"It doesn't make sense Paige. Chris said he saw me get killed. So what's happening now can't be real."
"Maybe not, but he's come back to stop it from happening. So he is maybe getting Phoebe before she gets to strong."
Piper sat running her hands over her face trying to figure it out. "He can't have killed her I won't believe it."
Paige wasn't sure how to comfort Piper. She had already lost Prue to evil three years ago and now it looked like she has lost Phoebe as well.
She looked down at the body at her feet. She could almost see the life slipping away from it. Looking at the small child in her arms she set Wyatt down and walked over to her fallen Queen.
She placed her hand on the forehead and felt for any sign of life. "She is stronger then most think." She reached down and lifted Phoebe from the dirt and taking Wyatt with one hand she shimmered out.
Wyatt stood in a corner and watched as the woman looked after his aunt. "It isn't working." She looked confused as her medicine and healing touch had no effect on her queen.
She turned towards the table at the far end of the room and did not noticing Wyatt walking towards Phoebe. Reaching up he took her hand in his and the blue swath of his power engulfed them both leaving only the blanket that was resting on Phoebe.
She turned and felt her rage consume her, "NOOO!"
Piper sat on the bed as Paige flipped through another book. "Paige."
"Piper I am not giving up. I won't"
Piper was about to say something else when she saw the familiar lights sparkling at the end of her bed, "Leo not... Oh God." She sprang to her feet and ran to her son and sister. "LEO!" she called out to her husband as she felt nervously for a pulse within Phoebe. "LEO NOW!"
Paige quickly turned and saw what had suddenly sparked Pipers movements. "Oh god is she?"
"Not yet. Paige get someone to take Wyatt to the nursery I don't want him seeing this." Piper thrust her son in her sisters' arms and turned her focus on her baby sister. "Don't you dare die on me Phoebe. I still have to kick your ass for throwing that energy ball at me."
Leo appeared and was about to ask what was going on when he saw Piper on the floor cradling Phoebe. The blood on the two of them melded into one.
Reaching down he prayed that his powers would work and that Phoebe was still alive or that the evil inside her had not corrupted her enough that his powers wouldn't work. But he felt the relief as his powers flowed through him
She looked down at the astheme in her hand as she crouched beside where her fallen queen had lain only hours before. But now as she truly looked at the glimmer of the blade. Some of the blood still caked on dried for a forever reminder of what had occurred. She felt the sudden electricity reaching out and through her. It was then she realized, she had received the powers that had been held inside, powers that belonged to her former Queen and Charmed One. "Maybe losing her wasn't so bad after all." She smiled knowing what she had to do.
She felt the softness of the sheets around her and the cool cloth on her forehead. "Oh someone just shoot me now."
"Don't tempt me." The voice came from beside her.
Phoebe opened her eyes and looked up into Pipers brown one. "What happened?"
"You don't remember?"
"No. Last thing I remember was Leo and I going after Corr."
"That's it?"
Phoebe thought a minute and then looked back at Piper, "That's it."
"Long story short. You took in the powers of evil and you decided you liked them."
"What? So what I was evil again?"
"Yeah. Kidnapped Wyatt, did something to make Paige fall from a ladder in the library and tried to kill me with an energy ball. That was when Chris tried to kill you."
"Excuse me. Chris what?"
"He used the same astheme on you and left you for dead. Apparently you stayed evil and you killed me in the future. And in turn Wyatt killed you in revenge. And that was what set him off."
Phoebe broke her gaze from her sister. Her mind drifted to a day many years ago now. When they first became witches.
"Phoebe stop it. I know what you are doing." Piper said, as she knew her sister was giving herself the guilt trip.
"I was born here."
"And you beat it before. Like you did now and you will again. I will not let you become evil Phoebe. This is over."
Phoebe had managed to roll over. She still felt some pain from where she had been stabbed, "I just want to be alone right now Piper."
"Phoebe."
"Please."
Piper sighed before leaning down and placing a kiss on her sisters' cheek; "I love you." She got off the bed and left the room.
Chris ran down the hall in search of his mother and anyone else he could find. Something felt wrong to him. But as he came around the corner he saw her sitting there nestled against his mother.
"Get way from her!"
Paige reacted first and stood between the advancing Chris and Piper and Phoebe. "Whoa there Chris."
"Get out of my way Paige."
"No." she stepped forward towards him.
"Fine." He reached inside to his powers and brushed her aside. His powers of telekinesis like those of his aunt Prue's.
"Chris!" Piper got up from the couch and started towards her son. "What the hell are you doing?"
"Saving us all." He glared past his mother and directly at Phoebe who was standing near the bed.
Piper reached out to stop him but his hand reached out towards Phoebe like it had once before. She felt the constriction on her heart as she dropped to her knees. "I will not have you ruin my family."
"Chris STOP IT!" Piper gripped his arm forcing him to release his grip on her sister.
"She killed you and turned Wyatt evil."
"Not anymore. You stabbed her with that astheme. Her evil powers are gone Chris."
She waited from her shadows once again. The powers of the Charmed Ones flowing through her veins allowing her access to the magic school. Her Queen had much to answer for. But in the end it will be her blood that kills her.
Phoebe stood weakly and moved towards Paige. "Paige?" she got no answer from her baby sister. As she appraoched she saw the glimmer in the side mirror. She spun faster then she thought she could at that moment and leaped towards Piper and Chris, knocking them to the ground seconds before the fireball hit them both.
"Astheme!" Paige called out from her position on the ground. She had come to just as Phoebe was flying through the air. She saw the astheme at the waist of the seer. Taking it into her orbs she thrust it back into the seers heart.
They all watched as the flames consumed her and then nothing.
Piper looked at Chris then turned to see Paige slowly standing up. Chris got up and helped Piper.
"Everyone ok?" Piper asked as she turned towards where Phoebe had falling. "You ok sis?"
"No." she felt the tears brimming her eyes as they started to flow freely.
Piper moved towards her and setting herself down she pulled her sister close to her, "It wasn't your fault Phoebs."
Paige got up and joined the two older ones.
Chris just watched, knowing what Phoebe had just done, but turned and walked out of the room. Knowing they needed to be alone but also ashamed of what he had almost done. He knew now it was over. Phoebe was no longer a threat to his brother or his mother.
Phoebe leaned against the doorway to Wyatt's room and watched as her nephew slept. She heard the gentle footsteps coming up behind her and the arms wrap around her waist. "He is so innocent when he sleeps."
"Yeah, till he wakes up and someone is trying to kidnap him."
Piper squeezed her sister a bit harder, "Stop it. You can't keep blaming yourself."
"He saved me."
"He loves you. We all do." Piper said softly as she placed a kiss on Phoebes cheek and went down the hall. Leaving her sister to watch Wyatt.
"I owe you an apology."
"No you don't Chris. I would have done the same thing in your shoes."
"Still. I'm sorry. And thank you."
Phoebe looked over her shoulder at her grown nephew, "Thank you? For what?"
"For saving me. Both of me in the school. Had you not pushed Mum and me out of the way." He left his words hanging. He couldn't even say it.
Phoebe smiled over at Chris and opened her arms as he stepped into them. It was then Piper looked around the corner and saw them together. Smiling to herself she then closed her door knowing that her family was going to be ok. Evil had once again tried to break them apart but once again the love and their bond held them together.
Well I hope you liked it...Thanx again for the reviews...I love them all...STay tuned for another Charmed Adventure...
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