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Leona's Whitelighter
Chapter 6
Piper was starting to feel guilty about not leaving to help her sisters. She didn't want to leave her staff when it was so busy and her sisters didn't need her badly, but it was part of her job as a Charmed One to help her sisters when an innocent showed up.
"Piper!" She snapped out of her self depreciation when she realised her sister was calling her.
"Paige, what happened?"
"We need you. Right now." She didn't say anything about the Power of Three because there were too many people around. Besides, she knew Piper would understand.
Piper took off her apron and handed it to a nearby guy. "Jake, hold the fort while I'm gone."
He tried to give the apron back to her. "You can't leave now. We'll be shortstaffed."
Piper shook her head. "It's an emergency. Don't worry, things should slow down soon."
She let Paige escort her outside and Paige orbed with Piper to the manor.
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"I've got the spell," Phoebe announced when Paige and Piper orbed in. "Do you think it's okay?" She showed the pad to her two sisters.
"Evil spell?" Piper asked. "What has been going on while I've been away?"
"Leo thinks a demon cast a spell on the girl so she couldn't be healed," Phoebe explained.
"A demon cast a spell on an innocent? They can do that?"
"It's the only possible explanation," Leo said. "I doubt another witch cast it. Can you three please cast the spell now? The longer you leave the worse she will get."
"Sorry, Leo," Paige said. The three girls crowded around the piece of paper
"Evil spell now be done
Release your hold on the little one
Killer, take yourself from here
And by your evil, disappear."
Leona didn't move. Leo placed his hands over her chest and tried to heal her.
"Did the spell work?" Paige asked hopefully.
"It worked, but she may be too far gone to heal."
I should have come home earlier," Piper said, at the same time Paige said, "I should have protected her better."
"Don't blame yourselves," Leo said. "It's not your fault."
Paige added her hands to Leo's and let her own golden light mingle with Leo's.
Leona moved her head.
"She's breathing," Leo said.
A swirl of blue and silver lights suddenly appeared in the room. The three sisters and their whitelighter watched the cloud form into Leona's whitelighter.
"Prue?" Piper stepped forward to hug her sister. Prue returned the hug, but then stepped away.
"You're Prue?" Paige asked. "You're the woman who told me to check behind the couch."
"Yes," Prue said. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean for you to see me yet. Look, leave my charge alone. She must complete her journey in limbo before she can come into her powers."
"She's the girl from the prophecy?" Leo asked. The healing light coming from his hands faded.
"What are you doing?" Paige demanded. "She could still die. What if something happens to her while she's there? What happens if she can't do what she has to do while she's there?"
"Nothing will happen to her," Prue said. "She has the ability to complete the challenges, but if she can't-"
"She'll die."
"She could also pass back into this world, without a claim to her birthright, a mortal. But she could also die, yes."
Prue placed her hands over Leona's body and chanted,
"Lying in this world asleep,
Stay in your own world so deep
Protected from the outside world
Must be this one little girl."
(A/N: I never said I was good at writing anything that is meant to rhyme)
"You still have your witch powers?" Piper asked.
"Special request," Prue said. "It's pretty cool, but I'm not part of the Power of Three anymore. It's independent of you guys. And weaker than it used to be."
She turned to her sisters and said, "Sorry I had to leave her with you but I haven't quite gotten the whole healing thing." To Paige she said, "You'll make a good whitelighter someday if the Power of Three ever becomes unneeded here," before she left in a cloud of lights.
I'm pretty busy at the moment, so I don't think I'll update for a while. Besides, this story is really crap, no one is reviewing me (with the exception of those people who have reviewed me), and I'm just plain busy.