Third Time Charmed

Enter the Witch (Part 5)

Piper waited patiently until Leo finished healing An Ling and Prue, then told her sisters sternly, "You two, follow me!"

Paige and Prue exchanged glances—Paige's nervous, but Prue's full of anger—before following Piper to the kitchen.

"All right! What the hell is going on?" she demanded.

Prue remained mutinously silent, perhaps justifiably so after being launched headfirst into one of their antiques, leaving Paige to answer, "What do you mean?"

"I smell something witchy. What is wrong with your powers?"

"I missed."

"Since when do you miss, Prue?"

"I don't," said Prue, raising Paige's hand.

Piper's jaw dropped.

As annoyed as Paige was that Prue had broken ranks, she couldn't exactly blame her. The jig was up. "Don't be mad at Prue. This is all my fault," she said. "I wasn't concentrating, and I messed up my potion."

"Oh my God! You guys switched bodies?! Are you out of your minds? What with everything we have going on, you pull a stunt like this?"

"It was an accident."

"Accidents like that get people killed! We could have lost an Innocent in there," Piper chastised. "What if it wasn't Yen Lo? What if it was the Source that broke in? You could have gotten us all killed! Now, we've lost our shot at Yen Lo."

Paige stared down at her feet, her guilt immeasurable.

"Easy, Piper," said Prue, placing a calming hand on Piper's shoulder, feeling the inexplicable need to protect Paige. However, at that moment, she gasped, her shoulders lurched upward, and her eyes snapped shut.

"What's wrong?" Leo asked when she recovered a second later.

"Nothing. Well, something. A Premonition," Prue clarified, rubbing her temples, then turning to An Ling. "I think I saw Yen Lo using the Dragon Blade on...?"

"My father," An Ling deduced, her hope failing her, "Beiyan."

"Right. I saw him capturing Beiyan's soul. So, we're going to need to make sure it's not damaged while getting it back."

Paige tried to focus on the distressing news, but couldn't help feeling a little resentful that Prue had been the one to reveal it using her power. "But you got the Premonition when you touched Piper. Is that because of how my power works differently?" Paige wondered aloud with a look in Leo's direction.

"Your power works differently?" Prue questioned, intrigued by this revelation.

"Maybe," he said, looking unsure.

"But we still have no idea how to get to Limbo..." Piper exasperated before trailing off, looking thoughtful as she put two and two together. "Wait a minute. Do you remember what you put in that potion to switch bodies?"

"We think so," Paige confirmed eagerly as if answering one of Piper's quiz questions. "Prue just picked up the ingredient we were missing."

"Good. Let's go."

***

When the potion was all but complete, fifteen minutes later, Piper turned to Paige's body. "Alright, what else did you," she started, then turned to Prue's body, "I mean, you, put in this?" she asked.

"Just the powdered toadstool," Paige answered.

"Alright, then, soul sisters. Back in your own bodies," she instructed.