Post by Melinda Halliwell on Jul 31, 2009 17:08:04 GMT -5
Charmed Again Part 1
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the, Charmed characters they all
belong to Aaron Spelling productions except Melissa Hale who’s my
own creation.
Authors Notes: This’s series three of my, Charmed season, which
continues a week after “All Hell Breaks Loose”
Note: Hiya folks & welcome to my new season of Charmed. Yeh! I’m
so excited about this & proud to be writing another season also.
Sorry I haven’t written anymore Charmed stories yet but I’ve been,
working firstly & secondly also write other stories about
“Supernatural” & “Smallville” which I’ve been doing so recently. That
doesn’t mean I’m neglecting Charmed of course because I still love
the show & want to continue writing about it which I’m doing now.
Anyway continuing on from last season my stories will be different
as they were then but still have the same outcome so the episodes
fit together. Everyone who was there will still, be here minus Prue &
Phoebe who’re dead of course & some other characters that were
introduced will be back this season. I’ll still be using spells from the
show & some I create myself which’ll be different but still have the
same affect & better sounding. I may, use some stories from season
two as episode fillers to outweigh the main storyline going on here
or I mayn’t. I’ll see about that when it comes along.
Extra Note: It’s the season premier & Prue & Phoebe are dead after
Shax killed them in the season two finale “All Hell Breaks Loose” The
surviving Charmed Ones Piper & her daughter Melissa who now has
Phoebe’s premonition & astral powers strive to stay alive from
demonic attacks & The source as they prepare to cremate their
relatives. Piper tries summoning her sisters after Melissa’s attacked
by a demon but inadvertently winds up finding a long sister after
Melissa gets her first premonition of Shax trying to kill her when the
Oracle has a vision of her completing the new Power Of Three in the
Manor Halliwell. Leo’s a White Lighter again via the Elders request
so his family are safe & protected. Cole helps them whilst coming to
terms with own grief as does Andy about Prue. & the ladies become
exposed by a homicide detective who’s investigating the two
sister’s murders.
Episode One
Melissa Hale talks to the viewers in a voiceover.
Melissa: Previously on Charmed Aunt Prue & Aunt Phoebe, mom & I
had to protect Dr. Griffiths from the Source’s hitman Shax. Me &
Phoebe swapped powers so Phoebe could save Cole. Prue & mom
got exposed by a television news crew who saw them use their
powers. Mom got shoot by a crazy woman & died. Cole persuaded
the Source to get Tempest the demon to reset time but when he did
Shax changed his tactics & killed Prue first then Phoebe second & Dr
Griffiths third. The scene ended with just me & mom looking on at
what happened. Okay & here now comes the new season of
Charmed.
Kitchen Wednesday Fourth August Late Evening
Melissa coming downstairs in a light blue pyjama set & tied up mahogany red hair walks over to the one of the cupboards & gets out a plain glass cup & fills that up with water from the kitchen tap. Bringing it to her mouth she’s just about to drink it when she’s grabbed by from behind by a mystery assailant & strangled around the neck. Letting go of the glass of water which smashes onto the floor Melissa tries freeing herself from him but he tightens his grip on her. Kicking her legs up she places them against the kitchen sink & using her hands moves her body upwards so she flips over him & lands in behind. Lifting her right leg up Melissa kicks the assailant in the chest sending him back against the sinks edge. Raising his right hand up he summons an, energy ball & throws it at Melissa who side rolls out the way trying to avoid it. It hits her on the shoulder causing her to yelp in pain then hide behind one of middle kitchen’s table legs in defence. Lifting her head up she spies where the demon is & waits till he’s right near her then puts her left leg out & trips him over her & quickly gets up & goes over to one the drawers & pulls a carving knife out which she swings round & slices against the demon’s chest when he comes at her. Groaning in pain he staggers back at the intensity of the wound. Lifting the knife up high Melissa holds it angry looking ready to strike again. The demon charges at her but gets, frozen/blown up by Piper standing by the kitchen door with Andy & Leo. Sighing in relief Melissa drops the knife & sinks to the floor holding her shoulder wound. Rushing over to her Leo heals Melissa’s wound with his newly reacquired white lighter powers so she’s alright. Finishing the job he helps her up afterwards.
Leo: You alright sweetie?
Melissa: Yeah I think so thanks.
Angry looking Piper speaks.
Piper: (Angry) That’s it I’m summoning my sisters back.
Turning around she stomps of to the attic leaving Leo & Andy worried.
OPENING CREDITS
I am the son and the heir
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
See I’ve already waited to long
And all my hope is gone
STARRING
MELISSA HALE
PIPER WYATT HALLIWELL
PAIGE MATTHEWS
LEONARDO THEODORE WYATT
COLERIDGE BENJAMIN TURNER / BELTHAZOR
ANDREW TRUDEAU
DARRYL MORRIS
GUEST STARRING
VICTOR BENNETT
THE SOURCE
SHAX
PENELOPE HALLIWELL
PATTY HALLIWELL
ORACLE
SHANE
INSPECTOR CORTEZ
BOB COWAN
San Francisco Bay & City
Various parts of San Francisco bay and city are been shown whilst
“Never Goanna Leave Your Side” By Daniel Bedingfield’s playing.
Verse
I feel like a song without the words a man without a soul.
A bird without his wings a heart without a home.
I feel like a knight without a sword the sky without the sun.
Cause you are the one.
I feel like a ship beneath the waves a child who’s lost its way.
A door without the, key a face without a name.
I feel like a breath without the air & every day’s the same since you’ve gone away.
I gotta have a reason to wake up this morning.
You used to be the one that put a smile on my face.
There are no words that could describe how I miss you.
& I miss you every day
Chorus
I’m never goanna leave your side I’m never goanna leave your side again.
Still holding on girl I won’t let you go
Cause’ when I’m lying in your arms I know I’m home.
Lounge Thursday Fifth September
The rooms set up for the post-funeral wake with various things lying about. Melissa coming in ticks of a list of to do list she’s doing.
Melissa: Okay hearses are arriving at 10 the wreaths are laid
outside & the foods been delivered.
Stopping in front of Victor Bennett dressed in a dark suit & sitting on
a chair, staring vacantly at the floor Melissa sees the look on his
face which only a parent having lost their children would’ve.
Melissa: You okay Grandpa. Can I get you anything?
She touches him tenderly on the shoulder. He looks up at her.
Victor: No thanks sweetie I’m okay.
Melissa: Alright then.
Andy entering the room dressed in black also comes, over to them.
Melissa goes up & hugs him on the shoulder.
Melissa: You okay Uncle Andy?
Andy: When the days over ask me that question.
Melissa: Okay then.
Andy: Do you think the Source employed the demon last night?
Melissa: Unlikely since he has no reason to go after us anymore with the power of three gone.
Hearing this Victor stands up.
Victor: Demon what demon?
Andy trying not to hurt Victor answers.
Andy: The one that attacked Mel last night.
Turning his head at Melissa he looks at her shocked.
Victor: (Shocked) You were attacked?
Melissa: Its okay mom froze/blew him up & dad healed me so
everything's alright.
Victor: Then why was it after you?
Andy: We don't know Victor.
Victor: Isn't there anything you can do you know some spell that
can't make them come here until after the funeral?
Melissa: Well I’ve placed concealed crystals around the house
forming a protection grid so they shouldn’t be able to do that.
Victor: Okay but I thought whatever loophole you found when Phoebe was alive allowing you to be a Charmed One was only temporary then?
Melissa: Well time was manipulated not reset when Shax attacked changing his plan killing both Prue and Phoebe instead of injuring mom and aunt Prue plus the protection spell I cast keeping aunt Phoebe’s powers included the loophole also which can only happen with me.
Raising his right hand Victor runs it through his grey hair.
Victor: (Angry) Err God can’t I cremate my daughter’s in peace without
something evil happening.
Bringing her right hand up Melissa places it on Victor’s shoulders in
sympathy. Turning round she sees Leo walk in.
Melissa: Hey dad.
Leo: Hey sweetie. Look whose back.
Cole appears out from behind Leo looking pale & unshaven.
Melissa: Cole!
Running over she hugs then releases him.
Melissa: Hey you’re back good the cars are coming at 10 so if you
get washed & changed quickly then.
Cole: I’m not coming to the funeral Mel.
Melissa has a shocked look on her face when she hears this.
Melissa: (Shocked) Whaddya mean you’re not coming? This’s Prue &
Phoebe’s day of course you have to come. You’ve every right to.
Cole: Yeah & the Source has every demonic bounty hunter out there
looking for me.
Melissa: So what else’s new?
Cole: The fact that I tried to help save Prue & Phoebe is. That
makes me a traitor & he won’t stop until he finds me & I won’t let
that happen at their funeral.
Melissa: But you have to come, Cole to say goodbye to Phoebe. You
did love her didn’t you?
Cole: (Angry) Of course yes but I can’t bring the bounty hunters
there like I said.
Melissa: (Angry) Oh my god what a pathetic excuse for a word you
son of a bitch.
Defending himself Cole comes right up close to her.
Cole: (Angry) How dare you. You don’t know anything about me.
Melissa: (Angry) I know more than you’d like Cole & if you were half
the demon I knew you’d come to that funeral.
Andy upset steps in between them & prises them apart.
Andy: (Upset) Hey can we not argue on Prue’s or Phoebe’s day
please? Thank you.
Looking at him the two people back off.
Cole: Sorry Andy.
Melissa: Yeah sorry Uncle Andy.
Andy: Okay.
Victor getting outta his seat walks over to them.
Victor: Hey can’t Mel & Piper protect you & you still come to the
funeral?
Cole: No they can’t.
Victor: Why not? There still witches, right?
Melissa: Yeah, but we’re not Charmed Grandpa & I’m still trying to
figure out how to use Aunt Phoebe’s powers.
Melissa finds herself at the partially repaired, unpainted wall where
her aunts died. Leo steps in.
Leo: Mel's right, Without the Power of Three…
Victor: Yeah but can’t demons not track another demon in a
cemetery?
Cole: No they can’t
Victor: Well then you can go can’t you? Phoebe would be
devastated if you didn’t.
Looking at Victor Cole answers.
Cole: Alright then I’ll go.
Victor places his right arm on Cole left shoulder.
Victor: Good man.
They hear the doorbell ring.
Leo: I’ll get it.
Going to the door he opens it up & sees a flowers delivery man
standing outside with a wreath. Signing the delivery form Leo takes
it into the lounge.
Andy: Who’re they from?
Looking at the note inside Leo sees the names of the recipients.
Leo: Sam & Dean.
Lifting his head up Leo eyes Melissa up.
Victor: Oh that’s nice.
Leo: Yeah they send their condolences & say their sorry they can’t
make it.
Andy: Or more like Sam wants to stay away from Mel since they split
up because it’d be too painful for him to see her.
First hearing of this Cole looks at Melissa.
Cole: You two split up?
Melissa: Yeah well after Phoebe & Prue died I couldn’t be with him
anymore knowing I mightn’t be around to get married & he, John or
Dean could be danger which I’d constantly worry about making me
loose focus on my job which I can’t do if we’re to get Shax & the
Source.
Cole looks at her sympathetically.
Cole: I’m sorry that’s happened. You two seemed perfect for each
other.
Melissa: Yeah well that’s what life does to you when it bites you in
the bullet.
Hearing the door open they turn around seeing Darryl walk in.
Darryl: Hey, guy’s sorry door was open. How’re you all holding up?
Leo: Doing the best we can Darryl.
Darryl: Yeah I thought so. Listen I’m sorry about Prue & Phoebe you
have my condolences as well as Shelia’s.
Victor: Thank you Darryl.
Darryl: That’s okay.
Turning round he walks towards Andy.
Darryl: How’re you doing pal?
Andy: Not good but I’m trying to keep it together.
Understanding this Darryl nods his head.
Darryl: Yeah of course.
Andy: Are you coming to the funeral?
Darryl: Certainly & so will Shelia. Prue & Phoebe were our friends.
But before we go I have to tell you all unfortunately that they're
assigning their case to another inspector.
Leo: Case What case?
Darryl: Leo Prue, Phoebe & Dr. Griffiths were killed here, last week
which made a lot of press. People want answers very important
people.
Cole: So, what's this guy goanna find? That it was a demonic
hitman? Huh gimme a break.
Andy: Cole you can’t say things like that.
Cole: Oh yeah?
Andy: Yes. Homicide detectives are trained to find out the truth &
they don’t stop until they do.
Turning his head back he talks to Darryl.
Andy: Who’ve they put on the case?
Darryl: Cortez.
Andy: Right.
Leo: Cortez?
Andy: A homicide inspector in our department. He’s good solved a
few cases.
Melissa: nuts.
Cole: Oh come on your not worried are you? I'm not.
Leo: I am. I saw what happened when they were exposed as
witches. Time may’ve reversed itself, but it still cost Prue & Phoebe
their lives.
Victor: Would you people mind? I’m cremating my daughters for
god's sakes can't this wait?
Melissa goes over & hugs her grandfather who's struggling to hold it
all together.
Melissa: It’s okay Grandpa.
Darryl: I’m sorry I’ll come back when you’re more composed.
Turning round he leaves the house. Leo closes the door behind him.
Andy: You okay Victor?
Victor: Once I’ve got through this I will be yes.
Cole: You’re cremating them?
Melissa: Best defence against evil. Stops, them from getting hold of
their corpses & doing things with them.
Andy laughs at that comment.
Andy: (Laughing) I can’t believe you’re so calm & collected. You
haven’t cried once since they died.
Melissa: Yeah well I’d already lost my family in the future so it’s
easier for me besides someone had to organise the funeral didn’t
they.
Andy: Yeah but you’ll never get to know your cousins now.
Melissa: No but I got to in the future which’s the important thing.
Cole: Hey where’s Piper? I don’t see her about.
Leo: She’s probably upstairs still trying to summon her sister’s back.
Attic
Piper in tears flips the Book of Shadows. She cants the Power of
Three spell hoping that Prue would return.
Piper: HEAR NOW THE WORDS OF THE WITCHES, THE SECRETS WE
HID IN THE NIGHT. THE OLDEST OF GODS ARE INVOKED HERE, THE
GREAT MAGIC IS SOUGHT.
A candle flickers. She's surrounded by herb jars, chalices & other ritualistic items.
Piper: IN THIS NIGHT & IN THIS HOUR, I CALL UPON THE ANCIENT
POWER.
She looks up and closes her eyes.
Piper: BRING BACK MY SISTERS. BRING BACK THE POWER OF THREE.
She keeps her eyes closed for a prayerful beat, then opens them,
looks at the candle, but sees nothing. Blindly determined, she starts
flipping through the pages of the book until she finds another spell,
To Call a Lost Witch. She expertly finds & mixes certain ingredients
rosemary, cypress, yarrow root into a silver bowl as she chants from
the book.
Piper: POWER OF THE WITCHES RISE. COURSE UNSEEN ACROSS THE
SKIES. COME TO US WHO CALL YOU NEAR. COME TO US & SETTLE
HERE.
Using an athame she slices the left finger of her left hand so that
blood can symbolically spill directly from her heart & into the bowl.
Piper: BLOOD TO BLOOD, I SUMMON THEE. BLOOD TO BLOOD,
RETURN TO ME.
A faint gust of wind flickers the candle, but not much else. She
buries her face in her hands in defeat. Coming through the door Leo
calls out to her.
Leo: Piper?
Hearing him she looks up, hopeful.
Piper: Prue?
She looks at the candle.
Leo: Honey it’s nearly 10 o’clock the cars will be here soon.
Piper doesn't answer, just stares blankly at the book. Leo notices
Piper's bleeding hand & go’s over putting a tissue on it applying pressure to the wound.
Leo: You're bleeding.
Piper doesn't notice, him or care what he does.
Piper: I don't understand why magic can't fix this. & why we can't
bring Prue & Phoebe back. It's not like we haven't cheated death
before. I don't understand why this times any different.
Leo: Because Mel couldn’t heal the dead.
Piper: (Angry) Yeah cause’ she swapped powers with Phoebe.
Leo: Piper she was only trying to help you know that.
Piper: Yeah but there's other magic, magic we've used before.
She flips through the pages & fights the tears.
Piper: Scrying, calling a lost witch, reversing time.
She closes the Book & stands up.
Piper: It's like the book just deserted us & Prue & Phoebe I don't
understand why.
Leo takes Piper's other hand, holds them both, shares her pain.
Leo: You lost you’re sisters. How can we ever understand that?
(Pause) You’ve tried every magical way to bring them back… but you
can't. There gone.
Their eyes well up as they face the harsh reality, then they fall into
each other's arms. It's a nightmare neither one of them can ever
wake up from.
Leo: I just thank God that I didn't lose you or Mel too.
He gives her a little kiss. She breaks the hug & sighs.
Leo: Come on we better go. You don’t wanna look bad at their
funeral do you?
Angry at that comment Piper gets up & stomps out the room Leo
following behind her as a mysterious wind returns our attention to
the Book of Shadows. The triquetra, starts glowing on the front of
the cover & the pages flip to the last spell Piper cast, "To Call a Lost
Witch..."
South Bay Social Services
A young brunette woman, named Paige Matthews, sitting at her
desk pops in a CD into her computer. She turns her attention to the
computer screen. A woman’s talking on her desk phone.
Woman: Social services. May I help you?
Paige: Printing!
She notices a mysterious wind blows out her lit candle. She gets up
from her chair & takes a few steps to her right. Paige's back is
turned when a newspaper mysteriously appears, landing on the
floor next to Paige. She turns & bends over to pick up the
newspaper. She looks round then glances at the paper, noticing the
obituary section, informing about Prue & Phoebe Halliwell's Death’s
& where & when the funeral will be held. The obituary reads: PRUE
& Phoebe HALLIWELL... "Funeral Services will be held today at
Memorial Cemetery, 11:00AM. The manager of Social Services, Bob
Cowan come out his office.
Cowan: Paige, have you found that study yet?
He sees her reading the article. He goes up to her.
Cowan: Paige, did you hear me?
Paige continues to keep her eye on Prue's & Phoebe obituaries &
grabs her jacket.
Paige: Yeah. It's in the printer. I'm sorry, I have to go.
She begins to leave.
Cowan: What do you mean go? Go where? Paige! Hey, Paige!
Piper & Leo’s Room
Sitting by her dressing table Piper’s roughly brushing her hair not using her left hand with a plaster on it now.
Leo: Piper your goanna ruin, your hair if you keep doing that.
She doesn't react, & just keeps brushing.
Leo: Sweetie we have to go.
Piper: I’m not going.
Leo: Why not?
Piper: Because if I go, that'll mean that Prue & Phoebe aren’t coming
back, & I don't think I can handle that.
Leo: We can handle it together.
Piper shakes her head.
Piper: No we can’t. They were both there my whole life & the times
they argued & I had to break them up. I can’t imagine not doing
that anymore you know I’ve always had a big & baby sister. & now I
don't know how to live without them?
Leo: Piper...
He goes to touch her, but she pulls away.
Piper: Why couldn’t they be saved?
Leo: I don’t know things happen that just can’t be explained.
Piper: (Angry) Bull!.
Leo: Piper.
Piper: (Angry) No Leo magic abandoned us your bosses abandoned
us.
Leo: Piper Sandra couldn’t heal them because she can’t heal the
dead.
Piper: Then what the hell good are white lighters if they can’t heal
their charges?
She gets up, walks away from him, & finds a Kleenex. Leo follows.
Leo: It's okay to be angry…
Piper: I'm not angry. I am pissed off! Don't you understand? They
were the best things in my life you know we were the infamous
Haliwell sisters The Power Of Three & now.
She loses it again, overcome. Leo moves up behind her & this time,
she lets him hold her.
Piper: Why do they put us through so much for it to end this way?
Underworld
The Source in his dark cloaked robes appears in front of the Oracle.
Oracle: May I be seen?
The Source: Have you found Belthazor yet?
Oracle: No, but I’ve found something else very alarming.
He considers that for a beat, then turns & waves his clawed hand at
The Oracle so she appears as her sexy young self stroking her
ever-present crystal ball.
Oracle: Something more important.
The Source: Nothing’s more important.
Oracle: Not even The Charmed Ones?
The Source: The Charmed Ones are dead.
Oracle: Not all of them.
The Source: Yes the youngest sister may’ve swapped powers with her descendant who is now Charmed because of some loophole they found which can only involve Melissa along with her mother but with Prue gone also they don’t have the third power meaning the threats gone.
Oracle: The threats on hold not gone. The Power Of Three can be
reconstituted.
Hearing this, the Source appears shocked.
The Source: (Shocked) What? How?
The Oracle as she looks into her crystal ball which whips of smoke
forming inside.
Oracle: I see - a witch's call on the spirit winds. I see... another.
San Francisco Mausoleum
Outside the Chapel Of Rest lots of cars are seen coming in whilst
people are walking around them. A voice’s heard overhead singing
an acoustic version of the song “Bell, Book & Candle”
Chapel Of Rest
Coming inside the vision of Melissa sitting on a chair near Prue &
Phoebe’s coffins is the one seen playing the song. The crowd listen
on as the sultry sound of her voice reminds them of different
aspects of the girl’s lives. Finishing of she stands up & goes over
with her guitar to Victor. Beautiful ivory-colored coffins sit on two
pedestals amongst the flowers. An ivory-dressed, Wiccan Priestess
stands before a blue silk covered altar table, which’s adorned with a
ceremonial chalice. A tied, silver cord lays before the chalice, three lit
candles surround it, symbolizing birth, death, and the rebirth. To the
unaware mourners, however, the service comes across a part
traditional, part New Age. Piper sitting with Leo Victor sitting with
Melissa Darryl with Shelia & Cole along with Andy sit close to the
priestess. Piper, Andy, Cole & Victor dab their eyes whilst Melissa
just listens calm & collected like. The funeral program, which bares
the symbol of the triquetra above the names, reads: "PRUDENCE
HALLIWELL, & PHOEBE HALLIWELL 1970-2001; & 1975-2001 "Both
forever in our Hearts."
Priestess: That which belongs to fellowship & love. That which
belongs to the circle, remains with us. The wheel turns. As life is a day, so our sisters have passed into night. Nothing’s final, & we who remain behind know that one day, we will once again share the bread & wine with our sisters. O' blessed spirits, we bid you farewell, for you await a new destiny.
With that, she unties the silver cord & gently lays it into the chalice.
She blows out three candles which represent the Power Of Three.
Mourners stand & shake hands, crying, etc. Darryl & Shelia go over
to Piper & Melissa & hug them. People begin to pay their respects.
Melissa thanks another mourner then turns to the last of the
mourners, whom she doesn't recognize -- Paige, who shifts over,
anxiously.
Paige: I'm so sorry for your loss.
Melissa: Thank you.
Paige begins to leave but Melissa stops her.
Melissa: Wait how did you know Prue or Phoebe from college or
work?
Paige: No. Just from around, you know.
Melissa: Have we met before? You look like somebody I met a while
back ago.
Paige: No. I don't think so. Anyway, my condolences.
Melissa: Thank you.
Melissa shakes Paige's hand then gets hit with her first powerful
premonition: Paige’s on a skyscraper rooftop helipad. She screams
as she squeezes her eyes shut in fear as the demon Shax gestures
& sends a concessive blast toward her to kill her. Melissa stumbles
to the floor after her premonition ends.
Piper: Mel?
The gang go over to her as Paige, oblivious, but not wanting to stick
around, leaves. Leo & Victor help Melissa stand up.
Leo: Sweetie?
Cole: Are you okay?
Melissa: No I just had my first premonition.
Victor: What?
Melissa: Yeah.
Piper: What did you see?
Melissa: I saw the demon that killed Prue & Phoebe kill that girl.
Leo: What girl?
Melissa: The one I was just talking to. We've gotta go find her. Wow
now I know what it felt like when Aunt Phoebe got her visions.
She rubs her forehead a little just as two demonic bounty hunters
materialize on either side of Cole & immediately fire lightning bolts
at him. Cole dives, just barely avoiding the bolts, which blow up the
altar.
Leo: Go. Go.
Leo pulls Melissa behind a pillar for safety. Victor looks on in
disbelief. Cole rolls, coming up firing an energy, ball vanquishing
bounty hunter one. Bounty Hunter two gets ready to kill Cole but
before he can do that Melissa running out from behind spin kicks him
knocking the bounty hunter to the ground giving Cole time to get up
& fire an energy ball killing him. A third bounty hunter appearing
spins round to fire at Melissa, but Cole fires an energy ball at the
guy, blowing him up in a shower of fiery sparks. Piper lets out an
irritated, angry yell.
Piper: Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Damn it! This is Prue & Phoebe’s
funerals, for God's sake! Can't we at least cremate them in peace?!
Is that too much to ask?
She knocks over a vase of flowers then storms out in tears.
Manor
Melissa works her way slowly through the mourners who’re drinking
coffee, eating cold cuts, & sharing stories. She gives a woman a
plate.
Woman: Thank you.
Then walks over to Leo & Cole.
Melissa: I don't see her anywhere.
Leo: Who sweetie?
Looking around making sure no-one’s near them she whispers her
answer to Leo.
Melissa: (Whispering) The girl from my premonition.
Andy: (Whispering) You sure you don't recognize her from
anywhere?
She sighs.
Melissa: (Whispering) Well, actually this’s goanna sound weird but
she looked a little like Sam.
Hearing that name Cole looks a little quizzed.
Cole: Sam? As in you’re Sam?
Melissa: No not Sam, Sam but in Sam, Sam.
Still not knowing who she’s, talking about Andy looks to Leo.
Andy: Do you know what she’s talking about Leo?
Leo: I think so. (Whisper) Sam Wilder Patty Halliwell’s white lighter.
Cole: Whoa! You think he had a kid?
Melissa: I don’t know. I’m not sure entirely it’s just she looked like
him a little that’s all. Anyway we’ve gotta find her before nightfall &
before that bastard gets her.
Leo: Well you said she was attacked on a rooftop?
Melissa: Yeah one with a heli-pad… but it was a tall building,
although, there were a lot of taller ones around it.
Andy: Okay, so you just need to figure out which building it is before
Shax does.
Piper walks up to them.
Piper: & do what exactly? You can't defeat Shax, without the Power
of Three.
Melissa: (Whispering) Well we have to do something mom.
Piper: Why?
Melissa: (Whispering) Because I got that premonition for a reason,
& I can’t ignore it like Aunt Phoebe wouldn’t have. That girl’s our
innocent, so we have to try & save her.
Piper: Says who? Why do we have to?
Leo: Piper…
Piper: What? Do you really expect us to keep doing this stuff after
what happened? To keep, risking our lives? Do they?
Leo: Piper, keep your voice down…
Piper: No, Leo, I won't. I don't want to do this anymore, okay? It-It's
over! You can tell them that we buried their precious Charmed Ones
when I cremated my sister’s.
She spins & stalks upstairs. Leo starts to follow, but Melissa stops
him.
Melissa: No Leo, leave her be. She needs to be alone right now. (Whispering) Look I know the Source won't come after us anymore but they'll still go after innocents. No you'll all think I'm suicidal considering I don't have my own powers anymore but I'm still a witch even with Aunt Phoebe's powers who protects the innocent like I have to with that girl. I can't let her die especially not by the same demon that killed Aunt Phoebe & Prue.
Andy: We understand it’s just how’re you goanna stop Shax without
the Power of Three to say the vanquishing spell?
Cole: I’ll go with her as backup beats sitting around waiting for the
next bounty hunter to attack.
Leo: Okay becareful won’t will.
Moving close to Leo Melissa hugs & whispers in his ear.
Melissa: (Whispering) I will dad.
Breaking up she & Cole move off over to Victor whose taking to a
man.
Victor: I appreciate you coming over. It means so much to the Piper.
Man: Of course Victor.
Budging in Melissa taps Victor.
Melissa: Uncle Victor? Oh excuse me us please.
She pulls him over.
Melissa: Okay I know this’s a lot to ask you but I’m goanna need to
take over the funeral for me alright.
Victor: What? Why?
Melissa: Me & Cole need to go something where.
Victor: Go where?
Cole: Trust me, you don't want to know.
Before Victor can react, they turn to see Darryl entering in with an
Inspector Cortez who’s wearing a coat & tie, & has self-made, eyes
that never miss a trick.
Darryl: Mel. Victor. Sorry about this, but Inspector Cortez insisted on
meeting today…
Cortez: I just wanted to extend my deepest sympathies.
Melissa: Thank you.
Victor: Thanks.
Cole: (Whispering) I’ll just get Prue’s car.
He steps outta the Manor.
Darryl: Where's Piper?
Melissa: Upstairs. She's not feeling well.
Cortez: Understandable. I know what’s, it’s like & how hard it can
be losing relatives. I lost a sister once myself, We're goanna find the
monster who did this to your cousins Miss Hale. I promise you this.
Darryl & Melissa exchange a look. Cortez notices this.
Cortez: Something I said?
Melissa: No, uh, it's just the word, monster.
Cortez: Well that's what he was - how else do you describe
somebody so vicious? We have to stop him before he strikes again.
Melissa: I couldn't agree with you more, Inspector. If you'll excuse
me,
She goes to leave, but Cortez stops her.
Cortez: I know what difficult time this’s for you & your cousin, Miss
Hale but we really need to talk.
Victor: But not right now.
Cortez: Yes of course I’m sorry
He holds Melissa's look for an uncomfortable beat, then allows her
to exit. Darryl, concerned, looks at Cortez.
Attic
Piper’s angrily placing five lit candles in a lose circle on the floor in
front of the Book of Shadows.
Piper: (Angry) I'm a witch, damn it. I've summoned people before & I'm goanna summon my sisters whether you like it or not! No more
games, no more playing the good witch.
She goes to the Book, which’s opened to the “Summoning Dead”
spell.
Piper: I want to talk to my sisters. I need to talk to my sisters. At
the very least, you owe me that.
Piper takes a soul-cleansing breath, then glares at the Book.
Piper: HERE THESE WORDS. HEAR MY CRY SPIRITS FROM THE OTHER.
COME TO ME, I SUMMON THEE. CROSS NOW THE GREAT DIVIDE.
Inside the circle, white magical lights, ever-so-slowly begin to
appear. Piper looks up, her anger replaced by hopeful wonder as she steps closer, anticipating Prue & Phoebe’s appearance, but is, instead, surprised to see the ghost of Penelope Halliwell.
Piper: Grams?
Grams: Hello, my darling. How’re you?
Piper: How am I? Are you kidding? Do you guys not get the news up
there?
Grams: I meant, how’re you holding up?
Piper: Not very well. I'm a little lost. Why didn't you come before?
When I called after…
Grams: I couldn't, Piper. I was... busy.
Piper: You were busy?
Grams: I was with your sisters.
Piper: Oh. Of course you were. Right. Well, that makes sense. Are
they okay?
Grams: Your mother & I are helping them through this.
Piper: But how are they?
Grams: I'm not allowed to tell you now... just like you're not allowed
to see them at least not for a while anyway.
Piper: Why not?
Grams: Because seeing them right now, speaking to them, keeps
them alive for you, which keeps you from being able to move on
with your life, & continuing with your destiny.
Piper: What destiny? Okay. It's over. It's done. Prue & Phoebe are
gone & I…
Grams: I know, sweetie. I know... but if there's one thing you've
learned over the last three years, it's that there's a reason for
everything like why Mel kept Phoebe’s powers when she died.
Maybe that’s because you’re destiny’s not over yet & that it still
awaits. Blessed be.
She disappears in the same swirl of white lights that brought her to
Piper.
Underworld
The Source flames in through a fiery display.
The Source: Anything?
The Oracle, still coiled around her smoke-filled crystal ball, looks up
from it.
Oracle: Unfortunately since the last attack, Belthazor has been very
elusive -
The Source: Leave Belthazor to the bounty hunters. What about the
other?
The Oracle confidently waves her hand over the crystal ball.
Oracle: Her future's becoming much more, clear. & as it appears,
short-lived...
The crystal ball shows swirling smoke inside as it begins to form into
the image of a dancing woman, Paige.
Clubroom
Paige’s dancing with her boyfriend, Shane. The club’s hopping - a
hot band lights up the place. The song ends the crowd cheers then
Shane & Paige drift over to their table & sit. Paige looks distracted,
distant.
Shane: You alright?
Paige: Me? Yeah why?
Shane: Well, you seem... a little quieter than usual. That's all.
Paige: What makes you think I'm not like this all of the time?
Shane: Well, we've been dating for a month now. So, I think I'd
know.
A passing waitress goes by them.
Shane: Uh, hey, can we get a couple of long necks?
Waitress: Sure.
Paige: (To waitress) Make mine a mineral water, please?
Waitress: Mm-mmm.
Paige: (To waitress) Thanks.
The waitress notes the order & leaves.
Paige: So much for how well you know me cowboy. I don't drink. I’m
a recovering alcoholic who had lot of problems with liquids years
ago. But that's all behind me now & I’ve been sober two years.
Shane: Oh do you want to go someplace else, or…?
Paige: No, no, no, I like it here. Gosh. I should. I've been coming to
P Three for the last year or so, on & ff. I mean, ever since that...
Shane: Ever since what?
Paige: Oh, never mind. It's boring. (Pause) All right, but if I tell you
all about Paige & you use it against me, I will get out my voodoo doll
& make you sorry you're a man. (Pauses) So my sad stories that I'm
adopted, only it's not so sad because I loved my parents, God rest them. Anyway after they died, I went searching for my birth mother,
hoping to get some answers.
She begins to doodle something on a napkin.
Paige: I went to the police who found the church I got dumped at...
& I checked around & figured she must've lived near here, you know? They even thought I might've been... related to the Halliwell sisters for a minute, but their Mom died a long time ago, so I gave up on that.
Shane: Well, did you ever meet the sisters, ask them about it or...
Paige: Yeah right. "Hi. I think your Mom might've abandoned me at
birth. What's for dinner?" No. I don't think so.
The waitress brings them their drinks, allowing Paige to lean back,
try to end this, painful topic. Shane, though, cares, wants to know
more.
Waitress: Here you are.
Paige: Thanks.
Waitress: You're welcome
Shane: So that, that still doesn't explain why you keep coming here.
Paige: Well, one of the sisters… owns it, so… I don't know. I guess I
just kinder feel - connected somehow. That's why I went to the
funeral today. I just felt like I had to. Okay. I sound certifiably
insane. Good job, Paige. Way a go.
Shane, touched, shuts her up by leaning in & giving her a kiss. She
responds then pulls back slightly, allowing her vulnerability to show.
Paige: Don't hurt me, okay? I can't handle anymore right now.
His answer’s another kiss, deeper, meaningful. She accepts it,
returns the passion. They part, stare into each other's eyes. Hers
are ablaze.
Paige: Come on. I have something to show you.
Shane hurriedly tosses a twenty on the table. They leave. The
cocktail napkin Paige was doodling on has a drawing of a rough
version of the triquetra, Power of Three symbol on it.
Skyscraper Building
Melissa, bundled in an observation room, looks out through the
binoculars. Cole approaches from behind, handing here a
thermostat cup of coffee.
Cole: Here you go.
Melissa lowers the binoculars turns to take the cup.
Melissa: Thanks. & thanks for coming.
Cole: No worries. I wouldn’t have let you gone by yourself anyway.
Phoebe wouldn’t have forgiven me If I hadn’t have done that.
Melissa: Yeah well I think this’s the right place. But maybe we
should try one of the other rooftops just to make sure.
Cole: Or maybe we should follow your first instincts & stay right
here.
Melissa: Okay. But, what if I'm wrong? That girl will get killed.
Cole: You can't save every innocent, Mel, or stop every demon.
Melissa: Yeah. Well, I have to stop this one. I just hope that by me
saying the vanquishing spell, wounds him enough that you can take him out.
Cole: We don’t know if my energy balls will work. Prue deflected
Shax’s own & it didn’t affect him.
Melissa: Well even so we have to do something.
Cole: Yeah I know.
Looking onward Cole spies the girl & a man walking outta a door.
Cole: Ooh, looks like your instincts were right.
Melissa turns & raises her binoculars.
Melissa: We've gotta shimmer over there!
Cole: & tell her what? That a demon's gonna attack? I think we
should stay right here.
They wait as Paige, oblivious to the looming danger, leads a
reluctant Shane to the centre of the heli-pad.
Shane: Aren't you afraid that we're goanna to get caught?
Paige: I like an element of danger.
She lets go of his hand, then spins around, arms out wide, looking
up at the stars, free.
Paige: Oh. Look at the stars. They're so beautiful! They make me feel... free.
She takes off her jacket slightly He kisses her. Meanwhile, Phoebe
lowers the binoculars & turns away. Cole’s still looking.
Melissa: All right, any ideas?
Cole: A couple maybe.
Melissa smacks him.
Melissa: I meant about what we do now. I mean, we can't just keep watching, it's not right.
Cole takes the binoculars from Melissa & takes a look.
Cole: You're right. We shouldn't just keep watching.
Melissa blocks his view.
Melissa: Okay, very good.
A moving tornado materializes out of thin air & races toward the
unsuspecting lovers. The demon, Shax, appears & fires a concussive
blast. Paige opens her eyes at the last second & sees it over
Shane's shoulder.
Paige: Shane!!
The blast makes Shane go flying backwards, knocking himself out.
Paige screams. Shax throws another concussive blast at Paige.
Paige screams & orbs out then back in, realizing that she's still alive, somehow. Paige turns the other way & runs to the roof access tower. Shax, surprised at her ability to orb, turns back into a
tornado and follows. Seeing this Melissa’s shocked.
Melissa: (Shocked) She orbed! Oh my god.
Paige runs away.
Cole: Yeah I know. Come on!
Cole grabs & shimmers out with her.
Inside Room Tower
Paige’s running for her life & scampers down the stairs onto the
catwalk then stops as she hears the ominous sound of the tornado
approaching. She slowly turns to see Shax standing there. But
before he can throw another concussive blast, he stops as he sees
Cole & shimmer in. Paige turns, just in time to see the tail end of the
shimmer, shocked.
Paige: What the hell?
Melissa: Get outta here! Hurry! Go! Go!
Cole fires an energy ball at Shax, but it barely fazes him. He fires
another one as Paige, freaked, takes off running up the stairs.
Cole: Say the spell, damn it!
Melissa: EVIL WIND THAT BLOWS, THAT WHICH FORMS BELOW. NO LONGER MAY YOU DWELL. DEATH TAKES YOU WITH THIS SPELL.
Shax although weakend by this manages to get off a concussive, blast at Cole, which knocks him over the stairway rail. Just as Shax, in agony, turns into a ghostly wind & streaks away from the scene. Melissa panic- stricken runs to the edge. Cole plummets five stories, but just before he pancakes, he recovers enough to shimmer out.
Melissa: Cole! Can you hear me?
Cole shimmers next to Melissa who smacks him on the shoulder.
Melissa: Gods sakes Cole don’t scare me like that.
Cole: Its alright, I'm okay. I just don't know about your innocent.
Kitchen
Leo’s debating with Cole & Melissa with what they say. Piper's in
the background.
Leo: Are you sure she orbed? & that it wasn't something else?
Melissa: Dad I was half white lighter you know. I think I’d know
when someone’s orbed.
Leo: It just doesn't make sense.
Cole: Why?
Leo: Because why would Shax want to kill a white-lighter?
Andy hearing this over near them butts in.
Andy: Well maybe he doesn't know she's a white-lighter Leo.
Leo: Right, the Source sends out his personal assassin, but doesn't
know who he's after?
Piper, in the background, clatters the pots that she's washing,
noticeably.
Cole: (To Leo) Is it possible she didn't know she’s a white lighter?
Melissa: No she’d be told if she was.
Leo: Then why’s what happened important?
Cole: Because she acted as if she didn't. She acted just as surprised
as we were when she orbed out.
Leo: Well that doesn't make any sense either.
Melissa: Which’s why I think she’s half white lighter. The why she
orbed the fact, she looks a little like Sam. She must be his daughter.
Andy: But how can Sam have a daughter? I thought before Piper &
Leo white lighters couldn’t have relationships.
Leo: They couldn’t.
Andy: Then how’s this possible then?
Cole: Something must’ve happened in secret.
Andy: Maybe you should go up there Leo check see if it’s true or not. I could ask Darryl at the station to look up on her if you draw a picture of her Mel.
Melissa nods her head.
Melissa: (nodding) Okay.
Leo looks at Piper.
Leo: Alright I'll be right back.
He orbs out.
Cole: Maybe I should, uh, go to the other side & see what I can find
out.
Melissa looks at him.
Melissa: No.
Cole: I'll be careful. Nobody'll see me. Besides, it could be good to
me to go back down, confused any bounty hunters that might be
trying to track me. Don't worry. I won't disappear.
Melissa: Okay.
Standing near her he shimmers out. Piper’s hunched over the sink.
Melissa moves closer to her.
Melissa: Hey, you okay?
Piper: Yeah. Sure, why not? We could have another funeral
tomorrow. I mean, all the dishes are out & we pretty much know
who to invite.
She holds a small white towel in her hand & faces Phoebe.
Melissa: Mom.
Piper: Just tell me one thing. Are you insane or are you just plain
stupid? We cremate your Aunts this morning & you go off tonight &
nearly join them. What the hell’s the matter with you?
Melissa: I was trying to save an innocent mom.
Piper: Why?
Melissa: Because I couldn't let her die. We’re still witches despite the fact Aunt Prue & Phoebe are dead.
Piper: (Angry) No. We're good at getting killed & dying young that’s what
this family does best.
She throws the towel onto a counter in frustration & anger.
Piper: (Angry) & you’re making it way too easy for them, sweetie.
You’re walking right into it.
Melissa: I wasn’t alone mom I had Cole with me.
Piper: & look what happened to him.
Melissa: MOM!
Piper: Oh come on how do you think this’s dishonouring your Aunts
memories like that.
Melissa: Mom dishonouring Aunt Prue & Phoebe’s memories is ignoring that premonition & not saving that girl. Now I know you don’t like that I’m sorry but I’m not just goanna let up because I don’t have my own powers anymore.
Turning around & looking at Melissa Piper speaks.
Piper: Fine you wanna go & get yourself killed be my guest.
At that she walks of out the room leaving Melissa alone.
Hospital Room
Paige enters Shane's room. He sits up from his bed.
Shane: Paige.
Paige: Hey.
Shane: What happened?
Paige: Shane, I feel so bad. I just got scared & ran off.
Shane: Of course.
Paige: Are you alright? What'd they say?
Shane: It's no big deal, just a little concussion.
Paige: Oh, no.
Shane: No, I'm goanna be fine. They wouldn't be releasing me if I
wasn't, right? I'm just glad you're okay, too.
Paige: Yeah, well, physically anyway.
Shane: Did you talk to the cops yet?
Paige: No. Why?
Shane: Why? They want to find out who attacked us, that's why. I -
I told them you saw him.
Paige: You did what?
Shane: Well, you did. Didn't you?
Cortez enters the room.
Cortez: Did you?
Paige: Who’re you?
Cortez: Inspector Cortez, homicide. I'd like to ask you a couple of
questions.
Shane: Wait, homicide? No one was murdered.
Cortez: Based on the MO, if it's the same perpetrator I think it was that just makes you lucky. He killed three people last week, violently, one of them a young woman who looked a little bit like you.
Paige: Prue.
Cortez: Prue Halliwell yes. Her younger sister Phoebe was murdered
also. Did you know them?
Paige: No not really.
Shane: Well, in a way you did, right?
Cortez: What way was that? Were you friends of hers or her cousin
& sister?
Paige: No, not friends.
Cortez: Then what? Look. I know you know something. I can see it
in your eyes. Just like I know they know something, too. If you're
trying to protect them in anyway, I'll find out.
Paige: Well, in that case, I have nothing to worry about.
She kisses Shane.
Paige: You rest up. I'll be back. (To Cortez) Excuse me.
Paige leaves the room.
Lounge
Piper’s sitting by the fireplace as Melissa walks in two cups of coffee
one which she hands to Piper.
Melissa: I made this for you if you want.
Piper: Thanks.
She sits down next to her.
Melissa: Listen I’m sorry I had a go at you.
Piper: No I understand. You’ve been a witch a long time. What you do's
important.
Melissa: & so are your feelings. You’re right we do die young & that
scares me waking up each day thinking will I live to the end of it or
be dead. But if I keep thinking that way I’ll never live my life I’ll
always be in fear of it & that’s not good. Yes we do's dangerous
but it’s what we chose to do & we can’t ignore that. Aunt Prue
& Phoebe never did even though it cost them their lives.
Thinking about them Piper speaks.
Piper: Doesn't seem real, does it? I mean what’re we goanna do
with all of their stuff with Prue’s car?
Melissa: Sell it probably.
Piper: Unless you want it since you can’t orb now.
Melissa: (Sarcastically) Oh thanks mom rub it in why don’t you. No it wouldn’t feel right having it. It’s Aunt Prue’s car.
She holds hands with Piper.
Melissa: We'll get through this, mom. We just have to stick together.
Piper: I can’t believe you’re so cool about this which’s good as it
would’ve been a disaster if we’d both fallen apart.
Melissa: Yeah well I’ve been through this before in the future so.
Piper: True but you didn’t know your Aunts then did you.
Thinking about them a second she pauses, a beat then speaks.
Melissa: No I didn’t.
Andy walks in through the front door & into the lounge.
Andy: Okay I managed to get as much info on the girl as I could. Her name’s Paige Matthews twenty five years old. Adopted by, Sarah & Robert Matthews on August 9th 1975. Her parents died young in a car accident leaving her the soul survivor. She works at South Bay Social Services & lives at a loft apartment on Portero Avenue.
Piper: Yeah but that still doesn't tell us if she's a white-lighter or a half one or not.
Andy: Well that's all I got. Sorry.
Melissa: That's okay Uncle Andy. Least you tried. Thanks.
Cole shimmers into the room.
Cole: Whew. Sorry I took so long. Had to, dodge a couple of bounty
hunters?
Seeing, their faces Cole talks.
Cole: What’s up?
Andy: We’re not sure. But I did find out about the girl though.
Paige. What did you find out?
Cole: You’ve no idea of that. Turns out the Source doesn't think
she's a white-lighter at all.
He sits on the arm of the couch behind him.
Cole: In fact, he thinks she might be another Charmed One. That's
why he put Shax on it. He thought he ended the Power of Three.
Now he's worried this girl may reconstitute it.
Piper eyes widened hearing this
Piper: Wait another charmed one?
Cole nods his head.
Cole: That what I heard yes.
Melissa: So it looks like my theory was right then.
Andy put his hand over his mouth in shock as if saying "Oh my god!" silently as Leo orbs into the room seeing their dumb found faces.
Leo: Whoa hey what's up with the dumb found faces?
Looking towards them Mel answers.
Mel: We just fought out my theory about Paige was correct meaning the Source will go after us and her now if the power of three is reconstituted.
Leo looks downward slightly replying.
Leo: Oh right.
Piper gets up going over to him.
Piper: Whaddya mean alright Leo?
Seeing his response Piper continues saying.
Piper: Oh my god they know.
Mel: Know what mom?
Piper leaves the room as the others follow her. Cole recites.
Cole: Piper?
She goes up to the attic & then to the book.
Attic
Melissa: Mom whaddya doing?
Piper: I'm goanna summon Grams & ask her if it’s true.
Melissa: True about what?
Piper: About whether she and the Elders knew about Paige all along. Your destiny still awaits she says. There's a reason for everything, she says. So, it's time to summon her transparent
butt back here & find out exactly what that reason is.
Melissa: Okay, but maybe we should.
Piper: HERE THESE WORDS. HEAR MY CRY SPIRITS FROM THE OTHER.
COME TO ME, I SUMMON THEE. CROSS NOW THE GREAT DIVIDE.
As bright lights fill the room Piper quickly says another spell so that Grams is visible to Andy.
Piper: SPIRIT STANDING BY OUR SIDE REVEAL YOURSELF TO MORTALS EYES.
She lets out a semi-satisfied sigh as Grams, appears then whom Andy can see now.
Grams: Piper? Why’re you calling? Mel wha-what's going on?
Piper: The Source Grams thinks the Charmed Ones can be
reconstituted because we have a long lost relation. Now Mel had a
vision of her & thinks she looks a little like mom’s white lighter Sam which apparantly the Elders know about as well.
Grams: I don't know what you're talking about.
Piper: Well its simple really mom & Sam had a relationship yes?
Hearing this, Grams lowers her head a little.
Grams: Yes.
Piper: Did they have a child outta it?
Not talking Grams pauses.
Melissa: Grams if Grandma Patty & Sam had a baby we need to
know about this, this could be important.
After a few seconds Grams speaks.
Grams: I can’t tell if that’s true or not I’m sorry.
Piper: Why not?
Patty Halliwell appears right next to Grams in a bright light.
Patty: Because I swore her not to.
Melissa: Grandma.
Hallway
Cortez & Darryl enter the manor. Cortez’s holding a flashlight.
Darryl: You can't just walk in here like this.
Cortez stops.
Cortez: Search warrant says I can.
Darryl: What the hell are you looking for?
Cortez: Do you really expect me to believe you don't know,
Inspector? Follow me & keep your voice down.
He continues searching.
Attic
Patty’s explaining to everyone in the room as she paces.
Patty: We didn't tell anybody Piper because of the be reprisals it would have on your powers.
Andy: What reprisals?
Grams: If Paige stayed with her sisters then the power of three wouldn't exist because the prophecy only spoke of three sisters not four.
Melissa: How do you know this?
Patty: Because the girls wouldn't have worked properly if they were all together.
Piper: And the Elders knew this to?
Grams nods her head stating.
Grams: They did yes.
Piper: So they told you to give up Paige then?
Patty shakes her hear uttering.
Patty: No sweetie that decision was ultimately mine and Sam's but they did advise it for your safety and hers obviously.
Mel: Encase evil came after them.
The two Halliwell elders nodded in confirmation at that.
Patty: Yes.
Piper: So when did it happen then?
Patty: After your father & I divorced, when Sam & I were together.
Piper: Go on.
Patty: You & your sisters were toddlers. You just thought Mommy
got a little fat.
She smiles.
Patty: You never knew I was pregnant.
Grams: I was the only one who knew.
Patty: & Sam, obviously.
Grams: Right. Well, of course yes.
Melissa: That must’ve been why Sam had that look when we meet
me ages ago. He couldn’t believe another half white lighter witch
existed besides Paige.
Seeing this Patty nods in acknowledgment.
Patty: We wanted to keep her so much. But well.
Melissa: You had no choice just like Cole & Grandpa didn’t have with my cousins & me.
Patty: Unfortunately yes. Anyway Sam & I took her to a local church as soon as she was born. & we asked the nun there to find her a home & she found a very, very good one.
Grams: Yes.
Andy: So hang on a sec Paige really is Piper’s half sister & Mel’s Aunt then?
Patty: Piper’s baby half sister by my half, which makes her another Charmed One. Well, actually, not yet anyway. Not until all three of them are here together by the Book just like before but with the loophole now added in.
Grams: Charmed again.
Cole: & I thought my family was screwed up.
Piper gives Cole a look. Cortez walks into the attic, seeing the two
ghosts there which Darryl can see also. Everyone’s stunned. Darryl’s right behind him.
Cortez: Well, I'll be damned.
Piper: Darryl, do something!
Darryl: He's a cop, Piper. & he's got a search warrant.
Cortez: & believe me, I've found what I've been searching for.
Cole moves slightly towards Cortez. He aims his gun at him.
Cortez: Ah-ah-ah-ah. Don't move. I'll shoot.
Cole: Yeah & so will I.
Leo: Cole.
Melissa: Okay Inspector, just put the gun down. There’s a very good
explanation for all of this. Feel free to chime in anytime, guys.
Cortez: My whole life, I suspected evil magic was real, that there
was something more. I've seem too many horrible things in the job
to suspect otherwise, not the least of which are the two murders
that happened here.
Andy: There not evil Cortez there good.
Looking at Andy Cortez speaks.
Cortez: Yeah & I can’t believe you married one.
Angered by that Andy comes towards him.
Andy: (Angry) How dare you say that about my, wife. She was the
most, loveliest person I ever met & done more good than you’ll ever
know.
Piper: Wait. Is he accusing us of something?
Cortez: I've just begun to accuse you, lady!
Grams: Alright, fine. You caught us. Congratulations. So what’re you
goanna do about it? Shoot us?
Melissa: Easy, Grams. Not all of us are dead, thank you.
Leo: Alright, look, you can't arrest us, especially not them. Nobody
will ever believe you.
Cortez: Not at first maybe but I'm putting this whole place under
constant surveillance & taping your every move. Sooner or later, I'll
catch you doing something supernatural, & then…
Darryl knocks Cortez out with the, but of his gun. He falls to the
floor.
Darryl: I think you've been through enough today, hey.
Piper: Thank Darryl.
Melissa walks over to him.
Melissa: You better go before he wakes up. You shouldn’t have to
take the fall for this.
Darryl: No, it's okay.
Melissa: No, it's not. This is our problem. He wants to expose us, not
you. Let us take care of this, please?
Darryl: If you need me, you know where to find me.
Melissa nods & turns to Cole. Darryl leaves the manor.
Cole: It doesn't solve your problem. He'll wake up eventually. You've
just bought yourself some time.
Leo: Which’s what you're goanna need, especially if you're wanna
save you’re.
Melissa: Aunt?
Leo: Yes.
Grams: Well, what’re we waiting for? Say a spell & get rid of him Mel.
Melissa: Me? What? I do potions not spells.
Grams: So try it. If Phoebe could do it surely you can. Just makes up
some words & start rhyming. With all the witches in this room, we
oughta be able to do something with him. Um TAKE HIM BACK, TAKE
HIM AWAY. REMOVE HIM NOW. DON’T LET HIM STAY.
She gestures to Melissa.
Melissa: Um WE CALL ON THE SPIRITS TO HELP UNDO & SEND HIM
OFF TO TIMBUKTU.
Cortez vanishes from the floor.
Melissa: (Excited) Hey It worked.
Piper: Timbuktu? You sent him to Timbuktu?
Melissa: Yeah well it's my first spell in ages okay & the only word
I could think of rhymed with undo.
Cole: Don't worry. Uh, I'll find him.
Cole shimmers out.
Piper: Okay, well this’s way too much for me to handle way too
much.
Patty: Nobody blames you for being angry, sweetie.
Piper: Angry? Yeah, I'm angry & confused & you know you can’t just
float in here years later & go, "Oh gosh, I forgot to tell you by the
way I’ve a sister." Not today of all days especially.
Patty: I know it's a lot, sweetie. More than anybody should deal
with, but you & Mel will have to deal with it best way you can.
Losing Prue & Phoebe learning about another relation this’s your,
path. You’re destiny. Get angry at it, & cry about it, but don't fight it.
Or it'll consume you.
Grams: Come on, Patty. The rest’s up to them.
Grams & Patty disappear. Piper & Leo & Andy & Melissa head
downstairs.
Stairs
Andy: Can you sense her yet Leo?
Melissa: She’s not a witch yet so technically he can’t. Okay if we’re
goanna find Paige we need to as k at her apartment building what
numbers she’s at or if not there the church Grandma mentioned &
the nun.
Piper: Okay, let's get one thing straight. I’m only doing this to save
her. I'm not remotely interested in reconstituting The Charmed
Ones.
Piper’s cut off to find Paige waiting for them by the front door.
Paige: I’m sorry door was open. I shouldn't be here.
Paige turns to leave but Melissa stops her.
Melissa: No, no Paige wait. We were just looking for you.
Paige: How do you know my name?
Melissa: My uncle Andy told us. He’s a cop.
Andy puts his right hand up.
Andy: Hey.
Paige: Whoa!
Melissa hooks her arm into Paige's & walks over to Piper & Leo.
Melissa: Yeah. Come on in. Welcome. I'm Melissa Mel.
Paige: Yeah I know I’ve heard you at P Three. You’re really great.
Melissa: Thanks. & this’s.
Paige: Piper. I know. She owns it.
Piper: It's nice to meet you.
Piper shakes Paige's hand. A bright blue shines over the girls.
Paige: Okay. What was that?
Leo: I think that means you're supposed to be here.
The door slams open & a strong wind knocks Melissa, Piper & Paige
backwards. Leo’s knocked down on the stairs. Shax materializes &
walks closer. He’s about to strike when Andy & Leo manhandle him.
Andy: Run! Get upstairs!
Piper: Leo!? Andy?
The girls run upstairs. Shax throws the two men on the floor
knocking them out then looks upstairs.
Attic
Melissa, Piper & Paige enter & go to the Book.
Paige: Oh my god what is that thing?
Melissa: A demon which we'll explain later.
Piper flips through the pages of the Book.
Piper: Okay, just say this spell out loud with us, okay?
Paige: Spell, what’re you guys, witches?
Melissa: & so are you.
Piper: Which we’re about to find out.
The strong wind breaks through the attic door & Shax materializes.
The girls recite the vanquishing spell.
Melissa, Piper, Paige: EVIL WIND THAT BLOWS, THAT WHICH FORMS
BELOW. NO LONGER MAY YOU DWELL. DEATH TAKES YOU WITH THIS
SPELL.
Shax moans in pain & explodes in a hail of wind disappearing for good the newly reconstituted charmed ones think .
Melissa: That’s not enough. Shax was just the messenger. We gotta
get the Source.
Paige: The Source of what?
Piper: All evil.
Paige: Oh my god what’ve you guys turned me into?
Paige turns & runs out the attic then the house.
Piper: Paige?
Melissa: Wait.
Piper & Melissa start following as the scene cuts to the Underworlds afterwards.
The Underworld
Where the Source and the Oracle standing next to one another see Shax form in from Halliwell Manor wounded which surprises the demon greatly when he sees he's not in the demonic wasteland as expected.
Shax: Oracle, my Liege. What am I doing here? Why am I not in the wasteland?
The Oracle sits up from her pedestal & comments.
Oracle: Because you’re not dead Shax that's why.
Shax: But the charmed ones vanquished me.
Stepping forward the Source, answers.
The Source: No they defeated you not vanquished. One spell from a newly resurrected trio doesn't make the power of three automatically. To harness that power they need the bond also which they don't have yet like the original three so until then.
Shax: I'm safe?
Nodding her head the Oracle relates.
Oracle: For yes.
Placing his hand on Shax's arm the Source conveys.
The Source: Go now Shax rest yourself until I need you again.
Bowing down Shax goes off & does that.
Shax: Yes my Liege.
The Source goes over to the Oracle who speaks.
Oracle: What now then?
The Source: Now we'll have to think of something else won't we.
The scene holds onto them before fading out & turning to black then leaving the words saying.
TO BE CONTINUED.
The End.
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the, Charmed characters they all
belong to Aaron Spelling productions except Melissa Hale who’s my
own creation.
Authors Notes: This’s series three of my, Charmed season, which
continues a week after “All Hell Breaks Loose”
Note: Hiya folks & welcome to my new season of Charmed. Yeh! I’m
so excited about this & proud to be writing another season also.
Sorry I haven’t written anymore Charmed stories yet but I’ve been,
working firstly & secondly also write other stories about
“Supernatural” & “Smallville” which I’ve been doing so recently. That
doesn’t mean I’m neglecting Charmed of course because I still love
the show & want to continue writing about it which I’m doing now.
Anyway continuing on from last season my stories will be different
as they were then but still have the same outcome so the episodes
fit together. Everyone who was there will still, be here minus Prue &
Phoebe who’re dead of course & some other characters that were
introduced will be back this season. I’ll still be using spells from the
show & some I create myself which’ll be different but still have the
same affect & better sounding. I may, use some stories from season
two as episode fillers to outweigh the main storyline going on here
or I mayn’t. I’ll see about that when it comes along.
Extra Note: It’s the season premier & Prue & Phoebe are dead after
Shax killed them in the season two finale “All Hell Breaks Loose” The
surviving Charmed Ones Piper & her daughter Melissa who now has
Phoebe’s premonition & astral powers strive to stay alive from
demonic attacks & The source as they prepare to cremate their
relatives. Piper tries summoning her sisters after Melissa’s attacked
by a demon but inadvertently winds up finding a long sister after
Melissa gets her first premonition of Shax trying to kill her when the
Oracle has a vision of her completing the new Power Of Three in the
Manor Halliwell. Leo’s a White Lighter again via the Elders request
so his family are safe & protected. Cole helps them whilst coming to
terms with own grief as does Andy about Prue. & the ladies become
exposed by a homicide detective who’s investigating the two
sister’s murders.
Episode One
Melissa Hale talks to the viewers in a voiceover.
Melissa: Previously on Charmed Aunt Prue & Aunt Phoebe, mom & I
had to protect Dr. Griffiths from the Source’s hitman Shax. Me &
Phoebe swapped powers so Phoebe could save Cole. Prue & mom
got exposed by a television news crew who saw them use their
powers. Mom got shoot by a crazy woman & died. Cole persuaded
the Source to get Tempest the demon to reset time but when he did
Shax changed his tactics & killed Prue first then Phoebe second & Dr
Griffiths third. The scene ended with just me & mom looking on at
what happened. Okay & here now comes the new season of
Charmed.
Kitchen Wednesday Fourth August Late Evening
Melissa coming downstairs in a light blue pyjama set & tied up mahogany red hair walks over to the one of the cupboards & gets out a plain glass cup & fills that up with water from the kitchen tap. Bringing it to her mouth she’s just about to drink it when she’s grabbed by from behind by a mystery assailant & strangled around the neck. Letting go of the glass of water which smashes onto the floor Melissa tries freeing herself from him but he tightens his grip on her. Kicking her legs up she places them against the kitchen sink & using her hands moves her body upwards so she flips over him & lands in behind. Lifting her right leg up Melissa kicks the assailant in the chest sending him back against the sinks edge. Raising his right hand up he summons an, energy ball & throws it at Melissa who side rolls out the way trying to avoid it. It hits her on the shoulder causing her to yelp in pain then hide behind one of middle kitchen’s table legs in defence. Lifting her head up she spies where the demon is & waits till he’s right near her then puts her left leg out & trips him over her & quickly gets up & goes over to one the drawers & pulls a carving knife out which she swings round & slices against the demon’s chest when he comes at her. Groaning in pain he staggers back at the intensity of the wound. Lifting the knife up high Melissa holds it angry looking ready to strike again. The demon charges at her but gets, frozen/blown up by Piper standing by the kitchen door with Andy & Leo. Sighing in relief Melissa drops the knife & sinks to the floor holding her shoulder wound. Rushing over to her Leo heals Melissa’s wound with his newly reacquired white lighter powers so she’s alright. Finishing the job he helps her up afterwards.
Leo: You alright sweetie?
Melissa: Yeah I think so thanks.
Angry looking Piper speaks.
Piper: (Angry) That’s it I’m summoning my sisters back.
Turning around she stomps of to the attic leaving Leo & Andy worried.
OPENING CREDITS
I am the son and the heir
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
See I’ve already waited to long
And all my hope is gone
STARRING
MELISSA HALE
PIPER WYATT HALLIWELL
PAIGE MATTHEWS
LEONARDO THEODORE WYATT
COLERIDGE BENJAMIN TURNER / BELTHAZOR
ANDREW TRUDEAU
DARRYL MORRIS
GUEST STARRING
VICTOR BENNETT
THE SOURCE
SHAX
PENELOPE HALLIWELL
PATTY HALLIWELL
ORACLE
SHANE
INSPECTOR CORTEZ
BOB COWAN
San Francisco Bay & City
Various parts of San Francisco bay and city are been shown whilst
“Never Goanna Leave Your Side” By Daniel Bedingfield’s playing.
Verse
I feel like a song without the words a man without a soul.
A bird without his wings a heart without a home.
I feel like a knight without a sword the sky without the sun.
Cause you are the one.
I feel like a ship beneath the waves a child who’s lost its way.
A door without the, key a face without a name.
I feel like a breath without the air & every day’s the same since you’ve gone away.
I gotta have a reason to wake up this morning.
You used to be the one that put a smile on my face.
There are no words that could describe how I miss you.
& I miss you every day
Chorus
I’m never goanna leave your side I’m never goanna leave your side again.
Still holding on girl I won’t let you go
Cause’ when I’m lying in your arms I know I’m home.
Lounge Thursday Fifth September
The rooms set up for the post-funeral wake with various things lying about. Melissa coming in ticks of a list of to do list she’s doing.
Melissa: Okay hearses are arriving at 10 the wreaths are laid
outside & the foods been delivered.
Stopping in front of Victor Bennett dressed in a dark suit & sitting on
a chair, staring vacantly at the floor Melissa sees the look on his
face which only a parent having lost their children would’ve.
Melissa: You okay Grandpa. Can I get you anything?
She touches him tenderly on the shoulder. He looks up at her.
Victor: No thanks sweetie I’m okay.
Melissa: Alright then.
Andy entering the room dressed in black also comes, over to them.
Melissa goes up & hugs him on the shoulder.
Melissa: You okay Uncle Andy?
Andy: When the days over ask me that question.
Melissa: Okay then.
Andy: Do you think the Source employed the demon last night?
Melissa: Unlikely since he has no reason to go after us anymore with the power of three gone.
Hearing this Victor stands up.
Victor: Demon what demon?
Andy trying not to hurt Victor answers.
Andy: The one that attacked Mel last night.
Turning his head at Melissa he looks at her shocked.
Victor: (Shocked) You were attacked?
Melissa: Its okay mom froze/blew him up & dad healed me so
everything's alright.
Victor: Then why was it after you?
Andy: We don't know Victor.
Victor: Isn't there anything you can do you know some spell that
can't make them come here until after the funeral?
Melissa: Well I’ve placed concealed crystals around the house
forming a protection grid so they shouldn’t be able to do that.
Victor: Okay but I thought whatever loophole you found when Phoebe was alive allowing you to be a Charmed One was only temporary then?
Melissa: Well time was manipulated not reset when Shax attacked changing his plan killing both Prue and Phoebe instead of injuring mom and aunt Prue plus the protection spell I cast keeping aunt Phoebe’s powers included the loophole also which can only happen with me.
Raising his right hand Victor runs it through his grey hair.
Victor: (Angry) Err God can’t I cremate my daughter’s in peace without
something evil happening.
Bringing her right hand up Melissa places it on Victor’s shoulders in
sympathy. Turning round she sees Leo walk in.
Melissa: Hey dad.
Leo: Hey sweetie. Look whose back.
Cole appears out from behind Leo looking pale & unshaven.
Melissa: Cole!
Running over she hugs then releases him.
Melissa: Hey you’re back good the cars are coming at 10 so if you
get washed & changed quickly then.
Cole: I’m not coming to the funeral Mel.
Melissa has a shocked look on her face when she hears this.
Melissa: (Shocked) Whaddya mean you’re not coming? This’s Prue &
Phoebe’s day of course you have to come. You’ve every right to.
Cole: Yeah & the Source has every demonic bounty hunter out there
looking for me.
Melissa: So what else’s new?
Cole: The fact that I tried to help save Prue & Phoebe is. That
makes me a traitor & he won’t stop until he finds me & I won’t let
that happen at their funeral.
Melissa: But you have to come, Cole to say goodbye to Phoebe. You
did love her didn’t you?
Cole: (Angry) Of course yes but I can’t bring the bounty hunters
there like I said.
Melissa: (Angry) Oh my god what a pathetic excuse for a word you
son of a bitch.
Defending himself Cole comes right up close to her.
Cole: (Angry) How dare you. You don’t know anything about me.
Melissa: (Angry) I know more than you’d like Cole & if you were half
the demon I knew you’d come to that funeral.
Andy upset steps in between them & prises them apart.
Andy: (Upset) Hey can we not argue on Prue’s or Phoebe’s day
please? Thank you.
Looking at him the two people back off.
Cole: Sorry Andy.
Melissa: Yeah sorry Uncle Andy.
Andy: Okay.
Victor getting outta his seat walks over to them.
Victor: Hey can’t Mel & Piper protect you & you still come to the
funeral?
Cole: No they can’t.
Victor: Why not? There still witches, right?
Melissa: Yeah, but we’re not Charmed Grandpa & I’m still trying to
figure out how to use Aunt Phoebe’s powers.
Melissa finds herself at the partially repaired, unpainted wall where
her aunts died. Leo steps in.
Leo: Mel's right, Without the Power of Three…
Victor: Yeah but can’t demons not track another demon in a
cemetery?
Cole: No they can’t
Victor: Well then you can go can’t you? Phoebe would be
devastated if you didn’t.
Looking at Victor Cole answers.
Cole: Alright then I’ll go.
Victor places his right arm on Cole left shoulder.
Victor: Good man.
They hear the doorbell ring.
Leo: I’ll get it.
Going to the door he opens it up & sees a flowers delivery man
standing outside with a wreath. Signing the delivery form Leo takes
it into the lounge.
Andy: Who’re they from?
Looking at the note inside Leo sees the names of the recipients.
Leo: Sam & Dean.
Lifting his head up Leo eyes Melissa up.
Victor: Oh that’s nice.
Leo: Yeah they send their condolences & say their sorry they can’t
make it.
Andy: Or more like Sam wants to stay away from Mel since they split
up because it’d be too painful for him to see her.
First hearing of this Cole looks at Melissa.
Cole: You two split up?
Melissa: Yeah well after Phoebe & Prue died I couldn’t be with him
anymore knowing I mightn’t be around to get married & he, John or
Dean could be danger which I’d constantly worry about making me
loose focus on my job which I can’t do if we’re to get Shax & the
Source.
Cole looks at her sympathetically.
Cole: I’m sorry that’s happened. You two seemed perfect for each
other.
Melissa: Yeah well that’s what life does to you when it bites you in
the bullet.
Hearing the door open they turn around seeing Darryl walk in.
Darryl: Hey, guy’s sorry door was open. How’re you all holding up?
Leo: Doing the best we can Darryl.
Darryl: Yeah I thought so. Listen I’m sorry about Prue & Phoebe you
have my condolences as well as Shelia’s.
Victor: Thank you Darryl.
Darryl: That’s okay.
Turning round he walks towards Andy.
Darryl: How’re you doing pal?
Andy: Not good but I’m trying to keep it together.
Understanding this Darryl nods his head.
Darryl: Yeah of course.
Andy: Are you coming to the funeral?
Darryl: Certainly & so will Shelia. Prue & Phoebe were our friends.
But before we go I have to tell you all unfortunately that they're
assigning their case to another inspector.
Leo: Case What case?
Darryl: Leo Prue, Phoebe & Dr. Griffiths were killed here, last week
which made a lot of press. People want answers very important
people.
Cole: So, what's this guy goanna find? That it was a demonic
hitman? Huh gimme a break.
Andy: Cole you can’t say things like that.
Cole: Oh yeah?
Andy: Yes. Homicide detectives are trained to find out the truth &
they don’t stop until they do.
Turning his head back he talks to Darryl.
Andy: Who’ve they put on the case?
Darryl: Cortez.
Andy: Right.
Leo: Cortez?
Andy: A homicide inspector in our department. He’s good solved a
few cases.
Melissa: nuts.
Cole: Oh come on your not worried are you? I'm not.
Leo: I am. I saw what happened when they were exposed as
witches. Time may’ve reversed itself, but it still cost Prue & Phoebe
their lives.
Victor: Would you people mind? I’m cremating my daughters for
god's sakes can't this wait?
Melissa goes over & hugs her grandfather who's struggling to hold it
all together.
Melissa: It’s okay Grandpa.
Darryl: I’m sorry I’ll come back when you’re more composed.
Turning round he leaves the house. Leo closes the door behind him.
Andy: You okay Victor?
Victor: Once I’ve got through this I will be yes.
Cole: You’re cremating them?
Melissa: Best defence against evil. Stops, them from getting hold of
their corpses & doing things with them.
Andy laughs at that comment.
Andy: (Laughing) I can’t believe you’re so calm & collected. You
haven’t cried once since they died.
Melissa: Yeah well I’d already lost my family in the future so it’s
easier for me besides someone had to organise the funeral didn’t
they.
Andy: Yeah but you’ll never get to know your cousins now.
Melissa: No but I got to in the future which’s the important thing.
Cole: Hey where’s Piper? I don’t see her about.
Leo: She’s probably upstairs still trying to summon her sister’s back.
Attic
Piper in tears flips the Book of Shadows. She cants the Power of
Three spell hoping that Prue would return.
Piper: HEAR NOW THE WORDS OF THE WITCHES, THE SECRETS WE
HID IN THE NIGHT. THE OLDEST OF GODS ARE INVOKED HERE, THE
GREAT MAGIC IS SOUGHT.
A candle flickers. She's surrounded by herb jars, chalices & other ritualistic items.
Piper: IN THIS NIGHT & IN THIS HOUR, I CALL UPON THE ANCIENT
POWER.
She looks up and closes her eyes.
Piper: BRING BACK MY SISTERS. BRING BACK THE POWER OF THREE.
She keeps her eyes closed for a prayerful beat, then opens them,
looks at the candle, but sees nothing. Blindly determined, she starts
flipping through the pages of the book until she finds another spell,
To Call a Lost Witch. She expertly finds & mixes certain ingredients
rosemary, cypress, yarrow root into a silver bowl as she chants from
the book.
Piper: POWER OF THE WITCHES RISE. COURSE UNSEEN ACROSS THE
SKIES. COME TO US WHO CALL YOU NEAR. COME TO US & SETTLE
HERE.
Using an athame she slices the left finger of her left hand so that
blood can symbolically spill directly from her heart & into the bowl.
Piper: BLOOD TO BLOOD, I SUMMON THEE. BLOOD TO BLOOD,
RETURN TO ME.
A faint gust of wind flickers the candle, but not much else. She
buries her face in her hands in defeat. Coming through the door Leo
calls out to her.
Leo: Piper?
Hearing him she looks up, hopeful.
Piper: Prue?
She looks at the candle.
Leo: Honey it’s nearly 10 o’clock the cars will be here soon.
Piper doesn't answer, just stares blankly at the book. Leo notices
Piper's bleeding hand & go’s over putting a tissue on it applying pressure to the wound.
Leo: You're bleeding.
Piper doesn't notice, him or care what he does.
Piper: I don't understand why magic can't fix this. & why we can't
bring Prue & Phoebe back. It's not like we haven't cheated death
before. I don't understand why this times any different.
Leo: Because Mel couldn’t heal the dead.
Piper: (Angry) Yeah cause’ she swapped powers with Phoebe.
Leo: Piper she was only trying to help you know that.
Piper: Yeah but there's other magic, magic we've used before.
She flips through the pages & fights the tears.
Piper: Scrying, calling a lost witch, reversing time.
She closes the Book & stands up.
Piper: It's like the book just deserted us & Prue & Phoebe I don't
understand why.
Leo takes Piper's other hand, holds them both, shares her pain.
Leo: You lost you’re sisters. How can we ever understand that?
(Pause) You’ve tried every magical way to bring them back… but you
can't. There gone.
Their eyes well up as they face the harsh reality, then they fall into
each other's arms. It's a nightmare neither one of them can ever
wake up from.
Leo: I just thank God that I didn't lose you or Mel too.
He gives her a little kiss. She breaks the hug & sighs.
Leo: Come on we better go. You don’t wanna look bad at their
funeral do you?
Angry at that comment Piper gets up & stomps out the room Leo
following behind her as a mysterious wind returns our attention to
the Book of Shadows. The triquetra, starts glowing on the front of
the cover & the pages flip to the last spell Piper cast, "To Call a Lost
Witch..."
South Bay Social Services
A young brunette woman, named Paige Matthews, sitting at her
desk pops in a CD into her computer. She turns her attention to the
computer screen. A woman’s talking on her desk phone.
Woman: Social services. May I help you?
Paige: Printing!
She notices a mysterious wind blows out her lit candle. She gets up
from her chair & takes a few steps to her right. Paige's back is
turned when a newspaper mysteriously appears, landing on the
floor next to Paige. She turns & bends over to pick up the
newspaper. She looks round then glances at the paper, noticing the
obituary section, informing about Prue & Phoebe Halliwell's Death’s
& where & when the funeral will be held. The obituary reads: PRUE
& Phoebe HALLIWELL... "Funeral Services will be held today at
Memorial Cemetery, 11:00AM. The manager of Social Services, Bob
Cowan come out his office.
Cowan: Paige, have you found that study yet?
He sees her reading the article. He goes up to her.
Cowan: Paige, did you hear me?
Paige continues to keep her eye on Prue's & Phoebe obituaries &
grabs her jacket.
Paige: Yeah. It's in the printer. I'm sorry, I have to go.
She begins to leave.
Cowan: What do you mean go? Go where? Paige! Hey, Paige!
Piper & Leo’s Room
Sitting by her dressing table Piper’s roughly brushing her hair not using her left hand with a plaster on it now.
Leo: Piper your goanna ruin, your hair if you keep doing that.
She doesn't react, & just keeps brushing.
Leo: Sweetie we have to go.
Piper: I’m not going.
Leo: Why not?
Piper: Because if I go, that'll mean that Prue & Phoebe aren’t coming
back, & I don't think I can handle that.
Leo: We can handle it together.
Piper shakes her head.
Piper: No we can’t. They were both there my whole life & the times
they argued & I had to break them up. I can’t imagine not doing
that anymore you know I’ve always had a big & baby sister. & now I
don't know how to live without them?
Leo: Piper...
He goes to touch her, but she pulls away.
Piper: Why couldn’t they be saved?
Leo: I don’t know things happen that just can’t be explained.
Piper: (Angry) Bull!.
Leo: Piper.
Piper: (Angry) No Leo magic abandoned us your bosses abandoned
us.
Leo: Piper Sandra couldn’t heal them because she can’t heal the
dead.
Piper: Then what the hell good are white lighters if they can’t heal
their charges?
She gets up, walks away from him, & finds a Kleenex. Leo follows.
Leo: It's okay to be angry…
Piper: I'm not angry. I am pissed off! Don't you understand? They
were the best things in my life you know we were the infamous
Haliwell sisters The Power Of Three & now.
She loses it again, overcome. Leo moves up behind her & this time,
she lets him hold her.
Piper: Why do they put us through so much for it to end this way?
Underworld
The Source in his dark cloaked robes appears in front of the Oracle.
Oracle: May I be seen?
The Source: Have you found Belthazor yet?
Oracle: No, but I’ve found something else very alarming.
He considers that for a beat, then turns & waves his clawed hand at
The Oracle so she appears as her sexy young self stroking her
ever-present crystal ball.
Oracle: Something more important.
The Source: Nothing’s more important.
Oracle: Not even The Charmed Ones?
The Source: The Charmed Ones are dead.
Oracle: Not all of them.
The Source: Yes the youngest sister may’ve swapped powers with her descendant who is now Charmed because of some loophole they found which can only involve Melissa along with her mother but with Prue gone also they don’t have the third power meaning the threats gone.
Oracle: The threats on hold not gone. The Power Of Three can be
reconstituted.
Hearing this, the Source appears shocked.
The Source: (Shocked) What? How?
The Oracle as she looks into her crystal ball which whips of smoke
forming inside.
Oracle: I see - a witch's call on the spirit winds. I see... another.
San Francisco Mausoleum
Outside the Chapel Of Rest lots of cars are seen coming in whilst
people are walking around them. A voice’s heard overhead singing
an acoustic version of the song “Bell, Book & Candle”
Chapel Of Rest
Coming inside the vision of Melissa sitting on a chair near Prue &
Phoebe’s coffins is the one seen playing the song. The crowd listen
on as the sultry sound of her voice reminds them of different
aspects of the girl’s lives. Finishing of she stands up & goes over
with her guitar to Victor. Beautiful ivory-colored coffins sit on two
pedestals amongst the flowers. An ivory-dressed, Wiccan Priestess
stands before a blue silk covered altar table, which’s adorned with a
ceremonial chalice. A tied, silver cord lays before the chalice, three lit
candles surround it, symbolizing birth, death, and the rebirth. To the
unaware mourners, however, the service comes across a part
traditional, part New Age. Piper sitting with Leo Victor sitting with
Melissa Darryl with Shelia & Cole along with Andy sit close to the
priestess. Piper, Andy, Cole & Victor dab their eyes whilst Melissa
just listens calm & collected like. The funeral program, which bares
the symbol of the triquetra above the names, reads: "PRUDENCE
HALLIWELL, & PHOEBE HALLIWELL 1970-2001; & 1975-2001 "Both
forever in our Hearts."
Priestess: That which belongs to fellowship & love. That which
belongs to the circle, remains with us. The wheel turns. As life is a day, so our sisters have passed into night. Nothing’s final, & we who remain behind know that one day, we will once again share the bread & wine with our sisters. O' blessed spirits, we bid you farewell, for you await a new destiny.
With that, she unties the silver cord & gently lays it into the chalice.
She blows out three candles which represent the Power Of Three.
Mourners stand & shake hands, crying, etc. Darryl & Shelia go over
to Piper & Melissa & hug them. People begin to pay their respects.
Melissa thanks another mourner then turns to the last of the
mourners, whom she doesn't recognize -- Paige, who shifts over,
anxiously.
Paige: I'm so sorry for your loss.
Melissa: Thank you.
Paige begins to leave but Melissa stops her.
Melissa: Wait how did you know Prue or Phoebe from college or
work?
Paige: No. Just from around, you know.
Melissa: Have we met before? You look like somebody I met a while
back ago.
Paige: No. I don't think so. Anyway, my condolences.
Melissa: Thank you.
Melissa shakes Paige's hand then gets hit with her first powerful
premonition: Paige’s on a skyscraper rooftop helipad. She screams
as she squeezes her eyes shut in fear as the demon Shax gestures
& sends a concessive blast toward her to kill her. Melissa stumbles
to the floor after her premonition ends.
Piper: Mel?
The gang go over to her as Paige, oblivious, but not wanting to stick
around, leaves. Leo & Victor help Melissa stand up.
Leo: Sweetie?
Cole: Are you okay?
Melissa: No I just had my first premonition.
Victor: What?
Melissa: Yeah.
Piper: What did you see?
Melissa: I saw the demon that killed Prue & Phoebe kill that girl.
Leo: What girl?
Melissa: The one I was just talking to. We've gotta go find her. Wow
now I know what it felt like when Aunt Phoebe got her visions.
She rubs her forehead a little just as two demonic bounty hunters
materialize on either side of Cole & immediately fire lightning bolts
at him. Cole dives, just barely avoiding the bolts, which blow up the
altar.
Leo: Go. Go.
Leo pulls Melissa behind a pillar for safety. Victor looks on in
disbelief. Cole rolls, coming up firing an energy, ball vanquishing
bounty hunter one. Bounty Hunter two gets ready to kill Cole but
before he can do that Melissa running out from behind spin kicks him
knocking the bounty hunter to the ground giving Cole time to get up
& fire an energy ball killing him. A third bounty hunter appearing
spins round to fire at Melissa, but Cole fires an energy ball at the
guy, blowing him up in a shower of fiery sparks. Piper lets out an
irritated, angry yell.
Piper: Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Damn it! This is Prue & Phoebe’s
funerals, for God's sake! Can't we at least cremate them in peace?!
Is that too much to ask?
She knocks over a vase of flowers then storms out in tears.
Manor
Melissa works her way slowly through the mourners who’re drinking
coffee, eating cold cuts, & sharing stories. She gives a woman a
plate.
Woman: Thank you.
Then walks over to Leo & Cole.
Melissa: I don't see her anywhere.
Leo: Who sweetie?
Looking around making sure no-one’s near them she whispers her
answer to Leo.
Melissa: (Whispering) The girl from my premonition.
Andy: (Whispering) You sure you don't recognize her from
anywhere?
She sighs.
Melissa: (Whispering) Well, actually this’s goanna sound weird but
she looked a little like Sam.
Hearing that name Cole looks a little quizzed.
Cole: Sam? As in you’re Sam?
Melissa: No not Sam, Sam but in Sam, Sam.
Still not knowing who she’s, talking about Andy looks to Leo.
Andy: Do you know what she’s talking about Leo?
Leo: I think so. (Whisper) Sam Wilder Patty Halliwell’s white lighter.
Cole: Whoa! You think he had a kid?
Melissa: I don’t know. I’m not sure entirely it’s just she looked like
him a little that’s all. Anyway we’ve gotta find her before nightfall &
before that bastard gets her.
Leo: Well you said she was attacked on a rooftop?
Melissa: Yeah one with a heli-pad… but it was a tall building,
although, there were a lot of taller ones around it.
Andy: Okay, so you just need to figure out which building it is before
Shax does.
Piper walks up to them.
Piper: & do what exactly? You can't defeat Shax, without the Power
of Three.
Melissa: (Whispering) Well we have to do something mom.
Piper: Why?
Melissa: (Whispering) Because I got that premonition for a reason,
& I can’t ignore it like Aunt Phoebe wouldn’t have. That girl’s our
innocent, so we have to try & save her.
Piper: Says who? Why do we have to?
Leo: Piper…
Piper: What? Do you really expect us to keep doing this stuff after
what happened? To keep, risking our lives? Do they?
Leo: Piper, keep your voice down…
Piper: No, Leo, I won't. I don't want to do this anymore, okay? It-It's
over! You can tell them that we buried their precious Charmed Ones
when I cremated my sister’s.
She spins & stalks upstairs. Leo starts to follow, but Melissa stops
him.
Melissa: No Leo, leave her be. She needs to be alone right now. (Whispering) Look I know the Source won't come after us anymore but they'll still go after innocents. No you'll all think I'm suicidal considering I don't have my own powers anymore but I'm still a witch even with Aunt Phoebe's powers who protects the innocent like I have to with that girl. I can't let her die especially not by the same demon that killed Aunt Phoebe & Prue.
Andy: We understand it’s just how’re you goanna stop Shax without
the Power of Three to say the vanquishing spell?
Cole: I’ll go with her as backup beats sitting around waiting for the
next bounty hunter to attack.
Leo: Okay becareful won’t will.
Moving close to Leo Melissa hugs & whispers in his ear.
Melissa: (Whispering) I will dad.
Breaking up she & Cole move off over to Victor whose taking to a
man.
Victor: I appreciate you coming over. It means so much to the Piper.
Man: Of course Victor.
Budging in Melissa taps Victor.
Melissa: Uncle Victor? Oh excuse me us please.
She pulls him over.
Melissa: Okay I know this’s a lot to ask you but I’m goanna need to
take over the funeral for me alright.
Victor: What? Why?
Melissa: Me & Cole need to go something where.
Victor: Go where?
Cole: Trust me, you don't want to know.
Before Victor can react, they turn to see Darryl entering in with an
Inspector Cortez who’s wearing a coat & tie, & has self-made, eyes
that never miss a trick.
Darryl: Mel. Victor. Sorry about this, but Inspector Cortez insisted on
meeting today…
Cortez: I just wanted to extend my deepest sympathies.
Melissa: Thank you.
Victor: Thanks.
Cole: (Whispering) I’ll just get Prue’s car.
He steps outta the Manor.
Darryl: Where's Piper?
Melissa: Upstairs. She's not feeling well.
Cortez: Understandable. I know what’s, it’s like & how hard it can
be losing relatives. I lost a sister once myself, We're goanna find the
monster who did this to your cousins Miss Hale. I promise you this.
Darryl & Melissa exchange a look. Cortez notices this.
Cortez: Something I said?
Melissa: No, uh, it's just the word, monster.
Cortez: Well that's what he was - how else do you describe
somebody so vicious? We have to stop him before he strikes again.
Melissa: I couldn't agree with you more, Inspector. If you'll excuse
me,
She goes to leave, but Cortez stops her.
Cortez: I know what difficult time this’s for you & your cousin, Miss
Hale but we really need to talk.
Victor: But not right now.
Cortez: Yes of course I’m sorry
He holds Melissa's look for an uncomfortable beat, then allows her
to exit. Darryl, concerned, looks at Cortez.
Attic
Piper’s angrily placing five lit candles in a lose circle on the floor in
front of the Book of Shadows.
Piper: (Angry) I'm a witch, damn it. I've summoned people before & I'm goanna summon my sisters whether you like it or not! No more
games, no more playing the good witch.
She goes to the Book, which’s opened to the “Summoning Dead”
spell.
Piper: I want to talk to my sisters. I need to talk to my sisters. At
the very least, you owe me that.
Piper takes a soul-cleansing breath, then glares at the Book.
Piper: HERE THESE WORDS. HEAR MY CRY SPIRITS FROM THE OTHER.
COME TO ME, I SUMMON THEE. CROSS NOW THE GREAT DIVIDE.
Inside the circle, white magical lights, ever-so-slowly begin to
appear. Piper looks up, her anger replaced by hopeful wonder as she steps closer, anticipating Prue & Phoebe’s appearance, but is, instead, surprised to see the ghost of Penelope Halliwell.
Piper: Grams?
Grams: Hello, my darling. How’re you?
Piper: How am I? Are you kidding? Do you guys not get the news up
there?
Grams: I meant, how’re you holding up?
Piper: Not very well. I'm a little lost. Why didn't you come before?
When I called after…
Grams: I couldn't, Piper. I was... busy.
Piper: You were busy?
Grams: I was with your sisters.
Piper: Oh. Of course you were. Right. Well, that makes sense. Are
they okay?
Grams: Your mother & I are helping them through this.
Piper: But how are they?
Grams: I'm not allowed to tell you now... just like you're not allowed
to see them at least not for a while anyway.
Piper: Why not?
Grams: Because seeing them right now, speaking to them, keeps
them alive for you, which keeps you from being able to move on
with your life, & continuing with your destiny.
Piper: What destiny? Okay. It's over. It's done. Prue & Phoebe are
gone & I…
Grams: I know, sweetie. I know... but if there's one thing you've
learned over the last three years, it's that there's a reason for
everything like why Mel kept Phoebe’s powers when she died.
Maybe that’s because you’re destiny’s not over yet & that it still
awaits. Blessed be.
She disappears in the same swirl of white lights that brought her to
Piper.
Underworld
The Source flames in through a fiery display.
The Source: Anything?
The Oracle, still coiled around her smoke-filled crystal ball, looks up
from it.
Oracle: Unfortunately since the last attack, Belthazor has been very
elusive -
The Source: Leave Belthazor to the bounty hunters. What about the
other?
The Oracle confidently waves her hand over the crystal ball.
Oracle: Her future's becoming much more, clear. & as it appears,
short-lived...
The crystal ball shows swirling smoke inside as it begins to form into
the image of a dancing woman, Paige.
Clubroom
Paige’s dancing with her boyfriend, Shane. The club’s hopping - a
hot band lights up the place. The song ends the crowd cheers then
Shane & Paige drift over to their table & sit. Paige looks distracted,
distant.
Shane: You alright?
Paige: Me? Yeah why?
Shane: Well, you seem... a little quieter than usual. That's all.
Paige: What makes you think I'm not like this all of the time?
Shane: Well, we've been dating for a month now. So, I think I'd
know.
A passing waitress goes by them.
Shane: Uh, hey, can we get a couple of long necks?
Waitress: Sure.
Paige: (To waitress) Make mine a mineral water, please?
Waitress: Mm-mmm.
Paige: (To waitress) Thanks.
The waitress notes the order & leaves.
Paige: So much for how well you know me cowboy. I don't drink. I’m
a recovering alcoholic who had lot of problems with liquids years
ago. But that's all behind me now & I’ve been sober two years.
Shane: Oh do you want to go someplace else, or…?
Paige: No, no, no, I like it here. Gosh. I should. I've been coming to
P Three for the last year or so, on & ff. I mean, ever since that...
Shane: Ever since what?
Paige: Oh, never mind. It's boring. (Pause) All right, but if I tell you
all about Paige & you use it against me, I will get out my voodoo doll
& make you sorry you're a man. (Pauses) So my sad stories that I'm
adopted, only it's not so sad because I loved my parents, God rest them. Anyway after they died, I went searching for my birth mother,
hoping to get some answers.
She begins to doodle something on a napkin.
Paige: I went to the police who found the church I got dumped at...
& I checked around & figured she must've lived near here, you know? They even thought I might've been... related to the Halliwell sisters for a minute, but their Mom died a long time ago, so I gave up on that.
Shane: Well, did you ever meet the sisters, ask them about it or...
Paige: Yeah right. "Hi. I think your Mom might've abandoned me at
birth. What's for dinner?" No. I don't think so.
The waitress brings them their drinks, allowing Paige to lean back,
try to end this, painful topic. Shane, though, cares, wants to know
more.
Waitress: Here you are.
Paige: Thanks.
Waitress: You're welcome
Shane: So that, that still doesn't explain why you keep coming here.
Paige: Well, one of the sisters… owns it, so… I don't know. I guess I
just kinder feel - connected somehow. That's why I went to the
funeral today. I just felt like I had to. Okay. I sound certifiably
insane. Good job, Paige. Way a go.
Shane, touched, shuts her up by leaning in & giving her a kiss. She
responds then pulls back slightly, allowing her vulnerability to show.
Paige: Don't hurt me, okay? I can't handle anymore right now.
His answer’s another kiss, deeper, meaningful. She accepts it,
returns the passion. They part, stare into each other's eyes. Hers
are ablaze.
Paige: Come on. I have something to show you.
Shane hurriedly tosses a twenty on the table. They leave. The
cocktail napkin Paige was doodling on has a drawing of a rough
version of the triquetra, Power of Three symbol on it.
Skyscraper Building
Melissa, bundled in an observation room, looks out through the
binoculars. Cole approaches from behind, handing here a
thermostat cup of coffee.
Cole: Here you go.
Melissa lowers the binoculars turns to take the cup.
Melissa: Thanks. & thanks for coming.
Cole: No worries. I wouldn’t have let you gone by yourself anyway.
Phoebe wouldn’t have forgiven me If I hadn’t have done that.
Melissa: Yeah well I think this’s the right place. But maybe we
should try one of the other rooftops just to make sure.
Cole: Or maybe we should follow your first instincts & stay right
here.
Melissa: Okay. But, what if I'm wrong? That girl will get killed.
Cole: You can't save every innocent, Mel, or stop every demon.
Melissa: Yeah. Well, I have to stop this one. I just hope that by me
saying the vanquishing spell, wounds him enough that you can take him out.
Cole: We don’t know if my energy balls will work. Prue deflected
Shax’s own & it didn’t affect him.
Melissa: Well even so we have to do something.
Cole: Yeah I know.
Looking onward Cole spies the girl & a man walking outta a door.
Cole: Ooh, looks like your instincts were right.
Melissa turns & raises her binoculars.
Melissa: We've gotta shimmer over there!
Cole: & tell her what? That a demon's gonna attack? I think we
should stay right here.
They wait as Paige, oblivious to the looming danger, leads a
reluctant Shane to the centre of the heli-pad.
Shane: Aren't you afraid that we're goanna to get caught?
Paige: I like an element of danger.
She lets go of his hand, then spins around, arms out wide, looking
up at the stars, free.
Paige: Oh. Look at the stars. They're so beautiful! They make me feel... free.
She takes off her jacket slightly He kisses her. Meanwhile, Phoebe
lowers the binoculars & turns away. Cole’s still looking.
Melissa: All right, any ideas?
Cole: A couple maybe.
Melissa smacks him.
Melissa: I meant about what we do now. I mean, we can't just keep watching, it's not right.
Cole takes the binoculars from Melissa & takes a look.
Cole: You're right. We shouldn't just keep watching.
Melissa blocks his view.
Melissa: Okay, very good.
A moving tornado materializes out of thin air & races toward the
unsuspecting lovers. The demon, Shax, appears & fires a concussive
blast. Paige opens her eyes at the last second & sees it over
Shane's shoulder.
Paige: Shane!!
The blast makes Shane go flying backwards, knocking himself out.
Paige screams. Shax throws another concussive blast at Paige.
Paige screams & orbs out then back in, realizing that she's still alive, somehow. Paige turns the other way & runs to the roof access tower. Shax, surprised at her ability to orb, turns back into a
tornado and follows. Seeing this Melissa’s shocked.
Melissa: (Shocked) She orbed! Oh my god.
Paige runs away.
Cole: Yeah I know. Come on!
Cole grabs & shimmers out with her.
Inside Room Tower
Paige’s running for her life & scampers down the stairs onto the
catwalk then stops as she hears the ominous sound of the tornado
approaching. She slowly turns to see Shax standing there. But
before he can throw another concussive blast, he stops as he sees
Cole & shimmer in. Paige turns, just in time to see the tail end of the
shimmer, shocked.
Paige: What the hell?
Melissa: Get outta here! Hurry! Go! Go!
Cole fires an energy ball at Shax, but it barely fazes him. He fires
another one as Paige, freaked, takes off running up the stairs.
Cole: Say the spell, damn it!
Melissa: EVIL WIND THAT BLOWS, THAT WHICH FORMS BELOW. NO LONGER MAY YOU DWELL. DEATH TAKES YOU WITH THIS SPELL.
Shax although weakend by this manages to get off a concussive, blast at Cole, which knocks him over the stairway rail. Just as Shax, in agony, turns into a ghostly wind & streaks away from the scene. Melissa panic- stricken runs to the edge. Cole plummets five stories, but just before he pancakes, he recovers enough to shimmer out.
Melissa: Cole! Can you hear me?
Cole shimmers next to Melissa who smacks him on the shoulder.
Melissa: Gods sakes Cole don’t scare me like that.
Cole: Its alright, I'm okay. I just don't know about your innocent.
Kitchen
Leo’s debating with Cole & Melissa with what they say. Piper's in
the background.
Leo: Are you sure she orbed? & that it wasn't something else?
Melissa: Dad I was half white lighter you know. I think I’d know
when someone’s orbed.
Leo: It just doesn't make sense.
Cole: Why?
Leo: Because why would Shax want to kill a white-lighter?
Andy hearing this over near them butts in.
Andy: Well maybe he doesn't know she's a white-lighter Leo.
Leo: Right, the Source sends out his personal assassin, but doesn't
know who he's after?
Piper, in the background, clatters the pots that she's washing,
noticeably.
Cole: (To Leo) Is it possible she didn't know she’s a white lighter?
Melissa: No she’d be told if she was.
Leo: Then why’s what happened important?
Cole: Because she acted as if she didn't. She acted just as surprised
as we were when she orbed out.
Leo: Well that doesn't make any sense either.
Melissa: Which’s why I think she’s half white lighter. The why she
orbed the fact, she looks a little like Sam. She must be his daughter.
Andy: But how can Sam have a daughter? I thought before Piper &
Leo white lighters couldn’t have relationships.
Leo: They couldn’t.
Andy: Then how’s this possible then?
Cole: Something must’ve happened in secret.
Andy: Maybe you should go up there Leo check see if it’s true or not. I could ask Darryl at the station to look up on her if you draw a picture of her Mel.
Melissa nods her head.
Melissa: (nodding) Okay.
Leo looks at Piper.
Leo: Alright I'll be right back.
He orbs out.
Cole: Maybe I should, uh, go to the other side & see what I can find
out.
Melissa looks at him.
Melissa: No.
Cole: I'll be careful. Nobody'll see me. Besides, it could be good to
me to go back down, confused any bounty hunters that might be
trying to track me. Don't worry. I won't disappear.
Melissa: Okay.
Standing near her he shimmers out. Piper’s hunched over the sink.
Melissa moves closer to her.
Melissa: Hey, you okay?
Piper: Yeah. Sure, why not? We could have another funeral
tomorrow. I mean, all the dishes are out & we pretty much know
who to invite.
She holds a small white towel in her hand & faces Phoebe.
Melissa: Mom.
Piper: Just tell me one thing. Are you insane or are you just plain
stupid? We cremate your Aunts this morning & you go off tonight &
nearly join them. What the hell’s the matter with you?
Melissa: I was trying to save an innocent mom.
Piper: Why?
Melissa: Because I couldn't let her die. We’re still witches despite the fact Aunt Prue & Phoebe are dead.
Piper: (Angry) No. We're good at getting killed & dying young that’s what
this family does best.
She throws the towel onto a counter in frustration & anger.
Piper: (Angry) & you’re making it way too easy for them, sweetie.
You’re walking right into it.
Melissa: I wasn’t alone mom I had Cole with me.
Piper: & look what happened to him.
Melissa: MOM!
Piper: Oh come on how do you think this’s dishonouring your Aunts
memories like that.
Melissa: Mom dishonouring Aunt Prue & Phoebe’s memories is ignoring that premonition & not saving that girl. Now I know you don’t like that I’m sorry but I’m not just goanna let up because I don’t have my own powers anymore.
Turning around & looking at Melissa Piper speaks.
Piper: Fine you wanna go & get yourself killed be my guest.
At that she walks of out the room leaving Melissa alone.
Hospital Room
Paige enters Shane's room. He sits up from his bed.
Shane: Paige.
Paige: Hey.
Shane: What happened?
Paige: Shane, I feel so bad. I just got scared & ran off.
Shane: Of course.
Paige: Are you alright? What'd they say?
Shane: It's no big deal, just a little concussion.
Paige: Oh, no.
Shane: No, I'm goanna be fine. They wouldn't be releasing me if I
wasn't, right? I'm just glad you're okay, too.
Paige: Yeah, well, physically anyway.
Shane: Did you talk to the cops yet?
Paige: No. Why?
Shane: Why? They want to find out who attacked us, that's why. I -
I told them you saw him.
Paige: You did what?
Shane: Well, you did. Didn't you?
Cortez enters the room.
Cortez: Did you?
Paige: Who’re you?
Cortez: Inspector Cortez, homicide. I'd like to ask you a couple of
questions.
Shane: Wait, homicide? No one was murdered.
Cortez: Based on the MO, if it's the same perpetrator I think it was that just makes you lucky. He killed three people last week, violently, one of them a young woman who looked a little bit like you.
Paige: Prue.
Cortez: Prue Halliwell yes. Her younger sister Phoebe was murdered
also. Did you know them?
Paige: No not really.
Shane: Well, in a way you did, right?
Cortez: What way was that? Were you friends of hers or her cousin
& sister?
Paige: No, not friends.
Cortez: Then what? Look. I know you know something. I can see it
in your eyes. Just like I know they know something, too. If you're
trying to protect them in anyway, I'll find out.
Paige: Well, in that case, I have nothing to worry about.
She kisses Shane.
Paige: You rest up. I'll be back. (To Cortez) Excuse me.
Paige leaves the room.
Lounge
Piper’s sitting by the fireplace as Melissa walks in two cups of coffee
one which she hands to Piper.
Melissa: I made this for you if you want.
Piper: Thanks.
She sits down next to her.
Melissa: Listen I’m sorry I had a go at you.
Piper: No I understand. You’ve been a witch a long time. What you do's
important.
Melissa: & so are your feelings. You’re right we do die young & that
scares me waking up each day thinking will I live to the end of it or
be dead. But if I keep thinking that way I’ll never live my life I’ll
always be in fear of it & that’s not good. Yes we do's dangerous
but it’s what we chose to do & we can’t ignore that. Aunt Prue
& Phoebe never did even though it cost them their lives.
Thinking about them Piper speaks.
Piper: Doesn't seem real, does it? I mean what’re we goanna do
with all of their stuff with Prue’s car?
Melissa: Sell it probably.
Piper: Unless you want it since you can’t orb now.
Melissa: (Sarcastically) Oh thanks mom rub it in why don’t you. No it wouldn’t feel right having it. It’s Aunt Prue’s car.
She holds hands with Piper.
Melissa: We'll get through this, mom. We just have to stick together.
Piper: I can’t believe you’re so cool about this which’s good as it
would’ve been a disaster if we’d both fallen apart.
Melissa: Yeah well I’ve been through this before in the future so.
Piper: True but you didn’t know your Aunts then did you.
Thinking about them a second she pauses, a beat then speaks.
Melissa: No I didn’t.
Andy walks in through the front door & into the lounge.
Andy: Okay I managed to get as much info on the girl as I could. Her name’s Paige Matthews twenty five years old. Adopted by, Sarah & Robert Matthews on August 9th 1975. Her parents died young in a car accident leaving her the soul survivor. She works at South Bay Social Services & lives at a loft apartment on Portero Avenue.
Piper: Yeah but that still doesn't tell us if she's a white-lighter or a half one or not.
Andy: Well that's all I got. Sorry.
Melissa: That's okay Uncle Andy. Least you tried. Thanks.
Cole shimmers into the room.
Cole: Whew. Sorry I took so long. Had to, dodge a couple of bounty
hunters?
Seeing, their faces Cole talks.
Cole: What’s up?
Andy: We’re not sure. But I did find out about the girl though.
Paige. What did you find out?
Cole: You’ve no idea of that. Turns out the Source doesn't think
she's a white-lighter at all.
He sits on the arm of the couch behind him.
Cole: In fact, he thinks she might be another Charmed One. That's
why he put Shax on it. He thought he ended the Power of Three.
Now he's worried this girl may reconstitute it.
Piper eyes widened hearing this
Piper: Wait another charmed one?
Cole nods his head.
Cole: That what I heard yes.
Melissa: So it looks like my theory was right then.
Andy put his hand over his mouth in shock as if saying "Oh my god!" silently as Leo orbs into the room seeing their dumb found faces.
Leo: Whoa hey what's up with the dumb found faces?
Looking towards them Mel answers.
Mel: We just fought out my theory about Paige was correct meaning the Source will go after us and her now if the power of three is reconstituted.
Leo looks downward slightly replying.
Leo: Oh right.
Piper gets up going over to him.
Piper: Whaddya mean alright Leo?
Seeing his response Piper continues saying.
Piper: Oh my god they know.
Mel: Know what mom?
Piper leaves the room as the others follow her. Cole recites.
Cole: Piper?
She goes up to the attic & then to the book.
Attic
Melissa: Mom whaddya doing?
Piper: I'm goanna summon Grams & ask her if it’s true.
Melissa: True about what?
Piper: About whether she and the Elders knew about Paige all along. Your destiny still awaits she says. There's a reason for everything, she says. So, it's time to summon her transparent
butt back here & find out exactly what that reason is.
Melissa: Okay, but maybe we should.
Piper: HERE THESE WORDS. HEAR MY CRY SPIRITS FROM THE OTHER.
COME TO ME, I SUMMON THEE. CROSS NOW THE GREAT DIVIDE.
As bright lights fill the room Piper quickly says another spell so that Grams is visible to Andy.
Piper: SPIRIT STANDING BY OUR SIDE REVEAL YOURSELF TO MORTALS EYES.
She lets out a semi-satisfied sigh as Grams, appears then whom Andy can see now.
Grams: Piper? Why’re you calling? Mel wha-what's going on?
Piper: The Source Grams thinks the Charmed Ones can be
reconstituted because we have a long lost relation. Now Mel had a
vision of her & thinks she looks a little like mom’s white lighter Sam which apparantly the Elders know about as well.
Grams: I don't know what you're talking about.
Piper: Well its simple really mom & Sam had a relationship yes?
Hearing this, Grams lowers her head a little.
Grams: Yes.
Piper: Did they have a child outta it?
Not talking Grams pauses.
Melissa: Grams if Grandma Patty & Sam had a baby we need to
know about this, this could be important.
After a few seconds Grams speaks.
Grams: I can’t tell if that’s true or not I’m sorry.
Piper: Why not?
Patty Halliwell appears right next to Grams in a bright light.
Patty: Because I swore her not to.
Melissa: Grandma.
Hallway
Cortez & Darryl enter the manor. Cortez’s holding a flashlight.
Darryl: You can't just walk in here like this.
Cortez stops.
Cortez: Search warrant says I can.
Darryl: What the hell are you looking for?
Cortez: Do you really expect me to believe you don't know,
Inspector? Follow me & keep your voice down.
He continues searching.
Attic
Patty’s explaining to everyone in the room as she paces.
Patty: We didn't tell anybody Piper because of the be reprisals it would have on your powers.
Andy: What reprisals?
Grams: If Paige stayed with her sisters then the power of three wouldn't exist because the prophecy only spoke of three sisters not four.
Melissa: How do you know this?
Patty: Because the girls wouldn't have worked properly if they were all together.
Piper: And the Elders knew this to?
Grams nods her head stating.
Grams: They did yes.
Piper: So they told you to give up Paige then?
Patty shakes her hear uttering.
Patty: No sweetie that decision was ultimately mine and Sam's but they did advise it for your safety and hers obviously.
Mel: Encase evil came after them.
The two Halliwell elders nodded in confirmation at that.
Patty: Yes.
Piper: So when did it happen then?
Patty: After your father & I divorced, when Sam & I were together.
Piper: Go on.
Patty: You & your sisters were toddlers. You just thought Mommy
got a little fat.
She smiles.
Patty: You never knew I was pregnant.
Grams: I was the only one who knew.
Patty: & Sam, obviously.
Grams: Right. Well, of course yes.
Melissa: That must’ve been why Sam had that look when we meet
me ages ago. He couldn’t believe another half white lighter witch
existed besides Paige.
Seeing this Patty nods in acknowledgment.
Patty: We wanted to keep her so much. But well.
Melissa: You had no choice just like Cole & Grandpa didn’t have with my cousins & me.
Patty: Unfortunately yes. Anyway Sam & I took her to a local church as soon as she was born. & we asked the nun there to find her a home & she found a very, very good one.
Grams: Yes.
Andy: So hang on a sec Paige really is Piper’s half sister & Mel’s Aunt then?
Patty: Piper’s baby half sister by my half, which makes her another Charmed One. Well, actually, not yet anyway. Not until all three of them are here together by the Book just like before but with the loophole now added in.
Grams: Charmed again.
Cole: & I thought my family was screwed up.
Piper gives Cole a look. Cortez walks into the attic, seeing the two
ghosts there which Darryl can see also. Everyone’s stunned. Darryl’s right behind him.
Cortez: Well, I'll be damned.
Piper: Darryl, do something!
Darryl: He's a cop, Piper. & he's got a search warrant.
Cortez: & believe me, I've found what I've been searching for.
Cole moves slightly towards Cortez. He aims his gun at him.
Cortez: Ah-ah-ah-ah. Don't move. I'll shoot.
Cole: Yeah & so will I.
Leo: Cole.
Melissa: Okay Inspector, just put the gun down. There’s a very good
explanation for all of this. Feel free to chime in anytime, guys.
Cortez: My whole life, I suspected evil magic was real, that there
was something more. I've seem too many horrible things in the job
to suspect otherwise, not the least of which are the two murders
that happened here.
Andy: There not evil Cortez there good.
Looking at Andy Cortez speaks.
Cortez: Yeah & I can’t believe you married one.
Angered by that Andy comes towards him.
Andy: (Angry) How dare you say that about my, wife. She was the
most, loveliest person I ever met & done more good than you’ll ever
know.
Piper: Wait. Is he accusing us of something?
Cortez: I've just begun to accuse you, lady!
Grams: Alright, fine. You caught us. Congratulations. So what’re you
goanna do about it? Shoot us?
Melissa: Easy, Grams. Not all of us are dead, thank you.
Leo: Alright, look, you can't arrest us, especially not them. Nobody
will ever believe you.
Cortez: Not at first maybe but I'm putting this whole place under
constant surveillance & taping your every move. Sooner or later, I'll
catch you doing something supernatural, & then…
Darryl knocks Cortez out with the, but of his gun. He falls to the
floor.
Darryl: I think you've been through enough today, hey.
Piper: Thank Darryl.
Melissa walks over to him.
Melissa: You better go before he wakes up. You shouldn’t have to
take the fall for this.
Darryl: No, it's okay.
Melissa: No, it's not. This is our problem. He wants to expose us, not
you. Let us take care of this, please?
Darryl: If you need me, you know where to find me.
Melissa nods & turns to Cole. Darryl leaves the manor.
Cole: It doesn't solve your problem. He'll wake up eventually. You've
just bought yourself some time.
Leo: Which’s what you're goanna need, especially if you're wanna
save you’re.
Melissa: Aunt?
Leo: Yes.
Grams: Well, what’re we waiting for? Say a spell & get rid of him Mel.
Melissa: Me? What? I do potions not spells.
Grams: So try it. If Phoebe could do it surely you can. Just makes up
some words & start rhyming. With all the witches in this room, we
oughta be able to do something with him. Um TAKE HIM BACK, TAKE
HIM AWAY. REMOVE HIM NOW. DON’T LET HIM STAY.
She gestures to Melissa.
Melissa: Um WE CALL ON THE SPIRITS TO HELP UNDO & SEND HIM
OFF TO TIMBUKTU.
Cortez vanishes from the floor.
Melissa: (Excited) Hey It worked.
Piper: Timbuktu? You sent him to Timbuktu?
Melissa: Yeah well it's my first spell in ages okay & the only word
I could think of rhymed with undo.
Cole: Don't worry. Uh, I'll find him.
Cole shimmers out.
Piper: Okay, well this’s way too much for me to handle way too
much.
Patty: Nobody blames you for being angry, sweetie.
Piper: Angry? Yeah, I'm angry & confused & you know you can’t just
float in here years later & go, "Oh gosh, I forgot to tell you by the
way I’ve a sister." Not today of all days especially.
Patty: I know it's a lot, sweetie. More than anybody should deal
with, but you & Mel will have to deal with it best way you can.
Losing Prue & Phoebe learning about another relation this’s your,
path. You’re destiny. Get angry at it, & cry about it, but don't fight it.
Or it'll consume you.
Grams: Come on, Patty. The rest’s up to them.
Grams & Patty disappear. Piper & Leo & Andy & Melissa head
downstairs.
Stairs
Andy: Can you sense her yet Leo?
Melissa: She’s not a witch yet so technically he can’t. Okay if we’re
goanna find Paige we need to as k at her apartment building what
numbers she’s at or if not there the church Grandma mentioned &
the nun.
Piper: Okay, let's get one thing straight. I’m only doing this to save
her. I'm not remotely interested in reconstituting The Charmed
Ones.
Piper’s cut off to find Paige waiting for them by the front door.
Paige: I’m sorry door was open. I shouldn't be here.
Paige turns to leave but Melissa stops her.
Melissa: No, no Paige wait. We were just looking for you.
Paige: How do you know my name?
Melissa: My uncle Andy told us. He’s a cop.
Andy puts his right hand up.
Andy: Hey.
Paige: Whoa!
Melissa hooks her arm into Paige's & walks over to Piper & Leo.
Melissa: Yeah. Come on in. Welcome. I'm Melissa Mel.
Paige: Yeah I know I’ve heard you at P Three. You’re really great.
Melissa: Thanks. & this’s.
Paige: Piper. I know. She owns it.
Piper: It's nice to meet you.
Piper shakes Paige's hand. A bright blue shines over the girls.
Paige: Okay. What was that?
Leo: I think that means you're supposed to be here.
The door slams open & a strong wind knocks Melissa, Piper & Paige
backwards. Leo’s knocked down on the stairs. Shax materializes &
walks closer. He’s about to strike when Andy & Leo manhandle him.
Andy: Run! Get upstairs!
Piper: Leo!? Andy?
The girls run upstairs. Shax throws the two men on the floor
knocking them out then looks upstairs.
Attic
Melissa, Piper & Paige enter & go to the Book.
Paige: Oh my god what is that thing?
Melissa: A demon which we'll explain later.
Piper flips through the pages of the Book.
Piper: Okay, just say this spell out loud with us, okay?
Paige: Spell, what’re you guys, witches?
Melissa: & so are you.
Piper: Which we’re about to find out.
The strong wind breaks through the attic door & Shax materializes.
The girls recite the vanquishing spell.
Melissa, Piper, Paige: EVIL WIND THAT BLOWS, THAT WHICH FORMS
BELOW. NO LONGER MAY YOU DWELL. DEATH TAKES YOU WITH THIS
SPELL.
Shax moans in pain & explodes in a hail of wind disappearing for good the newly reconstituted charmed ones think .
Melissa: That’s not enough. Shax was just the messenger. We gotta
get the Source.
Paige: The Source of what?
Piper: All evil.
Paige: Oh my god what’ve you guys turned me into?
Paige turns & runs out the attic then the house.
Piper: Paige?
Melissa: Wait.
Piper & Melissa start following as the scene cuts to the Underworlds afterwards.
The Underworld
Where the Source and the Oracle standing next to one another see Shax form in from Halliwell Manor wounded which surprises the demon greatly when he sees he's not in the demonic wasteland as expected.
Shax: Oracle, my Liege. What am I doing here? Why am I not in the wasteland?
The Oracle sits up from her pedestal & comments.
Oracle: Because you’re not dead Shax that's why.
Shax: But the charmed ones vanquished me.
Stepping forward the Source, answers.
The Source: No they defeated you not vanquished. One spell from a newly resurrected trio doesn't make the power of three automatically. To harness that power they need the bond also which they don't have yet like the original three so until then.
Shax: I'm safe?
Nodding her head the Oracle relates.
Oracle: For yes.
Placing his hand on Shax's arm the Source conveys.
The Source: Go now Shax rest yourself until I need you again.
Bowing down Shax goes off & does that.
Shax: Yes my Liege.
The Source goes over to the Oracle who speaks.
Oracle: What now then?
The Source: Now we'll have to think of something else won't we.
The scene holds onto them before fading out & turning to black then leaving the words saying.
TO BE CONTINUED.
The End.
