THE HALLIWELLS start backing away from the Angel of Destiny feeling he was dangerous. Kassandra and Leo still frozen on the living room.

Piper trying to freeze the Angel as she continues backing away with her sisters, which wasn't working so more panic settled on them

Paige looked at Piper, nervously "He's not freezing, why isn't he freezing?"

"You're wasting your time" the Angel Of Destiny told them calmly, a smile in his face. The girls backed into a table and fell on top of each other "I am beyond your powers" He said as they got back up "Besides, I pose no threat to you" he reassured them

"Well, forgive us for not believing that but the last being we met who could freeze time was a demon" Piper told him sarcastically

"Actually, it's because of a demon that I've come to see you" The angel said "Which in and of itself is very rare. We Angels of Destiny normally don't intervene except in extraordinary situations" he added thoughtfully "Mozart at age seven, Michelangelo, Albert Einstein... Britney Spears" he said sheepishly

"Huh?" Paige looked around confused

"I don't understand" Phoebe told him

"You three have accomplished something that few others ever dream of. By vanquishing the Source of all evil, you have fulfilled your shared destiny, much earlier than anticipated" He told them before looking up with a frown. "Truth be told, some of us did think you'd never achieve it at all, but that's really beside the point" The sisters exchanged a incredulous look. "What's important is you have and because of that we're offering you a reward, a chance to chart a new destiny, one of your own design" the Angel finished his speech

The sisters looked at him skeptically

"A reward?" Paige asked raising her eyebrows in disbelief

"You can continue to remain as you are, charmed, vested with all your witchly powers, and of course demonic burdens. Or..." He said trailing off, making a dramatic pause

"Or?" Piper motioned him to continue

"You can choose to relinquish your magic and lead normal lives again. Unaccounted, free, we'd wipe the entire slate clean, nobody would come after you again" he finished smiling slightly "Well, what do you say?" The Angel asked them

"What do we say? Are you kidding?" Piper demanded "You can't just freeze the whole world and come in here and drop a bombshell like that and expect a quick decision. I don't care who you are"

"I don't think you quite grasp the uniqueness of this opportunity" The Angel warned them

"No, I'm grasping it but that is beside the point. The least you could do is give us a little time to think about it" Piper exclaimed

"Think about what? No time needed" Paige shook her head "Thanks but no thanks. Right?" Paige looked at her sisters

"Yeah, right, of course right" Phoebe said distractedly "But, you know, as long as he's offering, maybe we should talk about this. Just talk about it. Over there. Right, right over here please, now, excuse us" Phoebe pulled her sisters across the room

"You can't be serious. Phoebe, you of all people, you love being a witch" Paige looked at Phoebe in surprise

"I know I do, but I..." Phoebe said stopping with a sigh, Paige raised her eyebrows

"But what? What has changed?" She motioned her to continue

"Oh, I don't know, I became queen of the Underworld and nearly died carrying baby Lucifer" Phoebe answered sarcastically "That's what changed, Paige"

"Paige, it's just that we've been doing this a lot longer than you have, and I'm not trying to discount all the good that we've done or that we could do" Piper told her softly "But at the same time I'm not gonna minimise the costs. Paige, I can't get pregnant because of what we do" Piper sighed

"Punching out demons just isn't as much fun as it used to be" Phoebe told them

"What about Kass? Huh? Were gonna let her on her own?" Paige frowned crossing her arms. Piper and Phoebe didn't answer, both feeling slightly guilty for having not thought about the young girl who had been placed in their care and needed their help. Paige nodded slowly in sadness, licking her lips "So what are you gonna say?"

The Angel of Destiny walked closer seeing their hesitation

"She's saying you need some time, which I'll grant, but not too much time. After all, other people's destinies are tied to yours. Including the young Guardian's" he informed them making them look down "And since it's your charmed destiny that's at stake here, majority will rule. Two sisters will decide the fate of all three. So consider your choice wisely. Perhaps what happens next will help you to decide" He smiled slightly before disappearing.

Immediately after he left, everything unfreeze and Piper's cell phone started to rang.

Leo and Kassandra walked towards them, slightly confused seeing them somewhere else

"Hey, did you just freeze us?" Leo asked Piper. Kassandra furrowed her eyebrows in confusion at the term but nonetheless stayed quiet

"No, dear, the Angel of Destiny did" Piper told him

Leo paused not sure if she meant it or not "Who?"

Piper looked down at her ringing cell phone and then at Leo "Yeah, you'd better check with the Elders and make sure he's for real" Leo didn't move looking at his wife with a frown, Piper looked up "I'm not kidding"

Leo nodded and with blue orbs disappeared, Kassandra looking at the place he was with a look of awe.

Piper pressed the answer button of her cell phone and put it on her ear "Hello? Daryl? What's wrong?" She beckoned Phoebe and Paige to come closer, Kassandra backed away and turned around to leave when Phoebe grasped her arm and pulled her closer, hiding a guilty expression as she did so.

Kassandra frowned in confusion but walked closer to them listening to the phone call

"An FBI agent named Jackman called me into his office today. He did a search on unsolved cases. Apparently your names came up on way too many witness lists"

"What do you mean? What does he know?" Phoebe asked the man over the line named Daryl.

"I don't know, but I'm gonna try find out. In the meantime just lay low and whatever you do don't use any magic"

Piper sighed handing up. The sisters exchanged a look

"So are we screwed?" Paige asked crossing her arms

"Maybe, but that would take destiny out of our hands and I don't think that's what the angel meant" Piper said

"Okay, icksnay on the angelnay talk" Phoebe looked over the window signaling them to shut up.

The sisters and Kassandra headed for the stairs.

~8~

Kassandra's POV

The sisters walked to the attic, me following behind and I looked around at the new room I hadn't visited before.

Phoebe walked to a shelf and grabbed a CD player placing it over the window

I sat down on a table looking at the Halliwell's curiously

"I still don't understand how coming up here is gonna help" Paige said

"Actually it's pretty simple" Phoebe turned on the CD player.

I winced putting a hand on my ear as loud music blared through the radio

"So you guys have been home all day, right?" Phoebe asked

"Yeah, so?" Piper tilted her head aside

"So there's no way he would've had time to bug the inside of the house, he's gotta be listening from the outside" Phoebe replied walking to the Book of Shadows

"Is it ironic that here we are presented with the opportunity to give up our powers and now we suddenly can't even use them" Piper asked with a sigh

I looked up surprised, looking between them biting my lip.

"Except not using our powers doesn't necessarily mean that we won't be exposed. We still have Cole to worry about" Phoebe sighed

"Phoebe, you can't make contact to a dead demon husband" Paige told her softly

"Yeah, but if I don't he will, and then what? The FBI is outside and if they find out about us it's gonna be the same thing as last year and we don't want that now do we?" Phoebe replied flipping the pages of The Book Of Shadows, looking for something "So I'm gonna cast the 'To Find a Lost Love' spell. I mean, if Cole's soul is on some astral plane, it should astral me there, right?"

"Are you sure he even has a soul?" Paige asked Phoebe cautiously

"Well, what else would be calling out to me? Cole needs closure and so do I" Phoebe told her

"We will create a distraction outside in case your spell inside creates any fireworks" Piper told her

I nodded in agreement, acting as if what they said about having the opportunity of giving away their powers wasn't a big deal

"Jus be careful" I told her with a small smile, standing up and following Paige and Piper out of the Attic

~8~

I sat in one of the couches of the living room while Piper looked out the window as we waited for Paige.

Paige walked to the living room carrying a tray of lemonade

"Unless we spike the lemonade, I doubt they'll..."

Piper cut her off "Shh! That phone company van looks suspicious"

"Why?" Paige asked tilting her head

"Well, because it wasn't there earlier and besides he didn't put out any cones" Piper replied with a shrug

I looked at her in amusement "That's what you're basing it on?"

Piper looked at me shrugging "Well, it's the best that I got" I chuckled. Piper turned to Paige "Okay, now are you ready?"

"Why don't you just..." Paige wiggled her fingers "To the street?"

"Because what if somebody drives around the corner? Now you just need to use some of your god given magic" Piper undid the top button on Paige's dress "Okay? Go"

I smiled chuckling standing up and taking Piper's place on the window as they both walked out of the house.

As Paige did her part distracting the workers with the lemonade, Piper walked into the road.

I smiled smugly flashing Piper thumbs up as she turned around to look at us.

I backed away from the window with a sigh, frowning when I sensed a shift into the air. I shivered rubbing my arm and looked up at the ceiling, a frown pulling down my lips.

"Phoebe..." I whispered and walked to the stairs, taking two or three at the time, feeling as if something wrong was gonna happen.

~8~

I walked into the Attic seeing Phoebe in the floor, looking as if nothing was bad.

I frowned looking at her intently narrowing my eyes, catching a glimpse of a man talking to her before a creature grabbed Phoebe's leg pulling her down making her scream in pain.

I gasped blinking away from the scene when Phoebe started screaming in the Attic.

Paige and Piper, hearing Phoebe scream ran inside towards their sister.

"Phoebe" Piper tried to wake her up, while she continued screaming

"Something's hurting her" I informed them looking at Phoebe's screaming figure, breathing heavily "Something's trying to kill her" both Piper and Paige looked up at me shocked "I saw it..." I shook my head looking away.

Piper pursed her lips in concern and grabbed the Book of Shadows, looking frantically over it, looking up at Paige

"Here reversal spell"

Paige nodded and they both started Chanting

"Return thy love, wherever she be, through time and space, bring her back to me"

Phoebe gasped awake siting with a jolt after they finished

"Okay, you're okay" Piper said relieved rubbing Phoebe's arm soothingly.

Phoebe took a shaky deep breath leaning against Piper "Oh my god, what was I thinking?"

I looked at her sympathetically biting my bottom lip, still shaken up myself for what I saw.

Suddenly we hear a knock downstairs followed by the doorbell.

We exchanged a worried look

"Uh-oh, I hope the freeze didn't wear off" Paige bit on her lip as we stood up walking away from the Attic, downstairs towards the living room.

I stayed on the middle of the stairs as the sisters walked to the front door.

Piper opened the door to reveal a man standing outside. He held up his badge, looking serious

"Agent Jackman, FBI. We should talk"

Agent Jackman walked to the house after Piper, Phoebe and Paige let him in.

Jackman spotted me in the stairs as soon as he turned around to go to the dining room and frowned in confusion

"Young lady, I've never seen you before. Who are you?" He asked me. Behind him, Phoebe looked up at me shaking her head with a warning look

"My name's Rose" I told him with a shrug. It wasn't a lie, though. My middle name is Rose.

Jackman raised his eyebrows "Alright, Rose. Can I speak to the girls alone? You are what? 14, 15 years? You're way too young to get involved into this. At least without your parents present"

I frowned pursing my lips. Piper shot me a look.

I rolled my eyes crossing my arms "I'm 16. And it's not like I wanted to be here anyway" I told them in annoyance turning around and walking up the stairs before he stopped me and started to question me as well.

~8~

I was reading the Book of Shadows in the Attic when I heard the door close. I sighed in relief knowing the agent had already left.

I closed the book and walked out of the Attic heading downstairs, only to find Phoebe and Paige arguing.

"Do you really or has all that dark magic just kinda gotten into your brain?" Paige asked Phoebe annoyed

"Guys" I called out so they could stop arguing but they ignored me

"I can't believe you're so willing to just throw away our powers" Paige told her throwing her arms up, angry with her sister

I frowned sighing. So they were talking about the Angel's offer...

"Paige, you don't know the hell that I've been through. You didn't live it" Phoebe told her

"Oh, really? I was just turned into a vampire and then I was shrunk and then we switched bodies and... " Paige said, Phoebe cut her off shaking her head

"Okay, imagine going through that for years. All I'm asking is for my life back"

"Okay guys, enough. We need to focus" Piper said trying to be a peace maker

"What about you, Piper? What do you think?" Paige asked her older sister, taking a deep breath to calm down

I looked between the three of them cautiously

"I think we need to see this through like the angel suggested. So Paige, you are gonna go up to the attic and get started on this stuff" Piper told her, handing her some stuff "We will meet you there. Scoot" Paige looked as if she was gonna argue but with one look of Piper she decided not to and turned around going upstairs, passing next to me "Leo! You can orb it's alright"

With blue orbs, Leo appeared next to Piper

"What about the FBI agent?" He asked

"Uh, he already busted us. But supposedly all he wants is our help" Piper told him

"Did you find anything out about the Angel of Destiny?" Phoebe asked him

"He's legit and so is his offer" he told them

I looked down with a small sigh saddened about it, but knowing it was their decision. I had been alone for a year, I could take it being alone again.

I looked up shoving my hands on my front pocket jeans and without making a noise I walked up the stairs going to the Attic with Paige

~8~

I walked to the Attic finding Paige there and I hesitantly walked to her.

"Can I help?" I asked fidgeting with my hands

Paige looked up with a sigh, shaking her head.

"I don't know. You could get hurt doing this. You're not a witch and not knowing how to use your powers yet could be dangerous" she told me softly.

I crossed my arms biting my lip "Oh come on. I wanna help. I mean, something inside of me is begging me to help. I'm supposed to do that, right?" I told her in exasperation

Paige looked up at me in slight amusement "Oh, so now you're accepting what you are, huh?" She asked me. I didn't answer. Paige sighed pointing at the Book of Shadow "Okay, okay. Go and read the instructions and you can tell me what I need to do next"

I smiled in victory, walking to the Book. That part I told Paige that wanted to help feeling at ease now that I was doing so.