5x19: Mother To Blessed Be

[The Virtual Series]

CHARMED: RESET REALITY (A new Alternate Universe series brought to you by Daniel, 4Ever, Drama, Xenith, and a host of others!)

STARRING:



SHANNEN DOHERTY...Prue Halliwell
HOLLY MARIE COMBS...Piper Halliwell
ALYSSA MILANO...Phoebe Halliwell
ROSE McGOWAN...Paige Matthews

CO-STARRING:



BRIAN KRAUSE...Leo Wyatt
JULIAN McMAHON...Cole Turner
DORIAN GREGORY...Darryl Morris

CHARMED: RESET REALITY is a concept conceived and copyrighted by Daniel Taylor and cannot be copied without his permission.

Based on the television show "Charmed" created by Constance Burge and featuring characters created by her and Brad Kern.

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5.19 MOTHER TO BLESSED BE

GUEST-STARRING:
FINOLA HUGHES
JAMES READ

Script written by...CAMILLE (FOUREVER CHARMED)

Script edited by...DRAMA (ASSASSIN WITCH)

Script proofread by...CAMILLE (FOUREVER CHARMED), DRAMA (ASSASSIN WITCH), DTAYLOR (ASTRAL ECHO)

Executive Producer...DTAYLOR (ASTRAL ECHO)

Produced by...DRAMA, FOUREVER CHARMED, XENITH

Directed by...John Pare

[The Virtual Series]

Mother To Blessed Be

Teaser

[Scene: 1970. Manor. Attic. Nineteen-year-old PATRICIA HALLIWELL is kneeling on the floor with a candle in front of her, a matchbook in one hand, and a match in the other. She strikes the match.]

[Scene: Present day. Manor. Attic. PRUDENCE HALLIWELL lights the last candle in a ring of five candles. She stands up and blows out the match, then walks over to the Book of Shadows, revealing the spell to summon the dead.]

[Cut to 1970. PATTY is now sitting cross-legged in front of the burning candle, holding a piece of paper with one line written on it which reads, “What should I do?” She stares into the flickering flame.]

[Cut to present day. PRUE takes a cavernous breath.]

PRUE: “Hear these words,
Hear my cry,
Spirit from the other side…”

[Cut to 1970.]

PATTY: “My spirit is strong,
My mind is weak…”

[Cut to present day.]

PRUE: “Come to me…”

[Cut to 1970.]

PATTY: “It is an answer that I seek…”

[Cut to present day.]

PRUE: “I summon thee…”

[Cut to 1970. PATTY ignites the edge of the paper on the candle flame and it begins to burn up the paper.]

PATTY: “This question burns within the fire…”

[Cut to present day.]

PRUE: “Cross now…”

[Cut to 1970.]

PATTY: “So that I may find what I inquire.”

[Cut to present day.]

PRUE: “The Great Divide.”

(In the center of the five candle circle, a twinkle of lights takes shape, forming into PATTY HHALLIWELL. But to PRUE’s astonishment, it is not only a corporeal version of PATTY, but also a very young version of her mother. PRUE’s hand moves to her mouth as PATTY notices her.)

Clickable Credits.

[The Virtual Series]

{SCENE: The song “Goodbye’s The Saddest Word,” written by R.J. Lange and sung by Celine Dion, is heard as stock shots of San Francisco are shown while the Guest Credits are rolled.}

Act One

[Scene: Piper and Leo’s house. Nursery. PHOEBE HALLIWELL is sitting in a plump yellow chair in the corner of the room, cuddling MELINDA HALLIWELL. PIPER HALLIWELL hurries in, dressed up in sleek black jeans and a burnt orange baby doll top with red and black pinpoint designs and a soft gold shimmer, and a portion of her hair is pulled back with a heavy antique gold and black hair clip.]

PHOEBE: Are you sure we can’t throw them a little three-month-old party? (She makes a kissy face at her niece.)

PIPER: For the last time, no!

(PHOEBE looks up at her sister with a fat lip, then sees that PIPER is dressed up, and proceeds to look her up and down before nodding approvingly.)

PHOEBE: You look great, Piper!

(PIPER scoops MELINDA from PHOEBE and kisses her daughter on the head as PAIGE MATTHEWS walks in with her nephew, CHRISTOPHER HALLIWELL, in her arms.)

PIPER: (to MELINDA) Now you be good for Aunt Paige, okay? (She sets MELINDA down in the crib and turns towards PAIGE as PHOEBE stands up, also revealing a sexy spaghetti strap mini dress, with a v-neckline. PIPER turns to PAIGE.) Are you sure you don’t mind babysitting tonight because-

PAIGE: Piper! (She lays a hand on PIPER’s shoulder.) We’ll be fine, I promise! (to CHRIS) We’ll be fine, won’t be? (She holds CHRIS up to PIPER.) See? Look how excited he is about spending time with his favorite auntie.

PHOEBE: (to PAIGE) You wish!

(PIPER laughs and kisses CHRIS on the cheek.)

PIPER: (to CHRIS) Be a good boy, okay? (to PAIGE) I left the instructions for Chris's soy milk formula on the fridge and some extra bottles for Melinda in case you need them. Usually all you need to do is warm them up for thirty seconds and-

PHOEBE: Piper, honey, Paige has babysat the Twins before-

PIPER: But not all night!

PAIGE: Hey, look, we’ll be fine. I know the routine, (she waves her hand) you guys just go have fun, alright?

(PIPER makes a face as LEO WYATT and COLE TURNER appear in the doorway. COLE is looking at his watch.)

COLE: Are you almost ready?

PAIGE: Absolutely! (She pushes PIPER towards COLE and LEO.) Piper was just telling the Twins goodbye.

LEO: (to PIPER) Are you sure you’re okay with going out tonight?

PHOEBE: Of course she is! (COLE gives PHOEBE a look. PHOEBE shrugs innocently.) What?

(PIPER sighs with a roll of her eyes.)

PIPER: Yes, (she looks back at PAIGE, who is wiggling CHRIS’s arm at PIPER) I’m fine. (She smiles. PHOEBE claps her hands together.)

PHOEBE: Great! Let’s go.

(They leave. PAIGE looks at CHRIS and makes a face.)

PAIGE: Your mommy is such a worrywart.

[Scene: Manor. Attic. PRUE and PATTY are staring at each other.]

PATTY: (in unison with PRUE) Who are you?

PRUE: (in unison with PATTY) Mom?

PATTY: (shocked) What? (She steps back, shaking her head.) I think you’re mistaken, I don’t- (She accidentally knocks over one of the candles behind her and it ignites the floor. PRUE yelps and PATTY holds up her hands, but nothing happens.)

PRUE: Oh! (She waves her hand and a blanket sitting on a box flies across the room and onto the fire. PATTY starts to stomp on the blanket until the fire is out, then she looks down at her hands.)

PATTY: Why can’t I freeze? (Suddenly, she turns to PRUE and her eyes get wide.) What did you do to me?

(PRUE shakes her head.)

PRUE: I didn’t! I mean, I don’t know… (She looks around.) This wasn’t supposed to happen-

PATTY: You’re absolutely right this wasn’t supposed to happen! (She points her finger.) Send me back, now!

PRUE: I can’t send you back if I don’t know where you came from!

PATTY: If you summoned me, you know exactly where I came from!

PRUE: I didn’t mean to summon you!

(PATTY eyes the Book of Shadows, then her mouth falls open slightly, then she tilts her head to the side.)

PATTY: The Book of Shadows, it’s so thick…

(PRUE blinks.)

PRUE: (tentatively) What year is it in your time?

PATTY: My time? (shocked) Wh-what year is this?

(PRUE swallows hard.)

PRUE: Two-thousand-three.

(PATTY moves her hand to her mouth.)

PATTY: (whispering) “Mom…two-thousand-three…” (She looks down at her stomach and then lays a hand to it, pressing in her shirt and revealing a small baby bump. She looks back up at PRUE in realization.) Oh my god…

[Scene: Piper and Leo’s house. Living room. PAIGE is sitting on the couch with a big bowl of popcorn. The lights are off, but the glow of the television is reflecting off her face. She’s watching “Kill It Before It Dies.”]

PAIGE: (muttering) This feels like high school…I almost feel like calling Glenn over to make out. (She glances at the phone, then rolls her eyes.) No! No, Paige, you are not fifteen anymore, you can’t make out while you’re supposed to be babysitting your niece and nephew. (She stuffs another mouthful of popcorn into her mouth as BILLY runs onto the screen. PAIGE sighs dreamily. She reaches to the empty cushion next to her for the remote and just as her hand is about to land on it, it disappears is a streak. She pats her hand around the cushion and doesn’t find it. Finally, she looks and sees that the remote isn’t on the cushion. She groans.) Oh, what? I could’ve sworn I had it there just a minute ago! (She sets her popcorn down, turns around, and starts pulling up the couch cushions in an attempt to find the remote control.)

[Scene: Manor. Attic. PRUE and PATTY are staring at each other. Suddenly, PATTY claps her hands together loudly.]

PATTY: Oh my god, it worked!

PRUE: What worked?

PATTY: My spell!

PRUE: What’re you talking about? What spell? When did you cast a spell?

PATTY: Right before I arrived here. (She smiles.) In the future. (She looks around the attic in awe.) I’ve never time traveled before…

PRUE: (worriedly) What did you cast your spell for?

PATTY: Uh… (She looks back at PRUE and tentatively touches her belly again.) I, um, had a question I needed answered. I guess this (she waves her hand at PRUE) is it.

(PRUE shakes her head.)

PRUE: No, that can’t be.

PATTY: Why not?

PRUE: Well, if you cast a spell to answer a question and the spell worked, then you should be back in your own time now, but you’re not. (PATTY frowns.) What was your question?

(PATTY downcasts her eyes.)

PATTY: It was a guidance question. (PRUE folds her arms.) About what I should do about…you.

PRUE: Me? What do you mean? (She squints.) Wait, what month did you come from?

PATTY: March of nineteen-seventy.

PRUE: (realizing) You haven’t even told Dad yet!

(PATTY looks down.)

PATTY: I just found out myself. (pause) I guess Victor’s right, we really are meant to be together.

(PRUE begins to absently pick at her cuticles.)

PRUE: (quietly) Can I ask you something?

(PATTY smiles.)

PATTY: Oh, uh, sure, I guess.

PRUE: When you (she wiggles her fingers in PRUE’s direction) found out, what was your initial reaction?

PATTY: (immediately) I was terrified! (Her cheeks grow red.) I mean, no offense-

PRUE: None taken.

(PATTY throws up her hands.)

PATTY: I mean, god, I’m only nineteen! (PRUE nods.) All of my friends are having parties and dating and having fun right now and yet here I am, worrying about how I’m going to tell my boyfriend, who I haven’t even been dating six months, that I’m pregnant!

PRUE: (whispering) At least you have a boyfriend.

PATTY: What?

(PRUE shakes her head.)

PRUE: Nothing…I just…never knew.

(PATTY nervously begins to lace her fingers together.)

PATTY: Can you tell me what did - or does - happen between Victor and I?

(PRUE sadly shakes her head.)

PRUE: Too much risk of changing the past or…future…present? (She makes an annoyed face.) I’ve never really been good with tenses.

(PATTY laughs.)

PATTY: Me either. (They share a smile.) Can I ask you something?

(PRUE shrugs.)

PRUE: Sure, (pause) I mean, I’ll try to answer it if I can, yeah.

PATTY: Um, (she blushes) I feel a little silly asking this, but, uh, what’s your name?

PRUE: Oh! (She laughs.) Prue. Prue Halliwell.

PATTY: Prue. (Her eyes travel to the Book of Shadows.) I must have named you after Prudence Warren. (PRUE nods.) And Halliwell; Mom must have not let me take Victor’s name. (PRUE just stares.) Typical. (PRUE smiles. PATTY looks around at the candles around her.) Uh, can I ask you something else?

PRUE: Sure.

PATTY: Before, when you said that you accidentally summoned me…who were you trying to summon?

PRUE: Mom. (She rolls her eyes.) I mean, not you, but-

PATTY: Your mom from this time? (PRUE nods, but PATTY still looks a little confused.) But why would you need to summon me if I’m already… (She stops abruptly and looks back at the candle. She points and mutters.) One, two, three, four… (She points at the knocked over candle.) Five. (Her face pales.) I’m…dead?

BREAK

[The Virtual Series]

Act Two

[Scene: Manor. Attic. PRUE starts to shake her head.]

PRUE: I-

(PATTY holds up her hand.)

PATTY: You don’t need to lie to me, (she motions to the candles) I know that spell inside and out; I used it for days on end trying to summon my Aunt Phoebe after she died. (She suddenly squints, realizing something.) You know, you look so much like her now that I think about it. I mean, (she flicks her hand) if your hair was cut in a bob and reddish-brown instead of black, you could almost pass as her double!

(PRUE picks her cuticles uncomfortably.)

PRUE: Yeah, I’ve been told that a time or two.

(PATTY presses her hand to her belly.)

PATTY: Aunt Phoebe died just two months ago, right before Victor and I… (She looks between her stomach and PRUE.) And Mom said that if I couldn’t summon her, her spirit might have been sent off to be reincarnated...

PRUE: Mom, you really aren’t allowed to know-

(PATTY wipes a tear from her eye.)

PATTY: She always said she’d never leave me. Though I (she laughs awkwardly) can’t say this was really what I had in mind when she told me that. (She wipes her eyes again, staring at PRUE with a newfound appreciation.)

[Scene: Carnival. PIPER, LEO, and COLE are gathered by a carousel. PHOEBE runs up excitedly, waving a fistful of pink tickets in one hand and a stick of pink cotton candy in the other.]

PHOEBE: (excitedly) Okay! What do you want to go on first?

(PIPER looks around.)

PIPER: Wow, I haven’t been to a carnival in so long that I don’t even know…

(PHOEBE hands out tickets to PIPER, COLE, and LEO, then stuffs the remainder into her pocket and proceeds to use her free hand to pull off a wad of cotton candy and stuff it in her mouth. She clicks her tongue as it melts away. She points excitedly over PIPER’s head.)

PHOEBE: How about that?

(PIPER looks over her shoulder to see a brightly lit neon ride with a sign reading, “Zipper!” She stares, horrified, as the ride goes around in a circle, all the while, each of the individual cages are spinning on their own.)

PIPER: Uh, no, I don’t think so, Phoebe!

(PHOEBE makes a face.)

PHOEBE: Aw, come on! It’ll be fun!

PIPER: And would you still be saying that after you’re covered in vomit?

(PHOEBE looks at LEO and COLE.)

PHOEBE: Fine, I’m sure one of you manly men will go with me, then?

(LEO wraps his arm around his wife’s shoulders.)

LEO: Eh, sorry Phoebe, I’m with Piper on this one.

PHOEBE: Party poopers. (to COLE) What d’ya say?

COLE: Why not? (He shrugs.) I haven’t been on one of these since nineteen-sixty-eight.

PHOEBE: Nineteen-sixty-eight?

COLE: The year it was first introduced. (They start walking.) They were a lot more fun back then because their boom speed was double the speed they are now.

PHOEBE: Why’d they change it? (They reach the line.)

COLE: Because they went so fast that they became known as “Wet Jobs.” (He winks. PHOEBE makes a grossed out face as she looks up at the ride.)

PHOEBE: Ewww!

[Scene: Piper and Leo’s house. Living room. The couch cushions are all pulled out and PAIGE is digging her arms down between the cracks of the couch. She pulls out her arm, revealing lint and a penny. PAIGE pockets the penny.]

PAIGE: Finders keepers. (She sets the lint down on the end table, with a pile of other pieces of lint and crumbs, then places her hands on her hips.) What the hell? This is crazy! I am crazy. I swear, that control was just right here! (Crying sounds from the baby monitor.) Aw, man! (She grabs the baby monitor.) Aunt Paige is coming! (She jumps over two couch cushions and heads for the hallway.)

[Scene: Carnival. Concession stand. LEO and PIPER are standing at the front of line. The woman in the concession booth hands PIPER a caramel apple and rings up the purchase.]

CONCESSION WOMAN: Three-fifty.

(PIPER reaches into her purse and digs around. Her face turns panicky.)

LEO: What’s wrong?

PIPER: I can’t find my wallet. (She digs around some more.) I had it just before we left the house!

(LEO sighs.)

LEO: I’ve got it. (He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a five dollar bill, which he hands to the CONCESSION WOMAN.)

PIPER: I can’t believe it; I know I was holding it just before I left.

LEO: A lot of things have been missing lately, it seems. (LEO receives his change and they walk away from the stand.) I can’t find my wrench and I could’ve sworn I was using it just last week…and I haven’t been able to find one of my shoes since Wednesday.

PIPER: That’s so weird. It’s almost like the Ghost of Phoebe Past has come to haunt our house.

LEO: What do you mean?

PIPER: Oh, when Phoebe was little, she went through a phase where she kept taking random things and the rest of us couldn’t figure out why they were missing until we started finding her stashes around the house. (pause) Hey, you don’t think the Twins could be doing it, do you?

LEO: They’re three months old, Piper.

(PIPER shrugs.)

PIPER: But they are Twice Blessed.

(PHOEBE and COLE walk up.)

PHOEBE: Hey! (She grins.) You totally missed out on a great ride.

PIPER: I’m not feeling that regretful. (pause) Hey, you guys haven’t been losing anything lately, have you?

PHOEBE: Like what?

LEO: Anything, really. Have you or Paige or Prue noticed anything getting misplaced?

(PHOEBE shakes her head.)

PHOEBE: Not that I know of. (to COLE) What about you?

COLE: Not at the Manor or at Drake’s. (He shrugs.) Sorry.

(PHOEBE suddenly tugs on COLE’s arm.)

PHOEBE: Oh! (She points to a target booth.) I want that big stuffed monkey. C’mon! (She tugs COLE over to the booth. PIPER and LEO look at each other.)

LEO: Carnivals really bring out the kid in her, don’t they?

(PIPER laughs.)

PIPER: Always have.

[Scene: Piper and Leo’s house. Kitchen. PAIGE is bouncing CHRIS as she measures out the soy milk powder formula into an empty bottle. She taps the measuring cup on the rim of the bottle and then tosses it into the canister and puts on the lid. She briefly turns away from the bottle to open the cupboard and put away the formula, and when she turns back to grab the bottle, it’s gone. Her mouth drops open.]

PAIGE: Alright, now I know I had that bottle here two seconds ago! (She looks around.) What is going on here? (Everything in the kitchen looks undisturbed and she sees no sign of anyone. CHRIS continues to cry.) I know someone is here! I suggest you come out now, before I’m forced to vanquish your invisible ass! (Still, nothing happens. She snorts and turns back to the cupboard, opening it to retrieve the soy formula again, only to find an empty space where she sat it just a minute earlier.) Great! Just flipping great!

[Scene: Manor. Attic. PRUE is leaning next to the window and PATTY is now sitting on the old tattered attic sofa. She rubs her hand across the burn, torn, and stuffing exposed surface.]

PATTY: This sofa sure has taken a beating over the years, hasn’t it? I remember I used to sit on it with Aunt Phoebe when I was little and she’d tell me stories about her life when she was young. (She traces her hand around a scorch mark.) Apparently it used to belong to Pearl, that was her cousin, but for whatever reason, her and Grandma didn’t like it that much, though she never really told me why. I always thought it was so pretty though…

(PRUE stares out of the stained glass.)

PRUE: We should probably try to find a way to send you back to your time.

PATTY: Prue?

PRUE: Hm?

PATTY: Why did you need to talk to me? Or…your mom? My future self…spirit…I mean, you know what I mean.

(PRUE turns away from the window.)

PRUE: I uh, also had a bit of a problem, and I thought maybe she - you - could help me decide what to do about it.

PATTY: Well, I’m still technically her, right? So maybe…maybe I can help you?

(PRUE hesitates.)

PRUE: I don’t know…

PATTY: Please? (She stands up.) You helped me. I mean, when I cast that spell, I wasn’t even sure if I was going to tell Victor at all-

PRUE: You were thinking about an abortion?

(PATTY looks away, ashamed.)

PATTY: (urgently) But that was before I saw you, and talked to you! You weren’t really real, I guess, before the spell brought me here. (PRUE unconsciously reaches for her stomach. PATTY’s mouth slips into an “O” shape.) Are you… (PRUE nods.) Well, that makes a lot more sense then, doesn’t it?

[Scene: Carnival. PHOEBE shoots a fake gun at targets lined up on the back wall of the target both, but only manages to get one to fall down. The man behind the booth smiles.]

TARGET BOOTH OPERATOR: Better luck next time.

PHOEBE: (muttering) If those were demons and those bullets were potions, I would’ve won. (She folds her arms in a semi-mock pout. COLE laughs.)

COLE: (to PHOEBE) I guess you can’t be good at everything, can you? (He pulls out two dollars.) I’ll have a go. (He hands the money to the booth operator and picks up the fake gun. He squints one eye, then takes out all the targets in less than ten seconds.)

TARGET BOOTH OPERATOR: (impressed) Nobody’s ever done that before! (He waves his hand.) Uh, whatever you want.

(COLE looks at PHOEBE, who grins and points to the hanging monkey.)

PHOEBE: That one! (The booth operator gets down the goofy looking monkey and hands it to PHOEBE. PHOEBE hugs it and grins. COLE and PHOEBE start to walk away.) Thanks. (She hugs COLE’s arm.) Where did you learn to shoot like that?

COLE: Back in the sixties. (He shrugs.) I wasn’t really the “make love, not war” type back then. (He shrugs.) I find energy balls much more useful, though.

(LEO and PIPER walk up.)

PHOEBE: How was the House of Mirrors?

(LEO snickers.)

LEO: Piper walked into four mirrors.

(PIPER hits LEO’s arm.)

PIPER: Shut up. It’s not like you didn’t walk into one.

LEO: One being the operative word here.

(PIPER notices the monkey.)

PIPER: Oh, so you finally got it? You were on round five when we left, did the guy just give it to you out of pity?

PHOEBE: (offended) No! (She glares.) Cole won it for me. (She hugs the monkey.) And he’s not an “it,” Piper, his name is Kern!

(PIPER bursts out laughing.)

PIPER: Whatever floats your boat, Pheebs.

BREAK

[The Virtual Series]

Act Three

[Scene: Carnival. LEO, COLE, PHOEBE, and PIPER walk past the super slide. PHOEBE is hugging KERN.]

PHOEBE: (to PIPER) Now aren’t you happy you agreed to come on a double date with me and Cole?

(PIPER rolls her eyes.)

PIPER: Yeah, I have had fun tonight. (She grins.) I haven’t been to a carnival in ages.

PHOEBE: You haven’t had a night on the town in ages.

PIPER: Not true! (PHOEBE stares at her and PIPER makes a face.) Okay, maybe a little true.

PHOEBE: A huh.

PIPER: But now that you mention it, maybe I should call Paige and see how she and the Twins are doing? (She reaches for her purse, but LEO grabs her wrist.)

LEO: Paige and the Twins are fine, Piper. In fact, they’re probably already in bed.

PIPER: But-

LEO: No. (He wags his finger.) Tonight we’re enjoying ourselves. If Paige needs help, she’ll call. (The ferris wheel comes into view. LEO motions to the ferris wheel.)

LEO: Hey, anyone up for a ride on the ferris wheel?

PHOEBE: (excitedly) Yes! (to PIPER) Please tell me that isn’t too scary for you.

(PIPER glares.)

PIPER: No, actually, I love the ferris wheel…just as long as I don’t have to ride with you.

(PHOEBE bats her eyelashes playfully.)

PHOEBE: What’s wrong with me?

PIPER: (to LEO) Phoebe used to always rock the seat.

PHOEBE: Everyone does it! (They start walking towards the ferris wheel.)

[Scene: Piper and Leo’s house. Kitchen. PAIGE is rocking a very fussy CHRIS, humming and singing lullabies to try and calm him down. There’s a thumping sound both down the hallway and from the baby monitor, followed by the wailing sound of MELINDA. PAIGE grabs the monitor and races out of the hallway with CHRIS.]

[Cut to the nursery. PAIGE bursts in to find a cloud of white powder in the air, along with the same powder in a huge mess on the floor. PAIGE walks over and bends down, discovering an empty bottle of baby powder on the floor. She picks it up and sets it on the dresser before moving to the crib where she leans over the side and tries to sooth MELINDA.]

PAIGE: It’s okay, Mel. (She sets CHRIS down in the baby swing in the corner of the room and turns it on, then moves back to the crib and extracts MELINDA and begins to swoosh her in her arms.) Auntie Paige is here; everything’s alright. (CHRIS starts crying loudly again from the baby swing. PAIGE groans and stares at the ceiling.) Someone please tell me what’s going on!

[Scene: Manor. Attic. PRUE and PATTY are both sitting on PEARL RUSSELL’s old sofa now. PRUE has her hand to her stomach as she’s talking.]

PRUE: …and all of the sudden I wake up in his bed!

PATTY: Did you love him?

(PRUE looks down at her stomach.)

PRUE: That really doesn’t matter.

PATTY: I think it does.

(PRUE picks at her cuticles.)

PRUE: I hadn’t felt that way about someone since Andy…but Matt betrayed me. He betrayed my trust, he put my family in danger…I just couldn’t have pursued a relationship with him and I didn’t intend to, and had it not been for that Cupid, this (she stares at the baby bump) never would’ve happened.

PATTY: Maybe it’s a blessing in disguise?

PRUE: But I’m not ready for it!

PATTY: How old are you? (She holds up her hand.) Wait…thirty-one?

PRUE: Thirty-two.

PATTY: Well, (she motions to PRUE’s baby bump) I’d say you’re lucky, you’ve got thirteen years on me.

PRUE: I don’t feel lucky.

PATTY: Does he know?

PRUE: Who?

PATTY: Matt.

(PRUE shakes her head.)

PRUE: He disappeared. Literally, the day after it happened, he just vanished.

PATTY: And you don’t have anyone you feel could help you? Mom? Victor?

(PRUE looks away.)

PRUE: Yeah, there are people who want to help, I just don’t know…

(PATTY places her hand on PRUE’s shoulder.)

PATTY: Well, for what it’s worth, I think that you can do this.

PRUE: What makes you say that?

PATTY: Because…apparently I did. (She beams and motions her hand at PRUE.) If a young, clueless nineteen-year-old can end up with a beautiful, intelligent daughter like you, then I’m sure that beautiful, intelligent thirty-two-year-old can easily raise an amazing child of her own.

[Scene: Carnival. Ferris wheel. Two little girls excitedly plop down in a ferris wheel seat and wave to their parents as the ferris wheel operator locks in their safety bar. Next in line, PHOEBE breaks off a strip of six tickets and hands it to the ferris wheel operator, who then lets them six down on a ferris seat together and also locks in the safety bar. PHOEBE waves to PIPER as her and COLE’s seat ascends up once. The people below them get off and PIPER and LEO get on.]

[Scene: Piper and Leo’s house. Nursery. PAIGE is pacing around the room, still bouncing MELINDA. Suddenly the lights go out and PAIGE freezes in the middle of the room. All of the sudden she hears a crack and crinkle, then the noise disappears. PAIGE turns around and from the pale light coming from the hallway, she sees the mini chandelier frozen just about a foot above her head.]

PAIGE: Oh, that’s bad! (She walks over to CHRIS in the baby swing and turns it off, then picks up her nephew, who has also gone as silent as MELINDA, and carries them out of the dark nursery.)

[Scene: Carnival. Ferris wheel. PHOEBE is almost leaning over the seat as she gazes at the carnival from high atop the ferris wheel as it’s turning and beginning to slow down. She turns to COLE.]

PHOEBE: Oh, I hope we get stuck at the top! That’s always been my favorite place on the ferris wheel. (As the ferris wheel comes to a stop, PHOEBE and COLE’s seat sends up second from the top, in front. PHOEBE makes a face.) Damn! Just one off. (Above her, she can hear the little girls that got on before them giggling. She glances up to see the seat rocking. PHOEBE smiles in spite of herself.) That reminds me of when Grams first let me on with a ferris wheel by myself…well, technically with Prue and Piper, but still, I felt so grown up without her sitting next to me. Boy, carnivals really bring back memories, don’t they?

(COLE vaguely nods.)

COLE: My best memory of my father was at a carnival. In eighteen-eighty-eight, when I was about three. It was the official début of the Ryde Carnival and my parents-

PHOEBE: (surprised) Both of them?

COLE: Yeah, actually. It was one of the few times just prior to his death that we spent the entire day together as a family, and I didn’t hear them fight.

(PHOEBE reaches over and touches COLE’s hand.)

PHOEBE: I’m sorry.

COLE: Don’t be, it was probably the best day of my childhood.

(PHOEBE leans forward, pressing her hands to the safety bar.)

[Premonition: The little girls in the ferris wheel seat above PHOEBE and COLE are laughing and rocking the seat. Suddenly there’s a groaning noise and the safety bar breaks. One of the girls falls forward and dangles from the edge of the seat. The other girl begins to scream. The girl who fell is crying and trying to get back up, but she isn’t strong enough and her grip falters and her hands slip away.]

[Cut back to the present. PHOEBE opens her eyes to hear the familiar laughing above her. Her eyes widen as she turns in her seat to see it swaying above her. She throws up her hands.]

PHOEBE: No! Stop rocking the seat! (She tries to reach for the foot rest to get their attention, but they’re too busy laughing to hear her. COLE grabs PHOEBE’s arm.)

COLE: What’s wrong?

PHOEBE: The safety bar, (she points to the girls above them) it’s going to break! (to the girls) Hey! (yelling) Hey! (The girls stop laughing and lean forward in order to look down at PHOEBE. A groaning metal sound fills the air.) No! Lean back, lean back! (The latch breaks and the older girl falls forward, grasping onto the edge of the footrest, dangling at the very top of the ferris wheel. The younger girl begins to scream.)

[Scene: Manor. Attic. PRUE and PATTY are still on the sofa. PRUE has her hand on her knee and PATTY has her hand on PRUE’s hand.]

PATTY: You don’t happen to know how I managed to break the news to your father, do you?

(PRUE shakes her head.)

PRUE: Sorry.

(PATTY sighs.)

PATTY: I haven’t even told him that I’m a witch yet. (PRUE murmurs a noise.) Any ideas?

PRUE: I used the Truth Spell once, but uh, it didn’t turn out so well.

PATTY: There’s a Truth Spell?

(PRUE nods.)

PRUE: It’s only twenty-four hours, though, so it really doesn’t give someone time to adjust to big news.

(PATTY folds her hands in her lap.)

PATTY: Oh. (She purses her lips.) I guess maybe I should just take it one step at a time, then? Tell him about you first, and then magic? Or is that how I do end up doing it?

(PRUE shrugs sympathetically.)

PRUE: I think you probably already know too much about the future, Mom. (pause) I hope we haven’t changed too much already by having this conversation in the first place.

(PATTY nods.)

PATTY: You’re right, you’re right. (She stands up.) I guess we should try to send me home then, because it doesn’t seem like I’ll be going back on my own, and this definitely isn’t the place for me. (PRUE nods and stands up herself. She starts to head for the Book, then stops.) What?

PRUE: “A time for everything and to everything its place.”

PATTY: (confused) What?

(PRUE shakes her head.)

PRUE: I think I’ve got the perfect spell.

[Scene: Carnival. Ferris wheel. PHOEBE is trying to turn around in her seat, but can’t because of the safety bar. The fallen girl begins to cry. PHOEBE cranes her neck around.]

PHOEBE: It’s okay, sweetie. Don’t cry, just hold on. (She fights with her safety bar.) Damnit, she’s gonna fall. I have to get out of this! (She looks back at the girl, who is starting to slip.) Hold on, sweetie!

(COLE looks around, then he holds out his palm and summons a discrete energy ball. He hits the latch on the safety bar and it pops, followed by smoke, then breaks off. PHOEBE whips around in her seat and leans on the back rest which falls back a little, making PHOEBE scramble to gain her balance. She reaches out for the fallen girl, but the girl is about a foot out of reach. She looks around hesitantly, then glances down at the crowd, where she sees the girls’ mother clinging to the girls’ father, sobbing and screaming. Determined, PHOEBE looks back up and then her knees begin to levitate off the seat, pushing her further and further towards the clinging girl. One of the girl’s hands falls, but PHOEBE grabs it.)

GIRLS’ MOTHER: (screaming) Oh my God! Oh my God!

(The younger girl continues to scream and sob, while the older girl is crying as she clings to PHOEBE’s hand and the ferris wheel seat.)

PHOEBE: It’s okay, it’s okay, I’ve got you! (She levitates further, pushing herself forward until she’s not at all leaning on the seat anymore, then she wraps her arm under the girl’s waist.) Okay, grab my neck, sweetie! On three; one, two, three!

(The girl swings her arm around PHOEBE’s neck and PHOEBE quickly levitates them back to her and COLE’s seat on the ferris wheel. The girl hangs tight onto PHOEBE, who soothingly strokes her hair as the child sobs into PHOEBE’s shoulder. COLE touches PHOEBE’s hand.)

COLE: Good job.

PHOEBE: (whispering to the girl) Shhh, it’s okay. (The sound of sirens can be heard in the distance. PHOEBE looks out at the parking lot and sees a fire truck approaching. She pats the girl’s back.) You’re gonna be fine.

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[The Virtual Series]

Act Four

[Scene: Manor. Attic. PATTY and PRUE are hugging. PATTY has a tear running down her cheek.]

PATTY: I almost don’t want you to cast the spell; I think I’m going to miss you too much.

(PRUE smiles, also tearing up.)

PRUE: Just eight more months.

PATTY: That’s a long time.

PRUE: Trust me, there’s never enough time when it comes to you.

(PATTY touches the side of PRUE’s face.)

PATTY: I know it might sound a little silly, since I’ve only just met you and all, but…I love you.

(PRUE hugs Patty tightly.)

PRUE: I love you too, Mom. (As they hug, a glow washes over PATTY and then she fades away. PRUE’s arms fall as she hugs at air. She sniffs and wipes her wet eyes and cheeks.) Bye, Mom.

(At that moment, PAIGE orbs in with MELINDA and CHRIS in her arms and a flashlight clutched in her hand.)

[Cut to 1970. PATTY is lying on the floor, as though she’s sleeping. PATIENCE BAXTER hobbles in with a cane.]

PATIENCE: There you are! (PATTY doesn’t wake up. PATIENCE frowns.) Patricia? (She limps her way over to PATTY and painfully kneels down, shaking her granddaughter.) Patricia, wake up!

(PATTY’s eyes flutter open and she stares up at her grandmother.)

PATTY: Grandma?

PATIENCE: What on earth are you doing up here? (She looks around and sees the burnt out candle.) Were you casting a spell?

(PATTY rubs her head tiredly.)

PATTY: I…can’t remember. (She blinks warily.) Everything seems so hazy…

PATIENCE: Well your mother sent me to fetch you, dinner’s ready.

PATTY: (surprised) Dinner? (She looks towards the windows, to see that it’s dark.) It’s night already!

PATIENCE: Yes. (She creases her brow and stares suspiciously.) You haven’t been getting into any of those dirty drugs have you, Patricia?

(PATTY shakes her head.)

PATTY: No! Of course not! (She and PATIENCE stand up. PATIENCE thumps her cane on the ground.)

PATIENCE: You had better be telling me the truth, young lady, because let me tell you, if you’re lying to me-

PATTY: The truth! (She blinks, as if something’s clicked in her head.) Truth.

PATIENCE: What?

PATTY: Yes, of course, Grandma, I swear I’m telling you the truth.

(PATIENCE nods.)

PATIENCE: Well then, come along, dinner needn’t get cold. (She begins to hobble towards the door. PATYY rubs her temples.)

PATTY: (muttering) Truth, truth, truth… (As PATIENCE leaves the attic, Patty hands back. She glances at the burnt out candle on the floor and then touches her stomach.) That’s it! I’ll write a Truth Spell!

[Scene: Present day. Carnival. The firetruck is taking down their ladder while several carnival personnel are closing off the ferris wheel with yellow tape. PHOEBE is watching as the little girls hug their crying mother and father. PHOEBE turns to LEO, COLE, and PIPER.]

PHOEBE: I don’t know about you guys, but I think I’ve had enough excitement for one night.

(PIPER glances at the ferris wheel.)

PIPER: I’m not sure I’ll be able to get on another ferris wheel for a while…if ever.

LEO: We should probably get going. (He looks at his watch.) Besides, I need to be up kind of early tomorrow anyway, to fix one of my charge’s backed up toilets.

PHOEBE: Let’s hit the road, Jack. (They start to walk away, when PHOEBE feels a tap on her shoulder. She turns around to see the children’s parents with their girls at their sides. The mother is dabbing her eyes.)

GIRLS’ MOTHER: I just wanted to thank you.

PHOEBE: Oh, of course, (she smiles) I’m just glad they’re okay.

GIRLS’ FATHER: I don’t know how you did it, but thank you.

GIRLS’ MOTHER: It was a miracle!

[Scene: Manor. Attic. PRUE and PAIGE are staring at each other.]

PRUE: Paige! What are you doing here?

PAIGE: Uh, (she awkwardly motions to the Book) looking for that. (She starts to walk over to the Book.) My turn, what are you doing up here?

PRUE: (defensively) Thinking. (She sees PAIGE trying to turn the page and still hold onto CHRIS and MELINDA. She walks over and takes CHRIS from PAIGE.) What are you looking for?

PAIGE: Honestly, I don’t know. Phantoms? Ghosts? Invisible demons?

Prue: What happened?

PAIGE: It’s so weird. I was babysitting and then first the remote control disappears, right? Then Chris’s bottle and the baby formula and then things start falling over and trying to kill us-

PRUE: Kill you?

PAIGE: Well I didn’t actually see anything, the lights went out, but Mel did freeze the chandelier before it fell on our heads.

PRUE: She froze it?

(PAIGE nods.)

PAIGE: And then I got us the heck out there.

(PRUE taps her fingers.)

PRUE: So you didn’t look for anything?

PAIGE: No…Why?

PRUE: Maybe when she froze the chandelier, she also froze your…chaos causing creature?

Paige: I hadn’t even thought of that!

PRUE: Let’s go. (She touches PAIGE’s shoulder.) Hopefully the freeze hasn’t worn off yet. (PAIGE places her hand on the Book of Shadows, so it orbs out with the four of them.)

[Cut to Piper and Leo’s house. PAIGE orbs the TWINS, PRUE, and the Book into the kitchen.]

PAIGE: We’re going to need a few flashlights. (She walks over to one of the drawers and pulls out a couple flashlights and turns them on. She hands one to PRUE and they walk into the hallway, heading for the nursery. MELINDA begins to whimper.) Shh. (PAIGE rubs MELINDA’s back as they reach the room. PRUE shines her flashlight in and looks around. The frozen chandelier is still in the air.)

PRUE: It’s still frozen.

(PAIGE shines her flashlight in. They begin to move their lights around when PAIGE notices something on the ceiling, where the exposed wires from the chandelier are poking out.)

PAIGE: Hey, look at that.

(PRUE points her flashlight up, shining it on a doll-size blue creature.)

PRUE: What in the world is that?

PAIGE: I don’t know, but I think we should try to get something to contain it before the freeze wears off.

PRUE: Gather the crystals you put up for the alarm system and then we’ll trap it in there.

PAIGE: Alright. (She steps into the hallway, still holding her niece.) We’ll be right back. (PAIGE walks away. PRUE squints up at the creature.)

PRUE: (to CHRIS) That is one ugly little demon, isn’t it? (CHRIS whimpers. PRUE kisses her nephew’s head.) I know just how you feel, Chris.

[Time lapse. The little blue creature keeps moving around inside the crystal cage at intense speeds, but getting knocked back as the cage electrocutes him. The Book of Shadows is laying on the changing table, with PRUE and PAIGE leaning over it.]

PAIGE: Oh my gosh, (she points) there it is!

PRUE: Gremlins? (She looks back at the creature in the cage.) That sure ain’t Gizmo!

PAIGE: Oh man!

PRUE: What? (She’s still looking towards the cage.)

PAIGE: It sounds like we’ve got a gremlin infestation!

PRUE: Well uh, that would explain that. (She grabs PAIGE’s shoulder and turns her around. The crystal cage is no longer active, because the crystals are gone and so is their gremlin.)

PAIGE: No! (She flips back to look at the Book, but it’s gone. PAIGE’s mouth drops open.) Uh, Prue?

(PRUE turns around and slaps the changing table.)

PRUE: But…evil can’t touch the Book!

PAIGE: Yeah, but according to the Book, gremlins aren’t evil, they’re just annoying magical tricksters!

PRUE: How do we get rid of them?

PAIGE: I don’t know, I hadn’t read that far yet.

PRUE: Okay, (she claps her hands together) back to the Manor! (She and PAIGE take hands and orb out.)

[Cut to the front door. It opens and PIPER, LEO, COLE, and PHOEBE walk in.]

PIPER: Paige! (She looks around, but doesn’t hear anything.) Paige? (She starts walking down the hallway with Leo behind her, while PHOEBE and COLE head towards the living room. PHOEBE sees the cushions strewn around and the TV on a blue screen, as the movie finished hours ago.)

PHOEBE: Ooh, this doesn’t look good.

(PIPER and LEO rush in.)

PIPER: I can’t find Paige or the Twins.

PHOEBE: Leo?

(LEO closes his eyes, sensing for his family.)

[Scene: Manor. Attic. PAIGE is pacing, while PRUE is seated on PEARL’s sofa with CHRIS in her arms, writing a spell on her knee.]

PAIGE: I can’t believe the Book is gone! It protects itself from evil, you’d think it should protect itself from little magical vermin too! What’re we gonna do?

PRUE: Stop panicking, for one. (She stands up and walks over to the empty podium.) And then, we’re going to say this spell. (She holds out her hand.)

PAIGE: What is it?

PRUE: A spell to bring the Book of Shadows back. (She shows the spell to PAIGE, who after a minute, nods.) Breathe.

(PAIGE inhales and exhales.)

PAIGE: Okay, I’m fine, I’m good. (She takes PRUE’s hand.)

PRUE & PAIGE: “We call upon the Warren powers,
To take back what is ours,
Let the Book return to this place,
Claim refuge in its rightful space!”

BREAK

[The Virtual Series]

Act Five

[Scene: Manor. Attic. PRUE and PAIGE, with CHRIS and MELINDA, are standing anxiously at the podium. In a flash of light, the Book of Shadows drops out of the air and falls onto the podium. PAIGE heaves a sigh of relief.]

PAIGE: Thank goodness!

(PIPER and Leo orb.)

PIPER: What are you doing here?!

PAIGE: (surprised) Piper!

(PIPER stomps over to PAIGE and takes MELINDA.)

PIPER: What is going on? (PHOEBE and COLE shimmer in. PIPER briefly glances at PRUE, but says nothing to her.)

Paige: We’re trying to perform a magical extermination on your house.

PIPER: What?

(The Book of Shadows flies open to the page on gremlins. PAIGE points. PHOEBE, who is now by PRUE, looks down at the Book.)

PHOEBE: A gremlin infestation? Is that anything like a magical cockroach infestation?

COLE: (surprised) You’ve got gremlins?

PAIGE: Not us, (she waves to PIPER and LEO) them.

(PHOEBE is still looking at the Book.)

PHOEBE: Well it does kinda make sense, it says gremlins are attracted to powerful magic, because they feed off of the essence that magical beings secrete.

LEO: They must be attracted to the Twins.

PRUE: But that seems so odd…we (she motions to PAIGE, PHOEBE, and herself) are far more powerful than the Twins, yet, so far as I’m aware, we’ve never had a “gremlin infestation” before.

COLE: That’s because you’re constantly getting attacked by demons. (He shrugs.) Gremlins are afraid of demons, so they usually inhabit forests and such, where natural magic is abundant and demons usually aren’t. (He points to the TWINS.) Yet, with their power, they and the, rather surprising, lack of demonic attacks, they make Piper and Leo’s place prime for gremlin housing development.

PIPER: Wait, so what kind of things happen when gremlins are around?

(COLE folds his arms.)

COLE: Missing objects comes to mind.

PIPER: Oh, you mean we’ve had this problem for almost a month and we’ve been unaware of it? Oh, that’s just nasty!

PHOEBE: Well it looks like the spell to banish them is pretty simple. In fact, Piper could cast it alone if she wanted.

PAIGE: Maybe all of us should cast it there? Just to give a little extra oomf to really get the point across?

(PHOEBE and PAIGE look at PIPER. PIPER briefly eyes PRUE, then turns to LEO.)

LEO: Well it definitely couldn’t hurt.

PIPER: Fine, let’s do it.

[Time lapse. PRUE, PAIGE, PHOEBE, and PIPER are standing in the nursery at PIPER and LEO’s house. PIPER, at the end, is holding a lit candle. The sisters take hands down the line.]

PRUE, PAIGE, PHOEBE, & PIPER: “I call to thee,
Pure witches’ fire,
Through vortex flow the heavenly mire,
Sweep tricky gremlins that freely roam,
Cleanse them from this happy home!”

(PIPER blows on the candle, causing the flame to grow and flicker outwards. It leaps from the candlewick and begins a giant wave of fire that washes over the room, yet doesn’t burn anything. The flame moves through the walls and the sounds of yelping and screaming is heard.)

[Cut to a montage of different rooms in the house, where the magical flame sweeps through, provoking the same screeching noises.]

[Cut back to the nursery. The infestation of gremlins appears before the sisters. One gremlin slaps at a lit piece of blue cloth around his waist, putting out a small flame. The other gremlins put up their hands in surrender.]

PIPER: (to the gremlins) I want the things back that you took from me and my family. (One gremlins waves his hand and a large pile of stolen things appear. Piper looks around the nursery, noting the dismantled chandelier and baby powder stains on the floor and walls.) And the mess! (Another gremlin snaps his fingers and the nursery returns to the way it was before it their destruction.) Now I’m only going to tell you this one, you’re not welcome in my home, and I expect never to see any of you here again, otherwise I won’t be so nice as to perform a banishing ritual, understand?

(The gremlin group fervently nod their heads and then PIPER blows on the candle flame and it burns out. As the flame disappears, the gremlin infestation vanishes and the smoke curls in the air and also disappears. PHOEBE brushes her hands together.)

PHOEBE: Well that was easy enough.

PAIGE: I doubt we’ll be seeing them again.

PRUE: At least not here.

(PIPER sets the candle down on the changing table. She eyes the pile of return goods.)

PIPER: Well, uh, you guys should probably get going. I’ve gotta get the Twins to bed and, (she indicates the pile with her hand) I guess start putting all this stuff back.

(PHOEBE yawns.)

PHOEBE: Yeah, I’m pooped. (She yawns.) All I want to do is hit the sack. (She holds out her hand to PAIGE.) Take me home?

(PAIGE places her hand on her hip.)

PAIGE: Well you know, I did drive here…how about we drive back?

(PHOEBE makes a face.)

PHOEBE: (to PIPER) Hey, I’ve got a brilliant idea, what if we just crash here tonight? (She makes an innocent face.) After all, we’ve got plans to paint Chris’s new room tomorrow, so…

(PRUE and PIPER eye each other.)

PIPER: I don’t-

PRUE: You guys do whatever you want, I’ve got plans tomorrow too, so I need to get to bed. (She looks up.) Leo!

(LEO orbs in with the TWINS.)

LEO: Are the gremlins gone?

PAIGE: Absolutely! (IPER takes MELINDA from LEO.)

PHOEBE: (to PIPER) So what d’ya say, sis?

PRUE: Leo, do you mind dropping me back at the Manor?

(LEO looks a little confused.)

LEO: Uh, yeah, I guess. (to PAIGE and PHOEBE) You aren’t…

PRUE: They’re spending the night.

LEO: Oh. (He looks at PIPER.) Okay. (He hands CHRIS off to PIPER.) Well, I guess I’ll be back soon, then. (PIPER nods, without looking at PRUE. PRUE nods to PHOEBE and PAIGE.)

PRUE: See you later. (PAIGE and PHOEBE wave as PRUE and LEO orb out. PHOEBE raises her hand.) I’ll go make up the couches! (She leaves. PAIGE moves to PIPER and takes CHRIS.)

PAIGE: You alright?

PIPER: (defensively) Why wouldn’t I be?

PAIGE: Just…everything with Prue…

PIPER: (angrily) Prue can do whatever she wants, Paige. (She leans over the crib and lays MELINDA inside.) I just hope she can live with the mistake she’s about to make.

(PHOEBE walks back in, waving the “Kill It Before It Dies” video case.)

PHOEBE: (to PAIGE) I cannot believe you were watching this movie without me!

(PAIGE grins.)

PAIGE: Popcorn?

PHOEBE: Hell yes! (LEO orbs in.) You guys wanna join us?

LEO: For?

PHOEBE: “Kill It Before It Dies,” helloooo?

PIPER: No…thanks.

(LEO shakes his head.)

LEO: Not really.

(PHOEBE frowns.)

PHOEBE: Well I guess we’ll see you in the morning, then.

(PAIGE hands CHRIS off to Leo and then she and PAIGE leave. CHRIS places LEO in the crib he bought for him about a month ago, which is temporarily on the opposite wall in the nursery. LEO then wraps his arms around PIPER and pulls her close.)

LEO: You okay? (PIPER sighs and wraps her arms around LEO, without actually answering his question. Leo comfortingly strokes her hair and they just stand there in silence.)

[Scene: Manor. PRUE’s bedroom. PRUE is sitting on her bed with a box filled with photo albums next to her. She opens up a gold and white photo album that’s resting in her lap, revealing pictures of her parents on their wedding day. As she turns the pages, a tear falls from her eye and splatters onto the plastic pages. She sets the album away and grabs another one, opening it up to find pictures of a very pregnant PATTY in various poses, some with her waving at the camera, some with her hands on her swollen stomach, one taken which has VICTOR BENNETT behind PATTY with his arms wrapped around to her belly, and another with VICTOR kissing PATTY’s stomach. PRUE closes the album and pulls her knees to her chest. She begins to rock back and forth, softly crying to herself.]

BREAK

[The Virtual Series]

Act Six

[Scene: Morning. Golden Gate Park. Running path. LEO and COLE are there with a stroller, talking.]

LEO: Are you sure you’re up for taking the kids today?

COLE: Come on, Leo, how much trouble can two little kids be?

(LEO folds his arms.)

LEO: Cole-

COLE: I’m kidding. (He laughs.) We’ll be fine! (He looks in the stroller.) It’ll be fun.

(LEO snorts.)

LEO: That statement just goes to show how inexperienced you are with kids; especially of the magical variety.

COLE: Well, I’d like to change that, especially if I ever want to have children with Phoebe.

LEO: You have to get passed the “M” word, first.

COLE: In time…I hope.

(Silence. The sound of birds chirping and fluttering can be heard in the distance.)

LEO: Okay, well, fixing that toilet shouldn’t take more than an hour or two, so we’ll just meet back here then?

COLE: Sounds great.

LEO: Thanks again for taking the kids while Chris’s room is being painted. (He looks down at the babies in the stroller.) You’d much rather be with Uncle Cole than breathing in those smelly fumes, wouldn’t you? (MELINDA makes a gurgling noise and LEO laughs.) Okay, I’ve got to go. (He slides the diaper bag off his arm and hands it to COLE. He waves to his children.) Be good! (He orbs out. COLE looks down at the Twins.)

COLE: Uncle Cole, huh? (He smiles.) I like the sound of that, how about you?

[Scene: Piper and Leo’s house. Spare bedroom. PIPER and PHOEBE, both dressed in old, paint spattered clothes, are standing in the middle of the room as PIPER stares longingly at her treadmill.]

PIPER: (sadly) I’m really gonna miss this room.

(PHOEBE puts her arms around PIPER’s shoulders.)

PHOEBE: Shoulda thought about that before you let Paige paint the nursery.

(PAIGE walks in, holding a can of paint in each hand.)

PAIGE: Hey! You helped paint that nursery too, Missy!

(PHOEBE makes a childish face.)

PHOEBE: Yeah, but I’m not the one who painted the pretty little flower border. (She looks smugly at her sister.) Or the one who picked out the paint.

PAIGE: Speaking of paint, (she holds up the paint cans) I think I’ve definitely got enough Banana Crème Yellow to fix up this room for my little nephew. (to PIPER) On the bright side, you may be giving up a spare room, but at least you don’t have to go house shopping again in six years when the Twins want their own rooms.

(PHOEBE nods enthusiastically.)

PHOEBE: She’s got a point.

(PIPER wrinkles her nose.)

PIPER: I still say it sucks.

(PAIGE sets the paint cans on the floor and walks over to the treadmill.)

PAIGE: Any last goodbyes before I move him to the garage?

(PIPER waves her hand.)

PIPER: Just take it away quickly, like a band-aid. (She turns away and PAIGE shrugs before placing her hand on the treadmill and orbing it away.)

[Scene: March 1970. Apartment. PATTY is seated nervously on the couch. She looks around, then unfolds a piece of paper and looks down at her spell. She clears her throat.]

PATTY: “For those who want the truth revealed,
Open hearts and secrets unsealed,
From now until it’s now again,
After which the memory ends,
Those who are now in this house,
Will now hear truths from other’s mouths.”

(Twenty-year-old VICTOR BENNETT walks in with two cups of tea.)

VICTOR: Were you saying something? (He sits down and hands PATTY a cup.) I couldn’t hear you in the kitchen.

PATTY: A Truth Spell.

(Victor looks strangely at her.)

PATTY: Uh, (she sets the cup on the coffee table) I was having a moment of truth, I mean. (She takes a deep breath and nervously begins to lace her hands together.)

VICTOR: Is everything-

PATTY: Please. (She touches his hand.) Victor, I have to tell you something....

[Scene: Present day. Bay Women’s Clinic. Parking lot. PRUE is sitting in the driver’s seat of her black BMW X5, staring at the clinic. She picks up her cell phone from her dashboard and presses in a number, then places it to her ear as it begins to ring.]

WOMAN’s VOICE: The Bay Clinic, how may I help you?

PRUE: Uh, yes, I have an appointment today at (she looks down at the digital clock on her dashboard, which reads “4:20 P.M.”) four-thirty…and I’d like to cancel.

WOMAN’s VOICE: Your name, please.

PRUE: Prue Halliwell.

WOMAN’s VOICE: Would you like to reschedule, Ms. Halliwell? (PRUE looks down at a picture clutched in her palm, of PATTY in a hospital bed, practically beaming as she holds a newborn PRUE.) Hello?

(PRUE shakes her head.)

PRUE: No, I don’t need to reschedule. (After a moment, she hangs up and holds up the old photograph, just staring at it.)

[The Virtual Series]

End Credits

Co-Starring
Brody Jo Hamilton --- Melinda Halliwell
Jackson Phillip Deveraux Kaufman --- Chris Halliwell

Featuring
Holly Marie Combs --- Patience Baxter
Zoe Hamersly --- Older Little Girl
Terah Belle --- Younger Little Girl
Fay Masterson --- Girls' Mother
Brian Howe --- Girls' Father
Boyd Banks --- Target Booth Operator

Production & Design
Daniel (Astral Echo) - Co-Casting Director
Camille (Fourever Charmed) - Co-Casting Director
Alex (Combustion) - Video Editor (Credits)
Alex (Combustion) - Set Designer