Post by Alternate Charmed on Feb 26, 2009 11:38:47 GMT -4
Note from Alternate Charmed: Today is Feburary 26, 2009, the day that Phoebe was burnt at the stake in "Morality Bites". In remembrance of that day, I had to bring over this story, which was written by members of this site: Esmeralda, Justro, Assassin Witch, along with a number of others.
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TITLE: Morality STILL Bites
AUTHOR: Team Wyatt
TYPE (one-shot, chapters, part of a series): Chapters
RATING: (K, T, M, MA): T for Charmed-type language and violence
LEAD CHARACTERS: The Charmed Ones and the Jenkinses and a very special visitor...
ORIGINAL CHARACTERS: None
SHORT SUMMARY: Begins right after "The Jung and The Restless" and ignores the rest of Season Eight. What if a visitor from the future tells Piper that the only way she'll get Leo back is to NOT vanquish the Jenkinses?
Note from Es: This is how I think Charmed should've ended. Another site, Charmed’s Designation, had a game going on, called the Demon Hunt, and I was a member of Team Wyatt. One of our tasks was to write a series finale. But in order to not force anyone to read spoilers, we had to start with the latest episode, "The Jung and The Restless", and finish it from there. This was written before we saw any of the other episodes. This is my version of what our team came up with. Hope you like it!
DISCLAIMER:
We own nothing Charmed. All characters in this fic are property of the WB and Aaron Spelling Productions. This fic totally ignores everything in "Gone with the Witches", "Kill Billie, Vol II", and "Forever Charmed" and takes place right after "The Jung and the Restless".
CHAPTER ONE
"So what did you guys see in your dreams?" Paige wanted to know. "Since I wasn't with you guys, I don't know."
Phoebe smiled. "Kids! Lots of kids running the Bay Mirror, and then one of them--oh, such a pretty little dark-haired girl!--telling me that if I wanted her, that I'd have to hurry, that she was running out of time."
Paige looked confused. "I thought you gave up on the idea of finding your daughter's father."
"I thought I had, too," Phoebe admitted. "After what happened with Dex... Now I'm not so sure."
"Did you see her father?" Paige wanted to know.
Phoebe blushed. "Yeah. Coop."
"COOP??!!"
"Yeah, imagine that. Me falling for a cupid or a cupid falling for me."
"You don't want that!" Piper warned. "You can't! Us getting together with magical guys isn't a good idea. Look at me and Leo! Me being a witch and him being a whitelighter didn't work, just like it didn't for Mom and Sam!"
"Well, one part of it sure worked out!" Paige pointed out, a bit miffed.
"Yeah, we're lucky that they had you," Piper admitted. "Just like Leo and I are lucky we had Wyatt and Chris so they could be half-whitelighter, too. But it still caused Mom's death! And both Leo and I agree we're better off if he's mortal, so we can have as close to a normal life as possible! That's why he clipped his wings! Just like you and Henry!
"Phoebe, look what happened between you and Cole! You can't fall for someone magical! And you certainly can't be falling in love with someone now when we're getting ready to fight the Ultimate Evil!"
Phoebe shrugged. "You know you can't decide when or who you fall for. It just happens. But I won't let it get in my way of the battle, Piper. I didn't in my dream. When you were in trouble, I left Coop to come help, even though he was disappointed."
"What did you dream, Piper?" Paige asked. trying to change the subject.
Piper smiled. "I saw Leo as an old man, with us surrounded by our grandchildren. They might have been our great-grandchildren. Lots of kids."
Paige smiled, too. "That sounds nice. I wish I'd seen Henry and me that way."
"You didn't?" Phoebe asked in surprise.
Paige shook her head. "No, I saw Henry in his office, but then I saw a dream version of myself saying that that wasn't where my destiny lies."
"Of course it does!" Piper protested. "Just like mine lies with Leo and--I guess!--Phoebe's lies with Coop."
Paige shook her head. "No, my dream me was right. I could hear Mkelle screaming. If I'd thought about my charge first rather than Henry, maybe I could have saved her."
Piper shrugged. "And if she hadn't died and become a whitelighter, she wouldn't have been able to save you! It worked out," and Phoebe nodded.
"Why did you see a dream version of you who told you what to do and we didn't?" Phoebe wanted to know.
Paige shrugged. "You're the psychology major, not me. You tell me."
"I'll tell you what it told me!" cried Billie as she marched into the room. "It told me that my sister is right! Your powers are going to your head! Except for Paige, all you care about is yourself and your own personal lives! Paige was the only one concerned about others outside your own family! You just use your powers for yourself! So you must be stopped!"
"Billie, that's not true!" Phoebe protested. "You know it's not! You know us! You know that we only use our powers for good! We have since we got them!"
"Oh, yeah? When?!" Billie demanded. "You needed me to go save innocents for you, while you guys just went off on your merry way! You even faked your own deaths so you could get out of doing your duty! The only time you've helped an innocent since I've been here has been when you're forced or if someone's going after you! You just use your powers for your own personal gain! I heard about you using your powers to turn reporters-mortals!-into rats!"
Piper laughed. "They deserved it!"
"And wanting to use your powers to get Paige a wedding dress!"
"She didn't!" Paige pointed out.
"But she wanted to, which is just as bad! And using her powers to make Wyatt a costume! Christy's friends have been watching you and they're right! You guys are becoming too powerful! You're the Ultimate Evil and you must be stopped!"
"US the Ultimate Evil??!!" Piper stared in shock. "Billie, Christy's friends are demons! They're the ones who held her captive all of those years and they must've turned her into one, too!"
"My sister is not a demon! You're the ones who are turning evil!"
Piper glared and warned, "Billie, I would suggest you leave this house immediately. You've been our friend, almost a fourth sister, and I don't want to hurt you if I don't have to, but if you keep talking like this..."
"You'd what?" Billie shouted back. "You'd vanquish ME? I'm not a demon! I'm not a warlock! I'm a witch! Just like you! Just like your sisters! Just like my sister! You've vanquished demons for so long that now you think you can decide who's good and who's evil and whoever you decide is evil, you can just vanquish! But that's not what our powers are supposed to be about! Paige, that's what you told me when I first met you! You said that they're supposed to be about helping people! You guys are the Ultimate Evil, the Baddest of the Big Bads because you should know better and you must be stopped and you will be stopped!" and with that she flamed out.
"Well, look who just flamed out!" Piper screamed. "Witches don't flame out! Demons do! She's become a demon, just like her sister! She must be stopped!"
"Phoebe flamed out when she was Cole's queen," Paige pointed out quietly. "Should we have vanquished her?"
"PHOEBE'S OUR SISTER!" Piper kept screaming. "Under the Seer's spell! Billie's not under any spell; she just believes her sister! This is totally different! I can't believe it! After we brought her into our home, befriended her, taught her all we knew, even let her use our Book of Shadows to find her sister, then helped her take care of her sister once we found her, how dare she accuse us of being the Ultimate Evil!"
Phoebe nodded. "You're right, Piper. I'm sorry it took me this long to figure it out, but you're right. The only way I'll get my daughter is if we vanquish both of them. We've gotta vanquish them before they vanquish us!"
Paige stared at both of them, unable to believe it. "Guys, we can't vanquish fellow witches! It's not allowed. On that point she's right. Doling out punishment like that is for the Elders to do, not us!"
Piper turned to glare at her youngest sister. "The Elders are totally useless! Just like they've always been! Besides, Sandra's the one who told me that the Elders think we'd have to battle Billie and Christy in order to get Leo back! Vanquishing them is the only way to get Leo back and I will get Leo back! Nothing will stop me from getting him back!"
"Then, Mom, please don't kill!"
INDEX CARD
TITLE: Morality STILL Bites
AUTHOR: Team Wyatt
TYPE (one-shot, chapters, part of a series): Chapters
RATING: (K, T, M, MA): T for Charmed-type language and violence
LEAD CHARACTERS: The Charmed Ones and the Jenkinses and a very special visitor...
ORIGINAL CHARACTERS: None
SHORT SUMMARY: Begins right after "The Jung and The Restless" and ignores the rest of Season Eight. What if a visitor from the future tells Piper that the only way she'll get Leo back is to NOT vanquish the Jenkinses?
Note from Es: This is how I think Charmed should've ended. Another site, Charmed’s Designation, had a game going on, called the Demon Hunt, and I was a member of Team Wyatt. One of our tasks was to write a series finale. But in order to not force anyone to read spoilers, we had to start with the latest episode, "The Jung and The Restless", and finish it from there. This was written before we saw any of the other episodes. This is my version of what our team came up with. Hope you like it!
Morality STILL Bites
by Team Wyatt
by Team Wyatt
DISCLAIMER:
We own nothing Charmed. All characters in this fic are property of the WB and Aaron Spelling Productions. This fic totally ignores everything in "Gone with the Witches", "Kill Billie, Vol II", and "Forever Charmed" and takes place right after "The Jung and the Restless".
CHAPTER ONE
"So what did you guys see in your dreams?" Paige wanted to know. "Since I wasn't with you guys, I don't know."
Phoebe smiled. "Kids! Lots of kids running the Bay Mirror, and then one of them--oh, such a pretty little dark-haired girl!--telling me that if I wanted her, that I'd have to hurry, that she was running out of time."
Paige looked confused. "I thought you gave up on the idea of finding your daughter's father."
"I thought I had, too," Phoebe admitted. "After what happened with Dex... Now I'm not so sure."
"Did you see her father?" Paige wanted to know.
Phoebe blushed. "Yeah. Coop."
"COOP??!!"
"Yeah, imagine that. Me falling for a cupid or a cupid falling for me."
"You don't want that!" Piper warned. "You can't! Us getting together with magical guys isn't a good idea. Look at me and Leo! Me being a witch and him being a whitelighter didn't work, just like it didn't for Mom and Sam!"
"Well, one part of it sure worked out!" Paige pointed out, a bit miffed.
"Yeah, we're lucky that they had you," Piper admitted. "Just like Leo and I are lucky we had Wyatt and Chris so they could be half-whitelighter, too. But it still caused Mom's death! And both Leo and I agree we're better off if he's mortal, so we can have as close to a normal life as possible! That's why he clipped his wings! Just like you and Henry!
"Phoebe, look what happened between you and Cole! You can't fall for someone magical! And you certainly can't be falling in love with someone now when we're getting ready to fight the Ultimate Evil!"
Phoebe shrugged. "You know you can't decide when or who you fall for. It just happens. But I won't let it get in my way of the battle, Piper. I didn't in my dream. When you were in trouble, I left Coop to come help, even though he was disappointed."
"What did you dream, Piper?" Paige asked. trying to change the subject.
Piper smiled. "I saw Leo as an old man, with us surrounded by our grandchildren. They might have been our great-grandchildren. Lots of kids."
Paige smiled, too. "That sounds nice. I wish I'd seen Henry and me that way."
"You didn't?" Phoebe asked in surprise.
Paige shook her head. "No, I saw Henry in his office, but then I saw a dream version of myself saying that that wasn't where my destiny lies."
"Of course it does!" Piper protested. "Just like mine lies with Leo and--I guess!--Phoebe's lies with Coop."
Paige shook her head. "No, my dream me was right. I could hear Mkelle screaming. If I'd thought about my charge first rather than Henry, maybe I could have saved her."
Piper shrugged. "And if she hadn't died and become a whitelighter, she wouldn't have been able to save you! It worked out," and Phoebe nodded.
"Why did you see a dream version of you who told you what to do and we didn't?" Phoebe wanted to know.
Paige shrugged. "You're the psychology major, not me. You tell me."
"I'll tell you what it told me!" cried Billie as she marched into the room. "It told me that my sister is right! Your powers are going to your head! Except for Paige, all you care about is yourself and your own personal lives! Paige was the only one concerned about others outside your own family! You just use your powers for yourself! So you must be stopped!"
"Billie, that's not true!" Phoebe protested. "You know it's not! You know us! You know that we only use our powers for good! We have since we got them!"
"Oh, yeah? When?!" Billie demanded. "You needed me to go save innocents for you, while you guys just went off on your merry way! You even faked your own deaths so you could get out of doing your duty! The only time you've helped an innocent since I've been here has been when you're forced or if someone's going after you! You just use your powers for your own personal gain! I heard about you using your powers to turn reporters-mortals!-into rats!"
Piper laughed. "They deserved it!"
"And wanting to use your powers to get Paige a wedding dress!"
"She didn't!" Paige pointed out.
"But she wanted to, which is just as bad! And using her powers to make Wyatt a costume! Christy's friends have been watching you and they're right! You guys are becoming too powerful! You're the Ultimate Evil and you must be stopped!"
"US the Ultimate Evil??!!" Piper stared in shock. "Billie, Christy's friends are demons! They're the ones who held her captive all of those years and they must've turned her into one, too!"
"My sister is not a demon! You're the ones who are turning evil!"
Piper glared and warned, "Billie, I would suggest you leave this house immediately. You've been our friend, almost a fourth sister, and I don't want to hurt you if I don't have to, but if you keep talking like this..."
"You'd what?" Billie shouted back. "You'd vanquish ME? I'm not a demon! I'm not a warlock! I'm a witch! Just like you! Just like your sisters! Just like my sister! You've vanquished demons for so long that now you think you can decide who's good and who's evil and whoever you decide is evil, you can just vanquish! But that's not what our powers are supposed to be about! Paige, that's what you told me when I first met you! You said that they're supposed to be about helping people! You guys are the Ultimate Evil, the Baddest of the Big Bads because you should know better and you must be stopped and you will be stopped!" and with that she flamed out.
"Well, look who just flamed out!" Piper screamed. "Witches don't flame out! Demons do! She's become a demon, just like her sister! She must be stopped!"
"Phoebe flamed out when she was Cole's queen," Paige pointed out quietly. "Should we have vanquished her?"
"PHOEBE'S OUR SISTER!" Piper kept screaming. "Under the Seer's spell! Billie's not under any spell; she just believes her sister! This is totally different! I can't believe it! After we brought her into our home, befriended her, taught her all we knew, even let her use our Book of Shadows to find her sister, then helped her take care of her sister once we found her, how dare she accuse us of being the Ultimate Evil!"
Phoebe nodded. "You're right, Piper. I'm sorry it took me this long to figure it out, but you're right. The only way I'll get my daughter is if we vanquish both of them. We've gotta vanquish them before they vanquish us!"
Paige stared at both of them, unable to believe it. "Guys, we can't vanquish fellow witches! It's not allowed. On that point she's right. Doling out punishment like that is for the Elders to do, not us!"
Piper turned to glare at her youngest sister. "The Elders are totally useless! Just like they've always been! Besides, Sandra's the one who told me that the Elders think we'd have to battle Billie and Christy in order to get Leo back! Vanquishing them is the only way to get Leo back and I will get Leo back! Nothing will stop me from getting him back!"
"Then, Mom, please don't kill!"