victor- They’re fine. I got a crib for Chris and there wasn’t any room for another bed in my room so Wyatt just sleeps with me at night. I think he likes comfort.
Piper- When he was a baby and he’d wake up in the middle of the night wanting a bottle Leo would get him, warm up a bottle, and lay back down with him between us. He’d lay on his side with Wyatt’s head propped up on his arm put his other arm over him and prop the bottle up on it. Of course they’d both go back to sleep before he finished and I had to wash the milky sheets and pajamas every morning.
Victor- Yeah that’s what I used to do with you two and Prue.
[He looks up to Paige who looks like she’s feeling a little left out.]
Victor- I’d have done it for you too if I’d have known about you.
[Paige smiles like she finally feels completely part of the family.]
Wyatt- Mommy?
[They all turn to the left to see Wyatt standing there holding his teddy bear. Piper smiles and hold out her arms.]
Piper- Yes, it’s mommy. Come here, baby.
[Wyatt walks over and Piper picks him up and sits him in her lap. He gives her a big hug as she holds him and rocks back and forth.]
Piper- It’s ok. Mommy’s here. Do you like living with Grandpa?
[Wyatt nods his head and hugs her harder.]
Paige- It’s so sweet. Look at them.
Phoebe- I know. Don’t you want to be a mom just like her?
Paige- I’m not sure if I could.
Phoebe- I know. Same here.
[Wyatt falls back asleep and Piper gets up and puts him back to bed.]
Piper- Ok. Let’s get down to business so I can figure out a way to be with my children more often.
Phoebe- Right. Daddy, do you have any idea what happened to the Book of Shadows?
Victor- No I don’t. My best guess is that the elders would have taken it. That or a demon got it first.
Paige- Let’s call Sandra and see what she knows.
Phoebe- That sounds like a plan to me.
[Sandra orbs in and steps back at the site of the supposedly dead charmed ones.]
Sandra- What? We all thought you were dead.
Piper- Well, we’re not and we have demon we need to fight but don’t’ know who he is. Do the elders have the Book of Shadows?
Sandra- No.
Sisters- What?
Sandra- When I finally convinced the other elders that taking it and binding the children’s powers was the right thing to do-
Piper- Wait. You bound my boys’ powers?
Sandra- I was about to get to that. The elders sent me to retrieve the book and drop off a binding potion with Victor to use on the boys. I went to the manor and searched everywhere. I had watched the police while they were inside and made sure that none of them touched it so my guess is that a demon beat me to it.
Piper- Now what about this binding my kids’ powers thing?
Sandra- I came to drop the potion off and got in just in time to see Wyatt vanquish a demon that attacked them. I decided that Wyatt was powerful enough to take care of his self and the little family he had left. I also knew that the demon world already knew about them and their powers there would be even more demons coming after them once they knew the boys were defenseless so I left with the potion and explained it to the other elders.
Piper- Well that’s nice to know.
Paige- Yeah, it’s nice to know that she didn’t bind Wyatt and Chris’s powers, but now we need to focus on the fact that there is a demon somewhere out there with the book.
Sandra- I really can’t stay here any longer. Good luck.
[Sandra orbs out and the sisters plop down on the couch in front of Victor.]
Victor- Did you have a nice talk with the elder?
Phoebe- No.
Paige- The elders don’t have the book. A demon beat them to it.
Piper- And we could never find it because there like, a million demons in the underworld. There’s no way we’d be able to narrow it down to just one or two in time. Everyone in San Francisco will be gone.
Phoebe- Well at least we’d know who the demon is.
Piper- In case you haven’t noticed, a joke won’t do anything for us.
Paige- Wait a second. We could scry for it.
Phoebe- Scry for the Book of Shadows? Could we do that?
Piper- Remember what Grams said when you, me and Prue went back to the 70’s to stop that warlock? What’s his name? Nicholas. That’s it.
Phoebe- Are you going anywhere with this or are you just going to babble?
Piper-I’m going somewhere with it. Do you remember that time?
Phoebe- Yes.
Piper- Do you remember what Grams said when we asked if she could really write a spell to send us back?
Phoebe- She said, “We’re witches dear. We can do anything.”
Piper- It’s as true now as it was then.
Paige- I’ll orb to the manor really quickly and get the map and crystal.
Phoebe- You should grab some other stuff while you’re there. You should get all the magical herbs and the crystals for the crystal cage.
Paige- And while I’m at it I should just grow a few more arms.
Piper- Don’t be silly. Just take a bag. Here.
[Piper empties out the contents of her purse and hands it to Paige.]
Piper- put everything in there.
Paige- Ok, I’ll be back in a little bit.
[Phoebe turns to see Piper putting all her things in her purse.]
Phoebe- Piper, what are you doing?
Piper- What? I’ve got to put my stuff somewhere.
[Ten minutes later Paige orbs in holding Piper’s capacitated purse and a crystal in her hand.]
Phoebe- Did you get enough stuff, Paige?
Paige I wasn’t sure exactly which herbs qualified as magical so I just brought all the ones with weird names.
[Piper and Phoebe start going through the bag.]
Phoebe- Didn’t you notice how much the billings root looked like ginger root?
Paige- Oh, all well. Get off my back.
Piper- Come on let’s start scrying.
[Piper lays the map out on the floor and stops.]
Piper- How’s the crystal supposed to know to look for the book as opposed to a witch or a demon? And how will it find something in the underworld?
Paige- Well, for the first question, I brought our family tree to hold with the crystal. You know, Halliwells calling Halliwell magic. For the second question, to tell you the truth, I didn’t even think about that.
Phoebe- I’ve got an idea. We can cast a spell to see what part of the city it’s under.
Piper- Wow, Paige, our sister is brilliant.
Paige- Phoebe, since it was your idea, and you’re better at it, you need to get to work on that spell.
[Phoebe spends about fifteen minutes writing and finally finishes. She picks holds the crystal and family tree above the map and reads]
Phoebe- Ok, here we go.
I, Halliwell am calling thee,
So my magic can return to me.
Show me the place you are below,
Can I save you? Please let me know.
[The crystal drops on the edge of Golden Gate Park.]
Phoebe- Ok, so now we know where it is, but we have no clue what demon has it and therefore, we will be going completely un-prepared.
Piper- Well It’s got to be an upper-level demon. I don’t think a lower-level demon would care too terribly much. I could make a vanquishing potion that we can take with us.
Paige- Yeah, but you have no idea what potion to make.
Piper- How about I invent one? I can create an all-purpose vanquishing potion.
Phoebe- That’s a good idea. We can use every magical herbs to make sure that’s it’s powerful enough.
Piper- And we can use the source vanquishing spell with it.
Paige- Ok, then lets’ get to work.
[Piper finishes with the potion and puts it into three jelly jars. Phoebe and Paige enter the room.]
Phoebe- Whoa! I’ve never seen a black potion before.
Paige- That means either it doesn’t work or it’s the most powerful potion ever made.
Piper- That’s the idea. Are we ready?
[Both of her sisters nod their heads. Underworld- eternal night. The sisters orb in with their backs to each other to ensure that nothing sneaks up on them. A huge demon comes out of the shadows.]
Demon- Well, well, well. Would you look at what we’ve got here? The Charmed ones. And here I thought you three died killing Zankou.
[The demon is holding an athamea in his hand.]
Phoebe- It’s the athamea. He’s the demon from my premonitions.
[She throws her jar of potion on the ground. And nothing happens.]
Piper- That potion should have worked. Why didn’t it work?
Demon- I am the demon, Yanison. The only way for you to vanquish me is by stabbing me with my own athamea after you’ve dipped in that little potion you’ve got right there. But, of course, I’m not going to let you have my athamea so I’ll make sure you three will be vanquished for good this time.
Paige- Oh, crap!
[Paige grabs her sisters’ hands and orbs out. Victor’s apartment- day.]
Paige- Let’s get the crystals and get out of here. We weren’t expecting that, and now that we know, we’re going to the manor where we can fight on our own turf. He’ll track and follow us so we have to get out of here right now.
Piper- Is there any more to your plan?
Paige- No. I’m making this up as I go along.
[The sisters grab hands and orb out. Manor- Attic- night time. The girls orb in and hurry into battle positions]
Paige- Piper, Phoebe, take a crystal.
[Yanison shimmers in and the girls lay the crystals down in a square trapping him.]
Paige- Athamea!
[And the athamea orbs into her hand and she kicks a crystal to the other side of the room.]
Phoebe- Paige, what are you doing?!?!?
Paige-trust me!
Yanison- My athamea!
Paige- Piper freeze him!
Piper- It won’t work!
Paige- Yes it will.
[Piper shuts her eyes and grits her teeth as she gestures to freeze him and relaxes when it works.]
Piper- What the H***?
Paige- No time to explain.
[Paige opens her jelly jar and dips the athamea in the potion then gets behind Yanison.]
Paige-Alright, unfreeze him.
[Piper unfreezes him and when he notices that Paige moved he turns around and she stabs him in the heart. He drops to the floor on his knees, and Paige holds up the fingers 1, 2, 3.]
Sisters- Prudence, Patricia, Penelope, Melinda, Astrid, Helen, Lauren, and Grace, Halliwell witches stand strong beside us. Vanquish this evil from time and space!
Yanison- No!
[He’s engulfed in flames and than blows up.]
Phoebe- Man that felt good.
[Charmed ones apartment- kitchen- 7:00 pm.]
Piper- I think you’ll sleep pretty well tonight, Pheebs.
Phoebe- Yeah, me too. And it’s nice to have the book back.
Piper- Yeah, it is.
Phoebe- I want to go home.
Piper- Phoebe, we are home.
Phoebe- No, I mean I want to go home to the manor. We grew up there.
Piper- I know, but how would we do that? Zankou killed Sheriden on tape, the homeland security people saw us in the attic, they saw a huge explosion in the basement, and went in to see that weren’t there. I don’t think even the cleaners could clean that up.
Paige- I just might have a solution to that.
Phoebe- Oh yeah? And what would that be?
[Paige gets a little mischievous grin on her face.]
[Police Department- 7:30 pm. The sisters enter and everyone crowds around them.]
Phoebe- Yes, we know you have a lot of questions and we are here to answer them. It’d probably be best to speak to whoever is in charge here.
Officer- Right this way, ladies.
[He leads them into a small interrogation room where they waited a while for Agent Keyes to arrive from the Homeland Security building.]
Keyes- Hello, ladies. I have a few questions for you. First of all, where have you been these past few months?
Phoebe- We’ve been staying in an apartment waiting for our house to be fixed after the explosion.
Keyes- I saw you through the attic window. What were you doing up there? When Sheriden was up there all we saw was that man that killed her in that… supernatural way. How did you three survive the explosion?
Piper- We were visiting our dad and had just gotten home when we heard a weird noise in the attic. We figured something somehow fell over so we went upstairs to see what it was. When we walked in the door we found Sheriden laying there. So we were about to go downstairs to get out of the house incase her killer was still there.
Paige- Then we heard the sirens, looked out the window and saw all the guys with guns and decided to get out quicker. We went downstairs and got out the back door just in time to see the guy jump over the fence and for the basement to blow up.
Phoebe- My guess is that he left a bomb down there or something.
Keyes- Well, I’ve heard enough. You’re free to go.
[The girls get up and leave. Manor- Front Hall- 9:00 pm]
Paige-
May the object of objection become but a dream,
As I cause the scene to be unseen.
[The whole manor is restored to its original beauty.]
Leo- It’s good to be back.
Piper- Yeah, it really is.
[Piper and Leo take the boys upstairs and put them to bed. Cut to Phoebe’s bedroom. Paige enters as Phoebe is putting her clothes in her closet. Paige sits on the bed and picks up Phoebe’s favorite hat.]
Paige- Now that everything’s back to normal, could you tell me about the hat?
Phoebe- When I first came home from New York all those seven years ago Prue and I pretty much hated each other. About a year later, we were just like best friends. It was like we had never hated each other. She used to always just give me a card for my birthday because she didn’t think I deserved anything more. Then she woke me up on my 25th birthday and handed me this box with a big gold bow on top and when I opened it I found hat. It fit perfectly, and Prue said that it brought out the color in my eyes like she’d never seen a hat do for anyone else. It may sound dumb, but it was my first gift from her when it actually felt like we were sister who chose to be friends and not just sisters who got stuck with each other.
Paige- I understand. Now, I am tired and I’m going to bed right now. Good night, Pheebs.
Phoebe- Hey Paige.
Paige- Yeah?
Phoebe- I feel the same about the shoes you gave me for my birthday after we met.
Paige-Yeah, same here with the purse from you. Now, I really am tired so I’m going bed. Good night.
Phoebe- Good night.
[Manor- Conservatory- Next morning. Piper is feeding Chris while Leo and Wyatt are eating their waffles. Phoebe comes down the stairs and Paige comes a couple minutes later.]
Paige- Good morning everyone.
Piper- Good morning.
Phoebe- Doesn’t it feel great to be home again?
Leo- It feels better than that.
Piper- I agree.
[They all jump at the sound of the doorbell. The sisters open the front door to find a blonde girl who looked about 18 or 19 years old.]
Girl- Is Prue Halliwell here?
Piper- Who’s asking?
Girl- I’m her daughter.
[The girls look at each other in bewilderment. Fade out.]
End of Episode.
This is really good... Would anyone finish it? It's a great storyline...
